SAR, coe ——— wn EE — — | | i i SPER % - duran. Until February 1st, 1899, Terms, 81.00 a Year, in Advance. Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 16. 1898. P. GRAY MEEK, - - Epitor. The Watchman for $1.00 to January 1st, 1900 A business proposition requires us to add 1,000 new names to the subscription list of the WATCHMAN by the 1st of Feb. next. Itisof such a character as will permit of special inducements being of- fered. Ordinarily the paper could not be furnished at the price we propose of- fering it at until that date, but the prop- osition is such that we ean save inan- other way all that may be lost in send- ing out the paper at less than its actual cost, and we purpose giving those who help usin this matter the advantage. 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We offer you now, and for the time but the It will be sent to you, wherever you are, or to specified, not only the best, CHEAPEST paper in the county. any of your family, wherever they may be, postage free, at the price named. Will you he one of the 1,000 new sub- seribers? Remember your subscription will he- gin the day you send in your dollar and it pays in full to January 1st. 1900. This opportunity is offered until the 1st day of February, 1899. —————————— Mulcting a Sheriff for Doing His Daty. There are few persons in Centre county who will not consider it crassest justice when they learn that by a finding of a jury in the civil court in session in this place last week former sheriff Jou~N P. Coxpo and his deputies are to be held responsible, in a pecuniary way, for the burning of the GOODMAN house at Woodward, in March, 1896. The jury brought in a verdict of $865 for the plaintiff in a suit which Hr- RAM M. GooDMAN, administrator of Ears | C. GOODMAN, had brought against Joux Coxpo, H. H. MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM GARES, JoHN L. DuNLoP, JAMES Cog- NELLY avd JOSEPH RIGHTNOUR for dam- ages sustained by the burning of their house, in which WiLLram R. ETTLINGER, a murderer who was resisting arrest, had fortified himself. The case was a peculiar one and decid- edly complicated. The circumstances sur- rounding the Woodward tragedy are so well known that it is unnecessary to re- state them here. Suffice it for a brief state- ment that constable JOHN BARNER, in the pursuit of his supposed duty, went to the GOODMAN house in Woodward to arrest ETTLINGER, who was the occupant of the house by lease. The constable was killed by ETTLINGER while resisting arrest and the local authorities, having exhausted all means at their command, were unable to capture the murderer. The sheriff was looked to for assistance and rendered it to the end that after exhausting all means at his command the house was hurned and STTLINGER forced out of it. Immediately the question arose as to who should pay for the destroyed property. There was an insurance on it, but no in- surance company could be held to pay for such a loss. It was beyond reason that the GOODMAN estate should have to bear it, | then there was no other source left to which to look for payment except the sher- iff or the county. The sheriff was plainly in the pursuit of his duty in trying to ef- fect the arrest of a murderer, he had been called to Woodward to preserve the maj- esty of the law, he had been sent there on | a special train chartered hy the county commissioners to carry him and his posse, they spent a night and a day in trying to dislodge the criminal, exposed themselves constant fusillade and then, when the mature judgment of the many men who bad been attracted to the scene focused itself on the one and only means | that appeared to be left to them, the sheriff telegraphed here to the county commis- sioners to know whether he should fire the building. They answered to the effect that he had been sent there to arrest Ero- LINGER and would be expected to do it. It was a tacit affirmative to his question and the building was burned. The old hoard of commissioners realized that the county ought to be held for such expense, for they offered to pay the Goon- MANS just about the amount they have been awarded in the suit with My. CoxDo and his deputies. to a They wanted twice as | that was adduced. | question was answered in the | clearly demonstrates that the jury was | deadly weapon of the supposed i rest. {only occasionally that much, however, and carried their case to | court with the result that an officer whose | record for efliciency has never been sur-! passed by a Centre county sheriff, is to be muleted of $865 for doing his duty. By every right of honor and fairness the county ought to pay this bill. If an hon- est, well meaning officer, acting under practically direct instructions is to be held for the expense of carrying them into effect then