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' prominent resident of Centre Hall, died
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————mm——msm—== | man, at Thorofare, N. J., last Friday, of
Bellefonte, Pa., November 15, 1912. | pulmonary tuberculosis. He had been
ss — — in poor health for months and on Oc-
GRAY} cic ET LPP - | tober 24th his grandson came to Centre
Terms oF SunscrirrioN, —Until notice Hall and took him down to his home in
paper will be furnished to subscribers at the ' New Jersey in the hope that the change
REESMAN.——J. A. Reesman, for years a| RoBB.—The death of William Fearon MCCLAIN~The death of Mrs. Nora
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| Centre County's Official Vote.
Robb in the hospital at Braddock, on McClain, at her home on north Allegheny | si
Tuesday afternoon, was quite a shock to | street at 2:30 o'clock on Wednesday | The election return judges for Centre
his relatives and friends in this place | morning, removes Bellefonte’s oldest | county began their work of making an
who did not know of his serious illness. | resident and one of the best known and . °Ticial count of the vote cast at the gen-
He was taken sick early last week and |most highly esteemed women of thee | S53) sloution <u Thursday, Noveupts 7,
the disease developed into spinal menin- town. She was in fairly good health up| 548 38 idea of the magnitude Se jo»
gitis. He was apparently getting along | until about three weeks ago when she <2 gathered they
as well as could be expected until Tues-
contracted a cold which resulted in a:
did not complete the task until about the
rates :
Jug Hie avanee ar « nw | against recuperation and he died jt the
Paid after expiration of year - 200 | time above stated.
— " — | Deceased was born at Mackeyviile,
—If Wison had got as many
votes in Pennsylvania as BRYAN polled |
four years ago BiLL FLINN would be the
——The Colonel hasn't announced him- |
self a0: candilate in 1916 25. yer, but.he
will. Meantime he is impatiently wait-
ing for a call from the i
ardous to breathe the air in the neigh- |
borhood of Oyster Bay for some time. |
Too much sulphur is inimical to heaith.
—But still those 800 stay-at-homes in |
Centre county are likely to be a constant
reminder of the very great “earnestness !
and infloonce” our re-organized friends |
exerted in the campaign just closed.
—We don't like to mar the hilarity of
the occasion, but we can't help thinking
that if brother BERRY had retained a lit-
tle closer “affiliations” with the Demo-
crats of the State, he might have gotten
considerably nearer to that coveted sala-
ry of the State Treasurer.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
ninety-eight per cent. of the total in Cen-
tre county, have been in Bellefonte this
week in attendance at the sixty-sixth an-
nual teachers’ institute. And it must be
admitted that they are not only a good
looking crowd of teachers but they at-
tended closely on every session of the in-
stitute as well as evening lectures and at
all times deported themselves as ladies
and gentlemen.
On account of a large amount of other
news matter it is impossible to give even
a detailed account of the institute pro-
ceedings, but these grow in interest every
year as the educational scope of the pub-
lic school broadens in its curriculum.
Every instructor present handled his sub-
ject with a skill and knowledge that
deeply impressed all those who heard |
him, and the teachers are admittedly the |
better off for being in attendance. The |
evening lectures were also of unusual in- |
terest. |
SCHOOL DIRECTOR'S ASSOCIATION. i
The School Director's association was '
in session on Wednesday and yester- |
day in the new High school building. M. |
S. McDowell, of State College, presided !
and a number of topics of interest to |
school directors and looking to the bet-
cussed by practical speakers. The offi- |
cers elected for the ensuing year were as |
follows: President, Oscar Miles, Miles- |
burg; vice presidents, H. E. Meyer, of |
Rebersburg, and Thomas I. Mairs, of |
State College; secretary, Charles F. Cook, |
and treasurer, A. C. Mingle, both of Belle-
fonte; auditor, W. W. Kerstetter, of '
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Spring township. M. S. McDowell was
Clinton county, on October 24th, 1840,
| doctrines of the church and teachings of |
would prove beneficial but his age was day afternoon when he was seized with
a sneezing spell, rupturing a blood vessel
and dying from hemorrhages.
