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Deora Waicp.
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 5, 1900.
CorrESPONDENTS.—NoO communications pub
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——Thomas E. Royer has been appointed
postmaster at Rebersburg.
——The work of cutting ice was begun
at Hecla park on Tuesday.
—— They had twelve inches of ice on the
dam at Martha Furnace on Monday.
——Wednesday’s light fall of snow was
at least enough to settle the dust for awhile.
——Watch meeting services were held in
the Methodist and A. M. E. churches on
Sunday night.
——May Smith Robbins, known so well
to Bellefonte theatre goers as ‘‘Little
Trixie’ will be here on Friday evening,
Jan. 12th.
——The transport Thomas which was
carrying the 47th U. 8. V. Iof., arrived at
Manila on Friday, Dec. 22nd, with all on
board in good health.
——S. Kline Woodring, a son of former
sheriff D. W. Woodring, has entered the
Fortney & Walker law offices to complete
his legal studies.
——The Bellefonte card club met at the
home of Mrs. Harry Keller, on east Linn
street, last evening. Mrs. Keller and Miss
Emily Natt entertained.
E. E. Swartz, of Pleasant Gap, had
one of his hands terribly lacerated while
shredding corn fodder last Friday afternoon.
One of his fingers had to he amputated.
——Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams, of
north Spring street, entertained very
charmingly Christmas evening in honor of
a small party of their young friends.
——During his six years as register of
Centre county G. W. Rumberger issued
2,013 marriage licenses. In 1899 he issued
369, which was just a little over the aver-
age.
——Miss. Sara A. Meek, who was re-
cently elected to succeed commissioners’
clerk Boyd A. Musser, as a teacher in the
High school, has declined to accept the po-
sition.
Good sleighing and skating are both
being enjoyed about Philipsburg. Belle-
fonters are having skating, but we have no
snow and on Tuesday the dust was flying
in such clouds as to make the streets ex-
tremely disagreeable to pedestrians.
——The weather was so cold, Monday
evening, that the Undine band horns froze
up after they had played one tune at the
head of the logan parade and the only
thing they could do was start the clarinets,
piccolos and drums to making martial
music.
——DMus. Page, widow of the late W. H.
Page, so long identified with the Sechler &
Co., grocery in this place, has moved to
Williamsport. The house she vacated on
north Allegheny street has been occupied
by Samuel Donachy, the superintendent of
the new match factory.
W. Harrison Walker Esq., ban-
queted his fellow Knights of the Golden
Eagle at Ceader’s, on Tuesday evening, as a
slight mark of his appreciation of having
attained the highest rank in the local Castle,
that of noble chief. Covers were laid for
twenty-five and they had a right royal
time. "
——Hairy B. Pontius, clerk of the
Bellefonte council, has been appointed
mercantile appraiser for 1900. The ap-
pointment was one of the last official acts
of the retiring board of commissioners.
The work will require about six weeks and
is worth about $200. There were eighteen
other good Republicans who would have
done it.
——The mid-winter assembly in the
armory here last Friday evening was fairly
well attended and proved to be one of the
most delightful dances that has been given
for a long time. Geo. I. Bush had charge
of the arrangements and the patronesses
were Mrs. D. H. Hastings, Mrs. W. F.
Reeder, Mrs. Jos. L. Montgomery, Mrs.
Jno. M. Dale, Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes and
Mrs. Thos. King Morris.
The Union gospel meeting led by
Rev. Elmer Williams in the court house,
Sunday afternoon before Christmas, at-
tracted a large crowd to that place, not-
withstanding the very inclement weather.
Dr. Stepl ens, of the Methodist church, and
Rev. T. Levan Bickel, of the Reformed, as-
~sigted with the services, which were under
«the direction of Rodger T. Bayard and
proved very interesting indeed.
——There was not nearly so mueh sick-
ness about here this Christmas as there was
last year, but the children seemed to have
suffered more than their share of it. Laura
Harrison, daughter of John F. Harrison,
and Harry Hall, conductor Hall’s second
son, are recovering from severe cases of
typhoid fever. Harold Ward is much bet-
ter and Lois Kirk, Hester McGinley and a
dozen other little children who were quite
ill at Christmas time are all able to be out.
