ETI a ——— ———— Demorvali atc Bellefonte, Pa., March 3. 1899. CorRESPON DENTS.—NO communications pub ished unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. sm THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY ——Thomas Young, of Philipsburg, has had his pension increased from $6 to $8. ——Walter Butts’ new hotel at Win- ber is to be completed by April 1st. ——Dr. Huff has moved from Lamar to Milesburg and has rented a house from L. C. Bullock, in that place. —J. Linn McGinley has taken possession of his new home, the Rankin property, corner of High and Thomas streets. Jos. Gramley, of Aaronsbhurg, al- most cut the index finger from his left hand, while chopping wood one day last week. Geo. W. Dunkle, the Spring Mills wall paper merchant, is just able to hobble around after two month’s confinement with a sprained ankle. ——Wm. E. Irwin, G. H. Lichtenthaler Esq., and J. E. Hedding, were on Tuesday, appointed trustees of the Cottage hospital in Philipsburg by Governor Stone. ——The Y. P. 8. C. E. of the Presbyter- ian church will hold a service of song in the chapel, on Spring street, Sunday even- ing at G o'clock. All are invited. —— Work has begun on the tearing away of the old Lose house on north Spring street. It is the property of James Harris and in its place will be erected a pretty brick veneered double house. -——The Spring Mills planing mill is re- ported to have orders to keep it running quite awhile. During the thaw last week the engine room was flooded, but not bad enough to interfere with the fires and the work went on. ——DMiss Annie S. Elder, who left Fer- guson township, this county, several years ago to try life in Ohio evidently cast her lot in pleasant places for the announcement of her marriage to a Mr. Harlebaus has just reached her old friends here. ——The absence of Rev. C. H. Goodling, of the Evangelical church, who is attend- ing conference at Lewisburg, will leave his pulpit unfilled on Sunday. ‘That evening some of the young Y. M. C. A. workers have been invited to hold services there and everyone is invited to attend. ——Joseph Ceader and family expect to move back into the apartments above their store on Allegheny street until they can get their new home completed. They are moving out of the Woodcock house on Linn street, to make room for John Shugert, who will occupy it after Easter. ——Last Thursday, Feb. 23rd, Reuben F. Welty and Miss Ella Kerstetter, two well known Pleasant Gap young people, were married. The ceremony was per- formed at the home of the bride’s parents, by Rev. T. S. Faus, of Spring Mills, as- sisted by Rev. E. L. Williams. ———The lecture on ‘‘Some Sights and Insights in Europe,” by Dr. H. C. Hol- loway, in the court house, Monday night, attracted a fair audience. The Lutheran church realized $33 out of it. Dr. Hol- oway’s descriptions were splendid and he held the iuterest of his audience til the very last of his word tour. Sheriff Cronister took Mrs. Guise to the asylum at Warren, on Tuesday. Mrs. Cronister accompanied her husband in the effort to make the trip as comfortable as possible for the poor woman. She is the divorced wife of Ellis Esters, of Burnside township, and has worried so much over her unhappy condition that she has become demented. \ ——A¢t noon last Thursday Miss Ida M. Flory was married to Rev. J. N. Dubs, pastor of the Evangelical church, at Dor- sey, Md. The ceremony was performed ab the home of the bride’s father, Samuel Flory, near Tusseyville, by Bishop W. M. Standford, of Harrisburg. After the wed- ding an elaborate breakfast was served the party and the guests. George WW. Berry who has been farm- ing near Mackeyville for several years, in- tends moving to the vicinity of Abdera on the 21st. Getting nearer to Centre county. ‘We hope it won’t be long until he comes over the line and joins forces with the good Democrats we have up here. He is such a good one himself that he would prove a valuable acquisition. ——Geo. H. Musser, who farms on the Ridges below Mileshurg, received three fine Oxford-down ewes from Chester county, on Wednesday. Theare descendants from the fine English ram which Hon. Tom Cooper imported from England at the cost of $2,500 and had on exhibition at the Centennial. One of them weighed 180 lbs., the breed being an exceptionally large one. ——William Collins, whose anvil