ceased) and Mrs. Elizabeth Robb and
hence was 72 years and 15 days old. was born in Bellefonte on February 20th,
When twenty years of age he located in | 1894, so that he was less than nineteen
Centre Hall and two years later embark- | years of age. His education was receiv-
ed in business there for himself and for 'ed in the public schools of Bellefonte,
half a century he was among the sub- | but two years ago he quit school and
stantial citizens of the town. He was a | weit to Pittsburgh, securing a position
Republican in politics and was rewarded | in the electrical engineering department
for his fidelity by being appointed post- | of the Westinghouse plant at East Pitts-
master, serving two terms very success- | burgh, making his home in Braddock.
fully. From early manhood he was a He was getting along splendidly and his
member of the Methodist church, at all | untimely death is a severe blow to his
times living a life in accordance with the | family and friends.
Surviving him are his mother, Mrs.
the bible. His entire life was such that | Elizabeth Robb, of this place, and the
he made many friends and all sincerely | following brothers and sisters: Mrs.
regret his death. Harry Miller, of Juniata; Mrs. Carrie
In February, 1862, he was united in | Graham, of Wilmerding; Arthur, of Brad-
marriage to Miss Sarah Ziegler, of Mill- | dock; Harry, of Pitcairn; Mrs. Harry
heim, who survives the deceased. They | Murtoff, of Bellefonte; Fred, of Detroit
had two daughters, both of whom died i Mich., and Adaline and Joseph, at home.
some years ago. He is also survived by | The remains were brought to Belle.
his grandson, Clay Reesman. Brief fun- | fonte on Wednesday evening and taken
eral services were held at the latter's to the home of his mother on east High
home in Thorofare, N. J., on Sunday even. | street, from where the funeral will be
ing and on Monday the remains were held this (Friday) afternoon at two
taken to Centre Hall where they were o'clock, burial to be made in the Union
| taken in charge by the Old Fort Lodge of ' cemetery.
Masons, No. 537, of which he was a mem- | I
ber, and conveyed direct to the Centre Mgygrs.—William R. Meyers, who oc-
Deceased was a son of Erastus (de- .
general decline caused death ; middle of Saturday afternoon. The official
Her maiden hat was hae Nora | co"'nt shows a number of changes in the
County Clare, Ireland, on September | id the county by 464 and Gramley was
19th, 1819, hence was 93 years, 1 month | S/cted over Foster by 154 of a majority.
' and 25 days old. She came to this coun- | | n¢ total official vote for each candidate ;
try with her parents in 1831 and located | '8 28 follows:
in Bellefonte where her girlhood wan} Fo President:
spent. In 1844 she married Bernard won hag
McClain and most of their married life Chafin, P...........122
was spent at State College, (then the Debs, S............. 27 BM RP. W. Toul
Farmer's High school). Mr. McClain Roosevelt... ..... ... 188 201 2138—2612
State Treasurer; R. BM RP W
died in 1858 and two years later Mrs. z
McClain. with: hers. child : to] Jong... 508 M2 289 1857——3801
Bellefonte and took possession of the
house on Allegheny street which has been
her home for fifty-two years. She was a |
| consistent member of the Catholic church | Congressmen-at-Large:
BM RP W
Powell............1546 119 290 I867—3822
Notes of Interest to Church People of
all Denominations in all Parts of
the County.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY.
Service Sulday 10:45 a. m. Wednes-
| day 8 p. m., 9 High street.