where can we expect to find compe- tent, responsible men who will care to fill such positions. Sheriff CoNDPO was a credit to the office he held, he was urged to do what he did by hundreds of citizens of the community and we venture the in- ference that few of the jury that sat on the case last week fully realized the situation they were placing him in. Some of the jurymen actually thought | that they were merely fixing the amount | of damage. So they were, but in doing so they were fixing what Mr. CoNbno should pay, for the suit was brought against him and his deputies. Just to make public the real state of af- | fairs we append four questions the court asked the jury to answer from the evidence The fact that every affirmative convinced that Mr. CoNDO was doing his duty in a manner of which it approved, yet it was placing itself in the anomalous position of muleting him in the sum of | $865 for an act which it was approving in the same report. The questions and their answers are as follows: Ist. Whether John P. Condo, sheriff, was at Woodward on the 6th day of Mareh, Isa6, in the | discharge of his official duty for the purpose of arresting charged with and suspected of having | committed a grave erime such as the killing of constable Barner and that he had called upon the man so accused to surrender himself and that he refused that he had endeavored to make the ar- rest with a posse of deputies, in the affirmative. 2nd. Whether the sheritt and his deputies had used every legitimate means to make the : Question answered rest and had heen exposed to the fire from a un or criminal con- That the sheritt had ex- hausted all means that could be resorted to with- cealed in the house, out unnecessarily endangering human lite and that the person sought to he arrested was holding the entire party at bay. We so tind. rd. Whether the burning of the premises in Ans. question were under all the evidence necessary in order to make the arrest of the acensed person William D. Ettlinger. dns. We do. tth. Whether under the evidence no other means could have successfully heen resorted to than the burning of the building to scenre his ar- Aus. No other means could have been re- | =orted to. If the jury could find such facts to have been the case how could it expect Mr. CoxN- Do to be liable, any more citizen of the county, for the expense of enforcement of the law? The people of Centre county cannot afford to have such an injustice done a man who served them so faithfully. errr irvine ree than any other ——The Philadelphia Record Almanac | for 1899 is out in a flaming red cover and a | specially engraved frontispiece. However neither the cover nor the engraving are of material importance in comparison with the one-hundred-twenty-two pages of statistical and general information that the almanac contains. Probably the funny man of the Record, who edits the “In and About the City’ paragraphs, suggested the idea of a red cover so that Berks county fortunates who get one would know that it | is to be read and not use it to hold down a plush album on the parlor centre table. — Russia, with the hope of getting an ice-free port on Norwegian territory, is suspected of trying to fan into a flame the spark of disruption that has lately been struck between Norway and Sweden. While the Swedes are stronger, by two to one, in hoth army and navy than their coalesced neighbor’s on the other side of the Kiolen mountains, the Norwegians seem nothing daunted by their own weak- ness and are getting so gay that the growl of the Russian bear can almost be heard in their every movement. -——They were extenuating circum- stances. MARSH'S return after seven years of exile, his manly statements before the court and the fact that he did not profit by | the Keystone bank’s failure, that should | have awakened clemency in the heart of | It was not justice. it was : brutal to give him a sentence of twelve | judge BrrLeg. years. re e— ——Do you think that MaArsH would | | baye returned for punishment had he { known he would be given a twelve year | sentence? It was too much.: He eould have managed to keep fresh without so hard a salting. Old Glory in Havana. United States Troops March Through the City With Flying Colors—Deep Emotion Shown by the Na- tives. HAVANA, Dec. 12.