3 | OLD CounciL HoLps FINAL MEETING, eutarralic ! NEW COUNCIL ORGANIZES. —Six members STAD , were present at the final meeting of the 1912-13 borough council at ten o’clock on Monday morning, namely: President Keller and Messrs. Beezer, Brockerhoff, Cherry, Daggett and Seibert. There were no verbal nor written communica- tions. The Water committee reported several meters repaired and set at the zero mark on January 2nd. The secretary reported notifying the county commissioners that the proposi- tion of a settlement with them for the borough’s share of the High street bridge had been accepted and ratified by coun- cil. He also stated that notice had been served on J. S. Keichline to remove the obstruction on the race bridge and the same had been done. The burgess’ report for the month of December showed a balance due the bor- ough of $11.00, for which amount his check was given. The borough solicitor reported that the agreement with the State-Centre Electric company had been consummat- ed as of date November 18th, 1913, and that the borough treasurer had received a check for $5,000 and five notes for $2,- 000 each, bearing four per cent. interest, payable yearly from 1914 to 1918 inclu- sive. He also reported that a lease had been drawn up for the rent of the Phoe- nix mill buildings to G. R. Danenhower & Sons, that the same had been duly signed by the president and secretary of council and sent to the head office of the firm in Camden, N. J., for their signa- ture. The president reported that an agree- ment extending the lease of Phoenix mill plant from Col. W. Fred Reynolds had been executed on December 2nd, 1913. The borough solicitor reported enter- ing liens for 1910 taxes and reviving all liens open prior to December 31st, 1913. Treasurer Gehret’s report showed a balance of $1304.62 December 1st, 1913, with receipts to January 1st, 1914, show- ing a total of $13,947.37; expenditures of $7934.87, leaving a balance January 1st, 1914, of $6313.00. Dr. Brockerhoff then read a statement submitted by tax collector J. Kennedy Johnston, which was as follows: 1908 Duplicate. Balance due thereon, as per Auditors’ report of Jan 6th, 1913 1909 Duplicate. Balance due Belletonte, Pa., January 9, 1914. To CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. : THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. ——The days are growing longer, but hardly enough, as yet, to notice it. ——The Bellefonte Academy and State College reopened this week for the win- ter term. ——The meat market of Hannah & Thompson in Crider’s Exchange was closed by the sheriff last Friday. ——The annual meeting of the Belle- fonte Board of Trade was held last night after the WATCHMAN went to press. ——NMiss Sallie Fitzgerald on Tuesday | opened a kindergarten school in the | parochial house, adjoining the Episcopal ; rectory, with fourteen pupils. ——David Geiss, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wagner Geiss, is seri- ously ill with pleuro-pneumonia, and their daughter Martha is also quite ill. ——Henry Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. McClellan Davis, has taken the agency for the Overland automobile for 1914. He now has two cars on exhibition at Sebring’s garage." ——The ‘postponed meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will convene at the home of Miss Mary Hunter Linn Monday evening, January 12th, at half-past seven. ——NMiss Florence Evey, one of the operators in the Commercial telephone exchange has been confined to her homé two weeks or more with illness, and at this writing is very little improved. ——The county auditors are now hard at work auditing the accounts of the var- ious county officers. This is a job that grows bigger every year and it will take from five to six'weeks to do the work. ——A large granite slab was received in Bellefonte on Tuesday as a covering over the graves of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Sommerville. The slab weighs seven tons and it took six horses to haul it to the cemetery. . ——A little daughter, who has been <alled, Anna Ione, was born to Mr. and Mrs. T. Coke Bell, of Coatesville, Mon- «day December 22nd. As this is Mr. and Mrs. Bell's only child, the little one is a most welcome guest. —NMirs. E. M. Broderick (nee Miss Mame Hamilton) became the mother of an eight pound baby girl, at the Belle- fonte hospital, on Monday morning. A 900 00 $3200 00 1350 00 Less payments thereon to Jan. 5th, 1914 . $1850 00 $3026 94 1912 Duplicate. Balance due little son arrived in the3home of Mr. and | Less egonersiions. fics and 2 Mrs. Mark Williams the latter part of cashipaili;.....ovrencriien 1878 25 $3124 13 last week. Total due onold duplicates. $8001 07 ——The question now is, did the new | '°I3, Duplicate Balance due 3603 00 council legalize gambling in the borough| Total present liability of Colector...........cervee i $11604 07 when they drew lots to see who should get the long term and who the short? If so, the last Legislature is to blame for passing the Act providing for the choice to be made by drawing lots. ——On Monday evening burgess Ed- mund Blanchard tendered an informal reception to the members of council, bor- ough and county officers and Judge Ellis L. Orvis, at his home on east Linn street. Refreshments were served and the gen- tlemen spent a very pleasant social ever.