Next Sunday the Rev. Dr. Ambrose
M. Schmidt will
E ic services will begin in the
Una nasiistie se church on Sunday even-
ina, November 17th.
ga ————
, =——There is one man in Centre county
+ who has evidently had a change of heart
| and purposes leading a more honest life
(in the future, according to information
from Harrisburg, which says: “2 crisp
new $10 bill pinned to a sheet of note
paper reached the State Treasury Satur-
day from a Centre county postoffice in
R BM RP W which a man signing himself “Owner”
allher life and wasa great veader, mot| ,.., ~~ 5, REN i fvtedthiathe wanted the money put in
only of her faith but of the daily press. tows... 1465 19 200 1901——3765 the “conscience fund.” The writer set
She enjoyed a wide circle of acquaint-' Walters... 1472 19 200 18%——3772 | forth that he owned $2,500 of bonds on
ancesand was tenderly cared for during; Rusley......17t 20 20 18¢—367 id i "
Shaw, D......... 312 which no tax was paid in this State.
the later years of her life. | Howley, D.....308 ! remem
She is survived by two sons, Col. James | mereon.D. 3281 SPRING MILLS.
A. McClain, of Spangler, and Frank, of | Greenawalt. D. 3280 | What rr ni the
Bellefonte. Funeral services will be held | Congress: RW Tok Maj | el WOE louse With Contfe sary in &
lin St. John's Catholic church at ten| Patton... 1697 118 1889——3704— 464
| o'clock this (Friday) morning by Rev.| Gleason. D..... 320
Father McArdle, after which burial will | Assembly: R
' be made in the Catholic cemetery. | Se Yer
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The return judges for the Twenty-first
KimporT.—Following an illness of sev- | Conoressional district met in Clerrfiote
eral weeks as the result of a stroke of on Tuesday and computed the vote cast
W Total Maj
1852—~3559—— 154
' Wm, Neese and Wm. H. Myers had the usual
election trip to Bellefonte on Wednesday last.
| Wm. H. Smith is erecting quite a large building
in his yard, to be used as a summer kitchen and
for general storage.
Bruce McCormick, recently married, rented
. part of the residence occupied by Robert Smith
and moved into it on Tuesday last,
Hall cemetery for burial.
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MCLAUGHLIN.—Died, in Boggs town.
ship, Centre county, Pa., on the morning
of November 4th, 1912, from derangement |
of the stomach, Charles Alexander Mc:
Laughlin, aged 72 years, 1 month and 21 |
days. He was born in Union township |
about one mile from where he resided at '
the day of his death. In his early life he
was employed by the firm of James L.
Sommerville & Co. as a tanner and later
as foreman in the mining industry, al-
together for a period of forty-five years,
retiring from active service about three
at Snow Shoe Intersection. Becoming
suddenly iil on the 20th uilt., he suffered
intensely until the day he died. His fun-
eral took place on the 6th inst., conduct:
ed by Revs. Zeigler and Winey, the latter
of whom also acted as chaplain of the
L 0. O. F., of which order deceased was
a member since the year 1870. He was
an honest, upright man in all his dealings,
a good neighbor and a kind husband and
cupied the Miller farm in Halfmoon town. ' paralysis the venerable James Kimport
ship, went out in the field to husk corn died at his home below Boalsburg at
on Monday morning and about eight eight o'clock on Wednesday morning. It
o'clock was stricken with neuralgia of A Was just seventy-nine years ago last April
the heart and died almost instantly. He | that he was born on the old homestead
was sixty years of age and was born in | On Which he spent all his life and where
about twenty years ago moved to Ty- ship. He was the oldest of the family
rone where he lived until last spring land the last to pass away. His entire
when he moved back to Halfmocn val- | life was spent in bachelorhood and his
ley and went to farming on the Miller | home was always open to his friends and
farm. He was a member of the Patriotic one of the most hospitable in Penns.
Order Sons of Americaand of the Metho- . valley. He was a life-long Democrat and
dist church. years ago was nominated for county
About forty years age he was united in | treasurer but unfortunately went down
marriage to Miss Catharine Sassaman in defeat. He was a good citizen in every
who survives with one brother, Joseph | way, one of the kind of men that any
Meyers, of Marengo. The remains were | community can ill afford to lose, so that
taken to Tyrone, to the home of Mr. and | his death is cause for universal regret.
