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Belletonte, Pa., September 1, 1916.
To CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications
published unless accompanied by the real name
of the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY.
——See our early fall and winter line
of coats and suits.—LYON & Co. 34-1t
——Beginning next Sunday the price
of the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Sun-
day papers will be six cents.
——MTrs. Sol Poorman has been ill for
the past two weeks with a broken arm,
the result of a fall downstairs.
The county commissioners
have decided to repair the Centre
county half of the inter-county bridge
at Beech Creek.
The Friends quarterly meeting
at the old meeting house in Halfmoon
township will be held tomorrow, Sun-
day and Monday.
——All the stores in Bellefonte will be
closed on Monday in observance of
Labor day, therefore be wise and do all
your shopping tomorrow.
——Valuable real estate for sale on
the corner of Bishop and Allegheny
streets, known as the Edward Brown
corner.—J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent. 61-33-4t
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Owens, of Valentine street, fell last
Thursday evening and broke her
right collar bene.
——DMiss Ottilie Hughes gave a dance
at the Academy last Wednesday even-
ing which was attended by fifteen cou-
ples. Refreshments were served and all
present had a delightful time.
—The family and friends of the
late Charles Koontz desire through
the “Watchman” to express their ap-
preciation and thanks to the owners
of automobiles in Bellefonte who so
kindly gave their service at the fun-
eral of Mr. Koontz yesterday morn-
ing.
——Miss Gertrude Shultz, of Philadel-
phia, who was to have been in Bellefonte
and make an address before the Young
Woman's Missionary society of the Pres-
byterian church, in the chapel this even-
ing, has sent word that she will not be
here, owing to the threatened railroad
strike.
Patrons of the Scenic on Wed-
nesday evening were dalightfully sur-
prised when they saw thrown upon
the screen the pictures of two Belle-
fénters. The picture that was being
shown was the Burton Holmes travel
pictures, depicting * scenes at the San
Diego, Cal., exposition, and brought
out in strong relief were the figures
of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Thompson, who
were there when the picture was
taken.
——The last picnic of the season
will be held next Monday (Labor day), ,
when the P. O. S. of A. of Clinton
county will hold their annual reunion
at Hecla park. There are thirteen
Camps in Clinton county and every
one will be represented at the gather-
ing. Members of the order in Centre
county and elsewhere are invited to
attend this picnic. There will be dane-
ing during the entire day and sports
of various kinds.
—September is here and only three
weeks more until summer will be over
and the cool, frosty winds of approach-
ing winter will be sweeping o’er the land.
But summer or winter the Scenic will
Alice Owens, the fourteen year |
Pennsylvania Troopers
In Grand Review.
!A Magnificent
i Horses and Vehicles.
Turnout of Men,
Other In-
: teresting News from the
| Front.
By Corp. Harry J. Cohen.
Camp Thomas J. Stewart,
El Paso, Texas, August 26.
We have just returned to our troop
i street and I hasten to jot down the
: happenings of a ringle morning, long
to be remembered and cherished by
| all who were fortunate enough to have
| been a witness of the most glorious
: display of pomp and power of the en-
| tire Pennsylvania fighting force. The
sight as each regiment of the seventh
_ division, comprising the entire mili-
; tary system of the Keystone State
| filed past the reviewing officer's stand,
| with Major General Clement as chief,
in company formation, was as awe-
| inspiring as any one could wish for
| All the different divisions of the
i service congregated at their respec-
| tive positions at 9 o’clock on the pa-
!rade grounds about one-half mile
| south of Tobin, Texas, which is a
i shert distance north of our camp, and
| exactly fifteen minutes later the
grand review started. First every
regiment and hospital corps attached
to each of the three brigades of in-
fantry, with their various bands and
{ their blue colorea regimental stand-
ards along side of Old Glory, and with
their headquarter’s staff mounted,
passed and it was fully three-quarters
of an hour before they were followed
by the signal corps. Next the artil-
lery swung in line and they were fol-
lowed by our own gallant First regi-
ment cavalry in platoon forma-
tion. Following us was the wagon
train and auto truck train, and by the
time the last one passed the reviewing
stand it was almost 11.30 a. m.
