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Bellefonte, Pa., June 17. 1898.
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ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——Dr. Hibler was seriously ill yester-
day but toward evening a slight improve-
ment was noticed in his condition. He is
threatened with pneumonia.
——On Monday evening as Mrs. Margaret
Brockerhoff was coming out of the parish
house, where she had been calling on
Bishop McGovern, she slipped and fell
bruising her head and face terribly.
——Dr. Harry L. Carlisle, who left
Philipsburg last fall in company with Tom
Switzer and C. B. French for the Klondike,
surprised his friends Monday by arriving
home. The party had so many discourage-
ments that at Telegraph Creek he pulled up
stakes and struck for home.
——On Thursday evening June 23rd, a
missionary rally will be held in the lecture
room of the Methodist church by the mem-
bers of the Epworth League. Messrs Flegal
and Comer, of Dickinson College, will ad-
dress the rally and a collection will not be
asked for. You are cordially invited to be
present.
——LEfforts are being made to raise a
sufficient sum of money to erect a large
butter and cheese factory in this place. At
the present time nearly all the stock has
been subscribed and indications are that
the enterprise will be a success. The plant
will cost about $4,000 and is to be equip-
ped with the very latest improvement pro-
cesses.
——~Children’s Day in the Lutheran
church on Sunday will be of unusual inter-
est. In the morning the pastor will
preach a sermon especially adapted to
the children, and the rite of baptism
will be administered. In the evening
the Sunday school will render a héautiful
order of services. The church will he
handsomely decorated.
——The engagement of Miss Victorine
Lyon, daughter of Mrs. Estelle Lyon, of
east Linn street, and Dr. Alfred Gordon,
of Philadelphia, has been announced.
Miss Lyon has been with her sister, Mrs.
Lichten, in Philadelphia for several
years, but Bellefonte still claims her and
counts her as one of its most proficient mu-
sicians.
-Down at the Logan picnic at Hecla
park, this afternoon, there will be bicycle
races and foot races and tub races, and
zaces to catch the prettiest girl. A game of
base ball between the Academy and State
Normal nine, and dancing and lots of
amusements that will make the young feel
good and the old feel young and cause all
to be happy who want to feel that way.
Go down and enjoy yourselves.
——DManager McClintock of the telephone
lines bad a narrow escape from what might
have vroven a very serious accident while
erecting poles down in the vicinity of How-
ard the other day. One of them when
partly up, through some mishap, suddenly
fell, missing his body but so close to him as
to strike one of his feet breaking the instep.
He is able to be about since, on crutches.
——On Tuesday evening an assembly
will be given in the Armory in honor of
the visitors, who are here attendirg the
Academy reunion. Stopper and Fisk’s
orchestra will furnish the music and the
committee, John Blanchard, Ellis L. Orvis,
Edward X. Rhoads, A. Scott Harris,
Edmund Blanchard, John Shugert and
Fred Blanchard are seeing that the affair
will be a success.
——The handsome books donated to the
Academy library by Mr. Carnegie, of Pitts-
burg, have arrived and will soon orna-
ment the new shelves to be placed in the
library and reception room just completed.
They include twenty-six volumes of the
Encyclopedia Brittanica, ten volumes of
the Century Dictionary, eight volumes of
Ridpath’s Races of Mankind and eight
volumes of Ridpath’s Universal History.
The faculty and trustees wish to publicly
thank Mr. Carnegie for his most valuable
gift. They were much needed and the
students and others will surely appreciate
them.
——For many months the A. M. E.
church has been badly in need of repair
and the pastor, Rev. Woodson, has been
making a desperate effort to raise the
necessary funds. Our people have not
been so generous as they usually are for a
worthy cause, but the pastor hopes that the
needed amount will be forthcoming and is
going to begin work on Monday. The
church is to be painted, papered; re-roofed
and overhauled generally. On Sunday af-
ternoon the usual services of the church
will be held in the Court house at three
o'clock.