Mrs. Edwin Igou, on Tuesday, where | Funeral services will be held at his late
brief funeral services were held at one home at nine o'clock this (Friday) morn-
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon by Rev. ing, burial to be made in the Sprucetown
David Brouse, of Warriorsmark, after cemetery.
which the funeral cortege proceeded to | |
the Methodist church at Bald Eagle STOVER.—Following a lingering illness
where final services were held and in- | with a complication of diseases John C,
for the various candidates for Congress. ' J. C. Lee, our popular railroad agent, is putting
Mitchell I. Gardner represented Centre | the finishing touches in the new dwelling he re-
county, and the official count shows that | cently erected. It is quite an imposing building.
Patton's majority over Gleason was | S.A: Bayes-ot New. Satin, ade » Suiits
as follows: | friends in the valley.
! The Penn Hall club started on their hunting
| expedition on Thursday. Several noted nimrods
| of our town were in the company, so let the deer,
| bears and turkeys beware.
, Aconcrete walk from the foot bridge over
| Penns Creek, leading to the entrance of the Re-
! formed church building, was put down last week.
| 1 is a decided improvement.
B.A. Donachy, who is employed in Lewisburg,
, was here for a few days last week on a visit to his
| away his vote on the Bull Moose ticket.
Commercial agents stopping off here report
| business on the road quite lively. As yet they
: x | have heard nothing of the “auful panic” to im:
| mediately follow the election of Wilson.
POR. S00........ cori sreverrrscerivense 27 | The small foot bridge over a deep gutter on the
| road leading to the M. E. church, and a short cut
Patton, Bep.......................... 3h | to the railroad station.torn up by some senseless
: | boys on Hallowe'en, should be repaired or remov-
| ed. The bridge is simply tossed over the gutter,
regardless of how it is done, of course making
! walking on it a very uncertain movement.
| Ban on Christmas Trees.
| The department of agriculture ha:
| mother, Mrs, Maggie Donachy, and also to throw
father, providing well for his household. I I
He married Ellen S. Taylor June 4th
1867, who died D ber 24th, 1903. WERT. —William C. Wert, a native of
.. «Centre county, died at the Altoona hos- (was born on the old Stover farm in
_~ Four daughters and one son are his im- : i
terment of school conditions were dis- | | diate survivors, viz: Mrs. Mary E. pital Monday morning, of tetanus, caused | Haines township and was 77 years, 3 |
: : by injuries received one week previous in
McKee, of Swissvale, Pa.; Mrs. Martha .
Ethelda Murray and Mrs. Sarah Bessie * Péad-on coilision on the Logan Valley
Smith, of Snow Shoe Intersection, Pa,; trolley road, on which he wasa motor-
Mrs. Susan A. Fisher, of Clinton, Iowa, Mad In She uisident Bia right ade was
with their families, and Ralph Maxwell, crushed several bones in left leg
at home. Deceased had enlisted in the '‘ractured. He appeared to be getting
i ivi _ along all right last week but Sunday
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terment made. Stover, a well known retired farmer of | Fo%*" :
H hip, died at his in | Patton's majority over Gleason.
. Aaronsburg on Tuesday afternoon. Be)
PINE GROVE MENTION.
| months and 25 days old. Hewas a mem- | "yo wr c.
; ber of the Reformed church and a sub- | toona this week.
stantial citizen in every way. His wife, |
‘ who prior to her marriage was a Miss , Branch Saturday.
Hosterman, died seven years ago but Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fishburn spent Sunday
! surviving him are the following children: = With relatives in town,
| Mrs. John Grenoble, of Yeagertown; | Mrs. Maggie Gates, of Latrobe, is visiting old
‘Mrs. E. E. Ardery, of Bellefonte; Mrs friends and neighbors here. :
| Frank Guisewhite, of Feidler; Mrs. Geo, M™ Marv Dale and daughter Virginia were
Sheriff A. B. Lee made a business trip on the
lected i | Regiment Pennsylvania reserve corps.
