Bellwood Bulletin 1938-11-17

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NO. 38
VOL. L
BELLWOOD, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,  1038
LOCAL HB COLUMN
Short Items That Will Inter-
est Our Readers
BBIEF SUMWaBY DF THE WEEK
Terse     Paragraphs  Concerning     tha
Doing of Our  Borough—The Cal.
maa Oar Suaeeribon Enjoy
—Every member of the family
steads the Bulletin.   ■
—All  unpaid    county    end poor
taxes for    1935    aire   to be filed as
, "Miens    November 28.    Borough and
school liens    will    be filed   a   little
later.
—The Bellwood Booster Association is back of a big parade which
wttl be held Saturday afternoon
previous to the football game on
Antis Said . Everybody in the town
is invited to participate.
— In order to give all hands the
day off aad enjoy Thanksgiving, the
Bulletin will be issued   Wednesday
I  of next week.    Those having items
I  for publication    should    hand   Into
the offiice Tuesday, if possible.
—During the extremly windy
weather last Monday morning two
well known sportsmen in the per-
' sons of .Frank S> Hetrick and Paul
Smith- Of South Second street
sallied forth to T.pton hoUow to
quest of wild turkeys and any other
kind of game that might come their
way. An early start was made
and it was not long after the gunners were to the wilds until Mr.
Em th was successful in bringing
| down a wild turkey hen which
t'rped the scales at thirteen pounds.
—Through traffic s'gnal at the
intersection of Main and South
♦•Cambria streets have been greatly
tofproved. by . being raised**- to *
gre«tei^Agj^jBtfficient for motor-
■iAtotoue*...JLm*p
realm ~bT eom-
Bunaanee. Previous the signs were
placed just s few feet above the
"pavement and during times of
heavy traffic and when other cars
were parked near the signs, the oncoming autoist was unable to see
'the signs, and frequently they
passed by without stopping, this
more so by the drivers of cars Who
were not familiar with the signs.
—The Junior Biard of Directors
of the Y. M.C A. met at the home
of the secretary on Main street
Monday evening at which time a
Co-Ed party was planned for next
Tuesday, November 22. Bingo,
dancing, entertainments of many
sorts have been planned for the
evening. Alma Stewart and Mae
Estep will take charge of bingo.
Dancing win be handled by Thelma
Laird and Barbara Stevens. Ping
pong by James Renny, Bill Kellerman will greet you at the alleys,
John Rowan wiU take care of pop
and Charles Hetrick will handle
mom. Every one will have to secure tickets at the door.
—At the lovely colorful service
held at toe cemetery on Armistice
Day by the John. M. Anderson Poet
Americant Legi >n, arabted by Rev.
H. G. Dooley, also a veteran, and
the consolidated junior band, waa to
the onlooker more than its length
of program, held as It was by the
grave of one of the comrades,
Clark Emerick, with the invocation
by Rev. Dooley, and several selections by the band, the ground seemed hallowed, and there was a feel-
tog of awed presence. The service
was beautiful to its sincerity. It
made a pretty picture, the Legion
with colors to the breese, followed
by the band as they marched to the
cemetery where, with quick precision, they made their formation,
the service following.
—The meeting of the Retired
Veterans ot the Pennsylvania railroad was held Saturday afternoon
to the Directors' room oi* the Y. M.
C. A. sad the guest speaker was Mr.
Theknas Hunter, who just lately returned from op extended trip west,
The speaker in his introductory remarks spoke on Bellwood in its
early days, which was quite interesting, especially to the veterans
who are aaan toe branch railroad
running north change its name
three times. Ba gave quite a
description of his trip west which
included St Louis, Kansas City,
Grand Canyon, Salt Lake City aad
San Francisco. He ana lisened to
With marked attention, the Veter-
I BBS being ****** much
WEDD1N6 BELLS RING MERRILY
Nuptial Knots Tied, Troth Plighted
By Happy Couple*
Carman—Vandavanlder
Mr. aad Mrs. C. A. VanDevander
of 622 North Second Street, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mildred VanDevander, to
Mr. Chalmer German, eon of Mr.
and Mra. Z. f. Gorman of 1305
Fourth avenue, Juniata, on Sept. 8,
1988, at Winchester, Va., with Rev.
E. B. Smith officiating and using the
impressive ring" service. The couple
waa attended by Mr. and Mrs.
