Bellefonte, Pa., March 2, 1917.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
Woman’s Suffrage Convention.
On Tuesday, March 6th, the fourth
Centre county convention of the Wom-
an’s Suffrage party will be held in the
High school building, north Allegheny
street, Bellefonte. The convention
will be called to order at 10 a. m.
There will be a box luncheon at noon
in the domestic science rooms for
those coming from a distance.
At the afternoon session, which will
be called at 2 p. m., Mrs. Edward
E. Kiernan, of Somerset, will
speak on the Parent-Teacher associa-
tion. Mrs. Kiernan is the second,
vice president of the Pennsylvania
Woman’s Suffrage Association, and is
also a member of the National Con-
gress of Mothers.
All who are interested in woman's
suffrage are invited to attend the
meetings of the convention, and teach-
ers and parents are urged to hear
Mrs. Kiernan.
This Week Twenty Years Ago.
Coburn King, of Millheim, arrested
in Clearfield for stabbing Mike Kess-
ler, at Millheim, two years previous.
J. Albert Walton confirmed post-
master at Philipsburg.
Thirty-three liquor licenses were
granted by Judge Love and six held
over.
Horses at the public sales in the
county sold for $50 to $75.
Deaths in the county included Es-
ther E. Hunter, daughter of Capt. and
Mrs. John A. Hunter, at Stormstown;
Mrs. Caroline Mulholland, of Pine
Glenn; Mrs. Daniel Lutz, of Zion; Mrs.
Mary M. McCloskey, of Curtin town-
ship, and George Ayers, at Union-
ville.
Social Events of the Week.
Mrs. Hennig entertained fifteen
women at dinner at the Country club
Tuesday evening and upon their re-
turn to Bellefonte all the members of
the party were her guests at the
Scenic. :
Mrs. Edward Stewart was hostess
at a supper party given at the Bush
house. Wednesday. fie aa
-H. K. Hoy quietly celebrated his
eighty-second birthday Wednesday,
at his home on Willowbank street.
His children in the neighborhood of
Bellefonte were members of the par-
ty entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Hoy
and Mrs. Pifer during the evening.
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Killed On the Railroad.
Joseph Kephart, a resident of Or-
bisonia, Huntingdon county, but who
had been boarding with his son at
Sandy Ridge while engaged in cut-
ting mine props near that place, was
instantly killed at the Summit on the
Tyrone and Clearfield railroad about
two o'clock last Friday afternoon.
He was walking. on the railroad track
and stepped from one track to another
to allow a freight train to pass when
he was struck by a train going in the
opposite direction. Kephart was six-
ty years old and is survived by his
wife, a son and a daughter.
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Murdered in Williamsport.
Mrs. Bruce Johnson, colored, a niece
of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Green, of
this place, was choked to death by
her husband in a deserted house near
the outskirts of Williamsport early
Sunday morning. The man was cap-
tured about noontime the same day
some three miles north of the Lum-
ber city.
— After being housed up three
weeks with an attack of rheumatism
Charles Heisler was able to get
around with the assistance of a cane
on Monday and attend to his duties
as a tipstaff at the court house.
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A. I. Garbrick last week sold
his bottling warks in the Bush house
building to Clarence Love and Mor-
decai Miller.
DEITZ.—Mrs. Sarah Margaret
Deitz, wife of William Deitz, died
very suddenly at her home near Jack-
sonville at one o’clock on Monday as
the result of a stroke of paralysis.
Her maiden name was Sarah Spotts
and she was born in Union township
forty-eight years ago. She is sur-
vived by her husband and the follow-
ing children: Mrs. Robert Beatty, of
Blanchard; Ephriam, Trenna, Maude,
Reed, Walter, Hazel, Ray and
Dean, at home. She also leaves the
following brothers and sister: Clayton
Spotts, of Port Matilda; William, of
State College; Curtis and Henry, of
Port Matilda, and Mrs. Nora Lucas,
of Unionville. Funeral services were
held at the house at one o'clock yes-
terday afternoon by Rev. Rishel, after
which the remains were taken to
Howard township for burial in the
Schenck cemetery.
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Thomas A. Shoemaker.