——TFour old residenters of this place
ran up against each other on Christmas
day and when they had finished swapping
hunting yarns they began to talk about
their ages and we overheard the total,
which they counted up to be 293 years
They were Joseph R. Garbrick, 77 ; Simeon
Haupt, 73 ; James R. Alexander, 72 ; and
S. M. McMurtrie, 71. They are all spry
old fellows and take their hunting trips
every fall, just as they did nearly balf a
century ago.
THE NEW COUNTY OFFICIALS SWORN
x.—There were scarcely more that a dozen
witnesses to the formal oath taking of the
new county officials last Monday morning,
bat those who were in the recorder’s office
to see the first official step taken by the
men who will serve the county for the
next three years had quite as much amuse-
ment out of it as is usmal on such occa-
sions.
The work was progressing very solemnly
for the fellows who were taking their in-
itiation into the fat jobs they had fought
for last fall, when John Dunlap quietly
opened the hall door and dropped a big
dynamite cracker inside. A WATCHMAN
representative happened to be nearest the
business end of the infernal thing and
when the explosion occurred a pair of *‘pipe-
stems’ went heavenward faster than a
rocket. Fortunately for his delicate un-
derstandings neither one was shattered,
though the legal oathes were drowned in
the chorus of other more expressive exple-
tives that arose. When quiet kad been re-
stored Alex. Archey said “I do’ and he
was register of Centre county ; whereupon
his predecessor, Geo. W. Rumberger, con-
gratulated him and Alex. took up the
usnal first day’s work which consists most-
ly of strutting around and getting accus-
tomed to the official toga.
The oathes were all administered in the
recorder’s office, by former recorder, J. C.
Harper.
corder Nelson E. Robb. Assoonas he had
been fixed up he went back to his old
office to get things in shape there for the
new occupants. A. G. Archey was the
next to be sworn in and it was during his
ceremony that the explosion mentioned
above occurred. Register Archey has ap-
pointed Jas. M. Swabb, of Harris township,
to assist him temporarily.
Commissioner Heckman, sheriff Brun-
gard, commissioners Meyer and Riddle and
treasurer Speer followed in the order
named.
Over on the other side of the hall pro-
thonotary M. I. Gardner was swearing in
auditors Beck, Tibbens and Allison. As
soon as they had subscribed to the oath
they retired to the arbitration room, where
they met and organized for their work.
For clerk Mr. Tibbens named W. Miles
Walker and Mr. Allison named S. D.
Gettig Esq. ; the result of the vote being 2
to 1 in favor of Walker. Col. D. F. Fortney
was selected as attorney for the board.
The examination of all the county accounts
will probably cover a period of six weeks.
The commissioners retired to the vault
of their office and organized immediately
after being sworn in. Daniel Heckman
was made president of the board. Then
they elected Boyd Musser clerk, unani-
mously. For county physician Dr. M. A.
Kirk was elected by two votes over Dr.
Mullen, who received one. For janitor of
the court house Thos. Shaughensy received
the votes of the Democratic members,
while Mr. Riddle voted for Donachy, the
present janitor. He will remain about the
court house until April 1st. J. C. Meyer
Esq., was the unanimous choice of the
board for attorney.
Treasurer Speer will retain Orrie Kline,
a son of the retired treasurer Harrison
Kline, in his office until he hecomes ac-
quainted with the work.
Recorder Robb has nob decided yet who
his deputy will be and he will not make a
decision until after the next meeting of the
directors of the Commercial telephone com-
pany.
By half after eleven most of the matters
of interest were over and the new officials
had settled down in their chairs to try one
of the cigars which treasurer Speer has
been dispensing ever since he got his
‘‘hooks’’ on the treasury.
