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Bellefonte, Pa., May 14, 1915.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
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Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities.
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learned in the law at $5 a day employed with a minimum of $600 a year and re-
quiring County Commissioners to furnish first class townships duplicates of ddjust-
! ed valuations for taxation.
Other bills signed that day are: prohibiting the use or sale of any balloons
made or intended to contain fire for purposes of ascension; providing a chief
bookkeeper for the Auditor General’s Department at a salary of $2500a year, an
assistant at $2000 a year and two bookkeepers and an additional traveling auditor
i at $1800 a year each; amending the act of 1906 by providing that debts of munic
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.—A |
reward of $100.00 will be paid by the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Forest Fire Protective
association for information that will lead
to the arrest and conviction of any per-
son: or persons who wilfully and malici-
ously set fire to the forests of Centre
county.
The above announcement is made at
the request of the above association,
owing to the belief that one or more of
the disastrous forest fires which occurred
in Centre county this spring were de-
liberately and maliciously started by
somebody. The Central Pennsylvania
Forest Fire Protective association was
organized several years ago and its mem-
bership to date includes owners of moun-
tain land in practically all the north- |
western section of Centre county. In
past years this section of forest land was
visited by very destructive fires every
spring and thousands of dollars worth of
timber was destroyed. This spring, while
fires were raging in every section of the
State the territory covered by the above
association escaped unscathed with the
single exception of one fire which broke
out in the vicinity of Snow Shoe but
which was extinguished before it had
progressed far enough to do any great
amount of damage. Such is the good
work being done by the Central Pennsyl-
vania Forest Fire Protective association |
and every owner of forest land in Centre
county ought to become a member and
enjoy its protection.
STATE W. C. T. U. OFFICALS INSPECT
PETRIKIN HALL.—On Tuesday Mrs. Ella
‘George, of Beaver Falls, Staté president
of the W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Sylvia Norrish,
of Sayer, corresponding secretary, and
Mrs. Leah Marion, of Ulysses, treasurer
of the organization, came to Bellefonte
in response to the offer made the State
W. C. T. U. to take over Petrikin hall as
a permanent headquarters building.
They were met by Mrs. John P. Harirs,
Mrs. R. S. Brouse, Mrs. John Porter
Lvon, Miss Mary Blanchard and Miss
Rebecca N. Rhoads and were taken
through the building for a general in-
spection as to its condition and utility.
Fhe visiting delegation of ladies seemed
favorable impressed with “the proposition |
but of course are not in a position to
give a definite answer. The details of
how such a gift or transfer can be made
has been referred to a competent attor-
ney who will advise the ladies in due
time. Any definite action taken will
have to be at the State convention which
does not convene until in October. It
might be added, by the way, that inthe
event such a transfer is made the asso-
ciation will require the entire lower part
of the building and only one of the flats
upstairs, the others would be rented as
usual.
IN BEHALF OF TEMPERANCE. —Louis
Albert Banks, D. D., the famous preacher,
orator, author, lecturer, will appear be-
fore a Bellefonte audience on Monday
night, May 17th, in the court house. The
coming of Dr. Banks to this place gives
the people of this community an oppor-
tunity to see and hear one of the biggest
men America has in his chosen field. He
1s a Methodist preacher who has occupied
some of the most famous pulpits in that
great denomination. He is of the calibre
out of which bishops are made, but Dr.
Banks prefers to be one who is greater
than bishops. He comes to Bellefonte to
address an audience under the auspices
of the National and State Anti-Saloon
League. He is one of a dozen men now
lecturing in this State. The greatest
temperance orators of the nation have
been called into Pennsylvania to “fire
the first gun” in the campaign for the
next Legislature. No citizen of Belle-
fonte, or of Centre county, can afford to
miss hearing Dr. Banks. Admission free.
Dr. Banks’ subject will be “John Barley-
corn’s Fight Against the Stars.”
