States Forty-Third Commencement Exercises.
The Largest Crowds in the History of the Institution Attend
the Graduation Exercises of the Largest Class.—Mr.
. and Mrs. Schwab Not
There, but Represented
by Distinguished Men of the Business
World.
It needed but 2 glimpse of the crowds
that were present during the week of the.
forty third commencement exercises of The
Pennsylyania State College, just closed, to
convince the most pessimistic thas the day
of uncerfainty, the formative period of that
great institution, has passed. Fathers,
mothers, sisters, brothers, sweethearts and
friends were there in such numbers as have
never before been seen and this, too, in face
of the much heralded burning of the Inn,
the pringipal place of entertainment of com-
mencement crowds, which was expected to
have a deterrent effect upon those who had
contemplated coming from a distance.
But professor, student and citizen joined
in the most successful work of caring for
the visitors with the resuli that the great-
est crowd in the history of State College
commengements was entertained far more
comfortably than those who knew of the
disadvantages under which they were work-
ing had any right to expect.
BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY.
When Sunday dawned with the cold,
chilling rain; that bad been prevalent fora |
week past; still falling the hearts of thany
sank in the gloomy prospect, for if at any
time in her history State College needed fair
weather it was during this week. By nine
o’clock an occasional 1ift in the sky began
to encourage hope. It would be of short
duration, however, for lowering clouds
would goon obscure the sun and the dreary
rain would fall. Thusit continued through-
out the day,but notwithstanding it a crowd
far in excess of any expectation thronged
into the Schwab auditorium to hear the
baccalaureate ‘sermon’ which’ Dr; Lawrence
M. Colfelt, the brilliant divine whose heart
in recent years has cherished an.ever inoreas- y
ing fondness for the students of State, de~
livered. He took for his text Ezekial 1: 21
and spoke as follows : x ;
The Prophet in this vision caught a
glimpse of the Epoch in which we are liv-
ing. Never was the aspect of the world 5
work so fitly presented as now under the
imagery of wheels. The most brilliant
achievements of our age are all owing to
the fact that we have caught the wild
forces of nature and set the most subtle and’
mighty elements of the universe to turning.
our wheels.
But it is not the wonder and glory of the,
The duty
of the hour for all men, and especially col-:
wheels that I would celebrate.
lege bred men, is to get the spirit in the
wheels. My subject therefore is the Spirit-
ualization'of Todustry. 0
And you will agree that among other
things we need first of all to ges the spirit
of dignity into this mechanical age, not
simply into our great inventions, bus into
our humblest tasks. For the old Persian
Dualism—the Eastern contempt of matter
as something God would not soil his hands
with—survives still. There is still such a
prejudice against labor that the noblest
champions of it doubt if it can ever be ele-
vated into a fine sentiment. It is this
not develop as reflned a manhood as the
man who puts his thought into paintings
| and statues and Keramics. The new type
of man developed by the practical activities
of the modern world wll be the, DeGr ot
“preceding “type. “He wi e bui
jo square. He will be broader and more
harmonious in his development than the
feudal, or artistic, or professional, or mili-
tary type. Business properly pursued
broadens the whole manhood. The new
type of man evolved by modern industrial
pursuits, resting his manhood on the grani-
tic foundations of service to humanity will
be more of a gentleman—with a sounder
heart, a more generous nature, a more re-
fined task, a fuller orbed personality—in a
word, a gentleman such as past ages have
never seen. He will have all the old
consciousness of power, not obtained by the
destruction of his fellowmen, hut by the
master of the forces of nature directed to-
ward beneficent aid. To strength gentle-
ness will be added. The flower of chivalric
manhood will crown and decorate the solid
and intrinsic worth of our industrial civili-
zation.
Round swings the hammer of industry,
Quickly the sharp chisel rings,
And the heart of the toiler has throbbings
That stir not the bosom of kings.
