Democralic Waldpin.
Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 26, 1897.
CORRESPONDENTS.—NoO communications pub-
lished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——J. D. Shugert Esq., is improving his
home on Linn street.
——Simon Harper, of Centre Hall, is
reported to be quite sick.
——*““Little Trixie’’ comes to Garman’s
on Thursday night, December 2nd.
——The Reliance fire company of Phil-
ipsburg realized $800 from a fair that closed
on Saturday night.
——MecCalmont & Co., of this place,
presented each one of their employees with
a Thanksgiving turkey.
——John Daughenbach, of Port Matilda,
is 72 years old, yet he went out to the
mountain and shot a ninety pound deer on
Tuesday.
——Three cells in the Centre county
jail are to be lined with steel in order to
make them more secure. W. T. Hillibish
will do the work.
——Former county commissioner James
B. Strohm, of Centre Hill, cut the end of
one of his fingers off, the other day, while
shelling corn of his chickens.
——To-night the annual Thanksgiving
assembly will be given at the Pennsylva-
nia State College. A special train will be
run from this place to carry those who
wish to attend.
——Philipsburg is worried because the
citizens of Osceola are making overtures to
the Pennsylvania rail-road company to
have their engine house moved from Phil-
ipshurg to Osceola.
Associate judge Corliss A. Faulkner
is now rendering his last regular service on
the bench. His term expires Jan. 1st,
1898, and after that time Centre county
will have no associate judge.
Mike Lutsick, a Slav, was struck by
a train at the junction, near Osceola, on
Saturday night. His skull was fractured
and he will hardly recover. He was on bis
way to church with another Slav.
——Ben”’ Hunter, the rufus-headed
youngster who is the pride of former com-
missioner’s clerk, R. F. Hunter’s, home, in
this place, tumbled over the banisters, on
Saturday, and fractured his elbow.
—Saturday the Bald Eagle, Nittany
and Brush Valley Turnpike company filed
a statement in the prothonotary’s office, in
Clinton county, in which they appeal from
the $4,500 damages which the viewers as-
sessed in condemning that road.
——The Bloomsburg Normal school foot-
Tall eleven ‘‘rungin’’ a cork legged centre
rush against the State College team, last
Saturday, and big Bill Murray, State's
center, was knocked clear out. Bill isa
good player but when it comes to pullin’
wooden legs he would sooner saw wood.
——DMus. Carpenter, who is staying with
Mrs. Alexander, corner of Bishop and
Spring streets, has some exquisite fancy
work in the way of table centres, tea table
covers, doilies and cushions which would
make most acceptable presents for
Christmas.
——The Hale estate has brought a suit
in ejectment against the Central rail-road
of Penna., to recover for a strip of land at
the foot of Lamb street. It is about one-
fourth of an acre in the vicinity of the sta-
tion and the tracks and turn-table are
claimed to be located on it.
——Anna Maria, wife of George Bram-
gart, died at her home in Miles township,
on last Saturday, at the age of 68 years.
Deceased was a very estimable woman and
had been a life long member of the Luth-
eran church. She is survived by a hus-
band and nine children. Interment was
made at Brumgard’s church, on Tuesday.
——Former sheriff W. Miles Walker, of
this place, fell and injured himself severely
at Farrandsville, Clinton county, last Fri-
day night. He was walking across the
coal trestles of Fredericks, Monroe & Co.,
when he missed his footing and fell
through, injuring his back. He came
home, on Saturday morning.
——W. A. Hartsock, of Martha, had
seven acres of corn out that yielded 1,000
bushels and one acre produced 160 bushels.
The variety is known as ‘‘Clark’s Masta-
don.” The cob is red and grain is very
long and deep. Some of the ears were as
thick as his arm and had thirty-two rows
of seed. This corn is not as hard and flinty
as other kinds and the stock seems to pre-
fer it.
——Sixty years ago there were eighteen
distilleries in Penns valley. This year there
is but one. The Centre Hall Reporter
says : Going back thirty to fifty years ago
every farm house had a barrel of whiskey
in the cellar and the bottle was taken to
every hay and harvest field. Now you
can scarcely find enough of the ardent on
any farm to wet your whistle. Yet the
world moves, only there is not as much
reeling on terra firma.
