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Belletonte, Pa., April 23, 1915.
To CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications |
published unless accompanied by the real name
of the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——For real ice cream, go to CANDY- '
LAND.
——Howe’'s Great London Shows will
exhibit in Bellefonte on Saturday, May 8.
——Bellefonte’s clean-up and paint-up
week, to be from May 10th to May 15th.
——Andrew McNitt was last week
elected a director of the Bellefonte Trust
company.
——Harry F. Yearick will introduce |
the jitney service in Bellefonte tomorrow !
(Saturday.)
—W. C. Smith, of Haines township,
had his right eye removed at the Belle-
fonte hospital last Thursday.
——The. "House Appropriation com-
mittee last Thursday recommended $12,-
500 for the Bellefonte hospital.
—— Harry Bruce Peters, a ten year old
boy of Tyrone, was admitted to the
Pruner orphanage on Wednesday.
——Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lutz, of east
Howard street, gave their daughter Viv-
ian a birthday party last Saturday night.
——1It cost Dorsey Johnston, of Phil-
ipsburg, just $72.12 on Tuesday for hav-
ing in his possession six trout which
were under six inches long.
——The regular session of borough
council was not held on Monday evening
owing to the clerk and two or three
members being out of town.
——The Junior class of the Bellefonte
High school gave the customary annual
banquet to the Seniors last Friday even-
ing. About one hundred were in attend-
ance.
——Nine more prisoners were brought
from Pittsburgh to the new penitentiary
: at Rockview cn Tuesday, the first con-
signment of one hundred and fifty to be
sent there this spring.
——The regular meeting of the Wom-
an's club will be held in the High school
building Monday evening, April 26th, at
7.30. Mrs. John Blanchard will read a
paper entitled, “The Flyless City.”
——There will be a very important
. meeting of the Bellefonte High school
* Alumni Association on Tuesday evening,
- April 27th, at 7.30 o'clock, in the direc-
tors room in the High school building.
—Don’t miss “Strongheart,” the
fourth consective play to be given by the
students of the Bellefonte High school.
Everybody remembers how good the one
last year was, and this one gives promise
of being a great deal better.
——A report reached Bellefonte this
week that George Coble, Pleasant Gap's
absconding postmaster, had been arrest-
ed by the federal authorities at Newark»
N. J. Coble was traced through letters
written to a girl in California.
——Edward L. Graham, who for a
number of years was in business at State
College, is now located at Arapahoe, Col.
where he is manager of the general mer-
cantile store of L. C. Wilson. He likes
the location and is getting along splendid-
ily, a fact his Centre county friends will
{be pleased to learn.
——William H. Garman closed the deal
last Saturday whereby be became the
owner of the house and property on
east Lamb street which he has occupied
for some years. He is now at work paint-
ing the exterior of the house and when a
few other improvements contemplated
are made he will have a very comfort-
able and convenient home.
——The Bucknell reserves baseball
team will cross bats with the Bellefonte
Academy nine, on the new Hughes field
tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon zt 2,30
o'clock. This will be the Academy’s
first game at home on their regular
schedule and as they are playing very
good ball, a large crowd ought to turn
out and help cheer them to victory.
——Hard P. Harris came home on
Wednesday with a new Haynes five pas-
senger car, which he purchased through
Norman R. Wright. The car had been
_ delivered to Mr. Wright's father at
Newport, Perry county, but he did not
have his garage completed and agreed to
turn the car over to Mr. Harris and wait
a week or two on his, consequently the
Jatter was able to get his car right away.
——The Stork is a funny old bird.
{About eight years ago it visited the home
‘of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fry and left
them a little girl. Ever since that time
it has given the Fry home a wide birth
until on Wednesday. During the high
wind storm that afternoon it blew into
the Fry household and before it blew out
left them two little girls, each weighing
five pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Fry’s neigh-
bors on Logan street are now busy ten-
dering congratulations. ’
| ——A meeting has been arranged for
the women living near Bellefonte to con-
sult on ways and means of bringing them
in touch with the work of the Woman’s
club of Bellefonte. A number of an-
nouncements have been sent out but all
who would be interested will be gladly
welcomed. The meeting will be{Saturday
* afternoon, ‘April 24th, at 1 o'clock, in the
High school building. Later in the after-
noon the club and its guests will have
the opportunity to hear Mr.and Mrs.
