Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 10, 1911, Image 4

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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
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the late A. J. Tate, died at two o'clock on
Sunday afternoon at the home of her son |
Wesley, near Peru, as the result of a
month ago. Deceased, whose maiden
| name was Angelina Boop, was born in
: Union county almost seventy-eight years
ago. She was united in marriage to A.
| J. Tate, of Shiloh, and their married life |
| was spent on the farm at that place and |
| at Pine Grove Mills. After the death of |
| Mr. Tate three years ago she continued
| to live on the old homestead on the Belle.
fonte pike until last fall when, her health
failing, she went to live with her son
TAKE CARE OF YOUR TrEEs.—The High
| Wesley and family. She was a devoted
school auditorium was comfortably filled | member of the Lutheran church and was
on Monday evening, notwithstanding
most inclement weather, to hear the il-
lustrated lecture on “The Town Beauti-
ful” by Mr. John T. Withers, of Jersey
City. He is most conversant with the
subject of tree culture and landscape gar-
dening and came here entirely through
enthusiasm in his work; as there was no
remuneration sought. Mr. Withers ac-
companied Mr. Geo. T. Bush and his sis-
ter, Mrs. Callaway, on their recent trip
around the world and he accepted the
former's invitation to come here and give
us the lecture of Monday night. It was
a pity that more did not hear it, but those
who did must certainly feel repaid for
the two hours and a half they spent list-
ening to such expert advice so strikingly
illustrated with beautiful colored plates
of the finest gardens and trees of every
specie in all parts of the world.
Mr. Withers is evidently a recognized
authority on tree culture. His talk re-
vealed an intimacy with the subject that
proclaimed a wide experience and his il-
lustrations were selected with a view of
conveying to the minds of his auditors
convincing proof that there is a right and
wrong way to care for trees and that the
matter of their care is an important one
to all.
The suggestions he made that might
be adapted to use in this community
might be summed up in the following
hints:
In taking off large limbs always first
cut them off at least a foot from the
trunk; this to prevent the limb from
stripping bark from the trunk when it
falls. After this is accomplished cut the
stump off as smooth as possible and close
in to the trunk of the tree. Then paint.
the scar with a good oil paint and keep
it painted. If this is done new bark will
cover the wound entirely. If it is not de-
cay will start. {
In pruning always make the cut as
close ahead of a bud as possible. This
bud will eventually cover up the scar and
leave no unsightly stumps to rot.
For street trees plant only narrow
branching trees on streets running east
and west. Wide branching trees like
interested in all that pertained to the
moral welfare of the community. Her
many acts of kindness and charity helped
to bring a bit of sunshine into many
homes in the community in which she
lived.
Surviving her are the following chil-
dren: Thomas and Mrs. Edward Smith,
of Mlinois; George, of Pittsburg; Mrs.
Margaret Lee, of Nittany; A. J. and Wil-
liam, of Pine Grove Mills, and Wesley, of
Peru. She also leaves three sisters, Mrs.
Klechner, of Mifflinburg; Mrs. Emil Ker-
stetter, of Coburn, and Mrs. E. Musser,
of Coburn. One half-brother, Ammon
Shirk, also survives. Rev. J. 1. Stonecy-
pher officiated at the funeral which was
held at ten o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, burial being made at Shiloh.
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HILLIARD. —Mrs. Stephen Hilliard died |
at her home in Bellwood last Saturday |
morning after a protracted illness with |
stomach trouble. Her maiden name was |
Hutton and she was born and raised at
Stormstown, this county. When seven-
teen years of age she was married to!
Stephen Hilliard, of Glen Hope, and for |
many years the family have lived
at Bellwood. Mrs. Hilliard was the moth-
er of twelve children, seven of whom sur-
vive, as follows: Mrs. C. W. Kester, of’
Galeton; Guy, of Bellwood; Mrs. J. K.
White and Mrs. L. A. Antis, of East Al-|
toona; Stephen, of Fostoria; Mrs. J. H. |
Miller and John at home. One brother,
William Hutton, of Osceola Mills, and
ATE~Mrs. Angelina Tate, relict of |
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CAPT. AND MRS. F. WILLIS.
