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Belletonte, Pa., April 20, 1917.
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To Correspondents.—No communications
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THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——Victor machines, records and
supplies at Cohen & Co. 16-1t |
The forty hour devotion in St.
John’s Catholic church will begin on
Sunday.
on Hughes field. Bellefonte Academy
ws. Susquehanna University.
Qur cut rate grocery depart-
ment is the talk of the town.—Cohen
& Co. 16-1t
——Four- car loads of steers, sev-
enty-two in all, were shipped from
State College to the Pittsburgh mar-
ket this week.
William Daufenbaugh, ex-dep-
uty warden at the new penitentiary,
spent the latter part of last week at
that institution packing up his house-
hold effcets to ship to Swissvale,
where he is now located.
——Judge Quigley will go to Mon-
trose, Susquehanna county, next week
to hold a term of court and has
another request for his judicial serv-
ices in Pittsburgh beginning April
30th, and to continue two, or perhaps
three weeks.
On Friday of last week Henry
Sweeley, an apprentice in the Kline
flouring mills at Centre Mills, got his
right arm caught in the machinery
and so badly crushed that he was com-
pelled to have it amputated, in the
Bellefonte hospital Tuesday.
—You can’t fish for trout at night
but you can attend the Scenic and see
the best line of motion pictures shown
in this part of the-State. Every even-
ing has its own program and they are
all good. Miss one evening and you
fail to see something high-class that
you may never have another opportu-
nity of seeing.
Preparations are well under
way for the tenth annual reunion of
the Fifth regiment Spanish-American
war veterans which will be held in
Hollidaysburg on Saturday evening,
April 28th. Company B, of Bellefonte,
was included in the regiment and a
number of the veterans will likely at-
tend the reunion.
———Joseph Conklin, the alleged
“German” arrested last week as a
spy, but who was later discharged by
the authorities, has turned out to be
a common thief. It happens that on
Tuesday of last week he entered the
home of Ellis Way, at Unionville, and
stole a watch which.he later pawned
in Bellefonte for three dollars.
The Toner livery sale on Sat-
urday of next week should draw a big
crowd of buyers. In addition to the
six good horses for sale there is a
full line of rigs of all kinds, buggies,
carriages, sleighs, wagons, etc., as
well as all kinds of harness used in a
livery. Buyers will find good bar-
gains on that occasion. 16-2t
‘The barn at Howard which was
used by Rev. Charles W. Rishel as a
garage was totally destroyed by fire
last Thursday night. With the barn
was burned the reverend’s 1916 tour-
ing car and a quantity of garden
tools, packing boxes, etc. Rev. Rish-
el places his loss at $800, with no in-
surance. The barn belonged to the
church property and no insurance was
carried on it.
——Another of the popular ex-
changes conducted by the Guild of St.
John’s Episcopal church will be held
in the parish house on Lamb street,
on Saturday afternoon of this week,
April 21st, at 2 o’clock. Pies, cakes,
biscuits, candy and everything choice
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Baseball this afternoon at 3.30
“only one duty. The way is plain.
in the line of eatables will be offered
for sale. Also a fine line of aprons
which are sure to be in demand this
time of year. Early shoppers will
get the best bargains.
~—This (Friday) evening is the
date for the Bellefonte High school’s
sixth annual play in the opera house,
when they will render the dramatiza-
tion of Jerome K. Jerome’s “Miss
Hobbs.” The play will be given un-
der the supervision of Miss Maude
. Baer, one of the teachers in the High
school, and it should be well patron-
ized. Admission, 85 and 50 cents.
Tickets now on sale at Mott’s drug
store. In the cast are Robert Taylor
and John Smith, who will leave on
Monday to join the navy.
——The opening game of the local
baseball season will take place on
Hughes field this (Friday) afternoon
at 3:30 o'clock, between the Susque-
hanna University team and the Belle-
fonte Academy nine. The Academy
boys will appear in their new uni-
forms, made possible through . the
generosity of Mrs. Fulton, of Scran-
ton, who has three boys at the Acad-
emy this year. Lovers of base ball
are urged to go out and encourage the
boys in this, one of the hardest games
they will have this year. Admission,
25 cents.
CENTRE COUNTY IS AWAKENING.
A Tremendous Effort t be Made to Intensify Farming and
Meetings All Over the County to
Gardening.
Arouse the People
to the Grave Crisis
Confronting Us.
TROUT CATCH ONLY FAIR.
Many Fishermen Disappointed With
the Opening Day’s Showing.
The usually large number of fish-
; ermen wended their way to the trout
‘ streams of Centre county on Monday
“morning for a try of their luck on the
| first day of the season and most of
| them returned home hours later thor-
' oughly disappointed with their luck.
