7 Bellefonte Pa.. September 9, 1904. CorresPoNDENTS.—NO communications pub lished unless accompanied by the real name of he writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY ——Miss Margaret Whiteman is ill at her home on Water street. ——Edmund Hayes will enter the Fresh- man class as State this fall. ——Many exhibits have already been en- tered for the fair next month. ——Miss Brockerhoff entertained a few friends at cards on Tuesday evening. ——Joseph Gingher is in a very critical condition at his home on Willowbank street. ——The Republicans have opened head- quarters in the rooms on the third floor of the Bush Arcade. ——A daughter was born to Mr. and Mis. Ross Hickok at the Hastings home, on Friday, Sept. 2nd. ——Mr. Henry Harris has had his home on Howard street beautified with an appli- cation of fresh paint. -— The premium list for the Centre county fair, bigger and better than ever, will be issued next week. ——DMiss Mona Struble, of east Howard street, is now learning to be a ‘*Hello girl”? in the Pennsylvania telephone exchange. ——The State College town team and the All-Stars, of Bellefonte, will cross bats at the Veteran’s reunion at Hunter’s park tomorrow. ——The free shows at the fair this year will be more extensive than ever. Some high class attractions have already been booked. ——All the WATCHMAN readers will be pleased to learn that Gen. James A. Beav- er has almost entirely recovered from his recent illness. ——James Shook, a graduate of the Bellefonte High school, and now studying for the ministry in the Meyerstown college, will preach in the Evangelical church, this place, next Sunday. ——John Toner, of Ax Mann, was taken to Danville on Tuesday. John Dan- lap and Benj. Gentzel, the Spring Twp. officials, accompanied the old gentleman to the hospital. ——Harvest Home services will be cele- brated in St. John’s Lutheran church Sun- day morning. The pastor will preach an appropriate sermon. The church will be » beantif ully decorated. ——Two of the old and well-known resi- dents of Half-moon are critically ill— Samuel Mattern and Mrs. Ebbs. John C. Gray, a brother of Mrs. Ebbs is ill of typhoid fever in Beaver Falls. ——The marriage of Miss Mary Sour- beck and Mr. Robert Bellringer was sol- emnized at eleven o'clock, Tuesday morn- ing, by Father MacNamara, Holy Inno- cence church, New York City. ——Don’t forget the annual rennion of the Centre county Veteran club at Hunt- er’s park to-morrow. It will he one of the last occasions of the kind this season and a large crowd will likely attend. ——Mr. Maurice Babb, formerly on the teaching force of the Academy but now in- sStuotor of mathematics at State, has been granted ‘a year’s leave of absence to do graduate work at Swarthmore. ——Miss Marion Ethel Dale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Dale, very delight- fully entertained a number of her girl friends Tuesday afternoon and evening, the occasion heing her thirteenth birthday. ——The Jewish New Year (Rosh Ha- shanah) begins this evening and vonse- quently all Hebrew citizens of Bellefonte will close their places of business from 6 o’clock this evening until 6 o'clock to-mor- row evening. It you have noticed that woe-be-gone expression on Mr. R. A. Beck’s face, don’t think shat he is sick. It is all owing to his loneliners, as Mrs. Beck and that little daoghter are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eckman, in Philadelphia. ——A son was horn to Mr. and Mrs. Linn McGinley on Saturday, Sept. 3rd. The little fellow has already heen named Samuel Williams McGinley after his grand- father and the best we could wish him is that he may grow into as upright and hon- est a man as is bis grandfather Williams. —— Mr. M. C. Gepbart,of this place, bas received word that his brother, James M. Gephars, of Seattle, Washington, has just ‘been given the endorsement of Kings conn- $y for Congress. Mr. Gepbart is a former Millheim boy and bas only been in the west a few years. Already he is regarded one of the brightest young lawyers of the great West. ——8Sup’s. H. 8. Taylor has now a force of men at work replacing worn-out pipe and making repairs to the steam heat sys- tem throughout the town in anticipation of the starting of the plant about October first. On Allegheny street, just south of Howard, quite a long section of the pipe was so badly rusted out it had to be re- placed with new. ——The Bellefonte Golden Eagles had quite a tiresome experience on their way home from Lewisburg Monday night. When the train was in the vicinity of Mif- flinburg the engine broke down and it was necessary to send to Sunbury for another engine. The wait was more than three hours in duration and it was 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning when the train finally pulled into the Bellefonte station. : a big celebration. BELLEFONTE ONE AHEAD OF PHILIPS- BURG IN A CALL To BRoOMS.