BELLEFONTE ORDER OF THE MOOSE INSTITUTED.— There | Were more Moose in Bellefonte last Fri- Sm ee II I | day than ever were here at one time be- Bellefonte, Pa., March 18, 1910. Bp a been the kind TT | Tr ——— m—— | with the wide-spreading horns, and the lished unl pcompanied communications |... season the Panthers would have had BY the real name | punting enough to do them for several — = : = years to come. But unfortunatfly for THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. the Panthers they were not that kind of — Mocse, though about as much ex- ——Irvin G. Gray, of Stormstown, went ' citement prevailed all day Friday and into involuntary bankruptcy last week. | most of Friday night as would have been ——The Presbyterians at their fair last the case if a half dozen of the real big week cleared about one hundred dollars. bull fellows had been turned loose at ——Hereafter all . the stores in Belle- once in a ten acre lot. Of course all this will be open until eight o'clock was occasioned by the fact that Friday Jos HW be kept wnt igs o afternoon and evening was the time for the formal institution of the lodge, the ——Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Chaney, of | i. a0i0n of the officers and invitation Port Matilda, celebrated their golden | ...hers into the mysteries of Moose- wedding on Tuesday. dom; and as there were just two hundred ——This week Sim Baum improved his | and twelve members there to take turns two large show windows by installing a | in riding the Billygoat it naturally meant hard wood and leaded glass back. considerable hard work on the part of ——Col. and Mrs.E. R. Chambers have the visiting team. vacated their home on east Linn street | This team, by the way, was composed and moved into apartments in Petriken | of Walter S. Greevy, R. C. Valentine, R. hall. ! F. Bankert and Scott Shawl, from the Al- — ‘The officers of the Woman's auxil- toona Lodge, and they are all well up in jary of the Y. M. C. A. were entertained ' the degree work of the order. While the by Miss Linn at her home, Wednesday | Bellefonte Lodge started out on the night afternoon. of its institution with two hundred and ——A representative of Keeler & Co., | twelve members, who come from all " : ." | parts of the county, by the way, there are of Williamsport, was in Bellefonte Lin addition a number who enrolled a8 i i a (mn es I he of "the PEW | charter members and who were not pres- | ent for initiation last Friday night. Most i a a | Jo onsen : as on was build their church and are considering | ,..i May 15th by a vote of the members one one east Howard screst, | lof the lodge the probability is that the ——"The Girl from Rectors,” one of | membership will reach three hundred the best comedies on the road, will be | when the charter list is finally closed. In the attraction at the Garman house on | the meantime state organizer R.C. Val ——The Ben Greet players will be at | Walter S. Greevey will be at the Brock- State College on or about April 9th and | erhoff house several days each week to will render "A Midsummer Night's | receive applicants for membership at the Dream” on the college campus. unusual small membership fee of five ——The ambulance for the Bellefonte | dollars. The institution of the lodge and hospital has been thoroughly overhauled, initiation of members took place in the painted and varnished and will be turned | armory and the officers installed are as out of the shop next week for use. follows: : — The Undine fire company celebrated Past dictator, Hugh S. Taylor; dictator, St Paes any wit 4 emake ately | S000 1 Dunlap; vie dictator, E._ J. Wil. building on Bi last even: ; toy lame; prelate, Frank Shugers; Sergeqnt hicks 2 small op of iriends Bo at arms, Edward Schofield; inner guard, invited. John W. Gross; secretary, J. Homer J . ; Decker; treasurer, John M. Fisher; phy- ——Preaching in the Presbyterian | jiojang Drs. W. W. Feidtand David Dale, church at Milesburg morning and even- | gejjefonte; Dr. G. S. Woods, Boalsburg, ing on Sunday, March 20, by Rev. Hyde, a| 5,4 pr. W. 0. McEntire, Howard; trus- senior student at Princeton Theological tees, James Schofield, W. H. Hamilton seminary. and Harry Otto. ——Mrs. Hugh N. Crider has recovered | A smoker and social followed the cere- sufficiently from an