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State Grange 1 in Session.
Patrons of Husbandry , Assemble in the City of
Wilkesbarre. Year Has Been Prosperous. New
Granges Have Been Organized and a Number of
Old Ones Brought to Life.
WILKESBARRE, December 8.— The state
grange met in annual convention here to-
day. This morning’ssession was devoted
to the reading of the report of the worthy
master, W. F. Hill, of Mount Alto, and
the appointment of committees. Master
Hill, in his report, stated that the year just
closing, has been a very fruitful one; new
granges have been organized and six re-
organized. But two other states have made
as much gain as the Pennsylvania grange.
The Grange Press bureau is in successful
operation and news letters are sent weekly
to 300 newspapers.
Commenting on the work of the legisla
tive committee, Master Hill said:
*‘Several measures of interest to farmers
were acted upon at the last session of the
legislature, but road bills seemed to be
moss in evidence. Finally, a road bill was
passed that represented something of in-
terest to all concerned. The law was not
what the farmers wanted. While the ap-
propriation of $1.250,000 is shamefully
small for so vast a subject, it is neverthe-
less a step in the right direction and will
have the effect of committing the state to
its public roads.”’
Daring routine business in the afternoon
behind closed doors, A. M. Connel, of
Bradford county, reported that he attended
sixty meetings throughout the state and
organized several local and county granges.
Secretary J. T* Ailman, of Juniata coun-
ty, in his annual report shows that the
membership bad increased A 5,000 during
the year, twenty-six granges were: organ-
ized and seven dormant organizations were
reorganized, all of which were in a flour-
ishing condition, both financially and nu-
merically. i
H. H. Goodeshen, of Cambria county,
gave an account of the work done by the
grange in his county. He said that six-
teen grangers owned their own halls, val-
ued at $25,000, and there were twentytwo
in the county.
Many resolutions were presented which
will be referred to the proper committees
to-morrow. The most of them dwell prin-
cipally with state and county legislation"
- At this evening’s session the doors were
thrown open to the public and a reception
- was tendered the delegates, who were wel-
comed to this city by Judges Rhone and
Troutman, of Wilkesbarre. Responses on
behalf of the Grange were made by H. A.
Sprface, of State College, Centre county,
and Mrs. V. B. Holliday, of Tioga county,
followed by E. Pomeroy, of East Orange,
. J., president of the national legislative
committee, who took up the halance of the
session, dwelling upon the principle of di-
rect legislation.
Will Quit America forever.
‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—If mem-
bers of the American National Red Cross
Society fail at to moriow’s meeting to
sustain Clara Barton, president of the so-
ciety, in her administration of its affairs,
Miss Barton will retire from the work and
leave America forever. An intimate friend
of Miss Barton is authority for this state-
ment.
Miss Barton’s friends are deeply aronsed
by the declaration of the minority mem-
bers, or ‘‘insurgents,’’ of the society that
they will appeal to Congress for an inves
tigation. It is pointed out that Congress
has no jurisdiction, and that the society’s
fuuds are subscribed by private individuals,
and are not subject toinquiry by Congress.
Miss Barton’s adherents further declare
that she has been falsely represented, mis-
stated and maligned, and that the ‘‘insur-
gents’’ by so doing have drawn prominent
men to their ranks that they otherwise
could not gain.
Friends of Miss Barton who have secretly
investigated in Geneva the report that she
received funds for Cuban reconcentrados,
which had never been accounted for, assert
that it was learned in Switzerland that
the aid was found onnecessary, and the
money was never sent.
The Difference
From the Philadelphia Record.
The country has not failed to contrast
the firm and dignified attitude of Presi-
dent Cleveland and Scoretary Olney to-
ward Great Britain in the Venezuela ques-
_ tion with the precipitate, indecent and vio-
lens aciion of President and Secretary Hay
in Panama, in the former case Great Brit-
ain was warned that this Government
would not permit that mighty Power to
forcibly wrest from an American Republic
any portion of its territory. In the latter
case the Roosevelt Administration meanly
.conspires with insurrection and secession to
distract and divide a feeble American Re-
public thas is incapable of resenting a flra-
grant violation of the laws of nations.
Cleveland’s Administration did not hesi-
tate a moment to assert the integrity of au
American Republic against the greatest
naval Power on earth. President Koose-
velt’s Administration bas, not scrupled to
iend the aid of its naval force to a junta of
conspirators for the purpose of dismem-
bering an American Repablicin face of the
selemn odligation of treaties. Let the
supporters of Roosevelt's transaction in
Panama take what comfort they can get
from its eontrast with the highminded _as-
situde of a Democratic Administration on
the Venezuelan question.
