Demorraiic ada
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 8, 1899.
CorrEesPON DENTS.—NoO communications pub
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——A telephone line has been completed
to Woodward.
——There were 145 pupils in attendance
when the Millheim schools opened on Mon-
day.
—— William Fisher, of Hublersburg, is
the latest acquisition to the force of clerks
in the Joseph store.
——The annual dance given by some of
the young ladies of the town will be given
in the armory this evening.
——Elmer Bartley, of Jacksonville, has
purchased the 18 acre farm of George
Kreighbaum in the vicinity of Fiedler.
—— William H. Reed and Edith Bradley,
both of Coleville, were married on Sunday
evening at 8:30 at the residence of Rev.
Womelsdorf, on Willowbank street.
——To-morrow, Saturday, evening the
United Brethren church members will hold
a festival on the lawn opposite the resi-
dence of C. T. Gerberich, on Thomas
street. All are invited.
——Joseph Ceader is improving his
Bishop street property occupied hy John
D. Sourbeck. The addition of a handsome
new porch is improving the appearance of
the place very materially.
——An Evangelical bush meeting will
begin tomorrow in the Wert’s grove, near
Yearick’s church, west of Madisonhurg.
Services will be continued until the 12th,
by Revs. Doerstler, Freed, Solver and oth-
ers. 1
—From six o'clock Monday evening
until six o’clock Tuesday evening all stores
in this place, owned and controlled by He-
brews, were closed. It was the celebration
of the Jewish new year 5660, which began
at sunset on Monday.
Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, of Chicago,
the woman who has been around the world
twice, spent nine years in foreign lands
and visited fifty countries, will lecture in
the Methodist church here on Sunday even-
ing and in the court house Monday even-
ing. Admission will be free to both.
—— Mr. James L. Rote, who left this
place last spring and located his family at
Punxsutawney, is back again to make
Coleville his home. Neither the atmos-
phere, the water, nor the businessat Punxy
agreed with them and they are glad to be
back again. Their household goods arriv-
ed Wednesday.
——Duiing the thunder storm last Fri-
day afternoon lightning struck the barn of
David Moyer, near Rebersburg. Fortu-
nately no serious damage was done. It
frightened John Ocker’s family nearly out
of their senses when a bolt of lightning
knocked the telephone in the room in
which they were sitting to pieces.
--—While rolling a hoop on the street
near his home, Friday evening, John Parks,
a son of William Parks, of Willowbank
street, stepped on a piece of a broken bottle
and severed an artery in his foot. The
wound bled frightfully and gave the family
serious alarm until the flow of blood was
stopped. This was not accomplished, how-
ever, until after John had become so weak
from the loss of blood that he had fainted.
——Howaid Trammn:el, a colored man in
the service of Col. J. L. Spangler, has been
held under $200 for court to answer
the charge of trying to break into the home
of Scott Lose, on Allegheny street, last
Thursday moming. While it was evident
that Trammel was too drunk to know where
he was at the time and probably hadn’s
any intention of robbing, Scott Lose didn’t
know the condition of affairs and fired at
the intruder three times, one shot having
taken effect in Trammel’s wrist.
-Justice L. A. Schaeffer, elected by
the North ward, has tendered his resig-
nation to Gov. Stone and will retire from
the duties of that office, which have not
been onerous enough to make them profit-
able. ’Squire Schaeffer has made an ex-
ceptionally intelligent and conscientious
official, but there is really not enough busi-
ness to warranta man of his ability in giv-
ing his time to such an office. If Gov-
ernor Stone appoints a successor he will
serve until May 1st, 1900, when the jus-
tice who will be elected at the next spring
election will be sworn in.
——The invitations are out for the mar-
riage of Miss Mary Wooden Jackson,
daughter of Mis. Mordecai William Jack-
son, of this place, to Mr. Joseph Erwin
Borches, of Knoxville,Tenn. The ceremony
will occur on Tuesday evening, September
19th, at 8 o'clock at St. John’s Episco-
pal church; Bellefonte, to be followed by a
reception at the home of the bride’s sister,
Mrs. Wilbur F. Reeder, on North Alle-
gheny street. The evening before the wed-
ding Mr. Borches will give 2 German in the
armory during which sixty couples will
dance.
