Deworratic Wat Bellefonte, Pa., December 12, 1902. P. ¢RAY MEEK, . - - Ebprtor Terms orf SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance.................... Paid before expiration of year. -- Paid after expiration of year............ — Quay as a Highwayman. Senator QUAY intends to *‘hold up’’ the Senate and prevent all legislation until his omnibus statehood bill is passed, the public is informed. All the machinery of govern- ment is to be put out of order and silenced unless a measure of doubtful character, bat considerable pecuniary interest to QUAY, is enacted into law. Before the last census all the States included in the bill in ques- tion were eligible to admission to the Union for then each had population equal toa con- gressional ratio. But QUAY was against their admission then for the reason that there was no money in it for him. Now that the congressional ratio has increased 80 that at least two of the territories are below the minimum he is for admission for the reason that his fortune will be in- creased hy the event. Precisely the same influences govern the actions of highwaymen and pirates. They imagine that some one they meet on land or sea has something which will increase their wealth and they demand it at the point of a pistol. The principal difference is that the highwaymen and pirates run risk of personal danger. The victim of their attacks may be armed and alert and even if they fail to shoot first there is still a chance of prosecution and punishment. In QuAY’s ‘‘hold ups’’ no chances are taken. He keeps within the penal statutes in any event and though morally guilty, not only of rob- | bery but treason he is secure against pun- ishmens. CONELING said of an antagonist once that he had ‘‘the ambition of CxsAR and the intellect of Blind Tom.” It might be said of QUAY that he has the capidity of Captain KipD and the courage of a mouse. : QuAY’S policy will work the greatest hardships to the people of this conntry and elsewhere. . The. .carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia declare, that unless there is a modification of the tariff taxes on carpet wools their industry will be ruined and thousands of the people will suffer. Bat QUAY. will not permis legislation on tariff or anything else unless his omnibus bill is first allowed to go through. The Presi. dent states that unless reciprocity with Cuba is effected ‘the honor of the country will be sacrificed and thousands of Cubans will suffer beyond endurance. Bat QUAY makes the adoption of his omnibus bill an essential pre-requisite to action on Cuban reciprocity. Thus every interest, patriotic an humanitarian, is made subordinate to QUAY’S purse and wishes and all the machinery of government is used by him as an instrument for extorting money. —--Attorney General KNOX it is said has already given out from over-work. He has our, sympathy, but at the same time we can’t help thinking about how quick some fellows on big salaries get over- worked: —The WATCHMAN most heartily en- dorses the article from the pen of Rev. GEORGE I. BROWN, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church, published in the News of the Hth inst., as to the real spirit of a memorial and how it could best be ‘express- ed, but)it seems that while the News made the original suggestion in favor of a me- morial hospital Rev. BROWN would erect a library 'and museum. Either one would make a far more useful and living mem- orial to.the soldiers and sailors of Centre county than the greatest work of art that soulptoss could design for a monument. Bat a library or musenm would he impracti- cable for the reason that funds sufficient to erect:and endow it could not be secured and this community would be unable to sapport'it. Whereas a memorial hospital would serve even a greater usefulness and be, to, a certain extent, self-sapporé- ing. This is a matter worth the con- sideration of the commission having the proposed monument in charge. —!*Col.”” Jim MAYES, of Lamar, caught one hundred and twenty-eight suckers in two days, with only a hook and line. We have séen more suckers than that caught during a single circus day in - Bellefonte, but they were not the same species that “Col.” JIM took from the rippling waters of Fishing creek. HF CH m——i— ~——The State Grange is holding its an- nual meeting in our neighboring town of Clearfield, the present weelt and we know - the mémbers are having a good time it hospitable treatment and enjoyable asso- ciation “can make it. We are glad that they are meeting in such a good town and hope they will fully enjoy every minute of the time spent there. But when we come to read of the number of political reforms they propose we are not impressed very mach. Remembrance comes up of how vigorously, through the whole year, they talk politics and the need of reform until a campaign opens and then how they efawl into their agricaltural holes and ory out that it won’ do for them as Grangers to take part in