——The flag fever has broken out at
Pleasant Gap. When anything breaks out
there it goes like fire. Just now it is at
that height that the people there are deter-
mined not to be out-done hy any commun-
ity, and preparations are being made to
swing the largest flag, in the county, from
the peak of one mountain to that of the
other, so that the flag will float directly
over the Lewistown pike about where the
old saw mili stood. The distance from
one mountain top to the other is about one
‘fourth of a mile, and the height from the
pike to where the flag will float is about
300 feet. The date for raising the flag has
not been determined upon, but great
preparations are being made to make it one
of the greatest occasions Pleasant Gap has
ever witnessed.
The Democratic County Convention,
Large Representation of Democrats— Harmonious
Work and a Good Ticket.
On Tuesday the Democratic county con-
vention met to name a ticket and do
the work for which conventions are
usually called. It was a good convention,
made up of sober, careful, thinking, Demo-
crats whose only purpose seemed to be the
good of the party, and whose efforts were
all directed: toward preserving harmony.
There was the usual earnest work for the
nomination of favorites, hut there was none
of that bitterness that has so often charac-
terized conventions called for the purpose
of making a ticket. From the first arrival
of the first interested Democrat in the
morning until the work was done, and the
delegates returned home, not a threat was
heard, not a word of deiraction was uttered
and no evidence shown that a single Dem-
ocrat, who participated in the proceedings,
but acquiesced cheerfully in the results,
and went home determined to do his full
duty to elect the ticket.
In the absence of county chairman, Capt.
H. 8. Taylor who is serving his country as
a soldier at Chickamauga, the convention
was called to order by secretary J. K. John-
son. When Mr. Johnson took the gavel to
rap for order he saw before him one of the
largest and most respectable conventions of
Democrats that ever assembled in Belle-
fonte. In addition to every district being
fully represented, scores of earnest Demo-
crats were in attendance from every section
of the county, and although the day was
exceedingly warm the interest in the pro-
ceedings was such as to keep the court
house crowded from the time the convention
convened until the last nomination was de-
clared. It wasa body of men who did not
come with noise, and drums and threats, to
howl and hurrah through that which they
wished to accomplish, but aun intelligent,
conscientious, earnest, body of citizens
whose purposes were for the party’s good
and whose work was to lay the foundation
for Democratic success.
On motion of Mr. Krumrine, Hammon
Sechler, Esq., of Bellefonte was made chair-
man by acclamation. On taking the chair
Mr. Sechler delivered a neat, appropriate
and patriotic speech, pointing out the ne-
cessity for harmonious action and promising
the most glorious results if wisdom charac-
terized the work of the convention, and
each and every Democrat would do his
duty.
The calling of the roll showed every dis-
trict fully represented and, of the eighty-
nine members present, but two acting as
substitutes. The list of delegates was as
follows :
Bellefonte (N. W.)—Hammond
Dunlap.
Bellefonte (S. W.)—Frank Walsh, Wm. Howley,
Fred Musser, George T. Bush.
Bellefonte (W. W.)—S. A. McQuistion.
Centre Hall Boro.—W. E. Sandoe, F. M. Craw-
ford.
Howard Boro.—W. R. Gardner.
Milesburg Boro.—W. R. Essington.
Billheim Boro.—A. J. Gephart, E. I. Musser.
Philipsburg (1st W.)—Harry Denning.
Philipsburg (2nd W.)—Ira Howe, Samuel Sankey.
Philipsburg (3rd W.)—Howard Hysong.
South Philipsburg Boro.—Patrick Hogan.
State College Boro.—J. N. Krumrine,
Unionville Boro.—P. J. McDowell.
Benner Twp. (N. P.)—L. C. Rerick, J. F. Grove.
Benner Twp. (S. P.)—M. F. Hazle
Boggs (N. P.)—Henry Heaton.
Boggs (E. P.)—I1. M. Harvey.
Boggs (W. P.)—Jos. Fulmer,
Burnside Twp—A. V. Daugherty.
College Twp.—Nathan Grove, John A. Williams.
Curtin Twp.—C. V. DeLong.
Ferguson Twp. (E. P.)—J. W. Kepler, D. Drei-
blebis, N. T. Krebs.
Ferguson Twp. (W. P.)—David Kustenborder.
Gregg Twp. (N. P.)—J. H. Roush.
Gregg Tep. (E. P.))—John D. Weese, John F.