operation for appen- {monies and speeches were made by | dicitis to be removed from the Bellefonte | Robert Bankert, commissioner of Blair hospital to her home on east Linn street | county, Col. H. S. Taylor, John M. Fisher, on Monday. James Schofield and others. ——Mrs. James Matthews, wife of Bellefonte’s high constable, was taken to | in this section, is not a young organiza- The Loyal Order of Moose, while new | on April 9th for candidates to fill the Kauffman, who live below Pleasant Gap position. The office last year paid eighty- in Spring township, was shot in the arm five dollars. above the wrist last Friday evening in a ——— . very peculiar and unaccountable manner ——For the past five or six months t . Miss Sarah Collins has suffered ider- and the fortunate thing about the occur | rence is that while the wound is a painful ably with pain in her head as the result |." l= red seri 3 pou of a diseased eye. Specialists in Wil- | oped will neither cripple nor dis i wy rh Sunday she subs } 2. 21 o.2n " the dis- It appears that since the big freshet of mitted operation Which She she several weeks ago which raised the waters Gael exe wi Seared Since She |in the Gentzel lake flocks of wild ducks itds viking Ndley comfortable have frequented the place every few days. hoped may experience Perma- | -rp. fou) naturally offered sport to the nent relief. © ee hunters in that vicinity but no one suc- —The widely famed Lock Haven | ceeded in bagging any. Last Friday after- minstrels have pre-empted three nights, noon Fred Rockey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, John Rockey, hearing shooting in the March 29th, 30th and 31st, as the dates | direction of the lake took his gun, a for their annual performances in that 22 caliber rifle, and started for the lake. city for the benefit of the Lock Haven A few yards beyond the Benjamin Kauff- hospital. The Lock Haven minstrels have | man home he saw their little daughter for years been noted for their high class | Carrie coming through the field on her performance and this year the manage way home from school. He went on to ment avers they will be bigger and bet- | the lake but found no ducks thereon. ter than ever. | Observing a stump or some other object m—— . Willian Shecier, Belelonte | Pr 84g troughs the ivf be decided +0 : Car | 27 as a marksman on it. He painter, while at work on a job at *" | fired four shots, each one of which, ac- Wessville fant Kaidey voorsiag; lost We cording to the boy’s story, was toward the balance fell from a ladder to the ,.o..c0in and directly away from the ground, breaking his right leg just above po, gran home. the ankle. He was taken to the Altoona yg of shooting at a mark he clean- his home in this place. Shreffleris about | 1 ioc rmed of the fact that Carrie had forty years old and the injury will keep |, .. jhotin the arm, and naturally, it him confined for some weeks. was the supposition that it was a shot ——Only a very few of the road super- from his gun that had inflicted the wound. visors in the county attended the meeting | Inasmuch as so far as known no other of the supervisor's association held in this | shot had been fired in that locality at that place last Saturday morning; and it is to ' time it would seem as if the above con- be regretted that such a state of apathy | clusion was right, but if it is, and the exists among such a very important body | boy’s story of shooting mark is also cor- of men throughout the county. The time | rect, it is a very inexplicable incident of of year will soon be here when work on | Riis vagaries of a gunshot. From the the roads will have to be doneto put them | Kauffman home to where the Rockey boy in shape for the summer and the more | stood when he did the shooting is said to supervisors can discuss the best methods | be about three hundred yards; and if the of road making the better they will be shots were fired in an opposite direction informed and able to instruct their road | from the Kauffman home the ball after masters what to do. ! caroming on the ice must have struck some object which gave it the effect of a Having sold the old Lyon home. | 30 ng and with sufficient force to stead at Pennsylvania Furnace, known as |, © cooora) hundred and nfl} “Heartsease,” to the Tyrone Country | giviury above d 3 Yards ! club, and in order to give them posses-| , ool Corn out and oe sion April first, Mr. and Mrs. John Por- i . ter Lyon on Wednesday had a public sale Re a Bere ye Jeap. of all their household furniture which | tay but the testimony was $0 confus- has been stored there ever since they |. 