Belletonte, Pa., January 12, 1017. To CORRESPONDENTS.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. oom THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY. at State College last week. ——The condition of Miss Julia Mc- her home on Dermott who is ill at Bishop street, has become very critical. After an illness which kept him housed up about two weeks Harry Walk- ey made his first appearance down town on Monday. ——The girls basket ball team of the Bellefonte High school will go to Tyrone tomorrow to play the High schooi girls of that place. ——Hugh N. Crider has taken a sub- agency for the Overland automobile and will have a car load here on or about the first of February. ——The Always Faithful class of the United Brethren Sunday school will hold a parcel post sale in the aid room of the church on Friday, January 19th, at 7 p- m. ——Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keller and their voungest son, William are living at Mrs. Newcomer’s boarding house. having closed their house on Linn street for the remainder of the winter. ——D. M. Kline has bought the Breon | farm, near the old Humes mill property i beyond Ax Mann. The farm covers be- tween 30 and 40 acres and the considera- tion was in the neighborhood of $2500.00. ——When the Bellefonte Academy re- opened last Wednesday after the holiday | vacation it was with an addition of sev- | eral new students, which naturally was very gratifying to headmaster James R. Hughes. ——James H. Herron, chief engineer of construction at the new penitentiary, who had expected to move to Bellefonte, has taken the new home owned by Tom ! Jodon at Pleasant Gap and will spend the balance of the winter there. ——Everybody within five miles of Bellefonte knows the high standard pict- ure§s shown at the Scenic during 1916, and manager T. Clayton Brown is prom- ising something better for this year. Therefore, be a regular and don’t miss any of theni. ——Prothonotory D. R. Foreman on Wednesday of last week received the records in the B. Paul Swartz case from the Superior court and the next morn- ing sheriff George Yarnell and policeman Harry Dukeman took Swartz to the penitentiary at Pittsburgh. ——Norman R. Wright has purchased the F. H. Thomas home on Linn St., and will take possession of it April 1st. The house now occupied by the Wrights will | be taken by Mr. H. J. Thompson's fath- ! dent of the First National bank of Lock Haven. er-in-law, Mr. Spencer, who will move here from Curwensville at that time. Over nine hundred farmers at- tended the farmers’ week lectures, etc., ——The State Sunday school associa- ! tion has issued teachers’ training diplo- | mas to M. M. Morris Jr., Mrs. Joseph | Thomas, Miss Maude Miller, Miss Esther Bryan and Darius Waite, of the United | Brethren Sunday school. Rev. T. Hugh MacLeod, the teacher, was presented with a beautiful India paper Bagster bible by the class. ——Norman R. Wright has bought the . business of the Palace Garage from F. S. Knecht and will take control of the place about February 1st. he has also secured an option to buy the property from the Stewart estate. He has secured a corps of ccmpetent men ‘to manage the garage for him and ex- pects to give the public splendid service. —— Announcements were received in Bellefonte yesterday of the marriage of Miss Margaret Bailey Gilmour, of Phila- delphia, and Henry Crocker Wyman, of Washington, D. C., the wedding having taken place in Philadelphia on Wednes- day. Miss Gilmour is the elder daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warrel Gil- mour. Mr. and Mrs. Wyman will live in Washington. ——The last property owner signed up on Monday granting the right-of-way for the much-talked-of sewer down Bishop street, and it is likely that work on the same will be started in the near future 80 that the sewer can be down and sur- face properly replaced before spring. The sewer will afford drainage for all the houses on the north side of Bishop street and a number on the south side. ~——The “Watchman” has received from Roy McCalmont, a former Belle- fonte young man, a neat and artistic folder descriptive of the mid-winter ice carnival to be held at Saranac Lake, N. Y., where Mr. McCalmont is now located, on January 30th and 31st and February 1st. If the carnival will be anyways near as magnificent as the folder pic- tures it, it will be a sight worth going miles to see. ——Messrs. Robert and Carl Bierly, of Rebersburg, sons of Hon. Willis Reed Bierly, recently took hold of the