Thomas A. Shoemaker died in
Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, Tuesday
afternoon from heart failure, superin-
duced by other troubles with which
he had suffered for some time. He
had not been really well for a year
or more, but was active in his business
engagements and, with Mrs. Shoe-
maker, had left his home here only
on the Sunday evening previous to go
to Huntingdon, Indiana, to attend to
some business interests there. He was
suffering with a slight cold when he
left but did not regard it seriously
until he reached Pittsburgh where he
left the train because it seemed to be
causing him distress. The next day
he entered Mercy hospital and it was
found that pneumonia had aifected
his one lung. It did not deepen how-
ever, and probably would not have
ended fatally had not other compli-
cations developed. With him at the
end were Mrs. Shoemaker and his
daughter Martha.
His body was brought to his home
here at noon on Wednesday and inter-
ment will be made in St. John’s Cath-
olic cemetery this morning after fun-
eral mass has been celebrated by the
Rev. Father McArdle.
The carriers will be Thomas Rishel,
Thomas Todsock, Joseph Kelleher,
Peter Saylor, Conrad Miller, M. F.
Hazel, Blaine Mabus and John Saylor.
The banks and other business places
will be closed during the funeral hour.
Thomas A. Shoemaker was the son
of Edward and Ellen Collins Shoe-
maker and was born at Ebensburg,
Pa., March 7, 1861. His early life was
spent there where his primary educa-
tion was acquired and later he attend-
ed St. Francis College at Lorretto.
He was a man of few words; quick
to form a conclusion and quick to act
upon it. This characteristic was prob-
ably the fruit of his early training in
the contracting business with his
uncles, the Collins Brothers. They
were the most noted railroad builders
of their day and the trio of giant bus-
iness men, Philip, Peter and Tom,
having had no sons of their own, con-
centrated their most devoted interest
in the only son of their sister, Mrs.
Shoemaker, and trained him for the
business he followed throughout his
active life. To the thousands of men
who later worked under him his
memory will be a dearly cherished
one, for he was started as a water
carrier and labored long enough to at-
tain the deepest regard for those who
labor.
His personality in business was as
different from his personality in social
Tintereourse as day is different from
night. Trained in the school of big
undertakings where aggressive, deter-
mined action was necessary no work
appeared too large for him to under-
take and having undertaken it he
threw the entire force of his great
vitality into it and worked like a
mighty machine. His sole ambition
being accomplishment.
In the periods of relaxation and
est when he sat down with his family
or his friends then a different man
appeared. A great, wholesouled
character, full of the tenderest solici-
tude for those about him, ready at the
hint of it to go the limit to help others
and so lavish with his means as to be
really princely.
He was alive to everything about
him. The tiniest waif on the street
knew him through some friendly in-
tercourse and the veteran laborers of
his uncle’s later day contracts were
his pensioners till the last of them
had passed away.
We have never known a man just
like him in that he seemed to have
thought only for others and never of
himself. He was modest in the ex-
treme. So much so as to appear con-
fused and embarrassed whenever ref-
erence happened to be made, in his
presence, to any of his business suc-
cesses or the gracious acts that he
was continuously occupied with. So
completely did he shun notoriety and
practice self effacement, that today
there is not a written record to be
found anywhere of the many great
business enterprises he carried to
completion. Absolutely nothing to in-
dicate that he ever entertained a
thought as to his prominence in this
community. For he was one of Belle-
fonte’s most prominent and most use-
ful men.
He came to Bellefonte in the latter
part of 1886. In 1882 the Collins
Brothers were building the Beech
Creek railroad and had offices in Snow
Shoe. While working there they took
contracts on the South Penn at Som-
erset and in 1884 began the grading of
the Bellefonte, Buffalo Run and Bald
Eagle, now the Bellefonte Central.
They were working on all these con-
tracts at the same time, but it was
not until the fall of ’86 that the grad-
ing of the Buffalo Run had completed
and Mr. Shoemaker came here to lay
the rails. Bellefonte then became his
home for in the following spring,
1887, his uncles began the building of
the Bellefonte furnace and made a
home for the family here by purchas-
ing the Yocum property where the
family resided until the last of the
older generation had passed away and
soon after Mr. Shoemaker moved to
his present home.
He remained as superintenuent of the
railroad and general manager of the
furnace properties until 1893 when
he withdrew to go into the business
of railroad building, for which he had
been trained.