Varney, who are conducting a welfare
meeting in Bellefonte.
| Two DESPERATE PRISONERS PULL OFF ——It is definitely announced that' CENTRE COUNTIANS BECOMING ENTHUS- |
BoLD JAIL DELIVERY.—Henry Gordon, of
Barnum & Bailey's circus will exhibit in
"ED FOR OLD HOME WEEK.—Another |
Bellefonte, and William Lehman, of Phil- Altoona on Monday, May 17th, but it is i meeting was held on Tuesday evening in '
| ipsburg, dug a hole through the two foot not stated whether they will have with i the interest of the Centre county Old
| 5 oo - s i : % |
| thick wall of the Centre county jail, them any animals liable to contract or | Home week July 2nd to 8th inclusive. vitt Bellefonte on a Shop croedhich on Me.
through and swung to the
ground on a rope made of blankets, then |
| safely scaled the twenty-five foot wall
surrounding the jail yard and made their
| escape before ten o'clock last Saturday |
: night. But they were very considerate
of sheriff A. B. Lee for in a note left in |
the deserted cell they thanked him for |
his kind treatment to them while there. |
It has been suggested that the sheriff |
might use the foregoing as a testimonial
in advertising his boarding place on the |
hill. |
According to custom the prisoners are |
not locked in their cells until ten o'clock |
on Saturday night. When the sheriff
l and turnkey went to lock the prisoners :
up last Saturday night Gordon and Leh- |
man were missing. A hurried search
disclosed a hole in the . wall in Lehman’s
cell, and a blanket rope hanging outside,
the inside end being tied to the cot. The
sheriff and deputy made a hasty exit into
the yard in the hope that the missing
men were there but a board propped up
against the roof of a rear porch and
another board running from the roof to
within three feet of the top of the wall
told the story of that part of their jour-
ney. From the top of the stone wall the
men simply climbed down one of the out-
side pillars. There all trace of them
ended. If they were seen by any person
or persons the fact has not yet become
known.
Gordon was in jail awaiting trial on
the charge of robbing the Milesburg
Store company, while Lehman was
awaiting trial for stealing copper wire
from the store of Atherton & Barnes, in
Philipsburg. Gordon is a desperate char-
acter and in a note he left in Lehman’s
cell warned anyone going after him to
have a gun. The note is as follows:
Not guilty of robbing Milesburg store, so
break jail. Ihave no chance so what’s the use
of staying here. George Wyland I will get him
and Dukeman o. k. I have no money to get a
lawyer and it would be easy for Fortney to con-
vict me on the lies they tell. To those that come
after me, bring your guns, you will need them,
for I may have one too. I like every man to
have a square chance. H.G.
To the Sheriff, thanks for your treating me all
right. nll H. G.
THE VARNEYS ARE HERE.—The Var-
neys arrived in town on Monday, begin-
ning their welfare week Tuesday by three
excellent addresses, which delighted all
who heard them. Mr. Varney, in the
morning, spoke to the High school stu-
dents on “Habit,” an address full of
truth, enlivened by so much real humor
that the boys and girls applauded him to
the echo. This address he has given
practically all over the United States, one
of the last times being in Augusta, Ga,
where he was especially requested to
give it at the school which President
Wilson attended as a boy. The Academy
students listened to this address in the
afternoon with like enthusiasm.
Tuesday evening at the Study Course
in the High school building, after Miss
Hill’s able paper on the “History of the
Temperance Movement,” Mrs. Varney
spoke on the “Citizen Mother,” a truly
wonderful appeal for more power to be
given women to aid them in the protec-
tion of their young. Everybody was
charmed with Mrs. Varney, who is a
woman of rare beauty and most winning
personality. She will give helpful lessons
along physical culture lines to women
and girls every afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the Y. M. C. A, and will lecture to every-
body alternate evenings with Mr. Varney.
Mr. Varney’s wit is irresistible and all
will have many good laughs when they
listen to him. One of the big features
of the week will be the daily lectures by
Mr. Varney at 3 p. m., in the Y. VM. C. A.
Sunday afternoon there will be a big mass
meeting in the court house at three
o'clock, where unique features will be re-
served seats for men, with women and
girl ushers. Sunday evening Mrs. Var-
ney will speak in one of the churches, the
same to be announced later. Bellefonte
is certainly fortunate in having the Var-
neys here this week. Free admission to
all these lectures.