This maneuvre came as a great sur-
prise to all concerned, as there hadn’t
been a word said about it until late
‘the night before, all of which shows
with what speed the different units
are rounding into form. Fully 18,000
men, thousands of horses and mules,
besides countless vehicles were in line,
and with the beautiful day and cool-
ing breezes was, as Lieut. Smith said,
a sight we may never see agair.
Of course, each and every man is
deserving of credit for the part taken
by him, but all due praise must be
given our excellent Captain, H. Laird
Curtin, for bringing down kere, truly
a bunch of rookies, and giving each
one his undivided attention and of his
unbounded source of military ability.
. His knowledge of horsemanship is
far above any officer of the regiment,
and if he don’t turn us out a real,
crack cavalry centingent it won’t be
his fault. I can safely say that there
isn’t a troop anywhere around here
who respect and honor their captain
| and lieutenants as do the men of
troep L.
If we do or do not stay here this
winter we will be at least well pre-
pared in so far as camp comforts are
possible. Every troop is having built
of real lumber dining halls and kitch-
ens, to take the place of the tent
affairs we now have. These buildings
will have adobe floors, made of the
mud of the desert mixed with straw
and dried in the sun, a process used in
the building of houses zll through this
section of the country by the poorer
class of the mixed people, but which
continue to show the same high-class i
programs of motion pictures. In fact
manager T. Clayton Brown is always
figuring on improving his service and |
giving his patrons more for the money |
than they can see anywhere else. If you |
are not a regular attendant of the Scen- !
ic now is a good time to make the start. |
——Charles W. Tripple has been ap- |
pointed agent for the Adams Express |
company at Tyrone and took charge of |
the office on Monday. Mr. Tripple is
thoroughly conversant with the express '
business, having when a young man
started in as driver of the delivery wag-
on in Bellefonte. He later succeeded |
‘Orr Hoover as agent of the Bellefonte |
office, a position he filled most accepta-
bly for a number of years. He resigned
the agency here about ten years ago to
£0 into other business and most of the
time since has been spent on the road as
a traveling salesman. But he is now
back to the work of his early manhood
and there isno doubt but that he will
make a competent and courteous agent.
—Six residents of Kane, all Elks,
is admirably adapted as a protection
against the elements.
On Wednesday every man was ex-
amined by the hospital corps accord-
ing to the Bertillion system. Every
scar, mole and disfiguration, real or
fanciful was marked on a chart in the
exact spot that it appeared on the
man, and then the fingers separately
and then together were taken, and
that of the index finger was taken
again, just for luck, so I guess our
Uncle Sammy has us now, until he
is willing to play quits. But as far as
L Troop goes, he needn’t have wor-
ried, nobody wants to go home.
(Liar.)
The Y. M. C. A. has opened up
what is called an army hut, but in re-
ality it is a real, large auditorium,
where stationery and a writing room
are furnished gratis, and lectures on
different subjects will be given. There
is alsc a victrola and some of the
latest rag-time music as well as clas-
sical records to help entertain the sol-
diers. The dedication is booked for
who were on their way to Reading for
the big convention, stopped at the Elks
Lodge in this place on Sunday afternoon
and spent a half hour or so, continuing
their journey the same day. In one of
the cars were Frank G. Copeland, a jew-
eler of Kane, and R. E. Shaner, of the.
same place. Two miles below Jersey
Shore Copeland attempted to pass a car
going in the opposite direction, ran up
on the bank and upset his car. He was
pinned underneath but Shaner was
thrown out of the danger line. It took
some time to release Copeland and when
he was finally gotten from under the car
it was found that he had two ribs brok-
en, one of which penetrated hislung. He
was given first aid treatment then taken
to the Williamsport hospital.
tonight and all await the big doings.
James Calvin (Pudoe) Young re-
| ceived a letter from some fair maiden
"in Bellefonte this week on the reverse
side of which were the letters S W A
K. We dont know what they were in-
tended to mean but instead of*Pud-
joe” the boys are now calling him
“Swak,” all on account of a girl.
I guess that’s about all, except all
are feeling great and are enjoying the
equitation exercises, and a few have
ordered cane seats for their chairs
instead of the wcoden ones now sup-
plied. The weather is much cooler
than it has been for some time, mak-
ing it pleasanter for all.
