Bemoreaic Wen
Terms 2.00 A Yeur,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., May 19, 1893.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebpitor
The President’s Motive.
Some feeling has been excited in
Democratic circles by the announce-
ment of the President that he could no
longer tolerate the intrusion upon his
time and attention by the office-seekers.
More than two months have passed
since his inauguration, and that period
has been principally taken up on his
part by attending to the claims of those
who have thought themselves entitled
to the official positions under a Demo-
cratic administration.
The President has recognized the
claim that the offices belonged to the
party which has placed the administra-
tion in power: He appreciates and
gives due weight to the fact that the
policy of an administration is best car-
ried out by those who are in political
sympathy with it, and who have an
interest in its success, as supporters of
the principles upon which that policy
is founded. It is because President
CLEVELAND has taken this view of the
claims of Democrats to the official
positions under his administration,
thathe has given most of his time to the
numerous applicants for office since
his inauguration, with the result that
he has not been able to give the atten-
tion to his higher official duties which
their importance demands.
It may be believed that no one has
a more sympathetic feeling than he
has for those who ask for the Federal
positions under a Democratic adminis-
tration for the reason that they are
Democrats. This has been sufficient-
ly shown by the patience with which he
has given audience to those who have
thronged upon him with their applica-
tions for positions, thus interfering
with his attention to the public duties
that are required of his high office.
Therefore his motive should not be
misconstrued, nor should he be charg-
ed with indifference to the claims of
his party members, when he calls a
halt upon the monopolizing of almost
his entire time and attention by those
who solicit, at his hands, a share of the
public patronage. He is justified in
believing that his chief duty is to
the public, which sustains an injury
in consequence of the distraction occa-
sipned by the office-seekers, Those
wha gre asking for the Federal places
unquestiouably have “claims.” The
| pay, but if not there is every reason to
suppose that it would bave been bet-
ter, from a pecuniary stand point,
to shut up on Sunday and take the
appropriation.
The WatcEMAN has been in favor of
Sunday openings from the first, and
to convince its readers that there will
be far less harm done in allowing visi-
tors to walk quietly through the Fair
buildings, where there is really nothing
to be seen bnt the best efforts of a
christian era, than to shut them out,
we need but call attention to the fact
that on last Sunday eighteen thousand
visitors, having no place else to go,
turned out to witness the exhibition of
a wild west show.
|
It Should be Vetoed.
The bill authorizing the erection of
and maintenance of eel weirs and fish
baskets in the various streams of the
State has paseed the House finally and
now only awaits the Governor's signa.
ture to become a law. This it should
never receive, however, for there is
very little use in maintaining a public
fishery at an enormous cost it the State
is going to legalize such wholesale
destruction of the fish as the Toor bill
would make possible.
It may be said that the fish basket
is only to be used during four months
in the year. But every one knows
that in most localities the four months,
under the law, is usually dragged out to
cover the whole twelve in every year.
All kinds of fish are taken trom the
streams and in such quantities as to
completely rob them in a very short
time,
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Chinese Disasters.
Two Large Fires—Over 2,000 Persons Burned to
Death.
Sax Francisco, May 17.—Advices
trom China and Japan report two dis-
astrous fires, resulting in the destruc-
tion of 4,400 native houses in Mantila.
It is reported that they originated from
a family quarrel in a native house, a
woman baving thrown a baazier ot hot
coals at her husband, which missed its
mark and set fire to the place. At the
latest report five bodies had been taken
from the ruins.
Information has been received at
Hong Kong that shows that the disas-
ter at Kam Li sometime ago during
the progress of a festival in which
1,400 lives were said to have been lost
was far more terrible than at first re-
ported. While the performance of
some theatricals were in full swing
three mat sheds containing over 3,000
persons were set on fire. The dry mat-
ting burned rapidly and the supports
giving away, fell and suffocated a ma-
jority of the audience. One ofthe mat
sheds was occupied solely by women
and children and when this was fired a
band of well-dressed Chinese, who were
wholly unknown to the natives of the
fact of their belonging to the Democrat-
ic party gives them a claim to the of-
fices, But the public interest also has
claims which are being sacrificed
while the President's time and atten-
tion are being taken up by conflicting
official claimants,
There is no question thatthe offices,
‘as vacancies occur, will be filled by
Democrats. There are obstacles in
the civil service law which interfere
with changes being made as promptly
and rapidly as they used to be under
former conditions. These obstacles
cannot be pushed aside with indiffer-
ence, They must be recogrized and
their restraint must be submitted to.