The President of the United States has called us. The Governor of the . The streams are all a bit high and
Commonwealth has called us.
Thousands of poor people who are already | . the cold weather of Monday rendered
| finding it difficult to buy bread and potatoes are calling us today to help solve fishing conditions most anything but
the food problem that now confronts them and is certain to become more : auspicious. The best catches of trout
' distressing.
What are we of the rich agricultural county of Centre to do?
We must work together for a maximum ,
production of everything that our soil will produce, and labor earnestly to!
instill ideas of economy into the heads of the rich and poor alike.
i Selfishness, thoughts of personal
swept aside by a mighty wave of patriotic service.
The “Watchman” has been urging these things for months and now that
the county is at last awakening it prays God to quicken the energy and deter-
mination of every one of us to do our part.
The Commissioners of the county have wisely appropriated a thousand ; C. Quigley,
dollars to disseminate helpful information and to organize a bureau to sup- | Thomas H. Harter and each one suc-
ply farm help where needed, but, this cannot bring immediate results. It.
will be felt next year and will help to alleviate a condition that the world’s !
experience has demonstrated will probably be far more acute then than now.
Don’t read these lines lightly and regard them as the vaporings of an ij!
we might.
ize it.
Just thirty-three persons were pres-
ent at Tuesday evening’s meeting of
the executive committee for Centre
county on Public Safety, held in the
grand jury room of the court house.
Lieut. Theodore Davis Boal, chairman
of the committee, presided.
Dr. E. E. Sparks, president of The
Pennsylvania State College, was pres-
ent and in explanation of his absence
from the organization of the commit-
tee at Lieut. Boal’s home on Wednes-
day night of last week stated that he
had been up in Connecticut studying
the methods they are adopting there
for home defense but that he had
learned that they have done little
‘more than we are doing. Dr. Sparks
further stated that he would like to
have Dean R. L. Watts added to the
Agricultural committee and A. O.
Vorse to the Publicity committee,
which was done.
FOR HOME DEFENSE.
Col. H. S. Taylor, chairman of the
committee on home defense, stated
that he had gotten into communica-
tion with all the fire companies in
Centre county and had enrolled the
members as home guards. Where no
fire company exists he has enlisted
members of the P. O. S. of A. The
Red Men of the county had volunteer-
ed their services and had been ac-
cepted and within the next week or
ten days he expects to have the en-
tire county systematized with an
active force of from 1,200 to 1,500
men who can be called out at a
moment’s notice, if occasion requires
their services.
In Bellefonte the two fire compa-
nies have been enlisted.
At Philipsburg the two fire compa-
nies have been enlisted.
At State College the one fire com-
pany has been enlisted.
At Howard the fire company is de-
funct but the chief of the company
has mustered a squad of 24 men for
service.
At Jacksonville an old National
Guardsman has been put in charge
and already has a squad mustered.
At Milesburg a squad of 24 men has
been mustered.
At Orviston the superintendent of
the brick works is in charge and has
mustered his squad.
The Red Men of Centre county, five
or six very large organizations, have
volunteered their services in their va-
rious localities and already the 81
men of the Snow Shoe camp are un-
der drill by their old army men.
Centre Hall, Unionville, State Col-
lege, Spring Mills, Coburn, Wood-
ward, Aaronsburg and Pleasant Gap
will be taken care of by squads select-
ed by the P. O. S. of A.
Boalsburg and Rebersburg are as
yet unorganized.
Col. Taylor made a splendid report
and the work he has accomplished so
speedily in the way of organizing
squads of men to look after the safe-
ty of each community should prove
very reassuring to the timid. By next
week he will have all of these men
enrolled and they will be delegated
with full police authority. They will
not be known but will be ready to re-
spond to a call at a moment’s notice.
In fact they will be known as the
Minute Men of the Home Defense.
HELP FOR THE FARMERS.
D. F. Kapp, of State College, chair-
man of the Agricultural committee,
was called for a report and that gen-
tleman stated that while he had not
together he had called a meeting of
citizens of State College last Satur-
day and they had endeavored to map
yet been able to get his committee
We have
gain and indifference should all be :
alarmist. With wheat at $2.25, potatoes $4.00 and sugar 10 cents now you .
should fairly tremble at what prices might be if we get into war as deeply as
The call is to every red-blooded man, woman, girl and boy who can work
and economize to be up and doing RIGHT NOW.
The county is well organized in other lines already, as will be seen from
the report of the last meeting of the Public Safety committee, which follows,
but it has not yet fully awakened to the seriousness of the food situation and
that must come or bread lines and food riots will be upon ‘us before we real-
out some available plan to follow.
