BE — Bellefonte, Pa., March 16, 1917. County Correspondence Items of Interest Dished up for the Delectation of “Watchman” Read- ers by a Corps of Gifted Correspondents. PLEASANT GAP ITEMS. Merrill Robb has moved his fami- ly back to Nittany. Mr. Irvin Gettig, of Bellefonte, spent Sunday with his brother, H. C Gettig. Miss Emeline Noll went to Altoona Friday for a short visit with her sis- ter, Mrs. Paul Keller. Mrs. Harry Hagan, of Lewistown, is visiting for a week among friends and relatives at the Gap. Miss Anna Rimmey, Miss Carrie Gettig and Miss Helen Grenoble were Sunday visitors at Altoona. Mrs. Hiram Fetterhoff and Mrs. Howard Barnes were visitors at the home of Mrs. Rachel Noll a few days ago. Miss Bertha Rimmey and Miss Hel- en Swartz returned home on Sunday last from an extended visit at Al- toona. Mr. B. P. Bell, accompanied by nis daughter, Miss Virginia, spent Sun- day last at State College, the former home of Mr. Bell. : The Pleasant Gap High school will hold 2 box social on Saturday night, March 17th, the proceeds of which will be applied in the defraying of the incidental expenses on the occasion of the coming graduation exercises. If history repeats itself a large crowd can be looked for. The Thomas Jodon public sale was a record breaker. were realized on everything offered for sale. The proceeds of the sale netted $7,434. Horses brought as high as $562 a team, and hogs went out of sight. Cows from $55.00 to $114.00. Everything was in presen- table shape, hence the high prices. -- Pleasant Gap, I think, can boast of having one of the toughest teams of horses in the country. It is now own- ed by butcher J. P. Eckel. The horses are well mated blacks, quite presenta- ble and are twenty-two and twenty- three years old. They are of the gen- uine broncho species, #ill not drive single, nor did any one ever succeed in enjoying a horseback ride with either of them. They were never known to do anything outside of drawing a butcher wagon. They were brought here by James Kerstetter, who purchased them at a sale at Mill- heim in the spring of 1900. They ‘were then five and six years old. He then sold his meat market, horses in- cluded, to F. D. Millward, who drove them one year after which he sold out to Lloyd Smith, who conducted the business for one year. J. D. Her- man became Smith’s successor and continued in the business for six years after which he sold out to Joseph Lex, who remained in the business one year when our present butcher became his successor. Mr. Eckel has now driven the little blacks for three years and has had some témpting of- fers for them but did not see his way clear to part with his faithful stand- bys. It is: estimated that the team has traveled at least 1,000,000 miles since their initiation in the butchering business. They have to their credit some remarkable : drives when Mr. Kerstetter owned them. He started one morning on a business trip, his first stop being Unionville. From there to Julian and up the Bald Ea- gle valley, crossing the mountain to Stormstown, then to Pine Grove Mills and from there to Centre Hall, thence down Pennsvalley to Millheim return- ing home to the Gap the same even- ing. It would have required two days for an ordinary team to accom- plish this trip and it is said that when they returned home they were as full of ginger as they were on their de- parture. They are surely possessed of a powerful endurance. During all these years these faithful animals have had the misfortune of having some unusually hard drivers, the kind who have little mercy on horse flesh, yet they today resemble in appear- ance colts instead of old-timers. About a week ago Mr. Eckel drove his team up to Lauvertown, left the team standing while he went into a house to transact some business, re- maining inside for some time. On emerging from the house he found his horses had left. They started for home, passing the College trolley car and other vehicles and turned out to the right on each occasion on the ap- pearance of any conveyances. They beat Mr. Eckel home half an hour. ———————— LEMONT. The orioles and robins are here. All the people on the sick list are improving at this writing. A few went from this town, Satur: day night, on the excursion to Wash- ington, D. C. The I. 0. O. F. banquet was well attended last Thursday evening, and all present had a very good time. ‘The sales are drawing the crowds these days, and all farm implements and stock have been bringing good prices. William Ludwig, from the western part of the State, is enjoying a visit among his many friends here, the first in two years. The venerable George Baker depart- ed for his western home last Thurs- day, after spending almost a year at the home of his