Above are the pictures of Capt. and Mrs. F. Wi'ls, of the Salvaiion Army. who
have taken charge of the work in Bellefonte.
have filled appointments in the Southern States and they come to Bellefonte well
equi for the work in hand. All are
the Army hall.
TAREE LT —
Memoriam.
George Kye was born February 6th
1829, died Februrary 4th, 1911, 81
years, 11 months and 29 days. He was
one of our well beloved and much re-
spected citizens of Centre county. He
peacefully passed away at his home in
the German Settlement, where he spent
the ter part of his life. He leaves an
wife, several children and many
to mourn his death. He has been
a faithful follower of the Lord Jesus
Christ for many years. For the last few
years he has sustained a relationship in
the Messiah church, having received the
right hand of fellowship at the hand of
Rev. E. A. Meredith. Funeral services
were conducted by Rev. E. A. Meredith
at the home, assisted by Rev. R. F. Ruch.
And we laid him to rest in the Askey
cemetery where he shall sleep until! the
last trump of God shall sound, then he
shall come forth and have part in the
first resurrcction. :
Rev. E. A. MEREDITH.
! one half-sister, Mrs. Caroline Price, of GORDON.—Benjamin orion; a well
Bald Eagle, also survive. Rev. J. B. Stein, known resident of this community, died
of Tyrone, officiated at the funeral which at the Bellefonte hospital on Monday
was held on Tuesday afternoon, burial | evening. While in the act of repairing a
being made in the Logan Valley ceme- | locomotive boiler in the Bellefonte Cen.
tery. tral railroad shops two weeks ago he was
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: badly scalded by escaping steam from a
EMERICK. —After an illness of some | bursted flue. While his burns were bad
months with dropsy Mrs. Henry Emerick | enough they were not considered fatal
died at her home at Centre Hall on Mon- | and his death on Monday evening was
day morning, just about three weeks | Very unexpected.
| after the death of her husband. She was Deceased was born at Hollidaysburg on
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel December 26th, 1864, hence was past for-
Weaver and was born at Penn Cave over | ty-six years of age. He learned the trade
seventy-six years ago. | of a boiler maker and followed that occu-
Most of her life |
| pation most of his life.
He came to
oaks and elms on streets running north | after her marriage to Mr. Emerick was
and south. | spent in the vicinity of Centre Hall. She
In planting trees make the hole four or | was a o
five times larger than actually necessary and a pious christian woman.
to hold the roots as the soil will be en- | vived by 2 number of children, all of
riched by such a stirring up. Then do | whom are scattered through the west.
not set the tree more than an inch deep- | Daniel Weaver, of Gregg township, is her
mber of the Lutheran church
She is sur. |
| Bellefonte about twenty years ago and |
worked at the Maitland boiler works as
long as they werc in operation here.
In 1888 he was united in marriage to
Miss Anna Gay who survives with the
‘ following children:
er than the soil mark on its trunk indi-
cates that it had been imbedded before.
If such a depth seems too shallow to hold
it against winds devise some means of
propping. More trees fail to grow be-
cause of too deep planting than from
most any other cause.
Do not board up or tin over a cavity or
scar on the trunk or limb of a tree.
Clean the decayed wood out like a den-
tist would a bad tooth then fill it full of
ordinary concrete—cement (1), sand (2)
and crushed stone (3 parts)—just to the
level of the underside of the bark. Bark!
will gradually form over the entire con-
crete surface and close up the scar. New
bark will roll over cement, iron or solid
wood, but never over rotted wood.
In supporting trees with forks that C. R. Snyder and John J., all of Altoona. |
seem likely to split apart never girdle or
band the branches. Better bore a hole
through the centre of each and run a
bolt through with a plate at either end
neatly countersunk so that new bark will
form over it.
