Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 22, 1899.
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The Democratic State Ticket.
FOR THE SUPREME COURT:
S. L. MESTREZAT,
of Fayette county.
FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT:
C. J. REILLY,
of Lycoming county.
FOR STATE TREASURER!
W. T. CREASY,
of Columbia county.
The County Ticket.
For Sheriff —CYRUS BRUNGARD.
For Treasurer—W. T. SPEER.
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
For Register— ALEX ARCHEY.
For Commissioners— { DE MAS.
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For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
Why Art Thou Silent?
Last week Democratic state chairman
RILLING issued an open challenge to the
head of the Republican organization in
Pennsylvania in which he proposes that
prominent speakers of the two parties meet
before the people for debates of the ques-
tions at issue. The text of chairman
RILLING’S communication is as follows:
Your party as now controlled has for some
years had charge of and administered the
financial affairs of our State. It now seeks
to renew that management by the election of
your present candidate for State Treasurer,
thereby asking the good people of Pennsyl-
vania to endorse your party’s past manage-
ment of the State’s finances.
If our state finances in the past have been
honestly and economically administered, it
is only fair and proper that your party
should be rewarded by the election of your
present candidate. You must rely on your
past record and stand or fall by the same.
Has the management of our state finances
been of such a character as to justify the peo-
ple to continue the same?
The Democratic party, the independent
press and many Republicans have and are
openly charging your party with a corrupt
manipulation of our state financesand charge
your party with having prostituted this de-
partment of our state government to further
and strengthen the personal and political in-
terests of the bosses in your party. Your
party’s profession of honest management are
most emphatically denied.
The issue thus raised must be passed upon
by the voters of Pennsylvania in the Nov.
election. That they may intelligently and
properly do so, they are entitled to know all
the facts and hear both sides. We have no
desire to do anything but present the facts as
they exist. Let the true state of affairs be
known, aud then let the result be what it
may. We have abiding faith in the decree
of the people, as they will record it in Nov-
ember.
That all the matters at issue in this cam-
paign, the election of a State Treasurer, as
well as Judges of the Supreme and Superior
courts, may be properly discussed, we re-
spectfully suggest that we have throughout
the State a number of joint debates, the de-
tails of the same to be mutually agreed
upon by us. Let the speakers of both sides
address the same audience from the same
platform. Let each side present its case
to the voters for their benefit. These matters
ought to and can be discussed in a fair and
proper spirit.
You will please let us hear from you re-
garding this subject at an early date.
Certainly Mr. RILLING’S communication
is explicit enough to be understood by the
most obtuse, but up to this moment chair-
man REEDER has been silent as the Sphinx
regarding its propositions. It is quite evi-
dent that he either intends to ignore it en-
tirely or has been stricken with consterna-
tion by the fearlessness of the Democratic
leader who proposes to debate the ques-
tions most vital to the people squarely and
fairly before them; appealing to the voters
to sit as a jury on’ their own case against
the present rotten regime.
Since the great mouth piece of the ruling
ring, General GOBIN, was so keen at Wil-
liams Grove to shout: “I am prepared to
meet every issue my friend CREASY raises
by facts and figures” why in the world
doesn’t chairman REEDER waken up and
send GoBIN forth to meet the reform cam-
paigners? He knows why, and most
everyone else could know if they would
but reason a little. Chairman REEDER is
conscious of the fact that wild barangues,
political bully-ragging and star spangled
banner appeals, won’t blind the tax payers
any longer to the terrible prostitution of
the State’s affairs and he proposes silence
on such issues and will follow out the plan
that has been practically laid down by
Senator PENROSE. The latter has an-
nounced that in the Pennsylvania Republi-
can campaign, national and not state
issues are to he urged upon the vot-
ers. No attempt will be made to dis-
prove candidate CREASY’S charges that
the people .have been robbed of millions
upon millions under machine misrule in
the State Treasury; that there have been
irregularities in the career of JosraH R.
ADAMS, the Republican nominee for Super-
ior court judge, and that the machine can-
dates for State Treasurer and Supreme
court are incompetent.