0 : ing that he was held under bail f came to Bellefonte. A good portion of he nu PR il for the furniture belonged originally to Mr. | Lyon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. | gp cunyi; News.—A meeting of the Lyon, and was antique and quite valua- goyegonte baseball association was held ble. Several automobile loads of Belle- | in the Bush house parlors on Wednesday : forers went up io attend the sale. b | evening and Secretary John J. Bower re- | ——William Weaver, of Port Matilda, | ported that he had written to baseball employed as a trackman on the Bald | managers in Tyrone, Huntingdon. Lock —— AA tne ———— a — NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Mrs. James W. Boal spent two days in Wil liamsport this week. —Dr. H.W, Tate returned on Monday from a brief business trip to Wilkesbarre. —Mrs. Margaret Harper, of Centre Hall. was in —Miss Jane Hafer returned on Sunday evening from a three week's visit with her sister in Ty- rone. —Miss Maria Young, of Nittany was in Belle fonte the fore part of the week visiting her aunt, Mrs. John Klinger. —~—Mrs. Emil Joseph retumed on Sunday momn- ing after being with friends in New York since the first of January. —John E. Fryberger and two children, of Phil. ipsburg, spent Sunday at the home of W. R. Brachbill, on Spring street. —After quite an extended visit with her parents in this place, Mrs. Ray Acheson left for her home in Niagara Falls on Saturday. ~—Mr. and Mrs. John Furst and daughter Louise, of Williamsport, spent Sunday with Mrs, A. O. Furst and family in this place. —Miss Esther Shearer, of Curwensville, spent several days the past week as a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eberhart. —J. B. Mayes, the enterprising marble dealer and tombstone man of Lemont and Howard, was a business visitor in Bellefonte on Monday. —Homer Barnes went out to Pittsburg on Sun- day evening to spend a day or two with his broth. er William, and also attend to a little business. —Judge and Mrs. John G. Love left on Sunday for Atlantic City where the former hopes an in. definite stay will eventually prove beneficial to his health. George Taylor, who has been in a Philadel phia hospital undergoing treatment for some moaths, returied home on Tuesday accompanied by his sister. —Alvin G. Haupt, of Phiadelphia, has been in Bellefonte the past week visiting his mother, Mrs. Simeon Haupt, and his sister, Mrs. G. Fred Mus- ser and family. —Miss Mary Hoy, who has been since the first of January with friends near Hartford, Conn., in Providence and in Harrisburg, returned to Belle- fonte on Monday. —Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fisher accompanied by their niece, Miss Ulrich, of Penn Hall, came over to Bellefonte on Wedneaday in their automobile and spent the day. John Dubbs Jr., route agent for the Adams Express company, with present’ headquarters at Hagerstown, Md., spent several days the past week with his parents in this place. —J. J. Tanyer Esq., one of Pine Grove Mills’ most active and progressive citizens, who never fails toread the WATCHMAN, spent Saturday last attending to business in Bellefonte. —Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia, arrived in Bellefonte on Tuesday evening and will spend ing only recently recovered from a siege of sick. ness. —Winfield S. Brisbin, of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Daisy Brisbin, of the Chester Springs sol- diers’ orphan’s school, have been guests the past week or so at the home of Col. and Mrs. J. L. Spangier. ~G. Fred Musser, manager of the Bellefonte house of the Lauderbach Barber Co., wholesale grocers, was in Philipsburg Tuesday night, attend- ing the annual meeting of the stock holders of that corporation. —G. W. Ward, of Pittsburg, but who was born and raised in Centre county and a brother of our townsman, Dr. J. E. Ward, left for his home last evening after a two weeks’ business trip here and at Pine Grove Mills. —Philip D. Foster, of State College, transacted