—The Two Hundred and Second New York Regiment marched fram the San Jose wharf to the Christina railroad station. The color sergeants bore the stars and stripes and the blue and gold banner of the State of New York. The route was not through the principal streets. There were only the ordinary number of people in the streets, and it was cries of ‘Vive Espanal”’ “Vive Americanos!” or “Vive Cuba Libre!” were heard. The onlookers were mostly silent, and were nierely curious to see the American soldiers. The First North Carolina Regiment marched through the city with band and colors, to camp at Marianao. By the time the regiment had reached the suburb of Cerro many hundreds of men, women and | children were following, all showing deep emotion, the men embracing one another, the women weeping from ex essive pleasure and the children shouting endearing names as the North Carolinians marched along. Several hundred Cubans followed the regi- | ment all the way to Marianao, a distance of seven miles. General Garcia Dead. The Cuban Soldier Falls a Victim of Pneumonia—He | The Disease Carried to the Town by Soldiers From ' Dies Pleading for Cuba—His Last Words Were Climate Was Too Sudden. WASHINGTON. D. C. —General Cal- ixto Garcia, the distinguished Cuban warrior and leader, and the head of the Commission elected by the Cuban Assem- bly to visit this country, died here Sunday morning shortly after 10 o’clock at the Ho- tel Raleigh, of pneumonia. The sudden change from the warm climate of Cuba, with the hardships he had there endured, to the wintry weather of the North was re- sponsible for the sickness. He contracted a slight cold in New York, and on Tuesday night General Garcia, in company with the other members of the Commission, attend- ed a dinner given in his honor hy Major General Miles, and it was a result of the | his death. General Garcia | scious for 12 hours. was | nized one or more of those about hin. | LAST WORDS WERE BATTLE ORDERS. | In his dying moments, as all through his ! busy and active life, his thoughts were for | his beloved country and its people, and | among his last words were irrational mut- [ terings in which he gave orders to his son, { who is on his staff, for the battle which he | supposed was to occur to-day, and in which he understood there were only 400 Span- liards to combat. Just before he died he I embraced his son. Rev. Father Magee, of | St. Patrick’s church, administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic church. Other members of the Cuban Commission and My. Rubene, their counsel in this country, was also in the bed chamber. A large Cuban flag served as a covering for his bier and the head rested on one of smaller dimensions. The face aad bust were left exposed to public view. Just above the head rested a magnificent floral | piece of red and white roses and crossed palms tied with a pure white ribbon. OUR TROOPS AS A GUARD OF HONOR. detachment of soldiers from Battery I. Sixth Artillery, under commad of Lieuten- | ant Cox, was detailed a bodyguard. Secre- tary Jose Villalon. of the Commission, sent | a telegram of notification to Mendez Capote, ! the president of the Cuban Assembly, who is now in Havana. President McKinley manifested his sympathy by sending a suit- ably-worded letter, and Vice President Ho- bart sent his card. ed were Senators Foraker, Money. Proctor and Chandler, and Major General Lawton and Major General Wheeler. | The thonght of Mrs. Garein sitting hy the side of her danghter, who is dying of consumption at Thomasville, Georgia, and kept in ignorance of the illness of her hus- | band for the sake of her daughter, has | touched every heart. When Mrs. Garcia pased through here last week to go to her daughter the Cubans felt that she might | never see her hushand alive again, but he would not allow her to be told that he was ill, so she did not stop. ENDS HOPE OF CUBAN REPUBLIC. The death of General Garcia, in the opin- ion of thoughtful public men, ends all hope | of the establishment of an independent Cu- han Republic. General Garcia was the on- | ly Cuban leader of real prominence or wide | influence who could maintain the nove- ment for the creation of a Cuban Republic, | temporary, if not permanent; and, now that he has gone, his associates in the com- ‘mittee he brought here to plead for that General Garcia did not claim that a Caban Repub- lic would he best for Caba as a permanen- ey; but be did claim that, after the provis- sional military government which Presi- dent McKinley proposed, and before that [ annexation to the United States which seemed to him likely to come eventually, | there ought to be an independent Cuhan Republic. He hoped to be President of it, and he hoped to see it materialize in sub- stantial ways. It is generally believed that Cuba will now pass quietly from the military state to the state of annexation. General Gomez desires this to be the fate of the Republie, according to the statements of his friends here, and there is no other commanding general to oppose him. | purpose feel bereft and defeated. FATHER OF A LARGE FAMILY. General Garcia left a large family. Justo a captain on his staff; his widow and Mer- cedes, a daughter, 17 years of age, who are at Thomasville, Ga.; Mario, a son, 19 years of age; Colonel Carloas Garcia, anoth- er son, who is in Caba, and a daughter, Leonora, who married an American is now living in Paris. General Garcia's mother is alive and resides in Havana. General Garcia, whose name will be link- ed with those of other patriots who have fought against unequal odds for the free- dom of his country, has had a most active and varied life. He was a man of culture and refinement, of splendid education and came from a distinguished family of Jiqua- ni of Santiago de Cuba Province. He was born in Coquin, October 14th, 1839. Gen- eral Garcia was educated in Havana and Spain. In 1864 he was married to Isabel Velez. Gideon Marsh Sentenced. Months.