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Bellefonte, Pa., Aprii 27, 1900.
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he writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
Improvements are being made to the
exterior of E. L. Orvis’ house on east Linn
street.
——The first thunder storm of the season
passed over here about 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon.
——Dr. Geo. A. Fairlamb is quite ill
with gout and is confined to his rooms in
the Bush house.
——The Pennsylvania College base ball
club from Gettysburg will play at State
College to-morrow afternoon.
The Brachbhill residence on south
Spring street is being improved by the
building of a new front porch.
——William Gross, a Houserville pen-
sioner, has been granted an increase of $4
per menth. In the future he will get $12.
——The Bellefonte Academy base ball
team will go to Lock Haven tomorrow to
play the Normal school team in that place.
——Yesterday Centre lodge No. 153, I.
0. O. I. with the Zion band to head them,
attended the district meeting of the order
at Renovo. :
——William A. Roush, of Howard, has
been granted an increase of pension. He
was getting $10 per month. In the future
he will get $12.
——Hon. A. O. Furst, of this place, was
one of the attorneys for Tyrone borough in
the recent litigation with the Gas and Wa-
ter Co. of that place.
——The announcement of the wedding
bans of Ferdinand Beezer and Miss Grace
Beaderman was made in St. John’s Cath-
olic church on Sunday.
——E. T. Tuten, of this place, has heen
drawn as a juror to the United States ecir-
cuit court to sit in Pittsburg during the
week of May 14th.
——J. Harris Hoy entertained a driving
party with a dinner at Rockview Wed-
nesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. E.
Borches were the gnests of honor.
——DMiss Anva Belle Gray, of Washing-
ton, D. C., the reciter and dramatic read-
er, will give an entertainment bere next
Monday evening, April 30th, for the bene-
fit of the W. C. T. U.
—— Will Larimer and George Beezer re-
turned from Illinois on Saturday with four-
teen fine diiving horses. Beezer and Lari-
mer each bought some for their liveries
and there are some beauties in the lot.
——Charley Heisler and John Trafford
were fishing on the upper end of Fishing
creek on Tuesday and came home with
two baskets clear full of trout. The former
had 32 nice ones and the latter 26. They
ranged in size from 14 down to 8 inches.
The rains of the past few days were
God sends, indeed, for they not only
started vegetation along nicely but filled
up many cisterns in the country districts
that had gone dry. A number of farmers
right near Bellefonte had already begun
hauling water.
——Rev. Thomas Levan Bickle, of the
Reformed church, has been clected by the
Senior class of the Bellefonte High school
to preach their baccalaureate sermon. It
will be delivered in the Reformed church
Sunday evening, June 3rd, the graduation
exercises following on the 7th. The class
this year numbers 14.
——The Penna. Match Co. will begin at
once the erection of a brick warehouse,
which is to be completed as soon as pos-
sible. The new building will occupy a
site adjacent to the big factory and will be
located so as to be accessible to a 200 ft.
railroad siding that is to be run into it.
The contract for the brick work has not
been let.
——Next Monday, April 30th, Juno. M.
Shugert, John Olewine, F. W. McElroy,
John M. Dale Esq., and Charles B. Leader
will make application to the Governor of
the Commonwealth for a charter for a cor-
poration to be known as “The Centre Coun-
ty Agricultural Exhibiting Co.” While
this step does not necessarily mean a coun-
ty fair at once yet it can be regarded as a
very hopeful sign of the trend of affairs in
that direction.
Edward Swiler and Homer Ryan, iron
budgers at the Bellefonte Furnace, got into
an altercation out there about four o'clock
Sunday afternoon, when Ryan hit Swiler
on the head with a nipping rod. The blow
almost killed Edward. He was uncon-
scious for quite a while and a gash several
inches in length near his temple had to be
sewed up. Ed has been unable to return
to work as yet, and as he isa member of
the furnace relief association a nice ques-
tion will undoubtedly arise as to whether
he will be entitled to benefits, under the
circumstances.
