Bellwood Bulletin 1943-03-25

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VOL. LIIV
BELLWOOD, PA.. TI
IDAY, MARCH 25,  1048
NO. 6
LOCAL tm COLUMN
Short Items That Will Interest Our Readers
BllEF SUMMART Of THE WEEK
Tease    Pesr»gre-hs  Concerning,   toe
»>*»H,g   of   Our  Borough—Tho  Col-
■•*■•>   Our   Subscribers    En'.f
—The Prt-byterian Aid Society
will hold a mari_**t Saturday morning at 0:80 in the Mills building,
Main street.
•—The American Legion Auxn*Vo.-y
will hold a 600 scat Pinochle card
party, Friday evening March 26,
at g o'clock, In tbe Legion rooms
* on Main street Everybody come
and bring your friends. 25 cents a
person.
—There will be a Story hoar
Sunday afternoon at 840 o'clock
in the Presbyterian church, for all
boys and girls of the community.
Thia meeting ie under the direction
~~~*au* munerviflion ot **■*■•' Otsauud t>—v
trict Sun<u~- echnol Association.
Married men, with and without
ohildren, Joined their younger and
older brothers in uniform when
draft boards in many sections ol
Pennsylvania found their reservob
af single men exhausted, and there
were few homes fat the State no**,
already tapped for one or more
legally-eligible maltest '•**;*'
—The names of Antis township
boys aad girls who ara in the United States service should ba submitted to the honor roll committee.
Those residing in Tipton, tbe names
can be given to Fred Budd. Those
rashling in Pinecroft should be
turned in to Crawford Gwinn and
those near Bellwood to Killen's service store.
—(Mrs. Shaner, of Hensheytawn,
who has been seriously lit for S
nojnbm'wsT inmii'lk^-<:vPSb"-tfdmltted t*>
the Altoona hospital one day last
week aa a medical patient. Mr.
Bruce Enyeart, of Niagara Falls
Ni Y., was called to Bellwood on
account of the dangerous condition
of his mother. Mr. Enyeart was accompanied to Bellwood by his wife
and family.
COUNTY FUNDS INVESTED
' The Blair' county sinking fund
commission met Monday at the
Hollidaysburg courthouse and voted
M* invest the sum of $56,000 in war
savings bonds which will yield interest et 9*m per' cent.
The money whieh now will go
to aid tha war effort hod been "earmarked" fat January of this year
for toe redemption of all outstanding institution district bonds. However, tha holders of the bonds need
not surrender them and now the
money for thia purpose has been
invested to bring some revenue to
the eounty.
Present at tha sinking fund meeting ! warn 'Commissioners Herbert
S. Bolger, Joseph A. Dickson ano
Dan S. Brumbaugh, Controller Car.
D Butler and Treasurer Charles
M. Way.
Tha eounty retirement board,
which began ito official functions
•when tha system was inaugurated
ths first of thia year, also mat and
voted to invest g20,000 from it*
treasury fai th*. war savings bonds
from whieh the yield will be 2V*»
per cent. This board comprises
(Messrs. Bolger and Butler and Miss
jEtla M. Snowberger.
BIRTH CERTIFICATES
VALUABLE  DOCUMENTS
Registration of births baa become
of increasing importance to citizens
of tha State aad Nfation within the
past few years.
For any one of a score of reasons persons today may find them-
eelvee to immediate need of a birth
certificate. Thia document fat smiply
a certified copy of a properly registered birth sa it appears ta the
records of tho Pennsylvania Bureau
of Vital Stats-tics.
If no aaeh record exists there
eon ba no birth certificate issued
without a costly delay and additional expense to the applicant.
Birth certificates may ba uaed to
prove parentage, prove inheritance
rights, settle insurance claims, obtain employment, la social security
claims aad to obtain passporta.
Tha registration of death ia also
a Nasi obligation of physiciana and
AMERICAN LE6I0IT CELEBRATE
TWENTY   - FOURTH     ANNIVERSARY OF    ANDERSON  POST
There waa a splendid attendance
Monday evening in the American
Legion rooms when John M. Anderson Post, No. 484, American Legion and ito splendid Ladies Auxiliary observed tha American Legion s>
24th birthday. Past Commander C.