But it is certain that there are gentle-
men at the head of the various Depart-
ments who fully recognize the right of
Democrats to hold the official places
under a Democratic administration,
and who will see that this right is
fully accorded them under the law
that now exists, regulating the tenure
of Federal offices.
The Fair Will be Open on Sundays.
The World’s Fair is to be open en
Sunday. Its directors have decided
that they caa do without the appro-
priation made by Congress and will
throw the gates of the Fair grounds
open to the public onthe Sabbath as
well as any other day. No machinery
will be run, however, and while visitors
will be admitted to all buildings there
will be no exhibition requiring manual
labor. Had the Commissioners taken
such an action from the first they
would not have subjected themselves
to the criticism which will meet this
decision of theirs. For itis very evi-
dent that the change was brought
about purely from a mercenary mo-
tive. The Fair has not been paying at
all and the commissioners hope to
make money out of Sunday opening.
Asto whether they will succeed it re-
mains to be seen.
The government appropriation which
has been forfeited amounts to $2,500,
000, which the Fair will have to clear
on Sundays. As there remains just
twenty-four Sundays it will be seen
that the average receipts will have to
be $104,166, requiring paid admissions
to the amount of 208,832 every Sun.
day until it closes in October: If the
district, rushed in and seized the best
looking yours women and ~ils to the
vuraber of thirly or forly and carried
thé away. As soon as other people
weat to render assistance at the mat
sheds another band of robbers set fire
to houses in different parts of the vil:
lage and plundered shops of all that
was valuable. Boats were waiting at
the river side and the kiduappers and
the robbers were able to make good
their escape. The Chinese state that
nearly 3,000 persons were suffocated
and burned to death and itis certain
that over 2,000 lives were lost. Over
2,000 coffins were also sent from Fash
an and other places to the district.
The Reception te The Infanta.
Secretary Gresham's Programe Approved at
Madrid.
WasHINGTON, May 16.--The mes-
sage of Secretary Gresham to Minister
Snowden at Madrid on ‘Sunday night
informing him of the conclusions reach-
ed by the administration upon the
matter of the reception and entertain-
ment of the Infanta Eulalie, which was
at once conveyed to the Spanish Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs, was apparently
satisfactory to the government of Spain,
inasmuch as the Captain General of
Cuba received instructions yesterday to
have the programe governing the In-
anta’s movements as originally prepar-
ed carried out in the departure of her
Highness and suite from Havana for
New York.
The cablegram to Minister Snowden
directed him to advise the Sparish Gov-
ernment that all courtesy and considera-
tion due to the rank and station of the
Priccess would be observed by the Gov-
ernment of the United States. This
does not definitely settle the mooted
question whether or ant President
Cleveland will call upon the Princess at
her hotel after she has paid her respects
to the Chief Executive at the White
House. The program for her stay in
this city includes a dinner to the Infanta
and party by President and Mrs. Cleve--
land at the White House. :
America’s Rights in Behring Sea.
Paris, May 16,—Sir Charles Russell
resumed his argument to-day in behalf
of the British case before the Behring
Sea Tribunal of Arbitration. Sir
| Charles argued that the seizures made
| of British vessels in Behring Sea were
not justifiable and he reviewed at length
the origin and nature of the rights trans-
ferred by Russia to the United States in
1867. Sir Charles’ contention wes that
the rights derived from Russia by the
United States were merely the ordinary
property rights in the soils and not in
the seals.
——We are sole agents for the
Douglas shoes the best in the country.