——While working on a plank scaffold
that was supported by two ladders, paint-
ing the United Brethren church at the cor-
ner of High and Tho as streets, last Fri-
day morning, Wm. Cramer and Frank
Deitrich fell 22 ft to the ground. A round
in one of the ladders broke, leaving the
plank fall and the men with it. Though
Deitrich is a very heavy man he was very
little hurt, further than the bruises he sus-
tained, but Cramer was quite seriously in-
jured. No bones were broken but he was
so badly shocked as to be unfit for work for
some time. The men were in the employ
of Eckenroth & Montgomery.
SPRING WEDDINGS.—An auspicious but
quiet wedding will be celebrated on Mon-
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Baum,
on Bishop street, when their daughter,
Lena, is to be united in marriage to Mr.
Morris Monish, of New York city. Rabbi
Kline, of Altoona, will officiate at the cere-
mony which will take place at twelve
o'clock. The wedding is to be a quiet,
family affair with very few guests and no
attendants except Mr. Eugene Newmeyer,
of New York, as best man. A breakfast
will be served immediately after the cere-
mony and the young people will leave dur-
ing the afternoon for New York, where Mr.
Monish has his headqnarters as a traveling
salesman.
Miss Lena, who is exceedingly pretty and
vivacious, at all times, will wear a beauti-
ful gown of gray chepe de chene and duch-
ess lace and will carry a bible bound in
white instead of the regulation bouquet.
She has been teaching since she graduated
several years ago and will carry with her
to her new home the kindest wishes of
many friends.
This will be the second wedding in the
Baum family inside of a week as Miss Fan-
nie, an older daughter, was married on
Tuesday at Evansville, Ind., to Mr. Joseph
Metz, of Trenton, Ky. Miss Fannie went
west with her sister last fall and would
have come home to have been married at
the same time as her sister, lena, but it
did not suit Mr. Metz to come east just at
this time and then the old superstition
about double weddings determined the
prospective brides to select different dates
for their days.
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AN EARLY MORNING WEDDING.—The
marriage of Miss Christina Ceaders and Mr.
William J. Howley was solemnized in St.
John’s Catholic church, yesterday morning
at seven thirty o'clock, by the Rev. Father
McArdle. There were no invitations sent
out but quite a number of their friends
were present to witness the ceremony.
The bridal party consisted of the bride
and her maid of honor, Miss Annie Me-
Laughlin, and the groom and his best man,
Mr. John Pearl. The bride wore her going
away gown of light tan venitian cloth trim-
med with stitched bands of white and a
hat to match while Miss McLaughlin was
dressed ina blue tailor made suit. After
the ceremony an elaborate wedding break-
fast was given for the bridal party at the
beautiful new home of the bride’s brother,
Joseph Ceader, on Allegheny street, and
from thence they departed on the 9:42 train
for Tyrone and Pittsburg for a short wed-
ding journey.
The bride is one of our most excellent
and capable young women, and Mr. How-
ley is indeed to be congratulated. She has
made ber home with her brother, here, for
many years and she is deserving only of
happiness and good fortune. The groom is
the oldest son of John Howley and is well
known here and throughout the county
through his connection with the McKee
hardware store. He is now employed at
the match factory as a book keeper and is
quite popular among the young men of the
town who wish him well and prosperity.
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——Mr. John Morrison and Miss Edna
Campbell were married by the Rev. Dr.
Laurie, of the Presbyterian church, at his
home last evening at 8 o'clock. Alexan-
der Morrison, a brother of the groom, and
Miss Campbell, the bride’s sister, were the
only attendants, as the wedding was a
very simple and unpretentious one, though
none the less happy. After the ceremony
a wedding supper was served at the home
of the groom on Howard street, after
which an informal reception was held.
Later in the evening the groom’s fellow
Logans called on the couple and things
were lively on Howard street for awhile.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have the hearty
congratulations of hosts of friends and the
WATCHMAN hopes that their married life
will be as bright as the day of their wed-
ding.
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Miss Clara Meiss, daughter of Geo.
