Demon iatdom
Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 4, 1896.
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To CorrEspoNDENTS.—No communications pub-
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
-——There are about five inches of ice on
some of the dams about town.
——One death and several cases of
diphtheria are reported from the vicinity
of Eagleville.
——The Y. M. C. A. gospel chariot went
to Howard, Sunday evening, and the young
men conducted services in that place.
——While walking in his sleep Paul
Musser, of Millheim, fell out of bed, last
Tuesday night, and broke his collar hone.
George Lucas and family have mov-
ed from Tyrone to Bellefonte. They oc-
cupy one of Col. E. J. Pruner’s east Lamb
street houses.
Have you made a date for Monday
night? There’s a smooth girl coming to
town and you can meet her if you go to
Garman’s.
——The Millheim band, one of the old-
est musical organizations in the county
has re-organized. Carson Diehl has been
elected leader.
——On an inside page we publish a fac-
simile of the proposed monument to be
erected to the memory of the late Andrew
G. Curtin in this place.
——To-morrow afternoon the annual
foot ball game between the Pennsylvania
State College Sophomores and Freshmen
will be played on Beaver field.
——If you would like to have some-
thing new in the line of a holiday adver-
tisement call at the WATCHMAN office and
inspect the novelties we have to show you.
——The street department is putting a
dressing of crushed lime stone between the
bridgeson High street. It will make a
fine road bed when it is all broken down.
——The Thanksgiving Assembly of the
‘Senior class of The Pennsylvania State
‘College, last I'riday night, was a delight-
ful affair indeed, but the attendance was
unusually small.
——Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Foster, of
State College, have returned from a week’s
visit in Philadelphia. While away their
baby was so unfortunate as to fall and
‘break its collar hone.
Reub. Meek, of Waddle's, entered
the Bellefonte Academy, on Monday morn-
ing. He is the young man who was near-
ly killed by lightning during the great
storm at the Granger’s picnic in 1895.
——Joseph Garbrick returned from
Philadelphia, on Wednesday morning. He
was there having a cancerous growth cut
out of his ear. The operation was success-
ful and the wound is healing up nicely.
——The cold wave got to Bellefonte a
few hours behind time, but it got here all
thesame. Already Amos Garbrick’s face
is wreathed in smiles. We suppose he
dreams of ten inch ice every night now.
General James A. Beaver, of this
place, addressed the congregation of the
first Presbyterian church, in Altoona, on
Sunday. His talk was on Presbyterianism
and the Altoona papers speak very highly
of it.
—-—The Temperance people made things
lively on Sunday by holding a great meet-
ing in the court house. © Rev. G. H. Hem-
ingway, of Carthage, Mo., preached. He
filled the pulpitin the Methodist church at
the evening service.
——The funeral of young Daniel Walters,
Jast Saturday afternoon, was largely at-
tended by friends and a delegation of his
fellow workmen from the Altoona shops.
The young man was a son of Henry Walters,
a farmer near town. ;
——The largest number of sheriff's sales
that have been posted in Clearfield county
are now objects of curiosity on the court
house bill boards in Clearfield town. There
are fifty-six of them.
ing building and loan sales.
——It seems to have taken their Belle-
fonte experience to make evangelists Weav-
er and Weeden popular in Pennsylvania.
Before they came here they were practicall y
unknown to people in this State. To-day
their wonderful work is talked of through- |
out its length and breadth.
——Al O’Hara, a young man who had
kept bachelors hall for years ina shanty
near Madera, was struck by a train on the
Houtzdale branch, last Friday night, and
seriously injured. His left arm was
broken in three places and his skull
was fractured. The accident is supposed
to have been an attempt at suicide. The
young man is in the Cottage hospital, at
Philipsburg, where he will possibly recover.
—It is reported that Rev. Miles O.
Noll, formerly pastor of the Reformed
church in this place, is an aspirant to be
chaplain of the next House of Representa-
tives. He is located at Carlisle now Rev.
Noll would make a most suitable man for
the place. His many Bellefonte friends
would be glad to hear of his being accorded
the honor of administering to the spiritual
welfare of that body.
—On Wednesday of last week Daniel
I. Rishel, aged 74 years, died at his home
in Millheim. He had lived in that place
since his retirement from the carriage mak-
ing business at Spring Bank five years ago.