rings merrily from morning ’til night in his shop at Centre Furnace, has an idea of becoming an aspirant for county commissioner. We say an idea, because it has only gone that far up to the present. He was in town on Monday with his ear to the ground, but we can’t say whether he heard enough en- couraging knocks to bring him out or not. Enoch Kreamer, who lives two miles east of Aaronsburg, has a fine trout pond on his property. Lately he discovered that musk-rats have been devouring his fish and determined to shoot the rats, if possible. He went to the pond, recently, to watch and when a rat came in sight he undertook to throw his gun to his shoul- der quickly. In doing so he fell, breaking his arm. A SILK MILL FOR BELLEFONTE A Pos- SIBILITY.—Another opportunity has pre- sented itself whereby Bellefonte can boost her flagging industrial interests. On Tues- day G. H. Blenderman, representing New York capitalists, arrived in this place to look over the community with a view to finding a desirable location for a silk mill. He had previously visited Blairsville, Hol- lidaysburg and about sixty other towns and talked as if very favorably impressed with Bellefonte’s advantages. Mr. Blenderman was shown possible sites for a mill about town by Mr. Shugert and was assured that there would be no trouble in securing the three hundred and fifty girl operatives necessary to start with. He represents the same firm that owns the Sunbury mill and came here entirely unso- licited. All that his company asks is exemption from taxes for a period of ten years, free water rights for the same period and a ten acre lot. The conditions are easily within the range of what Bellefonte ought to do to secure such an industry and it is to be hoped that our citizens will leave nothing undone which might help to locate the mill here. We have gotten tired trying to rouse the town to a realizing sense of the need of something to fill our empty houses, replen- ish the waning receipts of our merchants and fortify us against a retrograde report when the census of 1900 is taken, but we still have hope for the good old town and here is the chance to realize on it. Three hundred girls earning from $3 to $5 a week in a Bellefonte silk mill means just $60,000 a year brought in here from the outside world and dumped into the hands of our house renters, our clothing, dry goods, shoe, grocery, hardware, millinery and other traffickers. Are we going to have it, or is some other town to heat us out in the race? Mr. Blenderman is so much pleased that he decided that Bellefonte is to be one of the seven towns out of the lot that their company committee on locations will visit with a view to selecting the site for the new mill. It is to be a silk fabric mill, not one for ribbon making. Sa Historic OLD KEYs.—Two monstrous old keys have been attracting considerable attention at this office for some time and most people who have seen them have im- agined them to be merely of wood, they are so large and rough looking. The truth is that they are keys of the old Centre county jail that was abandoned when the new one was ready for use. The larger key weighs 14} oz and is the one that was used to lock the main jail door. The other is one of considerable more inter- est, for it turned the lock behind which James Monks, Centre county’s first mur- derer, spent the days before his execution. It was his cell door key and weighs 8} oz. Both keys are the property of former sheriff D. Z. Kline and will probably go down in his family as relics of Centre county’s first bastile. It might be interesting for some to know that the old jail property occupied the north side of east High street, from the alley east of H. Y. Stitzer’s home to the double house that stands at the corner of High and Penn. Monks was convicted of killing Reuben Guild and was hanged around in ‘‘Monk’s alley’’ back of the Haag hotel, on Saturday, January 23rd, 1819, by John Mitchell, then high sheriff of Centre county. William Armor, a fifer of the war of 1812, played the dead march under the gallows. The hanging was done at such a distance from the jail because at that time there was no jail yard in which todo it. Monks was a native of Potter township and was convicted at the November session, in 1818. The murder was committed Sun- day evening, November 16th, 1817, on a lonely part of the road leading from Marsh- creek to Clearfield. Guild was shot from the horse on which he was riding, his murderer having been driven to the foul deed by an uncontrollable impulse to kill. Saas A BuncH OF OLD ALMANAcS.