BorougH Counci. Help LenxcTHY ——William Beezer and Mrs. Samuel
Session.—At the regularsession on Mon- Saxion both underwent operations for ap-
1 day evening the members of borough pendicitis in the Bellefonte hospital this
| council washed their hands of the Sebring week, while Henry Montgomery was ad-
‘ garage sign business by rescinding their mitted for treatment. Miss Florence
CoMPANY REMOVES TELEPHONE FROM —Mrs. Clyde Smith and daughter are away on
referred to the fact that the Pennsylvania O"°:
telephone company had removed its in-
strument from the Bellefonte hospital = York city.
—Miss Sarah Hastings spent Sunday with
friends in Tyrone.
~The Misses Pearle are entertaining their
~Mr. and Mrs. Will Katz returned in the be- niece, Mrs. Winner, of Wilmington, Del.
| ginning of the week from a ten day's trip to New |
—Mr. and Mrs. Howard Scribbs, of DuBois, are
visiting friends and relatives in Bellefonte.
——The big I. O. O. F. picnic will be
held at Hunter's park on Wedn~sday,
September 6th.
——The state road through Bellefonte
has finally been completed and opened up
clear through the town.
——The Bellefonte curb market is well | neighbor, Mr. Munson, and his counsel, ' will meet in hall of Bald Eagle Grange, likely proved a source of revenue, as
| as Milesburg, Thursday, August 17th, at people living away from Bellefonte who
10a. m. All Fourth Degree members from time to time have had friends in
are cordially invited. The Fifth Degree the hospital would frequently use the
. will be conferred in the afternoon session. long distance in inquiring as to their’
"Reports of the picnic committee and welfare. The removal of their phone by
patronized these days, and all kinds of
produce brings good prices.
—The big classification yards at
Northumberland were officially opened
for railroad traffic on Sunday.
——Manager Garman, of the opera
house, is endeavoring to secure a comedy
company for all of next week, at popular
prices.
—The contract for the concrete pav-
ing at the Presbyterian church, chapel
and parsonage has been awarded to Jack-
son Showers.
—Since the rains of last week the
potato bugs have doubled in numbers
throughout the county, and everybody is
wondering why.
——MTrs. Mary Bickle, of Zion, and An-
drew Drofsho, of Snow Shoe, were ad-
because there was a clause in their pres- |
permission to erect a sign on Allegheny
i street. In other words they jumped out
of the hole they dug at that time but the
his attorney, declares he is going to keep
t there because council dug it, metaphor-
ically speaking.
Dr. J. L. Seibert, who strenuously ob-
| jects to the hole and the pole that is in
| it, was again present at Monday night's
| meeting and was ably supported by his
| John Blanchard and W. Harrison Walker
| Esqs. Mr. Sebring was not present but
was represented by his attorney, W. D.
| Zerby, Esq. The latter made the open-
ing speech, a very short one, in which he
i told council that in his construction of
' the law they acted entirely within their
| legal rights in granting Mr. Sebring per-
| mission to erect his sign, and naturally
| the latter gentleman felt disposed to as-
| sert his privilege. He further stated that
i he had made a proposition to council for
the opposition to leave council out of the
matter for the present and take the ques-
tion before the court for a judicial deci-
sion on the rights of property owners and
municipal bodies in such cases.
Mr. Blanchard, for Dr. Seibert, stated
that the matter would be brought before
the court later; that what they appeared '
| Cullough, of Milesburg, were discharged,
| Ladies’ Aid society of the Methodist
| church will hold a sale of bread, cake,
pie, rolls, jelly, canned fruit, etc, in the
{ vacant room in Bush Arcade, High
| street. Ice cream and cake will be served
/ in the evening. The society desires the
| patronage of the public in general.
. ——Centre County Pomona Grange
‘ telephone committees will be made ar
| this meeting.
-——Contractor R. B. Taylor is now at
work putting down a new concrete pave-
‘ment around the Brockerhoff house.