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THE LOGAN SMOKER.—The Logan En-
gine Co’s ‘‘Smoker,”’ on Tuesday evening
of last week, came about as near being the
“real thing’’ as any entertainment of the
sort ever given in Bellefonte. The hand-
some engine house. was comfortably filled
with members of the Logan and Undine
companies, and their friends, many of the
latter having their first taste of these nights
in Bohemia that have become so popular
with the firemen. President John Knise-
ly welcomed the guests of the company in
a neat little speech and then turned the
program over to Cap’t. Hugh S. Taylor,
who acted as toast-master and called for
responses from a number of gentlemen; not
failing. however, to give frequent com-
mands to fall in for ‘‘Mess.”” And the
‘‘Mess’” was a dandy. Delmonico Cun-
ningham and his corps of chefs, Knisely,
Jackson, Iberhart and Breeze, had prepar-
ed a feast that mixed well with the flow
of oratory and other refreshing things that
were passed round. The Undine band was
there and when it wasn’t playing some one
was speaking and all the rest eating.
There was fun for everybody and the fel-
low who didn’t share in it must indeed
have been a dyspeptic with the suicide
mania.
Hon. John G. Love made a splendid
speech and was roundly applanded for his
unstinted praise of Bellefonte’s fine fire
department. His suggestions for more
thorough organization with a view to pre-
venting the occurrence of fires did not fall
on deaf ears either, as they were both sea-
sonable and worthy consideration.
The others who spoke during the evening
were :
Mayor Naginey, editors Kurtz and Speer,
councilmen Houser and Tripple, and Messrs
J. Will Conley, Will Cassidy, R. S. Brouse,
H. B. Pontius, elerk of council; W. Har-
rison Walker, George H. Smull, James
Gregg, mayor of Milesburg; overseer John
Trafford, Jas. Alexander, Thos. Shaughen-
sey, Jr., Robert Morris, deputy sheriff
Jackson, Jos. Ceader, C. M. Parrish, H.
P. Harris, Ad Fauble, R. A. Beck, Jas.
Harris, Geo. R. Meek and others.
The first officer sworn in was re--
——1It is reported that a number of the
teachers in the Lock Haven Normal school
intend to resign soon.
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——The next attraction at Garman’s will
be May Smith Robbins in ‘‘Little Trixie.”
She is booked for next Friday night, Janu-
ary 12th.
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——Rev. C. S. Long, of the Lock Haven
Christian church, preached his farewell
sermon to his congregation there on Satur-
day night.
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——The new board of Clinton county
commissioners took forty-two ballots be-
fore they succeeded in electing an attor-
ney. Each commissioner had a favorite.
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——John Tonner Harris, manager, and
Miss Ruth Tripple and Miss Katharine
Lieb, operators at the Bell telephone ex-
change, have all been on the sick list dur-
ing the week.
——William P. Franell, of Scotia, was
married to Miss Mary Susan Briner, of
Tyrone, on Tuesday. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. W. W. Ryner in the
United Brethren parsonage in Tyrone.
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——Miss Gertrude B. Shaffer, who was
principal of the model school in the Lock
Haven Normal, was married to William J.
Kyle, on Wednesday morning. The groom
is a promising young attorney of Union-
town.
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——Dr. Charles Rowen, of Etna, Pa.,
was married to Miss Luma Smith, a daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Luther P. Smith, in
‘the Methodist church in Hollidaysburg on
Tuesday. The groom was formerly a resi-
dent of Bellefonte, his father having been
employed at the nail works here when
they were in operation.
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——Henry Crouse, an influential and re-
spected resident of Aaronsburg, died at his
home in that place on Friday morning,
Dec. 22nd, after suffering but two days
with paralysis. Deceased was 55 years
old and is survived by his widow and
three sons. He was a veteran of the
civil war ; having served with the 148th
P.V.
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——Dr. M. Salm, the specialist who
made regular visits to Bellefonte some time
ago, arrived here Tuesday evening and will
open an office so that he can establish a
regular practice here. Dr. Fisher, a Phila-
delphian, will be put in charge and the
rooms in Miss Magill’s boarding house oc-
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gephart will
be taken for offices.
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Mrs. Sallie E. Harnden, relict of
Henry Harnden, died at her home in Al-
toona on December 27th, after nine month’s
suffering with cancer in the breast. :De-
ceased was a kind and lovable woman
whose christian faith was founded on a life
long and zealous attachment to the Meth-
odist church. She was a sister of Mrs.