Rey- noldsville (Jefferson county) Volunteer with a determination to pull it out of the slough of financial difficulty in which it was engulfed and make of it an ideal newspaper. The Bierlys are not new in journalism, and both being prolific writ- ers there is no reason why they should ' not succeed in their aims and hopes. We understand that | Big Reception for Troop L. Centre County Soldiers Now on Way Home. To be Given Big Banquet Upon Arrival Home. The First Pennsylvania cavalry, of which Troop L, of Bellefonte, and Boal’s mounted machine gun troop are units, left El Paso, Texas. on Wednesday morn- ing on the trip home. scheduled to come via Fort Worth, Mem- phis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. While there is no definite knowledge now as to just when they will reach home, it ought to be not later than Wednesday of next week. Bellefonte citizens have already made preliminary arrangements for a big re- ception to Troop L upon its arrival home, the exact time of which will be duly telegraphed here by Capt. Curtin so that | there will be no delay of any kind. At a public meeting on Tuesday Burgess Blanchard was made chairman of the committee on decorations; Frank Sas- serman, to look after the welfare of the friends and relatives; W. T. Kelly, rail- road transportation; Hard P. Harris, music, and Robert F. Hunter, the ban-' quet. { As planned the merchants and busi- ness people will be asked to close their | places of business an hour before the ar- "rival of the train in order to give every- , body an opportunity to join in the re- | ception. The soldiers will be met at the | depot and with Our Boys band of Miles- | burg leading escorted to the armory | where the families and relatives of the v men will be gathered to greet them. A ! half hour will be allotted to these greet- ings after which the soldiers will be | served with a very substantial banquet. i Following the banquet there will be a dance for which Our Boys band will furnish the music. The Boal troop will not detrain in Bellefonte but go right through to Boals- ! burg, where a reception will be await- | Se | ing its return. { | | i Drowned in Three Inches of Water. ) Leo E. Monaghan, a well known young | man of Lock Haven, was drowned in | three inches of water in Shingle branch | of Queen's run, about five miles from | | Lock Haven on Sunday afternoon. Mr. | Monaghan was a member of a party who | | spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Probst lumber camp. When the party was ready to start home on Sunday Mon- aghan proposed they take a shot at a can filled with water just to see the water spurt through the bullet hole. Hunting up an old can Monaghan went to the stream to fill it with water. Failing to return in a reasonable length of time his companions went in search ‘of him and were horrified to find him ly- | ing in the stream with his head under | i three inches of water. Monaghan was subject to fits of epilepsy and it is sup- posed that he was seized with one of these and fell into the water, drowning before he was found. The young man was a nephew of E. A. Monaghan, presi- He was twenty-seven years old. — B® meme William Sayers Still Missing. The mystery which surrounded the sudden disappearance of William Sayers, stable foreman at the new penitentiary at Rockview, is as much of a mystery as ever. Sayers left the barn at the Peni- tenitiary at four o'clock on the afternoon of December 26th. When he failed to return a dozen prison guards started a search for him which was kept up all night and the next day, without finding the least trace of him. The next afternoon his watch and wallet containing $9.75 in money were found in the barn at his own home near Mt. Eagle. This would indicate that he had been at home though neither his wife nor anybody else saw him. It was also reported that a man answering his description had purchased a ticket for Bellefonte at Curtin the next day but if it was him, he never came here. Sayers is a large man, weighing in the neighbor- hood of two hundred pounds, but not- withstanding this fact he seems to have disappeared as utterly as if the earth had opened and swallowed him. ee Threshermen Meet. The annual meeting of the Centre county Threshermen and Farmer's Pro- tective association was held in the court house on Wednesday. In the absence of W. K. Corl, vice president, John 8S. Yearick called the meeting to order and C. M. Tice was chosen to preside. A resolution was passed urging Senators