His first wife died in 1870 and a few years
ago he married Mrs. Sara Lenigh, who, with
two daughters of the first marriage, sur-
vives. Funeral services were held in the
United Evangelical church last Sunday
afternoon.
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- THE FIRE KING AND OLD “‘STRYCH-
NINE CORNER” HAVE ANOTHER ROUND.
—Fire seems determined to wipe out every
vestige of what was once one of Bellefonte’s
most notorious quarters. Old ‘‘Strych-
nine corner” is doomed to destruction by
flames and though she has made many a
fight for supremacy Wednesday morning
saw another of her remembered buildings
go down to ashes.
It was just about 1:45 when Louis Doll’s
youngest son was awakened in his bed
room, at No. 12 west Bishop street, by a
choking for breath. He discovered his
room full of smoke and gave an alarm. His
brothers and mother were soon up and dis-
covered that the cause of the smoke was
somewhere underneath them. They lived
in their own two story stone building, oc-
cupying the second story as a dwelling and
using one room in the lower floor as a shoe
store, renting the other to Jacob Gross, the
tailor. It was from the shoe store that
they discovered the smoke was coming.
An investigation disclosed the fact that the
whole inside of it was ablaze. Though
the entire neighborhood was aroused there
was not an alarm turned in for fully fif-
teen minutes after the flames were discov-
ered, then only three signals were sound-
ed. As a result there were not many peo-
ple there.
It was one of the stubbornest fires the de-
partment has ever had to handle. The
Doll building being stone kept the fire
well confined at first, but finally the flames
worked up to the roof, where thereis a
double structure, with a tin roof on top of
the old shingle one. The tin kept the
flames down, but they ran along the back
part of the house to the McCarthy proper-
ty, next door. The lower floor of that
building was occupied by a Chinese laun-
dryman, while the second story was used
by John MecSuley and the Conoway boys as
living apartments.
Mr. and Mrs. McSuley had no idea that
their home was going to be burned and
were in a front room watching the firemen,
when they heard a crackling noise back in
the house. On going to see what it was
they discovered a sheet of flame shooting
through the partition wall that had been
eaten through and before they could save
much more than their bed clothing the en-
tire building was in flames. The Conoway
boys lost about all they had too.
When the McCarthy building caught
there was little hope for Brown's buildings
on the corner of Allegheny and Bishop
and it was only through the most praise-
worthy work that the firemen were able to
save that entire row of frame buildings that
extend from the corner, south to Logan
street.
The Brown building caught next and
was soon entirely enveloped. The first
story of it was occupied by Ed. Brown
J1’s., cigar manufactory, billiard and pool
rooms ; William Flack’s barber shop and
W. C. Coxey’s grocery store. The second
and third stories were occupied by Edward
Brown Sr., and Edward Jr. That build-
ing was almost totally demolished, nothing
remains but the lower story. The dwell-
ing occupied by Ed Jr. that fronts on
Allegheny street and communicates with
the Bishop street buildings was a difficult
one to save, but the firemen did it. They
fought like demons, when they found that
the unfortunate man was without insur-
ance, and their work was rewarded by the
saving of the building, with the exception
of some slight water damage.
Strickland’s house, on the west side of
the Doll building, was on fire several times
and in order to save it so much water was
poured on that some of the ceilings are down
and every carpet in the house is ruined.
That portion of Bishop street looked woe-
fully forlorn when day dawned Wednesday
morning. The street was a sheet of ice.
Signs, shutters, window sills, door knobs
and every protruding object on both sides
of the street, for half a square, were fes-
tooned with long beard like icicles that
glistened in the sunlight as if in mockery
of the gloomy aspect of the blackened ruins.
The night had been stinging cold and
wherever the water fell it froze.
The fire was not a brilliant one, but
seemed rather to be a low, stubborn flame
that seemed determined not to be conquer-
ed until it accomplished its purpose. It
was a hard one to handle and for that rea- !
son the only thing the firemen could do
was to drown it and they did that effectu-
ally.
THE LOSSES ARE :
The Doll shoe store is almost a total loss,
while the building is gutted. Insurance
on stock $2,500, on building $2,000.
Jacob Gross carried $350 insurance,
which will cover his loss.
Mrs. Cyrus Strickland, damage to ceil-
ings and carpets, $250, insured. :
John McSuley lost nearly all of his house
hold goods. No insurance.
