A RAE "Bellefonte, Pa., March 20, 1908. To CORRESPONDENTS. — —~No communieations pub 8 hed uniess accompanied by the real name of the writer, — — THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY ——8pring will hegin tomorrow. ——Boy's $1.50 shoes at $1.15 at Yea- gers, ~The groundhog went ont of business on Monday but Old Boreas is working over time. ~—Miss Eva Crissmau gave a leap year dance io the ball in Bush Arcade on Tues- day evening. —— Ambrose Sloteman and family will move from Bellefonte to Lock Haven on the first of April, ~Tomorrow will be the last day on which candidates for county offices can file nomination papers. ——Rev. G. W. Barry, of St. John's! Lutheran church, will speak in the Salva- tion Army hall Saturday evening. All are welcome, ——The members of the Senior class of The Pennsylvania State College will hold their anunal banquet at the Bush house this evening. ——The Bellefonte camp of Red Men held sheir annual banquet in their hall on the third floor over she Centre county bank fast evening. ——George D. Bayard was one of the leading characters in a home talent min- strel performance given at Hountzdale on Tuesday evening, ———Mr. Melvin, who the last year was head machinist at Lingles foundry, has re- signed his job and last week moved his family to Cherrytree. ~——Col. and Mrs. Hugh 8. Tayler are rejoicing over the arrival of a nice little daaghter, who made her advent into their household on Saturday night. ——Miss Margaret Haghes celebrated her fifteenth birthday avniversary on Sat- urday by entertaining a naomber of her young friends at the Academy. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meese expect to move to Altoona the first of April and take charge of a hoarding house at the cor- ner of Twellth street and Logan avenue. ——Ahout a month ago Mrs. Andrew Brockerhofl, of Philadelphia, slipped and tell breaking a hone at the end of her spine Her condition for a time was serious though at this writing she is some better. —— William F. Shope, who the past six weeks has been working as collector for the Pennsylvania telephone company in this place, has heed promoted to the posi- tion of solicitor and stationed at Lock Ha- veo, —-~Thoogh they bave heen moving for the past ten days Dr. R. G. H. Hayes and family will not finally vacate their old home on Sprivg street until next Monday when they will take up their vew residence in she old Shoemaker property. —— Last Friday eveving the Bellefonte Academy hasket ball team defeated the Suate College sernhs by the score of 22 to 20, and tbe same evening the local Y. M. C. A. aggregation wns defeated hy the Renovo team by the soore of 30 to 18. ——~Though it i= not increasing nearly as rapidly as it ought to a namber of votes aie being added daily in the Academy’s vobing contest. The people of Bellefonte shoald take a greater interest in thie move- went thay has so far heen manifested. ~Mr. and Mrs. Broce Goodbart and litle danghter, who spent the past two mouths with Mr. Goodbart’s parents, ex- conuty commissioner and Mrs. George L. ‘Goodhart, in Centre Hall, passed through Bellefonte on Wednesday on their way to their howe in White, Sonth Dakota; in- tending to stop on the way for a visis with friends in Illinois. ——G. Edward Hanpt has broken ground for a large tenement house on Thomas street. The plans povide for a building 34x48 feet in size and three stories high. It will have a capacity of four flats with two extra roome in the basement. The building will be con- structed of couocrete blooks and will be completed in a modern and up-to-date manner. —— Delegates from the Counnoils of the Royal Arcanum in Bellefonte, Look Haven, Reoovo, Jersey Shore, Muncy, Watson- town, Milton, Lewisburg, Sanbury, Dan. ville, Bloomsburg and Berwick will meet at she Park hotel, Williamsport, this after- moou for the purpose of organizing the as- wooiate councils of the Snsquebanna valley. Meetings will be held both this afternoon and evening. ——On Monday the family of J. Kyle MoFatlane moved into the Ganlt honse on east Curtin street. FRR. Bussler and family have moved from the Twitmire house on Water atreet to the Cooke house near the Yeager Swing factory. George L. Kuoisely and family moved into the house vacated hy Busslers and Mils Kern will move into the house to be vacated by the Koiseleys. ~The Preshyterian congregation of Birmingham has extended a call to Rev. Jay Woodcock to become their pastor. Rev, Woodcock is well and favorably known by Bellefonte people. He is a son of the late Rev. J. A. Woodcock and for the past year or 80 has been located in Philadelphia as an assistant pastor. The Preshyterians of Birmingham are quite anxious to seonre Tavrvse AND y LioHmING, A Bamx BURNED.—The first thunder storm of the year occurred on Sunday afternoon and though it did not last long it was severe enough to make one think it was mid- snminer. The storm was accompanied with a hard downfall of rain hat lortunate- ly it did not last long therelore occasioned po danger of a flood. The lightning, how- ever, played havoo with some of the tele- phone wires 1n this place and a number of the Commercial telephone company’s lines were put oat. The Pennsylvania telephone company and the telegraph companies es- caped with comparatively little damage, Down Bald Eagle valley the storm was unusually severe. The barn on the farm of William Robb, near Romoia, was struck by lightning and barned to the ground with all its contents of grain, hay and farm implements. The stock was gotten ous safely. The loss is about eighteen hun- dred dollars with a partial insarance. That was about the only real damage done in the county, so