—— If afflictions are blessings in disguise
then Kyle McFarlane’s family up Buffalo
Run are enjoying a perfect shower of them
now. Kyle himself is just convalescing
from a long illness which several doctors
pronounced locomotor ataxia. Three weeks
ago his little daughter, Margaret, fell and
broke her arm and now Brown, his son, is
carrying his arm in a sling from the same
cause. The family has no notion of mov-
ing back to Bellefonte but we would advise
them to come as farming is evidently too |
A GREAT DAY AT HECLA PARK.—
Hecla park, the popular resort on the line
of the Central railroad of Pennsylvania,
has had only one larger crowd than was
that of last Thursday, when the business
men of Centre and Clinton counties met
there to picnick. It is variously estimated
that from eight to thirteen thousand were
there, but the crowd seemed larger than it
really was. The Central hauled 6,169 pas-
sengers from points on its own line, which
with the 300 on the Philipsburg special,
and the Jersey Shore and Williamsport
passengers would probably swell the total
to 7,000. Then there were probably 2,000
people who reached the park on private
conveyances so that 9,000 is about a fair
statement of the people there.
The day could not have been more ideal
had it been ordered by the greatest connois-
seur of picnic weather. There was bright
sunshine in the morning, just long enough
to entice everyone to the park, then light
clouds rolled up and saved the crowd the
sun baking it would otherwise have gotten.
About three o’clock the sky was clear again
and the evening was perfect as a moonless
night can be. The grounds were void of
dust or dirt, so that everyone was comfort-
able and had little to complain of.
Trains ran promptly until evening when
too many people wanted to leave at the
same time, then there was such a jam that
men, women and children were crushed
and jostled about until it was a wonder
that some serious injuries were not reported.
Not a single mishap occurred to mar the
success of the affair, however, except the
unpremeditated baths that were taken in
the lake and at the sink hole at the new
water tank.
The company had erected a new tank
just west of the park and the excavations
about it had not been filled up by the time
the picnic was scheduled. The overflow of
the tank ran into the holes, one of which
was quite large and over five feet deep.
The entire track was flooded in that locali-
ty and people walking back and forth to
the coaches that were standing on a siding
further west had nothing to warn them of
the danger they were in. During the af-
ternoon a little daughter of Washington Ir-
vin, of this place, tumbled into one of the
pools and only escaped drowning by the
timely appearance of a man who rescued
her before her terrified mother could arrive
on the scene. Lots of older people fell in-
to the same hole during the day, but it was
not until evening that they hegan to flop
in so rapidly that it reminded one of the
bull-frogs diving into the old canal as you
walk along the tow-path below town.
Graham Ferguson, clerk at Green’s drug
store, took a broad-side into it and, of
course, was wet all over; the fighting edi-
tor of this paper went into it with a poise
that would have made Steve Brodie die of
envy abd she came out as fighting mad as
was Corbett, after he had heen licked at
Carson City. They were not the only ones,
for from eight until eleven that evening the
water was kept rippling by the human peb-
bles that rolled into it.
The program for the day was carried out
to a nicety that reflected much credit on
Hammon Sechler, J. Will Conley and G.
W. Mason, the management committee.
Everything was as nice as could have been
desired except two things. The caterers
were not prepared forsuch a crowd and the
music at the dancing pavilion did not last
long enough. Of course such a treat as
Chappell’s orchestra bad not been dreamed
of,but when Frank Warfield’s personal gen-
erosity put it there for part of the day the
taste wads so sweet as to make cvervone
regret its leaving. Next year a good orches-
tra must be arranged for by the committee.
BICYCLE RACING.
The speech making was done away with
and at 1:30 the bicycle racing was begun.
