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Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 5, 1897.
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CorrEsPoNDENTS.—No communications pub-
lished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——An effort is being made to have a
cheese factory and creamery located at
Jersey Shore.
——Thomas Meyers bought John Rupp’s
Oak Hall roller mill, at sheriff’s sale, for
$3,400.
——There will be a bowling contest in
the Y. M. C. A. alley, on Monday even-
ing, at & o’clock, between the printers and
bankers.
——The Methodist ladies of Bellefonte
realized about $41 from their chicken and
waffle supper, served inthe Y. M. C. A.
rooms on Tuesday evening.
—Otto Reighard, of near Loganton,
husked 110 bushels of corn recently in one
day. He worked from six o’clock in the
morning until six in the evening.
—W. H. Musser, of Milesburg post,
inspected Gregg post, G. A. R., of this
place, on Saturday night. After the in-
spection the annual spread was laid in the
post rooms.
——The great Corbett fight will be fought
over again at Garman’s to-night. Every
move made by the pugilists, every blow
they struck will be reproduced by the faith-
ful verascope and shown just as it occurred.
——The first snow of the season fell on
Saturday morning, October 30th. The
flakes were very large and numerous for a
little while. Several beautiful rain-bows
arched the western sky on Tuesday morn-
ing.
Miss Phoebe Hoover, one of Phil-
ipshurg’s most competent school teachers,
is preparing to go to the Klondyke in the
spring. She says she intends staying in
the new Eldorado until she has made a
fortune.
——J. G. Harris, a well known Lock
Haven resident, died on Sunday afternoon,
with congestion of the lungs. He had on-
ly recently been appointed to a govern-
ment. position in Washington, the duties of
which were to have begun on Monday.
-——A Zulu shot gun in the hands of
Reuben Eisenhuth, at Poe Mills, exploded
and seriously injured him. The shell
and part of the charge came out behind and
struck him in the face For awhile it was
feared that his eye-sight would be injured.
—— Don’t forget, you people who want
to buy good horses, cows, cattle, imple-
ments or grain, that George M. Neff's big |
sale will be on Saturday, Nov. 13th, at 1
o'clock in the afternoon. It will be held
on the farm premises one mile north of
Mt. Eagle.
——Two young Nittany valley men by
the name of Beck drove to Lock Haven, on
Saturday night, and hitched their horse on
Vesper street. Hallow-Eeners made way
with both horse and buggy and the drivers
could not find them until Sunday after-
noon, when they were located in the Na-
tional hotel yard.
——To-morrow afternoon the Bellefonte
Academy and Lock Haven Normal school
foot-ball teams will meet on the glass
works meadow in this place. The game
will be called at 3 o'clock. There will be
plenty of excitement and a good game, no
doubt, for the last time the two teams met
neither side was able to score.
——The Pennsylvania State College foot-
ball team met defeat at Annapolis, Md.,
last Saturday, in the game with the U. S.
naval cadet team. The cadets scored one
touch-down, on a fluke, from which they
were unable to kick a goal. To-morrow
State will play at Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell
being her opponent.
—You are cordially invited to attend
the Wesleyan entertainment this evening
in the Methodist church given hy the ‘Ep-
worth League. In addition to some good
recitations, songs and papers, you will be
treated to a generous slice of apple pie, the
only feature of the evening not closely re-
lated to the subject.
——The Spring township school board
has taken the first official step in Centre
county toward enforcing attendance at
school, under the new compulsory educa-
tion law. A notice is published in this
issue notifying parents to send ali chil-
dren between the ages of 8 and 16 to school.
It isthe intention of the directors to’ en-
force the law, if possible. and in this good
work they should receive the hearty €0-0p-
eration of every law abiding citizen of the
township.
