NEW PENITENTIARY BUILDINGS. —
Through the courtesy of the Philadelphia
North American the WATCHMAN this week
is able to publish the above view oi the
massive buildings of the new western
penitentiary to be erected on the five
thousand acre tract of land recently pur-
chased by the State in Benner township,
this county. So far only preliminary
work has been done by the convicts
transferred from the old penitentiary to
the Centre county site during the past
year. Old farm houses have been re-
built into temporary prison buildings,
several power houses and workshops
have been built, a temporary dam con-
structed in McBrides gap to conserve the
water supply for the new institution; a
quarry has been opened where the stone
will be quarried for the buildings as well
as the massive wall which will enclose
the thirty-eight acres of ground on which
the buildings proper will be located, and
temporary office quarters have been
opened.
Since the first squad of prisoners was
brought here less than a year ago just
132 have been transferred from Allegheny
to Centre county. These were all short
term men or prisoners whose sentence
was within ninety days of expiration.
About half of the above number have
been discharged so that the number now
at the new penitentiary is from sixty to
seventy. In addition to the work describ-
ed above farm buildings have been re-
paired and painted, roads through the |
farms built and most of the farm work '
done by the prisoners.
Warden John Francies, who is superin- '
tendent of construction of the new peni-
tentiary, as well as the board of prison in-
spectors, is anxious to begin work on the
erection of the new buildings and now
that the above plans have been complet.
ed by architect John T. Windrim, of Phil
adelphia, there will likely be as little de-
lay as possible in beginning actual opera-
tions.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
C. H. Meyer has the auto fever.
A few of the farmers are husking corn.
Had a soaking rain on Sunday that replenished
the wells and cisterns.
Paul Rupp is now enrolled as a student in the
Mercersburg Academy.
Rev. David Y. Brouse, of Williamsport, is visit
ing friends in this vicinity.
Miss Edith Hartswick, of Altoona, is visiting
relatives down Pennsvalley.
Fred Decker, of Staten Island, N. Y., is visiting
his chums in Centre county.
John Houck is handling the yard stick behind
the counter in Joseph Bros. store.
Wm. Grove and children, of Altoona, are visit.
ing relatives in the valley this week.
Lucetta and Mary Ward left Wednesday for a
visit among friends in the Smoky city.
One of G. Mc. Fry's cows was killed by the
train on the L. & T. railroad last week.
W. J. Myers, of Alexandria, is enjoying a two
week's visit among his Pennsvalley friends.
John Rupp and wife are home again after a i
month's visit in the eastern part of the State.
Albert and James Myton, of Petersburg, bought
130 head of sheep in the valley for the eastern |
market.
Will Meyers and son Paul, of Spring Mills,
made a flying trip up Pennsvalley Friday on the
quest of stack.
Dr. Henry Clay Campbell, of the University of
Pennsylvania, last week visited his old home folks
at Fairbrook and State College.
Wash G. Gates and family spent Monday with
friends at Gatesburg. Wash is a fireman on the
Middle division and is making good.
About three hundred State College students in-
vaded our town on Wednesday evening and cele-
brated with a big bonfire on the Diamond.
Aunt Tillie Musser fell down a flight of stairs
last week and received some ugly bruises. She
is getting along well for one of her advanced
years.
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general housewo w
Aone His Bae To East pork. street. oc
R SALE CHEAP.—National cash registers,
10 foot store counters and tables, post
card racks, counter display trays.
58.37-3t J. FINKELSTINE, Bellefonte, Pa,
LACK Bos, - hbred black ish
Jack, w PR priv at Khe” Baiie
fonte Fair grounds during the balance of
the season. rT.
58.37.6¢* ISAAC F. HEATON.
Rev. G. Elmer Smith came home from confer-
ence on Monday.
This town was well represented at the Grange !
picnic last week.
The wheat that was put in the ground a few
weeks ago is coming up nicely.
The U. B. conference has returned Rev. John.
ston to the Houserville charge for another year.