Every pair warranted. Buy no other they
will give you satisfaction, boys $1.76
$2.00 and $2.50, mens $2.00, $2.50,
time should be extended there would
be little doubt that the change would
$3.00, $4.00 and $5.00, the $4.00 and
$5.00 are hand made. Lyon & Co.
Crisp Will Be Speaker,
Already Planning to Reorqanize the House Com-
mittees. Cleveland Resents a Slur. He Turns
Down a Man Who Doubted His Democracy—
Carlisle Fills the Place of the Man Who Never
Voted.
WasHINGTON, D. C., May 16.—Ex-
Speaker Crisp will be re-elected Speak-
er when Congress assembles in extra
session in September, without opposi-
tion. Last Thursday night Mr. Crisp
dined with President Cleveland and it
is understood that the organization and
the legislation of the next House were
then thoroughly considered.
Having been accorded a practically
unanimous re-election, Mr. Crisp will
be free, as few of his predecessors have
been, to make up thecommittees of the
House without considering particular
obligations to any of its members.
Whatever obligations he may have
felt to those who made him Speaker
two years ago have been discharged,
80 that they need not feel slighted if
they do not get as prominent places as
they bave held during the past two
years. His purpose, itis understood,
is to make a general and complete re-
organization of the committees and to
80 constitute the more important ones
as to make it certain that the meas-
ures for tariff reform, pension reform,
financial reform and Civil Service re-
form, recommended by the Adminis-
tration, shall be given every possible
au: antage. To this end, it is under-
stood that Mr. William L. Wilson will
be made chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, and that the other
Democratic members of that commit-
tee will be taken from the Cleveland
men, including all the survivors of the
Mills Bill Committee.
It is also understood that, while Mr.
Wilson will report the Tariff bill and
other important legislation from the
Ways and Means Committee, the
changes adopted in the organization of
the last House, under which the chair-
man of the Ways and Means Commit-
tee ceased to be the parliamentary
leader of the majority on the floor,
will be continued, and that Mr. Mec-
Millin will be given the place of parlia-
mentary leader, being officially designat-
ed as the leading member of the Com-
mittee on Rules after the Speaker, who
is ex-officio chairman. Mr. McMillin
will also be a member of the Commit-
tee of Ways and Means. The majori-
ty will therefore have the advantage
of Mr. Wilson's ability and learning
where they will be most useful, while
Mr. Wilson will have the advantage
of being relieved by Mr. McMillin of
the strain and burden of the leadership
on the floor, for which Mr. McMillen
is as well fitted intellectually and much
better fitted physically.
In the proposed reorganization of
the House, Mr. Catchings, of Missis.
sippi, and Mr. Montgomery, ot Ken-
tucky, Mr. Crisp’s chief lieutenants in
his campaign of two years ago, will not
have such prominent places as they
had in the last House. Chairman
Holman, of the Appropriations, and
Chairman Bland, of the coinage com-
mittee, will, it is understood, be suc
ceeded by Cleveland men, while strong
men will be put at the head of the
Committees on Pensions and on Civil
Service Reform.
The fact that Mr. Crisp is certain of
re-election without opposition will en-
able him to have hig committee ready
in advance, 80 that no time will be lost
in the organization of the House, and
thus 4 fortnizht at least will be gained
for the consideration of the Tariff bill
and other legislation.
Mr. William L. Wilsov, who is in
the city, will have charge from now
on of the preparation of the Tariff bill.
“Relating to the paturalization of
aliens and prohibiting the payment -of
the expenses connected therewith by
officers and members of political organi-
zations and by candidates.”
SgotioN 1. Be it enacted by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met and it is hereby enact-
ed by the authority of the same That on
and after the passage of this act tke
certificates of naturalization shall be
printed on parchment and itshall be un-
lawful for any officer or member of
any committee or organization of any
political party or any candidate for of-
fice nominated by any political party
or nomination papers or for any person
in behalf of said committee organiza-
tion or candidate to pay or furnish the
money to pay or in any way to become
responsible for the payment of the fees
and expenses directly or indirectly in-
curred by an alien in attending upon
any court for the purpose of and in
obtaining his naturalization papers.