All is to be lost sight of in the grand
jingle that is proposed to ‘‘impress the Re-
publicans of the Keyatone State with the
fact that they owe a duty to their party
and their country at the coming election.”
But sensible Republicans will not be im-
pressed with such sky-rocket campaigning.
They know that the coming election has no
more to do with ‘‘the duty they owe their
party and their country’’ than has the an-
nual spring contest, at which they choose
their poor overseers and school directors,
to do with the endorsement of a national
administration. They know that next fall
will be time enough to bring party senti-
ment into the balance and they propose
striking now at the machine that keeps
continually under cover and fears to come
out into the searching light of publicity
with a single argnment in its own de-
fense.
——The Republican is delightfully honest
in its efforts as the official organ of the Re-
publican party in the county. Yesterday
morning it came out with the picture of
candidate JAMES B. STROHM turned to-
wards the wall and the place where it
might have been was draped in mourning
to indicate that the Potter township states-
man has given up all hope of being elected
register.
——1If RIDDLE and FISHER think they
can make ends meet with $43,024.18 in
revenue when they estimate their expendit-
ures for the year at $53,000 the matter of
foolish. They will think that the present
board are incompetent and ought to be re-
tious as they are evidently making.
—1If Sir THOMAS and his Shamrock prove
too much for the Columbia why not let
GEORGE DEWEY and his Olympia give
them a little run for their money over in
New York when he gets home.
——Plenty of the grass grown sidewalks
and gutters of Bellefonte look as if they
had never heard of such a person a ‘‘the
man with the hoe.”’
would be as incomplete as a county fair
without a big pumpkin.
Ermentrout Dead.
Was Prominent in the National Councils of the Dem-
ocratic Party for Years.
READING, Sept. 17'—Hon. Daniel Er-
mentrout, who was elected in November
last to his sixth term in Congress from the
Ninth district (Berks and Lehigh counties)
died at his home here today. He was 62
years of age. On Thursday last while at
dinner a piece of meat lodged in his throat,
and a physician had to be called to save
him from strangulation. Paralysis of the
parts affected followed, but his death was
unexpected. Mr. Ermentroutis survived
by a widow and two children, Fitz Daniel
Ermentrout, a member of the bar here,
and Miss Adelaide T. Ermentrout.
Deceased was born in Reading in 1837.
He was admitted to the bar in 1859, filled
the office of district attorney from 1862 to
1865, that of city solicitor from 1867 to
1870, and State Senator from 1873 to 1880.
In 1880 he was elected to Congress and was
re-elected for the three following terms,
thus serving continuously from 1881 to
1889. He was again elected in 1897 to the
Fifty-fifth Congress and last year was re-
elected for the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Mr. Ermentrout was prominent in the
national councils of the Democratic party
for years and was a leading figure and par-
ticipant in state conventions. The death
of the Congressman was announced in many
of the churches today with appropriate re-
marks by the pastors. For thirty-five years
he was a leader in Berks county politics
and reference was made by the ministers
Sold Liquor Illegally.
A Westmoreland County Physician's Sentence for
Violating Laws.
GREENSBURG, September 18.—Dr. A. J.
Wilson, a well-known physician, recently
of Huntingdon county, was fined $1,000
must pay the costs of the suit, and be con-
fined to the county jail for five months.
Wilson conducted a drug store at Vande-
grift. He was convicted of selling liquor
illegally some time ago. He suddenly dis-
appeared two weeks ago, just as the judge
was about to pronounce the sentence.
A letter to his wife, Saturday, from
Toronto, Ohio, fell into the hands of his
bondsman and a deputy sheriff captured
the runaway Sunday morning. Wilson is
now without funds, and in view of the fact
that he cannot pay the fine his jail sentence
will doubtless cover a period of one year.
Reduced Rates to New York via Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, Account Dewey Celebra-
tion.
