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Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 28, 1896.
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P. GRAY MEEK, - = -
Ln san mmm—
An Object Lesson for Pennsylvania.
Thursday of last week was what was
known as “University” day in the
Ohio Legislature. At every seesion of
that budy a certain day is set aside for
the eole purpose of looking after the
educational iuvstitntions in which the
State is interested. A complete report
of their work is heard, then requests
for appropriations are made, after
which bills are immediately ‘presented
and passed or killed, according as the
prevailing sentiment might be in rela-
tion to the needs of the schools.
We call attention to this because of
the marked contraet between Ohio and
Pennsylvania Legislatures in educa-
tional matters. While the former
ceems to have fully realized the neces-
sity of properly caring for its institu-
tions for higher education the latter
invariably views them with suspicioa
aad doles out paltry appropriations as
it the mouey were actually being
thrcwn into a sink hole. On its last
“University’’ day the Ohio Legislature
‘passed the HyseLL bill, which carries
a levyof 1-10 of a mill for the support
ot the State University. This will just
‘double the income of thay institution
and make it $200,000 per avnum.
When it is known thatthe state Uni-
versity of Ohio bears exactly the same
relation to that State as the Pennsyl-
vania State College does to Pennsyl-
vania, both having been land-grant
colleges, endowed by the United States
government, the vast difference in the
way their respective foster parents have
treated these two institutions is brought
out.
Where in Ohio one tenth of a mill
is annually levied for every dollar of
assessed valuation for the support of
the State’s University, in Pennsylvania
there is vot a single penny raised, ex-
cept when the State occasionally makes
an appropriation for a specific purpose.
Since the College wae established, in
1857, it bas received only $874,383.22
from the State, an amount which Ohio
will give to her University ina litle
over four years,
Just why the Legifiatare of Penn-
sylvania acts in such a niggardly man-
ner toward this institution, which she
promised the geueral government to
support when the grant of land was
made for its establishment, is seen in
the petty jealousies of communities
having educational icstitutions of other
classes in them. There is a complete
failure on the part of the maeses in
this Commonwealth to realize that The
Pennsylvania State College belongs
Juet a8 much to one portion of the State
a8 to another ; that the fact of its cen.
tral location does not contract its use.
fulness to the central portion of the
State, that the institution is second to
none in technology and that the “faith
of the State” was “pledged” to support
it in 1863.
It is a matter of regret that Phila-
delphia, the one city in the State that
boasts of her bequests to education and
ar, and of her broad-mindedness,
should be the bot-bed in which all
sorts of ecandalous and belittling at-
tacks on The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege are germinated. It is the fact,
however, and the secret lies in the Uni-
versity 0 Pennsylvania, an institution
which that city has been trying to lay
down on the State for years.
The Philadelphia papers never miss
an opportunity of misrepresenting
things with the bope of arousing pub-
lic contempt for State Coilege. The
latest attempt of this sort appeared, edi-
torially, in the Inguirer last Friday
night. Referring to the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity house it said :
As most of the students at State College are
young men in moderate circumstances, the in-
ference is that the so-called club house was
not a club house, but a dormitory or students’
living place, and that it was erected, not with
the students’ money, but with a State appro-
priation.
The venom in this “inference” is
best seen in the intent to lead the pub-
lictoa falee conception of the true
state of affaire. What would there be
of reflection on this institution even if
this club house had been a college dor-
mitory. A fire is an uncontrollable
accident and the Inquirer would be the
last paper under the sun to reflect on
Philadelphia's pet University should
‘any of her department buildings burn
down. But the Beta Theta Pi frater-
nity house, as well as five others of
such buildings at State College, was
built with private funds and was main-
tained by the boys who occupied it.
The court records in this place will
eatisly the Inquirer as to ite ownership.
There would be just as much sense in
that paper's trying to incite enmity for
the College because a spontaneous
combustion occurred in one of the hay
mows up there, recently, and threatened
a barn witb destruction.
Coming within a day of each other
this news from Columbus and this “in-
ference” from Philadelphia should
prove a valuable object leseon to Penn-
sylvania. It is a fine commentary on
a State that vaunts hereelf the most
progressive in the most progressive
country on the earth that, while her
neighbor liberally provides for it, she
continually discredits an institution
of learning establiched for the educa-
tion of a!l classes.