SkcrioN 2. Any person violating the
provisions of the first section of this
act shall upon conviction in a summary
proceeding before any city magistrate
alderman or justice of the peace who
are hereby given jurisdiction to cry
said offenders in a summary way tor
each offence pay a fine of fifty dollars
which when collected shall be paid in-
to the county treasury of the county
wherein the offense was committed.
Section 3. If any person convicted
in the manner prescribed in the second
section of this act and sentenced to pay
a fine or fines shall refuse or fail to
forthwith pay said fine or fines and
costs to the city magistrate alderman
or justice of the peace before whom he
is convicted or give satisfactory securi-
ty co be approved by said magistrate
alderman or justice ‘of the peace to pay
the same within ten ‘days he shall be
committed to county jail there to be
held one day for everv five dollars of
the fines which he has been sen-
tenced to pay. Provided however. That
| said imprisonment shall not prevent
| the collection of said fine or fines and
costs by legal process.
Approved the 10th day of May Anno
Domini one -thousand eight hundred
and ninety ‘three.
Rost. E. Pattison.
——Turniture ‘at lower prices at E.
Brown Jr's. than any place in Centre
county.
To Be Open on Sunday.
Decision at a Meeting of the World's Fair Direct-
ors. None of the Buildings tobe Closed— The
$2,600,000 Appropriation of Congress to be Re”
turned.— Machinery will not be Run.
CH1cAGo, May 16 —The directors of
decided to-day to abrogate their con-
tract with Congress by which they
bound themselves to close the Fair on
Sunday in consideration of an appro-
priation of $2,500,00.
The money will be returned to the
government and herealter the fair will
be opened Sundays. This course was
decided upon at a special meeting of
the directory this afternoon.
Most of the directors were dissatis-
fied with the plan adopted at their last
meeting by which it was proposed to
open the grounds Sundays while clos-
ing all buildings containing exhibits.
To-day's action was practically unani-
mous, but two directors out of thirty-
six voting against the proposition.
By the terms of the resolution
adopted to-day the machinery will be
closed down on Sunday, but in every
other respect the Fair will be open in
all departments the same as on secu-
lar days.
But $1,929,120 of the appropriation
originally made by Congress has been
turned over to the Exposition Company
and this amount is to be returned to
the National Treasury after the debts
of the Exposition haye been paid.
A rule embodying these points will
be submitted to the National Commis-
sion for approval. What action this
body will take is problematical, as a
mere working quorum of the members
is at present in the city. In any event
it is the evident purpose of the local
directors to open the Fair Sundays,
even at the expense of a rupture with
the national body.
BAD EFFECT OF THE WEATHER.
While the weather may be a mo-
notonous subject to read and talk
about, it is nevertheless becoming a
sericus matter to thousands of people
who are financially and otherwise in-
terested in the Exposition. This is the
sixteenth day, and more bleak, dis-
agreeable weather it would be hard to
find anywhere at this season of the
year. The effect is seen on all sides.
The attendance this morning was light-
er than it has been for many days and
the Exposition people are discouraged
accordingly.
The average paid attendance so far
hasnot been much over seventeen
thousand daily, which is far below the
number necessary to meet even the
operating expenses of the Exposition,
to say nothing of the millions of half
dollars needed to pay the bondholders |
and stockholders of the great enter- |
prise. Thousands of strangers are in
in the city waiting for fine weather to
come to Jackson Park, but they refuse
to shiver on the lake shore even for
the sake of seeing the Fair. Outdoor
work in the Midway Plaisance and
other parts of the Exposition is also
being retarded by the cold.
Killed a Green Goods Man,
Edwara Hoerner, of Steelton, May Answer for
Murders
New Y0Rk, May 16.—The brothers
otrner, of Steelton, Pa., who planned
to beat George Philips and his green
goods game, and finally shot him, may
stand trial for their lives. Philips is
dead. Warden Doyle, of Raymond
street juil, Brooklyn, broke the news of
Philips’ death to the prisoners at 10
o’clock to-night. Both broke down and
cried bitterly.
