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Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 27, 1899.
CorzespoNDENTS.—No communications pub
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
Mountain fires are again raging in
this vicinity.
— John M. Young, of Romola, has had
his pension increased from $6 to $8 per
month.
——Andrew Whitehill, of Lemont, has
picked 800 bushels of winter apples from
his orchard.
——Miss Jane Furst entertained ‘‘The’”
card club at her home on West Linn street
Tuesday evening.
——Bellefonte had a regular London fog
on Wednesday and the ‘Burnham’ golf
links were clangous with joy.
As a result of his hunt on Tuesday,
Harry Jackson brought home a wild tur-
key, a squirrel and a pheasant.
—— ‘The Sidewalks of New York”
comes to Garman’s,.next Monday night,
Oct. 30th, for one performance.
——George Moore Jr., had his arm bad-
ly torn recently while working a fodder cut-
ting machine near Port Matilda.
——The new livery barn erected for
Jesse Cox, on the Stewart property at the
rear of this office, i# under roof.
—— Bellefonte girls were running around
on Tuesday in white piques, dimities and
lawns, as if it had been a July day.
—— John I. Thompson will close his
home at Lemont this winter and the family
will take apartments at the Inn at State
College.
——The change in the atmosphere, on
Sunday, was so marked as to convert a
crisp fall morning into a balmy August
evening.
——DMrs. Anna Dolan is lying at her
home on south Pine street in a very dis-
couraging condition. She is suffering with
tuberculosis.
——J. H. Tebbs, of Howard, raised 25,-
000 pickles on a quarter of an acre of land
and 140 bushels of tomatoes on one half an
acre this season.
——The serious illness of Miss Maggie
Cooney at Braddock called her sister, Mrs.
Mary Fox, of east Bishop street, and her
father, Mr. Lawrence Cooney, to that place
on Friday.
-—— Charley Atherton stood 156th among
the 210 players in the National base ball
league as a batsman. He played sixty-
three games, stole five hases and had a bat-
ting average of 240.
—— Lieut. Geo. L. Jackson, of the 47th
U. 8. Inf. is reported to be very sick in
the hospital at Camp Meade, with a proba-
bility that he will not be able to accompany
his regiment to Manila.
Mountain fires are burning on the
Alleghenies, Muncy, Nittany and Tussey
mountains. The same tracts were burned
over in the spring so that there will scarce-
ly be anything left alive on the fire swept
areas.
The ladies of the Coleville Methodist
chapel will serve a supper in one of the
houses in the ‘‘Collins Row,’’ near the
Bellefonte furnace, on Monday evening.
Proceeds for the chapel. You are all in-
vited.
——The Pennsylvania State College foot
ball team was defeated by the naval cadets,
at Annapolis, on Saturday, by the score of
6 to 0. State scarcely expected a victory
because of the crippled condition of her
players.
W. H. Harrison Walker Esq., was
among the huntsmen who left Bellefonte
for the woods on Friday. There is a ramor
afloat that he will be gunning for the con-
gressional nomination from this district
some day.
——The merchants and other Bellefonte
business people who declined to subscribe
to the shirt factory will doubtless be eager
enough to gobble up their full share of the
trade that such an enterprise will bring to
the town.
——1I% is a bit of history tbat of the
twenty-four members of the Democratic
standing committee for Centre county, in
1856, only two are living to-day. They
are Capt. John A. Hunter, of Stormstown,
and J. Smith Barnhart, who is now resid-
ing in Towa.
——While standing on a ladder that he
had leaned against the barn so as to better
reach the apples on a nearby tree John
Dunklebarger, of Pleasant Gap, met with
an accident that might have injured him
seriously. The ladder broke; precipitating
him to the ground. He suffered no more
than being stunned for awhile.
——There was such a small attendance
at the meeting in the arbitration room in
the Court house,on Friday evening, that the
agricultural fair project was dropped until
some future time. The object of the meet-
was to devise ways and means for the or-
ganization of a county fair, but there were
so few people at the meeting that it was
abandoned until spring.