A Misleading Discussion.
It was entirely, proper to introduce a
resolution in the Senate with the ob-
ject of recognizing thd. belligerent
rights of the Cuban insurgents. ~The
Senate might go a step further and
recognize the independence of Cuba,
without doing anything that could be
called wrong. The Cubans deserve
their freedom and the Spanish power
should be expelled frem the island.
But some of the honorable Senators
made a mistake on some points in dis-
cussing the resolution. They erred in
the view they appeared to take con-
cerning the disposition of the Presi-
dent on the Cuban question,
Both Senator MoreaN and Senator
Frye spoke as if it was questionable
whether the President would co-operate
with Congress in ‘measures that would
be favorable to the Cuban cause, apd
whether it would not be veceseary fo
compel him to obey the directions of
Congress in such measures as it might
adopt. ”
Senator Morcan’s well-known dis
like for Mr. CLevELAND will account
for his disposition to present him io a
false. and unfavorable light, while
FrYE, in addition to being an unscrup-
ulous Republican partisan, is an irre-
pressible jingo of the ost blatant
kind. which explains “bis eagerness to
misrepresent the President on questions
of foreign policy.
We would advise the Senators not to
give themselves any uneasiness about
what the President may or may not do
in the Cuban matter when the emer-
gency arises, Let them go on with
their recognition of Cuba's belligerency,
and they will be sure to find the execu-
tive branch of the government ready
to do its duty to a people struggling for
their freedom.
The jingo enemies of the President
should have learned a lesson in the
Venezuela business. Their persistent
representation ‘that the administration
was toadyiog to the British lion, was
brought to a conclusion, as sudden as
it was embarrassing to them, by the
message that completely knocked the
wind out of them, and they are likely
to meet with the same experience in
the Cuban watter.
California.
Personally-Conducted Tour via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
So beautiful is the scenery of Cali-
fornia that nature must have expend.
ed more than her usual energy in its
creation, and especially is this true
during the months of March and April,
when the rainy season has passed and
flowers bloom everywhere. Fortunate,
indeed, is the persob whocan exchange
the wintry climate of the East for the
flower-perfuhed and healthful atmos-
phere of California, and no better
method of doing this can be had than
by participating in the second “Golden
Gate’’ tour, organized under the per-
fect personally-conducted tourist eys-
tem ot the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany.
The tourists will leave New York
and Philadelphia March 11, 1896, and
return to those cities May 7, allowing
four and onc half weeks in California.
A new feature to the magnificent
train used for these tours in previous
years isa through Pullman compart.
ment car.
The car, which will be the very best
that the Pullman company can supply,
will contain nine inclosed compari-
ments—two drawing rooms and seven
state rooms—and will be attached to
the special train at Jersey City and run
through to San Francisco.
Applications for space or itineraries
giving all information should be made
to tourist agent, 1196 Broadway, New
York, or room 411, Broad street sta-
tion, Philadelphia.
Two Plead Guilty.
HarrisBURG, Feb. 25.—Mr. Hutch-
inson, of the dairy and food commis-
sion, has returned from Altoona where
he secured a large number of milk sam-
ples which he suspected of being adul-
terated. They are being analyzed at
the State College. He also secured five
specimens of oleomargarine. Two
grocers Bbprsred before Alderman Jack-
son here last night and pleaded guilty
to dealing in oleomargarine. They
were fined $100 and costs each.
Frait Is Now Common Property.
WasHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Miss Eliza-
beth Flagler, daughter of General Flag-
ler, chief of ordinance, United States
army, who about a year ago shot and
killed a colored boy who was stealing
pears from her father’s garden, was
brought up in the criminal court this
morning to answer to an indictment for
manslaughter. The hearing was brief
and resulted in a verdict of guilty. Miss
Flagler was sentenced to three hours in
" the district jail and a fine of $500.
| congressional committee, which is now
a Pretty Mess for Pennsylvania Re- !
publicans to be asked tuo Give |!
Their Suffrage To. i
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The Tickets Likely—Silver Mine Owners May
Butt Against the Conservative People of the
Eastern States in the Coming Campaign—1It's
~. A Fight to the Finish.
