County.
Notes of Interest to Church People of
all Denominations in all Parts of
the County.
BIBLE SCHOOL MEMORIAL SERVICES.
The birthdays of Lincoln and Wash-
ington were appropriately observed by
our three suburban Bible schools last
Sunday afternoon. The damp, drizzly
weather had no apparent effect to dimin-
ish the attendance. About all had a neat
little flag on the left lapel. The singing
of patriotic songs added inspiration to the
occasion. The Nittany furnace school
had an attendance of
t eighty-one and all
‘Prof. James R. Hughes
Missioner Crittenden, who
himself greatly delighted with the good
t and deportment of the
; A good punctual atendance, Js usual,
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thoroughly apprecial ;
Weston's interesting address. Evident!
these Bible are putiing forth
“leaves for the healing” of the little chil-
dren and some older ones; best of all,
bearing fruit, precious and enduring, for
the Master's ingathering. "es
The subjects which will be treated by
Dr. George E. Hawes, D. D., at the
byterian church are as follows: Morn-
ing: "Religion a thing for this world”
Evening: soul’s anchor.”
THE NOONAN CASE SETTLED.—The case
of Mrs. James Noonan against the
Borough of Bellefonte for injuries sus-
tained when she fell into an ungarded
hole at the corner of Bishop and Alle-
gheny streets in November 1910 was
settled on Wednesday evening. The
amount finially agreed upon was $500.
Of this the Bellefonte Electric Co. will
pay one-third because it had been a party
to the negligence that left the hole open
and ungarded.
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Marriage Licenses.
Jesse H. Hall and Myrtle M. Bissett,
both of Fleming.
Paul M. Winkelblech and Alie E.
Treaster, both of rg.
Thos. Davis, of Cuba Mines, and Mar-
garet J. Jones, of Hawk Run.
John L. Welker, of Curwensville, and
Rosie M. Kuhn, of Sandy Ridge.
Samuel U. Burris, of Axemann, and
Alma F. Hower, of Pleasant Gap.
Wm. T. Bryant and Mary E. Flack, of
Bellefonte.
Geo. R. Borland, Pittsburg, and Eva R.
Mowery, Aaronsburg.
Jerome G. Harper and Lulu M. Smith,
Bellefonte.
Vernon G. Cowher and Mary Solt,
Bellefonte.
Wm. W. Bickett, of Snow Shoe, Helen
T. Hull, of Bellefonte.
Jos. E. Thompson and Estella Brown,
both of Bellefonte.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
Harold E., son of L.C. Sunday, is seriously ill.
Mrs. Harris Bloom is visiting her many friends
at Centre Hall.
The late copious showers replenished the
streams and cisterns,
Prof. E. C. Musser, of Bellefonte, was an over
Sunday visitor on the Branch.
Merchant N. T. Krebs is locomoting on crutch-
es, having cut his leg with an ax.
Andy J. Tate went to Jersey Shore Monday, to
engage in the furniture business.
Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Gray spent Tuesday at the
N. C. Neidigh home at White Hall. *
Mrs. Calvin Bailey was an over Sunday visitor
with her mother, at State College.
G. W- McWilliams is arranging to build a large
straw shed to his barn next season.
Mark Fry with his friend, Hamill Glenn, were
Bellefonte visitors Saturday, sight seeing.
Elmer E. Royer was a sick man last Saturday
night, with an attack of acute indigestion.
Wiison P. Ard, of the Susquehanna University,
was here to attend the High school dance.
Anna Sunday and May Homan spent the Sab-
bath at the J. C. Sunday home, on Tadpole.
Prof. Clarence Weaver, of Sandy Ridge, spent
several days in town greeting old school mates.
Charles Stamm is getting ready to build a new
barn next spring, as soon as the weather permits.
Hon. J. T. McCormick is taking out timber for
an addition to his barn. Alex Breon has the job.
Ray Albert is nursing the index finger on his
left hand, which he got mashed between two logs
on Friday.
The Reed sisters entertained Rev. Harnish at
dinner on Sunday, while en route to his flock
at Boalsburg.
E. B. Houser and wife and George Gingerich
and wife spent Thursday at the W. E. Stover
home, at Pine Hall.
Archie Laird has been housed up with a bad
arm which was almost torn from the shoulder by
being caught in a belt.
Royer Hoover, formerly of this place, was a fire
victim in Altoona last week when his home with
nearly all the contents went up in smoke.
Mr. and Mrs. jacob Sunday are mourning the
at Shiloh at 10 a. m. Monday.
Mrs. James Spangler and friend, Mrs. H. C.
Rossman, of Tusseyville, spent Tuesday at the
James Kimport home with aunt Lizzie, whose
health is very much improved.
Last Saturday the H. A. Elder home on the
Branch was the scene of a pleasant gathering
friends and neighbors, who were bidden to the
reception of Ralph Walker and bride.
