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Bellefonte, Pa., May 2 1902.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
$15 Reward.
The Sportmen’s League of Centre Coun-
ty will pay $15.00 reward for information
leading to the arrest and convietion of any
violator of the game and fish laws of this
Commonwealth. This reward is standing
and will be paid in addition to the fees al-
lowed informers under the law. The Lea-
gue is determined to break up illegal fish-
ing and hunting in Centre County.
CT ge on
—— Wade Cruse is laid up at the home
of his mother, on east Linn street.
— The Coleville band concert next
Tuesday night will be worth hearing.
——Philip Waddell, express messenger
on the C. R. R. of Pa., is laid up with ton-
silitis.
——There is some talk of holding the
next encampment of the N. G. P. at Gettys-
burg.
——Tuesday’s showers and Wednesday’s
warm sunshine brought out the leaves and
blossoms.
——DMaster John Kane, the boy soprano,
is to sing at the Coleville band doncert next
Tuesday evening.
——A charter was granted to the Nit-
tany iron company on Monday. The cor-
poration has a capital of $150,000.
—— Harry 8S. Rishel and George Kern,
of Madisonburg, have taken a contract to
put up a store building at Oak Grove.
——Christopher Ellenberger, of Julian,
is to have a pension of $24 per month and
Isaac Armstrong, of Lemont, will get $10.
——The summer concerts will soon be-
gin, but you want to hear the indoor one
next Tuesday night. Go to Petriken hall.
—*“A Wise Woman,’”’ at Garman’s
Mond ay night, proved ‘a very clever come-
dy presented by a decidedly clever com-
pany.
——DMillheim is getting ready to observe
Memorial day. A. Walter is chairman and
P. H. Musser secretary of the citizen's
committee.
——Geo. W. Loner, of Stormstown, has
been granted a pension of $8 per month.
Samuel 8. Simpson, of Jacksonville, has
been given $12.
——Frank Woomer, formerly connected
with the Bellefonte steam laundry, is now
managing a laundry in Jersey Shore.
Clarence Smith has his place here.
——The old heiler works building on
Rail-road street has been torn down and
three neat brick tenements are to be erected
on the site by the owner, Chas. McCafferty.
——A letter from Abel Campbell, of
Austin, Potter county, apprises his Centre
county friends that he isn’t able to do any-
thing more but fish and the ‘‘fishin’?’ is
bad.
— The high wind on Sunday ripped
the tin roof off of McCulley’s livery stable
and blew down a section of the high board
fence at the rear of the Benner lot in the
same alley. ’
——The Philipsburg Bituminous Record
has a new editorial and reportorial force at
the helm and great things are promised.
Here’s hoping that Mr. Platt and his work-
ers will not be disappointed.
—— An exchange remarks that the farm-
ers are very much inconvenienced by the
backwardness of spring. We rise to re-
mark that we are very much inc: nvenienced
by the backwardness of some of our sub-
seribers.
——A line from 8. B. Dennis, at Sher-
man Heights, Tenn., informs his Centre
county friends that he is well and ‘“‘can’t
keep house without the dear old WATCH-
MAN.” May it ever continue a source of
Pleasure to such appreciative readers.
—— William Gares, the ex-Bellefonte
policeman, left for Williamsport on Wed-
nesday, there to enter a hospital for treat-
ment for troubles with which he has been
suffering for along time. His son Charles
bas a home in the Lumber city.
——The Bellefonte Academy base ball
team sent the State Collage Preps so far
‘‘up stage’ on Saturday afternoon that the
College juveniles will scarcely get near
enough the footlights again to be seen in
any base ball play this season. The score
avas 14 to 1.
~——Benjamin Houdeshell, of Curtin’s
“Works, the man whom a Bald Eagle pas-
:senger train couldn’t hurt when it struck
‘him near the Milesburg station several
months ago, fell into the glass panel in the
‘door leading to Anderson's pool room, on
High street, on Monday evening. His left
arm was badly cut, an artery being severed.
He bled very profusely for awhile until
Dr. Kirk arrived and dressed the wound,
after which he was sent to his home at
Roland.
——The Mirror, the annual publication
of the students of the Bellefonte Academy,
will be read during the literary exercises at
the Academy this afternoon. The editors
are Edward Free, John Munson, Ran. Hoy,
John McGee, John Mahaffey. Alex. Cromer,
Margaret Thomas, Eleanor Harris and Jen-
nie Harper. This year’s promises to excel
in humor and breeziness any former edi-
tions of the Mirror. All friends of the
ashool are cordially invited to be present
at the meeting.
Miss ELizABETH CoLLINS. —Mention
was made in last week’s WATCHMAN of
the critical illness of Miss Elizabeth Col-
lins, but she had passed away on Thursday
evening before the paper was off the press.
She had been much of an invalid for sever-
al years and for more than a week it was
known that she could not recover. The
cause of her ill health and, indirectly, her
death was a fall on the ice which she had
had four or five years ago while gesting in-
to her carriage at the church on Bishop
streets. Her hip was broken by the fall
and she never enjoyed good health after-
‘ward, though she was able to be out and
about. Then the death of her sister, Mrs.
Shoemaker, in December, was a great
shock to her and she failed rapidly from
that on.
Miss Collins was one of the family whose
name is inseparably connected with the
building of many of the principal railroads
and achievements of the State and to whom
Bellefonte is indebted for one of its largest
industries. She was a daughter of Peter
and Sarah Collins and was born in Munster,
Cambria county, seventy-six years ago.
The family resided in Ebensburg for many
years and most of her life was spent there,
but for the past fifteen years she had made
her home here with her sisters and brother.
She was most intelligent and charitable and
had to a noticeable degree the same charac-
teristics that gave renown and success to her
brothers Philip and Tom Collins. Itissaid,
they so respected her superior executive
ability that she was their treasurer for
many years, as well as their counsellor al-
ways. In appearance, too, she was like
them and her greatest pleasure was doing
for her church and the poor. She was the
eldest daughter in a large family of sisters
and brothers and from early girlhood her
sense of responsibility for the welfare and
comfort of others dominated her life. She
was very reserved and reticent in manner,
for she was interested only in the great
problems of this life and the one she has
entered into.
She is survived by her sister Sarah, with
whom she was closely and affectionately as-
sociated all her life, her brother Peter, now
of Philadelphia, her nephew, Thos. A.
Sho emaker, and four nieces. She was a
devout member of the Catholic church and
funeral services were held in St. John’s
church on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock.
Her body, accompanied by the members of
her family and several friends, was taken
on the 9:53 train to Ebensburg where in-
terment was made in the family burying
ground.
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J. C. NoLn.—James C. Noll Esq., died
at his home at Stillwater, Oklahoma, on
Monday morning, and though no particn-
lars were given in the announcement it
must have been very sudden. As late as
last Thursday he wrote a letter to his
brother William, at Pleasant Gap, in
which there was no intimation of illness.
It is believed that his death was caused by
heart trouble, with which he is known to
have been affected.
Deceased was a son of the late W. H.
Noll, of Pleasant Gap. He was born at
that place about 39 years ago. Having
spent his early life about home he attend-
ed Franklin and Marsball college, at Lan-
caster, from which institution he was
graduated and soon after commenced read-
ing law in the offices of Orvis, Bower and
Orvis, in this place. He was admitted to
the Centre county bar September 4th, 1891,
and practiced in Bellefonte until June 7th,
1898, when he departed for Gathrie, Okla-
homa. He remained in that city for a
time, finally locating at Stillwater, where
he was acquiring a very profitable practice
when death so suddenly cut short his use-
ful and promising career.
In 1900 he was married in the latter
place and his widow, with his mother, Mrs.
Emaline Noll, of Pleasant Gap, and the
following brothers and sisters survive: W.
H., J. A, J. T. and Ethel, of Pleasant
Gap, and Boyd A., of Zion. Thebody will
probably arrive here to-morrow. It will be
taken to his mother’s home at Pleasant
Gap, where services will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and interment
will be made in the family lot at Zion.
Mr. Noll, was a genial, ambitions young
man and his death will bring gen-
uine sorrow to many friends in this
place. He had never enjoyed the same ro-
bust vigor after the terrible accident he
suffered while trying to stop a runaway on
Bishop street several years ago.
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DAvID KLEPPER.—The venerable David
Klepper died in the hospital at Lock Haven
very unexpectedly on Wednesday. He
had been in that institution for about six
weeks receiving treatment for a fractured
hip, which he sustained some time ago by
a fall down stairs. His heart failed.
Mr. Klepper was born at Aaronsbarg,
this county, about 75 years ago and for
many years had followed his trade of car-
pentering in this vicinity. The family
home was at the upper end of Coleville,
where he resided until the children all
grew up and made homes for themselves,
then he went to live with his daughter,
Mrs. Jacob Cole, of Coleville, where the
accident befell him. His surviving chil-
dren are Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Herman Robb, of
this place, Emanuel, David, John and Har-
ry, all of Philadelphia.
The body was brought here yesterday
and taken to the home of Mrs. Cole from
which place interment will be made to-
day.
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——Dr. Frederick Antes Canfield, a na-
tive of Centre county and a practicing
physician in Philipsburg in 1856, died at
his home in Necadah, Wisconsin, on Tues-
day of last week.
MRs. PHOEBE CRONISTER.—Mrs. Phoebe
Cronister, widow of the late Henry G.
Cronister and mother of former sheriff W.
M. Cronister, died at the home of her son,
in Huston township, on Thursday evening,
the 24th. She was eighty-one years of age
and had" been unusually well and active
until a year ago last Christmas when she
bad a stroke of paralysis. She was a most
excellent woman and a helpful member of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral
services were conducted by her pastor on
Saturday afternoon.
Her maiden name was Wickersham and
she was a near relative of James P. Wicker-
sham the former state superintendent cof
public instruction. She was a native of
York, Pennsylvania, but moss of her life
was spen* in this county. She was twice
married ; first to Jesse Williams and at his
death to Mr. Cronister, who preceded her
to the grave about twenty-one years ago.
She is survived by her three sons William,
of New York State ; Dallas and Wharton
M. Cronister, with whom she made her
home.
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A REMARKABLE OLD MAN GONE.—D.
H. Yeager Esq., the most remarkable man
in many respects who has ever lived in
Centre county, passed away at his home,
midway between Snow Shoe and Gilliland
town on Wednesday night at 10:25. He
had been ill only since the previous Satur-
day night, when he suffered something like
a stroke of paralysis.
Squire Yeager was 85 years old and
though he had raised a family of twenty-
two children, been justice of the peace
for nearly forty years and had reached an
age seldom allotted to man he had not a
gray hair on his head when he died.
Surviving him are his widow and a num-
ber of children. The time for his fu-
neral had not been set when this edition
went to press. :
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——Miss Minnie Edith Gray, well and
favorably known at State College and a
sister of Miss Julia C. Gray, who has been
secretary of the Experiment Station almost
ever since it was founded, died in Deland,
Florida on Tuesday, April 22nd, of con-
sumption. She was a native of Franklin,
but resided at State College with her moth-
er and sister for some years. Later the
family home was in Philadelphia and when
her health began to fail, with her elder sis-
ter Sarah, she went to Ashville N. C. She
visited State College frequently and went
to Florida from there last fall. She was
an attractive and capable young woman
and her death is a great sorrow to her sis-
ters and friends.
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——Pneumonia and heart trouble caused
the death of Rev. Thomas Cameron at his
home in South Philipshurg on Saturday
morning. He was born in Strongstown,
Indiana county, August 11th, 1839, and
had been in the United Brethren ministry
for twenty years. His widow, three sons
and two daughters survive him.
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——DMTrs. Sarah Mitchell Struble, wife of
C. H. Struble, died at her home at State
College yesterday afternoon after a long
illness of consumption. The news of her
death did not reach the office until it was
too late for a notice worthy of her life,
in this issue. Funeral services will be
held on Monday and interment will be
made in the Pine Grove cemetery.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Dinges. who died at
her home in Green county, Wisconsin, on
the 31st of March, was a daughter of the
late - John Detweiler, of Penn township,
-and a sister of Henry Detweiler, of Small-
ton; Frank, of Aaronshurg; Jacob, of Penns
Cave, and Mrs. John Braucht, of Coburn.
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——Mrs. Mary M. Zimmerman, who was
a daughter of Andrew and Sarah Hall, of
Union township, died at her home near
Snow Shoe Intersection on the 22rd ult., of
heart failure. She was 31 years, 11 months
and 13 days old and is survived by her hus-
band, three sons and one daughter.
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—— After a lingering illness with con-
sumption Mrs. James McClintock passed
away at her home near Farmer’s Mills on
Monday morning at 3 o'clock. Interment
was made in the Union cemetery there on
Wednesday, after Rev. George Kershner
had conducted the services.
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—— Ste wart Tussey, well known in this
place and for a number of years a locomo-
tive engineer running between Sunbury
and Bellefonte, died at his home in the
former place last Thursday. He was 50
years old and had heen ill only a few days.
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——Mrs. Lucretia Flack, wife of John
Flack, of this place, died from the effects
of paralysis on Tuesday morning. She was
49 years, 6 months and 22 days old. She
is survived by her husband and eight chil-
dren,
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—— The large refrigerator building owned
by W. R. Haynes, at Clarence, on the line
of the N. Y. C. R. R. was set on fire by a
spark from an engine between 12 and 1
o'clock Monday night and completely de-
stroyed. Its contents were saved all but
about eight tons of ice. The building was
valued at $500. Mr. Haynes had no in-
surance.
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——An old tenement house on the prop-
erty of Lot Kimport, about two miles east
of Boalsburg, caught fire from a defective
flue on Monday afternoon, and was totally
destroyed. It was occupied by William
Colyer, who saved all of his household ef-
fects. Mr. Kimport had no insurance, but
the building was not worth more than two
or three hundred dollars.
THE NOTORIOUS BRACK POWELL IN THE
ToiLs AGAIN.—*‘‘Brack” Powell, whose
status in the Centre Co. courts is somewhat
of an enigma to the officials, themselves, has
police circles stirred up again. This time
be is charged with insulting Bessie Me-
Cafferty, a white girl, and yesterday morn-
ing he started east as fast as a freight train
would carry him, while ‘the mayor’’ and
officer Miller started west ina two horse
conveyance. Just what part of China they
had picked out for their meeting ground the
pursued and pursuers did not state before
their departure.
The McCafferty girl complained to the
police that ‘‘Brack’”” had been accosting
ber on the street, whereupon he was warn-
ed. On Wednesday evening about 8
o'clock he is supposed to have made an in-
decent proposal to ber somewhere in the vi-
cinity of the Bush house and a warrant was
sworn out for him. ‘‘Brack’’ heard of it
yesterday morning and decamped at once
on a C. R. R. of Pa. freight. *‘The mayor”
and officer Miller started on his trail (2)
toward Scotia and when the fugitive was
located at Mill Hall at noon yesterday they
couldnot he reached to get orders.
Just why the police have permitted
‘Brack’ to tarry in town long enough to
cause this trouble is not explained. He has
been chased off so often and there are so
many charges hanging over him here that
it is a wonder that he has a moment’s
liberty.
But ‘‘Brack’ was picked up in Lock
Haven some time during the afternoon and
brought here on the 4:44 train by a con-
stable from that place.
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THE MURDER TRIAL POSTPONED.—A#%
a special session of court, held on Friday
afternoon, C. M. Bower Esq., representing
Frank Beckwith, who was to bave been
tried for the murder of his wife this week,
appeared before Judge Love and asked for
the continuance of the case until the An-
gust term.
According to Mr. Bower the principal
reason was that W. E. Gray Esq., associate
counsel for the defense, is unfit for prac ice
and will be unable to help in the case for
at least six weeks. Mr. Gray is under his
physician's care and his condition is regard-
ed as serious. Mr. Bowerargued that inas-
much as it was a case of life or death with
Beckwith he thought he ought not to be
deprived of any advantage whatever in his
trial. Mr. Chambers, for the Common-
wealth, objected strenuously on the ground
that the application was merely a play for
time and would prove an extra expense to
the county. Judge Love granted the con-
tinunance, however, and the case goes over
to the August term.
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RESIGNED AFTER LONG SERVICE.—Di-
vision Supt. W. L. Malin of the Pennsyl-
vania telephone company, has resigned af-
ter a continuous service of twenty-one
years in the Bell interests in Central Penn-
sylvania. His resignation took effect on
the 23rd ult. and K. C. Raup, formerly in
charge of the Altoona work, was appointed
his successor. ;
Mr. Malin’s long identification with the
telephone business has given him a person-
ality that is almost unique. Much of the
great growth of the company in this section
of the State has heen made solely on his
acquaintanceship and influence and the
service he has rendered that corporation
can’ scarcely be estimated. We trust he
has something far better in view.
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. HAD T0 AMPUTATE THE ARM.—Harry
Gunsallus, a brakeman on the Snow Shoe
railroad, met with an accident a5Snow Shoe
Intersection Tuesday evening that cost him
his right arm. He was on a train coming
to this place and was at his work when a
brake-chain broke, throwing} him to the
tracks. Several cars passed over his fore-
arm, crushing it to a pulp. He was picked
up and brought to this place, where Dr.
Geo. F. Harris, the company physician,
took charge of the case. He was taken to
the Hayes’ hospital and Dr. Harris per-
formed the operation, ampu tating the arm
at the elbow.
Gunsallus’ parents reside in Snow Shoe
and did not want him to railroad.
THE MILLHEIM JOURNAL HAS A LIBEL
Surt.—On Wednesday morning J. C. Hos-
terman, editor and proprietor of the Mill-
beim Journal, wassued by J. H. Reifsnyder,
of that place, for malicious and defamatory
libel. The editor gave bail at once for his
appearance at the August term of court and
makes the prediction that ‘‘we may expect
unusoally hot weather” about that time.
Squire Reifsnyder considers libelous an
article that appeared in the Journal issue
of April 10th concerning the case of small
pox in Millheim. It was a signed com-
munication in which ‘‘citizen’’ alluded
rather sarcastically to ’Squire Reifsnyder’s
supposed ignorance of a subject he had evi-
dently been talking about.
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THE BROCKERHOFF HOUSE CHANGES
HANDS AGAIN.—F. B. Ray, of Altoona,
has rented the Brockerhoff house in this
place and took charge yesterday; Mr.
Chas. Shanfelter, who had been managing
it for the Brockerhoffs, having retired.
Mr. Ray also runs the Altamonte in Al-
| toona and his son, H. B. Ray, will have
charge of the Brookerhoff. They an-
nounce no changes in the organization of
the house, but will make such as may be
necessary from time to time. .
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——Two men by the name of Grenoble
were arrested in Millheim yesterday after-
noon and brought to jail here for refusal to
pay taxes. They are residents of Gregg
township and were arrested at the instance
of the collector for that distriet.
mere tie
——The ditches are being dug to lay
larger water pipes in Rebershurg.
News Parely Personal.
—Gen. and Mrs, Hastings were arrivals from
Philadelphia on Monday.
—Mrs, Sidney Krumrine and her children are
in Williamsport visiting her mother.
—Former sheriff W. M. Cronister, of Martha
Furnace, was a Bellefonte visitor on Wednesday.
—Mrs. Jack Decker and her little son are here
on a visit to the Anderson home on east Bishop
street.
—C. M. Parrish returned from Ebensburg Mon-
day morning. He spent Sunday at his old home
‘there.
—I. Newton Gordon, of Scranton, was an arrival
in town on Monday and tarried a day with friends
here.
—J. P. Seibert, who lives in Benner township, a
few miles west of Bellefonte, was in town on Sat-
urday.
—A. G. Morris, president of the American Lime
and Stone Co., was in Bellefonte on business on
Tuesday.
—W. P, Duncan Esq., operator and financier of
Philipsburg, was a distinguished visitor in town
Monday.
—Misses Julia Bidwell and Effie Gehret were in
Jersey Shore, on Saturday, for the Odd Fellow’s
anniversary.
—John Hafer left for Pittsburg, on Tuesday,
determined to interest some one in his patent
suspender fasteners,
—Mrs. A. T. Parker, of Jersey Shore, spent Sun-
day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Bid-
well, on south Allegheny street.
—W. H. Williams, of Port Matilda, was in Belle-
fonte on Monday taking a look in at court and
greeting his many friends hereabouts.
—Burgess Jesse Lukens, of Philipsburg, was in
town during the fore part of the week; having
been interested in some of the cases at court.
—Mrs. Louisa Bush, who is in Philadelphia vis-
iting her sisters, Mesdames Moulten and Stock-
ton and Miss Amanda Tomb, has been quite ill
since going to the city.
—Miss Mary Butts has returned to her home in
this place after two years’ association in business
with her brother Walter in Winber. She expects
to spend part of the summer here.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Fenlon attended the funer
al of Miss Elizabeth Collins at Ebensburg, on Sat-
urday, and remained until Monday evening, visit-
ing Mr. Fenlon’s relatives there.
—Harry Robb, who gave up driving Meese's
grocery wagon t> become an engineer running
out of Pittsburg, is home for a visit to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Robb, of the Beaver & Hoy
row.
—W. W. Mayes, of Englewood, N.J., who was
originally from Ferguson township, is visiting
the friends and scenes of his early days. He was
a guest at the Bell home on south Thomas street
for a few days.
—Among the jurors at court this week was our
.good Democratic friend Simler Bachelor, of P hil-
ipsburg. He came over expecting fo spend most
of the week in town, but the unexpected ending
of the session on Wednesday cut his labors short.
—Among the witnesses at court during the fore
part of the week was Musser Heberling, of Pine
Grove, who is reputed to be one of the brainest
young school teachers in the county. In com-
pany with several other Ferguson visitors he took
in ‘the Wise Woman” Monday night.
—John Thomas, of Snow Shoe, was in town yes,
terday between trains. He looked so young with-
out his moustache that he would have passed for
a mere youth instead of one of the substantial
farmers and Democratic politicians in that
section.
—William Pealer, of Spring Mills, and A. P.
Zerby, of Sober, were in town this week at-
tending court. Mr. Pealer was merely visiting
friends and taking a look at what is being done,
but Mr, Zerby was far more interested. He isa
candidate for office and was hustling all the time.
—William Rice, an employee of this office, who
has been in the Orthopedic hospital in Philadel-
phia for the past three months receiving treat-
ment for curvature of the spine, réturned home
Tuesday night very much better and greatly pleas-
ed with Dr. William J. Taylor's methods and the
general excellence of the hospital.
—Mrs. Will Larimer, of Thomas street, spent
Sunday in Jersey Shore with her son Lee. She
was accompanied home on Tuesday by her sister,
Mrs. Nan Chainbers Willard, of Williameport, who
came up to look after her property on Rey nolds
Avenue, and if possible find a purchaser for it, as
she does not expect to come back to town to re-
side.
—John A. Kelly, the man who has more to do
with making the male portion of Snow Shoe’s
population look smoothe than any other residen t
of the place, was in town during the fore part of
the week doing duty as a juror. Johnny wasn’t
stuck on the job, either, for he could make far
more staying at home keeping his’ barber shop
open than by serving his country at $2 a day.
—Mrs. T. S. Bartges, of Centre Hall, with her
daughter and cute little grand-daughter May,
were in town yesterday doing some shopping.
They drove over the mountain. Mrs. Bartges
says there is a vast difference between living pri-
vately and running a hotel and she hds a very de-
cided liking for the active, lively life she led as
hostess at the Centre Hall hostlery until six years
ago. .
—Candidates were doing a flourishing button-
hole trade in town on Monday. It was the firs
day of a largely attended court and the aspirants
for office were busy. The whirl must have gotten
too fast for them, for towards afternoon we notic-
ed them overflowing into the outskirts of the
town. Frank Foreman and William Frank made
active canvasses of one of the wards, while Isaac
Frain and J. Will Kepler were content with just a
little informal call here and there.
—Satn Harpster and his’ niece, Miss Harshber-
ger, a very winsome young woman, were down
from Gatesburg doing some shopping on Wednes-
day. Though Sam knows nearly every inch of
Bellefonte and most of the people who live here
it was Miss Harshberger's first visit to the county
seat. 8he has visited other large towns in the
State but though spending most of her life within
eighteen miles of this place had never been here
before.
—R. B. Gardner, of Allegheny, was in town for
a few hours on Monday calling on some of his
relatives here. He is a son of the late Wilson
Gardner, who was one of Ferguson township's
foremost citizens,and had been up looking over the
old homestead. Mr. Gardner is the general agent
for a large electrical supply company and though
his headquarters are in Pittsburg his territory
covers the entire country. He has been with the
company so long that he has gradually worked
himself up to a position where he handles only
the most important contracts.
—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lembkey, with their lit-
tle daughter Lucille, were in town Tuesday to
spend the night with Mrs, Barbara Rankin, Wal-
ter had not been here for a number of years, con-
sequently was so much of a stranger and had
changed so much in appearance that it kept the
few of his old friends whom he had time to see
guessing some to place him. He will be remem-
bered as the nephew of Mrs. John I. Rankin and
was graduated from the High school here with the
class of ’86. Since that time he has spent most of
his time in° Washington, where he attended the
Columbia law school and was adm‘tted to practice.
For the past few years, however, he has had
charge of the government fisheries and seal pre-
serves off the Alentian islands. When they left
at noon on Tuesday they did not expect to get
back for a year.
—Former register John A. Rupp, of Oak Hall,
was in town on Wednesday, attending to some
business in his old haunts about the court house.
—John Spangler, a son of Howard Spangler, of
this place, having secured admission to St.
Francis’ institute, near Philadelphia,departed for
that place on Monday, in company with Col. and
Mrs. J. L. Spangler.
—Levi G. Daughenbaugh, formerly of Waddle’s
where he worked in the woods for three years
but now employed in a cafe in Clearfield, has
been in town renewing old acquaintances this
week. While he doesn’t like the indoor life near
as well as he did the hardy out-of-door existence
ofa woodsman he thinks he will stick to the
restaurant business and talk a little Democratic
polities on the side.
—W. I. Leathers Jr, of the firm of J. B. Leath-
ers’ Sons, manufacturers of handles and india
rabber roofing paint st Mt, Eagle and Dickson,
Tenn., wasin town yesterday and brought his
whole force up for a good time. In the party were
T. G. Leathers, Earl Leathers, A. A. Aiky, J. I.
Dunkle, and A. C. Glenn. They all drove up in
the morning, but the boys must have made the
pace too hot for their good natured boss for he
scooted off home by one of the noon trains.
—Mrs. Margaret Alexander is a guest at the
McQuistion home on West High street. She
came east from Pittsburg, where she has
been spending the winter with her niece Mrs.
Elliott, to transact some business before going
West to Oklahoma to spend the summer with her
sister, Mrs. McBride. Mrs. Yarrington, of Rich-
mond, Va., Mrs. Alexander's daughter, who was
to have been here last week has not yet arrived
but is expected to-day.