PHILADELPHIA, February 25.—The
probability of the silver fe ublicans
breaking away from the regular party
candidate for President and placing ap
independent candidate in the field on a
bimetallic platform is finding many be-
lievers here. It is said that the choice
of the silverites now lies between Sena-
tor Teller, of Colorado, and Wharton
Baker, a financier of Philadelphia and
a prominent bimetallist.
When Senator Cameron announced
that he would not be a candidate for re-
election to the United Stater Senate it
had been decided, it is said, to make
him the candidate of the silver people,
but within the week he is said to bave
announced that he will not be the can-
didate, and now there seems to be a well
defined impression that he will endeav-
or to return to the Senate. -
It is announced from an authoritative
source that unless the Republican con-
vention in St. Louis shall adopt the bi-
metallism plank at the ratio of 15} to 1
there will be a bolt. The silver people
are at present attempting to work the
“reform’’ within the party, but failing
in that they will go before the people.
If the Republican platform is a gold
platform 1t will mean three tickets in
the field. The new party will be nam-
ed the American party, its principles
will be ‘high protection and bimetal-
lism,” and its platform will be the cir-
cular to which Wharton Barker got the
signatures of sixteen United States Sene-
tors.
While the new movement 1s being
fought with ridicule, as its ,supporters
put it, the promoters are not discourag-
ed. They allege to have a mass of en-
dorsements, all of which they will soon
make public. They allege, too, that
they hold the balance of power in sev-
eral States, notably New York and In-
diana, and these are the levers they wiil
use to attempt to compe! the Republican
convention to adopt a plank in the plat-
form in the line of what is commonly
called free silver.
Those capable of expressing an opin-
ion as to the intention of the Republi-
can party do not for 8 moment believe
that it will commit itself to anything
but a gold platform, and the silverites
seem to think tbe same way ; for it is
indirectly admitted that pians are made
to held the silver convention in July,
and while the place has not been decid-!
ed upon it is not unhkely that it will be
held in this city. The effort will be to
hold it somewhere in the East, to show
that the West is not alone vigorous in
this new movement. All the leaders of
the party agree that it is too early to,
discuss the plans ; the work at present
is confined to missionary endeavors in
the ‘Republican party.
It is also the argument than an east-
ern candidate at the head of the silver
ticket, endorsed by prominent eastern
business men, would make the cam-
paign of education less difficult, as such
conditions would promote inquiry, and
thus more easily attract study.
Have “Touched Bottom.
The Democracy is Now on Rising Giround.—
Congressmen Preparing for the Fall Cam=
paign.
WasHiNgTON, Feb. 24.—“We have
touched bottom and are now on rising
ground,” is the cheerful sentiment ex-
pressed by the national Democratic
completing its organization for the
campaign. Representative McRae, of
Arkansas, presided -over the caucus
which was held last night. A number
of vacancies was filled and a special
committee of five, ot which Mr Huch-
eson, of Texas, 18 chairman, was ap-
pointed to fill the remaining vacancies
in States and territories which have no
Representatives in the house. The
other members of this committee are
Senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin, and
Reprecentatives Wheeler, of Alabama ;
Maddox, of Georgia, and . Dockery, ot
Missouri.
The 1ollowing is the personnel of
the committee by States as far as it has
been completed : Joseph Wheeler, of
Alabama ; Thomas C. McRae, of Ar-
kansas ; James G. McGuire, of Cali-
fornia ; John G Pigott, of Conuecticut ;
S. M. Sparkman, of Florida ; John W.
Maddox, of Georgia ; Finnis F. Down-
ing, Illinois ; Albert S. Berry, of Ken-
tucky ; Adolph Meyer, of Louisiana ;
H. W. Rusk. of Maryland ; Joho F.
Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts ; O. M.
Hall, of Mionesota ; John C. Kyle, of
Mississippi ; A. M. Dockery, of Mie.
souri; Amos J. Cummings, of New
York; F. E. Woodward, of North
Carolina; W. N. Roach, of North
Dakota ; Ferd C. Layton, of Ohio; C.