In the mile novice, open to resident
riders of the two counties, there were five
entries: Howard Richards. Philipsburg;
Wilbur Twitmire and Jasper Stover, Belle-
fonte; Linn Lafferty, Renovo, and L. L.
Weaver, Woodward. They took positions
from the pole in the order given and on
the start off Weaver broke his pedal, throw-
ing him out. Richards set the pace for two
laps, but it was too stiff for him to main-
tain and he dropped back to third place,
the finish being Twitmire, Stover, Richards.
Time 2:46.
In the mile inter-county, John P. Teats,
Bellefonte; Emory A. Smith, Westport;
Wilbur Twitmire, Bellefonte; J. J. Gess-
ner, Bellefonte, started in the order given.
Twitmire ran into Smith causing a bad
spill at the finish leaving Teats and
Gessner to get the first and second places.
Time 2.47 2-5.
In the mile dash for juvenile riders,
Jasper Stover, Bellefonte, and Howard
Richards, Philipsburg, were the only
starters. Stover won in 2:59, Richards
failing to finish.
The funniest race of the day was the col-
ored race in which ‘‘Jinks’’ Nelson Jor-
dan, Philipsburg; Lawrence Williams and
William Mills, Bellefonte, started. The
The latter were both much older and
larger than their little competitor and
when he fell back after setting a stiff pace
for half the race it looked as though he
would be a rank quitter until the stentor-
ian shouts of encouragement from an ebon-
ized admirer along the track filled his sails
again aud he walked right away from the
others, finishing in 2.57 2-5 :
The foot race was a failure for want o
starters. There had been six entries, but
Arthur Gill, of State College, was the only
one to materialize, so he ran an exhibition
100 yards in 11 4-5.
The base ball game between Centre and
| Clinton counties was rather devoid of in-
terest, because the strong Renovo team had
animating for them.
an easy thing of the picked aggregation
from this county. The score was 9 to 0 in
favor of Renovo.
The balloon ascension and parachute
drop at 5 o'clock was a perfect exhibition
of such a feat and, altogether, the day
closed as happily as could have been de-
sired.
——DMiss Edith B. Wertz, of Quincy, Pa.,
a graduate of Wilson college, has been en-
gaged to take charge of the intermediate
grade at the Academy.
——The picnic of the employees of the
Morrison & Cass paper mill at Tyrone,
will be held at Hunter’s park, on the 16th,
instead of at Hecla park, as previously an-
nounced.
Lae
——Thomas Welch, of Lamar, had his
leg broken below the knee while working
at Hamilton’s camp near North Bend on
Monday. He was trailing logs when a
stick of timber struck him.
ee QA ee
——The Millheim board of trade has ap-
pointed J. C. Smith, Jno. P. Condo and
Dr. Frank a committee to solicit subserip-
tions toward the $1,000 bonus that will
be required to secure a shirt manufactory
for that place.
a ET hie
Robert Gray, of Stormstown, so well
known as a frequent visitor to Bellefonte,
is to be married next month. His intend-
ed bride is a Miss Truby, a niece of Rev.
G. W. Runyan, pastor of the Methodist
church at that place.
Rel aa
——Joseph Minary, at one time a bag-
gage man on the Bald Eagle valley rail-
road, is in a Trenton hospital with his leg
amputated. He had had his foot cut off
while running on the New York division
of the P. R. R. and when taken to the hos-
pital it was found necessary to amputate
his leg.
*oe —
——DMany of the brick being used in the
new Methodist church structure at New-
berry were taken from the old one. Hav-
ing been in use before, of course they were
covered with mud and dirt, but this dis-
couraged the ladies of the church very lit-
tle for they met on the site with trowels
and hammers and scraped them all off.
The Aid society of the church made the
undertaking and carried it to successful
completion.
ote
——The annual meeting of the State
Grange will be held in Lock Haven Decem-
ber 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th. The meet-
ing had been scheduled for Sunbury, but
that place did’nt seem very anxious to have
it and Leonard Rhone, upon whom falls
the duty of selecting a location, visited
Lock Haven on Monday and was so en-
couraged with what was offered that he
directed that the meeting be held there in
December.
