Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 26,
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Eviror,
The Shrievalty Contest.
There has been nothing new developed
in the shrievalty contest in this county
during the past two weeks. The WATCH-
MAN has already given the particulars as
far as the contest has proceeded. The last
steps were made Saturday, March 13th,
when the count was finished. The next to
be taken will be the filing of the master’s
report of the count. It will in all proba-
bility be made about the second week in
March, when argument court is in session.
C. P. HEWES Esq., is the master and the
straight-forward, impartial manner in
which he conducted the counting and re-
cording of peculiarly marked ballots icads
to the belief that his report will be just as
fair.
——Member SEYFERT, of Lancaster
county, who has introduced a bill into the
Legislature making it a misdemeanor to
engage in a game of foot ball in this State,
must have stock in a barber shop some-
where.
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Centre County Farmer's Institute
Milesburg Next Week.
The State Department of Agriculture
will hold an Institute for the farmers of
Centre county, at Milesburg, next Wed-
nesday and Thursday, March 3rd and 4th. |
These gatherings are usually of such inter-
est to the communities in which they are
held and deal with subjects of so much
concern toa large class of our readers that
we publish the program, in full, for the |
sessions during the two days.
Hon. John A. Woodward is chairman of
the board of managers for this county and
you can rest assured that he will do his
best to give his neighbor's and friends as
entertaining an institute as it is possible to
have. In this he will be seconded by an
able local committee so that the meetings
in the Milesburg Methodist church, next
week, ought to be largely attended for they
will he interesting.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30.
Music.
Opening Prayer, Rev. Geo. E, King.
Music. ;
Address of Welcome, Col. Jas. F. Wearer
Response, Hon. Alva Agee, Cheshire, O.
Rational Stock Feeding, Enos H. Hess,
State College, Pa.
Another Year’s Experience with the Silo,
Hon. A. P. Young, Millville, Pa. :
The Commercial Side of Farming, Alva
Agee. :
Humorous Recitation, R. C. Irvin.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:30.
LADIES’ SESSION.
Music.
Query Box.
Recitation, Miss M. V. Thomas.
Some Suggestions for Furnishing and
Decorating Country Homes, Miss Anna E.
+ Redifer, State College, Pa.
Music.
Recitation, The Hymns my Mother
used to Sing. Miss Lizzie Gray.
Essay, Homse Forces.
The Rights of the Home Keeper, Alva
Agee.
Recitation, - Seeking the
Miss Rebecca Harvey.
Guilty Ones.
THURSDAY MORNING, 9:30.
Music.
Query Box.
Commercial Fertilizers and their Uses,
Enos H. Hess.
My Experience in
Dale.
Potato Culture, Alva A gee.
Crimson Clover in Columbia Co., 4. P.
Young.
The Apiary and the Farm, S. B. Leathers.
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Stock Feeding, Geo.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30.
GOOD ROADS SESSION.
Music.
Query Box.
The Work of the Experiment Station,
E. H. Hess.
Relocation of Roads, the first Essential to
Permanent Improvement, 4. P. Young.
Short Talks on Roads and Road Making,
by Geo. Noll, Jacob Yarnell and Geo. Musser.
The Puzzling Good Roads Problem, Alva
Agee.
THURSDAY EVENING, 7:30.
Music.
Query Box.
Recitation, The Newsboy
Rosa Levy.
Music.
The Tribute we Pay to Ignorance, Alva
Agee.
Industrial Art and its Application to
every Day Living, Miss Anna E. Redifer.
Essay—A Plain Talk with Women.
by Mrs. F. G. Mattern.
Recitation, Friar Philip, Miss Eliza-
beth Stroop.
The Chautauqua Course in Agriculture,
E. H. Hess.
Educate the Farmer, How, When and
Where? A. P. Young.
Music.
Although these institutes are designed
for the education of farmers, yet ALL are
invited to attend, and particularly mem-
bers of all organizations of farmers. The
door will be wide open and admission free
as Centre county air.
The following committee will have
charge of the local arrangements for the In-
stitute :
James F. Weaver, chairman
local committee.
Chairman music committee, George Noll.
