Peworratii if adc Bellefonte, Pa., August 20, 1915. THE QUEST OF LAZY LAD. Have you heard the tale of Lazy Lad, Who dearly loved to shirk. For he hated his lessons and hated his tasks, And he hated to have to work? So he sailed away on a summer day Over the ocean blue; Said Lazy Lad: “I will seek till I find The land of Nothing-to-do.” “For that is a jolly land, I know, With never a lesson to learn, And never an errand to bother a feller Till he doesn’t know where to turn. And I’m told the folks in that splendid place May frolic the whole year through So everybody, good-by—I'm off For the land of Nothing-to.do!” So Lazy Lad he sailed to the West, And then to the East sailed he. And he sailed North and he sailed South, Over many a league of sea, And many a country fair and bright And busy came into view; But never, alas, could he find the coast Of the land of Nothing-to-do. The Lazy Lad sailed back again, And a wiser lad was he. For he said: “I’ve wandered to every land That is in the geography, And in each and all I've found that folks Are busy the whole year through, And everybody in every place Seemed to have something to do. So it must be the very best way after all, And I mean to stay on shore And learn my lesons and do my tasks And be Lazy Lad no more. The busiest folks are the happiest, And what mother said was true, - For I've found out there is no such place As the land of Nothing-to-do. —Exchange. RETURNING FROM INDIA. By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern Country. The Last Lap on the Homebound Journey. HoNoLuLu. Dear Mother and Others: One-half across the Pacific, and it’s not what its name says, or else I am the hoodoo, for this boat rolled and pitched enough to make most of its passengers wish for land, but we had no really bad storms, so for that, at least, we can be glad. The passenger list was not large, but they surely did make up for it by being nice. Four or five men from the Burmah Oil Fields, on their first jaunt to the States in four years; a Judge, a Re- porter, and six just ordinary citizens call- ing Manilla home. Some Australians, English and Scotch, bound to see the sights in America, were some of the folks that helped us all forget the long days when only the sky was above and water was on every side below. It’s a joy, those long days on board, but what a lazy time for the average citizen of Uncle Sam’s country, and I was amused to see the energy that was spent trying to con- coct something to pass the time. True, I was too lazy to be of any use, or to even appreciate their point of view; my greatest expenditure of energy merely resulted in “so many” times around the deck. But at last, after ten days, we saw a low, indistinct mound in the distance and were told it was one of the Hawaiian group. Years and years ago, mother, some one told me that Honolulu was the “Garden Spot of the World;” needless to say, that after the first glimpse I stood with eyes glued onto that bit of volcanic formation that the Sea seems to caress and love. Nearer and nearer we drew and then one of the passengers offered me a glass and I saw a great brown jew- el surrounded by green jade, the blue sky was the background, the sky-line was not even and just here and there like ex- quisite bits of inlaying, the green tropic- al verdure broke the monotony of that brown mound. The waters that wash its shore first look green, green, but a little later became peacock blue and every little while would again change un- til it seemed almost irridescent. We got in toward land and then came those Hawaian divers wanting money and scrambling for the coins thrown into the water, like kiddies do on the streets of New York. These divers are indeed wonderful and one wonders are they not part fish, but after a day or two on shore watching everybody bathing, you begin to realize they are only proficient in what every one can do. The city of Honolulu itself was a great disappointment. A dirty, narrow-street- ed American town—not artistic in the very least degree, although nature has been so very lavish with the surround- ings. After the towns in the East, I al- most wished I had gone on and not stop- ped, but I found a boarding-house (a horror) and went with some boat-friends to hear the Honolulian band and the irso- loists, (native). The concert was given in a park and the music was very, very good; those native women’s voices have a quality I will never forget—plaintive, sad, and yet leaving a desire in one’s ears for more. The general populace was there and for the first time I saw the native dress; a form of “mother-hub- bard” with a ruffle about the bottom, al- ways of white, and with feet well shod and perhaps a lace shawl about the shoul- ders. It was indeed not undesirable asa hot-weather garment. The next morning I went down to