The Conoway boys lost household goods.
No insurance.
The Chinese laundryman and barber
William Flack succeeded in getting all of
their goods out with but slight water
damage.
Ed Brown Sr and Jr lost household goods
and goods damaged by water besides the
$3,500 loss in buildings. No insurance.
W. C. Coxey, grocery, insurance of $500
will not cover damages to stock. The fire
was not in his store, but the place was lit-
erally flooded. The total loss is estimated
at from $15,000 to $18,000.
The origin of the fire is not known. Tt
might have been caused by an overheated
stove in Doll’s shoe store.
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Do You WANT A COTTAGE AT THE SEA
SHORE ?—The attention of our readers is
called to a new advertisment that appears
on page 5 of this issue. Possibly by read-
ing it there might be a way opened to you
to secure a summer place at Atlantic City,
without any direct outlay.
—— ‘Miss Philadelphia’ wants to see
you at Garman’s next Monday night.
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——Clearfield county has paid out over
$1,800 for sheep damages since last Jan-
uary.
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——Owing to the want of room the report
of the court proceedings had to be left out
of this issue.
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—Dr. H. 8. Braucht, formerly of
Spring Mills, later of Middleburg, is going
to locate in Milesburg.
Lock Haven’s council has leased a
stone quarry and is now getting out stone
for the strects of that town.
“Miss Philadelphia’ is not a giddy girl
at all, but she’ll tickle anybody she meets
at Garman’s next Monday night.
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——Business men of Jersey Shore have
organized to urge the election of John
Wanamaker to the United States Senate.
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——~Sharkey, the sailor lad, won his
fight with Fitzsimmons, in San Francisco,
on Wednesday night. They fought eight
rounds, Fitz having had the best of it but
the fight was given to Sharkey on a foul.
——John Emery, a cripple, was held up
and robbed of $5 while crossing the covered
bridge between Lock Haven and Duns-
town, on Monday night. His assailants
knocked him down and took all the money
he had.
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——Blair county commissioner’s and the
children’s aid society of that county are
getting together with a view to building
an industrial school for the training and
maintenance of the little ones who are
thrown on the county for support. The
number is growing so large that something
must be done.
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——The Clearfield county teachers in-
stitute will be held next week. County
superintendent G. 'W. Weaver is a former
Centre county boy and is very popular
with the teachers and public over there.
Rev. Sam Jones is to be one of the enter-
tainers. He will deliver his famous lecture
on ‘‘sawciety.”’
——John Mapes, the man who left Beech
Creek two years ago to travel South ina
boat, is dead. His was a venturesome trip.
He started down Bald Eagle creek in a row
boat, he floated into the Susquehanna at
Lock Haven and continued to the Chesa-
peake bay, thence south. He died in the
country that he had hoped to prosper in.
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—— Purchasers of the new milage books
issued by the Pennsylvania railroad will
be subjected to less severe restrictions re-
garding description, etc. The .rules gov-
erning the sale of the former style of hooks
were so strict that many patrons of the
road objected, not so much on account of
the iron-clad agreement as the fact that the
questions asked by the agents were of a
nature as to create the impression that the
purchaser was dishonest. The new con-
tract will not require such an accurate de-
scription of the original purchaser.
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——They say that there isa danger of
causing diphtheria by sleeping with a coal-
ly be very unhealthy to have an oil lamp
burning continually in a sleeper’s room.
The fumes from the low flame are particu-
larly sickening and it isa wonder more
people are not affected than are. One has
very little idea of the extent to which this
practice is carried on right here in Centre
county. Should you happen to be driving
through the country districts very late at
night you will be surprised that in nearly
every farm house there will be a light, no
matter how late the hour. Some of you
might pass this condition unnoticed, yet to
an observing traveler there can not but
arise the question as to why people in the
country should be up so late, when they
are proverbial for early’ retiring. In nine
out of every ten of the houses you pass
there is not a soul awake. The light that
excites your curiosity is ina bed room.
Turned low, it is throwing out its sicken-
ing, deadening gases for some slumberer to
inhale. Permitting children to have a
light, while sleeping, not only makes cow-
ards of them, but jeopardizes their health
| as well.
