Bellefonte, Pa., May 5, 1911.
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of the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——A son was born to Mr. and Mrs, |
Edward Gillen, in the Bellefonte hospital, '
Wednesday night.
——On Tuesday Mrs. Ella Saxion and
family moved from Spring Creek to Bir-
mingham, Blair county.
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BoroucH Council. HOLDS LENGTHY
SessioN.—Every member was present at
the regular meeting of borough council
on Monday evening and it took them over
| an hour to dispose of the business brought
To ComreEsroNDENTS.—No cua up. 1
published unless accompanied by the real name |
D. F. Fortney, W. C. Heinle and LL. H.
Gettig, composed a committee of the
| Bellefonte school board who were present
| to ask that council erect and maintain a
large light in the rear of the new High
school building. They stated that the
grounds are continually frequented at
night by a disreputable class of people .
who make it a resort for indecent and
immoral purposes, and that the best pro--
| tection against such practices would be a’
——The winter snows have hardly dis- |
big light, as such characters would not
appeared and yet the Fourth of July is | frequent the grounds under such condi
not two months distant.
—R. B. Taylor has a force of men at
work grading a new driveway through |
the new portion of the Union cemetery.
——Monday's rain storm: did one good f i
thing ut least, it extinguished the forest house, 3 Fed before council and asked
fires that were raging throughout Centre |
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county.
| tions for fear of exposure. Council voted ’
| to light the grounds in accordance with
plans agreeable to the Street committee
and the borough engineer. |
Landlord H. S. Ray, of the Brockerhoff ’
if they could furnish him a dump for all
kinds of garbage. He stated that the ac-
| cumulation of garbage at a hotel was
——Mgs. William Dawson is improving | quite large and inasmuch as he had been |
her residence on south Spring street by
making a large front entrance and build-
ing a big porch.
—Miss Snyder wishes to announce to
her patrons she will have on display Fri-
day, the 5th, exclusive models in hats and
toques. Also the Phipps hats.
—Mrs. David Dale entertained the
Bellefonte chapter of the D. A. R. Thurs-
day night, at her home on High street.
At this meeting was held the annual elec-
tion of officers.
——The Gazette office added a Mer-
genthaler junior linotype machine to its
equipment the past week, and now the
people in charge there anticipate no
trouble in getting all their copy up.
——At the quarterly conference of the
A. M. E. church held on Friday last the
officers reported the amount of $320.66
as having been collected for the trustees,
and $50.03 towards their pastor's salary.
——The Epworth League of the Metho-
dist church will give a musicale at the
church Thursday evening, May 11th. Ad-
mission 15 cents. Ice cream and cake
will be served afterwards at the usual
prices.
Mors. A. Hibler has presented tothe
Bellefonte hospital her late husband's
medical library and all instruments, etc.,
she had of his. The collection is quite a
valuable one and will make a desirable
acquisition for the hospital.
——Lawrence McClure spent a few
days last week at his home in this place
nursing a sore band, the result of get.
ting it caught in some machinery in the
railroad shops at Renovo, but on Mon-
day he was able to return to work.
——A pew concrete pavement has been
put down in front of the Episcopal church
and the surrounding grounds are being
leveled up and sodded so as to haveevery-
thing looking nicely when the Episcopal
convention is held there next week.
——Chairman James F. Woodward, of
the House appropriation committee, in-
troduced a bill in the Legislature on Wed-
nesday appropriating $1,986.84 to cover
the cost of the expenses of the Legislature
in attending the funeral of the late Hon.
J. C. Meyer, in this place.
—The new concrete pavement
through the park between the court house
and the jail has been completed and is a
decided improvement over the old tar
pavement that has been in use there the
past twenty years. The work was done
by contractor R. B. Taylor.
—The many friends of Ensign A.
Trood Bidwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. Bidwell, of this place, will be sorry to
learn that he is confined to a hospital in
Portsmouth, Va., with a well defined case
of tyohoid fever; though so far it does
not appear to be a very serious attack.
