Bellwood Bulletin 1941-03-06

              VOL. Lilt
BELLWOOD, PA* THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941
NO. i
ROUSING PEP MEETING
The   Bellwood-Antis   Blue   Devils
earned a half-day holiday this week
__    - i __,   ~ -_r«rt ■ 'by sopping the-1941 Juniata Valley
Short Items That Will Inter-   League Pennant, which, entitles ihe
LOCAL NEWS COL
BRIEF SUMMARV8FTHE WEEK
Terse     Paragraphs   Concerning,   the
Doing  ef Oer  Borough—The  Col-
•ma  Oer   Subscriber,    Enjoy
est Our Readers | team to represent Blair County in
the district 6 P. I. A. A. playoff
for the B class title. The B-A win
of 22-17 over Altoona Catholic high
Tuesday night capped a fine record of 18 wins and 2 defeats for
the season. The Blue Devils dropped to Morrison Cove and Hunting-
—Every merchant who wishes to don hut beat both schools in re-
aocceed in business must advertise,   turn games.
_ _.        , _,-_   «f       In   preparation    for "the    coming
—Trespass   notices,   for   SSle   at LulTr, ,,„_,    ,.•._.    , m      _
•..,!   —, „ T-    _  .m „„„-,    ■ game with Gallitzin high at Altoona
tho Bulletin office, ten cents each.     **    __,   ■"".
. • ^ I Saturday   evening, ' a rousing   *pep
—A number of Bellwood sports- j meeting was held in the high school
nan are counting the days when , auditorium Tuesday morning. Gil-
the trout fishing season will open. bert Watts, president of the Belli—When the wild geese fly north-. wood-Antis joint board commended
ward you can bat your last dollsr [ the squad and coaches for their
thst   spring   is   just    around    the
corner.
—The Bellwood   Y. M.  C. A.   is'
badly In need of a piano.   Anyone j
wishing to donate us one kindly let
ei know.
fine work this season. Messrs. Irvin
and Wert-, members of the board,
also spoke. Principals Kurtz, Hamilton and Weiss spoke briefly, encouraging the team to win new
laurels in coming competition. Coach     Lewis  Myers   introduced     his
—Men Wanted   for   steady   year   squad.     Chief   Burgess   Edgar Mc
Kinney and Rev. Eugene Slep of
the Bellwood Presbyterian church
lauded the players for their fine
sportsmanship. Lynn Hunter, member of the squad, responded in behalf of the players.
Following the rally th" entire
student body of the. high school
was dismissed at noon.
A large crowd of Bellwood-Antis
boosters is expected to be on hand
'.Saturday evening to cheer the
squad to another victory.
SUPPORTING    MUSIC    PROGRAM
At a recent meeting of the Bellwood Lions in the basement of the
round work, opening this vicinity;
must Uve in Blair County. Car
necessary. Box 245, Clarion, Pa,
 C. F.    Jackson,     secretary    of
the Bellwood-Antis joint board of
school directors, has been confined
to Ma home the past few days on
account of illness.
—From all accounts there will be
much repairing to homes in the
borough when the spring and summer arrives. This will give the con-
tractors and carpenters and others
employment. "■'$**■.-':
 From all appearances the snow
and lee in the valley and on the
highlands is going away gradually Methodu-t church of Bellwood a
wider the bright warm rays ef the resolution was passed to heartily
•and thus we will avoid    tbe [endorse    and  aetivelj- support    the
^^Sfe^'r'uifertt^ui-rrob-j-l: ,
such as we    had in the    spring^*™*   Be«wood-^|gBgh school
I auditorium,    on     Monday    evening,
.   I March  10,  at 8  o'clock.
Mr.   John    E. The   Bellwood-Antis   high   school
orchestra Will be host to the symphony orchestra of Altoona high
.school at that tim: and is planning
to serve refreshments to the members of that organisation after the
program, in the school cafeteria.
The Bellwood Lions will aid in
providing the refreshments.
The program will be free except
for    voluntary contributions    to be
*4irflgs
1936.
4 county deputy sheriff and residing
on South Second street, who had
been admitted to the Altoona hospital one day last week for observation, returned home on Tuesday,
much improved. He is suffering
from a stomach ailment, and his
friends are glad that there is a
nice improvement   in  his condition.