BROUGHT T0 JAIL.—Atramp, who regis-
tered at the jail as William Scott, any-
where, on Saturday morning, had been
arrested : in Philipsburg the day before for
stealing a watch from a table in the home
of E. A. Davis. He found all of the in-
| mates of the house out when he rapped
there for something to eat, so he just made
a tour of investigation, the watch having
paid him for the trouble.
Fortunately some ladies
for a meal one of them ran out and told a
man. Several gentlemen got after him
then and they had quite a race before they
caught him. The fellow gave up the
watch, but he was arrested and is now in
jail i teal; i
KoCH-RICE.—The marriage of Frank
Koch and Bertha Rice, last Thursday even-
ing, was consummated at the home of
Samuel Shirk, near the Valentine iron
works, where the immediate friends of the
Young couple had assembled to see them
joined in wedlock. .
Rev.
church, performed the ceremony that made
an end of what has been quite a romantic
courtship.
The groom is turn-key at the jail and
in the absence of the deputy sheriff has
acted in that capacity. His bride is a very
pretty girl, the daughter of Samuel Rice.
We trust that their married life will be
one continued round of happiness and love.
oil lamp turned low in your room. How- !
ever the diphtheria theory it must certain- |
A DEER KILLED WITHIN A MILE OF
BELLEFONTE — If anyone was to talk of
Bellefonte as being a wild, uncivilized
place the centennial aiden would fairly
shake with righteous indignation and, giv-
ing herclassic head a defiant tilt, would
merely request that you inhale her en-
lightened atmosphere for a few days before
passing such harsh judgment. Yet what
must be expected when the world reads
that a deer, a genuine wild buck,—no salt-
ed tail menagerie affair,—has been killed
within a mile of this town and that it was
done only last Saturday.
Such a thing would not have been un-
usual one hundred years ago, but with the
present generation it is as much of a sur-
prise as the sight the shade of “old Oliver’
leading his cornstalk militia through the
streets, would make. 2
Think of it. A real live deer coming
within a mile of the deadly guns of James
Alexander, Simeon Haupt, John Q. Miles,
and all the other habitues of Jim McClure’s
Bishop street rendezvous, where more game
has been killed than could be counted from
now until doom’s day. Not one of our
famed huntsmen had an itching about their
trigger fingers that day. There was not a
sign to tell them that deer was near and for
all the interference they would have given,
that buck might have bounded over every
crossing in Bellefonte and everyone of them
would have been like Billy Storm, the first
time he ever watched a “crossing.” He
saw the deer come up to him, go bye and
never thought of his gun until it was out
of sight. 2
Tt is really too bad that nature has not
provided the hunter with some occult
means of telling when he is near game.
Now you know a red headed girl or a man
with rheumatics can always tell when there
is an approaching rain, just as the person
with frozen feet knows when there is frost
on the ground.
If the hunter had only a gift of this sort
Foster Jodon’s boy Bob would not have
shot the 108 1b buck, near Nigh bank, last
week. Some older fellow would have
brought it down.
The boy saw the deer and ran home for
his gun. He had nothing but No. 1 shot,
but he hit the animal and then the dog
caught it and threw it down. Jodon and
his brother pounced upon it and cut its
throat with a pen knife.
Kome think it had scented the deer in
Gentzel’s park just near there and was go-
ing to them, while others are of the opin-
ion that the deer had heen chased out of
the mountains by dogs.
The public breathlessly awaits for some
one to start the story that it escaped from
the great Main circus wreck at Vail, three
years ago.
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MAKING GLASS AGAIN.—The process
of making window glass is a most inter-
esting one, but it was not curiosity to see
how it is done that attracted the hundreds,
who went down to the Bellefonte co-op-
erative glass company’s plant, on Tuesday
morning. It was a feeling far removed
from curiosity ; it was a friendly, encour-
aging interest in the men who have under-
taken the manufacture of glass here, after
a lapse of five years.
The work of blowing began about 9
o'clock Tuesday morning. It was not ex-
pected to amount to much, for the men
were merely testing the apparatus and get-
ting the pots glazed. They worked merri-
ly on for the twelve hours heat, however,
and when done there wasa pretty good
quantity of glass made.
There were accidents, of course. First
a pot cracked and its contents ran out,
then many of the rollers broke because of
the scales and rust in the blowing tubes.
The stock was all old glass and it didn’t |
work to the best advantage, but the men
worked on until they had things in ship
shape for the next heat.