No matter how badly the trunk of a
tree may be rotted it can be restrength-
ed and made durable for vears by filling |
the trunk with re-inforced concrete done
in the way scars are advised to be treat-
ed above. :
If you have a yard or garden don't dot
| only surviving brother. The funeral was
| held yesterday morning. Rev. B. F.
| Beiber officiated and burial was made in
| the Centre Hall cemetery.
vive. Rev. C. W. Winey officiated at the
funeral services which were held at his
i ; late home in the Brown Row yesterday
: ! | morning, burial being made in the Union
| WiLLiams. — Owen Williams, a well copetery.
: known resident of Altoona, died on Mon- i |
i day afternoon after a year's illness with MppriMan.—George W. Merriman, a
| a complication of diseases. He was born native of Centre county, died at his home
| in Bellefonte on December 22nd, 1855, and ' j; Wilkinsburg on Monday afternoon,
| for the past thirty years had made his after a brief illness. He was born in
| home in Altoona, following his occupation | Taylor township, this county, sixty years
{of a blacksmith, for a number of years 500 and spent the early part of his life
being employed by the Pennsylvania rail- jn that locality. Fourteen years ago he
road company. He was a member of St. | went to Wilkinsburg and that had been
John's Catholic church, of Altoona, and is | his home ever since. He was an active
survived by his wife, two daughters and | member of the First United Presbyterian
| one son, namely: Mrs. Carl Scheffer, Mrs. | church of Wilkinsburg and had been a
During the past three years they
invited to attend the meetings nightly at
LocAL SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE.—
Monday morning and afternoon a local
Sunday school institute was held in the
Presbyterian chapel to which all the coun-
ty and district officers had been invited.
The morning session was called to or-
der by the county secretary, Mr. L. W.
Nuttall, of Philipsburg. In the absence
of the president, C. L. Gramley, the Rev,
Dr. Schmidt was called to the chair,
Mrs. M. J. Baldwin, the State superin-
tendent of Elementary Grade work, gave
a very helpful talk at this session on the
“Front Line Movement.” Ten points of
excellence are required to bring Centre
county up to the “Front Line” now held
by. thirty-seven counties in the State.
Centre county lacks three points, viz.—
Fifty of the schools of the county must
have cradle roll departments; thirty
of them must have home departments,
and twenty of them must have teacher's
training classes.
At 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Baldwin gave a
practical talk on the various phases of
work in the elementary grades and then
conducted a conference on the same sub.
ject. It was decided to hold the forty-
second annual county convention at
Aaronsburg, August 21st and 22nd, 1911,
The executive committee adopted the
following points for recognition of indi-
vidual schools as “Front Line” schools at
the annual county convention.
1.-—-Monthly teachers meeting.
2.~Cradle roll.
3.—~Home department.
4.—Teachers training class.
5.—Report to county secretary.
6.—Offerings to county association.
7.~Delegate sent to district conven-
tion.
Every district in the county attaining
3 eh Henry, John, Re- | 4 the standard of ten points required for
bie, Marie, Eva and Sara. Two brothers. | «gpront Line” schools in the Stat e. will be
John and Elmer, of this place, also sur- | .yiivled to recognition at the annual
county convention April 17—22, 1911.
Miss Robinson, one of the State field
workers, will visit and address many of
the districts in this county. The sched-
ule for this trip will be published in due
time.
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BELLEFONTE Motor Crus HoLps
MEETING. —The Bellefonte Motor club, or |
to be exact five regular and one honorary
member, held a meeting in the office of
N. B. Spangler Esq. in Crider's Ex-
change on Wednesday evening. The ob-
ject of the meeting was to take action on
the movement inaugurated by the DuBois
Motor club for the building of a state
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THE GHOST STILL STALKS AROUND.— Our Correspondent’s Opinion.