Chairman building committe¢, Wm.
Fisher.
Chairman committee to decorate build-
ing, Mrs. Isabella Wright.
Chairman committee on speakers, Henry
Heaton.
Chairman advertising committee, James
Lingle. :
’s Debt, Miss
general
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The Program for Stormstown.
The farmers institute session will be held
at Stormstown on Friday and Saturday,
March 5th and 6th, the following being
the complete program :
FRIDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK.
Prayer, Rev. W. H. Mattern, Storms-
town, Pa.
Address of Welcome, G. W. Fisher,
Response, A. P. Young, Millville,
Pa
Paper, Mrs. Mary A. U. Way, Loveville,
Pa
Farm Stock, A. P. Young.
Rational Stock Feeding, Enos H. Hess,
State College, Pa.
Potato Culture, Hon. Alva Agee, Che-
sire, Ohio.
AFTERNOON AT 1.30 O'CLOCK.
GOOD ROADS SESSION.
Music.
Query Box.
The Work of the Experiment Station,
Enos H. Hess.
Relocation of Roads the first Essential
to Permanent Improvement, A. P. Young.
Farmers’ Organization, John A. Hunt-
er. :
Music.
The Puzzling Good
Alva Agee.
FRIDAY
Roads Question,
FRIDAY EVENING AT 7 O'CLOCK
LADIES’ SESSION.
Musie.
Query Box.
Recitation,
Loveville, Pa.
Music.
Some Suggestions for Furnishing and
Decorating Country Homes, Miss Anna E.
Redifer, State College, Pa.
How the Farmer’s Home can be made
Pleasant, Miss Ella B. Way, Stormstown,
Pa
Miss Lizzie Rosecrans,
of bread and coffee and coal handed
through their second story windows by
policemen in boats, instead of wagons.
On Craig, Robinson, School, Rebecca,
Lacock, Kilbuck and Darragh streets and
South avenue the water stood as high as
the knobs of the doors.
The following manufacturing concerns
have been rendered idle by water invading
the premises: Anderson Porter company,
Bissell & Co's. stove works, Boyd & Boyd's
trunk factory, Pittsburg and Western re-
pair shops, Charles’ nut works, Damascus
Bronze company, Labelle steel works,
Lindsay & McCutcheon’s mills, Pittsburg
forge and iron works, Benson’s pump
works, Union Salt works, Excelsior coffin
works, Ligette spring and axle works,
McKinney’s hinge factory, Marshall Ken-
nedy’s flour mill, Callery’s tannery,
Groetzinger's tannery, Western leather
works, Heinze’s and Lutz’s pickling estab-
lishments, Carlin Machine shop, Voeftley’s
saw mill, and the Allegheny illuminating
gas plant.
The entire river front, from Thirtieth
street, was submerged. All the plants
were under water and operations entirely
suspended.
It will take several days before a general
resumption can take place.
PORTSMOUTH, O., Feb. 24th—It is ex-
pected that by noon half of the city will be
under water. The river is fifty-eight feet
three inches and rising one and one-half
inches per hour. About a thousand fami-
lies have been compelled to move. Many
houses are completely covered and some
have floated away.
ASHLAND, Ky., Feb. 24th— James Mor-
gan, wife and child are reported drowned
in the overflow of the Beaver creek, in
Floyd county.
CINCINNATTI, Feb. 24th.—The presence
of a destructive flood is felt here very pos-
itively to-day. While estimates have here-
Rededication of a Lutheran Church.
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rebers-
burg Dedicated Last Sunday at 10 a. m.—Large
Attendance.—The Debt Wiped Out.
Rev. Mumma’s band of about one hun-
dred and thirty Lutheran christians, com-
posing St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran con-
gregation of Rebersburg, re-dedicated their
church Sunday, at 10 a. m. The organ-
ization has been looking forward for some
time to this event, and when the tip
came they were ready with hearts fu La
christian spirit and pockets full of gold an
silver. The repairing done on the struct-
ure cost within in a few dollars of $2,000.