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WORK RESUMED AT NEW PENITEN-
TIARY. — On Saturday morning Henry
Keep, superintendent for the Thompson
Starrett company, received word to re-
sume work on the erection of projected
buildings at the new penitentiary at
Rockview and Monday morning a force
of about fifteen carpenters and twenty
laboring men were put to work. It will
be two or three weeks, however, before
this force of men will have everything in
shape to resume work on a large scale, as
there is considerable preliminary work
to do. The two buildings started last
fall will be completed first and it is quite
likely two other buildings will be erected
this summer.
_ Upwards of one hundred men were on
the grounds bright and early Monday
morning in the hope of getting a job, and
of course most of them were doomed to
disappointment for the present and had
to be turned away. And yet farmers are
complaining that they can get no help
for the summer but will be compelled to
do most of their own farm work.
——When the improvements on High
street have been completed there will be
a smooth road to the Scenic, but there's
no need to wait for that as walking is
good on the pavement. And remember
that good pictures are being shown right
along and if you fail to attend you might
miss the very thing you want to see.
Don't forget the big feature nights.
carry the hoof and mouth disease.
——Charles P. Hewes, M. Levant Davis
and Charles G. Brevillier announce the
i formation of ,a copartnership for the
practice of law under the firm name of
Hewes, Davis & Brevillier, with offices
at 606, 607 and 608 Masonic Temple,
Erie, Pa. Mr. Hewes, the senior
member of the firm, was formerly of
Bellefonte and still has many friends here
who wish him success in the new copart-
nership.
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——The meeting of the Study Course
has been changed from Tuesday, April |
27th, to Thursday, April 29th. This will
be the last meeting of the Course this
year and it will be held at 8 o’clock in
the High school building. Professor
Boucke, of State College, will speak on
“Pledges for Peace.” This will be a talk
well worth hearing and we hope all who
are interested in either peace or war will
be present.
——Several weeks ago we received a
letter from our old friend Daniel Mc-
Bride, of Hobart, Okla., who in enclosing
money for a renewal of his subscription
to the WATCHMAN, stated that his father
first took the paper when it was started
about sixty years ago and he has been a
reader of it practically ever since. Mr.
McBride years ago lived in Centre coun-
ty and he states that the names and peo-
ple that were familiar then are growing
fewer and fewer every year.
——Charles A. Lukenbach has accept-
ed a position as assistant cashier of the
Mountain City Trust Co. and entered upon
his duties on Monday morning. Mr.
Lukenbach has had ample experience in
all branches of the banking business,
having filled various positions of trust,
and he is well qualified to fill the position
for which he has been selected. The
patrons of the Altoona Trust company
and the people of Altoona will at all
times find him courteous and accommo-
dating.
———— a.
——~Col. H. S. Taylor will go to Mount
Pleasant, Westmoreland county, tomor-
row, where on Sunday he will make the
annual memorial address before the
Lodge of Moose. The Colonel's services
are yearly in demand as a memorial
orator and there are few men who are
more conversant with the motto and
ideals of the Order of the Moose than he,
and his earnestness in portraying the
same is always appreciated by the mem-
bers of the Lodge which is fortunate
enough to secure his services.
——Charles Grubb’s groundhog is no
more After coming out of its winter
quarters on March 28th the hog wandered
around its last summer haunts apparently
as tame as ever, but as the weather be-
came warmer it evinced a certain rest-
lessness that betokened an attack of wan-
derlust, and every day its peregrinations
from the Grubb home became more ex-
tended. Fearing lest the groundhog
would leave for good the elder Grubb
decided to make a grubstake of it and on
Wednesday of last week there was a
butchering at the Grubb home at which
the groundhog was the principal figure.
Roast groundhog a la Grubb was on the
bill of fare at the Grubb home the next
day.*
——NMrs. Thaddens Cross, of Spring
township, is quite a chicken fancier and
from two eggs her son William brought
to this office last Saturday we are inclin-
ed to think she has discovered a secret
for making her hens lay big eggs. The
eggs measured 7§x6% inches and weighed
3% ounces each. A dozen such eggs
wouid weigh 2 pounds and 10 ounces.
And the eggs brought to this office were
not mere curiosities, but samples of what
she is gathering every day, only she is
somewhat nonplussed as to the breed of
hens yielding up such fruit. In her
flock are Orpingtons, white Leghorns
and Wyandottes, and she has the big
eggs figured out as belonging to one of
the latter two, but which one she has not
yet decided.