——The story that is told on a Centre
county woman, as follows, is most too
laughable to be true. It is said that while
feeding her chickens recently she dropped
one of her ear rings. Being unable to find
it at once she hastily concluded that one
of the fowls bad picked it up. As it was
quite a valuable trinket she started in to
kill the chickens, one at a time, and after
she had killed the entire twenty-seven and
had examined all of their crops without
success she went out to the feeding ground
again and picked it up, where an old hen
had evidently dropped it after discovering
that all that was yellow and glistened was
not corn.
ti eee
—— Philipsburg residents thought they
were about to have another murder case on
their hands last Saturday night when cries
of ‘Help!’ ‘Help!’ ‘‘Murder!’ ‘‘Mur-
der!’ attracted a score or more of them to
the alley back of Erb’s hotel in that place.
There they found two fellows giving an-
other a very effectual pummeling. The
unfortunate fellow who was getting their
blows turned out to be an old Philipshurg-
er, who had been away from town for
some time and bad just returned that
night. The assailants had had a grudge
against him which had not been forgotten
and they were squaring up matters in
good shape when the appeals for help end-
ed their fun.
GG
——George Miller does'nt pose as much
of a gardener, never has, nor never will;
he is simply an iron worker, descended
from an old and familiar family, but he has
a cabbage and potato patch out on the old
dam flat at the Empire iron works that has
been yielding some vegetable monstrosities
this season. On Tuesday we met him on
the way to Sup’t. Grim’s home, taking a
head of cabbage that curiosity prompted
us to weigh and we found that it register-
ed 14 lbs. on the scale. George thought it
“would make a little cold slaw’’ for the
popular. superintendent’s family. The
cabbage was of the ‘Flat Dutch’’ variety
and was not one of the largest heads in the
patch. His potatoes run as high as 2 lbs.
in weight. =
—— ey
——Frank Lockard, whose adventure
with Nr. Philipsburg Murphy, we noted in
last week’s issue, met his Waterloo at the
Bush house on Friday afternoon. Frank
thinks he is ‘‘a pretty good man’’ and, so
far as we are concerned, we don’t propose
to make any personal investigation of the
ground for his claim. Shortly after noon,
on Friday, he ran up against an old ped-
dler and began to impress him with the
fearfully destructive propensities of his
mighty ‘‘dukes.”” Theold peddler hadn’t
much to say but when time came for action
he settled the question with a single blow.
It must have been worse than a mule kick,
for Lockard’s face put on mourning at once
and the globes of his left lamp looked like
the skin of a grape turned inside out.
Was THE ILL FATED AERONAUT A
NATIVE OF HOWARD?—N. A. Crissy,
who made his last balloon ascension at
Punxsutawney, on Thursday, then fell
eighteen hundred feet in full view of the
thousands of spectators who stood horrified
at the fatal plunge, is said to have been a
native of Howard, this county. A careful
investigation of the matter has failed to
discover any family of that name having
resided about Howard during the last
quarter of a century. There was a family
of Fredricys lived in that vicinity until a
few years ago, when they moved West.
One of the daughters is now a Mrs. Wil-
liams, of Beech Creek. Some time after
leaving that section a son of the family
wrote to Howard Moore stating that he had
become an aeronaut and would like to re-
turn to his old home and make an ascen-
sion. Whether this Fred Fredricy after-
wards changed his name to Ned Crissy or
not is the unsolved question. If he did
there are many people ahout Howard who
will remember him and deplore the fright-
ful ending of his life.
The accident occurred about the closing
event of the Punxsutawney fair, on Thurs-
day evening. At 6 o'clock, the time ad-
vertised for the balloon ascension and par-
achute descent, Ned Crissy, of Johnstown,
one of the party of aeronauts booked for
exhibitions at the fair, was performing the
aerial feat.
When about a thousand feet from the
ground he released himself from the bal-
loon and grasped the parachute. A section
of the apparatus broke in two and the vic-
tim, after a vain attempt to grasp the main
part of the parachute, fell to the earth.
