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Democratic Watchman, January 14, 1921, page 8
CARGO OF ILLICIT BOOZE SEIZED
Alcohol and Whiskey Raked in by Bellefonte Raider on Sunday Night
"Forty gallons of pure grain alcohol, thirty quarts of Overholt whiskey in bottles, two men and a Buick runabout car were the proceeds of a raid conducted by Bellefonte citizens on Sunday night and once again the spoils were from Wilkes-Barre but have thus been diverted from reaching their original destination, wherever that may have been.
A burned out bearing on the car was the cause of the illicit booze runners and their cargo being captured. Because of the damaged bearing the men in charge of the car were compelled to stop in Bellefonte for repairs and pulled into Wion's garage. Just how the fact that they were there leaked out is not known, but leak it did and men prominently identified with the local law and enforcement league at once got busy, notwithstanding the fact that it was well after ten o'clock at night.
Justice of the peace John M Kelchline was summoned to his office, who in turn called on sheriff Harry Dukeman. The latter went to Mr. Kelchline's office where were already assembled Rev. Alexander Scott, C. C. Shuey, Samuel B. Miller, J. Kennedy Johnston Esq., and George Eberhart. A search and seizure warrant was sworn out and placed in the hands of the sheriff and the entire crowd then proceeded to the Wion garage and a search of the car in question disclosed forty one gallon cans, such as is used for shipping varnish, filled with alcohol and thirty bottles of Overholt whiskey. The entire cargo with the exception of three bottles of whiskey was packed in the rear of the runabout, the three bottles being found under the seat of the car. The cargo was seized and later the two men who were already in bed at the Bush house, were arrested and taken to jail and are being held to await the action of the United States commissioner.
The men gave their names as Joe Feldman and Bert Jacobs and while they admitted they were from Wilkes Barre they declined to state where they were going aside from the fact that the alcohol and whiskey were destined for a manufacturing druggist.
According to information obtained this week the booze in question was brought in a truck as far as Pleasant Gap where it was transferred to the car in broad daylight Sunday afternoon. The truck then went back across the mountain and the car came to Bellefonte. It is very likely that only a small portion of the truckload was transferred to the car and that the balance of the consignment went through to its destination, which is said to have been Houtzdale."
Centre Democrat, July 14, 1921, page 1
AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
"Damage to the amount of $600 was caused on Sunday afternoon, at the Wion Garage, when a wheel became detached from an approaching automobile and crashed through the large plate glass window at the side of the garage, landing in the show case inside, and narrowly missing several men who were there at the time. The damage is covered by insurance.
The wheel came loose from the car owned by J. C. Harm, of Snow Shoe, and driven at the time by his son Walter. When it was coming down Allegheny street towards the garage, in front of the Miller hardware store, and rolled from there down the middle of the street until it struck the curb in front of the garage. The force of the bump sent the wheel into the air and through the window, smashing it from top to bottom, then landed in the show case, causing considerable damage there. John Stover, an employee at the garage was showered by broken glass but was not injured seriously. Several other men escaped injury.
The wheel, which one with wire spokes, is held to the axle by a spring, and it is thought that this spring was broken which released the hub cap. The car was not damaged."
Democratic Watchman, July 29, 1921, page 4
Monster Trout Caught Last Friday
"Al Smith, who lives on Lamb street opposite the old electric light plant, caught the biggest trout in Spring creek last Friday ever taken in Centre county. He had a day off from his work at the lime kilns and went down the creek to the old abutments that formerly carried the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania viaduct across the stream. Using bait he had been fishing but a short time when he hooked the fish. He had some difficulty in landing him but finally succeeded and when pulled out the trout resembled a monster shad. It measured 27 inches in length and weighed 9 pounds. It was 8 1/4 inches wide across the back and 6 1/2 inches deep through the body while the under fin was two inches wide. In circumference the fish measured 15 1/2 inches. While the trout was of the brown variety it also had very decided markings of the brook species and was probably a cross between the two. This was probably the largest trout caught in the State this year and Mr. Smith Is undoubtedly entitled to the standing reward of twenty-five dollars offered by the State Sportsmen's association for the largest trout caught in the State during the season. The trout will be mounted for exhibition purposes."
