recently burned to the ground and many old
relics and valuable papers destroyed.
Mrs. Mary A. Fry has recovered sufficient-
ly with her broken atm to enjoy a ride over
the new rail-road to the county capital,
where she will study the spring fashions for
some weeks to come.
All Through Brush Valley.
Mrs. Amanda Evens, of Rebersburg, is ser-
jously ill.
Thomas Auman is teaching summer school
at Woodward. ¢
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Mrs. Rose H. Mackey, of Williamsport,
came home last Tuesday.
Miss McKibbens, of Nittany valley, is the
guest of Harvey Miller, of Rebersburg.
Drs. Scott ‘and Edwin Burd, of Bellwood,
attended the funeral of their father, last Fri-
day.
Edward Brungard, who is attending school
at Selinsgrove, was at home over Sunday en-
joying Easter.
Having been delayed by his serious illness,
Harry Yearick did not close his school at Li-
vonia until last week.
John Winters, of Kreamersville, has fin-
ished the foundation for a new house.
Kreamersville, seemingly, is in a year of
prosperity.
Thomas Wolf, of Madisonburg, has his
steamer at Rebersburg to run Willis Weber's
planer, but the planer, seemingly, is too old
to give satisfation.
According to reports the new meat mar-
ket of Rebersburg had the good luck to start
in the meat business in the very midst of a
prosperous meat tide.
Sheriff Cronister, who is busily engaged
puncturing canned confidence throughout
the county, was in town last week. Michael
Corman, of Zion, says they have a big fac-
tory of confidence canning at Altoona.
The foundations of the new United Evan-
gelical church, at—Wolf’s Stoie, will be laid
this week. Tom Brungart is one of the prin-
cipal donors and has presented the ground
whereon the new edifice will be erected.
Eggs are so plenty in our valley that the
farmers pay the hucksters 20 cents per dozen
to take them away, and the huckster the
farmer 8 cents per dozen to make Bryan
votes. Thus the Dingley bill stimulates the
old hens.
Carlin’s new goods came last Monday.
The WATCHMAN appropriately called him
the John Wanamaker of Rebersburg, which
he is from the standpoint of a merchant, but
he is staunch and true to Bryan’s principles,
and was re-elected squire by a big majority.
The Buckner and Palmer club, composed
of McKinley voters and recent converts to
the Republican party, now meets in a cosy
and comfortable building at the west end of
town, where they discuss the Dingley tariff
bill bearings with much brilliancy and disa-
greement.
Rebersburg is fortunate this spring and can
well be called the Boston of Brushvalley as,
at present, it has two institutes, a musical
normal conducted by Prof. Newcomer and
an academy by Prof. Hosterman. The for-
mer ‘has 40 students and the latter ahout 35.
“If you want to see pretty girls rapidly turn-
ing into musicians go to the normal, and if
you want to see manly boys fast transformed
into teachers go to the academy.
The meetings of the Rebersburg grange are
much enjoyed both for the social and literary
work. At the meeting on Thursday night
Mrs. Henry Meyer Mrs. Jas. K. Moyer, Mrs.
Flora Burd, Clark Gramley, Noah Corman,
Jerome Moyer, Charles Bierly and James
Frank, took part in the proceeding and dis-
cussed various important questions.
next meeting will be one week from last eve-
ning and promises to be quite interesting.
Henry Detwiler will read an essay on the
Comparison of English and American Gov-
ernments, a subject on which he has read ex-
tensively. ‘Another paper will be read on
the influence of women in the development
of the American Nation.
This evening in the Evangelical church
the Rebersburg musical normal will give its
first public recital. . It will consist of vocal
and instrumental music, violin and piano du-
etts, piano solos and duetts, choruses, quar-
tettes, and solos. The violin, mandolin and
banjo club which is composed of ladies, and
now number 10 members will play a number
of classical selections. It is free and you are
cordially invited to hear the excellent pro-
gram, but do not go expecting to hear cow
songs, love ditties and the stale old concert
howls, for there is nothing on the program
but selections from the best operas, oratorios
and great masterpiece of the musical world.
Professor Newcomer and Zeigler are doing
excellent work in creating a taste for real
music, music of the kind that will transport
our little souls to the very edge of the infin-
ite and let us for a moment gaze into that.
So do no not miss this opportunity of hearing
how the young people are progressing and a
real musical treat.
