Belletonte, Pa., August 14, 1914.
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THE CENTRE COUNTY FAIR. —Bill post- |
fully lithographed bills all over Centre | last week on the question of a sewer
' county of the big Centre county fair | down Bishop street from the brick school
i which will be held in Bellefonte Sep- house, but instead of building itin the
tember Ist to 4th inclusive, and inside of | street are putting it down through the
published unless accompanied by the real name 2@ week the premium list will be dis- | . rear lots of the property owners. This
the writer.
tributed. Coming as it does so early in | is regarded the better plan for all con-
the season the outlook for a fine string cerned, and cheaper because terra cotta
——The school board and Street com- ;
! mittee of borough council got together :
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. of race horses is very good. But racing | pipe can be used.
alone cannot make a good fair. There
——Miss Sarah Wetzel has accepted a myst be exhibits and the larger and finer F
position in Katz & Co's store.
——Rev. R. W. lllingsworth has re- is the part that must be carried by the
signed as general secretary ot the P. R. farmers of Centre county.
R. Y. M. C. A. of Tyrone.
the display the better the fair. And this
The premium list is enticing enough |
——Hon. John Noll is this week in- ' to justify farmers going to considerable | |
stalling a large new washer in his steam trouble to prepare and bring to the fair |
laundry on south Water street.
——A new concrete pavement has
been put down in front of the James
Curtin property on Allegheny street.
——Take an auto spin to Milesburg to-
morrow (Saturday) evening and attend
the festival to be held by Our Boys band.
——Mrs. Thomas R. Hayes is having |!
her household goods packed up for ship- |
ment to her new home at Atlantic City. | was established several years ago, and
Mrs. Thomas Weaver, ot Pleasant they will always be given proper en-
Gap, was taken to the Lock Haven hos- | couragement.
pital on Tuesday to undergo an opera- |
tion.
are being made on north Thomas street
in the matter of new pavements and new
crossings.
——Dr. D. G. Stewart last week re-
ceived a large and handsomely mounted
Moose head, a trophy of his hunt in the
wilds of Canada last fall.
——So far as now known the picnic
season at Hecla park will close on Labor
day, September 7th, when there will be
a big gathering of the Patriotic Order of
Sons of America.
——Class No. 10 of the U. B. church
will hold a bake sale on Saturday after-
noon and evening, August 15th, in the
basement of the church. The patronage
of the public is solicited.
——On account of the war in Ger-
many the No-Grow-In company has been
notified that they could not be supplied
at present with German corks, the kind
most suited to their use.
——A meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Centre County Veteran
club will be held in the office of W. H.
Musser tomorrow, to arrange for their
annual reunion this year.
——The Leathers Bros, of Howard,
will pull off a big land sale at Mill Hall
today and tomorrow and a free train will
be run to that place over the Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania.
——The second annual Kyper reunion
will be held on the old homestead farm
one mile from McConnellstown on Satur-
day, September 5th. Hon. Benjamin K.
Focht, of Lewisburg, will be the speech-
maker of the day.
——The Young People’s society of the
Milesburg Methodist church will hold a
measuring social on Friday evening Aug.
twenty-first. Ice cream and cake will be
served during the evening to those com-
plying with the measuring rules.
——J. M. Keichline, agent for the
Dubuque Fire Insurance Co. of Dubuque,
Iowa, on August 10th, 1914, delivered a
draft to William H. Baird, of State Col-
lege, for $1825.00 for partial loss on his
property, settlement satisfactory with
the assured.
——Rhoads & Knisely have started
work on the building of a concrete wall
in the rear of the Palace livery stable to
keep the stable refuse from falling into
Spring creek and polluting the water, an
improvement that has been badly needed
for some time.
——Two prisoners, handcuffed togeth-
er, were taken from the new penitentiary
back to the old penitentiary at Pitts-
burgh last Saturday. They were ring
leaders in a free-for-all fight that took
place among a few of the prisoners on
Friday evening.
——On Wednesday word was received
in Millheim that R. S. Stover had been
appointed postmaster to succeed Jerome
Spigelmyer, who has occupied the office
over sixteen years. Henry D. Krape was
appointed postmaster at Aaronsburg to
succeed his brother, John F. Krape.