There are at least thirty or more Belle- | i a
' fonters, ladies and gentlemen, who Very | © who deme so mime Thy oriase af our beable
well remember Mrs. Charlotte W. Elliott, | of enerelo lel ters I Satchman's will
of New York, who was in Bellefonte menis reat nsuie of he author vst accom
pany all corimunications. bul wil
trom publication when the request is
along about May, 1909, and promoted the
American University course, at the same |
time selling each member the book series Perforating National Constitution—Cana-
entitled “Crowned Masterpieces of Liter- da Treaty.
ature.” Of course these were taken by To the Editor I ab
the members with the understanding that ge Srditey ade ‘ Watchman.
5 : I'he rarity public print of yours of the
a series of lectures went with them and : : .
the members naturally anticipated a feast | 3rd inst. quoting section 8 of Article 1 of
BY, pated a the constitution of the United States, de-
made.
of intellectual literature and instructive
lectures. But the latter never material
ized and the members quit paying their
monthly stipulation for the books.
The result was that come months later
a man was sent here to make collections
but the members declined to pay up.
About 2 year ago Mrs. Elliott herself re-
turned, Lut even the could nut induce
the Beliefonters to part with any more of
their money for what they claimed was a
skin game. Time passed and the ac-
counts were sent to a Bellefonte attorney |
for collection, but after investigating the
matter he declined to take any proceed- |
ings and returned the accounts. The
matter has been resting so long that the
Bellefonte people had almost forgotten it
when they were very forcibly reminded
that the ghost still stalks abroad by the
appearance on l'uesday of a man who had
all the contracts and demanded either the
return of the books or the payment of the
balance due according to the contracts:
But even his bravado failed to jolt any
more money out of the pockets of the
Bellefonters or get a return of the books
without refunding the amount already
paid on them.
legal action nay be taken to compel the
Bellefonte members to pay up, but they
are determined to fight the matter to a
finish and have engaged an attorney to
look after their interests. In the mean-
time there is some uneasiness among the
Bellefonte members over what may hap- |
pen next.
Goop ROADS TRAIN COMING TO BELLE-
FONTE.—The good roads train which is
now traveling through the State will be
in Bellefonte on Thursday of next week.
, February 16th.
12:10 o'clock and at 1:30 o'clock a meet-
ing will be held in the court house at
! which lectures on good road building will
' be delivered by Prof. John Price Jackson,
versant with the subject.
be here until 3:30 o'clock when it will
leave for Lock Haven.
The good roads train is operated by
the Pennsylvania Railroad company and
the lecturers are supplied by The Penn-
sylvania State College.
transporting the most modern machinery
used in the building of roads, with photo-
graphs of good and bad roads, etc. One
car is equipped as a
used where the train does not stop long
enough to go to a public hall, or where
the latter is notaccessible. The stopover
of this train in Bellefonte should be taken
advantage of by every supervisor and |
road-master in the county who can possi- |
bly get here, as they are sure to hear
something which will be of benefit to
them in putting and keeping the roads in
: good repair.
MAGNIFICENT SWEET PEAs.—Sweet peas |
will unquestionably be the popular flow-
ers with people of good taste and refine- |
ment the coming season. Why? Be-
factory returns in a wealth of beautiful
and fragrant blooms for so long a period.
{ But high grade seed of the choicest kinds |
' is absolutely necessary for the best re-
! sults. And just such seed, the very fin-
| est in cultivation,
| offered below. Listen.
For 25 cents I will send postpaid to
It is quite possible that’
It will arrive here about '
of State College, and others equally con- |
The train will |
The train con-!
sists of four cars two of whichare used in :
lecture room and
cause no other flower yields such satis-
compose the collection |
One brother and several step-brothers and
| sisters also survive. The funeral was
| held yesterday afternoon.
