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Bellefonte, Pa., January 24, 1908.
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
~——W. R. Brachbill entertained a few
friends with a turkey diouer at his home
last Sanday.
~——A little baby hoy made ite arrival
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wagner
Geiss on Thursday night of last week.
—— Bellefonte Maccabees are planning
to bold a smoker in sheir ball in the Mo-
Clain block the first week in February.
~——A number of new members were
initiated into the mysteries of Elkdom by
the Bellefonte Lodge of Elks on Monday
evening.
~——Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Budioger, of
Soow Shoe, will leave next week for Gaines-
ville, Fla., where they ex pect to spend the
remaining six weeks of winter,
~——Alter an illness of several weeks
Claude Thompson bas entirely recovered
and on Monday was able to go to work as
enginser oun the shifter in the Dellefonte
yards.
—2 The Juniata college Prep. basket
ball team will play the Academy five in
the Gym bere on Saturday evening, Janu-
uary 25th, at 8:30 o'clock. Admission
2501s.
——Last Friday wae a bad day for the
Bellefonte basket ball teams, Tyrone de-
feating the Academy by the score of 37 to
14 and the Sophomores of State College de-
feating the Y. M. C. A. by the score of 29
to 25.
———C. T. Fryberger, of Philipsharg, on
the fifteenth of the mouth sold his float
and feed warehouse and business to the
Feed Grain company, of that place, and
will devote his entire time to his insurance
business.
—— Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, of Chicago,
but who was recently elected president of
‘The Penvsylvavia State College, lectured
before the students at that institution last
evening on ‘‘Robert Morris, the Unknown
Patriot.”
—— Leonard Grange at Rock Springs
purposes giving a pay entertainment at its
Hall on February 1st, the admission to
which will be 15 and 25 cents. Musio,
comio songs, monologues, eto., will consti
sate the program.
We have thus far omitted to mention
the fact that a young son recently made
its appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs,
Richard Lane, of McKeesport; and of
course they have heen receiving the happy
congratulations of their friends ever since.
Three of the higgest hogs that have
been brought into Bellefonte were delivered
at Beezer’s meat market on Tuesday after-
noon by George Y'ibbens. There was one
monster which weighed 447 ponnds and
the aggregate weighs of the three was 1027 |
pounds.
——Mrs. William Dawson recently par-
chased from the Lieb estate the property
on Spring street now ocoupied hy Dr. John
Sebring avd family. The price paid was
four thousand dollars. The Dawsen'’s ex-
pect to occupy the house themselves after
April first.
~The Woman’s Guild of St. John’s
Episcopal church will have an exchange
in Montgomery & Co's. store on Saturday,
January 25th, commencing at 11 o'clock
a. m. Bread, cakes, pies, desserts and can-
dies for vale. Any orders left with Mrs.
Wilkivson will be promptly filled.
—~Edward Woods, mail carrier on the
‘West ward route, is just entering npon his
fourteenth year of service and in all that
time he bas never been late one single time
in reporting for duty at the postoffice ;
while he always covers his route as quick-
Jy as possible alter he gets out of the office.
—— Miss Jennie Hassell, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Montgomery,
on east Linn street, fell down stairs one
day last week and hurt her shoulder so
badly that she bas wince been confined to
hed and uoder the care of a trained nurse.
Fortunately, however,no bones are broken.
Rev. and Mra. John Hewitt will ar-
wive in Bellefonte next week and the former
will begin his pastoral duties in the parish
of 8t. John's Episcopal church the first
Sanday io February. Rev. Hewitt will not
come to Bellefonte a stranger, but is so
well known that he needs no laudation.
—— Excavators are hard at work digging
down the rocky hillside along south Water
atreet to make foundation for Forrest Bal-
Jook’s new blacksmith’and wagon-making
=hop. And it is proving no small job,
«ither, as the rook is so bard that it bas to
be blasted loose; and to do this with build-
ings in such close proximity requires con-
=iderable care.