——Mrs. Anne M. Longwell underwent
an operation for gall stones at her home
on north Spring street last Friday, the
Bellefonte hospital being so crowded that
room for her could not be found in that
institution. While her condition is serious
she is getting along as comfortably as
possible.
——Watch for the big street parade of
the Academy minstrels at 1 o'clock this
afternoon. Nothing in its class has ever
been seen in Bellefonte. If you have not
already reserved your tickets for the per-
formance this evening you had better do
$0 as soon as possible in order to get a
good seat.
——Herbert Gray Foster, son of Rev.
W. K. Foster, of Jenkintown, was one of
the contestants in the University of Penn-
sylvania relay races at Philadelphia last
Saturday and received a gold watch asa
member of the team winning the two mile
relay race. The team broke the old relay
race record by two seconds.
——The trout fishermen had a big
time pulling the half dead hatchery trout
out of Spring creek and Logan,s branch
on the first two days of the fishing sea-
son, but since that time there have been
very few fishermen and fewer trout in
evidence. In fact one seldom hears trout
season being mentioned nowadays.
~——-Last Saturday John Sebring Jr.
arrived in Bellefonte with a new Hudson
touring car which he drove up from Phil*
adelphiia. This is a new type of car in
plenty of power and in every way appears
Hight wigte fot being nthe low peices
stopped from depositing same at the cus-
tomary dumps he was at a loss to know the West Branch Medical society will be shot had penetrated under the chin, but
He stated that he | held in the grand jury room in the court | whether by accident or design can only
was not only willing but anxious to clean | house next Tuesday, May 9th, at 1:30 | be conjectured. However, an inquest
what to do with it.
up and haul the garbage away if he couid
find a place to dispose of it. Council was |
bage dump as Mr. Ray and the matter
was finally referred to the Sanitary com- |
mittee to see if some place could not be |
secured.
Herman Holz was present to invite the
Street committee to take an excursion
with him through the alley between the
Brockerhoff house and Joseph Bros. &
Co's store for the purpose of seeing the
deplorable and unsanitary condition it is
in, and president Harper instructed the
Street committee to accept the invitation.
Mr. Grimm stated that the Civic com-
mittee had decided on the week begin-
ning May 15th as clean up week and
they wanted to know if council would ex-
tend them the same assistance this year
as last, in the matter of furnishing teams
and men to haul away the refuse of those
unable to have it hauled away them-
selves. It was voted to give them the
requested assistance.
A letter was received from J. Will Con
ley notifying council of the fall he sus-
tained on the pavement in front of Dr.
Fisher's office, and because of it being a
defective walk he expected to be re-im-
bursed to the amount of his doctor’s bill
and a suit of clothes he ruined. The
matter was referred to the Street com-
mittee and borough solicitor.
Mr. Musser, of the Water committee,
reported that the meter bills for the first
quarter of 1911 amounted to $585.07. He
also recommended that the water rate
for the coming year be the same as last
excepl to out-of-town consumers, and
that they be charged twenty cents per
thousand gallons instead of thirty, as last
year, with a minimum rate of two dollars
per quarter. The recommendation was
approved and president Harper named
Tuesday, May 16th, as the time for hold-
ing the water appeals.
Mr. Sheffer presented the request of
John Sebring Jr., that he be permitted to
erect two signs in the alley leading past
his new garage, one at the intersection of
Allegheny street and the other on Spring
street. After some discussion the request
was granted.
In the matter of the Noonan damage
claim Mr. Keller reported that they had
secured a conference with Mr. Noonan
and the minimum amount he would ac-
cept was five hundred dollars. That the
matter was to be taken up by the Belle-
fonte Electric company at their meeting
that evening and as soon as they could
be heard from a final report could be
given; and it might be necessary to call
a special meeting of council to settle the
matter.
W. D. Meyer, borough engineer, report-
ed that he had inspected the brick pav-
ing and found it in good condition with
the exception of a few depressions which
could easily be fixed and which contract-
or R. B. Taylor said he would attend to
in the near future. As to the curb and
gutter in the main it was in a fair con-
dition, though a few slight repairs were
needed at several places which would be
made.
