Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. |, 1899.
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the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——J. W. Gephart Esq., is sick at his
home on east Linn street.
——A pension of $6 per month has just
been granted to Charles Martz, of Pine
Grove Mills.
John H. Grimes, formerly a porter
at the Brockerhoff house in this place, has
been granted a license to marry Mary E.
Brown, of Lock Haven. The license was
taken out in Clinton county.
——Charley Atherton, of State College,
who had been sold to Washington by the
Wilkesbarre hall team has been released
by the Senators, because of a falling off in
his hitting, and is now at his home at the
College.
-——DMartin Reese, conductor on the
Snow Shoe road, has moved back to his old
home in Snow Shoe; the change of sched-
ule on that branch having made it neces-
sary for his train to stay out there
all night instead of in Bellefonte as for-
merly. :
——A delightful musicale was given at
the home of Emil Joseph, Tuesday even-
ing, in honor of Miss Marie Reilly, of
Muncie, Ind., who was here to witness the
marriage of her brother James to Miss
Carrie Gross.
Former sheriff and Mrs. D. W.
Woodring bave issued invitations for the
marriage of their daughter, Anna Mabel, to
Mr. William Taylor Hunt. The ceremony
will be performed at the bride’s home, 13
east High street, at noon on Wednesday,
September 6th.
~——A. M. Greninger and family expect
to move frem Bellefonte to Philadelphia by
October 15th. Their son Thomas has a
position in the Baldwin locomotive works
there and Mr. Greninger has secured a place
with
m illwrights.
———While trying to keep control of his
badly frightenéd horse Wm. B. Miles,
Milesburg’s veteran merchant, was quite
painfully injured at Morris’
kilns last Thursday afternoon.
juries were not serious, however.
pike lime
His in-
——Olin Struble, a son of Andrew Stru-
ble, was married to Miss Emma Gracey ab
the home of the bride’s mother, in Tyrone,
last Wednesday evening. The groom is
a grand son of C. H. Struble, formerly of
Struble’s Station, this county, and is a
most estimable young man.
——— During the past week a hearing was
held at Bellefonte before Master W. G.
Runkle for the compulsory abandonment
of the Centre and Kishocoquillas turn pike,
from Centre all to the county line, a dis-
tance of eight miles. Saturday the jury
returned a verdict of damages in the sum
of 51,100.
———Considerable building has been done
in Coleville recently. Four new houses
have gone up this summer. Philip Gar-
brick, Abram Sweitzer, Bert Poorman and
James McMurtrie are all owners of new
homes out there. Everyone of them is a
young man, which speaks weil for the in-
dustry and thrift of their habits.
——A blowing viper snake, three feet
long, was killed on one of the principal
streets in Tyrone Friday The
pecple up there are at a loss to know where
it came from. Some think it came down
from the hrewery Lill, while others are of
the opinion that it was the surplus from
one of the last orgies of the Indians.
evening.
——At the opening of court, on Monday,
Edmund Blanchard, a son of the late Evan
Blanchard, and a brother of John Blanch-
ard Esq., was admitted to the practice of
law in Centre county. He is a graduate of
Haverford and of the University of Penn-
sylvania law school and is a young man of
somuch determination and energy that we
the Griscom & McFeely firm of |
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predict a bright future for him in the law.
—The wedding of Miss Mabel Cow-
drick, of Niagara Falls, has been announced
for Wednesday, Sept. 27th. She will
marry & Mr. Romiser, who holds a very
responsible position in thaw city. Miss
Cowdrick is still pleasantly remembered
by a great many Bellefonte friends who
will wish ber much happiness in her mar-
ried life. Miss Edith Otto, a daughter of
Hamilton Otto, of this place, and a cousin
of the bride elect, will be one of the maids.
——Wm. S. Chambers has been appointed
an additional mailing clerk in the Belle-
fonte postoffice. The largely augmented
business of the office made an increased
mailing force necessary and the department
acted promptly on postmaster Montgom-
ery’s request for another clerk. Of course
Mr. Chambers will have to pass the civil
service examination before his appointment
will be confirmed. He will doubtless be
able to do that, as he has been a schocl
teacher for years and is in every way quali-
fied to make an efficient and courteous
clerk.