Cap’t. Mullen of the disbanded Co.
M, 21st Regt., N. G. P. has just received a
letter from Adj. Gen’l. Thomas J. Stuart
expressing regret that the conditions of re-
organization of the Guard had necessitated
the mustering out of his company and also
congratulating him on the very excellent
manner in which the government property
in his charge had been turned in and the
carefulness with which all details had been
looked after.
No DISEASE LURKING IN BELLEFONTE
‘WATER.—While the name Bellefonte is al-
most synonymous with good water there
are a few pessimists about who start up a
great hue and cry once in a while and try
to frighten our people into hysterics by
holding up to them pictures of the myriads
of horrible crawlers that are to be found in
the flow from the ‘‘Big Spring’”’ when any
of it is put under a powerful glass. While
it is admitted that some very unsightly
specimens of the lower orders of animal
life are shown up in mostany water that
isn’t distilled, and Bellefonte’s is not an
exception, we never have believed that the
water that comes from the spring that gives
the town its name is impure.
Flowing clear and pure, day in and day
out, it has never been known to vary an
inch in volume in the dryest or rainiest sea-
son, nor has it been known to change, by
half a degree, its temperature in the hottest
or coldest periods. The spring is simply
marvelous in its out flow, one of nature’s
rarest gifts and certainly Bellefonte’s most
precious treasure.
Several weeks ago the Board of Health
suggested that some of it be analyzed in
order to set at rest the qualms of the skeptic-
al. Accordingly 5 gals. of it were sent to
Dr. G. G. Pond, head of the department of
chemistry at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege, and after a thorough examination he
has made the following report of it.
Stare Corrrce, Oct. 20TH, 1889.
Henry C. Quigley Esq.,
Secretary Board of Health
Bellefonte, Pa.
Following is my report of analysis, of water
from the Bellefonte spring sample collected per-
sonally by myself, October 11th, at the pumping
station, at the spring:
Total solid residue............152.5 parts per million
Lost on ignition.........cvunsnn 85.0 parts per million
Leaving fixed Residue......... 07.5. te €&
Color: None. Poisonous metals: absent
Odor: None. Nitrates: absent
Taste : None. Nitrates: trace.
CHIOTING........c tins tnvaisiin seid 8.96 parts per million
Free ammonia..................0.00 parts per million
Albuminoid ammonia.......0.00 parts per million
Oxygen required for
combustion..................0.13 parts per million
In view of the above data, I unhesitatingly
pronounce your water supply to be of most excel-
lent quality at the time when sample was taken.
Respectfully submitted
G. G. POND, Ph. D.
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NEARLY ASPHYXIATED. — Miss Mabel
Boal, a daughter of Capt. Geo. M. Boal, of
Centre Hall, and Mrs. C. H. Meyer, for-
merly of the same place, and both well
known here, narrowly escaped death from
asphyxiation at Millersburg last week.
Our representative at Centre Hall fur-
nishes the following details :
Miss Boal was in a state of asphyxiation
from 5:30 o’clock a. m. to 8 p. m. on Tues-
day of last week while she was the guest of
her sister, Mrs. C. H. Meyer, at Millers-
burg. The family retired as usual, and at
about 5:30 a. m. Mr. Meyer awoke and
found his wife too ill to get up to prepare
breakfast. When he arose he noticed a
strong odor of gas which escaped from the
range down stairs, but thought nothing of
it and called his sister-in-law to attend to
family offices until his wife would recover.
Ina short time he heard a sound in Miss
Boal’s room as though she had fallen, and
hastily going to her apartment found her
prostrate on the floor in the condition above
named. A physician was summoned and
work of resuscitation was at once begun. For
hours all efforts seemed to be fruitless, but
finally the patient was restored by the ap-
plication of a dozen and a half mustard
blisters checked over her body. When call-
ed in the morning she arose in bed and that
was the only thing she remembered until
that night. She returned home Friday.