see the boat pull out and I was homesick at leaving my ship-mates, but I wanted a week on this island and my ticket is good for two years, so why hurry. Such a lost sensation as I had going back up town, but decided to hunt up a medical school- mate who lives here. She was as glad ‘Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. to see me as I was to find her and at | once I moved out to her boarding-place, | Waikiki Beach, and how I have, changed my opinion of this all. Upto! the “Pali” we went and ‘the road is per- fect, but as it rains daily (called liquid | sunshine here) of course it rained that | American Coal for Europe. ; The sailing of a big steamship from this port recently laden to its capacity with a cargo of coal to be delivered in Tarragona, Spain, has called attention | particularly to this increasing demand | for American coal by Italy, Spain, France | and other countries along the Mediter- FARM NOTES. | —Yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the larg- | est broadleaf tree in America, has been | known to reach nearly 200 feet in height | and 10 feet in diameter. i —Cultivate young trees the first year. | Cultivate or mulch after that. The pear | day too, and so just as we rounded a | ranean. Even Russia, it is said, is offer- | after being established does well in sod. curve and across a wide ravine a gap be- tween the two hills came into view, join- ed just at that moment by a gorgeous | brilliant rainbow; so thick and beau- tiful, one felt as though it must! be there forever. But on up we went | and finally, at the top, I was told to go | and look through a little break in the | mountains—I saw straight down hun- dreds of feet the sea, the tropical coun- | try spread out like a vision; I gasped | and looked, I couldn’t tell you the effect —it made one realize their smallness. But the aquarium, where all colors of fish are seen, the trip to the volcano and | the museum would be a letter so long | that even you would tire of it and I'll just keep it a bit longer and tell you. For after I tell you a little of how this wonderland beach makes me feel I am going to quit. The reefs almost inclose it and the coral forming a ridge makes sharks impossible, and whether the coral also causes the co.or I know not, but truly I never hope to again see such gor- geous water colorings, all the way from deep green, peacock-blue, pale pink and lavender, with even yellow to finish with. I could just sit and dream by the hour, simply watching the changing lights. Mother, this is the last letter I shall send you, as the letter and I would trav- el together. I am sorry it’s nearly over and yet I want to see you all so much, I forget to have regrets. These two and a half years have been full of interest and | yet there were times I was just down- right N-A-S-T-Y, but I am glad I have had itall. SoI will just say a little good- night for in just three weeks I will say it to you. With love, THE MEDICAL WOMAN FROM INDIA. Danger Signals on the Prairie. If it were not for the pronghorn ante- lopes, I wonder how the prairie folks would getalong. These fleet-footed deer raise the first danger signals on the plains. You have often seen the man who stands at the railroad crossing wav- ing a red flag when the ¢rain is approach- ing. This means: “Danger, Look Out for the Engine.” Every pronghorn has on-its hind quar- ters a pair of white disks, with a strong muscle to move them. These snowy patches are not for every-day use, but are kept carefully folded away. Prong- horn’s eyes are large, and his sight is very keen. He can see farther than most of the prairie folks. A herd of antelopes may be peacefully cropping the short prairie grass when a whiff of air, pass- ing their way, brings the scent of coyotes. Out flash’ the danger signals, their pure whiteness dazzling in the sunshine. The prairie dog on his little hillock catches the flashes and hastens below. A herd of elk peacefully browsing more than a mile away see and flee. Long ago, when great herds of bison roamed the plains, the pronghorn’s danger signals often started a stampede of those huge beasts. Every prairie dweller, great and small, heeds the white flags hoisted by the pronghorn. These graceful fellows are the watchmen of the plains. They love to race over the prairies and are almost as swift and light of foot as swallows on the wing.