On September 28th and 29th the Penn-
sylvania railroad company will sell excur-
sion tickets to New York from all points
west of Thorndale, on Philadelphia divi-
sion Pennsylvania railroad ; north of Spring
City, on Schuylkill division Pennsylvania
railroad: west of Kennett, on Central divi-
sion Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad ; south of Newcastle, on Dela-
ware division Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad; and south of Mag-
nolia, Minotola, Vineland, Finley, and Ac-
ton, on West Jersey and Seashore railroad,
at rate of a fare and a third for the round
trip, account Admiral Dewey Celebration,
September 29th and 30th. Tickets will be
good to return until October 4th inclusive,
1899.
Army Needed Ten Years.
Will Take 50,000 Men to Hold Philippines, May
Soon Crush Rebellion, but Will Have to Govern with
the Sword.
SAN FrANcisco, Cal., Sept. 18.—Major
S. R. Jones, U. S. A., who has been quar-
termaster at Manila ever since that city
was captured by the Americans, arrived
here to-day. He will report to Washing-
ton.
When Major Jones left Manila a forward
movement in the rain and mud was being
made against the insurgents.
He is of the opinion that 50,000 men will
have to be kept on the Island of Luzon for
ten years in order to keep the peace, but
that the actual fighting will not last six
weeks when that number of Americans
have been landed at Manila.
Suffering for Food.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., September 18.—
Much destitution is said to exist among
the families of the striking miners in Nan-
ticoke. An appeal has been issued for
food supplies. Local merchants have con-
tributed flour, potatoes and meat. The
number of men on strike is close on to 3,-
“500 and they have been out now over two
months.
—— The twenty firemen at Morris’,
Humes farm and Buffalo-run lime kilns
went out on a strike Monday and on refus-
ing to return to work, were all discharged.
The men had been getting $1.50 and de-
manded $1.65.
to his career as a public servant and citizen. :
fact taxpapers of the county won’t be so.
THE PHOENIX FLOURING MILLS.
A Sketch of One of the Oldest Industries of the
‘Town.—A Plant that is Unique in Its History and
Distinguished by Having Been the First of Its
Kind In the World.—Though Burned Twice it
Arose Phanix-Like from Its Ashes.—What Ener-
getic Young Management 1s Doing for the Mill.
The Phenix flouring mill of Bellefonte
has had a reputation for years that has not
been confined to local trade by any means,
but few of the people who pass the sub-
stantial buff brick building, with its two
great sentinel-like grain tanks, every day
are conversant with the history it has made
during the many years of operation.
Almost coincidental with the history of
Bellefonte is that of the plant which de-
volved the one presented in the picture be-
low. It was founded by Jas. Harris, one of
the incorporators of the town, very early
in the century; probably about 1824. Real-
izing that the fruition of his dreams of foster-
i ing a prosperous settlement in this commun-
lieved of the strain of such heavy calcula- |
——A Granger picnic without a rain,
ity would bring with it a healthy demand for
necessary commodities he took early steps,
in anticipation of such needs, to establish
manufactories of the most needful sort.
Woolen mills, tanneries, iron forges, grist
mills and wagon making shops were all en-
couraged by James Harris and his fellow
pioneer John Dunlop, but of all the plants
that were famous before the forties the
Phoenix mill is the sole survivor. It is
true that there is nothing of the modern
plant to recall the original more than the
site, but the change on the exterior has
been due to the fire’s destructive agency,
rather than to the ravages of time, for the
first building was substantial enough to
was done frequently, but you must re-
member that the mill always maintained a
reputation for high grade products and,
furthermore, there is no branch of manu-
facture that has undergone more radical
and frequent change within the past twenty
years, than that of flour making. Messrs.
Reynolds and Montgomery completed their
work of installing the latest roller system
and had erected two monster grain tanks
when the fire, April 21st, 1898, that was
so disastrous to that end of the town des-
troyed the plant for the second time.
Nothing daunted hy this misfortune they
set about to rebuild at once and by the fall
of 798 the present handsome building was
completed. Though not as large in extent
of ground covered as either of the old mills
had been it is far more compact and built
especially for modern machinery so that
the floor space is most economically used,
while giving ample room for all the re-
quirements of the plant.
It is built of cream-colored brick and is
in splendid proportion for its purposes.