J. Erdman, of Pennsylvania; W. J.
Talbert, of South Carolina ; Benton
McMillin, of Tennessee ; C. K. Bell, of
Texas, and Wm. A. Jones, of Vir-
ginia,
The special committee will eelect
the remaining members through cor-
respondents with the State’ and na-
tional committeemen and Democratic
ex-members in the several States that
now have a solid Republican delega-
tion in Congress. The committee will
report upon the better method of col:
lecting funds for the antumn campaign
and they are empowered to elect a
treasurer, who, it is understood, will be
James Norris, of the District of Col
umbia, who formerly held that office.
The committee elected Seuator
Faulkner, of West Virginia, perma.
nent chairman, and Mr. Lawrence
Gardeer, of this city, permanent sec-
retary.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The announcement of Miss S.
Obnmacht, which appears in another
column of thie issue, has caused consid-
erable regret among the music loving
people in this community. The fact
that failing eye-sight has forced her per-
manent retirement as an instructor in
instrumental music removes the oldest
and best known teacher in the county
and the profession suffers a loss it can
ill afford. Miss Ohnmacht will devote
ber entire time to the sale of musical
instruments.
“of Seammon’s companies and that guar-
‘Rockies country about March 1st, great
ers were :
roster discloses names of her foremost
—-Mifflinburg has over one hundred
cases of the grip and physicians down
there are worked nearly to death.
——*'8ide Tracked,” at Garman’s,
Wednesday might, March 4th. It is one
antees it to be good.
——Foster Young, of Coleville, was
attacked by three Hurgarians while
loading stones at Morris’ Buffalo run
quarries, on Tuesday afternoon. The
Huns. blamed him for intentionally
dropping stones on their feet from a car
that all the men were loading and final-
ly flew at him with shovel and sticks.
When finally rescued from his assailants
Young was’pretty badly used up and is
now under a doctor’s care. Warrants
are out for the arrest of the Huns. but
two of them have fled and the other has
not been located by the police yet.
i
—Rev. McGovern, priest of the
Frenchville parish, in Clearfield coun-
ty, was severely hurt by being thrown
from a buggy last Thursday afternoon.
While driving down Surveyor run hill
his buggy turned around on the ice and
he was thrown out, breaking his ankle.
His horse ran away, but stopped a few
rods distant from him. He was so chilled
and pained that he could not get to it
and laid by the roadside for tw hours,
the result being that he was badly
frosted. It is feared now that gangrene
will set in and that amputation will be
necessary.
FosTER’S LATEST WEATHER BUL-
LETIN.—My last bulletin gave fore-
casts of the storm wave to cross the con-
tinent from the 23rd to 27th, and the
next will reach the Pacific coast about
the 28tb, cross the west of Rockies coun-
try by the close of the 29th, the great
central valleys March 1st to 3rd and the
Eastern States the 4th. This will be an
important disturbance of wide extent
and of more than usual force. In many
parts of the continent all the varieties
of weather may be expected from balmy
spring days to the uncouth blizzard,
the former preceding and the latter fol-
lowing the central dates of the dis-
turbance. The cold wave following
this storm is expected to bring unusual-
ly low temperature in the great central
valleys that will continue through the
first week of March. The warm wave
will cross the west of Rockies country
about Feb. 28th, great central valleys
March 1st and the Eastern States March
3rd. Cold wave will cross the west of
central valleys the 4th and the Eastern
States the 6th.
CELEBRATED ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL.
—Tuesday evening was a memorable
one in the history of Centre lodge, No.
153, I. O. O. F., of this place. Fifty
years old that night the lodge celebrated
its golden anniversary by a splendid
banquet served by caterer Achenbach.
Preparation had been made for one
hundred and fifty guests, including the
members, their wives, and friends and
the beautiful home of the lodge, on
High street, was, the scene of a brilliant
assemblage.
C. P. Hewes Esq., acted as toast-
master at the banquet and succeeded in
infusing considerable levity into those
who sat about him. Among the speak-
Hon. A. A. Barker, of
Ebensburg. father of judge Barker, of
Cambria county, and ex-member of Con-
gress ; J. C. Meyer E:q.,, D. F. Fort.
ney Esq., Rev. J. C. Young, of Pleas-
ant Gap, W. M. Cronister, of Port
Matilda, and others. 2
Centre lodge is and has aiways been
one of the most flourishing secret frater-
nal organizations in the county. Its
citizen’s ever since the incorporation
and to-day many of Bellefonte’s ropre-
sentative men are proud of their mem-
bership in it. In charities and never
ceasing missions of mercy Centre has
made itself beloved by the stricken
families which it finds, great happiness
in relieving. In short, odd fellowship in
Bellefonte has done a world of good and
we trust the good offices of the order
will never cease.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF IT3 FIFTY YEARS
OF LIFE.