' Dr. Brockerhoff, by the way, has
‘had an outside stairway put down on
the end of the building to the base-
ment now under F. P. Blair & Co's
‘jewelry store, and will have the same
‘put in good condition for rental as a
barber shop or store of some kind or
| other.
——Manager T Clayton Brown has
ent rules forbidding the furnishing of
free service to any individual or institu-
tion. Ever since the Bellefonte hospital
has been in existence both the Pennsyl-
' vania and American telephone companies
have very generously given the institu-
tion a phone free of charge, and
the contribution of free telephone serv-
(ice is so small a matter that it is
| certainly not felt financially by either
of the companies. In one way it very
the Pennsylvania company not only cuts
, off this source of revenue but cripples
| the service of every one of their sub-
, scribers, any one of whom may at some
, time or another have a relative or friend
in the institution.
‘Then there is another way of looking
at it. The Bellefonte hospital, while
| open to any and every applicant, is very
| much a Bellefonte institution, and the
| town is naturally interested in its up-
' keep and equipment. The Pennsylvania
telephone company is not merely a local
| institution, but is State-wide, and yet
| they would raise an awful kick if the
~Mrs. Margaret Dexter, of Washington, D. C.. © —Ms. Sarah Dixon and three children, of
is in Beliefonte visiting Mrs. Nora McClain and | Johnstown, are visiting friends at State College.
| other friends. | —Miss Daise Keichline spent last week in Al-
~Mrs. George Blackford and daughter Grace | (gona visiting with Mrs. Samuel Gray Hartsock.
| left on Wednesday for New Castle to visit the fam- | _yy, 04 My Rudolph Mulholland, of Al
| ily of Percy Blackford. :
: toona. were guests at the C. C. Shuey hom
: —Mrs. Frank Warfield and her daughter Mary ' Sunday. pd
i have been in Bloomsburg since Tuesday visiting | _ yey npiriam Smith, whois in Pittsburgh for
with friends of Mrs. Warfield.
i | a two weeks visit, left the
| —Mrs. Charles G. McAvoy is in Bellefonte after | jast week Bellefonte the latter part of
| five weeks spent at Sea Isle City and with Mr. | po 0 aeser returned home on Saturday
| McAvoy's parents at Harrisburg. | from a week's vacation spent with friends in
| ~Miss Mildred Locke, daughter of Dr. and | Philipsburg.
| Mrs. M. J. Locke, has been in Tyrone’ this week | _pg oy Bradiey, of Bradford, visited last week
guest at the Dr. M, L. Piper home. in Bellefonte with his mother, Mrs. Benjamin
—After visiting in Bellefonte for two months | Bradley, of Spring street.
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with her cousin, Mrs, Samuel Sheffer, Miss Aull | _yy,, pp Ray, of New York. has been in
left for her home in Pittsburgh Monday. | Bellefonte this week with her son, Horton S. Ray
—Mrs. Murphy, of Jersey Shore, has been in ' and family, at the Brockerhoff house.
Bellefonte this week visiting her son, Thomas | =Guy Linn, of Beaver Falls, came to Bellefonte
Murphy and family, on east Lamb street. | last Saturday and spent the fore part of the week
~Albert Hoy, of New York city, is in Belle. | here looking after some business interests.
fonte for a summer vacation visiting with his a —Miss Bertha Campbell returned home last
ters, the Misses Hoy and Mrs. W. F. Reynolds. { Monday from Snow Shoe. where she spent two
| =Mr.and Mrs Howard Best left on Wednes | weeks with her sister, Mrs. John Hoffman.
day for Atlantic City where they will remain for | _;, 0, w. Swabb, of Linden Hall, was in
an indefinite time for the benefit of Mr. Best's | poyefonte on a business trip on Saturday and
health. | had a kindly greeting for his many old friends
~=Mr. and Mrs. William Confer, and daughter, | hereabouts. y
of Altoona, and Mrs. Jacob Confer, and daughter | ~Mrs. William Echols, of Moundsville, W. Va..
| with her little daughter, is here for her mid-sum-
mer visit with her mother, Mrs. Florence Jacobs,
on Lamb street.