Glass.
Gregg Twp. (W. P.)—Hiram Durst, John Smith,
C. J. Finkle.
Half Moon Twp.—D. C. Harpster.
Haines Twp. (E. P.)—J. J. Orndorf, E. M. Boone.
Haines Twp. (W. P.)—A. P, Maize, Wm. H.
Bohn, George W. Bradford.
Harris Twp.—Fergus Potter,
Jacob Meyer.
Howard Twp.—George D. Johnston.
Huston Twp.—Dr. W. W, Irvin.
Liberty Twp.—J. I. DeLong, W. H. Gardner.
Marion Twp.—J. W. Orr, B. F. Vonada.
Miles Twp. (E. P.)—T. F. Brumgart.
Miles Twp. (M. P.)—J. P. Frank, Henry Brum-
gart, C. J. Crouse.
Miles Twp. (W. P.)=—Thomas F. Wolf.
Patton Twp.—J. W. Biddle.
Penn Twp.—Henry Swartz, J.
M. Bower, Jacob Kerstetter.
Potter Twp. (N. P.)—George Emerick, David
Keller.
Potter Twp. (S. P.)—G. L. Goodhart, S. J. Me-
Clintie, T. F. Farner, John Fortney.
Sechler, John
Lewis Aikey.
Earnest Hess,
W. Meyer, Geo.
Rush Twp. (N. P.)—S. W. Bachelor, W. E.
Frank.
Rush Twp. (S. P.)—Michael Heffern, Michael
Dempsey.
Snow Shoe Twp. (E. P.)—James Burns, Jr., H.
P. Kelley.
Snow Shoe Twp. (WW. P.)—William Kerin,
Spring Twp. (N. P.)—James Carson.
Spring Twp. (S. P.)—J. L. Kerstetter, W. Ii.
Hoy.
Spring Twp. (W. P.)—M. G. Ardery.
Taylor Twp.—Samuel Hoover.
Union Twp.—C. G. Hall.
Walker Twp. (E. P.)—Jos. Emerick.
Walker Twp. (M. P.)—Jacob Weaver, Harvey
Stover.
Walker Twp. (W. P.)—Cyrus Hoy.
Worth Twp.—A. B. Williams.
As secretaries Geo. T. Bush, of Bellefonte,
and Ira Howe, of Philipshurg, were chosen
without opposition, as was John Dunlap, of
Bellefonte, for reading clerk, and Dr. W.
U. Irvin, of Houston, and A. P. Maize, of
Haines, for tellers.
A motion that a committee of seven be
appointed to draft resolutions was passed
and the chairman named as that committee
S.’A. McQuistion, of Bellefonte; Henry Hea-
ton, of Boggs; Michael Dempsey, of Rush;
L. C. Rerick, Benner; John Smith, Gregg;
Jas. P. Frank, Miles and J. W. Meyer, of
Penn. :
For the committee on credentials J. M.
Krumrine, of College; J. J. Orndorff, of
Haines; H. P. Kelly, of Snow Shoe; E.
Hess, of Harris and A. B. Williams, of
‘Worth, were selected and the convention
got down to the interesting part of its work,
that of making a ticket.
Col. Spangler, being the only candidate
named for congress, and W. C. Heinle Esq.
having no opposition for the senate, were
unanimously nominated for these respective
offices without the formality of a ballot.
By resolution offered by Geo. T. Bush,
Charles Kurtz, of Bellefonte; P. McDonald,
of Unionville, and A. B. Herd. of Philips-
burg, were nominated as congressional con-
ferees. A similar resolution presented by
William Howley, selected the following
gentlemen for senatorial conferees:—Balser
‘Weber, Howard; L. A. Schaeffer, Belle-
fonte and Geo. H. Haines, of Miles. Both
resolutions were adopted.
For legislature the names of A. C.
Thompson, of Halfmoon; J. H. Wetzel, of
Bellefonte; Rob’t. M. Foster, of State Col-
lege and Geo. Koch, of Centre Hall were
presented. The first ballot resulted
Thompson.
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Messrs Foster and Wetzel having received
a majority of the votes cast were declared
the nominees of the convention and their
nomination was made unanimous.