—Expected a Lighter Sentence.—Marsh Broke Down on Making a Statement and Was Unable to Proceed Further. Marsh, former president of the Keystone | National bank, was to-day sentenced by Judge Butler, in the United States district | court, to an imprisonment of twelve years and three months and to pay a fine of $500, The Keystone bank failed in March, 1891, and president Marsh and cashier Lawrence were placed under arrest, charged with conspiracy in making false entries in the books and issuing false re- ports to the comptroller of the currency. The cashier stood trial and was convicted and imprisoned, but Marsh disappeared and his bail of $20,000 was forfeited. After wandering over the world for seven and a halt years, the fugitive president re- turned on Nov. 3rd last, and surrendered to the authorities. He pleaded guilty when arraigned for trial. It was thought probable that Marsh might, when brought up for sentence, make a statement, implicating others with the wrecking of the bank, but he merely informed the court that his predecessor in the presidency of the bank had left a defal- cation of over a million dollars and that he (Marsh) had never profited a dollar through the bank’s losses. He broke down on making this statement and was unable to proceed further. He trembled perceptibly when sentence was pronounced and the expression on his face told that he had expected much lighter punishment. er m——i——— I PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13.—Gideon W. i | ——Lock Haven people think that work ETT Imaginary Orders for a Battle— The Change of TREE Smali-Pox Prevalent in Bedford. Porto Rico. First Reports Exagqeraied— Thought to be Under Control Now. | The town of Bedford is boarded up so that exposure that night which culminated in’ uncon- | At intervals he recog- | By direction of Major General Miles, a | Among those who call- | & To an Imprisonment of Twelve Years and Three | | o : | home, at the corner of Spring and High | | is to be begun on the new railroad to Clear- | field, by the river route, early in the spring. | ten years hence. no one can get in or out because genuine small-pox is raging there. The true na- Thursday when Dr. W. B. Atkinson, of Philadelphia, visited the place and diag- nosed it. It is supposed to have been car- ried to Bedford by soldiers from Porto Rico. For some time the disease has been pre- vailing but some doctors pronounced it to be chicken pox, and others said it was nothing more than a skin disease. But a day or two ago the malady became alarm- ing and the word went out that the whole town was infected with small-pox. The town contains less than 3,000 people and 200 cases of the disease have already de- veloped. The Bedford physicians disagree. | says it is genuine small-pox. He, himself, counted 130 cases in the town, and be- lieves there are fully 200 in all. Men, women and children, he declared, with small-pox erasts on their bodies and faces, have been traveling the streets day and night and visiting from house to house, un- ble affliction. The rapid spread of the disease was due to the inability of the local physicians to diagnose it, not one of the practicing phys- icians of the town ever before having treated a small-pox case. Drastic meas- ures were taken to prevent the contagion from spreading further. The whole town is closely quarantined, policed and guarded and heroic measures | will be prosecuted to check the plagne. The danger to the whole central part of the State is manifest as people of Bedford, while infected with disease, have traveling far and near. George Martin, a | member of Company A. Fifth regiment, of pox, contracted the discase while playing | erusts of small-pox on his face. The people of Bedford are indignant at Dr. Atkinson’s report, for they say there are not more than a dozen cases in the town. They called a public meeting to But protest or no protest there is small-pox there. Dr. Benjamin Lee, sceretary of the state board of health, who returyed to Philadel- phia Monday night from a visit to the town of Bedford, where he went to investi- gate the reports of small-pox, discovered | that there are a number