far as known. Of conrse the old saw is a thander storm in the spring means cold weather and we have bad it since, though it is hoped there will not be a prolonged spell of it, MORE THUNDER, RAIN AND FLOOD. Since the above was written we have had ample canse to know that there has bsen more rain, because there hing been the big- gest flood in Spring oreck in more than six years with the result thas there were at least 24 inches of water in the WATCHMAN press room yesterday and while this item is being written the devil is at work shov- eling out the mand so thas the paper oan he run off in time to reach its readers at she usual boar, Whale it has been more or less threaten- ing all week with showers every now and then it was not until Wednesday thas the situation became desperate. The heavy rain of Weduvesday forenoon and the fierce storms of the evening and night sufficed to raise the water in all the streams in the county to a dangerous point. Spring creek was very bigh and oxerran its hanks all along its course. Logan’s branch was that high that the fish hatohery grounds were all under waster. It was at first feared that all the trout were washed away but fortu- nately that did not prove to be the care. At the toll gate south of the Nittany lar- pace the refuse piled up against the trestie aud dammed the water so high that itjoov- ered the publio road to a depth of fourjfeet with over three feet in the toll-keeper’s house. When the pressure of the water became too great the self-formed dam gave way with the resolt that the waterfcame down the creek in such a volume as to cov- er everything. . It awept over the breast of the dam at the Phoenix mill and through she Bellefonte laomber company’s yard. That occurred about three o'clock yester- day morning and it was then that this of- fice got ite worst dose. Quite a number of animals were caught in the rashing waters and carried down the oieck. Boffaio rou was higher than it has been in years, washing away the railroad trestle aud another bridge near Coleville damming up so that she village isjalmoss isolated. The Bellefonte Central railroad company ran their engines np the road as two o'clock yesterday morning to get them out of the water in the round house then the bridge was washed away and they have not been able to even get their en- gines back tothe yard. Below town the railroad tracks were covered with water and moss of the horse and cattle sheds at the fair grounds were washed away. The Baid Eagle was within fifteen inshes of as high as it was daring the Johnstown flood with the result that the most of Milesburg was under water. It was a great flocd andthe damage done was con- siderable. ———— —— Watsontown shoes for $1.98 at Yea- gers, Re — CENTRE COUNTIANS IN TROUBLE.— Samuel Meyers and Mrs. Caivin Horner, of Centre Hall, now laogunish in the Centre county jail and will have ample opportauni- ty to take a retrospective view of the es- capade which landed shem in Fort Khive. Meyers is a married man and Mrs. Horner is of course a married woman, with her husband and four children living. Both of them bad been living at Centre Hall until February 5th when they disappeared aud tarned up in Tyrone where they regis tered at she Garman honse as man and wife. They remained there a week or so aud theo Mrs. Horner went to wess Tyrone where she secured work as a domestic in a private family. Meyers meanwhile re- mained in Tyrone and every night made a call on Mrs. Horner. In she meantime Mr. Horner learned of the whereabouts of the runaway pair aod last Saturday bad them arrested on the oharges of adultery and desertion, They were brought to Bellefonte and lodged iv jail to awais trial, OS .P H / ELgs ELECT OFFICERS.—At the regular meesing on Monday evening the Beliefonte lodge of Elks elected the following officers for the ensuing year : Exalted ranler, Jobn J. Bower ; esteemed leading knight, J. Linn Harris ; esteemed loyal knight, H. Laird Curtin ; esteemed lecturing knight, Homer Barnes ; secretary, Charles T. Noll; treasurer, M. A. Jackson ; teller Harry Gerberich ; trustees, Robert Cole and John G. Love. The installation will take place at the next regular meeting. By a unani- mous vote the lodge decided to have ‘‘open house’’ some day in the near future when the rooms will be open to visitation by the wives, sisters or sweethearts of the members. nn cn mn A ——— ScHAEFFER—HAZEL REUNION, — The annoal reunion of the Sohaeffer— Hazel families will be held this year at Grange him as their pastor. . park, Centre Hall,on Thursday, June 11th. dou Carson, a farmer living near Zion, made his first trip to Lock Haven in sixty years last Saturday. Mr. Carson is now seventy-eight years old and when a young man eighteen years of age he visited Look Haven. At thas time the place was a town of perhaps two huondred houses, stores, eto., with all the primitiveness of a frontier village. From shat time until last Satarday he never visited the town and he naturally was very much surprised when he saw what a place it bad grown to be. ——Harry L. Garber, the broker, failed and went out of business last Friday. His failure was the results of more or less heavy dealing on his part and she market going again him. His exact liabilities are on- known and as this writing it is not known if Baxter & Co., the Pittsburg honse he represented, will do anything io the way of fixing up the accounts or not. In the meantime there is now no hroker’s office in Bellefonte and there is bardly likely to be one soon unless some satisfactory ar- rangements are made with t be traders who have suffered losses in settlement of their claims. Mr. and Mrs. Garber are breaking | up housekeeping on east Lino street, will | store their goods and for the present make | their home with Mrs. Bosh. ———— PARENTS DAY IN THE SCHOOLS. — Thareday and Friday of next week will be ohserved as ‘Parents Day’’ in the public schools of Bellefonte, Thursday being the date for the schools in the brick building and Friday for the stone and Howard street buildings. The inatitation of parents days was inaugurated several years sgo aod it has been celebrated as an annual event ever since. The public in general is invited to visit the schools on that day and thus see what the schools of Bellefonte are like. Parents in partionlar are urged to make a visit to the schools on those days #0 that they can see for themselves just what is being done in the way of teaching sheir children. eee Hi HENRY'S Bia NEw MINsTRELS Codi ING.