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——While engaged in putting up a, Cousci Sits 1¥ CoLb STORAGE. —The | HOCKMAN—SHARER—On Thursday of | FLooDED Our oF Business.—William
Burs. fast Thursday evening William M. | pair of steps at the match factory on regular meeting of borough council on | last week at the Reformed parsonage in | Doll, the baker, was temporarily put out
. C. Donley, of Pittsburgh, chief engineer Tuesday . afternoon Harry Eberhart fell | Monday evening was not exactly a freeze Boalsburg, John H. Hockman, of Mingo- | of business on Wednesday evening by
“for the prison commission, arrived in | backward to the floor, from a height of [out but the law against cold storage | ville, and Miss Grace C. Sharer, of Zion, | being flooded with water. During the
Bellefonte to make preliminary arrange- ' about twelve feet. He fell on his back | | were united in marriage by the pastor, | severe cold weather the three inch stand-
ments for beginning the official survey of and shoulders and injured himself so | bers been edibles instead of law-makers. Rev. S. C. Stover. A few relatives and | pipe put ‘up in the Bush Arcade as a
member but one was pres- friends were present to witness the cere- means of protection against fire froze
While ent, but there were no outsiders there to mony. Mr. and Mrs. Hockman will re- {and bursted, and when the weather
force of eight men, namely: Peter Mel- ' he is badly bruised and a very sore man make demands or complaints and the au- | side at Mingoville. | moderated on Wednesday it thawed,
lon, R. A. Schneider, T. J. McGovern, | it is not believed any serious results will dience was confined strictly to the news. vor - ; naturally. The result was a break on
William McGovern, William McMinn, J. | follow. | paper men. NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. | the third floor andan avalanche of water
C. Weir, Peter Wolff and J. R. Fording, — | The minutes of the last meeting were | : : : | poured down the steps, flooding the West-
arrived in Bellefonte from Pittsburgh.| ——On Monday Jacob Jury purchased |read and approved and so far as the | . Miss Marie Walsh is spending some time in |
To CorrpsrONDENTS.~No communications
published unless accompanied by the real name
of the writer,
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——"Little Miss Kut-up” is coming and
will be af Garmans in the near future.
>on
—Tie family of James H. Corl ex-
pect to move to Chicago in the spring.
——There will be service in St. John's
Episcopz’ church on Friday afternoon at
4 o'clock
~The jury list for the February term
of court will be found in another column
of this issue.
-fHammon Sechler is again confined
to the house with illness, which we trust
will be of short duration.
——Beilefonte automobile dealers are
already taking orders for new machines
for delivery early in the spring.
——Miss Anna Keichline has opened
an office in Temple Court where she will
hang out her shingle as an architect.
—M:. and Mrs. Morton Smith are |
now ectertaining a brand new little |
daughter, who arrived last Saturday.
—Mi. George Ingram, who was con-
fined to (he house a week or ten days!
with the arip, is now able to be around ,
again.
—The stockholders of the Bellefonte i
Trust company held their annual meet- |
ing on Tuesday, and also enjoyed their |
annua! banquet at the Brockerhoff house. i
—Quite a number of Bellefonters |
have been housed up with the grip or |
bad cold: the past two weeks, and the |
doctors sre kept busy doling out quinine. |
——The chestnut tree blight specialists |
who the past two weeks have been work-
ing on the mountains in the vicinity of |
Port Matilda have found the forests quite :
free of thc disease. i
—The Western Union Telegraph |
company is now doing business in the
room in the rear of Dr. Tate's office until
the reguiar room dries out from the
drenching it got on Wednesday.
——Ex-deputy sheriff Fred Reese, Levi
Symonds and three or four other Belle-
fonters have secured jobs with the peni-
tentiary ergineering corps, and are now
on the iva 1p in Benner township.
—The Dickinson Seminary basket
ball team will play the Academy five in
the Y. M.C. A. gymnasium this (Friday)
evening at 830 o'clock. Last Saturday
the Academy team: was defeated by the
Pittshurgh Collegians by the score of 37
to 27.
~——Fo.r cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported i: the family of Thomas King, at
Valley View, and three in the family of
William King. Both homes have been |
quarantined and the public school closed
to prevent the disease becoming epi-
demic.
—01 the, one hundred and ten appli-
cations received at the State Highway |
Departiient for help in building state |
road since the Sproul bill became a law |
only one was from Centre county, and
that fro: Snow: Shoe township for a
5,500 foot stretch of road.