—After a year of lying in wait we see the Philips- burg Ledger importune the citizens of that town to clean up the streets and be ready $0 present a good appearance to the strangers who will be in town. [Envy of a town possessor of such a flourish- ing Village Improvement society has ‘almost devoured us and now we know that occasionally there are streets to clean, paper flying even over there. If a tax were levied on the men, who from rising to set- ting sun, have watched the progress of the wall under construction along Spring creek, never would the streets of Bellefonte be unsightly. Tyrone boasts of humming in- dustries that leave none unemployed, Phil- ipsburg advertises bigger coal operations that will necessitate more laborers, even little Howard is booming a canning factory that makes everyone hustle but we’re swell, weare. We Bellefonters don’t have to work. We’ve had glory in war and pol- ditics and we may loaf ! Not many country towns have a centrally located bridge, so nige for a sun bath these chilly days and where a fellow has to stand in line for a vacant leaning place, where he may munch peanuts, strewing shells and bags any old place, make a little sea of tobacco spit on every board and have the council provide for amusement a gang of men who have to work, poor things! Wouldn’t it be a fun- ny sight to have our swagger cops arm these favored gentlemen of leisure with brooms and make them clean the bridge they so love! But we don’t labor so we don’t have to celebrate Labor day and no call to brooms to clean up for visitors is needed. ee ge eeeeeti— Was 11 MURDER? — Ever since the mysterious death and finding of the body of Ellis Etters, on the banks of the north brauch, near Cataract, several weeks ago, the brothers of the dead man and the local authorities of that section have been quiet- ly investigating and they have discovered what they think sufficient evidence to justify them in the belief that Ellis Etters was murdered and nos killed by a passing train. The spot where the body was found on the railroad is folly one hundred feet from the bank of the river, and at the time a trail of blood was found from the water's edge to the spot where the body of Etters was found. Another bit of evidence is that his pockets bad been $urned inside out and his knife, handkerchief, matchsafe, pipe and tobacco all lay on a pile ten feet from she body. And now, it is alleged, a neigh- bor woman avers that she heard a scream and a noise just about the time that Etters was supposed to have gone to the river to orose to his home. Another bit of evidence is that fr om the time that Etters left the Cataract hotel until the body was found in the morning seven coal trains had passed over the railroad, and yet the body was found on the track with only two or three gashes on the head. Under these conditions the case is one that should be most thor- oughly inyestigated by the proper anthori- sies. GoLpEN' EAGLE'S REUNION, —The an- nual gathering of the Susquehanna district, which includes the counties of Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, and part of Northum- berland, Knights of the Golden Eagle, was beld at Lewisburg on Monday and proved About eight hundred men, with nine bands and a drum corps, were in the line of the parade in the after- noon. The $15 prize for the best drilled commandery went to Williamsport Com- mandery, No. 90. Bellefonte Castle, No. 357, with sixty men in line, got the $15 prize for going the greatest distance and was entitled to the prize for the best ap- pearance in line but as only one was alloted to a Castle the Bellefonte boys. took the former prize and the latter prize of $5 was given to the Catawissa Castle. At the business session it was decided to hold pext year’s meeting in Lock Haven. The officers elected for the ensuing year are president, A. W. Brungard, Look Haven ; seoretary, Thomas McClellan, Lock Hav. en; 3 Heasurer, F. P. Musser, Millheim. © REPUBLICANS ELEcT FOSTER COUNTY CHATRMAN.