Bowral tian
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan 21. 1898.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
Ward Caucus Meetings.
The regular Democratic caucus meetings
for the. various wards of the borough of
Bellefonte will be held at 8 o’clock, Satur-
day evening, January 22nd, at the follow-
ing places :
For the North ward, in the law office of
Fortney & Walker. :
For the South ward, in the recorder’s of-
fice in the court house.
For the West ward, in the DEMOCRATIC
WATCHMAN office.
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——*‘A Breezy Time,” at Garman’s to-
night. :
——Corn and Bruce Garman are to take
charge of the Garman house after Al leaves
for Tyrone. *
——The recent fire in Milesburg des-
troyed the ballot boxes for that precinct
and new ones will be supplied for the Feb-
ruary election.
—Mrs. R. L. Dartt, formerly of this
place, left for Patton, Clearfield county, on
Monday, to take charge of her millinery
and fancy goods store, recently purchased
from Miss Alice Asheroft.
-——Benner Graham has announced that
he will be an aspirant for the Democratic
nomination for poor-overseer of Bellefonte.
Isaac Miller and Steele Hunter are both
after the Republican nomination.
——Joseph Rightnour, of the South
ward, has announced himself as a candi-
date for the nomination for the office of
over-seer of the poor, subject to the de-
cision of the Democratic borough conferees.
*‘A Breezy Time’ is brimful of fun from
start to finish. Fitz and Webster have
been seen here several times in the farce
and are general favorites with certain of
the theatre goers. At Garman’s to-night.
—The opera ‘‘Martha,”’ by the An-
drews’ company, at Garman’s, last Satur-
day night, was the musical event of the
season. The company was the strongest
and best balanced one that has ever sung
at Garman’s.
——The new steel cells are being put in
the county jail this week. The entire
second tier of the cells will be fitted up in
that way and the building made much
more secure than it is now. W. T. Hilli-
bish and Harry Rine are doing the work.
——E. R Chambers Esq., entertained a
number of fellow attorneys at dinner on
Friday evening. Among his guests were
former president judge A. O. Furst, judge
-John G. Love, C. M. Bower, D. F. Fort-
ney, J. C. Meyer, W. E: Gray, Harry Kel-
der and H. C. Quigley.
—Chief of the fire department Samuel
Meyers, John and Tom Meyers, of Lock
Haven, and Robert Meyers, of Flemington,
deft for the Klondike yesterday at noon
and passed through here at 1:05. They
will equip at Seattle then proceed to Dyea,
Skaguay and over the Chilcoot pass.
—Thomas Fitzsimmons, a Centre
county man, was arrested for drunkenness,
in Altoona, on Tuesday night. When tak-
en to the station house he assserted that a
bar-keeper had robbed him of $15, but
when he bad sobered up he had changed
his mind and said he hadn’t been robbed at
all and was released.
——While Charley Hasel, a son of Jared
Hasel, of Bush Addition, was pealing posts
on tbe farm of John Rishel, near Belle-
fonte, on Tuesday, his drawing knife slip-
ped and cut a terrible gash in one of his
legs. The knife penetrated clear to the
bone of the fleshy part of the leg, just
above the knee. He is confined to his
home.
——The personal property of the Valen-
tine iron company was sold at sheriff’s
sale, on Monday morning. C. M. Bower
Esq., representing Col. Jas. P. Coburn, for
Robert Valentine, bought the whole of it
at a price slightly exceeding $10,000.
This proceeding was simply a part of the
plan whereby it is hoped that the property
ean be gotten in such shape that Mr. Val-
entine can either sell or operate it.
——Maurice N. Trone is seriously ill at
the home of F. H. Cota, corner of Spring
and Howard streets. He had been threat-
ened with malarial fever and was speedily
removed from his rooms in the Y. M. C. A.
building. His brother-in-law and sister,
Dr. and Mrs. John A. Melsheimer, of
Hanover, came up on Tuesday. The former
left Wednesday, but Mrs. Melshemier will
remain until Maurice has fully recovered.