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SPANISH WAR VETERANS ENTERTAIN
OLD SoLDIERS.—Lieut. George L. Jack-
son Camp No. 70 Spanish American War
Veterans held a special meeting on Mon-
day evening and gave away a ton of coal
and a barrel of flour. H. A. Heverley, of
Herr & Heverley’s grocery, got the ton
of coal, and J. E. Fife, of State College, a
barrel of flour. Following the meeting
the members of the Camp entertained
members of Gregg Post and a few other
friends with sandwiches, ice cream, cake
and coffee. Judge Ellis L. Orvis and
Clement Dale Esq., were present and
made brief addresses.
The members of the Camp, by the
way, have placed orders for new regula-
tion uniforms and expect to make their
first appearance in the same on Memo-
rial day, when they will take a prominent
part in the exercises. They are also
figuring on having a portrait made of the
late Lieut. George L. Jackson, after
whom the Camp was named, to hang at
a prominent place in their camp rooms.
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
ipalities' consolidated shall be paid by the consolidated city and for the levying of
a uniform tax to pay it; authorizing payment from State funds of the cost of
transferring insane persons on order of the State Board of Charities or committees
on lunacy. : :
On Friday the Governor approved bills establishing a State bureau of voca-
tional education. It provides for two divisions, agricultural and industrial, each
under a chief at $4000 dollars, two supervisors at $2000 each and two stenog-
raphers. The bureau will be a part of the Department of Public Instruction; re-
organizing the Attorney General’s Department which provides for a first deputy
at $7000, a deputy at $6000, two deputies at $5000 each, a private Secretary at
$35000, three law clerks at $3000 each, five stenographers at $1200, each, a messen-
ger at $1200 and a telephone operator at $900 and authorizes the spending of $20;
000 a year for special counsel.
On the same day these bills were signed: providing for alterating the bound-
aries of counties to straighten lines; regulating appeals from accounts of borough
controllers; authorizing boroughs to make appropriations for libraries; regulating
accounts in estates not exceeding $300; authorizing Williamsport to acquire and
‘maintain a dam; amending the act to discharge prisoners under the insolvency
law; fixing fees of appraisers in estates at $5 a day; reviving act of May 22, 1878,
relating to banking companies, so that they may bring suits for recovery of prop-
erty; amending the act of 1884 by extending jurisdiction to persons having an
undivided interest in land, coal, or timber, giving right to compel partition; pro-
viding that debts of a borough or township annexed by a city shall be assumed
by the city: validating the bonds of any school district issued since 1811 and con-
current resolutions authorizing the State Department to purchase and specify
products of the United States and to print 50,000 copies of the act to prevent the
desecration of the flag. :
. " The. veto ax has been in service within the week also but less vigorously
than usual. The bill providing that school tax in first class townships might be
levied at different rates in built-up and rural sections got it in the neck and the
bill providing that all elevators be equipped with air cushions met the same fate.
Two other vetoes of local and unimportant measures and that of the bill to vali-
date transactions of building and loan associations brought the total up to forty
at the close of business in the Secretary’s office this evening. That seems a lot,
but Governor TENER vetoed nearly four times as many four years ago.
The bill to consolidate the Eastern and Western penitentiaries is likely to get
through this session and will probably pass finally tomorrow. While on second
reading in the Senate Senator MCNICHOL, of Philadelphia, made a strong effort to
strangle it by the process of recommittal. But Senator THOMPSON, of Beaver, de-
clared that the purpose of the motion was to bury the bill and it failed. There is
some feeling between the Beaver Senator and the Philadelphia boss and this in-
cident will not have a tendency toward conciliation. Even if the bill does pass
and is approved this session, however, it will be several years before the consolida-
.tion can be effected. Several additional buildings will be required to make the
Centre county institution adequate.
The Senate yesterday passed finally House bills making railroads liable for
fire damages caused by locomotives in certain cases; providing for the formation
. and regulation of stock corporations having shares without nominal par value and
authorizing such corporations to issue shares without par value upon reorganiza-
tion or consolidation; creating and regulating municipal leins for various pur-
poses and authorizing the adoption of an amortized basis for valuing the bond in-
vestments of life insurance companies or fraternal beneficiary societies, which are
_now in, the hands of the Governor. The House yesterday sent the- Senate bill rer
viving the plans for the Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal and authorizing
counties adjacent to issue bonds for its construction to the Governor for approval.
The moving picture censor bill which provides for another new office and the bill
repealing the cold storage law of 1913 are also in the hands of the Governor.