- Ee ent He Bion in (and afterwards re-enlisted November
—.— : 20th, 1862, in Battery C, 5th Regt. U. S.
MAY GET OFF With Lint Sentence, Artillery, for three years, which time he
Deceased was born at Houserville, on
October 25th, 1868, and was a son of
Peter and Elizabeth Wert. He worked
| Weaver, of Aaronsburg; Mrs. Thomas |
| Meyer, of Coburn; and Clymer Stover, of
| Lewistown. He also leaves one brother, '
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Sunday visitors in Boalsburg.
Frank Weiland, of Linden Hall, made a busi.
ness trip to Altoona Tuesday.
Our mutual friend, J. C. Gilliland, is under the
on the farm until nineteen years old when | Benjamin, and four sisters, Mrs. Charles doctor's cave with kidney trouble.
—The WATCHMAN last week pabiielaed {St2ved in ful, befog discharged at Rostrum |
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this place, for desertion from the regular |
army. Last Thursday’s Lock Haven
Democrat published the additional facts, |
which will be good news to the man's
friends hereabouts: * |
Constable W. W. Pettingill returned |
about twelve years in the army, covering |
three enlistments, which will be a factor |
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Armor lost the use of one of her limbs
and sank to the floor. While the bone is
not broken the exact cause has not been
located, but it is enough to keep the lady
confined to bed.
Monroe November 20th, 1865. he went to Altoona and entered the em-
ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad com-
The Bellefonte lodge of Odd Fellows to a
which deceased belonged pany, being employed for twenty years
largely to the last sad rites in the pres. 38 @ freight conductor. Seven years ago
he resigned his position and accepted a
ence of twelve of its mesiers, ll. 19D as motorman for the Logan Valley
handsome floral token, acting "| railroad company.
bearers, leaders in the music and in the
commitment of the remains, in presence
of neighbors and acquaintances. His ‘vas made in Fairview cemetery, Altoona,
their power to render him comfort dur- | I :
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born at Martha January 16th, 1835, hence | 3th Of her 2 90 piejed
was in her seventy-eighth year. She was
Clearfield; Mrs. William Smith, of Spring | L'TC® Sisters. Funeral services were
held at her late home on Thursday morn-
: Mills; Mrs. William Rickards and J. Wil-
| bur Wagner, of Martha; Mrs. N. Weaver ing after which the remains were taken
Twenty-four grand-children and five ! I
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week after a protracted illness with valy- po.
ular trouble of the heart. She was 73 | Chambers, of this place.
yeais, 4 months and 17 days old. . .
funeral was held on Tuesday, burial be. | "6 Made in the Sprucetown cemetery.
ing made in the Hublersburg cemetery.
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(of a large and sympathizing gathering | 2180 three brothers and one sister. Burial |
| a com husker and can crib from 800 to 1000 bush. |
Smith, Mrs. Moses Eby, Mrs. William ' John B. Campbell, of Tyrone, was among the
| Musser and Mrs. Jacob Detwiler, ali of bidders at the Koch sale on Tuesday.
Haines township. The funeral will be The school marms are al at the teachers’ inst
‘held tomorrow (Saturday) morning, SAE yun Avigeion i ranalen; Vote
‘ burial made i ronsburg asper Rishel, amily were entertained
hes 10 be in the. An at the Curtin Meyers home on the Branch.
— -s at y Mea. Sutlie Musser, of Beliionss, Suidaved
,_ , the home . G. H. Woods, on street.