William Hoy and wife, of Ohio, came to town
last week and had a very pleasant time among
old friends, as this is their first visit in ten years |
Miss Krumrine, of State College, will take Har-
ry Lonebarger’s place in the Lemont Grammar
school for the rest of the term, as the former has
received an appointment as mail carrier at State
College.
BOOKS, MAGAZINES, Etc.
One of the most astonishing contributions to
the October American Magazine is an article by
a Yale teacher entitled “The Village of a Thous-
and Souls.” The author of the article, Arnold
L. Gesell, has made a complete investigation of
the 220 families that constitute a certain small
: village in the Middle West. His investigation
reaches back through one whole generation—
thirty-three years. The resultsof his investiga.
tion indicate an appalling amount of feeble-mind-
edness, insanity, alcoholism and general delin-
quency in small vilages.
In the same issue Ray Stannard Baker writes a
really wonderful article about Colonel George W. ' =
Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal. It is
an article containing more specific and interest-
ing information about the Canal and its remarka.
ble builder, than has been collected before.
Another interesting articlein the number is a
true story of a morphine fiend who reformed.
This article is in a series entitled “Those Who
Have Come Back''—a series of true stories of peo-
ple who, failures or disgraced at forty, have suc-
ceeded in “coming back” to lives of usefulness.
Fiction is contributed by Inez Haynes Gillmore,
Henry Wallace Phillips, Leonard Hatch, John
Taintor Foote and Clifford S. Raymond.
James Montgomery Flagg and Stephen Lea-
cock write humorous pieces. David Grayson
contributes another of his “Friendly Road”
sketches. The regular departments, “Interest.
ing People,” “The Theatre” and “The Interpre-
ter's House are included.
The prize winning letters in a contest entitled |
“How I Saved My First $100" complete an unusu- '
ally spirited number.
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The Theosophical Path, (Point Loma, Califor
nia, edited by Katharine Tingley) has for princi.
pal features of its October issue:
“The Essential Truth of Christianity,” by a
Christian and a Theosophist; “The Romance of
the Dead,” by Henry Ridgely Evans, 33 degree |
(Hon;) “Man's Greater Self,” by H. T. Edge. M. |
A., and “The Island Continent,” by Rev. S. ’'
Neill. Shorter articles are:
son and the Poems of Ossian,” by P. A. M.; “Is
There a Hell?” by H. Travers, M. A; “Sun
light,” by R. M. Machell; “Astronomical and
Other Notes;” “U. S, Geographic Boaad:"” *Hi-
ram and an Apple Tree.” a charming short story |
by Old Louis; and a poem by Kenneth Morris, |
the Welsh poet, Myrddin Muses in the Islands of
the Blest.
For illustrations, which as always form a most
attractive feature of this magazine, are a series
of magnificent views of Yosemite Valley; Land's
End, England (with brief description;) Austra.
lian scenery; Wurzburg, Germany, and a very in-
teresting series of the International Theosophical
Peace Congress recently held at Visingso, Swe-
BiG NEw SERIES OF DETECTIVE TALES. —A new
writer of detective stories, who within the last
year has startled English and American readers
by producing an entirely new line of stories of
crime mysteries is about to be exploited by the
Sunday North American.
Sax Rohmer is the name of the new writer, and
the stories of the series relate the battle of wits
between Nayland Smith, one of Scotland Yard's
brightest mystery solvers, and Dr. Fu Manchu, a
mysterious Oriental, whose resourcefulness and
courage in the commiting of crime are enough to
test the ability of the world’s greatest sleuths.
The Fu Manchu stories represent the biggest
thing in detective fiction since the Sherlock
Holmes productions. They are absolutely new
and altogether different from any other detective
stories ever written. They will prove diverting
to any reader of modern fiction, because they
represent the very best of the fiovelties.
The first of the series of ten stories will be
printed in the Sunday North American for Octo-
ber 5. 58-39
Among the excellent fiction features of the Oc-
tober Century Magazine stands out the first quar.
ter of a full-length novel entitled “Home,” by an
anonymous writer. If this is a first book, it isa
most extraordinarily fine one; if it was written
by a woman, she has the mind of a man. Other
represented in this number are: Mrs.
