, 1897.
ellefonte, Pa., Oct. |
CORRESPONDENTS. —No0 communications pub-
lished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
— Ms. Mary Hastings, of north Spring
street, is eritically ill with grip. Her re-
covery is doubtful.
—Hicklen Kellerman, of east Bishop
street, who has had such a serious siege of
typhoid fever, is convalescing.
——DMrs. Austin Bartley, of Willowbank
street, is ill with appendicitis. Her case
has not become so serious, however, as to
necessitate an operation.
Cyras M. Brumgard, of Millheim, is
one of the judges of awards for cattle at the
Lewisburg fair this week.
Indications point to a large crop of
chestnuts this year, but walnuts, butter-
nuts and hickorynuts ave scarce.
Rev. Robert Wright, rector of St.
John’s Episcopal church, has taken up his
residence at the Bush house.
—Philipsburg council has passed an
ordinance requiring the numbering of the
houses in that place, looking to the instal-
ling of free mail delivery.
the successful
applicant for the position of organist in the
Presbyterian church made vacant by the
resignation of W. T. Meyer.
——Miss Erma Smith was
——The remains of the late John IL.
Wilkinson were interred at Sprucetown
yesterday morning. He died at his home,
on cast High street, this place, on Wed-
nesday morning. Deceased was GS years
old.
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—Cap’t. Harry Simler, of the Philips-
burg police, brought a demented colored
man, by name Harry Carter, to jail on
Wednesday afternoon. He will be sent to
Danville in a few days. The man had
been in the employ of Mr. J. B. Childs, of
that place.
—The fellows who are hunting squir-
rels and venning rabbits with dogs in this
vicinity are evidently not aware of the fact
that such game is not in season yet. If they
continue such illegal practices they will be |
rounded up, with a prompt jerk of the law.
All of them ave being watched.
——— Philipsburg is to have a new daily |
paper. It will be issued from the Bitumi-
nous Record office and will make its first ap- |
pearance on Tuesday, October 5th. The
paper will be called the Daily Record. R.
A. Kinsloe will edit it, with John Rum-
berger as associate and solicitor.
“Hal Pointer,” the famons pacing
horse, is thirteen years old now and is be-
ginning to lose his speed. He is owned by
sheriff Peck, of Clinton county, and was
campaigned hy Chambers, of Du-
Bois, who is handling Mart Garman’s
“Dolly Spencer’ also.
going nearly as fast as he did last season
and has been returned to his owner in
Lock Haven.
Jas.
— Because the management of the
athletic park at Williamsport wants 25 per
cent of the receipts it is probable that the
Lehigh--Bucknell foot ball game, scheduled
for that place on Oct. 23
Bucknell game, scheduled for November
13th, will be transferred to some other
city. Lock Haven and Sunbury are hoth
moving to secure the games. Why not
play the latter, at least, at Hecla park?
——The Centre Hall borough council
has awarded the contract for the new wa-
ter plant over there as follows: For fur-
nishing all equipments for aud pipes,
hydrants, fire plugs, valves and tittings, to
R. D. Wood & Co., of Philadelphia for $4,-
344.22 ; for putting in n:aing, trenching and
all work complete, outside of reservoir, to
H. P. Malone, of Hollidaysburg, for 51, -
872. No award was made on the reservoir
as the council has decided to build a small-
er one than was estimated on.
-Bellefonte was thrown into a fever
of excitement, on Wednesday morning, by
an alarm of fire. It was rung in from east
Lamb street, where the double frame house,
owned by Mrs. Mary Blanchard, was dis-
covered to he on fire. Quite a hole was
burned in the roof and garret floor, but be-
fore more serious damage had been done
the flames were extinguished. Former
sheriff W. Miles Walker occupies one part
of the house, but the other is unoccupied
and it was the part on fire. The fire is
supposed to have caught from rubbish
burning in the yard.
——In having lost Mi. and Mrs, B. C.