Jas. L. Rote, Mrs. George Cox and Miss
Harriett Rote of this place.
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——The eighty-fifth anniversary of. the
birth of Mrs. Mary Griffith was celebrated
at her home, near Axe Mann, last Thurs-
day. Among the many guests present were
her brother, Thomas Waddle; Jersey Shore,
a widower, and her sisters, Mrs. Hannah
Hamilton and Mrs. Sarah Williams, the
three being widows. The combined ages
of the sisters and brother is 324 years.
Mrs. Griffith is 85; Mrs. Hamilton, 83;
Thomas Waddle, 80, and Mrs. Will-
iams, 76.
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——Two men named Eckel and Womels-
dorf attacked Jacob Yarison, a farmer, at
his home about four miles east of Logan-
ton, one day last week, and clubbed him
nearly to death. All the men are related,
but had been having little altercations fre-
quently. The day the affray occurred
Yarison was at his barn working when he
was attacked. They knocked him down
with a club and jumped upon him until
Womelsdorf’s father reached the scene and
separated them. Yarison’s condition was
very critical, but he is on a fair way to re-
covery now.
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——Peter Meitzler, proprietor of the
Riverside hotel in Lock Haven, attempted
suicide by shooting himself on Monday
evening. He had been confined to bed
with inflammatory rheumatism for about
two weeks and was growing very despond-
ent at his slow recovery. He procured a
revolver of 38 cal. and fired into his body
near the heart. The ball passed between
the heart and lung and was too déep to be
recovered by probing. While the wound
was not necessarily fatal his weakened con-
dition made his recovery very doubtful.
It will be remembered that Meitzler is the
man who seme years ago purchased a large
granite monument and had it placed in the
cemetery to be ready for him when needed.
——The Logan Engine Co. held its an-
nual meeting on Tuesday evening and
elected the following officers for the new
year : President—John Knisely; vice pres-
ident—J. J. Bower; treasurer—James
Seibert; financial secretary—R. S. Brouse;
recording secretary — W. T. Hillibish.
Trustees Thos. Shaughensy Jr.,, Edward
Cunningham, Geo. Knisely; chief—Geo.
Cunningham; 1st. assistant chief—J. T.
Laurie; 2nd. assistant chief—Michael
Shields: 3rd. assistant chief—R. A. Beck;
4th. assistant chief—Randolph
engineer—James Seibert; 1st.
engineer—W. F. Barns;
engineer—Elmer Yeager; fireman—John
Morrison; 1st. assistant fireman—Sam
Morrison; 2nd. assistant fireman—Thos.
Caldwell; olugmen—Samuel Guisewhite
and Orrin Miller; delegate to state fireman's
convention—W. T. Hillibish, alternate
John McGinley; delegate to district fire-
man’s convention—J. J. Bower, alternate
—Thos. Caldwell.
Breeze;
assistant
20d. assistant
CouxciL MEETING.—Only five members
were present when president Gerberich
called council to order, Monday evening.
Very little business was transacted aside
from the regular routine. The Steam
Heating Co. notified council that the
charges for steam for the Logan engine
house would be raised from $15 to $18 per
month, and for the Undine engine house
from $16 to $19 per month. Plans and
specifications for the new bridge over
Logan’s branch were submitted by engi-
neer Wetzel and accepted. The bridge is
to have a 40ft. drive way, with a 9ft. pas-
senger walk on each side, making the entire
width of the structure 58 ft. There are to
be two trusses sticking above the plank
floor, the latter proving the penny wise
and pound foolish practices of council.
Why in the world don’t they build such a
bridge there as can be macadamized and
thus forever end the continued expense of
renewing planking. None of them can
give you a single satisfactory reason. It
seems though that Bellefonte is to suffer
always because her law-makers either
don’t know or won’t try to inform them-
selves of such improvements as would be a
benefit as well as a lasting economy.