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Foot Ball Season Cost Lives of 19,
Nineteen lives were lost on the foot ball
field during the season of 1903. One boy
was driven insane from injuries. Thirteen
players wereseverely injured,some of them
being disabled for life. The number of
minor but painful accidents goes into the
hundreds, and the list of the severely in-
jured necessarily also is incomplete.
The feature of this tabulation is that it
shows the serious casualties particularly
were confined to untrained players. No
member of any of the first class elevens
was killed or permanently disabled. One
Yale player and one Harvard player suf-
fered a broken leg.
In consequence of the injuries sustained
by their players, several of the minor
schools have forbidden the game of foot
ball. Two towns, Columbus Junction,
Pa., and Greenfield, Ohio, have stopped
the "sport as the result of petitions circu-
Jated by parents.
"BABIES IN ARABIA.
The Way the Unfortunate Mites Are
Clothed and Doctored.
They (Arabian babies) are rubbed
with brown powder as soon as they are
born, and their eyelids are painted;
then instead of being dressed in soft
flannels they are wrapped in calico and
tied up like a bundle so tight that they
cannot move hands or feet; then tight
hoods are put on their heads with blue
beads sewed on the front to keep off
the evil eye. These babies cry a-good
deal, and I should think they would.
They cannot move, and flies and other
insects crawl over them and bite them,
and the sand gets in their eyes and
hurts them.
When a baby is about six weeks old
a sacrifice is offered, and the baby’s
hair is cut and weighed, and the same
weight in silver is given to the poor.
If he hasn't more hair than some of
our six weeks’ babies its weight in
gold or even diamonds might be given
and not make the poor much richer or
the parents much poorer. The mother
puts charms on his neck and arms, and
a verse from the Koran is written and
put in a little silver or leather case and
hung about his neck to keep off evil.
If he is sick this is his medicine: A
verse from the Koran is written with
ink on paper; then the ink is washed
off, and the inky water is given him
to drink. I wish you could see the fun-
ny little cradles these babies sleep in.
They are made of date sticks fitted to-
gether. The rockers are almost flat,
so when the poor thing is rocked he is
so shaken up that it is a wonder if he
is not seasick. I am sure any good
American baby would rebel at such
treatment.—Record of Christian Work.
Origin of the Tent.
An ancient Talmudic legend relates
that Adam on his expulsion from para-
dise encountered a cutting north wind,
against which his scant girdle of fig
leaves proved poor protection. As he
wistfully cast his eyes over the deso-
late plain of Shinar he perceived at a
great distance a dead thorn bush.
Running thither, he crouched behind it,
and while still shivering he saw a wild
ass come by. And Adam cried to the
beast to lie down alongside and keep
him warm. But the ass spake out
(“for asses sometimes spake in those
days as since,” saith the commentator),
and derided him for not having a
warm coat of fur, whereupon Adam
waxed wroth and slew the ass with a
piece of the thorn tree and, with teeth
and nails stripping off the ass’ coat,
wrapped it around himself. But to-
ward noon, the sun growing hot and
a scorching wind arising, Adam con-
ceived the happy thought of hanging
the skin over the bush and reposing in
the shade thereof. It was done, the
tent was invented, and civilization be-
gan.—Outing.
Mrs. Stanton and Bad Children.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was fond of
children, though not of bad ones,
Once in Boston she was calling on a
young woman whose little son, a par-
ticularly vicious urchin, played about
her while she eonversed.
The child would pull his mother’s
hair, kick and thump her, nor did he
hesitate to try now and then these
tricks upon Mrs. Stanton.
She said calmly, “You are a bad boy,
aren't you?”
“He is a bad boy,” his mother in a
sad, hurt tone confessed.
“I prefer bad children, though,” said
Mrs, Stanton.
“Do you?’ cried the young mother.
“Why?”
“Because,” said Mrs. Stanton, “they
are usually sent out of the room.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Longevity of Animals,
Statistics of the longevity of animals
may not be very accurate, but they are
interesting reading. Among the larger
species of cattle there is some approach
to uniformity. Thus for the horse and
donkey the extreme limit is about 35
years and for horned cattle about 30.