Whatever may be the reader’s political convic-
tions, “The Progressive Party,” by Theodore
Roosevelt, is a contribution that few men or
“James Macpher-
View of New Western Penitentiary in Benner Township. | ior high class Job Work come to
| women can afford to miss. The article sums up
| the work of the young party and points the way
to the future.
The October Century is particularly rich in
| art and poetry, containing examples of the work
of George Inness, John Alexander, Roger Boutet
de Monvel, Oliver Herford and Reginald Birch,
+ and verses by Timothy Cole. James W. Boles
Louis Untermeyer and others.
New Advert, semen: =.
ITTLE PIGS.—20 fine little pigs, Jansing i in
age from 4 to 10 weeks. Eo cash
pair. Call on Bell phone or write
THADDEUS CROSS,
R. F. D.
58-38-tf Bellefonte, Pa.
R SALE.—Premises Nos. 1i0 and 112, N.
Spring street, Bellefonte, Pa. Lot 50x200
Address,
Mgrs. GEORGE 0. BOAL,
lowa, Washington, D.C.
feet.
58-38-41
ANTED.—White girl for child's Surge and
upstairs work. Must be and
villing and of good a
wages to the right person. Apply to
i. Mrs. JOHN BLANCHARD,
58.38. 2t
VISIT MILTON
FAIR
FAIR GROUNDS NEAR MILTON, PA.
September 30, October 1, 2 and 3, 1913.
EXCURSION
sold on Fair dates, good returning until October 3, inclusive, from Belle-
fonte, Lock Haven, East Bloomsburg, Mt. Carmel, Millersburg, Middleburg
and intermediate stations.
58-38-1t
West Linn St., Bellefonte, Pa. | 58-30-1t
Excursion.
Regular trains Nos. 50, 12 and 32, southbound, Nos. 41, 51 and 1, north-
bound, will stop at the Fair Grounds on above dates.
Consult Ticket Agents.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
_ Auraction.
New Advertisemonts.
ANTED.—Girl for general housework ar: 1
to wait on the table. uire of
58.38-1t. Country Club.
UTKE oF PROPOSALS.
sburgh, he Wester” Da.
ed to - rd of Inspectors of the Western
gl, 0 he BG on or before T' October 14th,
1913, at one p. m., for the const NA Death
House, pi rty "of the Western Penitentiary,
Rockview Station, P. R (Bellefonte, Nittany
& Lemont Railroad) RN county
rate sealed proposals are Ry invited for:
PLUMBING,
HEATING APPARATUS,
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
The ‘drawings and specifications may be seen |
at the
Western Penitentiary, Pittsburgh, Pa.
R, the Prison. Rockview Station, Centre coun- |
0, Pa.
Cat the Builders’ Exchange, No. 18 South Sev-
. Philadelphia, Pa,
“Office of the Architect, John T. Windrim, Com. |
monwealth Building, adelphia, Pa.
Is must be made upon the blank forms
for that purpose.
JOHN FRANCIES,
perintendent of Construction
We Penitentiary, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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TICKETS
Garman’s Opera House, Sept. 29, 1913
EER CSTR
58-38-1t.
ILK COWS FOR SALE.—29, or more first
class milk cows and one Jersey
bull 3 years old, are offered at private
sale in bulk, to Te oul dairy. Apply to
S. BATCHELLER,
, 58.36-0%
the WATCHMAN Office. Philipsburg.
Novelty Store.
Clearance Sale!
Owing to the fact that I am forced to make room for
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my new
Fall and Winter Stock
I have decided to dispose of my stock on hand at a
ridiculously Low Price. A Bonafide Bargain Sale.
SALE NOW GOING ON.
FINKELSTINE’
Store Open Evenings.
Bush Arcade
Building.
West High Street.
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Centre County Banking Company.
Strength and Conservatism
are the banking qualities demanded by careful
depositors. With forty years 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.
The Centre County Banking Co.
Bellefonte, Pa.
56-6
The First National Bank.
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Every Man
Should have intimate relations
with a good bank, ready at all
times to help its patrons. Let
us open an account with you.
We may prove to be a friend
when you need one.
~ The First National Bank,
Bellefonte, Pa.