——All the McDermott property in| BRICK PLANT BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE. Deeps ALL iv Escrow.—When Vincent | NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. ; ¢ ~The main building of the Centre Brick Bellefonte consisting of the stone house | M. Graham, representing the Potter —-— | Soci Sunday«8 guest of ber mother, Bs, Re- bed and Clay company’s plant at Orviston on East Bishop street, a double house and | Abstract and Title company, of Pitts- | —Jesse Osman. of Akoona, spent Saturday and | apes a. A) 5 wi =_— was totally destroyed by fire last Friday | lot adjoining on Logan street, and six | burgh, left Bellefonte last Saturday he Pred of busi | visited the tp 55.5. Sawn. vt Tyo, night and it wasonly by the hardest kind | lots on Burnside street, are offered for | had all the deeds for the land selected by | Chambers, of Philadelphia. was a busi- | , Pa., May 17, 1912. of work on the part of a bucket brigade sale. For further iuformation inquire of published unless accompanied by the real that the office, boiler room and storage | Miss Julia McDermott. of the writer. ia sheds were saved. The loss is estimated | ERT hind : — - at thirty thousand dollars with only a | ——While walking through the rail- | means that every deed is complete with | Thursday nominal insurance on the building. Judge ; 702d yards in Pittsburgh last Saturday | the titles all cleared up, etc. though a | tion = —— i - we - where he has secured a good posi- | © THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. i ——At last a circus is billed for Belle- fonte and the small boy is corresponding- ly happy. ——Don’t miss the big parade of the Academy minstrels at five o'clock this evening, instead of at noontime. ——The regular May term of court will begin next week, but the quarter sessions list is not a large or important one. ~——Mrs. Margaret Burnet Burlingame, of Syracuse, N. Y., was one of the enthu- siastic suffragists who paraded in New York City last week. ——(;0 to the Bellefonte Academy minstrels this evening and enjoy a good laugh. It will be entirely different from any former performance. ——On Beaver field Saturday afternoon State's strong baseball team went down in defeat before the Notre Dame aggrega- tion by the score of 6 to 1. ——-The parade of the Bellefonte Acad- emy minstrels will be held at five o'clock this (Friday) evening instead of at one o'clock. Watch for it. ——M. R. Johnson is confined to the house with a painful injury to his arm, caused by being knocked down and run over by his delivery wagon. ——A burning flue on the Gamel Rice home on Pine street caused a fire alarm shortly after six o'clock on Wednesday morning but comparatively little damage was done. ——Miss Anna Mutchman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mutchman, of Pitts- burgh but formerly of Bellefonte, was married yesterday to Oscar Sheaffnit, of Pittsburgh. ——A meeting of the High school Alumni Association will be held in the High school building on Monday evening, May 20th, to complete plans for the annual Alumni reception. ——To-night aad tomorrow night will be the only opportunities you will have of witnessing the performance of the Bellefonte Academy minstrels, and you had better take advantage of the oppor- tunity. —-The Woman's Auxiliary will have cakes, pies, bread, candy, etc., for sale at the Y. M. C. A. building on Saturday of next week, May 25th, at 2 o'clock. Con- tributions and customers will be thank- fully received. ——With court in session, the High school commencement, Memorial day and Prairie Bill's wild west show there ought to be enough doing week after next to keep the average Bellefonter pretty well occupied. —Miss Margaret McFarlane, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kyle McFarlane, of Lock Haven, but formerly of Belle. fonte, entered the Bellefonte hospital training school for nurses last week to study for a professional nurse. —Miss Belle Meyers, the returned missionary to China, who was to have spoken .in the United Brethren church this (Friday) evening, will be unable to keep her engagement on account of ill- ness, so that there will not be a meeting. —Acting under orders of district attorney D. Paul Fortney the police made the rounds of the stores and restaurants last Saturday night and ordered out all slot machines except those on which the customer gets full value for his money. ——(On Monday Charles W. Meyers moved his family from Tyrone to Snow Shoe Intersection, where he recently bought a nice home. He is employed by the Pennsylvania railroad company and has a run through from Tyrone to Sun- bury. ——A very