Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 25, 1897, Image 4

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ciple that tariffs should be for revenue
_ties were held up for loyal homage.
: HM The Queen’s. Jubilee.
Penvorratics afelymuans Continued from page 1.
a oe ——— > old Baroness ‘Burdette-Coutts, who put up
a false front of massive gold columns, con-
nected with heavy drapery of royal purple
and fringed with solid gold fringe. Pall
Mall and St. James street, where so many
great clubhouses stand, are each a vast
mass of gay color, very elaborate, costly
+ and in not half as bad taste as most of the
London decorations. The “Daily Tele-
graph,’’ all immaculate and white, like a
bride, is the best building on Fleet street
and ia.the heart of the city. The Bank of
England and the Mansion House are treat-
ed in elaborate schemes of gay, cloth of
gold devices and myriads of electric lights.
Five hundred pounds were spent on the
Mansion House by the corporation of the
city, but that is a mere bagatelle com-
pared with what Lord Mayor Faudel
Phillips, must have spent in dinners,
luncheons and receptions during the jubilee
fortnight. A member of the corporation
said to-day that Phillips contracted to
spend $150,000 to entertain, but as he is
| certain to receive the elevation to the
peerage, nobody marvels at his lavish ex-
penditures, in fact he was made Lord
Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
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Ebpiton.
Tiliman’s Tariff Position.
Senator TILLMAN takes a novel stand on
the tariff bill. He says that he knows he
cannot prevent its passage, and therefore
since the steal is to be perpetrated, he can’t
see why his State should not have some of
the plunder. Therefore he voted for a
duty on cotton, and also on lumber which
South Carolina produces in large quantity.
His position reduces the tariff to a ques-
tion of local advantage, and it is not
illogical, in view of the fact that in the
proceedings on this tariff bill each section
is grabbing all it can get.
The South Carolina Senator merely takes
advantage of the stealing that is forced
upon him by a Republican tariff which he
is powerless to defeat, arid he does this
without renouncing the. Democratic prin-
mm em ae sm.
spend.
A SIGHT UNPARALELLED.
Loxpox, June 22.—] got to my seat in
the Strand to-day just in time, five min-
utes past ten, fora glance around before the
Iv | show began.
ony. | as the eye could reach in both
He made a good point when he said that
the WiLsoN tariff, having been made a | The gentleman next to me likened the i ) ¢
ades in | roups to beds of flowers, and said he had | The absence o
highly protective measure by reneg
the Senate, should not have 1 assed | Peverseen such a massed and multitudin- | Was perl :
he Senate, should not have been pass ous array of bright colors and fine clothes. | one a apply
These displays rose up and up, story by | he Alc thus fi
windows being e sciively. :
tehing | Out necessarily
by Democratic votes. How'much better it
would have been if it had heen rejected by | story, all balconies and
the House when it came back to that body | Packed, as also the battlements stre
with the Senate's high tariff alterations, | 2100g the roofs ;
2 : with people standing, but not uncomforta-
President CLEVELAND professed to he so bly crowded, they being fenced from the
displeased with it that he refused to sign road way by red-coated soldiers, a double
it, letting it become a law without his | Stripe of vivid color which extended
2 5 : throughout the six miles which the proces-
signature. Would it not have heen more sion would traverse over.
to his credit if he had acted the manlier
part by vetoing it ?
The result of his weakness in this matter
has been that the Democratic party has |
had to bear the blame for the defects of a
tariff that is not a Democratic tariff.
Af'the WILSON bill had been killed, as
it should have been in the House, or bY | tacle for the kodak and not for the pen.
the President, the McKINLEY tariff would Presently the procession was without visi.
have gone on completing the business ruin | ble beginning or end, but stretched to the
for which it was responsible, the blame for | limit of sight in Both directions, Bodies of
which could then not have been shoved on :
to the Democrats. If this had been the
case, ‘‘where,”’ as Senator TILLMAN asked,
‘would the Republicans, be to-day 27?
‘Could they have bamboozled and deceived
the people last November into the belief
that the WiLsoN tariff had brought dis-
aster upon the country 2” |
Something of a Difference.
man in the British army, and then the
cheering began. It took me hut a little
could not be described, there w:
be too much of it and too much variety in
of buff, a block of yellow and so on, an in-
terminable drift of swaying and swinging
splotches of “strong color, sparkling and
bayonets, lance heads, brazen helmets and
burnished breast plates.
| unceasing surprises in the way of new and
splendors it much surpassed
| unexpected
I was
—X any pageant that I have ever seen.