politics and it is not bard to conclude that lop-sided taxation will con- tinue in Pennsylvania for the reason that the fellows who feel it the most don’t have the gumption to kick when their kicking would be moss effective. All the same, however, the WATCHMAN wishes them a most successful meeting. A Good and Timely Suggestion. A Harrishurg dispatch to a Philadelphia paper states that ex-Congressman HALL, who has heen spoken of as the probable Democratic nominee for United States Sena- tor, will refuse toallow the use of kis name in this connection, but that it is believed he can be induced to accept the chairman- ship of the Democratic State Committee if it is the desire of the party that he should do so.” While we know nothing about Mr. HALL’S determination or desires, in mat- ters political, we are very positive in the opinion that if he can be persuaded to as- sume the responsibilities of the chairman- ship of the organization that that should end the question as to who will be the suc- cessor of Mr. CREASY, who absolutely refuses to be a candidate for re-election. There may be plenty of men in the State who desire this position and there may be, among the persons wanting it, those who would make fairly good chairmen, but in this section, where Mr. HALL’S ability asan organizer and his earnestness as a Demo- crat are known, there is but one desire among Democrats and that is that he may accede to the suggestion and accept the position as a party duty. Those who know him, understand what it will mean for the party in the State, if he will allow himself to be placed in the position of Chairman of the State Commit- tee. He never does anything by halves. What he undertakes to do, whether for the publie, for individuals or himself, in busi- ness, politics or other lines, is done with an earnestness and an intelligence that has never yet failed to bring results. If he will but undertake the peifecting and building up of the state organization it will be done with the same energy and effectiveness, and there will be a different condition of affairs, politically, in Pennsylvania hereafter, as well as a very different out-look for those who are hoping for the end of QUAYism. No man in the State understands the party needs better than he does. None appre- ciates more the effectiveness of perfect or- ganization. Few are blessed with the same aggressive ability that characterizes him. No one has more energy, and with- in the hounds of the Commonwealth it would be impossible to find one more de- voted to Democratic success or with a clearer knowledge of how that success is to be secured. - The WATCHMAN is glad to know that he has been named in connection with this position. It will be rejoiced to under- stand that in deference to what should, and doubtless will, be the unanimous wish of the Democracy, he will aceept the place and undertake the work of building up an organization euch as will do credit to the five thundred thousand Democrats within the State, and give hope of an aggressive and effective opposition to those who have combined to roband- wrong the great Commonwealth of which we should all be proud. ——Governor STONE and his committee of ‘‘Incapacitated Judge’ hunters seem to have run across a pretty robust specimen in Judge PETER P. SMITH. At least his ermine is. not to be had for the reaching nor is it likely to be used as a collateral for the many obligations the ripper Gov- ernor has upon the political market. ——The new County Commissioners have one nasty job off their shoulders, but the maledictions that are being heaped on their heads by the fellows who wanted jobs and didn’t get them are something awful. Er ———————— ——If it be true that ‘‘he who soweth the wind reapeth the whirl-wind,” our strenuous President ought to be in line some day soon to harvest a first-class cyclone. Suicide Clause Null in Insurance Policy. U. 8. Supreme Court Decides Appeals of Two Life Insurance Cases. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The United States Supreme Court Monday affirmed the opinion of the Circnit Court of Appeals in the case of the Knights Templar and Masons’ Life Insurance Company against Rosa B. Jar- man. The case involved the validity of the suicide statute of Missouri of 1879, pro- viding that suicide shall not be a defense against the payment of a life insurance policy the one involved being upon the life of John P. Jarman, husband of Mrs. Rosa Jarman, who, while insane, took his life in Grundy county, Mo., in 1898. The Court sustained the law and held the company liable for the amount of the policy, regardless of the fact that the policy contained a clause for the avoidance of the policy in the case of suicide, ‘‘whether vol- untary or involuntary, sane or insane.”’ The Court also rendered an opinion in | the case of the Iowa Life Insurance Com- pany against Lula T. Lewis, involving the question whether collection can be made of a policy on which the premium has not been paid. In this case a policy was issued by the Iowa Company on the life of Thomas M. Lewis, of Fort Worth, Tex., who gave a note for the payment of the first preminm. This note had not been paid or renewed when Lewis died, in 1900. = The case was decided in favor of Mrs. Lewis by the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Texas, but that decision was reversed by Monday's opinion. Big Tannery Fire. The Elk Tanving company’s Eagle Valley tannery, at Ridgway, was destroyed by fire at an early hour Sunday morning. All the yard beam houses, the leather loft and leather safe, and oil house together with contents and machinery, including over 35.000 hides of finished leather were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $500,- 000. President George W. Childs, of the Elk Tanning company, whose home is at Ridgway, was absent on a trip south hut lefs for home immediately upon receipt of the news. The fire was caused by gas ex- plosion. Twice before in the past twelve years the plant bas been nearly destroyed by fire. ; usual punishment of five years’ imprison- Senators Admit it is Walton. Gave Ont Their Selection for Speaker Formally and Officially. Cold Water Thrown on M’Whinney's Aspirations, WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The feelers that bave been put out from time to time in the last two weeks by Senatois Quay and Penrose, with the object of ascertaining if the rank and file and their foliowers in the Legislature, especially the country members, would siand for the selection of Harry Walton, of Philadelphia, for speaker of the house without out break of any sort that might have unpleasant conse- quences, seem to have convinced the sena- tors that they can carry out their program as to the speakership without a fear of trouble. ; Monday, therefore, they gave it out officially, as it were, that Walton would be the presiding officer of the house. They not only gave this information to Mr. Me- Whinney,of Homestead, who had speaker- ship aspirations, but to newspaper men, who sought enlightenment on the subject. So that matter may be regarded as off the minds of the senators. They are not so anxious about the se- lection of the men for the otherposts of duty in the Legislature. In fact. as both the Senators have a good deal to engage their attention here for some time to come, it is probable the members of the Legisla- ture will be left some little leeway in de- ciding these matters themselves. Senator Quay said Monday afternoon that he would not leave Washington until Congress adjourns for the holiday recess, which will be on the 20th. It is expected he will then go to Beaver and Pittsburg, to give his attention to the little party difficulties there that mar the general harmony which prevails throughout the State. Many members of the Legislature are dropping into Washington these days to find out whom they are expeoted 10 elect as officers of that body when it assembled in January. Among those who were there on Monday were Senator White of Beaver county, who is a candidate for the post of chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations, and Mr. McWhinney, of Homestead, who had it vaguely in mind to be a candidate for speaker of. the House. Senator C. H. McPherson, of Gettysburg, was also is here on his way home from the South. He professes he is not a candidate for any thing and will be quite satisfied with whatever he may be given in the way of committee assignments. All of these gentlemen saw the Senators. Indiana Coal Mine Trust. Options on Ninety-five Per Cent. of the Plants Said to Have been Secured. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8.—Ninety-five per | cent. of the coal mines in Indiana are now held by option by Daniel G. Reid, William |; B. Leeds, the Moore brothers of Chicago, who with Messrs. Reid and Leeds own the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad; Crawford Fairbanks of Terre Haute, and capitalists from Chicago, New York and. Boston. It is understood that Crawford: Fairbauks:is-to be. president of the trust. | The syndicate recently -secured options on the mines and the deal was well under way when the ‘‘Rock Island crowd,’’ as it is called, got into a Wall street flarry and. was so hard hit that the Indians scheme to consolidate the mining interests was drop-- ped. But the deal was not at av end, for Messrs. Reid, Leeds and their associates. went ahead just as if nothing had bappen- ed.’ For two weeks an expert bag beép travelling over Indiana making an in- vestigation of these mines. : Beside this ‘mine expert, expert ace countants have been busy making an ex- amination of the books of the various coms. panies. Sentence Commuted. Gideon W. Marsh Receives the President's Clemency. WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.