It looked very natural to see Nick Red-
ding running around with a hatchet in his
hand, the Waite boys, George Christ, Phil.
Garbrick, William Rider, Harry Green,
John Nicely and manager James Conroy,
all working away as they used to do in the
old factory here.
It would be hard to find a more earnest
or steady set of men than those employed
at the glass works. Every one of them
‘ realizes that the success or failure of the
' venture will depend largely on their indi-
next door {
saw him and when he called at their house
Geo. Zehner, of the Evangelical |
vidual efforts. Harmony must prevail
among them, for without it there cannot be
that co-operation which alone will make
success possible.
The work is going on smoothly now,
things are being cleaned up and it will be
only a matter of a few weeks until every-
thing will be in order and a well appoint-
ed factory will present itself to all visitors.
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ILLUSTRATED LECTURE. AT PLEASANT
GAP.—Rev. Bruce Hughes, pastor of the
Methodist church, at Pleasant Gap, has
arranged for an instructive and entertain-
ing lecture to be given in his church, at
that place, next Thursday evening, Dec.
10th, at 7:30 o'clock.
Rev. Geo. W. Stevens, of Williamsport,
will lecture. His subject will be ‘‘a ram-
ble through Egypt and the Holy Land.’
A fine stereoptican will be used to show
the principal objects of interest in those in-
teresting lands. Everyone who can should
go, as it will be fine.
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ROBBERY AT MADISONBUBG.— Last Sun-
day night the general merchandise store of
H. H. Kline, at Madisonburg, was entered
| by robbers. They carried away 12 pairs
of pants, 12 pairs of shoes, rubbers and
dress goods and a lot of small articles.
The tools with which the entrance was
forced were secured at Brown's blacksmith
shop. The lock was bored off the front
door. No clue is had to the culprits.
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——The town of St. Mary’s, Elk county,
boasts less than 100 Republicans yet there
are seventeen applicants for post master up
there.
Was IT A STAR ?—On Monday and Sat-
urday nights a strange light in the western
heavens excited the curiosity of many
Bellefonters. It appeared most too large
and near to have been a star, so the con-
census of opinion is that it was the electric
light that is being sent upin a balloon,
every evening in Pittsburg, for advertising
purposes,
The light was very pretty and lasted
from about 6:30 until 8:30, when it slowly
sank from view.
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Post OFFICERS NAMED.—Gregg post
No), 95, G. A. R. of this place, had one of
thei} usually enjoyable blow-outs last
Saturday night, when the members met to
spin yarns, eat what their good ladies had
prepared for them, and, incidentally, to
name officers for 1897 and attend to what-
ever other business could be crowded in
between the jokes that seem to be the popu-
lar thing with the Vets. :
The officers named are : commander,
David Bartley ; senior vice, S. H. Wil-
liams ; junior vice, Thos. Donachy and
John Bryan ; post sergeant, Jas. Whittaker,
chaplain, James Harris; officer of the
day, John I. Curtin ; quarte rmaster, Wm.
Jones; officer of the guard, Frank McMul-
len ; ordinance sergeant, Charles Ecken-
roth.
There were a number of members from
the Milesburg post present who helped
along with the good time that seems to
-characterize everyone of these meetings.
News Purely Personal.
—Miss Blanche Hayes has gone to Erie for a
two weeks visit to her relatives.
—Miss Alice Bergstresser, of Hublesburg, is vis-
iting her sister, Mrs. Geo. 8S. Bright, in Philips-
burg.
—Dr. W. P. Swoope, post master at Julian, was
in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, transacting a little
business.
—Miss Madge Krebs, who was over from Clear-
field for the College assembly, spent Sunday with
Miss Myra Holliday.
—Mrs. J. V. Thomas and her daughter Miss
Mary have closed their house, on Linn street, and
gone to Philadelphia for the winter.
—Roger Bayard said good bye to his young
friend, Harvey Raugh, of Altoona, on Tuesday
morning. Mr. Raugh had been visiting here
since the preceding Thursday.
—Miss Katherine Lieb, formerly of this place,
who makes her home with her brother, Dr. An-
drew Lieb, at Bethlehern, is visiting at the home
of Mr. F. P. Green, on Linn street.
—Judge and Mrs. Cyrus Gordon, their son John
who is a student at State College, and Miss Rachel
Weaver, all of Clearfield, spent Sunday at the
home of Mrs, Louisa Bush, on Spring street. Mrs.