Yesterday his condition was extremely
dangerous.
: The lecture, last Tuesday night, by
Rev. Anna Shaw was far ahead of anything
that has been heard in the town this win-
ter. In comparison Sam Jones was coarse,
illogical and sacrilegious and the other less-
er lights as tallow dips to asplendid, clear,
noon-day sun. The size of the audience
alone gave away ‘‘the intelligence and up-
to-dateness’”’ of the community, about
which our people love to brag, and the few
men in evidence was proof of the state-
ment that if the newspapers, preachers,
poets and talkers do not soon take up the
new man he will be so far in the rear
that he will never catch up. Personally
Miss Shaw is pleasing, her voice beautiful,
so that with her rare sense of humor and
attractive wisdom she is a wonderfully
gifted woman and we hope if she is ever
here again she will have an audience
worthy of her reputation.
SUNDAY NIGHT'S FIRE A GRAND
S1GHT.—Bellefonte has had few more mag-
nificent sights than the fire that burned
the Atlantic refining company’s oil station
in this place, on Sunday night.
The alarm for the West ward was sound-
ed shortly after 8 o’clock when a small
blaze had been discovered at the outside of
the south-east corner of the Atlantic refin-
ing company’s oil house, on south Potter
street, this place. It was but a short
time until the department was on the
scene, but the building being of frame and
very inflammable the fire had eaten well
up along the end before the engines began
working. Then orders were given not to
£0 near the plant, as there were four tanks
containing thousands of gallons of oil and
a tank of gasoline that were liable to ex-
plode with disastrous effect at any mo-
ment. The firemen turned their attention
to properties along St. Paul and Thomas
streets, that were threatened by the shower
of sparks that were carried before the high
wind.
The oil house, left to the fury of the
flames, burned so as to make a magnificent
spectacle Great columns of fire swirled
up in the heavy oil smoke to a height of a
hundred feet and the occasional explosion
of an oil barrel sent a shower of sparks
heavenward that looked like myriad stars,
then the great tongues of flame would leap
and dance from the tanks as if conscious
that they were not to be disturbed in their
fitful fury.
Of the four large oil tanks in the build-
ing none exploded, because they had been
constructed for just such an emergency.
All had had weak fastenings for their caps,
so that when gas was generated in them
the caps, being weakest, were blown off
and the pressure relieved. With the gas-
oline tank, that held 200 gallons that
night, it was quite different. The gas-
oline is so volatile that the tighest kind of
a tank is required to hold it and it was
fully forty feet away from the building,
mounted again Half-moon hill. When
the fire became hottest there was a heavy
report and explosion and sheets of flame
were shot high into the air. The tank
had broken as square in two as if cut by a
machine.
The intense heat of the fire ruined the
oil tanks in the building. All but one of
them contained oil and about ten thous-
and gallons were burned. A singular fact
was the saving of about 2,400 gallons of oil
in the large tank. Though the tank had
burned for hours and was so hot as to be
warped badly, when the fire had burned
up everything about the place but the oil
a blanket was thrown over the cap on the
large tank and the flames smothered out.
The oil that was not burned is a little dis-
colored, but still burns with a fine light.
In addition to the oil station the pump
house of the Bellefonte furnace company,
adjoining, was burned. As the boilers and
engines in it have not been examined to
find out whether they can be fixed up an
estimate of the loss to the company has not
been made. The furnace company carried
no insurance.
The Atlantic refining company carried
no insurance and place their loss at $2,500.
Mr. Greenwood, of Williamsport, the repre-
sentative of the company was here yester-
day and was in consultation with Jos.
L. Montgomery, the resident manager,
regarding the immediate rebuilding.
It is the intention to build a barreling
house of brick, with an iron roof and
mount the tanks outside the building.
The old site will be used, if no objection is
made, and the work of rebuilding will be
begun at once.
There is little doubt that the fire was of
incendiary origin.
