Beworrai Wada Belletonte, Pa., January 2, 1914. sv —— "To CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ———The spring inspection of Company L, Twelfth regiment N. G. P. of this place will be held on Friday, March 20th, 1914. ——The county commissioners yester- day appointed L. L. Weaver, of Woodward, mercantile appraiser for the ensuing year. ——The nurses at the Bellefonte hos- pital were the guests of the Bellefonte Lodge of Elks, at the Bush house, on Christmas. ——MCcAllister scholarships in the Pennsylvania State College have been won by Blair, Centre, Dauphin, Montour and Wyoming counties. —— Curt Y. Wagner has sold his 240 acre farm in Benner Twp to James Ker- stetter for $18, 000. Robert F. Hunter was the agent who managed the deal. ——Harold Gardner of the class of 1913 State, will return to the college as ‘an instructor in chemistry Mr. Gardner will begin his work the 1st of February. ——The jury commissioners have com- pleted their work of filling the jury wheel for 1914, and next week the audi- tors will begin their work of auditing the’ county accounts. ——The venerable Robert Armstrong, of east Howard street, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis last Friday morning, but it was not serious enough to confine him to bed for more than a day or so. ——Mr and Mrs. Henry F. Bartley, of Willowbank street, celebrated Christmas with a family reunion, all of their chil- dren, two sons and three daughters, as well as their grand-children being present. ——Richard Brown, a former Belle- fonte young man who the past two vears has been located at Parksville, Tenn., has been transferred to Montreal, Canada, where the firm he is working for has a large operation. ———The hunting season for any and all kinds of game came to an end on Wednesday, the last day of the old year. Guns can now be unlimbered, oiled and stored away in preparation for bringing forth the fishing tackle. ; ~ ——An important meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the home of Miss Mary Hunter Linn, Monday evening, January 5th, at half-past seven. The members are urged to be present. ——This is Farmer's week at State College and over eight hundred are in attendance at the various lectures and demonstrations. Almost every county in the State is represented and the interest displayed is almost remarkable. ——On Monday before Christmas Mrs. J. Robert Cole went to the cellar to get something good to pack in a Christmas box and while doing so knocked an empty glass jar off of the shelf. It hit her on the nose cutting a gash that re- quired several stitches to close. ——Samuel Charles, one of the oldest residents of Centre county, is critically ill at his home in Milesburg. Mr. Charles, who is eighty-three years old, is a shoe- maker by trade and during all the time he has lived in Milesburg has been recog- mized as one of its leading citizens. ——Howard J. Thompson, of Philips- burg, has been selected as general man- ager of the State-Centre Electric com- pany and will make his headquarters in Bellefonte. He was recently district manager for the Penn Public Service company, with headquarters in Philips: burg. ——The directors of the Centre county association in Philadelphia have decided to hold the tenth midwinter meeting and banquet at the Continental hotel, Phila- delphia, on Friday, January 30th. All Centre countians residing in or about Philadelphia are cordially invited to at- tend. ——On Tuesday Miss Rebie Noll gave a dinner in honor of Mrs. Benjamin Bradley's guests, which included her mother, Mrs. Emma Eyer, of East Aurora, N. Y.; her sister, Mrs. Charles Haller, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Albert Stockman, of Buffalo. The three ladies left Belle- fonte Wednesday for their respective homes. ——The Watchman on Wednesday re- ceived a well written report of the farm- ers’ institute at Pine Grove Mills as com- piled by the secretary, Mr. Harry N. Walker, but owing to the fact that we were crowded with matter already on hand it was impossible to publish the same in this issue. We appreciate the. fact, however, that these institutes are something the farmers are very much in- terested in, and the report will be publish~ ed in full in next week's paper. ——On Christmas day Frederick Dag- gett, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Daggett, presented William Doak, the blind man, with a large