——Moving pictures at the Scenic
every evening at seven o'clock, except
Saturday evening when the doors open
at 6:30. Five cents will admit you each
evening except Wednesday, when there
will be a special ten cent show. The
world’s famous actors every Wednesday
evening. Change of program every night.
—In some way an impression has
gotten around throughout the county
that the big Williams family reunion will
be held tomorrow, August 15th. This is
a mistake as the date for the picnic as
originally named is Saturday, August
22nd. The Baileyville picnic will}be held
tomorrow and the Hazel-Schaeffer re-
union at Madisonburg next Thursday,
August 20th.
——S. A. Donachy this week soid his
store on Allegheny street to James
Heverley, of Pittsburgh, but formerly of
Howard. In addition to conducting the
notion store Mr. Heverley will fit up the
basement as an auto supply store and
vulcanizing room for vulcanizing tries.
Mr. Heverley is now in Pittsburgh ar-
ranging to move his family here and
take charge of the store. The Donachys
will vacate the house in connection with’
the store which will be occupied by Mr.
. have a chance to win money for good
Some very decided improvements ' be seen for little money; a splendid free
Heverley and family.
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, big exhibits of stock, poultry and farm
‘products. There is a premium for every | .
good thing exhibited. The ladies, too, |
cooking as well as needlework and fancy
work. And it must be admitted that
they have always been well represented
at the fair. The same careful attention
! will be given this year to the children’s
| department as has been given since it
The fair management has arranged for
a good line of side attractions that can
! exhibition on the platform at the judges
stand, and music by a superior band. As
in former years no gambling will be al-
lowed on or near the grounds and every
effort will be made to protect the crowd
from picketpockets and sneak thieves.
Remember the fair is less than three
weeks off so begin making your plans
now to attend.
Hot WEATHER.—One of the hottest
spelis of weather we have had this sum-
mer was from Friday last until Monday
night. It was exceedingly warm every-
where, but the hottest place was at Cole-
ville, according to station master Dominic
Judge. Mr. Judge began to feel the heat
shortly after two o’clock in the afternoon
and remarked to his assistant in the
office that it must be awful hot outside.
With doors and windows shut to exclude
the heat it still seemed to be growing un-
bearable. Finally, with perspiration
trickling down his face and his clothes
saturated Mr. Judge said “Charlie, this
is h—1,” and made a dash from behind
the railing for the door. And then, hor-
ror of horrors, he discovered that he had
been working with his back not more
than three feet from a red hot stove.
The station at Coleville is equipped with
a big egg stove and Mr. Judge alwavs
keeps it laid with kindling to be ready
for any emergency. Saturday afternoon
road engineer Norman R. Wright drop-
ped into the station and lighting his pipe
threw the burning match into the stove
and walked out. The kindling caught
and the fire in the stove soon made itself
manifest. But aside from the Coleville
station the thermometer registered well
up in the nincties for four days, with
little let-up at night.
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AMONG THE SIicK.—Dr. Cruse, of Phila-
delphia, a lung specialist, was in Belle-
fonte on Tuesday and assisted in an ope-
ration performed for the relief,if possible,
of R. S. Brouse, who has been ill at his
home on Thomas street, the past six
weeks, with an abscess of the lungs. His
condition was found to be very bad and:
is now so critical that little hope is enter-
tained of his recovery.
Mrs. James Parsons, of McKeesport,
who prior to her marriage was Miss
Florence Lowery, is so critically ill that
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Low-
ery, were summoned to McKeesport on
Tuesday. A little daughter was born in
the Parsons household about two weeks
ago and Mrs. Parsons’ illness is the re-
sult of unlooked for complications.
The condition of J. H. Robb continues
to improve slowly.
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BiG BARN BURNED.—During the hard
rain and electrical storm down Nittany
valley about three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon the large barn on the William
H. Beck farm at Nittany was struck by
lightning and burned to the ground.
The farm was tenanted by George Long
and he succeeded in saving his stock and
farm implements but all of this year’s
crops of grain and hay were burned. Mr.