The machinery is the very latest device of
the Edward P. Allis company of Milwau-
kee. In fact the Phenix mill was the firs
on earth to be equipped with this system
and in consequence is known everywhere
as the model mill, because the system has
proven the most successful ever invented.
The apparatus includes a full line of
Gray roller mills, with latest improved
shaker feeds and roll exhaust, Perfection
dust collectors, two large Universal bolters, |
three Reliance middling purifiers, Gray |
centrifugals and a full line of wheat clean-
have lasted for ages and roomy enough to
have accommodated the present improved
milling apparatus.
The original mill was a two-story stone
structure that stood on the site of the’
present one on Logans Branch, a short
distance south of its confluence with Spring
creek. At the time it was built that locas
tion was practically a wilderness and the
mill was quite removed from the centre of
town. Now it is in the heart of one of the
most substantial additions to the town and
the property has been so highly improved
as to be an ornament rather than a nuis-
ance. It flourished under the management
of James Harris and his descendants—un-
til 1845, when fire destroyed the mill. By
that time several other grist mills had
sprung up in this community and the de-
mand for its rebuilding was not impera-
tive, so that the ruins laid for sixteen years;
passing from Harris’ control to that of W.
A. Thomas and then to the Phoenix com-
pany in the interim.
In 1861 Maj. Wm. F. Reynolds bought
the property and began the work of re-
building at once. The new building was
a three story stone and wood structure
equipped with the Noye system of rolls;
which at that time were supposed to be
the very best in operation. It had a daily
capacity of 80 bbls. and soon gained a repu-
tation for the superiority of its product.
Maj. Reynolds operated the plant himself
for one year, but soon discovered that his
banking and other interests would have to
be sacrificed in order to give it the needed
time so he leased it to T. R. Reynolds &
Co. in 1862. The new concern included
T. R. Reynolds, S. H. Reynolds and Geo.
W. Jackson. Under their management
the mill was unusually successful. Its
trade grew so large and profitable that the
old system had to be torn out and the
latest Noye improvements substituted.
This was done in 1881, thereby making it
the first roller process mill in the @ountry.
Shortly afterwards the firm of T. R. Rey-
nolds & Co. was dissolved and it is said
that each of the three partners took $100,-
000 out as his share of the profits of the busi-
ness.
Geo. W. Jackson remained in the busi-
ness, taking for his partner Col. W. Fred
Reynolds and organizing under the firm
name of Geo. W. Jackson & Co. They
made further improvements to the proper-
ty, increasing its capacity to 100 bbls. per
day, but the period it was under their con-
trol proved one of small profits in the mill-
ing business all over the country and in
1892 Col. Reynolds retired. Mr. Jackson
continued the business alone until his
deatlr, which occurred in November, 1897.
When he died the mill stopped grinding
for the first time in thirty-six years.
The plant was too valuable to remain
idle for any length of time. Its location,
magnificent water power and reputation
for superior products induced Col. Reynolds
to go into it again. Accordingly he joined
with Joseph L. Montgomery in organizing
the Phenix Milling Co. and the two gentle-
men at once set about to remodel. Doubt-
less it will seem to readers of this sketch
that remodeling must have been one of the
greatest works at the Phcenix mills. It
The mill has
ers, flour and bran packers.
a capacity of 200 bbls. every 24 hours. |
The power for running it is furnished by | in the court house Jost wight, . To-night
two turbine water wheels to which the wa-
ter is conducted in a steel flume, giving it
a much stronger shot and doing away with
the danger of washouts in a tail race. The
power from one ‘wheel is ‘used ‘to operate’
the mill proper, while the other runs the
feed and corn meal side.
While the Pheenix company enjoys quite
a large domestic trade the most of their
product is exported. The New York and
Baltimore graders have ranked it ‘‘with
the standard flours of America’’ and it
finds ready sale everywhere. The brands
are: ‘‘Superlative,’’ a spring wheat patent;
“Fancy Patent,” a blended winter and
spring wheat product; ‘‘Finest Patent
Winter,”’ all winter wheat, and ‘‘White
Star,”’ a straight winter grade. The last
brand is the one that made the Phenix
mill of Bellefonte famous in the past, but
the march of improvement has finally set
it lowest in the qualities now produced at
this plant, though it is yet superior to the
best of many other mills. In addition to
the flour trade the Phoenix manufactures
large quantities of bolted corn-meal and
feeds, all of superior quality.