Mr. Grimm stated that there were nu-
merous complaints daily about the con-
——Announcement has been made of | GEORGE M. FETZER'S SKELETON FOUND. |
the engagement of Miss Florence Gehret, | —On April 8th, 1907, George Michael
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gehret, | Fetzer, a farmer of Boggs township, who
to Arthur Casperson, of Titusville, the | lived a short distance north of
wedding to take place in September.
-—"Squire Henry Brown had a hear-
ing on Saturday afternoon in which the
three defendants were men caught tres-
passing on the property of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company by walking on the
track. They had no defense and were
fined two dollars each and costs, a total
of three dollars. The fine in such cases
goes to the school district in which the
arrest is made.
——A. A. Dale Esq., of this place,
been secured by the G. A. R. of Clearfield
to deliver the Memorial day address in
that place on May 30th and the
that town are to be congratulated. Sev-
eral years ago Mr. Dale was the Mem-
orial day orator in Bellefonte and our
people never listened to a more beautiful
or patriotic address than the one he de-
livered; and we can assure the people of
Clearfield that they can expect something
fine.
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—The eighteenth annual meeting of
o'clock p. m. Interesting papers will be
read by Drs. W. Wayne Babcock and |
as much at sea on the question of a gar- | Jackson Deland, of Philadelphia. There | ed,
will also bea general discussion on cancer
to be followed by the president's address.
At six o'clock the doctors present will
have their annual banquet in a private
dining room at the Brockerhoff house.
——When the late Gotlieb Haag was
alive and able to be around it was a mat-
ter of pride with him to be the first to
have home grown lettuce, onions, etc., in
Bellefonte. But if he were living now
he would have nothing on our friend,
Hard P. Harris, who brought to the
WATCHMAN office last Saturday three
heads of cold frame lettuce that were
easily a foot tall, the biggest we have
ever seen at this time of the year. And
it was just as crisp and delicious as it
was nice looking.
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——Don't forget the baseball game
this afternoon between the Bellefonte
Academy and Bloomsburg Normal nines.
It is sure to be a great game. The
Academy team won from Juniata Col-
lege on their own grounds on Tuesday
by the score of 8 to 7 and they will
fight hard for another victory today. To-
morrow afternoon the Academy will play
the Williamsport High school team on
Hughes field. These will be the first big
games at home on the Academy sched-
ule and a large crowd should te out both
days to see the game. The admission
price of twenty-five cents is a small mat-
ter to any individual but enough of them
will mean much to the Academy team.
——Friday night two weeks ago the
home of Dr. H. A. Blair, in Curwensville,
was ransacked by burglars and twenty
dollars in money and a good coat taken.
The doctor must have felt somewhat cha-
grinned over the matter because he did
not write home and tell his parents any-
thing about it, doubtless thinking they
would never find it out. But they did,
and by the time they heard of it the
spoils secured by the robbers had grown
from twenty to sixty dollars and the coat
to the best suit of clothes he owned. As
a matter of information, however, the
correct story was gleaned froma Cur-
wensville paper and we are glad to know
the robbery was not on the wholesale
plan.
——Shuman Lyon, of Lyontown, was
seventy-six years old on Tuesday and
while he made no effort to have any for-
mal celebration of the event he could not
evade the congratulations of many of his
friends, and be thankful that he still en-
joys good health. An interesting fact
Mr. Lyon recalled that day was that fif-
ty-five years ago, when he reached the
age of twenty-one years, his father sub-
scribed for the WATCHMAN as a birthday
present to him and from that day up to
the present he has been a constant sub-
scriber and reader and bears testimony
to the fact that he never missed a single
copy of the paper. And he is just as
anxious to read it today as he was fifty-
strength will continue so that he can be
a reader for many years to come.
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—After the very gratifying results
from the public appeal made to the peo-
ple of Bellefonte one year ago, to clean
up their town, we can but hope that it
will only be necessary in a second at-
last
year would give rise to the thought that
those who ignored this suggestion of im-
proving their own conditions, did so
through a misunderstanding as to its ob-
ject—to these is made a most urgent ap-
peal to co-operate this time with
| Say
Runville,
mysteriously disappeared from his home |
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Thomas F. Murphy spent Sunday with
friends in Jersey Shore.