Long's loss is approximately one thousand
dollars and so far as could be learned he
had no insurance. Mr. Beck’s loss on
the barn is partially covered with nine
hundred dollars insurance.
BIGELOW WITHDRAWS RESTRICTIONS.
—Yielding to the pressure brought to
bear against him by the threshermen
and traction engine operators of the
State, Edward M. Bigelow, State High-
way Commissioner, on Monday announc-
ed the withdrawal of all his restricting
rulings on the operation of traction
engines on the state highways, and hence-
forth any thresherman or traction engine
operator who has not yet procured a li-
cense can do so by merely making the
regular application, without signing one
of the restrictive blanks.
DON’T FORGET OUR Boys BAND FEs-
TIVAL.—We again call the attention of
our readers to the festival to ke held by
Our Boys band of Milesburg, on the
green near the public square of that
town, tomorrow (Saturday) evening.
When Milesburg undertakes to do it she
does it right, and that is one reason why
the public may expect something worth
while tomorrow night. The Pleasant
Gap band will furnish the music but Our
Boys band will render one or two pieces.
Give them a boost financially.
——The church peopie of Mount Un-
ion are preparing for a big evangelistic
CENTRE COUNTY TEACHERS.—The sum-
mer session for teachers at The Penn-
sylvania State College, which closed last
week after a six weeks’ term, was at-
tended by 814 teachers of Pennsylvania.
This was the fifth annual session and
the most successful. Among those en-
rolled from Centre county were the fol-
lowing:
Bigelow, Nellie Elizabeth]
Buckhout, Caroline Reed
Kirk, Henrietta N.
Light, John Jacob
. Christ Many Lincoln, Francis
: Churchill, Natalia, Mrs. Lowry, Alice H
Connor, Mart McGinley, Marjorie
| Darling, Grace Winter McQuigg, Lillian Mrs.
Deering, Arthur 'eckham, Jo! i
Glenn, Mary Goheen Pond, Helen P. Mrs. :
! campaign under the leadership of Rev.
j Robert B. Johnson, of Chicago, which
will begin on August 28th and continue
four weeks. A tabernacle capable of
| seating two thousand people is being
erected. Dr. Thomas S. Wilcox, pastor
of the Mount Union Methodist church,
Graham, Jennie Mildred
Hall, Ernest Jackson
Powell. Almeda E.
Putney, Bertha Mrs.
Helwig, Charles Monroe Roop, Nery V.
Hibsham, Carrie, Mrs. Shank, Anna Rlisabeth
| Holter, Henry Walter Shimmel,
is chairman of the executive committee |
of arrangements.
——Publication of the Altoona Evening :
Fleming, Elizabeth Stephens, San
Jones, Herbert Ralph Tate, Fred B.
emerer, Lucy ChristineThomas, Ralph Edward
Kessler, Sara Weber, George G.
Knisely, Pearl M. Weik, Eugene H.
Williard. Katherine F.
——Jacob Thomas Lane is the name
' of a new boy who arrived this week in
Gazette was suspended with Monday's | the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lane,
edition and the paper consolidated with :
the Altoona 77ibune. The Gazette was |
purchased several months ago by a cor-
poration headed by Henry W. Shoe-
maker, of New York city, owners of the Mr. and Wis. ALE. Peston.
Tribune, with the idea of consolidation. !
When business revives and times brighten |
up itis probable that the Tribune will |
issue an evening as well as morning edi- | | to Altoona on Wednesday for a few days’ visit.
tion.
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——The many friends of the Hon. J-
K. P. Hall, who read the WATCHMAN,
will be gratified to learn that he has pro-
gressed so far toward recovery from his
recent serious illness, that he is able to
be about again, and has risked the exer-
tion of a short automobile ride within
the past week. Scores of our people,
who know and admire him, will be glad
to have this information, and will hope
that his recovery to complete health may
be both rapid and permanent.
——The army worm made its appear-
ance in Centre county too late to attack
the wheat, but they ruined a number of
oats fields, damaged the corn and potatoes
in some sections of the county and have
eaten young timothy to the ground in
the stubble fields. Farmers are now won-
dering whether the timothy has been
killed or will the root still live and
grow again next year. While very
destructive on the young timothy the
worm did no damage at all to the young
clover.