~—A. Miles Arney, who at one time
was superintendent of the Bellefonte Eleo-
trio company in this place, but who is now
located at Niagara Falls, has had quite a
siege of illness and a week or so ago was so
ad that his parents, Mr. and Mm. B. H.
Arney, of Centre Hall, were sent for, is
wow improved to that extent that be is be-
lieved to be out of danger.
~——Joho Porter Lyon has given up his
i-ase on the rooms inthe Bush Arcade
where his garage is now located to take
effect April firsts. Though he very likely
fina a place in view he bas not yet made
public where be intends locating. In this
oonnection it might be stated that there
are rumors of two more garages to be open-
«d up in Bellefonte in the spring.
persons who scouted the idea of the neces-
sity of a hospital in Bellefonte or the feasi-
bility of supporting ove when the proposi-
tion was made a number of years ago have
no doubt been cared of their skepticism
long ere this. If they haven’s and would
take the trouble now to go and inspect that
institation and learn of the good work that
is being done there all the time they woald
go away doubly convinced of the necessity.
The very fact that the hospital long ago
outgrew its old quarters and it became im-
perative to bave more room is the most
convincing argument in favor of it being
one of she most needed institutions in the
town and commanity. The only unfortu-
nate fact in vonnection with is is that the
State Board of Pablic Charities, and the
chairman of the Committee on Appropria
tions have not been able to see the ahsolute
necessity for more room and better facili-
ties as the management and the people of
Bellefonte do, else they would undouhted-
ly have been more liberal in granting the
fall appropriations asked, and which would
have enabled the board of trustees to have
gone ahead with the erection of a new
main hoilding. However, we are all thank-
fal for small favors, and consequently ap-
preciate the fact that the state appropria-
tion was liberal enongh to allow the haild-
ing of one wing of the projected new haild-
ing.
That wing is now completed, furnished
and equipped and open to iuspection by she
public. The new building is conneoted
with the old by an extension on the front
of the latter which provides fora wide
corridor leading from the superintendent's
office, now located in the northeast corner
of the old building wher: the men’s ward
used to be, direct to the corridor of the new
‘building. Everything south of the corridor
on the first floor of the new building is
given over to the operating department, all
of which has been furnished and equipped
by the grand-children of the late Mrs.
Andrew G. Curtin. The suite includes the
operating room, sterilizing room, etheriz-
ing room, and receiving ward, and doc-
tor’s robing room, with individual lockers.
The operating and sterilizing rooms,
however, are the main rooms, and there is
nothing better nor more modern and com-
plete in any hospital in the country than
these in the Bellefonte hospital while they
are far more complete than those in eighty
per cent. of the hospitals.
Every effort was made to eliminate every
particle of wood possible in the finishing
| of the operating room and the doors are |
about the only wooden parts. The floor
and wainscoting is of tile while the walls
are bard-fluished. Every particle of turni- |
ture and equipment io the room is of nick-
el, japanned steel, glass and granite ware,
| #0 thas all precautions have heen taken to
have everything of the hess for the observ-
auce of the strictest sanitary regulations.
The sterilizing room is also most thorough-
ly equipped with huge nickel tanks aud
| heaters. Of course these are the main
rooms iu the suite and that their equipment
is a8 complete as it is is due to the generos-
ity of the grandobildren of Mrs. Curtin.
| In order that ber memory may be properly
perpetoated in shis gift every article of
furnitare in the room is marked witha
plate bearing the one word, ‘‘Curtin,”
while every instrument has the word *‘Cur-
tin,’" engraved thereon; and in addition,
there will be placed at some promivent
place in one of the rooms a brass plate
on which will be engraved the following
inscription:
In Loving Memory of |
MRS. KATHARINE WILSON CURTIN, |
This Group of Rooms
Operating, Sterilizing, Etherizing and
| Accident.
! is furnished and equipped by her
Grandehildren.
