Demorratic Waldman
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 4, 1899.
CorRrESPON DENTS.—NO communications pub
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——Sunday was about as perfect a day
as could be supplied.
——1It is likely that the Mattern bank
of the Bellefonte furnace will be started on
Monday.
——A thief stole forty-one half grown
ducks from the farm of J. Ricker, in Nit-
tany valley, a few nights ago.
——The St. John’s Catholic church
picnic will be held at Hunter’s park on
Wednesday, August 16th.
——A good band and orchestra has been
secured for the Logan picnic at Hunter’s
park on the 22nd of August.
——1It is reported that over four hundred
people were in attendance at the Milesburg
Methodist picnic at Hecla on Friday.
——The institute of the public school
teachers of Centre county will be held in
the court house here beginning, Monday,
Dec. 18th.
The new Silshy steamer, two hose
carriages and 1000 feet of hose for the bor-
ough of Mill Hall arrived in that place on
Monday. *
Everybody is invited to attend the
festival to be held in the yard about the
Methodist church at Lemont on Saturday
evening, August 5th.
——The Sunday trains slip in and out so
quietly that few would know of their
coming and going were it not for the cur-
ious crowds that gather about the station.
——Twenty-eight members of the Gar-
man family sat down to the large table
which was spread at the home of Daniel
Garman, corner of Ifigh and Spring streets,
on Sunday.
——A large casting which he was help-
ing to lift fell on John Brown’s foot, out
at the Jenkins & Lingle foundry Friday
morning. The foot was badly crushed,
several bones having been broken.
——There will be but one week of court
during the August session in Centre coun-
ty. There are very few cases on the calen-
dar so that it is expected that all of the
work can be finished up in that time.
James I. McClure announces the
prosperous condition of his harness busi-
ness in no more forcible manner than the
ownership of a new sorrel horse, which he
purchased, on Monday, from Daniel Gar-
man.
——Dr. John F. Harter, of State College,
the newly appointed deputy revenue col-
lector for this district, took charge of the
office on Tuesday. His predecessor, J. F.
Brosius, of Lock Haven, had served for five
years and four months.
——Philipsburg is going to make an ef-
fort to secure the eighth annual convention
of the Central Pennsylvania district Volun-
teer Firemen’s Association. That town en-
tertained the association upon the occasion
of its first meeting in 1893.
-——The ‘‘Bellefonte'’ furnace company
is just filling a two hundred ton order of
pig iron to be shipped to San Francisco.
The iron has gone to Philadelphia via the
C. R. R. of Pa. and the Reading and will
be leaded on ships to goaround the Horn.
——Hon. H. R. Curtin has tendered his
resignation to Governor Stone to take ef-
fect September 1st. Mr. Curtin leaves the
the $900 position he held as an inspector for
the dairy and food department to become
the resident manager of the Eagle iron
works at Curtin’s.
——Miss May V. Rhone, daughter of
Leonard Rhone of Centre Hall, was reliev-
ed of her place as a stenographer in the de-
partment of agriculture at Harrisburg on
August 1st, to make room for P. S. Chapin,
of Milton, whom Congressman Monroe H.
Kulp, recommended.
—John C. Scherck, well known in
this place, is running a hotel at Sayre and
the Evening News, published there, speaks
in complimentary terms of a banquet he
recently served the Masons. Schenck is
the man who recently tried to get license
for a hotel at Eagleville.
——One of the great features at the
Logan’s picnic at Hunter’s park on the
23rd will be the ball game between the
fats and the leans in the company. The
fats combined weight is 18601bs, while
the leans only aggregate 10651bs. Every
“one of the eighteen men is over six feet in
height.
——A young son of Professor Brown, of
Spring Mills, fell off the iron bridge lead-
ing from that place to the railroad station
and struck on a rock in the stream-bed be-
low, with the result that his hip was brok-
en. Willie Grenoble, who was with him
at the time, picked up the young sufferer
and carried him to his home, where Dr.
Braucht rendered the necessary surgical at-
tention.
The first of the third annual series
of summer dances were given in the armory
on Friday night under the direction of
Henry C. Quigley, Hard P. Harris,
Edmund Blanchard, Fred Blanchard, Wal-
lace Reeder, Richard Lane, Edward Hoy
and Harry Keller. Chappell’s orchestra
furnished the music for dancing and
Harrison served the refreshments. It was
an excessively hot evening for dancing, but
that did not deter from the success of the
affair. It proved a very delightful dance,
though there was not as large an attend-
ance as usual.