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LocAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHERS.—The local public school teach-
ers of institute district No. 2, embracing
Centre Hall and State College boroughs
and Potter, Harris, Ferguson and College
townships, will meet for their institute
sessions, at Boalshurg, on Friday and Sat-
urday, February 4th and 5th.
The institute will open Friday evening
at 7 o'clock. Rev. A. A. Black will make
the address of welcome and Sup’t. C. L.
Gramley the response. Dr. Martin G.
Benedict, of State College, will lecture on
the ‘Formation of Habits.”’
On Saturday morning Miss Katharyn
Kerr and Miss Caroline Hoy will recite,
while W. A. Krise, Jacob Rhone, Miss
Edna Krumrine, W. H. Roush, L. W.
Musser, R. U. Wasson, J. A. Williams and
Walter Kerlin will discuss the topics that
have heen prepared.
At the afternoon session, on Saturday,
Miss Bessie Walker, will be the reciter and
G. B. Snyder, J. F. McCormick, F. A. For-
man, J. B. Strohm, Miss Alice Dorworth,
Miss Hunter, R. B. Harrison, S. E. Goss,
D. K. Keller and J. L. Homes will discuss
questions of interest both to teacher and
parent.
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MEETING OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR
Assoc1ATION.—The prisoners of war asso-
ciation of Centre county will meet in the
rooms of Gregg post, G. A. R., in this
place, at 10 o’clock on Tuesday morning,
January 25th. Business of importance
will be transacted at the meeting. The
time has heen set for 10 o’clock so that
out of town members can come in on the
morning trains and get away during the
afternoon.
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Several weeks ago the WATCHMAN
announced that Rev. Robert E. Wright,
rector of St. John’s Episcopalean church of
this place, would probably résign owing to
the fact that our climate is too severe for
him. He has tendered his resignation and
Rev. Core, of Renovo, is here until a new
rector is called. Rev. Core preaches about
the soundest and most forcible, plain,
everyday, practical religion that has heen
heard in St. John’s in many a year.
——Renovo had only two fires during the
year 1897 and neither one of them was
disastrous.
RAE SI CRE
——John Wagner is hopeful of being the
Republican nominee for assessor in the
North ward.
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Alex L. Whiteman and sons, Will
and Frank, formerly of this place, have
decided to leave Piedmont, W. Va., and
move to Chicago. They had been in the
general mercantile business in the South.
— AAA eee.
——One of the most desirable and con-
veniently located houses on Curtin street
is for rent. It has all the modern improve-
ments, good bath room, reception hall and
is especially suitable for a small family.
Rent reasonable, inquire of Mrs. R. V.
Pugh, agent.
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——Tom Switzer, whose interesting tales
of his trials en route to the Klondyke are
published in the Philipsburg Ledger, will
be coming home some of these days to push
poor old Mrs. Rorer off the lecture plat-
form. He seems more concerned about
his bread and cookies than he does over the
possibility of finding gold.
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——Lyon & Co., are not going out of
business, nor are they selling goods below
cost, but are just now engaged in a legiti-
mate clearance sale that is intended to
move their enormous stock of goods in or-
der to make room for spring and summer
invoices. They have great bargains for all
comers and the bargains are comparatively
new goods, not shelf worn, faded goods
that are dear at half their cost.
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——Those who have seen ‘A Breezy
Time,”’ which will appear at Garman’s,
to-night, say that it is the funniest farce
comedy by all odds that has been sent out
this season. It was funny enough last
season, but since then it has been revised
and a number of new attractions have been
added to it. Miss Kathryn Webster, a
charming singer and a graceful actress, is
said to be specially well cast in the female
role, and E. B. Fitz, a comedian who is
noted for his comicality as well as for his
three hundred pounds avoirdupois, says
that he has the ‘‘part of his life’’ in the
present production. Comedians have a
way of saying this, and it remains to be
seen whether he is unintentionally exagger-
ating.
