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Its Imevitable Effect.
The kind of prosperity that is reported
from the New England cotton manufactur-
ing districts is of a rather singular char-
acter.
No class of industrial operators had their
interests more carefully attended to by the
DINGLEY tariff makers than had the cotton
mill owners. Among the crowds of expec-
tant beneficiaries that thronged the room
of the tariff committee they appeared in
full force and were in no way backward in
making their demand for more protection.
To none was there greater deference shown
by the dispensers of tariff favors, for they
had contributed liberally to the campaign
fund which MARK HANNA had in charge
for the protection of American industry
and the maintenance of the nation’s honor.
Everything that a tariff could do for the
cotton mill interest was done, yet the
DINGLEY act has been in operation’ scarcely
four months when the following strange
specimen of industrial prosperity appears
as an item of news in the public journals:
FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 8.—At a gen-
eral meeting of the cotton manufacturers’
association to-day it was voted unanimons-
ly to reduce all wages in the mills of the
city, the amount and time of the reduction
being left to a committee, which for some
time has had charge of the matter. It is
understood that the cut will not be less
than 10 per cent., and that it will go into
effect on January 1. The cut will affect
28,000 operatives, who are paid an aggre-
gate weekly wage of $180,000.
It is rather soon for the DINGLEY tariff
to produce its inevitable effects, most of
which will come later on, the cotton indus-
try having been affected early. The ex-
portation of cotton goods has heen stopped
in a large measure as a result of DINGLEYs
protection, the shipment to Canada alone
having declined to the extent of millions
of yards since this tariff went into opera-
tion. The home market is already over-
stocked, and prices are such that work
cannot be continued without a reduction
of wages.
This is what is to be expected in every
line of protected industry. A repetition
of what was experienced under the original
McKINLEY tariff is to be looked for. There !
will be for awhile an appearance of pro-
ductive activity, but the home demand will
be soon supplied, an overstocked market
will be followed by reduced production, |
and the cutting of wages will be included
in the labor troubles that will attend such
a situation. ‘It will he tariff history re-
peating itself.
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Mr. Bryan in Mexico.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN is now traveling in
Mexico, and will have an opportunity of
contrasting the prosperity of our sister
Republic with that which we have in this
country of the DINGLEY variety, and also
observing the effects of the silver policy on
a nation whose career had been so long
retarded by civil disturbances.
It has been but a few years since Mexico
has had a government sufficiently stable to
ensure protection to trade and commerce,
but in that short time she has made re-
markable progress in industrial develop-
ment, and particularly in the extension of
her rail-road lines. Mr. BRYAN will be
able to see for himself, by local observa-
tion, how much of this progress is due to
her adherence to the silver standard, or
whether it might not have made more
satisfactory progress under another system.
Mention is made in the newspapers of
the circumstance that upon entering Mexico
Mr. BRYAN exchanged the $500, he had
with him in American money, for $1050 in
Mexican dollars, and this is alluded to as
showing the inferior cheapness of Mexican
money under the silver standard ; but no
doubt he will discover as he goes through
that country that each Mexican dollar he
shall pay out will purchase as much as an
American dollar would have enabled him
to buy ; in which event he will find that
he doubled the purchasing power of his
cash by doing business on a silver basis.
It may satisfy the gold-bug theory that a
dollar under the silver standard is worth
but 40 cents, but when it can do monetary
duty to the amount of a hundred cents
what's the odds ?
It More Than Holds Its Ground.
Immediately after the recent elections
and before the result in the different States
was definitely known, it was anxiously de-
sired by the goldites that the returns from
Nebraska should show a backset for free
silver. For nearly a week it was reported
that WILLIAM J. BRYAN had sustained a
reverse in his own State, and some goldbug
organs indulged in sarcastic flings at his
being defeated at home while he was med-
dling with the Ohio election.
Nebraska is a large State, with sparsely
settled distriets, from which election re-
turns come in slowly, but they are now all
in, showing that silver did more than hold
its ground. In 1896, at the presidential
election, the Democratic silver vote in the
State was 115,624, as against a Republican
vote of 102,564, a Democratic majority of
13,060. This year the vote was 103,302
Democratic and 90,222 Republicans, a ma-
jority of 13,080 for Democracy and free sil-
ver.