of cases of the dis- ease in the town and vicinity, but it is of a light form and that with strict care and | the observauce of proper precautions may I be controlled and further spreading pre- | vented. Soon after his return he sent the | following telegram to Surgeon General | Walter Wyman, of the United States ma- | rine hospital at Washington: “Small-pox status in Bedford and suburbs, { within one and a haif miles, December 11th, Twenty cases of which twelve are in the borough limits and eight outside. Houses infected, ten; of which seven are within the borough limits and three outside. which two are within the borough limits and six outside, and twelve varioloid, of which ten are within the borough limits and two outside. Also in Bedford county within eight miles of the hor- ough are five cases of vavioloid in two houses. Authorities active. All precautions taken. Speaking of the cause of the hold the dis- ease has secured in the western part of the State, Dr. Lee said: “When the war was thought to be drawing to a close and it was known that there was a great deal of small- | pox in the eastern end of the island of Cua- | ba, the state board held a meeting and got ont a circular advising the doctors throngh- | out the State that they must expect the ap- pearance of the disease with the return of the soldiers from the infected island, and that they should exercise the greatest care in diagnosis and make instant report of the appearance of any eruptive disease that re- sembled small-pox. I think there is now no reason to fear anything approaching an epidemie.”’ er — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ——Mt. Eagle’ssand bank is being work- ed again. *oo = ——The thermometer registered 4° above zero in this place yesterday morning at six o'clock. age Since Dr. Braucht has left Milesburg that town has no physician bearer than Bellefonte. nl ——Ellery Johnston, of Rote, will open a singing school at Mt. Eagle on Monday evening. Dec. 26th. ————— ete —-P. H. Meyer, of Boalsbhurg, is con- ducting a singing school at Linden Hall. He has forty students. ——The largest line of 10ct. candies in the State at Sourbeck’s. eee ——— —S. H. Williams has bought Mus. Barbara Rankin’s property on the corner of High and Thomas streets for 21.600. - o> -—— Daniel Garman is confined to his street, with a slight attack of grip. ote —— Wm. Robb’s house at Romola caught fire one dav Inst weol and only the timely discovery of the flames by Mrs. Robb sav- ed the building from heing destroyed. CHO a —Liveryman Abe Baum was the first Bellefonter to appear in asleigh this winter. He made the two inches of snow on Mon- day answer his purpose of leading them all. ede County treasurer Harrison Kline has paid $3,000 for the Hoy farm, east of Belle- foute. The farm was owned by Dr. H. K. Hoy, of Altoona, and contains over 200 acres. It is Mr. Kline's intention to move there in the spring and make it his future home. eve a session of equity court in the case of the administrators of the estate of the late George W. Jackson vs the Jackson, Hast- ings & Co. banking company. In the re- organization of that company it was of dissolving the partnership as far as re- lates to the late George W. Jackson, as the administrators desire tosettle up the estate | immediately, while if the partnership is continued they could not do so for nearly ture of the plague was only discovered last ! Dr. | Atkiuson, after a thorough examination | conscious of the true nature of their terri- | been | Huntingdon, who is afflicted with small- | football in Bedford from an opposing Bed- | ford player, who at the time showed the | protest against such a report being spread. | Of the above eight are variolo, of ——On December 28th there will he held | agreed that it should exist for 10 years. | This equity suit is brought for the purpose | BERRA had and lower prices. Special price to i | churches and schools at Sourbeck’s. os — A musical treat is in store for those { who go to hear the Boston ladies’ military | band at Garman’s to-morrow might. ——Frank Kaup, of Boalsburg, had his leg broken below the knee, on Tuesday, while working on the Linden Hall lumber mill. a — Owing to the indisposition of Rev. ! Dr. H. C. Holloway there were no preach- | ing services held in the Lutheran church | on Sunday. | ——We make all our own clear toys and candies. They are pure and fresh at Sour- | beck’s. ote inerease of nine publie school teachers in Clearfield county over last There are 451 there now. —— There is an vear. teachers over - > —— During Sunday’s storm the straw | stack on the farm of.J. Felding, at Linden Hall, blew over and killed shoats. three fine a oe ASN Miss Lydia Shreftler and Charley Houser are to be married next Wednesday | evening. Both are well known young