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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——Mrs. Wells Daggett and her son
Frederic, have been spending the past
week at the Nittany Country club.
—A little girl baby arrived in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Derstine, of
south Spring street, on Saturday of last
week.
——Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Sheffer and
family and Thomas Beaver are spending
the week at the Masons camp down Bald
Eagle.
——The Lyric gives four full reels of
motion pictures every evening for five
cents. What more can you ask for your
money.
—— John G. Love, Jr., having passed all
the entrance examinations, will enter the
course of Liberal Arts at Haverford in
September.
——Five thousand fingerling trout
have been taken from the Bellefonte fish
hatchery to help restock the Spruce
creek hatchery.
——The boardwalk out along Pine
street is claimed by residents in that
locality to be in a rather dangerous con-
dition and badly in need of repair.
—— A dance was given in the Logan
hall on Monday evening at which the
Misses Francies were the guests of honor.
About twenty-five couples were present.
——Rube Cronemiller, of Scotia, hav"
ing secured employment in Bellefonte’
has made arrangements for mov-
ing his family here about the first of
August.
——There is a hog disease in Bellefonte
BiG Purses FOR CENTRE COUNTY FAIR.
—Bigger purses will be given this year
for the races at the Centre county fair,
which will be held on September 3rd,
: 4th, 5th and 6th, than were ever given
before and this will undoubtedly result in
attracting horsemen from all over the
State. For instance: A purse of $300
will be given for the 2.12 class race on
Wednesday, $250 for the 2.30 class and
$100 for a running race. On Thursday
the purses will be $250 for the 2.18 class
and $200 for the 2.25 class. The purse
for the big free-for-all on Friday will be
$300 with $250 for the 2.20 class and $100
for a running race. These will probably
be the most attractive purses offered in
Central Pennsylvania this season.
But the races wiil not be the only big
feature of the fair. A strong effort will
be put forth to make the line of amuse-
i ments and free attractions bigger and
| better than ever, something entirely new
| so far as the Centre county fair is con-
cerned. These are things the manage-
| ment are planning to carry out, but these
alone will not make a successful fair. It
will take the hearty co-operation of the
| farmers and the farmers wives and fami-
lies throughout the county to make the
fair what it ought to be. It is your ex-
hibits that count. Exhibits of all kinds
of stock and farm produce, garden truck,
bread. pies and cakes, jellies and all
things eatable, as well as fancy needle
work and anything fashioned and made
by the ladies. These are the things that
help to make a successful fair, and it is
to be hoped that everybody in the county
will do their part.
Boy INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE.—Shortly
before seven o'clock on Saturday evening
Malcolm Young, the ten year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Young, of south
Allegheny street, was struck by an auto-
mobile, knocked down and just escaped
being run over by the narrowest margin.
Two good things about the accident are
that the boy was not badly hurt and that
-—A traveling man was walking up
Bishop street on Tuesday morning
when he was bitten by a dog. This is
written as a caution to owners of cross
dogs to keep them muzzled or penned up,
as during the dog days a dog is more
liable to bite than at any other time of
the year.
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——Thomas Patton, the Port Matilda
huckster, has received a twenty-horse
power International-Harvester truck for
use in gathering up farm produce and
hauling it over the mountain to the Phil-
ipsburg markets. With the truck he will
be able to cover more ground in one day
GATES—GORDON.—At 7.30 o'clock on
Monday evening M. C. Gates, of Curtin,
and Miss Rebecca Gordon, of Bellefonte, |
were united in marriage at the parsonage |
of the United Brethren church by the |
pastor, Rev. C. W. Winey. The young
couple will make their home at Curtin.
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NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Alice Jenkins, daughter of John Jen-
kins, has been a guest of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Dor-
worth.
—Mr. and Mrs. Burns Crider and family left
yesterday morning for a two week's sojourn at
Atlantic City.