The minutes show that the lodge was
instituted by district deputy grand mas-
ter James Gamble on February 23rd,
1846, assisted by a number of brothers
from Clinton lodge No. 98, from Jersey
Shore No. 101, and also from Juniata
lodge. It seems that the organization
took place in a room in the east end of
the court house, and it was there that
Centre lodge No. 153, I. O. O. F., was
instituted. Henry Baker was elected N.
G.; C. H. Bressler, V. G; P. Benner
Wilson, secretary; Wm. W. Baker,
recording secretary, and Daniel Welch,
treasurer. These officers were installed
on the eame day by district deputy Gam-
ble. Mr. Husten, A. C. Geary and a
Mr. Beck, of Hecla, were admitted by
card.
Among the first names proposed for !
membership appear the names of B. R. |
Petrikin, G. W. Tate, Robert Dunbar,
Daniel Leyden, Geo. Herd, J. D. Mc-
Clanahan, Michael Dunkle, Edward
Graham, James Welch, Abraham Shoof,
David Grove and Anthony Creamer.
These men, all in waiting in the an-
teroom, were elected and at once initia-
ted in the mysteries of the order.
Thursday night was then fixed as its
regular meeting night and has so contin-
ued ever since. The receipts of the first
meeting were $61.00. The lodge again
met on the 24th of Feb. 1846. At this
meeting Wm. W, Huston and Andrew
J. Johnson were initiated:. The lodge
also met on Feb. 26th, 1846, elected and
initiated a number of members, among
them Roland Curtin, Jr., who continu-
ed in membership until his death in
1876.
The first constitution and by-laws of
the lodge were adopted March 5th, 1846.
At the meeting of Feb. 24th, 1846,
James Dunlap, at that time residing at
‘Rock Forge (a clerk), was duly elected
to membership.
It seems that persons from all parts of
the county became members of the or:
der, for at a meeting on the 12th of
March, 1846, Jobn P. Lyon, of Penn-
‘sylvania Furnace, was proposed for
membership, a Mr. McWilliams from
the same community, Charles W. Lam-
bert and John H. Morrison, and on the
19th of March, 1846. it is recorded that |
Patton Lyon, Mr. McWilliams and
Wm. McClelland were initiated into the
sublime mysteries of odd fellowship.
The minutes of April 2nd, 1846, show
that Andrew G. Curtin, Jobn Rothrock
and Jonathan Eckard were initiated on
that date. On April 16th, 1846, Bar-
tram Galbraith, Marshall Grabam,
James Taylor and S. H. Stover were
proposed for membership, and duly elect-
ed on the 23rd and initiated. At the
meeting on the night of the 23rd of
April, 1846, brothers Welch, Curtin and
Petrikin were appointed to secure a
room for the lodge to meet in, and on
April the 30th, the committee reported
that they had procured the Masonic hall
for a per od of five years, at a rental of
$50.00 per year. This was the room on
the second door of the building now oc-
cupied by Rev. Hoshourand Mr. Spigel-
myer, and this continued to be its meet-
ing place up to April 4th, 1855.
This, then, ‘‘was the beginning” of
Centre lodge No. 153, I. O. O. F. The
lodge as then organized continued until
April 4th, 1856, when the record shows
that this minute was adopted:
“Resolved, that we surrender our Charter:
books and appurtenances tothe D. D. G. M.;
that we find ourselves unable to meet the de.
mands made upon us by the decision of the
grand lodge of Pennsylvania in the recent case
of William H. Parsons.”
The lodge ceased to exist ffom that
date for a period of more than eleven
years. The next minute made was on
the 17th day of August, 1867 :
“That John T. Hoover, J. St Parsons, Henry
Twitmyer, Wm. A. Kerlin and Jonathan Eck
ard, who were members in good standing of
Centre lodge No. 153 at the time of the sur-
render of the charter, April 4th, 1856, having
asked and obtained from the grand lodge of
Pennsylvania the restoration of the origina
charter, district deputy grand master Bell, of
Blair county district, was duly commissioned
by the grand lodge to deliver the charter and
re-open the lodge and put the same in proper
working order.