For the dog it is given as 25, while
sheep, goats, pigs and cats are grouped
at 15. Among birds the disparities in
length of life are very remarkable.
While a goose may live to be 30 years
of age, a sparrow 25 and a crow 100,
ducks, hens and turkeys die of old age
at 12. The palm for longevity is divid-
ed between the elephant and the par-
rot, which both often pass the century.
The swan and the eagle also are very
long lived.
Twelve Miles an Hour.
At the beginning of the last century
the royal college of Bavarian 'phy-
sicians sought to forbid steam railway
travel because it would induce de-
lirilum furiosum among the passengers
and drive the spectators crazy, while
an English quarterly said that it would
as soon expect the people to suffer
themselves to be tied to one of Con-
grave’s rockets as to trust themselves
to the mercy of a locomotive going at
the prodigious rate of twelve miles an
hour.
Why They Parted.
He—Their engagement is broken off.
She—For what reason?
“Why, he told her one night that
when he was at his work her face was
ever before him.”
“Well?”
“Why, he’s a cartoonist!”"—Yonkers
Statesman.
Knowledge.
Knowledge ought to bring us happi-
ness, whether it brings us money or
‘| stare,”
not; for knowledge is life, and no man
lives in this age who has not knowl-
edge; for ignorance has neither life nor
happiness more than comes to that
which grazes in a field.—Schoolmaster.
Time never drags nor does life ever
seem monotonous to those who are al- |
ways working, ‘thinking. learning and.
Z1owing. Maxwells Talisman.
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COSTLY PRICE FOR A BATH.
it Was So Much a Pound, and the
Woman Was Heavy.
“When 1 was connected with the
hotel at Lake Minnetonka several years
ago,” remarked a hotel man, “we had
as a regular summer guest a woman
from the south who was remarkably
stout, weighing something over 200
pounds. One day she called a bell boy
and inquired:
“ ‘What do they charge for a bath?
“+ don’t. know, said the boy, ‘but
I'll find out.’
“After being gone a short time the
boy returned and said:
“ ‘Seven cents a pound.’
“ ‘What!
“Seven cents a pound,’ said the boy
a second time, while the woman’s face
became scarlet as she made her way
to the clerk’s desk.
“¢‘] want my bill she exclaimed.
‘I have been grossly insulted and shall
leave your house.
“She stated her grievance, the boy
was sent for and explained:
“ ‘She asked me what they charged
for bass. I told her I didn’t know,
but would find out. I asked the stew-
ard and he said 7 cents a pound.’
“As the ludicrous blunder of the boy
dawned upon them both the clerk and
the guest made the hotel office resound
with their laughter.”—Milwaukee Sen-
tinel.
Mr. Dolan’s Carriage.
Mr. Dolan, through the agency of
butter and eggs, had reached that
stage of prosperity where he was able
to set up an establishment with a horse
and carriage, and nobody begrudged
him his success.
“But what’s the reason your wife
drives round in a carriage with the let-
ter C on it?” inquired one of Mr. Do-
lan’s friends. “You've not changed
your name, Terry ?”
“Naw, man,” said Mr. Dolan gayly;
“me name has stood me fifty years, an’
it ’ll last out me toime. But the car-
riage was a great bar-rgain at sicond-
hand, man, and the ‘C’ was on it.
’Twud cost a bit to change it to a ‘D,’
and I says to Mary Ann, ‘D is a koind
of a broad lukin’ letther, whoile C
is more dilicate and ornamintal,’ I
says. ‘And, besoide that, it’s the very
next to D in the alphabet, and, more
than all” I says, ‘it stands for con-
tinted, and that’s what ivery Dolan
that roides in the carriage will be, so
let it stand,’ and Mary Ann agreed
wid me.”-—Youth’s Companion.
Burglarious Bees.
To the person who : knows. nothing,
about bees they represent the supreme
type of industry. But even the bee com-
munities are disturbed by those of
their own kind who break through and
steal. Robber bees are always a source
of anxiety to beekeepers, says the Lon-
don Chronicle, and in the autumn the
marauders seem particularly active.
Having gathered no honey, or, at any
rate, an insufficient supply for ‘them-
selves, they will descend upon a hive,
kill its industrious occupants and car-
ry off the golden treasure in an aston-
ishingly short space of time... We know
of one instance in which the attack was
developed and the home bees ‘killed in
a couple of hours. Sometimes hive
will attack neighboring hive. In such
cases the old straw “skip” was better
than the modern arrangement, for a
knife thrust through the top would
break the comb and set the honey free,
at which the thieves would instantly
return to seal up their own store. It is
not primarily in their industry that
bees are human.