Meiss, of this place, was married on Tues-
day evening in St. John’s church, Johns-
town, to Thomas Keenan Jr., of Hollidays-
burg. The ceremony was performed by
the pastor, Rev. Father John Boyle and
the young people will make their home in
Johnstown where the groom is engaged in
business as a contractor.
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-—— Miss Maud DeHaas, formerly of
Howard, this county, was married in Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday of last week, to Mr.
Joseph I'. McDade. There were one hun-
dred and eighty-six guests to witness the
ceremony which is reported to have been a
very pretty atter Lent nuptial event.
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——According to the announcement pub-
lished last week representatives from Ty-
rone, Altoona, Clearfield and Philipsburg,
met in the former place, last Thursday
evening, to talk over the organization of a
base ball league. The officers of the league
were elected as follows : President, A. S.
Garman; secretary and treasurer, Frank
Vaughn, of Altoona. It was decided to
try and interest Bellefonte and Huntingdon
in the league. We don’t know about Hunt-
ingdon, but we imagine it will be rather
hard to draw Bellefonte ixto such an or-
ganization. Past experience in the Mount-
ain and River leagues has been such as
make it a very difficult matter to interest
Bellefonters.
——The new service for worship intro-
duced at the Bellefonte Methodist church
by Rev. W. P. Shriner is proving highly
attractive and forms quite an effective set-
ting for the inspiring sermons the new pas-
tor is delivering. The service is the one
adopted by the general conference in 1896,
but it had never been introduced here.
——DMr. James Cook entertained Mr. and
Mrs. Jos. E. Borches, of Knoxviile, Tenn.,
at dinner at his home on west Linn street
last evening.
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——Mrs. Hannah Jones, widow of William
Jones, of this place, has been granted a
pension of $3 per month, with nearly $300
back pay.
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——Hugh Weirich, a farmer near
Mackeyville, lost a very valuable horse on
Friday morning. It died with distemper,
which is epidemic among the horses in the
lower end of Nittany valley.
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——The woodshed and blacksmith shop
owned by Henry L. Beck, near Loganton,
were burned Monday afternoon. They
caught from a fire under a kettle and the
dwelling was saved with great difficulty.
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Readers of the WATCHMAN who
contemplate taking advantage of the 63rd
anniversary of Messrs. Montgomery & Co.,
will need bear in mind that it will close
on Monday next. Up to that time 20 per
cent. can be saved on all purchases made
of that firm, but this offer will be abso-
lutely withdrawn on the evening of the
30th. It’s a great opportunity, don’t miss
it.
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——-The John Heckman saw mill, near
Mackeyville, was totally destroyed by fire
last Friday morning. The mill had been
running for sixteen years and, as Mr. Heck-
man had been improving it from time to
time, was quite a complete plant. The
loss is estimated at $3,000. There was no
insurance. The origin of the fire is a mys-
tery, as everything was right when the
men left the mill the evening before.
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——The Junior Auxiliary of St. John’s
Episcopal church cordially invite the pub-
lic to a sale of useful household articles
they will conduct in the Sunday school
room of the church on Saturday afternoon,
April 28th, beginning at 3 o’clock. All of
the articles to be sold are being made by
the members of the Auxiliary and are
artistic as well as handy little necessities
for every day use in the home. There will
also be a candy booth.
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——The lightning tore things up over
about Philipsburg on Sunday afternoon
and evening. Three cows that were grazing
in a field near the Beech Creek station
were struck and killed. It is reported
that they had their heads between the
strands of a wire fence and that the light-
ning hit the fence and was conducted
along it to the cows. Enoch Hartshorn’s
house, at Keystone Hill, was struck, sev-
eral windows were broken and part of the
roof torn off.
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-——DLast Friday morning J. M. Bun-
nell’s delivery team started to run away in
Philipsburg and Dan Gardner, the driver,
jumped out, leaving Herbert Kline a twelve
year old boy on the wagon alone. As the
team dashed around a street corner the lad
was thrown out with such force as to fly
clear across a pavement and strike with his
face against a picket fence. One of the
pickets just missed his eye but struck his
nose and ripped the flesh open to the skull,
from his nose clear to the roots of his hair.
