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Democratic Watchman January 22, 1926 page 8
Bellefonters Survive Burgess Harris' Closed-Tight Sunday.
"About the only things n Bellefonte wide open and running as usual on Sunday, were the big spring and Spring creek. Burgess Harris' edict last week not only closed the lid on all unnecessary business but clamped it down good and tight. He is starting his administration on a reform platform and with this end in view gave notice, through the police last week, to all cigar stores, green grocers and fruit stores, that no more Sunday selling will be permitted. The hotels can sell cigars to bonafide guests, but hone other. Restaurants may serve meals to the hungry but not soft drinks to the thirsty. Drugstores must cut out the Sunday sundaes and other drinks and confine their sales to drugs and medicine.
The result was everybody who had heretofore kept open on Sunday closed tight and more than one smoker who failed to lay in a supply on Saturday night went smokeless on Sunday while the regular soda fountain habitues did not habit as heretofore. But nobody dropped dead or suffered any unusual pain because of the deprivations, and business picked up on Monday morning just where it laid down on Saturday night.
Burgess Harris has also issued an order closing pool rooms and restaurants at twelve o'clock at night during week days. This order was the result of a disgraceful scene on High street in the small hours of the morning, one night last week. Several young men who participated were fined five dollars by the burgess and given until February 1st to settle. It might also be mentioned that the burgess has already imposed fines in some four or five cases for reckless driving."
Democratic Watchman January 22, 1926 page 8
Ladies Undie Found In Waste Paper Receptacle.
"A very serviceable ladles undie garment was found on Monday morning by Charles Baney in the waste paper receptacle at the corner of the Brockerhoff house block on the Diamond. The garment was mixed up with a copy of a Sunday paper and when Mr. Baney found it he was somewhat non-plussed, as he wasn't sure whether it had been put there with purpose intent, deposited by mistake or was a supplement issued in connection with the Sunday paper But after opening it out full length, squinting at it from all angles and satisfying himself that it was a perfectly good undie he declared he'd take it home to the "old woman" and she could wear it.
The query now is, where did the undie come from? The waste paper receptacle stands close to the post-office but there isn't anybody in there who wears that kind of garment And lady or no lady we can't conceive of anyone shedding there undies during the kind of weather we have had recently and casting aside a perfectly good garment. In this case "finders are keepers," and Mr. Baney will profit through somebody's carelessness."
Democratic Watchman, March 19, 1926, page 8
"Several months ago the floor in the basement of Harvey Schaeffer's hardware store showed every evidence of sinking. The depression finally became so pronounced that Archibald Allison, owner of the building, was notified and carpenters were engaged to make repairs. Their astonishment was great when they tore up the old floor and discovered that there was no support beneath, nothing but a yawning hole in the ground where the foundation had caved in. The hole was about twenty feet in diameter and fully twenty-five feet deep. Bellefonte is underlaid with limestone ledges which are honeycombed with old water courses, and the cavein under the Schaeffer store was probably one of the biggest of them. It required many truck loads of stone and dirt to fill up the hole."
Democratic Watchman, June 11, 1926, page 4
Big Plant Nursery Being Established on Halfmoon Hill
"Charles Table is a new citizen of Bellefonte, but he is a fast worker just the same. He came here on Sunday from Springfield, Ohio, purchased four acres of ground on Halfmoon hill on Monday morning, was married on Monday afternoon, went to housekeeping the same evening, had two acres of ground ploughed on Tuesday and by Wednesday had a gang of men at work building hot frames for a plant nursery he will start on his newly acquired property, intending eventually to erect large greenhouses on the place.
Mr. Table is a German by birth and has devoted forty years of his life to plant nursery and greenhouse work. The two acres of ground which he will put under cultivation this year will be devoted to growing various flower plants to furnish wholesale to greenhouses this fall for their winter's supply. He will also plant some sweet corn for local markets. Next summer Mr. Table anticipates. Erecting his own greenhouse and will have it in addition to his plant nursery.
His marriage on Monday was to Mrs. Jennie Brown McEvoy, a sister of T. Clayton Brown, who had been a guest at the Brown home the past two weeks. They at once went to housekeeping in the furnished apartment of Mrs. Sara Satterfield, on the north side of the Brown property."
Democratic Watchman, June 25, 1926, page 8
"The new parking place on south Water street had been completed and a policeman was there all day on Sunday to direct motorists where to park. As high as ten cars were parked there at one time and the total during the day was close to one hundred and fifty. A superficial count was made of the persons who visited the big spring during the day and the number was six hundred."
Democratic Watchman, July 2, 1926, page 8
"All night parking will hereafter be prohibited in the central zone of Bellefonte, as follows:
On Allegheny street from Lamb to Logan.
On Spring street from Lamb street to Pine and out Pine street to the borough line.
On Water' street from Lamb to the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad.
On Bishop street from Spring to Penn.
On High street from Thomas to Penn.
On Howard street from Spring to Penn.
All cars found within the prohibited zone after one o'clock a. m. will be tagged and subject to a fine of $2.00.
HARD P. HARRIS, Burgess."
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