The etherizing room is simply tarnished
with a bed, a table for the ether, chloro-
form, etc., and the oxygen tanks. The
accident room is designed for the dressing
of injuries or hurried operations of any per-
son injured, where there is no time to
properly prepare the patient for the operat-
ing table. A door in the rear leads direot-
ly into the corridor connecting this suite of
rooms.
The first operation in the new rooms was
performed on Wednesday of last week by
Dr. Harris, and was very successful.
The rest of the new building on the first
and second floors is ocoupied with the
room furnished by the Bellefonte Lodge of
Elks, a small ward with three beds and
the women’s main ward on the second
floor with eight beds. The third floor so
far bas heen occupied by Miss Calderwood,
the superintendent.
In the old building are the men’s ward
on the first floor, with a capacity for five
beds, the office and in the rear of that the
nurse's lecture room where every week
they hear lectures by the different phy-
sicians. On the second floor are the D. A.
R., W.C. T. U,, Howard, and Centre
Hall rooms.
The D. A. R., ladies bave not only been
muuvificent in their donations so far bus as
their suggestion the addition to the old
building which forms the corridor connecs-
ing it with the new, was built two stories
forming a nice sun parlor. This the D.
A. R. will equip with comfortable chairs
for the use of patients while convalescing.
The old operating room, which is located
on the second floor of the old building, is
being remodeled and will be furnished by
Col. James P. Coburn with three beds and
equipment to be know as the
COL. JAMES P. CoBUEN FREE OBSTRETRIC
WARD.
This is a ward that has long been needed
in the hospital and Col. Coburn’s philan-
| were hooked eight months ago.
thropy is highly appreciated.
which Dr. J. Finley Bell, of Englewood,
N. J., has offered to furnish. The third
floor of the old building is taken up with
the narse’s rooms, eto., while of course the
kitchen, lsandry, ete., are in the rear on
the first floor.
There are now seventeen patients in the
hospital, but last week there were twenty-
four. The of nurses inclade Miss
Calderwood, superintendent, one graduate
nurse and seven training nurses, while
there is now opening for additional young
women who want to learn to be nurses. In
this article we have not been able to tell
youall about the hospital but the public
are welcome at all times to visit the insti-
tution daring visiting hours. In fact the
people there would like to have outsiders
become more familiar with she good work
that is being done there, and to this end
the Ladies Auxiliary now are planning to
give a tea at some time in the near future
which will be made a public function for
the purpose of affording all who care to at-
tend an excellent opportunity to inspect
the instisation.
Among the most recent cases at the hoe-
pital are Mrs. Jonas E. Wagner, operated
upon last Saturday; Mr. Herman, operated
upon recently; Miss Hattie Wilson, operated
upon Monday for appendicitis, and Miss
Woleslagle, also operated apon for appen-
dicitis, and all of whom are doing nicely.
>
~—— Michael Lamb has been awarded the
contract for painting the letter hoxes abont
the town, and will hegin the work just as
8000 as the government can get the mater-
ial bere.
rai pias
——Last Friday evening the Tyrone
basket ball team defeated the Bellefonte
Academy by a most decisive score aud to-
day they will come to Bellefonte to try
conclusions with the Y. M. C. A. team in
the local gymnasium this evening. Both
the Tyrone team and the Y. M. C. A. team
bave been playing good ball and the con-
test will be one worth seeing and well
worth the price of admission. Go and see
it and encvurage the local team to victory.