Achenbach and their interesting family of
boys, as residents of Bellefonte, we cannot
but feel enviable of lock Haven, their new
home. During their vears of life here all
of them were deservedly popular. The
bakery and confectionery which Mv. |
Achenbach directed was always stocked |
His candies. cakes, pies, |
with the best.
breads and had a reputation that
would follow him a far greater distance
than to Lock Haven. As a caterer he was
ices
always reliable and many a Bellefonte af- |
fair has been largely dependent on his
share of the work for its success. We
understand that he has already opened a
place in the Brown building, in Lock
Haven. where he wiil handle nothing hut
confectionery and fancy cakes, besides
catering and serving oysters and ices in
season. Anything that was purchased at
Achenbach’s in Bellefonte was all right
and we have no hesitancy in saying to the
people of Lock Haven that they may ex-
pect te find it the same at his store in their
city.
if jin.
*Pointer’’ is not |
THE GLASS WORKS
ed again for the winter, on Wednesday,
when the first blowing was made. Tt had
been expected that blowing would be be-
gun two weeks ago but a controversy as to
the wage scale delayed the work. In fact
the Co-operative company has just figured
in what might probably be the beginning
of one of the greatest conflicts in which or-
ganized labor has ever participated.
When the factory was about to resume
here the flatteners and cutters declined to
go to work at the wage rate adopted and
signed by the western wages committee of
the glass worker’s association. Up to this
season all skilled workmen about the glass
factories of the United States have heen
members of Labor Association 300, which
has been known as the strongest labor or-
ganization in the world. It embraces all
classes of skilled workmen about glass fac-
tories and protects their interests in such a
way that very few disturbances occur in
that industry. The flatteners and cutters,
however, while still members of the moth-
er organization, have lately come to the
belief that their interests have been made
secondary to that of the blowers and gath-
erers so that they have made another or-
their own wage scale. With this done the
flatteners and cutters at the Bellefonte fac-
tory refused to go to work under any other
than their own scale and then L. A. 300
stepped in to insist on its supreme right to
make the wage rate.
With the flatteners and cutters out there
was no hope of starting the factory and
Mr. St Peter, secretary of the national or-
ganization, came on to straighten out the
difficulty. He was met here hy 8. S. Cake,
president of the flatteners and cutters or-
| ganization, who had come on to urge his
members to stand out for recognition for
the new organization. Mr. St. Peter's only |
course then was to secure flatteners and
cutters who had not left the old organiza-
tion for the new one. This he did and all
of last week the town was crowded with
glass workers. Coming and going constant-
ly there were new faces among them every
day. Finally enough were secured to start
the factory here and blowing has been he-
gun.
| In order that Bellefonte people under-
| stand just what has been done, because
| they have been instrumental in starting
the factory here, secretary St. Peter has
made the following statement concerning
| the difficulty :
“The scale for the window glass workers
association that has been signed by the
Bellefonte Co-operative glass com pany is the
scale that was prepared by a majority of the
members of the western wages committee.
This committee is elected by the member-
ship at large of the entire organization and
is given full power to arrange and prepare
a scale that has been done and its report
has been endorsed by the executive
| board of the window glass worker’s associ-
| ation, by grand master workman, J. R. Sov-
board of the
lerign, and the executive
| Knights of Labor.’
“Every man employed at any of the skill-
ed trades in or about the works here is a
full fledged member of local assembly 300 |
K. of L.. and the fact of his showing a will-
ingness to abide by the ruling of the execu- | naces and has everything pertaining to the
| tive board is a proof of his fealty and love | trade.
rd, and the State- | {
for the mother organization.’ f
“President Vernes was in town, on Tues-
day, and heartily endorsed the actions of
the members who went to work here on
Wednesday and promised the financial and
morai support of the organization and |
his instructions to secretary St. Peter were |
to guarantee the members who have re- |
sumed work that the organization will |
stand with them so long as it shall last. |
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He was assured by the members of the Co- |
mittee and in case any other was made |
with any trade or trades, collectively or |
separately, that the scale prepared by the
western wage committee would he can-
celled.”
“It was also mutually agreed and under- |
stood that any member of the window glass
worker's association, whether a stockholder
in the Bellefonte Co-operative or not, that
refuses toabide by the decision of the major-
ity of the members will not be permitted to
work for the Co-operative at any future
time, if they can be prevented from doing |
so by the national organization.’
The unfortunate feature about this
trouble has been that one of the cutters,
Mr. Calhoun, is an eighth owner in the
Bellefonte Co-operative plant and as he has
cast his lot with the new organization of
course he will not be permitted to work hy
the old. He was notified to return to work
| under the western rate or debar himself
from future employment here. The notice
was served yesterday.