This afternoon Senator SPROUL introduced a joint resolation proposing an
amendment to the constitution authorizing the issue of $50,000,000 in bonds for
highway building and improvement and the Governor signed the following bills:
requiring Allegheny county to establish a pension fund; making forty-five pounds
a standard bushel for apples and fifty-six pounds for beets; and authorizing bor-
oughs to collect rental for use of public sewers.
SNYDER.—H. M. Snyder, a well known
resident of Ferguson township, died at
his home at Bloomsdorf at 10.15 o’clock
on Monday morning of general infirmities.
He had been in feeble health for a year
or more but had been confined to bed
only three weeks.
Decédsed was a son of John and
Charlotte Snyder and was born in Fer-
guson valley, Mifflin county, on Easter
day in 1831, at his death being 84 years,
1 month and 16 days old. In 1861 he
came to Centre county and purchased
the farm in Ferguson township which
has been his home ever since. He was
one of the best known and progressive
farmers’ in that community. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church all
his life and in politics a sterling Demo-
crat, it being his proud boast that he
never missed an election.
On May 2nd, 1870, he was united in
marriage to Miss Celia Archey and she
survives with one daughter, Mrs. R. M.
Illingsworth, of Tyrone. He also leaves
one brother, James Snyder, of Wichita,
Kan. Private funeral services were held
yesterday morning, burial being made in
the Pine Grove Mills cemetery.
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LINGLE.—Following an illness of sev-
eral months as the result of a stroke of
paralysis and heart affection James Lin-
gle, a well known resident of Blanchard,
died on Sunday morning. He was born
in Liberty township seventy years ago
and his entire life was spent in that lo-
cality. A laborer by occupation he was
a quiet, unassuming man with a kind dis-
position and neighborly qualities that
won him many friends. He was married
to Miss Margaret Ellen Berryhill who
survives with the following children:
Melville, Richard, George, Bertha, Mary
and Josephine. He also leaves two broth-
ers, Thomas Lingle, of Blanchard, and
John, of Camden, N. J. Funeral services
were held at his late residence at 2.30
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon by Rev.
Walter Dudley, of the Disciple church,
after which burial was made in the Dis-
ciple cemetery.
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GORMONT.—Mrs. Mary Gormont, wife
of John B. Gormont, and a sister of
Nicholas Valimont, of Bellefonte, died at
her home in Clearfield county on May
first, of paralysis, aged sixty-seven years.
The funeral was held on May 4th, burial
being made at Frenchville.
WALKER.—MTrs. Alice Walker, widow
‘of the late John Walker, died at the
home of her brother, Harry T. Fetzer,
at Runville, at two o'clock yesterday
morning of heart disease. She was a
daughter of George and Elizabeth Fetzer
and was born at Holt’s Hollow on Decem-
ber 16th, 1867, hence was 57 years, 4
months and 27 days old. Her married.
life was spent in the vicinity of Runville,
where she was an earnest worker in the
United Brethren church. Mr. Walker
died twelve years ago but surviving heris
one daughter, Miss Elsie, living in Belle-
fone. She also leaves her mother and
the following brothers and sisters:
Harry and James Fetzer, of Runville;
Mrs. Leslie Huyck, of Rochester, N. Y.,
Mrs. Heverly, Mt. Eagle, and Mrs. El-
wood Conley, Unionville. . Rev. Wilson
will have charge of the funeral services
which will be held in the United Breth-
ren church at Runville at ten o'clock
Sunday morning after which burial will
be made in the Advent church.
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ZEHNER.— Mrs. Lydia Reber Zehner,
widow of Rev. George E. Zehner, a former
pastor of the United Evangelical church
in this place, died at her home in York
on April 26th, following a week’s illness
with pneumonia. Her maiden name was
Lydia Reber and she was born in Centre
county seventy-five years ago. She was
well known throughout Centre county as
her husband filled a number of appoint-
ments in this vicinity. She leaves no
children but is survived by two sisters
and one brother, Mrs. Mary Wieland, of
State College; Mrs. Annie Kern, of
Madisonburg, and Michael Reber, in the
west. Funeral services were held on
April 29th, burial being made in Prospect
Hill cemetery at York.