George Martin of Altoona. ' The
bride was charmingly attired in
Mack crepe and wore a corsage of
white rosebuds while her attendant
wore black taffeta and a corsage of
tea roses. The wedding dinner was
served at the Martin home. The
bride is a graduate of the Bellwood
High school, class of 1986, and has
been employed at toe Altoona
hospital while Mr. German is a graduate of the Altoona High' school,
class of 1938, and is employed by
the Citisens Ice company. The
newlyweds plan to reside in their
newly furnished apartmen't, 606
Fourth street..
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
Oa Thursday morning, to keep-
in*; with our national custom, the
BeUwood ministerium has arranged
for a community Thanksgiving service of sixty minutes to be held in
the Lutheran' church. The hour is
9:30 to 10:30 so that the service
will aot interfere with the noon
meal. In past years the attendance
has been exceUent and the indications are that this year will be no
exception. Rev. H. S. Ralston pastor Of the United Brethren church
will deliver toe message and the
several other pastors of the borough wttl participate in tha service.
FOOT FOONMPRIGE IS SET
Council at Meeting Monday Evening
Decides Upon S1.2S Per Foot
Bellwood Borough Council met in
regular monthly session ob Monday
evening, with President R. A. Cherry'
presiding and all members report-',
Jng present except  Mr.   Keith. Re-
WILL PLRY THEDECIOING GAME
Contest ea Saturday Wig Be Full
of Pep ead Interest
A crowd of five thousand is ex-
jpected at th* BeUwood-Antis football field Saturday afternoon to
witness the championship football
game between the two   crack Blair
ports of the various officials andi county teams, BeUWood-Antis sad
committees were submitted aad reodj Roarino* Spring which will be one of
and aU routine matters disposed of; *"*• mata   attractions    of the  Antis
The princippal tern of totorestt Farm Show t"1*" "****•**•""•
before council was the sewer ord'4 The BeUwood MairJiners have
ranee which sets up the method of '*ost *ni>' one ***** and that game
Tnaktog" the assessments against, with ***!* who is not a member of
property owners and toe amount of the Inter-county League, a record
assessment per foot front. "Th*. of ei**ht wilM ont et nine games
Secretary's detailed report o*f Bor. 'Played. The Springers have also
ough expenditures to date plus a*; rcar*i ibmugh their schedule this
amcunt set up to take care of ad*- year *nd hav* *Uo lo8t }*** ***
ditional known expenditures of ap-s <gam*' *° Wflliamsburg last Friday,
proximately $66,000.00 on the sewer^l Tickets have been put on sale in
complete  including    the    treatment'! fedvance for reserved    seats   on the
'For thy wonderor]
!>ve   revealed
And a bonnteaua harvest yield,
We thank Thee, Lord.
For freedom and a peaceful land,
For friends who understand,
For all the blessings from Thy Hand,
We  thank Thee,  Lord."
H. G. Dooley
Pres. Ministerium
REPUBLICAN CLUB MEETING
The BeUwood and Antis Township Women's Republican Club met
Tuesday evening Nov. 15th in the
Bellwood  Republican   Headquarters.
A very enthusiastic meeting was
held, to which the .president, Mrs.
W. Y. Bland, thanked the ladies for
the splendid cooperation they had
given to helping with the various
tasks assigned them during the campaign.
The business session was featured
by election of officers for the coming year, and resulted as follows:—
President, Mrs. W. Y. Blond; vice
president, Mrs. John Harvey, Secretary, Mrs. Earl Goshorn, Assistant
secretary, Mrs. Marian. Rhodes
Treasurer, Mrs. Frank Fleisher. It
was decided the next regular meeting should be held in February, in
the form cf a social to*.
1 Light refreshments were served
at the conclusion of the business
session.
WILL ISSUE WEDNESDAY
Thanksgiving day coming on our
regular publication next week, and
in order to give all hands connected
with the publication, the Bulletin
will be issued Wednesday of next
week, ("ontributers are requested
to hand their items into toe office
Tuesday, if possible, and as early
Wednesday nKVaing as it may be
convenient, but do not make it
too late for publication.
—The Excels or class of Grace
Lutheran Sunday school will have
a penny supper Dec. 10. Save
your pennies now and get a good
"upper for a few pennies.