—Mr. and Mrs. Elsey with their little daughter
are in Bellefonte visiting with Mrs. Hugh Tavlor,
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than he could in three days with horses
and wagon. |
——Miss Bessie Miles, a graduate of |
Dickinson Seminary, has again been
elected a teacher in the primary depart- |
ment of the Milesburg High school. She |
is at present taking the summer course
for teachers at State College. Miss Laura
Smith was elected principal of the above
school and Chester Barnes teacher of the
intermediate grade.
——Burdine Butler has stopped rail- |
road improvements near Howard. All
attempts to reach an amicable agreement |
with him over the purchase of his farm
have so far failed, as he asks what the |
company deems an unreasonable price. |
on Howard street.
—Mrs. T. K. Morris is spending a few days in
Pittsburgh, having gone out Wednesday for the
week-end with Mr. Morris.
—Mrs. E. F. Tausig, of Harrisburg, with her
two children, is in Bellefonte visiting with her
mother, Mrs. Martin Fauble.
~Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Alters and three chil’
dren, of Lamar, were week-end guests at the Jo-
seph Alters home, Bellefonte.
—Miss Sara McGinley. who spent her vacation
at Freeburg, as a guest of the Misses Brown, re-
turned to Bellefonte last week.
~Miss Margaret Haupt went down to Lock
Haven on Tuesday evening to spend some time
with her sister. Mrs. LeRoy Fox.
—Edward Keichline with Guy and Jerome Dale,
all holding positions at Renovo, were week-end |
guests of their parents in Bellefonte. |
—Miss Anna Cherry returned Friday of last
—John Tomer Harris, of Harrisburg, was a | —Miss Elizabeth Brown is in Wilmington, Del,
Bellefonte visitor over Sunday. : the guest of her sister, Mrs. Winner.
—Miss Julia Curtin spent Sunday and part of | —Miss Jean Malin, of Baltimore, was a week
Monday with friends in Tyrone. end guest of her uncle, W. I. Malin, of Howard
~Miss Sarah McKinley returned home on Sat. Street.
urday from a months visit with friends in Sun- —Miss Julia Curtin went to Pittsburgh the fore
bury and Freeburg, part of the week for a visit with Mrs. Rober:
—Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks. president of The Bums.
Pennsylvania State College, left on Sunday ona —Mrs. James McNichols, of Water street, is en-
trip to Minneapolis, Minn. tertaining her sister, Mrs. joseph Druing, and
{ _ —Charles Larimer, of Ebensburg, was with
{ Mrs. Larimer and their daughter Elizabeth, at |
| Mr. and Mrs. James Schofield’s for the week-end.
|! —Mrs. Clyde Franks and little daughter Helen, |
of Williamsport, are spendingten davs with her |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Martin, on Allegheny
street. i
| —Mrs. W. 1. Swope, of Clearfield, was in Belle |
| fonte last week, spending the time while here
| with Mr. Swope’s aunts, Mrs. Coburn and Mrs. |
| Rogers. !
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Auman, of Danville, |
are spending the week with Bellefonte friends, |
Mr. Auman was formerly principal of the Belle- |
fonte High school.
—Mrs. John McGee, who has been the guest of |
Mrs. Oscar Gray, came from her home in Phila- |
her two small sons, of Philadelphia.
—The Misses Anna and Elizabeth Badger,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Badger,
are in Lewisburg visiting with relatives.
—Mrs. Harry Otto, of Johnstown, came to Belle-
fonte Wednesday. and with hertwo children will
visit with her mother, Mrs. Jerry Nolan.
—Mrs. William Dravo, of Sewickley, who has
been visiting relatives in Lock Haven. is spend-
ing the week in Bellefonte, the guest of Mrs.
Elizabeth Calaway.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton. of Penn
street, spent several days last week visiting Mrs.
Hamilton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claybaugh, in
Huntingdon county.
—Bond Valentine, with the United Gas and Im.
provement company, of Philadelphia, has been
delphia a week ago for a two week's visit with i the guest of his aunts, Mrs. Pugh and the Misses
friends in Bellefonte. | Valentine, this week.