When the supreme court of the United | not dreaming of so stunning a shoy
States decided, last Summer, that the income
tax law was unconstitutional, the support-
ers of the plutocratic interests were delight-
ed with the decision, They praised its
wisdom and infallibility ; and they. more-
over denounced, as little better than trait-
ors, and quite as bad as anarchists, all
those who ventured to assert that the court
had made a wrong decision,
That action of the Supreme court was | pq many shades of black, and some of these
peculiarly pleasing to those who believe in | were the very blackest people I have seen
the privilege of wealth. It\ established as | yet. Then there was an exhaustive exhi-
le of | ; , bition of the hundred separate brown races
3 ule lay datihe Wealthy Fete tobe | of India, the most beautiful and satisfying
exempt from bearing their share of the bur- | of an the complexions that have been
den of taxation necessary for the support of | vouchsafed to man, and the one which best
the government, and fixed as a public | sets off colored clothes and best harmonizes
Policy that the revenues wer: to he derived | with all tints.
t h . | The Chinese, the Japanese, the Coreans,
rom the necessaries and not from the super- the Africans, the Indians, the Pacific Is].
fluities of life. This was such a glorious
anders, they were all there, and with them
doctrine in the eves of those who believe
samples of all the whites that inhabit the
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that wealth should be favored with special enka LTE The
exemptions, that they overlooked what
seemed a matter of suspicion to the gener-
seemed to be represented. It was a sort of
allegorical suggestion of the
some who live to see that day will probably
recall this one, if they a
disturbed in mind at the time.
There were five bodies of Oriental sol-
diers, of five different nationalities, with
complexions differentiated by five distinct
shades of yellow. There were about a
tion, a spectacle curious and interesting.
and worth traveling far to see.
ality of the people, that improper influence th The most Pipa oe costumes es
; a ose worn by the Indian princes, an
was employed to bring about that decision, they were also the most beautiful and the
But the same parties who regarded the
court as infallible when i decided that the
incomes of the wealthy should not be taxed,
have changed their opinion of that tribunal
richest.
and princely carriage, and wherever they
‘passed applause burst forth. Soldiers,
soldiers, soldiers, and still more, and more
; oe z soldiers, and cannon, and muskets, and
for its decision that railroad pooling is an lances. There seemed to be no end to this
offense against the law that prohibits com- | feature. There are 50,000 soldiers in Lon-
binations for the restraint of trade. The | don, and they all seemed to be on hand. I
: : : : have not seen so many except in the thea-
court was all right when it decided in favor | ter, when 35 privates and a general march
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Mayor because he was rich and willing to | speaker of the house.
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The houses opposite, as far | of Barn
directions, " ae
suggested boxes in a theatre snugly packed, | live in history.
the sidewalks were filled pynade it.
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soldiers in buff, then a block of red, a block | Monday,
| ics, higher algebra and geography. Sever
flashing with shifty light reflected from | the Lock Haven normal school.
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of track were torn up.
gress and accumulation of moral material
and political ; it was made up rather of
the beneficiaries of these prosperities than
the creators of them, as far as mere glory
goes. The foreign trade of Great Britian
has grown in a wonderful way since the
Queen ascended the throne, last year it
reaching the enormous figure of six hun-
dren and twenty millions sterling, but the
capitalist, the manufacturer, the merchant
and the workingman were not officially in
the procession to get their share of the re-
sulting glory.
Great Britian has added to her real estate
an average of 165 miles of territory per day
for the past sixty Years, which is to say, she
has added more than the bulk of an Eng-
land each year, or an aggregate of seventy
Englands in the sixty years, but Cecil
Rhodes was not in the procession. The
chartered company was absent from it ; no-
body was there to collect their share of the
glory due for their formidable contributions
to the imperial estate. Even Dr. Jameson
was out and yet he has tried so hard to ac-
cumulate territory.
Eleven colonial premiers were in the pro-
cession, but the dean of the order, the
imperial premier, was not there, nor was
the lord chief justice of England, nor the
The bulk of the re-
ligious strength of English Dissent was not
officially represented. In the religious
ceremonials at the cathedral that immense
new industry, speculative expansion, was
not represented, unless the pathetic shade
ato rode invisible in the pageant.