Mrs. Mey er was unable to leave her bed
all day from the effects of the gas, but there
were no serious results. Miriam, a little
daughter, seems to be the only one that
braved the storm without injury.
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A GENERAL COMMITTEE ON THE CURTIN
MONUMENT APPOINTED.—Gen. James A.
Beaver, chairman of the committee of the
Centre county Veterans’ club that is look-
ing after the erection of a monument to the
memory of the late A. G. Curtin, has an-
nounced the following general committee
to solicit subscriptions in their respective
parts of the county.
D. TF. Fortney, captain 8. H. Williams,
Bellefonte; captain C. T. Fryberger, cap-
tain John Gowland, major A. J. Graham,
Philipsburg; captain W. C. Patterson, Dr.
Theodore S. Christ, State College; captain
W. H. Fry, Pine Grove Mills; captain Geo.
M. Boal, professor W. A. Krise, Centre
Hall; captain C. P. Stonerode, Milesburg;
captain 8. H. Bennison, Abdera; captain W.
C. Van Valin, Fleming; captain J. A.
Quigley, Blanchard; captain Thomas E.
Royer, Rebersburg; W. A. Tobias, Mill-
heim; Dr. James A. Thompson, Storms-
town; John G. Uzzle, Snow Shoe; Ed. P.
Jones, Port Matilda; captain John A.
Daley, Romola; Jerry Condo, Spring Mills;
Daniel Weaver, Wolf’s Store; Frank I.
Wallace, Henry Heaton, Milesburg; W. V.
Beckwith, Hannah; general John Q. Miles,
Martha; Reuben Grimm, Madisonburg.
An open letter will besent to each G. A.
R. post in the county describing the exact
work to be done by the committee and how
the public will be expected to co-operate in
it.
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——Owing to despondency caused by ill
health Mrs. John Hanna, the wife of an
iron worker in the Jenkins iron and tool
works at Howard, attempted to take her
life at her home in that place Monday
morning. While her daughters were busy
washing she went up stairs, under the pre-
text of lying down for awhile, and they
discovered her later with several dangerous
gashes cut in the region of her heart. She
had used a razor, but had not cut deep
enough to cause death. At this time her
condition is regarded as critical.
——A pheasant flew through the window
of the bake house at the rear of A. E.
Howe’s home, in Philipsburg, on Monday
morning, killing itself.
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——Tomorrow State and Dickinson will
play foot ball on Beaver field, at State Col-
lege. The game will be called at 3 o’clock
p- m. and will be a good one.
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Pheasants are being shot on the
streets of Lock Haven. It is supposed that
the mountain fires have driven them into
the city from the surrounding forests.
—— AA erm.
——While we heard a few people remark
that ‘‘The Irish Alderman’ at Garman’s
Monday night, was ‘‘right good’’ it is our
unbiased opinion that it was right bum.
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——J. M. Malloy, the Philipsburg in-
stallment house manager, and a very clever
gentleman, was married to Miss Maggie
Quigley, at Osceola, at 7 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Omen
——The attraction hooked for Garman’s
next Monday night is ‘“The Sidewalks of
New York,”’ a spectacular comedy drama
depicting the everyday life of the great
metropolis.
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——Thomas Lauver, of Boggs township,
and Miss Martha McCloskey, of Curtin
township, were married by justice W. H.
Musser at his office in this place last Satur-
day.
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——DBenjamin F. Hoffer and Miss Vera
B. Devinney were married by the Rev.
George Bright, in Philipsburg, on Monday
evening. The groom is ason of the late
H. O. Hoffer, formerly of this place.
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——On Saturday the second school foot-
hall team of Philipsburg defeated the Clear-
field eleven by the score of 23 to 0. Dur-
ing the game Charley McCausland made a
goal from adrop kick, the first one ever
seen on a Philipsburg ground.
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——Henry Watterson, editor of the Louis-
ville Courier Jowrnal and, since the death
of Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun,
the foremost American journalist, will be
here during institute week to deliver one
of his lectures.