The plant is under control of Mr. J. V.
Ball, formerly of Trenton, N. J., expe-
rienced hoth in spring and winter wheat
grinding; while Wash Irvin, who has been
since hoyhood in the local mills, is his first
assistant.
The value of such a property is very hard
to estimate; especially since no figure
could be placed on the water power it con-
trols. Aside from that the plant is said to
be worth $35,000; a pretty likely sum for
a mill property, but that is not the most of
it, for when running’ full it will consume
one thousand hushels of wheat a day which
grinds into money very rapidly.
Everything is complete about the place.
The interior of the mill is as clean and
dustless as a tidy parlor. It is lighted by
electricity and heated by steam. The
packing department and ware house at the
southern side opens right onto the private
mill siding. Thegrain tanks are arranged
so as to facilitate receiving and shipping
grains, all being conveyed from cars, to
mill, to tank or wherever wanted by a se-
ries of pneumatic tubes.
Col. Reynolds and Mr. Montgomery
both have reason to be proud of the Pheenix.
As a manufactory it is a melel and the re-
markable business it is building up is a
credit to the sagacity and thorough con-
ception of good flour making of the gentle-
men, as well as to all employed about the
plant.
A visit of inspection would prove inter-
esting to anyone and there is always some-
one ready to explain the working of the
various machines.
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——Rev. L. F. Brown, of Danville, will
begin his pastorate of the Bald Eagle and
Nittany valley Presbyterian charge on
October 1st.
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——0. 8. Cary, an impressario, is in
Millbheim organizing an Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Co.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Reed Alexander, who moved from
Millheim to Missouri several months ago,
has purchased a farm near Buffalo, Dallas
county, that State. It contains 170 acres.
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——1It required four stitches to close up
a cut that William Snavely, of Ingleby,
gave himself in the foot while working
with an ax on Stoner’s stave mill on Mon-
day.
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——The Presbyterians of Milesburg will
hold a festival to-morrow, Saturday, even-
ing, in the Bullock building in that place
to which all are invited. The proceeds
will be for the benefit of the church.
———
——Rev. L. F. Brown, of Danville, has
signified his intention of accepting the call
extended him by the Presbyterian churches
of the Bald Eagle and Nittany charge, and
has given notice that he will assume the
duties of the pastorate October 1st.
——
——On Monday John C. Miller pur-
chased the fire insurance business recently
managed by J. C. Weaver. in this place and
will continue it at the same place. Mr.
Weaver intends devoting his entire time to
the John Hancock life company’s business,
for which he has taken the district agency.
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——Edward Carter, of Lock Haven, who
was a private in the First Colorado Vols.,
arrived at his home in that city on Mon-
day evening, after a year’s service in the
Philippines. He states that the food the
soldiers got was/insufficient to sustain them
and often times there was too little of it,
bad as it was.
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Mrs.fJohn Hoy. of near Madison-
burg, died Sunday night, while on a visit
to her father Jacob Lose, of Snydertown.
Deceased was a most estimable christian
woman and her remains were taken home,
where they {were interred yesterday, with
Revs. Doerstler and Dubs officiating.
Se lpr.
——Ask your grocer for our flour.
“Finest”’ and ‘‘Fancy Patent’’ brands lead
all others.—Phcenix Milling Co.
—— Abe Robb, of Coleville, was out at
Axe Mann on a little ‘‘toot’’ on Wednes-
night and stirred up some trouble in Mil-
ler’s store. Hefwas put out and yesterday
morning a warrant was sworn out for him,
with the result that he was arrested and
gave hail for his appearance ata hearing
this morning.