- ing. ——Farmer’s week exercises at State College closed on Saturday and the week was by far the most successful of that of any former year. The total registra- tion of farmers and farmers wives was just 985 for the week, and the lectures and demonstrations included a wide range of subjects. ——The will of the late Israel Kauff- man bequeaths $1,000 to his housekeeper: Mrs. Purdue; $3,000 to Mrs. Harry Eberhart, of east Lamb street, who was an adopted daughter; and the balance of his estate, including the town house and farm, to his second adopted daughter, Mrs. Laura Smith. ——Philip Beezer this week purchased from Samuel A. Donachy the old Jacob Runkle property on east Bishop street. It is a large brick residence with a good- sized yard and garden. Mr. Beezer and family will move there on April first from itheir present residence in the Schad house on Thomas street. On motion of Dr. Brockerhoff the state- ment was ordered filed as a part of the Finance committee's report. Dr. Brockerhoff, as a member of the Finance committee, presented the follow- ing resolution: WHEREAS: The sinking fund of this borough consists of $18,300.57 in the form of certificates of deposit bearing three per cent. interest, and three sinking fund orders of $2,000.00 and $4,000.00 respectively, each having not yet been converted into cash; and, WHEREAS, The treasurer of this borough now has in his possession $5000.00 in cash and five notes of the Moshannon Electric company, guar- anteed by the State-Centre Electric company, in the sum of $2000.00 each, duein November, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918, bearing interest at the jas of four per cent. per annum. Therefore e it Resolved, That the said treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to convert into cash $10,000.00 of the aforesaid certificates of deposit; to substitute therefore the said five notes aggre- gating the same amount; to apply $6,000.00 of the cash so received to the payment of the afore- said three sinking fund orders; and to apply the remainder of the cash so received, viz.: The sum of $4,000.00, together with the $5.000.00 of cash before mentioned, toward the payment and liquidation of such outstanding notes of this borough as council may direct. Passed at a meeting of said town council held on Monday, the fifth day of January, A. D., 1914. BOROUGH OF BELLEFONTE, By HARRY KELLER. President of the Town Secretary of the Council of the Borough of Town Council of Bellefonte. the Borough of Bellefonte. And now, January 5th, 1914, above resolution is hereby approved. ‘ JOHN J. BOWER, . Chiet Burgess. Bills amounting to $5,801.48 (which in- cluded an order for $4,000 to the sinking fund for 1912 and 1913) were approved and orders authorized to be drawn and paid. The Finance committee then recom- mended that the list of exonerations asked by the tax collector for the years 1908 and 1909 be granted, and council so voted. There being no other business to clean up president Keller arose and in a brief speech thanked the members of council for their ever courteous and gentleman- ly treatment of him as their presiding of- ficer the past two years. He also com- plimented them upon the good work they accomplished during the past year. He also paid a tribute to the borough treas- urer for his business-like administration and to the borough solicitor for the faith- ful discharge of every duty, even though the salary was very meagre for the work required. Mr. Brockerhoff then took the floor and on behalf of council thanked the re- tiring president for his courtesy and fair- ness at all times. The doctor further said that while he was scattering flowers on the biers of the departed he thought that the members of council themseives deserved considerable praise. That they had always had the best interests of the borough at heart and had never on any occasion allowed politics to enter into their actions. No star chamber proceed- ings nor gum shoe methods had been re- Attest: W. T. KELLY. The largest mortgage ever enter- ed for record in Centre county is now in the