“We may as well tell the truth,
now,” they cried, together. “We "are
brothers, and our names are Robert and
Edward Hoerner. We both live in
Steelton, Pa., but did not come here to
hurt anybody.”
Edward said that he did not shoot at
Philips until the latter attacked him
first.
“I suppose,” said Edward to Mr.
Doyle, *‘that it will not go hard with us.
Those men robbed us of our good money
but please don’t ask us any more, as we
feel too terrible about this affair. My
God! Idid not mean to hurt that
man.”
The Aldine Hotel, Philadelphia, Badly
Damaged by Fire.
PHILADELPHIA, May 14. — A fire
caused by a defective flue in the bake
house of the Aldine hotel, badly gutted
the building to-night and caused a loss
estimated at about $140,000. The 120
guests in the house and the servants es-
caped uninjured after an exciting
experience.
The Aldine hotel is on Chestnut street
above Nineteenth street and is one of
the largest hotels in this city. Itis
about ninety feet front on Chestnut
streev with a large “L’ running back
from the main structur: to Sansom
street, a distance of about 225 feet. The
Chestnut street front is eight stories in
height crowned by a false mansard roof.
Thehotel does not depend for its patron-
age upon the traveling public, but was
the home of permanent guests. There
were about 120 guests in the hotel
among whom were many prominent
business and professional men. A. A.
McLeod, ex-president of the Reading
railroad, had fine apartments on the
second floor.
Tunneled Their Way to Liberty.
LouvisviLLe, May 16.—Four of the
most desperate convicts confined in the
Indiana Prison at Jeffersonville made
their escape last night by tunneling
through the floor of their cell. Those
who escaped are Nathan Bel!, serving
a nine year term for burglary ; Robert
Adams, burglar. seven years; Frank
McCarthy and William Nelson, alias
Rodgers, ten and five years respective-
ly for burglary.
Nine People Drowned.
Conneaut, O. May 17.—The tug Con-
tinental and scow were washed out in-
to the lake from this harbor at 5
| o'clock this morning and foundered.
{ Seven men and two women, who were
on board, were drowned. Seven of the
nine were in sight when the boat went
down,
the World's Columbian Exposition :
Rains Cause Floods.
Destruction Wrought in the Northwestern Pary
of the State—Drowning of a Boy.
Erg, Pa., May 18.—This section of
the state has been badly flooded owing
to the heavy and incessant rainfall.
Buildings and wooden bridges have
been carried down by the score, and
the drowning of Jacob Heberle, a lad
of 14, was due to the flood. Many
manufacturing establishments, ware-
houses and similar buildings are
flooded. The fire department was kept
out all night rescuing people in the
flooded district. The waters are rising
and there is still imminent danger. The
floods are the most destructive ever
known here. It is impossible to esti-
mate the damage done, but it is proba-
bly not less than half a million dollars.
The damage to the Jarecki Manu-
facturing company’s plant alone is
placed at $100,000.
Scores of houses were washed away,
but no additional fatalities have been
reported. Railroad bridges and cul-
verts are washed away on all sides of
Erie. All trains are cancelled on the
Erie and Piitsburg and Philadelphia
and Erie roads, The first train west
on the Lake Shore since last cvening
left the Erie depot at 10a. m. It is
still raining, but the gorges in Mill
Creek have been cleared away and the
flood through the heart of the city is
subsiding,
With High Honors.
The Infanta Will be Received With Proper
Ceremonies.
MAapriD, May 15.—An official state-
ment has been issued concerning the
reception of the Infanta Eulalie in the
United States. It says thatthe Spanish
government regarded it as offensive to
American courtesy that any negotiation
shall be made in advance as to the re-
ception in the United States of the royal
guests invited by the American people
to attend the World's fair. Unsolicited,
however, an intimation had been given
by the Washington government that
the infanta, as the representative of the
queen of the nation who discovered
America, would be received with high
honors.