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——The young people of the United
Evangelical church will give an entertain-
ment in the church, on Willowbank
street, Thursday evening, February 3rd,
under the auspices of the K. L. C. E.
society, for the purpose of assisting to
liquidate the salary of a faithful and
worthy pastor. Admission 15, 10 and 5
cents. Doors open at 7.
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PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL. — The Y. P.
S. C. E. of the Mileshurg Presbyterian
church is making great preparation for a
winter tour of the United States, via the
Funville, Frolictown and Featherbrain
railway.
The society will be pleased to number all
its friends among the tourists. The train
will start from the parsonage, Rev.
Wright's, at 8:00 p. m. Friday, Jan. 21st.
Tickets for round trip, five and ten cents,
meals included. The itinerary includes
stops at most of the leading cities and
points of interest in the United States.
The social committee will be ready by 7:00
p. m. to welcome each and all.
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WORKMEN ON THE NEW COLLEGE BARN
tel, State College, was the scene of a very
pleasant evening, last Thursday, when the
twenty-one men who had been employed
on the new College barn were banqueted
by contractor Samuel Gault. The affair
was in celebration of the prompt comple-
tion of the building and of the faithful ser-
vice of the men who had been employed.
Mine host Carrigan and his good wife
had prepared a fine menu for the men, and
to say that they enjoyed it is but express-
ing it mildly. As is the case at all well
regulated banquets toasts were proposed
after the feast and contractor Gault, D. I.
Richards, H. Showers, John Carrigan, W.
I. Gilliland, A. Johnston and W. C. Pat-
terson made responses. Mr. Patterson had
had supervising oversight of the building,
for the College and during his remarks he
stated that in all his visits to the building,
during the progress of the work. he did not
hear a profane or harsh word spoken hy
any of the workmen. Rather a remarka-
ble and certainly a very creditable record.
The men presented Mr. Gault with a
fine hat.
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His EAR TorN CLEAR OFF.—John
Leitzell met with a terribly painful acci-
dent, at Scotia ore mines, shortly after
eight o'clock Tuesday morning and one
which might disfigure him for life.
He was engaged in running the ore cars
into the tipple and had one on which the
brake was working poorly. In his efforts
to get the car stopped, so that it would not
run clear through, he did not notice
another car that was following. It caught
him and jammed him between the side of
the tipple and the car, into a space scarcely
six inches wide. Mr. Leitzell is a large
man and was frightfully squeezed, though
he escaped without any broken bones.
The right side of his face was lacerated
in a painful manner and his right ear was
hanging by a mere shred of skin when he
was taken from the perilous position. Dr.
Kunes was speedily summoned and dressed
the wounds. He sewed the ear back to its
place and has hopes that it will grow on
again. He dressed it, yesterday afternoon,
| for the first time since Tuesday and found
its condition to be’ such as to give hope
that it will grow fast.
The injured man lives at Paradise, just
west of Waddle’s station.
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DEATH oF MRS. CHRISTENA KRUMRINE.
—Mrs. Christena Krumrine, relict of the
late John C. Krumrine, died at her home,
at State College, on last Monday night at 8
o’clock in the 74th year of her life.
Her death was not unexpected, as she
had been ill for months, suffering with
stomach trouble. Her family was at her
bedside when she passed peacefully into
eternity. Her christian life was made up
largely of service for the comfort and hap-
piness of others and her death, like her
life, was one of joy and peace. Like a
true disciple she worked quietly in the
vine-yard of the Master so that few knew
of her many kindnesses, other than those
who had enjoyed them.
Mrs. Krumrine was a Decker before her
marriage. She was born in Penn town-
ship and is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Geo. Krape, of near Spring Mills, and one
brother, Frederick, of Lemont. When quite
young she married Mr. Krumrine and soon
after they located in the ‘‘Barrens,’’ north
of State College, where their industrious and
frugal habits soon bore fruit in a fine farm
and comfortable home. It was there that
she spent half a century and reared a
family of nine children, all of whom sur-
vive but Mrs. M. D. Snyder. They are :
Mrs. D. M. Neidigh, Mrs. W. B.. Kem-
erer, Mrs. S. 8S. Grieb, John N., Adam, Ja-
cob and Christena, all of State College,
and Sidney, of this place.