All the beys send their regards to
the friends at home.
A Call to the Colors.
Lieut. R. A. Zentmyer, of Tyrone, !
recruiting officer for this district, was
in Bellefonte all day on Monday and
Tuesday morning on his preliminary
trip to recruit men to fill Troop L to !
a war limit and also men for the
mounted machine gun troop now at
Mt. Gretna, the latter troop being
twelve short of its minimum
strength, by reason of eighteen men
failing to pass the physical examina-
tion at Mt. Gretna.
The Lieutenant did not have one
applicant on Monday and naturally
he is at a loss to account for the ap-
parent lack of interest in the matter
on the part of available young men.
Of course, no true American is lack-
ing in patriotism when his country
needs his services and, notwithstand-
ing the fact that we are not at war
now, more men are needed to help
along the preparedness ‘program of
President Wilson. Lieut. Zentmyer
will be in Bellefonte on September
7th and 14th, and on those days he
hopes to have many applications for
enlistment.
In the Throes of an Ice Famine.
For the first time in many years
Bellefonte is now in the throes of an
ice famine, but at that, we are no
worse here than the residents of all
the surrounding towns. R. B. Taylor,
the largest . ice dealer in Bellefonte,
ran out of ice last Thursday, notwith-
standing the fact that last winter he
stored over three thousand tons, the
largest supply he ever put up. The
wet, murky weather during the early
summer was harder on his ice than
the actual consumption, as his actual
sales cut of the total amount put up
aggregated a little iess than one
thousand tons.
Of course he is still supplying ice
but it is a hard job to get it. In fact
he is getting it from DuBois, Hecla,
New York and wherever he can. Al-
tocna, Tyrone, Lock Haven and even
Buffalo, N. Y., are out of natural ice
and have to depend on artificial ice
plants, and they are taxed to the limit
to keep up a supply for home con-
sumption. Mr. Taylor, however, will
do everything possible to keep his
customers in ice and hopes to be able
to meet the demand.
——Yesterday morning Dick Bart-
let, who was working for Harry Win-
ton at his coal yard, undertook to
drive the motor truck from the coal
bins to the scales at the office. He got
it going all right and ran around to
the office but by that time he had for-
gotton how to stop the critter. So he
‘decided that the best thing to do was
play a sort of ring around rosy inthe
street until the regular driver came
to his assistance. Unfortunately,
however, the street there is not quite
wide enough for that sort of a game
with a motor truck and the result was
Dick managed to drive it into colli-
sion with the express wagon, which
was waiting on the Central Railroad
of Pennsylvania train and after
brushing it aside ran into one of the
posts surrounding the Central sta-
tion, breaking it off at the ground and
stalling the machine. By that time
Dick was yelling as loud as if he had
sat down in a yellowjacket’s nest and
when young Steele, the regular driv-
er, arrived upen the scene he found a
truck minus one head lamp, one front
fender, radiator shoved in and a few
minor damages. About that time the
train pulled into the depot and con-
ductor Harry Winton took a survey
of his wrecked property. Harry did
not say much, but we’ll bet a barrel
of apples he wasn’t thinking of the
threatened railroad strike for a few
minutes, anyway.
Farming at the Penitentiary.
The Philadelphia “North Ameri-
can” in its magazine section on Sun-
day contained a double page write-up
of the new western penitentiary at
Rockview, illustrated with a big pan-
orama view of the prison farms with
fifteen three column pictures showing
the various phases of life at the new
penitentiary. Included in his article
the writer gives the following figures
of this year’s farming area: Wheat,
320 acres; oats, 230; hay, 250; pota-
toes, 130; corn, 145; rye, 19; garden,
65; pasture, 170; nursery, 10. They
housed this summer 800 tons of hay
and expect a total yield of 6,500 bush-
els of wheat, 7,000 bushels of oats
and 8,000 bushels of corn. They have
80,000 cabbage plants in good grow-
ing condition, practically all of which
will be used at the prison, a good
percentage of which will be turned in-
to sauerkraut for winter use. There
isa mill atthe prison capable of
turning out 65,000 pounds of rolled
oats and 65,000 pounds of wheat
crisp a year, and which is now sup-
plying all the cereal used at the peni-
tentiary. How many farmers living
right in this section have any direct
knowledge of the magnitude of the
work done on the penitentiary farms,
and to do that work requires the
services of sixty head of horses, and
they are now raising twenty-one
colts. There are eighteen milk cows
on the farms and fifty-eight brood !