As a member of the contracting
firm of F. H. Clement & Co., he had
a part in much of the big railroad
work that was done in those days
and was so successful with it that he
withdrew from that firm and organ-
ized the firm of T. A. Shoemaker &
Co. .His reputation for achievement
had become so well established that
he was invited by all of the eastern
railroads to bid on the best construc-
tion work they had to offer. Especi-
ally did his ability to do things ap-
peal to the Pennsylvania system and
he was given many of their most ex-
acting jobs. 1t was while at work on
one of these at Lewistown that he
formed a copartnership with Senator
T. L. Eyre, who had the masonry
contract on that job, under the name
of The Eyre-Shoemaker Construc-
tion Co., Inc. This firm did the big
work on the main line of the P. R. R.
from New Florence to Lockport,
where the entire line was moved from
one side of the river to the other and
made four tracks wide for a distance
of seven miles. The last big work in
which he was engaged was the clas-
sification yards of the P. R. R. at
Northumberland, a stupendous under-
taking and carried through with sig-
nal success.
Shortly after this Mr. Shoemaker
withdrew from active work in the
firm and came home. His desire to
be with his family more than the de-
mands of railroad building made pos-
sible persuaded him to retire to the
semi-activity he has had in his vari-
ous interests about Bellefonte and
Centre county since.
He was interested in starting the
Bellefonte Fuel and Supply Co., the
Centre County Fair Association, the
Palace Sale and Exchange Co. He
was president and general manager
of the Whiterock Quarries, president
of the Centre County Banking Co.,
and a member of the Manufacturers
and Art Clubs, of Philadelphia, and
of the Bellefonte Club and the Elks.
On January 25th, 1896, he married
Miss Augusta Kryder who survives
with the following children: Philip,
Martha, Collins, Ellen, Augusta, Mary
and John, one child having died in
infancy. I
FISHER.—Union township lost one
of its old landmarks in the death last
|. Thursday merning .of Ezra Fisher,
his home about a mile above Snow
Shoe Intersection. Two years ago he
was stricken with paralysis and since
that time had lived in a chair up
until about a week prior to his death.
Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Fisher and was born on the
old homestead on which he spent his
entire life and where he died, on July
30th, 1831, making his age 85 years, 6
months and 23 days. He followed
farming all his life and was quite suc-
cessful. He was a member of the
Society of Friends and a good citizen
in every way. He was united in mar-
riage to Miss Harriet Kunes who died
ten years ago. They had five children,
two of whom survive as follows: Wil-
liam E., of Bellefonte, and James, liv-
ing in Halfmoon township. He also
leaves twenty grand-children and
forty-two great grand-children.
Funeral services were held at the
house at ten o’clock Saturday morn-
ing, after which burial was made in
the Emerick cemetery. i
McCAULEY.—Mrs, Anna McCau-
ley, wife of John McCauley, died at
her home in Walker township on Sat-
urday, following a stroke of apoplexy.
She was a daughter of David and
Margaret M. Mothersbaugh and was
born in Walker township on April
25th, 1844, making her age 72 years
and 10 months. Practically her entire
life was spent in Walker township.
In addition to her husband she is sur-
vived by four children: Harry, of
Lamar; Luther and Grover ClayZon,
of Hublersburg, and Mrs. Herbert
Decker, of Pitcairn. Burial was made
at re on Tussaed
McCAFFERTY.—George Boal Mec-
Cafferty died at his home at Bradford
at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening
of infection. He was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles McCafferty and was
born in Bellefonte fifty-four years
ago. He has been a resident of Brad-
ford, however, for a number of years.
He never married but is survived by
two brothers, Charles K., of Bradford,
and Lewis, who lives on a farm in
Bradford county. The remains will
be brought to Bellefonte this after-
noon and taken direct to the Union
cemetery for burial.
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ADAIR.—Mrs. Susan Campbell
Adair, widow of Rev. J. A. Adair, of
Indiana, died at noon yesterday at the
home of her sister, Mrs. McCracken,
in the Glades, as the result of an at-
tack of the grip. She will be buried
at Pine Grove Mills tomorrow (Sat-
urday) morning. A more extended
notice will be given next week.
! College township, died at his home
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| FIELDING.—John Fielding, a well | Saar VETERE | ed.” The organized fight against tu-
known and highly respected citizen of | 3 Health and Happiness % | berculosis has resulted in a gradual-
! near Linden Hall last Thursday even-
ing, following an illness of three
| weeks with a complication of diseases
‘ following an attack of the grip.