—The President |. has commuted to a term of imprisonment to expire December 24th next the sentence of Gideon W, Marsh, who was convicted in Philadelphia of violation of the na- tional banking laws, and on December 13th, 1898, received three sentences ag- gregating twelve years and three months imprisonment in the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia. Marsh pleaded guilty to three indictments consolidated into one, expecting to receive only one sentence. The Attorney General’s report said : “Taking into consideration all the facts of this case as they appear in the reports and other papers on file and particularly the seven years of punishment. borne by the petitioner while he was a fugitive from justice and his voluntary return and sur- render, I believe it is a case in which the ment would be sufficient. The prisoner has now served almost the equivalent of a five-year sentence and I advise that his sentence he commuted to a term of im- prisonment to expire December 24th, 1902.” Marsh was the president of the defunct Keystone National bank. May Defy : Powers. British Officers at La Guayra Think that He Will Resist—Blochade Declared. LoNDON, Dec. 10.— The Telegraph printed a dispatch from Port of Spain that the officers of .the British warship Inde- fatigable have gathered the impress at La Guayra that President Castro, of Venezuela is defiant. He is treating the British action with apparent indifference and does not recog- nize the gravity of the situation. - , It is believed that he is capable of order- ing all the British and Germans out of La Guayra and closing the poits of the country. Blockading La Guayra. COLOGNE, Dec. 10.—A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette says that three German warships and the British cruiser Indefatig- able are now blockading La Guayra, the port of Caracas, Venezuela. There is a lively exchange of dispatches between Commodore Scheder, the German commander, and ‘the German govern- ment. The training ships on the scene will only go into action in case of an emer- genoy. ———————— - Ballot Boxes in Custody. SCRANTON, December 8.—On petition of Congressman Connell, who is contesting George Howell’s election to be his succes- sor, Judge Archibald to-day made an order directing all the bailots to be taken in and deposited with the clerk of the United States court. It is explained in the petition that a plot has been discovered to tamper with the ballots. Waiting for the Right Offer. From the “Commercial Appeal” (Dem.) Only one Denver woman sold her vote in the recent election, but wait till the can- didates get to offering Fall bonnets for votes. fn Sasa Senator Sproul Drafts Bill for Good Roads. Provides for Appropriation of $6 000,000 from the State. , MEDIA, Pa., Dec. 10.—State Senator W. C. Sproul presented the draft of a bill for the betterment of the roads of the State to a meeting of the Legislative Committee of the Delaware County Rood Drivers’ As- sociation, of which he is a Chairman, this evening. The bill, which is a radical one, pro- vides for the creation of a State Highway Commission, te consist of three persons, who shall be authorized to appoint a State Highway Engineer. These, working with the County Commissioners, will attend to the construction of roads. The expense is to be divided equally between the State, county and township. The bill provides for a State appropria- tion of $6,000,000, $1,000,000 of which is to be used annually. The Hamilton road bill will be held in reserve and portions may be added. The bill was adopted as read by the Legislative committee of the I)-laware County Road Drivers’ Association and a committee of the county grange=. It will be brought before a general meeting of these two bodies on December 18th for final adoption, and an invitation has heen sent to the Legislative Committee of the Road Drivers’ Association of Pennsylvania to be present. A Pun That Failed. At a public dinner a careless waiter stumbled when bringing in a boiled tongue. The tongue slipped over the edge of the dish upon the tablecloth. “Never mind,” said the chairman cheerfully, “it’s only a lapsus linguse” (slip of the tongue). The joke was received with a burst of laughter. A gentleman present, who had no knowledge of Latin, yet saw what boisterous merriment it caused, secretly determined that he would repeat the whole performance at his next little dinner party at home and give his guests a great laugh at his wit. X : The occasion arrived. There was to be a leg of mutton, and the host had instructed the waiter to let it fall when coming in. The waiter did so, to the great dismay of the guests. “Oh, never mind,” cried the host cheerfully, “it’s only a lapsus linguse.” To his great disgust and astonish- ‘ment, however, nobody seemed to see it, and now he is suspicious that some. thing must have gone wrong some- where.—Pearson’s. Appealed to the Powers. The late Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, besides being an in- defatigable editor, had a decided vein of humor in his composition. During’ the last years of his life, as his strength permitted, he watched over his paper as zealously as in his younger days, and it was his custom to scan the columns of certain favorite exchanges and clip from them ex- tensively, marking them on the mar- gins, “J. M.