This statement was made in view of
the many rumors now current concern-
ing the difficulties of arranging the de-
tails of the infanta’s visit to Washing-
ton.
A Steamer 800 feet Long.
The White Star Line to Build the Longest Ves.
sel Afloat.
LoxpoN, May 15.—The White Star
Line has given an order to Harland &
Wolff, the ship builders, for the con-
structions of a steamer 800 feet long,
which the firm is confident will beat
anything afloat. The only difficulty
for such a gigantic vessel will be the
shallow water at the Mersey bar, but
the White Star Company is arranging
to have large tenders meet the great
steamship further out.
The firm is at present hurrying the
completion of the Gothic, 500 feet long
and of 8,000 tons. The Gothicis being
built on a new principle as to the en-
gines and steering gear and is expected
to equal the speed of the Campania and
her sister steamer, as yet unlaunched,
the Lucania. The Gothic will be
launched about the end of June.
Pigeons Liberated at Clearfield.
CLEARFIELD, Pa., May 15.—Five
baskets containing 430 Homing pigeons
belonging to the Empire Flying club,
of New York and Newark, were libera-
ted here this morning. They were ship-
ped to Adams Express agent Thompson
Saturday. The birds circled a few min-
utes and then flew direct east for their
homes. A number of stragglers remain-
ed bebind. The air line distance to New
York is about 250 miles and is estimated
ed that the birds would fly it in six
hours. The secretary of the club was
telegraphed this evening for the time of
arrival, but no answer has been received
yet.
An Alleged Wife Murderer Arrested.
HunriNgDON, Pa., May 16.—Edward
Hughes was arrested at his home in
Minersville, this county, to-day charged
with the murder of his wife. Mrs.
Hughes, who was a delicate woman, has
been suffering severe abuse from her
husband for a long time, A few days
ago she was found unconscious and
when restored she had lost her reason.
She died yesterday. Hughes was
brought to jail here this evening. On
April 4 last Hughes stabbed John Mec-
Cray, of Minersville, in the abdomen
with a carving knife, and although his
victim hovered between life and death
for several weeks, Hughes walked about
the streets defying arrest.
Free to Home-Seekers,
The Northwestern Home Seeker is the
name of a newspaper just issued, giving
valuable information regarding the agri-
cultural, mineral and other resources of
South Dakota.
This new State is enjoying a wonder-
ful prosperity and any person looking
for a desirable location, or interested in
obtaining information concerning the
diversified resources of South Dakota,
will be mailed a copy of this paper free
of charge by sending their address to
W. A. Thrall, General Passenger Agent
North-Western Line, Chicago.
Thomas Resignation Will be Asked.
Cuicaco, May 17.—The national
commission has adopted the report of
the music committee ordering the
director general to request the resigna-
tion of Theodore Thomas as director of
music at the Fair.
A —————
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Dave Pierce, the colored barber
who lived at Lemont and afterwards at
State College, was married to May Hall,
of Baltimore, on last Monday evening.
The ceremony was performed in Philips-
burg. Dave hasopened a barber shop
in Kylertown.
——Call and see E. Brown Jr's
stock of furniture and wall paper.
——Last week too late to make
mention inthe WATCHMAN we heard
State College. She was an estimable
woman and will be greatly missed by
husband and daughter.
——Ou Tuesday morning Mrs. Sam’l
T. Gray, of Patton Twp., was stricken
with severe head-ache, which by seven
o'clock terminated in a stroke of apo-
plexy, Medical aid was summoned who.
on consultation had grave doubis as to.
results. At this writing (Wednesday
evening) this estimable lady had so.
far recovered that hopes of speedy return.
of normal health imbued the entire.
home.
——A great thing just closed out a,
special last lot of manufacturing clothing,
300 pair of fine pants in neat stripes.
give them to you at $3.00 and $3.50 the
nobbiest goods we have ever seen.
Lyon & Co.