—Forty-six republicans, mem- bers of the county committee, the execu- tive committee and the candidates on the county ticket, met in the Republican head- quarters’ ball, in the Bush Arcade, Mon- day morning at 11 o'clock and elected Phil D. Foster county chairman to sucoeed the late Col. Wilbur F. Reeder. There were only two candidates for the leadership brought before the convention—Foster and Hard P. Harris. On motion of committee- man 8. H. Wigton, of Philiprburg, the vote was taken by secret ballot and when counted, showed that Foster bad received 36 and Harris 10 votes. Resolutions of condolence on the death of Col. Reeder and Senator Patton were passed after which Judge Love made a short address and the convention adjourned. —— ln THE GREEN AND DILLEN CASE.—Wed- nesday of this week the ten days granted by the court to counsel for Ira Green and William Dillen in which to file their rea- sons for a new trial were up acd because they bad not yet received from the court reporter a copy of the testimony in the case Judge Love granted them an exten- sion of time until next Monday. On that day the reasons will be filed and it is just possible argument on the same may be made at once. In the meantime the sus- pense and uncertainty of their fate has worked on the prisoners until their condi- tion is one of extreme restlessness. They are allowed to see very few persons, not even a member of their family being per- mitted to talk to them unless the guard is olose by. ——Willis Wardner Willard, a recent graduate of Dickinson Seminary, will preach at Houserville Sunday morning and at Julian Sunday evening. ———— An ——On account of the death of Senator A. E. Patton a new Senator to fill the vacancy in office will have to be chosen at the coming November election. ea ——The fall term of Miss Grace Mitch- ell’sschool will open on Thuisday, Sep- tember 15th, in the Thomas house, at the corner of Allegheny and Curtin streets. a Ea ——The Yearick family will hold their annual reanion at the old homestead, near Madisonburg, Thursday, September 15th. It will be in the form of a basket picnic and all friends are invited. *er —— ——Clayton Baney expects to embark in the dray business on Monday and after that time will be found ready and anxious to promptly fill all orders for hauling that are given him. Srm——— i rtmeet— ——C. M. Tice, of Howard, has the con- tract for furnishing all the crushed stone needed for street work in the borough of Jersey Shore. The stone is quarried and crushed on the Pine creek and delivered to Jersey Shore on the electric railway. rece Ql reese. ——Howard Zeigler either thoroughly understands his vocation or else the Centre |. Hill locality, where he lives, is unusually adapted to growing potatoes. Zeigler last spring planted just seven potatoes of a choice variety from which he raised three bushels of tubers. rn Gf ra ——The Methodist congregation of Snow Shoe have decided to have a new church, and with them to decide is to go ahead, so that work has already been commenced on the foundation on which they purpose erecting a handsome, modern edifice. ——A children’s demonstration will be held in the Salvation Army hall, over the Centre county bank, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The program will include songs, recitations, drills, solos, duetts, qnartetts, sextetts, eto., all by the child- ren. At the close of the exercises ice cream and cake will be served without ex- tra charge. The small admission price of 10cts. will be charged. nt ——At the 6th annoal commencement of the Lock Haven training school for nurses held Tuesday evening, Miss Viola Hinkle of Kylertown was the only graduate. The total receipts reported by the treasurer were $9,856.26. Of this amount the state gave $2,500 and the patients $4,240.43. The excess of expenses over receipts was $588,56. The report of the Ladies Aid was as follows : Instruction in massage $34, building an ice house $210, placing an elevator in hospital $500, proceeds from April fair $3,527, proceeds of Thanksgiv- ing donation $200, from mite