IV: ‘We must put the spirit of “beauty
into the wheels, There is certain to be a
rebound from the mechanical in the direc-
tion of greater taste. Steam and electric-
ity—giants of boundless force—are doing
strong but monotonous work. We begin
to tire of utilitarian commonplace. For the
present the humble workers in metal,
thread, clay, glass, are content~to follow
their teachers, but the hope is that work-
men will become artisans and so imbued
with the spirit of their craft that they will
originate independent designs and improve
upon their masters. Considering our
alleged superiority in intelligence, taste
and resource is this too much to hope that
we in America will develop and maintain
special art industries like the Chinese pol-
lers, the Persian rug-weaver, the Japanese
carvers, the Benares brassworkers. We
have a right to demand original art in our
furniture, our carpets, our clothing, our
books, our dishes, our fire, our metals, our
jewels, our laces, and we are beginning: to
get it. But we are getting it by being mere
imitators and copyists. We ransack the
old world for its models and reproduce
them. This hopeful renascence of art in
our industries furnishes a bonndless field
for the noblest inventions of colleges of the
type of State whose mission it is to train
men for the initation in industry, men who
have not only the brains to make designs,
but the hands which pus those designs into
shape.
V. Fidelity should also he the inform-
ing spirit of the wheels. Fidelity to pres-
ent duty is the root of all possible great-
ness. It is the peculiar temptation of
.| American life to be discontent with the
present dusty, to regard it as but a stepping
stone to something high, and not worth
doing for its own sake. So the land is
cursed with much careless work, with lab-
orers who take more interest in their wage
than in their work. Carelessness, feverish
haste, contempt of present duty hem us
close.
i VI. The special mission of our century
is to get she spirit of service into the wheels,
The merchant, the mechanic, the day lab-
prejudice which so often stigmatizes our {Orer—all men who produce industriously
civilization as a material civilization. But
T'indulge the spirit of prophecy and do
insist that if we spiritualize our industry | than those who decorate it.
it will yet occupy the place of highest
honor. And it will not be the age of con-
quest, or the age of chivalry, or the age of
poetry that will be the golden age, hut the
age of the wheels in which all industry
shall be transfigured with the principle of
divine service.
II. And this leads to the necessity of
getting the spirit of fraternity in the
wheels. For fraternization grows ‘out of
the spirit of dignity. Indeed you can have
no brotherhood in the industrial world
without the realization that man is separ-
ate from and superior to a machine. All
harmonious relations between capital and
labor, all just actions between the contract-
ing parties, must finally he governed by
the practical recognition of this truth. It
we are ever to have fraternity between the
employer and the employed we must real-
ize that back of all economical considera-
tions is the trnism that the man who toils
in a factory or farnace or mine isnot a
machine—but a. sensitive hnman being
with all the possibilities which belong to
humanity. The poorest drudge that bears
God’s image is infinitely superior to the
grandest piece ever conceived by human
genius and has an inalienable right to jus-
tice, free action and mental opportunity. Bb
And when we realize this tremendous hu-
man claim we will cease estimating the
and skillfally—are the real benefactors.
They serve their age even more grandly
Why should
they not feel the honor. Not only patriots
who sacrifice their lives for their conntry
and martyrs who shed their blood to seal
their holy faith, or missionaries who go at
the risk of life to the world’s end, are to
be honored for serving their fellow men,
but the humble laborers in fields and
factories and mines who give themselves to
the unwearied performance of duty are
more to be honored because the prosaic
character of their work puts a greater strain
upon their mettle and their virtue. The
8pirif of service will transfigure onr com-
mon work.
Finally we need to get the spirit of relig-
f ion into our wheels. Only religion can
feed the fires of a deathless optimism and
«inspire industry with progress. Thegreat-
est problem of life is to make our work our
religion. The great majority of the wak-
ing hours of humanity are of necessity pass-
ed in employment on farms, in factories,
counting rooms and workshops. And if
religion is to be more than an intermittent
force, if it is to be universal in its obliga-
tions and its power, it must be with men
iein these places. Tire work then of the
hour, whatever it is, is God’s work direct-
Ly givenus to do. It is divine service.
[he Father’s business. = Every bargain we
strike, every tool we handle, every com-
“mission we execute is a religions work if
workingman from the purely, selfish stangd- , We are pleased to make it so. The service
¢ he.c
point of the greatest amonnt of
do at the least cost and care, and we will
be far on toward fraternity. - The'gulf be-
tween capital and lahor will be speedily
bridged.