—Last week John Tate, of Valentine's iron works, left a bunch of old almanacs at this office which for interest and age we'll venture hasn’t an equal in the county. Itincludes ‘Uncle Sam’s Almanac,’”’ *‘The Farmer’s Calendar,’’ ‘‘Columbian Almanac,’’ ‘‘North American Almanac,” and a lot of others running back from 1859 to 1834. The almanacs of those days had more to to do with the weather and less to do with statistics than the later day publications have and while the one that keeps us in chronological order to-day is almost inval- uable there are some features in the old ones that could be followed with an im- proving result. Mr. Tate prizes his collection very highly and in running through them we discov- ered the source of some of the anecdotes he has a reputation for telling. a TL AN OLD, OLD Book.—A. B. Steel has in his possession a rare old volume, published in 1800, which contains the constitution of the United States, the declaration of inde- pendence and the federal constitution with amendments. It is an interesting compi- lation, in good condition and contains, al- so, the constitutions of all the original thirteen States. It is interesting to know that Pennsylva- nia had an Abraham Lincoln once and that he was one of the signers of our constitu- tion on September 2nd, 1790. — PP ——Mrs. H. E. Crouse, of Aaronsburg, returned from the Philadelphia hospital in which she had undergone an operation for the removal of a tumor six weeks ago, on Monday evening. She is almost recovered. ——The 275 horse power Corliss engine for the Lock Haven silk mill has arrived. ER ——DMore than $5,500 was paid to Clin- ton county tobacco growers, on Monday, for their crops. ees; ——The Milton car works, employing five hundred men, passed into the hands of the car trust on Wednesday. — ee Samuel Gramley is going to build a new house in Rebersburg. It will occupy the site now held by the W.T. Hubler property. — ———— Benj. M. Nead, of Harrisburg, has been appointed receiver of the First nation- al bank of Clearfield to fill the vacancy caused by the death of former state treas- urer Haywood. a ade — The residence of Mrs. P. H. Agar, in Lock Haven, was ransacked by burglars, while she was away from home on a visit, and all of her late husband’s clothing, ex- cept a pair of shoes, was carried off. Mrs. Robert Gilmore and family, of Spring street, expect to move to Philadel- phia before April 1st. It was at first thought they would locate in Washington, where Mr. Gilmore is employed as a ma- chinist in the Navy yard, but they are go- ing to the Quaker city to live. — oe — ——Fred B. Kerr, a son of Hon. James Kerr, of Clearfield, who was graduated from West Point recently has been assigned to the Twenty-second infantry, now en route to Manila. He left for San Francisco on Saturday, accompanied as far as Altoona by his father and mother. He is a second lieutenant. eben ——At a meeting of the Northumberland Presbytery, at Lock Haven, on Monday, the pastoral relations between Rev. S. W. Pome- roy and the Bald Eagle and Nittany yal- ley charges were dissolved. Rev. Pomeroy expects to join the Carlisle Presbytery and permission was granted the Bald Eagle and Nittany valley churches to fill their pulpits. — ooo ——The city office of the Standard scale and supply company limited will be moved from 19 Wood street, Pittsburg, to 211 Wood and 242-244 Third Ave. on April 1st. The new quarters will be much larg- er and more commodious, another evidence of the growth of the business which was so modestly begun here. Ei ——The Harmon roaster tobacco com- pany is the latest enterprise projected for Mill Hall. T. H. Harmon, the veteran cigar manufacturer, is at the head with $10,000 worth of stock. The new plant will be exempt from taxes five years and the land for the site is donated. $10,000 worth of stock is in the market at $50 per share. lee While two Lock Haven cattle buy- ers were driving some steers through Mill Hall, last Thursday, one of the animals at- tacked C. L. Lindemuth; knocking him down and stamping on him. The steer was finally driven off and the unfortunate man helped to his home, where it was found that he had been severely bruised about the body and limbs. Tea Altoona business men seemed to be in the dumps on Saturday. Five of them petitioned judge Buffington, of the United States circuit court in Pittsburg, to declare them bankrupts. Isadore Blaw has liabil- ities amounting to $10,251.98 with no as- sets; Blair E. Forney, liabilities $15,293.