—taery Keller was on Wednesday
morning appointed temporary postmaster
of Belleionte to hold until a permanent
successor of the late Samuel H. Williams
is appointed. Mr. Keller represents the
Surety Campany on Mr. Williams’ bond
which accounts for his appointment,
—Ai the morning service of the
Presbyterian church last Sunday twelve
new members were taken in by letter
and nin€ by confession of faith. The
sacred rite of baptism was administered
to the latier. This was a very good re-
sult of the previous week of prayer and
praise service, and likewise encouraging
to the new pastor, Rev, George E. Hawes.
—Joseph Albright, of Howard town-
ship, is confined to his home with a well-
defined case of smallpox. Albright is a
traveling tea salesman and returned
home on Monday feeling quite iil, think-
mg he had the grip. On Tuesday a phy-
sician was summoned who found the
man suffering with smallpox. The Al-
bright home was at once quarantined
and every effort will be made to prevent
the disease from spreading,
—Harry Burns, of Alto, and Emanuel
Korman, of Bellefonte, underwent oper-
ations at the Bellefonte hospital the past
week. Miss Kate McQuillen, Miss Eliza-
neth Jones and Mrs. Mose D. Burnet were
admitted for treatment. A young son
was born to Mrs. Edward Zimmerman on
Sunday and four patients were discharged
aamely: Irwin Martin, of Tyrone; Mrs.
Herman and Mildred Irwin, of Bellefonte;
and Samuel Waite, of Pleasant Gap.
There are now twenty-three patients in
the institution.
——There was a big fire in Philadel
phia on Saturday which destroyed the
headquarters of the General Film com-
pany (Lubins,) but that will not stop
the moving pictures at the Scenic. Man-
ager T. Clayton Brown secures his films
from the Pittsburgh agency and he will
have a full program every evening. And
where in Bellefonte is there a better
place of amusement to spend an hour
each evening than at the Scenic? It is
always comfortable, even during the
coldest weather, and you are always cer-
ain of seeing something that will inter-
st, entertain and amuse you. Never
ny change in price, as five cents will ad-
mit you any evening during the week.
They compose Mr. Donley's surveying
staff.
They spent Sunday night at the Brock-
erhoff house and Monday forenoon was
devoted to laying in supplies for immedi-
ate use and immediately after dinner on
Monday they moved, bag and baggage,
, to the Reynolds bungalow at Rock and
‘the adjoining farm house, where they
will make their headquarters, the same
; afternoon beginning the survey. The
“men were divided into two corps and will
work in conjunction with each other.
The ordinary citizen naturally considers
this very rough weather for making a |
| survey but most of the men have been !
working out of doors all winter and are
inured to the cold. In addition they
dress for the weather and claim to get
along very well. As a matter of fact
! they can make better progress on their
survey through the mountains during
this kind of weather than they could next
summer, for the reason that the trees
‘ and brush being leafless there is nothing
to obstruct their view and they can train
instruments a great distance. Were they
to wait until summer time it would be
necessary to have axemen and cut a well
defined trail along every line. In addi-
tion to this fact they want to have the of-
ficial survey completed by the first of
April, so that active building operations
can be begun, and it will take every day
of the time for the men now on the job
to do the work.
In conversation with the writer Chief
Engineer Donley stated that there would
be men on the job continuously from
now on. While he will spend only two
or three days a week here overseeing the
work the present force of engineers will
be here until they have made a complete
survey of every line and every fence on
the entire site. The lines will be plainly
marked with stakes driven in the ground
and when the weather opens up in the
spring other engineering corps, some six
or eight in number, will go to work and
go over the entire ground for the pur-
pose of placing a substantial concrete
marker at every line corner. These
markers will be sunk from four to six
feet under ground and will project about
two feet above . ground. Roads will also
be laid out and grades given to all parts
of the penitentiary farms, and he esti-
mates that this will be an all: summer
job. A number of the “trusty” prisoners
are now being specially trained as help-
ers for this work and they are very en-
thusiastic in learning all they can about
it.
But the surveying will not be the only
thing done next summer. As soon as the
weather opens active operations will be
started for the erection of the first build-
ing, which will be a substantial stone
structure and will be temporarily used to
house the workmen on the job. When
the prison building is completed the oth.
er building will be converted into a ma-
chine shop or work shop of some kind.
While it is true that prison labor will he
used as far as possible Mr. Donley stated
that before the summer was two-thirds
over Bellefonte would not be able to sup-
ply one-half the outside laborers and me-
chanics that there will be a demand for
on the job; which demand will continue
to a greater or less extent until the en-
tire institution is completed. And this
will mean an expenditure of millions of
dollars, a good part of the labor percent-
age of which, it is claimed, will flow
through Bellefonte business channels.