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Mrs. George Bell, of Spruce Creek, came down
Sunday to see her sister, Mrs. Paul Musser, who
ust returned from the Lock Haven hospital and
in a critical condition so that there islittle or no
hope of her recovery.
The entertainment given by the High school
last Friday evening was a decided success, three
hundred persons being present. The decorations
were fine, representing the school and class col
ors. ‘The program consisted of recitations. Miss
Bertha Smith gave several songs. The “Yankee
Peddler” was well performed and loudly applaud-
ed. Wm. Jennings Bryan Smith gave the address of
welcome and Miss Mary Woods presided at the
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Big Fire Sweeps
Houston, Texas.
Scores of Residences, Stores and In
dustrial Plants Burned — Loss May
Reach $10,000,000.
Impelled by a gale that swept in
with one of the coldest “northers” of
the winter, flames swept through the
eastern section of Houston, Tex.
At least twenty-five blocks of the
city have been destroyed. More than
250 residences and stores are in ruins.
Several big manufacturing plants werc
burned. Thousands of persons are now
homeless.
The losses are conservatively esti
mated at from $6,000,000 to $10,000.
000. The greater part of this is con-
fined to the lumber and cotton indus-
tries. Fifty thousand bales of cotton
stored in warehouses and compresses
were burned. This item alone means a
loss of $2,000,000.
The fire started in a cottage near
the Southern Pacific railroad tracks.
Its origin has not been definitely es
tablished. A roaring wind picked up
the flames and hurled them to neigh-
boring cottages and boarding house:
In a flash these ignited, spouting
great columns of sparks. Seizing these
the forty-mile gale carried them twc
and three blocks. Within half an hout
after the fire started a great area of
small residences was in flames.
The fire spread rapidly to manufac
turing plants that bordered on cot
tages and boarding houses where hun
dreds of workingmen lived. It spread
so rapidly that firemen for the time
abandoned attempts to check the
flames, devoting their energies tc
warning householders. Possible loss ol
life was thus averted.
At the big manufacturing plants anc
cotton compresses city firemen and
volunteers had organized to fight the
onrushing flames. Walls and roofs of
the plants were water-soaked. Thi
water was licked up in the flash ol
an eye by the advance guard of sparks
however, and when the great columns
of flames reached the factories the:
succumbed as easily and with less re
sistance than rows of the cottages.
An hour after the flames began thei
advance the firemen organized for &
final stand at Buffalo Bayou, a smal
stream that divides the eastern par!
of the city from the main section
Every plece of fire fighting apparatus
was stationed along the banks of this
stream, which, if passed by the fire
meant the destruction of the entire
city. As the advancing columns of fire
began to hiss toward the bayou banks
hundreds of streams of water were
hurled into them, checking little by
little their progress.
At some of the narrower portions
of the stream the flames leaped across
but the more substantial building:
they reached did not afford the tinder
like fuel heretofore encountered. Ti¢
fire was checked after seven hours.
The thousands of persons who were
driven from their homes in the col
of the norther suffered slightly fron
exposure. Relief work was immediate
ly set under way, however, and foo
and clothing provided for the refugees
Many persons were hurt during the
fire, but so far as can he determines
there weer no serious casualties.
The burned area is at least a mil
and a half long, and at points a quar
ter of a mile wide. It embraced long
rows of cattages and solid streets of
manufacturing plants. [t was swept
clean by the flames. Nothing was
saved.
Measure Goes Through House by Vote
: of 178 to 127.
For the first time since the insur
gent Republicans broke away from the
regulars in the fight on the petrolenm
duty in the Payne tariff bill in 1909,
the Republicans of the house presen”
ed practically a solid front against the
passage of a tariff revision measure.
All insurgents voted with thg regu
lar Republican forces against the Un
derwood chemical tariff which was
passed, however, by a vote of 178 t~
127.
The last stand of the Republicans
was on the motion of Representative
John Balzell, to recommit the bill with
instructions to insert a number of the
amendments proposed by the Repub:
licans to restore many articles to the
free list which the bill make dutiable.
His motion was defeated, 181 to 130
The insurgents opposed the measure
on the ground that it was a revision
upward instead of downward. 2
Near Anarchy In Mexico.
Advices from Mexico to the state
department in Washington, indicatine
a widespread state of anarchy, caused
much uneasiness in official circler
Several cities and towns are reported
in the hands of rebels, protests by
Americans against robberies are mul
tiplying and robber bands are operat
ing without’ apparent Interruption
*yroughout the republic.
President's Aunt Goes Home.
Miss Delia Torrey, the president’:
aunt, who has been visiting at the
White House for several weeks, has
returned to her home in Watertown
Mass.
Three Murderers Shot in Court Room.