office of Recorder Speer and it will take two weeks continuous work to get it transcribed on the record books. It is a general mortgage of $667,000,000, against the N. Y.C. R. R. and must be entered in all countiesin which that road owns property. ——John Spearley, who the past two or three years has occupied the C. Y. Wagner farm in Benner township, which was sold to James Kerstetter last week, has purchased the Colonel W. Fred Reynolds No. 1 farm, on the back road above Roopsburg. The farm contains about eighty acres and Was oc- cupied by Mr. Spearley before he moved onto the Wagner farm. ——Milton Bickle, of Zion, recently purchased through the George C. Waite real estate agency of Tyrone, the Wm. M. Way farm in Warriorsmark township, Huntingdon county, for $8,000, and will move there in the spring. Lawrence Gill, of Patton, Cambria county, pur- chased through the same agency the H. F. Cogan farm in Taylor township, Cen- tre county, paying $1,800 for the same. sessions and discussions. When council was ushered in there were bills and notes galore, a white elephant on its hands in the shape of the Green mill property, and several tnreatened law suits. The white elephant has been disposed of, the threatened law suits all amicably adjust- ed, bills reduced and $9.000 appropriated to pay off some of the floating indebted- ness. In addition he displayed Bellefonte Trust company certificates of deposit for $18,000 and five State Centre Electric company notes for $10,000 as available assets. Retiring burgess John J. Bower also made a few remarks after which the sec- retary read the minutes of the meeting which were approved and council ad- ourned sine die. BURGESS SWORN IN, NEW COUNCIL ORGAN- 1ZES. Immediately after the adjournment of the old council Edmund Blanchard was sworn in as burgess of Bellefonte for the ensuing four years by the retiring bur- gess, John J. Bower. Burgess Blanchard then administered the oath of office to the incoming councilmen as follows: North ward, W. A. Lyon and Hard P. Harris; South ward, F. E. Naginey and James D. Seibert; West ward, W. Rey- nolds Shope and G. Edward Haupt. Secretary of council W. T. Kelly then called the council to order and announc- ed that he would receive nominations for president. Mr. Naginey nominated . Mr. Brockerhoff. That gentleman immedi- ately withdrew as a candidate and nomi- nated Mr. Walker. No other nomina- tions being made Mr. Brockerhoff moved that the nominations close. On motion the secretary was instructed to cast the ballot electing Mr. Walker. Mr. Walker being absent on account of illness Mr. Brockerhoff was chosen president pro tem. and took the chair. He then announced that he was ready to hear nominations for secretary of council, Mr. Seibert nominated W. T. Kelly. Mr. Haupt nominated D. Wagner Geiss, who agreed to act as clerk and collect the water tax for $240.00 per year. An aye and nay ballot was taken, the vote being as follows: Kelly—Cherry, Harris, Naginey, Lyon, Seibert, Brockerhoft. Geiss—Haupt. Shope declined to vote on the ground that he did not know enough about the proposition to vote on it. As it was, how- ever, Kelly received six votes and Geiss one, and Kelly was declared elected. Borough solicitor J. Thomas Mitchell then notified the new councilmen that one of their number was entitled to serve only two years and that an Act of the Legislature prescribed that the choice was to be made by drawing lots. The six drew lots and Mr. Naginey drew. the short term. All the others will serve for four years. Council then adjourned until Wednesday evening. The new council convened in their first regular session at 7.30 o'clock on Wednesday evening. President Walker was in the chair and every member pres- ent. The first order of business was the announcement by the president of the standing committees for the ensuing year, as follows: Finance.—Brockerhoff, Lyon, Naginey. Street. —Harris, Seibert, Brockerhoff. Water.—Seibert, Cherry, Shope. Fire and Policce—Naginey, Seibert, Harris. Market.—Haupt, Naginey, Cherry. Sanitary.—Shope, Haupt, Lyon. Village Improvement.—Cherry, Brock- erhoff, Harris. Special — Lyon, Harris, Seibert. There were no verbal communications and under the head of written communi- cations the secretary read the following list of applications for the various ap- pointments: Borough engineer.—J. Henry Wetzel and William H. Brown, Bellefonte; Wil- liam M. Derberard, Woolrich; Harry J. Muehler, Clearfield. Si Fireman at water Shultz. Street commissioner.—John McGovern Sr.; William Fredericks and Harry B. Kerns. Collector of water rentals.— William A. Ishler. Chief of police.