—Sidney Keefer, who has not been in the best | —Mrs. Jean MacNaught on, of Philadelphia,
of health for some weeks, left on Monday for the | and Mrs. Maus, of Atlantic City, who have been
western part of the State where he will enter a | visiting at the home of Dr. E. H. Harris, in Snow
sanitorium for treatment. Shoe, spent Thursday with Mrs. John P. Harris.
—Dr. R. H. Meek and Mrs. Meek were in Belle- | —Mrs. Latimer Curtin with her daughter Eliza-
fonte Monday on their way home to Avis, after | beth, who has been visiting with Mr. Curtin’s
having visited for a few davs with Dr. Meek’s mother, Mrs. James L. Curtin, will leave Curtin
mother, Mrs. D. L. Meek, at Waddle. | to return to her home at Harnerville, Pa., on
—Mrs. David A. Solly and daughter Mary, of | Tuesday.
Greensburg, were in Bellefonte over Monday | —Richard Lane, of McKeesport, with Mrs
The contractors who are changing the | week from Philadelphia, where she had been vis-
railroad worked right up to the line of | iting with her sister, Mrs. Harry Dawson.
Mr. Butler's farm then were compelled! —Mrs. Thomas Smith, of State College. is
night, guests of Mrs. Harry Jenkins. They were | Lane and their two children arrived in Bellefonte
on their way over to Rebersburg to visit Mrs,
Solly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Kreamer.
—Mr. and Mrs. B. S. McKean, of Lima, Ohio
| Wednesday. Mrs. Lane and the children will
| visit with Mrs. James B. Lane, while Mr. Lane is
on a trip through the West.
to quit. Just what the outcome will be |
is hard to determine. |
——The remodeling of the Nittany val |
ley road is proving a slow job, owing to!
the fact that laborers cannot be secured |
to do the work, notwithstanding the fact |
that they are paying higher wages than
is paid anywhere else. And yet there
are a number of idle men around Belle-
fonte, who prefer staying idle to work-
ing on the state road. In the neighbor- |
hood of a mile and a half of road has |
been built and it is as good as any fully |
spending the time while her husband is at Gettys®
burg, with Mrs. Peter Smith. of Bishop street. |
~Miss Janet Scott spent several days the past |
week with the family of Mr. and Mrs. H. C,
Quigley, in the mountains near New Florence.
—Miss Sara Bogle was a guest of her mother,
Mrs. E. Norris Bogle, at the Forge House, Tues-
day, returning to Pittsburgh Wednesday morn:
ing.
—Miss Mildred Kirk went to Ebertsville Wed-
nesday for a visit of several weeks, expecting to
return to Bellefonte before returning to Buck-
nell.
Jacob P. Fishburn, of Kansas City, Mo., with
his brother George K. Fishburn, of Amboy, Ill,
are east for a visit at their old home near Belle-
have been the guests of Rev. and Mrs. G. E.| —Mrs. T.G. Cruse, of Wilkinsbirg, with her
Hawes. Mr. McKean is a brother of Mrs. Hawes. | little daughter, has been visiting with Mrs.
They arrived here last Thursday and left on | Cruse’s relatives at Millheim, and with Mr.
Tuesday for Erie, where they will visit for a few , Cruse’s mother and sister, Mrs. Andrew J. Cruse
days. ' and Mrs. Kline Woodring, of Howard street.
~—Miss Mary Meyer was in Bellefonte Monday = —A. G. Osmer has returned to Lincoln, Neb.,
for a short time on her way to Pittsburgh. Miss | after a visit of two weeks with relatives in Centre
Meyer, who is an instructor in the schools of But. | county. Mr. Osmer’s brother, J. J. Osmer, of
ler, N. J., has been spending the summer with her | Los Angeles, Cal., who came east at the same
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer, of Rebers. | time, will remain in Pennsylvania indefinitely.