sister in this place. The deep snow is going very easily and has not raised the creeks much, except on Sunday, when the water was almost at the flood mark in Spring creek. “Don’t you find that a baby bright- ens up a house wonderfully?” “Yes,” replied the fond parent, “we have the lights going most of the night now. —— Subscribe for the “Watchman”. * | Ferguson township, Outside prices. es BOALSBURG. Mrs. J. P. Wagner, of Altoona, is visiting her father, D. W. Meyer. Mrs. William Klinger and daughter spent Tuesday among friends in town. Mrs. David Bohn and son Wert, of Walnut Grove, visited friends in town on Friday. Miss Helen Coxey, who is employed in Tyrone, spent the week-end with her mother. Mrs. Luther Dale, of Oak Hall, with Marian and Frederick Dale, were visitors in town on Tuesday. Miss Irene Pletcher and Hugh C. Dale and sister Virginia, of the Branch, were visitors in town on Sun- day. Mus. Charles Ross and children, of spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weber. Mrs. W. A. Murray and daughter, Miss Gussie, attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Ross, at Centre Hall, on Wednesday. Lieut. Pierre Boal, who is in this country on a furlough, spent a few days at the home of his father, Theo- dore Davis Boal. Ira Rishel and daughters, the Misses Effie and Elsie, leave this week for Akron, Ohio, where they will make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Glenn, of the Branch; Rev. and Mrs. S. C. Stover and son Elwood, Mr. and Mrs. William Goheen, Mrs. W. A. Murray, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFarlane were guests at dinner, of Mr. and Mrs. L. Mothersbaugh, on Saturday. John Woods, aged eighty years, died at the home of his son-in-law, Chas. Klinger, on Saturday, after an illness of one week. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. S. C. Stover and interment was made in the Union cemetery on Tuesday morning. William Kuhn and daughter, Mrs. Roy Morgan, of Philipsburg; Mr. an Mrs. William Kuhn and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of Williamsport; Mrs. Samuel Durst, of Earlystown, and Mr. and Mrs. Bitner, of Tusseyville, attended the funeral of Alexander Kuhn on Friday. The lecture given by Mrs. Parsells in the Reformed church on Monday evening was well attended and a num- ber of W. C. T. U. and Y. P. B. mem- bership pledge cards were signed and the following officers chosen: Presi- dent, Mrs. S. C. Stover; vice president, Mrs. M. A. B. Boal, assistant vice- president, Henry Hosterman; treas- urer, Miss Goheen; corresponding secretary, Miss Anna Dale; recording secretary, Mrs. J. W. Keller. The local orchestra furnished music for the occasion. Movings scheduled for this section are as follows: Al Lee and family to the Campbell farm near Linden Hall, recently purchased by Mr. Lee; John Kimport from Walnut Grove to the house purchased from Mr. Lee; Willis Houtz from the Dr. Kidder farm to recently purchased from Mrs. Fort- ney; Elmer Houtz to the farm va- cated by Willis Houtz; New- ton Yarnell from the D. J. Meyer farm to the house vacated by Elmer Houtz, and Arthur Fortney from Awlsworth to the Meyer farm. EAST BRUSH VALLEY. F. A. Esterline was a business visit- or at Greenbur, on Tuesday. J. I. Lingle transacted business at Madisonburg on last Friday. Kenneth Haines was on the sick list several days during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Shultz visited friends and relatives at Spring Mills last week. At this writing C. E. Long, pro- prietor of the local hotel, is lying ser- iously ill with little hope for his re- covery. Ray E. Weber and family moved to Beech Creek one day last week, where Mr. Weber has found employment for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Yearick and family were entertained and partook of a sumptuous dinner on last Sunday at Madisonburg. 0. F. Stover and F. A. Esterline at- tended F. H. Musser’s sale at Penn Hall on Monday, and returned with several head of the graded Guernseys. Mr. George Day, of this place, con- veyed a load of jolly folks to the home of A. J. Reish on last Thursday even- ing, where a most delightful evening was spent. The temperance lecture was enjoy- ed by all who were privileged to listen to it. The offering which was lifted shows that the W. C. T. U. element is not ground out yet. W. E. Shultz visited his parents several days last week. Mr. Shultz is employed at the Montgomery table works and was laid off several days on account of the scarcity of coal. Word was received one day last week of the marriage of Miss Flor- ence Spangler, daughter of J. Spongler, of Newton, Kansas, but formerly of this place, and Mr. Ed- ward Miller. The couple will locate near Newton this