peo- | ple in Bellefonte. coe ——W. R. Brachbill hassecuared the con- tract for supplying the new oak seats that | are to replace the old benches in the audi- torium of the court house. i see : Bishop McCabe preached in the first Methodist church in Altoona on Sunday in the interest of missions. His sermon | brought pledges for $965 for the cause. did a bir beste ——The Mileshurg Methodist Sunday school is preparing for a fine Christmas en- tertainment in which “Santa Claus,’ “Lather Time” and “Uncle Sam’ are to | be conspicuous figures. Sees. | | { decorations in town at Sourbeck’s. > — The site for Mill Hall’s new electric | light plant has been changed, owing to the failure to get a siding to the one ori ginally selected. The old Stover coal property | has been secured and a building 22x42 will be erected. be - — According to the appraiser's return the estate of the late Balser Weber is vala- led at nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The personal property amounting to $199,- 077, while there is sufficient realty to run it up to $250,000. >be — During his trip to Pittsburg to take Wm. Hanna to the penitentiary sheriff Cronister severely sprained his right ankle. The injury was bad enough to keep him confined to his home for several days and he is still walking with a cane. ’ = Pl ge ——Four fine attractions are booked for Bellefonte next week. Tirst comes the Kane opera company on Monday night; Wallace Bruce, Tuesday evening ; Dr. John B. DeMotte, Wednesday evening ; Gen’l. John B. Gordon, Thursday even- ing. rh oo ——The first convention of the newly organized state Dairy Union closed its ses- sions in Williamsport on Tuesday. The convention was largely attended. Harry Haywood. of the state Experiment station, at State College, was elected secretary of the Union for the ensuing year. ht a ees ——The Methodists out at Valentines’ iron works are having a wonderful revival. Within the past two weeks eighteen con- versions have been effected and nine penitents are seeking forgiveness of their sins. Rev. Williams is said to be preach- ing very effective sermons nightly. ——A full line of all kind of fruits and nuts at Sourbeck’s. > ——R A. Beck, the most popular fire- man in town, has introduced something new into the working plans of the Logan company, to which he belongs. He has purchased himself a fine silver bugle and a code of signals has been adopted, so that while at work at a fire he can signal divec- engine. abel il ~— There was a meeting of the new tele- | phone company in this place on Wednesday “at which it was decided toextend lines to Centre Hall, Potters Mills, Millheim and Woodward. Thirty subscribers have heen secured in that vicinity. Lines will be strung in Lock Haven just as soon as the preliminary arrangements can be com- pleted. —In his report, at the 26th annual convention of the state grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at Williamsport, on Tuesday, worthy master Leonard Rhone stated that three new granges have heen organized during the past year with 48 charter mem- bers; four granges with 68 members have been reorganized, and 1,400 persons have been initiated, making a total increase in membership of 1,516. *de An alarm of the North ward, ahout noon, on Saturday. A spark from the chimney had set fire to the roof of a double house on North Penn | street, owned by M. W. Cowdrick, of Niagara Falls, and occupied by Edward Lindsey. The high wid fanned the fire | into a blaze, but the prompt arrival of the fire department saved the property and pre- vented what might have been a very de- structive fire. be For fine chocolates, bon bons and fine box candies we lead them all. At Sourbeck’s. : Tian [ ——The largest stock of candies we ever I ———The largest line of Christmas tree | tions to the men at the nozzles, plugs and | fire was rung in from ——The 29th annual davee of the Logan engine company will be given in the armory Friday evening, Dec. 30th. A fine orches- tra has been secured and an enjoyable even- ing’s pleasure is guaranteed to those who attend. ——The program for the Clearfield coun- ty public school teachers’ institute has been issued and announces that the 35th annual session will be held in the opera house, in Clearfield, December 19th to 23rd. The evening entertainers are to be William Hawley Smith, the Ariel sextette, Hon. Champ Clark, of Bowling Green, Mo. ; and Rev. Frank Bristol, of Washington, D. C. The instructors are Dr. N. C. Schaef- { fer, state superintendent; Dr. A. E. Win- ship, Boston; Frank Fox, Columbus, Ohio; Lelia Patridge, Lansdowne, Pa.; and W. L. Green, DuBois. 2 ie — A MERITED HoNok.