III. We must put the spirit of chivalric
manhood into the wheels. The old ord
changeth yielding place to the, new. Bus
what the new type of industrial man shall
be is a matter of some diversity of opinion.
The old order of a hereditary and priviledy-
ed class has passed away never to return.
The feudal age with its chivalry has
yielded to an industrial age in which it has
been taken for granted that the new order
pivoting as it does on self interest must
materialize society and vulgarize men.
The captains of industry who are destined
to become the ranking order in the vast
new system of social gradation are baited
already by the social leaders who are being
pushed from their pedestals as plutocratic.
rons, graced with no ethics but an en-
ightened selfishness and no refinement bus
that which is prompted by the instinct of
ostentatious display. But there is no reas<
on why the captain with the qualities need-
ful for sapremacy in the business world
knit into the fabric of his character, may
nob become the social peer of any man bred
in kings’ courts or Medieval castles. The
discipline of the whole character in the
modern competition sohool—the qualities
needed to master the forces of the universe
and to direct and energize vast numbers of
men in peaceful pursuits—ought to con-
tribute to the production of a chivalric per-
sonality quite as much as being a sourtier
dependant on the good will of a sovereign.
Indeed there is no reason that a man who
transmutes his thoughts into railroads and
factories and tunnels and bridges and
mines and any production for man may
WOrk | “can. Of man is theservice of God. He who con-
tributes in-anyway-to-the world’s
and comfort enhances the conditions of, it:
spiritval growth.
men’s bodies does something indirectly for
their souls. To do our work honorably
er ; ond well is to usher in the kingdom of God
on earth. :
- Dr. Colfelt closed with an impassioned
personal appeal to the graduating class to
dedicate their lives to the spiritualizing of
industry. Lous
MONDAY’S PROGRAM,
Monday the crowds were swelled by train
loads of visitors from the east and west. It
was noticeable thronghout the entire week
that the number of country people who had
driven to the College was far less than in
past years, while those who came from a
distance were in greater numbers. This in-
dicates that interest in the Centre county
institution is no longer confined to the lit-
tle circle of people in this community who
have known of it since the earliest days
bus the name and fame of The Pennsylva-
nia State College has reached far and wide
into every precinct of the State.
Clouds still hung in the sky, but the rare
atmosphere that made old Nittany look
The public exercises for Monday were
somewhat changed because of the condition
of the grounds. The class day exercises of
1903 had to be abandoned and the dual
field spo:ts between {the Carlisle Indians
and State were called off. A ball game be-
tween the Varsity and the old students
only a stone’s throw ‘away was reassuring.
se
proved a pleasant diversion during the af-
ternoon, however, while the record men in
the track and field events gave an exhibi-
bition that proved highly interesting.’ In
the former the Varsity won by the score of
10to 8. In the latter no records were
broken. 3
In the evening the Junior oratorical con-
test proved an attraction that almost taxed
the capacity. of the new Auditorium. In
fact every one saw the wisdom of a remark
made last June by General Beaver to the
effect that magnificent as would be the size
of the new building given by Mr. and Mrs.
Schwab it would not be long until the
wing needs of our great College would
nder it too small for special occasions of
his sort. ;
- There were six orators who spoke in the
following order: Mr. P. J. Morissey, on
“Our National Growth’ ; Mr. Christian
ith Bomberger,on ‘“The Future of Amer-
iea’’; Mr. John D. Elder,on “Who is Great
mong You’; Mr. Thomas J. Bryson, on
‘The True Knight;”’ Mr. Mahlon J. Rent-
sghler, on ‘Frontiers in History,”’ and My.
bert H. Lyons, on ‘The Triumph of
mmercialism.”” The judges, Hon. John
Remflon of State College, H.C. Quigley
5q., of Bellefonte, and Mr. George L.
Hager, of Buffalo, N. Y., had considerable
difficulty in selecting the winner as the
subject matter of all was so good, but upon
the question of presentation they found that
Ir. Elder had excelled and he was award-
ed the prize. :
i SCHWAB DAY. f
‘Since the coming of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
M. Schwab into the life of The Pennsylva-
nia State College. just a year ago, their
names have been constantly on the lips of
the friends of the institution. It was little
wonder then that all other events of Tues-
day, ordinarily. the busiest. -day- of com-
mencement. week, -were overshadowed by
the anticipation of another visit from the
distinguished gentleman and lady who had
been the first to break through the barrier
of aloofness that has held off private be-
quests from this school of the Common-
wealth with their magnificent auditorium.