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MINSKER.—George W. Minsker died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bonnell,
at Philadelphia, on Saturday of last
week, of diseases incident to his ad-
vanced age, he being ninety years old.
Residents of Bellefonte no doubt remem-
ber this aged gentleman as he lived in
Bellefonte a number of years with his
son, Girard Minsker and family. Twelve
years ago he left here and has since
made his home with Lis daughter, Mrs.
Bonnell. The remains were taken to
Lock Haven where burial was made in
the Highland cemetery on Monday after-
noon.
at her home in Tyrone shortly before
noon on Saturday. She had been a suf-
ferer with rheumatism for seven years
and about two months ago her stomach
and lungs became affected resulting in a
complication of diseases which caused
her death.
She was a daughter of Philip and Ma-
rie Harpster and was born at Franks-
town, Huntingdon county, on January
16th, 1869. When a girl her parents
moved to Pennsylvania Furnace and in
October, 1890, she was married to George
Foust, at Pine Grove Mills. The first
few years of their married life were spent
in Centre county but sixteen years ago
they moved to Tyrone. In addition to
her husband she is survived by the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. Cora Kreiger, Ada
M., Cloyd, Blair and Myra, all of Tyrone.
She also leaves her aged mother and the
following brothers and sisters: William
Harpster, of Eden Hill; John O. Harp-
ster, Marengo; George, of Dungarvin;
Mrs. Laura Neisan, of Percy, Pa.; Mrs.
Nettie Vaughn, of Port Matilda, and Mrs.
Maggie Eyer, of Pennsylvania Furnace.
Rev. George M. Glenn had charge of
the funeral services which were held at
her late home on Momday afternoon at
one o'clock, after which burial was made
in the Grandview cemetery, Tyrone.
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KANE.—Mrs. Kathryn Kane, widow of
Dennis Kane, of Axe Mann, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. James Mor-
rison, on east Howard street, at 2.15
o’clock last Friday afternoon of dropsy
and heart trouble. She was a daughter
of John and Josephine White and was
born in Ireland on August 15th, 1844,
hence at her death was 70 years, 8
months and 22 days old. She came to this
country when a young girl with her par-
ents and on November 25th, 1864, was
married in Philadelphia to Dennis Kane
and shortly afterwards they came to Cen-
tre county and located at Axe Mann.
Mr. Kane died a number of years ago
but surviving the deceased are the fol-
lowing children: Edward W. and John
B. Kane, of Roopsburg; Mrs. James Mor-
rison, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Edwin Sunday,
of Pleasant Gap, and Mrs. Daniel How-
ard, of Bellefonte. She also leaves one
sister, Mrs. Michael Butler, of Philadel-
phia. Funeral services were held in the
Catholic church at ten o'clock on Mon-
day morning by Father Caprio after
which burial was made in the Catholic
cemetery. |
* MARTIN.—Mrs. Lulu Martin, wife of
H. D. Martin, died at her home in Wil-
kinsburg on Thursday of last week fol-
lowing a two years’ illness with a com-
plication of diseases.
. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Irwin and was born at Jacksons,
ville about forty years ago.
ucated in the public schools and later
graduated from Lock Haven Normal
school. About fourteen years ago she
was united in marriage to H. D. Martin
and most of the time since they have
made their home in Wilkinsburg. In ad-
dition to her husband she is survived by
two children, also the following brothers
and sisters: Mrs. J. Will Mayes, of How-
ard; D. Al Irwin, of Ebensburg; Mrs. J. |
Elmer Ross, of Lemont; Mrs. J. B. Ros-
ser, of Mill Hall, and Miss Susan Irwin,
who made her home with Mr. and Mrs.
Martin.
The remains were brought to Centre
county on Saturday and taken to the
Mayes home in Howard, where funeral
services were held on Sunday afternoon.
Burial was made in the Jacksonvilie
cemetery. {
CRAMER.— Mrs. Martha Cramer, wife
of Samuel Cramer, died at her home
near Linden Hall last Friday morning as
the result of a complication of diseases.
She had been ailing for several years but
was confined to her bed only four weeks.