—Must,” meaning that the extracts must go in. It was one of his great griefs that there was not aiways room for all of them, even when col- umns of live editorial matter had been crowded out, as they were sometimes, to make room for them. Orne night he went up to the room of the night editor with a bundle of clip- pings in his hand. «+. “Mr. Ransom,” he said to that offi- cial, with a twinkle in his eye, “I wish you would use your influence to have these printed in the paper tomorrow morning.”—Youth’s Companion. ADDITIONAL LOCALS ——The ice on the river at Lock Haven was three inches thick on Wednesday. i gh— .+——With the beginning of the new.year the employees of the American Ax and Tool Co. at Mill Hall will be paid weekly. — ee — ——The Chester Morning Republican of Monday contains a very good "picture of Prof. 8. C. Miller in conjunction with a decidedly complimentary notice of his ef- forts in entertaining the teachers of Dela: ware county, at Norwood recently. Prof. Miller is a native of Ferguson township and is one of the young Centre countians who is ‘making a name for himself abroad. SE eae BE THE CONCLUDING SESSION OF COURT.— After the WATCHMAN had been issued last week the following business was finished up at court: Thomas vs. Butler, case brought to as- certain the title to a lot of personal proper- ty, consisting of a farm, stock, machinery eto, and was about as follows: Some time in the early part of 1897 or the fall of 1896 Burdine Butler went security for D. R. Thomas, the husbaud of the plaintiff, Mary D. Thomas, on some notes, and when these notes came due, they were entered up and executions issued and the sheriff levied on the property as the property of Mr. Thom- as, when this paintiff served notice on the sheriff that the property helonged to her and not the defendant in the writ. The plaintiff alleging that on Aug. 1st, 1895, she hought all of this property from her husband on a bill of sale for a valid consid- eration, while the defendant alleges that this bill of sale was a fraud, gotten up to defrand creditors. The court. framed an issue and the case was first tried at .Janu- ary term, 1898, when the plaintiff won and the case was appealed to the Superior court and the court below reversed and then sent back for re-trial. Verdict on Thursday afternoon in favor of the plaintiff. Samuel Ewing vs Alf. Baum and Abram Baum, summoned in replevin, plea non cepit aud property. This was brought by the plaintiff to recover the value of a bay team, and it happened that on January 2nd, 1901, the plaintiff was in Bellefonte and when driving past Baum’s stable, the plaintiff alleges that Mr. Alf. Baum stopped him and asked for a deal, which he de- clined, but that they were talking and thas they went to a hotel and had some drinks, and that be subsequently became so intox- icated that he does net know what took place, but subsequently discovered that he had three horses and Mr. Baum’s note for twenty-five dollars at three months. He brought. the horses back the same night and the next day tried to get his team back ll . C. W. Fisher, merchant..... but did not get it, but afterwards a Mr. Smeltzer took the horses back and turned them loose in the stable and this writ of repelvin was issued. The defendant al- leges that the plaintiff asked him for a deal and that both parties looked at the hoses and the trade was consummated, that they did have some drinks at the hotel, but shat Mr. Ewing was not intoxicated, and knew fully what he was doing. Verdict on Fri- day morning in favor of the plaintiff for two hundred and thirty dollars. Charles F. Schad vs the borough of Milesburg, an appeal from award of view- e1s. Some time in the early part of 1901 the borough of Milesburg put in water works and took the water from Kitchen’s Gap east of the town “on the lands of the plaintiff and had the same together with six acres of land condemned under their right of eminent domain, and built a reser- voir and laid their pipes, and his suit is brought to recover damages for the land and being deprived of the use of water. Verdict Saturday noon in favor of the plaintiff for twenty-seven hundred dellars. Emanuel T. Rote vs William C. Jordan and W. T. Winkleblech, administrators of ete., of Adam Jordan, deceased, summoned in assumpsit, plea non assumpsit. Con- tinued. — Pe JURORS FOR THE NEXT TERM OF COURT. —Those who will serve as" jurors for the January term of court have heen drawn from the wheel as follows. The session be- gins Monday, January 26th. GRAND JURORS, P. H. Gerrity, foreman.......................... Bellefonte F. E. Guteliug, dentist..........ceesesisueeann. Millheim James Stevens, laborer............. State College Boro George F. Stevenson, farmer...................... Patton John Carson, laborer........... Bruce W. Ripka, teacher.... Sandford D. White, farmer.. C. H. Else, druggist.......... E. Z. Confer, farmer... J. Albert Walton, clerk. ..Philipsburg Clement Dale, farmer... .College Twp Vinton Beckwith, justice Taylor George W. Keichliue, farmer... ..Ferguson A. V.8mith, clers.............. Bellefonte John H. Jacobs, agent... J. D. McKinley, laborer; Robert Musser, tinner..... Howard A. Ocker, Iaborer.... Samuel B. Parker, blacksmit| George Stover, carpenter..... A. Stine Walker, farmer... A. M. Harter, lumberman. Christ Reese Sr., farmer... James M. Grove... b.......o..... iii TRAVERSE JURORS —FIRST WEEK. Christ Decker, farmer.... J. A. Way, surveyor..... 