——The ‘“Roney’s Boys" concert to he
given in Petriken hall next Monday even-
ing, will be au entertainment out of the
ordinary. H. B. Roney is one of the best
known concert organists and choir leaders in
Chicago, whose speciality is the development
of the rare voice quality found only in the
throat of a boy of ten or twelve. In order
to seoar~ this company for Bellefonte they
There is
certainly a treat in store for those who at-
tend. Reserved seats may he seonred at
P. D. Sheffer's grocery store.
——Mrs. Harry ! Betz,
of Jersey Shore,
| but a former Nittany valley resident, re-
ceived a letter the other day that was some-
what bewildering, at first, but upon olose
purueal proved to have been written by her
mother four years ago. The writer, who
makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Betz,
was visiting friends at Mackeyville at that
time and wrote to her daughter, sending
the epistle to the postoffice at that place,
but through some neglect or oversight the
service was very slow and four years
elapsed before the message reached its
desired destination. The postmark was of
very recent date, but the envelope showed
the discolorment of age.
to
——Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Gates, of War-
riorsmark, but who are old Centre coun-
tiars and well known in Bellefonte from
baving lived within afew miles of the
town for a number of years, are off ona
trip west. They lefs on Monday for Barody,
Behring county, Michigan, for a month's
visit with friends. They were acoom-
panied by Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Confer and
daughter Ethel. This is the first trip of
any consequence Mr. and Mrs. Gates have
ever taken and as they have always been
bard working people we trust they will
have an unusually pleasant vacation. Dar-
ing their absence their son Wallace will
look after their farming interests.
~——The kind of weather we have been
having the past week is making the ice
man as well as the coal man uneasy. Here
is the 24th day of January and so far there
has been no ice worth speaking of with no
immediate prospect of the weather man
making any very toon. And of course the
coal man looks with no small disfavor upon
the mild weather as it natarally reduces
the aggregate of his sales considerably. Bat
shere is one class of men who have no reas-
on to complain and that is the dootors.
The weather is ail that can be desired for
the ravages of the grip, colds, etc., as is
evidenced by the large number of cases
there are in town now ; and consequently
the doctors are kept as busy as they can
be.
Serene
-—Notwithstauding the fact that a
number of industries in and around Belle-
fonte have closed down there is no iodica-
tion as yet that there will be many idle
houses after April first next. In fact the
outlook for the renter is anything bat
bright, inasmuch as a number of landlords
in Bellefonte bave already advanced the
rental of their houses while others bave
given notice that the rent will be ad vanced
on April first. This io iteell, is enough so
kill she town. Gooduess knows that the
rental of houses in Bellefonte bas been
high enough in the past—all the houses
were worth and all the renter could affordto
pay, avd with the inoreased price of all the
necessaries of life it is next to an imposi-
tion to put up the price of rentals when
there is certainly no rezson under the san
to justily is. What is needed in Belle-
fonte is some man with money to build
decent houses that can be rented at a de-
cent figare, that would mean a fair rate of
interest to the investor and that the renter
could afford to pay.
CreaNING Up THE WRECK—Time only
will sell bow many cases of puenmonia and
grip will develop among the crowd of peo-
ple who spent most of Sunday standing on
the sloppy pike or the snow covered hill
overlooking the scene of last week’s wreok
on the Lewisburg railroad at Grifish’s.
There were fully two thousand specta-
tors. Some of them had come from she
very lower end of Peansvalley and while
most of them were from the vicinity of
Bellefonte the fact that there were one
bundred and twenty-six carriages, wagons
and buggies tied within a distance of one-
fourth of a mile proves that many came
from a greater distance.
The wreck occurred on Wednesday even-
ing of last week. Late that same nighs the
Tyrone wreoking crew cleared up the track
80 that trains ran as usual over the line the
next morning. After shat the regular
division crew cleared up all the wreckage
bat the locomotive. The cars that were
too badly broken up to be repaired * were
burned, their contents salvaged as far as
possible and the embankments was clear of
everything bas the ponderous locomotive
on Sunday morning.
Because of the fact that it was down over
a fifteen foot embankment on one of the
worst reverse curves on the system the mat-
| ter of hoisting it to the rails agaio was re-
| garded as more thao a usual railroad under-
taking. Accordingly, on Sanday morn-
ing, the Williamsport and Sunbury wreck-
' ing crews went to the scene, one with a 50
ton derrick, the other with one of 100 tons
capacity. The first move made was to ex-
tend the base of the derricks in order to
keep them from toppling off the tracks.