box of fine candies ‘for which public acknowledgement is hereby made. It helped to brighten up the day for the recipient, who later in the day had the misfortune to fall down the stone steps at the Furst home on west Linn street and cut his head on an iron post. The injury is not serious but A SERIOUS SHOOTING ACCIDENT—Hamill Huey, the eighteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Huey, of near Filmore, was brought to the Bellefonte hospital on Tuesday with his right arm shattered from two inches above the wrist to the elbow as the result of being riddled with a charge of No. 4 shot fired from a gun in the hands of Russell Tressler, a six- teen cold youth who makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tressler. The two young men with Frank Huey, a brother of Hamill Huey, were making preparations to go out on a rabbit hunt about ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Hamill Huey and Tressler went to the woodshed to get their guns and then began to discuss their relative points of merit. Tressler had a double barrelled hammerless and Huey a single barrell shot gun. The latter showed that his gun was very easy on the trigger and Tressler, evidently forgetting the fact that he had put a cartridge in his gun, was in the act of showing Huey how his gun worked when it was discharged, the contents striking Huey on the right arm | about two inches above the wrist and shattering the bone almost to the elbow. Several of the shot pierced his side but these wounds are not believed to be “| dangerous.’ As soon as possible after the accident Miss Norris, a trained nurse living near- by, was sent for and she rendered first aid, stopping the flow of blood and mak- ing the young man as comfortable as possible. He was later brought to the Bellefonte hospital and though the wound -was not considered very serious the young man died yesterday afternoon. BOROUGH COUNCIL TO REORGANIZE NEXT MONDAY.—AIl the borough officers elected on November 4th last will be sworn into office next Monday, January 5th, and the most pronounced change will be in the reorganization of the bor- ough council. Six out of nine of the old members will retire, namely: Keller and Sheffer, of the North ward; Beezer and Seibert, of the South ward, and Dag- gett and Judge, of the West ward. The incoming councilmen are Hard P. Harris and W. A. Lyon, of the North ward; Frank E. Naginey and J. D. Seibert, of the South ward, and G. Edward Haupt and W. Reynolds Shope, of the West ward. These with Walker, Brockerhoff and Cherry will constitute the borough council for the next two vears. Naturally with such a radical change in the make- up of council there is some wonderment as to what changes, if any, there will be made in the few offices within the con- trol of that organization. These are principally the secretary of council, bor- ough engineer and policemen. The bor- ough solicitor holds over for two more years. There are a number of candidates for secretary of council and borough engineer, but so far as known there will be no opposition to the present police- men. "HER WEDDING RING FOUND AFTER THIRTY-TWO YEARS.—While digging in the yard at his home on Willowbank sireet, a day or so ago, Charles Heisler, uncovered a plain band ring. Of course it was badly corroded and tar- nished but when cleaned up a bit it bore evidence of having been of some value at one time. This started wonderment as to who might have lost it and Mrs. Mitch- ell Leib, a neighbor, recalled that when the William McGowan family lived in the home now owned by Mr. Heisler Mrs. McGowan lost her wedding ring. It being thecirclet that every married woman attaches most sentiment to there was quite a bit of comment in the neigh- borhood when she lostit. Mrs. McGowan was called on the telephone and told of the finding of the ring, Later she identi- fied it as the one she lost thirty-two vears | ago and you can imagine the pleasure it was to have the trinket returned after it had been given up for so long. *oe — BIG POSTOFFICE BUSINESS.