The officers then elected were: Henry
Twitmyer, N. G.; J. S. Parsong, V. G.;
Jobn T. Hoover, secretary, and W. A.
Kerlin, trepsurer. Of these men broth-
ers Twitmyer and Kerlin are still living.
‘When these officers were duly installed
the bonks and original charter were
placed in their keeping; and Centre
lodge No. 163 was again in working or-
der and has so continued with a greater
or less degree of prosperity from that
day to this.
The reorganization took place in a
room in the old Bush Arcade. This
room for a time at least, was occupied
by the lodge of Good Templars and Cen-
tre lodge jointly.
Three members of the original num-
ber aro still living and are members of
the lodge: H. H. Twitmyer, of Glen
Ritchey, Pa.,initiated March 30th, 1849;
H. H. Benner, Atlantic City, N. J., ini-
tiated June 15th, 1850 ; W. A. Kerlin,
Rudd, Towa, initiated July 15th, 1858.
When the McClain block was erected
the lodge invested $1,800 therein, in a
ball, which they occupied from some
“time in 1869 or 1870 until they moved
to the room now occupied. The hall in
the McClain block was dedicated on
June 6th, 1871. During the afternoon
of that day a very large parade was
made with an address in the evening
from grand secretary Nicholson, in
Bush’s hall in the old Arcade, a dance
in the lodge room for those who desired
to dance, and a banquet at the Bush
house. All these proceedings, except
the lecture, continued until after mid-
night.
The lodge took posession of its present
quarters in 1889 or ’90. The room was
dedicated to the purpose of odd fellow-
ship on the 14th of Oct. 1891. The oc-
currence is so recent that it must ba re-
membered by all. The cardinal princi-
ple of the order is tv relieve the sick,
educate the orphans and bury the dead.
During the fifty years which have
elapsed since the organization the lodge
has paid
For the relief of the sick
For burying the dead...
For relief of widowed families.......... ~~ 470 (6
Odd Fellows’ and Orphans’ Home..... 200 00
Making a total of.......ccccernunrieeenn 87 686 76
These figures will give you some idea
of the actual use and benefit it is to
mankind. The money is collected so
quietly and disbursed so systematically
that none outside of the lodge know
that a great charity is continually scat-
tering its benefit and help over the com-
murity.” -
... $5 486 07
. 1530 63
——Gregg post of this place netted
about $756 from the all day restaurant
on Washington’s birthday. Not nearly
as much as tbe excellence of the meals
deserved. :
——1Ira From was hauled up before
justice Keichline, on Wednesday, for
taking a child from & Mrs. Parks. He
proved that he had adopted it several
years ago and was discharged.
A Good Man Gone to Rest.
The subject of this tribute of respect, Adam
Witherite, died at his home in Boggs town-
ship, on Wallace Run, at 10 a. m., on Tuesdsy
Feb. 18th, 1896, after a lingering illness of a few
months. He suffered from throat affections
which caused a general decline of health. He
was seventy years, four months and twenty-
four days of age and was born on the farm on
which he died. The funeral occurred on
Thursday morning, the 20th, at 10 o'clock a.
m. Although it was one of the coldest days of
the season, there was a large concourse of
friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, that as-
sembled themselves together, out of the high
regard and love they had for the deceased
! The services at the house were shortand im.
{ pressive, conducted by Rev. J. F. Kelly and
Rev. John Zeigler, after these,ihe remains
were taken to the Advent cemetery, and there
interred. The following, acting as pall bear"
ers: Morgan Lucas, James Lucas, Edward
Poorman, Enoch Hugg, J. Miles Greene and
John F. Potter. At the church a most excel-
lent sermon was preached by the Rev, John
Zeigler, from Isaiah, 26th chap. 3, and 4 verses:
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose
Mind is stayed on thee, because he trusted in
thee.
Trust ye in the Lord forever : for in the Lecrd
Jehovah is everlasting strength.”