Centre Democrat September 29 1921, page 5
"One the pretty bungalow type of cottages, which have increased in popular favor in the past few years, is that guns and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. David Washburn, East Curtin Street. Added to the pleasing design of this modern and comfortable little home, is the landscape fact of trellis, vines and flowers to work of Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. The material used in directing the bungalow was purchased from the Aladdin Company, of Bay City, Mich., a firm making a specialty of furnishing ready-cut houses. As a stimulus to owners of their homes, who take pride in the outside effect, such as is seen on the Washburn property, the company recently conducted a contest, in which prizes were offered for the best landscape designs. With little thought of sharing enterprises offered, Mr. Washburn during the summer sends a photograph of his home to the Aladdin company, and was quite agreeably surprised a short time ago to receive a camera valued at twenty-five dollars as an award for having one of the best appearing bungalows."
Democratic Watchman, November 4, 1921, page 8
BELLEFONTE'S BIG HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL
A Pronounced Success Despite the Rain and Bad Weather
Many Hundreds in Parade.
"Despite the threatening weather and periodic rainfalls the second annual Hallowe'en carnival of the Bellefonte Lodge of Elks was pulled off on Monday evening almost on schedule time, and while the rain undoubtedly kept the residents of neighboring towns away, and kept some people out of line, who might otherwise have gone in, it was a pronounced success notwithstanding. While nobody, so far as known, attempted a count of the people in masked and comic costumes, a conservative estimate would be from five to six hundred people, and as practically all of them were from Bellefonte and vicinity it was an emphatic endorsement of the carnival as a delightful way in which to celebrate Hallowe'en.
Additional interest was added to this year's carnival by the contest for the Harvest Queen. This contest continued for five weeks and closed at ten o'clock on Saturday night with Miss Kathryn Bent as the winner. The total vote cast was 71,645, divided between the five contestants as follows:
Kathryn Bent 28,570, Ruth Teaman 26,695, Grace Sasserman 6,965, Marion Bauer 5,035, Peggy Haines 4,400
Of course everybody was anxious to see the Harvest Queen and her ladies in waiting, the four other young ladies in the contest, especially as the queen's costume is valued at $800 and those of the ladies in waiting at $500 each, but it was not this alone that brought out the crowd.
Rather the inherent spirit of frolicsome fun and good fellowship which is a dominant characteristic of every man, woman and child, and the desire to celebrate Hallowe'en.
The parade formed and was made up identical with the published program in last week's paper, and we want to add right here that it is only on rare occasions that three such good bands of music are to be seen and heard in any parade as those on Monday evening.
Editor's Note: The parade route was as follows: Starting at Bishop & Allegheny Street, the parade marched north on Allegheny to High street, west on High street to the PRR railroad station, then counter-marched east on High street to Spring street, north on Spring street to Howard, east on Howard to Allegheny, north on Allegheny to Linn, counter-marched on Allegheny to High, west on High to Spring, south on Spring to Logan where the marcher were disbanded.
That old standby, Wetzler's band of Milesburg, headed the first division, with our own I. O. O. F. band in top hats leading the second and the Modern Woodmen band of State College, resplendent in natty uniforms, at the head of the third division. The parade was almost a half hour late in starting and had hardly gotten under way when it began to rain. But It was no great downpour and the paraders stuck in line over the entire course and right up to the finish.
To attempt to describe floats and individual costumes would be a stupendous task. In fact it just couldn't be done. In the float line that of the Beatty Motor Co. won first prize because of its unique character. It represented an old-fashioned barn floor after harvest time with a square dance in full swing. And it might be added that the majority of the people on the float were men and women from the neighborhood of Pleasant Gap. The Y. W. C. A. club had a very creditable float while the Red Men also deserve special mention. The Spanish-American war veterans and the American Legion were well represented. The individual costumes were too numerous and varied to even try to depict. In fact the judges had a difficult task in making their selection of the prize winners, but they evinced no partiality and made their awards to those persons who, in their judgment, were entitled to them.