—~Mrs. Eva Snyder, of Jersey Shore, has been
spending the week with relatives in this place.
| EriscopAL Convention Here Next’
| Week.—The seventh annual convention
of the Protestant Episcopal church, Dio-
cese of Harrisburg, to be held in St
: John's Episcopal church, Bellefonte, on
| and all efforts to trace his whereabouts. | Lieut. Richard S. Taylor, of Huntingdon, was ' Tuesday and Wednesday of next week,
| dead or alive, proved futile, until last | an over Sunday visitor with friends in Bellefonte. will be an important religious gathering.
afternoon when the whitened —Miss Maric Moffitt, of State College, spent All told about two hundred clergymen
bones of a human skeleton were found | Friday and Saturday at the Frank Deitrich home. | and lay members are expected
| behind a clump of bushes about a half- |
| mile northeast of the Fetzer home, by Jo- |
|seph and Charles Switzer and Albert |
i Houser, three young men who were out :
} after trailing arbutus. Alongside the
| ghastly remains lay Mr. Fetzer’s gun and |
| this with the decayed shoes 2nd small |
| bits of clothing served as means for iden- |
| tifying the skeleton as that of the miss- |
ling man. Coroner S. M. Huff, of Miles-
' scene and closely examined the skeleton | —Miss Eliza Miller returned home Saturday | the ceremony
| to discover the cause of death. Though
the skull bone was broken it was easily |
‘placed in position and a jagged hole a
. little in the rear of the top of the head as
! well as the empty shell in his gun told
| the cause of his death, though the exact |
| manner is, of course, unknown and there- |
! fore uncertain. From the location of the |
: hole in the skull it would look as if the
| was held by coroner Huff on Monday
and a verdict of accidental death return-
The case has a number of remarkable
features. On the 8th of April, 1907, Mr.
| Fetzer, who at that time was about sixty-
| six years of age, went out onto the moun-
{ tain to gather sassafras roots. He se-
| cured a bundle and took them home and
| deposited the same on the porch. This
| was the last seen of him alive. Taking
his gun he returned to the woods and
there began the mystery that was not
cleared up for four years.
After Mr. Fetzer's disappearance his
friends made inquiry in the neighborhood
about Runville as to whether he had been
seen by any one and getting no trace in-
stituted a search of the mountain sur-
rounding their home, which lasted for |
| days, without bringing anything to light.
A number of years previous to that time
Mr. Fetzer had left home unexpectedly
and it was several weeks before his fam-
ily learned that he was away visiting
friends. So on the latter occasion they
again concluded he had gone on a visit,
On May 1st, 1907, Mrs. Fetzer received
a message from a store in Unionville
that her husband was sick in a Williams-
port hospital, the message having been
telephoned to the store. She at once
went down to that city and visited all the
hospitals, only to find that there was no
one in either of them who even resem-
bled her missing husband, and that no
word had been sent out from any of the
hospitals that Mr. Fetzer was there. And
the matter of who sent the telephone
message to that effect is still a mystery.
Where the remains were found on Sun-
day is not only but a half mile from the
Fetzer home, but according to residents
of that locality the spot is not over two
or three rods from cross roads that are
frequently traveled. That immediate sec.
tion is much frequented by hunters every
season and it is almost impossible to con-
ceive that a man could meet accidental
death and his remains lie in that location
four years before being discovered, but
such is undeniably the case. Mrs. Fetzer
with a number of her children still occu-
py the homestead farm, near Runville,
where they are not only respected by
everybody, but have had the sympathy
of all who knew them in their mysterious
bereavement. Mr. Fetzer was an old sol-
dier with a good record, but because posi-
tive proof of death could not be furnished
his widow could never secure the pension
due her, though now she will likely suc-
ceed in doing so. The remains of the
dead man were given christian burial in
the Advent cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
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To TAKE Up THE PRACTICE OF Law.
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on Bishop street.
—~Mrs. John Sourbeck went to Philadelphia on
Thursday of last week to see how her son Harris
is getting along.