—The Beilwood-Antis football
team suffered its first defeat of the
j season last Saturday afternoon,
j when it tackled the strsag Lilly
team Bt Lilly and received the small
end of the score 6-7. It is sain
that the Bellwood-Antis boys were
pitted against a much stronger
and decidedly ■'rougher team. The
boys took their first defeat without
a murmur, aad are fully prepared
fer their antagonist oa the Antis
field Best Saturday, whea they meet
tha strong    Roaring    Spring* aggre-
plant. By a computation of the*
assessable foot frontage obtained
from a survey just oormipleted, if
was found that the assessment could
be set at $1.25 per foot, which is
25c per foot lower than wo* anticipated. The tentative foot frontage
assessment set up sometime ago, and
which has been paid by quite •
number of property owners, was
81.60 per foot. A refund of 25c
per foot wiU be made to those already having paid their assessment,:
to conform to the official set up.
The question of the most equitable manner of making the property
assessment has been much debated
in Council, and it was finally decided that properties fronting only
on streets having a sewer should
be assessed full foot frontage, and,
corner properties fronting on tw#,
streets having a sewer, i. art I
corner properties, would be asses?-*; h
ed full foot frontage on the short
side and one-third' of the foot fr«r»t*
age on the long side. An ordinamce>
is now in preparation setting forto
to f Ull to* mBBBaaW of
bleachers and can be secured at
fC.llens Service store. The Athletic
Association announces that the
5ast stands have been completly
old out and that additional tern-
rorary bleachers are being secured
o seat an additional five hundred.
se seats with the exception of
'student sections Bt* on sale aad
* going fast.    Standing room will
* limited to the twenty   yard Una
\n the East side and the thirty yard
ine on the.  West    side    where the
s are- being    reserved   for the
raring Spring fans.
At toe present time the standing
toe teams in the. flrst three places
the  Inter-County  League  are  as
1. Beaverdale... .114   pts.
2. Ri aring Spring.... 107 pts.
S.     Bellwood-Antis 105   pts
Bellwood-Antis should win the
Saturday, BeUwood Brad
Sprang wn>uld exchange
is and keep Roaring Spring
getting a- crack at the epaaiv-
sip.      If      Roaring '   8V *'
000 UNO INNER UNIFORMS
Will Appear at tha Football Game
Next Saturday
The newly organized Bellwood-
Antis High School band of sixty-
five pieces wiU appear Saturday fer
ths first time to their new uniforms
which arrived this week. The band
composed of sixty-five students from
ths Jr. and Senior High Schools'
under the direction of Prof. Wilbur
Johnson was organised just one year
ago with a total numoer of members
at fifty.
Mr. Johnson first began the work
of organising a band two years ago
to the Bellwood Borough schools
where he was acting as music supervisor and • saw the need for a
school ba*d. Through his efforts
many of the students were encouraged to secure instruments and
free instruction was given those
students by Mr. Johnson after
school hours in order to get the organization started. Only four
of the original fifty members of the
band had previous instruction, the
rest receiving their instruction from
Mr. Johnson during the past yesr.
With the joining of the two school
systems the band was enlarged to
sixty-five members and action was
taken to get the band to play at
football games.
The newly organised Parent
Teachers Association whose members attended many of the football
games noticed that our band lacked
just one thing to bring them' up
to toe level of the visiting bands
from other schools. The need for
uniforms was discussed at a recent
meeting of this organisation and
new uniforms were ordered for the
sixty-five members at a cost of
|848 and a Fun Frolic staged to
meet .toe initial payment on the uniforms. fr'ffo's%«ra>frrVis%
The new uniforms will consist of
ments of the assessments. All
properties are assessable immediately the ordinance becomes effective,
regardless of whether or aot connection has been made to the
sewer.
Another ordinance is also to preparation which will make it mandatory that all properties wttl be connected to the sewer within a given
time. Details of this will be announced to the public in toe near
future.
DWELLING BADLY DAMAGED
The home of Mr. Frank McFaUs
residing on North Seventh street
Was damaged to the extent of six or
seven hundred doUars by fir* Wednesday afternoon about four o'clock,
when the firemen responded to the
alarm. The fire had its outbreak
on the second floor and much household furniture was damaged by the
blaze and water, and the loss will
amount to at least $700.00, which
is covered by insurance.
A number of alarms have been
sounded during the week, most all
of which were due to heavy firing
of the furnaces, when flues became
ignited. At the home of Mr. Geo.