This result must be as disappointing to
the arrogant goldites as it is encouraging
to that popular element that has arrayed
itself against the goldbug design of estab-
agency of the gold standard. The cham-
[ the deep love he bore for his mother by
lishing a monetary despotism through the
pion of free silver has shown increased |
strength in his own State, while last year’s |
majorities for the gold standard have heen
cut down in all the States that gave their
electors to McKINLEY. i
——The Philadelphia Record Almanac |
for 1898 is the first to reach our desk and
in noting the fact that it is thirty pages
larger than it has ever heen we observe
that it is, as usual, filled with a fund of
information for every day reference. The
Record Almanac is, like the Record, itself,
full of the best.
—The Chicago Dispatch says that type-
writers are to be cheaper in 1898. From
the Chicago point of view we certainly
hope they will be. The last type-writer
reported from the Windy city had busted
a hank, and cost its president nearly $200, -
000. At that rate a little drop in the price
would be welcomed.
The Mother of the President is Dead.
It Was Early in the Morning That the Summons
Came to Her.—Funeral Services Tuesday, Were
of a Public Character and Held in the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church Where She Worshipped.—
The Pall Bearers Selected.
Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother
of President McKinley, died at 2.30 o’clock
Sunday morning, at her home in Canton,
Ohio. Mrs. McKinley was distinctively a
home loving woman, and the two-story
frame cottage on West Tuscarawas street,
in the city, where she died and where she
had lived for many years, was dearer to
her than any other spot on earth. There
she spent her declining days with her
daughter, Helen, and her grandchildren,
Grace and James McKinley, receiving occa-
sional visits from her other children, sel-
dom going out, except to church, where
she could be found every Sunday morning,
unless prevented by illness.
While showing a deep affection for her
other children, she had followed the career
of William with pride and solicitude.
With fond, motherly admiration she
watched him rise from the position of pros-
ecuting attorney of his own county by suec-
cessive stages to congressman, governor
and finally to the presidency. Daring the
memorable campaign of last year for the
nomination and afterward for the election,
Mrs. McKinley was one of the most inter-
ested observers. She was always given the
place of honor at the home of the illustri-
ous son, and on the day that his nomina-
tion by the St. Louis convention was an-
nounced she heard the news as soon as he
did. Then she said that although she ap-
preciate the honor given him she had al-
ways hoped he would be a Methodist
Bishop.
It was then Wllliam McKinley showed
kissing her as soon as he had received the
announcement of the result at St. Louis.
All through the trying campaign that fol-
lowed she watched after her son with deep
interest. She was a frequent caller at his
house and was greeted by many of the visit-
ing delegations of Republicans. She ac-
companied the President to the inaugura-
tion, riding in the special train, and re-
mained in Washington until Mr. and Mrs.
McKinley had become settled in their new
house. Then she returned to Canton with
expressions of gratitude at getting home
once more.
Nancy Allison McKinley came of a
family which was transplanted from Eng-
land to the hills of Virginia. The Allison
family subsequently removed to Greene
county, Pa., where Abner Allison, Naney’s
father, was born and where he married
Ann Campbell, of Scotch-German descent.
Early in the present century Mr. and Mrs.
Allison came from Pennsylvania to Colum-
biana county, in this state, traveling by
pack horses. In 1809, near the present
city of fisbon, Nancy Allison was born.
Her girlhood was passed on the farm and in
1827 she married William McKinley, a
young iron manufacturer. The couple lived
first at Fairfield and afterward at Niles and
Poland before removing to Canton. Nine
children were born to them. They were Da-
vid Allison, deceased ; Anne, deceased 3
James, deceased ; Mary, deceased ; Henry,
Minerva, now living at Canton ; Sarah
Elizabeth, now the wife of Mr. A. J. Dun-
can, of Cleveland ; William, the president ;
Abagail Cecil, deceased, and Abner, whose
home is in New York.
William McKinley, Sr., died on Novem-
ber 18th, 1892, aged 85 years.
Funeral services over the remains of Mrs.
Nancy Allison McKinley were held in the
First Methodist Episcopal church of Can-
ton at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. In-
terment followed in West Lawn cemetery,
just west of the city.