SOWS.
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
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i —George Poorman, of Windber, is visiting
| friends in Bellefonte.
| —Clement Dale Esq., made a business trip
; to Tyrone on Wednesday.
—Mr. Jchn Mitchell, of Lemont, transacted
! business in Bellefonte on Wednesday.
—Mrs. Melissa Bing, of Unionville,
Wednesday with friends in Bellefonte.
—MTrs. Sylvester A. Bixler, of Lock Haven,
has been in Bellefonte for a part of the week
with her mother, Mrs. George L. Potter.
—Mrs. Harriet T. Kurtz is at the Brocker-
hoff house, having come here Wednesday from
Sayre, Pa., where she has been visiting for a
month or more.
—Mrs. M. W. Furey and daughter, Miss
Margaret, returned home oniTuesday after-
noon from an over Sunday visit with friends
at State College.
—J. Harris Cook, of Pittsburgh, and Miss
Carrie Rankin, of Graysville, were in Belle-
fonte on Wednesday for the funeral of the
late John A. Rankin.
—Cook Leathers and L. H. Musser returned
last week from a ten days’ trip to Gulfport,
Miss., stopping enroute at Mobile, Ala., Sa-
vannah, Ga., and other places. .
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDonald, E. W. Au-
rand, of Lewistown, and Miss Laura Renner,
of Altoona, spent Seturday in Bellefonte as
guests of Mrs. Frank P. Battley.
—George Parsons, zn engineer on the Bell's
Gap railroad with headquarters at Punxsu-
tawney, is in Bellefonte visiting his mother
and other old time friends of former years.
spent
—DMr. and Mrs. Oscar Faust and the Misses
Katherine and Miriam Jenkins, of Milton,
were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. Will
Conley, having driven here in Mr. Faust’s car.
—Mrs. J. Thomas Mitchell is in Indianapo-
lis visiting her mother, having gone out from
Pittsburgh last week where she was on busi-
ness connected with the children’s Aid soci-
ety.
—After attending the big Williams’ reun-
ion at Martha on Saturday Harry Gates, of
Port Matilda, came to Bellefonte and spent
Saturday night and Sunday with relatives
here.
—Mrs. Horace Musser and Miss Mary Say-
lor departed on Monday atfernoon for St.
Louis, Mo., where Mrs. Musser will visit rela-
tives and Miss Saylor may conclude to locate
permanently.
—DMiss Bertha Moerschbacher, accompanied
by Miss Mildred Ludis, of Salina, Kan,, de-
parted last Saturday for Freeland, Pa., where
they will spend ten days or two weeks among
relatives and friends.
—DMrs. G. O. Benner passed through Belle-
fonte on Monday on her way home to Centre
Hall, after attending the Williams’ reunion at
Martha on Saturday and spending Sunday
with her father, John Q. Miles.
—The Misses Helen and Roxanna Mingle,
who have been at St. Davids this week with
their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hof-
fer, are on their way home from Atlantic
City, where they bad been for two weeks.
-—Mrs. Percy Miller, of Punxsutawney, was
a Bellefonte visitor on Wednesday, having
come up from Snydertown where she has been
ministering to the wants of her father, Mr.
John H. Beck, who has been ill for several
weeks.
—Mrs. G. Ross Parker went out to Somer-
set yesterday to spend a week with Mr. Par-
ker’s, mother and sisters, and upon her return
will bring home her daughter Emily, who has
been with her grandmother and aunts the
past two weeks.
—Mr. Aaron Katz left on Wednesday on a
business trip to New York and Philadelphia,
after concluding which he will spend some
time in pleasant recreation at the sea shame
and among relatives elsewhere, expecting to
be gone about a month.