Crissy’s body was picked up and it was
found that nearly every bone was broken.
It struck the ground with terrific force and
in close proximity to a small boy who was
standing outside the grounds. The un-
fortunate young aeronaut’s remains were
sent to his late home at Johnstown. Crissy
was 25 years old and had been in the busi-
ness for several years.
The young man had put up at one of
the Punxsutawney hotels and on the morn-
ing previous to his shocking death had
been recounting his past thrilling expe-
riences in aerial navigation and his narrow
escapes from death. He told of the rapid
descent he had made upon one occasion
when the parachute failed to open until he
had descended several hundred feet, and
closed his conversation saying he ‘‘expect-
ed to come down faster than that some
day.” His words were only too: soon ful-
filled.
Later information is to the effect that
the victim was not Fred Fredricy, formerly
of Howard, but one of his employees.
Fredricy was there and his balloon was be-
ing used, but Crissy was hired by him to
make the ascension that day.
ATTEMPTED TO BREAK JAIL.— Centre
county came very near having another ‘es-
caped convict to hunt up last Monday
morning. When turnkey Coder went on
his usual morning rounds of unlocking the
cells to give the prisoners the freedom of
the corridors he discovered something
wrong in the last cell of the second tier on
the left. An investigation soon revealed
the fact that its inmate, Harry E. Korman,
had made an unsuccessful attempt to es-
cape during the night. He had dug a
large hole in the outside wall at the win-
dow and had evidently gotten to the heavy
facing stones on the outside, which could
not be easily moved with the light irons
he had wrenched from his bed, when day-
light overtook him at his work.
Korman was under sentence to the Hun-
tingdon reformatory for having stolen a
bicycle owned by Geo. T. Bush, in this
place, on the 22nd of last June. He con-
fessed to the theft.
Korman, with George Roop, the other
bicycle thief, was taken to the reformatory
at 1:05 on Tuesday.
SACI
THE OLD VALENTINE ROLLING MILL
TO BE Pur IN OPERATION. — Several
weeks ago the WATCHMAN announced that
by Sept. 1st it would be able to publish
the particulars of another industrial ad-
vance in this community. Owing to a
press for space in our last issue and because
of the hurry to get out in time for the busi-
ness men’s picnic at Hecla park the promis-
ed information was withheld until this
week.
The probable name of the new concern
will be the Nittany roliing mill company.
Cap’t. Hugh S. Taylor and his brother R.
B. Taylor will be the active partners, while
Col. J. L. Spangler will fund the enter-
prise and secure good financial rating for
it from the start. Itis the intention to
have the mill in operation by Oct. 1st, if
possible, and at that time employment will
be furnished to tne full complement of men,
which includes fifty-six skilled operatives,
all working on tonnage and earning big
wages.
The capacity of the mill is ahout eigh-
teen tons per day of muck bar and while
the new managers hardly hope to get that
much out of it they will run it just as
strong as possible. Already work is being
done to clean out the dam to make it effi-
cient for all the water power that is neces-
sary and improvements will be made at the
wheel so that its power is not reduced by
any back water, as has been the case there
in the past. !
While the Taylors are new to the iron
business they are young men of so much
energy and business pluck that there ven-
ture is almost an assured success.
— tee
——Thomas M. Huuter has succeeded
S. W. Calderwood as clerk at the B. E. V.
railroad’ station at Mill Hall; the latter
having entered the employ of the Beech
Creek.
News Purely Personal.
—Miss Anna V. Lyon has returned from Carlisle
and is visiting her aunt, Mrs. R. V. Pugh, on
Curtin street.
—Miss Louise Bush Calloway leaves Monday
for New York to enter the Gardener school, on
Fifth Ave., as a student.
—Mrs. Templeton Cruse spent Sunday in
Millheim with her father William Musser, who
has been suffering recently from a gun shot wound
received some time ago.