A Funny Chase.
Lord Orford, an eccentric English
nobleman, once had a team of red deer
stags that he frequently drove to a
light coach. All went well until one
day there happened to be a pack of
stagheunds on the road from London
to Brighton, along which Lord Orford’s
picturesque team was merrily fleeting.
There followed the strangest chase
that ever mortal man witnessed. The
hounds hunted the team and its owner
hard to Newmarket, and with such a
smash into the Ram inn yard the whole
lot went that there was no mere coach
left and little more of driver. Lord
Orford took to horses after that.
Conquering a Critic.
William Simpson, a British artist,
who accompanied the army during the
Crimean war, said that Lord Cardigan,
the commander, examined his early
sketches of Balaklava with “a vacant
curtly remarking, “It is all
wrong.” Still Simpson persevered and
was rewarded in the end “with the ex-
pression of Lord Cardigan’s highest ad-
miration.” “The real truth was,” he
adds in his simple way, “that in the
last sketch I had taken greater care
than in the first two to make his lord-
ship conspicuous in the front of the
brigade.”
The Debt Was Forgotten.
Trotter—Why haven't you been in to
see me lately?
Bailaw—Wel!—er—the truth is I was |.
afraid that you might regard my visit
as a reminder of the money you owe
me.
Trotter—Why, my dear fellow, I had
forgotten all about it. Sorry it troubled
you.
Too Grabby.
“Some of the young girls nowadays,”
said Miss Ann Teek, “are positively
terrible. The idea of a girl being en-
gaged to two young men at once! It’s
shameful!”
“And,” suggested Miss Pepprey, “it's
aggrevating, too, isn’t it?’—Philadel-
phia Press.
: Her Bread.
Walter—Have you ever made bread
before, Marie?
Marie—Oh, yes; I used to make it for
my father until his doctor made me
stop.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS
——Attorney T. M. Stevenson and com-
missioner Gummo, of Lock Haven, were
in town Monday conferring with the com-
missioners of this county on the. question
of an inter-county bridge across Beech
Creek, near Beech Creek.
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——Kokaks for Xmas, at Bush’s.
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——If a man or boy wears it, it’s ab
Faubles.
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ForRMERLY OF THis CouNTy.—Mrs.
Henry C. Pennington who died at her
home in Abilene, Kan., on Saturday, Nov.
23rd after an illness of only four days of
poenmonia, was born and raised at Pleas-
ant Gap. Her maiden name was Clara
Miller and she was a daughter of Robert
Miller, who at one time lived on the farm
now owned by his son, county commission-
er A. V. Miller. Mrs. Pennington was 56
years of age and is survived by her hus-
band and two children.
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——1If aman or boy wears it, it’s af
Faubles.
——James Musser, who was born at
Penn HalljJan. 17th, 1843, and was one of
the nine children of Jonas and Maria Durst
Musser, ‘died at Orangeville, Ill., from the
effects of an operation for appendicitis.
He went west when only fourteen years of
age and from there enlisted in Co. A. 46th
111. Vols. and served throughout the war.
In 1885 he established a bank at Orange-
ville and had lived there ever since. His
widow and five children survive him.
Mrs. George Dale of Lemont, is a sister.
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——If you think a traveling bag would
answer take a look at Fauble’s. We have
'em as cheap and as fine as yon will want.
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A REMARKABLE OLD WoMAN—In these
days of electrical rapidity and strenuous-
ness it is a relief to hear of a woman who
has had time to live ninety-three years and
yet who bas neither dimmed her eyesight
nor intellect and whose nerves are as good
as ever. This remarkable woman is Mrs.
Mary{L. Steele, of near Pleasant Gap. Re-
cently when Squire J. H. Hazel, of Axe
Mann, called upon her relative to an
affidavit he found her just finishing the
last of two quilts on which she had been
sewing her leisure time. The quilts are
three feet square and each one of them con-
tained twenty-five sqonares of sixteen
patches each in addition to the twenty-five
plain squares—making a total of 850 pieces.
qt Mrs. Steele lives until March she will
be ninety-three ‘and she disdains the use’
of glasses, for she can see as well as ever
"without them. Neither has her” intellect
faded with ber years and her memory is
very good.
ere QA rer men.