The pall bearers were selected from |
among the older members of the church
and those who for years have been close
neighbors of the deceased. They are :
Judge William R. Day, Hon. William A.
Lynch, former Mayor R. A. Cassidy, L. L.
Miller, W. W. Clark, Judge T: J. Me-
Carthy, Davis Zollars, former Mayor John
F, Blake.
At daylight Sunday morning, at the sug-
gestion of some of the older members of
the congregation that an old time custom
now almost obsolete be observed, to pub-
licly announce the death, the bell in the
tower of the church slowly tolling off the
years of her age.
President McKinley remained up until
about 3:30 o’clock, a little more than an
hour after the death, and then retired for
a few hous sleep. During the forenoon
he and his brother spent the greater part
of an hour walking about the more se-
cluded streets near home, securing much
needed exercise from the trying ordeal of
the past days, during which, except when
he went to Washington to attend the of-
ficial duties, he kept an almost constant
vigil at the bedside of his mother.
In the afternoon the President and Ab-
ner McKinley drove to West Lawn ceme-
tery, about a mile west of the home, to at-
tend personally to arrangements for the
interment, which will be made in the fam-
ily lot, where lie the remains of the hus-
band and father, and which adjoins the lot
which for more than twenty years has con-
tained the bodies of the two children of the
President and his wife, under carefully
kept mounds that are strewn with flowers
whenever the parents come to Canton.
Took the Oath of Office.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Robert A. Van
Wyck to-day took the oath of office as
mayor of Greater New York before justice
Fitzsimmons, in the city court, to assume
the duties of the office on January 1st,
898.
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THE NEW CHRISTIAN CHAPEL TO BE
Almost Unanimous.
The Great Strike in London is by no Means at an
End.
LoNDoN, Dec. 13.—The ballot taken by
the unions of the amalgamated society of
engineers is almost unanimous against ac-
cepting the proposals of the employers.
The ballot grew out of the formal con-
ference between the representatives of the
striking engineers and their employers,
which began on Nov. 24th, and after sev-
eral sessions was adjourned on Dec. 3rd
until Dec. 14th, in order to allow the dele-
gates of the engineers to submit to the
various unions the terms of the masters.
The employers, through their represen-
tatives at the conference have declined to !
recede from their position respecting free-
dom in the management of their business
without the interference of the unions and
emphatically pronounce against a redue- |
tion in the hours of labor on the ground i
that such a diminution would mean a
smaller output and inability to meet foreign
competitors. The general impression when
the conference was adjourned to allow the
ballot was that unless the unions accepted
these terms there would be a renewal of
the deadlock.
The strike began on July 13 last with a
lockout an the part of some of the engi-
neers, followed by the engineers calling out
a large number of men, until about a hun-
dred thousand engineers were thrown out
of work. The ostensible reason for the
strike was the question of payment for
overtime, and incidentally for eight hours
per day. The engineers have insisted upon
eight hours work and that all the overtime
must count as one and a quarter time for
the first two hours, and as time and a half !
after that.
Sanguilly a Traitor.
The Leader of Cuban Insurgents offers His Servi-
ces to Captain General Blanco. — At Cuban
Junta Headquarters It Is Said That the Man’s
Loyalty for the Cause of Freedom Has Been
Suspected.—Latest from Havana.
HAVANA, December 13. — It
nounced semi-officially that General San-
guilly, the insurgent leader, has written to ,
Marshal Blanco, offering his services un-
conditionally.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—At the Cuban jun-
ta headquarters and from other sources
here it is learned that Sanguilly’s loyalty
to the Cuban cause had been under suspi-
cion for some time, and that his reported
action in offering his services uncondition-
ally to General Blanco was by no means a
surprise.
Delegate Thomas Estrada Palma, how-
ever speaking for publication, said that he
could hardly believe that Sanguilly had
capitulated, but that he did not attach
much importance to the report even if
true.
A Cuban merchant, prominent among the
revolutionists in this city, said that Sap-
guilly was not likely togo ever again with-
in the insurgent lines and that whatever
action he had taken would have no effect
upon the insurgent leader still in the field.
Generally Sanguilly was in New York un-
til about a week ago.