BOS mre
——A quiet announcement was made
last Friday of the engagement of ‘Miss
Ruth Wetzel, daughter of Hon. and Mrs.
J. Henry Wetzel, and Millard Hartswick,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hartswick.
Miss Wetzel was a former Centre county !
school teacher but since the marriage of
her sister, Miss Lucille, has been deputy
treasurer in the office of county treasurer
John D. Miller. Mr. Hartswick is a- mail
carrier at the Bellefonte postoffice and is
an industrious young man. No definite
date for the wedding has been made
public.
——The Williams family reunion for
the present year will be held at the usual
place, near Martha Furnace, on Saturday,
August twenty-second. Arrangements
with the railroads have been completed
to have all trains, except the flier going
east about noon, stop at the grounds
which will probably insure a larger crowd
at the reunion than has been usual. For
a number of years this has been much
the largest family reunion held in the
county and if all who can claim connec-
tion with it should attend the gathering
would look more like a county mass
meeting than a family reunion; and the
WATCHMAN hopes that all the Williams’
in the country may be there, and that
every one of them may have a most en-
joyable time.
BIG UNION PICNIC.—A big union picnic
will be held at Hunter's park on Thurs-
day, August 20th, under the auspices of
the Modern Woodmen of America, In-
dependent Order of Red Men, Knights
of the Golden Eagle and the Royal Neigh-
bors of State College. Arrangements
with the Bellefonte Central railroad com-
pany provide for special trains to and
from the park morning, afternoon and
evening to accommodate those desirous
of attending the gathering. A special
will leave State College for the park at
10 o’clock a. m. Returning trains will
leave at 3and 7 p. m. A fine program
of games and prize winning contests has
been arranged. Music will be furnished
by the State College band and refresh-
ments will be provided on the grounds.
GARMAN OPERA HOUSE TO BE REMOD-
ELED.—The contract has been let for the
remodeling of Garman’s opera house,
the work to be completed before the
opening of the theatrical season this fall.
In addition to repainting a new plate
glass pannelled partition will separate
the lobby from the auditorium. Large
plate glass doors will be put in the front
of the hallway and at the rear opening
into the lobby will be new doers with
large oval frosted glass. Linoleum will
be put down in the hallway and lobby
and everything done to make the house
attractive and comfortable. A number
of changes will also be made on the stage
and in the dressing room apartment,
which will add to the convenience of the
show people.
The opening attraction this year will
probably be ‘Potash and Perlmutter,”
the big comedy that has created many a
laugh. “The Yellow Ticket” will be given
early in the season as well as two big
musical attractions.
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NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Harry Brew, of Philadelphia, is a guest of
—Miss Odessa Gamble, of Jersey Shore, is a
| guest at the G. M. Gamble home.
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| made a business trip to Connellsville this week.
—Mrs. Michael Hazel and little son Mike went
—Landlord August Glinz, of the Garman house,
—Miss Ella A. Gates has had as guests this
| week the Misses Dorothy and Helen Young, of .
! Altoona.
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—Miss Elizabeth Eckenroth went down to
Blanchard on Wednesday to spend a week with
relatives.
—Mrs. Cyrus Labe left for Philadelphia on
Sunday where she is having her eyes treated by
a specialist.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Donachy and two chil- |
dren, of Wilkes-Barre, are in Bellefonte for a two
week’s visit.
—Mrs. Lewis C. Wallace went to Tyrone on
Saturday to spend several weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. C. J. Blair.
—MTrs. Frank Warfield and daughter Mary
went over to Newton Hamilton on Wednesday to
remain until tomorrow.
—John D. Sourbeck and and grandson Joseph
went to Jamaica, N. Y., last Saturday for a visit
at the Bellringer home.
—Miss Julia Curtin will leave tomorrow to
spend her two week’s vacation among friends in
Williamsport and Harrisburg.
—Mr. G. Ralph Spigelmyer was in Mifflinburg
on Wednesday attending the funeral of his fath-
er, the late Shem Spigelmyer.