In explanation of the fractional parts of
votes recorded, it is proper to explain that
under the allotment of delegates, by the
county committee, the south ward of Belle-
fonte and Harris township were each en-
titled to a half vote, in addition to their
regular number of delegates; and as the vote
for instruction in the northern precinct of
Benner township—a district having two
delegates—was a tie between three of the
candidates for legislature, the convention
decided that each of the candidates should
be given two-thirds of a vote.
The nomination for prothonotary being
in order, C. U. Hoffer, of Philipsburg; M.
I. Gardner, of Bellefonte; A. A. Pletcher,
of Walker and D. R. Foreman, of Potter,
were nominated as candidates, when bal-
loting proceeded with the following results:
; Ist 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
28%, 2912 2817 28lg 39
2 wf 3512 43, 50
16 17 aie
Pletcher 10 10 9
Mr. Gardner having on the fifth ballot
received a majority of all the votes cast was
declared the nominee for Prothonotary.
It took but a few minutes and no hallot-
ing, to settle the nomination for District
Attorney. W. G. Runkle, Esq., who had
aspired to the position and had made an
active canvass for the nomination, came bhe-«
fore the convention and in a witty, well
delivered speech, that brought down the
house, withdrew from the contest leaving
the field clear for Mr. N. B. Spangler, who
was chosen by acclamation.
At this point of the proceedings the com-
mittee on resolutions reported the follow-
ing which was adopted, as the platform of
the Democracy of Centre county, without
a dissenting vote.
PLATFORM.
The Democratic party of Centre county,
through its representatives in convention
assembled, does hereby pledge itself to wage
unceasing warfare against the vicious system
of political profligacy and corruption that
pervades our entire system of state and
municipal affairs.
It charges the Republican party, which has
had unbridled control of all branches of the
state government during the past four years,
with faithlessness to every pledge made to
the people.
It promised in most solemn declaration,
reform in legislation and the betterment of
municipal government. It has not only
violated these promises but it endeavored to
perpetuate by most obnoxious statutes the
power of municipal rings and combinations
of corrupt politicians to pass laws for the en-
richment of special interests, and has
through the system of bossism, to which it
has complacently submitted in the past,
elevated these self constituted leaders to the
highest positions of political honor and pub-
lic trust within its power to confer.
It has not only needlessly multiplied of-
fices to make place for party hacks and the
subservient tools of party leaders, thereby
greatly enlarging the public expenditures
and made increased taxation necessary to pay
new salaries, but has without just cause reck-
lessly increased the salaries of public officials
in all departments of the state government
and so depleted the public funds that the
public charities of the state have been robbed
of their necessary appropriations.
It has not only tolerated the unjust with-
holding of the public moneys appropriated
to the common schools and public charities,
that favorites of the treasury might be en-
riched and the funds for corrupting the
elections enlarged ; but its recognized
leaders have endeavored to thwartand defeat
all legislation and every movement looking
to a correction of these abuses.
For the purpose of maintaining large bal-
ances in the State treasury, and to use them
for corrupt political purposes, it has with-
held millions of dollars of personal property
tax from the counties which were entitied to
the prompt return of it.
It has created a building commission for
the erection of a State capitol, whose mani-
fest purpose is to disregard the plain mandate
creating it, to perpetuate for an unnecessary
length of time its unfortunate existence, to
benefit the favorite contractors of some poli-
tical boss and the fruit of whose actions will
be a large increase of the state indebtedness.
Controlling by a two-thirds vote both the
Senate and House of Representatives in the
last legislative session, it exhibiteda reck-
less disregard of the rights of the taxpayers
of the state, a shameless subserviency to the
dictates of the party boss and a most profligate
appropriation of the public moneys to wholly
unnecessary if not actual unlawful purposes.
To the correction of these evils, and the
overthrow of the pernicious system of which
these things are the outgrowth, the Democ-
Bao the county pledge their most earnest
efforts.