——W. T. Gilligan, who the past year
passed fraudulent checks in Bellefonte,
Altoona and Cumberland, Md., was ar-
rested on Sunday morning by the Belle-
fonte police and held until Monday noon
when he was turned over to Constable
Gill, of Altoona, and taken to Blair coun-
ty to answer to the charge of passing
two worthless checks. Gilligan had
stayed away from Bellefonte since
early in the winter and although he
was only apprehended by the police
on Sunday, he had been in seclusion in
Bellefonte for a week or more. Gilli-
gan was given a hearing before an
Altoona alderman on Tuesday on the
charge of passing a worthless check on
W. W. Keagy, but that gentleman declar-
ed he was not the man and Gilligan was
discharged. He was then taken in
charge by constable Horace Musser and
brought to Bellefonte the same evening
to answer the charge of stealing a pair
of trousers. Before leaving Altoona Gil-
ligan stated that he had been represen-
tative of the Western Union Telegraph
company in Bellefonte for some time and
would have no trouble in clearing him-
solf of the charges here. “Guess you
can’t help it when the police work up a
case against you,” he said, “but the noto-
riety has given me a black eye which
may require a good many years to over-
come.”
Chairman Edmund Blanchard, of the
general committee, reported that the ;
Finance committee has given assurance
that they feel certain there will be no
| trouble about raising all the money nec-
: essary. They have already secured
i enough for all preliminary expenses and
the chairman of each committee was ad- |
vised to get busy and push his part of '
the work along.
Chairman Blanchard further stated
that in the matter of police protection
for the week Capt. W. H. Brown, of
Troop L, and Capt. C. S. Moore, of the |
Sheridan troop, Tyrone, had agreed to
i hold a week’s encampment here at that
time as one of the attractions, give ex-
hibition drills in the mornings and put
their men on police duty during the
afternoons and evenings. All they would
ask would be actual expenses. Chair-
man Blanchard believes these could be
easily met if the borough will allow the
committee all the license privileges, and
the matter will be put up to council at
its next meeting.
The Amusement committee reported
that they were receiving every day ap-
plications from various amusement pro-
moters who wanted concessions for the
week. They have also mapped out quite
a program of sports, etc., that will stretch
over every day of the week aud which
can be pulled off at little expense.
Banners are to be put up on the main
streets of the town advertising the Old
Home week, and every means taken to
advertise it thoroughly. The secretary
was instructed to sends a letter to the
Centre county association in Philadelphia
and any others he could get information |
of inviting them back for Old Home |
week. |
An effort will be made to get one or
more motion picture companies to send
a team to Bellefonte during part of the
week to take moving pictures of the
most important happenings. It is just
possible, if they do so, that they may
stage one or two attractions that will add
to the gathering.
What is most needed now is hard
work. Work not only by Bellefonters
but by every person in Centre county
who is interested in an Old Home week.
If you can't do anything else, talk. Tell
everybody you see about the big time to
be held here the first week in July, and
arrange your affairs so that when the
time comes you can be here yourself.
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——Real ice cream at CANDYLAND.
REHEARING GRANTED PENITENTIARY
CONSOLIDATION BILL.—The measure pro-
viding for the consolidation of the eastern
with the western penitentiary on the site
of the new institution at Rockview, this
county, was placed on the calendar of
the House of Representatives on Tues-
day morning and made a special order of
business for next Monday night at 9.30
o'clock.
The bill was defeated last week but
the vote by which it was defeated was
reconsidered after a speech by Repre-
sentative George W. Hess, of Lancaster,
the sponsor of the measure. He then
moved it be made a special order of
business.
Mr. Hess, who sponsored the bill for
electrocution in Pennsylvania, spoke of
the work of reformation among the men
confined in penal institutions. He plead-
ed for one big penitentiary on the site of
the new one, where 5,000 acres are at
the disposal of the State, paying a glow-
ing tribute to warden John Francies, who
conceived the idea for a more humane
institution.
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NICE CATCHES OF TROUT.—One of the
nicest catches of trout made on the
opening day of the season was by Willis
Shuey, of this place. He went up Spring
creek and in the day’s fishing landed 32
fine brook trout which laid head to tail
measured 28 feet.