—Mrs. Sarah C. Brown left yesterday for Har-
risburg for an indefinite visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Robert Wray.
~Tom Hamilton. of New York, is in Bellefonte
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thad Hamil
ton, on Howard street.
—Mrs. S. L. Fisher, of Milesburg, visited Belle-
fonte Friday, spending the day transacting busi
people of ' burg, was notified and he went to the | ness and in the shops.
James Blythe, at Atlantic City.
baby went down to Lewisburg on Friday to re-
main over Sunday with his parents.
—Mrs. John A. Woodcock left Bellefonte this
morning, expecting to spend a week with her
sisters at their home at Chambersburg.
~Richard Weston has accepted a position at
Boston and left Bellefonte Thursday with the
intention of beginning his work immediately.
—Miss Sarah Benner left Bellefonte Tuesday
morning to join her sister, Miss Linnie, who has
been ill at Atlantic City for the past ten days.
~Frank E. Naginey was in Altoona yesterday {
attending the quarterly meeting of the Central
Pennsylvania Funeral Directors’ association.
—John Munson, who is with the J. G. White
Construction company on a big job down in Ten-
nessee, visited his parents here over Sunday.
—Miss Mary Miles Blanchard left Bellefonte
for Overbrook, Wednesday at noon, expecting to
visit for a week with her aunt, Mrs. Wistar Mor
ris.
—Mrs. G. G. Pond, of State College, was en-
tertained by Mrs. David Dale, while in Bellefonte
attending the meeting of the D, A. R. Thursday
night.
~Col. H. S. Taylor was out in Charleroi, Gov.
Tener's home, over Sunday, being one of the
speakers at a Memorial meeting of the Lodge of
Mgose.
—Miss Mae McDivitt, a student at the Lock
Haven Normal, will spend the week end at Belle-
fonte with her uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs, H.
W. Tate.
—Mr. and Mrs. John P. Harris, Mrs. Frank
Warfield and daughter Mary spent Saturday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Beck, of Sny-
dertown.
—Mr. and Mrs. George F. Boal, of Washington,
D. C., have been in Bellefonte the past week on
account of the serious illness of Mrs. Anne M.
Longwell.
—V. J. Bauer is home from Somerset for an in.
definite stay on account of the Eyre-Shoemaker
Construction company having completed their
contract at that place.
—William Longwell, whose home is in Virginia,
is expected in Bellefonte next week for a visit
with his mother, Mrs. Anne Longwell, who is ill
at her home on Spring street.
—Mrs. D. H. Hastings, who has been the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Frank McFarlane at Boals-
burg, came to Bellefonte with her Thursday after-
noon to attend the meeting of the D. A. R.
—Miss Katherine Shipley came from her home
at Bryn Mawr, Thursday of last week, and dur-
ing her short visit in Bellefonte was the guest of
the Misses Elizabeth and Mary Blanchard.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kustenborder, of War-
riorsmark, spent Sunday with friends in Belle-
fonte on their wav home from attending the
funeral of their nephew, Fred Carner, at Lemont,
on Thursday.
—Capt. W. H. Fry, of Pine Grove Mills, was a
Bellefonte visitor on Wednesday. He was down
in this section looking after some sick stock and
just naturally came into town to shake hands
with his friends.
—C. D. Casebeer went to Pittsburg Wednesday
to attend the annual convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Retai! Jewelers’ association, which held a
two days's session at the Fort Pitt hotel, closing
last night with a big banquet.
—Mrs. Spark's party which she brought from
State College in her touring car last night, to at-
tend the meeting of the D. A. R.. consisted of
Mrs. Cochel, Miss Lovejoy and Mrs. William
Frear. The entire party was entertained at din-
ner by Miss Humes.
—Dr. A. W. Hafer will leave Bellefonte next
Tuesday for Easton where he will go as a dele-
gate of the Bellefonte Chapter Royal Arcanum to
the biennial session of the State Conclave which
will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. He
expects to be awa: until Friday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gilmore are anticipat-
ing the summer at Pasadena, California. Leav-
ing here in June they will stop at the different
places of interest when crossing the continent,
and from Pasadena will devote much time to
sight seeing along the Pacific coast.
—After spending three years at Fort Andrews,
in the Boston Harbor, Alexander Morris Jr.,
came to Bellefonte with his mother upon her re-
turn from Philadelphia, Thursday of last week,
and will visit for three months with his parents,
at the end of which time he anticipates returning
to the army.
—Mrs. Alfred Bowersox and Miss M. Gertrude
present.
. The conventidn will open at 7:30 o'clock
on Tuesday evening with evening prayer
| and the annual address of Bishop James
| W. Darlington. A short business session
| will also be held that evening. Wednesday
| morning the Holy Communion will be
| celebrated at eight o'clock to be followed
| by business sessions both morning and
| afternoon. At three o'clock on Wednes-
| day afternoon a special train will convey
| the visitors to State College to witness
of breaking ground
| after spending two weeks with her niece, Mrs. | preparatory to laying the f
lof a chapel for the College mission.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Mabus with their little | The visitors will be the guests of St.
| Andrew's Mission on the train as well
! as at the College.
| The convention will hold their annual
| banquet at the Brockerhoff house on
| Wednesday evening. Joseph L. Mont-
| gomery, W. Fred Reynolds and E. H.
| Richard compose the committee of ar-
| rangments.
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JUNIATA BABY DROWNED IN SPRING.
—On Sunday afternoon Frank, the two
year old son of Stewart S. Heberling, of
Juniata, but formerly of Ferguson town-
ship, this county, fell into a spring and
was drowned. The Heberling family are
preparing to move from outside the bor-
ough limits into their own home in Juniata
and Mrs. Heberling, who has not yet re-
covered from a serious illness, is at the
Satterfield hotel where she was taken
from the Altoona hospital. About two
o'clock Sunday afternoon Mr. Heberling
missed his baby son and calling his son
Randall asked him to look for him. The
young man wenton a search and finally
found the child in the spring lying face
downward in the water. He pulled him
out of the water and called to his father
who, upon learning the facts, summoned
Dr. Watson, but life was already extinct.
Funeral services were held on Monday
afternoon and Tuesday the remains were
taken to Gatesburg for burial.
Don't Miss THis.—If you would like to
see how a real thrifty Irish woman runs
a lodging house and how two clumsy
Dutchmen try to beat her you should sure
go to the Academy minstrels tonight and
see John Blanchard as Mrs. Flynn and
Hard Harris and Robert F. Hunter as the
Dutchmen. Then in the cast are those
two amateur stars Lewis Daggett ang
Russell Blair; the latter an impecunious
artist who can’t pay Mrs. Flynn and
Lewis as his valet with all the tricks of
“Ole Reliable” in trying to keep his young
master out of the clutches of the Irish
land lady. Either tonight or tomorrow
night at the opera house; aside from the
minstrels, this farce will be worth the
price.
~The flower show held at The
Pennsylvania State College last week
under the auspices of the department of
horticulture and the Penn State crab ap-
ple club was a decided success in every
particular. Very liberal exhibits were re-
ceived from florists all over the State.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
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Keichline, were welcome callers at the WATCH" | Qats
ed executors of the last will and testament of
their father,the late George W. Keichline, and
were in Bellefonte taking the first legal
toward the settlement of the estate.
—Dr. and Mrs. Robert Nesbit are guests
Mrs. Kline Furst at Lock Haven. Dr. Nesbit,
practicing physician in England, came over
Mrs. Nesbit, to visit with friends of His uncle,
Joseph Nesbit, who died in Lock Haven
twelve years ago, after being pastor of the
byterian church of that place for a
years. The party spent Tuesday in
and at State College, as guests of Miss H
who entertained with them a number of Dr.
Joseph Nesbit's friends.
—Mrs. E. K. Smith, formerly of Oak Hall, this
county, is oneof the kind of women who neither
forgets her friends nor the recollections and asso-
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tains so much interest in her old home affairs
that she feels she must have the W.
with its fullness of clean Centre county
and writes, “really we can’t get along ‘
My father took the paper as long as he lived
{learned to read and admire it while a
girl.”