—Mrs. Louise Rice, Mrs. Alice Hockenberry-
=Mrs. W. R. Jenkins, after spending the great.
er part of the summer in Harrisburg with her par- |
ents and sisters, returned with her daughter Dor- | Mrs. Jacob Shizk and Mrs.
. Andrew Thal and son
othy to Bellefonte Wednesday. Lawrence attended the funeral of Miss ie
—Mrs. Mills, the wife of James Mills, for many | Garland at Bald Eagle last Wednesday.
years in charge of the editorial department of the |
mitted to the Lock Haven hospital on
Tuesday for treatment.
——The tea to be given by Mrs. David
Dale this afternoon at four o'clock, is in
honor of Mrs. Hirlinger,of Philipsburg, the
guest of Mrs. J. Y. Dale.
before council for now was to give them secured two special attractions for the
an opportunity to wash their hands of the | Scenic. The first one, a colored repro-
whole affair and thus avert being a party duction of “Faust” will be shown next
to any proceedings that mightbe brought | Friday evening. The second one till
for trespass and damages. After the case | be the coronation of King George. This
' borough council were to pass an ordi-
| nance taxing them a certain sum per.
i year for every pole erected and main-
! tained within the borough limits. And
‘that would be equally just with the action | ington, D. C. to report for duty in the navy.
spend the month of August in Bellefonte.
Pittsburgh Post, is at Dr. Schad’s, expecting to |
=Mrs. Harry E. Jenkins and son Raymond were
last week guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Luken-
| bach, after having been for a week with a camp.
—After spending a month at his home in this ' ing party on the mountains above Tyrone.
place recuperating from a long siege of fever |
Ensign Trood Bidwell left yesterday for Wash.
! =Mary Rhinesmith, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
| Daniel Rhinesmith, who has been for the past
| three weeks with her cousin, Lois Kirk, left Belle,
had thus been presented to council the latter will be here in the near future, | of the telephone company in removing |
—Mr.and Mrs. Aaron Katz left yesterday on | fonte Wednesday for her home at Clearfield.
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——Russell Solt, of Howard, was badly | attorneys retired and when the matter though the exact date is not known. For the phone from the hospital. And why | an extended trip to the Thousand Islands: _nyo ong neo Robert Herman and two chil
was brought up later for adjudication it | this reason you want to keep an eye on
was quickly apparent that everything had | the bulletin board so you ‘don’t miss it,
ized and the lad is getting along all right- been framed up beforehand. Mr. Judge, as it will be worth seeing.
——Wade Cruse has resigned his posi- | Sala of ar S1xeeg com Wate, Ofleres ! ——The Kerstetter Bros., at Pleasant
tion as solicitor for the Pennsylvania tele- which it’ ‘was stated that having been | Gap have just completed a $5,000 home
phone company to azcept a job as travel- “misinformed and given a wrong 2 ron | for Thos. Jodon of that place, giving Mr.
ing salesman for a large cigar manu- son” etc rding the rty p WT Jodon one of the finest and most conven-
facturing house. ors a, ocation 2 sign that | ient homes in the county. Besides mak-
whe Hees of he leties Die council rescind their action of May first | "8 @ Most attractive appearance it ‘is
class e U. B. church gave Mrs. Davi
bitten on the arm by a dog one day last
week. The wound was promptly cauter-
i ’ : through Canada and down the St. Lawrence |
; shouldn't that be done? The telephone | Fiver so wind up with a weelc at the seashore. § fen, of Phlisbarg, td Mr. and Mrs. Samue,
| company is no longer an infant indus- ow located at Albany | Kimport, of State - were over Sunday visit.
| try in need of careful nursing to assure # “WYO HOw . | ors at the Fred Herman home in Bush Addition.