The whole building was remodeled—
without and within. A beautiful arched
entrance, floored with brick and stone, was
added to the front and a magnificent tower
was built at the west corner new in all its
parts. From the arched entrance passage
is gained into a spacious vestibule, from
which place open the way into a well
equipped Sabbath school room and the
main auditorium. The new arrangement
has added about twelve feet to the main
audience room, which will be of great ben-
efit to the church as the room was almost
too small for the growing congregation
and rapidly increasing population of the
town. The audience room is covered with
an elegant carpet and the walls and ceiling
have been materially beautified. Consid-
ering all things the church is much better
than the average found in towns the size of
the metropolis of Miles township. There
are a number of stained glass windows, all
of which were taken as memorials or paid
for by various families. Tt will be a mat-
ter of interest to give the names of these
parties and in whose memory the windows
stand : .
Henry Gast, Miflinburg, in memory of the
Gast family. ¢
Samuel Frank, in memory (George and
tofore limited the flood to sixty feet, the
developements of to-day begin to make it |
appear that the figure will be exceeded. |
One of the evidences of the flood’s presence |
The Rights of the Housekeeper, Alva
Agee. i
Lil. i
SATURDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK. |
Music. . |
Query Box.
What Do the Signs Indicate
Young.
Composition and Fermentation of yard
Manure, Enos H. Hess.
Local Parliament.
What Manner of Man Should the Farmer
Be? Alva Agee.
As nf
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 O'CLOCK.
EDUCATIONAL SESSION.
Music.
Query Box.
Education, Irvin Spangler, Port Matilda,
Px
Music.
Industrial Art, and its Application to
Everyday Living, Miss Auna E. Redifer.
The Tribute we Pay to Ignorance, Alva
Agee.
The Chautauqua Course in Agriculture,
Enos H. Hess.
The Graded School in Country Districts,
A. P. Young.
The following committees will have
charge at Stormstown: :
S. D. Eves, chairman local committee.
Alvin J. Way, chairman committee on
building.
H. B.: Waite, chairman committee on
program.
J. C. Mattern, chairman committee on
advertising.
A. F. Blackburn, chairman committee
on music.
J. I. V. Gray, treasurer.
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The Rivers Raging.
Much Devastation in Nearby States is Reported.—
Falling Waters at Pittsburg.—Here the Enemy of
Fire Having Done Its Worst Has Subsided—Much
Destruction of Property Has Resulted.—Seuveral
Lives Having Been Lost.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 25th.—The great flood
has done its worst in this section, and the
waters are now receding. A cold wave
which came up suddenly, broke the back
of the flood, and the reports from all points
between Pittsburg and the headwaters this
morning indicate that all danger has
passed.
The rivers in this vicinity reached a
higher stage than at any time since 1884.
The Monongahela registered twenty-nine
feet six inches ; the Allegheny thirty feet
nine inches about midnight, and after re-
maining Stationary for several hours began
slowly to recede. -
At ten o'clock this morning the water
had fallen one foot, and from now on it
will subside almost as rapidly as it rose.
Hardly a point in the Monongahela val-
ley, from Fairmount to Pittsburg, escaped
damage by the flood, and in many places
the high water mark was covered. Mills
built supposedly out of harm’s way were
submerged. Works along the river shut
down and workmen were forced to flee from
the rising tide.
The damage can only be approximated,
but it is not less than a million and a half
in the Monongahela Valley.
From the headwaters of the Youghio-
gheny also came a torrent that brought
with it destruction to valuable property.
Railroads were unable to move trains, in
some places the tracks being ‘so far below
the surface that the tops of the cars were
only visible. The ‘Pittsburg, McKeesport
and Youghiogheny was entirely disabled,
while trolley lines along the river banks
were so badly wrecked that it will be sev-
eral days before operations can be resumed.
Beneath several feet of muddy water and
debris there are millions of dollars worth
of valuable machinery. What ruin has
been wrought cannot be told until the
waters recede.
Private houses built in the low lands in
the suburbs have been flooded in some in-
stances within a foot of the second story
window and are in danger of being twisted
from their foundations. At any rate they
will be unfit for habitation for weeks to
come.