—The determina- tion of prothonotary—elect Mitchell I. Gardner to retain the present deputy, Mr. Arthur Kimport, for the present brings to mind the high favor in which the latter is held by all persons who have had business of any sort in the prothonotary’s office. Aside from his personal knowledge of the worth of Mr. Kimport Mr. Gardner re- ceived a petition signed by almost every | attorney at the bar urging that the present deputy be retained. Such an action can- not but be gratifying to Mr. Kimport, for , it reveals to him that his courtesy and care Lin the office to which Mr. Smith appointed | him has been appreciated by the public, *oe - i MARRIAGE Licuxses.—Following is the [list of marriage licenses granted by or- | phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur- ling the past week: Clayton Royer and Minerva E. Hoy, i both of Benner township. Harvey E. Mark, of I’enn Hall, and | Martha E. Goodhart, of Centre Hall. | Ellis Freeman and Carrie M. Gearhart, | both of Philipsburg. | George E. Bechdel, of Blanchard, and | Bessie B. Shay, of Howard. | Francis M. Lather, of Decatur township, Clearfield county, and Jane Rapsy, of Rush township. George Warren Sheesley, of Coburn, and | Sarah Jane Long, of Millheim. 1 ST ———— Centre Hall. Byran Gearis succeeds John McClelahan as i lamp-lighter for the borough. Progress Grange held its first regular mect- ing in the new town hall, Saturday. The public schools of the borough will have but one week's va ation, that being during institute. Mrs. D. W. Bradford on Thursday gave a dinner party at her home, south of here to which a number of ladies from town were in- vited. Aaron Thomas killed the largest hogs fat- tened in the borough this fall. They dressed near the five hundred mark. This wasn’t a good season for hig porkers hereabou ts. B. D. Brisbin next week will go to New York and be absent for a short time. He will be accompanied home by Mrs. Brishin, who at present is visiting her daughter in that State. The merchants are making the usual prep- arations for the holiday season. Hard times are not felt in and about Centre Hall, judging from the many purchases that are made at this season of the year. George Royer, in excavating a cellar fora new house on Hoffer street, secured some of the finest building stones imaginable. They arc lime stone, and are anywhere from two to five feet and more in length. Miss Emma Wolf, daughter of J. W. Wolf, on Tuesday, returned from Philadelphia, where she had been treated in a hospital for spinal disease. The readers will be pleased to know that she is improving under treat- ment mainly physical. Miss Mattie Goodhart and Harry Marks were married, Wednesday noon, by Rev. S. H. Eisenberg at the residence of the bride’s mother in this place. The groom is a resi- dent of near Penn Hall, which place the couple will make their home and engage in farming. Among many others who will spend ths holiday season at Centre Hall are Miss Tacy Kreamer and her sister, Mrs. Jennie Heck- man, of Lock Haven. Miss Tacy has been : absent for some weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. { Kreamer and wife will he very glad to see | them home again. The creamery at the station came near go- ing up in smoke one day last weck. During ing the night the engine house took fire from the engine and in the morning when the employes went to work they discovered a brisk little fire that would have played hob had the night been a little longer. : It is reported that William Strunk and his son Oliver and their families will become residents of this place in the spring and engage in threshing. Mr. Strunk at present occupies the Rishel farm at the Stone Mill. Rev. C. W. Rishel contemplates purchasing the stock aud machinery of. Mr. Strunk and hirea farmer by the year or month. The local telephone company is booming matters this way. Sufficient subscribers have | already been secured to insure an exchange in this place, and a room on the second floor of the Penns-valley hank building has heen secured for the purpose. It appears that about all, with the exception of one or two, of the Bell subscribers will take the local company’s service. A dog fight at the station was ended rather suddenly and with rather serious results to one of the participants. rank Smith, of the firm of Smith & Crawford, owned a very | fine bird dog, and at the time mentioned was looking around the station to see whatever new there was in that section, when another pup out for fight pounced upon him. To shield himself the bird dog ran under a | moving freight and the consequences were | that both doggies were turned a half dozen summersaults and in the melee one of the freight wheels caught the hird-dog's hind- quarters and badly crushed it. The “Shark- ey” of this setto came out unharmed, as did also the eugine and freight train. But the poor bird dog was killed to end its sufferings.
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