The Finance committee reports as fol-
lows :
Bal. due treasurer, Dec. 4th, '99...... 2,893.78
Boro. orders paid... ...887.39
Water orders paid....................393.62 $1281.01
$4174.79
Rec'd from Duplicate, 1838.........200.00
e id “ 189%........ 775.00 75.00
Bal due treasurer Jan. 1st, 1900 $3199.79
The following bills were approved and
orders for their payment drawn on the
treasurer :
J. H. Wetzel, plans and specifications 10.60
Street pay Tol..........ccoiiivndee sriciiirns 76.11
Centre Democrat printing..........cccoceeennnnn. 1.00
A. M. Mott, stone for gutter..........c.ccceuueues 5.00
Henry Johnson, white washing.. 10.80
Geo. M. Mallory, blacksmithing. 4.25
J. H. Johnson, work on streets 3.05
Police pay roll ...il. id dniiiinn, 35.00
E. E. Il. Co. light for public building. 11.00
$4 R61 IA8 a pa 66 water works 1.70
Keystone Oil and Supply Co., oil.......... .... 20.50
R. B. Taylor, coal for water works............ 237.00
A. Allison, plumbing................. 42,04
E. E. Ill. Co., lighting streets. 362.00
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Is THE Y. M. C. A. T0 BE CLOSED.—
Roger T. Bayard, who has been the efficient
and hard working secretary of the Y. M.
C. A. for a yeal past, has resigned because
his salary has not been forth coming. Mr.
Bayard has had a little taste of the disad-
vantage Y. M. C. A. workers have been at
in Bellefonte for years and only differs
from the others in that he has had the good
sense to resign, rather than continue a work
that the people of the town persistently re-
fuse to support. Mrs. Pifer, the owner of
the building, has levied on the Association
property and it is likely that the place will
be closed permanently now—a sad reflec-
tion on the citizens of Bellefonte. There
is no christian institution in the town that
has done the work or filled the sphere of
the Y. M. C. A. and that it should be left
to die the death of unsupport is a serious
reflection on Bellefonte; especially at ‘a
time when she is hopeful under a spirited
business revival and stands in a growing
need of just such a retreat for men as the
Y. M. C. A. rooms have been.
The trouble has not been that those in-
terested have refused to support the work,
for if a statement of what a few contribute,
annually, were to be published it would be
a surprise to some of the people who give
nothing and find fault continually. The
supporters of the Y. M. C. A. have been
few, but they have given freely at all times.
The trouble has been, however, that too
few people have contributed. Those
who have been regular in their support will
continue gladly, but they can’t keep it go-
ing without the co-operation of others.
If the Y. M. C. A. of Bellefonte is to be
closed the consequence must be borne by
those who are able, who have declined to
support it. It has demonstrated its useful-
ness time and again; it has been the direct
agency through which a number of young
men have been reached and brought to a
Godly life and a position of esteem in the
community; its rooms and furniture have
been a convenience for every church in
towr ; and now its property is to be sold
and the doors closed, because those who
have benefited through it withhold their
support.
The property is too valuable to be sacri-
ficed for the few claims that are against it
and something should be done to save it,
even if the Association work is to be aban-
doned for the present.
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BANQUETED His OLD EMPLOYEES.—As
delightful a social event as has transpired
in Bellefonte for years was the banquet
which James Harris gave his old employees,
at Ceader’s, on Wednesday evening. It
was as a testimonial of the esteem in which
he held them all and a manifestation of his
good will, as he retired from his long con-
nection with the big hardware house.
The menu was very elaborate and when
the various courses had been served and
the fifteen banqueters pushed back their
chairs to listen to the toasts Mr. Harris
proposed there was a delightful climax to
a most enjoyable evening. John C. Miller
and Gowan Thomas made the oratorical
hits; the latter coming very near to ~end-
ing the entire party home in convulsions.
Few men have attained the position of
esteem in their communities that Jas. Har-
ris enjoys. He has been honest in business
and charitable in his relations with men.
He started in the hardware business in
1865, in the Brockerhoff house block, the
firm then being J. & J. Harris, and con-;
tinued the work of building up until the
very day of his retirement, when he left
the largest hardware establishment in Cen-
tral Pennsylvania to younger members of
the firm and withdrew to spend the rest of
his days free from the incessant cares of
business.