A MARKER FOR OLD ForT REID. — The
Hugh White chapter D. A. R. of Clinton
county on Monday evening unveiled a shaft
that will mark the supposed site of old fort
Reid in Lock Haven. While the exact lo-
cation of the fort is a trifle obscure and the
opinions of the old ones vary as to where
it actually stood they have the marker
planted now and in doing it enough patri-
otic songs were sung and patriotic things
said to leave no doubt in the minds of any-
one that everything from the signing of the
Declaration of Independence down to the
surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown was
effected within a stone’s throw of Lock
Haven.
Reid was one of the frontier forts of
Pennsylvania and like most of the others
was nothing more than a stockade into
which the early settlers could fly for safety
from Indian attacks. It marked the high
tide of western settlement along the West
Branch. Immediately after the purchase
by the Penns in 1768, settlers began to
flock into that fertile valley. The Normal
school site on the one side of the river. and
Isaac Packer’s on the other side marked the
limit of cleared land. It was a disputed
fact whether the lands on the north side of
the river were embraced in the purchase;
but the temptation to occupy the fertile soil
was too great to be resisted and settlements
were rapidly made. A proclamation was
issued by the governor of the province
warning settlers not to locate on the north
side of the river. The proclamation brand-
ed all such violators as outlaws, and im-
posed a-fine of 500 pounds and a year’s im-
prisonment as penalties for disobeying it.
No attention was paid to the proclamation,
but instead the God fearing people, who
cared for their homes and their families,
formed a mutual compact and adoped a
code of laws for their guidance. They an-
nually elected three of their number who
settled questions of disputed boundaries
and decided all controversies between the
settlers. They were called Playfair men.
From their decision there was no appeal;
and there could be no successful resistance,
as the whole body of settlersat the mandate
of this court turned out to enforce its de-
cree. Every immigrant to this settlement
was required to solemnly acknowledge this
form of government and agreed to abide by
the decisions of the court before he was
permitted to take possession of any vacant
land. The evidence tends to show that the
regular place of meeting of this tribunal
was at about the mouth of Chatham’s Run,
although it appears that they met at almost
any place or time which best suited the
convenience of litigants.
The marker is four feet eight inches high,
two feet and four inches square and weighs
about two and a half tons. The three sides
are rock work, while on the one side is the
following inscription: Erected July 29th
1899, by the Hugh White chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution of
Lock Haven, Pa., near the site of Reid’s
Fort, built in 1775 for defense against the
Indians.
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CRUSHED BY FIGHTING Cows. —On
Wednesday evening Isaac Tressler, a well
known farmer in the vicinity of Linden
Hall, had an experience that was highly
exciting and came near resulting fatally
for him. Two of his cows were in furious
combat, when he started to separate them.
His efforts had the effect of making them
more frantic and in their struggles one of
the animals fell over on Mr. Tressler,
crushing him to the ground. He was
rescued from the perilous position and car-
ried to his house where it was some time
before the real nature of his injuries could
be ascertained. As he is 75 years old it was
quite a serious accident for him, but yes-
terday afternoon it was reported that no
bones had been broken and that he was
resting easy.
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——George Hart, whose home is in this
place, was seriously injured during the fire
that recently so nearly destroyed the Pass-
more house in Philipsburg. He has been
in a drug store over there for some time
and was living at the Passmore. When
the fire broke out he ran to the hotel to
save his effects and gained his room on the
third floor, but then his escape was cut off
by the flames. In attempting to leave his
heavy trunk down by a rope made of the
bed clothing it is thought he strained one
of the valves of his heart. At all events
he was overcome and was rescued only af-
ter considerable difficulty. While the phys-
icians think he will recover he has been
in a critical condition ever since. Yester-
day he was reported as slightly worse.
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——Mr. Joseph Trees, formerly of the
town of Indiana, and who was educated at
the State College, near Bellefonte, and the
Western University, Pittsburg, has struck
oil near Martinsburg, West Va. His well
produces ninety barrels a day, giving him
a daily income of $100. Mr. Trees worked
as a tool dresser in the oil fields and was
poor financially, but the territory he
leased proved a winner.
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——The school board has leased the
building on west Howard street formerly
occupied by the Logan engine company
from M. I. Gardner, its present owner.