interesting game of ball was played on Saturday afternoon be- tween the Lock Haven and Bellefonte High school teams. It took twelve in- nings to decide the contest, the Bellefonte boys finally winning by the score of 5to4. ——The Undine fire company’s engine arrived in Bellefonte last Monday from Syracuse, N. Y.. where it was entirely overhauled by the American La France engine company and now it .is in shape to do good work the next fifteen or twen- ty years. ——(;. Fred Musser has broken ground for the erection of a new house on his farm at State College to take the place of the one destroyed by fire during the winter. The building will be 28x40 feet in size and of modern construction in every way. —The German sketch, “Deacon Jones’ Wife's Ghost,” which will be one of the local talent features in the Belle- fonte Academy minstrels tonight and to- morrow night is extremely amusing. The entire performance will be amazingly en tertaining and the boys deserve liberal patronage. ——Workmen are now engaged in making the necessary alterations in the Bush Arcade to enable the Bell Tele- phone company of Pennsylvania to occu- py their new quarters on the ground floor and also install the most modern and up-to-date system, which they intend and quite a lot of the stock is held by Friday night's fire was discovered about 8.15 o'clock by the men on night duty portion of the plant, as the building was only a frame structure. A portion of the trestle on which the company’s railroad was built was also burned and the large boarding house was on fire several times, but eventually saved from destruction by the bucket brigade. The machinery in the building was badly damaged by the heat. The plant employed from seventy-five to one hundred men and had been in op- eration less than a year. The output was composed entirely of building and paving brick. At this writing it cannot be stated positively whether the plant will be re- built or not. Sears WiLp West SHow COMING. — Prairie Lillie's and Nebraska Bill's wild west show will be in Bellefonte on Tuesday May 28th, and will give two performances on the field at Beaver's farm. There are a number of wild west shows on the road and some of them may be bigger than this one, but according to advance reports very few are better. There is uc make- up about the Indians and cowboys, as they are the real thing and their feats of riding are so daring as to almost make one’s hair stand on end. It is a wild west show with all the features of the wild west, even to a mimic battle with the Indians. The big street parade at ten o'clock will be worth seeing. Two per- formaces will be given, one at two o'clock in the afternoon and one at eight o'clock in the evening. This may be the only opportunity of seeing a show in Bellefonte this season. THAT MoOSE BANQUET.—Tuesday was Moose day, or rather night, in Bellefonte and there were Mooses of all kinds here—big Mooses and little Mooses, gentleman Mooses and lady Mooses, good Mooses and Mooses that weren't very good, but at that they had agood time at their annual banquet held in their rooms in the McClain block. This was the first time many of the members had an oppor- tunity of seeing their new quarters and they were all well pleased with the change. In addition to the meeting hall and lobby they have a large parlor, an immense grill room and a buffet and kitchen ample for any demands made upon it. This was satisfactorily exempli- fied on Tuesday evening when upwards of two hundred members, many of them accompanied by their wives, were present at the banquet and all served promptly. A number of speeches were made and the evening passed off very delightfully. LANTERN EXPLODED, BARN BURNED.— Last Thursday evening Fred Shope, who lives on his father's farm about a mile west of Curtin, was out at the barn until almost nine o'clock tending his stock and doing other chores, working by the light of a lantern. When through work he picked up the lantern to go to the house and as he did so it exploded. The oil was scattered in every direction and Mr. Shope had no means of extinguishing the fire that followed. With the assistance of neighbors he managed to save all his stock and a few pieces of light machin- ery but the barn was totally destroyed. Mr. Shope carried $1,200 insurance on the barn and contents. FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. — The county board of farmers’ institute managers will meet at the County Commissioner's office on the second Tuesday of June, to ar- range for the place where institutes are to be held this season. All of our peo- ple who desire institutes ought to attend this meeting and present their claims. This board is composed of the local members of the State Board of Agricul- ture, and one representative from each county agricultural society, the Pomona Grange and County Alliance. If you find that you cannot attend this meeting, ad- dress a letter with your request to Chair- man of Board of Institute Managers, care of County Commissioners. AT THE HOSPITAL.