—The members   of the P. O.  of
A. Camp No. 255 of Bellwood have) tak n at the door.
truly     demonstrated    their     motto  •>.,
which is    "Ood, Ottr Country    and       —The   regular   monthly   meeting
Our Free Schools,"   by   presenting   of the borough council will be held
testaments to nineteen young men
from Bellwood who left with the
Tyrone Troop B 104th Cavalry,
last Saturday morning. The youngest national guard in line Saturday
morning in Tyrone was "Butch**
Mitchell, aged four* years, who
marched with his father, Lieutenant
Irvin Mitchell, from the armory to
the Tyrone depot, where tbe troop
boarded the train for one year's
training at Indiantown Gap.
—Misa Charlotte Hollen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hollen, of 411 South Second street,
has just completed six months probation at the Methodist hospital
nurses   training school,   Philadelph
ia.    She  has  successfully  taken  all   jg expected.
in the public building next Monday
evening.
—Late Saturday night the Bellwood fire brigade was called to
near Greenwood on highway route
220, where an automobile wreck
occurred, one of the machines taking fire. Upon the arrival of the
firemen th blaze was soon .extinguished.
—The annual memorial "services
for departed members of Bellwood
Aerie No. 1859, Fraternal Order
of Eagles, will be held in their
lodge haft Sunday, March 9, 1941,
at 2:30 o'clock in. the afternoon.
Mr. Bruce Crum, of Altoona, will
be the speaker. A large attendance
the tests and is one of a class receiving nurses caps at the ceremonies Thursday - night. Miss Hollen
is a graduate of the Bellwood-
Antis high school, class of 1939.
Owing to the illness of her mother,
Bm family circle is represented at
the exercises only by her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Clarence Hollen, who is
a graduate of the Methodist hospital training achool.
—The   membership drive   of  the
—Five Bellwood boys, all under
18, have been turned over to
county juvenile authorities after
admitting to state police they broke'
into the BMlwood-Antis High school
February 4 and carried off ■ several
dollars worth of food allotted as
federal surplus commodities to the
school for free lunches. State police
who investigated the theft, said the
young quintet after 'getting in the
school building'.through a window,
caivitd  off  ham,  bacon,  grapefruit
Pennsylvania     Railroad      Veterans
that is being staged   will round up   and raisins.
Ml Saturday afternoon, at 2-SO in —Pauk Smith, attorney at law,
the Y. M. C. A. at which place all! of Altoona, has associated himself
railroad men of the town are ask With Messrs Samuel Jubelirer and
to come, a pleasing program! has | Bernard Jubelirer, well known pra-
been arranged. Several retired i ctitioners, al. q o4*, Altoona, for a
veterans hem Altoona will be pre- number of years. In the future the
sent and will add to the program firm name will be Jubelirer, Jubel-
BSSSS music, vocal and instrument- irer & Smith with offio s in the
el. Rev. Eugene Slep will he the Central Trust building," Eleventh
guest speaker. Mr. Aaron Shugarts, avenue. The members of tbe firm
at Altoona, welt known here will are highly esteerred lawyers of the
recite. BeUwood's association at Blair county bar. For some time
this time is five years old,   and it' past Attorney Smith has been pay-
RECORD OF IDE 0EPARTE8
jttPPEMNGS 30 YEARS AGO
THOSE WHO HAVE PAST FRO% pCTIVJTlES OF    OUR    CITIZENS
TIME TO ETERNAL REST,! "* THREE DECADES    AGO
Mn. Ade B. Smith _#*»- "*e BeUwood Bulletin, Dec.
illness   of   aW*** «U
After   a   brief
weeks death came to   Mrs. Ada I
Smith at the home of her daughte
Mrs.   Joseph   McFarland   on   Nortbj
Fourth street, at 8:45 o'clock MouH
day evening. She was born Octob*St|
22, 1859,    in    Perry'   county,
more  'than    forty    years ago
fan-ly' located ' in   BeUwood,
father, M. Wt Smith, 'died
ago, and at the time   of his de
was a railroad employe.   She*
well   known and   highly   esteen
lady    of the    community    and*
friends    were shocked    to learftl
her death.    Surviving members,-'?
the family    include one   dthg '
Mrs.    Joseph McFarland    st
home she died, and two sons,
Smith,     of     Pottsville,     and
Smith, of Akron, Ohio. All he
time    the deceased was a'
member of the Presbyterian eft
and at the time   of her death"
membership    in the    Logan
Presbyterian    church.    FuneAfti
vices will be held   from the*-
funeral    chapel    on    Main
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 *o**1
in charge of her pastor, RcV;
ne B. Slep, the Presbyterian
er. Interment will be made
an  Valley cemetery.