——The children of Miss Ida Green's oD dP er sono Creek. weit
eck home Charles,
| will have on sale Saturday at C. C. Guyer u © ig
| Shuey’s store, a variety of homemade Ed Bowersox, one of Pennsy's clerical force at
! candies. The proceeds of the candy sales Altoona, visited friends here in the early part of
j will be given to the fund for buying a | the week aR -
small organ nners room Harry Miller two bright ren
i for the beginners { Xer¢ Welcome Visitoiaa grandpa Barto's home
1 on 4
{ ——John N. a me AV ctuetay lean wiwell at
i tended and bidding rited. The sale
- sold out to Forest Struble and will leave Xewded wd bidding ean aie wpi
he will locate. | with her two bright little boys, are visiting grand-
‘ s— S— - pa J. B. Whitmer, at White Hall.
| LEMONT. Dr. Frank Bailey. of Milton, and Dr. J. B.
| : ——— Krebs, of Northumberland came up Tuesday and
Gilbert Boyer returned home from Williams- | joined the Modock hunting gang. ;
port Tuesday. Mrs. Emma McCalmont had many callers last
Mrs. David Wagner spent Tuesday in Belle- | Sunday at her home at State College,
fonte shopping. | congratulations on her birthday anniversary.
A few of the people have begun to butcher, | Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thomas, of Ohio, are visit-
Businessis booming in and around town these -
days, and every one is busy, Coons, of Stormstown, who intends making ita
| town last week, and he looks old fashioned. | Where he has relatives.
Wild turkeys seem scarce on Nittany mountain =
there being bagged + Friday of last week but by rare good luck he
Rig ver, but two p to this | anagedtoget hold of thering in its ‘nose and
held it in check until help arrived. He was pretty
badly shaken up but otherwise uninjured.
els bet day. je jute st the, Lutheran « Sho P-
The state road between Lemont and State Col- | 1 0, 0, F, hall, Friday and Saturday evenings,
lege has been completed as far as the Center ; November 15th and 16th. An oyster supper will
Furnace mill. | be served Friday evening and a chicken and oys-
The farmers along the Branch have purchased
ers’ institute, and: it is hoped that they will come
home better prepared for their work.
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—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Mrs. Emma Bohn, of Phoenixville, Chester Co.,
Herman Baird circulated among old friends in banner farm. Mr. Flanders is moving to llinois
An infuriated bull attacked George Searson on
| placed an embargo upon the interstate
. shipments of Christmas trees frou
| Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu
The new home of J. J. Tressler is now ready for | S€tts, Rhode Island and Conecticut
because of the gypsy and brown-tai
Mrs. W. C. Patterson is visiting relatives in Al. MOths.
The quarantine becomes effective
Nov. 25 and also affects the shipmen!
of decorative plants, such as holly and
laurel, known as “Christmas green oi
greenery.”
‘Only in cases where the plants ané
| plant products have been inspected
and pronounced to be free from thest
| two insects by the department's in
spectors will they be permitted to en
ter interstate commerce,
Burns Roosevelt Picture.
An exclusive social and Republica
, organization in Meriden, Conn., the
Home club, is in a chaotic state as the
| resutl of the action of some of the
| dyed-in-the-wool Republican members
| who destroyed the photograph of ex
President Rooseve't, which was pre
sented by him to the club with his au
tograph, when he was president.
| When the election of Wilson was in
dicated late Tuesday night the pic
| ture was taken from a prominent place
on the wall of the clubroom by one
member and thrown to the floor. An
' otther member thrust his foot through
. the canvas, and then it was taken tc
| the lawn in front of the club building
. and burned.
Clement A. Griscom Dead.
Clement A. Griscom, chairman ol
the board of directors of the Interna
tional Mercantile Marine company, 3
director of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company and widely identified with
big financial interests, died at his
i home in Haverford, near Philadelphia
! He was seventy-one years old,
. The death came as a great surprise
' to every one outsode the immediate
| family, Mr. Griscom had been ill for
only two weeks. Congestion of the
| brain caused death.
breaks all monthly or quarterly
! records. The unfilled tonnage for the
same month last year was 3,694,328
| tons, and for September of the present
, Yea rit was 6,551,507 tons.
' Dies With Five Dogs From Gas.
| Falling to sleep on floor, afte
Er a