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SHOVING QUEER CHECKS.—A Fauble,
the Potter-Hoy Hardware company, A.
C. Mingle and Sim Baum are looking for
ayoung man who gave them checks last
Saturday afternoon that have turned out
to have the ear marks of forgeries.
The checks were signed in the name
of B. F. Homan and made payable to
John Parker, the latter having endorsed
them. Ali of the checks are drawn on
the First National bank of Bellefonte,
where payment was refused on them for
the reason that B. F. Homan does not
carry an account there.
The only B. F. Homan known of in
Centre county is a very prosperous tarm-
er living near Oak Hall. When called
on the telephone Tuesday morning he
said he had not given checks of any sort
to a person named John Parker, hence
the search that is being made to appre-
hend John long enough to have him ex-
plain how be came into possession of the
checks.
While it is not a certainty that they are
forgeries, yet the fact that they were
drawn on a bank in which the drawer
has no account and also the fact that the
similarity of the writing of "John Park-
er” on the face of the check and of
“John Parker” as endorser makes it look
suspicious. :
The one thing considerate about the
man who passed the checks is the fact
that he showed very little partiality. All
the checks were for eighteen dollars ex-
cept the one passed at the Potter-Hoy
Hardware company which was only
for eight dollars. The man was only
about twenty vears of age and a stranger.
——— Ami
~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
| the restaurant under the Garman house |
office and will conduct the same in the |
future. He still retains his job as bar- |
tender at the Brockerhofi house while |
the restaurant is in charge of his son!
Russel and John Kane. Mr. Jury is an |
old hand at the restaurant business and |
we trust he may be as successful in his |
: ai a}
new venture as Delmonico was in his in!
New York the size of the town taken into |
consideration. i
——Mrs. H. E. Fenlon's
luncheon Mon-
i Tuesday Mrs. Dix was honor guest at |
{ Mrs. L. T. Munson's bridge party, at|
which four tables were in play; Tuesday |
evening, Mrs. George Beezer entertained |
at her home on Howard street: Wed. |
nesday, Mrs. Dix was again honor guest
at a luncheon given by Mrs. E. H. Richard
for ten of her friends; Thursday the |
Misses Valentine entertained at dinner |
at their home, “Burnham Place” in honor |
of Miss De la Garde, of Boalsburg, and |
gave a parchesi party in honor of Henry
S. Linn-—-parchesi having become very
popular with the younger set in Belle-
fonte.
——The writer has been asked repeat-
edly as to the meaning of the applica-
tions to be made to the Governor for
charters for various light, heat and pow-
er companies, in accordance with adver-
tisements as published in this paper. The
only answer that can be given is the as-
surance of the men directly interested
that they mean business. A. J. Musser,
one of the applicants for the charters is
secretary and treasurer of the Clearfield
Electric Light company and secretary of
the electric light company at Cammal,
Indiana county. A. W. Lee and James
Wrigley are both prominent citizens of
Clearfield and the three of them have
ample financial backing to carry out any
project they may contemplate.
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——The announcement of a wedding
which is of interest to a number of peo-
ple in Bellefonte, was that of Mrs. Jennie
Tomb Brown, of Jersey Shore, and Pro-
fessor J. M. Murray, a musician of repu-
tation, of Maxton, N. C., which took place
at Laurinton, N. C., on December 4th, at
the residence of Rev. James W, Williams,
pastor of the Laurinburg Baptist chureh.
The wedding which was a very quiet af-
fair, was attended by a few intimate
friends of both Mrs. Brown and Professor
Murray, and followed by a musicale and
dinner given at the Hotel Chetwynd, at
Laurinburg. Professor and Mrs. Murray
are living in apartments at Maxton, ex-
pecting to make their home in North |
Carolina.
cos
—It having been found necessary, on
account of the drilling in the army pre- |
paring for the inspection on the 12th, of
February, to change the date of the
Charity Ball. The committee in charge has
now completed all arrangements for a
fancy dress dance to be given on the
night of February fifteenth, and cordially
invites every one to join them for a
pleasant evening. In order that the plans
may be successfully carried out, the
dancers especially are all asked to go
masked and if possible in costume, the
costume to be as simple or as elaborate
as the wearer may choose. The tickets
to be sold by the members of the club
will be seventy-five cents, and the pro-
ceeds will go to the treasury of the club.