New Purely Persona.
—Mrs. William McClelland and her baby -daugh-
ter, are in Bellwood, visiting Miss Mary Shrom.
—Mrs. Louise T. Bush returned Tuesday from
Philadelphia, where she had accompanied Mrs,
Cameron Burnside on Saturday.
—Mrs. Isaac Thomas and her son Isaac left for
Philadelphia and New York, on Tuesday morn-
ing, to visit among friends in those cities.
—Leonard Rhone, of Centre Hall, was a Belle-
fonte visitor on Tuesday. He was over to attend
the annual meeting of the Grange fire insurance
company.
—Mrs. Wister Morris and her family returned
to Overbrook on Tuesday. They had been here
and had their Bellefonte home open for a week
during the Holidays.
—Mrs. J. L. Spangler was an arrival from Phila-
delphia, on Monday morning, having come up to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Annie Van Pelt, Col.
Spangler’s only sister.
—Mrs. James Schofield, of Thomas street, and
Mrs. Clayton Brown, of Bishop street, went down
to Philadelphia, last Thursday, to spend several
weeks with friends in that city.
—Fine looking, intelligent, public spirited
Jacob Dunkle, of Hublersburg, was in town the
I'hursday before Christmas attending the meet-
ing of the county school directors.
—James Furst, son of Hon. A. 0. Furst, of
Linn street, spent the Holidays visiting friends
in Lebanon. Miss Jane Furst is away on a
month’s visit to Harrisburg and Philadelphia
friends.
—Mrs. Samuel Green, with her little son George
from Los Angeles, California, is in this county
visiting the Green’s at Briarly and W. E. Gray's,
in this place. Miss Green is a sister-in-law of
Mrs. Gray.
—Miss Fortney, a daughter of James Fortney,
of Pine Grove Mills, was in town attending in-
stitute. She has quite a local reputation as a
vocalist and has been considered quite an attrac-
tion at singing schools in Nittany valley.
—Sam Wallack and MR. Ad Hess were in Belle-
fonte on Wednesday, which is really all there is
to say, unless we go into details and tell you that
MR. Hess is the big gun of the Freeman hat es-
tablishment in New York and Wallack is the man
behind the gun.
—George Bayard, of Tyrone, spent New Year's
day at his home in this place and helped out his
fellow Logans with their big parade that night.
He is getting along nicely in Tyrone and expects
to be given complete charge of the Pritchard
drug store in that place before long.
—Mrs. W. H. McCausland and Miss Kate Swit-
zer left Philipsburg, Friday evening, to go to Ma-
tanzas, Cuba, for a three month's visit with Mrs.
AY Casanova, the former's daughter. As has
already been announced in this paper Mr. Casa-
nova is collector of the customs at that port.
—Hon. W. K. Alexander, of Millheim, was in
town on Tuesday to attend to some business, part
of which was to investigate the working of our
new shirt factory. Millheim has raised enough
money to start such a plant, but the promoters
have not fully made up their minds that they
want it.
—“Billy” Cassidy returned to his home in Can-
ton, Ohio, Monday morning, after spending the
Holidays with Mrs. Cassidy, who is here visiting
her father and sisters and brothers, the Ander
sons, of east Bishop street. He would like to be
located in Bellefonte again and we would not be
surprised to see him back here most any time.
—Several dinner and family parties have been
given this week in honor of Mrs. Katherine
Humes who leaves Monday. for Passadena, Cal.,
where she expects to spend a year with her
daughter Mrs. Roberts, Her grandson, Dr.
Humes Roberts, who has been east since August
studying in Philadelphia, will accompany her
west,
—Col. A. J. Graham, of Philipsburg, and How-
ard Holzworth, of Unionville, were seen arm in
arm, on our streets the Thursday before Christ-
mas. The former was looking for Col. Watter-
son, the famous Kentuckian, doubtless to tell
him that there is a Colonel up in Philipsburg
who has stuck to Democracy more faithfully
than the noted journalist of the South.
—Edward Gainfort, who is employed in the P.
R. R. offices in Pittsburg, was here last week
spending a few days with his uncle and aunt; Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Gainfort, of north Spring street.