—Miss Adaline Schlatweiler, of St. Louis, a
sister of Mrs. Dale Musser, is a visitor at the W. |
H. Musser home on Lamb street.
—MTr. and Mrs. Harry Otto, of Johnstown, were
Bellefonte visitors over Sunday on their way for ;
a week's sojourn at Atlantic City.
—Mrs. Sara C. Brown returned home on Tues-
day from a six week’s visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Robert Wray, at East Brady.
—Miss Rebie Noll returned home on Tuesday |
after a six week's visit at the Chauncey F. York
summer home at Clark’s Lake, Mich. |
—Mrs. George Lose and her little grand-daugh- |
ter, Elizabeth Labe, spent last week among
friends at Hollidaysburg and Altoona.
—Edward Saylor went to Scottdale last Thurs-
day where he joined a gang of Boy Scouts for a | |
two week’s camp in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia.
—Mrs. Ambrose M. Schmidt returned home on |
Monday evening after a very pleasant visit in !
the home of her brother, Frank H. Stouffer, of
Chambersburg.
—MTrs. Frank Montgomery has closed her home
on Allegheny street and accompanied by her sis-
ter, Miss Hassell, gone to Atlantic City for a
‘nonth’s sojourn.
—After a very pleasant visit at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. J. A. Aiken, Miss Mary John-
ston returned to her home in Braddock the fore-
part of the week.
—Mrs. S. R. Murphy, of Altoona, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Amanda Waite, on north Thomas
street, before going to Denver, Col., to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Sue Holter Rubican.
—Mrs. Caroline Eckley and two daughters, the
Misses Sarah and Etta Eckley, of Mill Hall, came
to Bellefonte on Wednesday for a visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Griffith, at Axe Mann.
— Miss Elizabeth Logan, of Williamsport, who
has many friends in Bellefonte on account of her
frequent visits, is expected here either tomorrow
or Monday for a visit with Mrs. John P. Harris.
—MTr. and Mrs. William H. Brouse, of Seward,
Cambria county, arrived in Bellefonte on Wed-
nesday morning, summoned here on account of
the serious illness of Mr. Brouse’s father, R. S.
Brouse.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Warner, of Reading, on
their way home from a trip to Pittsburgh, came
to Bellefonte on Wednesday for a few days’ visit
with Mrs. Warner's mother, Mrs. G. Hunter
Knisely.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Finkelstine are entertain-
ing Mrs. Finkelstine’s mother, Mrs. B. Goldberg,
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Max Garber and son
Bernard. They expect to be here until the first
of September.
—Miss Marie Walsh, who has been at Bucks-
port, Me, since the first of July, returned home
last night. Miss Margaret Walsh, a graduate
nurse of the Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, is also
home for a brief visit, while Arnold Staley, of
Pittsburgh, has also been a guest at the Walsh
home this week.
—Mr. J. J. Tressler, one of the substantial and
always reliable Democrats of Harris township,
was a pleasant caller on the WATCHMAN on Sat-
urday last and left us under obligations to him to
the extent of a full year’s subscription. There is
no factionalism in Mr. Tressler’s Democracy, nor
has he any respect for the Democracy of those
who are trying to create or build up factions at
the expense of party harmony and party success.
—Mr. William H. Houser, with his daughter,
Miss Minnie Houser, of Grand Island, Neb., ar-
rivedin town last evening and are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. John Strunk, of Thomas street. This
is Mr. Houser’s first visit in thirteen years to his
old home county and naturally he expects a most
enjoyable time looking up the friends of whom
he has so many. His daughter is a teacher in
the Nebraska schools and has been highly suc-
cessful in her vocation.
—Rev. Dr. Ellsworth Shoemaker, who lives in
Cambridge, Mass., but is pastor of a large Con-
gregational church in Boston, has been a guest
this week of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Dorworth.
Although Dr. Shoemaker is a son of Dr. Dor-
worth’s sister this is the first time he has seen
either Dr. Dorworth or any of his family, and his
mother being dead many years he took this occa-
sion todook up his only living uncle on his moth-
er’s side of the house. Dr. Shoemaker will leave
for home today, going by way of Milton where
he will stop off for a brief time to see Miss Alice
Dorworth, who is visiting there.
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—Homer P. Barnes left on Sunday on a trip to
Philadelphia.