—The Belle- fonite postoffice did the biggest holiday business last week ever done in the history of the office and it was all hand- led in good time and cleared up every day. Naturally the parcel post was responsible for the greatest part of the ‘Business, and while no count was made of the packages received or those sent out an idea can be had of the volume of business by the fact that for three days before Christmas it required three men and a horse and wagon to deliver the parcel post packages; and the outgoing mail was so large that fifty bags a day or over were sent out. Considering the lateness of the trains postmaster H. C. Valentine and his assistants deserve con- siderable credit for handling everything as promptly as they did. . REAL ToucH oF WINTER.—Though it began as a green Christmas it ended with areal, old-fashioned snow storm and by Friday morning there were about eight inches of snow. It then blew up cold and ‘Saturday and Sunday gave us a real touch of winter, the thermometer on Sunday morning being down close to zero. While winter weather has prevailed this “week, there has been no extreme cold, nor is there any predicted for the immediate future. ~——Announcement has been made of the engagement of Randolph H. Hoy, formerly of Bellefonte, and Miss ‘Mary Hyman, of Crafton, the wedding to take place in April. Mr. Hoy is a son of the late Judge Adam Hoy, of this place, and has an excellent position in Pitts- Bill will have a sore head for a few days. burgh. —Write it 1914. ——William M. Bottorf this week pur- chased the Orbison property on Spring street next door to the Presbyterian chapel and will make that his home after April first next. | ——The New Year is here again but | the Scenic is with us always. Manager i T. Clayton Brown will introduce an in- novation next week by having published ‘and distributed a booklet containing a ‘complete list of the program for every ‘ evening in the week. These will be dis- | tributed in the homes of Bellefonte so - that everybody can see just what pic- | tures will be shown each evening. After you see what the pictures are like then go to the Scenic and see if they come up to the printer’s description. De ——A serious freight wreck occurred on the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania at Crider’s siding, on Monday morning. Local freight was on its way east and just where the road crosses Fishing creek the train left the track. Four cars were derailed and badly damaged, while a part of their contents were destroyed. The engine was also badly damaged and the bridge wrecked. Wrecking crews from the Pennsylvania and New York Central roads were secured to clear up the wreck and rebuild the track and bridge. The cause of the wreck is unknown but it is believed to be the breaking of a rail, owing to the frost. ——The last issue of the WATCHMAN gave a brief outline of the facts brought out in the case of the remonstrance against the Kohlbecker hotel in Miles- burg, the only one heard up to the time the paper went to press. On the two succeeding days the cases against August Glinz, of the Garman house; the Brock- erhoff, Bush and Haag house were heard. Neither one took up much time, as not over half a dozen witnesses were heard in each case. The hotel proprietors will probably take testimony in rebuttal some time next week and after the court has had time to examine the testimony ar- gument will be heard on the same. ——No modern writer of fiction can claim as many readers as Harold Bell Wright, his books having sold into the millions. The most popular of the Wright novels, “The Shepherd of the Hills,” has been made into a play by Mr. Wright, with the assistance of Elsbery W. Reynolds. The first presentation of “The Shepherd of the Hills” in this city will be given at the Garman opera house, Wednesday, January 7th. The story has been so widely read that a resume of it is practically unnecessary. It is a story of the Ozark mountains and of a people that live wholesome, clean lives, who do big things in a matter-of-fact manner. It is a play that makes its auditor a better man or woman for having seen it. Prices 25, 35, 50, 75 cents and $1.00. ~oon ——Early last week sheriff Arthur B. Lee received a consignment of five fancy tables made by one prisoner in the west- ern penitentiary. The tables were made of small pieces of many kinds of wood, carved and colored to form many clever designs. There were three tables with tops about three feet in diameter, each of which contained about thirty-five thousand pieces of wood. Two of the tables were much larger and these con- tained probably fifty thousand pieces of wood. They were all made by one man who has been a prisoner for over twenty- six years, and it takes him over a year to make one table. Sheriff Lee bought the tables from him direct while on a recent trip to the penitentiary and the day he received them he sold one of the large ones to Thomas Kelley, of Cato, for forty dollars. ——An afternoon bridge party was given by Mrs. Edward H. Richard Mon- day, in compliment of Mrs. Charles Aull, her house guest. The'same afternoon a children’s party was given by Mrs. D. Wagner Geiss for her daughter Martha. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Thomas Rishel entertained fifteen of the children when the Blackburn children and Emily Eliza McClain were the honor guests. Tuesday night, Miss Mary Schad was hostess at a dinner given at the apart- ments of Dr. Schad in Petrikin hall, and the regular Christmas dance was given in the Town hall. Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Gates entertained twelve of their friends at a watch-night party. Miss Eleanor Cook was hostess at a party given for her friends home on a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cherry received in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Nicholas, Mrs. Nichols being a bride of the week and the an- nual dance of tke Centre county boys at State, was given in Bush’s hall. *oe ARMSTRONG GETS GREAT TRIBUTE.— The following from the Pittsburgh Dis- patch relates to Harry P. Armstrong, well known in Bellefonte, and his singing at the Billy Sunday meeting at Pittsburgh on Sunday: There was a volunteer, too. H.P. Arm- strong, of Butler, Pa., a young, clean cut fellow who was converted in his senior year at The Pennsylvania State College. He is at present doing Christian work with the Rev. Dr. W. W. Orr at Char- lotte, N. C,, and he was brought to the rostrum to sing. In a magnificent voice, that showed training, sympatby and ex- pression he sang “He Lifted Me” in such a fashion that “Billy” Sunday kept nod- heaver sat still as a mouse watching every phrasing of the song. The audi- ence gave the young fellow a great trib- ute. ——Have your Job Work done here. ding his head with approval and Rode-. RE rant, DECKER—PETERS.—On Saturday, De- cember 20th, James Edward Decker, of this place, and Miss Margaret Ellen Pe- ters, of Pine Grove Mills, went to Holli- daysburg and after securing the neces- sary license were united in marriage at the Zion Lutheran parsonage, by the pas- tor, Rev. Julius E. Seebach- The bride is one of the well known and popular girls in her home town while the bridegroom, | whose parents live in Pine Grove Mills, is one of the force of clerks at the P. R. R. freight station in this place. Having returned from a brief wedding tour they are temporarily located at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Runkle on east High strect. McCLELLAN—GORDON.—The principals in a quiet wedding at the Reformed par- sonage, on Monday evening of this week, were Walter J. McClellan, of Duquesne, and Miss Stella G. Gordon, of Pleasant View. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Ambrose M. Schmidt in the presence of only the necessary witnesses. The bridegroom is a former Bellefonte boy, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McClellan, of north Spring street. The WATCHMAN joins their many friends in wishing the young couple an abundance of life’s blessings. ——— ee NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —MTr. and Mrs. Robert Woodring are entertain- ing Mrs. Woodring’s aunt, Miss Hedric, of Nor- way. —Charles Gilmour spent last Sunday in Milton with his mother, who is now eighty-eight years of age. —Mrs. Walter Kauffman, of Atlantic City, is in Bellefonte, the guest of her sister, Mrs. William Tressler. —Mrs. Harry Curtin will spend the early part of January in Pittsburgh, with Mr. and Mrs. J. ! M. Curtin. —Andrew Cross, of Powelton, visited over Sun- day with his father, Thaddeus Cross, on his farm a short distance south of Bellefonte. —Stanley B. Valentine, of Pittsburgh, was in Bellefonte with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Valentine for a short Christmas vacation. —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dawson, of Philadel- phia, have been guests this week of Mrs. Daw- son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cherry. —Mrs. Schook, of Williamsport, has been in Bellefonte for Christmas and the Christmas week, with her sister, Mrs. C. M. Bower, of Curtin street. —Mrs. John Morrison, of Tyrone. and her sis- ter, Miss Eva Saxion, of Birmingham, spent sev- eral days with their brother, Charles Saxion, of this place. .