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MARKLE.—After being a sufferer the
past two yearsor longer with Bright's dis-
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| ease Franklin Markle died at his home in |
| Blue Ball, Clearfield county, on Wednes-
day of last week. He was born in Har-
is township, this county, and was 68
I Tis
| years, 7 months and 4 days old. Thirty-
two vears ago he with his family moved |
it all over with flower beds. Look your a : g f
place over, select the most effective back since. Surviving him are his wife and
nd you can get from shrubbery or | ONE daughter, Mrs. Frank Goss, of Buf-
tree foliage then place your flower bed | falo, N. Y.; also one sister, Mrs. Mary
so that it will appear as a bright picture | Markle, of Boalsburg. The funeral was
in an effective setting. held on Sunday
All of these hints appear most practic- | h :
al and easy of accomplishment. We have | MEeRRIMAN.—The funeral services of
no doubt that if followed out in the care | little Dewitte Merriman, aged 7 years, 1
of your trees you will have many reasons | month and 22 days, was held at his home
to for! grateful for the visit that Mr, in Philipsburg. The little one had lived
Withers paid to Bellefonte and for his | from his infancy with his grandmother
most instructive talk on the care and cul- | and was lovingly cared for. The Salva.
ture of our ornamental and fruit trees. | ton Army soldiers had charge of the
In this connection it has been suggest. | Meeting. while the sermon was delivered
ad by several residents of Bellefonte that | PY .
the people of this community take special | OF: who spoke from First Samuel 3:18
interest in preserving the large pine trees | “It is the Lord, let Him do what seemeth
in the Union cemetery. Centre county, Him good.” Interment in the Philips-
and especially this section of it, a centu- burg cemetery.
ry or more ago was noted for the mag- 1 i
nificence of its pine forests, and the trees | THOMAS. —Mrs. William Thomas died
still standing in the cemetery are some at her home in Austin, Potter county,
of the very few virgin pine trees in the last Friday, of typhoid fever. Her maiden
| to Blue Ball where they have lived ever |
Rev. Z. Z. Adams, Free Methodist pas-
' class leader the last twelve years, and
' for some time a member of the board of
trustees. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Jennie Melcher Merriman, and five
children, namely: Mrs. John Smith, of
Irwin; Edward, Blair and John at home,
and William, of Irwin. The funeral was
held yesterday afternoon.
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SHOWERS.—On Tuesday evening of this
week Mrs. Julia Showers, widow of the
late Henry D. Showers, passed away at
her home in Walker township after a
lingering illness with cancer. Her maiden
name was Swartz and she was sixty years
of age. She was a member of the Luth-
eran church and was a good faithful
woman in every way. Her husband died
eighteen years ago but surviving her are
the following children: J. C,, of Indiana;
George, in Illinois; William, in the west
but exact whereabouts unknown; Edgar,
in Montana; Herbert, at Pleasant Gap,
and Merrill, at home. Rev. Minnemyer
will officiate at the funeral which will be
held this morning, burial to be made in
the Zion cemetery.
——We regret to note that Mr. J. W.
i Conley is very ill at his home at Centre
| Hall; in fact so critical is his condition
' that his son Will was called home Wed-
'nesday morniag.
+ =A nice little
arrival in the home of . and Mrs
Edward Franks, of Pitcairn, on Sunday.
Mrs. Franks was formerly Miss Helen
county, and this is the reason that care | name was Woodring and she was born at | go obo ll
| Port Matilda, this county. She is sur-
! vived by her husband, two daughters and
——Foreign Mission day services will | the following brothers: William, of Ty-
be held in the Reformed church next |rone; Abraham and H. E., of Port Matil-
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. In the |da, and G. W,,
evening the pastor, will take as his sub- | remains were tak
should be taken to preserve them.
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——The Public Ledger of yesterday
vives the bogy of two years ago about
University of Pennsylvania gobbling
up
of Bluefield, W. Va. The | The Pennsylvania State College. It is
taken to Port Matilda on | machine politics, pure and simple, and the
! State won't stand for it a minute.
road across the mountain from Port Ma-
tilda to Philipsburg. The proposition is any address eight half ounce packets of
i the loveliest named varieties in the world
considered a good move and on motion y en
and with «ll orders I will include a packet
the president of the club was empowered |
to appoint a committee of two or more
representative citizens of Bellefonte to!
go to Harrisburg about February 15th, . %
with committees from Philipsburg, Clear. | Spencer, "Asta Ohn,
cer and the charming new Lavendar
so much admired
field and DuBois to confer with State DY experts throughout the world, and a |
Highway Commissioner Hunter and if | Packet of the early aster, "Queen of the
the matter is deemed practicable and ad. | Market” and one of gorgeous double
visable to have Hon. J. C. Meyer, Repre- | poppies. And I always do better than I
sentative from this county, present a bill | advertise. Coin remittance preferred.