Ten o’clock was the hour set for its dedi-
cation, but long before that time crowds
were gathered at every entrance waiting to
gain admission to the seats not previously
allotted. . ‘When the services were formally
opened every one of the fourteen hundred
and two seats was occupied and many were
standing. It was a glorious day in State’s
history. From a cloudless gky the rays of
the morning sun shot a soft light throngh the
leaded glass windows and the interior pre-
sented a scene that will be ever remember-
ed. Impressive in itsimmense proportions,
simple and pure in ite white stucco and ele-
gant in its furnishings . the anditorium was
the realization of a dream that had long
since been regarded as Utopian. With it
all there was one feature of sadness that
could -not-be~ eliminated. Mr. and Mrs.
Schwab were; not there to share the ‘joy of
the occasion with those whom they bad
madehappy. Unexpected business engage-
ments had made it absolutely impossible for
them to leave New York, but as a mark of
their interest and an earnest that their
hearts and minds were with the great
throng that day they had sent a party of
distinguished gentlemen to represent them.
At the opening of the exercises President
Atherton read letters and telegrams from
Mr. and Mrs. Schwab; both of which were
full with words of regret and encourage-
ment. After the invocation by Professor
Benjamin Gill, .the College song ‘‘Alma
Mater”’ was sung, then the President paid
fitting tribute to the faithfulness and hon-
esty with which the four gentlemen who
bad charge of the construction of the audi-
orium had carried their work to completion.
First to Mr. Hazelhurss, the architect; then
to Mr. Jos. Alexander;the superintendent of
construction; to W. C. Patterson, the super-
intendent of gronunds,and to John Corrigan,
whose deft work in a night had given the
building a setting worthy of so imposing a
structure.
The first address was made by Mr. W.
D. Dixon, 2nd vice president of the United
States Steel Co., who paid merited tribute
to the generosity and goodness of the don-
ors; then Dr. M. H. Ward, a brother-in-law
of Mr. and Mrs. Schwab, made the presen-
tation address. Expressing the hope that
the new auditorium would ever serve the
high ideals to which it was to be dedicated
he banded a golden key to Gen. Beaver,
“president of the board of trustees, who in"
er foug ofy ue turn, presented it to President Atherton.
Both of the latter spoke in language most
appropriate and then Dr. Colfelt addressed
the audience on what the gift stands for.
Following this Prof. Fred L. Pattee read
the ‘‘Dedication Ode,”’ a work of rare liter-
ary trinmph from his own pen. Following
the ode the President presented to Mr. and
Mis. Schwab the resolutions by which the
board of trustees accepted their gift. They
were handsomely embossed on parchment
and encased in a silver casket on which is
graven the names of the donors and an etoh-
ing of Mr. Schwab. Through Mr. Fred P.
Dodge, of the Senior class, the student body
then presented Mr. and Mis. Schwab with
a silver loving cup. Both of these tokens
were accepted by Dr. Ward with the assur-
ance that he would carry the messages of
gratitude and felicitation they conveyed.
_ Before there was time to hear from Mr.
'C. W. Baker, the New York representative
of the United States Steel Co., who was the
other of Mr, Schwab’s representatives, they
received a message calling them back to
| New York at once, so that the exercises
, were closed with the singing of the doxology
and a benediction pronounced by Rev. Geo.
Israel Brown, of St. John’s Episcopal
church of Bellefonte.
The alumni luncheon, which was served
in the armory at noon, was enjoyed by
about four hundred and twenty guests.
| study of biography and portraitare.
Owing to the interruption in the day’s pro-
gram, caused by the unexpected departure
of the Schwab party, the usual flood of post
prandial oratory was stemmed by General
Beaver, who acted as toastmaster and call-
ed on only three speakers. They were Dr.
Colfels; Wood, of the class of 1899,and Tay-
lor, of the class of 1903.
Immediately after the luncheon the
Alamni Association meeting‘was held: No
business of importance was transacted.