Then the tackle of the larger one was hook-
ed into the fire box of the wrecked engine
and in three minutes it was raised ten feet
into the air. There it was shored up with
ties while the smaller derrick he'd it from
slidiog back down the hill. After this was
done the derricks were moved far enough
apart to make room on the rails for the
wrecked engine, then the larger derrick
took a shorter hook in the fire box and the
smaller one hooked under the pilot aud in
less than five minutes actual working time
| the engine was sitting on the rails ; look-
ing, of course the worse for the adcidens,
bat ready to be haaled to the shops, where
a new jacket, cab and fittings will pus it
in as good condition as it was before,
The interesting part of the entire per-
formance was the leisurely maoner in
which everyone seemed to go about the
work. There was no talking, hustle or ex-
citemens, hut when the time came and
everything was in readiness the actual work
was done by the ponderous derricks so
quickly that there seemed to be nothing
to it.
The wrecking crew took the four cars
and engine as far as Look Haven on Sun-
day night and on Monday morning they
were taken to the Renovo shops to be re-
paired.
Anent the wreck a Sunbury paper pub-
lishes a story in effect that engineer Ed.
| Graefl bad a premonition of his approach-
ing death. That before starting ous on his
run that morning be had told his wife shat
he felt that he would nos return home
alive. She smiled at what she though
werely a foolish saperstition and in the
evening was repeating she words toa neigh-
boring lady caller when the word was re
ceived thas her husband was dead.
ee
OPEN GRANGE MEETING.—Last Satar-
day afternoon Washington Grange held an
open meeting in their hall at Pine Hall,
near State College, which was unusaally
largely attended by not only members of
the order but farmers and the public at
large. Washington Grange, by the way, is
perhaps one of the largest and most prosper-
ious of any in she county and included on
its roll of members are some nine or more
professors at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege. For several years now they have fol-
lowed the custom of having one big open
meeting some time during the wintar and
the occasion has grown to be a momentous
one, not only in she history of the Grange
bat iv that whole community.
The question which was up for discas-
sion at Ssturday’s meeting was the “Farm
Labor Problem,’ and, though the principal
talkers were Dr. Thomas F. Hantand Prof.
T. I. Mairs, of State College, many farmers
took a prominent part, as she question is
ove which materially affects them and
which the past few years bas grown to be
quite a serious coe ; especially when dur-
ing last summer farm help demanded all the
way from eighteen dollars a month to one
dollar a day aod board, with extra wages
during baymaking and harvest time.
DR. VAN TRIES’ RECITAL. —We desire
to again call the attention of our readers to
the recital Dr. Thomas C. VauTries will
give in the cours house on Friday evenin g
January 31st, for the benefit of the Belle-
fonte hospital. His subject, “Eminent
Men and Women Whom I Have Seen and
Heard,” must not be confounded with
merely local personages, as such is not the
case. Dr. VauTries has traveled much,
not only at home but abroad, and his
knowledge is of a large majority of the men
who bave figured conspicuously in jboth
church and state affairs in this and other
countries in the pass third of a century.
And shose who have heard his recital say
thashe tells itin a way that is nos only
interesting but entertaining. And then it
being for the benefit of the hospital should
be another reason why there should be a
good attendance. Non admission fee , will
be charged bat don't forges that a silver
offering will be lifted.
——Out of 633 scholars enrolled in the
Bellefonte public schools 343 were neither
absent nor tardy during the month of De-
cember.
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News Purely Personal
~John T. McCormick made a business trip to
Batler this week.
—Miss Adaline Harris left on Monday for a vis-
it in Philadelphia.
—Lawrence McMullen, of Hecla, spent Sunday
with friends in Bellefonte.
—Miss Helen Otto, of Niagara Falls, is visiting
her brother, Harry Otto and family.