and Representatives to oppose any change in the present traction engine law. A. H. Brubaker and C. C. Schaffer were present and addressed the meet. ing. Officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: President, C. M. Tice; vice president, G. W. Smith; secretary and treasurer, Isaac Underwood. Dele- gates to represent the local association at the State meeting in Harrisburg Feb- ruary 14th to 16th, were named as fol- lows: C. M. Tice, John S. Yearick, C. W. Corl, G. W. Smith, John Durst, J. D. Mitchell, J. W. Miller, Henry Lewis, George Brungard and Isaac Underwood. The meeting adjourned to meet Febru- ary 24th. a asic ——Every indication points to the fact that there will be an unusual demand for houses in Bellefonte the coming spring, and the main question is as to whether the town will be able to meet The soldiers are ! i | i | ture of the ri ‘cuts on the face and head. The car was the demand. ——On Wednesday, December 27th, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stewart, of Ridge street, celebrated their golden wedding. Over half their children were home and in addition quite a large number of friends and invited guests were present ' to see the ceremony, which was almost ‘identical with that performed in “OI | Virginy” fifty years ago. coe ——The heirs of the Dr. James H. Blair estate, of Unionville, recently sold i to George W. Holt the timber land on the Blair farm aggregating between 200 and 300 acres. The price paid was $6,000. It is the best piece of timber in the Bald Eagle valley and Mr. Holt estimates it will take from three to four years to cut and market the timber. It will mean employment for quite a number of lum- bermen. ——Torrence Hunter, of Beech Creek, ! and Lewis Young, of Marsh Creek, min- ers employed in the Kelley coai mines at Cato, were caught under a fall of coal on Saturday afternoon and painfully injur- ed. Hunter sustained a compound frac- ght leg batween the knee and ankle while Young received numer- ous body bruises. They were both taken to the Lock Haven hospital for treat- ment, ——Centre county friends of Ira C. Knoll, who for years past has made his : home at Marietta, Lancaster county, will ! learn with regret that he has been a | patient in the hospital at Columbia, Pa., | since September 19th with a fractured | femur. Owing to some injuries he sus- tained prior to breaking his leg he is not able to walk and the hospital phy- sicians are doubtful if he will ever be able to walk again. ——The total eclipse of the moon on Sunday night, or more correctly speak- ing early Monday morning, was an in- teresting astronomical spectacle to any resident of Bellefonte who took the trouble to stay up or get up to see it. The moon was totally eclipsed so far as observers here could tell for a period of about twenty minutes, beginning shortly before two o'clock and lasting until about 2.15. It was after five o'clock be- fore it was entirely clear of the earth’s shadow. coe ——On Monday evening Earl Kline was driving his father's car along the state road between Bellefonte and Miles- burg, having with him Russell Beezer, Speeding along near the old Shoemaker property the car swung to the side of the road and ran square into the big con- crete marker put there when the state road was built. Kline managed to re- tain his seat behind the steering wheel but young Beezer was thrown through the windshield, receiving several bad » considerably damaged. —Fred B. Healy is now in charge as deputy warden at the new penitentiary at Rockview, William Daufenbach’s res- ignation having taken effect last week. ) Mr. Daufenbach had been in charge of the new penitentiary ever since the first prisoner was brought here about four years ago and in addition to a faithful performance of his duties made many warm friends in Bellefonte who were sorry to see him leave. The one miti- gating circumstance is that in Mr. Healy he has been succeeded by a courteous and accommodating gentleman and one who will be just as faithful to the trust imposed upon him. ——On Tuesday the sheriff of Indiana county brought an Italian to Bellefonte on the 1.30 train and took him to the new penitentiary at Rockview to deliver to the penitentiary authorities for elec- trocution. The officials at the peniten- tiary had no record of the case at all, and naturally declined to receive the man, so the sheriff was compelled to take him back to the Indiana county jail. Inquiry elicited the fact that the man was convicted only last