The factory has resumed with just doub-
le the employees, all around, that it had
last fire. Instead of a four pot furnace
| they have eight pots and will make just
twice as much glass. We sincerely hope
| that this little difficuity at the outset will
have no effect on the successful operation
| of the plant during the winter. The first
| blowing resulted in splendid glass.
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CORNELLY’S ATTORNEYS To ARGUE
| FOR A NEW TRIAL.—Among the twenty- |
nine cages on the docket for argument
| court, which begins next Tuesday, is that
| of James Cornelly in motion fora new trial.
| The assignments of error upon which the
l application has been made have al-
ready been published in this paper. Yes-
terday depositions were taken and next
week it will be known whether or not Cor- | having to work at other thin
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nelly is to have a new trial.
ganization for themselves and have made |
—After several weeks of delay the Belle- |
fonte Co-operative glass company got start- |
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STARTED AT LAST. |
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{ ly Spencer’’ M. B. Garman’s little pacing
{ the Lewisburg fair, on Wednesday, in three
| ors with Bellefonte over a second aspirant
made at
prising if he does not make an enviable
——Wheat has takena drop. The price
is down to 85 cents again.
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Miss May Pratt, of New York, is
Mus. Gilmour's new milliner.
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Col. I. J. Pruner has bought the
old Rothrock property, on Spring street.
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Joseph Woomer, of Olivia, Pa., has
been granted a pension of $3 per month.
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——Hayes Schenck, Howard’s new post-
master, will take charge of the office to-day.
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——Last Saturday E. R. Chambers Esq.,
presented Mr. John W. Stuart with the
commission that made him postmaster at
State College.
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Main street, in Centre Hall, is 1}
miles long, the longest street of any town
in the county.
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——The Lock Haven glass factory is ex-
pected to be in operation by October 10th.
It is to be a bottle factory.
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Cards are out announcing the com-
ing marriage of Howard B. Neff, of Romola,
to Miss Ida R. Leathers, of Howard. Miss
Leathers is a daughter of Mr. W. T. Leath-
ers. The wedding has been set for Oct-
tober 14th.
——Horace G. Keys, of Williamsport,
is minus a wife and four children. On
Monday Mrs. Keys took advantage of her
husband’s absence, as a Northern Central
railroad brakeman, and eloped with a
pugilist who had boarded with the family
until he paid no more hoard and was
ejected. As she shipped all of their furni-
ture to Philadelphia it is supposed that the
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| guilty couple fled to that city.
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——The closing of the United Brethren
church conference, in Altoona, was marked |
by the dedication of a second church in
that city.
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——Rev. D. B. Shuey, of Emporia,
Kansas, missionary superintendent of the
synod of the interior, will preach in the
Reformed church, in this place, morning
and evening, Sunday, Oct. 3rd. Rev.
Shuey is a relative of the Centre county
family of that name.
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——Next Monday night, October 4th,
the anuual election of officers and directors
for the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. will be held.
The meeting of the members will be in the
Association rooms and there will probably
be some entertainment features. Salvatore
DiGirazia, the Spanish premier banjoist,
was expected for a recital, but nothing
definite has been heard from him latel y.
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W. H. Miller, the Allegheny street,
tinner, roofer, hardware dealer.and granite
iron repairer, began business not so long
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Lor’s Wire HAs A MODERN PARALLEL.
—TFor several weeks the newspapers of the |
country have been publishing an almost |
incredible story of the fate that befell an i
Elk county farmer who had profaned God.
Because the weather did not suit him
and he wanted rain for his farm he took
his gun, one bright Sunday morning, and
rushing impulsively out into his orchard
pointed the weapon at the heavens and be-
gan to utter the most blasphemous oaths.
Immediately he became petrified in the
position of sacrilege that he had taken.
Not a muscle could he move and members
of the family, who discovered him there
later in the day, thought him turned to
stone. Tor two and a half days, the story
runs, he stood there like a statue in the
orchard, until it was finally decided to
build a shed over him as a protection from
the elements, for no one knew how long it
would last.
The occurrence caused the greatest ex-
citement in that community and all kinds
of stories were set afloat. They found their
way into almost every newspaper in the |
country and, of course, were not believed. |
In fact it seemed so preposterous that most
of the papers contradicted it afterwards |
and just as promptly accepted the refuta- |
tion as they had the story itself.