——A Liberty township resident recent-
ly presented a certificate to the county
commissioner’s calling for a bounty on
twelve wild cat scalps. It was sworn to
before ’squire Schenck, of Howard, but the
commissioners were suspicious and would
not pay it. Later ’squire Schenck was
consulted and it was found that the cer-
tificate had evidently been raised from 2 to
12. Had the dishonest scheme carried
the county would have been mulcted of
$20, as the bouuty is $2 per scalp.
A Grorious DAY FoR MILESBURG
METHODISTS.—THEIR FINE NEW CHURCH
DEDICATED.—A more ideal fall day, a
brighter one more in keeping with the joy-
ous dedicatory services at Milesburg could
scarcely’ be imagined than last Sunday was.
Everything seemed propitious for the event
that was to mark an epoch in the history
of Methodism in that place.
The pretty new church that is the offer-
ing of her people to the service
of God was dedicated without a single
untoward feature to mar the pleasure that
all derived from it. It isa building that
would be a credit to any town and, as Dr.
Gray said, ‘‘its greatest beauty lies in the
fact that it will always be the welcome re-
treat of people of every creed, with the
Methodists merely the hospitable keepers.’*
The dedicatory services began at 10
o’clock Sunday morning. The church and
Sunday school room had been thrown into
one large auditorium and was filled with
people when the chior, under the direction
of Mr. Lyman T. Eddy, began the opening
anthem. Bishop Thomas Bowman, of St.
Louis, Mo., senior bishop of the Methodist
church; Rev. D. S. Monroe, presiding elder
of this district; Rev. Dr. W. A. Stephens,
of Bellefonte ; Rev. Dr. Edward J. Gray,
president of Dickinson seminary at Wil-
liamsport ; Rev. B. P. King, Williams-
port, and Rev. G. W. MecIlnay, of Pleas-
ant Gap, were in the pulpit. Bishop
Bowman took his text from Hebrew’s
13th and 16th and preached one
of those plain, convincing, beautifully sim-
ple sermons that have made him famous in
many countries of the globe. It was full of
reminiscences of his early days in the min-
istry in Central Pennsylvania and its effect
was seen in the eager interest with which
all present hung on every word of the
speaker.
At the conclusion of the sermon Rev.
Dr. Gray undertook to raise enough funds
to clear the church indebtedness so that it
could be dedicated. About $1,200 was
pledged at the morning service, but that
was insufficient and the formal dedication
was deferred until the evening.
At the regular hour in the afternoon the
Sunday school met in the old church and
marched, in a body, to their delightful new
quarters. The regular service was held and
then Rev. Dr. Monroe addressed the
school.
The evening! services began with the
Epworth League exercises, which conclud-
ed in time for the regular church meeting.
Rev. Dr. Gray delivered a most eloquent
sermon, the result of which was the in-
creasing of the morning’s subscriptions to
$2,014. A small deficit remained, but the
trustees assumed that and then bishop
Bowman formally dedicated the building
to-the service of God.
THE OLD AND NEW CHURCHES.
The Milesburg church is one of the oldest
in the county and dates back to 1818. The
first service were held in a blacksmith shop,
later in a barn and then the school house,
and the first church was erected in 1845,
it being the edifice in which the congrega-
tion worshiped until the present time.
Two years ago a movement was started for
the erection of a new church and a com-
mittee appointed of which the pastor, Rev.
Geo. E. King, was the official head. Rev.
King at once went to work and now has
completed one of the neatest and most sub-
stantial buildings to be found in any of the
small towns of the country. It is built of
brick. Gothic style of architecture. The
main auditorium is 40x50 feet with a
chapel 26x58 feet, attached, which ean be
thrown into the main room by folding
doors, the whole capable of seating. com-
fortably, 900 people. The corner stone of
the new church was laid August 2nd of last
year. The present membership is about
225, with forty probationers. The Sunday
school also numbers more than 250
scholars. The congregation has an unbrok-
en record for paying in full its share for
pastoral support and all benovolent objects.
Rev. King, the pastor, is a native of
Cameron county, and has been engaged in
the ministry seventeen years. This is the
third church he has been instrumental in
building—one at Benzette and the other at
Liberty, Tioga county. The first was a
$7,000 structure, the second $5,000, and
the church dedicated Sunday cost $6,600.