. Deceased was born in Pittsburgh
‘ about seventy years ago, but when a
| young man he came to Centre county
‘and engaged in farming, an occupa-
| tion he followed all his life. He was
a member of the Lutheran church, a
| kind neighbor and good friend, and
| will be missed in the community
| where he spent almost a half century
| of his life. Forty-five years ago he
. was united in marriage to Miss Cath-
| arine Witmer, a daughter of the late
| William Witmer, who survives with
{ two sons and one daughter, namely:
| William Witmer Fielding, of Staten
| Island, N. Y.; George and Sadie, at
{ home. He also leaves one brother and
| four sisters, as follows: Casper Field-
ling, of Pittsburgh; Sister Josephine
i and Sister Schelasla, St. Benedict sis-
| ters in the convent at Coleman, Ala.;
| Mrs. John Wilsonheimer, of Latrobe,
‘and Mrs. Lewis Kline, of St. Boni-
| face.
Funeral services were held at his
: late home at ten o’clock on Tuesday
morning by Rev. Courtney, of the
| Lutheran church after which burial
| was made in the Boalsburg cemetery.
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| WORKMAN.—John Workman, a
i well known resident of Hecla Park,
died quite suddenly last Thursday
morning of heart failure. He was in
good health on Wednesday evening
and ate a hearty supper. Shortly after
getting up on Thursday morning he
complained about not feeling very
good and died within an hour.
Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Workman and was born in
Walker township on April 12th, 1847,
making his age 69 years, 10 months
and 10 days. He was a laborer by
occupation but a good, substantial
citizen. He had been a member of the
United Evangelical church for many
years. Surviving him are his wife
and the following children: Charles
C. Workman, of Hecla Park; Harvey
and William, of Altoona; Mrs. Mary
Guiser, of Hecla Park, and Richard,
at home. He also leaves two brothers
and three sisters, namely: Daniel and
Samuel Workman, both of Lock Ha-
ven; Mrs. Sarah Rohrabach, of New
Kensington; Mrs. Caroline Miller, of
DuBois, and Mrs. Rebecca Dunkle, of
Millheim.
Funeral services were held in the
church at Hecla at 10 o’clock on Mon-
day morning by Rev. Bowersox, as-
sisted by Rev. Shultz, after which
burial was made in the Zion cemetery.
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MAYES.—It was aki this week
that we learned of the death of Mrs.
James T. Mayes, at her home near La-
mar, on February 8th. She succumb-
ed after an illness of many months
with heart trouble and dropsy. Her
maiden name was Mary Ann Tate
and she was born and raised in Fer-
guson township where she was mar-
ried about fifty years ago to James’
Mayes. Their early married life was
spent on a farm at Tadpole but about
forty years ago they moved to La-
mar where they have since lived. She
was a member of the Methodist
church and a good christian woman.
Her husband died four years ago
but surviving her are three sons and
two daughters, namely: John and
William, of Lamar; Edward, of Pine
Grove Mills; Mrs. Margaret Sunday,
of Pennsylvania Furnace, and Mrs.
Anna Fisher, of Lamar. The funeral
was held on Sunday, February, 11th.
Rev. W. B. Cook had charge of the
services and burial was made in the
Lamar cemetery.
SOVMEIE Polling illness
of some months with hardening of the
arteries Malachi Sommers died at the
home of his son James, at Axe Mann,
on Monday morning. He was born in
Somerset county on September 16th,
1830, making his age 87 years, 4
months and 10 days. He served dur-
ing the Civil war as a member of the
143rd regiment. Shortly after the
close of the war he came to Centre
county and followed his trade of a
shoemaker. His wife died forty-five
years ago but surviving him are three
sons, James, of Axe Mann; M, M.
Sommers, of Niagara Falls, and Win-
‘field, of Bellefonte. Funeral services
were held at his late home at 9.30
o'clock yesterday morning by Rev.
Glanding, assisted by Rev. McKechnie,
after ‘which the remains were taken
to Tusseyville for burial.
KRIDER.—Mrs. Annie Elizabeth
Hunter Krider widow of the late Hen-
ry H. Krider, died at her home in Ty-
rone on Sunday evening following an
illness that dated back to last Sep-
tember. She was born near War-
riorsmark on June 20th, 1841, her
early life being spent in that vicin-
ity and Buffalo Run valley. She was
married to Mr. Krider in 1846 and in
1892 they moved to Tyrone. Mr. Kri-
der died sixteen years ago but sur-
viving her are three sons, H. Alton
and William, of Tyrone, and Milton,
of Roaring Spring. Burial was made
at Warriorsmark on Wednesday after-
noon.