Dr. 0. W. McEntire, of Howard, has
placed us in possession of two letters,
however, that appear to be reliable and
they confirm the story of the remarkable
occurrence. They are from A. C. Quigley, |
postmaster at Instanter, Elk county, near
which place the offending farmer lives and |
as he is known to be a thoroughly respon- |
sible man there is nothing left to do but
believe what indeed is a modern parallel
of the awful fate suffered by Lot’s wife.
The letters are as follows :
Instanter,
O. W. McENTIRE, M. D.
Dear Doctor : Your letter of the 18th inst.,
received inquiring as to the truth of the sev-
eral different reports running through the
newspapers of your section of the State, con-
cerning a farmer being turned into stone. I
will say, in reply, that a man by the name
of Decker, living near here, is reported to
have had an experience of that kind, but
was in town yesterday looking very pale and
scarcely able to talk. He denics the allega-
tion. But there are different people here |
who positively claim to have seen him when |
he was in the position as reported by the pa-
pers. These people say that on occount of
some mysterious influences they were unable
to get close enough to make identification
complete, but they are positive that he was
the man. On the contrary Decker is very
quiet on the subject and absolutely refuses
*a., Sept. 21, '97.
| to discuss it.
| was supposed to have happened he was a
One thing is very apparent that before this
very profane man, but now he is altogether
changed, so much so, that one having known
him before would not now recognize him at
ago that any of you need be reminded of
the time, yet there must be surprise in the |
minds of those who visit his place at the !
extensive proportions it has assumed. |
From a very modest little beginning he has |
built up what is one of the most complete |
establishments of the sort in town.
Straight-forward, honest methods in husi-
ness, prompt and satisfactory work are
what have done it. He does all kinds of i
slate, iron and tin roofing and fits houses
with heating apparatus. He handles a full |
line of hard and soft coal heaters and fur- i
aad
WON AT THE LEWISBURG FAIR.— *“‘Dol- |
mare, won the inter-county trot and pace at
Her best
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PROBABLY ANOTHER BARNARD, —
Bellefonte is already on a fair road to no-
toriety as having been the home of an emi- |
nent sculptor in the person of George Grey
Barnard. He was born in this place, |
straight heats. time was 2:20.
operative, all loyal members of 300, that | having been the son of the resident minis- |
no written, verbal or other agreement would | ter here in 1863. Last Spring some of his
be made with any trade or trade’s except | work excited no little attention in the Sa- |
the agreement of the western wage com- | lon of the Champ de Mars, Paris, and his |
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exhibits there won him membership in the
Societe Nationale of Beaww-arts. He was
| born in the house now occupied by Rev.
| William Laurie and his mother was a sister
| of the late John Harris’ first wife.
Milesburg is in a position to divide hon-
for fame as a modeler. This, as his birth-
place, and Mileshurg, as his home, will fol-
low the work of William J. Potter with
the deepest interest. He is only a hoy,
just seventeen years old, vet talent is so
apparent in the attempts he has already
modeling that it will be sur-
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name for himself among modern artists, |
He is the son of John F. Potter, Esq., of
Mileshurg, and the bent of his artistic ideas
has found expression in numerous clay
models. The boy would secure ordinary
brick clay and after pounding it into the |
proper consistency he would shape it into |
very life like figures. They were so admir-
able in their execution as to attract the at-
tention of friends who have interested |
themselves in him and he has heen sent |
to take a course of instruction. |
Last Monday morning he started for |
Philadelphia, where he has entered the |
Spring Garden Institute of Design and will |
probably complete a course there. |
A really noteworthy piece of his work is i
on exhibition in the vacant store room on
the north-east corner of the Diamond. It |
isa bust of Napoleon, about double life |
size, executed wholly with his fingers. |
The material used weighs 300 1bs. and after |
digging it from the clay beds at Frank i
Wallace’s Milesburg brick yards he spent |
nearly two months pounding it into the |
proper consistency. Then he did most of |
the modeling by moonlight in an old shed, |
gs during the |
day. |
| ify your curiosity, I remain
letter Dr.
confirmatory account of the occurrence.