—Harry Dukeman; po- liceman, Jacob S. Knisely. PS The president referred all applications to the various committees for consulta- tion and report at the next regular meet- ing after which council adjourned. Brockerhoff, Shope, works.—Miles ——Mrs. Joseph Ceader gave a bridge party New Year’s eve. Mrs. John Noll entertained with a dinner on New Year's day. Mrs. J. J. Kilpatrick was hostess at a card party Friday night, and Joseph Ceader entertained a number of friends at dinner Monday evening. Mrs. John D. Miller, of Curtin street, entertained at dinner yesterday, for which ten covers were laid, the guests being members of a woman's club from Hublersburg and Nit- tany, of which Mrs. Miller was a mem- ber before coming to Bellefonte. ——There may be a deep snow and rough weather outdoors but the Scenic is always comfortable and many of the pictures are bright reminders of the sun- ny, summer days. Everybody is always welcome and the five cent price of ad- mission need keep no one away. Good programs every evening, and some even- ings four big reels. No better place for an evening's amusement in Bellefonte. Everybody says so, and what everybody says must be true. Try it as a regular patron. sorted to but everything done in open | heaviest snow experienced in Centre county in years fell on Saturday and Sun- day. It began on Saturday morning and although in Bellefonte and immediate vicinity most of Saturday’s downfall was rain and sleet in other sections of the i county it was snow. In Bellefonte it be- gan to snow in earnest Saturday night and continued through Sunday, Sunday night and Monday morning. In this place there were about fifteen inches. At Pleasant Gap twenty-one inches; Snow Shoe two feet and down Pennsvalley from two to two and a half feet. The temperature was comparatively mild and the snow melted more or less, else the depth would probably have been greater. The snow was very wet and conse- quently heavy, the result being that con- siderable damage was done. Quite a number of telephone wires throughout the county were put out of service and it was several days before complete communication was restored. Many buildings were damaged by the weight of the snow, among them being the fol- lowing in Bellefonte: William J. Musser’s stable on east Lamb street, roof caved in, damaging building. Lewin property on east Linn street, occupied by Mrs. Geo. F. Harris, stable roof collapsed. building. creek, entire roof fell in. On Edward Jodon farm between Nigh bank and Pleasant Gap, barn roof col- lapsed, pushing front of barn out into the barn yard. On the Noll farm at Pleasant Gap, barn roof collapsed, spreading and al- most completely wrecking the building. The barn was 40x80 feet in size and it will cost at least $1,500 to repair it. The roof on J. C. Mulfinger’s barn in Pleasant Gap, and that on J. H. Herman's stable at Pleasant Gap also fell in, dam- aging the buildings to some extent. On the mountain above Coleville the roofs on the barns of G. Edward Haupt and Lemuel Hampton collapsed. A big shed roof on the Shivery farm near Roopsburg went down with the weight of the snow. At Waddle the outbuildings on the Reed farm on Buffalo Run collapsed. Near Lemont the barn roofs on the farms of Jacob Ray and Elmer Ross col- lapsed but did no further damage. At State College the snow crushed all of Phil D. Foster’s coal sheds and a few outbuildings, but did no great amount of damage. BUDINGER’S STORE AT SNOW SHORE BURNED TO THE GROUND.— The whole- sale and retail store of T. B. Budinger, at Snow Shoe, was burned to the ground. | with all its contents on Monday night. The fire was discovered between twelve and one o'clock, in the second story of the main part of the store room, and had gained such headway that it was impos- sible to combat the flames with the meagre fire fighting apparatus at hand. In fact, the entire building was a mass of flames very soon after being discovered. The fire evidently resulted from an over- heated or defective flue, and it spread so rapidly that it was impossible to save anything in the store. In addition to his retail trade Mr. Budinger did a good wholesale business and always carried a stock valued at from $35,000 to $45,000. The store build- ing was of frame and was probably worth five or six thousand dollars, so that the loss was considerable. While the exact figures of the insurance could not be obtained Mr. Budinger stated that it was from $20,000 to $25,000 on both stock and building, which only about one-half covers their value. a SMALLPOX AT STATE COLLEGE.