The poorer classes, who lived in small
houses and shanties along the river banks,
some of them only a few feet above low
water mark, have been made utterly home-
less, while the truck gardeners, having hot
beds in the bottom lands, with early veget-
ables, have been ruined.
In McKeesport the damage will exceed
$500,000. Crooked creek, which in former
high waters had been a harmless stream,
rose to an unprecedented height, causing
destruction to meadow lands for three
miles back in the country.
In this city the water covered Duquense
way from Ninth street to the Point.
Steamboats were moored but a few feet
from the entrance of Hotel Boyer, and the
exposition building was completely sur-
rounded by water
On the north side (Allegheny) over
3,000 people were cooped up in the second
stories of their homes all night, prisoners,
their only hope of escape being by boat.
Without fire or food, they received chunks
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is the effect upon the railroads.
The incoming passengers oh roads that
use the Grand Central depot were com- |
pelled to debark at the Eighth street trans- |
fer depot, where, fortunately, an electric
street car line made the change less trouhle- |
some. The Chesapeake and Ohio, how- |
ever, has its Fourth street station, which |
is far above any possible flood. The Cin- |
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and the |
Pennsylvania tracks are not likely to be
involved. Up the Mill Greek valley one
of the saddest sights is the utter destruction
of the vast areas of hot beds, where innum-
erable gardeners earn their living. All
the labor of weeks and months is destroyed,
and, after the waters subside, a long time
will ensue before their slender incomes can
re-established. Many gardeners view the
desolation from their houses, which are ac-
cessible now only hy boats.
The back water up the valley has
reached to South Cummingsville and is
near the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
tracks at the station. Every foot of rise
from now on also adds vastly to the dis-
comfort and loss that must come from
families driven to upper stories. or out of
their houses and from the removal of prop-
erty/from the water. |
At 10 o'clock the stage was, fifty-six feet |
eleven inches, aud in the next half hour it !
had risen to fifty-seven feet. The rise has
been almost uniformly two inches an
hour.
CINCINNATI, O., February 24th.—The
Ohio river is still rising at the rate of two
inches an hour, which has been the rate for
the past twelve hours. At 8 o’clock to-
night fifty-eight feet four inches was the
stage. Although the river is falling at
Pittsburg, it will take until Friday or Sat-
urday for the crest of the rise to reach here
under the most favorable circumstances.
The sixty-foot stage will be reached early
to-morrow morning. The - gymnasium
grounds, the base ball park, the Ludlow la-
gooon island are all more or less under wa-
ter. Forty families applied at one charita-
ble institution to-day for relief on account
of high water driving them from home.
The suburbs of Dayton and Bellvue have
been cut off from street car inspection
at Newport and travel is now by flathoat.
The western part of Newport is suffering
greatly. The police reported to-night that
over 100 families had been driven from
their homes by the water and that the six-
ty-foot stage, expected by morning, would
reach as many more.
In Covington about twenty-five families
moved out. At Riverside the town hall
has been opened for town sufferers, but on-
ly a few have asked for its shelter. There
have been some narrow escapes from drown-
ing, but no fatalities at all. _
HUNTINGON, W. Va., February 24.—
The Ohio river is still rising, and "the wa-
ter is five feet deep on several of the ave-
nues here. In Central City this evening a
number of residencs located in the west
end were washed away hy strong currents,
and every hour brings news of startling
damages in all. suburban towns. Electric
light plants are flooded, schools are closed
and hundreds of the people are occupying
public buildings. No trains have arrived
on the Norfolk and Western for four days,
and none on the Ohio river railroad for
twenty-four hours.
LoursviLLE, Ky., February 24 —Re-
ports of loss of life in the Eastern Kentucky
flood continues to come in. James M.
Morgan, wife and child, were drowned in
Floyd county by the overflowing of Beaver
Creek, which destroyed their home. Elder
Morton, a Mormon missionary, was drown-
ed near Mount Elkhorn. An unknown
woman was drowned in Leslie county, and
in Jackson county Henry Halcomb lost his
life while trying to ford a stream.
At Barboursville the Cumberland river
has forced a third of the population to
move out.
