Demorrait ada
Bellefonte, Pa., July 22, 1898.
CorrEespoN DENTS.—No communications pub
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——The Beech Creek railroad station at
Philipsburg is being remodeled.
——The drought in this section was brok-
en by welcome showers on Tuesday.
——With wheat at 65cts. a bushel and
binder twine at 12cts. a pound the farmer
finds himself caught at both ends.
——They say that A. Riest Rutt, of the
Bellefonte High school, will be an aspirant
for county superintendent next year.
——Tuesday’s rains brought the corn
and potato crops both out of retirement, in
this section, and neither one is ashamed of
its looks since.
——The Centre county teachers institute
this year will open on Dec. 19th. Those
of Clinton, Clearfield and Lycoming coun-
ties will open on the same date.
—The I. 0. 0. F. of Nittany valley
lodge, will hold atestival at Hublersburg,
the evening of August 6th. The orches
will furnish the music for the occasion.
After two years of total blindness of
his left eye John H. Gray, an aged Tyrone
resident, underwent an operation on Sun-
day that completely restored his sight.
——The ladies of the M. E. church of
Lemont have changed the date of their fes-
tival from the 29th and 30th to the 22nd
and 23rd of July. All are cordially invited
to attend.
— Bellefonte has become so patriotic
that the girls all begin to sing “Three
Cheers for the Red, White and Blue,”
whenever they see the red-headed end of
this establishment out with his white duck
trousers and blue shirt on.
——To-morrow a party of Tyrone wheel-
men will arrive in this place on their way
to Penn’s cave. They will spend to-morrow
night at Centre Hall then run to the cave
Sunday morning and return to Tyrone via
Penna. Furnace and Warrior’s-mark.
——The Centre county farmer has ample
reason to thank the good Lord this season.
It seems that the Divine hand held the
summer storm clouds back until all the
hay and grain was in and then copious
showers were sent just in time to save the
corn and vegetables.
Although Bellefonte makes no pre-
tense of heing a summer resort we doubt
if any town of the size in this State has
more summer visitors. Just at present the
town is full of them; nearly every home
having one or more, and all seemingly en-
joying themselves.
—Mrs. F. C. Williams, of North
Spring street, returned home, Wednesday
morning, with the two children and Frank
is no longer keeping bachelor’s hall. Mis.
Williams was in Altoona visiting her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kauffman,
formerly of this place.
—W. E. Gray Esq., who has been
confined to his Linn street home so long
with a serious attack of inflammatory
rheumatism, was so much worse on Wed-
nesday that it was feared he would not
survive. He was much better yesterday,
however. He had been on a fair way to
recovery, but ventured up the country one
day last week and suffered a relapse.
There is such a plentifulness of straw
in this county, the present season, that some
farmers, rather than be bothered stacking
and handling it have burnt it in the fields.
Last Friday evening the burning of one of
these piles, out on the farm of Mr. W. P.
Humes, started the fire alarm and all the
fire companies in the town were out and
up Bishop street before they learned the
cause of the alarm.
—Ed. Gillen, the green grocer, might
have been supposed to be running aSpanish
store for awhile on Monday after Joe Me-
Suley finished up the job of repainting his
front. Red and yellow were the predomi-
nating colors and they might not have been
so much of a shock to the other merchants
along that thoroughfare had there been no
war on hand, but with conditions such as
they are the colors were too unpatriotic for
Ed. as well as his neighbors, and he had
the job done over at once.
—Bass fishing parties are more plenti-
ful hereabouts, than bass. The Anderson
fishing club that camped down below How-
ard all last week, got home safely with a
few little fellows, some what larger than
fully grown sardines. The other club
from about the court house, that watched
along the banks of Spring creek between
this and Rock Forge, for two or three days,
came back as hollow as when they went
away, with a few suckers, and an unend-
ing supply of imagination of what a good
time they had.
—It is not Mr. McKinley’s prosperity,
but the ravages of time that has caused im-
provements to be made up at the Brant
house. The western gable end having bulged
dangerously it was taken out and rebuilt
from the foundation to the square of the
third floor. The building was erected in 1828
and the wall was a massive limestone affair,
making it quite a difficult job to remove
and rebuild it. When the rebuilding was
done new windows were put into the bar,
the office and the parlor, giving all better
ventilation and more light. With thewalls
straightened up and so many more chances
to see, out and in, proprietor Yeager
feels prouder than ever of the house he has
made so much of a success of.