—The borough of State College has one well de- fined case of genuine smallpox in the per- son of Mrs. Harry D. Edmiston. The wom- an took sick the latter part of last week and on Saturday she began to show a breaking out which was thought might be chickenpox. By Sunday, however, the case had developed to such a stage that the disease was pronounced smallpox. Consequently the public schools of the borough were kept closed on Monday and the building thoroughly fumigated. It was planned to reopen the schools either Wednesday or yesterday. Wheth- er the breaking out of the disease in the borough will have any ef- fect on the college proper is not known. Most of the students who were home for the holiday vacation returned this week and it is hardly likely any will stay away. The Edmiston home has been strictly quarantined and every effort will be put forth to prevent the spread of the disease. ——Beech Creek has two young men in the persons of Joseph and Robert Sanders, sons of Peter Sanders, who have achieved wide reputations as hunters. During 1913 they killed 90 rabbits, 31 pheasants, 18 squirrels, 11 muskrats, 12 wild ducks, 80 opossums, 2 skunks 5 owls and 3 groundhogs. Both young men are expert marksmen and rarely fail in bringing down their quarry. ——Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Bell with their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert J. Bell, moved yesterday from the Nittany country club to Bellefonte. Until April first the club will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Herman. Have your Job Work done here. HEAVIEST SNOW IN YEARS Causes | MucH DAMAGE.—The deepest and: the ! James Schofield, or south Thowas | street, stable roof collapsed, damaging Linn street, expecting to spend the remainder of R. B. Taylor's ice house, up Spring | —Mrs. H. W. Tate, who went to Philadelphia | NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. —Miss Rose Rine, of Nittany, was the guest . of her sister, Mrs. Edward Young, part of last 3 week. | —Mrs. John Slack, of Tusseyville, has been a : guest this week of her sister, Mrs. John Musser, in this place. —Mrs. Sylvester Beach, of Princeton, came to : Bellefonte Tuesday, and during her short stay will be the guest of relatives. i —Mrs. William McClellan returned home last | week from ‘a visit of several weeks with her | daughter, Mrs. Blair Yarnell, in Snow Shoe. | —Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell left Bellefonte on | Tuesday morning for Boston, Mass., where she expects to be until the latter part of the month. —Malin Murphy returned to his home in Phil- | adelphia Saturday, after spending the Holiday's in Bellefonte with his sister, Mrs. Ralph Mallory. | —Mrs. Charles Morris and her son Elliott, went to Wayne, Pa., Monday, where Elliott entered St. Luke’s, a preparatory school for boys. —Harold Gardner is in Milroy with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sheffer and their family, for a week’s vacation, before beginning his work at the Col- lege. —Bond Sommerville, of Crafton, Pa., was in Bellefonte Monday, making the final arrange- ments for placing the tablet on the Sommerville lot in the cemetery. —Mrs. A. Wilson Norris, who has been the guest of the Misses Blanchard and of Mrs. Bogle, during her stay in Bellefonte, left Tuesday for her home at Harrisburg. —Mrs. Furey Larimer, who is in Philadelphia with her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Larimer, left Bellefonte before Christmas, ex- | | Pecting to make a visit of several weeks. —Mrs. Frank Montgomery and her sister, Miss | Hassel, are preparing to close their home on east | the winter in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. | a week ago, is visiting with her mother and sis- | ter, Mrs. Harmer and Miss Mabel Harmer. Mrs. Tate will probably not return to Bellefonte be- | fore March. —Mrs. Harry Houser, of Colona, was sum- moned home last week on account of the serious iliness of her father, Mr. David Rossman, who suffered a stroke of paralysis, at his home on Nittany mountain. —Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Katz, of Lewistown, who were married at Canton, Ohio, Tuesday of last week, will be in Bellefonte to spend the week- end with Mr. Katz’ father, Aaron Katz, whose home is at the Bush house. 