- 61, assets $8,000; Philip Kimmel, liabili- ties $2,537,753, no assets; Harry I. Forney, liabilities $10,093,27, assets $1,000; Albert L. Richey, liabilities $2,249.91, no assets. Lg eit Mr. E. J. Yearick, a Centre county boy, who is making things go in the ‘‘New York Racket Store’’ in Lewistown, writes that they are going to have a trolley road between that place and Milroy and hints that a connection with Bellefonte might prove profitable. Tis true that such an enterprise might have some money in it, but we fear that capitalists would be slow to invest in a trolley line over the Tussies, because of the expense of building it and the sparsely settled country that would have to be traversed before any considerably populous points could be reached. —ete— ——The literary exercises of the Addi- sonian literary society of the Bellefonte Academy, last Tuesday afternoon, were un- usually interesting. It was the occasion of the reading of the Washington’s birth- day number of the Mirror, the paper pub- lished by the young men. It was the best of the Academy papers of past years, in point of literary merit and artistic skill. The jokes on the students were well re- ceived and added greatly to the pleasure of the day. The pen sketches by Fred Crow- ell would do credit to any college publi- cation. The primary department con- tributed a large share of the pleasure for the audience present. Nellie Con- ley’s recitation entitled ‘‘A Troublesome Call,” and Stavley Valentine's description of the “The Broomstick Train,’’ were par- ticularly good. The echo song and the George Washington character song by members of the department were loudly applauded. The singing of the ‘‘Red White and Blue" and ‘‘America’ by the entire audience and the rendition of’ ‘‘The Soldier's Farewell,”’ by Messrs. Garbrick, H. Sellers and Reuben Meek, proved a pleasing inspiration for the other exer- cises. The editors of the paper were Al- fred Brisbin and William Dorworth, man- aging editors; Decker, Garbrick, Meek, Palmer and Twitmire, associate editors, and Fred Crowell, staff artist. THE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY GETS AFTER TRAVELING OPTICIANS.—Last Sat- urday two well dressed, clean cut, gentle- manly acting young men arrived in Belle- fonte, from Lock Haven, and registered at the Brockerhoff house ; signing themselves as A. G. and I. A. Coulson, of Buffalo, N. Y. Each had a small case and they car- ried a large trunk of supplies. The young men spent Sunday very quiet- ly and Monday morning began working the town, or rather, the people with weak eyes. They made visits to a number of houses, representing themselves to be expert opti- cians and, indeed, from the paraphernalia they carried with them anyone might readily believe that they knew something, at least, about the business. They were examining eyes and adjusting glasses there- for. : Among the people called upon was Mrs. Rachel Harris, of Curtin street, to whom they sold two pair of glasses for $20 and her old ones. Mrs. William Harper, of Thomas street, was made to believe that she was threatened with a cataract and bought a pair of the $10 glasses. Mrs. Charles Heverly, of east Bishop street, was fitted out with a pair to suit her defec- tive vision at $3.50. A domestic in the employ of Mrs. Louisa Bush got a pair that just suited her for $5.00 and there one of the men almost persuaded Mrs. Bush that she was threatened with paralysis of the optic nerves. In fact Mrs. Bush became so concerned that she called on Dr. R. G. H. Hayes for confirmation of the diagnosis. He had already learned something of the manner in which the men were operating from Mrs. Sara Hoffer and at once set about his duty, as censor of the county medical society, to investigate. He called on the other members of the ‘committee, Drs. Kumpf and Seibert, and it was the unanimous verdict that the men were frauds, in so far as they were repre- senting themselves