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Leslie McCully, a former Philips-
burger, who was arrested for burglary in
Philadelphia recently, plead guilty to seven
indictments and was fined $700 and sen-
tenced to seven years in the eastern peni-
tentiary. He has served time in the pen
before for similar crimes.
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—1It is reported that a citizen of Ty-
rone has received a letter from Andrew
Carnegie, dated Scibo Castle, Scotland, in
which the latter gentleman offers to give
$50,000 to the town of Tyrone for a public
library; providing the citizens of the place
furnish a site and subscribe $3,000 a year
to maintain it.
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——Tomorrow’s foot-ball game at the
College between Dickinson and State, will
probably be the most interesting one to be
played on the home grounds this season.
Inasmuch as Dickinson is unusually strong
this year and State is very much crippled
the result will be very close with a proba-
ble victory for the blue and white.
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——Geo. B. Uzzel, W. R. Haynes and
Don Grow, of Clarence, gave bail before
squire Sandford, in Philipsburg, in the sum
of $200 each, for their appearance at the
November court to answer the charge of
illegal hunting. The men were charged
with having four pheasants in their posses-
sion before the opening of the season.
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—Talk about strong horses, strong
wagons and strong men why half the peo-
ple are not in it with that ‘‘old Hickory’
Democrat, Orrie Nason, of Martha, and his
teamsters, Millard Lucas and Bud Richards.
One day recently, with one team and on
one wagon, they hauled 25,000 No. 1, 18
inch pine shingles from the Nason Locust
mills to Martha at one load. Beat that if
you can.
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——The demands on the Clinton county
fire brick works at Mill Hall have become
so far in excess of the capacity of that plant
that the firm contempletes building anoth-
er plant. The new one will be located at
Monument, where the clay for the Mill
Hall works is secured, and will have a
capacity of 40,000 brick a day. A board-
ing house for the accommodation of the
forty men it will employ is also to be built
at once.
GPO ns.
——The women of the Methodist church
gave one of their excellent chicken and
waffle suppers last Thursday evening in
Bush Arcade and if every one was not
bountifully served it was not because there
had not heen plenty provided, but because
too many people wanted their supper at
five or half-past five o’clock instead of at
six when the waffles were plenty and the
crowd was expected. They took in $61.20
which netted them $55.80, to be used for
repairs for the church.
———
—— ‘The Sidewalks of New York’’ will
come to Garman’s next Monday night. It
isa spectacular comedy drama, telling a
realistic and thrilling story and showing
pictures of life in a great city. It is pre-
sented with imposing scenic settings and
the latest mechanical effects. Chief of the
pictorial features is the picturesque Herald
Square scene, with its reaiistic array of the
typical characters of upper Broadway and
entertaining ensemble of amusing special-
ties. A soul stirring sensation is supplied
in the shape of a dive fora life by the
dauntless Paul J. Tustin, the champion
high diver of the world, who plunges head-
long thirty feet into a tank of water hut
three feet deep.
THE ACADEMY FAILED To EVEN IT
Up.—The Academy foot-hall team went to
Altoona, on Saturday, with the determina-
tion of getting even with the High school
boys of that city, who had defeated them
here on October 7th by the score of 10 to 0.
They did their best, but it wasn’t quite
enough to bring home a victory though
they were able to hold the score down to
5 to 0.
The High school played an excellent de-
fensive and offensive game, its interference
being especially fine. Good gains were
made on guards back formation and by
bucking the line, while on thedelayed pass
Farabaugh and Wherle made long end runs.
At no time was High school’s goal in danger,
most of the game being played on the Acad-
emy territory. For Bellefonte Miller play-
ed well at quarter and J. Twitmire made
some fine runs.
The game was devoid of unnecessary
roughness and there was no wrangling over
the decisions of the referee. The line up
was as follows :
A. H. 8. y
Hays... Left End...coun.ivi. Mi
Yair.... ..Left Tackle... .