| try in need o ing N.Y. in the employ of the New York Centrai | _nry Ada V. Runkle, of York, Pa., is visiti
its success. It has passed from that | railroad company, is spending his summer vaca: | or sister, Mrs. Benjamin Brown. on cast one
| stage into one of the utmost independ- | tion withhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Miles Walk- | street. Her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Condo, with her
| ence where it fixes the price and the peo- *" n this place. | two little boys, has been in Bellefonte for some
jple have to pay the piper. Therefore | -MissVeraWillard iis returned from Mead: | time.
i ville, where she was employed for some time as a | ~Mrs. Paul Sheffer has had for the
| they should also be made to pay for the | nurse in the hospital and will spend the balance ' .oi her sister, Mrs. Price, and gta pay
| privileges they enjoy in Bellefonte. This ' of the summer at home with her parents, Mr. and | : daugh-
| ; i | ter, of Scranton. Mable Sheffer, who has been
|is a matter that is seriously referred to | Mrs. D. 1. Willard. | with her grandmother in Scranton since June, re-
| the town council, and if the present body | —Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Malin, of Baltimore, Md., | turned to Bellefonte with Mrs. Price last week.
and withdraw the permission. Mr. Kel. Provided with all the latestimprovements
Bartlet a surprise party on Wednesday : land has all the comforts and conven-
iences that a home costing twice the
amouat could have. There is no discount
evening of last week as a fitting celebra-
tion of her birthday.
ler asked that the word “misinformed” be
stricken from the preamble because coun-
cil had not been given any positive infor-
spent Sunday in Bellefonte with the former's |
| fails to act in the interest of the citizens |
| of the town the voters themselves should
| make it an issue at the next election.
| brother, W. L. Malin and family. Mr. Malin holds | \00n& the Bellefonters who have been
| reveling in the delights of the sea shore, at
a good position as inspector with the Pennsylva- | Avantic City this week, are Mrs. J. M. Cun-
——Mrs. William Jones, who has been ‘on the kind of work the Kerstetter broth-
quite ill the past several weeks, at her
home on east High street, is very much
improved, a fact that her many friends
will be glad to know.
mation in the matter, as everything was
merely impressions, and the same being | ©" Rout :
stricken out the resolution passed with-| ——Jacob Marks is now in a private
out a dissenting vote of the six members | sanitorium at Chestnut Hill, near Phila-
present. Thus council purged itself of | delphia, in an endeavor to straighten out
——The weather has been so hot this | the perplexing problem by reversing its | his nerves and put on more flesh. About
summer that operations at the match own action and the sign war will now be two weeks ago he started for Cape May
factory are practically in a state of sus- | carried into other territory. “but stopped in Philadelphia to consult his
pense, as it is next to impossible to make | W. T. Twitmire was present and made physician, who advised him to go to the
matches in hot weather. complaint of the fact that every hard sanitorium, as it was rest and quiet he
——Mrs. Joseph L. Montgomery, who rain the water washed across south needed more than anything else. Since
has been for the past ten days at the | Water street and flooded his yard and going to the sanitorium he has written
Nittany Country club, entertained there | cellar. The matter was referred to the friends here that he feels better and has
Wednesday night at dinner, for which | Street committee. Chairman Judge, of gained a little in weight.
fourteen covers were laid. the latter committee, reported a large
land Hutchinson.
nia railroad company.
| BELLEFONTE PRESBYTERIANS ELect |
Rev. HAWES As PASTOR.—At a congrega-
terian church on Sunday morning, pre- | Sister, Miss Mary Thomas.
i —Mrs. James D. Lambert, of Pitcairn, with her
sided over by Rev. R. M. Campbell, of | Ee Miller,
Pennsylvania Furnace, as moderator, | yy 'y ribert will be remembered as Miss Noll,
| Rev. George Hawes, of Braddock, was ' ; daughter of Thomas Noll, formerly of Pleasant
elected pastor by a good majority. A | Gap, before her marriage.