The building is located within a square
of the old church and fronts on the main
street of the town. The interior is pleas-
ingly attractive and in its effect is decided-
ly harmonious. The prevailing colors in
the decorations are terra-cotta and old blue
and the vaulted ceiling is so ornamented as
to make it an object of interest. An im-
mense old brass chandelier is pendant from
the central dome and its mellow light
illumines every part of the building in a
way that carries out a very artistic color
effect. The windows are all in colors that
blend nicely with the prevailing decora-
tions, and the carpet is in two shades of
brown. The wood-work throughout is
light oak.
The seating of the building is arranged
in a semi-circie about ‘the pulpit, which is
in an alcove in the centre of the west side
of the church. The choir box is to the
right of the pulpit and ends at the sliding
partition that separates the Sunday school
room from the main auditorium. The floc:
in the church proper is sloping to the
altar.
On the whole the interior is about as
pleasing in its appointments and effect as it
could possibly be and the church is cer-
tainly a great credit to the people of Miles-
burgand vicinity.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BUILDING
ITS BUILDERS.
The ground for the new church was
broken on the 2nd of June, 1896, hy the
pastor, Geo. E. King, and the corner stone
AND
was laid by Rev. D. S. Monroe, D. D.,
Aug. 2nd, 1896.
The building committee was Messrs W.
B. Miles, C. H. Else, J. D. Knarr, F. G.
Mattern, L. C. Bullock, Jr., and the pas-
tor. The architect was Rob’t. Cole, of
Bellefonte. Contractors for the carpenter
work were J. D. Knarr and John Confer,
of Mileshurg, Pa. Mr. Lew Wallace had
the brickwork. Mr. Samuel Williams and
S. H. Orris the painting. C. D. Rudy. of
Harrisburg, the frescoing.
The pulpits were built and donated by
Mr. Samuel B. Myers, of Central City.
Pulpit chairs were also built by S. B.
Myers and donated by L. T. Eddy.
The windows were given by the follow-
ing persons :
Auditorium. The large one infront to
the deceased members of Bald Eagle lodge,
I. 0. 0. F.,, No 410, by the lodge,
the large one in the northern end of
auditorium by the family of Rev. Geo.
W. Bouse and is to the memory of
Geo. W. Bouse and his wife, Virginia. The
twin windows above the choir loft were
given by Mrs, Jane Kitchen and are to the
memory of Joseph Kitchen. The twins to
the left of pulpit were given by Clayton
Poorman, of Tyrone, Pa., and are to the
memory of his father and sister, Robinson
Poorman and Myrtle Poorman. The one
over the pulpit was given by the ladies of
the church and dedicated to Rev. Geo. E.
King and his wife. The one to the right
in the tower vestibule was given by Mrs.
Rachael Like and is to the memory of Mr.
John Like. The one to the left is in mem-
ory of Thos. B. Taylor, a member of the
building committee of the old church, and
was given by his grandsons. The two in
the Sunday school vestibule were given by
Oscar Miles and dedicated to his father and
mother, William B., and Emma Miles.
The windows in the S. S. room are as
follows: The large one in front was given
by the M. E. S. S. and dedicated to L. T.
Eddy, the superintendent. The others
as follows: No. 1, presented by the Sen-
ior Epworth League; No. 2, presented by
the M. E. congregation of Unionville; No.
3, to the memory of T. M. and Uretta Hall,
by their children. In the infant room one
was presented by Mrs. Mary Snyder and
another by the Junior Epworth League.
The members of the choir on sabbath
were. L. T. Eddy, leader, Miss Ida Orris,
organist, Miss Bell Jones, Florence Orris,
Lorena Mattern, Mrs. Frank Eddy Zim-
merman, Mrs. G. E. King, Miss Mable
Orris, Grace Jones, Blanche Stonerode, Ber-
nard Green, Lane Boggs, James Campbell,
Frank Baird, Frank Campbell and Calvin
Zimmerman.
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Burglars stole over $800 worth of
jewelry fgom F. B. Painter, of Muncy, on
Tuesday hight, and to think, he was an
editor, too.
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——May Smith Robbins is an old favorite
in this place and will more than likely be
greeted by a full house when she comes to
Garman’s next Thursday night.
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——John Hines killed two pigs, at
Salona, on Tuesday, that weighed 9241bs.
They were only 10 months old, and dressed
5021bs and 4221bs respectively.
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——Clearfield county is going to have a
remodeled jail. The interior of the old
building will be torn out and new steel
cells put in, so arranged that the corridors
will be on the outside. The work will be
begun about the first of the year and while
it is being done the prisoners will be re-
moved to jails in neighboring counties.