The Ohio is expected to come to a stand
here to-night.
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Foreign Warships Blockading the Cretan
Coast.
ATHENS, Feb. 23rd.—A despatch to The
Asty, from Canea says that th foreign
warships are now vigorously blockading the
coast of Crete. The British torpedo boats
are especially active, rapidly steaming
along the coast and keeping a sharp look-
out to prevent the landing of troops, pro-
visions or munitions of war. Many vessels
have been stopped by the blockading fleets
and not allowed to proceed until they sat-
isfactorily proved that they were engaged
in legitimate business. So strict is the
blockade that the carrying of letters to the
Piraeus from the force of Colonel Vassos,
the commander of the Greek army of oc-
cupation, is prohibited.
NO SUMMONS TO EVACUATE CRETE.
LoNDON, Feb. 23rd.—The statement of
the Paris Gaulois that the powers had sum-
moned Greece to evacuate Crete within
twenty-four hours is denied.
FIGHTING GOING ON ALL DAY.
CANEA, Feb. 23rd.—Fighting has been
going on all day to-day above Tuzla on
Suda bay. No details have yet been re-
ceived.
Solomon Brumgart.
Gramley children, in
Gramley.
Clark M. Gramley, in memory Paul Wolf
and wife and Philip Gramley and wife—his
grandparents. J
Gotwald heirs, in memory Rev. Gotwald,
one of the early pastors.
Wolf children,in memory Jacob Wolf.
Thomas E Royer, in memory J. Haines and
wife,
Woman's Home and Forei
society, in memory Mrs. Day.
Frank children in memory Samuel Frank
and wife.
Thomas E. Royer and wife.
W. I. Carlin and wife.
R. D. Bierly and wife.
The dedicatory sermon was delivered
by Rev. Dr. E. J. Wolf, of Gettysburg ;
Revs. Wolf, of Aaronsburg ; Spangler,
of Salona ; Moses George, of Rebershurg
Reformed church ; Stover, of the Evangelic
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church and Faus of the Methodist church,
memory Sarah J,
gn Missionary
| assisted in the services.
By your permission a few personalities
will be indulged in and in doing so the
names of a number of preminent Lutheran
families will be mentioned as having con-
tributed largely toward the payment of the
$2,000 noted above. They are Messers.
Thomas I. Royer, John Wolf, Samuel
Frank, Samuel Gramley, W. J. Carlin, R.
D. Bierley, George B. Haines, Prof. C. L.
Gramley, John Harter, L. B. Frank, H. H.
Miller, W. S. Miller, Clark M. Gramley,
J. W. Zeigler. There are many others
whose contributions, rated from a point
of means, will outrank the names above
mentioned.
County superintendent Gramley is just-
ly proud over the position he holds as lead-
er of the choir of this congregation, and a
choir it is. They can sing. The leader is
supported by three able organists in the
persons of Misses Grace Miller, Lizzie
Haines and Alma Gramley. With H. S.
Miller, cornetist, at his elbow, Prof.
Gramley is never without instrumental
music when needed. :
In the singing class of little girls two
round full, sweet voices were especially
noted by your scribe, and inquiry revealed
the possessors of them to be Misses Edith
Zeigler and Lizzie Brindle, who in all prob-
ahility are only about eight or nine years
old. Good act, little ones.
LEx-judge Samuel Frank holds a number
of relics connected with St. Peter’s church
dating back to the past century. Among
them are a copy of the ‘‘Reading Adler” a
German secular paper, stating with consid-
er able pomp and gush that on June 16th,
1822, a Lutheran and Reformed church at
Rebersburg, Miles township, would be ded-
icated. This is the church that stood in
the present cemetery and was afterwards
purchased by the Lutherans. Another
highly prized gem js a tiny bottle of wine
that was in the corner stone of the same
church, and the baptismal bow! and com-
munion cup used in the early history of
Lutherism in Brush Valley.