boxes $65. —t ett ——=Since it has been entirely finished, a large retaining wall built around the ter- races, the grounds sodded and walks laid, Reynolds Shope’s new home on south Thomas street stands out as a jewel in that tidy little residence section. Really it is one of the pretty homes of the town and the owner can be depended upon to keep it that, because no one knows better than he does. the hard work that it took to put him on ‘‘easy street.’’” Terrence Murray did the grading and sodding about the place and Terrence has a perfect right to feel proud of it. See ——The Clinton county veterans held their annual reunion at Agar’s park on Thursday last. About 300 of the boys in blue were in attendance, and with familiar old friends added over 1,000 persons partic- ipatiog in the meeting. tions and good dinner were the order of the’ day. The committee to fix the time and place for next year’s meeting, voted to come up to Heola park where it is hoped the Cen- tre county veterans will decide to meet with them. The date of meeting will not be fixed until early nextspring. : mere AA meet ——Last Saturday, when on his way from Bellefonte to Pennsylvania Furnace, Mr. John Lyon met with an accident which en- tirely wrecked the machinery of his hand- some automobile. When in the neighbor- hood of State College, and while going at a twenty-five mile olip, the crank pin broke, letting loose the crank bar which was whirled rapidly around among the intricate and complicated machinery, causing a com- plete ‘wreck of almost the entire plant. The machinery was hanled into the barn of William Thompson and Mr. Lyon and party secured a vehicle and continued their trip home. It will required all new machin- ery to repair the machine. - % —— “Wild” turkeys promise to be un- usally plenty on the mountains near Bush hollow, back of Unionville. During the summer Arista Lucas had successfully raised a flock of more than three dozen choice-breed turkeys until they were abous two-thirds grown. About harvest time a flock of wild turkeys would come down off the mountain to feed in Mr. Lucas’ grain fields. The result was that the wild turkeys and Mr. Lucas’ turkeys got to associating together and one day about two weeks ago when the wild turkeys departed for their roosts in the mountains Lucas’ entire flock accompanied them and since that time, though Mr. Lucas and his sons have spent several days in the woods trying to locate them, not a sign of either the tame turkeys or the wild turkeys has been discovered. Aside from the loss such a splendid flock of turkeys means, it was a very mean trick the wild turkeys played, enticing away all Mr. Lucas’ turkeys with both Thanksgiving and Christmas practically staring one in the face and not one of the big toothsome birds left in the barnyard. Addresses, resolu-. 4 BELLEFONTE BOROUGH COUNCIL.—Just six members were present at the meeting of borough council Monday evening. In the absence of president W. R. Jenk- ins, Joseph Wise was elected to fill the chair, which he did very acceptably. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Burgess W. Harrison Walker turned in $10.50 in fines and licenses. Solicitor D. F. Fortney submitted a report on the south Water street improvement which showed the rapid progress made. The solicitor stated that he had notified the Pennsylvania and Commercial tele- phone companies and the Electric Light company to remove their poles on thas por- tion of the street where the improvement has been made to places indicated by conn- cil; that the companies were slow in com- plying with the notification and he sug- gested the use of an axe on a few poles as a means of hurrying them. He also stated that he had made arrangements with the Bush estate for the removal of a portion, about eight feet, of the point of the hill between the Arcade and Glenn’s photo- graph car. South Water street is to bave the grade raised and made thirty-five feet wide, and an ordinance is being pre- pared to that effect. A small incandescent light was ordered placed at the intersection of Howard and Ridge streets. Bishop street residents made complaints of persons burning grass and refuse and of a big tree in front of the Blackford property. Both complaints were referred to the proper committees. Coun- cil elected the following