—J. Norman Sherer, of Reading, has been
spending the greater part of the week with
his friends in Bellefonte, and during his ab-
sence Mrs. Sherer is entertaining her sister,
Mrs. George G. Green, of Lock Hiven, who
went to Reading Saturday. ‘
—Col. and Mrs. J. L. Spangler returned
from Mount Clemens,
with Mrs. Spangler much improved in health.
On Sunday the Colonel motored to Spangler
where he spent several days looking after his
extensive property interests. :
—Mr. J. S. McCargar left on Sunday even-
ing to attend the annual meeting of the Cen-
tury club of the Equitable Life Insurance so-
ciety, of which he has been a member for
years. The meeting is being held at the
Waldorf-Astoria, and will last through the
week.
—Miss Katherine Heinle came to Bellefonte
the latter part of last week from New York
city, where she has teen during the summer
at the University of Columbia, taking a
course in elocution. After a visit of several
weeks with her aunts, Mrs. Rothrock and
Mrs. Kelly, Miss Heinle will return to New
York to resume her work.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Greenawalt, with
their niece, Miss Claire Shields, of Columbus,
Ohio, motored to Bellefonte last Thursday.
On Friday they were joined by Mrs. William
McCurdy and son Earl, of New York city,
and after spending several days visiting
friends in Bellefonte and Milesburg left on
Tuesday for the return trip to Columbus.
—Robert V. Lyon, with Mrs. Lyon, his son
Godfrey and Mrs. C. B. Williams motored
from Ruffalo, N. Y., last Thursday in Mr.
Lyon’s Twin Six Packard and spent the week-
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Lyon. On Monday, accompanied by Mrs.
W. A. Lyon, they drove to Milton and Dan-
ville and from there returned to their home
in Buffalo.
—Mr. and Mrs. George S. Grimm were in
Bellefonte Friday and Saturday on their way
from Saxton to their new home at Macunzie,
Pa., where Mr. Grimm has accepted a posi-
tion with the Empire Iron Co. Mr. and Mrs
Grimm joined their daughter, Mrs. John
Kistner, here, going with her to Sunbury for
the week-end and from there left for the east-
ern part of the State early in the week.
—Mr. and Mrs. P, E. Nitchman, of No.
1124 west Sixth street, Wilmington, Del., ar-
rived in Bellefonte last Saturday ard are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clevenstine, at
the Pruner orphanage, Mrs. Nitchman being
a sister of Mrs. Clevenstine. The duration of
their stay is somewhat indefinite, as they are
here for the benefit of Mr. Nitchman’s health,
who was overcome by the heat during the re-
cent hot spell.
—Reading is the mecca for Elks this week
and Milton Kern is represerting the Belle-
fonte Lodge at the annual state convention
, being held .there. Hugh N. Crider went to
New York on Sunday and came back to Read-
{ ing for the big gathering while M. A. Land-
sy went there from Philadelphia yesterday to
see the big parade. On Tuesday afternoon
Henry Kline motored down, taking with him
A. L. McGinlgy, Edward H. Gehret, Jacob
! Marks, Orie Kline and R. S. Brouse II.
Mich., last Saturday, '
—George Gregory, of the Gregory Bros.,
Candyland, is at Atlantic City.
fonte with Mrs. Curtin and their family.
—DMiss Kate McGowan will leave tomorrow
for Canadr, where she will spend three weeks.
—Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cooney have as a
guest their daughter, Mrs. Ray Stauffer, of
Hazelton.
—Mr. and Mrs. William Ott, of Bishop
street are entertaining Miss Mabel Breon, of
Elmira, N. Y.
—Mrs. Edmund Blanchard has as guests
her cousin, Miss Barr, and & friend, both of
Patterson, N. J.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Tonner Harris were
guests of Mr. Harris’ mother, Mrs. Henry
Harris, for the week-end.
—Mrs. Jerome DuMont and her sister, Miss
Brown, of New York, have been guests dur-
ing the week of Mrs. John Powers.
—Joseph Lose, of Philadelphia, stopped in
Bellefonte Friday for a short visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lose.
—D. R. Foreman and his family returned to
Bellefonte this week. Mr. Foreman joined
Mrs. Foreman in Philipsburg Saturday.
—Rev. J. R. Woodcock, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
was in Bellefonte Thursday, returning home
from a visit with his family at Alexandria.