—Mrs, Lucian Armor, of Lebanon, is visiting at
the Mrs. Sarah Bogle home near town,
~Hassell Montgomery and Robert Valentine
left on Tuesday on a trip to Philadelphia.
~Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Curtin, of Curtin, went
down to Philadelphia, on Wednesday, for a short
visit,
—Miss Mary Hunter Linn has been visiting
friends at Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia the past
week.
—Mrs. Arthur Rothrock, of Pleasant Gap, has
been visiting friends at Niagara Falls the past
week.
~—Miss Hannah Newman and her sister, Miss
Nettie, leave today for a visit to Pittsburg and
Altoona.
=Mrs. Jacob Finkelstein returned on Monday
from a two week's visit with her people in Phila
delphia.
—G. M. Gamble, of Gamble Gheen & Co., mil
lers, went to Williamsport on Monday on & busi.
ness trip,
—Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Singiser spent
Satarday and Sunday at the D. W. Woodring
home in this place,
—Mrs. Charles D, Casebeer is home from a
three week's visit in Pittsburg and with her
mother in Somerset,
—Miss Cora Campbell, of Punxsutawney, arriv-
ed in Bellefonte on Tuesday on a visit to her sis-
ter, Mrs. James K. Barnhart.
—Miss Emma Montgomery spent several days
this week visiting Mr, and Mrs, Frank K. Luk.
enbach and family, in Tyrone.
—Mrs. Samuel H. Taylor, of New York, has
been in Bellefonte visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Lieb,
—Mr.and Mrs. Will Reese and little child, of
Patton, have been spending the week atthe home
of grandpa G. W. Rees, on Willowbank streat,
—John, Edward and James Haze!, of Niagara
Falls, were in Bellefonte on Monday attending
the funeral of their uncle, the late Jared Hazel.
—~Jokn and Mary Gallagher, of Philadelphia,
were arrivals .in Bellefonte on Monday on ac-
count of the death of their cousin, James Gal-
lagher,
~—Mrs. Carrie M., Showers left on the afternoon
train Tuesday for Niagara Falls where she ex.
peécia to atay for the next several months in the
capacity of a nurse,
~M. F. Calderwood, Jr., of Dennison, Ohio,
was in Bellefonte the past week on a visit to his
sister, Miss Lois Calderwood, superintendent of
the Bellefonte hospital,
—After spending a fow days at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Rishel, in Spring
township, Dr. George Rishel left for his home in
Philadelphia on Monday.
— Willis Baners, an employee of the Pennsylva-
| nis railroad company with hsadquarters at Der.
ry, arrived in Bellefonte on Sunday for a few
day's vieit with his parents,
~Among the many strangers in town on Satur.
day we noticed Mr. W. C, Lauck, of State College,
who was here looking after a tew business mat-
ters that needed his attention.
~F. W. Crider left Bellefonte on Tuesday
evening for Philadelphia and Ar Imore, where
Mrs. Crider tins heen for several weeks past vis
iting her danghter, Mrs, Charles E. Rorworth,
—Andrew J. Lytle, of College township, some-
what grayer than he used to be a few years ago
but apparently just as sprightly on his feet as
ever, was a business visitor in town on Tuesday.
—Mr. J. B. Alexander, of Unionville, was one
of the Warcumax’s favored callers on Monday,
leaving enough of that good Bald Eagle money
with us to insure he and his son getting the pa-
per for another year,
~Mrs. Miles Osmer, who hadbeen at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Lieb, for three
weeks or more, left on Tuesday for her new home
near Cleveland, Ohi, where her hushand will be
permanently located,
—Geo. H. Musser, of Milesburg, was in town on
Saturday. George is always bearing gifts, but we
don’t fear him as certain Greeks were once fear
ed when doing the same thing. His usual dona-
tions are nice big apples but this time it was
“dough.”