DEAD.—Mr. John Burd, of Kreamersville,
who had suffered seven strokes of paralysis,
died and was buried, last Friday morning, in
the Union cemetery. Had he lived until Ju-
ly 16th, he would have been seventy-nine
years of age. With the exception of five
years, one in Belleview, Ohio, and four in
Aaronsburg, his entire life was spent in
Brushvalley where he was respected by all.
He was a saddler by trade, having worked
with old Mr. Reynolds for 16 years. He and
his wife, who died six years ago, were two of
the first four members of the Kreamersville
Methodist church, and until their death were
faithful and consistent workers. Mrs. Eli-
nor Strayer of Cedar Rapids, Ia, is the only
member living of his family of nme. Mr.
aud Mrs. John Burd had ten children of
whom six are living, Drs. Scott and Edwin
of Bellwood, Mrs. Brush and Mrs. Thorpe,
South Easton, Mrs. Beck, Duncannon and
Miss Ellen, who for a number of years sup-
ported her parents, and who has spent the
better part of her life in the struggle for ex-
istance and doing for others for which she
has gotten very little credit. Rev. Faus con-
ducted the funeral services.
We were sorry to learn that the older mem-
bers of the largest Sunday school in Rebers-
burg had voted-down a motion for the usual
Easter celebration on the supposition that the
children were overworked. It was a great
mistake for any Sunday school. All the city
churches, whose children attend school nine
and ten months a year and many of them
from homes lacking the proper food and
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pure air, make the Easter celebration the
great event in the child’s religious life. Who
can deny, unless it be some luke warm Chris-
tian and those who are seen in church but
once or twice a year, that the celebration of
the resurrection of our blessed Lord is not
the greatest event in the whole Christian cal-
endar? The Bible says ‘‘this is the day
which the Lord has made, let us be glad and
rejoicein it.” It should be for every one a
day of joy and thanksgiving, and, instead of
the children being relegated to the study of
the kitchen hieroglyphics on the colored eggs
they should be given an opportunity to de-
velop in the lessonsand teachings of the great
resurrection morn. Beautiful flowers, good
music, and appropriate exercises will awaken
in a child a more beautiful and sublime con-
ception of the natural and spiritual law. Our
children should know more of Christ and
those whe would narrow and restrict their
opportunities are not fitted to be guiders and
instructors. .
Centre Hall.
Miss Grace Alexander spent Easter at her
home, in this place.
E. J. Wolf, of this place, took a flying trip
to Gettysburg, over Easter.
Tom Swartz, of Tusseyville, was in town
Sunday night. Tom is found of the ladies,
and seems to have taken a fancy to some of
ours. .
From present indications the only remedy
for the ‘‘dropsy’”’ epidemic is Bible water.
Happily neither the cure or disease are loath-
some,
An orchestra of ten or fifteen pieces is be-
ing organized in this place. This has been
much needed for a number of years. We
hope it will be successful.
Miss Emma Kuhn, of Boalsburg, visited
Centre Hall over Easter. She is teaching a
subscription school at that place, in which
she is much interested.
The old porch in front of Wolf & Crawford’s
store room will soon be a thing of the past.
It will be replaced by a larger and finer one,
likewise the pavement around the entire bank
building.
Wolf & Crawford, our enterprising mer-
chants, have shipped three car loads of po-
tatoes this week. They intend erecting a
derrick to be used in raising potatoes from
the cellar. Handling potatoes on so large a
scale takes considerable work and by means
of this much labor can be saved. These mer-
chants are of the right kind, our only dif-
ficulty lies in there not being enough of the
kind. :
Keep--your--cow -off--the--street—-ordinance
was also passed at the same meeting. The |
The Easter number of the DEMOCRATIC
WATCHMAN is superb. Typographically
the WATCHMAN ranks first of any country
newspaper published in Pennsylvania, and
in fact is up to the standard of city dailies,
not even being exceeded by the Philadelphia
Times, which is recognized by all newspaper
men to be the model for the United States in
that respect. Editorially the WATCHMAN is
also far superior to any newspaper published
in the interior of the State and neither is it
inferior to any so far as-:aeneral and local
news is concerned.
GIVE Us A LONGER ScHoOL TERM.—A
topic of general intérest to every resident of
Centre Hall is being discussed. It is the
school question. Who can persuasively
answer the question. ‘‘Should Centre Hall
\have ten months school !"’ in the negative?
be borough has six competent and inter-
ted school directors in the persons of Dr.
. F. Alexander, W. W. Boob, John T. Lee,
John 8. Dauberman, W. O. Rearick, and A.