He is a very promising young man and holds an
important position with the railroad company.
He was on his way to Philadelphia to attend a
Christian conference holding in that city.
—J. W. Kepler, of Pine Grove Mills, was in
town between trains on Wednesday. While here
he dropped into the register’s office to see how
the new official from up their way is starting off.
Will has lately purchased alot of mountain land
lying to the south of their farm and expects to
put in most of the winter taking out paper wood
for the Tyrone mills. His father, Jacob Kepler
Esq., is in Hot Springs, Ark., where he has been
spending his winters for mauy years.
—Among the many Bellefonters who are either
engaged in business in other places or are attend-
ing schools away from home, who were here for
the Holidays, were : Allen Rumberger, who came
up from Philadelphia to spend afew days with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rumberger, of
east Bishop street: Fred Blair, who had a few
days off from his work in the Westinghouse shops
in Pittsburg: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas King Morris,
who returned from their wedding tour Christmas
morning and after taking dinner with the family
of P. Gray Meek left for their future home in Ty-
rone : Jack and Mrs. Furst, who came up from
Williamsport to spend the day with the former's
parents on Linn street : William 8. Furst, Esq,,
who is making money fast in Philadelphia prac-
tice: Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Rumberger, bride and
groom, of DuBois, who were here on their wed-
ding trip to visit at the former's home : Guy Har-
ris, of Pittsburg, and his brother Joseph, of Ft.
Wayne, Ind., who has lately been raised to the
position of assistant master of motive power on
that division of the Pennsy’s lines: James Lane
and Jos. D. Mitchell, of Lewistown, both of whom
are employed in the iron iudustries about that
place : Mr. and Mrs. John Porter Lyon, of Ty-
rone, who drove down to spend Christmas at the
Mitchell home: “Dr.” Ed. Harris, who dropped
his medical books at Hahnneman,in Philadelphia,
to come up to greet his parents and brother A.
Scott Harris, who had just arrived from Gem,
Idaho, to remain here as manager of the Belle-
fonte Lime Co’s., plant at Salona: S. Cameron
Esq.,, and Mrs. Burnside, of Philadelphia, who
were at Howard visiting Mrs. Lauth, Mrs. Burn-
side’s mother, who went down to the city with her
daughter last Saturday: Joseph R. Mufily Esq.,
of Philadelphia, who was here to spend a week
with his daughters, Mrs. Joseph L. Montgomery,
and Miss Lillian, who was here from Notre Dame
College, Baltimore, her vacation: Prof. H.
M. Stephens, of Dickinson College, Carlisle, and
Mr. and Mrs. W, C. Stevens, with their two child-
ren from Clearfield, were the Christmas guests of
Dr. and Mrs. W, A. Stephens, on Linn street:
Charles Stover, who has bee n railroading at Pitts-
burg for some time, was home to spend a few
days: Noah Cronemiller came up from his pres-
ent home to shake hands with some of the many
friends he made during his long connection with
the Jared Harper grocery in this place: Claude
Dawson, the once devilish devil of the Warcnman
office, was back to show his Bellefonte friends
what a man he has grown to be and how it is that
he has gained such a fineposition in the Reading
railroad offices in Philapelphia : Lawrence Hoov-
er was home from his work in the Baldwin loco-
motive works in Philadelphia to spend Christmas
with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Hoover, of east Curtin street.
—Mr. and Mrs Thomas King Morris arrived
home Christmas morning from their delightfu
wedding journey of twelve thousand miles. They
went west by the way of the Canadian Pacific to
Vancouver thence to Seattle, Portland and San
seeing and visiting. From there they went south
to Los Angeles, Passadena, San Diego and the
Cataline Islands and home by the way of El Paso»
San Antonio, New Orleans, and Washington.
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Her CrLoTHES ToOK FIRE AND SHE
BURNED TO DEATH.--A horrible burning
catastrophe occurred at the home of John
Yeager, at Romola, last Thursday evening,
by which Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas lost her
life. It was a most shocking fatality, as
the victim was an old woman and none
were near to stop the hungry flames that
danced gleefully over her until life was al-
most burned out.
