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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY:
——The P. R. R. passenger station in
this place is being brightened up with new
paint.
——The wood work of the Presbyterian
church and chapel in this place is being
repainted.
——A roller screen and other improve-
ments are being put in at the Bellefonte
Lime Co’s. Salona operation.
——The interior of the Centre county
bank looks as bright and attractive as
recent artistic decorations can make it.
——A new forty-eight’ ton passenger
locomotive has been added to the rolling
stock of the Bellefonte Central. {
party at the Nittany country club Friday
evening, in honor of Miss Sara Sides, of
Jersey Shore.
—— Mrs. D. C. Grove, of Boalshurg, re-
cently fell from a ladder on which she bad
ascended to pick cherries and broke one of
her legs.
—— Robert Cole, the Bellefonte architect,
has been awarded the contract to design
plans for the re-building of St. John’s Re-
formed church in Lock Haven.
——DMerrill Allison, a son of Archie Al-
lison, of Spring Mills, and a graduate of
Bucknell University,has been elected prin-
cipal of the Centre Hall schools.
——The Logans will have their picnic
at Hunter’s park on the 30th. It willbe a
big one this year and there will be lots
more people there than ever before.
——Mirs. W. L. Daggett entertained a
party of fourteen on Tuesday evening
with a beautiful and delicious supper,
which was followed by bridge whist.
——While working at the Nittany fur-
nace on Sunday Jack Caldwell struck his
left foot with a pick and injured it so bad-
ly that he will be laid up for some time.
——Dr. T. C. VanTries, who was com-
pelled to abandon a recent *visit to Pitts-
burg and adjacent towns, and returned
home on account of sicknsss, is able to be
about again.
The work of remodeling the old
Humes home on north Allegheny. street,
which is to be the asylum for the Masons,
is going on steadily and it will be ready for
use by fall.
——Miss Gertrude Scott, a daughter of
Mrs. William Scott, of this place, who went
to Pittsburg several months ago to make
her home with her brother Frank, is ill
with typhoid fever. :
——A horse fell into the new washer at
Red bauk below this place a few days ago
and before the machinery could be stopped
it was torn to pieces. It was owned by
Jerry Lutz and valued at $100.
Rev. T. W. Perks, of the United
Brethren church, immersed eight infants
and three adults on Sunday morning. Ou
the preceding Sunday Rev. Brown, of the
Evangelical church, conducted an immer-
sion. :
——Col. and Mrs. J. L. Spangler en-
tertained a party of fifteen ladies and gen-
tlemen at the Nittany country club Sat-
urday evening in honor of Mrs. James R.
Pierpoint and Mrs. Allen Sheldon, of Phil-
adelphia.
——=Some thief stole a number of chick-
ens from Mrs. Hibler’s hennery on Sunday
night and detective Joe Rightnour trailed
the feathers so close to a house up in the
alley at the rear of the Hibler home that
little doubt remains as to the identity of
the culprit.
——At the civii service examination for
clerks and carriers for the Bellefonte post-
office, held on June 11th, four candidates
were examined and just two passed. John
F. Garthoff, of Bellefonte, averaged 86.7%
for carrier, and Edw. K. Smith, of Oak
Hall, averaged 76.95 for clerk.
——The sprained ankle which general
passenger agent Frank Warfield was sup-
posed to have suffered in .stepping off a
Central train at Mill Hall a few days ago,
has turned out, to have been something
more serious : A fracture of one of the
small bones aud he will be crippled some
time with it.
~—The new triplex water pump was
started at the water works on Tuesday and
kept running ahout twenty-four hours
without a load in order to get the journals
all smoothed up. The machine worked with
no appreciable vibration avd if it meets the
required pumping tests with such ease of
working it will only fulfill the claims of its
makers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Callaway entertained
at Burnside’s Lodge on Muncy mountain
on Saturday evening; in-honor-of the young
ladies who constituted Mrs, George Thomp-
son’s w edding party. The guests were
Misses Sides, Hays, Shissler, Callaway, Mr.
and Mrs. George Thompson, Messrs. Gault, |
Edmund Blanchard, Thomas, Bush, Robert
Morris, Hard P. Harris, William and Ea-
gar Burnside.