. Mr. Witherite was a baptised member of
the Lutheran church ; but never became an
active member of any church, although giv-
ing liberally of his means, to the cause of
Christ. His life was that of an honest man,
upright in all of his dealings, with love to his
fellowmen, and malice to none. He was a
wise and a safe counsellor among his neigh-
bors, always entreating charitableness and for.
giveness, advising rather to suffer loss, than
gain without right. One of his neighbors,
who was raised in the same neighborhood,
told the writer that when boys together, that
if any of the boys of the neighborhood were
out after night at gatherings, and any one
proposed to have some fun that was not right
Adam would appeal to their better sense
every time, and his manly advise was always
taken, even when a boy. To this same old
friend, but a few days before his departure, he
told that he was ready to go, that his hope
was fixed and certain, and that he should
stand firm to his faith, (his friend being a
member.) He had given full assurance to
Rev. Zeigler, who had frequently called upon
him during his last sickness, that he was
ready and willing to meet his Savior. ‘“Bless-
ed are the dead who die in the Lord.” He
leaves to mourn his loss, on son, Henry, inter-
married to a Miss Hugg, who resides upon the
old homestead or farm and one daughter,
Alice, intermarried to Joseph Rogers, a
railroad operator and agent, residing at
Osceola. Politically, he adhered to the princi,
ples of the Democratic party all of his life. He
was moderate, intelligent, and prudent in his
views, never obtruding his opinions upon oth-
ers. Many sought his counsel. Truly, his
friends and neighbors will greatly miss him.
Amicus.
Port Matilda Pointers
Ere this is in print we will have had a wed-
ding in town. It will be noted next week.
The I. O. O. F. has caught the fever and will
have an oyster supper in the K. G. E. hall on
the evening of March 5th.
We have been having all sorts of weather
since Mr. Ground Hog vent back into his
hole, as a consequence nearly everyone you
meet is complaining of a tad cold in the head.
The oyster supper held in the K. G. E. hall,
last Saturday evening, wae greatly enjoyed
by the Eagles and their ladies. W.G. Morri-
son, of Bellefonte, was one of the party, though
he did’nt havea lady he enjoyed himself all
the same.
Mr. William Vaughn, one of our industrious
young men, met with quite a serious accident
last Friday. While working on a log landing
a large iog rolled on his left hand smashing
several of the bones and necessitating his
laying off for some time.
Mr. Geo. R. Price had a very narrow escape
from what might have resulted in a permanent
injury last Tuesday. He had some men em-
close to one of them who was wielding an ax.
The sharp blade of the ax struck him just be-
low the knee, cutting an ugly gash there.
nightly operations again, in this end of the
had a lot of men employed making rail-road
ties, in Taylor township, was quite surprised
to find his damp looted when heand his men
returned to it Monday, after having spent
Sunday at their homes. Tools, provisions and
bed clothing were taken. Nothing was left
but the dismantled camp. Mr. Eller had to
return and Jay in new supplies before they
could proceed to work. He will paya good
reward for information leading to the convic.
tion of the guilty parties.
Pine Grove Men tion.
Mrs. Harris Bloom is a very sick wo-
man, with heart trouble.
* Mrs. A. J. Tate, with little Samuel and
Paul, are being royally entertained this
week . down among Harris township
friends.
Mr. Frank Bowersox, treasurer candi-
date from Ferguson township, is this
week lining up his supporters down in
Pennsvalley.
“Mrs. Eliza Portis again able to be about
after being housed several weeks with
grip. Not unlike every other victim she
says she hopes never to have it again.
A good representation of 276. I. 0. O. F.
members from this place will be in at-
tendance at the Boalsburg L 0. O. F. oy-
ster festival next Friday and Saturday
evenings.
Dr. J. E. Ward, of Bellefonte, was in at-
tendance at his aunt Nancy Gill’s burial
on Tuesday. Between trains he took
time to view the ruins of the old burnt
school house and the play grounds where
he used to stump his toes and make wry
faces over hard lessons. ¢
Rev. Mr. Heppler, of Lemont, ig very
ably filling the Presbyterian pulpit in
this place every evening this week.
Communion services next Sunday a.m.
Beside being a good pulpit orator the
young divine is a most pleasant and genial
gentleman who makes friends with all he
meets.
ployed in taking out paper wood and got too
a The light fingered gentry have begun their .
county. Mr. Gilbert Eller, of this place, who
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