Judge Frank also related numerous inci-
dents of real interest which took place dur-
ing the erec‘ion of the church spoken of in
above. paragraph. While the occurrences
were before his time, he has his elders’
good word for them. Notably among these
handed down stories is one in which there
is more truth than fiction that while the
old church was in the course of erection
the mechanics drank more whiskey than it
took barrels of water for mortar. The
structure was of brick, larger in size than
those used to-day, and many of them are
now in use iif the edifice re-dedicated ‘on
last Sabbath. The explanation was made
that the people in that day in that section
were not a set of drunkards, but that
whiskey was commonly used. was ‘of a
good quality and did not seem to have the
same power to stir up evil passions as the
stuff sold now under high license, out of
highly embellished bottles and polished
counters.
The good people of Rebersburg are en-
titled to the notoriety, they sport for their
hospitality. In this respect they are all
alike, no one will suffer when in this com-
munity if the wants are made known when
not anticipated.
THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH.
A bit of history may be of interest to
many of the WATCHMAN readers in this
connection. From the best information
at hand, and the likelihood is that these
figures are entirely correct, the first Luth-
eran church was built during 1801—1802.
This time is fixed by the fact that John
Nicholas Gast helped to build the first
church, which was a log one, and he died
1812. Rev. Ilgen was pastor of this charge
for twenty-three years, and his services end-
ed 1824. These facts fix the correct time,
without a doubt, of the building of the
first church in that section at 1801 or 1802.
The location of the old church was almost
exactly the same place occupied by the
present edifice. The second church, which
was a union—Lutheran and Reformed—
was erected 1820—1822, and the present
one 1876. The pastors who served are giv-
en in their proper order: Revs. Ilgen,
Abely, Gottwalt, Reese, Alleman, Welker,
Sell, Seibert, Zimmerman, Aurand,
Weiaund, Porr, Lenhart, Rearick and Mum-
ma, the present pastor.
Paul Wolf, grandfather of the present
Wolf generation, was secretary of the build-
ing committee of the brick church during
the twenties. Before the church was ded-
icated Mr. Wolf died and the question
arose whether it would be proper to use
the church at this occasion. The ques-
tion almost caused a disruption among the’
officials, but finally the authorities granted
its use.
THE DEDICATORY SERMON.
Dr. Wolf took his text from Matt. 16:18 :
“And upon this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell shall not pre-
vail against it.” ~The church, he said, had
Christ for its foundation and builder. All
J christians are co-workers with him and
under his command. The question for
each one to ask 1s : “Lord, what will thou
have me do ?”” There is a great loss to the
church from lack of division of labor. Men
follow their inclinations rather than their
aptitudes, and some do little more than
seek a place of prominence where they can
see to it that others dp their duty. Many
a workman who might excellent work
in the basement pushes himself to the dome
where he only interferes with the skilled
laborer. Some who could serve as hod-
carriers only prove a hindrance by at-
tempting the delicate art of gilding and
carrying.
The matter of most vital moment in
every structure is its foundation. The
church is no air castle. A divine build-
ing, it has its foundation supporting the
whole edifice. That foundation is the liv-
ing confession of Christ. When Christ said
to Peter, *‘On this rock I will build my
church’ he did not mean Peter personally,
nor Peter officially—as bishop of Rome,
for there is no evidence that he was bishop
of Rome-—but he meant Peter's confession
of the truth. Sound doctrine confessed by
living inen is the foundation on which rests
all christianity. The doctrine of Christ’s
divinity and all the cognate truths that
center in his divine-human personality are
vital to the church’s existence.
Against Christ’s church the gates of hell
shall not prevail. That is to say that the
church is indestructible. Death cannot
prevail against it. That mighty power
which holds universal and absolute sway,
that put an end to all human institutions,
to all nations and kingdoms, shall never
overcome the church. Everything else
under the face of the sun may perish.
Under the mighty sway of death’s power,
i heaven and earth shall pass away, but
{ Christ declared that his church shall never
die. This was a most astounding an-
nouncement. Setting at defiance the
sceptre of death and in the face of all his-
tory a Jewish Rabbi, on the shores of
Galilee, proclaimed that he will rear a fabric
which shall stand forever. The course of
some thousands of years had demonstrated
the evancescent character of the greatest
and noblest results of human endeavor.