—After an extended visit with friends at New-
ton, Kansas, Miss Rose Fox has returned to re-
sume her duties as a teacher in the public schools
here, that opened Tuesday.
—DMaiss Cora Cora Campbell, of Punxsutawney,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Barnhart, of
north Thomas street. She arrived on Saturday
evening and will spend several weeks here.
—Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Keller and their two
children, who came up from Lancaster last Wed-
nesday for a short visit at his brother Harry's, on
Linn street, returned home on Tuesday morning.
—George Bottorf, for eight years a fireman in
the engineering building at The Pennsylvania
State College, has accepted a position in the Alle-
gheny Valley R. R. shops in Pittsburg and will
move his family to that place at once.
—Wm. L. Allen, ot Lock Haven, was in town
between trains yesterday on his way home from
Somerset county, where he had spent ten days
looking over some lumber and coal lands. He
expects to move to Bellefonte, ere long, to make
his permanent home here.
— Ellis Shaffer, the Miles township farmer who
is known everywhere in Centre county, was in
town on Wednesday on his way to Lock Haven.
He had intended driving across the mountain to
catch a C. R. R. of Pa. train, but the early morn-
ing rain changed his route and he came around
by Coburn.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Swartz, of Punxsu-
tawney, and their two children will spend Sun-
day in town with his sister Mrs. Annie Caswell,on
Penn street. Mrs. Caswell and her daughter
Mildred, are going to Coatsville to spend the win-
ter, but will not close their house here for several
week’s.
—Miss M. Snyder was a passenger on one of the
east bound trains, Wednesday morning. She
was on her way to New York, where she will
spend several weeks among the large importing
houses and millinery establishments of that city
buying a line of fall goods for her Bishop street
miliinery.
—Paul C. Gerhart left for Dallas, Texas, on
Wednesday afternoon. He had been here spend-
ing a few days among his friends and returns to
Texas to take up his work as an instructor on the
mandolin and guitar. Last year he was at Sher-
man, where he was an instructor in a ladies col-
lege. He is a son of Dr. R. L. Gerhart, formerly
of this place.
—Wm. H. Fry, the veterinarian from the upper
end, wasamong the crowd at Philadelphia during
the encampment of the G. A. R. He tries to make
it appear that he was only there to look up a lit-
tle special work in the University veterinary
hospital, but “Bill” likes a crowd, just the
same as any other old Vet. and there is no use
making any bones about it.
—W. A. Kerr, of Centre Hill, was in town yes-
terday; having driven over to attend to some
business here. As the morning was decidediy
cool Mr. Kerr wouldn’t tarry long in this office;
preferring to get out and stir around a little to
get warmed up. He was talked of as a legislative
possibility some time ago, but declined to permit
the use of his name for the honor.
—Sec. Lt. Geo. L. Jackson,, 47th U. S. Inf. was
an arrival from camp Meade, Harrisburg, on
Monday morning. He had reported for duty at
that place on the preceding Thursday and was
ordered back here to open a recruiting station for
fifteen or twenty days. Lt. Jackson is examin-
ing recruits at the Bush house, where he can be
seen at any time during the day by those desirous
of enlisting in the army.
—A. J. Griest Esq., of Unionville, was in town
Tuesday afternoon looking for a mess of oysters.
He couldn't stand the strain any longer and
drove down here to get some, but when he found
them a minus quantity in Beliefonte he tried to
forget his disappointment by poking funat our
restauranters for not having had them yet when
he expected to have them on sale at his place in
[Unionville by Wednesday.
—Robert Lucas and family have moved from
this place to Snow Shoe. Mr. Lucas was on the
Snow Shoe train and when its schedule was
changed so as to make the lay-over in Snow Shoe
he found it desirable to move back to his old
home in that place. Since Jas. Kelleher was in
jured Mr. Lucas had been conducting the local
shifter crew, but now the old ‘conductor is back
at his regular work again.
—Among the Bellefouters who were in Phila-
delphia for the national encampment of the G.
A. R. were Clyde Smith, Fred Sourbeck, Gen.
James A. Beaver, Gen. John I Curtin, Gov. D. H.