——The timber that has been taken from
the old foundry building at the rear of this
office is of the kind that builders would be
willing to pay dearly for today, if they
could get it. It was put into the buildings
away back iu the forties and is perfect, so
far as preservation is concerned. The heav-
iest timbers, such as sills, joists, ete., ‘are
light as a feather” being perfectly dry,
white pine without a knot. The same tim-
ber was used when the foundry was rebuilt
hy Col. George Bayard, in 1867, and it will
be used again in the stable which the Stew-
art estate is going to build there.
“FARAWAY’’ SWEITZER-SPRINTER AND
PuGiLisT.—About the funniest spectacle
that has been seen on Bellefonte streets for
many a day was enacted on the race bridge
on High street at noon on Wednesday.
John Sweitzer, better known as ‘‘Fara-
way,’’ loaded to the gunwales with limber
juice, came down street and met a Philips-
burger named Murphy, who also ought to
have had bilge plates on his keel to keep
him careening. As is usually the case the
two fell out with the first word, but, just
as sure as a fall out was looked for at the
hand-shake and then were ready to
fight.
After using up all the politer terms of
endearment they resorted to epithets with
blue flounces and “Faraway’’ was waving
a pair of arms that looked brawny and
strong enough to knock the Bush house off
its foundation. Mr. Philipsburg Murphy lis-
tened with stupefied resignation to
“Faraway’s’’ elocutionary efforts and
showed no signs of wanting to do any-
thing more than argue the ques-
tion until the the Eggtown contingent
called him a name that seemed to question
his being descended from the genus homo.
Then there was trouble. The visitor took
a brace and swore he could lick any man,
woman or child in the town, and possibly
was sincere in his belief until. one of ‘‘Fara-
way’s’’ waving arms happened to catch him
on the chin. Well, he stiffened up, raised
on his tip toes, went round in a ring about
three times and then suspended business,
taking the full limit on the dusty bridge.
It reminded us very much of Mart Howard
taking a fit in that thrilling war drama,
‘The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.”
Murphy didn’t stay down long enough
to be counted out. He scrambled to his
baunches and everybody thought he was
going to imitate the boxing Kangaroo,
i when ‘“‘Faraway’’ gave a right arm swing
for him. Now if Murphy had been stand-
ing up Sweitzer might have hit something,
but as such was not the case the Eggtown
pugilist couldn’t stop the motive force that
was driving his powerful fist into the air
and he went on over top of the crouching
Philipsburger.
There must have been something in
Murphy’s attitude that led Sweitzer to
think that they were preparing for a run-
ning race, for he jumped up and started to
sprint at a pace that was a wonder. The
Philipsburger grew lion hearted when he
| saw his adversary flee and took up the
chase. He needed toe weights, however,
and had not chased long until Sweitzer was
indeed ‘‘Far-a-way.’’
Murphy was monarch of all he surveyed
then until Frank Crocker called his bluff
about being able to whip any man in the
town and after a little jangling things
quieted down into their usual peaceful con-
dition and twenty minutes later a police-
man wandered along.
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TrayMps UNDERTAKE TO RUN
SYRACUSE House AT HowARD.—On Fri-
day night about nine o’clock three tramps,
with Wesley Koons, of Eagleville, entered
the Syracuse hotel at Howard and called
up the drinks. Proprietor Jacob DeHaas
was behind the bar himself and set out the
beer for his customers.
he tramps drank theirs right off, but the
other two fellows started to kick about the
“collar” being too big. They insisted on
aving the glasses filled up *‘solid,” which
Mr. Deifaas declined to do and in order to
stop further jangle ahout it he took the two
untouched glasses off the bar; refusing to
serve them at all.
This made the tramps very mad. They
swore and stormed around the house, final-
ly getting out into the road from which
pont of vantage they began stoning the
building. During the fusilade Benjamin
Lucas was hit in the back and quite pain-
fully hurt. By the time the populace of
Howard had awakened in
cient to capture their unruly visitors they
vanished on a west bound freight train,
which had been standing there waiting for
the night express east to pass. Before leav-
ing they pulled a rubber coat off Koons
and took it with them. Koons had ac-
companied them on the freight from
Lock Haven and would have gone on West
along had not some friends who knew him
in Howard dissuaded him and got him to
return home.
The tramps were arrested about 1 o’clock
Saturday morning in Tyrone. They were
taken back to Howard that afternoon and
given a hearing before squire Samuel G.
Kline, at which they pleaded guilty and
were remanded to jail in this place for
court. They registered at Ft. Cronister as
J. W. Smith and W. L. Smith, Williams-
port; and Henry Grace, Waverly, N. Y.