HAVANA, Dec. 13.—Some of the richest
Spaniards of Cuba have held further meet-
ing here, at Cienfuegos and Sagua, to con-
sider the advisability of sending a petition
to President McKinley, asking for the es-
tablishment of a United States protectorate
over Cuba, if, within six months, the gov-
ernments’s plans for the pacification of the
island give no result.
Civil Service.
Members of the House Being Button-Holed on a Vote.
WASHINGTON, December 13,—The out-
look for changing the civil service law is
being actively canvassed among Republi-
can members of the House, as a result of
the conference held Saturday night. The
members of the special committee having
the matter in charge are trying to so shape
a bill that ic will command the support of
a number of divergent elements. One of
these is the Democratic minority, which,
combined with the Republicans opposed to
the present law, would be strong enough
to carry a bill. But in canvassing the sit-
uation it has been found that Democratic
members would favor a complete repeal of
the law but would oppose anything short
of a repeal. As the Republican movement
is not toward complete repeal, but rather
for modification of the law, there appears
to be no basis upon which the anti-civil
service reformers of both parties can unite.
It is claimed, however, that a modification
bill will receive the votes of two-thirds of
the Republican members and will have a
good chance of passing the Senate and re-
ceiving the President’s signature.
Philadelphia’s Big Fire.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.—The damage
resulting from last night’s fire at John and
James Dobson’s wholesale and retail carpet
sales rooms, 809-11 Chestnut street, will
reach a larger sum than was first estimated.
Over $800,000 in building and stock went
up in smoke during the fire, all of which
is fully covered by insurance. The losses
are divided as follows :
Dobson’s building, $60,000 ;stock, $500,-
000 ; Sharpless Brothers, adjoining Dob-
son’s on the east, $200,000 on building and
stock ; Commonwealth title insurance and
trust company, adjoining Dobson’s on the
west, $30,000, and W. H. Hoskins, sta-
tionery and fancy goods, 815 Chestnut
street, $25,000. Sharpless Bros. and the
Commonwealth company were principally
damaged by falling walls and water. Hos-
kins’s loss was by water. Fire Marshal
Thomson has not yet determined the origin
of the fire. The ruins smouldered all day
and were viewed by thousand of persons.
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DEDICATED AT HOWARD ON SUNDAY.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—J. C. Brachbill, of Penn street,
whose condition had been so serious as a
result of a severe attack of typhoid fever,
but who was convalescing nicely, suffered
a relapse, on Friday, and has been lying at
the point of death ever since. It is feared
that he cannot recover now.
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——The fine barn on the farm of Mis.
Lizzie Addleman, near Warriorsmark, was
totally destroyed by fire Thursday night of
last week. All of the unthreshed crops and
| farming utensils were burned. The loss
will aggregate $4,000 to offset which, there
was a partial insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
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——A projectoscope ang gramophone
entertainment will be given in the lecture
room of the Methodist church, on next
| Thursday evening, which will be well worth
| seeing. The pictures shown are so realis-
tic that they are a constant delight and
| surprise. Admission 25 and 15 cents and
if you go you will find you get your mon-
| ey’s worth, for there will be much to see
; and hear.
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| A Mitp or Corb WINTER, WHICH?
{ —Personally we haven’t paid much atten-
tion to the signs this fall and so won't
venture a guess as to whether we will have
a cold or mild winter. Some of the old
wise-acres have been observing, as usual,
and are fairly bubbling over with theories.
, Some say that the caterpillar having ab-
normally long hair and the rag weed being
, thick and tall are two infallible signs of
“cold weather, while other hoary locked old
know-it-alls have dropped in to say that
the squirrels didn’t store away many nuts
this fall and when they don’t make large
provision for winter you need never expect
a long siege of very cold weather. If there
is any virtue in this sign we would advise
you all to let your hammocks out under
the trees and keep your winter flannels
packed away in moth balls, for we saw
twenty-two squirrels this fall and not one of
“them stored away a single nut.—It was the
first day of the season and they all came
home in our game hag.
Other reasons for causing a preponder-
ance of belief that the winter is to be mild is
because the goose bone, which for genera-
tions has been used as the infallible weath-
er prognosticator, has not assumed its dark
lines, and fish worms, which usually bury
themselves away down below the frost line
at this season of the year, were recently
disporting themselves in the occasional
sunbeams.