| total of 158 votes were cast of which —Mrs. George Lose turned ua Sunitay from
{ number Rev. Hawes received 83. The | amonth'ssojourn at Atlantic City. her way
| others were divided as follows: Rev. } home she stopped for a few. days at Harrisburg
| Nevin, 53; Rev. Hort, 14; Rev. Smith, | ter, Mrs. Cyrus Labe and child.
|5; and one each for Revs. Wilson, Cooke | Miss Mary Sterrett, of Titusville, will be in |
The election of Rev. | Bellefonte tomorrow to spend a short time with
and was accompanied to Bellefonte by her daugh-
—Mrs. Charles Shaffner and her daughter, Miss
| Shaffner, will arrive in Bellefonte tomorrow fo | tomorrow.
| the remainder of August. During the first part |
tional meeting of the Bellefonte Presby- | of their visit they will be guests of Mrs. Shaffner’s |
and son; Miss Elizabeth Cunningham
Barbara Levi. They all will return
ningham
and Miss
~=Mrs. N. A. Boalich and her daughter,of Dem.
ing, New Mexico, will arrive in Bellefonte within
a week for a two week's visit with Dr. and Mrs.
Seibert. Mrs. Boalich is on her way to Boston,
Mass., where she will enter her daughter at the
| Conservatory of Music, expecting to remain with
her for a part of the winter.
—On Sunday Will Keichline took W. L. Daggett,
John M. Shugert, John Curtin, George R. Meek,
. Ad. Fauble and Edmund Blanchard in his big
| Franklin car, on a trip to Eagles Mere. The
| round trip of one hundred and ninety miles was
made without a mishap of any kind and the party
. had a three hours stay on the mountain to take in
| the sights. They arrived home shortly after mid-
—The ladies of the U. B. church will
hold a festival on the lawn near the Gam-
ble mill on Saturday evening, August 12th.
Home-inade bread, pies, cakes and can-
dies for sale. The public is invited.
———While driving down High street on
Monday evening in his Metz automobile
Toner Hugg collided with a buggy in
which were the Misses Cooney. Fortu-
nately no one was hurt but the fender on
Hugg'’s car was badly bent.
——-The Presbyterian church at Buals-
burg has been entirely done over so far
as painting and papering the interior is
concerned and now looks almost like a
new house of worship. The work was
done by S. H. Williams, of this place.
——There will be no services held in
the Reformed church before Sunday, Aug-
ust 27th. On that day at 11 a. m. the
annual harvest home services will be held.
Dr. Schmidt and family leave this week
for a two week's vacation at Ocean Grove.
——In the advertising columns of to-
day's WATCHMAN are published the two
amendments to the constitution to be
voted upon by the voters of Pennsylvania
at the November election. Read them
over carefully and then you will be able
to vote upon them intelligently.
number of repairs made throughout the
town since the last meeting.
reported that the meter bills for the
and wcie now in the hands of Mr. Ishler
for collection. Attention was called to the
fact that Mr. Ishler had so far failed to
file 2 bond for the present fiscal year, and
during the discussion it was also discov-
ered that council had not surrendered to
the collector two bonds for years in which
discharged. The borough solicitor was
instructed to execute a new bond when
the old ones would be surrendered.
Mr. Musser, of the Water committee |
quarter ending July first totaled $645.77,
|
been one of the attractions at the big W. B. Rankin and Thomas Beaver were i
spring during the past few years died on elected commissioners to officially extend |
Sunday, evidently of old age. The trout | the call of the church to Rev. Hawes and |
was caught five years ago in the deep if he signifies his willingness to accept to |
pool below the Phoenix mill dam and | Present the calito the Huntingdon Presby- |
transferred to the spring. It then meas. | tT¥ and ask that the same be ratified. |
ured 22} inches. When measured on Sun- | The congregation also voted to pay Rev. |
day it showed a length of 27} inches, so | Hawes . salary of two thousand dollars a |
that its growth during the past five years | year, give him the manse free and grant i
was just an average of an inch a year. | him an annual vacation of not less than
S. Walkers. Miss Sterrett is on her way to Clear Went.
field, where she will visit with friends. | =Mrs. Austin O. Furst with her two grandchil-
| dren, Louise Furst and John Curtin Jr., left Belle-
—Judge and Mrs, Harry Alvan Hall, of Ridg- | .