F. Wertz opened the ceremonial
session after which Post Commander 3. L. Shirey presided snd introduced speakers of the evening, the
one William Robert Fuoss, war veteran from Tyrone, prominent platform speaker; the other, Warren
C. M-aOarty, Claysburg, 21st district
American Legion commander. Ladies
of the Auxiliary served a sumptuous repast of pork and sauer
kraut. District Commander McCarty
awarded the post the annual membership honors, Anderson Post having gone over the top in the 1943
membership drive, a signal honoi
for the Belljwood American Legion.
* P_at Commander Cramer likewise
was awarded •*&■* badge of his ser-
*"•—,   >»   e«—.   mcnimition   for   the  -_-
tiring commander. Four young
ladies rendered several numbers
the session closing with the customary flag salute. Speakers emphasized
the American Legion is ready' and
eager to admit to membership
thoae of World war No. 2, the national by-laws providing for this
admittance after the current globa.
war. They stressed, too, the accomplishments of the national
American Legion over a twenty-
four year period, Fuoss emphasized
the long, hard, up-hill fight to keep
the nation prepared, ready aa he
pointed eat "for those eventualities
mhicb did come, those things of
which our pacifist friends professed
to sense neither fear of nor interest
in". McCarty spoke  intimately     of
Today arid tomorrow",——'
among other things, "we are offering a ptrogram designed not alon<^
to win the war but to keep the
peace". Fuoss, in vigorous manner/,
appealed for the spirit of tolerance
in approaching the problems of the
post-war world, insisting "it will
be well for nations and statesmen
to forget revenge this trip if we,
are to avert an even worse wai
than the present, the horror oi
World war No. 3"
"We will do well to get things
in logical sequences", the Tyrone
man said ."There's a good slogan
foi the Legion to follow 'First
Things First'. It is sheer folly to
count chickens before eggs hatch,
equally absurd to put the cart
ahead of the horse. We need not
worry about the post-war world if
we lose thia war and that, therefore, is the soundest possible reason
for our bending every effort to win
it*',
"The American Legion," McCarty
ventured, "is concerned twdth not
alone the winning of the war but
the perfecting of plans for a just
and lasting peace, an honorable
■peace and that don't mean 'peace
at any price'. Those who advocated
that for the past twenty some
years and apparently did net know
they were advocating it, wall, thejj
were the ones who helped brine
gbout this current gobal struggle. A,
just peace is one thing, a dishonorable peace quite another".
"It ia of no moment to me",
Fuosa said, "what we name the
peace' structure of tomorrow.
My principal concern ie that it shal'
be a working, going proposition—
a united effort of free nations designed to put an end to this business of killing off each other at
periods of from twenty-five to
thirty years. The boys who serve
today want a just peace and it
must be just if it is to endure. We
are remiss sf our duty It we fail
to give to them what they want
and to a just and enduring peace
they are entitled, aa are all peoples, here and everywhere in this
jrorld".
ANNO!
.MENT
#Tha   editor   of    the Bulletin
grets to  announce   that    he
been compelled to suspend p-ubll
tion of the Bulletin for the    d«
tion of the war and ear last ia
will -be    Thursday,    April 8.
world conflict haa    wrought    mi
disorder along all lines of    activ
and more especially in the publi
ing and printing business,    and
we are unable to gat   help,
fore    our   only    alternative    ia
cease publication    and    await
outcome of the war,    which
one  ia hoping   hv.il    be    of
duration, but this ia   problemat
In the local   field    the    corporation
and government have absorbed me
all available help,   leaving ths
dry as a bone; many of the yoa
men and girls having found employ,
ment in railroad lines, while oths
are in the armed forces of the
tion.
Within the past two years
[our former employee enlisted in
service of the nation. We can-
■ operate without experienced
sand must cease to appear aa a
Icly publication on and after
■il 8, 1048, until the war is over.
, this particular it Is noted fram
■ trade publication that within the
1042 over three hundred week-
ad over eighty dairy papers
| Of them with large circulations
|re bean forced to give up tha
on account ef a labor short-
We earnestly hope to be able
resume publication after the war
{..over and the soldier boys return
ijeivil life, arrangements to this
et having been mads with one
'our men nojn* in the armed for-
to assume a financial interest
aa soon aa the war ceases and
|l world returns to its sanity. In
issue of April 8 further an*
ncment will be made.
HAPPEMINBS_30_ YEARS Mil PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
TOLL BRIDBESJRE TO PiaflfuwDOD Mlfllt« »ISSING
ABOMINABLE   NUISANCE
TO COME TO AN  END
Recent legislation offered in
House and -Senate    at    Harrison
has    opened a new chapter in
long    history of   toll    bridges
Pennsylvania.