officers for the borough fire department: Chief Fire Marshall, H. B. Kerns; first assistant marshall, George B. Hart; second assiss- ant marshall, John MoSuley. The follow- ing bills were approved and orders drawn: 7 American Lime & Stone Co..........ccccsnnnnenen. W. T. Kelly, clerk and sundries................. Bffe, Electric C0... cccciirrivsicrnsrinerasssiissssssss Bfte Electric Co. light for streets... P.R. BR. Co. freight......c...ccor.. Bfte. Central, stone for wall Police pay roll.........c.ccieiies . Pay roll for masons on wall.........ccoeeerinnnne 237 00 " ¢ labors i tinssiundaraesreriiy 429 88 A. Allison, supplies.......... Street pay roll........... T. Shaughensey. Pa, Railroad... Bfte, Electric %. ““ 6 Water works pay roll Garbrick Bros........eccevees A. Allison, pipes ete.. " Nate Meter C0......c..cciserensiisrrisrmtionses ‘sassasses G. M. Mallory, repairs.. . J. H. Lingle, repairs.............ceaeses. " G. M. O'Leary, repairs to pagiten renin R. B. Taylor, coal.. Ceionsiiestinseantericrsy ge hauling fire engine. deve Tevavarsise KILLED NEAR CONNELLSVILLE.— While in the discharge of his duties as brakeman on the Connellsville branch of the Moxon- gahela railroad Tuesday, of last week, Oliver Thomas Lingle, a son of Mr. W. L. Lingle, of Spring Mills, met with an ac- cident which resulted in his death in the West Penn hospital, at Pittsburg, at 3:40 o'clockz Wednesday morning. ~ The ac- cident occurred at 9 o’clock Tuesday morn- ing and at the time Lingle was standing on the abutment of a new bridge waiting to jump the train as it passed him. It is sup- posed he made a misstep, landing on the cinders surrounding the abutment, and they giving way, he was precipitated over a forty-four foot embankment, sustaining fatal injuries. Deceased was 28 years of age and unmarried. His father, mother, one sister and three brothers survive. The remains were brought east on Thursday, accompanied by eight members of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, James G. Blaine Lodge, No. 703, of which deceased was a member. Interment was made ‘on Friday at the Cross oe ry, Rev. W. C. Bierly, of the Evan, te burch, officiating. TAKEN TO DANVILLE. — The many friends of Scott Lose, the tailor, and a member of the Coleville band, will be pained to hear that he is suffering with dementia and has been taken to the asylum at Danville. For sometime past Mr. Lose would have spells in which he would imagine various things about members of his family. These spells grew more fre- quent until several weeks ago he became quite violent one evening and procuring a revolver, threatened to kill his wife and then himself. He was secured by the authorities and locked up before be could do any harm. pointed and alter a thorough examina! of Mr. Tose it was deemed best for his family and for himself that he be taken away for treatment. o_o Con. W. F. REEDER'S WILL.-—The will of the late Col. Wilbur F. Reeder has been probated in the office of the clerk of the orphan’s court. It is a very brief doou- ment, occupying not more than one-half a sheet of legal-cap paper. It is dated July 4th, 1894, witnessed by Miss Jennie Fauble and Calvin Piler, and leaves everything to the deceased’s wife, Mrs. Lillie G. Reeder, and appoints her the sole executrix of the estate. Aside from the home on north Allegheny street and the interest in a very large law practice the estate consists main- ly of life insurance, of which Col. Reeder carried filty thousand seven hundred dol- lars. renee fp ee ——The interior of the Aaronsburg Luth- eran church is being remodeled. The gal- lery is being torn ont and done away with, thus giving about fifteen feet more space in the main audience room, which will be changed in a few other ways, repapered and repainted. The Aaronsburg congregation is the oldest of that denomination in the county, having heen established in 1793. The present church was erected in 1852, SP —All the great Cenire county | fair needs is fair weather. ; Later a commission was ap- | News Purely Personal, —Miss Josephine Haupt, of Allegheny street, spent Labor day with friends in Snow Shoe. —Eloise K. Meek is allowing her patients in Johnstown a chance to get well Mhile she spends a few days at home. —Miss Annie MeAftrey, of this place, was the guest of her brother, Pat