—Hi Henry is giving a brand new show this season aud his new gigantic up to date minstrels will appear at Garmau’s, on Wednesday, March 25th. This organi- zation is oredited with giving a show that is new and strikingly original, presenting aots and specialties that are protected hy copyright and hence cannot be used by any other minstrel organization, Their superb military band is well worth hearing in many ways ; it demonstrates the pro. gress and elevation of music in minstrelsy and typifies the general refined character of Mr. Henry's company. Mr. Charley Gano, who made such a hit with the Hi Henry show in the principal cities lass season, has been re-engaged, he is one of the brightest comedians in the minstrel profession as is aiso the droll South Caro- linian, Pat Crawford ; the ever popalar comedian Billy Barke introd aces that coon song “Who ? Me !"” the wonderful scienor, Electric illusion, typical of Southern Darkeyisms entitled “The Suwanee River,’ with a grand, double orchestra, doable quartet, and full military band. Watch for the noon parade and get your tickets early at Parrizh’s drug store. Special matinee at 3a. m. ese Doings oF THE BorouGH Daps.—For once in a long time every member of hor. ough council was present at the regular meeting on Mouday evening The first husiness of importance wae the appoint. ment of policemen for the eosniug year. There were eight applicants, as follows : William Beezer, George Jodon, William C. Garbrick, John Morrison, John F. Ander- son, J. H. Peters, Harry Dukeman and Joseph Alters. Upon recommendation of the Fire and Police committee William Beezer and Joseph Alters were elected, Upon recommendation of the Water com- mittee Samuel Rine was authorized to make the water assessment, the committee recommending that the rate for consumers outside the borough limite be established at thirty cents per thousand oubio fees, with a minmum rate of eight dollars per year. Council approved the recommenda- tion. A petition was presented by residents of Logan street asking for an arc light as the intersection of that theroughfareand Penn streets, The matter was referred to the Street committee for investigation and re- port. John Houser, fire marshall, sent in a communication in effecs that the fire com- panies were iu need of about eight han. dred feet of new hose. The Fire aud Police committee were instructed to investigate and also secure best prices at which the hose can be secared. Residents of Potter street asked that a guard rail be placed along the one side of that thoroughfare. Referred to the Street committee. Samuel Kern was granted permission to use water for sprinkling on High street. The Logan fire company re- quested permission to remove a patsition in the public buildiag in order to increase the size of their reading room. The mat- ter was referred to the Fire and Police com- mittee for investigation in consultation with an architect to see if same conld he done withoat injury to she building. Borough treasarer W. B. Raukin called attention to the fact that notes aggregasing $13,500 were about due and that it wonld be necessary to issue a new note for $2,000 $0 meet current expenses. Proper provision for same was anthorized by counoveil. The following bills were approved and orders drawn : Strent FOU ssserinssissssserannsessssssrssnd a u LL i 52 50 As 0. YOIBOI cures conssrsssirssscsssssnsinn 1 00 R LO estates sueessevssemmssnts = % WALOr WOPKS PAY TOll.sseommessessermrereers soe ~ 86% 50 TOR sev sscsrsssrrsssinrsnssressistrsssmmssine rn 5 PRESPYTRRIAN B BROTHERHOOD ORGAN- 1ZED.—A very large gathering of the men of the Preshyserian church was present in the chapel on Monday evening and com- pleted the organization of the Brotherhood society. Prior to the business of the even- ing a delicious supper was served by the Mite society. Over one hundred men were present and a large percentage of this nam- ber joined the new Brotherhood. Foliow- ing the supper Gen. Beaver was chosen master of ceremonies. At his suggestion a vote of thanks was tendered the Mise soci- ety for the bountiful snapper served. Rev. John Hewitt, of the Episcopal church, who was present as the guest of honor, was introdaced and made one of his character- istic enjoyable talks. J. C. Meyer E«q., chairman of the com- mittee on organization, read the report of the committee, which embodied the con- stisuticn and by-laws of the Brotherhood, which was coavimously adopted. The pame of the association will be the Belle- fonte Presbyterian Brotherhood and it is open to membership of all men over eight- een years of age. The dues will be one | dollar per year and the meeting nights the | third Monday of each month except Joly and August. Brief hut very encouraging | #peccies were made by Gen. Beaver, Col. | | J. L. Spavgler, J. C. Meyer E