It was a memorable display, and must
It suggested the material
lories of the reign finely and adequately,
the chief creators of them
aps not a serious disadvantage, as
the vacancies hy imagina-
out, the procession very
One can enjoy a rainbow with-
forgetting the forces that
By Julian Ralph, in the Pitts.
urg Post,
ADDITIONAL LOCALS. *
—A third story is hy be added to Kel-
reet. The house
Five minutes later the head of the col- | 18 hotel, on Bishop :
umn-came into view and was presently fil- | 13 becoming so popular that 1 mist be en-
ing by, led by Captain Ames, the tallest | larged to accommodate the guests,
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—Mr. Wallace Clark Chadman, for-
Grace Darling Pearce, of Conneaut, Ohio,’
it, so I give up the idea. It was to be a spec- | are to be married at the home of the bride’s
parents, June 29th.
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MARRIAGE L1cENsEs.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week.
Robt. K. Haddock and Mary Barr, both |
of Snow Shoe. -
John Koonsman, of Poe Mills, and Nel-
son Viola Keen, of Aaronshurg.
Daniel Bradford and Sarah
both of Haines township.
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FoLLow ur Foster's PREDICTIONS,
HE Hits IT.—My last bulletin gave fore-
casts of the storm wave to cr s the conti-
nent from: the 25th to the 29th, and the
next disturbance will reach the Pacific
Bowersox,
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coast about the 29th, cross the west of |
Rockies country by the close of the 30th, |
great central valleys July 1st to 3rd and
eastern States July 4th. :
A warm wave will cross the west of
Rockies country abont the 20th, great cen-
tral valleys July 1st and eastern States July
3rd. A warm wave will cross the west of
Rockies country about J uly 2nd, great cen-
tral valleys July 4th and eastern States 6th.
The above described disturbances will
occur during a high temperature storm
period and, therefore, while the fluctuations
in temperature will be about as usual in
July weather, the average temperature of
this storm wave will range above the nor-
‘mal. 2
This disturbance comes in one of the
principal rain periods, and showers will
| occur more generally than will be the aver-
| age of this June. Many showers will fall
{in the upper Missouri, upper Mississippi
| and lower Ohio valleys, and in the south-
| eastern States, while in the New England
| states and Texas good rains will not be so
common.’
Temperature of the week ending June
26th will average about or a little above
normal as a general average. In the New
England States the average will be consid-
| erably above and in the southeastern States
while to’ determine that this procession : : yer : iss | considerably below.
as going to | Merly of Pine Grove Mills, Pa., and Miss Y
Rainfall of the week ending June 26th
Iwill be generally below normal. Next
bulletin will give general features of week’s
Julyweather. That is the important corn
—Supt. C. L. Gramley went: to the’ month and the weather will be of the un-
soldiery in blue, followed by a block of | State normal, at East Stroudsburg, last
to examine the classes in phys-
al years ago he was one of the examiners at
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——An attempt to burglarize the Penn:
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A PAGEANT UNSURPASSED FOR SURPRISES, sylvania railroad depot at Poit Matilda;
For varied and beautiful uniforms and | was made, on Wednesday night, but whe
ever did it must have been frightened off
before the purpose was accomplished.
s; all | Holes were bored in the door almost the
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the nations seemed to be filing by, all | entire way around the lock.
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—On Tuesday, ‘‘Aunt” Mary Seibert,
re not too much | 25she is generally called, was visiting at
the home of Mis. Mary E. Hoover, gn
Spring street, and in walking from one
room to another fell and hurt her head.
The accident was rather a serious one in a8
dozen hodies of black soldiers - from various | much as she is nearly ninety-seyen years?
| parts of Africa, whose complexions covered | old. :
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——The petition for an injunction re-
straining the Citizen's water company of
Philipsburg from taking water from Cold
Stream, the source of the supply of the old
company, has been dismissed and the new
company will go to work, notwithstanding
the fact that the case will probably be car-
ried to the supreme court.