—Margaret W. Leighton, in The Egg Problem. A country woman carrying eggs to a garrison, where she had three guards to pass, sold at the first, half the number she had, and half an egg more; at the second, half of what remained, and half an egg more; and at the third, the half of the remainder and half an egg more; when she arrived at the market place, she had three dozen still to sell; how was this possible, without breaking any of the eggs? Solution—It would appear on the first view, that this problem is impossible, for how can half an egg be sold without breaking any? The possibility of it, how- ever, will be evident when it is consid- ered that by taking the greater half of an odd number, we take the exact half, plus 1.2. It will be found, therefor, that the woman, before she passed the last guard, had 73 eggs remaining, for by sell- ing 37 of them at that guard, which is the half or plus 1-2, she would have 36 remaining, in like manner, before she came to the first, 295. Lincoln Highway Pictured bv Camera. Movie Motion pictures are now being made of the Lincoln Highway, dealing with the road conditions along the entire route between New York and San Francisco, as well as the scenery and points of his- torical interest. 000 feet of film will be exposed and sub- sequently shown in various cities in dif- ferent parts of the country, including all points touched by the trans-continental road. The tour is being made by official cars of the highway commission and will be completed some time in September. The purpose of the undertaking is to give publicity to the highway and stimu- late an added interest in its upbuilding and use.—From the August Popular Me- chanics Magazine. How We Dump Valuable Soil Into the Sea. ; In the current issue of Farm and Fire- side, the national farm paper published at Springfield, Ohio, a contributor writ- ing under the title “Dumping Soil Into the Sea” tells how middle west farms lose eleven tons of earth a second. Fol- lowing is an extract from what this writer reports: “Eleven tons of soil is carried into the Gulf of Mexico every second by the Mis- sissippi river from its immense drainage district. This material amounts to 346 million tons every year, and is equal to the surface soil, 6% inches deep, of 346. 000 acres.” ma) arabe | the importation of from 10,000,000 to 12,- 1 000,000 tons from England also has been , cut off or greatly reduced by the exigen- cies of the war. Between 7,000 and 10.- | both _honus of $35.” | We now say in New York that a build-, ing is two eiffels, or three or four, as ——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. ing high premiums for the coal imported | rom America, thousands of miles away. | Philadelphia is logically the center of | ocean transportation for coal as the ter- | minus of the Philadelphia & Reading | Railway, with its net-work of lines through the great anthracite fields of | this State, the greatest in all the world ! as an “even break’ competitor of Balti-! more and other ports to the south for the product of the bituminous coal fields : in the southern part of this State and | West Virginia, served by the Pennsylva. nia Railroad. Immense shipments have | been made from the coal piers to supply , i great deal of | the shortage on the other side, and. yet £ ality. Government is greatly concerned over’, the scarcity and is willing to guarantee | the payment of orders placed’in‘the Unit- ed States by opening a credit in N York to the amount of at least 1,000,000 . pesetas ($200,000.) A royal decree has! suspended the import duties on coal and | the transport taxes which were discrim- inatory against America. i France has felt the scarcity acutely too, though ordinarily 40,000,000 tons of coal are mined there, an amount consid- erably greater than the usual require- ments of the nation, which largely uses coal conglomerates and the other substi- | tutes. The production has fallen now to | 25,000,000 t-ns a year, and the importa- | tion in former years of 6,000,000 tons from Germany and 4,000,000 tons from Belgium has been cut off. Apparently As a result large orders have been placed in America and the importation of coal in its way has become as important there as the importation of American grain and other food-stuffs to eke out the diminished supply.—Philadelphia Press. How to Store Eggs for Use Next Winter. In the poultry-raising department of the current issue of Farm and Fireside a contributor writes a little article telling how for twelve years she has stored eggs when prices are low for use and for sale when prices are highest. She says that when she sells her stored eggs in Decem- ber, January and February she receives from ‘two to three times as much for them as they cost her. In the following extract taken from the little article she describes how she stores them, and mar- kets them: “I store my eggs in large stoneware crocks in a cellar or other cool place where the temperature is uniform, and use a solution in which to pack the eggs by diluting one part of silicate of soda (water glass) with twelve parts of pure water. The water is boiled and then allowed to cool before mixing in the water glass. “The water glass cost me about 45 to 50 cents per gallon when purchased from