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——Rev.; Zook and his wife, of Abileen,
Kan., assisted by Miss Emma C. Long, of
Harrisburg, who are in the county doing
evangelistic work, held a’ gospel meeting
they will hold a missionary meeting there,
which promises to be most interesting, as
Mr. and Mrs. Zook have two sons and two
daughters:in<law actively, engaged dn- the
missionary work in Calcutta, India, and a
daughter and son-in-law at work in
South Africa. The meeting will begin
at 7:30 p. m.
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——It required twenty-two coaches to
carry the employees of the Tyrone paper
mill and their families to the annual picnic
at Hunter's park last Saturday. In speak-
ing of the day and the park the Herald
says ‘‘they had dancing, base ball and vari-
ous amusements for their entertainment.
The day wasa fine one and the grove being
in superb condition nothing more was
needed to make things right for fun and
enjoyment except good humor, and that
universally prevailed. Hunter’s park is a
pretty place. Large oak and pine trees
provide the shade, and grass covered ground
provides amply for lounging about. Every-
body had plenty to eat and there was lots
to spare. ?
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——The new Presbyterian church up
Buffalo Run will be dedicated on Sunday
with interesting services. Rev. Dr. Me-
Millan, of Richmond College, Ohio, will
preach in the morning and evening and
you are cordially invited to hear him. Sev-
eral years ago when it was decided that the
old church, just east of Fillmore, was no
longer fit to worship in the majority of the
attendants voted to have the church re-
built at a more suitable. Jocation and im-
mediately set about having the old one
torn down. The site selected is about one
mile east of the old one and just four miles
west of town, opposite Meyers’ burying
ground on the main road. The new church
is a modern edifice, plenty large for the
congregation and well furnished and ar-
ranged.
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A LARGE SURPRISE PARTY.—On Tues-
dah, Sept. 6th, the veteran Wm. H. Smith,
of Union township, was given quite a sur-
prise as it was his seventieth birthday.
His wife had invited a number of relatives
and friends, but the funniest part of the
whole affair occurred about 11 o’clock in
the morning when Mr. Smith asked his
son-in-law to go along to some pasture
fields to help repair some fence. When
about half way out the old gentleman
looked down the road and saw a dozen
buggies and carriages approaching his
home, whereupon he made the remark that
there ‘‘is them gypsies (who were camping
near Milesburg at the time) coming and
we will go right home.” Mr. Smith saw
what was up, when his friends from Har-
risburg, Port Matilda, Unionville and other
places to the number of one hundred poured
out.
After partaking of all the good things
Mrs. Smith had prepared and what the
“neighbors had brought in’’ the afternoon
was passed in various games until wishing
Mr. Smith many happy years to come they
all departed for their homes.
——That the Bellefonte Sale and Ex-
change Co. sales of horses are becoming
popular was attested last Friday when a
fair crowd of purchasers gathered at the
company stables on east Howard street for
the sale of standard bred colts. The en-
tire consignment of twenty-five was sold,
with four horses. Some of the colts brought
$100, while others sold considerably lower.
J. F. Marstellar, of Snow Shoe, bought
the promising sorrel filly by “Red Bell.”’
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THE PROHIBITION TICKET.—The Centre
connty Prohibition executive committee
met in this place on Tuesday to name the
county ticket and judging from the paucity
of numbers one must either conclude that
the Prohibition sentiment is dying among
male representatives of that party or that
Bro. Zeigler has failed to inject the neces-
sary lymph of young goats to keep it alive,
since the Magnet ran out of rejuvenating
fluid.
Only three nominations were made.
For sheriff they named Wesley A. Hart-
sock, of Huston Twp., and for auditors
Christian Buck, of Unionville, and Wil-
liam T. Irwin, of Union Twp., were nom-
inated.
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REV. ISENBERG TO LEAVE CENTRE HALL.
—Rev. 8S. H. Isenburg, who has been pas-
tor of the Centre Hall Reformed church for
ten years, will announce his contemplated
departure from his pulpit there next Sun-
day. He has accepted a call to Millers-
burg and his leaving will be a matter of re-
gret to ecclesiastical circles generally in the
county.
Rev. Isenberg has done a good work in
Centre Hall, where his services have been
highly rewarded in a spiritual sense and
his announced departure will be received
with deep feelings of sorrow by his Centre
Hall congregation, as well as by his many
friends in the county.