McAffrey, of Lock Haven, over Sunday. —John Mensinger, who for seven years has been in the employ of the late Wilbur F, Reeder, moved to Berwick his old home last Saturday. —Miss Sallie Struble, who holds a position in a sanatarium in New Jersey, is spending her vaca. tion with her aunt, Mrs. Eliza Campbell, of Oak Hall. —Ambrose Sherry, who has been spending his vacation at his home on Spring street, left Mon- day for St. Vincent's college, located at Beatty, near Latrobe, which college he has been attend- ing for the past three years. —Mr. William H. Parker, instructor in practical mechanics at State, spent Tuesday showing the beauties of Bellefonte to his guests Mr. and Mrs, Patrick, of New York City, and Mrs. Wilson, of Toledo, whose son is editor of the Toledo Blade. —Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Grace Gates, of Elmira, were guests of Mrs, Will Larimer for a few days and later were entertained by Mrs. Lee Larimer, of Jersey Shore. With their mother, Mrs. Gates, they also visited relatives in Buffalo Run. —Mr. and Mrs. James K. Barnhart, Martha and Philip, celebrated Labor day in a visit to Miss Barnhart at Curtin. A day in the country is about the pleasantest imaginable method of spending a vacation, especially to a man whose business is banking. —Mrs. Will Larimer, Miss Lizzie Schofield and Charles Larimer went to Huntingdon yesterday to attend the county fair and see the races in which Mr. Larimer will drive Vernes Hal. How much money they have staked we could not find out, but we hope they will win a fat purse. : —Mrs. Ogden, Mildred and Henry have return- ed from a five weeks’ visit in Tioga county. While not quite as well browned as the shore vis- itors they have enough to make apparent what a wholesome preparation for the work of winter are weeks of outdoor life in summer. —Louis Grauer has gone to Philadelphia and New York to lay in his winter stock of goods. The styles this fall are so varied and gay that buying for a store the size of Lyon & Co. would be no easy job and if we judge by what he has to accomplish he will be away for a long time. —Andrew Struble and son came down from Ty- rone on Saturday to visit friends in Zion, but so fast have Tyrone people grown lately that even Zion is not sufficient for more than a day and Mr. Struble was hurrying back to Tyrone to see some “doings” before all celebration of Labor day was over. He says everything 1s always boom- ing there. Would that we could say the same for our town, —Robert Foster, of State College, can crowd a lot of living into a short space of time. Last Wednesday he was down to the Reeder funeral and Tuesday was in town again, having in the meantime had his family to Atlantic City as guests of Robert Witmer, visited John Snyder at Mt. Airy and seen enough gayeties to cheer him up for a few of the gloomy days due us about equinoctial time. —Mac Curtin is home from New York for a two weeks vacation. As New York is the Mecea to- ‘ward which all ambitious business men aspire and the final stamping ground of the man too opulent to find outlet elsewhere for his money and social stunts, we might imagine Mac, first vice presi- dent of the Westinghouse Company,as some kind friend reported him to us. Perhaps he will be some day, who knows ? ~Samuel Harpster, one of "the most active and leading young Democrats from the upper end of the county, wasin town on Wednesday night, having come down from his home. at Gatesburg to attend to some business and take a look over the plans for the fall campaign. Sam is one of those fortunate fellows who is forty and looks twenty-five and he has crowded into his forty years about as much good hard work as Sovera| ordinary men would care to undertake. —Mr. and Mrs. Reese Van Ormer, who have been spending a few days with their sister, ‘Mrs, Caswell, returned to Coatesville Thursday. On Saturday Mrs. Oaswell, Mildred and the Swartz “twins” will follow them. Mr. and Mrs. ‘Edgar Swartz are with the Masonic excursion to Califor- ia and have left the children to visit the aunts. Bellefonte makes a very delightful summer home, butit is very pleasant to Hit alittle nearer the as does Mrs, Caswell when winter approaches. P —Mr. Charles M. McCurdy, cashier of the First National, will leave to-day for Magnolia Beach, a resort near