Three negroes were shot dead in the
county court room in Shelbyville,
Tenn. They were charged with the
murder of a railroad detective several
days ago near Bell Buckle, Tenn.
As evidence in the preliminary trial
piled up against the three accused
men, the anger of spectators in the
court room flamed out. Simultaneously
the negroes fell as bullets rained in on
them from all parts of the court room.
8. W. Everson, a special policeman
of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railroad, was the colored men's
victim.
LEMONT.
Sunday brought rain and Monday was warm,
slushy and muddy.
Mrs. Sallie Ruble, of Centre Hall, visited among
friends in this vicinity this week.
Rev.G. Elmer Smith spent the latter part of
last week visiting among his parishioners.
Prof. David O. Etters visited some of the
schools in College township last Thursday.
Milton Carver and family spent Sunday at the
home of Charles Kustaborder, of Roopsburg.
Mrs. Daniel Keller made a turn for the better
on Monday, and it is hoped that she will soon be
well again.
John Shiffer, of Wisconsin, visited at the home
of his brothers near town, the latter part of last
week, and on Monday went to the eastern part of
the State.
Mrs. Isaac Armstrong and her grand-daughter,
Ethel Evey, had the misfortune to falldown stairs,
last Thursday, both receiving slight bruises but
neither one was seriously hurt.
Sunday, March 3rd, Rev. Samuel Snyder will
preachthis last sermon at this place for the con-
ference year, and in the evening will hold a read”
ing and songdservice, to which all are heartily in-
vited.
There are many people sick in these parts at
present with grip, and it is reported that two of
Frank Whitehill's children have typhoid fever.
Trust that all will soon be enjoying good health
again.
Mrs. Linn S. Bottorf and children and Miss El
la Bottorf came up from Ashville. N. C., the lat,
ter part of last week. Mrs. Bottorf and children
will stay with her mother, Mrs. Georgianna Dale,
while Mr. Bottorf is in a sanitorium for his
health.
Gallows Voids Life Insurance.
Execution on the gallows annuls the
¢riminal’s life insurance policies, ac
cording to the United States supreme
court.
The court held that the four infant
children of James 8. McCue, once
mayor of Charlottesville, Va., who was
executed in 1905 for wife murder, were
not entitled to $15,000 insurance from
the Northewstern Mutual Life, of Mil
waukee, Wis.
Leaps From Brooklyn Bridge.
Frank Law, the aeronaut, who a
week ago leaped from the apex of the
Statue of Liberty, alded by a para
chute, leaped fre mthe middle span «!
the Brooklyn bridge at New York.
The wind carried the parSchute about
3000 feet down the river hefore 1
struck the water. Law, apparanily
aninjured, was picked up hy a tv,
The President and Brother Masons '¢
Lay Wreath on Grave.
President Taft on Thursday went t.
Mount Vernon, where he placed a
wreath upon the tomb of Washington.
A committee of Masons from the
Alexandria-Washington lodge accom
panied him.
Confederate Naval Man Dead.
Captain A. J. Meriwether, command
er of the Confederate ship Niobe dur
ing the Civil War, is dead in Gaince
ville, Tex., aged eighty-nine years
Real Estate Transters. .
Mary Anne Herd et bar to Ada W.
Rumberger, tract of land in Philipsburg
Boro; $1.
J. Howard Tipton, guardian, to Wm.
F. Tipton, 100 acres of land in Boggs
Twp; $1.
Clara Mayer to Lettie R. Croyle, tract
of land in Philipsburg Boro; $900.
Alfred Jones et ux to Clara Mayer,
tract of land in Philipsburg Boro; $1.
Alfred Jones et al to Clara Mayer,
tract of land in Philipsburg Boro; $1.
Harry V. Gentzel to James P. Miller,
12 acres in Penn and Gregg Twps.; $200.
Lie + Yad
BOOKS, MAGAZINES, ETC.
PHILA. NORTH AMERICAN.—In order that North
American readers may be kept in touch with the
spring training of the Phillies and Athletics, The
North American is sending its two strongest
sporting writers with the teams, and their daily
stories will record the preparation of the two
teams, with especial reference to the work of the
youngsters.
With the Phillies will go James C. Isaminger,
‘The North American's noted baseball humorist,
who is famed for his ““Spotlights’’ and “Tips from
the Sporting Ticker," appearing on the Magazine
page of The North American every Sunday, and
the “Inside Stuff” column, which is a daily fea-
ture. y
{iThe Athletics will be accompanied by The
North American's sporting editor, George M. Gra-
ham, well known throughout the State for his re-
lation te the Tri-State, Susquehanna, New York
State and other leagues.
If you want the best accounts of the prelimi
nary contenders for National and American
League honors, order The North American now.
You are then sure to stick to it the whole season
through.