business in Bellefonte on Monday. Though he Miss Elizabeth Blanchard is in Bellejonte af a two weeks’ visit in Bryn Mawr. —Mrs. C. U. Hoffer, of Philipsburg, is visiti her father, Mr. C. T. Gerberich. —Mrs. Guss Heverly went to Philadelphia W. nesday for a rest and visit with friends. ~Miss Mard McDermott has returned ho from Pittsburg where she has been since Chr mas. ~Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Twitmire, of Sunby are at the Twitmire home in this place for a br visit. —Walter Rankin, of Harrisburg, spent Sunc with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rankin, Curtin street. —~William Brouse, who is on the Shoemal work at Sunbury, spent Sunday with his pare Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Brouse. —Mrs. Mary Powers will leave next week Easter and an after Easter visit with her nie Mrs. Demond, in New York. —Jack Wertz, of Pittsburg, was a guest for s eral days the latter part of last week at the ho sf Mr. and Mrs, T. S. Strawn. —Mrs. James B. Lane left Bellefonte on Tu day, for McKees Rocks, where she will visit son Richard and wife, for a short time. ~Mrs. Anna C. Woodcock came to Bellefo Wednesday, to prepare for moving into the H ris home, lately occupied by Mrs. Welch. ~Mr. William P. Humes was down in Lev burg en Wednesday attending the funeral of : late Judge William A. Marr, of Ashland. ~Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Stover and Mrs. Sop Linn, of Blanchard, spent Wednesday in Be fonte; Mr. Stover being a pleasant caller at WATCHMAN office. =Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rogers returned to ti home in New York on Tuesday after a pleas visit of six weeks with Mrs. Rogers’ mother, M Powers, on east Lamb street. ~Miss Stella Cooney, who will finish her cou in training at the Wernersville sanitorium, April, will be in Beliefonte for a vacation al t time, before going to her work. Miss Helen Smith will not go to Williams; with her parents on the first of April, but will main in Bellefone until the closing of the bh school, or about the first of June. —Mrs. A. G. Morris with her daughter MN Morris, went to Philadelphia Wednesday, exp ing to go from there for a visit with Mrs. Mor brother, Thomas King, in New York. ~Mrs. J. Kyle McFarlane came up f: Lock Haven Wednesday evening, to be with son William, who isin the Bellefonte hospita! the result of a fall Wednesday afternoon. —Miss Helen Schaeffer left on Thursday m« ing for York, where she will visit until next wi expecting to go from there to Philadelphia fc few days and on to Atlantic City for Easter. —— ~——While driving in an automobile the sale of household goods at “Hea ease,” at Penna Furnace, on Wednes: afternoon, Mrs. Marcy Breese met w an accident that resulted in quite a p: ful wound over her right eye that quired several stitches to close up. the party were Mrs. Breese, Mrs. N Sheldon, Mrs. Sara C. Larimer and V Alice Wilson. They were driving al rapidly west of Pine Grove when the 1 chine bounded over a breaker that th Mrs. Breese against one of the bow: the top with such force as to inflict wound. Of course they returned to F Grove at once where Dr. Woods dres the wound before they started for hos ——Yesterday’s Philadelphia A. American contained pictures of the the Bellefonte hospital on Monday morn- | tion by any means. The first Moose Valley railroad. met with an ac ' Haven, Jersey Shore and Renovo relative Henry Bl Stat ing for treatment for a threatened attack | Lodge was founded in Louisville, Ky., Ragle eV irr of last week in which | to the organization of a six club league. | has only been in charge as postmaster at the Col | c=" ay SS Cae re of sppendicitis, April 12th, 1888, by Dr. J. H. Wilson, a yoo LE ly injured. He was | The Tyrone team this year will be made Jeg several woelphe already feds very muchvat{ oo DE I On Monday the loss on W. C. Cas. | mat of great scientific ability, and vast o.oo truck along the railroad track | up of Pennsylvania railroad people and howe and will without doulit Sake 2 good 4 Dy years, MI. = A ) . . | —J.J. Arey Esa, of Centre Hall, than whom | 79 years old at his death and his sis sidy’s job printing office, which was gut. | Wealth and renowned philanthropy. The | 35,440: too close to apassing train with the | cannot