Hastings, Earle Tuten, Frank McCoy, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Wilson, Lafayette Mulholland,
Amos Garbrick, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith, Chas.
Glenn, Mrs. John Noll, Miss Bertha Noll, Samuel
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Eckenroth, David
Bartley, William Resides, John Bryan
—Emanuel Sunday with Rev. C. P. Aikens, of
Pine Grove Mills, were in town between trains,
on Tuesday, being on their way home from Phila-
delphia, where Mr. Sunday had undergone an
operation in the University hospital. He has
been in a serious condition for some time with
cancer of the throat and thought to have the troub-
le removed, but upon reaching the city that was
found to be impossible. They did remove an
affected nerve, however, which greatly reduced
the pain he had suffered and has given him partial
relief at least.
—Dr. H. T. Fernald, accompanied by Mrs.
Fernald, and their three children and nurse were
in town last Friday for a few hours on their way
from State College to Amherst, Mass., where the
doctor will begin his work at once as professor of
entomology in Amherst college. He has also
been appointed to the same position in Massa-
chusetts that he has just resigned in this State,
that of zoologist of the State, but he will not
assume the duties of that office until October 1st.
He was so enthusiastic and tireless in his work at
State College that his going is regarded as a
serious loss for that institution.
—DMiss Rebecca Lyon bade farewell to her Belle-
fonte friends, Tuesday afternoon, and started on
her lopg journey to Indian Territory. She is
going to the Friends school on the Skiatook
mission at Hillside, I. T., where she will teach
piano and a few literary branches to full blooded
Indians. After reaching the nearest point by
rail she will have to go overland thirty-five miles
by coach to her future home, so an idea of the
isolation she is going into and what she is giving
up to do such work among the Indians can be
had. She was met in Pittsburg by the president
of the school, the two making the journey to-
gether.
—Joseph Leathers, of Mt. Bagle, was in Belle-
fonte on Saturday arranging to “give some of his
grain away.” At least, that is the way he put it
when in conversation with a WArcHMAN repre-
sentative. Mr. Leathers is a farmer; consequent-
ly he is among that class of men who don’t feel
the prosperity that is said to be sweeping over
the land. The best he could do with his wheat
was 63cts. What, with a small crop, such a poor
price for it and everything he needs on his farm
advancing, he has to be thankful for, other than
good health, we don’t know; unless it is that he
is a Democrat and arrayed against a party that
wants everything for the corporations and trusts
and all the burdens of taxation for the farmer.
—Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kerlin, with their neice
were arrivals in town yesterday. They had come
in from Rudd, lowa, to attend the G. A. R. en-
campment in Philadelphia and were so tired of
the crowd in that eity that they came up here to
rest up and visit their many relatives and friends.
It has been seventeen years since they left Cen-
tre county and this is their first visit in all that
time. Mr. Kerlin is a son of W. A. Kerlin, who
operated the Reynolds mill in this place from
61 to ’68 and was born at Roopsburg. He finds
many changes in the faces of the people, as well
as of the appearance of Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Joseph Bauland, of New York, who, if
possible, is more beautiful and stylish than ever,
is a guest at the home of her brother. Wm.
Grauer, on Spring street. Her daughter, now al-
most a young lady, is with her and they will re-
turn to the city on Saturday.
>
THE W. C. T. U. CONVENTION NEXT
WEEK.—The fifteenth annual convention
of the Centre county W. C. T. U. will be
held in the W. C. T. U. rooms, on north
Allegheny street, Bellefonte, on Tuesday,
Sept. 12th. :
The session will begin at 9 a. m., and
continue during the day. At noon lunch
will be served to delegates and visiting
members. The principal attraction at the
convention will be Miss Jessie A. Acker-
man, who is probably the most noted trav-
eler among the world’s women. She has
twice circled the globe and her talks are
most favorably commented on by both press
and pulpit. The Chicago Inter-Ocean
speaks as follows of her :
Miss Jessie Ackerman has traveled twice
round the world, spending nine years in for-
eign lands. She is one of the most eloquent
speakers, with a magnetism exceedingly at-
tractive. Possessed of a voice clear, rich and
full. To listen is to be charmed.