DEPARTED FOR CA
Several hundred Bellwood
went   to    Tyrone    last
morning, participated in
and the rousing Send
soldier    boys of
Cavalry,    who left'
for    Indiantown Gap
have gone  into   army-,
a year.   Beside the
and joined in the
The Bellwood boys, members ef
Troop B, 104th Cavalry, who left
for camp are as follows: First nontenant Thomas J. Ban-hart, First
lieutenant Warren L. McKinney,
Second lieutenant Irvin F. Mitchell,
Second lieutenant Harold L. Barr,
First sergeant Elmer E. Sheriff,
Corporal Chester L. Shaner, Corporal William S. Shiveley, Corporal
John W. Johnson, Private first
class WUliam Cramer, Private first
class Sheridan R- Bland, Private
first class Harold O'SheU, privates
Guy Burkholder, Charles Benny,
George A. Igou, James C. McCaulley, Donald W. O'SheU, Herbert E.
Young, Richard D. McCracken.
Every one of these boys are in
the bloom of youth and represent
the flower of the community. It is
observed that many grandparents
of the boys were soldiers in the
Union army from ' 1861-65 and
went out for the preservation of the
nation just as these boys are doing
today, offering all they have that
this nation and the world, under
Divine guidance may have a new
birth of freedom.
The boys will remain in camp
for a year, under army regulations, and unless called to active
duty, will return home.
Camp* No. 255 Patriotic Order of
America gave each member of
Troop B, 104th Cavalry, from Bellwood, a beautiful soldier's testament, which was presented to the
boys Wednesday morning at the
armory in Tyrone, by Captain
Barnhart, who made a very insuring talk with the presentation.
—Improvements to the water
line and streets of the borough
under the WPA system have been
moving along quietly during the
winter months. With the advent of
better weather conditions the work
wiB be pushed forward during the
spring and summer months. Boyles
street. One of the busiest thoroughfares in town has been the scene
of improvement which waa started
last fall and ever since it has been
tors up from end to end and the
greater part of the time impassable
for vehicular traffie. This street is
scheduled for modernization and
just aa soon as   weather conditions
will permit the surface will be tug
to hoped Bmt thia meeting will be a ing weekly visits to B llwood, hav-1 ep and brought down to the re-
real get-together. Refreshments will ing offices on the second floor of - quired grade. It will require a
be Barred snd s royal good time' the First National bank buUding,! number of months to complete the
awstts the P*-_-ry*B old boys. I where ho meets many clients. [ J°h-
Miss Ethel Oiven is home after
pleasant*, visit with Mr. and Mrs.
gene Root in Cincinnati.
"Sf. N. Straw, wife and family,
fere recent visitors at the home
Mrs. Straw's brother    to- Blain
by-
rs. J. E. Harshbarger and child,
Altoona, spent Monday with her
#rents,   Mr.  and Mrs.  Albert Mc-
priand.
Robert Greenland,   arrived   home
week . from    South    Dakota,
he had been employed    for
time.
^Mrs.    Nichael Colvin    (nee Lena
Hr)  of Bedford county, spent
time just   recently   with the
family on Main street.
Mil Douglass and famUy, who
been    residents of    Michigan,
some time, have returned here
h wUl be their future home,
arry Cornmesser, Bellwood; and
iiam Fuoss and S. G. Smith are
township     jurors     for    the
ion  pleas  court,  Jan.   23th. '
_fe _•'•' Bratton,    baggage    agent
wfll leave this week    on his
P<m   for several places   in the
irii    and  western  part    of the
, and Mrs. Hiram Corns re-
' returned from their wedding
and after visiting friends   in
tawney and Pittsburgh, will
ffirjfc their new home at Van-
mother of Mrs. W» I.
recovered sufficiently
dent, to return to her
a,. Berks county, being
J-fij-e. hy Rev,.Good
Ma7orie~"* " _»
III. MS* i»*~^
Miss Hannah Raugh entertained
her Sunday school class very' pleasantly at her home last .Friday evening. The class consists of fourteen
boys, all present but two, and
these fellows say that dinner was
"simply delightful."
Geo. Aiken, a track walker of
the Penna. R. R. and residing at
Fuoss's Mill, and father of Mrs.
Ec—roth* of our borough, was run
down by a fast east bound freight
train, on last Sunday night just a
short distance from his home. He
died later at the Tyrone depot
where he had been taken. He was
survived by, his wife, three sons
snd five daughters.