Bush entertained in their honor on Saturday
evening.
. —Ed. Leyden, of Beech Creek, a son of the late
! Daniel Leyden, at one time a resident of this
place, was in town, on Monday, looking after the
erection of a monument that the children are
placing in Union cemetery to the memory of their
parents. Ed. is employed. at the scales on the
Beech Creek read and says that it is doing a phe-
nomenal business, i
—J. P. Sebring Esq., one of the leading men of
Halt-Moon township, came down to down, on
Monday morning, to serve his country as a juror.
When he arrived he had a dog that looked as
though it would eat up everything in town, but it
wasn't that kind. It was a beautiful specimen of
mastiff and was as good natured as could be, The
dog was sent down over the Gentral to Mr. Woods
Ferguson, of Clintondale.
—Mr. and Mrs. George Behrer Jr., with their
| sister-in-law, drove down from their home, two
miles west of State College, on Monday, and spent
the day shcpping in Bellefonte. It was a pretty
cold drive, but then with their own conveyance
they could be more independent with their time
than would have been the case had they come on
the cars. Mr. Behrer lives on what is called the
summit or “Pleasant Hill.” From his place a
magnificent view of Penns ana Nittany valleys
can be had, while from the back of the house the
blue hills back of Spruce Creek, Huntingdon
county, can be geen,
—Ed Wasson, of Baftilo Run, is a tan of who
we would like to tell one thing, at least, and that
to our printer friends in particular. The first day
of December he makes it his business to pay for
all of his reading matter for the succeeding year.
For twenty-six years he has made this a practice
and every paper he reads is paid for in advance.
His list of papers is not a small one either, for
when he has nothing to do in the evenings on the
farm he improves his time by reading. As are-
sult he isa very well informed man. . We know
that printers, everywhere, will pray that there
might be more Wassons in the country.
—Mr. 8. C. Miller, a son of post-master Miller,
of Pine Grove Mills, passed through Bellefonte,
on Tuesday, on his way home from Grand Valley,
Warren county. He had had charge of the town-
township high school at that place, but owing to
the prevalence of diphtheria among the scholars
the schools had to be closed until after the first of
the year. He reports what to Centre countains
will appear as a very singular condition for a peo-
ple to be in. Out there everything is oil and
lumber. There is no farming and no one even
goes to the trouble of making a garden, the poor-
est class of laboring people buying everything in
the produce line that they use. Very few cattle,
chickens or pigs are seen. The people seem to
have neither the time nor the inclination to
bother with raising anything for themselves. The
township high school idea is not a bad one, how-
ever, as it provides a well graded school where
advanced work is taught, and is accessible to all
the scholars in the township who can meet the
requirements for entry.
—Michael Grove Esq., came down from Lemont,
Tuesday, and attended to what business he had
here in a very few moments. The balance of his
time, between trains, was taken up iu calling on
his many friends about town. Though away up
in years Mr. Grove is a very active man, one who
is observing as well. When he noticed the im-
provement of the street in front of this office it
recalled the great transformation of the College
township roads since they have a stone crusher
up there. Prof. John Hamilton rode his “good
roads” hobby up there until he got himself elected
supervisor then he made such radical changes
that the people began to be alarmed lest he ride
them to death with taxes. They are just begin-
ning to see what he was driving at now and the
seeds he sowed are bearing fruit inthe best kind
of country roads. Before the Hamilton regime
there was a never ending job on the roads and
even then they were next to impassible except
for a few weeks in mid-summer. Their condition
is different now and College township folk look
upon the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture now
very much as Williamsporters do on Peter Herdic,
whose “haired brained” ideas, as they called
them then, have given that city a beauty and
metropolitan air that it would never have had
without first having had a Herdic.
WHAT ‘‘MIss PHILADELPHIA” Is.—
Many Bellefonte theatre goers are at a loss
to know just exactly what the play “Miss
Philadelphia,” that will be presented at
Garman’s next Monday night, will be. It
is more of a spectacular vaudeville tham
anything else, but there is just enough
plot in the conception to hold the atten-
tion of the audience and around which #e
centre the elever specialties which she
seventy-five or more people will introduce.