The building will be fixed np by Mr. Gard-
ner and used as a school for primary schol-
ars. The congested condition of the pri-
mary rooms has made it necessary to get
more space. The teacher has not been
elected for the new room.
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——The ladies of the U. B. church at
Runville will hold a festival in the church
yard on Friday and Saturday evenings,
August 11th and 12th, for the benefit of
their church parsonage. All sorts of deli-
cacies will be served and the public is cor-
dially invited to attend.
——Clinton county tobacco growers be-
gan cutting their leaf on Monday.
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——The Mill Hall firemen realized $180
at their festival last Friday and Saturday
nights.
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——There will be dancing all day and
evening at the Logan picnic at Hunter's
park on the 23nd.
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——G. H. M. Good, for several years
superintendent of the A. & P. C. railroad,
has resigned his position and U. S. Houck
has been appointed to succeed him.
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——A party of Tyrone wheelmen will
ride from that place to Penn’s Cave to-
morrow; going hy way of Old Fort, where
they will spend the night.
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——DMake your arrangements to take the
trip to the Seashore, Thursday August 10th,
via Pennsylvania railroad. Rates are low
and accommodations unsurpassed.
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The artist who lettered the old Fory
Reid marker for the Lock Haven D. A. R.
probably spelled site ‘‘sight’’ just to con-
vey the impression that the real site is out
of sight.
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——About 175 people attended the pic-
nic of St. John’s Episcopal Sunday school
on Wednesday at Hecla park. It was the
most successful outing held by that de-
nomination in years.
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Pleasure seekers will again be ac-
commodated on Thursday August 10th,
with an excursion to the Seashore. Coaches
will be run through to Atlantic City via
Delaware river bridge route making the
trip most delightful.
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——~Capt. James E. McNarny who was
appointed one of the committee which
the city of Pittsburg has sent to San Fran-
cisco to welcome the 10th Reg. on its arriv-
al from Manila, is one of the salesmen for
the Standard Scale and Supply Company
I.’td of this place. .
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——Lock Haven is moving to secure the
fall meeting of the State Grange. At its
last meeting that body decided to meet at
Sunbury next fall, but that city has ap-
peared indifferent to the honor and the
grangeis are said to be looking about for a
more desirable rendezvous.
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——DRobert Thomas Tonner, of Canton,
Ohio, who was well known as a visitor at
the home of his cousin, Mrs. Henry P.
Harris in this place, died at his home in
Canton on the afternoon of the 24th ult
with tuberculosis. Deceased was 36 years
old and is survived by a widow with a
daughter four years old.
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——The Philipsburg colored Sunday
school is reported to be on the point of hir-
ing itself out as a rain making machine to
farmers. Every time that body has tried
to have a picnic in recent years it has rain-
ed and now the dusky scholars are certain
that they are the regl thing in bringing
about precipitation.
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——Lock Haven councilmen are going
to save money in their street paving down
there by laying brick without cement
foundation. Itis largely experimental, but
they think it will prove a success. It might
for towns located on rocky soil but it
seems to us that Lock Haven is not the
right place to undertake it.
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Next January the time expires in
which the law gives railroad companies
operating within the State to take the
old fashioned couplers off their cars and re-
place them with new and safer ones, pref-
erably the Janney. The Pennsylvania Co.
has issued orders to the Renovo shops to
carry the work on at the rate of from 150
to 250 cars per month. An idea of how
much it will cost can be had when it is
stated that the repairs to a single car run
from $50 to $60.
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——William Garbrick and W. W.
Schenck, two Mill Hall men, have been
held under $500 bail each to arswer the
charges of assault and battery, rioting,
stoning and damaging trolley cars. The
men caused a disturbance on the Lock Ha-
ven trolley cars, hence their arrest. Wil-
liam Mayes was to have been arrested also,
but William Gingerich is reported to have
warned him of the officer’s approach and
now Gingerich, himself, is under arrest for
aiding Mayes to escape. They will all be
tried this afternoon.
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——The Chester DeVonde stock company
will arrive in this place next Monday to
begin rehearsing a repertoire for their sea-
son’s tour. The company will be entirely
new, new scenery, new costumes, and all.
The members will rehearse at Garman’s
until they have familiarized themselves
with thc various plays to be presented and
then open the season here. They will give
performances at Garman’s Thursday night,
August 10th, matinee and evening on Sat-
urday, August 12th, evening performance
on the 17th and matinee and evening on
the 19th. Their first stop after Bellefonte
will be Altoona.