P. On* a fire broke out in the partition of the home and the firemen
were required to spend a number of
hours locating the blaze and bringing it into subjection. The loss at
the Orris home is covered by insurance.
LEG IS AMPUTATED
Mr. Charles R. McElwain, who
has been a patient sufferer from an
infection on one of his legs, underwent an operation in one of the
Altoona hospital for the removal of
the same this week. The infection
first made its appearance a few
years ago and for a time was
successfully treated. During the
summer Mr. McElwain spent several
months in a hospital ia one of the
western states, where he received
treatment, returning home a few
weeks ago. Many friends express
sympathy for Mr. McElwain and are
trusting that he will be greatly
benefited  by  the operation.
—Twenty yeara of dramatic' history, four years of intensive preparation aad three months before
the camera have been compressed
into two hours of thrilling entertainment    in   "Marie    Antonnette,"
1 the spectacular new picture starring Norma Shearer and Tyrone
Power , which opens a two-day
showing at tb*   State   Theatre   on
| Stain  street, November, a***-2to^|
n, the Springers would take
first place with Bellwood. Beaverdale would fall heir to second
place and Bellwood-Antis third
place. However, those valuable
words "if, and, but, should", may
give us the championship to Ben-
wood aad the results wiU not be
known finnally 111 some time next
week whea the officials of the Inter-
county League meet and compute
the  points.
Coach Horry Dinges has had his
boys out all this week working on a
defense for Roaring Springs passing attack for which they are noted
and is also* preparing some Uttle
tricks of his own to spring on the
visitors.
The BeUwood band to their
natty new uniforms in blue and
gold wUl appear on the field during
the intermission at the half and
entertain toe crowd as wttl the
Roaring Spring band. An added
attraction will be a Physical Education Drill by Antis girls under the
direction of Miss Houck just prior
to the game "after the parade
reaches the field. Officials for Saturdays game have been announced
as follows: Johnsonbaugh, West
and Fleming.
Storting line ups were not available at the time this article went
to press as both Coaches are looking their material over very carefully. These starters will be announced in Satudays papers.
Th* BettwotorJ-Antis Alumni
association ore sponsoring a mam-
mouth bon-fire and pep meeting at
seven o'clock Friday evening at the
High school building on Martin
street aad the Bellwood Booster
Association are staging a big parade
at one o'colck Saturday afternoon
over toe principal streets of the
town.
The new school paper "The HI-.
Lite" will be sold at the Farm Show
as wttl a special souvenier edition
of the Altoona Tribune Saturday
afternoon with a complete' data on
both teams including the startng
liaa up.
—Parking his car at the United
Brethren ehurch lost Sunday evening, while he went inside to attend
services, Mr. J. S. Schmittle, North
Tuckahoe street merchant), was
startled when ha found that hi*
automobile had been stolen. The
Altoona and state police were
notified and Monday afternoon bis
automobile waa sound oa Crawford
avenue to Altoona, evidently having
been taken by some persons for *
joy tide.    The car waa Bob
*ium iaatoi iail*lit1^arfthtiwfsTrasIri r*^i*ilsn 'ifti
olr scheme.- Th% ''imp**'
royal blue with gold satin lining
trimmed in gold braid BBd the cape
will be of the military style with
gold pom poms trimed with gold
braid. The caps and capos wttl be
of the best whipcord material and
will be very serviceable. Members
of the band will wear blue and
gold sweaters under the capes and
white trousers.
The Parent Teaches Association
had hoped to equip the bond with
an entire uniform this year but
when figures were obtained on the
complete outfits it was found that
the cost would be too high to meet
this late in the year. However,
after the present equipment is
payed for additional equipment will
be added from time to time.
School authorities have also purchased some additional instruments
for the band in the past few weeks,
the most important of which is a
new sousaphone, a much needed addition to the band.
The band will lead the parade
Saturday afternoon and make an
appearance on the football field
where they will drill during intermission and w 11 join with the
Roaring Spring band to the evening
in presenting a concert at six-thirty
as a part of the entertainment program of the Farm Shew. The
visiting band is also a newly organised unit and is somewhat smaller
than the BeUwood-Antis outfit.
It is expected that the two band
will odd much color to the big
game Saturday afternoon on the
BeUwood-Antis field and their appearance in the new uniforms is
eagerly looked forward too by
parents of the members of the band
and the community in general.
GREAT  BIBLE  WORDS
Interested congregations are enjoying the series of sermons by Rev.