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A CREDITABLE RECORD. — The Belle-
fonte Academy foot ball eleven have reason
to feel proud over their season’s work on
the gridiron.
| The team won four out of six games
‘ played, tied one and lost the other. The
; only game lost was to Philipsburg, at the
opening of the season, bui the Academy
1 boys evened things when closing the season
by defeating the only team they had lost to.
They were scored against only once and
have a total of 30 points to their oppo-
nents’ 10.
Their record during the season is as fol-
lows :
Academy v8 NOrmMAL......occeeciveinnnnereinessneenond 0—0
46 ‘“ Philipsburg...
! “ “ College Preps .8——0
i ¢ Normal ...... 10——0
i “ College Fre: 4—0
se ‘“ Philipsburg....... 8——0
Total................30—-10
The victorious foot-ball eleven enjoyed a
delicious banquet, at Ceader’s, on Tuesday
‘evening. The feast was given by Capt.
‘James R. Hughes as a fitting reward for
the conscientious and successful work of
| the team. After the physical nature was
satisfied, the intellectual was treated to a
feast in the form of ‘‘toasts,’’of which Capt.
| Hughes acted as master. They were re-
: sponded to as follows :
i J. R. Hughes, “In Union there is Strength.”
W. Gephart, “The Team and its Record.”
W. Sellers, “Our Colors and our Girls.”
“‘Garbrick, “The Game a Centre of Attraction
Among Sports.”
Kase, *‘Foot-ball from a “‘Sub.” Point of View.”
Twitmire, “Our Trips and the Fun We Had.”
Eldridge, “Sand and Other Ingredients of a
Foot-ball Batter.”
Musser, “The Trials of a Tackle.”
Blair, “The Weaknesses of Our Opponents.”
Bush, “To See Ourselves as Others See Us.”
Rev. J. P. Hughes, “High School and Academy,
—No antagonism—A Common Aim — Educa-
tion.”
J. Curtin, “A Fitting Climax." ;
At the conclusion of the speeches a note
of thanks was given to the captain for the
evening’s pleasure, the health of the team
present and future, was drunk, three rous-
ing cheers were given, the colors of gold
and white which had decorated the table
were divided up and the delightful occasion
was a thing of the past.
Was Too GAY wiTH His KNIFE.—Last
Monday morning George Conway and H.
T. Miller left Bellefonte to travel as sales-
men for an eastern installment house.
Conway had been employed as bell-boy at
the Brant house, in this place, for some
time, while Miller was an apprentice to his
father, Orrin Miller, the plasterer, of east
Bishop street. Both enjoyed good reputa-
tions at home, but it appears that they
have gotten into trouble at their very first
stopping place.
They arrived at Lock Haven, on Monday
morning, and registered at the Eagle hotel
as ‘“‘H. F. Miller, Philadelphia, and G. A.
Grumbaugh, New York.” They told the
proprietor that they were agents for an in-
stallment house in New York, and that
they expected several boxes of goods that
evening. They wanted boarding for an
indefinite time. They ate dinner and sup-
per, and in the evening Mr. Smith made
inquiries about their goods. He was in-
formed that the goods had not arrived, but
that they would surely get there by morn-
ing. They ate breakfast, and when they
went iu for dinner both were. under the
influence of liquor. After the man, who
registered as Grumbaugh, had eaten his
dinner he was called quietly into an ad-
joining room and was told by the proprietor
that as their goods had not come and as
they were drinking, instead of doing busi-
ness, they would have to give him some in-
surance that money for their hoard would
be forthcoming before they would get any
further into the hotel’s debt.
This remark of Mr. Smith angered Grum-
baugh, and pulling out an ugly looking
jack knife, he made a lunge with it for the
side of the ex-sheriff. Mr. Smith warded
off the blow with his right arm, but the
blade of the knife cut through the coat and
shirt sleeves and penetrated the flesh, leav-
ing a cut of about an inch in length. Fill-
more Summerson, of Hammersley’s Forks,
began talking to the enraged individual,
when Grumbaugh turned upon him and
sank the point of the knife through his
sleeves into Summerson’s right forearm.