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——E. W. Bigony, the Lock Haven man
who killed himself by shooting last week,
an account of which was published in the
WATCHMAN of the 19th, was the first pro-
prietor of the Bush house in this place.
He opened that hotel and after running it
for awhile entered the coal business here
with W. B. Rankin. He lived here until
1877.
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The foot ball game between the Penn-
sylvania State College eleven and the
Bloomsburg Normal school team, on Beaver
field, at State College, on Saturday after-
noon, fulfilled expectations in being excit-
ing. The visitors proved themselves just
about as much as the blue and white could
handle and only after the most desperate
playing were the Collegians able to win out
by the score of 10 to 0.
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——The farmers’ institutes for Blair
county are to be held next week at Tyrone
and Roaring Springs. At Tyrone the insti-
tute will be held in the armory of Sheridan
troop, on Monday and Tuesday, Novem-
ber 29th and 30th, and at Roaring Springs,
in the Lutheran church, on Wednesday and
Thursday, Dec. 1st and 2nd. For the Ty-
rone meeting H. L. Harvey, formerly of
this county, T. M. Fleck, A. G. Morris, H.
A. Gripp and T. L. Coleman are the mem-
bers of the committee. In addition to the
local talent Dr. William Frear, of State
College ; George Nox McCain, of Phila-
delphia ; Col. John A. Woodward and Hon.
G. W. Owens will be there as instructors.
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——Mis. Susan Gossler Pague has in-
stituted divorce proceedings in the Lan-
caster courts against lieutenant Samuel
S. Pague. The trouble began out at Fort
Sheridan, near Chicago, several years ago.
when the lieutenant shot at the colonel of
his regiment. He was court martialed and
dismissed from the army and since then
has been leading a dissolute hfe. Mrs.
Pague charges him with non-support, in-
toxication, carelessness of the payment of
his debts, threatening to break her wrists
and other misdoings. The whole affair is
most unfortunate for when the lieutenant
was stationed at State Coliege, '86-90, they,
seemingly, were most congenial and cer-
tainly had a pleasant home.
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BELLEFONTE RUNAWAYS. — Runaways |
from Bellefonte are not unusual. Scarcely a
month passes that some youngster doesn’t
get it into his misguided head that he is
not treading as rosy a path as he thinks he
was born to and determines to leave home
and friends to’ seek fame and fortune in
distant parts. Some of them start West in
a high fever of excitement over indians,
gold digging and ranch-life ; others strike
for the alluring cities ; none go for the
country, but all soon find themselves lead-
ing the knocked-about, cold potato dieted
life of a tramp and are glad enough to get
back to the homes they left behind them.
Bellefonte has had many such cases, but
her most exceptional one has turned up in
‘‘Benny’’ Schrock, the fourteen year old
son of Christopher Schrock, of east High
street. Some time ago he left a good home
and started off to tramp. After getting as
far away as Pittsburg he regretted his
course and the following account of the
story he told there was published in a
Pittsburg paper of last week.
Ben Schrock, aged 14 years, who says he
lives at Bellefonte, was a neonday caller yes-
terday on examiner George Hoffman, of the
department of charities, Pittsburg. He had
been advised to see Mr. Hoffman by some
charitably disposed ladies in the East End.
Young Schrock was a forlorn-looking little
fellow, and was the picture of distress as he
sat in the office and answered the questions
of the examiner, and pleaded for transporta-
tion to his home in the eastern part of the
State. According to the boy’s story, and it
was believed he told the truth, he was in-
duced to run away from home weeksago by a
friend named Barthurst. Hesaid they would
go to Pittsburg, where they had strikes, and
men were afraid to take the strikers’ places
for fear of being killed.
Young Barthurst told him they could make
name for themselves by ‘‘jumping in’’ and
going to work. The picture was painted in
such alluring colors that Schrock consented,
and the boys left home together. The first
night away from home was spent with a
number of tramps in a box car, about twelve
miles from Hollidaysburg. The men, three
in number, kept the boys for two weeks and
compelled them to beg for them as they
tramped over the country. When the boys
did not bring back good, wholesome
food, the men would beat them, and
they threatened to kill them if they
dared to tell anyone of whom they asked as-
sistance the story of how the men kept
them prisoners and compelled them to beg.