—Miss Frances Elmore, of Pittsburgh, has been spending a part of her mid-winter vacation with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rankin and their family, on Curtin street. —W. A. Reesner, of Bucyrus, Ohio, arrived in Bellefonte on Christmas day and will spend the winter with his brother-in-law, Daniel Heckman, on east Lamb street. —Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hunt, of Renovo, with their four children, were guests at Christmas time of Mrs. Hunt's parents, ex-sheriff and Mrs. Woodring, of Howard street. —Mrs. Charles Aull, of Philadelphia, and her daughter Margaret, have been in Bellefonte dur- ing the Christmas Holidays, with Mrs. Aull’s sis- ter, Mrs. Edward H. Richard. —Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kelly left on Wednes- day on a week's trip to Philadelphia and New |. York city; the first vacation trip Mr. Kelly has taken in four years or more. —Mr. and Mrs. James I. McClure, of Spring street, had with them to celebrate the Christmas, their son Charles, of Philadelphia, and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McClure, of Renovo. —Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Fitzgerald, of East Pittsburgh, were in Bellefonte for Christmas and a part of the Holidays with Mr. Fitzgerald's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald. —Mr. and Mrs. W. E. C. Merriman, of Nar- rows, Va., have been guests since before Christ- mas of Mr.and Mrs. H. C. Quigley and family. Mr. Merriman is a brother of Mrs. Quigley. —Miss Jane Crowley, of Lock Haven, was in Bellefonte for New Year's day, on her return from Pittsburgh, where she had been with King Morris, who has been ill with pneumonia for two weeks. —Mrs. Rachel Harris went to Pittsburgh Satur- day with her son George, on his return to Wheel- ing, W. Va. Mrs. Harris expects to visit in Pitts- burgh with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, for an indefinite time. —William Wilson Elliott, who came to Belle- fonte Monday, was the guest of his mother, Mrs. George Elliott, during his stay here. Mr. Elliott returned to his home in Oklahoma Wednesday, having come east solely for this short visit with his mother. —MTrs. Merriman and her daughter, Miss Isa- bella Merriman, will when leaving Bellefonte in a short time, complete their preparations for spend- ing a year in Europe. The first part of the year they will visit, the remainder of the ime to be given to travel. —Boyd Magee, of Philadelphia, will leave Cen- tre Hall today, after a visit of two weeks. Mr. Magee, who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Emerick, came to Centre Hall from Lew- istown to join Mr, and Mrs. William Magee to spend the Christmas Holidays in the country. —Mr. and Mrs. John Gephart Munson, of Parksville, Tenn., came to Bellefonte the day be- fore Christmas to make a short visit with Mr. Munson’s mother, Mrs. L. T. Munson. The time they are north will be divided between Belle- fonte and Milford, Delaware, Mrs. Munson’s home. —MTr. and Mrs. John W. Woomer, for thirteen years residents of Bellefonte but now of Will iamsport, spent Christmas and the latter part of the week with their son Frank and family. Mr. Woomer is now employed in a large harness store but the work is so confining that he is thinking of making a change. —Dr. and Mrs. M. A, Kirk went to Kylertown on Monday morning to attend the funeral of their niece, Mrs. Moyer, and also that of Dr. Kirk's brother at Luthersburg on Tuesday. Dr. Kirk returned Tuesday night; Mrs. Kirk spent Wed- nesday and Thursday in Cearfield with her sister, Mrs. Daniel Rhinesmith. —Ellen Hayes, Martha Shoemaker, Dorothy Jenkins, Anna and Sara Shuey, Hester McGinley, Ethel Dale, Eleanor Cook, John Love, Charles Scott, Frederic and Philip Reynolds. William Tressler, Hugh and Vincent Taylor and Calvin Smith are among the younger people home from college for the Christmas vacation. —MTrs. C. D. Casebeer went to Johnstown Tues: day morning where she spent a day with her mother and cn Wednesday she wasjoined by Mr. Casebeer for a trip through the middle west, in- cluding stops at St. Louis, Mo.; Jacksonville, Ill, and Chicago. From the latter place Mr. Case- beer expects to