The cry of the starving and oppressed sub-
jects of the Spanish government in Cuba, for
release from the tyranny, cruelty and mis-
rule to which they were subjected, hav-
ing come up before the people of our beloved
land, we rejoice that the Democratic party,
by force of public opinion, compelled Congress
and the administration to assume the aggres-
sive and demand that the murder, oppres-
sion, and cruelities practiced upon, and the
systematic starvation of, the people of Cuba
should cease. Spain refused ; our govern-
ment in the interest of humanity interfered ;
the consequence is war. We now demand of
the administration its vigorous prosecution
and pledge every needed support in both
men and means to the end that the purpose
for which the war was declared shall be speed-
ily accomplished, freedom be given to Cuba,
and peace be restored between us and Spain.
We commend the ticket this day nominated
to the voters of Centre county as worthy of
their support, irrespective of past party affilia-
tions, and pledge to it our earnest and united
support.
Asa Poljtieni organization we recognize the
right of the delegates of the party in Na-
tional convention assembled to declare the
principles and define the policies of the party
on national issues, and these declarations we
accept as the doctrines of the party, and as
such, binding upon its members, and or-
ganizations, until modified or re-affirmed by
a subsequent National convention.
In so far as the coming election involves
the choice of members of Congress, and, to
that extent, on =zll questions of national
policy, we recognize and affirm the right of
members of the Democratic party to settle
those questions for themselves in their re-
spective Congressional districts.
In the choice of a Governor and the co-
ordinate officers of the state in the coming
election, no national policies are at stake.
The supreme issues are the redemption of
our State from the domination of political
bossism and the emancipation of her people
from a galling Political slavery ; the over-
throw of political corruption in high places ;
and the wiping out of the reproach and shame
that has fallen upon the good name of our
grand old Commonwealth. For the accom-
plishment of these purposes we earnestly
seek the aid of the people, irrespective of
past party affiliations.
For county surveyor, H. B. Herring, of
Gregg township, was nominated by accla-
mation.
A motion to proceed to the election of
delegates to the State convention brought
forth a shower of candidates. The first
ballot resulted in the election of the fol-
lowing: J. C. Meyer, Bellefonte; G. L.
Goodhart, Potter ; Howard Hysong, Phil-
ipsburg ; W. M. Kepler, Ferguson, and F.
P. Musser, Millheim.
For chairman of the county committee,
for the year commencing Jan. 1st 1890, Mr.
J. K. Johnson was chosen, there being no
other name presented for the position. Mr.
Johnson will also act as chairman during
the remainder of Capt. Hugh Taylor's
term, or as long as his service in the army
is required.
After the adoption of the following reso-
lution the convention adjourned.
Resolved that the Democracy of Centre
county, herein express their confidence in
the eminent ability and matchless integrity
of the Hon. Geo. A. Jenks, of Jefferson coun-
ty, and would commend his name to the fav-
orable consideration of the State convention
as a most desirable nominee for Governor
this year. He isnot identified with any of
the discordant elements of our own party in
this State and we believe that his nomina-
tion would be conducive to party harmony
which is so much desired and so essential at
this time. His nomination would merit the
influence and hearty support of many patri-
otic and independent citizens now longing
for an era of good honest State government.
QA mmm
THE CHILDREN’S AID SocIETY.—The
ninth annual convention of the Children’s
Aid Society convened in Uniontown, Fay-
ette county, June 3rd, 4th and 5th. At
which 25 counties reported increased work.
The society was royally received by the
citizens of Uniontown, and great prepara-
tion was made for the pleasure and comfort
of the delegates. Mrs. A. D. Loyd gave a
large reception for the delegates and those
who were in harmony with the work.
The report of Centre county, although
slightly in the background in some re-
spects—owing to the few workers in the
field, was most creditable to the faithful
ones who have been able to accomplish
great good in the last year. The actual
work of the society, with its many discour-
agements and few encouragements; can
never be published but it is a work which
is founded on the first principles of Chris-
tianity and humanity and should receive
help from all classes and conditions of men.
During the year twelve new homes were
found for homeless children and since the
society was organized thirty-two have been
provided with homes. One child was re-
moved from the county and at present the
society has nineteen under its care.
Money expended during the year $82,00.
A barrel of provision and necessaries were
sent to the industrial home at Indiana,
where wayward girls are sent for reforma-
tion and instruction in domestic duties.