—Miss Sallie Fitzgerald returned home last |
week from a month’s visit among friends in Wil-
liamsport.
—Rev. R. C. Betts, of Latrobe, was a guest of
Dr. George E. Hawes and family several days
last week.
—Mrs. John Tonner, of Harrisburg, came to
. Bellefonte on Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. Hen-
; ry P. Harris.
—Mrs. Horton S. Ray is spending this week in |
Tyrone with her sisters, Mrs. Claude Jones and
Mrs. T. F. Connery,
—Miss Anna McCoy returned to Bellefonte on
Tuesday after a week's visit with her aunt, Mrs.
' J. F. Alexander, at Centre Hall.
—Among the Bellefonters who will attend the
big picnic at Baileyville tomorrow will be Recor- !
der Francis Speer and W. B. Rankin.
—Mrs. F. E. Whiting and son Gerald returned
last Saturday from a three week’s visit with
friends at Emporium and Buffalo, N. Y.
—Mrs. Edward Latham and two children, of
Harrisburg, are visiting at the home of Mrs.
Latham’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Haupt.
—Miss Maude Johnston returned home on Sat-
urday evening from Pittsburgh, where she had
been for a month undergoing treatment for her
eyes.
—Miss Sue Garner with her little nephew, Ja-
cob Bottorf, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bottorf, -
spent several days the past week with friends in
, Millheim.
—Miss Margaret Kerstetter, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Webb Kerstetter, of Punxsutawney, is
in Bellefonte visiting her grandmother, Mrs. M.
W. Furey.
—DMrs. Lyde Gibson came up from Philadelphia
a week ago to visit her mother, Mrs. Isaac Thom-
' as, and look after some business matters of her ,
father’s estate.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Blanchard are enter-
' taining Mrs. Blanchard’s sister, Miss Catharine
Donnelly, of Ridley Park, and Miss Vida Wilson,
of Philadelphia.
—M. A. Landsy returned home on Wednesday |
morning from a three week's business trip
through the western part of the State and south- |
western New York.
‘—Warren Else, who came to Bellefonte the lat-
ter part of the week to spend a few days with his
| wife and daughter, returned home to Pittsburgh
on Tuesday afternoon.
—Mrs. A. J. Engle Sr., of Altoona, was in Belle-
fonte Sunday as the guest of her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Andrew Engle, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Caldwell.
—F. W. Topelt, of Brooklyn, arrived in Belle: |
fonte on Saturday morning and will spend a
week or more with his wife and son at the R. S-
Brouse home, on Thomas street.
—Mrs. P. H. Gherrity went down to Jersey
Shore last Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs.
: James Davis, and see that new grandson who ar-
rived in the Davis home early last week.
—Miss Luretta Cannon, of Hazleton, a sister of
! Mrs. Coburn Rogers, and Miss Brussels, of New
York, came to Bellefonte last Thursday for a
visit of two weeks at the Dr. Rogers home.
—Mr. and Mrs. Leo T. Sherry, of Pittsburgh, '
were arrivals in Bellefonte on Saturday for a two
week’s vacation at the home of Mr. Sherry’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Sherry, of Quaker
Hill.
—Mrs. John Englebaugh and three children, of
Sharon, Pa., arrived in Bellefonte on Saturday |
and will be guests for three weeks at the home of '
Mrs. Englebaugh’s mother, Mrs. Frances Sheff-
ler, on High street.
—Mrs. J. A. Depler, of Pittsburgh, arrived in
| Bellefonte on Sunday evening for a visit of a
week or two among her many friends.
Depler will be remembered as Miss Julia Mc-
Cafferty. of east Lamb street.
—Mrs. John Lambert and her sister-in-law,
| Miss Elizabeth Lambert, spent several days last
week visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Dukeman, in Altoona. Miss Sadie Lambert
went to Altoona yesterday for a few day’s visit.
—Bond Valentine came up from Philadelphia
the latter part of last week to spend his summer
vacation among his Bellefonte friends. Bond
holds a good position in the offices of the United
Gas and Improvement company of Philadelphia.