—There are now twenty-seven patients in the Bellefonte hospital. During the week Mrs. Nancy Decker, Miss Janet Potter and Miss Ruth Altenderfer underwent operations. Miss Kate McQuillan and Ethel Donovan, of Bellefonte, and George Ravein, of Snow Shee, were admitted for treatment. Those discharged wers Mrs. Harry Bad- ger and little son, Mrs. Virgie McClene- than and daughter, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Marcella Shope, of Milesburg, and Miss Gertrude Kane, of Bellefonte. SOP oem County POMONA GRANGE.—The Centre County Pomona Grange will hold its second quarterly meeting at Port Matilda Thursday May 23rd. Two sessions, at 10 a. m. and 1.30 p. m. Railroad fare from Bellefonte 80 cts. for round trip. ——New York Central railroad officials are considering a plan whereby they can make a traffic arrangement with the Bellefonte Central railroad so as to give them access to State College. i Ellis L. Orvis is president of the company | Ambrose Rhoads, formerly of Bellefonte, ; was run down by a train and had one leg Bellefonte people. | and both arms so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. He is now | in one of the hospitals of that city but and while they immediately gave the | there is little hope of his recovery. alarm the flames spread so rapidly that nothing could be done to save that | > ——D. L. Sommerville, who for some time past has been assistant superinten- | dent of the Beech Creek division of the New York Central railroad with head- | quarters at Jersey Shore, has been pro- | moted to superintendent of the Mohawk {and Malone division of the New York | Central system, with headquarters at | Utica, N. Y. { | ——aAn exchange at which there will | be on sale home made bread, cakes, pies and candy, will be held in Zeller's drug store, by the women of the Epis- copal church on Saturday, May 18. Anyone wishing anything special in this line will please notify these women as soon as possible that they may have ample time for filling all orders. ——A reunion of the “Under the Pines” fishing camp party was held at the Country club on Monday afternoon. Those present were Noah H. Swayne II, of Philadelphia; Hon. Ellis L. Orvis, Chas. M. McCurdy, John Blanchard, Col. W. F. Reynolds, Joseph L. Montgomery, Dr. R. G. H. Hayes, Henry C. Quigley, John M. Shugert, Hard P. Harris and Geo. R. Meek. an ——During the past week W. W. Keich- line sold a Ford touring car to John Weber, of Howard, and George A. Beezer has ordered a Flanders runabout for John McCoy. George R. Meek is now driving a Cadillac touring car purchased from Lee Larimer, of Jersey Shore, and a number of other Bellefonters are on the verge of buying cars, so that the outlook for a good season for the automobile dealers is very promising. ~—S0 far the year of 1912 has cer tainly established a record for change- able weather, and we have had all kinds of it the past week. Rain, hail, snow, cold, moderate, warm and more rain. It has been many years since the farmers have been so far back with their spring work as they are this year, as there has not been one full week of nice weather at one time since the snow went away. And the indications don’t show much improve- ment. iN aries ~The Williamsport High school nine will be the Bellefonte Academy's oppo- nents on Hughes field tomorrow (Satur- day) afternoon. It will cost you only twenty-five cents to see the game which will begin promptly at three o'clock. The Academy team has been playing winning ball all season and the game tomorrow will undoubtedly be an interesting one, as the Williamsport High is always a fast bunch. Turn out and give the home team encouragement to win. -—_e —William A. Moore, formerly préesi- dent and general manager of the Nittany Iron company, was recently elected vice president and managing director of the Tonawanda Iron and Steel company, at North Tonawanda, N. Y. The plant Mr. Moore is to have charge of is part of the Rogers-Brown & Co. properties, and in- cludes an immense blast furnace with its own fleet of lake ore steamers. We congratulate Mr. Moore on his selection to fill such an important position. ——This is the evening for that great picture “The Coming of Columbus,” at the Scenic. The bills give only a faint idea of the