—That $15 cape that was reported to
have been stolen from Mrs. Fye, of Tyrone,
while she was waiting in the P. R. R. sta-
tion, in this place, for a train to take her
to Pine Grove Mills, last Thursday morn-
ing, wasn’t stolen at all. The lad y walked
out of the waiting room and left it on one of
of the seats. The porter at the station saw
the cape and put it in a place of safety un-
til it should be called for. When Mrs.
Fye returned to look for it it was gone and
she concluded that it had been stolen. |
——It has been announced that John P. |
Harris will sever his connection with the |
First national bank in this place, on Jan-
uary 1st, and accept che cashiership of the
Jackson, Hastings & Co., bank, across the
Diamond. Quite a little flurry was caused
when it became known that Mr. Haris |
would leave the old place where he has |
been for years. The rumor that Wm. P.
Duncan, of Philipsburg, is to come over
here and go into the First national can-
not be substantiated.
THE ToMB THUMB WEDDING. — The
“Tom Thumb Wedding,” given in the
armory. in this place, last Thursday and
Saturday nights, under the direction of the
ladies of the Reformed church, was a great
success. About half a hundred little ones
took part in the ceremony and it was car-
ried out with all the attention to detail,
that made it appear quite real. The gowns
were all en train and the little gentlemen
looked courtly in full evening dress. The
wedding cake, being cut by the youthful
bride, was sold in slices ai five cents a
piece. Miss Alice Tate, of Howard street,
was the finder of the gold wedding ring
on Thursday night and on Saturday it
was found by one of the ladies of the
church, but she does not want it known
that the significant little trinket fell into
her hands.
The following little people of the town
who made up the cast of characters were :
Master Lee Walker, Bessie Brouse, Earle
Bell, Chester Cronister, Paul Etters,
Lewis Lewin, Russel Campbell, Nettie
Bair, James Lose, Lizzie Smith, Mary
Weaver, Mary Smith, Richard Brouse,
Lena Lose, Eddie McKee, Helen Harrison,
Chas. Knapp, Helen Bair, Harry Dawson,
Florence Gherret, Hastings Gates, Merrel
Knapp, Ida Schrock, Lida Miller, Ralph
Struble, Florence Strunk, Nannie Schrock,
Ralph Cole, Ruth Garman, Hugh Etters,
Margarette Walsh, Ruth McCafferty, Willie
Wagner, Rebecca Hewes, John Rankin,
Grace Cook, Mattie Shutt, Leland Struble,
Emily Lewin, David Etters, Arthur Ger-
hart, John Lawrence, Nevin Wetzel,
Arthur Ward, Edmund Joseph, Helen
Moore, Marian Grauer, Lucretia Williams,
Louisa Brachbill, Nellie Conley, May
Brown, Elizabeth Orvis, Katherine Etters,
Adaline Rankin, Mamie McClure, Mary
Hicklen, Alice Lowery, Lottie Grenninger,
Martha McClure, Walter Rankin, John
Smith, Jessie Derstine, Lucile Wetzel,
Anna Harris, Raymond Jenkins, Dorothy
Jenkins, Marian Lewin, Edmund Lingle,
Marian Lingle, Helen Crissman, Esther
Campbell, Luella Ardery, Roxey and
Helen Mingle.
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THE DEATH OF JOHN W. MATTERN
OF PHILIPSBURG.—Philipsburg lost one
of her representative citizens, last Satur-
day, when John W. Mattern died. His
death was very sudden and occurred while
his wife was rubbing his chest with some-
thing to alleviate his suffering from asih-
ma. He had been ill only about three
weeks but had heen able to he around the
house and on Saturday evening had eaten
a hearty supper with his family. While
preparing to retire at 10 o'clock Mrs.
Mattern” was trying to inake him more
comfortable when, without the slightest
sign of the impending fatality, his head
dropped backward and he died.