Her fund of humor, ready wit and graphic
descriptions, captivates her audience at once
and carries them on the wings of thought
amid scenes strange, grand, weird and won-
derful. Miss Ackerman has visited nearly
fifty countries and spoken in most of the
great cities of the world.
The meetings will all be free and the
public is cordially invited to attend.
nT
STANDARD BRED COLTS AT PUBLIC
SALE.—On Friday, September 15th, Belle-
fonte will have its first sale of Standard
bred colts. The Sale and Exchange Co.,
has advertised a sale of forty head from
their barn on that day and there is likely
to be a large crowd of horsemen in town to
pick up some of the promising young ones
that will be offered.
There is a consignment of twenty-five two
year olds from the Riverview farm, at Fort
Wayne, Ind. All of them are sired by such
notable stallions as Arthur Dodge, 2:16},
Electric King, or Corliss and are exactly as
represented.
In addition to the colts there will be a
number of broken and mated teams, single
horses and others offered.
The sale will begin at noen at the com-
pany barns on east Howard street.
— 000
——After all the fuss Philipshurg went
to to welcome home her solitary military
hero, Will Hirlinger, he failed to be there
on the night selected for the demonstra-
tion. The Philipsburgers went on with
the big time, however, and lavished their
good things and gilded phrases on “Kid’’
Deviney, another member of the Tenth,
whose home is in Clearfield county and
who arrived in Philipsburg that night.
Mr. Hirlinger was detained to close up his
accounts as clerk of his company and in
that way was obliged to miss the reception
in honor of his home coming.
Our NEW DEPARTMENT.—Latest im-
portation of ladies Glace and Suede gloves,
the Peerless, Sovereign, Trianon, Surety,
Majestic, in all the proper shades, from the
well known importers Werthunia & Co.,
New York; Ladies hosery. handkerchiefs,
neck wear, collars and cuffs.
MoNTGOMERY & Co.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday.
evening.
Wheat—Red €9%4@ 7014
--No, ¢ 574 6617
Corn —VYellow 3T@3 9
* —Mixed 31@37Y4
Oats............. es 26@28
Flour-— Winter, Per Br 2.15@2.30
‘“ —Penna. Roller.... 2.90@3.10
*¢ —Favorite Brands. 3.60@3.80
Rye Flour Per Brl........ :
3.00
Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. 1.. i
$¢ te “ Mixed ** 1...
Straw
Bellefonte Grain Rarket.
Corrected weekly by the Puaxix MiLLing Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old..........c.ciinvsveves
Red wheat, ne
Rye, per bushe
Corn, shelled, pe :
Corn, ears, per bushel
Oats, per bushel, new
Barley, per bushel...
Ground Plaster, per
Buckwheat, per bushe
Cloverseed, per bushel
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel new...
ORIONS...... ccorenensicereees
Eggs, per dozen.
Lard, per pound.... 4
Country Shoulders 5
Sides........ 6
Hams... 10
Tallow, per pound. % 3
Butter, ner poll. ii ci iaissiiicannsssssnis 20
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $1.50 per annum {7psid 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 :
SPACE OCCUPIED [3m | 6m | 1y
One inch (12 lines this type............. $588 810
Two inches.. W710) 15
Three inches 10015] 20
Sajrter Colu 5 inches 12 | 20 | 30
Half Column (10 inches) .| 20 | 35 | 55
One Column (20 inches)... 35 | 55 | 100
Advertisements in special column 25 per cent.
additional. !
Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions...
Each additional insertion, per lin
Local notices, per line............
Business notices, per line sesinane
Job Printing of every kind done with neatness
and dispatch. The Watchman office has been re-
fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and
everything in the printing line can be executed
in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.
T'erms—Cash.
All letters should be addressed to
P. GRAY MEEK, Proprieto
sees 20 Ota,