spring. a ——————— American Ditch Diggers Cut Battle Trenches. rns Among the various types of trench diggers employed on the battle fields by Germany and its allies is a big machine of American manufacture which before the war probably was used for cutting drainage ditches or making excavations for pipes and conduits. It is of the same general character as some of those used in many of our own cities for more peaceful purposes. Caterpillar treads enable it to negotiate fairly soft fields in spite of its heavy weight. It is equipped with the usual series of buckets about the circumference of a revolving wheel and is operated by a gas engine mounted at the front end. The buckets are dumped as they reach the top, the dirt falling onto a belt conveyor and being distributed along one side of the excavation—forming a parapet—as the machine travels ahead. Such an apparatus requires the attention of only three or four men and accomplishes the work of a hundred or more. E. | quite probable that the supervisors 300 miles of government-railroad sid- WOLF’S STORE. Never start the day with a dejected ego. Ray Stover will farm for his father this coming year. At last the potato has become the peach of our dreams. L. L. Hosterman left for Altoona in search of employment. W. A. Winters and family were call- ers in Pennsvalley, Sunday. George H. Showers spent last Sun- day autoing through lower Penns- valley. 3 Springtime is fast approaching and the warble of the robin was heard on Sunday. Charles Brungart expects to occupy the Confer plantation along Sunny avenue by April 1st. The old saying is, “Cough, and the congregation coughs with you; pray, and you pray alone.” The people of Wolf’s Store can truthfully say, “How Dry I Am,” at this period of the year. F. E. Bressler will receive first les- sons in housekeeping this spring in the home of M. W. Wert. John Mining will occupy the Sholl home on Round Top avenue, while his farm will be tenanted by James Ww. Hanselman. Charles Gilbert moved his personal property in with Harry McCool, whom he will serve agriculturally this com- ing summer. Some one said the other day that husbands are easy to catch but hard to tame. By all appearance that per- son is in the market. The man who used to convert his nose into an Indian snow-shoe at boiled beef and cabbage, because he could get it at home, has entirely disappeared. Wr. and Mrs. William Woife and Miss Mildred, from near Loganton, d|and Mr. Roy Nixon, from Clinton- dale, spent Sunday very joyfully with E. RB. Wolfe and family, of this place. The fact that some liars seem to think if they keep themselves within wireless distance of the truth they are doing pretty well, as the world goes, is a well known fact and very vividly demonstrated in our present day. ; With wheat near the $2.00 mark, corn selling for one “Buck” per bush- el, oats, 60 cents, potatoes, $2.00, beef, 10 cents per pound on foot, shoats $15.00 per cwt, and team hire $3.50 per day, the day laborer in Wolf’s Store is still obliged to work for one dollar a day, and thus is supposed to be making money. “Shorty” Hanselman is the proud owner, and justly so, of a fine team of iron grey horses. Blaine will oc- cupy Henry Strahan’s farm one-half mile west of Livonia. Mr. Strahan will expose his property to public szle and joyfully pass through the famous fourteen-mile Narrows and occupy the “Old Homes ” jin Union county, which he has purchased. F. A. Esterline will vacate the Bower farm, which will be tenanted by a Mr. Shook from Aaronsburg, and occupy the Walker farm after Mis. Walker has disposed of her live- stock and farming implements on the 24th inst. A. B. Wolfe will have pub- lic sale on the 27th inst. and after- wards move to Rebersburg, thus giv- ing place for W. H. Walker to occupy the Walker & Co’s farm. VALLEY VIEW. A. I. Garbrick is getting along as well as can be expected at this writ- ing. We are again reminded of spring by the filling up of the springs and streams and the rivulets of water coursing down the mountain sides. William Flack, who spent the win- ter at the sailors’ home, at Erie, re- turned last week and is once again at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Evey, at this place. Mr. Flack has many friends in Bellefonte and vicin- ity who will be gad to know that he is going to spend the summer here. On Thursday of last week Elias Houser, the eldest son of Edward Houser, of this place, was stricken with diphtheria. Mr. Houser has the sympathy of the entire community as his wife and a daughter recently died with the disease and the quarantine on his home had been lifted only a few days. Last Thursday when Edward H. Evey was returning home from his work at Bellefonte, he was thrown from