The measures,    If passed,    Iwoi
'empower the Department of    -M
ways to purchase and- free the
maining  privately  - owned  br
in the State on whieh toll is
charged.       As thia is written
bills are in Committee.
At the   present   time,    John
'Shroyer,   Secretary   of    Highv
reports, there are still  twelve
bridges    in     the     Commonwe
charging from five to 26 cents ,1
automobiles,    and varied   *""*toOj|
c-j/Onj
am\i£%9me9-m^.-3sansesp,x~-'m
rucks and traflers.   ^^^^
These' bridges   he    listed aa follows;
The Market Street bridge at Har
iRCE W. HOSTLER FALLS IN
NORTH   AFRICA
The tragedy of .War    has    again
m forcibly    brought    home    to
[wood when a    message was re
from the war department at
ihington on March 18,    address-
to  Mrs.  Charlotte    Hostler   of
•one,  that her husband,    George
arren   Hostler,   was     missing    im,
ion in North Africa. The young
n waa. a native of the borough;
ae he resided all his    life   and
he apent hia boyhood    daya
waa educated   in    our    public
iooIs.  He is toe son  of Mr. and
Ernest  Hostler  of 815  North
irth   street  and  before   entering
service waa united in marriage
iotte Burket  of    Tyrone
ed the armed   servka af
~iw**B»*ir"*i*fF--*^^ matt-
after receiving training (went overseas in November of the same year.
For a period of time he was    em-
ACTIVITIES OP    OUR    CITIZENS
THREE DECADES    AGO
From the Bellwood Bulletin, September 24th,  1914.
Mias Josephine Madara, of Main
street ia seriously ill. Her niece,
Mrs. Wiggins Thorns* of Trenton,
N. J. ia at her bedside-
Joseph i Kellerman, one of out
towns venerable citizens, has gone
to Altoona, where he will spend
some time with his daughter, Mrs.
William  Potter.
Ross Lego ia off for a two week
vacation to Atlanta City, and will
spend some * tone at Wilmington,
Del. and Chester, on hia return.
WiU Raugh ia spending some
time at the home of his mother.
Mr. Raugh lives' in    McKaesport*.
Mr. and Mrs. George Criaiwell, of
Johnstown, spent some tone with
the former's parents, Squire and
Mrs. Crisweffl.
A. E. Miller and wife spent some
time at P*t-tsb«*>*wh, seeing its big
exposition.
Mrs. I. M. Watters and daughter
Helen, and Mra. WiU Myers and
daughter Grace, have gone to Denver, Col., to spend some tone with
Miss Clara Lauver.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Glasgow are
spending some time at Atlantic City
enjoying the asa breezes. New York
will be visited on the return.
J. Eugene Root, of Cinciniati,
Ohio, is visiting at the home of hiis
father, E. N. Root, Inhere hia wife
and daughter have been for several
weeks.
Bridge    at
the Peoriee
risburg,   owned   by the    Harrisburg j Ployed   as clerk   inone   of the  local
stores and at the time of his enlistment had been employed in ths
South Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania railroadd company. He was
a well known and likable young
man of the borough and had many
friends.
He has two brothers    and    three
Bridge  sisters,  Reuben Hostler    of    Balti-
| more, Md., Howard! Hostiler of Bell-
Bridge Company.
The Walnut Street
Harrisburg, owned by
Bridge Company.
The Clarks Ferry bridge, 14 miles
north of Harrisburg, owned by the
Clarks Ferry Bridge --Co.
The Sunbury bridge at Sunbury,
owned    by    the    Sunbury
Company,
The Minsi Trail Bridge, at Beth-1 wood,    Mra.  Raymond  Berkstressei
lehem,   owned  by the   Minsi    Trail
Bridge Company.
The New Street bridge at Beth-
of Spruce Creek, Mrs. John J. Car-
lone of Chicago, 111., and Helen
Hostler,    at home with the parents
lehem, owned by the Lehigh Bridge in Bellwood.
Company. j     The  father  ia employed  at pros-
The Eighth    Street    Bridge,    at ent by the Pennsylvania railroad at
AUentown, owned    by
town  Bridge Company.
The Point. Marion Bridge at
Point Marion, owned by the Point
Marion Bridge Company.
The Maaontown bridge at Mason-
town, owned by Fayette and
Green Counties.
The Charleroi - Monessen bridge,
located at that point, owned by
the Mercantile Bridge Co.