Last Friday evening Harry Brunner, son of Henry Brunner, had a
birthday and to help hfan celebrate
the occasion a number of his friends arranged a party. This was
held in the club room of the Arcadian Club, in the Cornmesser building on Main street. Music, singing
and dancing took up part pf the
evening, following came a dainty
repast which was enjoyed by close
to 70 of his fri nds. who were in
attendance.
Why don't men go to church?
Conditions in BeUwood in this respect do not differ from conditions
elsewhere. M n contribute to religious and charitable enterprises,
admit the influence of *the church
on persons' in the community, see
that their children attend Sunday
achool, but they do not attend the
church. It is easy to persuade oneself to neglect the church in these
days as it was when "all with one
accord began to make excuses."
Mrs. Margaret Boyer, widow of
the late William' Boyer, passed
away at her home, on North Tuckahoe street, Friday night of last
week, at the age of 70 years. She
had been for many years a resident
of BeUwood, and was well' known
throughout this community, whor?
many relatives and friends mourn
her passing. Her'husband passed
away" about a year ago. Surviving
are a son and two daughters. Jo?.
Boyer and Mrs. Fink, of Bellwood
and Mrs. Smith of Water Street,
who have lost a 'good mother.
—Mrs. 'Wjalter Skagerberg died
at her home in Cresson the beginning of the week. She' is survived
by her husband, who was a former
resident of the borough, and a
number of children.
HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT
Monday evening, March 10, at 8
p. m. has been chosen for the appearance of tiie Altoona high
school symphony orchestra In the
auditorium of Bellwood-Antis high
school. The entire organization
consisting of approximately 95
members will give the first program of this kind to be held in the
new auditorium.
The program is being sponsored
by the Bellwood-Antis high school
orchestra which has been rapidly
expanding in its activity during this
school year and last summer. Beginning with a large, class of violin
students last summer the program
was continued this past fall and
winter under the tutelage of Mr.
Chester BoUinger. At present there
arc approximately sixty pupils
studying the violin, viola, and cello.
In order that parents and students may become better acquainted
with such instruments as viola,
cello, oboe, bassoon, French horn
and others, Mr. Krivsky, director
of the Altoona orchestra is arranging a program that will give
special' prominence to these instruments. The complete program will
be announced later ibis week.
Members of the Bellwood-Antis
high school orchestra are planning
to entertain those ofthe Altoona
orchestra after tiie program in the
high school cafeteria. The Bellwood
Lions Club, leading civic organization of the community, will aid in
sponsoring the refreshments. This
body, at a- recent meeting heartily
endorsed this program and promised
its active cooperation.
Admission to the program will be
free of charge to all. However, a
voluntary contribution may be
made at the door where students
will be selling tags. A section of
feats is being reserved for anyone
who wishes    to be sure . oft a good
si. _——.  i , . —.   11   ,,-■     m-t •   - i - —]    .   Vnsa i   , m**t si ikts    Ci      far"
seat. Tickets for this reserved sect-
ion may be had for the asking by
applying at the office of Bellwood-
Antis high school or by applying
for them through members of the
BeUwood-Antis orchestra. Application* for these should be made as
early as possible because only a
limited number is available. There
WiU be a large number of seats
available, however, for all who do
not have reserved seat tickets.
esa
PERSONAM!!
People Who Visit Itajl
Those Wbo Go Awey.
MOVEMENTS LF OUR Ct
Guests   Who AreEntertaiOedhrl
Wood Hott*—Personal  Mallei
Those WUs Visit To ae<tW
Mrs. Minnie Mayer wss • 1
guest of friends in Mtfflintown
couple days thia week.
Sunday guests    at the    home
Mr. and   Mrs. Frank S. Hetrick
South Second stnet worst Mr.
Mrs. James HaU   and son Guy
Miss Eoonts, of Loysburg,
county.
CHICKEN HEARTED JURIES
Drunken driving seems Se be m%
prevalent    now than it was   In MAS
daya of prohibition and ws hslieWM
that this condition ie largely broug**!
ht about by the lienency of splttej
less juries. It is pretty diecoeraging j
for a highway officer to bring 0%
prisoner who Was thoroughly drunk-*,
who was as much a menace to thai
public    as a bandit with    a Joaded
gun,   and have a jury let hln> off.']