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A NITTANY GIRL THE FIRST GRADU-
ATE.—Miss M. M. Winkleman, of Nittany,
this county, was the first person to receive
a diploma, certifying her competence, as
a trained nurse, from the Lock Haven hos-
pital. The graduation exercises were held
at that institution last Thursday night and
were quite pretentious. Hon. S. M. Me-
Cormick, Rev. Dr. Wright, Rev. Dr. Per-
kins and Dr. Armstrong were the speakers,
who were not chary of good words for the
works of the hospital and its first trained
nurse, Miss Winkleman.
She entered in 1897 and has completed
the full two years course in care of the sick
and preparation of food for invalids. Miss
Winkleman will reside in Lock Haven.
Lieur. JAcksoN DEPARTS WITH His
RECRUITS.—Lieut. Geo. L. Jackson, 47th
U.S. V. I. who had been here recruiting
for his regiment left for Camp Meade on
Monday afternoon, with a squad of nine
men who bave enlisted in the regular serv-
ice for the term of two years.
They were: Milton Robb, Coleville; Jas.
G. Grassmire, Milesburg; Samuel H. Sweit-
zer, Coleville; Milton W. Reed, Bellefonte;
John A. Kelly, Bellefonte; Joseph Mayes,
Yarnell; Frank E. Freeze, Snow Shoe"
Clyde Z. Long; and Frederick E. Tebbs,
Howard.
The men were as creditable looking as
any that will go into the new regiment
and, with the six who went down from this
station last week, go to make upa very
fair showing for Lt. Jackson while here.
The first squad of men were all accepted but
Thomas, of Port Matilda, who was tempo-
rarily rejected and Dick Taylor, of this
place, was assigned to a corporal’s rank.
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THE OLD TiME CONCERT.—Last Satur-
day night was so out of the ordinary and
so delightfully amusiug and good that
every one present deemed it a perfect suc-
cess. It was the older people’s night and
while many of the younger stars flashed
and gleamed' in the constellation the audi-
ence quite lost sight of them in admira-
tion of the old timers and their gay, quaint
costumes. :
The duett, ‘‘Reuben and Rachel,’”’ sung
by Mrs. F. W. Crider and George W. Rum-
berger Esq., and the quartette, ‘‘Wait for
the Wagon,’’ by Mrs. Henry Harris, Mrs.
John P. Harris, Mrs. George Bayard, Mrs.
Anna Woodcock and Mrs. William Zeller,
pianist, were quite as good as any comedy
ever enacted by professionals. Mrs. Cri-
der looked so demure and pretty in her old
fashioned clothes and coiffure that Becky
Sharp would have died with envy bad she
have seen her. And the quartette—their
costumes were simply marvelous. Solo-
mon in all his glory was never arrayed like
one of them and when they responded to
their ovation by singing ‘‘Scotland’s
Burning,’’ the audience fairly roared.
Mrs. Barbara Rankin, Mrs. Catharine
Humes and F. Peeples Greene sung the
‘01d Oaken Bucket’’ and did it so nateral-
ly and graciously, without apologizing for
voice or practice, that every one was pleas-
ed. The recitation of the evening was Mrs.
Hogue’s ‘‘Samantha’s Fashionable Dinner
at the World’s Fair,’’ and the opening num-
ber was a minuet danced by the Misses
Blanchard, Holliday, Smith and Meek and
Hardman Harris, James Harris, Rex Coop-
er and George Meek. Musically the best
of the concert was the playing of Will Van
Tries, Harry Walkey and Henry Brown
on the mandolin, guitar and flute, Miss
Fauble’s and Mrs. Hayes’ piano duett,
Philip Waddle’s singing and the song with
violin obligato by Mary and Winifred Meek
and Will Van Tries.
Many persons stood the entire evening
and did not complain for the W. C. T. U.
made $30.66, which entirely finished off its
piano debt, and the choir master, Wilbur
F. Harris, considerately timed his an-
nouncements and did away with his tie.