return home the fore part of next week while Mrs. Casebeer will go to South Bend, Ind., to visit her sister. : —Miss Louise Armor is spending the week in : i Philadelphia on a shopping expedition. —Miss Martha Haines is spending her school vacation with her mother, Mrs. Martin Haines, at Rossiter. i i —Miss Lillian Walker, of Lancaster, is in Belle- fonte for her vacation with her parents, Mr. and : Mrs. W. Miles Walker. | —Miss Dorothy Platts, a student at the Belle- | fonte Academy, spent her vacation with her | mother at Wilkinsburg. i —Calvin Fisher, of Pittsburgh, spent the Holi- | days with his perents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Fish" , er, on south Water street. | —Doyle Eberhart came home from Niagara i Falls to eat his Christmas dinner with his par- ! ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eberhart. —Mr. and Mrs. Boyd A. Musser, of Altoona, i were in Bellefonte last Saturday attending the funeral of the late Mrs. John Shadle. | —Miss Anna Taylor, a student at St. Vincent i College, on the Hudson, has been spending her vacation with her father. R. B. Taylor. —Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Blair and child, of Cur- | wensville, were in Bellefonte this week visiting : the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Blair. —Paul E. Rumberger, of Canonsburg, spent Christmas and a good part of the past week with his parents in this place, and friends up at Un- ionville. —Mrs. G. O. Benner, of Centre Hall, spent a few hours in Bellefonte on Saturday on her way up Bald Eagle to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Miles. —Miss Marie White, of Williamsport, was in Bellefonte to spend Christmas and the after part of the week with her aunt, Miss Powell, {at the Brockerhoff house. —George Cunningham came home last Wednes- day from Claysville, Washington county, where he spent the summer with R. B. Taylor on his big state road contract. —Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Aumuchty, of Albany’ N. Y., spent the fore part of last week in Belle- fonte with Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram, going to Williamsport for Christmas. —Miss Helen Cunningham, a trained nurse in St. Georges hospital, Washington, D. C., spent Christmas and the holiday vacation with her sis- ter, Miss Elizabeth Cunningham. —Eleanor and Ferguson Parker went to Som- | erset Saturday, where they will spend the re- mainder of their vacation with their father’s | mother, Mrs. Parker and her family. —MTrs. Andrew Glenn, of State College, spent Wednesday night of last week in Bellefonte with Mrs. John Powers and Thursday morning went to Tyrone to spend Christmas with her friends. —Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Blanchard went down to Philadelphia on Christmas evening and re- mained until Tuesday with Mrs. Blanchard’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Donnelly, of Ridley Park. —Albert Hoy, of New York city; J. Harris Hoy, of Snow Shoe, and Randolph H. Hoy, of Crafton, were in Bellefonte for their Christmas dinner with their sisters, the Misses Nan and Mary Hoy. —Mors. Theodore Kelly and her son, William T. : Kelly, left Saturday for Philadelphia, from where after a short stay, Mr. Kelly returned to Belle. fonte, his mother going on to Jersey City, fora visit with relatives. —J. W. Hess, of Altoona; Samuel Hess, of State College, and Mrs. Hall Bottorf with Mr. Bottorf, of Lemont, were all in Bellefonte to celebrate the Christmas with their mother, Mrs. Michael Hess, of Willowbank street. —Mrs. George B. Johnston, of Beaver Falls, with her two younger daughters, Elizabeth and Lilly May, came to Bellefonte Tuesday and will spend the time while here with Mrs. Johnston's mother, Mrs. J, A. Aiken. —A Christmas party at the home of Mr. and : Mrs. Thad. R. Hamilton included their two sons, i Clarence and Thomas, of New York; their daugh- Snowden, of Philadelphia. - a si ~Mr. Emil Mignot paid the WATCHMAN office a visit on Monday and paid for his paper anoth- er year in advance. Mr. Mignot has been a sub- scriber of the WATCHMAN for over forty years and in all that time his paper was always paid in advance. 