NEWSPAPER TO BE ISSUED BY WOMEN.~Febru’
ary 29th, will be a red letter day on the calendar
of the Pittsburgh Sun. On that, a once-in-four-
years-day, The Sun will turn over its publication
to the Women’s Equal Franchise Association of
Pittsburgh.
‘This organization of active, progressive, mili-
tant women who are fighting for the ballot will
have a perfectly organized newspaper staff. This
force of women will have entire charge of that is-
sue of The Sun. The public will be given an
idea of what they think a modern daily newspa.
per should be.. They will have a large number of
articles with illustrations in addition to the regu-
lar news. They will be given full authority over
the paper for one day, and you may be sureit will
be a mightv interesting publication. There is
bound to be a large demand for The Pittsburgh
Snn on February29, You can't afford to miss it.
Put your [order in early with your newsdealer.
Rememberithe day, February 29,
Remember the cause that the women are urg-
ing upon the country.
Remember the paper, The Pittsburgh Sun.
BASEBALL STORIES FROM SouTH.—James C.
Isaminger with the Phillies, George M. Graham
with the Athletics,
No other Philadelphia newspaper is able to of-
fer such an excellent service from the training
camps of the big league clubs that are going to
try next season to give Philadelphia an entire
world's series within its own borders. va
Mr. Isminger’s “Spotlight” and “Inside Stuff”, |
columns of The North American are famous fea.
tures, and Mr. Graham is well known through-
out the State because of his important services to
uatess wl professional and semi-professional
: » — i to y - oh ——
Re I a ea ae Ld - brs ip ruby. Suitable reward
Consult or James P. An- | will be paid if retw to
derson, D.P. A, Pa. 578-2t | 57.8-1t
Mrs. GEORGE HAZEL
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
OST.—In the vicinity of the Public School
pair Gold-rimmed
building. 3 vu case. A me
will be paid for their return to this office or to the
Bush House. 56-49 tf.
Closing Out Sale
of
Cent
county as at the
uni eld Satara: Apr 13th
FOR NATIONAL DELEGATE.
Harness Store
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to be held Saturday, April 13th, 1912, subject to
ic voters of the 21st
Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. A large quanity of heavy and light har
wo ss —————— ness, collars, robes, blankets, bells, whips
New Advertisements. fly-nets, wagon grease, harness leather
= and sole leather; also safe, sewing ma-
chine, show cases, etc., will be scld at
IRLS WANTED.—Six or 16
Jeska the shirt og oi is. Jo Jo
S. D. RAY,
57-85¢t Bellefonte, Pa.
25 to 50 per cent Reductions
F College. DE on bu ad FA :
tion, stock in good condition fine Joca: | Sale will contiuve during next 10 days
tos Beat, ele i elling "neath | at Store room in the Crider Exchange
ry HANT, formerly occupied by William M
57-83t° Box 602, State College, Pa. | McClure.
Store room also for rent. Will be suit-
ably repaired for tenant.
XECUTOR'S NOTICE—Letters testamentary
On the estate of Ovid F. Johnston, late of
e deceased, having been
granted to the ug de she all
Dersons imowing , ie 30 said
having claims against the same to present them
duly authenticated for Hifi :
MISS HANNAH 1. JOHNSON. :
w. tase Wang ohne | Fo W. Crider.
The Centre County Banking Company.
Strength and Conservatism
are the banking qualities demanded by careful
depositors. With forty vears 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.
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The Centre County Banking Co.
Currant Bread
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How To Make Currant Bread
Housewives who have heard about the wholesomeness of Currant Bread
and know thai it is as nourishing as it is “good to eat” will appreciate these
two new receipes :
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1 ‘The first and partial account of the
Trust Co., guardian of Mary C. Ard.
The second and final account of Harry Winton,
guardian of Eliza Van Tries.
The first account of W. J, Weiser, guardian of
Rebecca, Curry.
D. R. FOREMAN,
! January 24th, 1912, 57-4-4t Prothonotary,
SALE. —~G. Fred Musser will sell at
public sale, onthe Emanuel Musser farm
Bear State College on M
STOCK.—6 horses: one team six
horses, 16 nea 2 Shown cover 8
blooded, and 20
ox 2m
until » and bake farm , 3 wagons,
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makes ideal school lunches. That no butter is needed is also worth consid | | ig to the Te an
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The First National ton of het and egaiee Creditors and 1
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mation, the 28th day of February, A. D., 1912.
Do Not Forget
that up to date business methods are necessary these
Your business must be small indeed if you do
not have a checking account in a good bank. It
helps you to save, it records you transactions,
days.
and best of all it makes you known where you can
borrow money in time of need.
The First National Bank,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Their stories appear in The North American
daily and Sunday. Order now.
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i stator of ic. of Joon of W. B. Cox,
first_and final account of John A.
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account of H. T. McDow-
etc., of John Holmes, late of
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