Mrs. Blanche Patterson Miller was elected
president and the other old officers re-elect-
ed. The Association elected Mr. J. G.
White, of New York, as their member of
the board of trustees.
The meeting of delegates from the vari-
ous agricultural societies of the State to
elect trustees was held later. Thirteen
counties were represented and four trustees
eleoted as follows : Gen, James A. Beaver,
to succeed bimself; Dr. L. M. Colfelt, to
succeed himsell; Gabriel Hiester, of Harris-
burg, to succeed Col. R. H. Thomas, of
Mechanicsburg; and Joel Herr, of Clinton
county, to succeed Cyrus T. Fox, of Read-
ing. 2
GROUND, BROKEN FOR THE NEW AGRICUL-
TURAL BUILDINGS.
To the farmer, the horticulturist, the
creamery man and the stock raiser of Penn:
sylvania the most vitally interesting cere-
monial of the week was the breaking ground
for the first of the group of agricultural
buildings which it is hoped some ‘day will
crown the rising ground on the north-
eastern section of the campus. For years
Dr. Armsby, director of ‘the experiment
station, has been leading the agricultural
interests of the State in a strenuous work
for the best equipped, most modern school
of busbandry and cattle raising in the
world. Success has at last crowned their
efforts and the beginning of the work of
building was begun on Tuesday. The
dairy wing for which the recent ' Legisla-
ture appropriated $100,000 is to be built
first. :
Secretary of Agriculture Critchfield was
the officer of the day and opened the ex-
ercises with some happy remarks on the
auspiciousness of the occasion to the farm-
ers of Pennsylvania. He was followed by
former Secretary of Agriculture John
Hamilton and then Col. Hiram Young, the
veteran editor of the York Dispatch and
president of the State Agricultural So-
ciety, sank the spade, which bad been pre-
sented him by Dr. Armsby, deep into the
ground and turned out a large lnmp of
clay. Many of the delegates from the vari-
ous counties threw out a spade-ful also
after the formal breaking.
The next talk was by President Ather-
ton of the College and when he concluded
Wm. T. Hill, Master, of the State Grange,
addressed those assembled. The last act
in what had proven to be unexpectedly
enjoyable occasion was the presentation of
the spade as a trophy to Col. Young. In
a few facetious words Dr. Armsbv tarned
over the implement to the permanent keep-
ing of the gentleman who had wielded it
first in such a good cause and in the way’
of remunerating him for his services a
check for one cent was banded over to him.
The exhibition drills of ‘the cadet bat:
talion closed the day’s program. Fully
two thousand spectators were assembled
on the campus to watch the young soldiers
manoenvre. i
In the evening the Thespians, the dra-
matic organization of the students, present-
ed their formersuccess ‘‘A Night Off”’ to a
large andience in the auditorium. :
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
Commencement, the ending of. one, the’
beginning of a new life for the two young
ladies‘and seventy young gentlenien of the
class of 1903 bad its last formality Wed- |
nesday morning. The. auditorinm was
comfortably filled and there was an ‘atmos-
phere of greater seriousness than had per-
vaded any of the preceding exercises. The.
rostram was oconpied by members of the
board of trustees, ‘the faculty looking
dignified in caps and gowns decorated with’
the insignia of the degrees they bear, and.
five orators of the class to be graduated.
Afser the invocation was pronounced ‘by
Dr. Colfelt the orations were pronounced
as follows : Mr, Elmer Beckert, “The Jury
Systems’ Mr. Arthur R.. Dennington,
‘‘College - Life;”” ‘Mr. Johu H. Sayder,
‘‘Unmentioned Heroes;"’ Mr. D, B. Tuhol-
ski, “The Responsibility of the Press;
Mr. Floyd H, Taylor, the:valedictory. The
Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Attorney Gen-
eral of Pennsylvania, delivered the address
to the gradnating class; taking for his |
theme the lessons to be learned from a
At its conclusion President Atherton.
awarded the prizes and honors and con-
ferred the degrees on the candidates who!
were presented by the professors in charge
of the various courses in which they had
completed theirwork, ~~
The awards were made as follows :
First Honors Class of 1903 to - Axthur Ros-
coe Dennington, ‘John «Bechtel. Landis,
Edwin Ray Norris, Isaac’ Charles Palmer,
Harry Edwin Stitt, Robert LeRoy Streeter.