to be physicians, as well as opticians. Accordingly a warrant was oh- tained and chief Montgomery arrested them Tuesday evening. They were taken before justice Keichline, who remanded them to jail, in default of $500 bail each, for a hear- ing Wednesday afternoon. The men spent Tuesday night behind the bars, but were released Wednesday at the hearing, after refundingall of the mon- ey, except the $5.00 to Mrs. Bush’s domes- tic, $17.80 costs and promising to leave the State. The girl whose money was not re- funded was perfectly satisfied with her glasses and did not care to return them. While in jail the prisoners were in com- munication with Syracuse, N. Y., parties who telegraphed sworn statements to the effect that they were really good opticians and had served apprenticeship in one of the best houses in that city. While operat- ing in town in several instances they ad- vised people whom they claimed to be unable to suit to go to Philadelphia and cousult an eminent specialist; so that their business was apparently legitimate in all respects except that of permitting and en- couraging the impression that they were doctors. Had they not done that it is probable that they could have worked away until they had made a rich harvest of those who were so willing to pay all the way from $3.50 to $20.00 for glasses that were probably not worth more than $1.00. They left town Wednesday afternoon for better fields. Reports have been received that they had worked Warren, Oil City and Lock Haven people. The whole thing reminds us of the fellow who sent a $3.00 for a receipt to stop horses from slobbering and was advised that the only way to do it is to teach the animal to spit; or the one who sent $1 for a hand- some steel engraving of Lincoln and got a postage stamp; or the one who bought two quarts of antiquated peas, at $1 a quart, under the impression that they were South American pepper seeds; or the one who sent $1 for ten yards of silk and got a 5c spool of floss; or the fellow who plays the flim-flam game at the circus until he gets nipped, then squeals. > TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE IN PHILIPSBURG. —The public school teachers of district No. 6, including Philipsburg, South Phil- ipsburg, Rush, Snow Shoe and Burnside, will meet for their local institute in the High school in Philipsburg to-morrow. In addition to the fifty teachers in the district they expect a number from Clearfield and Tyrone and Philipsburg’s former superin- tendent, Chas. Lose, of Williamsport, will be there to help with the instruction. At the morning and afternoon sessions to-morrow the following persons will par- ticipate: Rev. H. F. Means, Mr. John A. Hawkins, A. C. Thompson, 8. W. Zimmer- man, Paul Womer, Chester Yocum, Har- riet Strong, Flora Long. Supt. C. E. Kauffman, Harold Flegal, Charles Murray, Richard Hoffer, R. C. Holmes, Ella Ward, Hazel Stott, Prof. G. W. Andrew, C. V. Delong, Supt. Charles Lose, Emma Hud- son, Anna G. Healey, S. W. Butler, Prof. J. G. Zerby, Ruta Black, Sara Steinberger and J. O. Harpster. ee ——The fifth bi-ennial report of the Huntingdon reformatory shows that dur- ing the year 1897 Centre county had six in- mates in that institution. Their mainte- nance was $500.92, against which they had a credit of $53.67 in labor; leaving the balance due from the county, $447.25. In 1898 we had twelve boys there and they cost us $618.50. Of the 625 boys in the re- formatory 308 are there for larceny and 51 for burglary. 261 of the lot say they were led into crime by keeping bad company, 582 of the number are native horn boys, 187 are Methodists and 115 Catholics, 71 never went to school and 80 could neither read nor write on being admitted. News Purely Personal. —Miss Sara Trafford, of Williamsport, is visit- ing her brother John, on north Spring street. —Mrs. C. D. Krider, of east Bishop street, isin Carlisle visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. B. Brandon. —A. Katz, proprietor of the Globe, spent Sun- day in Philadelphia while on his way to New York to purchase spring goods. —Miss Clara Shrom went to Niagara Falls, Mon- day, to visit her sister, Mrs. William Cowdrick. She will spend several months there, continuing her trip to New York city for a few days. —Mrs. Sarah Welch, of New York, is here on account of the serious illness