7 —J. E. Hall, who since graduating at State College in the class of ’95, has made his home with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hall, at Unionville, spent Tuesday in Bellefonte visiting and looking after some business interest. —Mrs. Joseph Shulty, of Jamestown, N. Y., returned home on Tuesday after a pleasant holi- day visit with friends in this place. She was ac- companied by her sister, Mrs. Edward Woods, who will be her guest for a week or longer. —Miss Mary S. Thomas returned Tuesday from Philadelphia, where she has been since early in the winter. Miss Thomas has taken charge of her house on north Allegheny street, expecting to remain in Bellefonte for the present. —Mrs. J. M. Curtin, of Pittsburgh, having with her her daughter Betty, came to Bellefonte Wednesday, and will spend ten days with her mother, Mrs. George F. Harris. During Mrs. Curtin’s absence, Mr. Curtin will be south on a business trip. —Mrs. George S. Green. of Lock Haven, was in Bellefonte for the week-end, spending the time with her cousins, the Misses Blanchard. Mrs. Green's two little daughters, who have been with their aunt, Miss Green, at Briarly, returned with their mother to Lock Haven. —Miss Daisy Brisbin, of Scottland, Pa., and her sister, Miss Kathryn Brisbin, were among the guests whom Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Spangler enter- tained during the Holidays. Miss Brisbin returned to Scottland Monday, while Mrs. Robb will re- main in Bellefonte for a longer visit. —Miss Emily Parker, of Somerset, accom- panied by her niece and nephew, Eleanor and Ferguson Parker, came to Bellefonte Saturday from Pittsburgh, where she had taken the young people from Somerset, for a two days visit. Miss Parker returned to Cambria county Monday. —Mrs. Margaret Hanna will leave Bellefonte the 16th of February for the Pacific coast. Stop- ping in Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City. Mrs. Hanna expects to reach Colton, Cal., about the first of March, where she will visit with a mar- ried daughter until June, when she will return east over the Canadian Pacific. —Mrs. Telford Fink, with her daughter Eliza- beth, returned to their home at Huntingdon, Thursday. Mrs. Fink and her daughter came to Bellefonte with Mr. Fink to spend Christmas | with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Osmer. Mr. and | Mrs. Clarence Osmer, of Johnstown, were here also at the same time, guests of their relatives in Bellefonte. —Mor. and Mrs. Harold Kirk left for their home in North Tonawanda, N. Y., on Monday. Mrs. Kirk had been here since Thanksgiving while Mr. Kirk came to Bellefonte the day before Christmas. The latter is employed by the North Tonawanda Iron & Steel company, of which W. A. Moore is superintendent, and holds a very | good position. —Among the holiday guests whom Mr. and Mrs. James K. Barnhart entertained at their their summers on their farm at Potters Mills, this county, and it was because of this latter fact that Mr. Thomas spent the week at the College gathering all the practical information possible as to how to make the most money out of farm- ing. —The Altoona Tribune says: O. B. Krebs, of the Kipple cottage farm, has returned from a visit to his old home in Centre county, where they grow everything big and great, including numerous Governors for the State. On Christmas day Mr. Krebs attended the family reunion at the old homestead near Pine Grove Mills and en- joyed a dinner fit for a king, with twenty-five other members of the Krebs family—a real family reunion. Later he visited State College, Lemont and Centre Hall. —'Squire W. J. Carlin, of Rebersburg, was in Bellefonte on Monday lifting his commission as justice of the peace for his seventh term, being one of twenty-seven men who were sworn in as justices that day. ’Squire Carlin has served six terms, or almost thirty-two years and if he lives to serve out the term upon which he has just entered, and which we hope he will do, he will have served thirty-eight consecutive years in that office. Speaking of Saturday and Sunday's big snow the ’Squire says it was over two feet in Brush and Pennsvalleys and that it took them two hours and a-half to drive from Rebersburg to Coburn, a trip that usually can be made in a | with Mrs. Alice Parker, —Miss Marie Walshis in Bayonne, N. J., visit- ing, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Claire Williams. —Mrs. Cyrus Labe is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lose, after visiting for several weeks with her husband in Altoona. —Mrs. Harry C. Yeager, Mrs, Ralph Mallory and Mrs. Ross Parker went to Altoona Wed- { nesday, to spend a day in the shops. —Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Krumrine, of State College, were in Bellefonte Saturday of last week on their way to New York city. —Nelson Robk, of State College and Louis Robb, of Altoona, were in Bellefonte with their mother, Mrs. Alice Robb, for the week-end. —Mrs. James A. Beaver is home from Atlantic City, where she has been with her sister, Mrs Hayes, since the death of Dr. Hayes, two weeks ago. —Miss Dorothy Bible returned Wednesday to Philadelphia, after spending the fall and early winter in Bellefonte with her sister, Mrs. Russell Blair. —Miss Madge Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. David Kelly, Bellefonte, Sunday. —John