wa were guests last DY at the iad | fonte yesterday for Allenhurst, N. J., where Mrs.
house. They left home yesterday morning for I urst and John Curtin will be guests at the cot-
a one thousand mile automobile tour through A t2&¢ of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.Furst. Louise who is
3 soar. | the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Furst, of Phil-
She smpern States and this was their first night's adelphia, has been with her grandmother in Belle-
fonte, returr.rg with her to her home .
—Miss Parker having arrived in Bellefonte | ppia yesterday. oF to her house in Piiadal
Wednesday will spend a few days with the family |
of her brother, G. Ross Parker, and upon her re- |
turn to her home in Somerset will take with he-
Mary Charlotte, Emily and Ferguson, three oi
her brother's children. i
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
he had cleaned his duplicates and been '
What it gained in weight is not known, | on€ month. i
| arouse the people of Sugar valley to the
—Qur friend, Mr. James Wolfenden, | ; . :
‘of Lamar, has started a campaign to | was probated this week. His entire es
——The will of the late H. Y. Stitzer
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
! —Mr.and Mrs. Harry Ulmer Tibbens with i Potatoes : per bushel, new -“
! their two fine looking boys, of Wheeling. W. Va., | Ego “ner dozen.
In the matter of the Lamb street | IMPOrtance of getting a rail-road up
bridge the Street committee was author- | through that prosperous and pretty part
ized to make the necessary repairs. Re- | of the State. Mr. Wolfenden recently
garding the Buffalo Run bridge the bor. | Made short speeches a different points |
ough engineer was instructed to prepare | 210n8 the proposed line, Which were |
plans for 2 new structure. The engineer | Warmly received and heartily responded
also presented plans for a new steel and | to It is the purpose to have committees
concrete bridge over the tail race at the 2PPointed at Loganton, Greenbrier, Ty- |
Phoenix mill, which he estimated would | lersville and other points, to agitate and
cost in the neighborhood of one thousand | Push the project to completion. In this
dollars. The tridge is badly needed; the | undertaking Mr. Wolfenden should have
esiimated cost was not considered exces. NOt the earnest,but the active and mater-
sive, but Mr. Keller emphatically declared ! 12! Support of every citizen of that val.
that the borough had about reached the | 1
end of its rope and had no money to |
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(tate is left to his wife until her death, | SE ional A el ove | Counc Shouider 10
when it will revert to Mrs. H. A. McKee: | day evening when they went to Altoona to spend Fr a i
of Wilkinsburg, an adopted daughter: | the balance of the week. Jallow, per pound... 4
The estate is estimated at from $25,000to | —Lieutenant commander Roland Curtin, of the | Dutter-perpound. occ 2
$30,000. United States navy, with his wife and little daugh" | me
! i i ter are in Bellefonte spending the former's mid- | Bellefonte Grain Markets.
—Dr. 1. i . | summer furlough with his mother, Mrs. John L' J
Dr. and Mrs. A. Blair, of Cur Curtin, on Curtin street. Lieutenant Curtin is, Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER,
wensville, are being congratulated over | The following are the quotations up tosix o'clock
h ival ot their first cluil hn Wi | now stationed at the naval academy, Annapolis. | Thu Vesing, when our Re
fhe arrival oftheir tchild, Jo ight —Mrs. W. K. Foster came from her home at | » Paper goes rg
Blair, who was born on Monday. Grand. : Jenkintown Saturday, to visit with her father, 2
father Frank P. Blair, of this place, is cor- | George S. Gray, at Stormstown. While Mr. Fos- X
respondingly elated. ter has been filling the pulpit of Rev. George M.