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Number 13.
Five Cases of Tuberculosis and Their
Probable Origin.
E. B. M.
A physician leaving her office in a
well known business building in a
large city, while waiting for the ele-
vator, stepped to the water cooler and
took a drink of water from the com-
mon drinking cup. To the remon-
strance of her companion she replied,
“If 1 place my lips within the rim of
the cup there is no danger.” Nine
months later, tired and troubled be-
cause of a slight cough, she closed
her office for a long vacation in Eu-
rope. Not improved after six months
abroad, she returned and went to Ari-
zona, thence to the Pacific coast, her
condition becoming worse and the
cough more pronounced until she
finally died—in less than three years
after the incident of the drinking cup.
It was not that one drink, of course,
but the indiscretion had been often
repeated. An attractive, exceptional-
ly bright women, lecturer in a med-
ical school, with an extensive prac-
tice and climbing to fame!
A lawyer, of hereditary predisposi-
tion to consumption, showed symp-
toms of the disease when about forty
but. kept on with his practice for sev-
eral years. He finally became too ill
to work, remained at home where he
spent much of his time in a side yard
and was repeatedly seen to spit on the
grass. His children were ‘well grown
with the exception of the youngest, a
boy of seven or eight years, who was
in closer association with his father
than the others, playing on the lawn
over the places where the spitting had
occurred. The man died. The boy
grew up, was never especially vigor-
ous, entered college but was obliged
to leave before the end of his Fresh-
man year, went to New Mexico, where
he died the following winter. Hered-
ity and environment were doubtless
both factors in this case. No other
member of the family ever manifest-
ed symptoms of tuberculosis.
During his Senior year in college
a young man said that he had never
known what it was to be ill. His
room-mate and chum was a “husky”
looking fellow weighing about two
hundred pounds but with a slight
cough—as was afterward 'learned,—
not regarded seriously and to which
no attention was given. He graduat-
ed, found a position, worked for six
months but the cough had, by this
time, become so serious, he was
obliged to stop work and go home
where he died in less than two years
after his graduation. The other man,
a civil engineer, who was graduated
at the same time, also accepted a po-
sition and at the end of nine months
had a severe attack of pneumonia,
after which he was unable to regain
his normal vigor, but continued in his
position several months longer. At
the end of two years there were un-
mistakable symptoms of tuberculosis
and he went to Colorado where his
health improved so that he felt able
to resume work. The improvement
was not permanent and after a des-
perate and brave fight for his life he
died five years from the time of his
graduation.
A sample of sputum from a patient
was sent by a physician to a bacteri-
ologist for examination. The report
was, “Tubercle bacilli in abundance.”
Shortly after the test, the patient, a
woman, closed her house and went to
live with a niece and nephew. Three
years later the physician happened to
visit the laboratory and in conversa-
tion, inquiry, concerning his patient,
was made. He replied, “She died
three months after the sputum was
tested and, in exactly fifteen months
from the time she went to live with
them, the niece and nephew died of
tuberculosis within a few weeks of
each other.”
It is impossible to say how many
other cases may have originated from
these same sources of infection but
these five are sufficient to add weight
to a few plain truths, namely:
1. That it is not best to take even
a chance on a common drinking cup;
2. That spitting is criminal. When
neccessary it should be done only
where the sputum can be disposed of
in a sanitary manner, not to be blown
about in the air, inhaled, settle on
foodstuffs and be a general peril;
3. That an individual known by
positive tests to be suffering from tu-
berculosis should be isolated and not
remain a focus of infection for others.
This may seem a harsh doctrine to
advocate but it is, after all, altruistic
in that it is “the greatest good to the
greatest number” and, to quote from
a recent address of Dr. Jacques Loeb,
of Rockefeller Institute, “No human
society can be expected to exist un-
less the necessity of suppressing or
curbing the harmful and pathologic-
al instincts of individuals is recogniz-
% 10. They have been compiled and edit. ¥i{ that 2470 lives and $4,000,000 in mon-
3 al well-being. 2%
| (in 1902 the rate was 16.3 per 10,000;
lin 1911, 13.2.) Dr. Krusen computes
i ey were saved in Philadelphia alone
i last year through the campaign per-
| sistently waged against tuberculosis
| of the lungs, the eradication of which
| is dependent on the realization of
‘ higher general health standards. Each
| individual is a unit in an aggregation
i of individuals or a community and
| weakness or disease in one imperils
the strength of the whole. Co-opera-
tion and consideration of the welfare
of others will mean victory in this
campaign.