Boston, where he will remain until next Wednesday, when he will return to New York city for the thirteenth annual meeting of theAmeriean banker's association. It is, to the greatest social and financial event history of the association and the great bank nking houses of the metropolis are vying, one th other, in providing the most attractive en I ment for the yisitors. & i —Fred Decker, the veteran College coma farmer was in town visiting on Tuesda; { Wednesday, and knowing that he baa ebire from active farming some time ago we ‘asked him how his crops had yielded. Of course it was only a joke, but it turned out that the laugh is on us good and proper for Fred replied hat off a strip of ground 3 rods long by 1 rod h had just taken 23 bushels of potatoes. hearing this we realized that even th 1 may not be farming in the full sense of the’ word he is still up to his old tricks of raising big crops: —It does not speak well for the avidity of the up-country friends in devouring news offered by Mon , George Stevenson and i apers ‘Miss Elsie Sellers came down avowedly to. exe- cute many commissions, but found themselves confronted by closed stores and banks. It be understood why the word avowedly is used both looked so happy over the ruse that ‘anyone would suspect them of only wanting a good | ex- cuse to celebrate Labor day in more fertile fields than Buffalo Run offers for this sort of things And they had plenty of money, too ! LE —A guest book of the visitors for oneyour at the McCalmont and Shortlidge home would be almost as well filled and cover as much latitude as a hotel register. The guests at present are Mrs. Martha Hewitt, of Riverside, California, and Miss Mary Sterritt, of Titusville, both well- known and whose visits are always anticipated with much pleasure by their friends in Belle- fonte. Nine years have elapsed since Mrs. Hewitt was last here and during that time she has made two trips abroad. She is now on a nine months visit as she left California in the early spring and will go on east from here, —Some of the out-of-town guests with us at present are : Mrs. Shaffner, guest of Miss Lyde Thomas; Miss Shaffner, guest of Miss Grace Mitchell; Mr. Charles Clement, of Sunbury, son of Col, Charles M. Clement, President of C. R. R. of Pennsylvania, guest of Laird Curtin; Miss Watson, of Williamsport and Mr. Clarence Weimer, of Lebanon, guests at the residence of Judge A. O. Furst; Miss Florence Sanderson, of Lock Haven, guest of Miss Anne Orvis; Miss Bigler, of Clearfield and the Misses Godcharles, of Milton,guests of Miss Mary Weaver; Miss Hay, of Easton, and Miss Gibson, of Williamsport» guests of Miss Eleanor Harris; Miss Moser, a Wilson College girl class of 1904, guest of Miss Margaret Thomas; Miss Stineman, of Lancaster guest of Mrs, Murray Andrews. —The venerable William Rees is now in Coats ville attending a reunioit of his old regiment. —Miss Carrie C, Bayard left last week for Jumonville, Fayette county, where she has ac cepted the position of assistant superintendent in the soldiers’ orphan school. —Miss Mable Otto departed on Monday for Johnstown where she expects to spend the. win™ ter with her sister, Mrs, Will Smith, and attend the Johnstown High school. —Madame Abreu, of Cuba and her family are spending the summer with Madame Boal, of Boalsburg. Mademoiselle Abreu will be Mr, Irving Thompson's guest at the Golden Rod dance this evening. —Mr. and Mrs. Hill and children returned to Philadelphia on Tuesday. Mrs. Hill and the children, have hada long vacation at the Rich- ard’s home b Mr. Hill's was necessarily ab- breviated to two weeks. —After spending his summer vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Garbrick, Clarence Garbrick has returned to Philadelphia to take up his work as instructor in higher mathematics in the Eastburn Academy. —Mrs. Estelle Lyon has come back. to her old home on Linn street to remain with the Grauer family for as long a time as her health remains good. If good health is to limit her stay we hope she may find a mascot in the pure air and good water of Bellefonte, —There was probably no household lonelier last night than that of David Haines, for yester= day afternoon Mrs. Charles Haines and the chil« dren went back to Beaver Falls after a two weeks visit with the grandparents, who, of