She was a daughter of Amos and Jane
Shannon Koch and was born at Fillmore
on October 9th, 1864, hence was in her
fifty-first year. She is survived by her
husband, one brother, William Koch in
the west, and three sisters: Mrs. Wil-
liam Stover, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Charles
Reamy, of Tusseyville, and Mrs. William
Bodle, of Hunter’s Park. She wasa mem-
ber of the Methodist church and a wom-
an esteemed by all who knew her. Fun-
eral services were held at her late home
at ten o'clock on Monday morning by
Rev. C. C. Shuey, after which the re-
mains were taken to Buffalo Run valley
for burial in the Meyers cemetery.
REESE.—Harry Reese, a former Centre
countian, died at his home in Connells-
ville on Tuesday of last week after thir-
teen months illness with locomotor ataxia.
Reese and was born in Bellefonte forty-
seven years ago. When a young man he
went to railroading and for the past
thirteen years was a freight conductor on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He is
survived by his wife and four children,
Carrie, Joseph, Martha and Harry. He
also leaves three brothers and two sis-
ters, namely: Martin, Charles and Joseph
Reese, of Snow Shoe; Mrs. Anna Tate,
of Altoona, and Mrs. L. W. Crider, of
Cleveland, Ohio. The funeral was held
on Thursday, burial being made in the
Hill Grove cemetery, Connellsville.
WARNER. — Lemuel Warner died on
Tuesday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. George Flick, at Fleming, at the ad-
vanced age of 84 years, 3 months and 3
days. During the Civil war he served in
Company E, 93rd regiment. Mrs. War-
ner died two years ago but surviving him
are seven children. The funeral will be
held this (Friday) morning, burial to be
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FousT.--Mrs. Nancy Annie Foust, died
With the Churches of the |
County. |
Notes of Interest to Church People of
all Denominations in all Parts of |
the County. :
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY. |
Service Sunday 10:45 a. m. Wednes-
day 8 p. m., 9% E. High street.
PROFANITY IV.
The fourth sermon on Profanity will |
be given next Sunday evening at 7:30 |
o’clock in the Lutheran church, by the |
pastor, Rev. W. M. B. Glznding. “The |
Common Swearer will Steal and Do Oth- |
er Bad Things.”
The topic of the morning sermon will ’
be, “Looking Upward.” ;
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.—A con- |
vention of the Sunday schools in District
No. 7, which includes Bellefonte, Spring |
and Benner townships, was held in the |
Methodist church at Pleasant Gap last
Thursday afternoon and evening, and |
was well attended. The devotional serv- |
ice was led by the pastor, Rev. John H. |
REBERSBURG.
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Herb Smull is laying all those concrete
walks.
Sticktoativeness wins over happygo-
luckiness!
; Rev. and Mrs. Kessler are happily dom-
iciled in the cosy U. Ev. parsonage.
When a man is down and out how
hard it is to get a staying foot hold!
Teddy Royer, too, has caught the fever
and is giving his home a coat of cream.
~ Those who flirt in the alleys should
“not overlook their baggage,” as the train
men say.
Get your WATCHMAN now.
It has all the news,
and general.
Charlie Beck has removed from Smull-
ton and occupies the Garrett home east
of the village.
; Alberta Stover and Hilda Bierly gave a
piano duet session to some friends on
Saturday night. ¥
Florence Diehl returned home from
Red Top and Lizzie Diehl will return
from Pittsburgh the end of this week.
Why wait?
local, county, State
McKechine. Following the enrollment Mrs. Ernest Peter Bierly leaves today
of delegates and various reports the fol- | with her two little boys to visit her aunts
lowing officers were elected: and relatives at Lima and. Columbus,
President, Rev. C. C. Shuey; vice presi- | Ohio.
dent, Rev. E. Fulcomer; secretary, Miss | _ Miss Elsie Miller returned home to
Mary Twitmyer, Pleasant Gap; treasurer,
J. Frank Smith. The district superin-
tendents are: Elementary, Miss Kate
Shugert; home, Miss Lottie Harrison;
teacher training, Mrs. William Shope;
O. A. B. C.,, Darius Waite; temperance,
Rev. A. B. Sprague; missions, Mrs. John
A. Woodcock. q
Brief talks were made in the afternoon
by Rev. E. Fulcomer and Dr. Ezra H.