his buggy alighting on his face in a puddle of mud and slush. Young Evey was driving along at a fair gait and in the neighborhood of Wil- liam King’s watering trough the road was covered with water. The result was the hind wheel of Evey’s buggy was caught between two big stones and badly twisted while Evey was thrown out. Crawling out of the mud he caught his horse and managed to complete the journey home. It is will be called upon to make good the damage done to the buggy. Canada Tears Up Rails for Allies Use. One of the numerous ways in which Canada has shown its readiness to meet emergencies created by the war, is in tearing up long sections of rail- way track in the Dominion, to pro- vide the allied forces on the western front in Europe with needed trans- portation lines. The plan for collect- ing the rails, as reported from Otta- wa, contemplated the removal of some ings in the East and also long stretch- es of track between Edmonton and the Pacific coast where two railways run parallel, the traffic of both lines to be accommodated on the remaining route. The plan, it was said, owed its origin to the British government, which intimated that prompt action of this kind would probably save thousands of lives, and that new rails could not be obtained because of the demand for steel in making muni- tions. It was estimated in Ottawa that over 1,000 miles of Canadian track would be torn up in response to the appeal. ——For high class Job Work come to the “Watchman” Office. State of Mind in a Naval Action. The question of what a man is most likely to think about when un- der fire, or in action, has been much discussed since the battle of Horn Reef. Much evidence has been col- lected and many theories advanced. Obviously, the answer will depend very much upon the man, what sort of fire he is under, and—especially— what his duties are. Generalizing very broadly from the conversations I have had with, and letters 1 have read from, men who went through this greatest of naval battles, I should say that, so far as the British sailor is concerned, the concentration of mind in carrying out in action the duties which he had trained so assid- uously for during many years of peace, pretty e ectually. kept his thoughts from wandering far afield. The following extract from the letter of an officer whose ship gave and took some of the hardest knocks, seems to ine to indicate a state of mind fair- ly typical of the average British sail- or in action. “I suppose I was too busy to think. We just got on with the work and that kept us stretched. When we got a German cruiser, I said ‘Our bird,’ and I have an idea we passed a word or two when a shell gave our turret a rap that made our teeth grind; but as for ‘happy memories of boyhood days’ and ‘The Little Gray Home in the West’—nothing deing. You've got to keep your mind on one thing, and that isn’t ‘memories of home,’ but your work. If a sailor tells how, with shells exploding and men being killed around him, he was thinking of a girl at home, don’t believe him, es- pecially if he is telling it to the girl. One does a bit of thinking on the way home after the battle, and that’s when the sailor gets soft and imagin- ative.—From “Sailors’ Sensations in| Battle,” by Lewis R. Freeman. nr —— 0 Woeful Days! Irom the Washington Post. With Washington placed in the dry column, it will be difficult for some Congressmen to sit tight in a sober situation. Architect.—Anna W. Keichline, Bellefonte, Pa. 62-4-6m Medical. A Twice-Told Tale ONE OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS. Good news bears repeating, and when it is confirmed after a long lapse of time, even if we hesitated to be- lieve it at first hearing, we feel secure in accepting its truth now. The fol- lowing experience of a Bellefonte woman is confirmed after six years. Mrs. J. C. Johnson, 365 E. Bishop St., Bellefonte, says: “I was a great sufferer from backache and pains across my loins and I could hardly get about the house. Dizzy spells came over me and I nearly fell. I was restless at night and my kidneys caused me a lot of annoyance. Two boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I got at Green’s Pharmacy Co., did me more good than anything I had pre- viously tried. The backache and pains disappeared and my kidneys be- came normal. I now feel better in every way.” (Statement given A Permanent Cure. Over Six Years Later, Mrs. John- son said: “Time has proven that Doan’s Kidney Pills are a reliable remedy. The cure they made for me some time ago has been permanent.