The whole play is laid on the adventures
of William Penn Jr., who circulates about
Philadelphia, with all classes of people,
until the shade of his bronze father steps
down from the top of the famous city hall
and begins ‘‘doing’’ the town. Of course
the situations are as varied and amusing as
there are differences in classes in a great
city. William Sr., is metamorphosed from
a quiet Friend into a gay sport, but through-
out the humor is so chaste and infectious
that the play has become one of the most
popular on the road.
Besides the inimitable Willie Collier,
whose name is known from the Atlantic te
the Pacific, and across seas, as well, there
are nearly an hundred others ; varying
from the veriest tot to the actor grown old
on the stage. The Philadelphia ladies
symphony orchestra, that created such a
sensation during the long run of ‘Miss
Philadelphia,”’ at the Park theatre, ae-
companies the singing and dancing.
Now a word as to the prices. They are te
be $1.50, $1.25, $1.00, 75 and 50, not a cent
too much and less than you would have
to pay to hold corresponding seats for the
very same show in any of the city opera
houses. ‘‘Miss Philadelphia’ appears im
the best houses in the city, not the bijoux,
the museums nor the popular price houses,
but the very best. It is astrictly first class,
highly refined entertainment and there is
no reason why our people should expect te
see it for less money than is paid elsewhere.
If you can’t afford it, don’t go, but to those
who think they can let us say that this en-
tertainment should have a great crowd. If
is a step toward a better line of attractions.
A stride, we should say, for it will be by
far the biggest theatrical enterprise ever
brought to Bellefonte. Take our word
for it. :
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THE STATE GRANGE TO MEET IN AL-
TOONA.—The attention of Centre county
Pomona grange is called to the coming
meeting of the state organization, in Al-
toona, on Tuesday, December 8th. It is
believed on account of the central location
and the importance of the meeting it will
be the most largely attended of any state
meeting for many years. >
In addition to the bi-ennial election of
officers, other business of vast importance
to the order will be presented. On aec-
count of the short distance to travel it will
display want of interest in the work of the
order if every grange is not fully repre-
sented. Do not mistake who may be repre-
sentatives. The master and his wife, if a
matron, are by virtue of the officer mem-
bers of the state grange. If the master
cannot attend, then a past master and his
wife, if a matron, or a 4th degree member,
and his wife, if a matron, may be elected.
In no case can two brothers or two sisters
be elected. Neither can a brother and a
sister, other than his wife be representa-
tives.
The state grange will pay the mileage or
car fare, of representatives, which must be
distinctly marked on the credentials before
presenting the same to the committee on
credentials. Let Centre county win the
banner by sending 40 representatives and
as many visitors as can make it suit to be
I in attendance.
-ts—
——An exchange says a simple disinfect-
ant to use in a sick room is made by put-
ting some ground coffee in a saucer and in
the center a small piece of camphor gum.
Light the gum with a match. As the gum
burns allow the coffee to burn with it. The
perfume is refreshing and healthful as well
as inexpensive.
Sale Register.
Sarurpay, DECEMBER 12TH.—At the residence of
the late P. W. Barnhart, 1 ile northeast of
Curtin’s Works, horses, cows, implements,
vehicles, ete. Sale at 10 o'clock, a. m.
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by Geo. W. Jackson & Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
ress :
ed wheat 90
Rye, per bushel 35
Corn, shelled, p 30
Corn, ears, per bushel 12Y;
Oats, per bushel, old... 18
Oats, per bushel, new . 18
Barley, per bushel.......... 7 30
Ground Plaster, per ton. ww 8.00
Buckwheat, perbushel.................... 0." 20
Cloverseed, per bushel...................... $6 00 to $7 ov
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Poltalossperbitaleh:........... 0... 15
RIODR............¢i0. 40
Eggs, per dozen... 20
Lard, per pound... 6
Country Shoulder: 6
Sides. 6
Hams 10
Tallow, per pound. 3
Butter, per pound... 18
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $2 per annum (if paid strictly in advance);
$2.50, when not paid in advance, and $3.00 if not
paid before the expiration of the year; and no
paper will be discontinued until all arrearage is
paid, except at the option of the publisher.
Papers will not be sent out of Centre county un-
less paid for in advance. .
A liberal discount is made to persons advertis-
ing by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows :
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and dispatch. The Warcaman office has been re-
fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and
everything in the printing line can be ‘executed
in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.
Terms—Cash,
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