—Mr. H. J. Garbrick, of Zion, dropped in on
Saturday for a little chat. He really came to send
his paper label away np front and did it with such
a grace as would convinces any one that the far-
mers are not the fellows who are worrying about
panics or hard times,
—Dr. J. Finley Bell, of Englewood, N. J., was
an arrival in Bellefonte on Tonesday evening. He
came here to consult with the Bellefonte phy-
sicians in regard to the illness of his sister, Mrs.
Will Chambers, whose condition all week has
been extremely critical.
—Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kline, of Watsontown,
visited friends in Bellefonte the past week, They
left Bellefonte almost two years ago but their ab-
sence has not lessened their feeling of friend-
ship they had for all their acquaint while
they were residents here.
~Mr. and Mrs. Albert Peters, of Conemaugh,
arrived io Unionville lust Saturday and remained
until Sunday at the home of his parents, Op
Sunday they came to Bellefonte and visited Mrs,
Peters’ parents, Mr. and Mrs, William Evey, until
Monday evening when they left for home.
—Mr. P. McCaftrey, one of the old time friends
of the Warcumax. and the man who keeps the
poor and the poor accounts of Lock Haven better
than they are kept in any other town of the State,
according to Lock Haven belief, was in town on
Wednesday and didn't forget to compliment the
Warenmax with a brief call,
~Amoug the Bellefonters who are going to be
sure thatthe new postoffice ruling won't keep
them from getting their paper regularly are Mrs, [V]
Louisa Bush, A. Lukenbuch, Samuel Decker, and
M. I. Gardner. Nona of them ever have beep in
the class likely to be effected but just to be sare
of not getting there they all got as far ahead as
they could.
—Geo. W, Gates, of Nittany, was in town on
business on Monday and so anxious was he to
have his paper fixed right that, finding the office
closed, he hunted the editor up in his home to
settle up. It is not often that men are that anx-
fous to pay bills, but Mr. Gates said that part of
his work in town was to settle up for his paper
and he proposed doing it.
—~Councilman Thad B. Hamilton was a caller
brignt and early Monday morning to fix up his
paper so the autocrat in the Postoflice Depart.
ment at Washington could not keep him from
getting it regularly. But he did not stop to con-
sider that if all subscribers of newspapers were
as prompt in payment therefore as he is there
would not have been any necessity for such an
order as was issued,
—Proprietor Warren Wood, of the Wood house,
Spriog Mills, was in town Wednesday, having
come up to see the minstrels. A son of George
Huss, the veteran shoemaker and Democrat of
that place, is the basso profundo, doubling in
brass, with the show and that was sufficient to
attract “Maj.” Huss himself to town. He looked
| fine and he had reason to be proud of the son he 3
has given to minstrelsy.
~—Miss Bogle left Thursday, for a short visit in
Philadelphia.
—Miss Alice Fox is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Howard F. Gearhart, at Bellwood.
—Misses Minnie and Anna Cherry went to Wil
liamsport yesterday to spend a few days.
—Miss Elizabeth Brouse left on Wednesday for
an extended visit with friends in Philadelphia.
~Lino Graham, of Lewistown, arrived in Belle-
fonte on Sunday for a visit with his old-time
friends,
~Mrs. H. P. Harris spent the forepart of the
week in Altoona, where she went to attend the
faners! of her aunt.
—Edward L. Hoy left on Monday for Buffalo,
N. Y., toattend the annual convention of the Na-
tional Cement association.
~Miss Mary Hoy, Mrs, Reynolds and Miss
Louise Valentine spent Monday of this week
with Mrs. George Green, in Lock Haven,
—After a pleasant visit at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell, on east Linn
street, Rev. W. D. Engle left for his home in In-
dianapolis on Saturday.
—John Mitchell, the Lemont hardware mer.
chant, was in town yesterday and as John has a
penchant for snow nature let down a little for
him to drive home through,
—H. C. Quigley Esq. went down to Philadel
last evening to finish up the final legal matters
partaining to the suit between the Nittany Iron
Co. and the Nittany Valley R. R. Co., which will
be argued next week.