John Wareham Mattern was born in
Franklin township, Huntingdon county, on
31st day of August, 1825, making him aged
| 72 years and 2 months. His parents were
David and Catharine Mattern. He was
the youngest of a family of nine children,
all of whom are now dead. He was unit-
ed in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Miller, at
Stormstown, on February 22nd, 1849. In
early life he taught school, but when still
a young man entered the mercantile
business at Franklinville, which he fol-
lowed until about 1867, when he became
identified with Philipsburg by associating
himself with C. Copelin in the lumber bus-
iness, under the name of C. Copelin & Co.
The firm afterwards hecame Mattern &
Miller. Since that time he served as post-
master, receiving the appointment on the
death of his son-in-law, R. D. McKinney,
and for awhile carrying on the drug busi-
ness left by the latter. Of late years he
has given most of his attention to the in-
surance business. Besides his wife, he is
survived by one son, Olin, and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. M. McKinney.
The funeral took place Tuesday after-
noon at 2 o'clock from his late residence.
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PARALYSIS KILLED HIM. — Paralysis
caused the death of John Confer, of
Logan street, this place, on Sunday, Octo-
ber 31st. He had been suffering with it
for over two years when it will be remem-
bered that he was stricken while feeding
his horses in the stable at his home. He
never recovered from that fully and was
practically incapacitated. In this condi-
tion of helplessness he went down to visit
his old home in Sugar valley, some time
ago, and on the 22nd of October he suffer-
ed a second stroke while there and a third
stroke followed one week later. It affect-
ed his throat so that he could not speak
and gradually spread, involving his entire
system and causing his death.
Deceased was born in Sugar valley, Dec.
18th, 1845, and was nearly 52 years old.
He bad been a teamster in Bellefonte for
many years previous to his affliction and
enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him.
Having served in the late war with credit,
his funeral, on Thursday morning, was in
charge of Gregg post, G. A. R., though de-
cedent was not a member of the post.
He.is survived by a widow and seven
children. Funeral services were held in
the Methodist church and interment was
made in the G. A. R. plot in the Union
cemetery.
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TWENTY-SEVEN CATS IN A ROBE.
—J. F. Hoy, of Spring township, was in
town, Tuesday morning, exhibiting a pret-
ty and what appears to be a very warm
robe which he made himself. Theskins of
twenty-seven domestic cats were used and
so nicely are they put together as to give
it a very striking appearance. Alternate
rows of black, maltese, white and tiger cat
skins run the entire width of the robe, be-
ing so joined so as to look like one piece of
fur. The whole back is lined with a pret-
ty piece of robing and the edges finished
with two rows of pinked flannel.
——Henry T. Jarrett, the Democratic
nominee for register and recorder in Clin-
ton county, was elected by a majority of
689.
Liens .
—Rev. W. H. Lingenfelter, of Phil-
ipshurg, has declined the call to the pastor-
ate of the Wolfsburg charge of the Metho-
dist church.
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——Bishop Bowman has promised to be
present at the dedication of the new Meth-
odist church in Milesburg, which is to take
place about the 21st of November.
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—Albert Richards, of Meadville, Craw-
ford county, recently drove the 225 miles
to Millheim, where he visited his uncle,
Geo. W. Cummings, for a week and started
on the return drive on Wednesday of last
week.
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——The Lock Haven Normal school foot-
ball team will play here on Saturday after-
noon. The Academy team will line up
against them and a good game can he
looked forward to. When the Academy
boys played in Lock Haven, a short time
ago, the contest was so even that neither
side could score.
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——The new public school building at
State College was dedicated, last Friday
afternoon, and the occasion was made a
gala day in the town. Most of the towns-
people turned out to the ceremony, a brass
band was on hand and there was plenty of
enthusiasm. Rev. Dr. Colfelt delivered
the oration. Prof. J. Price Jackson, Dr.
Gill and Dr. W. S. Glenn spoke on behalf
of the school hoard and county superin-
tendent Gramley was there to represent
public instruction. The people of State
College manifested an unmistakable in-
terest in the dedication. Their schools are
something to be proud of and they realize it.
Lobe: :
—P. R. R. telegraph lineman William
Killmun, of Tyrone, had a hair raising ex-
perience at the crossing of the Beech Creek
and P. R. R. tracks, above Philipsburg,
last Friday afternoon. He was on top of
a high pole pulling some slack wire when
the wire suddenly parted and he fell back-
ward. Fortunately he had his leg hooked
about the guy wire of the pole and hanging
by it he slid to the ground, a distance of
about forty-five feet. A few more ex-
periences of that sort and the ex-base ball
magnate of the old Mountain league can
take rank among the high wire acrobats of
the times.
—The verascope is a wonderful bit of
mechanism. If you have never seen one
£0 to Garman’s to-night and see the ma-
chine reproduce the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight at Carson City. It is wonderful in
the work it does, yet just as simple as can
be in its operation. When the fight was
taking place photographic films “of great
length were started rolling from one cylin-
der to another, passing a lens by which .a
proper focus on the fighter’s was secured.
The films moved at a high’ rate of speed,
the result being that many thousands of
_photcgraphs were made in a minute. In
fact they were made in such rapid succes-
sion as to take every movement of the
fighters. Now the principle is reversed,
the rolls are started running again and the
pictures thrown onto a screen by the same
principle that is involved in a magic lan-
tern. The pictures are life size and move
just exactly as in life.
2s easy
—The Bellefonte Academy and State
College sub-Freshman teams played a very.
pretty game of foot-ball on the glass works’
field, on Saturday afternoon. It was a
beautiful day and the boys played such a
clean, gentlemanly game that the large
crowd of spectators were more than pleased
with it. The Academy team was heavier
than the Collegians and went through their
lines for gains at nearly every plunge, but
they gained little in their attempts to
skirt the ends. The visitors played a snap--
py, determined game but fumbled . so
wretchedly as to lose the ball before having
a chance to show what they could do. , For
the Academy, Cummings, Otto, Blair, Cur-
tin, Henderson and Eldredge all played
brilliantly while Ewing and Foster did
the best work for the College boys. The
score resulted in 8 to 0 for the ‘Academy.
A touch down was made in each half, no
goals having resulted. :
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SHoT HIMSELF IN THE FACE.—David
Heickle, of Beech Creek, was cut hunting,
on Saturday, and pulling his gun up onto
a stump on which he was standing it slip-'
ped off and the hammer was caught. It
exploded the gun and sent a load of fine
shot into his face.
The flesh was terribly lacerated and Dr.
Tibbens found considerable difficulty in
getting the wound dressed.
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IT SINGS AND TALKS AS NATURAL-
LY AS IF ALIVE.—One of the most amus-
ing and entertaining bits of mechanism
that has ever been shown in Bellefonte is
just now attracting considerable attention
at George T. Bush’s bookstore, in the Ar-
cade. It is one of the new graphophones
that have lately been placed on the market
and differs only from the phonograph in
mechanism. Where the latter is ran by
electricity the former runs by clock work
and consequently can be operated any-
where, at anytime and by any person.
It sings songs, plays orchestra and band
selections, recites dialogues with all the
expression and charm of voice or instrument
and so loud that it can be heard for a quar-
ter of a mile in the open air.
The graphophones are very cheap. Mr.
Bush is agent for this territory and is kept
busy entertaining his ‘many callers nowa-
days.
FosTER’S MONTHLY WEATHER. — My
lust bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave to cross the country from October
30th to November 3rd and the next will
reach the Pacific coast about November 4th,
cross the west of Rockies country by close
of 5th, great central valleys 6th to Sth and
eastern States 9th.
A warm wave will cross the west of
Rockies country about November 4th, great
central valleys 6th, and eastern States Sth.
A cool wave will cross the west of Rockies
country about November 7th, great central
valleys 9th, and eastern States 11th.
For the week ending November 6th tem-
perature of the northern States will average
about normal, beginning with low and
ending with high temperatures. For the
same week temperature of the southern
States will average above normal.
For the week ending November 6th dry
weather will prevail in the northern States
and heavy rains in the southern States.
A cold wave will enter the upper Mis-
souri valley about November 4th and will
pass into the southern States causing frosts
in the cotton belt. The temperature will
go lower at Memphis than at Chicago.
The third storm wave of November will
reach the Pacific coast about the 10th,
cross the west of Rockies country by close
of 11th, great central valleys 12th to 14th,
eastern States 15th.
The warm wave of this storm wave will
cross the west of Rockies country about the
10th, great central valleys 12th, and east-
ern States 14th. A cool wave will cross
the west of Rockies country about 13th,
great central valleys 15th and eastern
States 17th. :
November will be a cold month east of
the Rockies, warm on the Pacific slope.
In the lower Mississippi valley, the south-
ern States east of the Mississippi and in the
New England States, temperature of the
month will average about normal. In the
Ohio valley, about the great, lakes, in the
upper Mississippi and the Missouri valleys,
in western Texas and the arid countries
east of the Rockies the temperature will
average below normal.
The rainfall of November will be below
normal in the northern States, about nor-
mal in the southern States and on the
Pacific slope. The least rain will occur in
the New England States and in the country
inclosed by a line running from St. Louis,
by way of St. Paul, Duluth, Lansing,
Columbus, Portsmouth, Cincinnati and
back to St. Louis.
In the southern States the temperature
will reach its highest point not many days
from November 4th, and then fall to its
lowest point about 17th. Near 21st or
22nd the temperature will reach another
high average and then go down ’til about
December 4th or 5th.
In the northern States the temperature
will rapidly rise from November 1st to
about 7th. A cold wave will come from
8th to 12th, followed by rising tempera-
tures.
Here comes in a notable weather event.
In the northern States very warm weather
will prevail not many days from November
21st and this hot wave will be followed by
a great cold wave not far from 24th.
This cold wave will affect all the coun-
tries of North America east of the Rock-
ies, but will be much more severe and
damaging -in the northern than in the
southern States.
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CouNcIL’s DoINGs.—Council met, on
Monday night, with barely a quorum in at-
tendance. Most of the time of the meet-
ing was taken up quibbling over the lay-
ing of the new crossings on the contracts
for which the Street committee parted com-
pany. Chairman Brachbill reported that
the Linn street crossing is too lo wand that
the West ward crossing is dished. Mr.
Shortlidge defended the crossings by stat-
ing that the former was made low in order
to avoid such a heavy pull on teams round-
ing the corner from Spring to Linn.
In the matter of the new are light for
Bishop. street, at Penn, it was decided to
hold it over for further consul tation with
the electric company when a rider was put
into the motion including a new arc light
for Willowbank street.
The Street committee was directed to lay
a new walk in front of the Undine engine
house, on Logan street. The Market com-
mittee reported the collection of $4.04.
.| President Hillibish was instructed to have
pictures taken of the new public building
in order to furnish newspaper men with
same. It seems to us that the less there is
seen of that building the less Bellefonte
will be laughed at, for if ever there was a
plain, positively ugly looking structure
Bellefonte’s new public building is one.
Bills to the amount of $625.50 were ap-
proved and council adjourned.
MRS. SAMUEL MCMURTRIE. — On
Thursday evening Mrs. Samuel McMur-
trie, of Coleville, died from the effects of
pneumonia which had developed from a
slight cold she had contracted about ten
days before her death.
Deceased was born at Roopsburg, this
county, March 10th, 1832, and was 65
years old. Her maiden name was Sarah
Switzer and she was very well known in
Bellefonte, where she had lived a long time
previous to her marriage to Samuel Mec-
Murtrie, Oct. 13th, 1880. Her good
works in the community will leave a mem-
ory of a conscientious, christian woman
who was kindly and considerate of all
ahout her.
Funeral services were held, Saturday af-
ternoon, in the Methodist church in this
place, Rev. Dr. Stephens having officiated.
Her husband and several step-children
survive her.
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——The great Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight
in all its thrilling realism at Garman’s to-
night.
—W. P. Young, formerly chemist for
the Valentine iron company, in this place,
is with the Davis coal and coke company
at Thomas, W. Va.
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——The post office at Salona was robbed,
on Saturday night, burglars having effect-
ed an entrance to the building by cutting
the putty away from the glass in the door
and removing it. They carried off $150 in
cashand stamps, a jar of chewing gum and
a quantity of cigars and tobacco. B. F.
Krape is the store keeper and post-master
and he thinks his loss will aggregate $180.
While there is no trace to the thieves, yet
there is one man suspected. This man was
seen lurking around Salona the day of the
robbery. He was a stranger, was about
five feet nine inches in height and weighs
about 140 pounds. He wore a cap covered
with oil cloth. The man or men broke in-
to the wagon maker shop and took certain
tools, with which, it is believed, the glass
on the door of the store was pried open.
The tools were afterwards returned to the
shop, but were not in their accustomed
places.
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——~Cap’t. Harry Simler, of Philipsburg
arrested John McMurry, in Altoona, last
Sunday morning. and he is now in the
Clearfield jail charged with having robbed
or having been an accomplice in robbing
Joseph Maxwell, a Smoke Run restaurant
keeper, of $800 in cash. McMurray stop-
ped at Maxwell’s house under the name of
Daun, a salesman from Tyrone, and when
he departed his host’s money, which had
been in a drawer in his bureau, was gone
also. Simler is after two other men who
are thought to have been implicated in the
robbery.
News Purely Personal.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rankin are here from
Harrisburg, visiting among their friends.
—H. E. Homan, of @ak Hall, was in town yes-
terday morning and made a pleasant call at this
office.
—Mrs. James Pierpoint returned to her home,
in Pittsburg, Wednesday afternoon, having ad-
justed the business that called her to Belle-
fonte.
—Mrs. John Noll and her daughter Roberta,
went to Philadelphia yesterday for the later to be
under a specialist's care at the Medico-Chirurgical
hospital.
—Mrs. Will Galway and her two children, of
Radford Va., are coming, Saturday, to spend the
winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry P.
Harris,
—Mrs, H. S. Cooper and her little daughter
Emeline, after a pleasant summer spent here,
returned to their home, at Schenectady, N. Y.,
yesterday morning.
—C. T. Gerberich, Bellefonte’ leading miller
and manufacturer of the famous “snow flake
flour, spent Sunday in Philipsburg, visiting his
daughter, Mrs. C. U. Hoffer,
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCormick, of Fergu-
son township, were in town Wednesday after-
noon ; Mrs. “MeCormick shopping and Charles
hunting up Democratic election news.
—Samuel Taylor, manager for Wilkinson's chi-
na hall, spent Sunday at New York. He went
east to buy new fall things in fine china and bric-
a-brac. The magnificent stock of the Wilkinson
store is really a feature in central Pennsylvania.
—Murs. B. C. Achenbach and master Earl, the
cute and restless youngster whom every one
knew when they lived here, were up from their
new home in Lock Haven to spend Sunday in
Bellefonte. While here they were guests of the
Misses Snook, on Spring street.
—Ed. Wasson, of Buffalo Run, was in town yes-
terday and dropped into tell us that the can-
nonading along the mountain has ceased and
that the people up there are living in peace
again, though a great many of them have to keep
daily watch on their turkeys to keep them from
becoming dead wild ones.
—Mr. J. J. Garbrick, of Spring Twp.,is one of our
esteemed farmer friends who teels so thankful for
prolific crops and good prices that he dropped in
here, Wednesday afternoon, and paid his sub-
scription pretty near to the beginning of the next
century. Mr, Garbrick is a man after our own
heart.
—Mrs. Roland Cheesman and her daughter
Katharine are here: from Washington, D. C.,
visiting at the home of H. P. Harris, on Howard
street. They were formerly residents of this
place and are having an enjoyable time with
their old friends. They are on their way home
from an extended visit in Ohio.
—County superintendent of public instruction,
Geo. W. Weaver, of Clearfield, spent part of
Monday in this place on business relative to the
sale of his fine farm and stock in Ferguson town-
ship. The sale, last week, was an unusually sue-
cessful one for a fall sale and should remind
everyone that the Warcuman bills and adver-
tising notices always result in big and money
making sales. : 3
—J. R. Pott Esq., eastern district passenger
agent of the C. M. and St. P. R.R., was in town
for awhile, on’ Wednesday afternoon, in the in-
terest of his road. Railroad men, as arule, are
as pleasant and courteous a'ot as ean be found
and Mr. Watt is a leader among them just the
same as the road he represents. is a leader among
western passenger lines, for speed, safety, com-
fort and picturesqueness of route.
Mr. J. J. Arney, of Centre Hall, was in town last
Friday attending to some business for himself
and settled up his accounts as treasurer of Grange
park, at Centre Hall. While he said the last
granger’s picnic had not been quite as much of a
financial success as they had hoped for there
were many encouragements with it. The large
attendance, fair weather, increased exhibits and
good order were all good fortunes for which they
were thankful
—Mur. Thomas R. Zeigler, of Rebersburg, was in
town again on Wednesday. This time he was on
legal business, having been made administrator
of the estate of Lydia Zeigler, of Miles township.
He is one of Brush-valley’'s leading contractors
and makes a specialty of brick work. He not on-
ly manufactures brick and contracts for houses,
but makes kilns for burning brick. Persons con-
templating building brick structures might do
well to have him build kilns for them and then
they would be in a position to make their own |
brick.
—Abe Markle, the State College butcher, was
in town, on Monday night, on his way home from
Pittsburg with a lot of fine cattle. He went out
on Saturday, with “Bill Lyon, of this place, and
Jas. Carner, of Hublershurg, and all three of
them brought in fifty-two head of killers and
feeders. We envy our State College and Hub-
lersburg friends the good time they must have
had traveling in such jolly company as our Belle-
fonte butcher undoubtedly made. While all of
Mr. Carner's cattle are for feeding Mr. Markle
brought most of his in in the finest condition for
marketing and the people of State College are
doubtless being served with delicious steaks from
them already.
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——Mrs. David Kerr died at her home,
near Centre Hill, on Tuesday morning,
after ashortillness. Her remains will be
buried at Centre Hall this morning. An
extended notice will he published in our
next issue. v
ove
—The Hawk Run girl who stuck a
hot curling iron into her eye, while engaged
in curling her hair, will have reason to re-
flect as to whether it paid to injure her own
eye in the hope of putting herself in con-
dition to catch those of other people.
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A CHANGE AT THE PHENIX MILL. —It
is quite probable that the Geo. W. Jack-
son estate will withdraw from the opera-
tion of the Phenix mill in this place.
Nothing definite is known as to what wil]
be done with the plant in such an event,
but it is ramored Col. W. F. Reynolds,
Jos. L. Montgomery and Curtis Y. Wag-
ner will take it and run it.
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HOLME’S STORE AT STATE COLLEGE
ROBBED.—The grocery store of R. C(.
Holmes’, at State College, was broken into
last Saturday night, and robbed of $3.50 in
cash and a bunch of bananas. So far as
has been noticed nothing else was taken.
The robbers gained access to the store
through the cellar, but no clue as to who
they might have been has heen discovered.
The work is supposed to have been done
by some one acquainted with the place.
Pl ep
A SHOOTING AFFRAY AT MILLHEIM.—
Dr. J. 0. Mohn was brought to jail here,
yesterday afternoon, by Constable P. Pp.