0. E. Heckman, laborer....... William A. Curry, shoemaker... N. B. Shaffer, farmer.......... T. M. Barnhart, laborer.... William Stover, carpenter. ...Half Moon sails Ferguson ...Potter George Stover, 1abOorer.........ceeereesernsreresssnens Miles Daniel Daup, farmer... ....civiiid doavaricinnens Potter M. L. Altenderfer, clerk.... Bellefonte Charles Whitehall, farmer... Perry Aikens, wheelwright.. fein: College ...Boggs ...Gregg J. W. Hartsock, farmer........0...c...ieveeinnn, Patton M. S. Graham, barber........ Bellefonte T. C. Van Tries, physician 4 Charles W. Wolf, farmer..........covvvenessiens. Haines William Yarnell, labcrer........conevesisennnsns Patton 8. 8. Grieb, gentleman... State College J. Richard Lutz, carpenter. ..Bellefonte John R. McCord, 18borer.......uvee.eioeneeiinsrennns Rush John ‘Walk, carpenter..... .. «..8. Philipsburg Samuet-Kreamer; merchant: Centre Hal C. U. Hoffer, bookkeeper... Philipsburg Harry Royer, farmer..... i Joseph Tressler, farmer. D. E. Shultz, furnaceman...... J. Benner Graham, shoemaker. Joseph Mingle, laborer......... D. A. Detrick, R. R. agent.... George W. McGaffey, banker... David G. Fortney, farmer.... Benjamin Wingart, ‘¢ .... Joseph Emerick . Adam Gingher, laborer.. J. K. Meyer, miller........... Elmer Shangraw, engineer. . John I. Williams, carpenter. James Kimport, farmer..... Wilson Cole, blacksmith. W. A. Neese, farmer.... J. J. Stine, blacksmith. ... George Horner, teamster... John Haines, laborer...... W. E. Confer, barber... ’ J. L. Walkey, optician.............. be D. H. Kustenborder, Vet. surgeon......... Ferguson 3 TRAVERSE JURORS—SECOND. WEEK. W. T. Winklebleck, teacher: Thomas Hosterman, postmaster..i.:.............. Penn Henry Krebs, carpenter........ ...Bellefonte . State College ~Haines D. W. Heaton, farmer. ....Huston T. E. Griest, merchant Unionville W. H. Bloom, farmer... ....Ferguson J. B. Schenck, laborer, E. A. Bower, merchant... D. J. Meyer, gentleman.. Snow Shoe J. D. Lucas, mechanic...........ccceeeesvereenernnenns Potter William M. Daley, laborer.. ..Bellefonte R. D. Bierly, carpenter....... «... Miles John A. Hoy, merchant.. William Quick farmer...... James [. McClure, saddle William I. Brower, farmer...........ccovveevennnene Union Henry T. Tibbens, gentleman... ..Bellefonte Samuel Aley, shoemaker.............c.cecurerunnes Marion Henry Kelley, coal operator.. Snow Shoe Frank Wythe, painter....... Philipsburg M. Frank Hazel, farmer. Spring James Waddle, farmer....... Frank Welliver, machinist. W. A. Sickle, druggist... John Noll, farmer........ W. C. Kreamer, farmer...... Rudolph Pletcher, weaver.. A. D. Lucas, farmer............ George R. Quick, farmer. Harry Kern, laborer........... . R. D. Dougherty, warden. John Heaton, laborer.......... John E. Yeager, farmer... Edward Shope, foreman.. Miles E. Osmer, painter.. Thomas Faxon, engineer. Calvin Meyer, laborer...... W. M. Dreibelbis, laborer... ..Benner John D. Gill, manufacturer..... eee see RUsh William R. Brachbill, merchant............ Bellefonte .Bellefonte ....Gregg ; Lemont. John I. Williams is spending a few days at home. y > B. F. Homan’s youngest child is confined to his room with pneumonia. Oak Hall station has telephone connec- tions with the outside world now. Mrs. Jacob Houtz has been quite ill this week, but is on the mend now. The protracted meeting now in progress at the Presbyterian church is weil attended. Miss Hopkins, of Philadelphia, is having a pleasant sojourn at the hospitable home of Mrs. J. Y. Dale. Prof. C. L. Gramley is making his an- nual tour of the county and made his visit at Oak Hall on Tuesday. —————cy a The Western Union Telegraph Co. has ten men at work putting up two wires through to State College this last week. Rev. Heckman, of Tyrone, spent a few days at the home of his son, the Rev. Edgar Heckman, of State College. The Sabbath school children of this burg are beginning to look ahead to the Christmas entertainments that are to be held. Saturday was the big rabbit day of the sea- son for the hunters of this place and vicinity as there was known to have been thirty killed. Rev. Stonecypher the Lutheran minister from Boalsburg, filled Mr. Hepler’s pulpit on Saturday evening, and his discourse was well received by all. Mrs. George Martz and Mrs. Woodring and daughter are all