Second Honors Class 1903 to Robert Ran--
dall Baillie, Elmer Henry : Beokert, John!
Shir iner Cochran, Sterling DeWitt Fowler,
Ernest Stewart McLarn, Helen Dale Mus-
ser, Joseph Maroy Nelson, Arthur Samuel |
O'Neil, Frederick Robert Shaffer, John
Hoffer Snyder, Floyd Hamilton Taylor.
Commissions in the military service of
the government were given tcall the cap-
tains and lieutenants of the cadet battalion.
The McAllister Prize of $25, the gift of
General James A. Beaver, to that member
of the Freshman class who shall excel in|
the studies preparatory to admission to the
College awarded to William Henry Dean,
of Williamsburg. :
The Oratorical Prize of $25 to that. mem-
ber of the Junior class who shall. excel in
the composition and delivery of an English
eration John Donaldson Elder, of Elders
Ridge. :
Historical Prize $50 by The Pennsylva-.
wo ATI
nia Society of New York awarded to
Charles Stone Freeman, of Pittsburg.
Prize for the Inter-Class Debate won by
Alexander Hary Jr., Francis J. Saunders,
Joshua A. Hunter, R. H. Aungst.
The John W. White Fellowship. The
Fellowship is awarded to a member of the
graduating class in the following manner:
The names of the ten students having the
highest general average in scholarship dar-
ing the entire four years are submitted by
the Faculty to the graduating class. From
these ten the class by secret ballot selects
two, and from these two the Faculty, also
by secret ballot, selects the one considered
most worthy of the Fellowship, which is of
the value of $400 and is to be held for one
year. The recipientis to agree to spend
the year in advanced study at this institu-
tion or elsewhere, according to his own
preference. Awarded to A. R. Denning-
ton. The Medal, of the value of $50, is
awarded to the other member of the gradua-
ting class named to the Faculty by the
Senior class, Awarded to I. C. Palmer.
The John W. White Senior Scholarship of
the value of $200. - his h t
The John W. White Junior Scholarship of
the value of $150. , - :
The John W. While Soplomore Scholar-
ship of the value of $100 are awarded toa
member of the Senior, Junior and Sopho-
more classes respectively as follows: The
Faculty by secret ballot selects one from
among the ten who have attained the high-
est general average during the three years,
two years, or one year preceding. Senior
awarded to Thomas J. Bryson.
Junior scholarship for last year award-
ed to Paul Olin Noble. Sophomore scholar-
ship awarded to Joshua Allen Hunter.
Three Cadets ranking highest in _ the
military department R. L. Streeter, H. E.
Stitt 8. E. Miller. : ;
Asst. Prof. Geo. C. Butz to be professor
of horticulture.
These promotions were annonnoed: Asst.
Prof. Carl D. Febr to be professor of Ger-
man. shin : :
The degree of master of science was con-
ferred upon Roy 'B.' Mattern, of Miles
burg, and Wm. ' H. Rebhun. Electrical
Engineer upon Harry P. Wood, and Min-
ing Engineer on William C. B. Alexander,
of Clearfield. ‘ 10
During the morning President Atherton
announced that the subscription to the
Carnegie library had been increased to
$150,000 so that work on that building,
which bas already begun, will be carried
to early completion. °
The family of the late Judge John H.
Orvis, through Gen. Beaver, presented the
college with a portrait of the departed
jurist.