She was about 70 years old and bad been
making her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Yeager, at Romola. She was getting sup-
per Thursday evening about five o’clock,
when ber clothes caught fire from the stove
and before she realized her plight she was
almost completely enveloped. The only
. other persons in the house were the two
small Yeager children, who were helpless
with fright at their grandma’s burning
clothes and cries for help. Totally unable
to stop the flames the old lady ran out into
the yard and cried for help, but in vain.
Every particle of clothing was burned from
her body except her shoes.
She was in such a condition when help
did arrive as to be utterly beyond relief
and after suffering excruciating pain until
the next morning she died.
She was the widow of Samuel Lucas,
who was killed in the civil war, and is
survived by her daughter, Mrs. Yeager,
and one son, Samuel. Interment was made
at Marsh Creek on Monday afternoon.
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THE SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT COMMITTEE
MEETS.—On Wednesday of last week the
first meeting of the committee on the Cen-
tre county monument proposition was held
in this place, with the following members
present : :
Judge Jas. A. Beaver, S. H. Williams,
D. F. Fortney, Bellefonte; Dr. Theo.
Christ, State College ; Frank T. Wallace,
Col. Austin Curtin, Boggs Twp. ; Capt.
Wm. H. Fry, Ferguson Twp. ; Vinton
Beckwith, Taylor Twp. ; Prof. W. A.
Krise, Centre Hall Boro. ; Matthew Riddle,
Pleasant Gap; A. S. Williams, substitute
for Huston.
The progress of the movement up to that
time was discussed and found to be very
satisfactory. Those who were present ex-
pressed great gratification at the recent
action of the Centre county public school
directors and teachers in having set aside
one day in the year as a Memorial day on
which fitting exercises will be held and
contributions to the fund received.
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A FoUR THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE AT
EAGLEVILLE.—The rink, more commonly
known as Kunes’ hall, at Eagleville,
caught fire last Thursday night and was
totally destroyed by fire. The flames
spread to the adjoining houses of Mrs. A.
E. Graham and William Bittner, which
were also burned. The houses were occu-
pied by Daniel Glossner and Mrs. John
Bechtol. Most of their household goods
were saved.
As there was a dance in the hall that
night the fire is supposed to have been
caused by an over-heated stove pipe. The
property that was destroyed was valued
between $3,000 and $4,000 which is par-
tially covered by jnsurance.
Announcement.
We are authorized to announce that D. W. Eber-
hart will be a candidate for Poor Overseer, sub-
ject to the action of the Democratic borough con-
ference.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red ...
“ —No. «
Corn —Yellow
¢“ —Mixed.
Oats...
Flour: y
¢ —Penna. Roller....
*¢ —Favorite Brands.
Rye Flour Per Brll....................
Baled hay—Choice Timothy No.
‘“ ‘“ ‘“ Mixed ‘“ 1
T0@71
13@14.50
. 7.00@14.50
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the Pranix Minune Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
Tess :
Hed whed, fy
ye, per bushel........
Corn, shelled, per bushel..
Corn, ears, per bushel...
Oats, per bushel, new .
Barley, per bushel......
Ground oli er on.
Buckwheat, per bushel.
Cloverseed, per bushel...
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel 40
Onions, eserves sever 50
Lggs, per dozen. 29
iy pe ound.... 7
Country Shoulders. 6
Sides... 6
Hams.. 10
Tallow, per pound.. 3
Butter, per pound. resisesrarin 22
The Democratic Watchman.
Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte,
Pa., at $1.50 per annum (if paid strictly in advance)
$2.00, when not paid in pli 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-
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Two inches 10
Three inches.... . 10 {16 | 20
Quarter Column (5 12 | 20 | 30
alf Column (10 inches) 20 | 85 | bb
One Column (20 inches). 35 | 65 | 100
Advertisements in special column 25 per cent.
additional. Ta :
Transient advs. per line, 3 insertions........... 20 cts.
Each additional insertion, per line...
Local notices, per line..........
Business notices, per line .
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 MEEK, Proprieto
Francisco where they spent some time sight’
ing by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows: