—Mr. George W. Young, of Nittany, celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday an- niversary last Friday. ——A baby boy arrived in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Al Heverly, of Axe Mann, last week, the first accession to the fam- ily in six years. —Miss Grace Lyon will entertain a party of young people at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lyon, on Penn street, this evening, in honor of Miss Bessie Sharp, of Trenton, N. J. — ~The many friends of Mrs. Charles Koontz, of east Bishop street, gave her a delightful surprise party Wednesday evening as a celebration of her birthday. Everybody present had a delightful even- ing and none enjoyed the occasion more than the hostess. ——Company L, of the Twelfth regi- ment, Bellefonte’s National Guardsmen, | returned from their week's camp at Selinsgrove Saturday evening, looking somewhat tired and sun-burned but all in good physical condition. During the | week they were in camp not a man was sick and to the credit of the boys it can be said that the company was considered | the crack company in in the e regiment. MT. Arthur Thomas’ candid and very surprising statement: religious work now,” has been the cause of his selling tickets for the festival which the Coleville Methodists will hold on Sat- | GOVERNOR TENER GIVES J. LINN HAR- SPRING MILLS. RIS AN APPOINTMENT.—Governor John To K. Tener has appointed J. Linn Harris, of | yo. cay fall is here—perhaps. Bellefonte, 2 member of the State Fores- | sper an absence of two weeks Miss Anna W. try Reservation Commission to succeed | Cummings returned home on Monday last. Hon. john Fulton, of Johnstown, who de- | After a change of a month or two C. L. McCool clined a re-appointment. The members has resumed his former position in the Wheatland When the wind blows over the oats stubble, of the commission receive no salary but | 9air. are allowed all necessary expenses when traveling or attending a meeting in the interest of their appointment. —— = Marriage Li Licenses. Jacob B. Sprow, of Centre Hall, and Sadie C. Bower, Coburn. Walter A. Fink and Ida McMonigal, both of Hannah. Gottlieb Sadboskia and Mary Dopatka, both of Munson. PINE GROVE MENTION. J. F. Kimport and wife visited friends at Fair- brook over Sunday. John Corl is making some needed repairs to his flouring mill at Struble. Geo. Hall and wife spent the Sabbath at the Wm. Breon home in the Barrens. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Krumrine, of Tusseyville, were State College visitors last week. This week will see the bulk of the oats crop in the barn, and it is a light one. Alex McCoy, of Potter's Mills, was here last week buying cows for the Philadelphia market. Chas. C. Goss, one of the Pennsy trainmen, is “] am doing ' home from Harrisburg taking a little needed rest. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Carver spent Sunday vis- iting the Daniel Kustaborder home Jat Warriors- ! mark. J. B. Witmer is building a large implement shed urday evening like hot cakes. In fact | 35.26 feet. Ed. Witmer, of Bellefonte, is the car- Arthur is finding it so easy and pleasant | to do good that we wouldn't be surpris- | ed to hear of his graduation from the festival business to leader of the prayer meeting. ~The fourth ann annual reunion of the northwestern Pennsylvania association of | veterans of all wars will be held at Du. Bois, Wednesday, August 9th. Able) speakers have been secured to entertain the crowd and it is expected that this ciation. A business meeting will be held in the afternoon and a camp fire in the eveaimg. All friends of the old veterans are invited tc attend. wcsMits, J, Thomas Mitchell's annual picnic supper was given on her lawn Fri day evening of last week; Monday after- a number of her daughter, Martha's friends at Hecla park; the same evening two dinners were given at the Country fall from a load of hay July 4th, is now able to be | | club, one by Miss Mary Blanchard, for penter. Bessie and Maggie Bloom, with Master Leroy | Bloom, are visiting friends at Warriorsmark and | Altoona. | College and is offering his farm in West Ferguson F for sale. A party of the younger set enjoyed a chicken Rev. Runkle and family, of Philadelphia, are here on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Runkle. Farmers say that a day or two of rains would be very acceptable just now and greatly improve the potato and corn crops. Miss Ella Cummings is quite an adept in mak- ing ladies’ puffs and switches, and has been doing of late a very lively business in that line of work. Elmer Ripka, in loading a lot of logs last week, met with quite a mishap. A heavy log took a no tion to tumble over, and striking him in the side broke one of his ribs. Penns and Sinking creeks are remarkably low. Here we can cross cver most any place and not Twp.; $775. Morris W. Cowdrick to Chas. Ecken- folh, Jana 28, 131), tract of land in Belle onte; ‘ David Henderson et ux to Marshall A. Rusk, June 26, 1911, tract of land in Hus- ton Twp.; $1. Lottie M. Dufford et al to George R. George E. Harper is arranging to move to State Dunlap, May 19, 1911, tract of land in ‘erguson ; $300. Catharine Beezer et al to Annie B. Bert- i ram, Dec. 12, 1910, tract of land in Ben- | and corn feast Monday night at the foot of old | | ner Twp.; $1 Tussey. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kimport were out enjoying | a drive Sunday and spent the day with friends in | Bellefonte. spending her vacation at her parental home on Main street. The Baileyville picnic is billed for Saturday, June 30, 1911, tract of land in Penn $85. August 19th, near the railroad depot at Pennsyl- vania Furnace. P. W. Bullock's heirs to T. B. Bud- dinger, June 28, 1911, tract of land in Jon Sloe Wm. Mayes to John Jendresak, Jul | estate will be the banner reunion of the asso- Miss Etta Keller is home from Philadelphia | | 1011 trace yes fo John fends Shoe Top. | | $420. Twp.; $600. C.E. Finkleet uxto F. W. Wi F. W. Crider et ux to Wm. Mayes, July | Adam Bloom, of Lock Haven, is here looking | 10, 1908, tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; | over the stamping ground where he used to stump | §150, his toes when a boy. B. D. Brisbin et ux to Geo. M. Boal, | and other out-buildings; and an orchard with | Mrs. Frank Siegle and sister, Mrs. Henderson, | March 31, 1911, tract of land in Potter noon Mrs. T. A. Shoemaker entertained of Water Street, visited friends in town in the | | Twp.; $5,000. early part of the week. 0. M. Sheetz, who was so severely injured by a | around, but very frail. Mrs. Lizzie Thompson, of Pitcairn, with her son | John Jacob Astor to Wed. Colonel John Jacob Astor, whose! first wife, formerly Miss Ava Willling, of Philaddlphia, obtained a divorce which sixteen covers were laid, the other "0 isting the W. E. Stover home, where | from him, ic to marry again. by Miss Brockerhoff in honor of her neice and nephew, Miss Margaret and Henry Brockerhoff, of Philadelphia. —A large crowd attended the Meth- odist Sunday school picnic at Hecla park on Tuesday and the day being ideal for her mother is very frail. Miss Ella Livingstone and Miss Kate McCor- | mick, school marms, are spending their vacation | at Crystal Beach, Canada. looking well for one of her years. | Force, Grandmother Mary Gates, after spending all | winter at Lock Haven, returned home Saturday | His bride is to be Miss Madeline Talmage Force, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. street, New York. The engazement, in fact, follows au acquaintance of less than a year, for an outing they all had an enjoyable time. Miss Vida Corl. who was ill the past month, is | {t wag only last summer at Bar Har Quite a number of young folks stayed down for the evening and it was a long evening they had of it, t00. On the re: entertained at the Robert Way home, and spent | turn trip from Mill Hall to Bellefonte the engine of the passenger train on the Cen- send a special train down and transfer | the passengers, so that it was after mid- | night when they finally reached Belle- fonte. —n Tuesday night, or rather Wed- nesday morning, because it was almost one o'clock, Misses Anna and Rebecca Lyon, who were all alone in the Judge Orvis home on Linn street, sent in a hur- | ry call for the police as they believed | somebody was trying to burglarize the house. Policemen Justice responded to the call and was accompanied by several other men. They made a thorough search of the Orvis premises, inside the house and out, but found nothing. If any per- son had been there he evidently was frightened away before the officers arriv- ed on the ground. me A telegram from Switzerland dated July 24th, was sent toour city papers last week saying that Miss Louise Thomas, an American, and her Swiss teacher, Miss Levanchy, were drowned in Lake Leman, near Clarens, today. They were in a row boat with four others when their craft was run down by a motorboat. Their companions were saved. Marie Louise Thomas was the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thomas, of Can- ton, Ohio, and was about nine years old. Having gone abroad early in the spring | i"® with her mother, who was Miss Louise Comerford, and sister Elizabeth she had entered school in Switzerland, expecting to remain there during their stay in Europe. A ~The men who are backing the Mc- Garvey electrical antomatic weighing scale beam, invented and patented by Edward McGarvey, of this place, now icel very much encouraged over what they believe will be a big thing in every way. They now have the beam perfected to such an extent that expert scale manufacturers have become greatly interested and deeply impressed with it. In fact the Standard Scale & Supply company has made a proposition to manufacture the beam and put it on the market but the presei * company pre- fers keeping a tight hold on it. They are now at work on four or five beams which they intend to complete and put on exhibition in the larger cities. The beam can be manufactured to put on any scale, and the fact that it records and prints tne weight prevents any argument as to its correctness. —If you want high class job work come to the WATCHMAN office, able to drive out and spent several days with her | sister, Mrs. G. McK. Fry, near town. Miss Mabel Holmes, of New Jersey, is being | several days at State College last week. The ten Wilson sisters, scattered over several | tral Railroad of Pennsylvania broke down = States, with their two brothers, held a family re- | east of Lamar and it was necessary to union at their mother's home Wednesday. Miss Sue Garner, a trained nurse in the Presby- | terian hispital in Philadelphia, is spending her va- | cation among her Centre county friends. Hon. J. W. Kepler is sleeping with one eye open | and resting on his repeater for the midnight hun- ter who recently relieved him of a lot of nice country hams, Mrs. William Keller, of Pittsburg, who has been visiting her many Centre county friends, left Fri- | day for Tvrone for a week's stay before returning | to her home. Miss Maria Bailey and Miss Seibert left on Monday for a month's outing in the Sunflower | State. They went via Buffalo and the Great Lakes to the Windy city. Wm. Eckley, of Pitcairn, spent last week here looking after his property, and succeeded in sell’ ing his home on Main street to D. L. Dennis, who will occupy it April 1st, 1912, A. B. Lee, candidate for sheriff, was here look- ing up his Democratic friends last week. So was would-be register Frank Smith, who thus far has a cinch, and ought to win with hands down. Mrs. Alice Buckwalter, with her two bright boys, Harry and Howard, came up from Lancas- ter and are spending their annual outing among their friends at Fairbrook, at the G. W. McWil- liams home. Miss Minnie Fortney, of Tyrone, has been vis- iting her Centre county friends the past fortnight after an absence of some years, during which time she had been teaching school in the Sun- flower State. A camping party composed of J. H. Williams, C. H. Martz, J. R. Smith, G. A. Gossand J. W.Ev- erts are now near the old Whipple place for a week's outing. J. W. Sunday joined them on Routes to elo kee sone of the stuf from sour: Ati M. Goheen returned recently frum a week's visit in Philipsburg and reports no im- provement in the condition of Mrs. B. J. Laporte. The "Squire, also, is suffering from a partial stroke of paralysis. and it is indeed a stricken family. That venerable couple, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Carper, who went to Wisconsin last spring to make their future home, returned to Centre county ten days ago and freely admit that they will be con- tent to round out their lives in this State. They will make their home with their son George. Your scribe deserves the call he got in last week's paper for the absence of Pine Grove Mills “Mentions.” but pleads guilty only as a party be fore the fact. The letter was written and intrust- ed to a friend to mail but he was so busy attend- ing to his own affairs that he forgot all about the letter until Friday. Tis apology, however, is Ira Burwell veturued from WashingtoniDiCe. last week, where he was called on account of the death of his father, Rev. Joseph Y. Burwell, who died on July 16th and was buried on the 19th. The reverend was a native of Washington county, this State, and was eighty years old. He served ac- tively in the ministry for fifty-four years, preached in five different States and during his service in the Master's cause united in marriage two hun- dred couple and baptized fifteen hundred people. He served during the Civil war in General “Pop” Thomas’ command, in the Army of Tennessee, and in a brush with Hood's cavalry was badly wounded. His wife was Miss Lanhar , of West Virginia, a Saghtar of the notorious scout and spy, Jerry Lanham. lated. | bor that Mr. Astor and Miss Force | | were introduced. Mis: Force was graduated only last | May from Miss Spence’s school in New . York city. The formal announcement was made | by the parents of the future Mrs. As- | tor, but it did not come as a surprise, as the report of the engagement, al | though denied, was persistently circu Colonel Astor's attentions to Miss Force gave rise to the report as long ago as last winter. Pension For Andy Toth. Andy Toth, who was ie.eased from the penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pa., lasi March, atter serving twenty years of a life term for a crime he did not com mit, has been placed on the private pension rol’ of Andrew Carnegie. Toth was convicted for participation in the killing of a watchman at Carne: gie’'s Edgar Thomson steel plant at Braddock, but the confession of one of the rioters in Hungary cleared him and he was pardoned. Carnegie or- dered that the man receive $40 a month, Toth will leave Pittsburg for Hun- gary, wher: he will rejoin his wife whom he has not seen since his con- viction. Edward M. Shepard Dies. Edward M. Shepard died at his country home at Lake George, N. Y,, after several weeks’ illness. Death came to him just as the bell of the monastery across the lake from his home was ringing the angelus. During the afternoon he roused for a short time and, seeing the members of his family gathered about the bed- side, said: “I know what you are here for.” Soon afterward he died. He was a candidate for the United States senate, but withdrew after a long fight in the present session of the legislature. His home was in New York and he was a lawyer. Potato Worth Two Beers and Nickel. A new legal tender made its appear- ance in the town of Milliken, Colo., caused by the scarcity and high price of potatoes. P. A. Murphy stepped into a saloon at Melliken, ordered a glass of beer, and when that was gone a second, and then laid on the bar a po- tato. Murphy called for his change. The barkeeper gravely returned him a nickel and put the potato in the cash drawer. Feared Tuberculosis; Kills Himself. Nathan Berkman, a member of the firm of Berkman & Cohan, trunk man- ufacturers, of Trenton, N. J.,, was dis- covered dead in bed. He was shot in the mouth. It was learned that the man was in deadly fcar of tuberculo- gis, and that he had been ill for some time with the disease. It is believed that while in a fit of despondency he put the rev~lver to his mouth and fired it. , | to stone corner, thence no : perches to st b Shence south 3) degrees | wp. ; | berche one corner, | at 10 o'clock a. m., ! Bo —-— | described as f | ow or for a stone Sone and being the Br Only a Mask. 4 di i 2355s nH dil Jat eli iE HH | ] ; fil li i : Z g ] : 8°. of 2 2 i 2 1-4 ; R : i i ih h ik gs gF ; % i : | oF i a., on SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1911 [at 10 o'clock a. m., the following pieces of real 1.