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——The fourth annual convention of the
Christian and Missionary Alliance for the
State of Pennsylvania will be held at Brad-
ford, Pa., August 11th to 20th. This con-
vention will afford a special opportunity to
Bible students and christian workers desir-
ing knowledge of the word and qualifica-
tion for service; to believers seeking deep-
er life in Christ, and God’s children who
may be tried, afflicted, sick and suffering,
weak in faith and burdened in soul. Some
of the speakers who will be there will be
Rev. A. B. Simpson, Rev. D. W. LeLach-
eur, China and Rev. Stephen Merritt.
AX OLD RESIDENT GONE.—The an-
nouncement of the death of the venerable
Jacob Schrom, which occurred at his room
in the McClain block late last Thursday
night, was a decided surprise to the many
who knew him in and about Bellefonte. It
had been stated that he was in ill health,
but his condition was not generally known
to have been so serious as to warrant any
alarm.
He was born near Mechanicsburg, Sept.
25th, 1825, and for fifty years had followed
the trade of a saddler in this place. He
was quite prominent asa citizen in the
early days of Bellefonte, but the latter years
of his life he made almost a recluse of him-
self and lived a solitary life, content to
work alone at his trade and find his one
diversion in music of which he was passion-
ately fond. When Bellefonte’s famous old
band was in its prime and filled engage-
ments in many parts of the State Jacob
Schrom was an alto player who knew few
superiors.
His wife preceded him to the grave sev-
eral years ago, the following children sur-
viving: David, Butler; Mrs. Sarah Watson,
Osceola; Mrs. Elizabeth Ingram, near State
College; Mrs. Samuel Skean, of Pottstown;
Edward, of Pittsburg; Mrs. Diadem Gilbert,
of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Clara, of Bellefonte;
Mrs. Martin Haines, of Philipsburg; Mrs.
William Cowdrick, Niagara Falls,and John,
on the steamship St. Paul.
On Saturday evening the body was taken
to the home of C. C. Shuey,on High street,
and burial services were held there Sunday
afternoon at 3:30. Rev. W. H. Blackburn,
of Wilmore. Pa. and Rev. Allen Rhen, o
this place, ous i i
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DANIEL FLEISHER.—Daniel Fleisher, a
highly respected citizen of Centre Hall,
died early Saturday morning from a com-
plication of diseases due to old age.
From the Commemorative Record of Cen-
tral Pennsylvania, the following is gleaned:
‘Mr. Fleisher was born June 12th, 1811, in
Hanover township, Dauphin county. About
1823 his mother and her children came to
live near Tusseyville. Before attaining his
majority Mr. Fleisher was married to Miss
Pollie Boone, of Berks county, who died in
1876. He was again married to Miss Mary
A. Shirk in 1879. The following children
survive the deceased: Jared, of Jamestown,
New York; Mrs. William Jordan, of Adams
county, Ohio; Isaiah, of Philadelphia; Dan-
iel H., of Oklohoma; Catharine, at home,
and Uriah, of Los Angeles, Cal.; William
died in early manhood, and Mis. Julian
Fleming, died several years ago in Centre
Hall.
One of Mr. Fleisher’s chief aims of life
was the accumulation of wealth in which
he was very successful, having begun life in
poverty. He was a pleasant gentleman,
honest and true, and bore the esteem
of that entire community because of his
unpretentious, christian life. pon the
occasion of his last visit to Bellefonte, when
he was in his 83th year, he seemed remark-
ably active and at that time it seemed as
though he had a number of years of useful
life still ahead of him.
Interment took place on Tuesday a. m.,
at the Tusseyville cemetery. Rev. S. H.
Eisenberg officiated at the funeral services,
the deceased being a member of the Re-
formed church.
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Mrs. W. C. SNYDER.—The death of
Mrs. W. C. Snyder, which occurred at her
home in Altoona last Thursday afternoon,
has been sincerely lamented. by the many
friends and relatives she leaves in this
county, the home of her birth and girl-
hood.
She was the youngest daughter of Fletch-
er E. and Eliza G. Meek and was born at
Pine Grove Mills, November 4th, 1867,
and was consequently aged 31 years, 8
months and 23 days. Her sufferings were
borne with the fortitude of a christian and
the death summons found her ready. She
was a pleasant, genial, true woman. Her
husband survives her as also does one son,
Clark M., aged 15 months. Her parents
are also living as are these brothers and
sisters: J. Emory, and S. Glenn, of New
York; G. McClelland, of Altoona; Mrs. J.