of her cousin Mrs. Wm. C. Heinle, whose condition gives no hope at all of her recovery. —Col. and Mrz. James P, Coburn are faithful to their old home at Aaronsburg and frequently leave their fine north Allegheny street place to go down and spend Sunday in the capital of Haines township. They were there last Sanday. —Former prothonotary and Mrs. W. F. Smith, of east Bishop street, entertained Mrs. George L. Goodhart and Mrs. James B. Strohm, of Centre Hill, for several days this week. The ladies were all members of Centre county’s official family at the same time. —Dr. and Mrs. Coolidge, of Scranton, and their two children have been in town this week visiting Mrs. L. A. Schaeffer arid other members of the McGinley family. The doctor returned to Scran- ton Wednesday but Mrs, Coolidge will remain for several days. —Miss Jessie L. Laurie is expected home from Philadelphia to spend Sunday with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. William Laurie who have been married twenty-five years on that day. There will be no celebration of the anniversary, more than a home coming of the family. —Charles E. Dorworth came home from Harris- burg yesterday afternoon to stay. He had been a stenographer in the agricultural department, but the changing fortunes of politics made his place desirable for one of the other gang and Charley had to make room. —C. M. Muffly, of Howard, was a Friday visitor in Bellefonte. Mr. Muffly is a son-in-law of the late Balser Weber and has been in business in Chicago, oft and on, for a number of years. He is again residing at Howard, however, and will probably make it his permanent home in the future. . —Ross Hickol, of Harrisburg, spent Sunday in Bellefonte, the guest of Miss Helen Hastings at the Brockerhoft house. He returned to his home Monday morning. Mr. Hickok is a brother of W. 0. Hickok, the famous Yale athlete who held the amateur championship for shot throwing and putting the hammer. —Wm. E. Hoover, one of Union township's successful farmers, was in town on Friday at- tending to some business affairs that needed looking after. He lives just west of Snow Shoe Intersection, but wasn’t worried about whether Bald Eagle creek was going to get on a rampage ornot. His farm lies high and it would take a great flood to reach it. : —Former sheriff B. F. Schaeffer, of Nittany, spent Saturday in town with his son, Squire L. A. Schaeffer, on Curtin street. It was his first visit from home since a six week's attack of the grip was fought to a finish and while the sheriff looked to be in excellent health he, nevertheless, had that feeling of goneness that all of the grip victims complain of. —Among the delegates from this section who left for Mifflintown, on Wednesday, to attend the meeting of the Women’s Foreign missionary so- ciety convention in that place, were Mrs. Mar- garet Wilson, Misses Kitty Potter, Blanche Hayes, Caroline Orvis, Rebecca Lyon and Bessie Musser, all of Bellefonte; Mrs. John I. Thomp- son, of Lemont; Mrs. John W. Stuart, Mrs. Rebec- ca Robinson, and Mrs. William Foster, of State College. —Joseph Leathers, of Mt. Eagle, was in town Tuesday, having driven up with a neighbor who wanted company. Judging from the cold with which Mr. Leathers was suffering it is quite prob- able that he will never go to trimming grape- vines without wearing a warm hat in the future. Monday's sunshine was so bright and inviting looking that he puton an old torn chapeau and went to work. Now he knows that enough cold got in through the cracks to start him on a fair road to grip. —Former associate judge Thos. F. Riley spent Tuesday in town talking politics with the ac- quaintances he made while on the bench here. The judge has announced his intention of being a candidate for county commissioner and neces- sarily will have to measure strength with Philip Meyer who has already announced for the same office from Harris. Both are well known Demo- crats and we have confidence enough in them to know that they will regard their field as a fair one. —E. P. Lingle, of Lemont, who certainly holds the record for having knocked out the grip in the shortest time we ever heard of, was in town, last Friday evening, on his way back home from a short visit to his father’s, James H. Lingle Esq., below Mileshurg. Ed is huxtering at Lemont and report has it that