burg. | —The Misses Lela and Verna Ardery departed
—Mrs. James Harris is entertaining her sister, | on Wednesday for a visit with friends in Bellwood
Miss Mary Slaymaker, of Clinton, Iowa, and her | and Altoona. Tomorrow they will be joined by
niece, Miss Hetty Slaymaker. of Albany, Ill. The | their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ardery and the
Misses Slaymaker, who have been in Bellefonte | family will spend a week or ten days in Blair
for a week, will remain with Mrs. Harris for sev. | county.
that is carrying off some promising pork- | the accident wasnot due to fast and care-
ers. William McElhattan lost seven and | less running on the part of the driver of
William Adams four within the past few | po pocbine The boy was down town
weeks. | on an errand and was in a hurry to get
constructed state road, though two feet fonte.
narrower. But at that it is a great im- Sa Mariars: Legewtt ene brig the
; | Bellefonte hospital. left Tuesday for Dennison:
provement over the way the road has Olle, where she will $0 part of for on
been. at her home.
—Company L, with fifty-five officers
and men in line, left on the 6:35 a, m.
train over the Lewisburg and Tyrone
railroad, on Monday, for their annual ten
days camp at Gettysburg.
—A crew of men are at work this
week repairing the state road between
Bellefonte and Milesburg. All the holes
and depressions will be filled up and the
road roll~d as smooth as when first built.
—MTr. and Mrs. Charles G. MacAvoy
and two children will go down to the
Country club today to spend a week or
ten days while Mr. MacAvoy is superin-
tending the changing of their electric
light plant.
——Mr. and Mrs. B. Franklin Boal,
now of Altoona, were called back to their
old home in this county, to attend the
funeral of Mr. Boal's sister, Miss Emma
Boal. Burial was made at the Tussey-
ville cemetery.
——A little son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Parks Hill, at their home
in Syracuse, N. Y., on July 20th, and the
new arrival has been christened Richard
Morris Hill. Mrs. Hill during her maiden-
hood was Miss Mabel Otto, of this place.
—1It is said that there is a young girl
in Bellefonte, without a home and ap-
parently friendless, as she is compelled
to pass the nights as best she can, sleep-
ing on porches and in out houses. The
girl was sent to her home at Pine Hall
on Wednesday.
-—The Ladies Auxiliary of the Belle-
fonte hospital will hold a rummage sale
during the month of October, for the
benefit of the hospital. Residents of
Bellefonte are kindly requested to care-
fully preserve anything they may wish
to contribute until that time.
——The new auto-bus purchased by
landlord H. S. Ray, of the Brockerhoff
house, arrived in Bellefonte last Saturday
evening and was put into service on Mon.
day evening. It is an International Har-
vester machine and is built on graceful
lines, equipped with electric signals and
light, speaking tube, etc. It has a capacity
for ten people including the driver.
—-—“Will there be a business men's
picnic this year?” is a question frequent"
ly propounded to the writer, and we must
confess ignorance. So far there has been
no move in this direction by the Centre-
Clinton County Business Men's Picnic
association, though last year a meeting
was held on July 25th to decide upon the
holding of a picnic and fixing the day for
same.
——Pathe's weekly every Wednesday
night and a big feature picture every
Friday night constitute special attractions
at the Scenic that cannot be seen any-
where else in Bellefonte. These are given
in addition to the regular program but
manager T. Clayton Brown believes there
is nothing too good for his patrons and
he spares no expense to give them the
best. Unless you are a regular attendant
you miss many a good picture.
——The Altoona Motor club seems
fated not to get a sociability run to Belle-
fonte this season. A month ago a run
was scheduled for this place but it could
not be made on account of rain. Wed.
nesday of last week was then selected as
the day but on Monday evening a hard
rain storm caused so many washouts in
that section that the run was postponed
until Wednesday of this week, and then
it was again prevented by an all day's
rain. When the next attempt will be
home so he could return for the opening
of the Lyric. Of course he was running
and evidently started to cross the street
without looking to one side or the other.