Patsey Bathurst caught 34 trout up
Spring creek, but his did not size up to
Shuey’s catch.
Rev. Father Caprio fared equally well
on Spring, creek, bringing home a basket
containing between 30 and 35. And J.
M. Cunningham, who spent the morning
on Fishing creek and hooked only two
small ones, went up Spring creek in the
afternoon and got 12.
Sheriff A. B. Lee went over to the
Branch on the opening day and brought
home 25 nice mountain trout.
On Saturday Robert Strunk caught a
24 inch brown trout out of Spring creek
opposite the lime kilns.
TrRoOP L. INSPECTED.—The regular
spring inspection of Troop L, was made
on Tuesday. The inspecting officer was
Col. John P. Wood, of Philadelphia, and
with him were Major Charles Welsh Ed-
mundson, of Philadelphia, and Capt. C.
S. Moore, of Sheridan Troop, Tyrone.
Quite a crowd of Bellefonters were pres.
ent, including past and present National
Guard officers of this place. Col. Wood
appeared very well satisfied with the con-
dition of Capt. W. H. Brown's crack cav-
alry troop, both as to men and equipment.
Prior to the evening inspection Sergt.
H. Laird Curtin entertained the visiting
officers and a few Bellefonte military
men at dinner at his hore at Curtin, the
party making the trip there and back in
automobiles. *
DR. NISSLEY, the veterinarian, has re-
moved his office from the Palace to
Toner’s Livery where those desiring his
services can communicate with him. 16-2t
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Walter Rice, of Seward, Westmoreland
county, is visiting relatives in Bellefonte.
—Mrs. J. Will Kepler, of Pine Grove Mills, was
day.
—Miss Bella Confer will be an over Sunday
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robb, at ‘State
College. :
—Joseph Lose, of Philadelphia, was an over
Sunday visitor with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Lose, in this place.
—Mrs. Asher Adams, of Sunbury, spent the
early part of the week in Bellefonte visiting with
her mother, Mrs. Shreffler.
—Mrs. George C. Butts, of State College, was a
guest of Mrs. J. A. Aiken, while in Bellefonte
visiting Friday and Saturday of last week.
—Mrs, Hunter Knisely, who has been at Read-
ing visiting with her daughter since the middle
of March, returned to Bellefonte a week ago.
—Mrs. Claude Jones, of Tyrone, spent Satur-
day and Sunday with her father, Mr. Monroe Ar-
mor, and her sister, Mrs. H. S. Ray, in Belle
fonte.
—F. P. Michaels, traveling representative of
the Repubiic Casualty Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, is
expected in Bellefonte some time this week. in.
his new National car.
—Mrs. George Boal ‘Thompson came down
from Alto on Tuesday noon to do some shopping
and spend a day at the home of her grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Loiusa Bush.
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Graham motored to
Bellefonte from Milton on Sunday afternoon, and
after supper at the Brockerhoff house returned
home the same evening.
—Messrs. W. Harrison Walker, George M.
Gamble, Charles F. Mensch, Lewis Wallace and
Thomas Hazel attended a meeting of Jaffa Tem-
ple, in Altoona, last night.
—Mrs. Web Kerstetter, of Curwensville, spent
Sunday in Bellefonte with her mother, Mrs. M.
W. Furey, who has been sick the past week or’
so, though not seriously so.
—C. D. Casebeer was in Somerset over Sunday,
having gone over for a short stay with Mrs.
Casebeer and their little daughter, who are
spending several weeks with the child’s grand-
mothers.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rokenbrode, of Laurel
ton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. .Bart-
ley over Tuesday night. Mr. Rokenbrode has
under consideration the leasing of the hotel at
Spring Mills,
—Newton T. Krebs, of Pine Grove Mills, mer-
cantile appraiser of Centre county, came to Belle-
fonte on Wednesday to make a return of the
mercantile appraisement, which he has complet-
ed and which will be ready for publication next
week.
—Mr. H. K. Walker, of Yarnell, was a business
visitor in Bellefonte on Saturday. He has given
up farming and this week went to work in the
clay mines of the Hayes Run Fire Brick company
at “The Strippings,” on the Allegheny moun-
tains.
—Mrs. Cornelius Dale, of Lemont, was in Belle-
fonte for two days the latter part of last week,
having come here for ‘a visit with Mrs. Longwell,
who is slowly recoveiing from a slight stroke of
paralysis. Mrs. Longwell has been ill for two
weeks.