——The farmers of the county are hav-
ing their own troubles. The excessive wet
weather has made it next to impossible for
thém to harvest their short "hay crops and
the wheat is ovei-ripe in many sections,
while the fields are altogether too soft to
use binders on them. ' Many of them heing
unable to secure help are in great despair,
lest they lose what little hay and grain an
unpropitious season has left them.
Robt. Morris entertained a small
WHAT DoEs IT MEAN ?—Just what the
town council purposes -accomplishing or
what that body imagines it can accom-
plish by its action in fixing a water rate,
such as it did on Monday night last, would
be bard to imagine.
One might guess that it was a prelim-
inary step towards the purchase of water
meters for each consumer—a job that
would add to the already enormous hor-
ough indebtedness any where from §$15,-
000 to $20,000 and might have hid within
it, a nice ‘‘divy’’ for the few who would
engineer it to a successful conclusion.
This the WATCHMAN would be loath to
suspect. Although it is difficnlt to im-
agine how the users of water can be taxed
by the gallon, without a meter or some
other means of measurement.
Another might guess that it was an ef-
fort to get rid of the larger consumers by
making the rates so high that those using
the borough water to run elevators, water
motors, ete., would be compelled to abandon
its use ; but this 'woanld throw the" entire
burden of water tax upon the smaller con-
sumers and greatly increase the cost to
them. Surely the council means nothing
of this kind.
‘Another might guess that its purpose was
to compel those using the water, for busi-
ness purposes, to pay an unequal proportion
of the taxes, a matter which the new
schedule will do unless metres are placed
upon all, and everybody taxed for just
what they use.
And still another might guess that it was
for the purpose of ge ting the question of
the power of the council to levy whatever
amount of water tax it pleased, in as many
ways as it sees proper, and to collect ‘it
from whom if sees fit, into the courts to
ascertain just what authority a council has
when it comes toa matter of discrimination
among citizens in the matter of taxes.
After all these guesses, the citizens will
be just abont where the council was when
it figured out its water rate by the gallon :
Still in the dark as to either the purpose to
be accomplished or the means of accom-
plishing that whieh they purposed.
The truth is Bellefonte has plenty of
water, and to spare, for everybody. There
is no excuse for any exorbitant water rate’
on anyone, nor is there the least plausible
reason for burdening the citizens with an
expense of from fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars for. metres to measure the amount
of water used by them individually.
1f the gentlemen who compose the pres-
ent council know as much as they should
they are aware of the fact that they can-
not tax any citizen, for water, more than
the water used hy that citizen costs the hor-
ough to furnish it; they know equally
well that they cannot make one price for
oue tax-payer and another price for anoth-
er, as corporations acting under special
charters can ; consequently the prices they
have fixed and the sliding scale they have
adopted wiil simply amount to nothing hut
the litigation that will end in adding
lawyer's fees and court. costs to the bor-
ough expenditures and in showing them
how foolish they have been in trying
to keep down taxation on real estate and
personal property, by making excessive
water rates.
“Unless the figures furnished by the bor-
ough authorities are incorreet the water
works, as at present managed, is costing
the town at the following rate per day :
Coal 3% tons @ 2.%....... rise aaRghuans $8.22
Superintendents pay..... .
Fireman............
Ass't, Fireman.
Qil and Waste (estimated)... 40
Extra Labor (estimated)......coeeu 1.25
Potal....cceeiersarstrnrserssns Averestveisesasnres $15.37
The amount of water pumped each day
is said to be oue million gallons, making
the actual cost of water to our citizens at
the rate of $15.37, for each million of gal-
lons.
This, however, is assuming that the wa-
ter works have no indebtedness—a matter
whieh is literally true. - But to be entirely
fair, while these works bave over-paid
their original cost many times, the condi-
tion of the borough would justify, at least,
a portion of the borough indebtedness be-
ing charged up to them. If one-fourth, or
$25,000 of this amount, was added to the
water expense, the interest account would
increase the daily expense $2.75, making
the total cost of the water supplv $18.12,
for each million gallons pumped into the
reservoir.
Thus taking the actual expenditure as
shown, and allowing for leakage and re-
pairs, there is no possible way in which
one million of gallons can be figured to
cost more than $18.12, and yet the council
purposes charging the largest consumers of
water $60.00 for what costs the borough
less than $18.00 and smaller consumers
over six times as much as it now costs the
borough to pump the water they: use..
Is there anyone foolish enough to imagine
that the water users of Bellefonte will sub-
mit to any such imposition ? :
As at present run, including terest,
leakage, repairs and all expenses inourred,
except extensions, the cost of the water
works is less than $5,000 ‘per year. In
ound figures it is $4,710.05. The
duplicate shows that che assessments for
water purposes amounts to almost, if not
quite, $7,000. So that at the highest rate
|.of cost, the taxes, if collected, will at the
present rate of assessment much more than
pay the expense of the water works,
It might be well for council to give ns a
little light on what is done with the excess
of taxes levied at present for water pur-
poses, before attempting to impose; addi-
tional burdens upon the users of water.
An increase in one year from $7,000, the
present water assessment, to over $35, 000
the amount that the new schedule would
force the people to pay. is a jump in tax-
ation, so startling and outrageous that no
community can be expected to submit to it
until every means to prevent such a wrong |
has been exhausted and failed.
‘| her rescue with a stick,
The home of Rev. D. E. Hepler,
at Lemont, was entered on a recent Sun-
day night and a check and $7 in cash was
taken.
El geri i
——St. John’s English Lutheran Sunday
school and congregation from Lock Haven
were to have pienicked at Hecla park yes-
terday. 5
——The storm clouds grew so dense over
Lock Haven Wednesday afternoon that if
became almost as dark as night for a short
time in that place.
Al anmiggeiza be dal
——A freight wreek at the Big Fill on
Monday afternoon piled up nine loaded
coal cars; blocking the tracks for nearly
twenty-four hours. The wreck was caused
by a broken wheel, but no one was hurt.
Sr
~—Forrest N. Magee, who was among
the recent gradnates from the University
law school in Philadelphia, has opened
offices at 501-506 Stephen Girard Bldg.
He is resident counsel for the National In-
corporating Co., but will never be found
too busy to greet any of his old Bellefonte
friends who might call, either on business
or pleasure.
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. ——The Logan picnic. that is to be held
this year at. Hunter's park, is already be-
ing talked about considerably and if the
same interest continues until the 30th, the
date set for it, there will he a great crowd
at that resort. The boys are preparing a
variety of amusements never before seen at’
a picnic and there will be all kinds of ath-
letic sports, dancing and music.
ANC
——Gen. Daniel Heckman, of Loganton,
was attacked by a sow, a few days ago, and
narrowly escaped being eaten up. The
brute bad stuck fast in a mud-:hole she was
trying to cross when the General came to
pried her out.
down and chewed his arm badly.
——Miss Kathryn Dunkle was married
to Mr. Oscar Young at the home of the
bride’s father, Andrew Dunkle, in Bush's
Addition, on Saturday evening at eight
o'clock. Only the immediate relatives and
friends were present when Rev. W. H.
Brown, of the Evangelical church, perform-
ed the ceremony. = An informal reception
followed and the evening was most enjoy-
ably spent by the party.
- soe
-— Conductor Cook and the entire crew
of the passenger train running between
Lewisburg and Bellefonte are taking a few
weeks enforced vacation. They are all off
but the baggage man, because they permit-
ted the hostler at the Lewisburg engine
house to run their train across the bridge
to Montandon; while they left it and went
to their homes that much earlier.
re——l een —
——W. S. Miller has been re-appointed
post master at Rebersburg. Mr. Miller lias
trained with the Quay, or rather anti-Hast-
ings crowd, in the county and his reap-
pointment would indicate that Col. Reeder,
who is Governor Hastings’ factotum and,
who, it is alleged, has been made purveyor
of ‘public patronage, has either joined hands
‘with the ‘‘enemy’’ or failed to control the
appointment in this instance.
——
——A double quartet of striking miners
| from the anthracite regions was in town
yesterday afternoon and last evening sing-
ins for whatever contributions they could
pick up. The men are supporting them-
selves and families during the strike by
traveling over the country in a covered
wagon and singing where ever they can
secure an audience. Their voices blend
nicely and their singing more than sus.
tains the tradition of rate music 1 ability
and culture among the workers in many
of our mining sections.
= eee
——Rush township school teachers have
been elected for the next term as follows :
Cold Stream, Miss Grace Forshey; Point
Lookout grammar, Miss Ella Warde;
Point Lookout primary, Miss Gwen War-
ing; North Philipshurg grammar, Miss
Estella Lane; North Pbilipshurg primary,
Miss Letitia Flegal; Park, Charles Waring;
Reese's, Miss Jessie Blowers: Gem school,
Munson, Miss Berenice B:ckford; Black
Moshannon, Miss Mary Conoway; Klon-
dike, Miss Alice Custard; Edendale, Miss
Eunice Hutton; Powelton, Miss Lilly
Heath; Tower, Ralph White; Sandy Ridge,
grammar, J. B. Cowher; primary, Miss
Mable Cramer. The term will he seven
mouths.
LIS a
— — While we are not conversant enough
with all the conditions: that have brought
about recent changes in the organization of
the Bellefonte school board and of the corps
of teachers to disenss the matter in a fair
and intelligent mauner—and it is. not the
WATCHMAN'’S policy to treat the subject
otherwise—we do hope that both the board
| and teachers will unite in an effort to pay.
more attention to a few of the rudimentary
studies in our schools. The spelling and’
grammar of our High school graduates bas
been such as to call forth serions. question
as to the employment of the scholars’ time.
The latter branch, especially,is dropped en-
tirely toosoon for the goed eof most all of
them and there is nothing that brands our
schools as inefficient so emphatically as the
““Iseen’’‘‘Idone’’ and ‘‘I havesaw’’ expres-
sionsthat can be heard almost daily, when a
few of the upper classmen of the schools are
gathered together. If it is necessary to
slight . these very essential elementary
studies in order to give time for others in
the course grade the schools up and make
the term a year longer. The girls and boys
are being forced entirely too fast nowadays.
They are graduated almost before their
minds are mature enough to comprehend
the situation they find themselves in.
‘town into regular rivulets.
with. which ‘be.
No sooner was she extricat-,
ed than turning viciously knocked him.
| sulted in the loss of a foot.
A PERFECT DELUGE. — The thunder
storm that broke over Bellefonte last Sun-
day afternoon was the most torrential
down-pour of which any record is had in
this section. Though it rained little more
than half an hour one inch and one-half of
water is reported to have fallen.
This wonderfal precipitation bad the ef-
fect of turning the streets and alleys of the
Gutters were
too small to carry the water and it over-
flowed streets and pavements; destroying
maby of them and flooding cellars in all
parts of town.
Bellefonte looked like a cake of soap after
a hard day’s wash and it will be some time
before all the damage is repaired. The
most serious loss was that of Gottleib Haag,
whose fine garden at the corner of Bishop
and Penn streets was almost completely
destroyed.
The storm seemed to centre over Belle-
fonte. West and north of here there was
no rain at all, while south and east there
were heavy storms. Out about Ax Mann
there was such a down-pour that the water
rushed down the ravine back of the Boiling
Spring in such volumes as to cause consider-
able damage. There was a veritable water
spout in that locality and it swept down
the ravine to such a depth as to flood the
pike four feet. The fences about the old
Maun house, which is now occupied by
Chas. Cruse, were all carried away and the
beautiful Boiling spring, which has long
been an attraction for persons using the
pike, was completely filled with mud and
filth.
At the toll gate the water rose so rapidly
in Logan’s branch that Gus Heverly and
‘‘Morg’’ Miller were compelled to get into
it almost to their thighs in order to rescue
Miller’s pigs from a watery grave.
CoL. REYNOLDS ENTERTAINS DISTIN-
GUISHED CLERGYMEN. — Col. W. Fred
Reynolds entertained the Board of Missions
of the Central Pennsylvania Diocese of the
Episcopal church at a dinner at the Nittany
country club Tuesday evening. The party
of distinguished clergymen and laymen of
the church, together with the vestry of the’
St. John’s church, was taken to the club
on a special train over the Central and after
the dinner had been served ‘the husiness of
the session was transacted on the cool
verandas of that picturesque country re-
sort.
In the party was Bishop Ethelbert Talbot,
whose recent trial for unchristian acts pre-
ferred by Rev. Irvine, of Huntingdon, at-
tracted attention in this part of the State
until he was acquitted by the board of in-
quiry. W. R. Butler, of Mauch Chunk,
who is the secretary of the board and ‘three
of the arch-deacons of the diocese were here.
Those from Bellefonte were Rev. Geo.
1. Brown, Dr. Geo. F. Harris, Dr. J. L.
Seibert, Col. W. F. Reeder, postmaster W.
W. Montgomery, Edw. F. Garman and
Jos. L. Montgomery. These gentlemen re-
tarned after the dinner while the members
of the board tarried at the club all night.
ntmneteammcate
"KILLED BY LIGHTNING—On Wednesday
afternoon Jacob K. Rider, of Gatesburg,
this coenty, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. Mr. Rider was working
about the barn when a storm came up and
was in the act of closing the doors, when
the bolt descended, struck bim upon the
head and passed down the entire length of
his body. He fell forward and when those
who saw the flash and him fall, got to him
he was dead. He was one of the oldest,
best known and most respected citizens of
that end of the county. He was born and
lived, his entire life of 73 years, upon the
farm on which death over-took him so sud-
denly. Since boyhood he has been a con-
sistent member of the Lutheran church and
leaves behind him a record of honest deal-
ing, constant industry aud the faithful per-
formance of his duty as a citizen, a church
member, a husband and a father, that all
may envy. His remains will be buried on
Saturday morning. Interment in Gates-
burg cemetery.
PO —reeren.
THE First TiME.—That Sunday’s storm
was one of a very unusual nature was
noticed by its effect upon the ‘‘Big Spring.”
Never before, within the memory of Sup’t.
Samuel Rine, or that of any of the older
men who have been daily visitors to’ the
Spring, bas it been affected by a rain-fall
until Sunday afternoon. For the first time
the water that has bubbled out of the
ground, so pure and sparkling, hy. the mil-.
lions of gallons appeared cloudy. In fact
the spring was quite muddy for a short
time.
It was not surface water that Sainels in-
to it, because it was observed that the wa-
ter was discolored when it ‘bubbled out of
the ground. From this it would appear
that the great fall of Sunday afternoon
must have opened channels heretofore dry
and poured into ‘the deep underground
currents from which our Spring is sup-
plied.
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His FooT ALMOST CUT OFF.—-A little son
of Samuel Ewing, near Lemont, net with
an accident on July Fourth that nearly re.
He was run-
ning along beside the mowing machine
which his father was driving when he sud-
denly tripped in the high grass and Stulbleil !
in front of the cutting bar.
The horrified parent stopped the team as
soon ag possible, but the sliding knives were
balready red with the blood of the child and
it was fotind that his foot was nearly sever-
ed at the ankle. Dr. Glenn was called
from State College and did what was possi-
ble to relieve the little sufferer.
‘ed that the foot can ih saved.
It is hop-
~The Reliance “fire company of Phil-
ipshurg cleared over $150 at their picnic at
Royal Arcanum park on the Fourth.
News Purely Pevsonal.
—Miss Nannie McEntyre, of north Thomas
street, is visiting relatives in Lock Haven.
—Misses Bess and Maybelle Thompson, of Le-
mont, were Wednesday shoppers in this place.
—Miss May Judge, of south Thomas street, is
entertaining Miss May Matthews, of Tyrone.
—Rosalie and Miriam Grauver, daughters of Wil-
liam Grauner, of Altoona, are in town visiting rela-
tives.
—Rev. Father Zarek of the Slavonic Catholic
church at Clarence, was a Bellefonte visitor on
Monday.
—Mrs. Harry Keller, with her children, is
spending a few weeks at the State College hotel,
State College.
—Miss Edna Williams, of Philipsburg, spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs, Mary F. Blanchard,
on Linn street.
—T. Clayton Brown, of Gimbel’s store in Phila-
delphia, is visiting relatives and friends at his old
home here.
—Miss Emma Montgomery is in Philipsburg,
the guest of Mrs. F. K. Lukenbach and other rela-
tives in that place.
—Dr. C. 8. Musser, of Aaronsburg, with his
niece, Miss Mary J. Irey, of Warren, wus in Belle-
fonte on Tuesday.
—Mr. and Mrs. James K. Barnhart are enter-
taining Miss Margaret Scott, of Brookville, at
their home on north Thomas street.
—Mrs., Willis’ Weaver, of Winber, and Miss
Margaret Wian, of Centre Hall, are guests ‘ag. the
‘Meese home on west Logan street.
—Orville Hickok, of Harrisburg, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Ross'A. Hickok, and his sister
Miss Louise Hickok, who is their guest here, =
—Fred Kurtz Jr. who is ‘making the Lewisburg
Journal go in a profitable way, was in town for a
few hours on Monday to visit his parents.
—Miss Sara Sides, of Jersey Shore, who had
been ‘a guest at the Bush home on Spring street,
for the past two weeks, departed on Wednesday.
—Charles Thompson, of Lemont, who had been
here for his brother's marriage, returned to his
work at Logansport, Ind., on Sunday afternoon,
—Mrs. H. P. Harris, Mrs. Margaret Hutchinson
and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nettie Hutchinson,
spent Wednesday at State Cotlezs with Mrs. Juno.
T. McCormick.
—E. R. Chambers Esq., attorney for the Audi-
tor General, returned from an official visit to state
institutions in western Pennsylvania, on Wed-
nesday morning. :
—E. E. Davis, of the firm of Yeager & Davis,
Bellefonte and Philipsburg shoe dealers, has been
in town for ‘a few days this week looking after
business interests.
—Miss Jennie Irwin, of Spring street, has gone
to Wellsboro for a short visit with Mrs. William
Smith, who was Miss Della Goodfellow, of thig
place, before her marriage.
—Miss Julia Curtin, a sister of the late Andrew
G. Curtin, with Mrs. Allen Sheldon and her little
son Gregg, have been here from Torresdale for a:
week or so visiting relatives.
—Harry Gerberich, junior member of the firm
of C. T. Gerberich & Son, spent part of this week
in towns along the P. & E. where their brands of
flour are popular and big sellers.
—Mrs. Boyd Cummings and her ‘two children
from Lock Haven arrived in town on Tuesday
and are guests at the home of Mr. and Mis.
Frank Sauszerman, on Water street.
—Judge and Mrs. John G. Love, with their chil-
dren, left for Atlantic City on Monday morning
where they expect to spend a month or more at
the Porter Inn, on Virginia Ave
—Misses Betty Breese, Ellen Valentine and
Adaline Harris departed for Middletown, N.J.,
on Wednesday, where they expect to spend a
moath with Mrs. Ww illiam Taylor nee Hendrickson.
—Mr. and Mrs, Frank McKinzey and two little
daughters returned to their home in Altoona,
‘I'nesday afternoon, after spending a few days at
the home of Mr. William Gehret, on east Bishop
street.
—Mrs. J. H. Holt, of Moshannon, was a Belle-
fonte visitor on Monday ; having come in to make
arrangements for the sale of her personal proper-
ty, which will occur on Thursday afternoon, July
17th.
—Miss Ella Levy, who has just been re-elected
to her place in the teaching corps of the Belle-
fonte schools, is at Cambridge, Mass. taking a six
weeks® course in the Harvard training school for
teachers,
—Mr. A. J. Cook, whose constantly increasing
duties as superintendent of mines for the Ber-
wind-White Co. keep him away from Bellefonte
more and more as time progresses, spent Sunday
with his family on Linn street.
—The A. M. E. Sunday School Institute in ses-
sion at Altoona this week is being attended by
Rev. T. J. Askew, Henry and Arthur Thomas,
Ammon Foreman and George Overton as repre-
sentatives of St. Paul’s school.
—Mrs, Martin Reese, of Snow Shoe, has gone to
the sanitarium at Wernersville for an extended
stay for rest and treatment. During her absence
Robert, her son, is enjoying a visit at Miss Me-
Calmont’s en north Thomas street.