join a league, although the senti- |, © obo but few better Democrats and who | are Mrs. Jefferson Gates, Curwensville ted by fire last week, was adjusted at | Organization now covers every city and | Lo 1+ that the truck was struck andover- | ment of the people of Tyrone is for a |ynows the value of a good paper, boosted his ex- . sep teil Mr. Cassidy expects to resume town of importance in the United States EN poly lod rh caught between the club in the league. Renovo is willing and | piration date away ahead on Saturday as if it was Tear ou: ys J h Sates nd 3 - business at the old stand just as soon as and Canada, and some idea of its benefi- | 1.“ LT badly squeezed about | Will send representatives to a conference | a pleasure to him to keep this office continually in ye, years, and Mrs. D: his debt. Dennis, 75 years. The latter three liv he can get fixed up. cial and fraternal value can be gained by | ho ody, He was taken to the Altoona | for formation of a league whenever one ’ tat t that the local nization Tite members of the Catolich Tc ramen orga . rs came into existence after but six weeks ch St. Patrick's day by work on the part of the organizers, Walter holding a euchre in their hall last|g (; vy and R. C. Valentine. evening, and the Maccabees celebrated mise A eons som an ING.—Those who saw “The Thespians,” ——After an idleness of over two|iP “Popocaterpillar VII” last year will months on account of the severe winter | Weicome the news that this organization Thomas A. Shoemaker this week resum- | Will produce a new musical comed ed the shipment of slag from the Belle- noveity entitled “The Gay Soubrette _in fonte furnace to Northumberland and the | Bellefonte on Friday, April lst, at Gar- big steam shovel is again in operation. man's opera house. Lines, songs, dances, . s costumes, everything is new. The book ——On Sunday evening Dr. J. Allison | is he adaptation by W. H. Foster, "10, of Platts will preach the third of his series | pi; own and “The Thespians” coach and SF SArTONS 0 JUNE Deople, which wit director, Mr. Downing’s ideas. The songs young These sermons I popular ones selected from quite interesting and are attracting con- ves the season. siderable attention. Everybody is cordial- | The dances are far beyond any attempted ly invited to attend. last year. The costumes are direct from ——A mothers meeting will be held in | Tams, of New York, and Van Horn, of the W.C.T. U. room in Petriken hail Philadelphia, and are being made solely this (Friday) afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. | for “The Thespians.” The subject will be "The early training Ar hatter of children,” and the principal speaker |as Mimi, w . will be Dr. Ambrose M. Schmidt. All |ing needs no word of praise to those who smothers are cordially invited. have seen him; Jas. A. Hassler, the most ~The choir of St. John's Episcopal <hurch assisted by the choirs of the other churches will sing “Stainer’s Crucifixion” on Good Friday evening, March 25th, at 7:30 o'clock, in the Episcopal church. The sly Se ann | = 2gemon; Guthrie takes the part of Mrs, R. Russell Blair, of this place. ‘Yankee Mike," a young pugilist; Tanguay, ———Jacob Smith has resigned his posi- English cockney jockey; A. Gray 3rd, as tion as foreman in the planing mill of the | “Pansy Corker," exhibits his really fine Bellefonte Lumber company and left on | tenor voice to the very best advantage; Wednesday of last week to accept a |Steidel, as “Reggie Corker” makes a similar position with a large lumber com- | “chappie” part seem his real vocation; pany in Williamsport. He expects to Ludwick, as “Richard Corker,” a racing move his family there about April first. ——The projectors behind the propos} ed Bellefonte Cement Brick company say they have ordered the machinery for the plant and will begin the construction of C the buildings in a very short time. This will be good news to the many Bellefont- ers who have taken stock in the con- cern. ed; H. P. Armirong, who as “Jack STATE COLLEGE “TrESPIANS” COM- real German impressario that ever breath- ! make a life size hit as Mimi's little broth- | i . | hospital where it wasfound that his worst | is called. Lock Haven and Jersey Shore | injuries were contusions of the spine and : both had meetings on Wednesday evening ! he is