real thing. The picture has been staged and acted so accurately that one can almost imagine oneself back in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and tense with the excitement following the an- nouncement of the discovery of a new continent. . You'll miss a lot if you miss this picture, and you miss something every evening you stay away from the Scenic. No extra charge for big feature pictures. - —Dr. H. A. Surface, state economic zoologist, and his corps of assistants will spend three weeks and possibly four in demonstrating methods for the control of the codling moth, cucurlio, and other insect pests which have started to get busy on the fruit trees in the orchards throughout the State. In Centre county the demonstration will be held in the orchard of E. A. Bartges, at Millheim, on Saturday, May 25th. Every farmer throughout the county who is interested in the protection of his fruit trees is in- vited to be present. ~—=R. B. Taylor began work on Tues- day on the new concrete pavement in front of the Bush Arcade. The brown- stone steps at each store room entrance will not be disturbed but the old-style cellar doors will be replaced with modern iron doors which will lie flat with the ments have been put down in front of the McClain block and Bush house. The street paving will also be done within the next two or three weeks and then this section of the town will present a better pavement. This was the beginning of a | Phili few of them have not yet been signed, but this is a matter that can be attended | to any time and will take only a few minutes. Representatives of the Potter Abstract company were expected here —George W. Fisher, of Halfmoon township, was a business visitor in Bellefonte on Mon- day. —Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Hunter had as a week- end guest Miss Bertha Henderson, of State Col lege. | Curtin street. ~—Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, who left Belle- fonte Monday for their home at Syracuse. N. Y.. | have been for a month with Mrs. Smith's par- : i Mr. and Mrs. J.C. i this week to close up everything but their | —Charles G. MacAvoy and little son Charles | grant. rs. J. C. Showers, of east Bishop delay in coming is due to the fact that ; Spent Sunday with the former's parents in id the warrants for the payment of the land | have not yet been issued by the Auditor | General. However, at furthest, it will | only be a matter of a few days until full settlement will be made, and then it is to be hoped warden Francies will lose no time in starting operations. ——— BELLEFONTE FOUNDRY TO BE PUT IN OPERATION.—During the past week work- men have been busy making repairs at the Bellefonte foundry and it is generally understood that it will be reopened in the near future. While no definite an- nouncement has been made as to who will operate it there is reason to believe that it will be mostly by local people. The foundry at one time was one of Bellefonte’s best industries and there is no reason why it cannot be made ino a paying proposition. Its reopening would therelore mean considerable to the busi- ness interests of Bellefonte. HiGH ScHoOL EXAMINATION.—An ex- amination for entrance to the Bellefonte High school, or the grades, will be held in the new High school building on Fri- day, May 24th, beginning at 9.15 o'clock in the morning. Only those who are reasonably certain that they can satisfy entrance requirements are urged to present themselves for this examination. While it is the policy of the Bellefonte school board to extend its facilities, free- ly, to neighboring districts, every effort will be made to safe-guard the interests of the borough as well as the district. Jonas E. WAGNER, Principal. BELLEFONTE ACADEMY TRUSTEES ELEC: TED.—Last Thursday the board of trus- tees of the Bellefonte Academy met in General Beaver's office and elected Isaac Mitchell, Charles M. McCurdy and John Curtin trustees to fill the vacancies oc- casioned by those who have died within the last two years. They also elected Andrew J. Cook as president of the board. CATHOLIC CHAPEL FOR STATE COLLEGE. —At the fifteenth annual convention of the State Council, Knights of Columbus, in Harrisburg on Wednesday, a resolution was presented by the Bellefonte Council asking for an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the erection of a chapel at State College, and the same was passed. This will mean the building of a chapel there at an early date. me A en a—— -—Pure food commissioner James Foust has announced that grocers and other dealers in foodstuffs who display them exposed in a manner in which they might be