A VERY SUDDEN DEATH.—The death of
Edward L. Powers, which occurred very
suddenly at his home, on north Spring
street, in this place, on Monday evening,
was certainly one of the greatest shocks
this community has had in a long time.
The circumstances surrounding the sad af-
fair were particularly distressing, inasmuch
as he suffered so, just before death relieved
him from the smothering action of an im-
paired heart.
He had been at his place of business on
High street all day, but complained fre-
quently of heart affection with which he
was known to have suffered. His condi-
tion alarmed him and he visited his physi-
cian who gave him medicine for his relief
and at supper time he went to his home,
where fhe were so much worse that the
family became alarmed and sent at once
for the physician. In the meantime Mr.
Powers seemed unable to breathe and went
out into the yard with the hope of being
revived. There he fell and when Dr.
Locke arrived life was fast ebbing away.
He was carried into the house, but was
found to be beyond restoration and died
shortly before 10 o’clock.
Deceased was the eldest son of the late
John Powers, one of the town’s best known
and most inflzential business men. He was
born here on June 18th, 1858. And was
educated in the public schools and after
completing his course of studies he entered
his father’s shoe store in the Arcade to
learn the business. When John Powers
retired. several years previous to his death,
Ed took charge of the business and con-
ducted it up to the day of his death.
He married Miss Elizabeth Kaiser in
1884 and she survives him with two little
daughters, Pearl and Ada. Mrs. W. Miles
Walker, of this place, is a sister and John
Powers, of Lebanon, is his only brother.
Funeral services were held at the house
yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, conduct-
ed by Rev. Geo. I. Brown, of the Episco-
pal church. Interment was made in the
Union cemetery. The pall bearers were
L. H. Wain, W. H. Walker, Wm. Gordon,
Alvin Stover, Wm. Hogarth and Milton
Johnson, representing the Knights of the
Golden Eagle, of which organization he
was a member.
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THE DEATH OF JOHN T. ROUNDTREE. —
On Wednesday afternoon one of Belle-
fonte’s most affable citizens died and all
those who knew him will genuinely regret
the loss of John T. Roundtree. He had
been suffering for several months with
Bright's disease and with the hope of recup-
eration went to Baltimore, his old home,
during the latter part of March. While
there he suffered a slight stroke of paraly-
sis. After coming home he had two more
strokes and previous to his death was in a
perfectly helpless condition, so that it was
a relief when the end came.
Deceased was born in Baltimore, Mad.,
May 4th, 1840, and spent his early life in
that city. When the old Mann axe factory
was in operation near this place he was em-
ployed there as a polisher, having been
considered exceptionally skilled in that
branch of the trade. At that time he
lived at Axe Mann, but later moved to
Lewistown, where he resided until he re-
turned to Bellefonte, about ten years ago,
to purchase the grocery store on Willow-
bank street, near Reynolds’ mill, where he
was in business up to the time of his death.
As a business man Mr. Roundtree was a
success, for he embodied all the shrewdness
necessary with about as happy a disposi-
tion as we have ever known any man to
possess. He wasno man’s enemy and only
failed in being a warm friend where the op-
portunity was not extended.
He is survived by his widow and broth-
ers and sisters as follows : William, his
twin brother of Lewistown ; Harry, Mrs.
Georgia Wise, Mrs. Mary King and Mrs.
Adelade Rickets, all of Baltimore. Fu-
neral services will be conducted at his late
home on Willowbank street this afternoon
at 2 o’clock, Revs. Goodling and Stephens
officiating. The remains will be taken to
Cedar Springs, on the 3:45 Central train, for
burial.
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Mgzs. MARIA BIGLER.—On Monday last,
at 1 o'clock, all that was mortal of Mrs.
Maria Bigler, widow of the late Governor
William Bigler, was laid to rest hy the side
of the remains of her distinguished hus-
band, in the cemetery at Clearfield. Mrs.