Yocum and in the evening' the speakers
were Dr. Ambrose M. Schmidt, Rev.
Fulcomer and Prof. Jonas E. Wagner.
TORSELL—PALMER.— Joseph Torsell, of :
Bellefonte, and Miss Verna Palmer, of
i Lock Haven on Saturday, John Styer tak-
ling her over the rhododendron route to
. Lamar.
Squire Carlin, as a conveyancer, has
the happy faculty of drawing all his pa-
pers concisely. He uses just enough and
no superfluity.
Scott Walliser is registering voters and
is betimes accompanied by Judge Frank,
he of the benign countenance and equa-
nimity of demeanor.
It was a wise politician who declared
that young men should not concern them-
selves with old men’s party quarrels.
“Let the dead past bury its dead!”
There is a noticeable decrease in the
perambulations on Saturday nights. Saves
shoe leather and scandal!
Nymphic
Mill Hall, were married at the home of voices of the night give Bway a
Mr. and Mrs. John Rohe, in Mill Hall | things not written in the Book.
on Monday evening. Quite a number of | “Hacky” is emphatic in his faith that
guests were present to witness the cere- | beer will win in the war of nations with
mony which was performed by Rev. whiskey: brandy, ea, potheen, i
: eo : and even Nebraska grape juice, if i
Boer Menara, = ithe Mill Ben ' chooses to dance into the fore.
e Ist Cure. € young couple| pres Emma Sholl has supplied many
were attended by Miss Josephine Rohe, ' with hydrangeas and other flowers she
as bridesmaid, and C. O. Hoover, best | cultivates successfully, at figures sur-
man. Mary Rohe acted as ring bearer, | prisingly low. Every twig shesticks into
Marry Dirrier flower girl, and Miss Bes- | the ground Br for, her, but she will
sie Powers played the wedding march. | not tel! what words she uses with it.
Apples are apples now. If those who
A wedding dinner and reception lcllowed :
th 2 later th ie! let their apples rot under the trees last
€ ceremony and later the young COUDI€ | £5] had put them into cold storage, see
left on a wedding trip east. The bride, | what prices they could now get for them
though a resident of Mill Hall, is a mem- | when both Samuel and Willis F., of the
ber of the millinery firm of Palmer & Bierlys, are gathering them in for the
Rohe, Lock Haven, and has a wide circle coal regions.
of friends in that city. The bridegroom | The floral offerings of the Reformed
ducts his uncle’s shoe repair shop on | church on Mother's Day were notably
concuct pi 0p ON | pretty, among them being a large bunch
west High street, Bellefonte, and it is in | of white lilacs by Mrs. Clayton Weaver,
this place they expect to make their | and one of violet lilacs by Mrs. Samuel
! Gephart, which were sent to her fro
‘home.
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youths, plead guilty to robbing a store
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry |
‘the new Gramley block on Main street
‘yesterday.
‘tested on Saturday afternoon.
made in the Advent cemetery.
' KELLERMAN — MCGOWAN. — At four |
o’clock on Wednesday: afternoon a wed- |
ding occurred at the Catholic parsonage
in which the principals were Charles
Kellerman, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Kellerman, and Miss Elizabeth McGow-
an, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
McGowan, of Spring Creek. Rev. Fath-
er McArdle performed the ceremony and
the young couple were attended by John
Sholl and Miss Katherine McGowan. Im-
mediately after the ceremony Mr. and
Mrs. Kellerman left on a wedding trip
west. They will make their home in
Bellefonte, Mr. Kellerman being in the
employ of the State-Centre Electric com-
pany. :
‘——On Tuesday Harry Foreman and
Thomas Shannon, two Philipsburg
and were sentenced by Judge Orvis to the
reform school at Glenn Mills, to which
place they were taken on Wednesday by
sheriff Lee.
MILLHEIM.
H. S. Shelton spent several days last
week on a business trip to Philadelphia.
H. R. Hartman and children, of State
College, were Millheim visitors last Fri-
ay.