—Mrs. C. S. Shields while in Bellefonte Sunday
night was a guest of Miss Caroline Harper, at
her home on south Thomas street. Mrs. Shields,
whose home is in Williamsport, was on her way
to Ebensburg, for a visit with her mother, Mrs.
Ludwig.
—Mrs. Mary Dolan Lex, of Pleasant Gap, spent
Tuesday in Bellefonte looking after some busi-
ness relative to her sale last Saturday. Mrs.
Lex, after disposing of all her property put up
for sale, will rent her home and go to State Col-
lege to live for awhile.
—Mrs. G. O. Benner was in Bellefonte a few
hours on Monday on her way home to Centre
Hall from Martha Furnace, where she spent last
week helping take care of her father. ex-county
treasurer John Q. Miles, who is quite ill witha
complication of diseases.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Sloop and three children
left here Friday of last week for Mrs. Sloop’s
home, at Milford, Delaware, where she and the
children will visit for an indefinite time. Mr.
Sloop, who is assistant Headmaster at the Acad-
emy, returned to Bellefonte Monday.
—Mrs. Robert White, of Sewickly, recently
visited in Bellefonte with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Dukeman, at their home on Lamb street. Mrs.
White, who will be remembered as Miss Ger-
trude Scott, has many friends in Bellefonte, hay-
ing lived here the greater part of her life.
—MTrs. Shields, Mrs. Michael Hazel and Mrs.
Harry Jackson went to Altoona Thursday of last | O
week for the silver wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Klesius, which was celebrated
at their home in that place Thursday night. The
women from Bellefonte remained until Sunday,
for a short visit with their sister, Mrs. Klesius.
—Harry L. Garber spent from Thursday even-
ing until Monday in Bellefonte with Mrs. Gar-
ber. Mr. Garber is now on the road selling fuse
and makes his headquarters in New York city.
During the past month or so he traveled through
the southern States but his next trip will be
west.
—Miss Carrie Sweetwood and Miss Mary De-
linda Potter, of Centre Hall, were in Bellefonte
on a shopping expedition on Saturday and were
pleasant callers at this office. In fact the office
force is indebted to Miss Sweetwood for a box of
delicious apples, for which thanks are returned
by every one from the editor to the devil.
—Mr. H. T. McDowell, one of the representa-
tive citizens of Howard, was a business visitor in
Bellefonte and a very pleasant caller at the|
WATCHMAN office last Thursday evening.
Though he has retired from active busines pur-
suits Mr. McDowell is keenly alive to everything
that goes toward making Howard one of the
busiest of the smaller towns in Centre county
and he is never slow in lending a hand to give
the place a push upwards.
—Mrs. C. U. Hoffer and daughter, Miss Louise
Hoffer, and the former’s grand-daughter, Doro-
thy Hoffer, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Hoffer. came over from Philipsburg on Friday
and spent that night with great grand-father C.
T. Gerberich. On Saturday they all went up to
State College to see Mrs. Hoffer’s son Fred, who
is a student at that institution. Miss Hoffer and
Dorothy returned home on Sunday evening while
Mrs. Hoffer remained for a longer visit with her
father and brother.
—Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cook and daughter,
Miss Grace Cook, returned on Saturday from
their ten week’s trip through the south and to
the Pan-American exposition. Their stay at the
latter place was prolonged two weeks owing to
Mrs. Cook spraining her ankle. On account of
this their projected sojourn at Santiago was
shortened from three weeks to that many days.
Allin all, however, they had a delightful trip and
were considerably impressed with the magnitude |
of the Pan-American exposition.
—G. E. Spotts, of Fleming, was an appreciated
caller at the WATCHMAN office on Saturday and
after paying for the paper going to his father in-
formed us that that gentleman is now in his
eighty-fifth year. We were sorry to learn, how-
ever, that he had been quite ill for three weeks or
longer. About two years ago the elder Mr.
Spotts suffered a stroke of paralysis but he was
able to be up and around until about a' month
ago. Mrs. Spotts has also been quite ill, threat-
ened with an attack of pneumonia.
—Mary Smith, the young daughter of William
H. Smith, of Johnstown, is visiting Bellefonte
relatives.
—Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose M. Schmidt made a
trip to Williamsport yesterday, expecting to re-
turn today.