—Mr. Alfred Bowersox, just graduated from the
Lock Haven Normal, accompanied by his sister
Miss Katie, and Miss Ewing, of State College, are-
spending a short time with his brother Osear, at
Centre Oak, Pa., and are experiencing a very en-
Jjoyable visit,
—Mr. and Mrs. James Reilly, of Muncie, India-
na, are here to spend part of the summer with
Mrs. Reilly’s mother, Mrs. Barbara Gross. Both
are looking well and have changed but little since
leaving Bellefonte to make their home in that
bustling western glass town.
—'Squire O. H. Nason, of Martha Furnace, was
in town on the third looking for some one whe
could hold onto one of his dollars tighter than he
could himself. ‘Unfortunately for the dollar he
turned it over to us and the old eagle scarcely
| had time to straighten himself up on his new
perch until he was passed on to another. We like
to get them, sure subngh, but they never linger
long here.
LFrank Hess, of Philipsburg, who has practic.
/| ally dropped out of the grocery business over
there since his coal operations up at Smoke Run
have become so extensive, was in town on Tues-
day for a few hours. Frank looks a trifle thinner
for the hard ‘work he has done for the past year
and we should judge that he has been a very busy
‘1 man, for he never even alluded to the old game of
politics in which he was a very important player
over there.
—James B. Noll, of Milesburg, swinging a cane
ag if he had just fallen heir to half the gold in the
Klondike, wasin town on Tuesday, making ar-
rapgements for the big time the firemen of that
place are going to have Saturday night, July 26th.
You all know that Tuesday a fan would have beer
afar more useful article than a cane, but that
morning a fine, big boy arrived at Jim’s house
and his feelings were entirely too large for even
| the intense heat to affect.
* —Wardner Willard, who took advantage of the
excursion on the 4th tc spend a day with his rela-
tives and friends here, was a vigitor at the W. V.
Larimer home on Thomas street over Sunday.
Wardner is studying for the ministry and is now
a junior at Dickinson seminary, where he was
awarded a prize of twenty-five dollars for general
excellence and had it been two hundred times
that amount it would not have been any more
than he deserves or needs, for of all the boys we
have ever known he is the most diligent, self-sac-
rificing and conscientious.
day morning.
—Miss Ellen w. Roder, of | Baltimore, is a guest
at the Shoemaker home north of town.
—Mr. and ‘Mrs. Harvey Shaffer, - of this place,
are visiting the family of William” Hess, in Phil-
ipsburg.
—Mrs. Laura Elliott returned yesterday from
Oswego, Kan., where she has been visiting at the
home of her brother-in-law, Rev. William Elliott,
for the past month.
—Mrs. A. M. Mott and her two winsome little
children are in Snow Shoe visiting friends. They
expect to be away a month and will be elsewhere
before returning home.
—Miss Margery Knowles, of Richmond, Va.,
who has been spending the winter in New York,
is in town for. her annual summer's stay at the J.
M. Dale home on Linn street.
—Mrs. Harrison Walker is entertaining her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hoffman,
of Pleasantville, Venango county, at her beautiful
colonial home on east Linn street.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Schloss, of Philadel-
phia, who have been visiting at Mrs. Schloss’
home in this place for a week or more, departed
for the east yesterday afternoon.
—Edgar R. Murphy, a brother of Mrs. Ralph
Mallory, and John C. Clexton, two young Phila-
delphians who have been spending several weeks
at the Mallory home on Pine street, expect to re
turn to the city tomorrow
—Miss Sarah Collins attended the funeral of
John William Murray in Hollidaysburg on Mon-
Mr. ‘Murray's only sister, Miss
Mollie Murray, has visited here frequently and
he was a relative of the late Thomas Collins.
—Dr. and Mrs. Albert Blackburn and their lit-
tle son will arrive at the Spangler home to-day.
They have been visiting the Doctor's relatives in
Bedford county and he will return to Philadelphia
in a few days, but Mrs. Blackburn and the baby
will remain here the balance of the summer.
—Prof. James R. Hughes, of the Academy, is
on a trip through the western part of the State and
as far as Logansport, Ind., in the interest of the
school. Rev. James P. Hughes is at Sparrows
Point, Md., for a short visit and from there will
make his annual pilgrimage to Cape May.
—H. B. Wasson, a son of Ed. Wasson, of Briarly,
is another Centre county boy who has entered the
iron fields of Western Pennsylvania in search of
his fortune. He left for Wilmerding, on Monday,
and if a thoroughly honest, conscientious, indus-
trious young man amounts to anything anywhere
he will succeed.