poultry-supply or mail-order houses. This is at the rate of about one cent a dozen for the eggs thus packed. “I find that there is no risk whatever in storing eggs in this way, provided nothing but clean-shelled eggs, free from cracks, are packed the same day they are laid.” Has Amused Show Public for Thirty- Five Years. Thirty-five years of success as an amusement purveyor to the American public is a record of which any man might well be proud, and that is the rec- ord of Frank A. Robbins, who will bring his “All-Feature Show” here on Friday, August 27th, Starting while yet a very young man, with a small wagon show, he has gradu- ally developed his business until today he is putting on the road a show, which is fully up to any in the features present- ed. Every year for thirty-five he has im- proved his equipment, and searched all over the country for star acts, and those which will be seen this year are said to eclipse any in the past. It has always been the custom of this successful circus man to give the public just what he ad- vertises, and his reputation for keeping his word has become so great that he is able to return to the same towns year after year, a thing which has been found impossible with other circuses. In addi- tion to strengthening his show Robbins has increased his menagerie and parade this year at great expense. Two per- formances will be given, at 2 and 8 o'clock, preceded by band concerts for one hour. How to Make Hired Men Work Harder. In the current issue of Farm and Fire- side a contributor writes an interesting little article entitled “Premiums for Hired Men.” In the following extract, taken from this article, appear sugges- tions as to the treatment of hired men: “When the corn was planted and be- gan to come up early in June we would find that it could not be plowed cross- wise because the rows were so crooked. This meant dirty corn and a large de- crease in yield. “I tried the plan of offering the man on the planter $5 if the rows were straight ways. That evening I found him out fixing his machine and wires, and have never had trouble since. “Was this $5 well invested? “I also promised the man that every pig weaned over 240 would be 50 cents for himself. The consequence was that the man raised and weaned 310 pigs. “On one cold stormy night there were 52 pigs born. These the man carried in warm boxes into his kitchen, and when he phoned me in the morning he had been up all night and had saved 47. “I had the pleasure of paying him a Linear Measure. The Frenchman and the American had gone a considerable distance in animated discussion concerning the merits of their respective countries. Neither would make any concessions. “Of course,” finally said the French- man in desperation, “you will con- cede that there is only one Eiffel tow- er and that we have it?” “Certainly,” ‘agreed the American, “and I am mighty glad, for it has given us a means for measuring our skyscrapers. situation is so acute that the Spanish | It does not grow rapidly and is less sub- | ject to the blight, particularly if on very fertile soil. i —A few years ago Professor Frank | Benton went to Palestine to investigate | the bee industry, and as a result of his | efforts we have a particular strain of | bees known as the Holy Land bees, which are now scattered widely over the United ! States. j —Old nails sticking up in pieces of ! boards are very dangerous things to have | around. They are liable to get stepped ! on by some one, or animals. causing a | trouble and sometimes a | enever: ‘one is seen, take ! time. to pull it out of else bend it down. i —June is ideal for pruning old apple | ‘trees. You v:iry largely ‘eliminate the | New | water sprouts and insure rapid healing | over the wounds, but had better wear ' rubbers of some kind to prevent peeling | the bark. Stock of all kinds should be | kept out of orchards during this month | for the same reason. —There is some misunderstanding in |! regard to the value of basic slag as a soil i sweetener. A recent bulletin of the Geneva station says that in addition to phosphorus, basic slag contains a small ! amount of lime, capable of neutralizing acidity, equal to perhaps 20 per cent. of lime carbonate. This indicates that the : practical value of basic slag should be | based almost entirely on the amount of : phosphorus it contains. —During hot weather, the wise team- ster loads lightly and drives slowly; stops | in the shade, if possible; waters his horse as often as possible. So long as a horse is working, water in moderate | quantities will not hurt him. But let him drink only a few swallows if he is: going to stand still. Do not fail to water | him at night after he has eaten his hay. When the horse comes in after work, a good stable man sponges off the harness marks and sweat, his eyes, his nose