A. T. Pifer then said something to Grum-
baugh, when the latter made a plunge for
the back of Pifer’s neck. Pifer ducked his
head towards Grumbaugh, thus escaping
contact with the knife, only the arm of
Grumbaugh falling on his neck.
Grumbaugh then ran into the waiting
room with the knife still in his hand, when
Nathaniel Smith kicked him two or three
times in the stomach. The blows stag-
gered him, but he managed to regain his
feet. He then ran out the door, where he
threw the knife away. Nathaniel Smith
and Mr. Summerson ran after him and
caught him, and an officer, who had teen
summoned in the meantime, appeared. The
officer, with the assistance of Mr. Summer-
son, then hand-cuffed Grumbaugh and took
him to jail, not without stn gles, how-
ever, as he resisted them at different
points on the way.
Harry Miller took advantage of the ex-
citement in the hotel to get away, though
sheriff Peck said, on Wednesday night,
that he was not” wanted. George Gram-
baugh or Conway, as he is better known
here, will be given a hearing this after-
noon.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES. —Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week.
John M. Ward, of Stormstown, and Min-
nie E. Meyers, of Armstrong Co.
B. F. Shaffer, of Spring Mills, and Lizzie
Styer, of Coburn.
George W. Eaton, of Blanchard, and
Serena Walker, of Romola.
M. D. Gentzel and Margaret Long, both
of Penn Hall.
Wm. E. Cox, of Spring Twp., and Sue
Rager, of Mileshurg.
Bre ott ein
THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CHRIS-
TIAN CHAPEL AT HOWARD.—The new
Christian chapel, at Howard, will be dedi-
cated on Sunday, December 19th. The
dedicatory sermon will be delivered by
Rev. C. W. Harvey, of Plymouth, Pa., at
10 o’clock in the morning ; communion ser-
vice will be held at 3 o’clock in the after-
noon ; Rev. F. E. Spooner, of Alda, Pa.
will conduct a song and praise service at
6:30 in the evening, and at 7 o'clock Rev.
Harvey will preach.
Roland.
Epworth league services at this church at
half-past six, every Sunday evening,
The outlook for sleighing at Christmas is
not at all encouraging, as the weather is
spring-like.
It would be very much to the credit of
some of our young gentleman who loiter
in the vestibule of the church, if they would
walk in and be seated.
Miss Amanda Barnhart attended institute
one day and was delighted with the proceed-
ings. Several in the community took in the
night lectures and were edified.
School is closed for the week. Our teacher,
Mr. Zeigler, is attending institute. The
thirteen teachers from Boggs township, are
there I presume. The ladies, of course,
have donned their new dresses and hats,
while the gentlemen are rigged out in new
neck-ties, and smiles for the opposite sex.
Most of our people are through butch-
ering. H. F. Keen carried off the prize
for pork dressing, as he has already killed
and prepared for use fifty-three porkers,
and is employed in that kind of work every
day in the week except Saturday and
Sunday.
Rev. A. P. Wharton preached a fine ser-
mon in Eagle Sunday morning. His text
was “The Master is come and calleth for
thee.” He read the comforting chapter,
the eleventh of St. John from which his
subject was taken and his attentive hear-
ers were much benefited.
The Eagle Cornet band discourses some
music now and then in the moonlight. Their
hall, at the end of the iron bridge, is used
for practicing. Its walls are adorned with
beautiful drawings executed by one of
their own number. Mr. Brooks, having a
natural talent in that line, should receive a
higher education in this beautiful art, as he
could fill a paying position. We think it
wrong to neglect the culture of such a gift.
Centre Hall.
Storm doors have been placed at the two
main entrances of the Reformed church.
The Reforms will hold a song service Sun-
day evening after Christmas, which bids fair
to he highly entertaining,
Jacob Lee, residing Just outside the bor-
ough, is seriously contemplating moving to
the John Bitner farm west of town, and
casting his lot with the tillers of the soil.
Among the juniors who are away on a
Christmas vacation are Misses Emma Wolf,
at Lock Haven ; Grace Crawford, at Lamar ;
Grace Boob, at Millheim and Harry Near-
hood, at Laurelton.
There promises to be the usual building
operations in the borough next spring. There
is considerable sparring by tenants to secure
houses, which isan indication that more new
houses will not need to hunt for occupants.