[ O. W. MCENTIRE, M. D.
| ted that part of the matter said about him is
: true. In respect to making the threat and
{ shed over him, he says that no attempt of
| the kind was made.
| day.
| can give this publicity in your papers, Doctor,
| practically clinched our claim that he is
all. Hoping that this explanation will grat-
Very truly yours,
A. C. QuiGLey,
Asst. P. M.
after this receipt of the ahove
McEntire received this second
Shortly
Instanter, Pa., Sept. 22, "97.
Dear Doctor :-~Since you have received my
answer to your letter of the 18th inst, I
have learned more concerning the matter
you wrote about. Decker has finally admit-
getting his gun and going out into the or-
chard and pointing to the heavens. He says
when he had the gun in position a feeling
came over him that would be impossible to
describe. The muscles of his whole body
seemed to be paralyzed. He could not
change his position. He tried to call for
some one to help him, but could make no
sound. There was but one person at the
house, that being but a small boy, and he, no- |
ticing his position, went toward him but
could not get within one hundred feet of
him. In regard to any one trying to build a
He was in the position two nights and one
He says that as long as he lives he will
never utter another oath, but will try to
serve his Maker to the best of his ability
from this time on. He says: “It wasa di-
rect warning from the other world.” You
as it will be an accommodation to us. Our
mail is literally overrun with inquiries.
Very truly yours,
A. C. QUIGLEY,
Ass't. P. M.
Co. B. AwAY Upr.—The report of Col.
Edward Morrell, inspector general of the
national guard of Pennsylvania, is most
gratifying to the friends of our own Co. B.
The Fifth regiment stands sixth in the
whole division, with a percentage of 95.29,
and Co. B stands third in the Regiment.
The company standing is remarkable
when it is considered that only recently
the organization was almost broken up and
the officers and men all are to he congrat-
ulated on the high position in the guard
that they have attained.
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MONSTER APPLES.—On Friday evening
William Hepburn, of Spring township,
the king pin of fruit growers in this section.
He brought eight apples into this office and
their aggregate weight was 9} lbs. The |
apples were of the Wolf-river variety and |
there were about three bushels on the tree, |
this being its third fruiting season. i
So far as heard from these are the largest
apples in the county and we won’t believe |
that there are any larger unless they are
brought in for us to see them.
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AUTUMN ARBOR DAY IN THE PUB-
LIC ScHOOLS.—Friday, October 22nd, will
be autumn Arbor day in the public schools,
at least state superintendent N. C. Schaef-
fer has declared that day as the one that
should be set apart as Arbor day.
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— The Lock Haven ball club has dis-
banded and most of the players have gone
to their homes for the winter.
— The sixth annual session of the state
council of the Pennsylvania Daughter's of
America met in Tyrone on Tuesday.
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$1,000 damages for injuries sustained from
a fall on a had side walk in Du Bois. The
only trouble with the walk was its slope.
It sloped away from the building in front
of which it was laid and the sleet on it
made it very slippy. The points developed
at the trial of the case showed that the
slope was too great for safety.
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Philip Eckler, of Jersey Shore, and
Aaron Bartges, of Loganton, have both
been arrested ; charged with having caused
the death of Annie Hauser, of Jersey Shore,
and her infant by an abortion. The death
occurred at Loganton, on September 15th.
Eekler produced $1,500 bail but Bartges
is still in jail awaiting the hearing next
Tuesday.
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Dr. E. J. Baird, a Lock Haven den-
tist, was walking across the bridge that
spans the Susquehanna river at that place,
on Saturday morning, when he was at-
tracted by a strange whistling sound, a
crack and a bullet dropping at his feet.
Some sportsman, who was shooting ducks
on the river, had aimed wide of his mark and
the dentist was just one step too slow to he
shot in the head.
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SHIN PLASTERS IN CIRCULATION. —It is
a very rare thing, nowadays, to see the old
fashionec “‘shin-plaster’’—paper money of |
small denomination—anywhere except in
curio collections. but one of Bellefonte’s
leading merchants received a remittance in
them yesterday morning.
Ab up-country customer mailed three
paper ten cent pieces and they were as
bright and fresh looking as if just new from
the press. The secret of their splendid
preservation was discovered in small holes
in the corners, which indicate that they
had been pinned on a collection hoard.
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News Purely Personal.
—Mur=. Charles Tripple, of north Thomas street,
is away visiting relatives at Lewisburg and Sun-
bury.
—Christ Beezet went t Patton, on Wednesday
morning. there to engage in the plumbing busi-
ness,
—Edward McGuiness left for Philadelphia, on
Tuesday morning, to enter the employ of the At-
lantic refining company.