contaminated by the dust and dirt trom the street will be prosecuted. This applies to berries displayed in open crates, vegetables, etc. Agents of the pure food department are now at work in neighboring towns and Bellefonte grocers had better take warning. ——The surprise party given for Mrs. Elmer E. Davis, by her friends, Monday night, was in celebration of her birthday. The honor guests at a card party at which three tables of bridge were in play, given by Mrs. W. F. Reynolds, Mon- day night, were Mrs. Wetmore and Miss Hirlinger, Mrs. David Dale’s house guests. Mrs. F. H. Thomas entertained Tuesday evening, at her home on Linn street. BOO HARTER. — Absolem Harter, one of Pennsvalley’s oldest and best known resi- dents, died at his home in Millheim on Wednesday night of last week, of par- alysis, although he had been in feeble health for months. He was born in Penns- valley and was seventy-eight years of age. He was twice married and is sur- vived by one son, Morgan Harter, by hic first wife; his second wife and the fol lowing brothers and sisters: W., of Millheim; Mrs. Catharine Meese, S. B 2 Marriage Licenses. James M. Laws and Margaret Gill, of psburg. Samel K. Everhart, State Coli and Mo G. Ro Port cit Trae Albert V. Mill and Nora E. ty: oy Julian, ora John C. Mark Jr. Port Matilda, and Amy G. Kauffman, Marklesburg. risburg. —Mrs. E. D. Walker, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Cook, of State College, spent Wednesday in the shops of Bellefonte. Mrs. Bruce L. Burlingame. —Mrs. Bechdel, of Blanchard, was in Belle: fonte on a shopping expedition Tuesday and a pleasant caller at this office. spending several weeks in the western part of the State on a business trip. —Mrs. Harry Eberhart left yesterday for Cum- berland county to visit her sister, expecting to | be away ten days or two weeks. —Miss Julia Bidwell, of Pittsburgh, was in Bellefonte over Sunday on a visit with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Bidwell. —M. A. Landsy returned last Saturday evening from a four weeks business trip to Pittsburgh, Franklin and other towns in the western part of the State. —Miss Harriet Foster spent last week in Al toona with her sister, Mrs. William Johnson. Mrs. Foster has also been with her daughter for some time. —Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey McClure, of Scotdale, were over Sunday visitors at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. McClure, on Logan street. —Miss Ethelina Wainwright, of Indianapolis, is in Bellefonte for an indefinite time, and while here will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell. ~Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frantz with their little daughter, of Pitcairn, is here for an indefinite visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hamil ton. of Penn street. —Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bartlet of Altoona, with their children were in Bellefonte Sunday, visiting with Mr. Bartlets parents, Mr, and Mrs. David Bartlet, of Thomas street. ~Mr. and Mrs. J. Calvin Spicher, of Wilkins. burg, have been in Bellefonte the past week on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Spicher's father, Mr. Daniel Heckman. =Rev. C. T. Aikens, president of the Susque- hanna University, was in Bellefonte over last Sunday and preached two very interesting ser- mons in the Lutheran church. ~—Mrs. W. Gross Mingle, of Centre Hall, was one of the many to take advantage of the beauti- ful weather Wednesday, spending the day shop- ping and visiting in Bellefonte. —Miss Katherine Harris, of Lock Haven, who is at present in Bellefonte with her aunts, the Misses McDermott, will go to Pittsburgh the first of June to enter the West Penn hospital for train- ing as a nurse. —Mr. and Mrs. Philip Beezer are spending this week in Harrisburg attending the fifteenth an. nual state convention of the Knights of Columbus in session there. Mr, Beezer being a delegate, represents the Bellefonte branch. —Mrs. Peter Smith and her daughter, Miss Emma Smith, will go to Philadelphia the early part of the week to attend the graduation exer- cises at the School of Pharmacy, from which Mrs. Smith's son John will graduate. —Mrs. J. Q. Twitchell, of Scranton, came to Bellefonte yesterday, for a two weeks visit with Mrs. John A. Woodcock. Mrs. Twitchell,” who spends her summers at Portland, will after leav- ing Bellefonte, return to Scranton for a few days before going to her home in Maine. —Mr. and Mrs. F. W, Crider and their daugh- ter, Mrs. Charles E. Dorworth, left Bellefonte yesterday for Elizabeth, New Jersey, where they will visit for a week with Mrs. Charles