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ARRESTED FOR CATTLE STEALING.—
Constable Alf. Lucas, of Snow Shoe, ar-
rested John and George Fye, at North
Bend, last Friday and brought them back
to Snow Shoe to answer the charge of steal-
ing cattle. They were given a preliminary
examination before ’squire Brown and held
in $500 bail each, for a further examina-
tion, which will be made to-day.
The Fyes are supposed to be members of
a gang of ‘‘rustlers’”” who have been steal-
cattle in the vicinity of Snow Shoe for sev-
eral years. I'armers and miners have been
missing stock continually, and no trace of
it could be had until Lucas took up the
case.
FREER IER
-—'The many friends of Jacob Kerstet-
ter, of Coburn, will be sorry to learn of an
accident whereby his leg was broken on
Monday morning. He was cutting logs
near his home where the implement with
which he was working slipped and struck
him on the leg, with the above result.
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Koons and one of |
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——Have you secured your seats for
The Wedding March.”
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——There have been a lot of petty cases
to take up the time of the court this week.
——Heavy rains in the vicinity of Lin-
den Hall and Graysdale on Saturday even-
ing did considerable damage to fields and
fences.
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——On Saturday, September 16th, the
employees of the Morrison & Cass paper
i mills, at Tyrone, will picnic at Heela park.
first meeting, they made it all up with a; a
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——The Susquehanna association of K.
G. E. will hold its convention at Hecla
park on Labor day. instead of at Mill
Hall, as formerly arranged.
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——Proprietor Grieb is making a number
of material improvements to his hotel at
State College. They are to be completed
for the opening of the fall term of school
there.
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——Wm. Larimer, the manager of the
Bellefonte sale and exchange stables, has
just returned from Ft. Wayne, Ind., with
a consignment of thoroughbred 2 year olds.
Everyone of them is registered and stand-
ard bred.
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—— ‘The Wedding Mareh,”’ Gilbert's
refined comedy, will be presented at Gar-
man's next Monday night, for the benefit
of the public library fund. Seats are now
on sale at Parrish’s.
——The Tyrone shoe factory has secur-
ed the contract for manufacturing 30,000
pairs of shoes for the government soldiers’
home at Dayton, Ohio. This order will
keep the factory running to its fullest ca-
pacity for 75 days.
——The Methodists from Half Moon who
attended their circuit picnic at Hunter's
park, on Saturday, didn’t get back home
until 2 o'clock Sunday morning. A wash-
out of the railroad tracks at Graysdale
caused the delay.
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-——Rev. Hans Arlt has resigned his
pastorate of the German Lutheran church,
in Lock Haven, to accept a call to the
St. Luke’s church in Baltimore. He
has been in Lock Haven since 1893 and
has been unusually sueeessful there.
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——A High valley resident comes to the
ront with a story of a black snake recent-
ly killed down there. It was so gorged
that it could neither escape nor fight and
when it had been dispatched a young calf
was found half-way down its throat.
——Mifilin D. Snyder, a State College
merchant, was considerably skinned and
stoved up in a runaway accident at Lemont |
oneday last week. He was at the station
loading a piano, when his team ran away
throwing him out with the above results.
He suffered no serious injuries.
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——-—Invitations have been issued for
the marriage of Miss Mary B. Jenkins,
a daughter of John Jenkins, the iron
master of Milton, to Lewis K. Ettinger, of
that place. The groom elect is a native of
Aaronsburg, this county, and Miss Jenkins
is a niece of W. R. Jenkins, of this place.
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——The good will and material of the
‘Bituminovs Record,”’ of Philipsburg, Pa,
a fully equipped power newspaper and job
ofiice, is offered for sale. Price very low.
To the right man an excellent opportunity
to make money is here presented. Address
R. A. Kinsloe, Philipsburg, Pa.
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—— James McGhee, who is in his seven-
tieth year, shet a gray eagle at Beech Creek,
i on Tuesday, that measured six fees from
tip to tip of its wings. The old marksman
only breke the bird’s wing when he shot it
and when it fell it made an attack upon
him. He was able to dispatch it how-
ever.
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———Rev, and Mrs. Charles Patton, of
Warriorsmark, departed last Friday morn-
ing on their journey as missionaries of the
Presbyterian church in China. They go
first to Niagara Falls and from thence to
Vancouver, B. C., where they set
‘sail, September 11th, for Canton, China;
their final destination being 300 miles in-
land from that city.