Burial was made at Pine Hall yesterday
morning. Services were held in the Luth-
eran church, of which she had been a life-
long member, at 10 o’clock. Rev. C. T.
Aikens and Rev. Black officiated.
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SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—
Mrs. Epley Gentzel died at the country
home of Mr. Henry Gentzel, east of Belle-
fonte, on Friday afternoon. Her death was
a particularly distressing one and was
caused by troubles incident to maternity.
Mrs. Gentzel was a daughter of Herman
Miller, of east High street, and was born
in this place on the 28th of December,
1873. She had been a consistent member
of the Methodist church, besides being a
dutiful and loving wife.
Funeral services were held at 10 o’clock
Monday morning and interment was made
in the Zion cemetery.
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——After nearly a year’s illness Mrs.
Thomas Lesh died at Salona, on last Fri-
day. She had suffered with cancer of the
stomach and was 37 years old, leaving a
husband and two children to mourn her
death. Deceased was a daughter of Wm.
Johnson, of Rote, and a sister of Ellery
Johnson, the music teacher. Her remains
were interred at Cedar Hill on Monday.
——George Rogers, who died in the
county home, in Clearfield county, last
week, was born near Aaronsburg, this
county. He was 95 years old and an adept
at weaving straw baskets and shaving
hickory brooms. .
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——Charles J. Wasson, a well-known
Clintdn county farmer, dropped dead at his
home, at Cedar Run, on Saturday. Heart
failure is supposed to have been the cause
of his death.
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HELD FOR COURT. — Ardell Campbell,
the Bellwood boy who was brought to this
place, last week, on suspicion of having
been implicated, with Edward Woodring,
in stealing cattle from Jacob Woodring last
September, was given a hearing before
justice Keichline, on Monday morning,
and sufficient evidence was secured to hold
him for court.
Campbell stated that Woodring, who is
now in the reformatory for his mis-deeds,
had ‘hired him to help drive the cattle from
Jacob Woodring’s fields, near Port Matilda,
to dairyman McClain’s place, near Bald
Eagle, where they were sold. He impli-
cated his brother and another man whom
he did not know by saying they had helped.
The boy is only 19 years old and rather
good-looking. He was sent to jail for
trial. !
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ANTIQUE PUMPKIN PIE AND SWEET
CAKE.—We have no particular reason for
doubting the veracity of D.S. Erb, the
genial store keeper who supplies the wants
of people in the vicinity of Struble’s Sta-
tion, west of State College, but we sup-
pose there will be plenty skeptical enough
to blame our imagination for part of this
story.
On last Monday Mr. Erb celebrated his
66th birth-day and as side dishes to the
fine dinner that was gotten up for the oc-
casion he was served with pumpkin pie,
made from a two year old pumpkin, and
stuffed his ‘‘sweet-tooth' with cake that
was three score years old. The pumpkin
that lent itself to fattening up a good old-
fashioned pie was raised in 1896 and laid
in the garret of Mr. Erb’s home until last
week, when it was cut up and found to be
in perfect condition.
The sweet cake that was only six years
younger than Mr. Erb, himself, had been
baked by his mother, away back in 1838,
and had been stored away in an old chest.
Of course it was not as soft and toothsome
as it might have been the day it came out
of the oven but it was an antique bite, if
nothing else.
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THEY WILL ARRIVE EARLIER.—Ow-
ing to a faster train service to Lock Haven
liveryman Baum will be able to get the
Sunday papers here at noon, on Sunday,
hereafter, instead of four o’clock in the af-
ternoon. It is certainly very fast work
that sends papers the 265 miles from Phila-
delphia, including the 27 miles by pony
express between Lock Haven and Belle-
fonte, in nine hours.