The Ellwood City-Koppel bridge,
at Ellwood City, owned by the
Ellwood and KoppeJ Bridge Co.
The Foxburg bridge, at Foxburg,
owned by the Pittsburgh and Western Raillway.
Of there bridges, the largest are
the two at Harrisburg, wito the
Clarks Ferry and Sunbury structures next in order.
AU these bidgea carry a heavy
traffic of both comnteircJal and
private cars in ordinary times, snd
like all the Pennsylvania Highway
System, at tola period, bear a large
volume of the war materials pro*
duced In this State. Many of the
other bridges, although smaller
than those four, carry heavy wai
traffic.
the    Allen.. toe reclamation plant at Chambers-
|burg.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Eugene Gilland Slep, paator.!
Sundsy services -with the pastor in
charge of the preaching services I
The sermon in the morning, "I
Need". In the evening. The
Churches Place." Youth Vespers at
6:80. Noonday lentaa services. Prayer meeting at 7 JO Wednesday
evening. Dedication of Pledges oa
.Sunday,  a        ^^^u|s |
NOTICE
Everyone ia asked by tbe government to plant a victory garden
this year, and) the time is near to
start gardens, and then Is nothing
more annoying than to have s
garden torn up by stray dogs. Thi*
ia the only warning dog owners will
get. Tto up your dog and kee f it
ea your own premises or suffer
prosecution far permitting R tc
run loose.
iH   EDGAR McXINNJDY,
SASSAFRAS
It's now springtime—
And just the time
For sassafrass.
And as each year
The time draws neai
-Why let is pass
A package free
Was given me
Fresh from the earth
Where it had grown.
Long, folks have known
And praised its worth.
Coffee and tea
Are scarce, you see,
And sugar, too,
But  really
Sassafras tea
With less, will do.
And I've found out
Tie beat without—
Use cream instead.
Let sugar go....
Now dont laugh so
At what I've aaid.
—ELLEN IRVIN
I
SIS i   ■
-Advertise fni the BuUetln.
—Corporal   Guy C.    Burkholder,
sen of Mr. and Mrs.    Tom . Burkholder,   haa   bom    elevated to the
grade of sergeant with toe    United
States remount at Fort    Robinson
Neb. Mr. and Mra Burkholder have
another son hi the service, Thomas
Burkholder, who ia with the United '
Statea engineers in th south.  Both .
boy sare graduates af toe Bellwood- i
Antis High achool, Sergeant Burk- i
holder for    years   being    Identified
with troop B, 104th cavalry of Ty-
RECORD OFTHE DEPARTED
THOSE WHO HAVE  PAST  FROM
TIME  TO  ETERNAL  REST
Walter F. Kris*
Walter F. Krise, of Nortu
Sacond .stoeet, BeUwood,. died ..Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
hh home of a cerebral hemorrhage
following a brief illness.
He waa born in 'St. Lawrence,
(Clearfield county, April 12, 1885.
He was a member of the Graci;
Lutheran ehurch of Bellwood, tha
Coalport lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Williamsport consistory  and Jaffa  Shrine.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Marian Evelyn (Waltersi Krise
whom he married June 30, 1940; a
son, J. Walter Kinsel Krise to the
first marriage; also by these
brothers and sisters: Mra. Ro>
Beers, Bellwood; Mrs. Oscar Peterson of McKeeaport; John,. Fallen
Timber; Blair, Harrisburg, ant,
Clarence, DuBois.
Mr. Krise had been a well known
and highly esfce-eraed citizen of the
Borough for many years and during
thia time was engaged as a carpenter. He was a skilled workman
and up until sickness overtook him
had bain working as a patters
maker for J. E. Williamson, the
gray" iron broker. Tha announce
ment of his passing came aa a distinct shock to all who shared hia
acquaintance.
Mra.  Marjerie   IE. Davis
Mra. Marjorie E. Davis, former
resident of Bellwood, but for the
past two yeara a resident of 814
Fifth avenue, Altoona, died at
Mercy hospital at 2:50 o'clock Saturday afternoon after a brief 9V-
ness.
She was born In Patton, Pa.,
April 5, 1899, the daughter of Lee
and Ella (Merriman- DiUen.
Surviving are her husband, Clyde
Davie; three daughters, Mise Anna
Drinosky of Detroit, Mich., Mrs.