—The Lewisburg and Tyrone mixed
hibi- | train, ‘running between Scotia and Tyrone,
was wrecked. Monday morning. The tank
and six freight cars left the track near
Pennington. Three of the cars were load-
ed with wood which was scattered along
The three cars loaded wiih ore
did not upset. One hundred and fifty feet
>to —
——The charmingly appointed tea, last
evening, given by Mrs. M. W. Jackson and
her daughter, Mary Woodin Jackson, at the
home of Col. W. F. Reeder, on north Alle-
of wealth, but it is al] Wrong when its de- | geross the stage and behind the scenes and | gheny Street, was the social event of the
cision is against a combination of railroads | across the front again, and keep it’ up until | week. Five hundred invitations were is-
that conspired to exact extortionate freight | they have represented 300,000.
charges. | PRINCE RUPERT A PEACEFUL GUEST.
From this it would appear that it js trea- | A In the sul part jhe Fajen) Die) ers
1 . ‘os drove by with the host, and by-and-by
sonable and anarchistic to condemn the | J¢tor a long time, there was a grand output
of foreign princes, thirty-one in the invoice.
United States Supreme court when its decis-
ion isto the disadvantage of those who are | The feature of high romance was not want-
not rich, but al e | 10g, for among them ‘rode Prince Rupert,
it hth it d a Diop oe to censure of Bavaria, who would he Prince of Wales
. > against railroad com- i now, and future king of England and em.
panies that have violated a United States | peror of India, if his Stuart ancestors had
law. r conducted their royal affairs more wisely.
| He came as a peaceful guest to represent
| his mother, Princess Ludwig, heiress of the
{ House of Stuart, to> whom Jacobites still
| pay unavailing homage as the rightful
| queen of England. The House of Stuart
was formally and. officially shelved nearly
two centuries ago, but the microhe
The Queen’s Jubilee, :
From the Pittsburg Post,
The grandeur and splendor of the jubilee
procession have probably never heen sur-
passed. It was a moving representative
picture of the empire on which the sun’
never sets. There was the glitter of royal-
ty and dynasties—the blare and ‘pomp of
war—but we do not see that what has
made England great had recognition. Fen-
dal traditions were honored. The indus-
try and progress of the People were ignored,
nani of Glagbaane, wis icc he | resenting the United Sat
furbelows of 3 o IHS ths fo thors and princes and princesses, then five four-horse
nosy Jusignificant di carriages [reighted with off-shoots of the
English dearly love a Jord, and enjoy this | family. The excitement w.
sort of thing. In reality it has not been
Yictorin who has led England in the march
of empire and progress, but her great | © : Tor: :
Statesmen, her great inventors, her hi | Sola sas Wi P Ostill ions av pods
merchants, her great captains of industry. | and prec ay 0 ame
They seem “to have had | bowling along, followed by ite Prins of
I 4 oe no Pesopbition |
-Lverything was to adc prestige to the ? ’ ; x
Guelphs, from the great grandmother to | 3nd na ee, The Then foes OR
the baby in the cot. “What fools these | OMe, and she was received with Yearem
mortals be,’ > | thusiasm. -
i — | BUT THE QUEEN WAS ALL IN ALL.
New Governor of Alaska, It was realizable that she was the pro-
. cession herself ; that all the rest of it was
WASHINGTON, June 21.—The Senate | mere embroidery, that in her the public
to-day confirmed the following nomina- | saw the British empire itself. She was a
tions © John G. Brady, of Sitka, Alaska, symbol, an allegory of England’s grandeur
to be Governor of Alaska ; John U. Smith,
J and the might of the British name,
of Portlagd, Ore., and William J, Jones, It is over now, the British empire has
of Port Bownsend, Wash., to be commis- | marched under review and inspection.
sioners in and for the district of Alaska.
termidable by time, force, or argument.
At last, when the procession had been on
appear in it. First came a detachment of
two-horse, one containing ambassadors ex-
traordinary, in one of them W,
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Jacobite loyalty is a thing which is not ex. | enjoyable.
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sued and the beautiful house and «vide,
roomy porches were crowded from 5 until
7 o’clock.. Mrs. Jackson and her daughter
were assisted in receiving by Misses Eliza-
beth Stone, of Warren ; Margaret and Cath-
arine Wood rough, of Knoxville; Gra¢e Phil-
ips, of New Castle ; and Mary Mathek, of
Lewisburg. all guests of the house and all
school mates of Miss Jackson, whe gradu-
ated at Mrs. Summer's school, in Washing-
ton, two weeks ago. Mrs W. F. Reeder
was assisted by Mrs. D. H. Hastings, Mrs.