AT WORK ON THE RAILROAD, —True
to the announcement in last week’s
WarcaMan gangs of men began work
on the new railroad on Monday morn-
ing. Already over fifty men are at
work and the force, is being augmented
as fast as men can be secured. The
work 13 now being pushed through the
Curtin farm, a few miles below town.
It is expected to have several hundred
men at work by the last of next week.
The Central Railroad of Pennsylvania
is a go for sure.
MARRIAGE LicENsEs.—Issued during
the past week-—Taken from the
docket.
Edmund Holmes, of New Jersey, and
Mary Fisher, of Unionville.
David Pierce and May Hall, both.
of Philipsburg.
Wm. Fleck, of Philipsburg, and Man-
dy Smell, of Blue Ball. 1
J. F. Kepler, of New York, and
Eva Shank, of Boggs Twp.
Roy Baldwin, of New York, and
Mary A. Mills, of Boggs Twp.
John Mitchell and Sarah Farance,
both of Philipsburg.
Wm. B. Fleck, of Bellefonte, and
Mary Hoover, of Roland.
Herbert Morris and Jane Robson,
both of Hawk Rur.
Wm. R. Jenkins and Catharine
Stott, both of Bellefonte.
Eugene Berry, of Beech Creek, and
Bertha Schenck, of Howard.
—The following letters remain uncalled
for in the Bellefonte P. O. May 15, 1893.
Sue E. Bullock, Robert Dixon, H. J. Jacobs,
Kate Jacson. Dr. L. 8. Kistler, Lizzie Rossman
Dave B. Rider, H. J. Whiteman & Co.
When called for please say advertised.
J. A. FIEDLER, P. M.
Pine Grove Mentions.
Mrs. Essington of Milesbhurg is kindly ad-
ministering to the wants of her convalescent
sister Mrs. Hammar whose condition is but
little improved. >
Memorial services will be held in the M. E
church in this place Sunday 23th inst at half
past 2 o'clock p. m. Services will be conducted
by Rev. Illingsworth.
Grandmother Shiffler ison her way to the
Windy city fair where she will spend the sum-
mer. Others are arranging to follow suit but as -
time rolls on few there will be from here to £0.
Our yourg friend Constable J. B. Krebs who
has gone to seek his fortune in distant fields
found lucrative employment in the Mountain
city where, we trust the ducats will roll in rap.
idly.
Candidates are cropping out as prolificily as
weeds during the wet weather W. T. Speer this.
week in his usual good humor looked up his
Democratic admirers, who are many in this.
section. He left a most favorable impression
of his abilities to take care of Centre county’s -
finances. A position we hope he will be called
upon to fill.
J. G. Heberling Esq., this week disrobed of
his official duties is in attendance as a repre-
sentative of Penns. Valley Lodge No. 276-
1. 0. 0. F. at Reading, where the Grand Lodge
ot Pennsylvania is in session this week. P.F.
Bottorf let go his grip on the plow handle
to} accompany Mr. Heberling, on a business
tour on the vantage of the excursion rates.
Our townsman J. B. Ard has had his coat off
all spring lending a helping hand in the re"
pairing of his new quarters up town by the
churches. He and Mr. Everts having exchanged
residences, Joe has left nothing undone to
make his new home comfortable. The interior
has been remodeled while the out side has
been made artistic by a coat. of paint. Joe's
legion of friends will find him a most hospita_
ble host at his new home for he is one of the
any one feel at home
Memorial day with the Grand army will be
observed as is customary for the proper ob_
servance of the day:so sacred to the memory
of our fallen heroes. All the different Sunday
schools and children are enlisted in the work
of gat hering flowers for decoration purposes
everybody is expected to use every effort for
the observance of Memorial day and assist in
All soldiers are solicited to take part in the
exercises whether Grand Army members or
not. Decoration services will be held at
Fairbrook cemetery at 10 o'clock a. m. at Pine
Grove cemetery at 2 o’clock p. m. at Pine Hall
cemetery at half past 5 o'clock p. m. Promi-
nent speakers have been invited and are ex-
pected to take part in the services.
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