week, was sen- tenced to electrocution on Monday and without waiting for the Governor to set a day for the electrocution the sheriff brought the man here on Tuesday. ——The postoffice at Blanchard is without a postmaster and the govern- ment is having some trouble in finding the right man for the place. The former postmaster, Milford Gardner, a Demo- crat, resigned to accept a pesition as guard at the new penitentiary. There being no other applicant T. Milton Kunes, a Republican, who was postmaster be- fore Gardner was appointed, came to Bellefonte and took the examination for postmasters. So far as known he is the only man who has taken the examina- tion, but his politics are somewhat against his appointment. However, a postoffice inspector was at Blanchard a few days ago and it is just possible an appointment will soon be made. ——Harry C. Valentine has been offer- ed and has accepted the superintenden- cy of the puddling department of the big steel mills at Hyde City, Clearfield coun- ty, which were recently purchased by Dr. C. F. Hennig. Mr. Valentine is al- ready at work trying to secure the neces- sary force of workmen to start the plant which they hope to do within thirty days. In the puddling department are sixteen furnaces, which will require sixteen pud- dlers, sixteen helpers, and other work- men which will bring the number up to from sixty to seventy-five. Mr. Valen- tine expects to go to Hyde City within a week or two to make arrangements to start the plant. The rolling mill depart- ment will not be started until later. i pastor, Rev. C. N. Shindler. RIDER—COWHER.—A very pretty wed- ding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cowher, at Port Matilda, on Wednesday afternoon, when their daugh- ter, Miss Belle Cowher, was united in marriage to Thomas Gray Rider, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rider, of Storms- | town. The ceremony took place at three i o'clock and was performed by Rev. Mr. Moses in the presence of only the im- mediate relatives. mony a delicious wedding dinner was served after which Mr. and Mrs. Rider left on a brief wedding trip to Washing- ton and other points in the south. Re- turning they will go to housekeeping in Tyrone where Mr. Rider is employed in the carpenter's department of the Penn- | sylvania railroad. roe SWARTZ—RO0ss.—As a bit of sentiment . that her marriage take place as near the , minute as possible on the anniversary of her birth, Miss Irene L. Ross, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ross, of Linden ; Hall, was married at 12.15 o’clock Friday night, or rather Saturday morning. to Lewis C. Swartz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln E. Swartz, of Hublersburg, the ceremony taking place at the parsonage of St. John’s English Lutheran church, Lock Haven, and being performed by the Immediate- ly after the ceremony they left for a brief honeymoon trip. They will reside in Hublersburg, where the bridegroom is principal of the High school. aa. DOWNES-POORMAN.—James R. Downes ! and Miss Caroline G. Poorman, both well known young people of Tyrone, were married at the rectory of St. Matthew's church in that city at six o'clock last Wednesday evening by the pastor, Rev. J. F. Looney. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Poorman and is well known in Bellefonte, having frequently visited here. The bridegroom is a well known young business man of Tyrone and it is in that city they will will make their future home. SNYDER—BARTLET.—E. Roy Snyder and Miss Emma Bartlet, both of State College, were married at the Lutheran parsonage on east Linn street on Thurs- day afternoon of last week by the pastor, Rev. W. M. B. Glanding. The young couple were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Louck. Following the ceremony they returned to State College where a reception was held and wedding dinner served at the home of the bride’s par- ents. MCKINLEY — MCCLELLAN.— Francis Claire McKinley, of Milesburg, and Mary E. McClellan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McClellan, of east Lamb street, were married at the United Breth- ren church on Saturday evening by the pastor, Rev. T. Hugh MacLeod. The young couple have leased the one side of the Boyd Noll property on east Lamb street and are preparing to go to house- keeping there. PALMER—ARMSTRONG.