Mollie Valentine and Mrs. John N. Iane in
presiding over the artistically deforated tea
tables and the whole affair was [pleasingly
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THE FALLS CREEK BAND WoN.—A¢t
viéw an hour and a half, carriages began to | the tournament of the Northerr Pennsyl-
vania and Western New York band asso-
hitelaw Reid | ciation, held at Houtzdale, lat Friday,
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representing the United States, then six | the tannery band from Falls Greek took
domestic | first “place.
Only five bands were in the
contest and noue of the larger t¢wns were
as growing, in- | Tepresented. The lucky bands were Falls
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terest was rising toward the boiling point. | Creek, 1st ; South F ork, 2nd ; Philipsburg,
Finally a landan drawn by eight cream-/ 3rd ; Hawk Run, 4th.
colored horses, most lavishly upholstered’
The mext annual
tournament will go to Philipsburg.
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CAPTURED THREE
EAGFES. — Sam
Wales, and all the world rose to its feet Grimes and Wm. Dunlap, two Philipsburg
woodsmen, captured three: bad eagles on
last Saturday. The men were(n the moun-
tains cutting mine props, when they dis-
covered the nest. Though if was. almost
on the top of a great pine tre( one of them
climbed up to investigate, whereupon the
old bird flew off her nest un@vering three
young ones, probably the sizqof a chicken.
They were taken out and carried into
Philipshygg, where they are the objects of
The procession stood for sixty years of pro- | marked a tention.
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THE NEW CONSOLIDATED BAND.—Last
| Friday afternoon the people of this place
| were given the opportunity of hearing the
| new consolidated Milesburg and Coleville
bands. A concert was given in the Dia-
{ mond and to say that it was greatly appre-
| ciated is expressing it mildly. The bands
are under the leadership of Frank Wetzler
and Charles Rote and that well known old
musical enthusiast, Nathan Beerly, is the
director. It can scarcely be wondered at
that the organization has proven a good
one, with such people leading it.
Fortunately for the consolidation the
new uniforms of the Milesburg band are
similar to those of the Coleville and when
together it looks like one great band. At
the \ concert, on Friday evening; director
Beerly had a fine selection of music, hav-
ing used a quick step to show off the vol-
ume first. then a difficult waltz to test the
technique, he went to his solo artists and
some nice work was done on the trombone,
by Mr. Proudfoot ; on the emphonium, by
Mr. Rote ; and the bass solo, by Mr. Essing-
ton, was something rarely heard except in
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A FRIGHTFUL HAIL STORM AT TYRONE.
—A most frightful hail storm threatened to
knock Tyrone off the face of the earth, last
Saturday afternoon, and it was only the
size of the stones that saved the town
where lives the man who gets a wagan
load of mail every day. :
Just about three o’clock on the eventful
afternoon angry looking clouds came scur-
rying over the mountains, from the north-
west, but as the entire attention of the
town was concentrated on a game of ball
that was being played by the rival sets of
note-peelers nothing was thought of what
Was going on overhead until old mother
nature got her battery to working and
began pounding in duplex- quivers and all
manner of curves and. twists. Hail stones
as large as hickory-nuts fell so rapidly for
twenty minutes that it really wasn’t safe
to be out. In fact one hundred and nine.
ty-five chickens died in Tyrone, that after-
noon, because their mamma’s had taught
them only enough to £0 in out of the wet.
Besides this great destruction to poultry
thousands of panes of glass were broken,
trees stripped of their foilage, gardens
beaten down as flat as pan-cakes and
shingles on the roofs of many houses so
badly split up that new ones will be re-
quired. It js estimated to have caused a
loss of $40,000 in Tyrone and vicinity and
the singular part of it was that the storm
was only local. There was none north of
East Tyrone, east of Birmingham, or west
of Tipton. The storm lasted only twenty
minutes, but in that time Tyrone saw
more hail than she ever did in her life be-
fore. At some places on the streets it was
six inches deep and it is no exaggeration
when we say it had to be shoveled from the
side walks and laid in heaps in the gutters
‘until Sunday morning.