Breisaucher Left Guard... of
Seeds..... ~Contre....... ...Stevens
Cole.. ..Right Guard Van Tassel {Capt.)
Black.. .Right Tackle Blair
Sauppe ...Right End.. Palmer
Harnish (Capt.)......Quarterback...................... Hoy
Farabaugh J. Twitmire
Wherle .W. Twitmire
Summary—High school 5, Academy, 0;
touchdown, Wherle, 1; umpire, Bush; re-
feree, H. Wherle. Time of game, one 20
and one 15 minute half.
THE GRANGERS DOING CHARITABLE
WORK.—That it pays to belong to some
good social or fraternal organization was
nicely illustrated within the past week over
in Penns valley.
George Gingerich, one of the most active
and enthnsiastic members of Progress
grange, at Centre Hall, was stricken with
typhoid fever several weeks ago and he be-
came so ill that his fall work was being
neglected without his supervision. Seeing
this a party of his Granger brothers went
to his home last Thursday and husked all
of his corn in the field. The graceful act
was not only a great help and possible sav-
ing to Mr. Gingerich, but it was a genuine
pleasure to those who participated, to be
able to do something more material than
the mere expressing of sympathy for their
stricken friend.
They were so elated with the good they
had accomplished that on Wednesday, most
of the party, with many recruits, went to
the home of N. B. Shaffer and did the same
service for him; becanse he has been handi-
capped with his fall work by the illness of
Mrs. Shaffer and his inability to secure
help.
Snch acts as these are the ones that show
the true spirit of brotherhood and proclaim
the superior blessing of deeds over words.
It Cost EIGHT CENTS TO GET THREE,
CENTS.—An idea of the completeness of de-
tail to which husiness is carried out by
large corporations can be had by a recent
transaction to which the N. Y. C. and
Bellefonte Central railroads were parties.
While the transaction, itself, was a losing
one for both companies, yet it had to be
gone through with under the ordinary busi-
ness routine.
The Bellefonte Central Co. owed the N.
Y. Central a balance of .03 on their Sep-
tember business and in sending a statement
of it the former company was required to
spend 2cts for postage; then the N. Y. C.
returned the statement, approved, and ask-
ed that the balancejof .03 be mailed at once,
this letter requiring a 2ct postage stamp.
The B. C. R. R. mailed the balance of .03,
thus spending 2cts more for postage and the
N. Y. C. acknowledged the receipt of it,
running the expenditures for postage,
without the stationery or trouble, up to
8cts to collect a bill of .03, about which
there was dispute.
SUCCESSFUL GUNNERS. — On Thursday
of last week C. H. Hoffman, an attache of
the maintenance of way department of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia, and
Ner Chew, of Vineland, N. J., were arrivals
in this place with their guns and dog.
They came to spend a few days with J.
Will Conley, of Logan street, and, inci-
dentally, to hunt. John Trafford and
Charley Heisler piloted them on several
little expeditions to the ridges of Bald Eagle
and Nittany valleys and when the gentle-
man started back for the city, on Tuesday,
they had 27 pheasants, 37 quail and 2 squir-
rels.
Such a record would seem to indicate
that small game is plentiful up here, but
the real reason was that the men behind
the guns could hit the birds that their re-
markably trained dog put up.
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PROBABLY A NEW CATHOLIC DIGCESE.
—The subject of erecting a new Catholic
diocese from portions of the dioceses of
Harrisburg, Erie and Pittsburg in this
State is now being agitated. If the new
diocese is formed it will probably be called
the Altoona diocese. It is stated that in a
recent conference archbishop Ryan and
the bishops of the dioceses named had de-
cided that the counties of Bedford, Blair,
Cambria, Huntingdon, Centre, Clinton
Clearfield, Cameron and Elk should form
the new diocese. It is also stated that the
report asking for the change has already
been sent to Rome and is now awaiting the
approval of the pope.
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—While gunning on the Nittany coun-
try club’s preserve recently David Martin,
of Philadelphia, accidentally shot a dog that
he valued at $1,000. The wounds were
not fatal, however, and it will get over
them.