Address EpGar A. HIGGINS, Sweet Pea
each of the famous orchid-flowered Sweet |
Peas. Countess Spencer, the White Spen- |
to the Legislature asking for a special |
appropriation to bear the expense of
building the road.
| Specialist, Avoca, N. Y. 56-3.
LECTURE AND HOSPITAL BENEFIT.—We
clares that “the Congress shall have pow-
! er to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports
and excise to pay debts and provide for
the common defense and general welfare
of the United States”. Such simplicity
| statutes should have free print in every
newspaper at once, and the subject of dif-
. ferential treaty of Nation to be submitted
| to ballot of the people, for or against for-
| eign barter of trade that would build up
| certain home districts of lake and sea-
| ports and create greater collation of steel
! corporation and other gigantic combines
to enhance their earnings, by any tariff
or other means. The price of rails would
: not be reduced, but oh my! the reduction
; of American individuality earning power
| of the interior would cause greater mi-
| gration to Metropolitan life. Placing our
| farm products and charcoal pig iron on
the free list of nations, granting same
Canada terms, would be i
; Democracy tradition to Sei wages of
. imperial governments. It would be revo-
| lution. Changing the fiscal rule of our
| government by rush Congress in the dark
{age of American journalism would be
| robbery.
JAMES WOLFENDEN.
Lamar, Pa., February 4th, 1911.
itr soto ne
—On Tuesday Dr. M. J. Locke re-
| ceived the sad news of the death of his
mother, at her home in Philadelphia. She
was eighty-two years of age and had
been in feeble health a long time. The
doctor left on Wednesday to attend the
funeral which was held yesterday.
-——William Bottorf has recovered from
an operation for appendicitis and was
‘ taken home from the hospital! last Fri-
day. He is now looking better and feel.
ing finer than he has this long time and
anticipates having better health in every
way than he has had for months.
SPRING MILLS.
Mrs. Lieb and her mother, Mrs. Smith, left on
| Wells last for a months visit in Philadel
! phia,
All our merchants report a fair business during
January. Immediately after the holidays, of
course business took a drop, but improved greatly
towards the last of the month,
All our sick are improving, vet about every fifth
person one meets has a cold in the head. Fortu-
nately all don’t sneeze at once, or the concussion
might blow town and people into Penns creek.
Well, no doubt his hogship saw his shadow on
Thursday last, which to some people means six
weeks more of winter. The weather bureau man,
| however, says that the prediction is the veriest
bosh urd nonsense,
Pleaty of sleeting here on Friday night last, and
Satecday proved another delightful slippery
morning, acrobatic and circus feats were numer-
ous, resulting in son.e little bruising and startling
bumps, but no serious inishap has been reported.
Of course the snow storm of Monday made walk-
ing more certain, but not very satisfactory.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schlegel had a very large
card and dancing party on Thursday evening last
which proved avery enjoyable occasion. About
ninety guests were present. The supper tables
were lavishly furnished with dainties and sub®
stantials of a most inviting character which were
discussed with a gusto that left no doubt of its
high appreciation. At a late hour—after assuring
Mr.and Mrs. Schlegel that they had been de-
lightfully entertained. all the guests retired to
their respective homes.
HOWARD ITEMS.
Rev. R. S. Taylor is conducting revival services
' in the M. E. church at Curtin this week.
A week of special services is in course this week
in the Reformed church Jacksonville, by the pas-
tor Rev. E. F. Faust.
Rev. W. W. Rhoads of the U. B. church, is
busy preparing for the annual meeting of the
conference of that church to be held in York, Pa.,
| the first week of March. Rev. Rhoads expects to
be stationed elsewhere after conference.