Of the class of 1903 the following are
Centre county sons and daughters: James
Joseph Markle, George Oscar Gray, Harold
Gray Glenn, Helen Dalé Musser, and Effie
Christina Supera Snyder, State College;
Peter Dale Hoffer, Centre Hall; Robert
Usher Wasson Lemont; John Rockey
Decker, Zion. 3 t an
During the afternoon State met Manhat-
tan College of New York base ball team on
the diamond and, after one of the moss
inteusely interesting games ever seen on
Beaver field, came off victorious hy the
score of 3 to 2. ;
In the evening the armory was ablaze
with lights and decorations for it was the
—— TTR
—Mr. William J. Potter, for many
years a student at the Penna. Academy of
Fine Arts, and also an instructor at the
Spring Garden institute is arranging to con-
duct a class in modeling, in Bellefonte,
from June 25th until September 24th,
Tuesday and Friday mornings. Tuition
for term $10.00. Those wishing to join
the class will please inform Mr. Potter,
at Milesbarg. :
———
— Attention of those contemplating re-
moval to the west or investments in in-
creasing land values is directed to the ad-
vertisement of Dakota land for sale in this
issue of the WATCHMAN. Mr. P.O. Stiver,
whose name is attached to it, is a former
Centre county boy and a most reliable citi-
zen of Freeport. We can-cheerfally com-
mend him as a gentleman of the highest
character and one in whose statements the
most implicit confidence can be placed.
Pe
‘FOR FIREWORKS DEALERS.~There isa
law on the statute books which imposes a
penalty of $300 fine on the dealer in fire
works and explosives who sells toy pistols
or cannon (dynamite crackers. This law is
of such recent origin that it is not general-
ly known and, perhaps, dealers who are
preparing for the sale of such pistols and
crackers on the Fourth of July will hesi-
tate about violating it. !
2 —— AAA rset
——William Waddle last Saturday even-
ing met with a mishap that might have
proven more serious than inconvenient,
asit did. At supper he was contentedly
munching strawberries and cake when he
got in hig mouth a small. piece of glass
chipped from ‘the side of the dish. In
masticating the piece of glass was brought
into close contact with the roof of his
mouth, puncturing a small blood vessel,
and Mr. Waddle had considerable 'diffi-
culty in checking the flow’ of blood. As
a last resort before seeing a physician a
chew of tobacco proved the efficient
remedy. ! !
§ SPO
——W. E. Meehan, the state fish com-
missioner, is expeoted in Bellefonte to-day
to inspect the varioussites offered as avail-
able for the {location of the new state
hatchery. Among the places in view are
the meadow on the Hastings’ farm near
Axe Mann, the John I. Thompson meadow
at Lemont, and a plot up Buffalo Run.
The two former, however, are the best
suited for the desired purpose. Officials of
the Sportsmen’s League and others inter-
ested in securing the hatchery for Centre
county aver that the chances are favorable
for its location here. |
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CHURCH DEDICATION.—The Lutheran
church at Spring Mills will be dedicated
Sunday: Services were held all this week
and to-morrow night there will be a ser-
mon by Rev. W. E. Fischer, D. D., of
Shamokin. The dedicatory sermon Sun-
day will be preached by Rev. I. H. Mc-
Gann, of Lewisburg, and the dedication
closing social feature of the week—the
Junior’s farewell to the Seniors. Even the
memorable party that thronged the great
drill hall on the occasion of the dedication
of the engineering - building Feh. 22nd,
1891, was surpassed in numbers and it was
undoubtedly the largest assembly ever
Dancing was continued un-
til 2 o'clock when the ‘‘aut, wiedersebn’’
brought a sigh of regret from hearts that
bad been full of gladness and’ will: cherish
long pleasant memories of the graduation
of State’s largest class.
seen ab State.
.cate that additional arrests in ‘connection’
-more numerous . than in either of the pre-: {4 si :
vious hauls, and Shan In rumor has i¢ Bre and in addition Bayard Heston Sharpe, of
! West Chester, who was one of the grad nates
from State College. this week.
Dragnet May Yet Take Biggest Kind of Fish—Man
of Honored Name Continues to Be Hinted at as
Possibly. One of Those to Be Gone After.
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Guarded ad-
missions by high officials and significant
activity among subordinates in the legal
branch of the Postoffice Department indi-
with the postal scandals may be looked for
with ‘a good deal of certainty to-morrow or
next day.
The feeling is that.the arrests will be
one of the men to be taken into. custody is
of such prominence that his entanglement
in the meshes of the law on. the charge of
defrauding or attempting to defraud the
Government will stagger the country.
