Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 23,1898. CorrespoN DENTS.-——NO communications pub ished unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY Our Christmas Holiday Week. Readers of the WATCHMAN need not look for an issue of the paper next week, as the good old country custom is to give all hands a rest, so as to enable them to start the new year bright and fresh. The forty-third volume of the WATCH- MAN is completed with this issue and when next it greets its readers the forty-fourth will have been begun. Let us hope that the new year will be one freighted with richest blessings for all. Something far more bountiful than we have had in ’98 and let us live so that we merit whatever good fortune the future may have in store for us. Wishing you a merry Christmas and the most prosperous of New Years we bid you adieu for the old one. ——The holiday attraction at Garman’s will be the ‘‘Bachelor’s Honeymoon.” ——Gen. D. K. Heckman, of Sugar-val- ley, recently butchered a hog that weighed over 600 lbs. -——The ice moved out of the river at Clearfield, on Wednesday afternoon, on a seven foot float. —On Saturday night, Dee. 31st, the McLeod company will appear at Garman’s in the ‘‘Bachelor’s Honeymoon.’ -—The Mill ITall brick works are closed for a few days because of the break- ing of the shaft of the dry pan. —It too quite a while toget ready, but when the snow finally did begin to fall, on Saturday, it came down right. John A. Lindsay, of Trinidad, Col., recently elected judge of Los Animas coun- ty, was at one time a resident of Philips- burg. —Quite a nnmber of the young people from this place will attend the dance to be given in the gynasium of the Normal school at Lock Haven, on Monday night. —The sleighing was splendid on all roads leading out of Bellefonte last Sun- day and everybody who could get a horse and sleigh was out enjoying it. ——~Co. M, 21st Reg., was inspected in the armory, on Tuesday night, by Col. E. V. Selden, of Oil City. Forty-seven men were turned out and they made a very creditable showing. Bella Ward, Lula Markly, Grace Witmer and Ruth Stringfelt, four little scholars of the Coleville school, made their teacher, William Ott, a Christmas present of a nice large turkey on the last day of the session out there. ~ — The assembly to be given in the Armory, next Wednesday night, will be under the direction of Miss Minnie Brew. Chappell’s orchestra is to furnish the music and Ceader will serve the refreshments. Dancing will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. ——At the golden wedding anniversary which Mr. and Mrs. LI. B. McEntire, of Fillmore, recently celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Shuey, of College township, were guests. They had been groomsman and bridesmaid at the McEntire nuptials, fifty years ago. ——A. Y. Casanova, of Philipsburg, has been appointed toa position in the customs service at Sagua, Cuba. He just arrived home from Washington, where he had been acting as an interpreter during the Spanish trouble and left Philipsburg. yesterday, to enter upon his new duties. ——Former associate judge Corliss Faulk- ner, of Philipsburg, was in town on Mon- day and now it is said that he expects to be a candidate for the nomination of treas- urer. This is not published on judge Faulkne’s authority. Tt is merely gossip among the politicians. ——While Samuel Lyon, of Bald Eagle township, was working in the Mill Hall lime company’s quarries at Salona, on Mon- day morning, he was rendered unconscious by a large stone striking him on the head. The stone bad fallen a distance of thirty feet. After a physician had been with the injured man for some time, he was restored to consciousness. An ugly gash was cut in his head. ——R. A. Beck, whose musical talents have contributed so much to the pleasure of Bellefonters, has been a resident of the town for twenty-one years. During all that time he has been a good citizen and has done more than his share in charities and kindly attentions to those in need. His one theme seems to be to make others happy and so inspired he is ever abroad, bringing forth dulcet notes from his favorite clarinet. ——Maurice Poure, the boy violinist who performed here.with the Kane opera com- pany, was left in Clearfield by that com- pany. He was sick and had to be left be- hind. As the management was in hard luck it could spare him no money, so he had to throw himself on the charity of the citizens of Clearfield. After he had recov- ered from his illness Charley Noll arranged a benefit for the boy at the Witmer Inn, On Saturday afternoon, Miss Sue Cardon accompanied him and the contributions amounted to $7.50. Sunday afternoon another benefit was given, with the result that $17 more were raised. The Royer Bros. Co. presented $8 of the latter amount IKE ZIMMERMAN’S TERRIBLE EXPE- RIENCE AS A BEAR BAITER.