D. Sourbeck went to New York last week, expecting to visit with his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Bellringer, while looking after some business. —John Hall, of York, Pa., who for a number of years was conductor on the Central Railroay of Pennsylvania, spent several days in Bellefonte last week. who is the guest of accompanied them to upon their return from New York —Among those who spent the New Years day at her home on east Bishop street, were Paul Parker and Miss Hazel Sallada, of Jersey Shore. —Mrs. Warren Else, of Pittsburgh, with her daughter Olive, came to Bellefonte last week, and will visit for some time with Mrs. Else moth- er, Mrs. Anna Taylor and her family. —Mrs. Nora Shelden and her grandson Gregg Shelden, came to Bellefonte Monday from Con- necticut, where they have been with Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shelden, during the holidays. —During their stay of a week in Bellefonte, Mrs. William Dravo, of Sewickly, and Miss Mary Simpson, of Lock Haven, have been guests of Miss Brockerhoff and Miss Marguerite Potter. —Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia, is spending a short time with her mother, Mrs. William Dawson, before leaving for Castleton, N. D, where she will visit with her daughter, Mrs. Walter H. Dahl. —Miss Mary McGarvey will go to Philadelphia early in the week, to spend several days in se- lecting a camera for the new work she is about to begin. During her stay in the city Miss McGarvey will be in touch with the leading photographers of Philadelphia. —Miss Margaret McKnight, who with her sister, Miss Martha McKnight, lives along the mountains, a short distance west of Bellefonte, spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week in town, looking after some business relative to the’ McKnight estate. Miss McKnight when in Bellefonte is always the guest of some of her many friends. —Prof. and Mrs, John Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. James I. Thompson, of State College, were visitors in Bellefonte vesterday. Prof. Hamilton, by the way, has resigned his position as director of farmers’ institutes in the United States De- partment of Agriculture and moved from Wash- ington to his farm home near State College, and will take life a little easier during the remaining years of his life, | ——Robert E. Urell, a cousin of landlord Wells L. Daggett, of the Bush house, who several months ago was in- stalled as postmaster of Mansfield, Tioga county, issued a greeting to all patrons of the office | through the Mansfield Advertiser last week in which he showed the big holiday business done through the postoffice and the increase over the previous year. Mr. Urell is quite well known in Bellefonte, having resided here a year or longer and we can assure the people of Mansfield that they could not have a better postmaster than he will make. owe ——At a meeting of the Patrons Fire Insurance company on Monday all the old officers were re-elected for another year. er ——— Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer. The prices quoted are those paid for produce, Potatoes per bushel, new re est raisin ra ages 75 Onions $1,00 Eggs, per dozen. 35 Lard, per pound. 12 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....................... 90 Id Wheat......... 90 Rye, per bushel..... 70 Corn, shelled, per bushel. 70 orn, ears, per bushel............. 70 Oats, old and new, per bushel... 40 Barley, perbushel........... coon 60 er ———————— Philadelphia Markets. The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening, Linn street home were Mrs. Barnhart’s sisters, Wheat—Red Setaasteseseisuveiiirinansasaasreaeass $ 91%@92 the Misses Margaret and Cora Campbell, of Corn No = o Ls Punxsutawney. Miss Margaret Campbell came | “fix 0@71% to Bellefonte before Christmas, remaining for a | Oats......... siukssvetraais 45@45%, part of a week. Her visit was followed by that | Flour Winter, n Brards rest of her sister, who was with Mrs. Barnhart until Rye Flour per barrel......... 3.50@3.60 Monday ee) Be eis oe I —Mr. Clifford H. Thomas was a Bellefonte | Straw... c.....co.oooovooeooors oo 9.00@15.50 visitor over Sunday on his way from attending’ —_— the Farmer's week exercises at State College to | The Best Advertising Medium in Centra his winter home in New York city. Mr. Thomas Pennsylvania. and family spend their winters in New York and Mac 1 A strictly Democratic publication with indepen- dence enough to have, and with ability and cour- age to express, its own views, printed in eight- page form—six columns to page—and is read every week by more than ten thousand responsi- ble people. 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