It required eleven stitches to close up the
wound.
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——The fifth murder that has occcurred
at Spruce Creek, where new work on the
Pennsylvania railroad is being done, was
committed Tuesday afternoon, and, as be-
fore, the murderer escaped. During a dis-
pute between Thomas Taylor and Samuel
Gilchrist, both colored, the former drew a
38-calibre revoiver and shot Gilchrist in
the abdomen. The latter after he had
fallen, fired three shots at the fleeing Tay-
lor. one of which, it is believed, took effect
as Taylor was seen to sink to the earth in
his flight up the monntain. Gilchrist died
in half an hour. Police went at ouce in
pursuit of Taylor, but no trace of him bas
been found.
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——On Monday evening Miss Anna Bell
Gray, of Washington, D. C., who has the
reputation of being the most beautiful
young woman working in the elocutionary
field, as well as a clever dramatist, will be
here to give one of her entertainments. It
will be given under the auspices of the
W. C. T. U. and will be for the benefit of
the Petriken hall fund. Aside from the
fact that Miss Gray’s reputation as an artist
is such as to make your money well spent
in hearing her the benefit issuch a laudable
one and the object it aims to procure so
dear to every Bellefonte heart that W. C.
T. U. hall should be crowded to overflow-
ing next Monday evening. The admission
will be only 25cts.
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THE VICTIM OF A CIRCULAR SAW.—
William Garis met with quite a serious
and what narrowly escaped being a fatal
accident at the Pennsylvania Match Co's.
works on Saturday morning.
Ever since the works were started he
has been employed there and lately was
working in the saw mill department where
the billets of wood are sawed up into
blocks for match sizes. He was off hear-
ing and had on a pair of extremely heavy
woolen cloth mittens, presumably to keep
the pitch off his hands. In some way the
mitten on his right hand caught in the
saw and, like lightning, the big man was
drawn up and hurled clear over the saw, to
the other side of the mill.
It was seen at once that he was badly
hurt and when his fellow workmen ran to
his assistance they found that his right
hand was terribly mutilated. The little
finger and the one next to it were sawed
off clean at the hand, and the thumb was
only hanging by a shred of flesh.
He was taken to his home on South
Potter street, where Dr. Hayes cut off the
thumb and dressed the wounds. Garis
was not hurt otherwise, though it is plain
that had the force of the saw not been
great to throw the large man clear over it
he would have been drawn across it and
his body sawed in two.
‘per week.
THE FIRST CONCERT OF THE CHORAL
SocIETY.—There has never been a more
fashionable audience at Garman’s than was
the one attracted Monday evening by the
first concert of the Ladies’ Choral Society
of Bellefonte. It had been looked forward
to for some time and the personnel of the
Society had a tendency to make the con-
cert almost as much of a society event as it
was interesting from an artistic standpoint.
The preparatory work had been under
the direction of Miss Mary Bradley, or-
ganist at St. John’s Episcopal church, and
Miss Winifred Mayze Newbaker, organist
at the Presbyterian church, so that with
such capable instructors it was not to be
expected that the concert would be any-
thing but a success, but it was brilliant,
even beyond expectation.
The principal number on the program
was the cantata, ‘‘The Lady of Shalott,”’
but before it began there was a varied
number of selections presented. ‘fhe first
real pleasing work of the chorus was done
in the rendition of ‘‘Dragon Flies’? by
Bargiel. It was very light, yet difficult
enough to show that Miss Bradley had her
singers perfectly trained. Miss Harriette
Rockafeller Woods, of Danville, was the
principal soloist and her singing of the
“Chant Amour’ was so artistic as to re-
ceive a most enthusiastic recall. Miss
Wood's voice is exceptionally flexible and
true and she sings with a dash that is in-
deed captivating. It had been several
years since Mrs. George Passmore Bible nee
Sarah Bradley, had been heard in Belle-
fonte, but her singing of Hanscom’s
“‘Lullaby?’, with violin obligato, was such
as to convince all that none of the charms
of her rich contralto voice have been lost.
She was compelled to respond to two re-
calls.