J. Reesman. They are progressive men in
their own professions and business, are pub-
lic spirited and your correspondent is con-
vinced that if they were to act upon their
own good judgment and opinion the coming
term of school would open for ten month’s
session. And why should they not act upon
their own good judgment ?
Centre Hall is lagging behind in only one
or two instances and a poor school system is
one. It ranks first in the county for fine
churches ; it has a banking institution as
sound as Uncle Sam himself ; its factories
and machine shops do up to date work ; it
has more telephones than any other town
in the county except Bellefonte and
Philipsburg :* its mercantile establishments
ave a credit to the place and lead all other
i towns of its size; its streets are being
| improved ; nine tenths of its inhabitants
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took oath to have a sufficient water supply
for all purposes and at all times, but when it
comes to schools the line must be drawn. The
borough schools need re-constructing. A
principalship should be established, and a
regular graduating course arranged.
What excuse is there to compel a half
dozen young men from this neighborhood at
| this very time to go away from home to
| school to prepare for teaching ? If you will
shake your memory you will only need go
back about fifteen years to find a time when
Centre Hall was the educational centre of
the valley. What's the matter now ? Won’t
it pay to revive the smouldering embers ?
We are traveling backwards! Halt! face
about, and give us town schools in keeping
with the times.
The additional two months school, the
principalship and other necessary require-
ments for desirable schools need not be a bur-
den. The writer would hesitateto advocate
a burden but good management, which is
mostly needed, on the part of the school di-
rectors is economy. It is not economy or
good sense to have a poor school system and
necessitate the importation of education. A
thorough and systematically graded school,
with a good course, sufficient paraphernalia
and efficient instructors is what is wanted.
Such a school would be supported by outside
parties and sufficient revenue would in time
thus be derived to more than pay all extra
expenses. Good schools are an absolute
necessity, and now is the time to establish
them.
Fauble’s
THE greatest line of Men's, Boy's
drens Clothing Ever shown in Centre’
ordinance provides that all cattle, horses and |
mules running at-large will be impounded |
and a fine of $2.00 imposed, onezhalf of |
which goes to the high constable. The or- |
dinance is approved by a great majority of |
the citizens. The cow was an unsightly thing
on our streets last summer, and usually had
the right of way on walks and yards. She is
a back number now. Herding on the streets
will not be tolerated.
PRICE, OUR
The water company is figuring upon a
new basis to tax its patrons. At pregent the
tax is assessed according to the assessed valua-
tion of property. This method is faulty just
now, as it leaves no way for the company to
increase its taxes upon its opponents except .
in a few instances where special privileges
aregiven, i. e., for engines, livery, aquariums,
shops, Ete., and in most of these cases the
proprietors have had their kick and are now
paying for the fun of kicking and have the
additional satisfaction of knowing the com-
pany’s plan to use the tax whip for each back
or complaint. And the stripes will not be
saving of
The Easter exercises in the Lutheran
church, on Sunday afternoon, was very large-
ly attended by the members of the congrega- |
tion as well as by others in anticipation of
what proved to be quite an interesting and
appropriate service. The program was a :
good one and the parts generally well ren- TRY IT.
dered, the most interesting and enjoyable =
however, being the recitations by Edwin
Kerlin, Emma Wolf, Marian Miller
and Grace Boob; the singing by the
class of small girls, the male quartette by
W. F. Floray, M. B. Riehard, Geo. H.
Emerick and Rey. Reatick and the verse
recitations by Anna Durst, Virna Emerick,
Clara Poulsen and Bertha Strohmeier.
The Easter service furnished by the Re-
formed Sunday school, on Sunday night,
proved a grand success. It was well attend-
ed the Sunday school room, as well as the
auditorium, being crowded. Rev. Eisenberg,
assisted by Wm. B. Mingle, had charge of the
service. The music was furnished by the
school, led by Miss Mame Kreamer, organist;
Henry Kreamer, bass violin, and J. S. Rowe
and Wm. Pletcher cornetists. The music by
the school was strong and wel rendered,
while the anthem by the choir was excep-
tionally fine. The solos sung by Miss Emily
Alexander and Mrs. Henry Boozer were very
much appreciated and showed off two sweet,
cultivated voices to advantage. The respon-
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sive readings by the little folks sounded as if
none of them were fearful of making mis-
takes. The program, as a whole, was some- o o o 0 o 0 0
thing out of the ordinary in as much as there :
were no recitations.