evi I ir ori po So not R
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. join Mrs. Foster in her visit up Buffalo Run this | 60
— summer. i
—Francis Briggs, of Centre Line, is spending a | —Mr, and Mrs. John Huffman and family, of |
few days with relatives in Bellefonte. | Williamsport, autoed to Bellefonte on Sunday and
—Miss Ann Confer, who left Bellefonte yes- | remained over night with Mr. and Mrs. G. R,
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening.
build the bridge. As a settlement of the |
——A meeting of the militant suf-
——The music committee of the Centre-
Clinton County Business Men's Picnic
association has closed contracts with the
Tyrone Symphony band and the Ger-
mania orchestra, of Lock Haven, to fur-
nish the music for the annual business
men’s picnic at Hecla park on Tuesday,
August 22nd.
———The dates for the farmers’ insti-
tutes in Centre county, during the ensu-
ing season, have been announced as fol-
lows: Eagleville, December 4th and 5th;
Centre Hall, December 6th and 7th;
Stormstown, December 8th and 9th. The
list of speakers will not be announced
until later in the season.
~The Coleville band gave another
of its delightful evening concerts in
front of the Brockerhoff house on Wed-
nesday evening. The boys are very liberal
with their music and the people of the
town ought to show the same kind of a
spirit in responding to their appeal! for
help in purchasing an equipment of new
uniforms.
—Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller, of
Alum Bank, Bedford county, celebrated
the fifty-first anniversary of their wed-
ding one day last week. Mr. Miller is
seventy-one years old and Mrs. Miller,
who before her marriage was Miss Mary
Calhoun, of Unionville, this county, is
seventy years old. Eight of their nine
living children were present at the cele-
bration. ;
difficulty for two weeks, at least, the mat-
ter was referred to the Street committee,
borough engineer and borough solicitor
to prepare bids, etc., and report at next
meeting. ,
An ordinance for the paving of Bishop
street was read and adopted, Mr. Beezer
casting a negative vote because he did
not believe in hitching the cart in front
of the horse.
The ordinance for the granting of a
franchise to the Centre County Light,
Heat and Power company was up for
third reading. The paper was consider-
ably changed and amended from the
original one and after being read was re-
ferred to the borough solicitor for con-
sultation with the parties in interest to see
if it is satisfactory and report at next
meeting.
Mr. Musser, of the Water committee,
reported the smoke stack at the Phoenix
mill as entirely gone and the matter was
referred to that committee for consulta-
tion with Mr. Reynolds relative to putting
up a new one.
The Finance committee recommended
the same rate of millage for the present
year as prevailed last year, namely: Three
for borough, five for interest and six for
jtieet puspoces A note for $1,000 was
a renewed for six months and
anew note for $1,000 was authorized
for three Bills to the amount of
(8 1,00.93 were and council
approved
| fragettes of Bellefonte was thrown into a
| panic, a few nights ago, hen right into
| the midst of the circle of ladies who are
| not just certain what they do want was
| hurled a brick. The meeting was being
| held in a private house and the windows
| being wide open to keep the suffragettes
‘cool some miscreant, probably a male
| being, threw the missile right in at them.
| Fortunately no suffragette fell into the
{ martyr class by being hit, but there is
said to have been considerable consterna-
tion among those who were present,
especially the ones who have a few linger-
| ine twinges of conscience about this mat-
' ter of being a suffragette.
| —William Doll started his new ice
, manufacturing plant, out near the Nit-
| tany furnace, last week and everything
| worked all right except the dam. A
| concrete forebay had been built across the
channel in the cinder pile through which
flowed the water of the big spring at that
place. This stream, it was believed, would
be sufficient to furnish water for the ice
and also power to run the turbine wheel.
and the dam filled up the pressure forced
the water through the cinder pile like
through a sieve. The result was that a
concrete wall had to be built through the
cinder and now the dam holds water.