Just at that moment Daniel Houser, of
Houserville, came around the corner from
Bishop street in his automobile. He was
running very slow and the machine and
boy collided. The lad was struck by the
fender, knocked down and rolled under
the machine between the tront and rea:
wheels. Mr. Houser was able to stop the
machine almost on the spot, but as it was
the rear wheel was touching the boy:
Passersby rescued him and carried him
to Krumrine's drug store where an ex-
amination revealed the fact that the only
injury he sustained was a bruise on the
left cheek. After he had recovered
from the shock of the accident he walked
home alone, and is now all right.
MULE KILLED BY AUTO.—A mule owned
by the McCoy—Linn Iron company was
struck and instantly killed by an auto-
mobile last Saturday evening and Samuel
Lucas was thrown from another mule
and pretty badly injured. The accident
happened just over the brow of the hill
on the state road north of the chain
works, between eight and nine o'clock in
the evening. Mr. Lucas was taking a
team of mules from the Gatesburg bank
to the furnace near Milesburg, riding the
one and leading the other. When on the
top of the chain works hill he heard an
automobile coming and rode as close to
the mountain as it was possible to do.
The machine was being driven at a high
rate of speed and before Mr. Lucas
realized what was happening the mule he
was leading was struck by the machine
and knocked and dragged a distance of
fifty-five feet, being killed almost instant-
ly. Lucas was dragged trom the back of
the other muleand badly cut and bruised,
The automobile which figured in the
incident was owned by one of the Kelleys
in Snow Shoe. It was occupied by two
men and three women who were on their
way home from Bellefonte. The mule
kille¢ was one of the most valuable be-
longing to the company.
OF INTEREST TO AUTOMOBILISTS.—Con-
siderable complaint has been made by a
number of residents of Bellefonte about
the action of a large number of auto-
mobile drivers in using their accelerator
to speed up their machines going up hill,
thereby causing an unnecessary amount
of noise, and the borough council will be
appealed to at its next meeting to take
some action to abolish what is claimed to
be a nuisance. The use of the accelera-
tor enables the driver to take the hills on
the high gear and naturally the more
power required the greater the noise
made. While it is not so noticeable dur-
ing the day it is very plainly heard at
night and no doubt is more or less start-
ling to a sick person or one of a high
strung nervous temperament. Just what
action council may take is not known,
but it might be well for drivers of ma-
chines to practice a little forebearance
rather than submit to compulsion.
—The fortieth annual campmeeting
at Newton Hamilton will be held August
8th to 20th. The grounds, however, are
now open for campers. During the
campmeeting the religious services will
be in charge of Rev. W. C. Wallace, of
Black Lick, and the music will be under
the direction of Prof. C. W. Hartzell, of
Lewistown. Special excursion tickets
made is not known at this writing.
will be sold for this gathering.
——During the past several weeks B.'
G. Hatch & Co., have been shipping green
groceries, fruit, etc, to Bellefonte in car |
load lots and retailing it from door to’
door cheaper than it could be purchased
elsewhere in the town. This naturally
aroused the ire of Bellefonte merchants
and they insisted that he be compelled
to pay a regular peddler’s license, which
is $50 a year. Consequently when Mr-
Hatch’s representative came to Belle-
fonte on Wednesday he was held up and
compomised the situation by taking out a
license for three months and paying
therefore $12.50.
in 4 rami
—Mr. Geo. H. Musser, of Boggs town-
ship, brought to the WATCHMAN office on
Saturday last a bunch of timothy the |
shortest stalks of which measured 5 feet
10 inches in length and the longest 6 feet
three. It was grown on Mr. Musser's
Walnut hill farm just below Milesburg, |
and is the cleanest, healthiest looking
timothy we have seen this year. Mr. |
Musser tells us it is not “Bull Moose”
timothy but just the good old-fashioned
kind, that makes good hay and raises
good stock. If there is any farmer in the
county, or for that matter anywhere else,
who can beat it the WATCHMAN would
like to hear from him.