Colossal empires, splendid civilizations,
hoary religions, vast monuments of art and
the most perfect creations of architectural
genius had one Ly one fallen into decay
and crumbled into dust. The earth was a
boundless graveyard in which lay buried
all that man had thought or wrought in
scores of centuries. And there, under the
shadows and spectres of a universal sepul-
chre, Jesus proposes to found an institution
which shall survive the wreck of matter
and the crash of worlds. And his prophecy
was no dream. The church is still here—
“‘a thousand years the same.’”” No one has
prepared its requiem, no one thinks of a
funeral or a grave for the church. So far
from showing any symptoms of decrepitude
or dissolution the church possesses, to-day,
a vigor and a measure.of life which has
never been equalled. It is marching on to
the conquest of the world.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
odo
——Lock Haven is working to secure a
hospital for that town. Chicken suppers
and committees are already being worked
to raise funds.
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The book reception at the Bellefonte
High school, on Monday afternoon, was a
very pleasant feature of the year’s work.
Literary exercises was the entertainment.
provided for the many friends of the school
who were present. The donations of books
added about 160 volumes to the fast grow-
ing library of the school.
Se
~——One of the prettiest parties that has
ever been given in Bellefonte was the fancy
dress dance that Miss Brew’s dancing class
gave, in the Arcade, last Monday night.
Some of the costumes were exceptional ly
striking. The Arcade was artistically
decorated for the dance and even the or-
chestra appeared in colonial dress. Every-
thing bad the air of the early days of the
colonies and was indeed an attractive sight.
atl in
——Towns along the West Branch are
organizing a base ball league for the com-
ing season. Williamsport, Milton, Sun-
bury, Pottsville and Shamokin are charter
members. They want Bloomsburg, Dan-
ville and Lock Haven in to perfect the
organization. It will he known as the
Central Pennsylvania League. Forty dol-
lar guarantees will be paid visiting clubs,
except on holidays, when cach will take
fifty per cent of the receipts, the season
will last from May 15th to Sept. 15th, $60
a month will be the salary limit and um-
pires will be paid $3 a game and traveling
expenses. :
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——The moving fever is abroad these
days. A month ago we mentioned a long
list of changes that would take place on
the 1st of April and now every day new
leases are being signed and new quarters
hunted up. Mrs. Marcy Breeze and Miss
Eliza Thomas have rented one of the
Joseph houses, on Curtin street. Mrs.
Williams will move from the Cowdrick
house, on Linn street, to the Ammerman
house, on Bishop street. Stott’s leave the
McClure house, on Bishop street, for Read-
ing, where Mr. Stott has been employed
for several years. Mrs. Peter's goes to
Philadelphia and Nelson Robb, the com-
missioner’s clerk, is looking for a house
in this town.
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Now AT ST. PATRICK'S IN HARRIS-
BURG.—Rev. Benner’ Armor, eldest son of
Mr. Monroe Armor, of east Linn street,
this place, is now assistant rector of St.
Patrick’s Catholic cathedral at Harrisburg.
He conducted his first mass there last Sun-
day. Previous to his going to Harrisburg
he had been assistant to Rev. J. J. Gorm-
ley at Renovo. Father Armor was or-
dained, April 15th, 1895.
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Mrs. Isaac Haupt is having one of their
old tenements on Thomas street torn down
and intends building a small house for her-
self on the lot.
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HORSE CHOKED TO DEATH.—A man
named Shivery, of Bush Hollow, lost a val-
uable horse in a singular way, last Wednes-
day night. He had driven a party of
young folks to a birthday party at a neigh-
bor’s house and tied his team near an em-
bankment. The horses must have fright-
ened at something for when the party start-
ed to return home ond of them was found
to have been pushed over the bank and it
was hanging by its rope halter, choked to
death.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES. —Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phans’ court clerk, G. W, Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week,
Samuel Homan, of Philipsburg, and
Almanda Moore, of Port Matilda.
Joseph J. Myers, of Huston township,
and Rebecca J. Williamson, of Blue Ball,
Clearfield county.
Wallace J. Walker, of Wolf's
Getura Long, of Rebersburg.