on the sick list with the grip as well as quite a good many people in this community at the present. Miss Mary Etters is very ill at this time and it was feared, from Friday until Sun- day, that she could not survive, but she has made a slight change for the better; which it is hoped will continue. ——————————————— ee —— Howard. W. P. Lucas is improving slowly. John Long, of Tyrone, transacted business in our town on Friday. Harry Williams, of Altoona, visited his parents last Wednesday. C. M. Muffly’ returned home on Saturday from a trip to Tennessee. Dr. Walter Kurtz captured 10 rabbits and a 22lb wild turkey ou Monday. Pretty good for one day’s hunt. Mrs. John Thompson and children, of Snow Shoe, visited over Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gross. Miss Sarah Beightol, who has been sick for . the past two weeks, is improving and expects to open her school next Monday. Miss Sarah Lucas, of Dagus Mines, arrived | here last Wednesday and is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Wm. Confer. Pine Grove Mention. A full set of blacksmith tools are for sale by Emanuel C. Fye. : Mercury hovered around zero for a few days the beginning of the week. Charles Eckley, a steel worker of Pitts- burg, has been visiting his old chums here for a week. The sleighing was very good the fore part of the week and party goers were exceeding- ly busy. On January 9th, 1903, the members of the I. 0. 0. F. of the Pennsvally lodge number 276, will hold their annual banquet in their new hall. It is said that several of our capitalists got squeezed rather tight in that Maryland coal deal. For further information apply to State College or Boalsburg. Mr. Wash Gates, one of Half Moon's enter- prising young farmers, has branched out into the huxter business and is building up a thriving trade in this valley. "Mrs! Prank Bowersox, of Fairbrook, who bas been visiting her son Oscar, at Centre Oak in Clinton county, had a very enjoyable time and thoroughly appreciated the atten-. tion that was paid her. Last week John and Bruce Musser moved their saw mill onto the John Musser timber land on Tussey mountain. There they ex- pect to cut more than a hundred thousand feet of timber. Mrs. J. O. C. McCracken and her bright lit- tle son returned to their home near Johns- town on Saturday morning, after a very pleasant visit at grandfather Henry McCrack- en’s in the Glades. Harry Shugert is now farming for Adam -— Felty on the Branch and now there is a young lady lamenting the loss greatly. Mat- ters are not so shugery as they were thought to be with the girl he left behind. ; Butchering season is on the wane and so far we have heard of no porkers who reached an exvraordinary weight. Our Millheim butchers are still ahead but at this writing Wwe are expecting to out-weigh them yet. Squire Hess, of Bellefonte, was at his old home this week stirring pon hoss and mixing worst. From the supply of butchering he laid in there is no doubt but what he intends to live on the fat of the land all winter. On Monday morning Daniel M. Neidigh, of Pine Hall, departed for Philadelphia where he entered the German hospital to have a tumor removed. It is sincerely hoped that the operation will be a success and that his life will be spared for many years. A. M. Brown, A.F. Markle and Thomas D. Decker were among the sight seers at the Chicago stock show last week. They are all supposed to be fancy stock raisers themselves but sixty-five cents a pound was a little too i rich for tbem and they decided to eontinue raising their own mongrel stock. Robert McCrea and his wife, who have been visiting at the home of the latter's fath- er, 8. H. Bailey, returned to their home at Bellvue near Pittsburg well laden with bear, venison and pork. Mr. McCrea spent a week with the Bucktails in their hunting expedi- tion and enjoyed the outing immensely as well as the bear and venison. Mrs. William 8. Glenn, of State College, who has been critically ill for four weeks with pleurisy is improving nicely. On Sat. urday after Drs. J. M. Locke and M. A. Kirk, of Bellefonte, had taken from the pleura sac of her left lung three pints of wa- ter and mucous which had accumulated there, her temperature, pulse and respiration were very much better, but on Monday she was so much worse that Dr. Vischer was tele- graphed for. On Sunday Rev. Heckman closed the pro- tracted meeting which he has been conducte ing here for the past three weeks. Rev. Heckman is not a sensationalist nor has he discovered a new theology but he does pre- sent the old truths in a very impressive way and clothes them in modern attire. His meeting was the most interesting that has been held here for many years and was large- ly attended by the people of the entire com- munity irrespective of differing denomina- tions. At the service on Sabbath several per- sons were taken into the church on probation as one of the results of the meeting.
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