The choral numbered twenty-seven
voices and the ‘‘Lady of Shalott’’ contri-
buted Part IT of the program. When Miss
Bradley took the director’s stand she was
given quite an ovation and the appearance
of Miss Newhaker as accompanist was the
signal for another outburst of applause.
There was every evidence that both women
had worked hard and the audience was not
chary with its marks of appreciation. As
the cantata progressed it seemed to become
more beautiful. The Society sang as if
with one voice that seemed to take its every
shade from the movement of the director’s
baton. It remained for the 4th and last
part to produce the most pleasing numbers
of the evening. The chorus, with solos
and soprano obligato, was simply superb
and concluded the entertainment in a suc-
that was as complete as it was harmonious. |
The Chappell orchestra from Williams-
port accompanied the singers and, though
it had had but one rehearsal, the work was
most satisfactory. Especially in the diffi-
cult solos of the cantata were the musicians
admirable in their interpretation of the
score.
The gross receipts were nearly $200, which
will net quite a snug sum for the monu-
ment fand.
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THE SHIRT FACTORY WILL RESUME
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.—The Belle-
fonte shirt factory will not be moved, but
by next week will be in full blast again,
with the management in the hands of two
very reliable gentlemen of this place.
On Saturday Messrs S. D. Ray and L. A.
Schaeffer purchased the machines of E. G.
Witters and will continue to operate them.
The change was quite a surprise in business
circles here, for while Mr. Ray had been
earnestly interested in the effort to estab-
lish the factory on a firm basis no one
thought that his interest would go far
enough to engage in the business actively
himself.
Mr. Witters will remaiii here for a week
or more to instruct the new owners in the
working of the machines, keeping the ac-
counts and shipping goods and an experi-
enced fore-lady from Lancaster will have
charge of the factory. Already many of
the old girls have applied for their positions
again and an effort will be made to increase
to the full capacity of fifty machines. It
might be well to state in this connection
that during the short time the factory was
in operation here several of the girls had
acquired skill to make $5 a week, notably
Miss Erma Smith, and all of them found
the work pleasant. :
Mr. Ray has written to a number of fac-
tories in Pennsylvania with the result that
he finds that Mr. Witters was paying his
girls on a higher scale than any factory in
Pennsylvania except the one at Pottsville.
The Lebanon factory has been in operation
for 3 years and the girls earn from $3 to $7
At Manheim they earn from $5
to $7.50 in a factory that has been running
only a year. At Shamokin the average
rnus from $5 to $8 per week, while at Bed-
ford it is from $3.50 to $6.
These figures are published merely to
show the possibilities of employees in shirt
making. It might also be added that it is
the intention of the new management to
employ none but girls of the best character
so that the moral tone of the factory can be
kept up to a high standard.
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—— Bellefonters will be pleased to learn
that F. M. Crawford the well known young
Centre Hall merchant who was a member
of the late firm of Wolf & Crawford, of
that place, contemplates moving here to
make his future home. He has accepted a
position in the wholesale department of
the Potter & Hoy establishment. Mr.
Crawford was a former burgess of Centre
Hall and the people of that place reposed
great confidence in him, both as a business
man and a citizen. We are glad that he is
coming to Bellefonte, for such acquisitions
are an honor to the town.
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——R. D. Bierley is erecting a new
house in Rebersburg.
News Purely Personal.
—Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Rishell, of Farmer's Mills,
were among the Saturday shoppers in town.
—Robert Valentine Esq., and his daughter Miss
Emily, of Baltimore, are in town owing to the
illness of Dr. Geo. Fairlamb.
—Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wetzel spent a few days
recently with Mrs. Wetzel’s sister, Mrs. C. U.
Hoffer, in Philipsburg.
—William Eckley, formerly of this place who is
making his home in Philadelphia now, is here on
a visit to his friends in this section.
—Edgar T. Burnside, of the Standard Scale Co.,
returned from a ten days business trip to north-
ern New York cities on Saturday afternoon.
—Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mitchell, with their sons
J. Thomas and Malcolm, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. John Porter Lyon, at Penna Furnace.
—Merty Cunningham, of New York, is here for
a few days at his old home, while convalescent
from his recent serious attack of typhoid pneu-
monia,
—Mr. and Mrs. G. Murray Andrews, of Philadel-
phia, have arrived in town and opened their
home at the corner of Howard and Allegheny
streets, for the summer.
—C. M. Parrish, the druggist in the Eagle block,
spent Sunday at his old home in Ebensburg.
While he was away Dave McMutrie, of Altoona,
reigned in the dispensary here.
—Miss Hibbs, of Philadelphia, is a guestat the
home ot Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Richard, on east Linn
street. It will be remembered that during her
visit in Bellefonte last spring she became serious-
ly ill with typhoid fever.
—dJohn H. Meyer, principal of the Bellefonte
High school, went over to Alexandria, Hunting-
don county, last Friday, to attend the com-
mencement exercises of the High school there
of which he was formerly principal.
—W. J. Kepler, who makes no bones about
wanting to go to the Legislature and who is
hustling about as hard as anyone could do for
the office, quit Bellefonte when court adjourned
to carry his canvass into Snow Shoe and Burnside
townships.
—A. A. Pletcher, of Nittany, was in town on
Saturday getting used to the lazy life he expects
to lead for a few months, now that he is out of a
job any more exacting than the sundry improve"
ments he expects to make about his cosy home
place at Nittany during the summer.
—Prof. and Mrs. Geo. P. Bible, with their three
children, from East Stroudsburg, were in town
for a few days recently visiting Mrs. Bible's pa-
rents, the Bradleys, of north Spring street. While
here she assisted her sister, Miss Mary, in the
successful rendition of the cantata “The Maid
of Shalott.”
—Hon. Leonard Rhone, of Centre Hall, spent a
few hours in town on Wednesday. Mr. Rhone
stated that the recent rains have had quite a
beneficial effect on the grain over in the valley
and that while the coming crop won’t be a good
one, yet indications are for a far betfer one than
last year.
'—Among the Bellefonte business men who had
to leave for their work in distant parts on Sunday
was Thos. A. Shoemaker who has just closed
another big railroad contract in which there is
40,000 yards of fine masonry alone and Herbert
Sheffer who was hurrying away to begin his week
on the road for the Fairbanks Scale Co.
—C. M. Sellers, of Fillmore, whom most of the
people up the Run would know better by ‘Mae,”
was in town on Tuesday; having come down to
the mill with a grist. He hasn’t been in town
much lately but is still not guilty of the terrible
absenteeism to which Green Gray plead guilty the
other day when he was down. He actually ad-
mitted that he hadn’t been in town since last
August.
—Lewis Orndorf, of Woodward, a son of the
wealthy farmer John Orndorf of that place, was
in town on Saturday on a little business and
pleasure mission. While here Mr. Orndorf made
some of the local fishermen’s eyes hang out by
the story of his big trout catch down there on the
opening of the season. He got one hundred and
thirty-seven, many of them being between eight
and nine inches long.
—John Gingerich Esq., was down from Martha
Furnace on Monday and was really quite a
stranger in town. He doesn’t leave home much
any more leaving most of the traveling for his son
Dave, who is so well known here, to do. Mr.
Gingerich reports that the grain and grass in
Upper Bald Eagle looks very encouraging where
it had protection against winter winds, but in
exposed fields he said it was ragged looking.
—W. W. Neese, than whom there is no nicer
man or better farmer in Gregg township, spent
the fore-part of the week in town serving his
country as a juror and while here he ordered the
Warcuman sent to his son, W. A Neese, who is
living up at Penn Hall now and while the young
man couldn’t take the dear old home with him
the father has done the best he could for him by
sending him one of the visitors that has gone
there regularly for years.
—*‘Pocohontas” John Smith, the Gregg town-
ship Democrat and big furniture dealer of Spring
Mills, was in town on Monday, fully recovered
from the effects of his recent trip to Harrisburg
as a delegate to the State Convention. John has
such an uncommon name—you know there are so
few Smiths in the country—that he always tells
the story of the Indian maiden and Cap't. John
Smith so as to impress his cognomen on those
whom he meets. It is needless to say that one
never forgets John when once his acquaintance
has been made.