Thousands of windows were paneless
and Ed. Irvin, formerly of this, place who is
now in the hard-ware business up there,
came down, on Saturday night, and pur-
chased 125 boxes of glass at the factory
to supply Tyrone’s demand. It was a
singularly freakish storm, for while one
reperty suffered great loss the adjoining
one probably lost nothing. Among the
‘more serious losses was the almost total
destruction of W. H. Agnew’s photographic
gallery. In it were stored a number of
valuable negatives and the one of the
large group of old students at the Pine
Grove Academy reunion, only made the
day before, was broken:
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A Grand Reunion.
Continued from page S.
The Academy occupies a fine location on
one of the highest points of the county, over-
looking the broad and fertile valleys that
stretch off to the cast and west, as far as the |
€ye can see, and planted on the very abut-
ments of the Tussey mountain range it has
truly a picturesque prospect.
een miles from Bellefonte in those early days
a tri-weekly stage line connected Pine Grove
with Bellefonte and gave student and teach-
er the advantage of frequent intercourse
with the world outside the
academical halls,
" After Prof, Ward had put the Academy on
a firm basis and helped prove the first bekef
of its promoters, that it would be a success,
one'of his first pupils, John Elias Thomas,
who had meanwhile graduated at Jefferson
college, was called to succeed his old master,
He was a staunch friend of the common
schools and of the cause of education in gen-
eral, and ‘was the pupil and protege
of the first principal of the insti
tution. J. C. Whitehill and William Gem-
mill were assistants to Prof. Thomas and
helped him push the school along until the
war broke out and its progress received a
temporary check because he went off to the
had charge, but he soon gave way to Theoph-
Thomas returned to take charge of it and
continue as principal until his death, which
occurred in 1872. For more than sixteen
years he had driven the institution steadily
onward to a higher standard and with its ad-
vancement came ga large student body.
From all parts of Centre and adjacent coun-
ties scholars heard of the superior educa-
tional facilities of the Pine Grove Academy
and sought admission to it. Boys and girls
who have since become famous men and
women received their first broadening in-
struction at that old place.
Not every one could enter the Academy.
Applicants for admission were required to
| furnish testimonials of good moral character
and pledge themselves to totally abstain from
the use of intoxicating liguors, while stud-
ents from other institutions were not accept-
ed unless carrying honorable dismissals with
them.
The courses of study were as many and
varied as the needs of the scholars warranted.
Any one could La fitted for college or given
an ordinary business training. Special at-
tention was given to those preparing to teach
and as a kind of a coaching school for teach-
ers the Academy gained a reputation all over
Central Pennsylvania.
The names of many men who have since
become prominent can be found on the old
rolls and the little village of Pine Grove
points with pride to the fact that her
Academy has been the nursery of Doctors of
Divinity, Governors, Congressmen, Judges,
ministers and men of wealth and repute in
business circles.
The success of the school was largely the
result of the pure, moral atmosphere that
pervaded it at all times. Twice a day the
students were assembled for devotional exer-
cises and on the Sabbath day all were re.
quired to attend church and bible class.
Those who had no particular church prefer-
ence went with the principal, while others
were permitted to go to the church of their
choice.
In those days schools did not “have the
long sessions they now have. Young men
had more work to do at home and could not
be spared until very late in the fall, ;so that
the term never opened until the first Wed-
nesday in November and closed the last
Wednesday in March, with one week's vaca-
tion at the holidays. There Was a summer
course, from the first Wednesday of April un-
til the last Wednesday of September, that af-
forded those who were ambitious for study
an opportunity to stick at it most of the year.
Then for all these superior advantages the
eXpenses were extremely moderate. Just
think of it, boarding, tuition, nglish
branches and furnished room was only $45 a
term. Incidentals 25cts., term, with light,
heat and washing extra. German was also a
side-dish at the instructor’s own charge. It
Was a wise provision of the trustees that beld
students responsible for damage to the build-
ingor furniture for there were some gay lark-
ies among those boys and as it was the fear
of such financial punishment did not curb the
pranks they were wont to play at times. All
bills were payable one-half in advance and
the other half before leaving the school.
A careful record of the standing of all
scholars was kept and sent to their parents,
from time to time and regular hours for
study and recreation insisted up: One hun-
dred demerit marks subjected any onc
to dismissal, but very few got them.
student was required to provide himself avith
towels, an umbrella and a bible, afid on the
whole it was a very systematically main-
tained, carefully conducted educational in-
stitution. :
The list of men who have been at its head
at one tinre or another is as follows : .