—Mrs. D. I. Willard and daughter, Miss Catha-
rine Willard, went to Union City last Thursday
and expect to spend a month among friends
there and on a trip to Niagara Falls. Mr. Wil-
lard went out to Union City yesterday to Shend
the week-end.
—Mrs. Elias Dunkle and daughter Margaret
returned home on Sunday from a month’s visit
with friends in Pittsburgh and Oil City. She |
was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Peters, and
her little daughter, who will visit in Bellefonte '
for some time.
—Mrs. J. E. Ward and daughter Isabelle went
to State College on Wednesday where they will
visit at the home of Prof. and Mrs. David O. Et-
ters until tomorrow when they will be joined by
Dr. Ward and all go to Baileyville for the big
picnic. From there they will go to Pine Grove
Mills and visit friends until some time next week.
—MTrs. Anna M. Weaver, of Bellwood, former.
ly Miss Anna M. Wolf, of Wolf’s Store, this coun- '
ty, found time last week to come down and pay a
short visit with Centre county friends, of whom
she has so many, and who are always delighted
to enjoy the sunshine she brings and the good |
cheer that seems to accompany her wherever she '
goes.
—Mrs. Nellie McFeeters and her two wide-
awake little boys, of Johnstown, who have been ;
visiting friends in Philipsburg for the past week,
spent a couple of hours in Bellefonte on Tuesday |
on their way to Snow Shoe for a week or ten
day’s stay with relatives there before returning
to theirhome. Mrs. McFeeters will be remem-
bered as Miss Nellie Lebkeicher, formerly of
this place.
—Supreme Court Judge, Honorable George B. |
Orlady, of Huntingdon, who had been over at
Centre Hall attending the burial service of Mrs. |
William Boal, on Monday last, paid the WATCH-
MAN a friendly visit while awaiting the arrivalof
the afternoon train. The Judge is anxiously i
“watching and waiting” for some word from
Mrs. and Miss Orlady, who are now in the midst
of the European war excitement at Carlsbad.
—Prof. H. M. Twitmyer, who for many years |
has been in charge of one of Pittsburgh’s most |
important public schools, was a short visitor to |
friends hereabouts the first part of the week. 2nd
found time to make a friendly call on the WATCH- |
MAN, of which he has been a reader since a boy. |
Mr. Twitmyer was born at Zion 2ud is one of six
brothers, four of whom have distinguished them. |
selves in educational work in different States.
His visit this time was to see his oldest brother, |
Mr. Henry Twitmyer, of Pleasant Gap, and inci- '
dentally shake hands with other friends while
back at his old home.
—R. B. Curry has sold his land in Florida and |
with his wife and child are expected tc arrive in |
Bellefonte some time next week and for a time, |
at least, will be with Mrs. Curry’sfather, Charles
F. Cook. Mr. Curry resigned his position as |
metallurgist with the Jones—Laughlin Steel com- |
pany last summer and in October went to Fells-
mere, Forida, and purchased a tract of land. But
in the ten months he has been there he learned a
great deal more about the “wonderful” possibili- |
ties of Florida land than he found in all the ad-
vertising literature he ever read, and he is now
ready to give up the job to somebody else and re"
turn to his occupation as a chemist.
Mrs. !
—Dr. C. T. Aikens, of Selinsgrove, was an over
Sunday visitor at the home of Mrs. J. A. Aiken.
—Miss Irene Koontz is spending this week with
friends in Altoona, as part of her summer vaca-
! tion.
—Miss Edna Mallory left on Saturday on a ten
days’ or two weeks’ trip to Philadelphia and
| Atlantic City.
—Miss Ruth Stover, of Lock Haven, has been a
| guest this week at the home of her uncle, W.
| Harrison Walker Esq.
—Mrs. Charles Cruse was in Tyrone the fore-
part of the week visiting her brothers, Allen S.
and Robert T. Garman.
—Miss Mary Gross, of Axemann, left for Pitts-
| burgh on Monday, to enjoy a three week's visit
; | with her sister, Mrs. Ira Proudfoot.
—Miss Elsie Haagan, of Beech Creek, spent a
few hours in Bellefonte on Sunday evening while
: on a return trip from Marsh Creek.