Carpenters have begun work on re-
modeling W. S. Shelton’s residence on
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shull have re-
turned to Millheim after spending the
winter and spring at Plymouth.
A number ¢f persons from this com-
munity motored to Sunbury on Saturday
to take in the Barnum & Bailey show.
An up-to-date bath outfit”is being in-
stalled in A. E. Bartges’ residence on
Penn street by the Hosterman and Sto-
ver hardware store.
Wetzel’s garage, on Main street, is so
far completed that they are now dispens-
ing oil and gas. It will only be a short
time until the building will be completed
and an experienced automobile machin-
ist installed to look after the sick and
disabled machines.
R. F. Stover moved the postoffice and
his jewelry store into the two rooms in
The heating plant in the
block is finished and was successfully
Similar
plants are being installed in the residen-
ces of A. B. Meyer and K. A. Meyer, at
Coburn, by Hosterman & Stover, the lo-
cal agents.
Purity Gives Power.
There are many persons in the world that need
to be impressed with the fact that the purer the
blood is the greater is the power of the system to
remove disease and the less the liability to con-
tract it. Persons whose blood is in good condi-
tion are much less likely to take cold or, to be
long troubled with it, or to catch any contagious
or infectious disease, than are those whose blood
is impureand therefore impoverished and lack-
ing in vitality. The best medecine for purifying
the blood is Hood's Sarsaparilla, and persons suf-
fering from any blood disease or any want of
tone in the system are urged to give this medi-
cine a trial. It is especially useful at this time of
year. 60-20
‘Bethlehem, Pa. ,
The spirit of improvement of homes
and walks is abroad here.. Mrs. Amanda
Kessler has had a modern fence con-
structed along her historic property, once
owned by Dr. Samuel Strohecker. A
new asphalt walk there by Smull and
Corman would also grace the premises.
Charles C. Bierly has put the finishing
touches on the Forest Ocker home which
makes it now look like a new brick man-
sion. It was really one of the first houses
built in Rebersburg and in it three gen-
erations of the Bierly clan lived and died.
Now it is owned by the fourth genera-
tion.
How would it be for President Wilson
to adopt the “watchful waiting” policy
of Mexico to Kaiserdom? If he would
pack off Bernstorff and call home Gerard
and then sit down and wait, the Allies,
in time, will do the rest. Germany can’t
get at us and we don’t want to get at
Germany, except perhaps some “Brod-
fressers” and petticoats!
EAST BRUSHVALLEY.
Raymond Zeigler is very quietly enter-
taining the mumps.
W. A. Winters sold a fine team of
horses on Friday of last week.
Miss Mildred Wolf, of Loganton, spent
Sunday with her friend, Miss Neta Page.
Roy Swartz purchased a No. 2. driving
horse from the Bierly Bros., of Rebers-
burg.
Some of our farmers are hauling wheat
to the market at Coburn, receiving $1.50
per bushel.
Prospects seem good for a bumper
apple crop this season, as the trees bear
blossoms very heavily.
“V, S.” Feidler, of Millheim, makes
frequent calls in this section. Some-
thing wrong, some where.
Some of the corn is creeping through
the ground, but little progress has been
made owing to the cool nights.
A. W. Weber is suffering great pain
from a large boil on his back. That is
certainly nice company in warm weath-
er.
If the last Friday of the month rules
the weather of the one following, it will
be quite cool through the month of
May.
All indications point toward an inter-
esting afternoon on Saturday at Wolf’s
Store. A double header is predicted.
(Base Ball.)
A new bridge is being built over Elk
creek leading to C. O. Mallory’s planta-
tion. The old one was condemned and
is practically impassable.
Lawrence Weber, Nona Yearick, How-
ard Weaver and daughter Grace, and
Mrs. Poorman, of Milesburg, spent Sun-
day afternoon at the home of O. F.
Stover.
On Thursday morning of last week a
deer was seen in the valley around this
vicinity. Dogs had chased it from the
mountains and when taken from its
tracks, it felt greatly relieved.
Rev. Ira E. Spangler, of Milton, is visit-
ing his old home at Sunny Side. The
house which he calls his home is 110
years old, being made of stone. The
corners are as plumb now as they were
a century ago.