—Miss Margaret McFarlane, who has been
on a case in Bellefonte for several weeks, re-
turned Wednesday to her liome in Lock Ha-
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are in Bellefonte visiting
mother, Mrs. Thomas
her two children,
with. Mr. Barnhart’s
Barnhart.
—Miss Anna M. Miller is spending her two
weeks’ vacation with her parents at Salona.
Miss Marie Doll is substituting for her at Dr.
Hayes’ office.
—Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Meek, of State Col-
lege, are among those from Centre county
who are at Ocean Grove attending the Billy
Sunday meetings.
—Miss Mary Bradley snd Mrs. Russell
Blair have been guests this week of Miss
Bradley’s sister and her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Riley, of Bradford.
—While in Belleforte last week for a short
visit, Mrs. Charles Dennis, of Baltimore, was
a guest of Mrs. Denius. Her daughter, Miss
Hazel Dennis, spending the time with Mrs.
Mallalieu.
—Mrs. George Hockenberry passed through
Bellefonte on Wednesday on her way home to
State College, after a visit of three weeks
with her son, William Hockenberry and wife,
at West Brownsville, Ohio.
—Mrs. Jared Harper, her son John, Mrs.
Oscar Wetzel, Miles and Helen Wetzel, are on
a motor trip through Northumberland and
Snyder counties, where they have been visit-
ing relatives. The drive is being made in Mr.
Harper’s car.
—E. S. Moore, one of the progressive far-
mers of Ferguson township, transacted busi-
ness in Bellefonte yesterday. Mr. Moore has
all his plowing done for the fall seeding and
expects to sow grain next week if the weath-
er is favorable,
—Miss Gretchen Mingle, who has been in
Bellefonte for the greater part of the sum-
mer, visiting with her uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Mingle, left the early part of
the week to return to her home at Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
—Mrs. Harvey S. Yarrington left Saturday
for Baltimore, where she spent the week-end
with her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Al-
exander Yarrington, going from there to her
home in Richmond, Va. Miss Yarrington re-
mained in Bellefonte. ;
—Dr. and Mrs. Hurtt, of Washington, D.
C.; Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Barber, and Dr. and
Mrs. Himm, of Mifflinburg, who have been
motoring through central Pennsylvania this
week, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Potts
Green, while in Bellefonte Wednesday.
—Miss Jeanette Johnston, of Beaver Falls,
i is visiting with her grandmother, Mrs. J. A.
Aikens. Coming here Sunday, Miss Johnston
! will be in Bellefonte for several weeks. Mrs.
| Aikens, her daughter, Miss Jane Aikens, and
| Miss Jeanette Johnston went to Centre Hall
| yesterday to spend the week-end with Mrs.
! Frank Bradford.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fleming, of Philips-
| burg, with their .two childien; Mrs. Flem-
ing’s mother, Mrs. Donaldson, of Butler, and
Mr. and Mrs. William Burchfield and their
son Billy, drove to Bellefonte Sunday, being
guests for dinner of Mr. and Mrs. W. IL
Fleming. The trip was made in celebration
of Mr. Fleming’s and Mrs. Burchfield’s birth-
day.
—Mrs. Howard Lingle and her daughter,
Miss Marion Lingle, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Lingle and Mr. Albright, all of DuBois and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee and their family, of
Philipsburg, motored to Bellefonte Sunday
and while here were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
E. F. Garman. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lingle
of Graceton, with their family, will be here
for the week-end, for a visit with Mr. Lingle’s
mother, Mrs. Lycurgus C. Lingle, who is vis-
iting with Mr, and Mrs. Garman. 4
A Destructive Fire.
At an early hour on Sunday morn-
ing fire destroyed the barn and out-.
buildings on the Benjamin Stover
property at Aronsburg, and the barn
on the Dr. Sumner Musser property
adjoining. With the Stover barn
were burned one horse, a lot of chick-
ens, two hogs, 250 bushels of corn, 26
bushels of wheat, harness and some
farming utensils. Mr. .Stover’s loss
is about $1,000 with $300 insurance.
Mr. Musser’s loss was confined to his
barn alone, as there was nothing in it.