—Frank Palmer and Miss Bertha Armstrong, both of Pot- ters Mills, were married at ten o’clock on New Year's morning, by Rev. M.C. Piper, at his home in Milesburg. Both the bride and bridegroom are well known residents of Potter township and they are now receiving the congratulations of their many friends. RENNINGER—ZUBLER.—A pretty wed- ding occurred at the home of Chester A. Kerstetter, at State College, on Sunday, December 24th, when J. Elmer Renning- er, of Lewisburg, and Miss Emma E. Zubler, of Mifflinburg, were united in marriage by Rev. E. Fulcomer, of the United Evangelical church. SHOWERS—RANKIN.—On Wednesday, December 27th, William C. Showers and Miss Elsie V. Rankin, both of State Col- lege, were married at the United Evan- gelical parsonage in this place by the pastor, Rev. E. Fulcomer. Their many friends are now extending congratula- tions. POORMAN—ZETTLE.—Samuel H. Poor- man, of Pleasant Gap, and Miss Ethel A. Zettle, of near Lemont, were married at the United Evangelical parsonage on December 20th, by the pastor, Rev. E. Fulcomer. They have taken up their residence at Pleasant Gap. GATES—SCRUDER—On Christmas day Charles S. D. Gates and Miss Charlotte L. Scruder, both of Pennsylvania Fur- nace, were married at Pine Grove Mills by Rev. L. N. Fleck. Nineteenth Electrocution. The nineteenth electrocution took place at the new penitentiary at Rockview on Monday morning when Jonas Brobst, of Lehigh county, went to the death chair at 7.02 for the the murder of his wife at Bethlehem last May. Five contacts were given and the man was pronounced dead by Dr. Campbell at 7.08. Brobst, who was only twenty-two years old, killed his wife, aged twenty, because she refus- ed to live with him. He was brought to the death house on Saturday and accom- panying him was Rev. Charles D. Dreher, a Methodist minister of Allentown, who remained as his spiritual adviser and ac- companied him to the death chair. He also took the remains back to Bethlehem for burial. ——When the Academy opens its bas- ket-ball season this (Friday) evening in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, at 8.30 o'clock, thestrong Jersey Shore five will be the Academy’s opponents and an ex- citing game may be expected. Admis- sion 25 cents. Following the cere- ! i NEWS PURELY PERSONAL. ' —Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Callaway returned from Shamokin yesterday, —Ex-county Commissianer Philip H. Meyer, was a business visitor in Bellefonte yesterday. —Dr. W. H. Kochler left yesterday for Fort Meyers, Florida, where he will spend the winter. —Mr. and Mrs. August Glinz are entertaining | their daughter, Mrs. Albert E. Day, of New Ken- | sington. | —Miss Geraldine Noonan was a week-end guest | of her uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Delaney, of | Williamsport. | —Sim Baum spent the week-end and the fore- | part of the week in New York on business, being a guest while there of his sister. Mrs. Monish. i —W.C. Collins, the well known blacksmith of ! Pine Grove Mills. was a business visitor in Belle- i fonte on Tuesday and a brief caller at this office. i [ —Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Daggett returned from | Williamsport Wednesday, where they had been | for the funeral ofMrs. Daggett’s great-aunt, Mrs. { Miller. | —Clarence B. Rumberger, of Hollidaysburg, was here Friday looking after some business rel- | ative to the final settlement of the estate of his father. —H. F. McManaway was in Bellefonté with his famly for the week-end. Mr. McManaway is a traveling salesman for the Dupont Powder | company. i —Mrs. William Grauer, of Altoona, and her grandson, Wiiliam Grauer Sitnek, were guests for several days during the past week of Mrs. Martin Fauble. —Mrs. Lide T. Gibson, of Philadelphia, who | has been here on business and visiting with her mother, Mrs. Isaac Thomas, came to Bellefonte before Christmas. | —John Hines has resigned his position as driv- i er for the Emerick Motor Bus Co., and gone to | Lewistown. John has been succeeded by Bond , Musser, of Millheim. | —Frank M. Fisher, of Penn Hall, secretary of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance company of | Centre county, was a business caller at the | “Watchman” ¢ffice on Monday. —Mrs. Robert Morris has been with her sister in Columbia, N. C,, for the past two weeks, the visit having beep made at this time that she might attend the wedding of a niece. —John W. Miller, one of the most progressive farmers in College township, was a Bellefonte visitor on Wednesday and the “Watchman” was one of the places he favored with a call. —Mr. John H. Beck, of Nittany, was a ‘“Watch- man” office caller on Monday, having come to Bellefonte to attend the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance company. —John Q. Miles, of Martha Furnace, spent a few days during the week with his daughter, Mrs. G. O. Benner, at Centre Hall, stopping in Bellefonte to visit for several hours on his way home Wed- nesday. —Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Lytle, of Tyrone, and their family, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Woods. Mus. M. A. Schulte, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Lytle to Bellefonte, remained for the week. —Mrs. E. P. Moore came down from Tyrone on Monday morning and spent the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Miller, at the toll gate. She also found time while in town to make a brief call at this office. —Mrs. William Wallis, who has been in Belle- fonte for the greater part of the past six months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Will Conley, left Wednesday to join her husband in Crafton, where they will board for the present. —Mrs. Hall M. Crossman went to Philipsburg Monday from where she will return to her home near Norristown. Mrs. Crossman came to Belle- fonte the early part of last week with Mrs. David Dale, for a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. Y. Dale. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward Russel and little daugh- ter Mary came to Bellefonte from Philadelphia on Sunday, Mrs. Russell and daughter remaining with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Whit- taker, while Mr. Russell went to Detroit, Mich., on a business trip. —Mr. and Mrs. Norman M. Kirk and their son, Norman Jr., who had been visiting for a month with Dr and Mrs. M. A. Kirk, left a week ago for their new home in Valdosta, Ga., where Mr. Kirk has been sent by the government to “contin- ue his work in soil survey. —Mrs. Earl C. Tuten is arranging to leave Bellefonte next week, expecting to go to Hyde City, Clearfield Co., where she will take charge of one of the big boarding houses, to be opened and run by the Hyde City Steel mills, tor the ac- commodation of their men. —James Krape, the orderly at the Bellefonte hospital, is off on a two week’s vacation on ac- count of illness. James, who left Bellefonte Tuesday for Johnstown, will be a guest of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Krape, during his absence. —Mrs. Alfred Hagyard, of Philipsburg, spent a short time in Bellefonte Saturday on her way home from State College, where she had been at- tending the Farmers’ week exercises. Mrs. Hag- yard is one of the most progressive and enthusi- astic agriculturists in the county. —Miss Ida M. Bell, of State College, was in Bellefonte Monday on her way to Altoona to at- tend the funeral of her cousin, John D. DeArmitt, who was killed at the Altoona silk mill Saturday morning, when his clothing was caught by a shaft while he was painting the ceiling of the mill. —Mrs. S. H. Bennison returned recently from Lansing, Mich., where she had been since the early part of November with her daughter, Mrs. Bryan Martin; having left Howard shortly after Mrs. Martin’s marriage. On the way east Mrs. Bennison spent some time with her daughters iving in Ohio and Johnsonburg, Pa. —Miss E. M. Thomas and Miss Mary S. Thom, as left Wednesday morning for Washington, D. C., where they will be joined by Mrs. Charles Shafner and her daughter, Miss Anne Shafner, of Philadelphia. The party will go directly to '| St. Augustine, where they will spend the first two weeks of their three month's stay in Florida. —D. W. Orr, of Nittany, was a “Watchman” office caller bright and early on Monday morn- ing and among other things told us that the next day he would celebrate his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary, a fact no man would imagine from his looks. While Mr. Orr has retired from the farm he still takes an active interest in seeing that itis run right and when occasion requires can do a man’s day’s work most any time, —Miss Elizabeth McEwen, of Denver, Col., who has been a guest for the past ten days of Mrs. Goodhart at her daughter, Mrs. D. Wag- ner Geiss, came here from Hublersburg, accom- panied by Mrs. John Miller and Mrs. James Car- ner. Mrs. Carner went from here to Centre Hall for a visit with her sister, Mrs. William Stiver, while Mrs. Miller returned to Hublersburg after spending a short time with her friends in Belle- fonte. —Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Thompson, who