Bigler’s death occurred on the evening of
the 14th inst., at the age of 83. She was
born in Clearfield county being a daughter
of Alexander Reed, one of the early settlers
of that county, and married William Big-
ler in 1836. During his long public career,
as State Senator, Governor, and United
States Senator, she was a valuable assist-
ance to him. She is survived by three
sons, Ed. A. Bigler, late collector of
internal revenue for the western dis-
trict of Pennsylvania. Wm. D. Bigler,
assistant treasurer of the United States
at Philadelphia and Harry F. Bigler,
superintendent of the Clearfield fire brick
company. She was a distinguished woman,
one whom it was a pleasure to know and
to meet ; one whose kind motherly heart
was ever ready to ‘‘comfort the afflicted,
feed the hungry and clothe the naked,”
and whose example was a guiding star to
all who knew her. She was a consistent
member of the Presbyterian church since
1835 and as her whole life had been
spent in and about Clearfield, her
many acts of kindness are known and
she lived so that a benediction has
fallen on her and her family. She
lived to see her husband hold high posi-
tions in the affairs of State and Nation, her
sons to become useful men and to be en-
trusted with important national trusts,
and her grand children to start well on the
way towards an honorable distinction in
affairs of importance.
"THE OLD SURVEYOR IS NO MORE.—Not
having issued a paper during the week of
the Fourth of July we failed to note the
death of one of the county’s best known
men, which occurred at his home, at
Unionville, on the morning of the 1 inst.
We refer to Jesse Cleaver Esq., the survey-
or, who died of Bright’s disease after sev-
eral months illness.
Deceased was a modest, honest man,
thoroughly devoted to his profession and a
naturalist of considerable reputation. His
work has covered all sorts of enterprises
requiring engineering and his death is to
be lamented, for he was a veritable store
house of the unwritten history of the early
development of the coal fields in this re-
gion and of railroad building. He left a
widow with four children, viz: Eva,
Florence, Bertha and Edgar, the youngest
of whom is 17 years old. Mr. Cleaver was
about 52 years old when he died.
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—-James Stephenson, a wealthy lumber-
man, died suddenly from heart failure on
Tuesday, at his home near Mahaffey, Pa.
He was 68 years of age and well known in
this vicinity.
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——Mrs. James Moore, mother of Mrs.
D. W. Shivery of State College, died at
Grampian, Clearfield county, on last Fri-
day at the age of 92 years.
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——DMrs. Thompson, an aged Jackson-
ville woman, died Wednesday morning
and will buried at Meyer's cemetery,
Buffalo-run, to-day.
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——ZErnest Welton, of Westport, a
woodsman, was struck by a falling tree on
Tuesday and died in twenty minutes.
William Roan, of Cook’s Run, was work-
ing with him and was seriously, though
not fatally hurt.
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——Charles D. Geiss, a 13 year old
Selinsgrove hoy, was running through the
narrow court between his own and the
home of his grandfather when he got
caught in an ordinary rope swing and had
hanged himself to death before anyone
passed that way.
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Tyrone is raising money to raise a
flag in which there will be one thousand
square yards of material. It will be floated
between the mountain tops at the eastern
entrance to the town and the raising will
be made a gala day there. It will be the
largest flag in America.
——While running the steam drill at
Morris’ quarries at Salona, on Tuesday
afternoon, Clair Kessinger was struck on
the neck by a piece of steel that flew off
the drill. An artery was severed and the
man came very near bleeding to death be-
fore a physician got the flow of blood
stopped.
——An exchange puts it this way : We
live in a land of high mountains and high
taxes, low valleys and low wages, big
crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen,
big lakes, big pumpkins, big men with
pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol
in the mountains, and pious politicians
that gamble in the night, roaring cataracts
and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses,
fast young men, sharp toed shoes, noisy
children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet
of water, and a thousand newspapers that
lie like thunder.
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—At a meeting held in Altoona during
the fore part of the week the miners of dis-
trict No. 2, embracing central Peunsylva-
nia, decided to ask for an increase of 10 per
cent. on their wages. If it is not granted
by July 28th a general strike of all the
miners in the district will be ordered.
There were 30 delegates at the meeting
representing 55,000 workers. The repre-
sentatives of 32,000 of the miners were in
favor of demanding the increase. Satur-
day, July 30th, has been decided on as a
genera! holiday for miners during which
they are to hold mass meetings.
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State forestry commissioner Dr.
Rothrock recently purchased over 14,000
acres of wild land at the unseated land sale
in this county and word comes that he has
just added 11,903 acres more to the pur-
chase by getting contiguous tracts that lie
in Clearfield county. It is understood that
this is the beginning of a great forestry
preserve that the State intends making in
the Alleghenies; a monster tract of land
where the forests are to be protected from
the invading woodsman and fires, whileall
sorts of wild game are to find an undis-
turbed lair in the tract.
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——Joseph Bros. & Co., are making ex-
tensive improvements to their store proper-
ty on south Allegheny street. Since their
fire the basement and main store rooms
have been completely overhauled, the for-
mer having been refitted and improved by
the addition of several large windows along
the alley. The principal change in the
main store is a new front which is now be-
ing put in. Large plate glass windows
will materially change the appearance of
the front and the old front glass will be
used for side lights, making the show win-
dows much deeper than they were before.
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——Some weeks since, while riding up
the Buffalo Run road, we noticed numbers
of trees literally denuded of their foliage
by caterpillars. On some of them were as
many as eight or ten nests of these pests,
and on one particular tree not a leaf was
left. We understand the watchfulness and
trouble it requires to destroy these worms,
by ordinary methods, and would suggest a
trial of the following, which we are assur-
ed is a most effectual remedy : ‘‘Bore a
hole in the tree deep enough to reach the
sap, fill it with sulphur and plug it up.
The sap takes the sulphur to every limb
and twig and the caterpillars disappear at
once. I have used it for years.’
HAs BELLEFONTE RESIDENT HOUSE
BREAKERS? — Evidently Bellefonte has
some resident thicf and house breaker who
needs watching and punishment. About a
year ago a number of houses about town
were entered and robbed. But little mon-
ey was taken for the reason that people
living in the vicinity of banks carry but
little money with them, or keep but a
very limited amount about their houses, and
the individual, or gang, who committed
the depredation had to be content with the
jewelry, clothing, and the like that could
be got away with. That these robberies
were committed by some one who knew
the premises and the habits of the residents
was evident from the manner in which en-
trance was gained and bureaus and rooms
ransacked.
The same party or parties are at this
work again. Last Friday night the resi-
dence of A. M. Grenninger, on east Howard
street, was entered by some one who evi-
dently knew all about the premises, and
the rooms in which the different members
of the family slept, for without looking for
anything else or disturbing any other
part of the house, the thief without a light
or anything to guide him’ went straight to
Mr. Tom Grenninger’s room and was going
through his pants, which were on a chair
beside the bed, when he awoke. It wasa
very short moment until Tom was
out of bed and had hold of the intruder,
but he was a strong, active, fellow and after
a short tussel got away and ran down the
stairs and out of a back door as straight as
if he had lived in the house for years.
Grenninger was considerably bruised and
battered in the contest and believes he
would have been able to capture the thief,
but for a vicious blow he received on the
right temple which, for the time, stunned
him and gave the opportunity for escape.
When an account of stock was taken it was
discovered that a pocket book containing
$7 was gone. This was found in the back
yard in the morning minus the money.
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BeAUTIFYING HIs HoME.—The follo w-
ing description of the repairs that are to be
made to Governor Hastings home in this
place, we get from the telegraphic columns
of the Philadelphia Press: ‘““A Williams-
port architect has been engaged by Gover-
nor D. H. Hastings to supervise the details
for rebuilding his private residence at
Bellefonte. The plans for the new build-
ing are very elaborate and extensive. The
present house is to be encased in brick,
with trimmings of white stone. The roof
is to be of green tile. The porches, which
are expected to be one of the main features
of the house, are to be two stories in height,
extending the full width of the structure
and supported by immense Doric pillars,
while the floors will be of mosaic tiles.
The interior of the house is to be finished
in quartered oak. The style of architecture
is colonial, and the house, when finished,
will be the largest and most elaborate resi-
dence in the town. A large stable in the
rear of the dwelling will be built on the
same style of architecture.’
As it is evidently the Governor’s inten-
tion to return to this place, to make his
future home, in place of locating in Phila-
delphia, as rumor has said he would, we
presume that Al. Dale and a few others
who, like him, talk of leaving town if the
Governor returns, will conclude that our
town is large enough for them all and be
content by using the opposite side of the
street from that on which the Governor's
house is erected and over which he will
have to pass.
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Fixine Up THE CouRT HoUSE.—The
present board of county Commissioners
have evidently, for the time, given up the
idea of erecting a new court house, or re-
modeling the old one in a way that would
practically be building a new one, which
was so seriously contemplated immediately
after their induction into office. It iscom-
ing near the time when they will all be
asking for re-election, and they have con-
cluded that it would not he best to saddle
the tax-payers with the expense that a new
building would entail, and they have, for
the present, determined to get along with
some repairs. In the early part of the
summer a n:w roof was put on, and now
workmen are engaged in putting up a me-
tallic ceiling, and painting and frescoing,
the court room. The outside is to be re-
painted and some other minor repairs made,
in time for the August term of court. This,
it is thought, will do until after their re-
election when, if successful in retaining
their present places, the men now manag-
ing these matters can go on with their proj-
ect of building a new court house.
A HARVEST HOME PICNIC AND FARM-
ER’S INSTITUTE.—The state Board of Ag-
riculture has introduced a novelty into its
manner of instructing the farmers of the
State. The diversion is in the form of
harvest home picnic, to which the public
will be invited and in combination with
the festivities of such an auspicious gather-
ing there will be introduced some of the
regular ‘educational institute work of the
department.
The first one to be held in Centre coun-
ty will be on Thursday, August 11th, at
Grange park, Centre Hall. Eminent
speakers will be there and a one way fare
for the round trip on the railroad will be
given from Bellefonte and Coburn and in-
termediate points. It will be a basket
picnic and everyone is invited.
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FLAG RAISING.—They are expecting a
fine time up at Haag’s hotel, on Bishop St.,
on Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. Land-
lord Keller intends raising a flag pole seven-
ty feet tall anda flag, we don’t know how
large, and has engaged nearly all the pa-
triots in town to make a speech. A good
crowd is expected and a happy time antici-
pated for all.
——The Osceola lodge of A. O. U. W.,
with their wives and families, 975 strong,
attended the big fraternal picnic at Lake-
mont, near Altoona, on Wednesday.
News Purely Personal.
—Mrs. Mattie Rhen, of Williamsport, is visiting
ner sisters, the Misses Morrison, of Spring street,
—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Oberndorf, of Baltimore,
Md., are guests at the Lewin home on east Linn
street.
—Miss Alice Demler, a charming Harrisburg
girl, is visiting Mrs. J. D. Seravendyke at the
Bush house.
—Randolph Breeze is home for a two weeks’
rest from his work in the Fort Wayne, Indiana,
railroad shops.
—Mr. George Thomas is reported seriously ill
at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Burn-
side, on west Curtin street.
—Miss Maud Campbell, of Water street, is visit-
ing friends in Muncy. She left on Saturday and
will be gone until Monday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert A. Beaver are in Belle-
fonte and expect to remain all summer. They
are at the family home on Curtin street.
—Mrs. Claud Brennen with her children and
sister, Miss Lucas, of Altoona, are a pleasant party
of visitors at their uncle David Barlet’s, in this
place.
—Bishop Thomas McGovern, so well known to
and so highly esteemedby the people of Belle-
fonte, is very dangerously ill at his residence in
Harrisburg.
—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Garman and their
children are expected here to-day for their sum-
mer visit to the Garman home. Dick is in busi-
ness in Philadelphia.
—Mrs. Elizabeth M. Glenn, of State College,
left, Wednesday, for Loraine, O., to visit her son
Dempster who is one of the superintendents at
Tom Johnson's big steel plant.
—Rev. W. H. Blackburn, formerly pastor of the
United Brethren church, preached to his old con-
gregation in this place on Sunday last. He is
now located at Braddock.
—Mrs. Lichten, with her son Harold, arrived
from Philadelphia, on Tuesday morning, to be
present at the wedding of her sister, Miss Lyon,
to Dr. Gordon on Wednesday.
—Mr. Evan Valentine, formerly of this place,
but for years engaged in the iron business in
Philadelphia, has been enjoying a few days with
his sister, Mrs. Pugh, on Curtin street.
—Among the Bellefonters now enjoying the sea
breezes and surf bathing at Atlantic City are Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Montgomery, the Misses Mary
and Henrietta Butts and Miss Millie Smith.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Chambers and their little
daughter, Helen, left yesterday for Kennett
Square, Chester county, to visit Mrs. Chambers’
parents. Fred and Isaac have heen there for
some weeks.
—Ruth Tripple, of North Spring street, went to
Lancaster yesterday morning, where she will visit
for a week or more while the patrons of the Bell
Co. here will be missing the obliging operator
every moment she is off duty.
—Judge Love and family, and Mr. F. P. Crider
and family, all of whom had been spending sever-
al weeks at the sea-shore, are back at home bring-
ing with them as souvenirs of their trip the usual
sea-side tan and reminders of the Jersey mos-
quito.
—Editor Speer, who does most of the story-tell-
ing for the Gazette, was down to enjoy the Lock
Haven carnival last week. He came home just as
sober as he went down, which is saying a great
deal for the moral stamina of the fellow who
tackles Lock Haven hospitality.
—Mr. and Mrs. Will Rankin and their little
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cook and their
child, Miss Lucy Potter, Dr. Braucht, the Misses
Orris, Miss Kate Lose and Joseph Gessner ‘were
among the 20 excursionists who left here yester-
morning, by the way ot Montandon, for Atlantic
City.
—Maurice Jackson left, on Monday morning,
for Oakland, Maryland, where he will spend two
weeks with his sister, Mrs. George Brew. He is
still unable to use his right hand, owing to the
injury that carried away the end of his index
finger, but expects to get back to his desk in the
bank as soon as he returns.
—The Misses Musser, of Scranton, who had
been guests of Mrs. Samuel Shefer, of Curtin
street, for a week, left for their home on Monday
afternoon. Both are charming girls and Belle-
fonte will be glad to welcome them again, particu-
larly Miss Marion Musser, whose engagement to
Mr. Paul Shefer has been announced.
—Chas. P. Hughes Esq., is in Bellefonte again
and his family will soon move back from Erie,
whither they went several months ago expect-
ing to make it their future home. After locating
there, however, they found that they liked Belle-
fonte better than they thought they did—and
their friends here will be glad to know that they
will return.
—George T. Brew Esq., was an arrival from
Oakland, Md., on Saturday evening and besides
shaking left hands with his friends here is looking
after some business relative to his duties as one
of the administrators of the estate of the late Geo.
W. Jackson. Mr. Brew was unfortunate enough
to have had one of the fingers of his right hand
mashed just before leaving his mill at Oakland.
—Mr. A. A. Pletcher, of Walker, who up to the
time of the Democratic county convention was a
candidate for Prothonotary, was in town on Mon-
day. It’s the first time we have seen him since
his defeat. He has no sores to heal or complaints
to make over the result ; his Democracy is too
good for that, and he is just as enthusiastic for the
ticket as if his name were upon it. Itis these
kind of Democrats that people admire,—manly,
open fellows, who take their chance and accept
results without whining. Mr. Pletcher is the
only one of a large family connection who votes
the Democratic ticket, but thinks there are more
of his relatives who would if they would read the
Warcuman., He has been a patron of this paper
for the past fifteen years and knows its worth
and usefulness.
—Robert J. McKnight, Mrs. McKnight and
Robert the Third, arrived from Philadelphia,
Monday afternoon, and went up to Hunter's park,
where they will spend two weeks at the home of
his father, Robt. McKnight Esq., at the farm to
which he retired after serving so faithfully and
long as superintendent of the Bellefonte Gas Co.
‘‘Bob,” as he is more familiarly known to Belle-
fonters, looks much better since the attack of
typhoid fever that came so near to carrying him
off, and if faithfulness and efficiency have any-
thing to do with it he will likely be a fixture in
the government's custom service at the port ot
Philadelphia, where he is a custom's weigher.
Mrs. McKnight and the baby are well and all are
glad enough to get away from the heat of Phila:
delphia for a short recreation.
—Col. W. R. Teller, the Chestertieldian hotel
man of Washington, D. C., is in town visiting his
daughter, Mrs. John M. Dale. Col. Teller is man-
ager of the Metropolitan, the popular resort for
southerners at Washington, and the ‘act that he
is there takes a great many Pennsylvanians to
the place, for during his years at the Brockerhotf
and Bush Houses in this place he made hosts of
friends who will be glad to share his hospitality
wherever they find him. He says that they have
had several nights down there when the ther-
mometer stood at 98° at mid-night and 91° at 5
o’clock in the morning. Another bit of interest-
ing information that he dropped while here is
that there are sitting around Washington in full
uniform and on the pay roll, enough officers to
supply another army as large as that already in
the field.
ANOTHER CENTRE CoUNTY Boy HEARD
FroM.—Perry O. Stiver Esq., a former
Centre county hoy, has heen nominated by
the Democrats of Illinois as their candidate
for superintendent of public schools, Mr.
Stiver was born and raised near Potter's
Mills, and resided there until ahout twen-
ty years ago. He has many relatives and
friends living in this county, all of whom
will be glad to learn of the honor that has
been accorded him and will congratulate
the Democracy of Illinois on thé good
judgment that induced the selection of
such a worthy and excellent candidate.
Mr. Stiver’s life work has been in the in-
terest of education. He began teaching
over in Penns valley when a boy of 19, and
there has not been a year, or a month, or a
week, of the twenty-four years that have
passed since that time, that he has not been
engaged in advancing, or in some way or
other interested in educational pursuits.
We doubt if, in the whole big State of Illi-
nois, another man can be found who is so
completely wrapped up in the idea of bet-
tering educational facilities for the benefit
of the common.people, or so devoted to the
common schools in lines that will add most
to the general advantage of the masses, as
is Mr. Stiver. In nominating him the
Democrats of that State have done them-
selves great credit, and if the people are
wise they will elec t him by an overwhelm-
ing vote.
A WARNING TO FAST DRIVERS. —On
Saturday evening a collision, that might
have proven a fearful accident, occurred
just in front of the residence of Mr. W. P.
Humes. Ex-Sheriff Ishler and his wife,
who bad been visiting Mrs. Ishler’s brother,
Mr. John Kline, were driving up Allegheny
street and Mr. Mart Garman, who was out
exercising his trotting mare “Dollie Spen-
cer,’’ was going in the other direction. Mr.
Garman was driving at a reckless pace and
seemingly did not notice Mr. Ishler’s hug-
gy until the shaft of his sulky crashed
through the top of it and the wheels of the
two vehicles collided. The shock threw
Mrs. Ishler from the buggy and directly
under Garman’s horse. Fortunately the
animals in both rigs remained perfectly
quiet. When Mrs. Ishler was rescued from
the dangerous position into which she had
been thrown, she was found to be uncon-
scious and badly bruised. She was imme-
diately taken to her home and a physician
summoned who announced that no serious
injury, except the shock, had been sus-
tained, and that in a few days she would be
able to be about again.
That the accident was not more serious
can be credited to the good sense and gen-
tleness of the horses, other wise it could
only have resulted in Mrs. Ishler being
dangerously injured, or possibly trampled
to death.
RE
A POTTER TOWNSHIP CONGRESSMAN FOR
KANsAs.—There must be more than ordi-
nary meritin Centre county boys, at least
in some of them, or they would not be
forging to the front as they are in almost
every part of the country. We had just
finished writing a short notice of the nomi-
nation of P. O. Stiver, a native of Potter
township, by the Democrats of Illinois, as
superintendent of public schools, when
we opened the Lincoln, (Kansas) Sentinel
and noticed that Will G. Hoffer, another
Potter township boy, had been named for
Congress by the Democrats of the 6th dis-
trict of that State. This news will be a
pleasant surprise to the friends of Mr.
Hoffer in this county, of whom there are
scores. Hundreds of our readers through-
out Pennsylvania knew him from child-
hood; they will be glad to learn of the
respect he has earned and the distinction
that has been accorded him in his new
home. They understand full well the dif-
ficulties there are for an out-spoken, earnest,
Democrat like Mr. Hoffer to get to Congress
from a Kansas district, but feel assured
that if any one can, he will, and that if
elected, his constituents will find no reason
to regret that fact.
Si
—The fourth Sub-Dist. Epwcrth
League convention for Altoona district
convenes at Stormstown Thursday and
Friday, July 28th and 29th. Eight of the
adjoining charges of the M. E. church com-
pose this district. An excellent program,
with timely and pertinent topics, is already
out. Prof. Black, of Williamsport, will
have direction of the music. Mrs. V. T.
Rue will be present and sing choice selec-
tions. Christian workers and the public
are cordially invited.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
JT4@75
66@68
40
33
28Y4
3.00@3.25
3.85@+.00
4.95@5.00
3.00@
... 1L.00@11.5
ww 8.@8.50
6.00@ 6.50
¢ —Favorite Brands.
Rye Flour Per Brl......
Baled hay—Choice No. 1
“ “ ‘“ e 2.
3
13 . “
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the PuaNix Mituing Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old.. . 70
Red wheat, new 65
Rye, per bushel. 45
Corn, shelled, pe 40
Corn, ears, per bushel. 40
Oats, per bushel, new . 30
Barley, per bushel....... 40
Ground Plaster, per ton. 8 00
Buckwheat, per bushel .
Cloverseed, per bushel...
25
86 00 to 87 00
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel..
Qnions. sitaseerares
s, per dozen.
Ton od ound...
Country Shoulde
Sides..
Hams....
Tallow, per pound.. ‘
Butter, per poundu...ccinisomnisinmnmons 12