F. Harter, of State College; Mrs. Frank
Musser, and Mrs. F. Houseman, of Altoona.
The deceased was a member of the Eighth
avenue Methodist Episcopal church, as
well as an earnest teacher in the Sunday
school. Her absence will be misseed by
all who came in connection with her, not
only in church work but as a neighbor
and friend. The funeral took place on
Saturday afternoon. The interment was
made in Fairview cemetery.
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MARY E. SHAFFER.—On the 2nd inst
at her home in Somerset Centre, Michigan,
Mrs. Mary E. Shaffer passed quitely from
this to the life to come. Mrs. Shaffer was
the eldest daughter of the late Captain
Griffith Davis, and was born in this place,
fifty-one years ago. She grew to woman-
hood ere and was well known to many of
our people as a most industrious, worthy
woman. About fifteen years ago her health
failed and she went west thinking a change
of climate would be beneficial. Shortly
after reaching Michigan she met and mar-
ried Mr. Wm. Shaffer, with whom she has
lived a contented, happy life. Her moth-
er, three sisters and a brother, all residents
of this place, survive her. The remains
which will be brought home for burial are
expected to reach this place this Friday
morning. Interment to be in Union ceme-
tery this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
——Jacob Gehring, a brother-in-law of
Alois Kohlbecker, of Mileshurg, was drown-
ed at Cleveland, N. Y., on Sunday. He
was formerly an employe of the Bellefonte
glass works in this place and is survived by
a widow and an adopted daughter. The
particulars of the drowning are not known.
DI1ED.—Mrs. Joel Tressler, of Nittany,
died at her home on Wednesday, August
2nd, at 10 a. m., of cancer. Mrs. Tressler
had been annoyed by a small ulcer on her
foot which physicians pronounced to be
cancer. During the spring months she he-
gan medical treatment causing it to spread
rapidly and one month ago her limb was
amputated. The disease scattered through
her entire system, however, and death end-
ed her suffering.
She was 51 years old and leaves a hus-
band and a number of children, residing in
different parts of the State, to mourn her
loss. Remains were buried in Snyder-
town cemetery.
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——DMis. Sara E. Garis, widow of Serg.
Chas. Garis, who died at Chicamauga while
serving with Co. B, 5th U. 8. Vols., is the
first person in this section to receive a pen-
sion on account of that war.
News Purely Personal.
—Mrs. James Reed, of Washington, D. C., is in
town visiting relatives.
—Dr. Andrew Lieb, of Bethlehem, is in town on
a short visit to his old home.
—Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes, of south Spring street,
has returned from Atlantic City.
—Philip Beezer left for Pittsburg Sunday even-
ing, there to buy a car load of cattle.
—Rev. Thos. Levan Bickel, of the Reformed
church, was a visitor in Lock Haven on Monday.
—The Misses Agnes and Teressa Shields, of
Logan street, are visiting Altoona and Tyrone
friends.
—DMiss Gertrude Hiltner, of Tyrone, was
the guest of the Misses Armor, on east Linn
street, over Sunday.
—DMichael Karstetter, of Pleasant Gap, was in
town on Saturday and dropped in for a pleasant
chat with the writer.
—Misses Daise M. Keichline and Mary E.
Runkle left yesterday for a visit among friends
at Selinsgrove and Sunbury.
—Roy B. Mattern, of Milesburg, who holds a
chair of Mathematics in Adelphi academy, Brook-
lyn, N.Y;, is home on a visit to his parents.
—Al and Robert Garman were arrivals from
Tyrone on Sunday morning. They spent the
day at their former home here.
—Mrs. Mary Peters, with her two daughters,
Anna and Tessie, are up from Philadelphia for a
short visit to Cheney Hicklen and family.
—Miss May Judge, the only daughter of D.
Judge, general factotum of the Bellefonte Central
railroad at Coleville, is in Philipsburg visiting
friends,
—Miss Grace Young, of Youngstown, Ohio, who
spent several weeks with Miss Charlotte Yeager
at the Brant house, left for her home yesterday
afternoon.
—Edward Praag and daughters, of Philadelphia,
are at the Brockerhoff house for several weeks’
outing. Mr. Praag is connected with Dyers
Trade Journal.