—J. Mac. Curtin arrived in Bellefonte on Sun-
day evening to spend a week here with his fami-
, ly and with his mother and brothers at Curtin.
—Mrs. Andrew Thal and four children, of State
College, were over Sunday visitors in Bellefonte
with Mrs. Thal’s mother, Mrs. George Hocken-
berry.
—M. S. McDowell, one of the leading instruc-
tors in agriculture at State College, paid this of-
fice a visit while in Bellefonte on a business trip
Saturday.
—]J. Thomas Mitchell Esq., returned on-Sunday
evening from a week’s visit with his brother,
Joseph D. Mitchell and family, at Burnham. Mrs.
Mitchell, who was with him, will remain a week
longer.
—Miss Eleanor Parker accompanied Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Swartz and their two children home
to Punxsutawney on Saturday, for a visit of a
week or ten days with Mr. and Mrs. George S.
Grimm and family.
i
—Mr. and Mrs. D. Wagner Geiss and children
| drove to Tusseyville last Friday where they at-
i tended the McClellan—Gettig reunion. Mrs.
- Geiss and the children remained with friends in
{ Centre Hall un'il Monday.
—Mr. David K. Geiss, of Philadelphia, arrived
in Bellefonte on Wednesday for a visit with his
son, D. Wagner Geiss and family. Mr. Geiss has
- spent the past year in Philadelphia with his
d aughters, the Misses Elsie and Verna Geiss. _
—Rufus T. Strohm, who holds a very responsi-
ble position with the International Correspond-
_ ence school of Scranton, was a Bellefonte visitor
on Saturday. He and Mrs. Strohm are spending
a brief vacation with Mr. Strohm’s mother, Mes
James B. Strohm, at Centre Hall.
—Landlord and Mrs. James Noonan have veda
entertaining at the Brant house this week Mrs.
Noonan’s sister, Mrs. S. E. Seymour with her two
daughters, the Misses Ruth and Louise Seymour,
and William Hannigan, of New York city; and
Miss Helen Melvin, of Corning, N. Y.
—Miss Mary M. Kirk, a teacher in the public
schools at Clearfied, who was among the teach-
: ers taking the summer course at State College,
' came to Bellefonte last Friday and was a guest at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Kirk until
Wednesday afternoon, when she returned to her
home at Kylertown.
—Mrs. J. D. Smithgall and two children, Hel-
en and Wade, of Franklin, Pa., came to Belle-
fonte last Friday to spend some time with her
brother, John VanPelt and family. Mrs. Smith-
, all came to Centre Hall several weeks ago, and
| has been spending the time with her grand-moth-
er, Mrs. John Spangler.
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—Miss Mary Gray Meek, the very efficient so-
ciety editor of the WATCHMAN, went to Pitts-
burgh last Saturday to get a ten days’ rest from
her arduous duties in a visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas K. Morris. Hence if there is any lack
of society news in this week’s WATCHMAN our
' readers will know the reason. Miss Meek was
accompanied to Pittsburgh by her nephew,
Thomas King Morris Jr., who has been in Belle-
fonte since last spring.
—James Alexander, son of Mrs. Alice Alexan-
der, of Unionville, a graduate of the Williams
manual training school near Philadelphia, and
who last season was an instructor at Scotland,
Pa., returned home on Wednesday of last week
from a four months’ trip on the continent. He
was one of a delegation of twenty-five manual
training instructors from all over the United
States who were in England and Germany in-
specting the system of manual training in vogue
there. They were fortunate in having left Ger-
many before the war cloud swooped down upon
it. They sailed from Liverpool for home on July
25th.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per bushel, new............................ 75
Onions............ $1.00
Eggs, per doze: 23
Lard, per pound.. 12
Butter per pound 20
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER,
The following are the quotations up tosix o’clock
hursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
| Red Wheat................ 90
White Wheat... 85
i Rye, per bushel......... 70
Corn, shelled, per bushel.. 70
Corn, ears, per bushel............. 70
Oats, old and new, per bushel... 40
Barley, perbushel............... .................0. 60
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening.
i
Flour —Winter, per
‘ _—Favorite Brands..
Rye Flour per barrel
Baled
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