—Miss Jane Miller went to Philipsburg Tues-
day, where she will visit for a week or ten days
with relatives.
—Col. Emanuel Noll went out to Pitcairn on
Wednesday to see his brother, Thomas Noll, who
is seriously ill.
—Henry C. Quigley Esq., was in Philadelphia
early in the week where he argued a case before
the Supreme court.
—Augustus Lyon, of Philadelphia, is visiting in
Bellefonte, a guest of her sister and her. husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grauer.
—Oglevie McNitt and his sisters drove to Belle
fonte from Reedsville Sunday, to attend the fun-
eral services of the late Samuel Sheffer.
—Mrs. Charles Cruse has been in Williamsport
visiting, having gone down Monday to spend a
short time with her sister, Mrs. Maitland.
—Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell has been away the
past ten days on a trip to Philadelphia and visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Mitchell and family,
at Burnham.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harris Cook, of Pittsburgh,
were in Bellefonte over Sunday, visiting with
Mr. Cook's father, Charles Cook, at his home on
Spring street. :
—Mr. and Mrs. Forest Bullock are entertaining
Mrs. Bullock's sister, Mrs, C. E. Carnahan, of
Oakmont, Pa. Mrs. Carnahan will return home
at the end of the week.
—Hon. Wm. M. Allison, of Spring Mills, spent
Wednesday here looking after some business in-
terests, and during his stay was a guest of his
brother, Archibald Allison. :
—Mrs. Wright, of Newport, has been in Belle-
fonte for a week, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
man Wright at their home on Spring street. Mr.
Wright spent the week-end here, but returned to
Newport early in the week.
—Miss Baker, of Waynesburg; Miss Davis, of
Scranton, and Miss Roberts, of Steelton, college
friends of Miss Verna Ardery, were Miss Ar-
dery’s guests for the week-end, at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ardery, of Rey-
nolds avenue.
—W. C. Snyder, Charles Watson, O. J. Morgan
and David Chambers, of Snow Shoe, drove to Al-
toona yesterday in Mr. Chamber's car, where
each of the men took a degree in the Jaffa Tem-
ple of the Mystic Shrine. The party will return
to Bellefonte today.
—Roger and Milton Willard are here for a two
month’s vacation with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. I. Willard. Both landing in the States
last week, having come from Panama, where
Roger has been for two years, his brother going
to the Canal Zone with him a year ago.
—Mrs. Merril Barber, of Mifflinburg, and her
daughter, Mrs. Hurst, of Washington, D. C., are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Potts Green and their
family. Mrs. Barber and her daughter came
here Wednesday from Mifflinburg, where Mrs.
Hurst, who was Miss Mary Barber, had been vis-
iting.
—Mr. H. L. Hershey, the millionaire chocolate
manufacturer of Hershey, Pa., was a member of
a Dauphin county party who autoed to Belle-
fonte last week forthe start of the trout fishing
season, stopping at the Bush house. The party
did not prove very successful as fishermen but
they enjoyed their visit to Bellefonte.
—H. J. Parks, of Parnassus, was in Bellefonte
Wednesday for a short visit with some old
friends, coming here from Milesburg, where he
had been to attend the funeral of his uncle, Irvin
Delaney. Mr. Parks left Bellefonte twenty years
ago, having lived much of the time since then in
Beaver Falls. Two weeks ago, he with his fami-
ly moved to Parnassus.
—Mrs. Isaac Gray, who has been spending the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hartsock,
at Carbondale, has returned to her home on the
farm near Stormstown, for the summer. Miss
Esther Gray has joined her mother to spend the
summer up Buffalo Run, she having been with
| her sister,Mrs. Geo. M. Glenn, at Philipsburg, for
the greater part of the time since leaving the
county last fall,
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——A baby boy was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Malcolm R. Pifer, of Howard, on
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Pifer prior to
her marriage was Mill Lucille Wetzel, of
this place.
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per bushel.................................... 50
nions..,.................. $ 65
Eggs, per dozen... 15
Lard, per pound... 12
Butter perponnd........... oT 28
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER,
The following are the quotations up tosix o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
Red Wheat.............ooioiaii iii $1.40
White Wheat... av
Rye, per bushel.................
Corn, shelled, per bushel...
Corn, ears, per bushel...
Qats, old and new, per b
Barley, per bushel
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening.
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