——1If you think a traveling bag would
answer take a look at Fauble’'s. We have
’em as cheap and as fine as you will want.
Smm——r rem m———
——Mince meat—our own make—fine as
it can be made at Sechlers.
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COUNCIL IN SEssSION.—Monday night's
session of council was void of anything
spectacular; the members appearing inclin-
ed to get together to clear up as much of
the old business hanging fire as possible.
After the customary reports of commit-
tees and officers that developed nothing of
| particular interest, Col. W. F. Reeder was
heard on the question of a franchise for the
new electric{street railway. There was
some discussion as to the kind of poles to
he set to support the rails and their dis-
tance apart. Col. Reynolds suggested that
the words ‘‘neat iron’’ poles be inserted,
but Col. Reeder replied that if such an ex-
pense were put upon the company it
wouldibe, forced to drop the project alto-
gether. J 1 Then Mr. Fenlon spoke on the
matter, stating that he thought the bor-
ough ought to have some guaranty that
this company intends building the road,
that it is not seeking the franchise merely
for specalative purposes. Dr. Kirk oon-
carred in Mr. Fenlon’s interrogatory and
the matterjwas held over until the next
meeting. :
‘Jared Harper,JW. T. Speer and Geo. R.
Meek appeared in the interest of a sewer
for the west ward. Cesspools in that seo-
tion of town having been condemned by the
board of health the gentlemen asked coun-
cil for its co-operation in securing a sewer.
It was referred to the Street committeeand
boroughfengineer.
The Water committee reported that it
had agreed upon a settlements with the
contract andjmeter consumers who had'ap-
pealed from the rates levied. The agree-
ment carries a 50 per cent. ruise on all bille
from the 1st of April, 1902, to{October 1st
1903, and from that time until April 1st,
1904, at a flat rate of 6 cts per thousand
gallons. Council voted to approve the
settlement and thas much mooted question
was wiped off the ‘‘old business’’ slate.
Thep, the contract] for the Thompson
pavement along Water street was taken up
for final approvalfalong with the contrac-
tor’s bond {for the faithful execution of his
contract. Dr. Kirk objected to: approving
it on the ground that this council should
not enter into a contract that cannot pos-
sibly he started until alter a new council
has been elected and sworn in. The propo-
sition carried. however, and Col. Reynolds,
who was presiding in the absence of presi-
dent Cunningham, was authorized to exe-
cate the bond and contract.
After the approval of the bills council
adjourned.
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——Maybe its an umbrella? The Fauble
Stores are showing the kind men like to
carry. A big variety. Youn will be sure
to find what you want.
——For Christmas shopping the Fauble
Stores will meet with your approval.
Everything that man or boy can use.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, A. G. Archey, during
the week:
John A. Fye and Minnie V. P. Borger,
both of Moshannon. ;
Earle C. Tuten and Rebecca Cole, both
of Bellefonte.
John H. Turner and Kathryn A. Irvin,
both of Julian.
John Kelly and Mattie Cowher, both of
Worth Twp.
Samuel Trumble, of Morrisdale, and
Susan K. Lilly, of Hawk Run.
——For Christmas shopping the Fauble
Stores will meet with your approval.
Everything that man or boy can use.
——For Christmas shopping the Fauble
Stores will meet with your approval.
Everything that man or boy can use.
Hublersbarg.
Wm. Hoy is suffering an attack of tonsilitis.
Miss Sue Stagar is very ill at the home of
her sister Mrs. Kramer.
T. L. Kessinger is able to be out after a
serious illness of several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Brooks spent Friday
at the home of T. L. Kessinger.
Miss Alice Crow, of Liverpool, is visiting at
the home of her brother Rev. Crow.
Mrs. Mary McCormick came home from
Wilkinsburg after being absent a month.
The Reformed Sunday school will hold
Xmas services on Christmas evening.
Mr. Harve Confer and wife, of Millheim,
spent Sunday at the home of D. M. Whit"
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams visited the
former’s parents at Beech Creek Sunday and
Monday.
James Rathmell and Nora Whitman suffer
ed slight attacks of sore throat the beginning
of the week.
Mrs. James Seibert and daughter Betty, of
Bellefonte, accompanied by Mrs. Karstetter
and little niece, of Philipsburg, spent Friday
evening last, atthe home of Mrs. Seibert’s
father, E. J. Markle.
Rev. Crow had two weddings last week.