—Among the jurors in town during the fore-
part of the week was W. H. Limbert, of Rebers-
burg, the well known young school teacher down
there. Like every other good citizen he depre-
cated the number of nasty little eases that are
carried to court for settlement. Mr. Limbert’s
presence here as a juror recalled to his mind the
difference between this and the last time. It
was during the January sessions five years ago
that a great blizzard blockaded the Lewisburg
road so effectually that he get only as far as
Centre Hall on Saturday and had to walk from
there to Rebersburg in time to open his school
on Monday.
—G. W. Forrey, who pretends to have a home
at Clyde, Ohio, but who is shifting about so much
that he is hone most anywhere he hangs up his
hat, dropped in Saturday afternoon with a piece
of money so big that it couldn’t be changed in
all this end of town. Mr. Forrey is the engineer
for the Bellefonte Furnace Co., and has been do-
ing the work for that concern ever since he came
here the first of last May when the C. R. R. of
Pa., viaduct was begun. That was a great piece
of work and the traveler down there to-day would
scarcely imagine that it wasn’t even started at
this time last year. Mr. Forrey says that the
Central soon expects to put in an iron bridge
over the canal at Shoemaker’s thereby doing
away with the last wooden structure on the line.
—Jas. C. Smith, the Millheim hardware dealer
and former Democratic postmaster, was in town
on Monday, and while here we overheard him
telling a friend how easy it had been for him to
miss his train for home several weeks ago. Jim
is one of those good fellows who knows so many
people in town that it keeps him busy seeing them
all when he comes up. Well, he saw about one
too many on Monday, for about the the time we
heard the departing bell ringing for the afternoon
train we saw him doing a ten second clip down
High street to catch it and then waited to take a
little laugh at his expense, for we certainly did ex-
pect to see him come moseying back, with anoth-
er missed train to his credit. He didn’t come,
however, but if ne did catch the train we'll bet he
didn’t catch his breath until he was well nigh
home.
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—Miss Emma Jayne Aikens left for Chicago, on
Tuesday afternoon, to be gene for a visit of sev-
eral months among relatives in and about that
city.
—Phil Fenlon, of Philadelphia, who had not
been here for eight years, was an arrival at the
Bush house Tuesday evening, for a few days’
visit to his brother Harry.
—Mrs. John Hoffman, with her two children,
are here from Williamsport, visiting the Spigel-
myers. Mr. Hoffman came to spend Sunday
with his wife and her parents.
—Mrs. Margaret Wilson and Miss Blanche
Hayes are in New York this week attending the
Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions,
which convened there on last Saturday.
—Harry Schreyer, of Chicago, Ill, was an ar-
rival in town on Tuesday and spent a couple of
days with his relatives here. Harry is looking
well enough to indicate that life in the great west-
ern metropolis is agreeing with him. He is in
the car furnishing business out there and is doing
exceptionally well; a fact. that will be gratifying
news to his many Bellefonte friends.
—John Todd Jr., the ycung coal operator who
they say is getting rich fast, and A. M. Vail, a
son of Orrin’s, were in town during the forepart
of the week, doing duty as jurors— that is when
they could make themselves look indifferent
enough to escape the challenge. On Wednesday
morning they got up about 5 to catch a few trout
for their breakfast, but from the looks of their
basket when they started up High street we
imagine they are still waiting for that meal.
—David Bohn, of Boalsburg, who had been in
town serving asa juror, was a pleasant caller on
Tuesday. He is a gentlemen of whom we haven't
seen much for a number of years, but when he
departed he promised to come in oftener. The
fact is Mr. Bohn doesn’t come to town often, pre-
ferring to stay home and take care of his fine
farm, whieh, report hath it, is worked right up to
the top notch of perfection, Mr. Bohn stated
that his wheat looks fairly good, though one field
is a little spotted.