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Johnson has twice publicly ve- commended. Foster-Milburn ~~ Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 62-11 mm aa ol DD OB SB BB Bl THE VERY BEST | FLOUR That Money Can Buy Wholesale Distributors, 4 4 1 4 : 4 1 4 : 4 i 4 4 4 { 4 i 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 { an BELLEFONTE, PA. Geo. Danenhower & Son bh 4 Lime and Limestone For All Purposes. HO-LIME Put up in 40 1b. paper bags. For Use With Drill Spreader. High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime. Write for Free Literature. | American Lime & Stone Co 62-13m General Office: TYRONE, PA October 21, 1907). 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Why not begin taking these two medicines—one before meals, the oth- er after—as soon as you can get them. 62-9 Employers, This Interests You The Workmans’ Compensation Law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1916. It makes Insurance Compulsory. We specialize in placing such in- surance. We Inspect Plants and recommend Accident Prevention Safe Guards which Reduce In- surance rates. It will be to your interest to con- sult us before placing your In- surance. JOHN F. GRAY. & SON, Bellefonte. 43-18-1y State College PAINT Will Improve Anything But the face of a pretty woman— for that needs no improvement. Perhaps your house does. If so, we would be glad to estimate on Painting or Paper Hanging no matter how small the job may be—and we will guarantee to do the the work right. Our past reputa- tion for good work and our exper- jence gained by 12 years at the business is at your command. FRED DUNZIK Painting and Decorating, Wall Paper and Paint Store. PLEASANT, GAP, PA. BELL PHONE. 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SPANGLER.-Attorney-at-Law. Pra 1 tos in all the Courts. Consultation in E or German. Office in Crider’s Exchiige S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Counsellor a Law. Office in Temple Court, Bells fonte, Pa. All kinds of legal business at M. KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-Law. in all the courts. Consultation in English and German. Office south of court house KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given all legal business entrusted to his en. 08 tation ngkish and German. Office in Crider’s WwW G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in Ei xchange, Bellefonte. 58-8 commen. Physicians. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su State College, Centre county, Pa. "Bice at his residence. : Dentists. R. H. W. TATE, Surgeon Dentis., Office the Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. All mod- ern electric appliances used. Has years of experience. All work of Superior quality and prices reasonable. 6-81y ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res- taurant where Meals are Served at All Hours Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the half shell or in any style desired, Sand- wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can be had in a few minutes any time. In ad- dition I have a Somplete plant pr to furnish Soft Drinks in bottles such as SARSAPARILLA. SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC., for pic-nics, families and the public gener- ally all of which are manufactured out of carbonated. the purest syrups and properly C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. spp Get the Best Meats. You save nothin £ by buying poor, thin or gristly meats. l'use hoi LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE and supply my customers with the fresh est, choicest, best blood and muscle mak- ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no higher than poorer meats are elsewhere. 1 alwavs have —— DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, 34-34-1y. Bellefonte,Pa sm—— High Street. 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Fire Insurance { invite your attention to my Fire Insur, strongest M ance CY, and Most Ex tensive of Solid Companies represent” ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania H. E. FENLON, Agent, Bellefonte, Pa, ATA T4 Good Health Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER. When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky water-fixtures, foul sewerage, or escaping £25, you oan't have S00] 5 . The air you reathe is poisonous; your system becomes 50-21. poisoned.and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING is the kind we do. It’s the only kind you ought to have. Wedon’t trustthis work to , r workmen are Skilled Mechanics, no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Best Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire establishment. And with good work and the finest material, our Prices are Lower unsani than many who give you poor, u tary hings. For work and the lowest grade of fini the Best Work trv Archibald Allison, Bellefonte, Pa. 17.