H. G. Dooley on the general subject, "The Greatest Word's to the
Bible." ' Next Sunday morning the
subject wfll be: "The Word that
takes in all other word's." The outstanding characteristics of both the
old and new testaments are being
used to an up-to-date fashion to
fasten the truths of the word of
God.
At 7:80 the annual Thanksgiving
service will be observed, the pastor
preaching on the subject: "Thankful fer What?"
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
People Who Visit Here end
These Who Go Awey.
MOVEWEHTS OF OUR CITIZENS
Caants Who Ar* Entertained by B*H-
Wood Meet*    Porsoaol Mwitton et
These Who Visk To aad Fro
Mr. aad Mrs. Scott H. Noel of
Railroad street bad for company
over Armistice Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Noel who lately have taken
a' home in the Graham apartment,
Tyrone.
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Ubil and
daughter, Miss Beatrice, of Washington, D. C, were week end guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas K. Ubil on North Fourth
street.
Mrs. Scott Mulhollem has return.]
ed to her home on Boyles street,
after a stay of a few days to Washington, D. C, where the was the
guest of her brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. end Mrs. Cloyd Beatty.
Mrs. Julia Beard    has    latoiueajj"'
home after spending a very plaaBSa*,.
week end with    her son-in-law and
daughter,    Mr.    and ' Mrs.    L.    A. -
Sieber and Mr and Mrs. J. E. Beard
and    family    all    of    Steubenville,
Ohio.
Mr. Arthur J. Darrah. of Hunt,
ington, West Virginia, spent last
Saturday and Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Laird on
South Second street, where Mrs.
Darrah haa been visiting for somo
time. Mr. Darrah wae on a business mission to New York city.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Goss   have
returned to their home on Belleview
avenue, after a visit,ef * few dSJgy
in Fluston*^Nj|^"fM|*f^
.were.
Navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ross and
daughter, Miss Agnes, of Altoona,
and Miss Adams, of Washington, D.
C. a college friend of Miss Agnes,
visited Bellwood friends Saturday
evening and partook of the supper
served at the Lutheran church,
which was under the auspices f the ,
ladies of the church.
Miss Jessie Andersen, accompanied by her father, left Tuesday
morning for Harrisburg, where she
is attending a three-day conference
of the Pennsylvania Council of
Republican women, now in session
at the Penn Harris hotel. Miss
Anderson is a member of the state j
publicity committee and will assist
in reporting the proceedings of the
meetings.
Mr. and Mra.    H.    D.    Irvin and
Mrs. Ivy Bacon, sister of Mr. Irvin,  ;
of  Hiwassee   Dam, North  Carolina, \
had the pleasure of meeting   many
if their warm friends in town over |
the week end.    Mr. Irvin    has been
employed in the south   for a h umber of years and took    this oppor- •
tunity of paying a vis.t to old friends
in town.   When the Kerbaugh work* '
were in full    bloom    near the bor-
ough, Mr. Irvin was   master   mechanic.      Before'   leaving    they were
callers at our office.
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LEAGUE   OFFICERS
Officers of the Junior Epworth 3
League will be instaUed by the pastor, the Rev. T. M. Stone, at the
meeting, 6:30 next Sunday evening
to the Methodist Episcopal church.
The liat follows:
Presideat, Betty Jo Fern; vice
president, Jean Thomas; secretaries
Romaine Kustaborder and Marjorie I
Bush; treasurer, Wanda Hildebrand;
assistant, Patricia Wyland; librarian
Vernon . Davis; assistant, Charles
Thomas; Chief usher, Oliver Tennis,
Jr.; devotional leader, Ethel Mae
Goshorn; chorister, Rebecca Pickens
social chairmen, Pauline Gebhart
aad Joanna Hostler; membership
chairmen, Dean Gebhart aad Ruth
Davis. ' .7**5
Officers of the Intermediate Epworth League will lie instoHad next
Sunday evening, 6:30, at the Methodist Episcopal ehurch. The pastor,
the Rev. T. M. Stone, will conduct
toe ceremony.    The following is the
Uet:
President.   Richard    Haa**;  vice-
presidents,    Mary   Alice   Para aad
Isabel    Davis;      secretary,    Jamea
Trego; assistant, Wanda Hildebrand;
tTBB—m, Cu*d Trego; social
maa,  Magaret Sitaaaa;