—H. M. Jamison, an >ld Centre county boy, was
in town on Tuesday July 1st, on his way over into
Penns-valley to visit the scenes of his childhood.
He is a son of T. B. Jamison and has been at Mun-
roville, Ohio, for twelve vears, consequently it
;| was little wonder he wore an expression of expect-
ant pleasure at getting back to the old Place at
Spring Mills again.
—Miss Jennie Crittenden, of Waterbury, Conn. ,
Miss Charlott Crittenden, who. has a good pcsi-
tion in New Jersey, and Miss Lillian Crittenden,
who has just graduated at a school of kindergar-
ten methods in Buffalo, N. Y., are having a lark
of a time at their father’s,Rey. R. Crittenden’s on
Spring street. It is the first time they have been
home together for more than a year and they are
making the most of the reunion.
~—On-Wednesday, July. 2ad, Mrs.-David-Behrer,.
of Benore, was in town with her daughter and
grand-daughter Adda, a brightlittle Miss who was
celebrating her eleventh ‘birthday anniversary
that day. It was a shopping trip for the older
ladies, but Adda made a regular birthday excuar-
sion of it and the pleasure of it was not for herself
alone for she made the editor's heart glad by pay-
ing her grand-parents’ subscription away ahead.
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OFF FOR GETTYSBURG—Co. B, Fifth Reg.)
N. G. P. left for the annual summer en-
campment at Gettyshurg last evening. The
hoys went off in fine fettle and expect to
have a very enjoyable week camping on
the old battlefield.
The advance detail left on Wednesday
morning in charge of Lieut. Philip Gar-
brick and composed the following men :
Corporal W. T. Royer, privates Thomas
McClellan, William Barnes, Chas. Poor-
man, Gus Wian and Cameron McGarvey.
In the party also were Lieut. R. G. H.
Hayes and son Edmund P. Hayes and
quartermaster sergeant R. C. Daley, of
Romola.
A FIREMEN’S HOUSE WARMING AT
MiILESBURG.—The Mileshurg hose company
will celebrate the opening of their new
hose house on Saturday evening,July 26th,
with a big festival and entertainment. It
will be made the most notable of the many
pleasing events in the history of that popu-
lar organization and you will. enjoy being
there.
In addition to the usuval refreshments
served on such occasions, there will be foot
races, a fantastic bicycle race and other
amusing diversions that will contribute to
an evening’s program replete with enjoy-
ment for all who attend.
a a.
——Another business change in Belle-
fonte was made public yesterday morning
when it was announced that Mallory &
Taylor have purchased the commodious
and splendidly equipped gallery in the
Exchange, recently operated by the Iate
Berenice Mcore. The new owners will take
possession on August 1st, by which time
they will be removed from their present
location in the Lyon's building and ready
to continue the artistic photographic
work that has made them so successful.
Philadelphia . Markets.
The following are re the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday
evening. 5
Wheat—Red 81@81%4
¢ —No. 2 ar
Corn —Yellow..
“ _Mixed.. igata
OA Beee iin sssnisesshntiues :
Flour— Winter, Per Br 2.85@3. .
“ _penna. Roller... 3.40@3.65
+ —Favorite Brands £15 4.30
Rye Flour Per Br'l........... A 3.30
Baled hay—Choice Timothy. So I. var 17.00
Mix ed 12 14.50
Straw. ll Lhnniidn ng idl q. 50@15. 50
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weeklv by C. Y. WAGNER,
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
Tess :
ed wheat, possess sna seinen isn sve snrrarsvassases 80
ve, per.bushe 80
Corn, shelled, per bushel... . 65
Corn, ears, per bushel. ee? 5.705
Oats, per bushel... «i748
Barley, per Jushsi, op 50
Gronad Plaster, 50 to 9 50
Buckwheat, per | oT hel Ws og
Cloverseed, per bushel. $6 00 to $6 60
Timothy seed per bushy +on$3.20 to $3.60
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel
Onions
Eggs, per do 16
Lard, per 12:
Country S oulder 0
Si 10
14
Tallow, per pou 4
Butter, per pound. 15