The officers of the county society are Mrs.
J. L. Kurtz, Miss Emily Natt and Miss
Mary S. Thomas, and in their report they
commended the lawyers and doctors, for the
services they had given gratuitously, and
the editors who inserted their advertise-
ments free. The society is evidently
thankful for small favors and how inspir-
ing it would be if those who could would
help along, for the work is noble and the
society in need.
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——The Bellefonte correspondent of a
Williamsport paper, whose manufactory of
improbable stories runs on full time every
day, has concocted a ‘‘raw-head-and-bloody
hones,’ fiction out of the finding of a couple
of animal bones up at Pheenix mill, where
they are cleaning up the foundation prepar-
atory to rebuilding. He alleges they were
human bones: ‘‘that the excavation in
which they were found was upon the site
of the house occupied by the Flannigan
brothers 68 years ago,’’ and that they were
supposed to belong to two missing travelers,
who, he says, ‘‘came to Bellefonte just
before the Flannigan brothers left and were
never heard of afterwards.”” Of course he
closes up his story with a ghost, and has
one cavorting out around the old mill every
few evenings.
The truth about this fiction is, first, no
human bones were found ; second, no Flan-
nigan ever lived in a house on the site of
the mill excavation for there was never
any house there ; third, no one ever heard
of the missing travelers before ; and fourth,
the correspondent is known to be one of
those everlasting liars who keeps at it as
constantly and as naturally as water runs
down hill.
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——1If you want to have a real, rattling
good time to-day, Friday, you will go
down to the Logan picnic at Hecla Park.
Besides the fun, you will have the pleasure
of being in one of the prettiest spots in ten
counties, where the air is as pure as an an-
gel’s breath and the spooning places as
shaded and sweet as are those of dream-
land.
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——Loyd J. Smith, J. L. Nighthart's
right hand man, was married Tuesday
evening to Miss Minnie B. Waite, daugh-
ter of the late Adam Waite, by the Rev.
Allen Wren, of the U. B. church.
——DMrs. Margaret Campbell, widow of
the late Patrick Campbell, died at the
home of her nephew, Henry Fox, on the
Lewistown pike on Wednesday morning of
paralysis. She was 65 years old and a con-
scientious Christian woman respected and
loved by her neighbors and friends. She
was buried Friday morning from St. John’s
Catholic church.
Sees
——DMrs. Rose McLaughlin, wife of John
McLaughlin, of Lawrence township, Clear-
field county, died at the family home on last
Friday after an illness of several months.
Mrs. McLaughlin was a daughter of James
and Mary MeDivitt of near Stormstown,
this county, where she lived until her mar-
riage in ’67. She is survived by her hus-
band, six sons, five daughters, a family of
brothers and one sister.
Ames.
——The Altoona papers of Monday an-
nounce the death, in that place, of Mrs.
Polly Ann McFalls, widow of B. F. McFalls,
of Blair county, which occurred on the
morning of the 11th. Mrs. McFalls was
born in Boalshurg, this county, where she
will be remembered as the widow of Isaac
Sparr, of Harris township, who died in
1865. She was a consistent member of the
M. E. church, and was beloved and re-
spected by all who knew her.
—_——
——Bishop Thomas McGovern, of Harris-
burg, is a guest of Rev. P. McArdle in this
place, where he expects to remain un-
til to-day in the hope of benefiting
his health. It will be like returning home
to the Bishop, who, back in the sixties
ministered to the congregation of his church
in this place, and laid the foundation for
friendships with people of our town that
have neither diminished nor been forgotten
during all the years that havesince passed.
We earnestly hope that the aged minister
may be spared to his people and the country
for many years, and that he will find in the
healing atmosphere of our beautiful town
the health that he so much needs and seeks.
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-——The big flag which the people of Co-
burn have purchased, an account of which
was given in the WATCHMAN of last week,
will be flung to the breeze to-morrow, Sat-
urday evening, at six o’clock. When up it
will be 400 feet above the little valley over
which it will float, and the wire from which
it will hang will be one-half mile in length.
A parade of citizens, G. A. R. men, the
local camp P. O. S. A., headed by the
Aaronsburg band and drum corps, will take
place prior to the raising. Speeches will
be made by C. M. Bower Esq. and J. C.