A number of new families will move to town
in the spring.
Cupid will put the last stroke on his work
at the Philip Durst residence east of this
place on Wednesday, 22nd, at 11 a. m., when
Miss Minnie Durst and George W. Condo
will be united in marriage, the ceremeny to
be performed by Rev. Eisenburg. There
will be many guests present on the occasion.
L. Ray Morgan, of State College, and Miss
Emma N. Kuhn will be married at the home
of the bride’s sister, Mrs. S. W. Smith,—and
your correspondent says no more, except that
the event will take place at 12 o'clock Thurs-
day, December 23rd, and that after the
Kreamer-Solly nuptials are over they will
leave on the west bound train.
Penns valley is flooded with cattle buyers.
Stock of all kinds is being bought up very
close, and very fair prices are being paid for
cows as well ‘as all other cattle. Hogs are
plentiful, and do not seem to be in
demand. A car of fat hogs and shoats will
be shipped from here the latter part of this
week.
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On the 28th and 29th a Projectoscope will
furnish entertainment in the Evangelical
church in this place, in the interest of the
Lutheran church. The Projectoscope is a
wonderful machine. It will show the latest
moving, life-like pictures of places and per-
sons, depicting many actual scenes in differ-
ent parts of city and country. Nothing of
the kind has ever been shown in this place
before. Admission, 10 and 20 cents,
Several new crossings are badly needed in
town. The one connecting the bank and
hotel can no longer be termed a crossing and
should be replaced by a substantial brick
walk. Hitching posts are also in demand as
there are not sufficient places in Centre Hall
to hitch enough of horses to furnish a respect-
able sized audience for a cock fight allowing
eight men to a rig.
Tne public roads in this county are simply
terrible and when the high road tax, an-
nually collected, is considered it is time for a
reformation. A vast proportion of the tax
is certainly spent injudiciously if not utterly
wasted. And while the apostle of good
roads, deputy secretary of agriculture, John
Hamilton, is telling the farmer's institute
how to make good roads, those in College
township, over which he passes daily wken
at home, are anything but good.
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The present open weather is favorable to
next year’s wheat crop. The wheat fields in
general through the valley are in good con-
dition. Ninety might properly represent
the crops standing, which is much above the
crop’s average condition. Fields sown as late
as October 1st, are making an excellent show-
ing. The farmer is giving thanks for all
this. Potatoes promise to bring high prices in
the valley by spring. There are very few
in market, and those who have more than
are needed for their own use are lucky.
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A man can best be quoted in his own words,
so here “Mr. aud Mrs. J. B. Kreamer invite
you to witness the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Mary Monica to David Atkinson Solly,
Thursday afternoon, December 23, 1897,
at half-past two o'clock, Reformed church,
Centre Hall.”
That is the way three hundred invitations
read sent out last week from the Kreamer
residence on West Church St. The Rev.
Mr. Solly resides in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
where he is pastor of a Baptist charge. He
is a graduate of Bucknell College. Miss
Kreamer is alsoa graduate from the same
school and is held in the highest esteem by
all who know her. Rev. S. H. Eisenburg
will perform the ceremony. The bridal
party will leave immediately after the cere-
mony for Virginia.
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There 1s a famine in water talk just now 3
everybody is,however, anxiously waiting the
first Monday of January which is the day set
for hearing argument on the injunction in
the supreme court, which at that time sits
in Philadelphia. The old water company
hoped that before the new year the borough
would make overtures to buy the company’s
plant, but it appears the authorities have no
such intentions, or never did have. The
stockholders and the management of the
old water company claim that their water
stock will, at some time in the future, be
worth something even if the borough water
plant is put in operation. This is based on
the supposition that the borough does not
have a sufficient water supply and that when
a drought sets in the only alternate will be
for the borough to purchase the old water
company’s spring.
In view of these statements given out by
those interested in the old water company,
your correspondent wishes to be put on
record as saying without qualifications :
First—That eventually the borough will
win in the pending water case.
Second—That the borough will not pur-
chase the old water company’s water supply
or fixtures.
Third—That the borough has a sufficient
supply of pure water to meet the demands of
the borough at all times and for all purposes.
What more is wanted ?