~——The recently organized Ladies Aid
society of the Lutheran church of Pleas.
ant Gap, will hold a social at Noll's hall
on Saturday evening, January 20th, the
proceeds to be applied to the church
building fund. The committee have de-
termined that all who will kindly fayor
them with their patronage will get value
received. The high cost of living advo-
cates will on this occasion get a chilly
frost. The admission into the hall will
be 3 cents or two for 5; Java and Mo-
cha coffee, 3 cents per cup, or two for 5;
sandwiches the same. Ice cream, cake,
candy, pop-corn at the same liberal rate,
in fact everything’ goes for 2 for 5 or 3
cents straight. Many pleasing attrac-
tions will be pulled off, all of which must
be seen to be appreciated. A most cor-
dial invitation is extended to all.
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WALKER—ELDER.—~Quite a large wed-
ding took place at noon on Wednesday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel El-
der, at Rock Springs, when their daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Elder, was united in mar
riage to Ralph Walker, of the Branch.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.
S. Shultz, of the Lutheran church. The
attendants were Miss Sarah Elder, a sis-
ter of the bride, and Irvin Walker, a
cousin of the bridegroom. Over one huu-
dred guests were present. The decora-
tions were quite elaborate, consisting of
potted plants and flowers. Following the
ceremony a wedding breakfast was serv.
ed and in the afternoon the young couple
left for a wedding trip to Johnstown. The
bridegroom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Stine Walker, on the Branch, and is en-
| the property. The secretary presented |
| the lease, which holds until the first of
| railroad cut near the Phoenix mill, and
| restriction that in doing so they did not
standing committees were concerned
there were no reports worth recording. |
The Special committee, which is the com- |
mittee on the Green mill property, held a |
meeting a few nights ago, but did noth- |
ing. There were no verbal communica- |
tions and under the head of written com- |
munications a letter was received from |
Col. W. Fred Reynolds enclosing a letter |
from the Underwriter's Association rela. |
tive to a number of safety alterations and |
equipments, as well as repairs, to be |
day, was given for Mrs. Dix, of Dayton; Made at the Phoenix mill property in or- | Customary auual visi at this office.
der to carry the insurance at the prevail- |
ing rate. This communication provoked |
quite a discussion, resulting in an inqui- |
ry by some of the new members as to the
length of the lease the borough had on
February, 1914, and after a reading of
the same the discussion dropped about as
suddenly as the mercury.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
the same ev ening Mrs. George R. Meek, | presented the agreement granting coun- | —Miss Roxanna Brisbin will return to her home
cil the right to build a sewer under the
the same was accepted and ordered filed.
The same company also asked permis-
sion to replace the watch box at the
Gamble, Gheen & Co. mill crossing to the
location it formerly occupied, and the
same was granted.
Under the head of old business the
Fire and Police committee recommended
the election of Harry H. Dukeman as
chief of police and William Beezer as po-
liceman. Mr. Judge made a motion that
the report be accepted and the two men
elected and Mr. Sheffer seconded the
same. Mr. Grimm said that he couldn't
understand why a change was desired, as
so far as he knew the present policeman
was doing his full duty. Mr. Beezer gave
an explanation of the reason why the
committee made the recommendation
and upon a vote Dukeman and Beezer
were elected, Mr. Grimm voting against
them. The salary is to remain the same,
$52.50 a mouth for the chief and $50.00 a
month for the policeman.
The question of paying the bill for the
printing of the auditor's statement was
then brought up. When the auditors
completed their work last spring they
gave the contract for the printing of the
statements to the Keystone Gazette. Coun-
cit held up the bill on the grounds that
the awarding of the contract had not been
left to them. The attorney for the audi-
tors contended that they had the power
to award the contract while the borough
solicitor maintained that it was not with-
in their province. But as the statement
had been printed and properly circulated
council voted to pay the bill, with the
admit that the auditors were right and
admonishing them not to do it again.
Bills tc the amount of eleven hundred
dollars were approved and council ad-
journed.
ARRESTED ON A SERIOUS CHARGE—John
H. Beck, a clerk in the State College
postoffice, was on Tuesday arrested on a
charge of tampering with the mails and
was held under three hundred dollars
bond for trial at the March term of the
United States court at Scranton. It is
charged that Mr. Beck would. take can-
celled stamps off incoming packages, of
which there are many at State College,
and then when a patron at the window
would mail a package giving him the
necessary stamps to carry it he would
stick the good stamps on only by the
corner. After the patron had left the
office he would remove the good stamps
and substitute ones already cancelled
that he had gathered up. -
* A Pittsburg inspector is given credit
with having discovered the irregularity.