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—The government supervising archi-
tect has asked for $62,500 for Altoona’s new
public building.
News Purely Personal.
—Col. and Mrs. Jas. P. Coburn spent Sunday at
their old home in Aaronsburg.
—Miss Celia Armor, of this place, is visiting
Mrs. A. J. Graham, in Philipsburg.
—Mrs. Lillian Mansha, of Richmond, Virginia,
is the guest of Mrs, John M. Bullock, on North
Allegheny street.
—Hon. J. W. Simonton, president judge of the
Dauphin county courts, spent Sunday with his
daughter, Mrs. Gilbert A. Beaver, on east Curtin
street.
—Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hall, of north Penn
street, left for Philadelphia Wednesday morning.
While in the eity Mrs. Hall will be under treat-
ment at the Hahnneman hospital.
—Mrs. D. K. Tate, of west Bishop street, with
her daughter, Mrs. Leroy Temple, of Salem,
Mass., spent a few days recently visiting their
son and brother D. Kirk Tate in Philipsburg.
—I. H. Miller, of Rock Springs, was in town for
a while on Saturday and dropped in for a little
chat on the political outlook. Mr. Miller spoke
quite hopefully of his section of Ferguson town-
ship.
—Serg. Richard Taylor, Co. D, 47th U.S. Inf.,
was home to spend Sunday with his mother in
this place and to bid farewell to his friends be-
fore starting to the Philippines with his regi-
ment.
—Phil. D. Waddell express messenger on the
Central, went to Philadelphia, last Thursday, to
spend part of his ten days’ vacation. While
away Ed. Robb, of Nittany, is taking his runs on
the road.
—John P. Harris Sr., was in Philadelphia, on
Saturday, as a member of the state committee
that named Judge John I. Mitchell as the suc-
cessor of Josiah Adams for Superior court judge
on the Quay ticket.
—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sankey, of Potters Mills,
were in town on Saturday on their way home
from a two months’ pleasure trip through Kansas,
Iowa and Illinois. Both were looking unusually
well after their journey.
—George Bayard went up to Tyrone yesterday
evening to accept a position in Pritchard’s drug
store in that place. We congratulate the Hon.
Jit in having secured the service of such a gen-
teel and efficient pharmacist.
—Supt. F. C. Williams, of the Edison Co., went
to Altoona, on Saturday afternoon, to spend Sun-
day with his father-in-law George Kauffman and
to bring his family back home, from their three
weeks’ stay in the Mountain city.
—Chas. P. Hewes Esq., of Erie, was an arrival
in town Wednesday morning and attended to
some legal business here, while his tamily visited
at the home of E. R. Chambers Esq., on Linn
street, until yesterday afterncon, when they re-
turned to Erie.
—James B. Noll, of Milesburg, was a caller on
Saturday afternoon, but he was on the fly and had
time only to stay long enough to drop a little coin
and depart. Of course his visit was very agree-
able, but it would have been more so had he had
more time to waste,
—Ed. Kittell, whose two years absence from
Bellefonte was by no means enough to cause him
to be forgotten here, was back for a few day's
visit last week. While in town he was a guest at
the home of Thomas Shoemaker, with whom he
is as closely associated in railroad building and
other heavy contracts as he was with the Coliins
men.
—Edward P. Butts left for his home in Hart-
ford, Conn., on Monday evening, where business
necessities called him before he was ready to
leave his old friends here. He is a member of
the engineering firm of Butts and Crosby and it is
not out of place here to say that he has installed
the first really successful tide water power plant
ever put up anywhere.
—Miss Myra Holliday left for Philadelphia
last evening on the Central and her departure
marks the beginning of the preparations for
closing the Spangler home on north Allegheny
street. She went down ahead of her sister in
order to be with her mother when the apartments
for herself and Miss Holliday are selected. The
others will go shortly after the election to spend
the winter in the city.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. McCarger arrived in town
on Saturday afternoon, via the overland route
from New York. They started at once to look for
a house and having found one on east Bishop
street, they will take their furniture out of stor-
age and make a home here for the winter. Mac.
has been doing the New England States for sev-
eral months and Mrs, McCarger has been with him,
both enjoying the driving from place to place in
true Nomadic fashion.