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A rattle snake that had been on ex-
hibition in the Irvin house office, Lock
Haven, for some time broke the glass cov-
ering on its box Saturday afternoon and
quickly glided out onto the floor of the
hotel. One whir of its rattles was enough
to send all the habitues of the place a scam-
pering and it held undisputed sway until
William Cutter and Herbert Carpenter got
a board over it and killed it.
——There will be a reunion of the sur-
vivors of the 77th, Penna Vols., in room
‘Company G,”” First regiment armory,
Broad and Callowhill streets, Philadelphia,
at 9:30 a. m., on Wednesday, September
6th next. Any survivor receiving this
notice is requested to give it publicity
among the comrades as far as possible, as
the addresses of all are not known. As the
national encampment will be in session at
Philadelphia during that week, it is tu be
hoped that there will be a good attendance
of the comrades.
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CREASY TO BE THERE.—County chair-
man Johnston has received word from our
candidate for State Treasurer, the Hon. W.
T. Creasy, that he will be in attendance at
the Granger’s picnic, at Centre Hall, on
Wednesday, September 20th.
A great rally for the reform of state af-
fairs is arranged for that day and every-
body should avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity of meeting and hearing the honest
farmer candidate of the Democracy.
POINTERS FOR THE GRANGER’S PICNIC.
— The next big holiday event scheduled
for Centre countians will be the Patrons
picnic and exhibition at Grange park, Cen-
tre Hall, from September 15th to 22nd.
For that annual outing of the husbandmen
and their friends elaborate preparations are
already being made and some of the special
points of interest for all concerned are the
following:
The Veteran club of Centre county will
hold its annual picnic at the park Saturday,
September 16th, during the encampment.
Special trains will be run on that day over
the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad.
Special freight rates have been secured
for exhibitors whereby all exhibits are car-
ried at one-fare rate; the exhibitors pre-
senting their freight bills to the chairman
of the committee and securing his certificate
that the articles proposed to be returned
were on exhibition during the encamp-
ment.
A special effort will be made to get up
the finest display of poultry ever seen in
the central part of the State and all poul-
try raisers are invited to place birds on ex-
hibition.
Farmers having nice stock should not
‘miss the opportunity of placing it on ex-
hibition to bring it to public notice, to
demonstrate the enterprise and progressive
spirit of the farmers in the central part of
the State.
Bring your horses, cattle, sheep, swine,
and poultry. The association will provide
| ample accommodations in the way of sta-
bling and buildings. Many sales are made
annually by exhibitors of live stock, so
that exhibitors have been largely benefitted
financially, not only in the sales they have
made during the exhibition, but by the
customers they have brought afterwards.
A general representation is to be made
this year of the Grange organization in the
county. Every subordinate grange is ex-
pected to engage a tent as headquarters for
their Grange. The association will place a
banner over each entrance designating the
name and location of each Grange and in
this way make a public demonstration of
the strength of our organization in the
county.
The grange insurance company will have
a tent for headquarters.
The State Grange will have a tent.
The ladies’ reception committee will re-
ceive all ladies at their headquarters.
The State College will make a fine dis-
play of horticultural and agricultural
products, occupying an entire building.
Provisions will also be made for other
exhibitors of agricultural and horticnltural
products.
The indications are that there will be a
larger display of agricultural implements
than in former years. The large sales made
last year have attracted wide attention and
will bring numerous new exhibitors.
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IT Cost THEM FORTY DOLLARS.—Last
Friday morning David Rimmy and Harvey
Markle, two Pleasant Gap men, had a
taste of what unwarranted meddling costs.
They were brought before justice Keich-
line on a warrant for robbery and before
they could get out of the dilemma it had
cost them $40. The story of their trouble
is about as follows:
Some time ago Charley and Earle Packer,
sons of Richard Packer, who lives out at
the Gap, made a visit to their grandmother
who presented them with an old chicken
hen with a brood of chicks. The boys
started home with their new possessions
and had reached the home of Harvey Mark-
le, where Rimmy meg them and accused
them of having stolen the chickens. Of
course they protested, stoutly asserting
their innocence and right to what their
grandmother had given them, but Rimmy
was not to be convinced and soon had the
chickens passed into Markle’s keeping.