since their marriage nearly two years ago have made their home in Salt Lake City, arrived in the east the 2nd of January, expecting to make their home in Akron, Ohio, Mr. Thompson having resigned his position with the American Smelting & Refining Co., to go with the Goodyear Co., Mrs. Thompson, who was Miss Sara McGinley, is with Mr. Thompson's mother, Mrs. Anderson, in Erie, where she and her small son will remain until going to Akron, not intending to visit in Bellefonte before June. . —Mr. and Mrs. Luther Dale, of Oak Hall, | were in Bellefonte Tuesday on business. | —George Fox, of Lock Haven. is spending | several weeks with his grandparents, Mr. and i Mrs. Henry Haupt. —Miss Anne Subers has returned from Phila- | delphia, and will be in Bellefonte for an indefinite | time with her nephew and niece, Dr. and Mrs. { H. W. Tate. | —Mrs. Odillie Mott and Miss Josephine Bauer | spent a short time in Pittsburgh recently, having ! gone out for the funeral of Miss Bauers’ cousin, | Mrs. McGrath. | —Nevin Wetzel is visiting with his mother, | Mrs. Henry Wetzel. He has been at Reichters town, Md., with a concrete contracting firm and will not return until work is resumed in the spring. —Mrs. John Hinman Gibson, who was a Holi- day guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Cook, went to her home at Rutherford, N. J. upon the return of her sister, Miss Margaret Cook, from New York. | > ——Among the “Watchman” office callers on Monday was James A. Mc- Clure, the harness maker of Bellefonte, and he took occasion to compare harness making today with what it was twenty and thirty years ago. At that time far- mers were not only constantly in the market for work harness, but every one of them had a set of single driving har- ness and many of them double sets, At that time residents of Bellefonte and other towns had their driving horses and bought costly harness. Leather was nominal in price and a harness maker made a fair profit on everything. Today there is absoiutcly no demand for driv- ing harness. The automobile has entirely superceded the horse as a means of pleas- ure transportation and even the farmer is utilizing the machine for the means of conveyance of himself and family, as well as on his business trips. The result is the only demand for harness is once in awhile an order for a new set of work harness, but the most of the custom is repair work, and with leather sixty cents the pound the margin of profit is very i small. —e. gag on ——St. John’s parish guild will hold an exchange at the parish house on Satur- day afternoon, Januay 13th, beginning at two o'clock. Cakes, pies, candy and other good things will be on sale. The patronage of the public is cordially solicited. LosT MUFF.--A Persian lamb muff was dropped from an automobile yester- day afternoon, somewhere between the residence of Ellis L. Orvis and the Index store. Finder will kindly return to Mrs. Harry Keller. For Sale—Second 1913 Ohio touring. price right. 1914 Overland touring. Good condition. 1916 Grant touring. First-class condition. nd Automobiles. Good condition, 1916 Studebaker roadster. First-class condition. BIG SPRING GARAGE, 61-1-1t WM. W. KEICHLINE, Prop. MoNEY To LOAN, Houses to Rent and real estate for sale—J. M. KEICHLINE, 61-47-2m* Bellfonte, Pa. —Fire insurance and automobile at a reduced rate. J. M. KEICHLINE Agent: ae 48-1m* For RENT.—Large garage. Best loca- tion in town. Inquire of LyoN & Co. 48-tf Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, The prices quoted are those paid for Potatoes per bushel Onions Eggs, per dozen... Lard, per pound... Butter per pound. Grocer. produce. $1.80 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 Whea........................... $1.80 White Wheat... . 1.75 Rye, per bushel........... 90 orn, shelled, per bushel 90 Corn, ears, per bushel........... 90 Oats, old and new, per bushel.. 55 Barley. perbushel........... on 60 Philadelphia Markets. The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. WijearRal essere —No. Com —Winter, per barrel. —Favorite Brands. Rye Flour per barrel... Baled Hay—Choice 1: Straw. The Best Advertising Medium in Cen- tral Pennsylvania. A strictly Democratic publication with independence enough to have, and with ability and courage to express, its own views, printed in eight-page form—six col- umns to page—and is read every week by more than ten thousand responsible peo- ple. 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