Meyer Esq., of this place, and by Revs.
Brown and Wolf, of Aaronsburg. After the
speeches there will be a bicycle race which
will be followed by a festival, the proceeds
of which will be used to assist in paying
for the flag and wire.
News Purely Personal.
—Miss Sallie Baum has gone to Syracuse, N.
Y., to visit her sister, Mrs. Hassel.
—Fred Blanchard and Jay Woodcock are home
from Princeton College for the summer.
—DMrs. George B. Bible and her two children,
of East Stroudsburg, are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Bradley, of Spring street.
—Mrs. Emma Alexander nce Hughes and her
little daughter, of Brooklyn, are guests of the
Rev. J. P. Hughes at the Academy.
—Mrs. Frank Armstrong, of Tyrone, and her sis-
ter, Miss Millie Meek, were in town Tuesday for a
few hours en route to State College.
—Michael Dempsey Esq., of Rush did not for-
get to call and give an encouraging account of
the political out-lood in his section, while attend-
ing the convention on Tuesday.
—Mr. Philip Meyer, of Harris, never fails to
take an active interest in party affairs, and conse.
quently came to town on Tuesday to see that all
the candidates received fair play.
—Hon. W. K. Alexander, of Millheim, was an
interested looker on at Tuesday's convention.
Although somewhat disappointed he went home
just as good a Democrat as he came.
—Dr. M. A. Kirk went to Harrisburg Tuesday
to attend a meeting of the State Eclectic Medical
society and a meeting of the Board of State Medi-
cal Examiners, of which he is secretary.
—Miss Elizabeth Bianchard and her brother,
Edmund, are home from Philadelphia for the
summer. The former is teaching in one ofthe
Bryn Mawr preparatory schools and the latter is
studying law at the University.
—Mrs. Wistar Morris, her two grandchildren,
Margaret and Morris Wood, Miss Mary Blanchard
and the other members of the household arrived
in town on Tuesday to enjoy the summer at their
home on Allegheny and Curtin streets.
—Mrs. Nannie Willard and her two children,
Josie and Wardner, are in town visiting her sister,
Mrs. Will Larimer, and other relatives. Mrs.
Willard has been sick nearly ever since she went
to Williamsport and she is here in quest of health
and rest.
—There is no better Democrat in the county
than Dr. J. K. White, of Philipsburg. Althongh
turned down for postmaster by Mr. Cleveland, he
always turns up when he can be of any service to
his friends or the party. He was at the conven-
tion on Tuesday.
—W. G. Brown, Esq., formerly of this place, but
of late years trying hard to become «nn real ‘tar
heel,” came up from North Carolina a few weeks
ago and has been visiting relatives in this section.
Mr. Brown says the Democrats of North Carolina
intend showing the world this fall that that State
is Democratic beyond any doubt.
—N. B. Spangler, who arrived home Monday
night from Chickamauga, Ga., to enlist 20 recruits
for Company B, was so worn and tired with camp
life that he had to succumb and go to bed, where
he has been most of the week. He is thin and ca-
daverous looking and is ,of the opinion that the
boys would rather get into action than remain
passive in the heat and dust where they are.
—Col. J. Irvin Steele, of the Ashland Advocate,
and Mrs. Steele were in town Wednesday on their
way home from State College commencement.
The Col. is one of the veteran editors of the State
and in his various travels has seen much of the
world but this is the first time he has deigned to
stop here. Mrs. Steele, however, who was Miss
Stella Thomas. of Mechanicsburg, has been here
and at State College often enough to care to come
again.
—John 8. Weller Esq., of Bedford, was in town
on Monday on his way to State College to attend
the commencement exercises. Mr. Weller was a
member of the class of ’8) at State and is one of
the men that institution has sent out of whom she
has reason to be proud. He has been district at-
torney of his county and now has a very lucrative
law practice, besides figuring extensively in the
business and political interests of the Bedford
region. He is president of the Hyndman bank,
director in a large brick corporation over there
and will probably represent the 36th district in
the next Senate.