—Mrs, Mary Ann Johnston has returned from a
month’s stay in Pittsburg, where she has been
visiting her son Harry, who was so seriously hurt
by a fall from a building out there some time
ago. It will be remembered that Harry's feet
were so badly injured that it was feared he would
never be able to walk again, but she brings home
the encouraging information that he may not be so
seriously affected when the plaster cases are re-
moved. It is expected that he will be home
about the holidays.
—Col. E. P. Campbell and Mrs. Campbell, of
New York, were guests at the home of former
commissioner Frank Adams, on east High street,
over Sunday. Though the Col. has climbed very
high in railroad circles in Bronx and the duties
involving upon him annually increase they are not
sufficient to eliminate the scenes of his boyhood
about Milesburg and he has to come back, at least
once a year, to satisfy that longing that is told so
prettily in the ballad “Mid the Green Fields of
Virginia Long Ago.”
—Hon. A. O. Furst, John M. Dale and J. C.
Meyer are among the Bellefonte attorneys who
are in Philadelphia this week trying cases before
the Superior court. Messrs. Dale and Meyer are
both interested in the defense of former sheriff
John P. Condo against the administrator of Em-
ma C. Goodman for the burning of the Etlinger
house at Woodward in March, 1896. While no
one here wants the Goodmans to lose anything
by the fire, yet everyone feels that it is the great-
est injustice to try to hold sheriff Condo respon-
sible for losses sustained while doing his duty.
—Grant Hoover, the hustling insurance agent,
had a guest in town last week in the person of
H. C. Cowpland, special agent of “the Washing-
ton,” one of Grant's crack companies, Mr.
Cowpland is from Cincinnati and while he had
often seen Bellefonte on his map he had no idea
of what a pretty and substantial town we have,
nor of the thrifty villages in Pennsvalley where
Grant does so much business for his company,
until he saw them. He took in everything down
to the Methodist chicken and waffle supper,
where he seemed to have his hands in quite as
well as at making up insurance schedules.
—Ellis Shaffer was up from Miles township, on
Saturday, to talk over the political situation with
his friends here. While Mr. Shaffer was not
talking for publication we take the liberty of
using that much of his conversation as pertained
to ‘his position on the shrievalty contest. He
said: “If any one imagines that we are not allfor
Brungart down our way all they need to do is to
wait and look at the returns when they come in.
Iintend to put in two solid weeks working for
the whole ticket before the election and Cyrus
will be worked for just as hard as any of the
rest, because we understand each other thorough-
ly and also understand the scheme some people
have been trying to work to create a difference
between us, but they can’t do it.” It was just as
we expected : Mr. Shaffer is too good a man to be
caught by such flimsy political buncombe as some
people have been trying to pass off on him.
MR. FOSTER AND His WEATHER. — My
last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave to cross the continent from the 13th
to 17th and 19th to 23rd, and the next will
reach the Pacific coast about 23rd, cross the
west of Rockies country by close of 24th,
great central valleys 25th to 27th, eastern
States 28th.
Warm waves will cross the west of Rock-
ies country about 23rd, great central val-
leys 25th, eastern States 27th. Cool wave
will cross the west of Rockies country about
26th, eastern States 30th.
Temperature of the week ending Oct.
30th will average below normal east of the
Rockies and above west. Precipitation
will be above normal east of the Rockies
and below west.
The weather event of the month will
occur during the last ten days and will in-
clude a warm wave followed by a severe
cold wave. Within a day or two of the
26th the warm wave will reach meridian
90, and within a day or two of 30th the
coldest part of the cold wave will reach
meridian 90.
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WITH THE SICK.—Ex-sheriff D. Z.