The boys ran hone with the story of their
trouble and it was not long until a demand
was made on Markle for the chickens. He
refused to give them up and then the suit
was brought against him and Rimmy, with
the result that they lost and had to pay the
costs.
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FISHING CREEK ON A RAMPAGE.—The
rains in the lower end of Nittany valley on
Saturday and Sunday were heavy enough
to cause a six foot flood on Fishing creek.
The stream rose so rapidly Sunday morn-
ing that a portion of the town of Mill Hall
was inundated and the residents of that
place had great difficulty in getting their
cows and pigs to places of safety, not to
mention the rafting that was done in every
cellar in the low parts of town.
The flood was too much for the splash
boards on the axe factory dam, which gave
way under the strain leaving the water to
sweep its way through the grinding and
polishing departments, wrecking them so
that it required several days suspension to
make necessary repairs. The axe factory
horses came very near drowning and would
have been lost had it not been for Jack
Boas’ heroic rescue at the risk of his own
life.
The streets were washed out, lawns and
flower beds wrecked, hoardwalks floated
off on the current and the Methodist church
was deluged. Altogether Mill Hall got
such a ducking asishewon’t pray for soon
again. Salona suffered considerably from
the flood, too. Roads were, badly cut up
in that vicinity and many fences carried
away.
In twenty-four hours time there was a
rain fall of a fraction over four inches.
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~——The office of Dr. Edith Schadd, on
west High street, will be closed for six
weeks as she is going to Philadelphia to
take a special course at the Polyclinic hos-
pital school for post graduate work and
study.
News Purely Personal.
—DMr. and Mrs. James R. Hughes returned from
Cape May, last Saturday morning.
—W. M. Grove, was a caller at this office Friday
to order the paper sent out to Andrew Swartz,
Orangeville, Il.
—Miss Mary Matlack, of Lewisburg, is a guest
at the home of Col. W. F. Reeder, on north Alle-
gheny street.
—(eorge B. Thompson, of Horton, West Vir-
ginia, was in town on Friday on his way to Le-
mont to visit relatives.
—Mrs. Ferguson Parker, of Somerset, is a
welcome guest at the home of her brother-in-law,
G. Ross Parker, on south Thomas street.
—Mrs. Edw. R. Rankin, of Harrisburg,and Miss
Jennie Stott, of Pottsville, are gnests at the home
of {their sister, Mrs. W. R. Jenkins, on High
street.
—DMrs. Frank Cunningham and her four chil-
dren left for Pittsburg on Tuesday, there to make
their permanent home. Frank has employment
in that city.
—The Misses Alene and Etta O'Donoghue, of
Philadelphia, sisters of Mortimer O'Donoghue,
Supt. of the Valentine ircn company, are guests
at the Bush house.
—Miss Laura Rumberger, who has been enjoy-
ing the salubrious climate and spiritual atmos-
phere of Ocean Grove, N. J., for the past ten days,
is expected home to-day.
—Misses Daise M. Keichline and Mary E. Run-
kle returned, Monday evening, from a visit to
friends at Selinsgrove and Sunbury. They had
been gone since August 3rd.
—DMiss Annie O'Neil, of New York, who had
been a delightful guest at the Anderson home on
east Bishop street during August, left for her
home in that city Wednesday morning
—Prof. and Mrs, I. Thornton Osmond, of State
College, were early visitors in town on Wednesday
morning. They drove down behind the fine horse
the'Professor has lately brought up from Virginia.
—~Capt. Hugh 8. Taylor, Co. B, 5th Reg., Penna.
Vola, was a passenger west Sunday evening. He
went to Pittsburg to participate in the home
coming reception to the 10th Reg. He returned
Tuesday morning.
— Mrs. James R. Pierpoint, of Philadelphia, ar-
rived in town last evening and will be the guest
of Miss Broekerhoff for two weeks; the Brocker-
hotfs having reopened their old home at the cor-
ner of Spring and Bishop streets,
—Miss Maud Lewis, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill
county, who is so clever and attractive that sever-
al social events have been given already in “her
honor, is visiting Mrs. John Sebring, of Spring
street. She came last Friday.
—T'wo interested attendants at court this week
were Christ Singer and William Koons, stalwart
Republicans from Liberty township. They were
not up here to talk politics hut they know a thing
or two that is worth putting in your pipe and
smoking.