‘Miss Anna Dorman and Wm. Waltz, of Clin-
ton county, Tuesday evening at the parson-
age, and Martha Dunkle and Philip Zong at
the home of J. T. Dunkle, near town.
——The Fauble Stores are showing more
bath robes than all of Bellefonte’s other
stores, combined. The right kind, at prices
that will please.
sesh EU
——Cranberries—never so fine. Olives,
olive , oil, ketchups, flavoring extracts.
Sechlers.
Down Nittany.
There is considerable sickness in the vicin-
ity. Charley Lee’s little daughter has been
very sick but is better. Rev. Stover’s two
little girls have tonsilitis. Mr. Joe Emerick
has been gunite sick but is better, there isa
whispered rumor that a big butcher dinner
had something to do with Mr. Joe's sickness:
and there are several other cases.
Smydertown is a hustling little place at
present. McNitt Bros. & Co., are building
saw and stave mills near the station. They
have had a siding put in connecting with the
Central and are getting ready to cut the tim-
ber from the Ridge which they bought some-
time ago. They have put down a tram road
and haul the logs with a dinkey engine.
They have built a very complete mill, with
all convenience for hauling logs and lumber.
The crops down the valley have been very
good this season. The wheat crop is unusual-
ly good. Beck & Hoy have shipped about a
dozen cars of wheat already this fall. Mostly
from Zion station. The farmers about Zion
have a very fine crop of wheat of extra good
quality and clean. The quality of the wheat
and freedom from other seeds shows care in
seed and keeping the farm free from obnox-
ious weeds. We do not believe a finer lot of
wheat can be found in the county coming
from the same acreage.
An item in the WATCHMAN two weeks ago
stated that it was a Woman’s Edition of the
paper as the senior editor was sick and the
junior away. While we hope that both have
recovered and are enjoying life, yet we will
say for part of your readers at least.you ueed
not hurry to get back. By the way, the item
stated the junior editor was off for his annual
hopeless deer hunt, but we have forgotten
whether it was spelled Deer or Dear.
[Either one would do so far as the hopelessness
~of itis concerned.—Jr. Ed.]
‘One of the oldest, if not the oldest citizen
in Walker township, is Mr. Philip Walters,
‘‘Unecle Philip’ as he is familiarly called by
everyone. Heis up in the 80's and yet his
walk is as smart as that of many men of 50.
A millwright by trade he worked for years
around the Valentine, Hecla, Curtin and
Howard furnaces and hardly an old grist
or saw mill in the county he did’ not help
build or repair. A great reader. his memory
is very retentive aud his recollections of past
occurrences in the county are interesting. A
radical Republican all his life time he has
taken a deep interest in politics, but never
aspired to office more than township. He is
enjoying a good old age, having his home with
Mr. Ira C. Mechtley; Mrs. Mechtley being
his oldest daughter, and they try to make his
old age pleasant for him.
The report from our schools throughout the
township is. very encouraging. The gener-
al attendance is good and teachers and pupils
are interested in their work. The High and
intermediate schools at Hublersburg are do-
ing good work. And we are glad to note that
the citizens of the township are becoming in-
terested in the success of their schools. The
attendance is increasing and parents are be-
ginning to realize the importance of their
work. And we feel safe in saying the High
school work in Walker township has ‘come
to stay.” The Walker township board con-
gratulate themselves on having a corps of
teachers this term of whom they are proud.
But there is one thing lacking on the part of
both board and parents. Schools are not vis-
ited by either as they should be. A few
minutes spent in the school room, a few en-
couraging words to the teacher and to the
school have an influence for good. And even
if nothing is said your presence shows an in-
terest.
Pine Grove Mention.
Sheriff Taylor was in this section on Tues-
day on official business. ;
Mrs. Maria Goss is making her annual
visit to J. N. Beil’s home at Eden Hill, Pa.
Mrs. Wilson Gardner is quite sick at her
home in the Glades. Last report says she is
some better now.
George Bell, with his wife and interesting
little family, spent several days last week
among friends in the Glades.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shugerts, of Shingle-
town, are visiting relatives and friends in
the Mountain city this week.
Our young friend George Meyer is housed.
up holding down a big arm chair with a bad
cold and symptoms of pneumonia.
J. D. Nearhood and H. W. Thomas lumber-
men at Penna Furnace were in town the be-
ginning of the week greeting old friends.
Charley Thompson, one of Half Moon’s
progressive young farmers, was in town the be-
ginning of the week on a mission of charity.