——=S. M. Buck, whose condition has
been so serious for the past few weeks, is
reported to be on a fair way to recovery.
He is in St. Joseph’s hospital, Philadel-
phia. Last week it was thought that he
would not recover.
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—Mrs. I. N. Haupt, of Logan street,
returned from Philadelphia, on Wednesday
morning. She had been in the Hahnne-
man hospital to undergo an operation and
is reported to have been greatly benefited
by it.
——J. W. Alexander and J. Thomas
Mitchell have been appointed by the court
to continue the work on the corporation
index that was dropped when former re-
corder W. Galer Morrison became too ill to
attend to it. Mr. Morrison is improving
slowly.
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——Thirty-one members of the Lock
Haven lodge of Odd Fellows arrived in
town, last evening, to pay the Bellefonte
lodge a fraternal visit. They came in over
the Central at 6.10 and returned by a
special train at 11 o'clock. The visitors
were banqueted in Odd Fellows’ hall.
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——The many friends of John Kline Esq.,
of this place, who was taken to a Philadel-
phia hospital last week, to undergo an op-
eration for appendicitis, will be pained to
learn that a more careful diagnosis of his
case has revealed the fact that he has a
cancerous growth in the abdomen that has
involved all of his intestines. An operation
was impossible and it is reported that he
cannot survive long. A telegram, last even-
ing, announced the fact that he is getting
along nicely and will be home next Tues-
day.
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——Our good friend, the Rev. Hoo-ra
Lincoln Jacobs, of Tyrone, has been hav-
ing a great revival in his church lately,
but it appears that some of his congrega-
tion attended a social function where
there was dancing, during the progress of
his meetings, and he got after them a few
nights ago. He is reported to have an-
nounced that he did not want anybody
who had been there to take a conspicuous
place in his meetings. Instead of banish-
ing them to the back seats he ought to ‘do
them over’’ and do them well enough that
they will have no desire to waltz about on
their toes.
News Purely Personal.
—Samuel Brugger, Esq., of Unioaville, was in
town between trains yesterday afternoon.
—The Misses Mary and Annie Jenkins, of Mil-
ton, are guests at the home ot their uncle, Dr. E.
S. Dorworth, on east High street.
—Hon. James North and his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Jacobs, of Mifflin, are visiting at the hospit-
able home of F. W. Crider, on Linn street. ;
—On Friday Minnie E. Hoy and Mrs. Woods
spent the day very pleasantly at the inviting
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Meyer, in this place.
—Mrs Fannie Shugert, widow of Hon. S. T.
Shugert, has been visiting her friends here and in
Philipsburg. She will return soon to Bala, near
Philadelphia, where she now makes her home.
—P. H. Meyer, Esq., of Boalsburg, was in town,
on Wednesday, and after the transaction of the
business that brought him here had time to geta
line on county politics before leaving for home on
an afternoon train.
—Hon. W. K. Alexander, of Millheim, who had
been in town most of the week looking after the
interests of the Millheim and Capito! building
and loan associations, returned to his home, yes-
terday afternoon, having accomplished consider-
able.
—DMiss Lizzie Fry, daughter of W. H. Fry, of
Pine Grove Mills, has gone to Philadelphia for an
indefinite stay. Lizzie has made her home with
Mrs. W. T. Speer, on High street, for the last six
years and is so pleasant and good natured that
every one liked her and wishes her well.
—Mrs. W. W. Woods, of Mammoth Springs,
Arkansas, who had been visiting, Mr. and Mrs.
H. K. Hoy, and near relatives for the past three
weeks, departed, on the 1:05 train, Saturday, for
Pittsburg, where she will spend a short time
visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. 8. Peifer. From
there she will leave for her southern home. Mrs.
Woods is the youngest daughter of the late Henry
Hoy, only brother of H. K. Hoy.