K. Rath before going to Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs, Crider anticipate spending ten days at the shore. Bellefonte last week on account of the serious illness of his twin brother, Daniel Heckman. Mr. Heckman being at one time a resident of Gregg township has many relatives and friends in Cen- to his home in the west. —Miss Freda Baum, who has been in Trenton, Kentucky, with her sister, for the past five months, returned to Bellefonte yesterday. Miss Baum having gone south for the winter on ac- was opened for her three weeks ago. —Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Beitzel, of Buffalo, N. Y., manhood he went to work for the railroad com- pany and for a munber of years was located in Bellefonte. Fourteen years ago he moved to Harrisburg and now holds a good position in the shops at that place. ~John C. Miller surprised his Bellefonte friends by his sudden arrival in town on Saturday even- . Eugene Wilson, Renovo, and Ruth E. —Miss Helen M. Valentine is at Syracuse, N. | Y., where she will spend the month of May with | —Harry Baum returned on Wednesday after | count of ill health has been greatly benefitted and | upon her arrival took charge of her house which | —Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Krumrine and their | daughter Anabel have been in Muncy this week attending the funeral of Mrs. Krumrine's brother, who died suddenly at his home in that place Tuesday. —Miss Belle Weaver, stenographer in the | Gettig Bower & Zerby law offices, is spending a month's vacation with her cousins in Harrisburg. During her absence, Miss Lela Ardery will sub- stitute for her in her work. —J. Malcolm Heinle went to New York the work is at present just outside New York city in New Jersey. —Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, president of The Pennsylvania State College, who has been travel ing through Palestine and other parts of Europe the past three months, is expected home not later than Saturday, June 8th, in time for the college commencement exercises. —James. Fox, after a visit and rest of several | weeks with his mother. Mrs. Joseph Fox, left | Bellefonte Saturday to begin work in a drug store at Germantown, a position he has accepted for the summer. Mr. Fox, who is a student at the College of Pharmacy, in Philadelphia, completed his first year before coming to Bellefonte three weeks ago. —Philip and Collins Shoemaker with their two sisters, Ellen and Augusta, went to Atlantic City the latter part of last week for the Sunday with their mother, who on account of ill health has been at “The Strand” for a month or six weeks. The boys returned to Bellefonte Monday, but the girls remained with their mother, expecting to come home with her in a short time. StAMM.—Mrs. Caroline M. Stamm, wife of C. J. Stamm died at her home in Altoona on Wednesday morning of a complication of diseases. She was a daughter of Adam and Sarah Stover and was born on the Branch, in Ferguson township on April 1st, 1850, hence was 62 years and 14 days old. Surviving her are her husband and the following chil- dren: C.F.andB. E. Stamm, Mrs. T. C. Forshey, Mrs. J. E. Johnston and Mrs. J. W. Gramley, all of Altoona; J. A. Stamm, of Boalsburg; Mary, William, Margaret, Catharine and Anna at home. She is also survived by the following sis- ters: Mrs. L J. Kreamer, of Iowa; Mrs. Griff Lytle, of Downs, Kansas; Mrs. J. E. Shrines, of Roaring Spring; Mrs. M. L. Wolf and Mrs. G. M. Meek, of Altoona. She was a faithful and devoted member ot Trinity Reformed church. The fun- eral will be held from her late residence this (Friday) afternoon at two o'clock, burial to be made in Rose Hill cemetery, Altoona. MARKS—KAUFFMAN. — John Calvin Marks, of Port Matilda, and Miss Ger- trude Kauffman, of Marklesburg, Hun- tingdon county, were united in marriage on Monday morning by justice of the peace W.F. Taylor, at his office in Tyrone. Bellefonte Produce Markets, Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer. The prices quoted are those paid for produce. —Elias Heckman, of Orangeville, [il., came to | Onions tre county, whom he will visit before returning | By Bellefonte Grain Markets. .00 00 .00 The Best Advertising Medium in Central strictly publication with indepen - Win enough to and with ability and - age to express, its own views, printed in . page form—six columns on mand respons the : , The following discounts will be allowed on ad Four weeks, and under three mos.10 per ct. mos. and under six mos......15 per ct. Three mos. and under six ry 28 per ct, taken of to insert Fi a BE ns TE
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