3 —F. H. Thomas, superintendent of the Belle- fonte Central railroad, and his son Francis, went to Atlantic City Christmas day, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Wallace H. Gephart joining them there Saturday. Mr. Thomas and his family will re- turn to Bellefonte this week. —Mrs. Amanda Houser and daughter, Miss Blanche E. Houser, went out to Cherrytree the day before Christmas to visit Mr. and Mrs. John Guisewhite and family. Miss Blanche expects to return today while Mrs. Houser will remain at Cherrytree most of the winter. —Deputy revenue collector G. W. Rees had a regular family reunion at his home on Christmas and extending into the beginning of this week, which included the home coming of his two sons, W. Fred Rees, of Renovo, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Rees and little daughter, of Patton. —Norman M. Kirk, who spent a month in Bellefonte with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Kirk, left on December 21st for Fort Gaines, Georgia, where he will continue soil survey work for the United States government. During the summer he was similarly engaged in Minnesota. —Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Crider returned home last Saturday from Atlantic City. Mrs. Crider has been at the Shore and with ther daughter, Mrs. Rath, at Elizabeth, N. J., the past six weeks or longer for the benefit of her health and both she and Mr. Crider are feeling better than they have for months. —MTr. and Mrs. Frank Shaughensey, of Pitts- - burgh, came to Bellefonte last Wednesday to eat their Christmas dinner at the home of Mr. Shaughensey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shaughensey Jr., on Howard street. Frank re- turned home on Friday evening but Mrs. Shaughensey remained for a longer visit. —Miss Anna Shuey left Monday for Kansas City, Missouri, as a delegate from Dickinson Col- lege, tothe Y. W.C. A.and Y.M. C. A. Interna- tional convention in session there this week. It being Miss Shuey’s Freshman year at Dickinson, she having been chosen to represent her college at this convention, is indeed a great honor. —At the Christmas dinner given by Mrs. J. Linn Bottorf, of State College, the guests were Mrs. Georgianna Dale and the Misses Nell and Mary Dale, of Lemont, and Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Lingle and their son, of Pitcairn. Mr. and Mrs Lingle have been visiting during the holiday week with Mrs. Lingle’s mother, Mrs. Dale, at Lemont. —MTr. and Mrs. Charles Donachy with their two children, Sara and Charles, came to. Belle- fonte the day before Christmas, accompanied by Miss Sara Shuey, who had gone to Kingston from Williamsport, where she is. a student at Dickinson Seminary. Mr. Donachy visited in Bellefonte until Monday, while Mrs. Donachy and the children remained with Mr. and Mrs. Shuey until today. Miss Sara Shuey will return to Williamsport at the opening of school. - —Mrs. Etta R. Leathers, of Howard township, came up to town the Saturday evening before Christmas to do a little Holiday shopping. With her were her two bright girls, eager to see the Christmas displays in the shops. Mrs. Leathers is one of the women of the Bald Eagle valley who keeps abreast of the times, is well informed and always capable of intelligently discussing the ‘questions of the day. Old fashioned Democracy is one of her favorite themes and her church and her politics are two of the things she is proud- est of. ter, Mrs. Broderick, of State Collége, and Miss: one —Joseph Fauble, of Monongahela City, was a Bellefonte visitor on Sunday. : —Mrs. Moses Levi and son Leopold spent last week visiting friends in Altoona. —Miss Nellie Snith, the only daughter of J Frank Smith, was the week end guest of relatives in Centre Hall. —Miss Anna M, Miller, trained nurse in the officeof Dr. R. G. H. Hayes, spent Christmas with her parents at Salona. —Miss Blanche Underwood went to Renovo on Christmas day and spent the week end with her brother. Irvin Underwood and family. —Ogden B. Malin, of Altoona, helped eat the Christmas turkey at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Malin, on Howard street. —Mrs. William Bell returned to Bellefonte Mon- day, after visiting for a month with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Thomas Kessinger, at Hublersburg. —Miss Eloise Schuyler, principal of schools at Cape May, N. J., spent her holiday vacation with her father, Dr. W. H. Schuyler, at Centre Hall. —Mr. and Mrs. James Hoyt and little daughter, of Grampian, spent Christmas in Bellefonte with