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—Herb Ward, station master at Pine
Grove and general utility man in that com-
munity, came to town Tuesday evening
and at first we thought he was the bass énd
of a German band. Later we found ous
that the big brass horn he was carrying
wasn’t a horn at all, but a megaphone for
the new, improved phonographs he is sell-
ing. He bad one of them with him and
gave an impromptu concert at Garman'’s
hotel that evening. It was a revelation in
phonographic work, for the records were so
clear and the machine so accurate that
there wasn’t a par ticle of that buzzing and
rasping so noticeable in other machines.
——Though the village of Birmingham,
near Tyrone, is more than 100 years old
the first conflagration that there is any
knowledge of ocourred there last Friday.
Shortly before noon the building known as
‘Music hall’”’ on the Mountain seminary
grounds caught fire near the roof and was
completely destroyed. It was used for
musical purposes and also for dormitory
rooms. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
fully covered. Mr. Grier expects to re-
build at once, making. the new building
larger and better.
——Frank E. Farrel, a son of Thomas
and Jane Farrel, of Beech Creek, was so
badly burned about the head and face by
the explosion of a flue ia his engine last
Thursday at Kittanning Point, that he
died in the Altoona hospital Tuesday
morning. The young man was born at
Beech Creek, December 20th, 1876, and had
been railroading for 3 years. He was a
member of the brotherhood of firemen and
of the relief association. . His parents, four
brothers and three sisters” survive him:
The body was taken home for burial.
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——Some dastard made an attempt to
outrage a little girl of twelve years, along
the N. V. R. R. tracks, near the Jacob
Valentine farm, a short distance east of
town, yesterday afternoon. He kicked her
and tore her clothes but her cries attracted
ber father who was working in a field near
by before he accomplished his ‘hellish
designs. The fiend escaped the posse that
was organized to capture him. Her name
is Neese. He is described as a young man
wearing a light hat and carrying a bundle.
—Mr. William B. Bush, of Boggs
township, Clearfield county, and Miss Me-
lissa Irwin were married at the residence
of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
Irwin, in Union township, at high noon,
last Thursday. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. G. A. Sparks, of the
U. B. charch, in the presence of about fifty
guests, Miss Sallie Hancock played the
wedding march.
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——The wind storm Saturday night blew
dver the house occupied by Thomas Fen-
ton and his family, on the Clearfield pike
near Philipsburg. Though all the oc-
capants were asleep in it at the time
they escaped, unhurt. Some dishes
and pars of the furniture were broken, but
that was the extent of the damage.
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MARRIED.—A¢ the Reformed parsonage
in Bellefonte hy the Rev. Ambrose M.
Schmidt, Wednesday afternoon, April 23rd.
Mr. Gilbert H. Dietzel, of Collier, Pa., and
Miss Sarah E. Wolf, of Oak Grove, Pa.
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening. .
Wheat—Red ... K7,@88
“« "No. 2. 853, @86
Corn —Yellow. 65@654
¢ ——Mixed. 63@64
OBtS........corems ree 51
Flour— Winter, Per Br’ 2.85@3.10
¢“ —Penna. Roller....., . 3.40@3.65
‘¢ «Favorite Brands... we 4.15@4.256
Rye Flour Per Brili.......c.....iily 3.25@3.30
Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. Tu 10.00@16.00
o * ”" Mixed 10.00@13.00
Straw.......... Bsiaaguies sisssisreny a siesrnsisarenrrar 7.50@15.50
Bellefonte Grain Market.
{Corrected weekly by C. Y. Wagner, '
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
Tess :
80 WHORE, cvicnis vos iieiis rss iaveiins. srnserssnissuinsasns
Rye, per bushel............
Corn, shelled, per bushel.
Corn, ears, per bushel..
Oats, per bushel,....
Barley, per bushel..
Ground Plaster, per
Buckwheat, per bushel
Cloverseed, per bushel..
Timothy seed per bushel.
- Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corregted weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel 85
Onions..........
Eggs, per doz 12
Lard, per poun 11
Country Shoulders.. 10
Sides....... 10
Hams... son 12
Tallow, per pound............ 4
Butter, per POUBA. cuir renis ineisioraesansuise 22