Finally, one night when the weather was
warm, the boys planned to run away and
while their captors slept in a stable, Schrock
and Barthurst made good their escape.. They
mounted a freight train and made their way
to East Liberty, arriving at the stock yards
some days ago.
A boy who worked about the yards took
them to his home, on River avenue, where
they had been until Tuesday night, when
the parents of Barthurst sent him money to
go home. Then Schrock wanted to go
back also, but had no money. After telling
his story to some kindly disposed ladies, he
was advised to call on the poor authorities.
Examiner Hoffman telegraphed to the
boy’s father, at Bellefonte, and asked him to
ray for a ticket to send the boy back home.
Young Shrock was probably sent on his way
XN oteing on one of the evening trains yester-
ay.
Ben arrived home, on Friday night, and
appeared to be thoroughly delighted at
being back with his brothers and sisters
again, but the young rascal had scarcely
gotten himself cleaned up until he was off
again.
On Saturday morning he piloted little
Jim Weaver, a son of George Weaver, and
Jim Mayhew, a little colored hoy, out of
the town and the trio started on the road
together. They went to Snow Shoe In-
tersection where they boarded a freight
train for Lock Haven. Upon reaching that
place they put up beside the warming fires
of the brick works and staid ahout there
until Monday, when it got too cold for
them and they struck for Mill Hall. There
conductor Hogue, oi the Central freight,
packed them into his caboose and they got
back here Monday afternoon ; Weaver and
Mayhew sadder, but wiser lads, and
Schrock still retaining that mysterious,
non-committal air that grieves his parents
so much and keeps them in a constant
worriment as to his next escapade.
George Weaver started after his son, as
soon as he discovered that he had run
away, traced them to the Intersection, but
went on to Tyrone and Altoona, thinking
they had gone west.
All of the boys have good homes.
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THE STRAW STACK COLLAPSED AND
BURIED SEVEN CATTLE.—The large straw
stack in the barn yard on Mr. Henry
Sampsell’s farm, near Pleasant Gap, fell
over some time Sunday night and seven
head of young cattle were buried under it.
Mr. Sampsell had been out to his barn at
nine o'clock, on Sunday evening, and
everything was all right then, but when
Charley, his son, went to do the feeding at
5 o'clock Monday morning he discovered
that the great stack had toppled over and,
worse still, that only two of the nine cattle
that he had left in the yard the night be-
fore were in sight.
Hurrying back to the house he aroused
his father and with the aid of a team of
horses and a hay fork they started to drag
the straw off the cattle. It was some time
before the first one was reached and when
it was found to be still alive they worked
with a renewed energy to uncover the
others before they had smothered. Six of
them were taken out alive, but the seventh
one, a fine young heifer, was dead.
All that had been lying close about the
bottom of the stack were living, but the
one that was dead had evidently started to
run away when the avalanche of straw
began, but was not quick enough to escape
it. They were wet a8 if just pulled from
a stream. :
Mr. Sampsell does not know what caused
the stack to collapse. It was not a windy
night and the stack had been built very
broad. Charley was the builder, so he will
have a problem to figure on before next
season’s threshing begins.
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Four Bic Pras.—John S. Holmes, of
Jacksonville, butchered four large porkers
one day last week. They weighed 483
1bs, 462 lbs, 437 1bs and 402 Ibs, respective-
ly.
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FELL FrRoM A TREE AND BROKE HIS| AN AFFLICTED FAMILY.—Last week
NECK.—The long chain of frightful fatali-
ties seemsas if it would never break and
this community is growing so accustomed
to their painful regularity that aside from
the sadness always occasioned by death
only a momentary interest is aroused, when
the details of some terrible accident in our
midst are made known.
Lawrence Shivery, the eldest son of
Harry Shivery, who lives about two and
one-half miles west of Bellefonte,
Buffalo Run road, fell thirty feet from an
old tree, on Tuesday morning, and broke
his neck. The lad had been in bright spirits
all morning and was getting ready for
school when his little brother Andrew told
him that he had seen two gray squirrels
run into an old tree in a ltttle strip of
woods, just west of the farm barn. To-
gether the boys went out to try and catch
the squirrels. Lawrence started to climb
the tree, which was an old one without any
limbs near the ground, and had reached a
height of about thirty feet, where he placed
his one foot on a knot. It broke off and
he fell to the ground, alighting on his
head.
Little Andrew, who is only seven years
old, ran to his brother and tried to raise
him to a sitting posture, while anxiously
asking him where he was hurt. No re-
sponse came to the child’s frightened ques-
tioning and leaving his brother lying in
the snow he ran to the house to get help.
Mr. Shivery hurried to the place and pick-
ed up his boy, but he must have been dead
even then, for he was carried to the house
without showing a sign of life other than
several gasps. Dr. Seibert was summoned
from this place. When he arrived he found
that his neck had been broken and his
skull fractured by the fall.
J. Lawrence Shivery was horn August
30th, 1884, and was the eldest of the
two children of the family. He was a
bright, pleasant lad and his sad death is a
grievous sorrow to his parents. Funeral
services were held yesterday afternoon at
the Shivery home, Rev. D. L. Jones, of the
Presbyterian church, and Dr. Stephens,
Methodist, conducting. Interment was
made in Myer’s cemetery.
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A MODERN FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.—
Were the shade of Ponce de Leon to steal a
pair of Cap’t. Paul Boynton’s water walk-
ing shoes orskirmish up the faith that held
Peter up on the surface of Gallilee, and
scoot off across the Styx for another explora-
tion in America he would not need to strug-
gle through the rank grass and sulphur
swamps of Florida in the vain search- for
the fountain of youth. He could come
right up to Centre county; take an L. and
T. train to Oak Hall and then a two mile
ride in a bus would land him at Boalsburg,
the metropolis of Harris township. Some-
where in that locality the spring must be
located.
The good people of Boalsburg are living
on in the even tenor of their way, apparent-
ly unconscious that they must have some
life giving font somewhere in their midst.
It is certainly there. Either in the water,
the air, or the shadow of the majestic
Tussey. There the scriptural length of
life cuts no figure, for many of the good old
residents have passed the three score and
ten period, ten or fifteen years ago, and
from present indications have no notion of
shufiling off this mortal coil and we can say,
very truthfully, we would be very sorry if
they had. The aggregate age of a dozen of
the residents of Boalsburg is one thousand
and nine years, or an average of over 84.
Jonathan Tressler, is 97 years ; David Stew-
art, is 85; Major W. H. Miller, 85 ;
James Price, 84 ; Mrs. Price, 82; Miss
Rebecca Sparr, 85; Daniel Bohn, 82 ;
David Keller, 82; Mrs. J. Weber, 84 ;
Mrs. John Carper, 81 ; Mrs. Catharine
Woods, 82 ; and Mrs. Jessie Moore, 81.
They are all hale and hearty and bid fair
to reach the century mark.
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——Rev. Samuel Creighton, of Mackey-
ville, is threatened with typhoid fever.
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——Lively dances, catchy songs and
exciting stage fun at ‘‘Little Trixie’ at
Garman’'s, Thursday night, December 2nd.
News Purely Personal.
~My. and Mrs. H. M. Krebs, of Pine Grove
Mills, spent Saturday in town, taking an ante-
holiday look at the stores.
—Hon. Willis R. Bierly, whois now with Rees
Welsh & Co, law book publishers in Philadelphia,
was in town, on Tuesday night.
—DMrs. Elmer Campbell, of Linden Hall, and
her little daughter Mary, were in town, Saturday,
the guests of Miss McQuistion. They were bound
for Tyrone, where they will visit for a week or
ten days.
—DMiss Elizabeth Blanchard is home from Bryn
Mawr to spend a short holiday season of rest from
her duties as an instructor in the Bryn Mawr col-
lege for women. Edmund came home with her.
He is a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
—One of our pleasant callers, on Saturday, was
Mr. C. W. Smith, of Howard. He gets to this
place very rarely, but is one of those gentlemen
who is not much given to ranning around, unless
he has business to take him away from home.
—'Toner Hugg, of Milesburg, spent part of last
Friday in this place. He is a son of merchant E.
Hugg of that place, and besides taking a little
hand in the sale of goods, is quite a fast bicycle
rider, a member of the Consolidated band and is
ust now chancing off a fine gramaphone.
—Mr. Washington Garbrick, of Fairbrook, was
in town last Friday to see his friends hereabouts
and look after some business that needed his
attention. Since he has moved so far away his
Bellefonte friends don't see him nearly as often
as they did when he managed the Reynolds’
farm, a short distance west of this place.
—Mr. Geo. W. Ishler, of Boalsburg, eldest son
of the late Samuel F. Ishler, was in town, on Fri-
day, settling up some of his father’s business.