he is doing well. Itwas not so many years ago that he was an operator on the valley road and with his brothers Curg, Harry, Charley and John, all at home then, sported about as fine a lot of fast horses as could be found in this section. —Mrs. John P. Harris spent Sunday with her son John Jr., in Tyrone. He is about to sever his connection with the Blair county bank, in which he has been employed ever since leaving Bellefonte, in order to give his time exclusively to the business of oil brokerage, which he has been carrying on in connection with his bank work and has proven highly profitable. His health, too, has had to be considered, for the con- finement of banking is having an injurious effect on it. Mr. and Mrs. Harris will break up house- keeping and board in the future, because his work on the scale he expects to carry it on will keep him from home much of the time. —Jas. A. Ebberts Esq. of Martha Furnace, made aflying trip to this place Tuesday morning. Down on one train and back on the next. He had in- tended driving, but after having had his fine horse, that he keeps for no other purpose than as a roadster, hitched up some one told him that the roads were very rough and he decided that a car seat would be much more comfortable than being jolted fourteen miles over the frozen mud, then dragging back through it again. Mr. Ebberts is the father of Ormsby Ebberts, deputy treas- urer under John Q. Milzs, and reports that his son is doing very nicely with the store he pur- chased at Martha recently. Though it isn’t going as well now as it will when he gets through with his school and can give it personal attention it is doing well enough to convince him that he hasa good thing. —Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Achenbach arrived in town, Saturday morning, and were guests of Mrs. Daggett, at the Bush house, until Tuesday, when they went on to Williamsport. It was their first visit here since their removal to Glens Falls, N. Y., two years ago and their hosts of friends were delighted to see them, though disappointed that they could not tarry longer. At Glens Falls Mr. Achenbach has the finest jewely store in the city. He handles nothing but solid silver and gold, dia- monds, and cut crystal, and a line of rook-wood novelties. His room was formerly used as a bank and is a pretty setting for the rich trinkets we know his rare taste has filled it with, Both Mr, and Mrs. Achenbach are pleased with their new home and their friends here will be equally pleased that the change has proved so satisfac- tory to them. They are on a three week's visit- ing trip, including Bellefonte, Williamsport, Phil- adelphia, Mrs. A’s. home, and New York. —J. P. Eves, one of Halfmoon township's most representative and thrifty farmers was in town on Monday attending to some business. He lives on a fine farm a short distance west of Storms- town ¥and has held a number of town- ship offices, because his neighbors recognize in him a clean cut, conscientious, practical man. Mr. Eves is a Republican, but he is a genial gen- tleman all the same. A LARGE RAILROAD FILL RUNS AWAY— A catastrophe, the like of which seldom happens anywhere, brought the rail-road building of Collins & Co.. at the head of which is our young townsman, Thomas A. Shoemaker, to an abrupt end out in Arm- strong county last week. George Harpster, who had been working on the contract arrived in town, Tuesday morning, and told of the remarkable occur- rence as follows: On the John Ruffner farm a cut about a quarter of a mile long and 50 feet deep had to be made. After excavating had commenced it was found that the hill- side was composed of fine sand, with scarce- ly a stone in it. At another point a ravine had tobe filled up and the sand was used for that purpose. The bottom of the val- ley where the ‘‘fill’’ was made proved to be underlaid with blue fire clay and a num- ber of inexhaustible springs. Soon after the fill had been completed the workmen were astonished to see the enormous amount of sand that had been dumped in slowly move down the valley. All means at hand were used to stop the slide but without success. It has been concluded that no fill can be made to stay in place upon the bed of wet fire clay and it will be necessary to either build a trestle over the ravine or tunnel through another hill. George says the fill was about 80ft. high at some points and a quarter of a mile long. The accident has suspended work on that section of their contract temporarily and George is home spending the idle time with his friends. ge ELDREDGE NOVELTY COMPANY COMING TO BELLEFONTE MARCH 11TH.