He noticed parcels coming into the Pitts-
burg office mailed at State College that
had stamps on them that had previously
been cancelied in Pittsburg. Immediate-
ly the inspector and a detective went to
State College put two decoy parcels
through the office and found them latter
in the mail bags at the railroad station
with old cancelled stamps on them. The
new stamps they had bought \erthie par
cels, which had been marked, we
in the stamp drawer at the office.
The entire community was shocked by
the disclosure as Mr. Beck had held an
unsullied reputation. Several years ago
he was a farmer in Marion township. He
sold out there and moved to State Col-
lege where he built several houses. Then
he took the civil service examination,pass
ed very high, and was made a carrier at
the College. Proficiency won hima position
in the office. He was an auditor of Cen-
tre county three years ago and a man so
highly regarded that it seems that there
must be some mistake about this serious
charge.
——QOwing to the extreme cold weath-
er the Phil Otts comedians closed their
show for the season and did not appear
at Garman'’s last night as advertised. The
next attraction will be “Little Miss Kut-
up.” Press notices of the latter are very
favorable and Bellefonte theatre-goers
gaged in farming. The WATCHMAN ex-
tends congratulations.
will doubtless appreciate it.
her home at Dayton, Ohio, after visiting in Belle-
J.E.
day to aid Mr. and Mrs, Wade Cruse in adjusting
their trouble, following the fire of that day. Mr. |
Krape is Mrs. Cruse's father.
Steubenville, Ohio, for two months with her
daughter and son, Mrs. Harry Bamhart and
Daniel Martin, returned to Bellefonte last week.
ter Helen went to Lancaster Friday, where on
account of business interests of Mr. Decker they
will spend a great part of the remainder of the
winter.
abeth returned to their home at Indiana, Satur-
day, after having spent the Christmas holidays
with Mr. and Mrs. Larimer and Mr. and Mrs.
Schofield
was among a number who were brave enough to
leave Bellefonte in the storm of last Saturday.
Mr. Brumgart was leaving for Pittsburgh on a
business trip.
fonte Thursday, to attend the funeral of John
Houser at State College, Friday. Miss Houser
expects to remain in Bellefonte for a short visit
with her cousin. Miss Blanche Houser.
Armstrong Kirby Jr., came from their home at
Trappe, Maryland, Friday of last week, and will
visit for an indefinite time with Mrs. Kirby's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hammon Sechler.
last week after a short visit in Bellefonte with
her mother, Mrs, M. Fauble. is busily engaged at
present in overseeing the building of her new
home, which is expected will be ready for occu-
pancy early in the spring.
dren, Ruth and Jean, of Juniata, came to Belle-
fonte on Saturday; Mrs. Johnson and the two chil-
dren to visit her mother, Mrs. Edward Foster,
while Mr. Johnson is spending the time with his
mother in Milesburg, who is seriously ill.
guest the past week of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Cride r
at their home on east Linn street. She and Mrs.
Crider were school mates at the school for the
deaf and dumb at Mt. Airy, Pa., and they both
very
tions.
pany, Williamsport, as automobile demonstrator,
was in Bellefonte over Saturday night with a 1912
model Franklin runabout. The hood on the new
model is similar to that on the 1911, while the
rear holds the gas tank. From here he drove to
Philipsburg on Sunday.
stores of Altoona, was in Bellefonte yesterday on
her way to State College to spend her vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Neidigh. Miss Neidigh will return to Altoona at | the
the opening of the season.
the oldest subscribers to the WATCHMAN, as he
informed us last Saturday when renewing his
subscription for another year, that he had been a
thinks maybe George had the thermometer hang-
ing under the bridge.
left yesterday
ing from New York tomorrow for Panama. Mrs.
Pearce, whose home is at Empire, in the Canal
Zone, has been spending the past month with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cook. Miss Sny-
der is returning to Panama with Mrs, Pearce for
a visit of six weeks, not intending to return north
Philadelphia and New York.
—Samuel Bolich, of Mt. Carmel, was the week Doll's bakery below.
end guest of his sister, Mrs. J. L. Seibert. |
—Miss Julia Curtin returned home last week |
after a delightful visit with Miss Ruth Kerstotter, i
in Harrisburg. |
—Mrs. Andrew Hall, of Dix Run. was the |
guest of Mrs. S. A. Bell. while spending Wednes-
day in Bellefonte. |
—Mrs. Harvey Griffith and Mrs. S. A. Satter. |
field are in Bellefonte, "after a short visit with |
relatives in Philadelphia. i
—Charles Lucas Jr., of Runville, transacted
business in Bellefonte yesterday and made his
—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh N. Crider were guests
over Sunday of Mrs. Crider's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Freeman, at Tyrone.