Prof. Ward was the first principal and he
was succeeded by Prof. Milton Camptell,
who taught but one term, when Prof.
McKenan took his place. Prof, Davidson
followed McKenan and taught until the fall
term of ’58, when Thomas was clected and
continued at the head of the Academy, with
William. Gemmill and J. C. Whitehill as as-
sistants, until he enlisted in the army and
‘marched oft with the soldiers. In his ab-
reese eer eiop——s si
THE OLD ACADEMY Buin
Though cight-
confines of
war and most of his students followed him. |
During his absence Rev. Samuel W.. Moore
ilus Weaver! who ran the school until Prof. ;
Each i
DING AS IT NOW APPEARS.
{ sence Rev. Moore, Theophilus Weaver and
| Prot. Hewes had charge, but upon his return
" he took up the reins again and continued un-
til his death. in 1872. Then. came Prof.
Houtz, who left to prepare for the ministry ;
Prof. Glenn who quit for the same purpose,
‘and Prof. Musser. The latter was succeeded
by N. B. Spangler Esq., of this place, and he
gave way to Mr. Noll, of Pleasant Gap. Rev;
Ji A. Koser was the next to take charge and
- he ran the school until Rev. W. C. Kuhn was
called and then L. C, Thomas, the only son
of the old professor, assumed his father’s du-
ties, but soon quit to study medicine.
The advance of greater institutions and
the improvement of means of travel and re-
source gradually kept depleting the old:
Academy until its later years have been
more as a select school than anything else.
Rev. C. T. Aiken undertook to rebuild it and
did have one successful term, but gave up
the work and now Mr. Rhone has charge of
it and is on a fair road to-Tetrieving some of
the fallen laurelsof the old school.
| During the presperous days of the
i Academy two' active literary societies flour-
ished there and many the warm debates that
were heard in Pine Grove then. There was
the Euphronian, the ladies society, and the
Athlonon and then, in 1861, the student role
| grew so that a third society, the! Prescott,
' sprang into existence and it afterwards ah-
sorbed the Athlonon,, W. F.
SOME OF THOSE
WHO WERE THERE.
Those of the old students and their chil-
dren who registered on the grounds were :
Prof. J. K. Bottorf,
D. A. Smith,
L. W. Miller,
H. 8. Laird,
+ Adie R. Louder,
A. G. Archey,
Laura R. Lytle,
Elmer Ross,
Ettie Ross,
B. F. Homan,
W. H. Musser,
Sallie €, Musser,
G. W. Homan,
Albert Smeltzer,
br. J. E. Ward,
S. Dannley,
Maggie M. Housman,
Lottie M. Harter,
Bella S. Ward,
G. W. Rumberger,
J. H. Carner,
Prot. Jacob Rhoan,
Mary K. McWilliams,
J. M. Keichline,
| Jus, AL Beaver,
i \. H. Bailey,
| Nannie Glenn,
| Wm. H. Fry,
Sadie Glenn,
| B. J. Laport,
iL. B. Laport,
Alice Weaver,
J. C. Miller,
i A. H. Smith,
FM. K. Rider,
D.W, Woodring,
F. B. Stover,
i J. 8. Gray,
br L.C Thomas,
A. J. Mattern,
M. Kate Bailey,
| Col. J. H. Musser,
A. R. Krebs,
D. L. Krebs,
| Thos. Miller,
YCol. D. F. Fortney,
| ). A. Grove,
B. F. Housman,
i
|
J. H. Ross, Lizzie McCracken,
{ J. H. Osmer, Henry McCracken,
{ J. M. Tate, W. E. Rhoan,
|G. W. Ward, J. W. Fry,
"J. H. Ward, N. T. Krebs,
| D. 8. Erb,
C. 8. Dannley,
M. Dannley, E. S Moore,
J. D. Dannley, Wm. B. Ward,
| Sadie Dannley, J. H. Joy,
Dent Ingram), Julia Z. letcher,
| C. B. McWilliams, Hal M. McGee,
Prof. 8, C. Miller,
Wm. Gibson,
Jas. Me Williams, Jennie Shaw,
Edward Osmer, L. A. Smith,