In the Boalsburg section a number of com-
mitteemen are engaged in soliciting for the
Bellefonte hospital and are meeting with
success.
Adam Felty, one of Frank McFarlane’s
farmers. lost his best horse last Monday
with that much dreaded and fatal disease
pneumonia.
Dan Zones, who spent several weeks in
Elk county hunting, resigned and is back in
his old quarters at James Peters’ in the
Giades.
John A. Kline, of Oak Hall,passed through
town Monday evening homeward hound ;
sporting a new carriage built by W. J.
‘Meyers, at Alexandria.
Wm. K. Goss came in last week with an
eighteen pound wild turkey. Alex D.
Tanyer followed suit on Monday and
brought in a fourteen pound gobbler.
Miss Priscilla Stuart bade adieu to her
legion of friends last Friday when she took
her leave for Pittsburg where she will spend
the winter with Col. J. T. Stuart's family.
George W. Weaver, of New York, came
home last Friday and for the time being is
assisting his father, D. H. Weaver, to ar-
rainge his big store for the heavy fall trade.
John M. Homan, a Branch farmer, lost a
valuable cow last Tuesday by a vicious boar
sinking his tusks deep into the cow’s abdo-
men, rupturing the large artery and tearing
the entrails out.
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Meek are now snugly
fixed in their new home at State College.
They were life-long citizens of Fairbrook
and are the kind of neighbors any com-
munity can illy afford to lose.
N. T. Cole Esq., of Allegheny, is off duty
nursing his right hand which is minus two
fingers caught i in the machinery. Newton is
one of our boys who saw service in the Cuban
war and was heartily greeted by his old
chunfs here. = -
Squire Housman, one of the representative
citizens of Tusseyville, attended to some
business in this section recently. He is one
of the old reliable Democrats down in that
Democratic gibralter and is serving his fourth
term as justice of the peace.
John F. Garner's sale on last Tuesday
brought a large crowd together. The day
was an ideal one for the occasion. Bidding
was not very spirited, farm implements sold
low. Pigs and sheep brought fine prices,
Cows sold most as high as horses.
Wm. Decker, of Michigan, is making his
annual all winter visit at the home of J. A
Decker on Water street. Mr. Decker is not
80 robust as be once was, and to avoid the
cold blast of real winter has been spending
his winters among Centre county relatives.
Mrs. J. G. Hess and Miss Sue Dannley,
who have been visiting relatives in northern
Ohio for the last month, returned home last
Friday ; perfectly delighted with their
visit. Most of their time was spent with the
Dannley brothers and our former townsman
Charley Smith. All are reported as doing
a land offer business.
——The Fauble showing of suit cases
will help you solve the Xmas gits: problem.
From'a dollar to twenty ——and every price
between.
Smuliton.
Chas, Geary has gone to his home at Tus-
seyville.
Annie Harry has gone to Sugar valley to
do some sewing.
Samuel Faust is spending a few days at
Spring Bank, among friends.
While cutting wood Clyde Waite acciden-
tally cut a gash in his foot.
Miss Lizzie Brindle is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Perry Smith, at Fielder.
On Saturday Mrs. Henry Detwiler Sr., will
have sale at her home in this place.
Mrs. G. H. Smull retarned on Weduesday
from an extended visit. in Philadelphia.
Mr. Henry Winklebleck came last Friday
to assist his father-in-law in butchering.
Mrs, John Mallory pleasantly entertained
her sister, Mrs. Weiland, of State College.
Prof. Edwin Brungard and wife, of Mif-
flinburg, spent Thanksgiving under the
parental roof.
William Emerick, from Punxsutawney,
spent a few days with his sick mother, Mrs.
John Emerick.
Mrs. Perry Smith spent a few days of the
past week at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Brindle.
After spending a few days in Nittany val-
ley and Lock Haven Mr. and Mrs. Israel
Haugh returned home on Sunday.
After spending a few weeks with her son
Samuel, of Pleasant Gap, Mrs. John Waite Sr.,
Mrs. returned and at present is staying with
M. Wance.
The following are on the sick list : Mrs.
W. E. Bair, Mrs. John Emerick, Ammon
Strayer, Miss Maude Winters and Mrs.
Henry Detwiler Jr.
Set pen
——The Fauble showing of suit cases
will help yon solve the Xmas gift problem.
From a dollar to twenty ——and every price
between.
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—— Let the Fauble Stores be your Santa
Claus. You will be sure to please him—
man or boy.