—Mr. and Mrs, Arthur W. Hollar, of Everett,
are guests at the home of Mr. Hollar's uncle,
John Meese, on Logan street. They are here for
a ten days’ visit, and, of course, enjoyed the big
picnic at Hecia yesterday. Mr. Hollar is fore-
man of the Everett Press office.
—Mr. RBoloman Poorman, of Zion, was in town
on Saturday and during the course of his stay
found time to tarry awhile in the Warcuuax office.
Mr. Poorman was one of the lucky farmers down
that way who didn’t run out of water. All his
cisterns were pumped dry, but the well held out
and he wasn’t forced to haul, lilze so many of his
neighbors were.
—Ellsworth Kreamer, of Milesburg, was in
town on Monday greeting his many friends in
this place. Ie has been railroading with Harris-
burg as his headquarters for some time, bat in-
tended going to California to try his hand in
ranching. Next Tuesday he will leave for Tur-
lock and says he intends staying just as long as
he likes it out there. late
Perry Kreamer
ile iz a son of the
—Dr. 8. G. Mattern, of Philadelphia, tarried in
town Monday for a few hours noting our growth
and gradual improvement. He had been up
Buffalo Run visiting his mother, Mrs. Mattern,
for two weeks and was on his way to meet his
wife and family and accompany them home on
Tuesday. They had been spending the summer
at Mrs. Mattern’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ardell, at
Julian. :
—W. W. Spangler and Christ Singer, of Liberty
township, were in town on Tuesday; having had
a little business before this term of court. While
Mr. Spangler is a Democrat and Mr. Singer just
the opposite, they are boon companions, never-
theless, and don’t carry their political fights far
enough to divide their friendship. Wm. Koons,
a stalwart Republican of Liberty, was also in the
party.
—S. 8. Pletcher, a Centre countain who has
come to be known as oue of the old reliables in
the 4th auditor's office in Washington, has been
up here on a visit to his old home at Howard. He
is of the opinion that malaria has been lurking in
his system and doesn’t look quite as well as is his
wont, but the three weeks of Centre county air
and cooking have been fixing him up very rapidly.
In addition to his government work Mr. Pletcher
does a little outside writing and has contributed
tales of travel to a number of papers and maga-
zines.
—Mrs. Mary Butts, of north Allegheny street,
left for Winber, Somerset county, Saturday after-
noon to make an extended visit to her son and
daughter, Walter and Miss Mary, who are ran-
ning a hotel in that new coal! town. Mrs. Reber
and Miriam, from Philadelphia, went with them
and Mrs, Robert Hunter and her children, Gra-
ham and Naney, are also in the party so that it
will be sort of a reunion of the Butts family. Miss
Henrietta Butts is taking her vacation from the
post office now and is going to spend fifteen days
of it with the others at Winber.
—=8. 8. Kreamer, of the firm of Kreamer & Son,
Centre Hall merchants, issover attending court
this week, doing duty as a grand juror. While
here Sam is a guest of his aunt, Mrs. A. Luken-
bach, of Willowbank street, and as it is the first
vacation away from their busy store that he has
had for some time he is making the most of it.
As he is one of the active young Democrats ‘on
the other side” of course politics comes in for a
fair share of his spare moments and many of
them are spent in the retreats ot the fellows who
make a business of peddling political gossip here-
abouts.
. —If all of the residents of the West ward of Belle-
fonte were the same unobtrusive, intelligent, in-
dustrious types of ‘men as Wm. Parks, of Willow-
bank street, it would be the banner precinet in
Centre county for model citizenship. In truth
there would be no other in the country like it.
Mr. Parks was for years an engineer at the Val-
entine ore mines below town, but since their
closing he has been out at the scale works.
While he never loses a day from his work unless
it is absolutely necessary he always takes a lively
interest in ehiurch matters and in local and na-
tional politics.
—J. H. Griffin Esq., of Stormstown, is in town
this week serving his country as a traverse juror.
Mr. Griffin is one of the most distinguished look-
ing of the many men {rom over the county at
court this week. His white hair, flowing gray
beard and tall, well poised figure make him a
personage whom many turn and look after as he
passes along the streets, He is a merchant up at
Stormstown and has things pretty near his own
way in the trade of that community. Mr, Griffin
was born there nearly sixty years ago and we im-
agine there hasn't been much in his life to ruffle
the easy going style in which they all live up} in
Half Moon.