Martha Dysart and Mrs. Ruth McCaulley, both of Altoona, seven
grandchildren, and the following
brothers and sisters: Ashley DiUen
of Portland, Ore., Mra. Ldeis Port
of -Syria, Ohio, Ptiiato Lewis
DiUen of Mississippi, George Dillen
of Tyrone, Lloyd, Cheater and
Oliver Dillen, all of BeUwood, Una
(Frances Jonas of Altoona and John
DiUen of Claysburg.
She waa a member of the First
Evangelical ehurch. Funeral service*
were held In the First Evangelical
ehurch Jn Altoona. in charge of the
pastor. Rev. H. C. Kleffel, foUowad
by interment ta Logan Valley cemetery.
-—The Bulletin office con always
use news Items.    Pisa an aend them
People Who Visit Here and
Those Who Go Away.
-MOVEMENTS Of OUR CITIZENS
Guests   Wfcs Are Entertained by Boll-
Wood   Hoata—Peraonal   SBeetJee   ef
Those Who Visit  To and Fro
Ruth Root Kask, of Harrisburg,
spent several days this wash with
friends in •town.
Mra. J. L. Focht of Beilvue
avenue, returned last week from
Rome, N]. Y., whore she visited her
eon Mr. Gerald "b\ Focht and
family.
Mias I un las Williamson    of   the
■ Williamsport Junior Dickinson    college is  enjoying  a    vacation     with
her parents,    Mr. and Mra.    J. &
Williamson   on East  Fifth  street.
Cadet  James  G.     Williamson,    a
student at Valley    Forge    Military
Academy, who    waa    recently    advanced to conp»ral,    is    enjoying t .
vacation at the home ef his parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Williamson    on
{East Fifth  street-
Miss  Annie  Thompson     of North
Tuckahoe  street  left Monday    fot
Harrisburg,  where  she is employed
in defense work. IShe also has two
brothers in the navy,  James,  chief
pharmacist mate    overseas,    James
Thompson  in training at University
of    Pennsylvania, as aviation cadet*.
Mr.  and Mm.  Jack    Williamson.
of Baltimore, Md.,    are enjoying a
viait at the home of Mr. and Mrs,
J. E.   Williamson     on    Beat    Fifth
street.They brought with them theii
baby   boy,     James   E.    Williamson
3rd, who is paying hia first viait to
his grandparents. Needless    to   ssy
that there is much rejoicing in the
Williamson home.
Ms . aad Mm Hoggs 1*11
of South Third street left Wednesday at noon for Devan, Pa., having
been called there on account of th«j
serious illness of our townsman's
father, Mr. William Sitman, Sn,
who is confined to a hospital in
that section. The aged gentleman is
almost ninety yeara old and foi
some tone past has been making
his home (With hia son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mra. Justus
Douglass at Devan. His illness if
such aa to cause hie friendds mud",
apprehension.
TRIBUTE TO    WAR   GOVERNOR
To the  Bellwood   Bulletin:
A tribute to    Andrew G. Curtin,
Civil War Governor of Penna.
Governor Curtin established the
Soldier's Orphan Schools of this
state, which I am told ia the only
state in the Union which took ears
of its soldiers orphans. In these
institutions the pupils were clothed,
fed and educated Those who reached a certain standard of scholarship were given a diploma which
entitled them to any State Normal
which they might choose. The writer waa at McAlli^tervilM * achool
when Ira Went-ei was principal,
his son Eugene Jwtas born there. My
choice of the Normal School was
MillerviUe, Lancaster County, the
principal of which waa Edward
Brooks, A. M. Ph. D., from which
Normal Wentzel graduated, as did
his daughter Bertha some yeara
later. From McAllisterville came
C. Day Rudy, of Pittsburgh, who
with hie sons were interior decorators of the Bellwood Methodist
church for the first time, where
Ollie Williamson aat admiring it
and would say, "I hate te leave, it
looks so beautiful."
. One of our boys waa Dr. Albert
Spanogle of Altoona, and a prothonotary of Dauphin County whose
name I have forgotten. These
schools turned out some of the
finest men and women of toe State.
Thanks  to "Uncle   Andy   Curtin"
as we  called him.
LIDA   YARLETT   HELSEL
Reports received by the War History Office of the Pennsylvania Hte
torical Commission indicated a critical shortage of red meets Is
southeastern Pennsylvania, and a
corresponding scarcity of variety
and cute throughout the entire
State. MeanwhUe, federal officials.
opened an investigation of toe SS-o>
atom in Philadelphia, where even
hospitals were unable to obtain
minimum quotas of flash