Of course the rainy weather interfered with the program after the parade to the end that there was no block dancing on Bishop street and no extended band concert. But all those inclined to dance went to the armory or the Logan fire company building, where dancing continued until late in the morning. Following is the list of prize winners:
Best Float - 1st prize, Beaty Motor Co.; 2nd, Y. W. C. A.; 3rd, Red Men.
Best Decorated Auto - 1st prize. Spanish - American War Veterans: 2nd. American Red Cross, in charge of Miss Mary C. Royer.
Best Masked Musical Organization - 1st prize, Drum Corps, in charge of Linn Bodle.
Best Fancy Costume (woman) - 1st prize, Ottillie Hughes; 2nd, Jacob F. Hoy; 3rd, Mrs. Ira Benner.
Best Fancy Costume (man) - 1st prize, Guy CoIl; 2nd, Mike Lukevick.
Best Comic Costume (woman) - 1st, Mrs. Mary H. Kane; 2nd. Mrs. Irvin Tate; 3rd, Mary Martin
Best Comic Costume (man) - 1st prize, J. D. Campbell; 2nd, Charles Hill; 3rd, Lester Gill.
Best Patriotic Costume - 1st prize, Miss Augustine Koontz; 2nd, Mrs. Charles Coble.
Best Patriotic Costume (man) - 1st prize, Byron Blackford; 2nd, Ollie Sprankle.
Best Dancing Girl - 1st prize, Regine Keefer; 2nd, John Bower Jr.; 3rd. Marie Martin.
Most Unique Couple - 1st prize, Mrs. John Shugert and Henry Linn; 2nd, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fanning; 3rd, Phillip Mickett.
Best Hobo - 1st prize, Clarence Williams
Best Dressed Man - 1st prize, George W. Rees.
Best Costume, from Bellefonte Academy - 1st prize, Charles Kalbach; 2nd, James Parrish.
Best Costume from High School - 1st prize, Edward Sones, Hubert Rossman, Elizabeth Nolan, Jean Haupt.
Best Costumes from Grade School - Mary Woodring, Helen Keller, Geraldine Ostrander, Lucille Keefer.
Best Costume from Parochial School - Austin Kellerman, Thomas Caldwell, Helen Bicketts, Katherine Coble, Helen Murnyak, Mary Rogers And the O'Leary twins.
W. S. Katz Prizes - 1st prize, Elizabeth Kline; 2nd, Evaline Troup; 3rd, Mrs. Harry C. Yeager.
Best Fancy Costume Child under 14 Years - Mary Kreamer.
Best Comic Costume Child under 14 Years - Irvin Martin.
Tallest Man in Costume - John Dubbs.
Shortest Man in Costume - Lee Walker.
Shortest Woman in Costume - Mrs. L. C. Thompson.
Tallest Woman in Costume - Miss Nelle McClellan.
Youngest Child in Line - 1st prize, Caroline Caldwell; 2nd Dick Musser; 3rd, Betty Roff.
Largest Family in Line - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Montgomery. -
Next Largest Family in Line - Mrs. S. Confer.
Oldest Person in Line - Howard Martin.
Next Oldest Person in Line - Mrs. Clarence Rhoads.
Best Representation of Well-known Character - 1st prize, Warren Wood; 2nd, Alexander Morris"
Democratic Watchman, November 18, 1921, page 8
Prisoners Steel Booze Stored In Centre County Jail.
"Even the Centre county jail is not a safe place in which to store booze, a fact demonstrated on Sunday night when the prisoners, who had the run of the corridors until 9:30 o'clock, stole some of the liquor stored in one of the cells and after drinking it refilled the bottles with coffee they had surreptitiously saved from their meals and replaced the bottles in the case.
The theft was discovered when the sheriff, went into the jail at 9:30 o'clock to lock the prisoners in their cells. His attention was at once attracted by the smell of whiskey and though he searched every man he failed to find any of the stuff. Then he investigated the cell where the booze was stored and discovered that some of the prisoners, with a piece of base board torn from the floor to which was tied a hook made from a brace torn from one of the beds, had managed to draw a case of whiskey to the barred door, through which they got the bottles. Five quart bottles were found, which had been emptied and filled with diluted coffee. The booze was the same that had been removed from the post-office cellar to the jail for safe keeping."
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