Daniel J. Benner and Annie R. Orndorf,
of Woodland.
J. Edward Rider and Emma C. Strayer,
of Ferguson township. -
Luther Baker and Iona White, both of
Philipsburg.
William Jones, of Philipsburg, and Eliza
Harvey, of Morris township.
Harry M. Denning, of Philipsburg, and
Grace E. Waite, of Kylertown.
Robert Edmiston and Hannah (. Woo-
mer, both of State College. -
O11. HAs BEEN STRUCK AT KARTHAUSE.
—The story that natural gas had been
Store, and
struck at one of the Salt Lick gas
wells is not all a hoax. It is getting
so that nearly every day there is
a different story going the rounds about the
test wells that are being drilled in Clinton
and Clearfield counties. In fact so many
have been circulated that one scarcely
knows what to believe. The reason we
put some confidence in the last one was
that the accompanying announcement
was to the effect that Hon J. H. Holt is
contemplating an European trip next sum-
mer. You know he is promoter of the
company and we imagined that if he was
going abroad with the rest of the “‘nabobs’’
there must be surely oil or gas at Salt Lick.
Hon. J. H. Holt was in town, yesterday,
and was very enthusiastic over the new
well at Karthause. It is the third one that
the company has put down and at a depth
of 500 ft. oil has actually been struck. The
master driller was here too. He had some
of the sand and oil from the well and re-
ports that the greatest excitement prevails
in that locality The new well is located
on the Centre county side of the river,
about a mile from Karthause, and right
near the old Mulholland homestead.
Bellefonte share holders are feeling very
happy over the encouraging signs for a
paying venture. fr
ase.
A Most UNFORTUNATE BLUNDER. —In
the WATCHMAN of February 12th there ap-
peared a telegraphic article containing a
full account of the detection and arrest of a
Centre county girl for stealing in Pittsburg.
The young lady, who was the object of such
unpleasant, notoriety is Miss Blanche Stone-
rode, eldest daughter of C. G. Stonrode, a
highly respected resident of Milesburg.
The affair caused quite a sensation in
Bellefonte, where she is well known, and
friends of the family here were to a certain
extent relieved when they read the story in
which the unfortunate girl was said to
have been a victim of kleptomania and
that is was from no vicious motive that she
had become a thief, They will be more
delighted, however, to learn that the
whole affair, from the charge off to the
arrest for it, has been a lamentable bungle.
Information was made against Blanche
by a woman not altogether responsible,
and the police took up the case without in-
vestigation. The following story, taken
from the Pittsburg Post, of Wednesday,
will explain to what injustice she has been
subjected and we are glad to publish it be-
cause it will tend, in a slight way at least,
to undo the great wrong that has evidently
been done her.
“Time sets all things right and it now
proves to be the case again in the troubles
of Miss Blanche Stoherode, the pretty
young girl from Milesburg, who was ar-
rested here on the belief that she was a
kleptomaniac. That supposition was en-
tirely wrong. She never stole anything,
and that it was all a mistake is shown
by this letter from Mrs. Clara Clarke,
whose house was supposed to have been
robbed, to chief of detectives Roger
O’Mara ;
‘We wish to inform
Blanche Stonerode was” accused of taking
have been found. As much as we deplore
the notoriety the case has been given
through the press, we do this in justice of
her former good character and the name of
her parents and relatives in this vicinity.
CLARA CLARKE.”
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Pine Grove Mention.
Mrs. J. M. Kepler's children are recover-
ing from diphtheria.
Frank Thomas, his beautiful young wife
and dear little boy arc enjoying a week’s va-
cation with Union county friends.
Mrs. G. B. Campbell is laid up with a sore
foot which has caused her much suffering
and confined her to the house for some time
D. M. Stover, of near Pine Hall, had a
stroke of paralysis last Friday which affected
his right side. Dr. Woods has hopes of his
recovery. ‘
Carriage maker Charles Smith is repairing
and enlarging his shops to be ready for the
great rush which is to come with prosperity’s
agent.
Master John Dunlap is slowing improving
so that with the aid of braces and crutches
he is able to attend school. For months he