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
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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- |
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| 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.
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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,
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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,