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H1s THIRTY-SIXTH. — Farmer Charley
Strouse, of near Pine Hall, was never more
surprieed in his life than be was last Sat.
uaday evening when a jolly party of his
friends and neighbors gathered at his home
to help him celebrate his thirty-sixth birth-
day anniversary. The affair was most art-
fully planned by his good wife and her
liege lord had no inkling of what was go-
ing to happen until half a hundred men,
women and young folks swooped down
upon him from his brother John's house,
where the party assembled. Of course
there was a big supper of oysters, ice cream
and cake and all the good things that a
farmer's wife knows so well how to pre-
pare. Mr. Strouse was also the recipient
of many valuable presents as kind remem-
brances from his numerous friends. The
evening throughout proved a most enjoy-
able one for all, and for none more than
for Mr. Strouse himself.
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IMPROVEMENTS AT THE HAAG.—Under
the management of J. Mitchell Cunning-
ham the Haag hotel bas come to be about
us attractive a= money judiciously spent
and tidy housekeeping can make it. Cosy,
comfortable, clean and quiet it is an ideal
stopping place for people who do not care
to pay more than $1.00 per day for their
seryice. The table is in keeping with
everything else so that the whole place iy
attractive beyond the expeotation of those
who have vever been there.
Just recently George Weaver has com-
pleted the work of repapering the office,
diving room, halls and a number of the bed
rooms and his work is certainly a great
credit to himeell, as well as a pardonable
source of pride to the proprietor.
>.
~——James Karstetter, of Pleasant Gap,
bas purchased the old Cartin farm near
Nye bank, recently occupied by Elias
Breou and helonging to the heirs of the
late Coostans Curtin. The price paid
wax eight thousand dollars. Mr. Karstetter
bas been in the butchering business for
some yeais but he does nos like the way
the pure food inspectors dictate to a butoh-
er how to conduct his business, so he
bought the above farm with a view of go-
ing to farming in the spring and also start-
ing a dairy rouse. If be proves as sucoessfal
iu his new venture as he bas been in his
old business he will bave no reason to com-
plain.
————
——J. H. WARD offers his property at
Pine Grove Mills for sale. The property
conrists of large house with modern con-
veniences, large stable, ioé house and other
out- buildings, with new store room suita-
ble for meat market. Nearest meat warket
6 miles distans.
Jax. Zru.—At the late residence of the Misses
Barnhart, in Spring township. Household and
kitchen goods of all kinds, Sale at 1 p. m.
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Bellefonte Produce slarkets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes, new, per bushel.
Unions.
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Corrected weekly by C. Y. Waanzs,
The following are the quotations up to sia
o'clock, Thy evening, when our paper goes
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95
R, F BUBB ces cacseersrsersssossserscincrio serena 70
Os Trea per bushel...... snnsrnnne. 70
Corn, ears, per ee ans sesssnsnsnnerssmnnsns - WN
Oats old and new, per bush wens BO
Barley, par bushel... ... werenies wee 0
sround A jpet ton... 50 to 9 60
Buckwheat, per bushel..... reesssseraen os 50
ove, per bushel...... nnn 00 to 88 00
Timothy seed per bushel..................$2.00 to $2.95
Phitladetpnia Markets.
The follo are the closing prices of
the Philadelphia markets on ednesday
evening.
Wheat—Red... 101@101%
“ No.2 Wa 97
Corn —Yellow.........crnee 63@ 63)
* Mixed new....... 6
ens asoese trees setens sate —-e ba,
Flour— Winter, Per Br’ we 4.104426
* —Peonna. Roller on 4.30 4.45
* —Favorite Brands 5.90@86,10
RY PlOUT POrBI le curerverserisesonne 4.70@4.75
Baled hay—Choice Timot No. 1... 12 tune £0.00
“ . “" Mixed a“ 1 1
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