—Former treasurer John Q. Miles was in town
until Wednesday earning money as a juror, with-
out doing any work, for he was challenged every
time he was called. It was lucky that court ad-
journed on Wednesday, for it permitted him to
get back to Huston township on a morning train.
It was just thirty-seven years preceding that
day that he first set foot on Huston soil. Then a
raw Clearfield county boy he came to Centre to
work for Mr. Richards. John was a Democrat
and that part of Bald Eagle was anything but
pleasant for Democrats in those days, but he
stuck to Mr, Richards andthe Democratic faith
and in addition to his wages he won his em-
ployer’s daughter and that has been his home
ever since.
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The Old Fashion Concert at F. W.
Criders, next Friday night, promises to be
well worth seeing as well as hearing.
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—Thbe engine in the J. H. B. Hartman
& Co. foundary at Millheim got out of re-
pair last Saturday afternoon and business
was so pressing that they couldn’t wait to
have it repaired. They got another one
temporarily.
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——Millheim is to have a knitting fac-
tory. It will be started just as soon as
the machines can be installed. Thirty
will be put in operation at once and the
capacity increased to forty, just as soon as
hands can be procured.
—— me
Jas. H. Corl, of Pleasant Gap, is the
latest acquisition to the clerical force at
the court house. He is helping register
Archey and both by his genial manner ana
scholastic abilities is making himself very
popular and useful in that office.
——Between March 15th and March 31st
the Fiedler skimming station paid to four
farmers in that vicinity these amounts:
Newton Hess, $24.76 ; Seymour Winkle-
bech, $28.04 ; H. O. Fiedler, $17; Adam
Zerby, $21 That is certainly making
cows profitable.
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——DMiss Anna Bell Gray, who will be
the entertainer at the W. C. T. U. rooms
Monday evening, April 30th, for the benefit
of the Petriken ball building fund, is a
graduate and teacher of the Martyn College
of Oratory, Washington, D. C., one of the
largest institutions of the kind in the coun-
try. She possesses rare ability as an elocu-
tionist, impersonator and pantomimist, and
has won the most enthusiastic approval of
critics and the press. Though young she
stands among the first in her profession.
Her frequent appearances in Washington,
before the largest and most representative
audiences, are a sufficient guarantee of her
great popularity and power.
Announcement.
We are authorized to announce J. W. Kepler,
of Ferguson township, as a candidate for the
nomination for Assembly; subject to the decision
of the Democratic county convention. *
We are authorized to announce J. H. Wetzel,
of Bellefonte, as a candidate of the Legislature
subject to the decision of the Democratic county
convention.
We are authorized to announce Robt. M. Foste
as a candidate for Legislature subject to the decis-
ion of the Democratic County Convention.
We are authorized to anvounce John W. Con-
ley, of Potter township, as w candidate for Assem-
bly, subject to the decision of the Democratic
county convention.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red 72@75
¢« —No. 2 695@71%,
Corn —Yellow Hl @46
“Mixed 41@44Y4
Oats........ ssrsseesvee 28@31
Flour— Winter, Per Br'l.. . 2.35@2.50
¢“ —Penna. Roller... . 3.20@3.30
*¢ —Favorite Brands 3.85@4.00
Rye Flour Per Br'l. 3.15@3.40
Baled hay—Choice «us 15.50@ 18.50
hi hod '* «. 15.50@17.00
Straw, 9.00@16.00
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by the Pu@nix MiLuineg Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
ress :
G0 WHERE, oo ovminicissinsninnristnries . 70
Rye, per bushel............. 40
Corn, shelled, per bushel. 46
Corn, ears, per bushel... 46
Oats, per bushel, new . 28
Barley, per bushel............ccounininnnsisnnniinnenn, 40
Ground Plaster, per ton. 8 50 to 9 50
Buckwheat, per bushel .....cocciiiiiiiinniinnnnn, 25
Cloverseed, per bushel..... $4 00 to $6 00,
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel arenes 40
Onions... to
iggs, per }
Lard, per pound. . 7
Country Shoulders . 1
Sides..... 6to7
Hams.... 10
Tallow, per pound. 3
Butter, per pound... 20