—Everybody has heard of bears being shot and bears be- ing trapped and bears that have under- taken to climbslippery-elm trees with fatal results, but we’ll venture our reputation as a judge of rare and thrilling experiences of bear hunters that no one has ever heard a story that will beat Ike Zimmerman’s terrible encounter on the Nittany mount- ains last Thursday. It remained for the final day of the hunting season to bring one of the Nittany valley nimrods into notoriety, such as probably no other hunter will ever attain. Zimmerman laughs when he tells of his strange adventure now, but for about one hour of his life it was anything but a laughing matter. For the past four or five years bears have been unusuoally numerous on the Nittany mountains. In fact they have been so plenty that every season the crowd ahout Zion and Hublersburg kills anywhere from fiveto a dozen. It was only two years ago that a Pleasant Gap boy shot three in a field, just above that village, in one even- ing. Ever since the sport of bear hunting has resulted in the capture of game the dif- ferent parties that have returned from the mountains have told almost incredible tales about the size of some tracks they had seen. According to their descriptions one might have believed that one of the ancient species of mastodon was tramping over those mountains. At first the stories were looked upon as the machinations of an imaginative brain, but when other parties would return and corroborate them and an occasional pack of hounds, that had started on the trail of the unseen beast, would never come back and their mangled carcasses were later found on the scene of what had evidently been a great struggle, people be- gan to believe that tkere was something in them. It was not until last Monday a week ago that the mystery was solved. Ike Zimmer- man was rabbit hunting along the foot of the mountain, when his dogs struck a fresh fox track and started off on it. In order to be in a position to command the ‘‘benches’”” on both sides. Ike struck straight for the top. He had scarcely reached his station when he heard the hounds bringing the fox around the end of the mountain on the south side and waited, expecting reynard to run just below him. But the fox changed its course and struck down the other side, into a laurel thicket. The hounds kept up the chase, but when they reached the laurel they stopped and their even tonguing gave way to a terrific barking. As the sound did not seem to move the hunter hurried to the scene, thinking that probably the fox had holed. ‘When he reached his dogs they were racing excitedly about the thicket, barking as if mad. He could see no place that the fox might have gone, except into the laurel and following its track he dropped to his hands and knees and started in under the brush, pushing his gun at hisside. He had erawled only a few feet when he emerged on the edge of a kettle shaped hole, probably 20ft in diameter. A flat rock sloped to the bottom of it and the other side was like a natural cave, just as if several strata of rock had been taken out, leaving the upper- most to stand by itself. Underneath this shelter sat the biggest bear that Zimmer- man had ever set eyes on. It seemed supremely indifferent to the yelping of the little hounds, but when it caught sight of the man a growl that made the very ground tremble, warned him of his danger. Know- ing that the No. 6 shot with which his shells were loaded would be of no use sent into such a beast, he scrambled out of that thicket and struck for home as fast as his legs would carry him. Ike kept his own counsel about what he had seen. He knew that that was the hear that had made the monster tracks and he decided that he would try and capture the bruin single handed. He was all ready to start on Wednesday, but his wife’s desire to come to town that day made it nec- essary for him to stay at home. He was happy when he found that the two inches of snow that had fallen the previous Tues- day was going to lay. Bright and early Thursday morning he struck for the mount- ain. This time he carried a 45 repeating rifle and didn’t even take his dogs with him. He went straight to the lair in which he had seen the bear, but though tracks were plentiful about the den the occupant was not at home. Scouting around until he found the freshest track he started off after his prey. Away up into Green valley it led him, then back again to the gap, just above the Nittany club. There his keen instinct told him that bruin was not far ahead of him. He got more cautions and stalked along as carefully as he could, with his gun ready to shoot any instant. The tracks led him clear down into the gap, be- tween the points of the mountain, and finally crossed the creek. As he stopped on the one bank to look for a good place to cross he noticed the water birches on the opposite bank shaking violently and his rifle flew to his shoulder in a flash. He could see nothing but did not lower his gun. There was a momentary quiet and then, just as he had concluded that it had been the wind, the birches were pushed aside and the great bear came out of the bushes standing, on its hind legs, just across the stream. It is not to be wondered at that Zimmerman had an at- tack of ‘‘buck-ague.” He shook all over, but did not realize that it was his. time to shoot until bruin had stepped down into the creek. Then he fired and the great brute sank back onto the bank—dead in its tracks, so he thought. He stood and gazed at the monster bear for a moment and thought he must have pierced its heart, so dead did it appear to be. There was not the slighest quiver to indicate that there was a spark of life left. Elated, and justifiably so, he leaned his gun against a bush and started to see just where his bullet had struck. Jumping down into the brook, he walked to where the bear lay and was standing astride its body, fingering in it sthick fur for the bullet hole, when, suddenly," he saws signs of re- turning life and, quick, wheeled about to recover his gun. It was too late. Just as he had turned the bear raised its head and, with a vicious growl, grabbed for the terri- fied hunter. It caught the seat of his heavy corduroy hunting trousers in its mouth, but nothing else. That was enough, how- ever, for the trousers would not give and Zimmerman was anchored as fast as if chained to the mountain itself. At his wits end he knew not what to do. Strangely enough the bear did not leave go or try for a more effective hold and the hunter realized that should he ease up in the tugging, that he hoped would make his trousers give way, it would take him in its awful embrace and he would be squeezed to death. Finally the bear regained its feet and started towards him, but he was careful that there should be no slack, for he realized that it was trying to get him in its paws. He kept tugging away and the bear following, they crossed the stream and scrambled up the opposite bank. Zimmer- man could not understand why it would not leave go, but as that was no time for investigation he kept on. Jumping over logs and rocks, dodging under brush the unique tandem went trotting towards the gap road. The only hope the hunter had then was to get down into the valley, where his shouts would be heard and a rescue effected. Theroad was reached and Ike headed for the valley. The bear al- ways trying to reach him with its fore paws and he desperately striving to allow no slack in his baggy breeches. It must have been a critically ridiculous sight to have seen the frightened hunter making tracks down that road. At every jump he let out a yell. His face was white as the snow at his feet and he just smiled a sickly sort of a grin when we asked him whether his hair wasn’t involuntarily pompadour. He admits that the half mile down to the first fields seemed like a thousand to him. The nearer he got to the open the more frantically he yelled, hut no one came to his relief. Presently the little bridge, just above the Nittany country club, was reach- ed and as he shot round the corner of the fence two boyscame running up the road. Both had guns, but when they saw the sight ahead of them they turned and took to their heels. ‘‘For God’s sake shoot it!’ yelled Zimmerman, after the fleeing boys. They sped on. ‘‘Shoot it boys, it won’t leave go!’ yelled Zimmerman, again. But they did not stop. They headed for the little house that stands nearly opposite the club and never stopped until they were in- side the yard and had hooked the gate. Then he shouted again: ‘Shoot at the bear boys, for God’s sake.”” And as he sped by the gate there was a simultane- ous report of both guns and briun rolled over in the snow. When it went down the hunter went with it, yelling and tear- ing to get loose. The great brute seemed dead enough this time, sohe whipped out his hunting knife and cut himself away from its jaws. There it lay, the blood spurting from two holes in its side. Though the boys had had shot guns the range was so short that the charges had not spread and either one of them would have been fatal. Zimmer- man was interested in the portion of his trousers that still stuck in its mouth and when he went to remove it he discovered that bruin’s jaws were locked fast. Then he looked. to see where his bullet had struck. The result of his examination solved the mystery of his terrible plight. He had aimed for the heart, but had shot wide of the mark, the ball grazing the left part of the jaw and penetrating the neck. The shot had had the marvelous effect of producing lock-jaw and that was the reason the bear could not leave go, but followed vainly on to catch him with its paws for the death hug. : When he had hauled it home on a little wood sled he found that it weighed 562 1bs. While many of the hunters in the valley have seen the monster hide and are con- vinced that Ike has killed the great hear that they have all heard of none are will- ing to believe his story of how he had to bait it home, notwithstanding he produces the trousers, minus their gable end, as con- vineing proof of it. >be A FATAL FALL.—Mrs. Catharine Ha- ley, who resides on Borough street in this place, met with a very serious accident at her home on Sunday morning. As she is past 80 years old and has but ore limb it was difficult for her to get about. Never- theless she lived alone. On Sunday morn- ing she arose as usual and was about to start down stairs when she tripped and fell. An hour or more afterwards Paul Jones found her lying at the bottom of the stairs completel y paralyzed. Her entire body, from the neck down, was affected, her recovery being an impossibility. Mrs. Haley was the widow of the late Jas. Haley who came to this place from Phila- delphia about forty years ago. She expired about noon on Tuesday. Interment was made in the Catholic cemetery Wednesday morning. eset ——-On December 27th a total eclipse of the moon, visible to nearly all parts of the United States, will occur. According to the almanac the moon will enter the earth’s shadow at 5p. m., and the eclipse proper will begin at 6 and end at about 7:30 east- ern time. The shadow of the earth will be slightly larger than the moon’s disc. CoUNCIL IN SEssioN.—All but one of the councilmen were present at Mouday night’s session when the following business was transacted : Under the head of communications com- plaint was made by P. Gray Meek that the western abutment of the High street bridge, being laid on plank and tight against the foundation wall of the WATcH- MAN building, is doing the latter serious damage because of the vibration caused by the movement of teams over the bridge. The matter was referred to the Street com- mittee and engineer for investigation. James Kelly made a request that he be given the first chance to buy the old Un- dine engine property, on Logan street, when the borough offers it for sale. The Water committee reported every thing in good shape in that department. It might be well to ask it a question right here. Are the fire plugs regularly inspect- ed so that in the event of their being need- ed they will not be found to be frozen up ? The steam heat company offered to heat the public building for $15 per month and the proposition was accepted, as well as the one to heat the Undine engine house. The decision to have central steam will put an end to the nightly debates at the Logan engine house, as to what a janitor’s duties ‘are and how much the right man should be paid, but the Logans would far rather have their subject for debate taken from them than be left to freeze with the old heating plant. The question of a borough lighting plant was taken up again and after &onsiderable discussion by Messrs.’ Frank McCoy, W. R. Jenkins and F. W. Crider. on behalf of the Edison company, and Thomas Cooper, on behalf of a borough plant, the matter was held over for two weeks more. It was disclosed by the discussion that the stock holders of the Edison company pay one fifth of all the taxes paid in Belle- foute and, necessarily, they claimed to be interested in cheap and well lighted streets. The company then made a proposition to furnish 40 arc lights for Bellefonte, an ad- dition of 13 over the number in use now, on a 5 year contract at $90 a light per an- num. Mr. Cooper, of the Ft. Wayne Co., then announced that he would be willing to put in a plant costing $7,500 and run it him- self or leave anyone designated by eouncil to run it, if council would pay him an- nually the difference hetween the cost of running his plant and the amount now paid for street lighting, which is approxi- mately $4,000. Mr. Cooper stated that the annual payments would be applied to pay- ing for the plant and when it should be paid for with interest it would become hor- ough property. The proposition certainly looked glittering enough, but council de- cided to take more time in which to decide whether all is gold that glisters. The following bills were ordered paid and the session adjourned : Police pay roll § 35 00 Street pay roll. 43 75 R. B. Taylor. coal for Dec. 81 37 Water Pay Roll Se 5875 R. B. Taylor, coal for Logan and Undine Cols. cic... iiiiiniin 17 84 L. C. Wetzel, repairing fire plugs..... G0 70 D. S. Mechtly, laying pavement...... 26 01 8323 42 THE SHORTEST DAY IN THE YEAR.— Wednesday was the shortest day of 1898 and henceforth, until the 21st of June, the days will grow longer. It was the shortest day because there were less hours of sun- light than in any day of the year. Day’s length, nine hours and nineteen minutes. After Christmas the ‘‘clerk of the weather’ shifts the machinery so as to lengthen the days at the rate of about seventy-five sec- onds, until the 21st of June, when the day is the longest of the year. The sun from Christmas on, using the common phrase, returns northward to drive back the water, but the latter has acquired such momentum that for a while the contest will be un- equal. The days will increase in length but slowly for some time. A month hence, on January 21st, the sun will come in view but one minute earlier, and sink beneath our sight thirty-four minutes later, mak- ing the difference only thirty-five minutes. Then, however, daylight will rapidly iengthen. oe THE LOGANS AND THEIR DANCE.— Next Friday night, Dec. 30th, the members of the Logan engine company will give their 29th annual dance. Arrangements have been perfected whereby they will have a fine orchestra and everything else provided for an enjoyable evening. The Logan dance is one of the events always looked for at the closing of the old year, but owing to the fact that New Years falls on Sunday they have set the time one day earlier than usual so that a full night's en- joyment can be had without breaking into the Sabbath. If you have not secured a ticket you should do so at once. For those who dance the enjoyment more than repays the price of a ticket. Those who do noi, owe if to the company that is ever on the alert to render the public assistance, no matter what the personal sacrifice might be i ode DepicaTION POSTPONED. —Owing to the inclement weather of Dec. 4th, the dedica- tion of the Fairview Christian Union house of worship, was put off ’till New Year's day, Jan. 1st, A. D. 1899. The house is three miles north of Curtin’s Works. Inas- much as this is a house for everyone in the community to worship in, as well as to have its accommodation for funerals, all should give a helping hand in freeing it from debt. Services will begin at 10:30 o'clock a. m. on Sunday, Jan. 1st, A. D. 1899. All the friends of the cause are in- vited to be present. News Purely Personal. —Gilbert A. Beaver is at his home in this place, having arrived on Tuesday morning, to spend the Chriztrias season with his family. —Mr. I. M. Harvey, who lives on one of the most picturesque spots along the Bald Eagle, was in town on Tuesday doing some ante-Christmas buying. —George I. Yearick, of Madisonburg, who is re- ported to be one of Miles township's most ef- ficient teachers, is one of the interested attend- ants at institute this week. —TFred Blair was sufficiently recovered from an attack of typhoid fever to start for Philadelphia, on Saturday morning. He went down there to recuperate for a few weeks. —Fergus Potter Esq., of Linden Hall, spent Wednesday in town laying in some supplies for the holidays and getting ready for the farmer's institute that is to be held at Boalshurg next weel. —Aaron Lutz and his son were down from Lin- den Hall, Tuesday. They were wise enough to start from home in a wheeled vehicle, though the sleighing up their way did almost tempt them in- to trying runners. —Henry Sampsel Esq., of Pleasant Gap, was in town on Wednesday, but was so busy when we saw him that we didn’t have time to find out whether they have been having any more col- lapsing straw stack accidents out his way. —Though John Yearick is one of the fellows | who can’t alfogether make up his mind that the Warenman’s bear story writer tells the truth, he has waived that point and sent the paper asa Christmas gift to J. J. Lohr, at Grand Junction, Col. —Prof. I. Thornton Osmond, of State College, passed through town, on Friday night, on his way to Pittsburg, where he was going on some work relative to the department of physics, at the Pennsylvania State College, of which he is the head. —W. H. Limbert, of Wolt’s Store, who has a whole regiment of young ideas down in Miles township under his command, is attending insti- tute this week and getting some pointers on how to make them shoot straighter. He is quartered at the Garman house, : —Charley Shearer, the merry tinkle of whose anvil was once heard at the rear of this building, drove over from Centre Hall, on Saturday, and re- ported the sleighing good. Charley says he is getting along fine over there and has been rough- ing horses for four weeks or more. —Miss Katharyn Brisbin, of North Allegheny street, and Miss Eleanor Harris left for Philadel- phia, last Friday morning. They expect to be gone until after New Years and from the letters they have been writing home they are having a gorgeous time. Theatre parties and dinners ga- lore. —’'Squire Michael Shaffer, of Cenire Hall, spent Wednesday in town. The ’Squire has sold his farm down in Walker township and left there, after a residence of 57 years, to make his home with his son in Centre Hall. Mr. Shaffer is 75 vears old, but you would scarcely take him to be more than 60. —J. 8. Dauberman, whose market at Centre Hall is celebrated for the choice quality of meats al- ways on hand, has been in town during the past week hob-nobbing with the teachers. He is an old pedagogue, himself, and enjoys meeting the men and women with whom he was once asso- ciated. —C. M. Guthrie, organist at Franklin and Mar- shall college, at Lancaster, and leader of their glee club, is in town for the holidays, the guest of Rev. T. Levan Bickle, pastor of the Reformed church, Mr. Guthrie is here drilling the choir at the Re- formed church for the Christmas song service they will sing. —Fred Neiss, the boss bridge builder on the Tyrone division of the P. R, R., was in town on Monday. His home is in Eyrone and while he is getting to be an old man he has no idea of giving up his work on the railroad, where he is con- sidered one of the most faithtul and efficient men in the service. —Miss Kate Gilliland, of Oak Hall, was in town on Monday making Christmas purchases and when her father put in his appearance, next day, on the same mission we came to the conclusion that each of them can look for a present from the other For it was quite evident that neither one of them wanted other eves to sce what was being purchased. —Mur. and Mrs. Ellis Gramley, with their child, arrived here Wednesday afternoon, from Free- port, Ill. Mr. Gramley is a son of former county treasurer J. J, Gramley and it has been seven years since he last saw Centre county. They will spend six weeks among their friends here be- fore returning. Mr. Gramley drove up from his home in Rebersburg, yesterday, and ook the family down there tospend Chvistmas at the old homestead. —Wm. B. Thomas, the right hand man in the P. R. R. freight office in this place, dropped in to call on Friday. More people would probably know who we mean were we to say “Billy” Thomas, for that is what we have heard him called ever since the days he used to make us fly out of the old ware-house when we would sneak in to see if there were any peanut bags with holes in in there. —Everything was progressing in its usual un- disturbed way in the Warcnmax office Monday evening, Al Pletcher, of Nittany, and C. D. Moore, of Boalsburg, were sitting here quietly talking over the prospects for a profitable week of insti- tute, when in popped R. J. Snyder, a Marion town- ship teacher, who started the other two going and the trio had fun with us until we had to chase them all out into the rain. They are three of the old teachers in the county and they are all good ones too. —It is estimated that there are about two hun- dred thousand tons of ore left on the Carnegie lands at Scotia. This would be enough to keep the mines busy for about three years. Itis not definitely known whether they will resume in the spring or not. Supt. F. H. Clemson, with Mrs. Clemson and their little daughter, was in town on Monday. While he would not say positively that the mines will resume, yet he was of the opinion that the ore will all be taken out before the place is abandoned. —Hon. Leonard Rhone, with Mrs, Rhone and their daughter Florence, were in Bellefonte on Saturday, on their way home from Williams- port, where they had spent the week at the meeting of the state grange, of which organization Mr. Rhone had been master for a number of years. He was not re- elected at Williamsport, because it was his de sire to retire from the position as master, though he did permit the use of his name in making up the executive committee, as a member of which his long experience in the grange work will make him of good service to the order. —The college boys and girls have begun to gather in for the Christmas holidays. Charles MeClure, Wallace Gephart, Fred Blanchard and Harry Weaver are the Princeton delegation. Then there is Siun McClure, who goes to Dickin- son; Coburn Rodgers, Willis Ishier, Bert Blair, Clarence Harper, John Curtin and Charley Harris from State. Miss Grace Mitchell, from Bryn Mawr; Miss Betty Breeze from art school in Philadelphia; Miss Mary H. Linn came home from Bryn Mawr college, on Tuesday evening. She is one of the mistresses there. Ed. Harris arrived from ilahnneman medical college in Philadelphia yesterday. Ned Blanchard is home from the University law school, but Wallace Reeder won't be home from Haverford until the day after Christmas, —Mrs. Mose Burnett and her two daughters, Catharine and Margaret, are going to Syracuse, N. Y.,, to spend Christmas with Mr. Burnett's family. —Mrs. George W. Vandyke arrived from Pitts- burg yesterday to spend the holiday season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Noll, of Bishop street. —W. M. Kerlin, of Centre Hall, who teaches one of the Ferguson township schools, is one of the youngest teachers in the county, but the di- rectors up there say he is a good one. —Cyrus N, Brungart, of Millheim, was in the crowd in town yesterday. He is going to be a candidate for sheriff and could not let such an op- portunity to make hay slip by. —Dr. W. U. Irvin, of Julian, was in town yes- terday morning having left his extensive prac- tice at that place long enough to come down to read a paper before the meeting of the public school directors. —Among the directors in town