—The sev- enth attraction of the ‘‘People’s Popular Course’’ is the most versatile organization in lyceum courses. Its composition is so ‘novel and surprising that the greatest en- thusiasm is manifested everywhere it ap- pears. Their entertainment is guaranteed by the central Lyceum bureau. “Miss Eldredge in the delsarte and calisthenic movements, as aided by the ef- fects of lights and colors, surpassed any similar effort ever attempted in Cortland. It is impossible to describe this, but the effect was pleasing in the highest degree’’ Courtland (N. Y.) Standard. ‘‘Edison’s first-class animated pictures by the Coit cineograph, which is included in the Eldredge company, makes up one of the finest entertainments now being fur- nished the American public.’”” Montgom- ery (Ala.) Advertiser. Seats for this high class organization will be on sale Friday, March 10th. Admission 50 cents to all parts of the house. —-—.— ——The lecture which Rev. Dr. H. C. Holloway delivered in the court house Monday evening, was a great financial suc- cess and that is something rare in Belle- fonte. The best lecturers on the American platform are heard here every year and it is seldom that they have half a house, but Dr. Holloway had a fine audience and en- tertained it delightfully with his ‘‘Sights and Insights in Europe. Sale Register. Marcu 16tH.—At the residence of Cap’t. John A. Hunter, at Stormstown, 11 horses, five cows, short-horn bull, young cattle; sheep and im- plements. Sale at 10 o’clock a. m. J. H. Waite, auctioneer. Marcu 251ii—At the residence of I.. B. McEntire, at Fillmore, bay mare, top buggy, spring wagon, sleigh, harness, household goods, butcher's utensils, etc. Sale at 1 o'clock p. m. James Huey, auctioneer. Philadelphia Markets. The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. Wheat—Red 7 ¢ —Spring.. 3@73Y Corn —Yellow.. . 41 ¢« —Mixed 39%5@39%4 RLS... cerrerreesecscsssresensn 3634@37 Flour— Winter, Per Br’. 2.25@2.50 ¢ —Penna. Roller...... 3.10@3.30 ¢¢ —Favorite Brands . 415@4.25 Rye Flour Per Bril..................... Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. 1. te * 5 Mixed * 1. Straw, Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by the Punaxix Miuing Co. The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes press: Red Wheat, old........cccoveneinne Red wheat, new Rye, per bushel............ Corn, shelled, per bushe Corn, ears, per bushel... Oats, per bushel, new .. Barley, Yer bushel........ Ground laster, per ton.. Buckwheat, per bushel Cloverseed, per bushel. Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. Potatoes per bushel 40 Quions atrers Te : 5 ggs, per dozen.. 5 Loy per pound.. 6 Country Shoulders. Sides...... Hams Tallow, per pound.. 3 Butter, per pound 18 The Democratic Watchman. Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte, Pa., at $1.50 per annum (if paid strictly in advance) $2.00, when not paid in advance, and $2.50 if not paid before the expiration of the year; and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearage is paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers will not be sent out of Centre county un- less paid for in advance. A liberal discount is made to persons advertis- ing by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows : 3m | 6m | 1y SPACE OCCUPIED One inch (12 lines this type......... Two inches ee Three inches.... ......ceenneee Quarter Column (5 inches).. alf Column (10 inches)... One Column (20 inches)... Advertisements in special column 25 per cent. additional. : . Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions. Each additional insertion, per line.. Local notices, per lin€.........cc.cce Business notices, per line Job Printing of every kind done w and dispatch, The Warcumax office has been re- fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and everything in the printing line can be executed in the mostartistic manner and at the lowest rates. Terms—Cash. All letters should be addressed to P. GRAY MEEK, Proprieto
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