He is a genial young man and from his frank,
open manner he must certainly make an admir-
able head for the family since the father is gone.
He has started off to do things right and in his
case we trust that the old saying that a ‘‘good be-
ginning is a battle half won” will prove true.
on the |
we published an account of the shocking
death of the late Joseph Fox, who had been
| killed by the cars on Race street, in this
| place, on Saturday morning, November
| 13th. It was truly an irreparable loss to
| his family, but proved the beginning of a
series of unfortunate occurrences.
| On Friday morning Mrs. Rose Fox, his
| mother, who lives at the son's home, trip-
| ped on the bottom of the basement stairs
and fell violently to the floor. She injured
her knee very severely and as she is over
80 years old her condition was quite ser-
ious for awhile, but at this writing she is
very much improved and will recover.
Helen, one of the little daughters of the
family, was stricken with diphtheria, short-
ly after her father’s death, and the house
is now quarantined by the board of health.
This was a particularly untimely misfor-
tune as it necessitated a separation of the
family and deprived the sorrowing ones at
home of any communication with friends
in the town. ‘She is much better now
though Dr. Harris reports the case as
baving been a ‘‘very marked’’ one.
Mrs. Fox has decided to enter suit
against the P. R. R. for $50,000 damages.
We
THE SKEWER FACTORY A SUCCESS.—
The plant for the manufacture of skewers
that has been in operation at Crider’s lum-
ber yards for some time promises to be a
great success. The machinery was de-
signed by Ira Robbins and built at the
Jenkins & Lingle machine works in this
place. The machines turn out skewers at
the rate of many thousands an hour and
have been working so satisfactorily as to
justify Mr. F. W. Crider’s statement that
it will be one of the most successful enter-
prises he ever went into.
F. W. Crider and Ira Robbins are the
owners of the plant and it is reported that
they have just landed an enormous order
from Swift & Co., of Chicago.
Skewers are the small wooden pins used
in fastening meat roasts together.
ae.
THE LADIES’ ‘SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AT STATE COLLEGE.—The ladies’ symphony
orchestra from Boston that will appear at
Garman’s to-night, as the third attraction
in the People’s popular course, has been
booked for a performance at State College
to-morrow night.
The concert will be given in the college
chapel and the entire company of twenty-
five people will be there, so that the peo-
ple of that community will havea rare
opportunity to hear a fine orchestra, with
high class vocalists and Marshall K. White,
the humorist. Admission 35cts. and 50cts.
Stl ay
CHANGE OF TIME TABLE.—The Penn-
sylvania railroad company announces slight
changes in the time table taking effect No-
vember 28th.
Train 4, from the West, will leave Mon-
tandon for the East and South at 1.22 a.
m., instead of 1.30 a. m.
Train “2, leaving Bellefonte at 2.15 p. m.
and Mo don 5.07 will reach Philadel-
phia 25 1,.0¥utes earlier, 10.20 p. m. This
will ad@gegatly to the popularity of this
train for ladelphia travel.
Notice.
On and after Nov. 15th, 1897, the Phoenix
Flouring Mill of this place, previously
operated by George W, Jackson & Co.,
will be operated by the Phoenix Milling
Co., composed of W. Fred Reynolds, J. L.
Montgomery and Curtis Y. Wagner.
Mr. Wagner, who for several years has con-
ducted Rock © Mills, has charge of th
manufacturing and a high class of flour and
feed is assured. .
The new company solicits a continuance
of the patronage which the mill enjoyed,
under its former management and will en-
deavor to give entire satisfaction to the trade.
42-44-tf PHOENIX MILLING CO.
Sale Register.
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.
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the Pu@~Nix MiLuing Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old... 85
Red wheat, new.. 85
Rye, per bushel... 35
Corn, shelled, per bushel.. 35
Corn, ears, per bushel...........cccvcereeneennineanns 35
Oats, per bushel, old..... 20
Oats, per bushel, new 20
Barley, per bushel......... 30
Ground Plaster, per ton . 800
Buckwheat, per bushel . a 25
Cloverseed, per bushel.. to $7 00
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel...........cccivunnniniiiiciinncnnns 60
Onions... circciscovssn vei 5
Eggs, per dozen.. 20
Lard, per pound..... 5
Country Shoulders.......coieunuinieninesacennieseanaenes 6
Sides... 6
Hams..... 10
Tallow, per pound 3
Butter, per poun 18
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