yesterday was P. J. McDonald, the goed Democrat whom Repub- lican Unionvidle finds it wise to keep in office. He said the directors had had the best meeting that he had ever attended. —A. N. Brungart, of Wolfe's Store, was a pleas- ant caller at this office Wednesday evening. Mr. Brungart is one of Sup’t. Gramley’s teaching force and has a school in Gregg township. He is a son of H. C. Brungart, Esq. —Little Miss Gertrude Crawford, of Coleville, was a caller at the Warcnyman office vesterday afternoon and transacted the business that her father had entrusted to her in as satisfactory a manner as one much older could have done. -—Miss Florence L. Long, of Philipsburg, is among the teachers from that end of the county who are in attendance at institute. Miss Long is a daughter of John B. Long, one of the prominent men of that section, and is, herself, one of the foremost teachers in Rush township. —Henry Whiteleather was up from Abdera, yesterday, to attend the meeting of the school directors. He is one of the advocates of good schools down in Marion and loses no opportunity to meet with his tellow directors for a mutnal ex- change of ideas on improved methods. —Mr. N. W. Meyer and sons were in town yes- terday and while Mr. Meyer attended institute he sent his oldest to transact the business that need- ed attention in town. The portion looked after in this office was done in such a manly, dignified way that his father need have no concern: in leaving his business in such hands. —Ellls Shaffer, of Rebersburg, was in town yes- terday attending the meeting of the county school director’s association. Mr. Shaffer is a decided- ly interesting personage in Bellefonte just at pres- ent, because he is mentioned as a possibility for the sheriff’s nomination. He hasn’t decided yet whether he will enter the race or not. —H. C. Rice Esq., of Philipsburg, is in town attending his last institute as a director, unless the Rush township people see the error of their ways and re-elect him. He has been about the same good friend to Rush schools that Col. Irwin has been to those of Philipsburg, yet they allowed him to get out of office and won’t realize what they have done until he retires in May. Mr. Rice is of the opinion that he will be able to struggle along without the salary of the office and he can probably scrape up enough for his annual visits here, which are =o pleasant. Geo. F. Weaver, of Penn's Cave, one of the Gregg township teachers, has announced his intention of being a candi- date for county register when the time comes. Itis rumored now that Wm. H. Roush, of Pine Grove Mills, is going to be a candidate for register too. ge Lin THE CORNELLY PARDON CASE CONTIN- UED.—The state board of pardons met in Harrisburg, on Wednesday, and considered a great many cases, but that of James Cor- nelly was not taken up. It was continued because C. M. Bower Esq., who was to have represented Cornelly before the board, has been ill at his home in this place all week and could not go to Harrisburg. The case of Charles Cleary, of Renovo, was also continued. Business Notice. Powers Shoe Co. have handsome leggings, slippers and footwear suitable for Xmas. presents. Skates will cut considerable ice pretty soon. ——DBuy a graphophone for a Xmas. present for the family. They are but $10 and upwards at Bush's. ——Many noted men are lost to sight after an election. ——Cut prices on Holiday Goods at Bush's. ——The pen that signs the treaty will be might- ier than the sword. ——~Cameras and Photo supplies at Bush's. —Few Americans are twisting the lion’s tail for exercise these days. ——Good shoes cheap at Powers Shoe Co's. Try Grain-0? Try Gram-0! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it with- out injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most dolicate stomach receives it with- out distress. 14 the price of coftee- 15¢. and 25cts per package. Sold by all grocers. 43-50-17 Philadelphia Markets. The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. T2@T2% 6734@68 30 3934@40 3384@34 2.25@2.50 « 3.10@3.25 «. 3.75@4.00 Flour— Winter, Per Br’ ‘© —Penna. Roller... ¢ —TFavorite Brands.. Rye Flour Per Bril....... 3.10 Baled hay—Choice No. 1. 0.50@11.00 Halal we 9.00 Straw... Bellefonte Grain Market. Jorrected weekly by the PuaNix Miurineg Co. The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes press: Red Wheat, old. ee 65 Red wheat, new 65 Rye, per bushel... 40 Corn, shelled, per bushe 40 Corn, ears, per bushel..... 30 Oats, per bushel, new .. . 20 Barley, per bushel........ 51110 Ground Plaster, per ton.. .. 8 00 Buckwheat, per bushel .. via 08 Cloverseed, per bushe $6 00 to $7 CO Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. Potatoes per bushel. ene 40 Onions... 50 Eggs, pe i 20 Lard, per pound 6 Country Shoulders.. Sides... Hams... ; Tallow, per pound 3 Butter, per pound.....cceeeeens 20
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