—Situate in townsh nd described as earns io to stone comet, thence to ihe | Ta ing, Containing perches and a DWELLING HOUSE aun STABLE excellent fruit of all kinds. al 2. Sieuute in he b je Jorougn of twit On ' and bounded and | the north by Collumb yy now Mary J. Culley, Lewistown on the east south by an Thomas, and on West ty T. R containing 3 av th reon erected —— DWELLING HOUSE AND STABLE By Cu and other out-buildings, and an orchard with | excellent fruit of all kinds. Thi jracte £1and is ab ost in the heart { the | of 64 West Thirty-seventh | bo is of land is almost in art of rough and good location for layin Building lots, hin makes the land valuable for for | rpose or a good truck farm can out of it for raising vegetation. TERMS OF SALE.—Ten per cent of the purchase ri De the day of the sale; one-third EE Ee TE on confirmation two-t terest, within one year from the confirmation of | | the , by securing same by bond and mortgage on the premises. J. M. KEICHLINE. Trust ted by the Orphan’sCourt. ee appoin y the Orpl an aco | RUSTEES SALE OF REAL ESTATE. an | Orphan's Court of Cente county, No. in re-estate of James M. Lucas, late | | es of township, Centre county, Pennsylvania, Boggs rh or re SATURDAY, AUG. sh. 1911, tenements and tract of Centre county, Pa ner now or lormerly of P. Resides and IT. Resides grees thence ok five-tenth perches ge. et of tis foe Ge gree and thi Resim and cn east eleven and five-tenth perches to a and corner of William Poor- man, thence of William Poorman south seventy-two a per cents of pu fa ihe be the sale is confirmed a Te RING. OHN J. BOWER, HARTER APPLICATION.—Notice is hereby | PENNSYLVANIA R. R. Personally-Conducted Excursions to Niagara Falls August 9,30, September 13, 27, October 11, 1911. Round-Tri» §7 10 rom Bellefonte SPECIAL! TRAIN of Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Coaches running via the EE RR I wie usm well shesaid. “Say no more," he replied. “I know now exactly what sort of a fool he is.” A Tiere mand ile + LE New Advertisements. | Reference reauirgd. Appipte i New Advertisements: i ei oa ———— A Dl Dl AD. BS. AA BM A A Se SB NP A = of old the | formerly jands of Valeniine and | ty . Reynolds estate. | ourth h acres, more or less. trustees the s’ Court of Centre county, will ler 4 at pubic ste at the court house, in Bellefonte, Pa. ! 1 following d ibed | na bractof land Set TOR'S NOTICE Letters of ET Bat Wilt Crs | ARR 1} persons knowing themselves in- new, as top and + ; EX ile ; oN {LBECK, WENT 3 A Good Jar. The Economy Jar: No other Jar seals like it No other Jar opens like it No other Jar keeps like it No Rubber rings to leak or rot, or mold A Jar that will remain air-tight forever A Jar that is easy to seal A Jar that costs less in the end than any other A Jar that is easy to fill—easy to open, and easy to clean. Try It and You Will Use No Other. The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co., 56-26 BELLEFONTE, PA. i The First National Bank. Muchfmoney is lost annually in schemes that will not bear investigation. Do not invest in a company about which you know nothing but what an agent tells you. He is always an inter- ested party. Let us find out facts for you, before you part with your money. This is ordinay pru- dence. The First National Bank, 56-46-1y Bellefonte, Penna. Special x0-Day Excursions, oll Ml AB Sn MA i lle A at $6.00 Round Trip Fs Nv lel Ae ATLANTIC CITY CAPE MAY a Bil Ms Rn a A a . Wildwood, Ocean City, Anglesea, Sea Isle City, Holly Beach, | Avalon, Stone Harbor, New Jersey ( THURSDAYS, August (7 $5.75 Round Trip } Via Delaware Bridge Via Market Street Wharf FROM BELLEFONTE TICKETS GOOD RETURNING WITHIN TEN DAYS STOP-OVER ALLOWED AT PHILADELPHIA For full inf rmation concerning leaving tim VR onauit small hand bills or nearest Ticket PE NNSYLVANIA RAILROAD | 56-25-9t . PNT The Centre County Banking Comphuy. Strength and Conservatism are the banking qualities demanded by careful depositors. With forty years of banking ex- perience we invite you to become a depositor, assuring you of every courtesy and attention. We pay 3 per cent interest on savings and cheerfully give you any information at our command concerning investments you may desire to make. The Centre County Banking Co. Bellefonte, Pa. 00
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