——“The Curse of the Forest, is
the name of a motion picture repre-
senting a real forest fire and showing
methods of fighting it, with the de-
vastation that follows in its wake,
which has just been completed by the
Vitagraph company in co-operation
with the State Department of For-
estry. The picture was taken in the
South Mountains in Franklin county,
and will have its first public showing
next week at the convention of the
Wild Life League, at Conneaut Lake,
which will be in session September
5th te 9th inclusive. Later it will be
shown before the faculty at State Col-
lege and will then be released for ex-
hibition to the general public.
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——Harry Alters has given up his po-
sition as a traveling salesman and is now
employed as a clerk in Montgomery &
Co's store.
—J. M. Curtin; of Pittsburgh, is in Belle- |
—Mrs. Lloyd Barnhart, of Pittsburgh, and’
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Didn’t He Do Right?
The “Watchman” has never been a
party to crime nor lent its columns
in defense of criminals or wanton vi-
olators of the law, yet we cannot re-
frain from commending the action of
the Centre county court in discharging
a Bellefonte youth on Monday after-
noon who was brcught before him on
the charge of attempted burglary.
The boy, for he is only about six-
teen years old, was caught by the
police about one o’clock last Saturday
morning trying to force a window of
Parrish’s drug store with a screw
driver. When searched he had on his
person a, pillow slip and an unloaded
revolver, but no cartridges. The boy
is not strong physically, in fact not
able to do hard work. His father and
mother are separated and the latter
maintains the home by taking in
washings five days in the week, with
the assistance she gets from a daugh-
ter who works every day. Naturally
it is a continual struggle for the fam- :
ily to get along.
The writer personally knows the
boy in question and knows that he is
not a vicious character and has never
been mixed up in any questionable
scrapes. He is also ready and willing
to work at anything he can do, and
can stand to do physically. He was
down town with his mother on F riday
evening and went home with her
about eleven o’clock, and who can
guess what was in his mind when he
slipped out of the house and came
down town to commit a burglary.
But he was caught by the police in
the act and pui in the lockup for the
night. Saturday he was sent to jail
where he was kept until Monday
afternoon. When brought before
Judge Quigley that gentleman gave
him an earrest talking to and sus-
pended sentence, directing the county
to pay the costs. .
While we do not condone the boy’s
act, the question now ‘s, did the
court Wo right? Shou!! he have sent
the boy to the Huntingdoa reforma-
tory, to associate with all classes of
criminals: and become hardened to
vice and crime, or turn him out and
give him a chance to make good and
show that he is not at heart or in de-
sire a criminal? Only the boy’s ac-
tions in the future will be a satisfacto-
ry answer to this question, and the
“Watchman” hopes that the brief ob-
ject lesson he has been taught will
have its effect in inducing him to
strive for a nobler manhood than that
of the criminal class.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Gehret
moved this week from the house of
Gehret and Lambert, on south Allegheny
street, into their own house on east
Bishop street, which has been occupied
by Charles Brachbill and family; the
latter moving into the house vacated by
the Gehrets.
LosT.—A bunch of keys on the street
on Monday evening. Finder is requested
to return same to Clarence E. Rhoads.
-——See our early fall and winter line
of coats and suits.—LyoN & Co. 34-1t
ee ppp re A
——§3000.00 to loan on first Mortgage.
—J. M. KEICHLINE. 61-33-4t
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer.
The p ices quoted are those paid for produce.
ser SL
Potatoes per bushel... 00
65
23
,» per pound 14
Butter per poun 22
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
Corrected weekly by C. Y. WAGNER,
The following are the quotations up to six o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
Red Wheat.....
ye, per .
Corn, shelled, per bus
In, ears, per bushel.
Oats, old and new, per bush
ley, per bush
esessenstnanes
Philadelphia Markets.
The following are the closing prices of th
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. .
Wheat—Red ......... edbersesiasassusidenrishssins $ 1.38@1.41
—No. 2 1.35@1.38
Corn —Yellow......... 23@94
—Mixed new. 90@91
Qals... CST 49@50
Flour —Winter, per barrel. 6.00@6.25
* __—Favorite Brands. .. 8.50@8.75
oice Timo 0. 1... 10. p
* Mixed No. 1........ 13.50@16.50
Straw 8.50@13.50
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