Centre County Y. W. C. A.
Members of the various clubs
throughout the county are requested
to send their physical score cards to
the secretary. Up to date only a few
have been received. Of the clubs so
far reported the State College Gym
class has the highest average. The
highest individual score goes to Miss
Leotta Bouse, of Howard, and the
next highest to Miss Charlotte Kurtz.
But there is still a chance for every-
body.
Following is the balance of Miss
Angela Morgan’s poem on “Work.”
Learn it so you can say it when the
spring fever gets you:
Work!
Thank God for the pace of it,
For the terrible, keen, swift race of it;
Fiery steeds in full control,
Nostrils a-quiver to greet the goal.
Work, the Power that drives behind,
Guiding the purposes, taming the mind,
Holding the runaway back,
Reining the will to one steady track,
Speeding the energies faster, faster,
Triumphing over every disaster,
Oh, what is so good as the pain of it,
And what is so great as the gain of it?
And what is so kind as the cruel goad,
Forcing us on through the rugged road?
Work!
Thank God for the swing of it,
For the clamoring, hammering of it,
Passion of labor daily hurled
On the mighty anvils of the world.
Oh, what is so fierce as the flame of it?
And what is so huge as the aim of it?
Thundering on through death and doubt,
Calling the plan of the Maker out.
Work, the Titan; Work, the friend,
Shaping the earth to a glorious end,
Draining the swamps and blasting the
hills,
Doing whatever the Spirit wills—
Rending a continent apart,
To answer the dream of the Master heart,
Thank God for a world where none may
shirk—
Thank God for the splendor of work!
Wirt—Stover.—The home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Spangler, at Rebers-
burg, was the scene of a pretty wed-
ding on Tuesday evening of last week
when John A. Wirt and Miss Mary A.
Stover, both of Rebersburg, were
united in marriage by Rev. J. Womel-
dorf, of the United Evangelical
church. Following the ceremony and
congratulations a delicious wedding
dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs.
Wirt will make their home at Maple
Park, Ill., where they will go to house-
keeping in the spring.
Harpster — Patterson.— Herbert
Harpster, of Pennsylvania Furnace,
and Miss Emma Patterson, of Mill
Hall, were married in Tyrone on Sat-
urday afternoon by Rev. M. S. Ders-
tine, of the Methodist church. Mr.
Harpster is a graduate of the Lock
Haven Normal school and during the
winter has been teaching schqol in
Ferguson township. The young cou-
ple will make their home at Pennsyl-
vania Furnace.
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Hon. Leonard Rhone, of Centre
Hall, is seriously ill as the result of
injuries sustained in a fall last De-
cember. In fact our neighboring
town across Nittany mountain seems
to be plague-ridden with disease at
the present time. In addition to Mr.
Rhone’s illness David Kerr is in a
critical condition, Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Krise are both seriously ill and
Mrs. Mary Ross was stricken with
paralysis on Monday and has ever
since been lying in an unconscious
condition at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Bushman. Her son,
Frank Ross came from Pittsburgh
and is now with his mother.
William Laird, a son of Mrs.
Rebecca Emerick, of Centre Hall, was
run over by a train and instantly kill-
ed in the railroad yards at Indianapo-
lis, last Friday. He was born and
grew to manhood in Potter township
and was about forty years of age. The
body was so mangled that it was im-
possible to ship it to Centre Hall and
burial was made at Indianapolis.
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During Monday evening’s
thunder storm Bert Smith, who lives
a short distance east of Bellefonte,
was sitting in the kitchen with his
feet on the cooking stove. A bolt of
lightning struck the house and while
Mr. Smith was not seriously injured
he was burned on the feet and down
the back.
Announcement has been made
of the engagement of J. Linn Harris,
of this place, and Mrs. Mary A. Har-
ris, of Carlisle.
For Sale.—F. H. Thomas will sell
all his household goods at private sale
from now until April 1st. Inquiry
can be made at Bush house. om-
mercial telephone. 62-8-1t
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