——As a prophet St. Swithin is making
good. Of course it may not rain every
day for forty days, but with three days
rain last week and the terrific downpour
on Sunday he has a good percentage so
far to his credit. And the rain came
just in the nick of time, as both the corn
and potatoes were suffering for moisture. |
Since the rain a person can almost see
them grow and it will mean thousands of
dollars to Centre county farmers. From
the present outlook" there will be a fair
crop of corn while the potato crop prom-
ises to be large, and this at least will be
good news to the consumer who was
obliged to pay as high as $1.50 a bushel
for them last winter. But there are
some farmers pessimistic over the out-
look for a big crop as was evidenced by
the comments overheard between two
tillers of the soil last Saturday while in
Bellefonte marketing. One of the farm-
ers remarked that the chances were for
a very good potato crop when the other
said that “it didn’t look very promising
to him, as the potatoes would likely grow
too big.”
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——QOrdinarily it is easier for a man to
get rid of money than it is to keep it but
"Squire Musser recently found it other-
wise. Last March he adjudged a College
township man guilty of dynamiting for
fish and fined him $100. A few days
later he drew his check for same and
sent it to the State Treasurer. Some
time afterwards the check was returned
with a request that it be certified. Just
about that time he received two fines
aggregating $50 and getting a certified
check for $150 he sent it to the State
Treasurer. In a few days it was return-
ed with the advice that $50 of the amount
should be paid to the Pure Food Depart-
ment and $100 to the treasurer of Centre
county. The fifty was sent in a certified
check and another certified check for
$100 was taken to the county treasurer
on Tuesday, and that gentleman told Mr.
Musser to take it to the commissioner's
office, but by that time his patience was
exhausted and if he wasn’t a good Metho-
dist there is no telling what he might
have said, but what he did was to leave
the check right there and walk out.
—While in Bellefonte attending the funeral of
Mrs. Heylmun Thursday, Charles H. Case was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald, of
Spring street.
—Mrs. Margaret Hutchinson will go to Kane
Wednesday of next week, where she will be fora
time the guest of her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Thomas Hutchinson.
—Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes with her three children
Ellen, John and Thomas, will leave today on a
motor trip to Hagerstown, Md. Miss Ellen
Hayes will drivethe car.
—Miss Mary Totsock. who has been visiting
with relatives in New York city, returned to
Bellefonte Sunday. Miss Totsock is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Totsock.
—Mrs. Margaret Dexter, of Washington, D.
C.. is visiting her brother, Jere Glenn and family
at Curtin, also her sister, Mrs, Susan Nolan, at
the old homestead near the above place.
—Miss Anna Blanchard, of Chicago, spent
Thursday in Bellefonte, having come here from
Lock Haven, where she and her sister, Miss
Christine Blanchard. are visiting with their sis-
ter, Mrs. George Green.
~Morgan Shope, who lives with his uncle, Reu-
ben Lucas, at Philipsburg, returned home Wed-
nesday, after visiting three weeks with L., E. Jo-
don, at Nigh Bank, and with his grandmother,
Mrs. Morgan Lucas, at Runville,
—Mrs. S. C. Hile and Mrs. Henry Kline, of the
Haag house, have just returned from Atlantic
City, where they spent the past two weeks at the
La Fontaine. Miss Katherine, who accompanied
them, will remain two weeks longer.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Meek, of State College,
drove to Bellefonte yesterday in their motor car.
Mrs. Meek's time was spent principally in the
shops, in preparing to send her daughter Ruth to
She Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, this
all,
—Dr. and Mrs. Ezra Yocum have been enter-
taining their son and his wife, who left Bellefonte
a short time ago, and have as guests at present
Mrs. Yocum's sister, Mrs. Wharter, of Washing’
ton, D. C., and their grandson, Ezra Phelps Yo-
cum, of Scranton.
~—Mr. and Mrs. Homer Longwell with their two
children are at Lemont with Mrs. Longwell's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Longwell arrived Mon-
day, having come from Philadelphia in their mo-
tor car, to spend an indefinite time with their rel-
atives in Centre county.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Fitzgerald, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. B.