H. M. Krebs, 1. M. Essington,
J. L. Dunlap, Col. J. W, Stewart,
8. E. Goss, J. G. Bailey,
Andy Lytle, C. B. Hess,
J. A. Musser, G. B. Campbell,
A. J. Tate, Etta Moser Irvin,
Minnie B. Goss, Kate L. Moser,
Marian S. Hlingsworth, H. M, Stover,
Jacob Harpster, N. B. Spangler,
Dr. AC. Nor Ww. E. Burchfield,
Inez Krebs, Rev. C. T. Aikens,
Emma W. Meek, Albert Hoy,
David G. o£ M. E. Stover,
Robt, ££ A. C. Thompson,
Adam Duck, Michael Hess
Maggie C. Williams, J. A. Campbell,
J. MU Watt, Rev. W, . Mattern,
Wm. H. Smith, H. C. Campbell,
Chas. H. Smith, Rev. Isaac Krider,
Bessie L. Fry, Eliza Glenn Meek,
Mrs.J. H. Ross, Dr. E. 8S, Dorworth,
Ross Louder, Rev. G. W. Fortne 3
Maggie McW. Hess, Matie Ewing Drib ebis,
Jennie A. Tate, Sadie M. Glenn,
Ella W. Fisher, Sadie Keichline Gardner,
Bell Gray Mattern, Alfaretta Fisher Goss,
Carrie Thomas Williams, Alice J.vtle Duff, -
J. B. Ard, Lizzie Murray Gibson,
J. H. Miller, Sofie S. Hunter,
Ida Meek Musser, . Ada Burchfield Gilliford,
Grustie Ward King, G. E. Weaver,
Susana M. Meek, Francis J. Weaver,
Maggie Zentmyer Stine, Walter H. ge
Amy Rider Roop, E. C. Fry,
Wm. M. Shiffer, Wm. Fry,
Mrs. G. R. Spigeln.yer, S. F. Rider,
Sadie Dunlap Heberling,M. A. Elder
| Lilla Meek Gilliford, D. H. Weaver.
Carrie Musser Fortney, John McWilliams,
i C.8. Fortney, Viola Smith,
| Eff Burchfield Jacobs, David Barr,
| Anna M. Dale, Daniel Koch,
| J. L. Murphy, Kate Shiffer Woods,
i Adam Bucher, - Sallie Nicholas Adams,
|sMary Fry Dale, M. E. Heberling,
| G. B. McM. Fry, H. C. Myers, .
i J. B. Krebs, Rev. Wm, Gemmill,
i 4. C. Eckel, - Wm. E. Meek,
Peter Keichline.
Many. other old students were present
| but failed to register. All who desire to
| be enrolled can communicate with W. H.
Fry who is in charge of the roll.
; James Hess,
A Card of Thanks,
{ W.H. Fry, who had charge of the program and
! arrangements for the reunion of Pine Grove
! Academy and Seminary students, on the 18th, de-
sires to return thanks to all who aided in the
. work, especially to Charles Smith and the ladies
who had the decorations in charge. ‘
- Low=Rate Excursion via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
{The Pennsylvania railioad company an-
{ nounces that it will run a special excursion
| to Chautauqua from Philadelphia, Balti-
more. and Washington on July 2nd. Train
will leave Philadelphia, 8:30 a. m., Wash-
ington, 7:50 a. m., Baltimore, 8:50 a. m.,
connecting with special train leaving Har-
| rishurg at 11:35 a. m., arriving Chautauqua
| 10:30°p. m. Excursion tickets good to re-
turn on regular trains, exclusive of limited
express trains, July 12th to August 1st,
| will he sol at rate of $10 from Philadel-
| phia, Baltimore, and Washington, and .at
proportionate rates from other points.
For further information apply to nearest
ticket agent. > © 42-25-2¢.
To Americanize the Navy.
WASHINGTON, June 21.—Secretary Long
has a plan to Americanize the navy. A
large portion of the seamen now enlisted
{on American men-of-war are of foreign
birth. In case the United States should
get into war with any foréign power, the
fact that our vessels are manned by-for-
eigners. would "give rise to serious appre-
hensions. Recruiting is soon to begin at
the Atlantic seaboard, the great lakes and
probably the Mississippi river. ~~
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