—Mrs. Mary MeK Love and two of her children
were down from Tyrone, over Sunday, visiting her
brother, H. A. McKee and family.
—Miss Annie Roland, of Media, Pa., the guest
of Miss Mamie Keller, at the Haag hotel, for sev-
eral weeks, returned to her home on Monday
morning. :
—Mrs. James N, Lane and Richard went back
to their home in Philadelphia, on Tuesday morn-
ing, after a summer pleasantly spent with rela-
tives in this place,
—Mr. and Mrs, Harry Yerszer and family, of
north Spring street, are moving to Howard, where
their son Oscar is employed in the Howard ma-
chine shops.
—Mr. George T. Brew, of Brew Mawr Millis,
Md., ix in town on a short business trip. Mrs.
Brew is expected the latter part of the week and
will visit her parents here for some time.
—Among the Bellefonters who are enjoying the
sights at the Lewishurg fair, this week, are Mrs.
S. H. Williams and Mrs, S. E. Satterfield. They
expect to extend their trip to Philadelphia.
—Mrs. Morris, her two grand children, Margaret
and Morris Woods, Miss Mary Blanchard, and
their retinue of servants, horses, dogs and carts
left, Monday, for Overbrook, Mrs. Morris’ winter |
home,
—Edward Irvin and his bride came down from
Tyrone, Saturday, to spend Sunday with his broth-
er, L. C. in this place, Mrs. frvin
pleased that she will remain for a
days, but Ed. went back on Monday.
was so well
week or ten
—Mrs. Adolph Loeb left Bellefonte, on Tues- |
Though no i
day, to visit relatives in Danville.
longer her home she still cherishes fondness
for this place and in her many years of residence
here she formed friendships that will prove last- |
ing and true no matter where she may go.
—William P. Duncan. of Philipsburg, spent
Wednesday night in Bellefonte, the guest of Mr.
W. R. Jenkins, on High street. Mr. Duncan aud |
Mr. Jenkins were formerly partners in business |
before the Jenkins and Lingle foundry and ma-
chine shops evolved from Wm. P. Dnnean and }
Co.
—Prof. Alfred Bierly, the well known Chicago |
publisher and composer, is in this county for a
short visit among relatives at his old home in
Brush-valley.
choral music is fast gaining that popularity that
is always merits’ reward. He is one of the largest
individual publishers in America and is meeting
with marked success,
—Professor and Mrs, E. E.
on Tuesday, on their way to Chicago.
just returning from Europe where the Professor
had been sent hy Chicago University to look up
some musenn: curios. He will he remembered
as head of the preparatory department at State
College, two years ago, and it was to visit his
friends there that he stopped off.
—Harry Fenlon, who has had so much to do
with making the Bush house the popular resort |
that it undeniably is, was oft to Ebensburg, over
Sunday, to visit his venerable parents,
Fenlon Exq., Harry's father, is the oldest practi-
tioner at the Cambria county har and only last
summer they made quite a demonstration up
there over his fiftieth anniversary as a lawyer
there.
—The Rodgers family i= one of the many that
has lately decided to move away front Bellefonte.
Since the death of Mr, George Rodgers, Clarence,
the youngest son, has heen the main-stay of the
mother and sister Nellie, Now that he has per-
manent employment in Pittsburg they have re- |
gretfully decided tn veal the ties of a life time |
and move to the Smoky city. A farewell party
1s given at their home, on Monday evening,
and within a week one of Bellefonte's old fami-
lies will have disappeared completely.
—H. Walton Mitchell Esq., of Pittsburg, was in
town for a few hours on Wednesday and went off
home leaving a bag of apples in this office, which
| one of his friends at State College had presented
him with. We don't know whether the forget-
fulness was intentional or whether he resented
such an impatation that he isn't making enough
at the law to keep the wolf from the door. At all
events we are in some luscious fruit and our
Pittsburg lawyer friend is ont a possible bhreak-
fast of hot apple sass,
Mis. Frank Beebe has been awarded |
Prof. Bierly’'s church, school and |!