Leitzel, of Millheim, charged with shoot-
ing Will Huey, the cab driver for the
Musser house in that place. The phys-
ician and an old umbrella mender were
drinking together at the hotel Wednesday
when the former became abusive and
Huey asked him to desist. Upon his con-
tinuing his abusive tactics Huey is said to
have knocked him down, whereupon Mohn
drew a revolver and shot Huey in the hip.
Huey saw the weapon flash and quickly
turned about, avoiding being shot in the
abdomen. Probing has thus far failed to
locate the ball and the wounded man is in
a serious condition.
After the shooting Mohn went to his
home which was guarded by five deputies
to prevent his escape until yesterday morn-
ing when he was arrested.
He is a yourg man, married and moved
to Millheim, from Snyder county, about a
year ago.
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Prompt Payment,
Bellefonte, Pé )
BOURNE & Dick
‘a., November 1, 1897.
! 1, General Agents Penn
Mutual Li", 'fikiirance Co., of Philadel-
phia. an
Yentlemen' 2 NP have received, this day,
ftct agents, Mackey &
LiMYiiymsport, Penn’a., the
company’s check in full settlement of
claim under policy No. 19153, on life of
George W. Jackson, deceased.
Among the various companies in which
Mr. Jackson held policies of insurance the
settle the claim. The proofs of loss were
made out October 28, 1897 ; received at the
home office October 30th, and check in full
dated the same day. For such promptness
and expedition yon have our thanks, and
because of it and what we know personally
of the “Old Reliable Penn Mutual”? we
most heartily commend it to anyone wish-
ing standard insurance. ,
Very truly yours,
GEo. L. JACKSON,
GEo. T. BREW, Committee.
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Sale Register.
Nov. 13th.—At the residence of George M. Neff, 1
mile north of Mt. Eagle, horses, cattle, pigs, im-
plements and grain. Sale at 1 o'clock Pp. m.
Jos. L. Neff, Auc.
Dec. 1st.—At the residence of Shedrack Parson,
two miles: north of Unionville, Horses, Cows,
Cattle, Implements, Grain and Hay. Sale at 1
o'clock p.m.
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Bellefonte Grain Mariet.
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.........cccceoviinnnnnnn STR 85
Red wheat, new vet ot 85
Rye, per bushel...... out 35
Corn, shelled, per bus 35
Corn, ears, per bushel 35
Oats, per bushel, old... 22
Oats, per bushel, new 20
Barley, per bushel.......... 30
Ground Plaster, per ton. . 800
Buckwheat, per bushel.......c..oueeeereesoronienrss 25
Cloverseed, per bushel... ...86 00 to $7 00
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Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel
Dhions isons ys 50
s, per doz
Fon: per pound
Country Shoulders 6
Sides........ 6
Hams, 10
Tallow, per pound. 3
Butter, Per PoUNd........vcemenserereerrmenresnnns 18
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $1.50 per annum (1f paid strictly in advance)
$2.00, when not paid in a vance, and $2.5¢ if not
paid before the expiration of the year; and no
paper will be discontinued until all arrearage is
paid, except at the option of the publisher.
Papers will not be sent out of Centre county un-
less paid for in advance.
A liberal discount is made to persons advertis-
ing by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows :
SPACE OCCUPIED Im om | ly
PEL ees srpansed $598 810
i 7 8 15
One inch (12 lines this ty
Two inches.........
Three inches... cerersanes 10115 | 20
Quarter Column {a inches).. wel 12 1 20 | 30
alf Column (10 inches)..... | 20|85 | 55
One Column (20 inches)................ — 35 | 55 100
Advertisements in special column 25 per cent.
additional.
Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions........... 20 cts.
Each additional insertion, per line... 5 cts.
Local notices, per line............... ..20 cts.
Business notices, per line.......uee...rosseeiinns 10 cts,
Job Printing of every kind done with neatness
and dispatch. The Warcumax office has been re-
fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and
everything in the printing line can be ‘executed
in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.
Terms—Cash,
All letters should be addressed to
P. GRAY MEEK, Proprietor
Penn Mutual was the first to adjust and.