Also  it is not pleasant   to have em.
lawyer     representing     the    drunk,!
picture   tiie policeman   aa an ovcm
bearing villian, er hold biro up un
man  of  unsound judgment sad  aei
a persecutor    of a    poor    innocent!
victim,    who  had    only taken twol
drinks   of beer   with   a party   off
friends.    The friends   also    appear
and tell how innocent the prisoner
was.   A police  officer feels -pretty]
sUly when he sees a spineless juryj
acquit    a chronic    drunk    on ■
doubtful    evidence     of a   jtr***l*
physician    or a pack of
friends. T%e» S-onld,
and more sure
drunks   behind the steering   wheel.
—Huntingdon Monitor.
CM
29 WERE CONVERTED
Sunday night's service in the
Methodist church terminated an
inspiring and satisfactory revival
sponsored by the Bellwood ministerium. Ministers of the cooperating
churches faithfully supported Evangelist J. S. CoUedge in his efforts
to bring a spiritual uplift to Bellwood. They were Revs. Thomas M.
Stone, Clyde Bush, H. Paul Cox,
R. P. Knoebel, H. C. Kleffel, Eugene G. Slep and H. G.  Dooley.
Every seat available in the large
church was occupied by those who
came to enjoy the singing and
hear the final message on the
th' me: "The Crucifixion of Christ."
An appealing invitation by the
evangelist to accept the crucified
but risen Saviour resulted in several conversions, making the total
number of conversions 29 and
scores of rededications during the
campaign  of two weeks.
The free will offering amounted
to $75, whieh was presented to
Evangelist CoUedge, who will use
the gift in the work of the kingdom  of God.
At the close of the service a picture was taken of the ministers of
the cooperating churches.
OLIVET   BAPTIST   CHURCH
Levi. II. Goehring, pastor.*' Bible
school 9:30, Archie Cramer Supt.,
classes for all ages. Morning worship 10:45, message, "When Can
One Help Therm Which Belitve
Through Grace?" Communion service postponed from last Lord's day
will fofiow the message. Young
peoples' .meetingf 6:30. Thsee groups
meet f*s- Bible study. Evening worship 7:30, message, "God's Recom- j
pense to Troublers." Praise ahd
prayer service W dnesday evening
at 7:30. Ladies' fellowship meeting
at 7:30 Friday evening at Prough's
I home in Tyrone,    character    to be
I studied is Delilah, tiie teacher, Mrs.
! Levi. H. Goehring. The public ia in-
| vited to aU services.
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BAND  FESTIVAL
Ten students from BeUwood-
Antis High School will participate
in the Blair County Band fjestival
to be held March 21, in Roaring
Spring. The festival will bo under
the direction of M. Clair Swoope,
supervisor of the Roaring Spring
High School Yellow Jacket Band.
Students from Bellwood-Antia
are: Grier Beers, Bruce H. Briggs,
Harlan Briggs, Newell Dougherty,
Robert Evans, Morrow Mills, Donald Reed, Raymond Strunk, James
Moreland Trego, and Norman Wood-
hall.
According to Mr. Swoope, 15S
county high school students wiU
constitute the band, which will hold
an all day rehearsal, March 15, in
preparation for the final concert. 9
—The Bulletin ia the home town
newspaper and it is read by every
member of the family.
—The    National    Committee    on
Food     for the    small    democracies
that announced the Reverend Rues
ell P. Knoebel,   Lutheran   minister.
has agreed to form a committee in1
BeUwood,   to  present their   appeal'
to the   American public on   behalf]
of    tens of   millions    of    innocent]
men, women and children now fae*T
ing    starvation   and   pestilence    in
war torn Europe.
—Compilation of a list of places
in Pennsylvania where anglers may
obtain accommodations hi now be»
ing undertaken by the tourist divi.
sion of the State Department of
Commerce, it was announced Wednesday. The list will be similar to
that - of bunting accommodations
prepared last fall by the Department.
—Citing the Pennsylvania Do*j
partment of Commerce as "probably the most successful of the state
departments of advertising and ton\
dustrial development,"' the Govera.i
or of Utah has recommended to the
Legislature of that State the
tion of a State promotional agency]
patterned oa tiie Pennsylvania plana
—As the spring   planting season
is     approaching     careful     thoi
should   be   given    to the   kinds
trees, shrubs, and herbaceous **1
which    are desirable    for
purposes, according to Deputy
retary    Chas. E. Baer,    ef As
partment of Forests and W«tee\