—Mr. Samuel B. Leathers, of Mt. Eagle, spent
part of last Friday in town and dropped in for a
moment's chat. He was on his way to McCalmont
& Co’s., where he bought a wheel-barrow and a
sieve. The barrow was redder than a Bald Eagle
sunset and will cut a pretty gay figure on Mt.
Eagle streets. We didn't ask Mr. Leathers
whether he was getting ready to make garden,
but it looked a little as if he were.
—Benj. Kauffman, of Zion, is almost as familiar
a figure on the streets of Bellefonte as if he were
a resident of the town, yet don’t let yourself think
that he isn’t much of a farmer because he is here
sooften. He is one of the most progressive and
hard working husbandmen of Nittany valley and
the substantial manner in which he lives and
conducts his business is evidence that he has
made farming pay.
youngest squire in the county, was in town on
Wednesday on his way to the county grange meet-
ing at Hublersburg, but as the trains didn't run to
suit him he didn’t get any further than this
place. He seemed very much interested in the
painting of the street mail boxes that was going
on while he was here and approved of the depart-
ment’s having selected a color that looks so much
like “free silver.”
—Mr. J. A. Strunk drove up from his home near
Spring Mills, on Tuesday, and spent the day in
the pursuit of several business matters that need-
ed his attention. He is a saddler by trade but
just now is engaged in making the farm of post-
master J. D. Long, of Spring Mills, yield its best;
devoting his spare moments to sitting astride his
saddler’s horse and earning extras during weath-
er that he could not do anything on his fields.
Mr. Strunk is reported to be one of the prosper-
ous men of that vicinity.
—R. H. Kreamer, of Nittany, spent a few hours
in town, Tuesday evening, hetween trains. He is
a section foreman on the Central and rarely gets
up here because of the constant care that his posi-
tion involves. We suppose that all the track-men
on the Central have been congratulating them-
selves that the winter has been an open one, for
without so much snow they can keep their road
in better shape and not run the risk of having to
turn out most any time to help shovel one of those
big engines out of a cut that has drifted full,
—Mr. Henry Sampsell, of Pleasant Gap, was one
of our pleasant visitors, on Tuesday, and though
he did not come freighted with news, as was the
case the day he came in to tell us how mysterious-
ly his straw stack had toppled over on his sleep-
ing cattle, he was very welcome, nevertheless.
Mr. Sampsell is one of those men who has a great
bunch of interesting reminiscences at hand and
apropos of the spring election, next month, his
ludicrous side of being a poor over-seer is well
worth listening to.
—'8quire O. H. Nason, of Martha Furnace, the
QUITE AN OLD PAPER.—Hamill Boal
dropped into this office, Monday morning,
with a copy of the Aurora-General Ad-
vertiser, a quaint looking, five column, four
page paper published by William Duane,
in Franklin court, Market street, Phil-
adelphia, on September 18th, 1807. It is
a daily edition and the subscription price
is announced as having been $9 per annum.
Among the advertisements that are to be
found in the paper are notices of rewards
to be paid for the apprehension of runaway
slaves and bound boys, several cargoes of
ships just in from France and the West In-
diesand a number of lottery drawings. The
most surprising are these latter, for one was
conducted by the Fourth Presbyterian
church of Philadelphia and the drawing
for the prizes, ranging from $5,000 down,
was advertised to be held in the State
House. Another was called the ‘‘Lehigh
Navigation’ lottery and a third ‘‘the
Holy Trinity church lottery.’
To the person acquainted with the Phil-
adelphia of to-day it appears quite a joke
to read that a ‘‘lady at 50 north Front
street offers two modern rooms, in an airy
and central part of the city, to let.”’
It appears that in the theatrical line they
had ‘‘a laughable scene of the comic horse
and the clown,” the gigantic ox’’ and the
‘“‘matchless dancing filley”’ at the Am-
pitheatre on Centre square.
As a whole the paper is in a remarkably
good state of preservation. The print is
distinct and both press work and composi-
tion seems to have been good at the Ad-
vertiser office ninety years ago.
a
KorrscH Nor GuIiLTy.—Paul Koitsch
Jr., the Williamsport man, who was on
trial for his life in Lock Haven, last week,
has been acquitted of the charge of assault-
ing and murdering six year old Edna Krider.