now on a fair way to recovery. | to decide on what they would do and the - wet probability is they will both be anxious | ——On Wednesday afternoon William | for a league. Huntingdon was not heard . McFarlane, a lineman in the employ of | from in any way. Inasmuch as it is the | the® Bellefonte Electric company, fell | desire to have a six club league the secre- | twenty feet from a pole he was descend- tary was instructed to write to represen- | ing at the corner of the Methodist church tatives in Philipsburg, Clearfield and Os- { coe - ¥ | onto the brick pavement. Though he lit | ceola Mills to find out if they would be on his feet he fell over on the pave- | willing, if needed to go into the league. ment on his back with such force that it! George R. Meek, who has in charge the was at first thought his back was broken. | proposition of securing the State College He was taken into the Presbyterian par- | orchestra for a baseball benefit concert, sonage where an examination showed | reported that the only date they would be that no bones were broken but his back | able to give Bellefonte would be Friday, is badly wrenched and one wrist sprained. | April 8th. Inasmuch as that will be just Later he was taken to the Bellefonte | one week after the Thespians will be here hospital and yesterday reported as getting | there was some hesitation as to the ad- along all right, though he will likely be | visability of booking them and Mr. Meek laid up for some time. was instructed to correspond with them — tue — further and explain the situation before | ——The Bucknell basketball team came anything definite was done. The committee who had in charge the score Coach benefit at the Scenic Tuesday evening re- five Wo eite of 5% M4 ported that about thirty-three dollars was the net proceeds. Though the finance ; : , and he looks very little older and just nineties when he not only acted as phys- port, members of it felt confident that ical director and head coach of all athlet | there would be no difficulty in securing ics at State College but himself played | the proposed bond subscriptions. on the football team, and was one of the | Just as soon as the secretary has defi- star players at that. He has been at nite information from the towns above . named a meeting will be called for the organization of a league, if all are favor able. Bucknell eleven years and time has turned out some athletes, with winning teams on diamond and the gridiron. And now, though he is not a youngster by means, he thoroughly enjoys diving in a football scrimmage. i — A] — ii ht ly destroyed the large barn of J. C. Nason, at Julian, as well as the store of | _Clearfield citizens have already or- | Irvin G. Gray, which was close to the ganized for holding an Old Home week | barn. The fire broke out between two there some time next fall. And in the or three o'clock in the morning and when meantime what is Bellefonte going to do? | first discovered, it is claimed both the Are we to have an Old Home week this | barn and store were enveloped in flames men and seven girls, and their dancing year, when there will be every reason for | and it is not known positively where or such a gathering, or will the time be al- how the fire originated. The farm is i delight anyone enjoys time lowed to pass without an effort on the | occupied by James Andrews, a grandson Big il doa ute eh, good male part of Bellefonters to have a home com- of Mr. Nason, and they owned the stock voices. Bellefonte is going to have an ing of former residents? All that is need- and crops jointly. Four horses and one opportunity to see “The Gay Soubrette” ed is for some one to take the initiative | cow, last season's crops and a large lot of ——On Wednesday afternoon of last! and company in all their glory on All and there is no doubt but that a big suc- farming utensils were entirely destroyed. week while Ruth Bartley, the young | Fool's day, and it is to be hoped that cess could be made of the affair. The | Mr. Nason's and Mr. Andrews’ loss was daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bartley, | everyone will take advantage of it. of Lock Haven, but formerly of Bellefonte, EE — WATCHMAN has received several letters | heavy and was only partially covered by from old Centre countians in other States | insurance. Mr. Gray's store with all its roller skating on the pavement in| ——Charles E. Snyder and James H. who express the hope that an Old Home | contents was burned to the ground but front of her home, she collided with anoth- | Holmes, of State College, are arranging week will be held this summer as it would | his loss was mostly covered by insurance, er girl, was thrown down and broke her left leg just above the ankle. | in that place on or about April first. to open a garage near the railroad station afford them such a good opportunity for he having $2,300 on the building and con- | a visit to the place of their birth. tents. —Mrs. H. R. Curtin returned on Tuesdav Pine Grove Mills. evening from a two week's soiourn at Atlantic City. Her son, "Squire H. Laird Curtin, who was at the sea coast with her, stopped off in Reading to attend to a little business and returned Wed" nesday evening. —Mrs. John Hinman Gibson and little daughter Margaret arrived in Bellefonte on Wednesday and will be for a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cook, while Mr. Gibson is househunt- ing for a new home in Plainfield, N. J., where they will reside in the future. —Earl Leathers, of Mt. Eagle, and Balser Web- er, of Howard, spent Saturday night and Sunday at State College and they stoutly maintain that it was merely a social visit to their Alma Mater and fraternity friends without any thought of an ul terior attraction a la feminine. —'Squire W. J. Carlin, of Rebersburg, was in Bellefonte on Monday as a witness in probating the will of the late Joseph Moyer, who died at Centre Mills last week. He left an estate estimat- ed at from twenty to thirty thousand dollars and appointed his three sons as executors. —Harry Fitzgerald, of Columbus, Ohio. spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald, in this place. Harry conducts a large dental supply house in Columbus and the last time he was here his store and practically all the contents were burned but he is back in business again as if nothing had happened. —Mr. John Carver, of State College, a WATCH- MAN stand-by who never allows the tab on his pa- | per to show arrears, was in on Saturday to ad" vance his subscription and say a kind word for the “best paper in the county.” Mr Carver knows a good thing when he sees it, a fact that would be well could it be said of many others. —Mr. E. C. Beezer, who is making such a suc- cess by his management of the Philipsburg Brew- Ing company's plant, spent Wednesday and Thursday with relatives and old friends about Bellefonte. Mr. Beezer tells us that everything RR soe a m— For some time past the State ( lege authorities have been trying to cure W. J. Bryan to deliver the c mencement address in June but du the past week a letter was received fi him in which he stated that he was gc abroad in June and would deliver commencement address at the Univer of Edinburg, in Scotland. ——W. H. Macker, whose store on corner of High street, was destrc by fire some weeks ago, re-opened terday, Thursday, with a full line of goods, fruits, fine candies, confection tobaccos and cigars. Do not fail to his full line of Easter goods before | ing. Both phones. * Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Groce: ‘The prices quoted are those paid for produ Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER, ‘The following are the quotations up tosix o’ Thursday evening, when our paper goes to about Philipsburg is running to its full limit and | Barley that they have great hopes now that the threaten- ed strike in the coal! business will be warded off by arbitration. ~About this time a-year the WATCHMAN is al ways sure of an encouraging and kind ward from one of its readers at least—Mrs. Jerry Swartz, of Somerset, in renewing her subscription, which is done as regularly as some people say their prav- ers. Mrs. Swartz never fails to show her appreci- ation of what she considers “by far the best paper in any county,” and for which the —Quite a prominent visitor in Bellefonte last Friday and Saturday was Judge J. C. Burkett, of Valley Falls, Kansas. The judge is an old Brush valley boy and was born at Rebersburg. He went west over twenty-five years ago and after a re coun’ RE eral: year, Or year,
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