There will be a memorial service to Francis
Willard in the Reformed church at Howard,
Thursday evening, February 16th, at 7:30. Short
addresses will be made by the pastors of the town:
| The service will be held ufider the auspices of
the local W.C.T. U.
The Howard ministerium met in its first session
i in the parlor of Rev. W. W. Rhoads, Monday.
i February 6th, at 2 p. m.
{After attending some preliminary business a
| resolution was adopted requesting our Represen-
| tatives to introduce a bill in the Legislature re.
| storing the status of the amendment of 1893 to the
' original marriage license law, which permits the
| use of the license in other parts of the State than
Other matters discussed were the com- | would repeat the notice given last week | the county in which it is issued as the amend-
ing to Bellefonte on Thursday of next week
of the Pennsylvania railroad good roads
train, the advisability of the Beliefonte
club joining the State Federation, and a
number of other things pertaining to the
improvements of the reads in Centre
county that would be of great benefit to
every owner and driver of a vehicle.
con
BARN BURNED.—Between twelve and
and one o'clock on Wednesday morning
the large barn on the farm owned by
Col. W. F. Reynolds, at Rock, in Benner
township, was destroyed by fire. The
farm is occupied by Andrew Breon, ten-
ant. Late the previous evening some of
the family returned home from a visit
among the neighbors and were at the
“Ibarn and found everything all right.
About 12.30 o'clock Mrs. Breon got out of
bed to look after the wants of cne of her
children and saw the flames breaking
through the roof of the barn. The men
were awakened and succeeded in sav-
ing all the live stock except several hogs,
but all the crops, farm implements, etc.
were destroyed. Both the barn and con-
is
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of Dr. Thos. C. Van Tries’ new lecture
| entitled, “Matters Matrimonial, or Get-
| ting Married," to be delivered in the
{ High school auditorium on Thursday
| evening, February 16th, at 8 p. m. This
| tecture is said to contain much whole-
| some advice and considerable fun. We
wish also to emphasize the importance of
| the benefit tor the Bellefonte hospital to
{be given on that occasion. Everybody
! invited. Admission free. A collection to
be taken, every cent of which goes to the |
hospital. Both lecture and benefit are to
be given under the auspices of the Belle-
fonte High school.
KILLED ON THE RAILROAD. — Andrew
Stansho, a young Austrian coal miner,
was run down by a train on the New York
urday evening,
| was about twenty-five vears of age and so
far as known had no relatives in this
country. He was buried from St. Michael's
church, Clarence, at 4:30 o'clock on Sun-
day afternoon.
| ony ome TATE 5 i be
Central railroad near Clarence, last Sat- |
and instantly killed. He | few days with her sister. Mrs. Beulah Kunes.
. ' birthday.
| ment of 1909 requires.
. Rev. E.F. Faust, then read a paper on “Pas-
| toral Visitation.” The paper and subject were
freely discussed by the members present.
{The next meeting will be held in the parlor of
| ne Mohit parsbunge au the puper on it
| be read by Rev. W. W. Rhoads.
RUNVILLE RIPPLINGS.
William Watson, of Tyrone, spent Sunday with
his wife and little son.
The revival meeting is still in progress, with
; forty-two conversions.
Miss Linnie Bennett spent some time with her
| sister, Mrs. Plumber Strunk, at Wingate.
| Mr. and Mrs. Claude Poorman and son Ralph
Sundayed at Harry Shawleys, at Yarnell.
W. T. Kunes and sister, Addie Resides, trans
acted business in Unionvilleon Tuesday.
Mrs. Claud Lucas and family, of Snow Shoe, are
visiting friends and relatives at this place.
Miss Mellissa Way, of Fleming, is spending a
Mr. and Mrs. Daniei Poorman were in Belle.
fonte on Tuesday transacting some business.
| Mrs. Philip Conora, with her little daughter
| Beatrice, of Olean, N. Y., is visiting her grand.
| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hancock.
| A very heavy shower passed over our com.
munity on last Thursday and favored Rev. I. H+
Dean with ten post cards, it being his