Mauger and their two children, arrived in their
Mitchell touring car. During their stay in Belle-
fonte they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wil.
liam Fitzgerald, of Spring street.
~The following persons were among those reg-
istered at the Bush house during the past week;
Mr. and Mrs, W. L. Reese and Miss Nell Thom-
as, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Harry Washburn and Mrs.
J. N. Meyer, Philipsburg: Hon. J. H. Osmer and
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Osmer, Franklin.
—Miss Mary Moerschbacher left Tuesday
morning for Pottsville, and from there will go to
Shenandoah, Hazleton, Philadelphia and other
points through the eastern part of the State.
Miss Moerschbacher will not return to Bellefonte
before the latter part of August or the first of
September.
—State Highway Commissioner E. M, Bigelow
and Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert Mc-
Afee were guests ot John Francies and family, in
Benner township, last Thursday night, The two
gentlemen were en route to Pittsburgh and were
caught in a storm near Sunbury which delayed
them several hours so that it was late at night
when they reached the Francies home. Their
visit had no political significance or nothing to do
with the plans for the new penitentiary. All the
gentlemen are old-time friends and the state of"
ficials merely made it a point to spend the night
with Mr. Francies.
—Judge John M. Garman and family, of Wilkes-
Barre, were visitors to Bellefonte for a few hours
on Wednesday, They were on their way to State
College and from there purposed returning by
Thompsontown, Juniata county, the Judge's old
home. It was the Judge's first sight of Nittany
valley and he could not get through expressing his
surprise at its beauty and its seeming prosperity
as evidenced by its splendid farms, good build.
ings, and more than ordinarily good roads. He
said however, that since automobiling, the dis-
tance he had come, he was fully impressed with
the necessity of the new penitentiary and believ-
ed it was well located and that it should speedily
be filled up with the bum supervisors who persist
in building “thankee-mams” wherever a place
S5uld be found 0 lave the water run across the
eral weeks.
—Miss Elizabeth Ardell, of Brooklyn, joined her
sister, Miss Eleanor Ardell, in Bellefonte Tues.
day. The Misses Ardell while in Bellefonte will
spend much of the time with Dr. Edith Schad,
from there visiting with their friends in and
about Bellefonte.
~The Misses Sara Caldwell, Ella Gates, Fan.
nie Hutchinson, Anne Confer, Mary Strunk,
Emma Waite and Mary Hill will compose a party
jeaving here Wednesday of next week for As-
bury Park, expecting to spend two weeks there
and at Ocean Grove.
—Mrs. C. D. Runkle with her daughter-in-law’
Mrs. William Runkle, and two children, Gertrude
and Hazel, of Pittsburgh; Mrs. D. A. Boozer, of
Centre Hall, and Mrs. Charles Mever, of Reeds.
ville, were all guests at the McQuistion home on
High street on Saturday.
—Martin McCafferty, who has beenin Parks.
with his many friends in Bellefonte,
Monday morning for Altoona, where he has a
big contract of building a church.
—Mrs. E. P. Moore and her daughter, Miss
Katherine Moore, of Tyrone, are with Mrs.
Moore's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Miller for
the summer. Mr. Moore wiil be with his family
at the toll gate as much of the time as his work
allows, their home in Tyrone having been closed
for the season.
—Mrs. J. R. Woodcock with her two children
and her mother, Mrs. William Thompson Jr.,
were in Bellefonte Friday on their way to Centre
Furnace, where Mrs. Woodcock and the children
will spend two weeks. Mrs. Thompson was re.
turning home from a visit with Mrs. Woodcock,
at Birmingham.
—Jacob Ghener, one of the well known resi-
dents of Benore, was a business visitor in Belle,
fonte on Tuesdav and a welcome caller at this of-
fice. While everything is very quiet around the
ore mines at Scotia Mr, Ghener says the farmers
up in that section will have no cause to complain
this year, because their crops are all good.
~Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sherry, of Pittsburgh. ar.
rived in Bellefonte last Saturday for a week's vis-
it at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Sherry. Leo, who started his trade
as a printer in the WATCHMAN office, is now em.
ployed in one of the largest job printing offices in
the Smoky city, and is getting along first rate.
—Mrs. J. D. Mitchell and Mrs. Gregg, of Burn-
ham, came to Bellefonte Thursday of last week
for a short visit, and were joined Saturday by
Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Gregg for the week-end.
The men returned to Burnham Sunday evening,
while Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Gregg remained to
continue their visit with Mrs, J. Thomas Mitchell.
—Miss Mildred Grimm, of Punxsutawney, came
to Bellefonte Tuesday of last week, bringing with
her Mary Charlotte Parker, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. Ross Parker, who has been visiting
with the Grimm family for six weeks. Miss
Grimm having spent a week in Bellefonte, was
while here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Sei-
bert.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kurtz, of Reading, made a
brief stop in Bellefonte on Tuesday on their way
over to Clearfield to visit their sons Charles and
Will. Mr. Kurtz will be remembered as having a
number of years ago been proprietor of the sta.
tionery store which is now the Index. He and
his wife were traveling in a big Locomobile, a
trip they make every summer. While they nat.
urally look some older than when they lived in
Bellefonte both are still enjoying fairly good
health.
—C. B. Williams, of Bayonne, N. J., came to
Bellefonte last Saturday morning to spend Sun.
day with Mrs. Williams and their son Frederic at
the home of Mr.and Mrs. W. A. Lyon, on east
High street. He was accompanied by his friend,
William Bostwick, of East Orange, N. J., and Sat-
—Rev. John Hewitt was down in Columbia
county in the fore part of the week on a very in-
of worship until 1876 when it was destroyed by
| —Mrs. George M. Glenn, of Philipsburg, who
| with her three children and maid, has been for
three weeks with Mrs. Glenn's mother, Mrs.
Isaac Gray,on her farm near Stormstown, will
remain up Buffalo Run until the after part of the
| summer,
—Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Osman, who live three
miles west of State College, drove to Bellefonte
i Tuesday, to spend the day with Mr. Osman’s
brother, McKinley Osman, a patient in the Belle-
fonte hospital. The time Mr. and Mrs. Osman
were not at the hospital was spent in the shops
and transacting business.
=]J. H. Osmer, of Franklin, with Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Osmer came to the Bush house Saturday of
last week, from where he has been visiting with
his sister, Mrs. Anne Clark, of Stormstown, and
1 his brother, E. G. Osmer,of Bellefonte, and other
| relatives in the vicinity. Mr. Osmer, who is con-
| valescing from a recent illness, came here from
ville, Tenn., for the past year with his sister, | Franklin, hoping to recuperate mo rapid!
Mrs. Edward Brown, was an over Sunday visitor | through a visit to Centre county. sg y
leaving |
—John L. Noll, son of Col. Emanuel Noil, of
this place, and who has charge of the department
of manual training in the Altoona High school.
spent a few hours in Bellefonte on Wednesday on
his way home from State College where he lectur-
ed on Tuesday evening to the teachers taking the
summer course on the subject of manual train.
ing. This is a work Mr. Noll took up about six
years ago and he hasnot only proved very suc-
cessful in the Altoona schools but has won a rep-
utation throughout the State and is frequently
called to other places to lecture on the subject.
Sale Register.
JuLy 27.—At the late residence of Sarah J. "
5 a Fieazan; Gap, Fousehold zoos o
the House and Lot will also be offered at public
sale. Sale to commence promptly at 1.30.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per bushel, new
Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER,
The following are the quotations up to six o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
—Favorite 5
Rye Flour per Darrel or 15 32
Sled Hay—Coies Hn. Lom 0
SIraW:..............cooncirnrinnsine rir 9.00@14.50
The Best Advertising Medium in Central
year........ 2.00
will not be sent out of Centre county un-
lose aid lo i advance, nor wil subscriptions be
5 ves. an under Se an18
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