The crime was a particularly henious one
and from the first excited considerable at-
tention.
The evidence against Koitsch was purely
circumstantial, but it looked very dubious
as to his being acquitted. He was sanguine
from the time of his arrest, however, and
when seen in jail, last Friday morning,
after the verdict of not guiléy had been
returned, he simply stated that he had ex-
pected nothing else and reiterated his claim
of innocence.
With his sister and lawyer he went home
on Friday. He bad been in jail six months
and four days.
— ode
——Jersey Shore has an electric light
company capitalized at $30,000 to which
a charter was granted on Friday.
Extremely Low Fees.
Book-keeping, including books, only
$15.00. Short-hand daily, lessons for three
months, $15,00. Penmanship, drawing and
painting correspondingly low at Nichol’s
school in Crider’s Exchange. 43-31t*
Sale Register.
The cxperience of those who have used the
Warcumay Sale Bills and “Register” in the past
has been so gratifying that we have no hesitancy
in proclaiming them the best advertising medi-
ums in Centre county for Public Sales. Within
the last few years a record has been kept of the
cash receipts and gross amounts of the sales for
which the advertisements have been left with
this office and in every case better results have
been reported than from corresponding sales ad-
vertised by other places. This spring the Warcnu-
MAN bills will be better and cheaper than ever.
Don’t think you can get them cheaper elsewhere,
for you can’t. You can get your bills done here
just as cheap as anywhere, you can get better sat-
isfaction, have your sale advertised better and he
fitted out with the necessary sale supplies When
your billsare printed at this office, you get every-
thing else for nothing: notes, sale supplies and a
notice in this column.
MaRgcH 3rp.—At Daniel Heckman'’s, two miles west
of Bellefonte, on the Brockerhoff farm, horses,
cattle, farm implements and household goods,
sale at 12, noon, sharp.
MARCH 81H. —At the residence of C. J. Stam, on
the Dr. Hale farm, at Oak Hall, horses, cows,
young cattle, hogs and sheep and a great variety
of farming implements as good as new. Sale at
19 o'clock, a. m. Wm. Goheen, auctioneer.
March 19m1.—At the residence of J. F. Garner, 1
mile north of State College, horses, cows, young
cattle, implements, household goods. Sale at
10 o'clock a. m., Wm. Goheen, auctioneer.
Marcu 21st—At the residence of John H.
Strouse, on the John T. Fowler farm, in Taylor
township, 13 horses, cows, young cattle, sheep,
hogs and farming implements. Sale at 10
o'clock, a. m. Wm. Goheen auctioneer.
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the PueNix MirLine Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press :
Red Wheat, old....
Red wheat, new
Rye, per bushel...
Corn, shelled, per
Corn, ears, per bushel
Oats, per bushel, old...
Oats, per bushel, new
Barley, per bushel..........
Ground Plaster, per ton.
Buckwheat, per bushel .
Cloverseed, per bushel...
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. *
Potatoes per bushel.
Onions vensie nes
s, per dozen
a per pound
Country Shoulders
Sides....
Tallow, per pound.
Butter, per pound
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $1.50 per annum (if paid strictly in advance)
$2.00, when not paid in advance, and $2.50 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 © | 9m | 6m | 1y
One inch (12 lines this type.............. $5 (88810
Two inches.......ceeienvineinnes wef T7110] 15
Three inches..........ccunuseernees we 10 115 1 20
Quart) Column (5 inches). 41212] 30
alf Column (10 inches). J 20 185 | 55
One Column (20 inches).....cceerinnnnnes 35 | 55 | 100
Advertisements in special column 25 per cent.
additional. a
Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions........... 20 cts.
Each additional insertion, per li ve
Local notices, per line..
Business notices, per li
Job Printing of every kin
and dispatch, The Warcuman 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