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THE MYSTERY OF A STOLEN WATCH
Among the numerous burglaries that kept
Bellefonte police awake nights last fall
and sent many a family to bed shivering
with fear, was that of Mrs. Anna Wood-
cock’s home, on east Linn street. The
burglars had entered a number of other
| houses along that street the same night
and wound up at Woodcock’s, where their
work was so deftly done that no one was
disturbed and their visit was not discover-
ed until the next morning, when the house
was found to have been ransacked.
It was on the night of November 2ud.
Lee Woodcock had just gotten home from
the Medico-Chi., in Philadelphia, to vote
with his party the next day and the
| burglars carried off his trousers, $5 and
his gold watch. The trousers were found
in the alley near the Orvis home, further
east on the street, but nothing was ever
heard of either money or watch. The
watch was a very handsome’ gold one that
had been presented to Lee by his uncle
William Lee Woodcock Esq., of Altoona.
An inseription on the back of the case told
of its being a present and of its donor.
Almost a year has elapsed since it was
taken and this makes its recovery all the
more remarkable, for it has been recovered.
A few days ago Mr. Woodcock, of Altoona.
received an express parcel from Harris-
burg and in it he found the watch that he
had given his nephew. No word or ex-
planation or demand for reward accom -
panied it, and though the watch is again
in the hands of its owner the mystery of
its disappearance has been made deeper hv
the mystery of its recovery.
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DEATH oF Mis. JOHN 0’CONNOR.—Mix.
Della Kerin O'Connor died at the home of
| her mother, Mrs. Bridget Kerin, at Gilli-
landtown, on Sunday evening, September
19th. Deceased had suffered about two
years with pulmonary troubles and her
death, though expected, was sad because
of its occurring just in the full bloom of
womanhood.
April 8th, 1885, she was married to Mr.
John O’Connor, then an employee of the
Bellefonte nail works and they resided in
Bellefonte until the fall of 1894, when they
moved to Philadelphia, where John is em-
ployed in the federal customs service. The
development of her trouble was so rapid,
after leaving here, that last April it was
deemed best for her to return to Centre
county and she came to her childhood’s
home at Gillilandtown, but the disease was
too far advanced to he arrested and she
gradually sank away to a peaceful death.
Funeral services were held over her ye-
| mains in St. Mary's Catholic church, in
Snow Shoe, on the following Tuesday
| morning and interment was made at that
place. She is survived by her husband,
her mother, two sisters and two brothers,
While a resident of Bellefonte Mis.
O'Connor made numerous friends who are
sad to learn of her early death.
thirty-five years old.
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The friends in this community of
Ir. Edward I. Gilliland, the merchant at
Cataract, are sorry to learn of the death of
his wife. It occurred at the home of Dr.
V. S. Gilliland, of Karthause, on Sunday,
Sept. 18th. Mrs. Gilliland had been in the
best of health only the day previous, when
I she attended a picnic with friends. Nine
children are left to mourn with their
father.
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—Stanley Wilkinson, baggage master
and extra conductor on the Bald Eagle
valley railroad, died at his home, at Ker-
moor, early Monday morning, after a long
illness with typhoid fever.
Sale Register.
Oct. 2x0 —At 11 o'clock, a. m. at the residence of
Robert Confer, near Howard, horses, cows,
sheep, young cattle, shoats, Ete. Jos. I.. Nett.
Aue.
| Oc. 28Tit—At the Jacob Weaver
i mile north of Pine Grove Mills,
{ cows, blooded young cattle,
Sale ut 12:30 p. mn.
homestead, 1
horses, colts,
implements, ete.
Ocr. 23rp—At the residence of the late Wn, MM.
Adams, in Milesburg, household goods, two
horses, vehicles, heifers, hogs, implements,
ete. Sale at1 o'clock, p. m. Jos. L. Neff, Aue,
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Bellefonte i Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by Gro. W. Jackson & Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
| o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
| press:
| Red Wheat, old..
| Red wheat, new.
| Rye, per bushel..
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Corn, shelled, per bus
Corn, ears, per bushel..
Oats, per bushel, old..
Oats, per bushel, new
| Barley, per bushel.....
| Ground Plaster, per ton..
| Buckwheat, per bushel.
Cloverseed, per bushel.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
vorrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
| Potatoes per bushel. 40
{ Onions........... 50
| Eggs, per dozen. 15
i Lard, per pound.. 5
| Country Shoulder: 6
Sides, 6
Hams... 10
| Tallow, per pound.. 3
Butter, per pound.. 15
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