course, think their grandchildren just a little dearer than any- one’s else. —If all our subscribers were as desirous of paying in advance asis J. A. Alexander, of Run- ville, we could soon owu an eight-thousand-dollar “red devil.” Mr. Alexander is now lumbering in Potter county but had his father make us the annual call which always means a silver dollar more in pocket. ————— lp ene. BELLEFONTE SCHOOLS OPENED. — The Bellefonte public schools opened for the 1904-05 year on Tuesday with a total at- tendance of 676 pupils, a very good average for the first day. The new teachers in the corps of instructors are Prof. Jonas E. Wag- ner, Mr. Harry Yearick and Miss Sarah J. Waite. Principal David O. Etters is hav- ing some difficulty in properly equalizing some of the schools. The intermediate grades, especially, are congested. In the stone building the girls’ room is crowded, while in the brick building it is the boys’ room that is above the average number. In order to properly equalize the student force it has been necessary to move some of the girls from the stone to the brick build- ing and some boys from the brick to the stone building. In doing this the princi- pal encountered considerable friction, as neither the girls or the boys wanted to be moved. However, it is believed that in a few days everything will be satisfactorily arranged for all and the current of impart- ing knowledge once again flow quite smoothly. One thing noticeable in the schools is that the number of pupils in the primary grades grows smaller every year while the higher grades increase in num- bers, which shows that the population of Bellefonte at the present time is practically one of resident property owners and not one of transient workmen and their families. ee QA eri. C. W. SHAFFER NOMINATED FOR CON- GREsS.—The Democratic congressional conference for this, the twenty-first con- greasional distriot, composed of Centre, Clearfield, Cameron and MoKean coun- ties, met at DuBois on Wednesday and nominated Charles W. Shaffer, Esq., a prominent attorney of Emporium, Camer- on county, for congress. The delegates from this county were N. B. Spangler, Bellefonte; W. G. Morrison, Roland, and Edward Jones, Philipsburg. Other promi- nent democrats who attended the con- ference were Col. J. L. Spangler, sheriff €. S. Taylor and Ellis L. Orvis, esq. Philadelphia Markets. The following are the closing prices cf the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. Wheat—Red... eal 04 —No. 2. @99 Cora —Yellow, 2 5@64 ¢¢ —Mixed new. 59@b5914 Oats... oi di didi : 36 Flour— Winter, Per Br’l.. . 3.65@3.80 “ _Ppenna. Roller... 4, .80 *¢ —Favorite Brands, 6.30@6.40 Rye Flour Per Br'l..... 4.20@4.30 Baled hay—Choice LX 10. 15.50 $s Mixed "%. 1 2 13.50 BYP Worries ciriimrinsiriarivsan svsnimissons 15.50 Rellefonte Grain ar Corrected weeklv by C. Y. WaaNEg, The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes Tess : d wheat, New wheat. Rye, per bushel........... Corn, shelled, per bush Corn, ears, per bushel.. Oats old an Hew, per bushel.. Barley, per bushel...eosiscreesseesaes ny laster, per ton.. Buckwheat, per bushel Cloverseed, per bushel Timothy seed per bush sessssusarsesinsitisecenantnese sssessessicncsinnee Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by by Sechler & Co. Potatoes per bushel. titra Ty 40 Onions 75 Eggs, per dozen... 15 iy Ie ify Shoulders 8 Coun: 10 : ify Shoulders os 10 Tall Hams... a 3 12 ow, per poun Butter, ed pound 15 The Democratic Watchman. Published every Friday “mornin , in Bellefonte, Pa., at $1.50 per annum ( if paid strio strictly in advance) $2.00, when not paid in advance, and $2.50 if not paid before the expiration of Then oA and no paper will be discontinued until a i paid, except at the option of the wih Pe os will not be sent out of Centre county un- less paid for in advance. A liberal discount is made to advertis- ing by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows : SPACE OCCUPIED [3m | om | 1y One inch (12 lines this type.............. $588 (810 TWO inChes......oouivssrnrainuss pe aie OT eH 15 Three inches... 1015 | 20 arter Column (5 inche Jaf Selvaon So nches). 36 | 55 20 inches). 85 | 10¢ een in special column 25 per cent Transient advs, pet line, 3 J05e FORE enn 20 cts. 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