The plant was put in operation again
this week but has not been running long
enough to test it out thoroughly.
But when the flood gates were closed |
terday, is visiting with friends in Pittsburgh.
—Henry Miller, an old soldier, is here from the
soldier's home at Dayton, Ohio, visiting his old.
time friends.
—Miss Helen Valentine and Miss Catharine
Curtin, are in Syracuse visiting: guests of Mrs.
Bruce L. Burlingame.
—Miss Lulu Rice will leave tomorrow for Phila-
deiphia, where she will visit for an indefinite time
with her sister, Mrs. Lewis Miller.
~—Mrs. Roy Musser, whose home is at Hartleton,
has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Robert
Sechler, at her home on Spring street.
=Mr. C. A. Sulivan, of Bellefonte, left Tues-
day for his old home in York, expecting to have
Mrs. Sullivan join him there next week.
—The Misses Helen and Roxanna Mingle are
among the many from Bellefonte who are spend-
ing the month of August at Atlantic City.
~—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keller are entertaining
Mr. Keller's mother and sister, Mrs. Daniel Kel-
ler, and Miss Lucy Keller, of Philadelphia.
—Miss Sara Malin with her niece, Elizabeth
Shugert, went to Boalsburg Tuesday to spend a
few days with Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFarlane.
—Mrs. James Harris and her three children, of
Reading, are expected in Bellefonte tomorrow to
visit with both Mrs. Henry P. Harris and Mrs.
Charles Smith.
-Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Irvin and family, of Buf
falo, N. Y,, are in Unionville visiting Dr. W. U.
Irwin and family. Mr. Irwin is in a large hard:
the fore part of the week for their summer vaca-
tion.
=-Mr, and Mrs. Breans, of Pence, Ind., who are
| Spigelmyer. On Monday they left for Union
| county, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. G. Willard
| Hall. Going by way of Lewisburg they reached
| home Monday evening. i
| =Mrs. Andrew Brockerhoff and her two chil
| dren, Margaret and Henry, after visiting with Dr,
| Brockerhoff and his sister, Miss Mary Brocker-
! hoff, left Bellefonte Wednesday. Returning to
their home in Philadelphia they will be there for
| a week or two before going on to Ocean City for
| the remainder of August.
| =Mrs, M. E. Hewitt, who will be remembered
| as Miss Martha Hutchinson, arcived in Bellefonte |
| Saturday of last wi ek: having come from her | 4on-o
| home at Riverside, Ci 1, to visit for an indefinite
| time with friends in Pennsylvania. While in
| Bellefonte Mrs. Hewitt will be the guest of Miss
| MeCalmont at her home on Linn street.
| -=Miss E. M. Thomas, who arrived in Belle-
| fonte Wednesday night, will make her home for
the present at the Bush house. Miss Thomas.
who left Bellefonte about the middle of January
has spent the seven months with friends in Phila-
delphia and its vicinity, at Jamestown, R. I, and
came here from Yonkers, N. Y., where the latter
part of the time had been spent.
—Misses Naomi and Ruth Dixon, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Hays Dixon, of Johnstown, have
been in Bellefonte the past week visiting their |
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Gates
and family. Miss Naomi is an assistant instruct’
or in biological science in the Johnstown High
school and as thisis thefirst trip of both the young
ladies to Bellefonte they have naturally enjoved
their visit.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gardner and their two
children, of East Orange, N. J., visited for a short
time in Bellefonte the latter part of last week, and
while here were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F.
' Keichline. Mr. Gardner, who has been compelled -
weeks, and under three mos..10 per ct.
Rp mos. and under six mos...... Dea.
and especially
to rest for three months on account of ill health: | are informed no notice be
due to overwork, is spending the time in Pennsyl™ | taken jt orders to insert at less
vania, visiting with relatives and resting at re. Takes thay to the nies
sorts,