and mouth, and the dock, and washes his feet, but not his legs. - —Acknowledged authorities on the ef- fects of thunderstorms and what to do at that time, say sheltering under trees should be avoided, as well as standing in the vicinity of spreading branches, nor should one stand on the lee side of a haystack or building, as the rain dripping from the top thereof may easily lead the flash in the direction of one’s person, converting one into a human lightning conductor. Telegraph posts should be given a wide berth, and the telephone should not be used during a storm. Lightning conductors, rainwater pipes and such like should be avoided. --Any land which will produce a heavy crop of corn will raise a profitable crop of celery. The cultivation should begin long be- fore the plant itself is set in its final bed. The plant need not be set in the per- manent bed until late in June, but the : cultivation should, begin early. Cultivate | or disk the ground at least once each week, and harrow as often to keep the clods pulverized. After every rain, as soon as the ground can be worked, it should be cultivated, no matter if there is a rain every 36 hours. Enough mois- ture can be lost in two or three hot days after the ground is packed by a heavy rain to grow a crop of celery. Some advocate planting the plants in a ditch six or eight inches deep. If the plants are to be tended with a common cultivator this must not be done. It is important that they be cultivated im- mediately after being set in the perma- nent bed, and if the ditch is very deep too much dirt will be thrown around the plants. .If any dirt gets on the crowns of the plant, it seriously impedes the growth. Good results may be obtained by mak- ing a ditch two or three inches deep and | slowly filling this with mellow dirt dur- ing the first and second cultivations, but deeper than this is not necessary. It may be argued that the ditch is needed so that the necessary moisture can be supplied by irrigating down the ditches, but it has been our experience that it is not a good plan to irrigate directly in the ditches. Besides, if the cultivations have been frequent enough to conserve mois- ture there need be no application of moisture after the plants are set out, even if there is no rainfall whatever. —The cultivations which follow the final planting up to the time the plants are ready to blanch should be only on the surface, principally to conserve mois- ture. The common five-shovel garden plow is the best implement for this pur- pose. The plants should be cultivated at least once each week, whether there has been any rain or whether or not there are any weeds to kill. If there are heavy, dashing rains, the ground must be culti- vated as soon after each as it can with- out turning the dirt up in lumps. Just before blanching, the surface should be given a cultivation somewhat deeper than the prior cultivations. This is done to give a sufficiency of mellow ground to be used in filling around the plants. Best results are obtained when the ground to be used in banking the plants is allowed to air for a short period before using. —It requires about 20,000 to 35,000 celery plants to the acre. Celery should be packed in the earth. Stand it upright, and put the earth only around the roots, not in the crown. The rows may be from four to six feet apart, according to the variety, and plants six to nine inches apart in the row. ere the late varieties are grown, it is not uncommon to grow onions between the rows, removing them before the time of banking the celery. On clay soils many mulch between the celery rows, which obviates the necessity of so much watering ‘and protects the roots from the sun. The best soil for celery is rich, mellow» sandy loam, and the seed-beds or flats in which the plants: are started are better for a mixture of leaf-mold. That grown on the muck or peat bogs is not as good flavored and does not keep as well as that from sandy or clay soils, but the clay soils will grow better crops if given ali application of barnyard manure, as celery is a plant which requires much nitrogen. The use of manures or fertil- izers rich in nitrogen, or rotating the field with leguminous plants, as clover, peas, cowpeas, beans or soy beans, is a good preparation on light soils. Reclaim- ed muck lands have more need of potash the case may be.” and phosphate until the nitrogen has be- come exhausted. Ts | in Russia. St. George and St. Peter. Besides being the patron saint of England St. George is also patron of Moscow. on whose arms there figures the picture of the saint slaying the dragon. A famous Russian military decoration—the Order of St. George— which was founded by Catherine the second—also commemorates the saint It may incidentally be pointed out that while St. George was adopted as the “military protector” of England early in the thirteenth centu- ry the patron of England had for five centuries previously been St. Peter, which helps to explain why more churches have in England been dedi. i eated to that saint than to any other. London Mirror. Delaware's Northern Boundary. Why the northern boundary of Delas ware should have been circular in form is often a source of wonderment. came about in this way: After William Penn had obtained a grant of ‘Pennsyl vania‘he was desirous of owning the land on the west bank of the Delaware to the sea. He procured from the Duke of York in 1682 a release of all his ti tle and claim to New Castle and twelve miles around it and to the land bes tween this tract and the sea. A line that was the are of a circle of a twelve mile radius was then run. with New Castle as a center. When the three “lower counties” on the Delaware bes came a state they retained this boun- dary.—Chicago Journal. When You Czn’t Sleep. There is an odd theory, which many i people believe and which is certainly harmless. that sleeplessness may often be cured in the following odd way: Move your bed out into the room so that no part of bed or covers will touch the wall. Then place under each caster of the bed a piece of rubber or a rubber overshoe or set the caster in a thick glass dish. Tien go to bed, making _ sure the covers do not touch the wall Thus the bed and yourself will be cut off from all electric contact with floot or wall Such absence. of, electric con. tact, it is claimed. will make you sleep better. It is said to have cured stub: born cases of insomnia. A Roman Dinner. A Roman dinner at the house of a wealthy man consisted chiefly of threg courses. All sorts of stimulants to the appetite were first served up, and eggy were indispensable to the first course. Among the various dishes we may in. stance the guinea hen, pheasant, night. ingale and the thrush as birds most in repute. The Roman gormands held peacocks in great estimation. especially : their tongues. Macrobius states that they were first eaten by Hortensius, the orator, and acouired such repute that a single peacock was sold for 50 denarii, - the :denatius being equal to about eightpence, halfpenny of English money.—Chambers’ Journal. Mild Result. The courtroom was crowded. A wifa was seeking divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and brutally abusive treatment. The husband was on th> stand under. going a grueling cross examination. The examining attorney said: “You have testified that your wife on ~ne oc. casion threw cayenne pepper in yuut face Now, sir, kindly tell us what you Gid on that occasion.” The witness hesitated and looked cone fused. Every one expected that he was about to confess. to some shocking act of cruelty. But their hopes were shat tered when he finally blurted out: “I sneezed!”—Everybody’s. Saving Fish After Floods. “One of the most important lines of work carried on by the fisheries branch of the government,” said an official, “is the rescue of food and game fishes from the overflowed lands in the Mis- sissippi valley. After the floods sub- side shallow pools are lef: that are wholly disconnected from the streams, and in these the fishes gradually perish as the drying of the ponls progresses. By sending men to seine these pools the government each year saves and ree turns to public waters hundreds of thousands of valuable fishes.” Bragging. Two youngsters were in conversa. tion. ? iad “Well,” said the ome, “you haven't any call to. be proud. My father’s taller than yours.” “Bet you a nickel he ain’t.” was the retort. “Bet you he is,” said the first young: ster. “My father can see over the wall at the end of the garden. Yours can’t.” “Yes, he can, smarty,” responded the other, “with his hat on.”’—Pittsburgh Press. By Exper.ence. “Have you learned anything in the way of business during your four years’ loaf at college?” demanded the: pater. “Sure!” said Reginald. *I can write the dandiest line of dunning letters you ever saw.” “Humph!” ejaculated the pater. “Who taught you that?” “My creditors,” 'said Reginald.—Life. Borrowed Implements. “Say, Subbubs, I understand you have Neighbor Wombat’s rake.” “I have.” “If you'll loan me that occastonally I'll let you use Dingbat’s lawn mower when you like.”