—Miss Rebecca Valentine, whois the guest of
Miss Margaret Brockerhoff, left Bellefonte three
weeks ago to visit for a month in Philadelphia,
—Mrs. Mary S. Thomas will close her house
and go to Philadelphia, Saturday, expecting to
visit for some time with her sister, Mrs. Shafner.
~=Mrs. Jacob Bottorf, of Lemont, has been the
guest of her daughter and son, Mrs. John Ole-
wine and W. M. Bottorf, while visiting in Belle
fonte.
at Centre Hall this week, after a visit of ten days
with Mrs. J. E. Ward, at her home on Curtin
street.
—Mr. and Mrs, C.C. Shuey went to Curwens-
ville the latter part of last week, and during the
few days spent there were guests of Mrs. Shuey's
sister.
—Mrs. E. F. Tausig, of Harrisburg, and her
two children arrived in Bellefonte Tuesday for a
visit with Mrs. Tausig’s mother. Mrs. Martin
Fauble.
—Mrs. William B. Dix returned yesterday, to
fonte for a month, with her sister, Mrs. L. T.
Munson.
—H. E. VanNorman, of State College, went to
Pittsburgh Saturday to attend the Keystone Fair
Association, which has been in session there for
the entire week.
~Miss Eva Crissman, who left Bellefonte Sat-
urday at noon, went to Rochester, where she will
visit during the remainder of January with Mrs,
Maguines.
—Mrs.Garret and her daughter Elizabeth of
Belair, N. J., who came to Bellefonte Monday,
will beduring a two week's visit here, guests of
Mrs. H. W. Tate,
—Miss Mame Peck, 2 nrofessional nurse of
Lock Haven, is in Bellefonte to take care of Mr.
Frank McCoy, who has Leen ill at his home on
Linn street the past week.
~Benjamin Krape came from Salona Wednes-
ern Union telegraph office and deiuging
In the latter room
the ceiling was soaked and fell down and
Doll's stock was all ruined while his room
furnishings—tables, chairs, counters,
cases, soda fountain, etc, were badly
damaged. Mr. Doll's loss and the damagé
to the building is considerable.
When the break occurred an effort was
made to find a place to turn the water
off but no valve could be found and the
pipe was cut in the cellar and the water
turned out there to save the building. It
appears that when the building was
erected and the standpipe put up no pro-
vision was made for turning the water
off. Until the room occupied by Doll's
bakery is repaired he will occupy the one
adjoining.
A aia
A WEDNESDAY FIRE.—On Wednesday
afternoon the house on Curtin street
owned by Mrs. John M. Dale and occu-
pied by Wade Cruse and family caught
fire on the second floor from a defective
| flue. None of the family were at home
at the time but neighbors saw the smoke
and gave the alarm. Policeman Duke-
man was one of the first on the scene
and he was compelled to force the door
te gain an entrance to the house The
fire had not gained much headway at the
time and securing a garden hose the po-
liceman and others attempted to put out
the fire, but there was no water pressure
and nothing could be done until the
steamers got on the ground. The up-
stairs were pretty badly damaged but
otherwise the building is intact. Cruse’s
furniture was badly damaged by both
fire and water but as he carried five hun-
| dred dollars insurance his loss will be
j covered. The house was also insured.
—Mrs. Catharine Martin, who has been at |
—Mr. and Mrs. Jack Decker and their daugh-
—Mrs. Charles Larimer and her daughter Eliz’
—Ex-Sheriff Cyrus Brumgart, of Centre Hall,
—Miss Tess Houser, of DuBois, arrived in Belle-
—Mrs. William Armstrong Kirby and William
~Mrs, W. E. Seel, who returned to Harrisburg
~—Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, and two chil-
—Mrs. Gertrude Futcher, of Pitcairn, was a
much enjoyed renewing old-time associa-
—Harry E. Goss, who is with the Keeler com-
—Miss Minnie Neidigh, who has charge of one
milliner departments in one of the large
—Mr. Henry Tibbens, of Bellefonte, is one of
tury.
—Miss Mary Snyder and her niece,Mrs. Pearce,
Bellefonte , in anticipation of sail-
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