This ramor, however, cannot be found to
have more suhstangial basis than the gen-
eral knowlege that the man ‘indicated has
been more or Tess closely
Pratt, Unionville,
Weaver, Bellefonte. Trinity, H. Laird
Curtin, Roland. Miss Eleanor Ardell will
go to Mt, Holyoke, Mass; Miss Jennie
Harper to the Woman’s. College, at Balti-
more, and Miss Mary Thomas: to ‘Wilson
College. ‘When the Academy opens in the
fall it will be with all the old instructors
prayer by Rev. J. M. Rearick, the pastor.
THE ACADEMY CLOSES.—The final ex-
aminations at the Bellefonte Academy were
completed yesterday and today the several
instructors will depart for their various
homes for the summer vacation. Fifteen
young men and women passed successful
examinations and will enter the following
institutions of learning at the beginning of
the fall term on the Academy’s certifizate :
To Pennsylvania State College, J. ohn Hog-
sett, of Uniontown ; Ralph Van Valin,
Unionville; Charles Bower, Howard; Reese
Thomas, Lansford ; William Humphreys,
‘Many Arrests Soon to Come for Frosis, ‘Logansport, Ind., and Robert Fairlamb,
Sr . j Harrisburg. Washington & Jefferson, Roy
McCandless, Butler; ‘Herbert ‘McIntosh,
Pittsburg; Earle Quigley, Butler, and Jas.
Princeton; Philip
JEFFREY HAYES. —One of the . oldest
citizens of Philipsburg died at the home of
his son William, at Point Lookout, Tues-
‘day morning at 4:30 o’clock. He had been
behalf ‘of Govern
The coming arrests are supposed to be a’
sort of round-up in one branch of the
| tal:service.” It's tho
a sort of round-up of o ts in one bi
of the service, where all irregularities have
been sifted to the bottom by the inspectors.
ht it will constitat
nders in one branch’
——The Zion band has purchased from
the Undine fire company: the musical
| health for some time, departed with his
of State College, and Miss Flora A. Penny,
instruments of the old Undine band.
- ——Ex-County Commissioner Thomas W.
Fisher, who has not been in the best of
wife, last Friday, for New Jersey for several
weeks’ recuperation.
——The Philipsburg board of education
Monday evening elected Miss Juliet Gray, |
of Snow Shoe, as two of that borough’s
public school teachers for the next year.
——On Taesday W. E. Meehan, State
Fish Commissioner, made public his list of
appointments and. among. them was. the
8 closely connected with | ill for the past three months, but took his
A. 'W. Machen, the indicted ex-chief of the onl
: y service, and was very active’
about the departments during aud’ for
some time after the Spanish’ war’ i
ment contractors of various
hed only two weeks ago. Heart trouble
and infirmities incident to old age were
the cause of his death. The deceased was
born in England, bus came to this country
‘about 45 years ago, and lived ‘in Philips-
burg for 33 years. He was aged 76 years,
2 months and 4 days. His wile preceded
“him to the grave 6 years ago. He is sur-
| vived hy three sons and three daughters,
‘viz: Mrs. Samuel Oswalt, Mrs. ‘John
| ADDITIONAL Locaus,. || Osvalt, Mrs. John Maddox, Joho, Wil-
liam and Charles, all of Philipsburg.
The funeral took place yesterday afternoon.
sions tall vsdmdbast sgl weinins
WILLIAM FOSTER.-~Old in years, but
young in love of everything good and pure
William Foster, aged 85, passed peaceful-
ly away at his home at State College, on
Wednesday morning. Beloved by all
he bas gone to reap the reward of the
christian, Surviving him are his daughter,
Mary and his two sons, Charles and John.
Interment will be made at the Branch
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock; after
services have been conducted at his late
home by the Rev. Denniston.
A more extended notice will: appear in
the next issue of the WATCHMAN.
boo-qutllegis of
DIED IN MARYLAND, —Mrs. E. W. Der-
name of T. H. Harter, Bellefonte, as a fish | ringer, of Philadelphia, mother of Mrs. 'W.
warden at a salary of $45 per month.’ This | P. Duncan, of Philipsburg, and who was
will be a little salve for missing the $1,200'| there quite recently on a visit,died on Sup-
a year appointment as pure food inspector
for this district which went to ex-Sheriff
George A. Farnsworth, of Couderspors.
day at the home of her son, Harry, ‘at
Locust Grove, Md., where she had been
called by his serious illness and subsequent
4 death. fi