—Kansas City Journal. . A Sure Thing. “What 1s your idea of a cinch? “Betting that the long hand of 8 watch will get around the first.” — | County Correspondence Items of Interest Dished Up for the Delec- tation of “Watchman” Readers by a Corps of Gifted Correspondents. PINE GROVE MENTION. Farmer Bert Musser is manipulating a new Buick car. Mrs. Sallie Bloom was a State College visitor on Saturday. Preaching in the Lutheran church Sun- day morning at 10.30 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Glenn spent the Sabbath at the G. B. Fry home. Miss Lizzie Goheen, of Tyrone, was a Rock Springs visitor on Friday. Mrs. James Harpster and Miss Catha- rine Roush are both on the sick list. Robert Bullock and Blair Gates trans- acted business at Waddle on Monday. There will be preaching in the Presby- terian church: here Sunday at 7.30 p. m. Potatoes are reported rottening in the ground in some parts of Ferguson town- ship. Mrs. J. S. Miller, who has been quite sick the past two weeks, is now recov- ering. Miss Agnes Campbell is spending the hot season at the old family home at Fairbrook. A. J. Tate and J. A. Decker are arrang- ing to move to State College about Sep- tember 1st. ' You don’t want to Miss the big picnic at Baileyville, Saturday, in the George Irvin grove. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wagner were Sun- day visitors at the Alice Weiland home at Fairbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Walker were Sun- day visitors at the A. Stine Walker home on the Branch. Joel Feree and family motored to Cen- tre Hall and spent Sunday with the Rob- ert Flora family. E. T. Parsons visited his father, Shad- rock Parsons, who is ill at Unionville with heart trouble. Mrs. George Kustaborder, of Warriors- mark, is here caring for her mother, Mrs. Houck, who is quite ill. At Orphans’ court sale John E. Breon purchased the Otis Hoy residence at Struble, on Tuesday, for $3000. Mr. Lovett and Miss Etta Keller and Misses Ruth and Mary Keller, of Pitts- burgh, are visiting friends in town. Washington Grange P. of H. have their annual picnic billed for September 25th, in the Johnson grove at Pine Hall. Fred and Edward Stover, of Centre Hall, spent the first day of the week at the G. F. Miller home at White Hall. Miss Isabel Ward and friend, Miss Au- gusta Shoemaker, of Bellefonte, are vis- itors at the Ward home on Main street. Dr. J. B. Krebs, wife and children au- toed up from Northumberland and are visitors among their Centre county folks. John Kustaborder and two sons, of Bellwood, motored through the valley Sunday, looking over the scenery of their youth. Miss Bell Woomer, teacher in the pub- lic schools at Juniata, with her mother, visited the George McWilliams home on Tuesday. Miss Margaret and Mable Goss, with their brother Paul, of Tyrone, are here for a week staying with relatives in and out of town. Miss Elizabeth Physcher, of Williams- port, and Mrs. Abram Hamilton, of Belle- fonte, are visiting the A. S. Walker home on the Branch. Harvey Shaffer and wife and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Goss, in the former's Cadillac car, motored to DuBois and spent Sun- day with friends. Cyrus Hoy and family started on an auto tour of the eastern part of the State, camping by the road side, and expect to be gone a month. During a recent electric storm three head of cattle were killed by a bolt of lightning in the wood lot near Gatesburg. They belonged to J. G. Strayer. Wm. Grow Runkle motored up from the county capital to view his broad and fertile acres near Circleville, and see a bumper corn. crop and big pumpkins grow. Miss Edna Sunday is threatened with an attack of fever. Mrs. Harry Sunday is already ill with typhoid fever and under the care of Miss Minnie Collins, a trained nurse. Mr. and Mrs. David Tressler and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Albright motored to Berwick last week by the way of the Pennsvalley Narrows, returning by way of Lock Haven and Bellefonte. Mr. and Mrs. Eby, of Philadelphia, were entertained at. the C. M. Tros- ‘tle home Sunday. It was Mrs. Eby's first visit on a well regulated farm and she was delighted with the trip. Mrs. Florence Meade, with little Kep- lar, after an all summer visit at the old home, departed for her home at Ithaca, N. Y,, Monday. Her brother, A. C. Kep- ler, in his Hudson car, autoed them to Williamsport. On Tuesday afternoon while Curt Mey- ers and a crew were hauling in hay his four horse team ran away wrecking the wagon but injuring no one. Tuesday night, just to continue the hard luck, his best horse committed suicide by hanging itself with the halter. Registering a Kick. “You say in your paper,” said the man who had asked to see the editor, “that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peck are enjoying a visit from Mrs. Peck's mother.” : “Isn’t that statement correct?” asked the editor. : “Oh, she's visiting us all right enough,” admitted Mr. Peck, “and 1 daresay my wife is enjoying it, but you can leave me out of it. If you put any more sarcastic remarks like that in your paper I'll stop my subscription.” 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Tree Growth. A young oak grows three feet in three years. In the same time an elm grows eight feet three inches,
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