Mrs. Hoyt’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Collins John- ston. —Mrs. C. M. Hannah has gone to Philadelphia where she will be for two weeks or longer, help- ing to take care of her mother, Mrs. Julia Wag- ner. —Mrs. Mary Collabine left for her home in Huntingdon on Monday, after spending a week with her sister, Mrs. C. M. Harter, at Jackson- ville. —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moerschbacher went to Philadelphia Tuesday morning, expect- ing to return to Bellefonte the after part of next week. —Edward P. Irwin, of Cherrytree, left Belle. fonte Thursday afternoon, after spending Christ- mas day with Mrs. Irwin at their home on Spring street. —Jack A. Lane Jr., with the Basket Shop, of Bellefonte, is at his home at Cambridge, Mass., for athree week’s visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lane. —Fred W. Craft, with the American Lime and Stone company, returned Sunday night to Belle- fonte, after spending a short vacation with his parents at their home in Buffalo, —Miss Mary Delinda Potter, preceptress in the public schools at Richburg, N. Y., spent the three weeks of her holiday vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua T. Potter, at Centre Hall. —Basil Mott, a student in the school of Phar- macy of the Medico Chirurgical College, of Phila- delphia, cameto Bellefonte Monday, to spend a ten day’s vacation with his mother, Mrs. Odilla Mott. —Ralph E. Thomas, of Wilkinsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson Thomas, of Altoona, were in Milesburg last week, celebrating Christmas day and spending a part of the week with their fath- er, William B. Thomas. —MTr. and Mrs. A. B. Cromer, of Baldwinsville, N.Y., who have been spending the Christmas with Mrs. Cromer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ho- mer Crissman, have gone to Pittsburgh for a vis- it with Mr. Cromer’s parents and family. —Hon. and Mrs. A. G. Morris and daughter, Miss Lida, went to Tyrone on Tuesday and were guests of George C. Wilson at the opening of his new Wilson theatre. The attraction was ‘The Red Widow,” a musical comedy ‘with a cast and chorus of fifty people. —Dr. Frank Bailey, of Milton, but who was born and raised in Ferguson township, and Frank Graham, formerly of this place but now located in Milton, were Bellefonte visitors between trains on Monday eveningon their way home from a rabbit hunting expedition in the neighborhood of Pine Grove Mills. | —Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Cook’s family party at Christmas includ all their children, Miss Margaret Cook, Janes Cook and Mr. and Mrs. John Hinman Gibson, of Rutherford, N. J. Miss Cook will return to Wellesley College at the open- ing of school. Mr. Cook has already left Belle- fonte and Mrs. Gibson will return to Rutherford next week to join Mr. Gibson, who went to his home there Monday. —Miss Marv M. Snyder closed her millinery shop for the season and went to Baltimore on Wednesday. From Baltimore Miss Snyder and her sister, Mrs. Edward Cooke, will go to New York Friday, expecting to sail Saturday on the Ancon for Panama, where they will visit at Em- pire, with Mrs. Cooke's daughter, Mrs. H. A. Pearce, for two months. Miss Snyder will re. turn to Bellefonte sometime during the early part of March. ——————————————— Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer. The prices quoted are those paid for produce. Potatoes per bushel, new... Onions... 20s Eggs, per dozen... $1.00 Lard, per pound... 5 Butter per pound 35 Bellefonte Grain Markets. Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER, The following are the quotations up to six o’clock Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press. NewWheat..., Old Wheat... % Rye, per bushel... 70 Corn, shelled, per . 70 Corn, ears, per bushet 70 Oats, old and new, pe 40 Barley, per bushel...... 60 The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. Wheat—Red .... $ 91%@%R —No. 2 90% @91 Corn —Yellow. 2@72 ‘ —Mixed new 0@71¥ OBE iui insure ibsnrarvonensnss insion @45 Flour —Winter, per barrel... 3.75@4.00 * _—Favorite Brands.. .. 4.75@5.15 Rye Flour per barrel.................... . 3.50@3.60 Baled Hay—Choice Timothy No. 1.... 10.00@18.50 Mixed No. 1........ 14.50@17.00 SUTAW. colores vestmesiisnssinicicsioniin stnisvnssdan 15. The Best Advertising Medium in Centra Pennsylvania. 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