BiG MONEY WANTED FOR THE WATER S
WoRrks.—Several important matters were at-
tended to at Friday evening’s meeting of the °
town council. A committee waited upon the
Centre Hall water company with the purpose
of ascertaining at what figure the company’s
frog pond ceuld be bought for. The com-
mittee of councilmen were politely in- °
formed that the only way in which the com-
pany would part with its plant was the course 5
defined by law and that a rough estimate
upon that basis would fix the price at some-
thing over $12,000! The report of the com-
mittee was laid on the table, in other words
shelved. Twelve thousand dollars is an | ‘|o
exorbitant sum to ask for the water
works in its present condition, and no doubt
Way P
Yes, WHY po BICYCLISTS BECO
or .- EEATING
They note the quick response as th
motion as they glide along, the perfect
No Swaying Frames - - - - -
° No Binding of Bearings - - -
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strains, and then discover why we advised them to
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ie pedal is touched, the smoothness of
trueness of the frame under the hardest
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the figures were given by an official
for a bluff The public generally ac- SEE THAT CURVE.
cepts the theory that this modest © Catalogue telling about the new
sum the water company would be will- double roller chain, free. . . . . . o
ing to accept for its plant includes a o! |
straw mortgage on the moon and several un- KEATING WHEEL CO.
paid subscriptions. The twelve thousand MIDDLETOWN, Ct. |
dollars will never be paid, in fact, one-third 2 Formerly Holyoke, Mass. |
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price for the Centre Hall water works ° em a a i {|
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THE BEST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY IS THE PRICE
OF LEADERSHIP.
_ Where customers constantly cling satisfaction is to be found. Com-
parisons of prices and qualities are our strongest argument, and the crowds
that continually buy of us is the best evidence that we outsell and undersell
all other competitive houses. We sell goods cheaper than others because we
own them cheaper. If you have a thought of saving money put that thought
Into execution at once and follow up our prices, and you will find more bar-
gains for your money here than any house in Centre county will offer you.
READ THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL OFFERINGS FOR THE
COMING WEEK—LINENS.
An extra quality good cotton Towel, 6cts.
Good first class all linen Towel, large size gcts
Fast color red Table Linen 17Cts.
An extra quality unbleached Table Linen (all Zinen)
usually sold at 65 cents, this week i 48cts.
DRESS GOODS.
All wool Novelties 36 inch 25cts.
40 inch Novelties all the new colors 25cCts.
Black Serge all wool the 5octs. kind, this week 4octs.
Black Serge our regular 75cts quality, this week 58cts.
A special drive, this week, in a 36 inch Serge all colors and
all wool at . 25cts.
We are head quarters for Novelties in Dress Goods, as-our assortment is
good and we sell at popular prices.
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WASHDRESS GOODS—LINEN TISSUE.
Natural colored ground with silk stripe, an entirely new cloth this season,
and just the thing for swell shirt waists, it comes in beautiful designs only, roc.
Choice of over 100 pieces of new Wash Goods in Organdies, Dimities,
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22 inch India Silk Lyons dye and extra finish zo different colors 45¢C.
Black Satin Duchesse beautiful quality 21 inch well worth $1.25
this week 98c.
We have about 10 pieces left of our Wash Silks which we will con-
tinue to sell at 25¢.
DOMESTIC SPECIAL
Good Apron Gingham you can hardly tell it from Lancaster
this week : 4C.
Yard wide unbleached Muslin good quality 4Yc.
32 inch Percales all fast colors 9c.
Good Outing Cloth 5a.
Choice of 30 pieces fine Sateens for dresses, black ground and
fancy figures a 9c.
A fine Zephyr Gingham well worth 12%5c. elegant styles, this week Sc.
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MILLINERY
Night and day our trimmers are hard at work.
We are representatives of styles and low prices.
.We sell more Millinery than all other stores combinéd in Bellefonte.
The lady in charge of this department has but just returned from New
York, this week, and you will “find all the new shapes here. Our trade in
Millinery has been so large this season, that we have visited the New York
market three times since March 1st.
We make no charge for trimming hats.
Special—3o00 Ladies Sailors, this week 15C.
40-15 KATZ & CO. 1.1d.
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ALESMEN WANTED.—To Sell our
high grade inspected Nursery Stock. Many
new specialties offered this year for the first time,
as well as the standard varieties of fruits and or-
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Write for terms, stating age, etc. !
Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas, a Avenue Nurseries.
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TAILOR.
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$20,000 worth of Clothing must be J .
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We insure you against risk or dis-
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varieties for this Easter:
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Our reputation as dealers for so
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