—Chas. H. Wright, formerly connected with F.
P. Blair & Co’s. jewelry store in this place but now
located in Washington, I. C., is home on a short
visit to his parents in Milesburg.
—Geo. T. Brew, of Oakland, Md., was an arrival
in town on Saturday evening and has been look-
ing after some business mterests here and in
Williamsport during the week.
—DMiss Mary Hamilton, of east Howard street,
is entertaining Miss Gertrude Snowden, of Phila-
delphia. Thomas Hamilton Esq., of New York,
is also sojourning at the Hamilton home.
—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kimport were in Mill-
heim spending Sunday with former prothonotary
and Mrs. W. F. Smith. Mr. Kimport was Mr,
Smith's deputy during his official life here.
—Owing to severely burned feet Winfield Lose,
a zon of Scott Lose, has returned from Bellwood
to his home in this place until he recovers from
his injury, which was purely accidental.
—Capt. Hugh S. Taylor and Lieuts. Geo. L,
Jackson and Chas. Taylor, of Co. B, N. G. P,,
went to Altoona Wednesday to participate in the
election of a lieutenant colonel and two majors for
the 5th. They returned last evening.
—James Barry, so well known around Bellefonte
as an amateur devote of the fistic art, is home
visiting his mother in this place. At present he
is shipping clerk for the Harrisburg rolling mill
company and the gratifying report comes with
him that he is getting along nicely.
—Ferd Baum, who had been connected with
Joseph Bros. & Co. and Aikens’ stores im this
place for several years, left for Princeton, Indiana,
on Monday, to take charge of a clothing store in
which his brother Jacob is interested.
—Mrs. Evelyn Rodgers, of North Allegheny
street, is entertaining her cousin, Mrs. Harvey
Musser and three children, from Akron, Ohio.
Mrs. Morgan F. Medlar, of Allentown, a sister of
Col. Coburn, is also visiting at the Rodgers home.
—Mortimer O'Donoghue, who for years was
superintendent of the Valentine iron works in
this place, was an arrival in town from Philadel-
phia on Saturday evening. He isin business now
with his brothers in the manufacture of pearl
goods and if looks are a criterion the business
must be flourishing. He left for Niagara Falls
on Tuesday evening.
—George Harpster, of Hublersburg, who is
scarcely at home long enough any more for all of
his friends to get to see him, is off again. This
time he is gone to Fritchton, Ind., for an indefi-
nite stay. George is such a fine blacksmith that
his services are in demand continually and he
knows a thing or two about politics—good Demo-
cratic polities.
—George B. Johnson, of Beaver Falls, was an
arrival in town last Friday, having come on to visit
his family and parents in this place. Mrs,
Johnson with their two little daughters and that
fine boy John T. Jr., who happens to be named
after both grandfathers and an uncle, have heen
here for some time visiting at the Aikensand
Johnson homes. They will return to Beaver
Falls together.
—James A, Feidler, of Williamsport, is in town
writing up the industries about Bellefonte for the
Philadelphia Journal of Commerce. Mr. Feidler is
so well remembered in Bellefonte where he was
postmaster and owner of the Keystone Gazette that
his friends here are always glad to welcome him.
To be sure he was an unrelenting, aggressive
political enemy, but such an one as it was a pleas-
ure and a credit to take issue with,
—Col. James Milliken, of New York, is back
irom his sojourn at Bedford Springs, fully con-
vineced that that famous old resort has lost most
of the charms it had when the State's most fa-
mous men made it a rendezvous, The Colonel
forgets that many of the old time celebrities who
once gathered with him there are gone and that
such types of men are rare in later generations.
—Among the strangers who were here for the
first of the third annual series of summer dances,
which was given in the armory on Tuesday even-
ing were: Miss Blanche Good, Lock Haven; Miss
Grace Hiltner, Tyrone; Miss Anna Stewart, Pitts-
burg, Misses Anna and Bertha Shafner, Philadel-
phia; Miss Ruby Hale, Lancaster; Miss May Hale,
Newark; Miss Stone, Pittsburg; Miss Orbison,
Philadelphia; Thomas XK. Morris, Malcolm
Stevenson, Tyrone; A. N. Diehl, State Col-
lege; Ralph Good, Lock Haven; Gregg Curtin,
Pittsburg; George Lippincott, Philadelphia; J.
Norris Bogle, Howard; Loury Montgomery, Phila-
delphia.