Kline, whose health had so improved that
he was able to be out on the porch or yard
most of the summer, has had a relapse
which has caused his family much anxiety
in the last week. Miss May Taylor, one of
the teachers in thestone building, and only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Taylor,
has been seriously ill for several weeks
with peritonitis. Mrs. Anna Dolan, of
Pine street, is quite low with lung and
throat trouble. Mrs. Robert Kline, of
Bishop street, has gone to Philadelphia for
hospital treatment. And Mrs. F. Peebles
Green is so ill that her sons have been sum -
moned from Altoona and Erie.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week:
Benjamin F. Hoffer and Vera B. De-
Viney, both of Philipshurg.
F. B. Hermon, of Hecla, and Nancy W.
Vonada, of Spring Mills.
Benjamin MecCaus, of Philipsburg, and
Ida Tate, of Grabampton.
Geo. W. Whiting, of Bellefonte, and
Flora M. Yarnell, of Hecla.
Mike Stari and Emma ‘Weleber, both of
Philipsburg.
Thos. O. Keen and Colisca Gingerich,
both of Ingleby.
Milton Robb and Clarissa Shilling, both
of Spring Twp.
Joe A. Beck, of Wilkinsburg, and Grace
M. Houzer, Bellefonte.
Epley R. Gentzel and Vangie Royer,
both of Zion.
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—— “The Side Walks of New York’’ is
the next attraction booked for Garman'’s.
It will appear on Monday night, Oct. 30th,
and is a comedy-drama depicting street
life in the great metropolis. It is under
the same management as ‘“The Irish Alder-
man,’’ that showed here last Monday night.
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CIDER APPLES.—Robert Beerly will pay
10c per bushel, cash, for cider apples de-
livered to his press at Milesburg, Pa.
44-41-2¢.
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BRIGHT Boy WANTED.—An ambitious,
bright boy is wanted at this office to learn
job printing and press work.
Sale Register.
November 91u.—At the residence of H. C. Shirk.
1}5 miles west of Potters Mills, horses, young
mules, colts, cows, Durham bulls, young cattle,
sheep hogs and implements of all kinds. Sale
at 12 o'clock m. M. M. Goheen, auctioneer.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red ............ ii niiinins 101 ,@71%4
“« _No. 4. . 1i@est;
Corn —Yellow. vt 42
¢ —Mixed... 36@39%4
ORS. vi asaemmssinnise 30@32
Flour— Winter, Per Br’ . 2.25@2.40
¢“ —Penna. Roller... 3.10@3.20
** —Favorite Brands
Rye Flour Per Br’l
Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. 1....13.00@16.00
¢ 44 ih Mixed “ 1... 13@14.50
BIPAW. cc ci icasnseiisstassersiarioiin ironss sass i 7.00@15.00
3.85@4.50
3.50@3.60
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the PuaNix Mitring Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press:
Red Wheat, old
Red wheat, new...
Rye, per bushel..........
Corn, shelled, per bushel..
Corn, ears, per bushel...
Oats, per bushel, new
Barley, per bushel.........
Ground Plaster, per ton
Buckwheat, per bushel.
Cloverseed, per bushel.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel 40
gE 30
s, per do:
Io per poipd 7
Country Shoulde: 6
Sides.. 6
Hams.... 10
Tallow, per pound. 3
Butter, per pound 20
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday mosmng, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $1.50 per annum (irpaid 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.............. $5 (88 [810
Two inches.............. ’r 7110 15
Three inches... ......... 10 {15 | 20
Saarier Column (5 inch 12120 | 30
alf Column (10 inches) 20 | 35 | 55
One Column (20 inches)... wl 35 | 55 | 100
Advertisements in special column 25 per cent.
additional. ;
Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions.
Each additional insertion, per line...
Local notices, per line......cueveees .
Business notices, per line . 10 cts,
Job Printing of every kind done with neatness
and dispatch, The Warcuman 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,
Terms—Cash.
All letters should be addressed to
P. GRAY MEEX, Proprieto