THE ACADEMY REUNION. — Tuesday,
June 21st, will surely be a day long to be
remembered in the history and welfare of
the Bellefonte Academy. On that day
hundreds of students from far and near
will gather for a grand reunion in honor of
Mr. Hughes’ 30th year as principal of the
Academy. The committee in charge and
the sub-committees are leaving no stone
unturned to make the celebration a com-
plete success from an intellectual and so-
cial stand point. Even the athletic com-
mittee will not be outdone, for it has ar-
ranged for what promises to be a close and
exciting game of ball to be played on the
glass works meadow at ten o’clock on
Tuesday morning. The contesting teams
will be the present Academy nine, which
claims the championship of Central Penna.
school teams, and a strong alumni team.
The event of the day, however, begins at
2 o'clock in the Presbyterian church which
is open to the public. Dr. Francis L. Pat-
ton, president of Princeton University and
Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, president of the
Pennsylvania State College, will positively
be present to deliver addresses on different
phases of education. Short and pity ad-
dresses will be delivered by two or three
prominent alumni. The addresses will be
interspersed with concert music by Stopper
and Fisk’s orchestra, of twelve pieces. The
reception on the Academy grounds in the
evening at 7:30 to which the past and
present students and their parents are in-
vited will be a charming affair. The
students will be presented to Presidents
Patton and Atherton and a light tea will
be served by the young ladies. During
the reception the orchestra will render
choice selections. It is the Academy’s day
and everyone who has been identified with
the school as scholars are requested to wear
the colors, white and gold.
Former students who have not received
invitations, as yet, are cordially invited to
be present at all exercises.
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FosSTER’S WEATHER PREDICTIONS.—The
next disturbance will reach the Pacific
coast about June 18th, cross the west of
Rockies country by close of 19th, great
central valleys from 20th to 22nd, eastern
States 23rd.
Warm wave will cross the west of Rock-
ies country about June 18th, great central
valleys 20th, eastern States 22nd. Cool
wave will cross the west of Rockies country
about 21st, great central valleys 23rd,
eastern States 25th.
Temperature of the week ending 8a. m.,
June 20th, will average below normal in
the northern, above in the southern and
above in the Pacific slope States. Rainfall
for the week will be generally below nor-
mal east of the Mississippi and north of the
Ohio, about normal in the southern States
and above in the Rockies mountain coun-
tries.
From June 18th to the last of the month
drouth conditions will prevail north of the
Ohio and east of the Mississippi. This will
concern the corn more than it will other
crops. July and August are the critical
months for corn and if this June drouth
continues into July corn may suffer.
Married.
LODER—HALL.—At the residence of the bride,
near Howard, Pa., on June Sth, 1898, by Rev
A. P. Wharton, Mr. Philip B. Loder, of Pitts"
burg, Pa., and Miss Tempie E. Hall, of How"
ard township, Centre county, Pa.
Eggs for Hatching.
The prices below are for a setting of thir-
teen eggs. I guarantee all to be fresh and
true to name and from first class stock.
Light Brahma - 3 - 55cts
Buff Cochin - - - 60°
Barred Plymouth Rock - 40%
Silver Spangled Hamburg - 60 **
43-11 M. B. GARMAN, Bellefonte, Pa.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red..............00 i 0mssemebiisnisesson .83
¢“ —Spring... w JSTO@80
Corn —Yellow... vo 32
¢ —Mixed. 20
ORES... iiss sian sarassanss . 24
Flour— Winter, Per Br’l. . 4.25@4.50
¢ —Penna. Roller.. 5.20@5.40
¢ —Favorite Brands... 6.30@6,40
Rye Flour Per Br'l....... 3.60@ 3.75
Baled hay—Choice No. 1. 11.00
“ ““ ““ “9 9.@9.50
£4 4% £4 $58.0 8.00@8.50
Bellefonte Grain Mariet.
Corrected weekly by the PueNix MiLuing 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 bushel.
Corn, ears, per bushel..
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...........cceenrmmscrransssssrsses 65
i 2
s, per dozen.. 0
Tom per pound.. 6
Country Shoulder: 5
Sides... 0
Hams..... 10
Tallow, per pound 3
Butter, per poun
The Democratic Watchman.
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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. es
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