—Two of Miliheim’s most prominent citizens
Lave been in town this week helping to carry on
the business at court. Former deputy treasurer
Pierce Musser, who was so popular when here in
office with his father, and J. C. Smith, who was
postmaster of Millheim under Cleveland’s second
administration and is one of the leading mer-
chants of that place today.
—Tre venerable Henry Pennington, of Phil-
adelphia, who is vencrable only in his eighty
years, for he is well and active and keeniy awake
on all the events of the day, is in town visiting
his nephew, Isaac Miller, and other relatives.
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BELLEFONTE AMATEURS IN COMEDY.—
The local dramatic talent has been called
into use in so many ways in Bellefonte,
and so satisfactorily, that it goes almost
without saying that the comedy which will
be presented at Garman’s next Monday
night will be a pleasing success.
Operas, minstrels, vaudeville and mili-
tary dramas have been undertaken lately
by our amateurs and everyone will recall
the decided hits made by ‘‘Paul Jones’ and
the ‘‘ Drummer Boy of Shiloh.”” Not within
recent years had a comedy been undertak-
en, until the company took up one of Gil-
bert’s cleverest works, “The Wedding
March’’ and decided to put it on for the
benefit of the new public library that we
hope isn’t as remote a possibility as some
would imagine it to be.
The comedy is as clean cut and as re-
freshing as is possible. It is built about
the troubles of Woodpecker Tapping, a
young English gentleman, who is about to
be married when his riding horse runs
away and eats a straw hat belonging to the
wife of a General in the English army who
is flirting with another officer in Hyde
park. The lady’s husband being jealously
suspicious she is afraid to return heme un-
til she has her hat replaced and her admir-
er holds Tapping responsible for the dilem-
ma. They go to Tapping’s house and refuse
to leave until the hat has been replaced
and Tapping finds himself in a terrible
plight when the wedding party, with his
prospective bride and ‘‘Peppy top,’’ his in-
quisitorial old father-in-law, arrives. To
make matters worse Gen. Bunthunder
finds out where his wife is and lends his
troubles to Tapping’s distraction. The
whole situation is accidentally relieved by
‘Uncle Bopaddy’s’’ unwitting gift to the
bride of astraw hat, which Tapping seizes
and gives to Mrs. Bunthunder in time to
save all concerned.
In the cast are Miss Rebecca Blanchard,
Miss Myra Holiday, Miss Patty Lane,
Winifred Meek, Mrs. John M. Shugert,
Mr. H. C. Quigley, James Harris, Ned
Blanchard, Fred Blanchard, Edw. Harris,
Rex Cooper, Maurice Jackson, Charley
Harris, Geo. RR. Meek and others.
Seats are now on sale at Parrishi’s at 50
and 35ets.
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ATTENTION G. A. R.—The first trains
will leave Bellefonte for the national en-
campment in Philadelphia, on Saturday
morning, Sept. 2nd, via P. R. R. at 6:40,
and C. R. R. of Pa. at 7:10 a. m. One fare
for round trip. All old soldiers from Cen-
tre county are cordially invited to join
Gregg post in free quarters at camp Saxon,
Fairmount park, Phila.
By order Com.
S. B. MILLER, Ch.
Oem
——John Welsh, a son of Thomas Welsh,
of Lamar, died in the Lock Haven hospital
on last Thursday evening. He contracted
measles while in military camp during the
Spanish war and typhoid fever developed
later, causing bis death.
old.
He was 24 years
-—-—8Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat-—R ]
Corn 3914
& 364 @3614
Oats... 24@ 28
2.15@%2.30
Flour— Winter, Per Bri a
5.00@ 3.20
‘“ —Penna. Roller..
sa+¢ —Favorite Brand 3.60@3.80
Kye Flour Per Brl........ 3.00
Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. L12,50@15.00
‘“ “
£ Mixad * 1.
(@ 13.00
12.00(
Straw 6.00 10.50
Bellefonte Grain Mariet.
Corrected weekly by the Puexix Minuiya Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old 68
Red wheat, new.. 63
Rye, per bushel..... 40
Corn, shelled, per bush: 35
Corn, ears, per bushel. 30
Oats, per bushel, new . 25
Barley, per bushel....... 40
Ground Plaster, per ton.
Buckwheat, per bushel .
Cloverseed, per bushel...
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel new...... 50
Onions ease 50
Ss, per 15
To or ound.. yf
Country Shoulders. 6
ides...... 6
Hams.. 10
Tallow, per pound.. 3
Butter, per pound....
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