——A quartet of Logans who started
down Bald Eagle fishing on Wednesday af-
ternoon were Wm. T. Hillibish, J. M.
Cunningham, John McGinley, Joseph
Rightnour and George Nisely. They went
for bass and were scheduled to be home
last night, but as no one expected them to
bring back anything larger than a helgra-
mite or a stony-cat, it wasn’t thought nec-
essary to have an extra wagon to meet
them, and just there is where the boys
were fooled. You have all read the account
of the great Seaserpent that was seen along
the Atlantic coast early this spring and
how it frightened people away from resorts
down there. Well, the terrible monster
must have gotten into the Chesapeake bay
and then run up the Susquehanna to Bald
Eagle creek for the Logans have caught it.
It was only after a frightful struggle with
guns, axes and saw logs that they were
able to still the mighty thing and they say
that half of Bald Eagle valley had gathered
on the banks of the stream hefore the battle
was over. The serpent is now being em-
balmed at the Logan engine house and will
be one of the many startling exhibits at
their great picnic at Hunter’s park on the
23rd. In talking of his thrilling expe-
rience after getting home last night John
McGinley said that when the monster lash-
ed the waters with its great tail the spray
flew over the valley so fast that the farmers
for miles around thought they were having
a wonderful phenomena of a thunder show-
er from a clear sky. The serpent has a
head like a W box, wings like a canary
bird and a tail like a bear.
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——On last Sunday nearly every church
in Bellefonte had a stranger in its pulpit.
Rev. Charles Wood, of Philadelphia,
preached in the Presbyterian church, both
morning and evening; Rev. D. S. Monroe,
of Altoona, talked to the Methodists in an
eloquent sermon in the morning; Edgar E.
Brooks, of Tyrone, was in Rev. Geo.
Brown’s pulpit at St. John’s Episcopal
church; Rev. W. H. Blackburn, of Wil-
more, preached to his old hearers in the
United Brethren church; Dr. A. E. Gobble,
president of New Berlin college and Rev.
S. P. Remer, the presiding elder, were both
officiating at the Evangelical church; and
Rev. George Lescher, of Boalshurg, con-
ducted the evening service in the Lutheran
church.
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——Rev. L. K. Evans D. D., of Potts-
town, will preach in the Reformed church
of this place on Sunday next, both morning
and evening at the usual hour for serv-
ice. Doctor Evans is well known to many
of our people as an eloquent and able di-
vine and we have no doubt that a large
and appreciative audience will greet his
coming.
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——DBudd Gray, of Tyrone, who was
graduated from The Pennsylvania State
College several years ago, was married to
Miss Eunice Bright, of Cleveland, Ohio, at
2:30 on Wednesday afternoon. The cere-
mony was performed in London, England.
Mr. Gray is residing in Paris as the foreign
representative of a Cleveland electrical
firm.
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——Atlantic City is the most popular
Seaside resort in America and it is this
point that is reached via Pennsylvania rail-
road Seashore excursion on Thursday Aug.
10th without transfer through Philadelphia
by purchasing tickets via the Delaware
river bridge route.
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——Ask your grocer for our flour.
“Finest’’ and ‘Fancy Patent’ brands lead
all others.—Phcenix Milling Co.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red.... 1@71Yy
“ —No, 2 6T@674
Corn —Yellow 3915
¢ —DMixed. 35 s@35%4
Oats, irene i 24@29Y5
Flour— Winter, Per Br'l. 2.251
¢ —Penna. Roller... 3.00@s
¢¢ —Favorite Brands 4,30@4.50
Rye Flour Per Br'l ar
Baled hay—Choice Timothy
fe ee 4 Mixed
Straw.........
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the Puesix Mining Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old......c..ccoerreeeeirmnnssnnnninnisieens 70
Red wheat, nev 65
Rye, per bushe 40
Corn, shelled, per 35
Corn, ears, per bushel.. 30
Oats, per bushel, new .. 25
Barley, per bushel........ 40
Ground Plaster, per ton.. 8 50
Buckwhent, per bushel ccic.iviissecosesnesisnsnnss 25
Cloverseed, per bushel... $3 00 to §5 00
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel new.......... 40
Onions dures oe as 0
gs, per dozen..
To i] ound.. 7
Country Shoulder: 6
Sides... 6
Hams.. 10
Tallow, per pound 3
Butter, per potnQ.....c.iccrsirmssnnnssrernicissane . 15
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