That his idea was to form sub-com-
mittees in every section of the county
with a man whose especial work
would be to look after plots .of unused
ground that can be utilized for
growing foodstuffs. Another whose
duty it will be to look after the seed
supplies, another to make plans so
that the seeding is not done in a
haphazzard way and another to look
after any finances needed. Mr. Kapp
was authorized to have the sub-com-
mittees organized.
In this connection it was suggested
that all farmers in Centre county in
need of farm help should apply to D.
F. Kapp, State College, and an effort
will be made to supply them.
Chairman Blanchard, of the Pub-
licity committee, stated that while the
committee had held no meeting they
are doing what they can to enlist
the citizens of the county in the work
mapped out.
THE PRESIDENT’S CALL.
Dr. Sparks then called attention to
the fact that this is not a war of
conquest as much as a war of starva-
tion, and the victor will be the side
that can hold out the longest. For
that reason, now that the United
States has entered the conflict, it be-
hooves everybody to do what they can
toward growing foodstuffs and con-
serving the food supply, and he would
like to see printed in the report of the
meeting President Wilson’s direct ap-
peal to the farmers, and the same is
given herewith:
“The supreme need of our own Nation
and the Nations with which we are co-
operating is an abundance of supplies, and
especially of foodstuffs. The importance
of an adequate food supply, especially for
the present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike for the armies and
the peoples now at war, the whole great
enterprise upon which we have embarked
will break down and fail. The werld’s
foed reserves are low. Not only during
the present emergency, but for some time
after peace shall have come, both our own
people and a large proportion of the peo-
ple of Europe must rely upon the harvest
in America.
“Upon the farmers of this country,
therefore, in large measure rests the fate
of the war and the fate of the Nations.
May the Nation not count upon them to
omit no step that will increase the pro-
duction of their land or that will bring
about the most effectual co-operation in
the sale and distribution of their pro-
ducts?
“The time is short. It is of the utmost
imperative importance that everything pos-
sible be done, and be done immediately,
to make sure of large harvests. I call upon
young men and old alike and upon the
~ able-bodied boys of the land to accept ‘and
| act upon this duty—to turn in hests to the
‘ farms and make certain that no pains and
no labor is lacking in this great matter.”
SANITATION.
Regarding sanitation and medical
supplies it was deemed best to leave
this matter up to the Red Cross and
! Judge Quigley was appointed chair-
| man of a comniittee of five (he to
select the other members) to co-ope-
rate with Red Cross units as they
may be organized throughout the
county.
MOTORS MOBILIZATION.
Mr. Ward Gramley called attention
to the fact that a survey of the aute-
mobilists in the county should be made
to find out just how many motor cars
and trucks would be available in an
emergency call and at his suggestion
Robert F. Hunter was appointed
chairman of a committee to look after
this work, he to select his associate
members.
Dean R. L. Watts called attention
to the fact that the one great hinder-
ance to putting out big crops this
spring is the scarcity of labor and
he advocated enlisting the services of
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| were made on Spring creek, and some
| of them were within the borough lim-
"its.
Fishing creek showed up poor, the
i majority of fishermen down there get-
| ting less than a half dozen for their
reward, though one man on the
stream succeeded in landing 25 by
; working most of the day at it. Among
i the Bellefonters who tried their luck
| on Fishing creek were Judge Henry
George R. Meek and
' ceeded in catching three trout.
| The most sensational catch of the
day was made by Dr. J. J. Kilpatrick,
{in the Bush house dam in Spring
\ a He landed eleven which total-
led in length 16% feet and weighed
twenty-one pounds. The biggest one
measured a little over nineteen inch-
es. In fact the catch was such a rec-
ord-breaker that landlord W. L.
Daggett, of the Bush house, had it
photographed and will put out post-
cards of the same showing the kind
of trout that make their habitation in
the shadows of the Bush house.
Cyril Moerschbacher caught 15, ten
of which ran from eleven to sixteen
inches in length.
William Walker got seven, one of
which measured twenty inches.
Charles E. Dorworth got 16 and S.
Kline Woodring 4. :
J. M. Cunningham went up Spring
creek and caught 19, returning home
by noon. Others who fished up
Spring creek were Joseph Thal, who
got 25 and Ray Strunk, of Tyrone,
who got 33.
Escaped Prisoner Caught in Chicken
House.
John Sheets, the Westmoreland
county man who took French leave of
the new penitentiary last Wednesday
afternoon, is now back in the west-
ern penitentiary with an extra two
and a half years to serve in addition
to the three months of his unexpired
term.
Sheets’ capture stands in a class
entirely by itself, though it may not
appear upon the records of the west-
ern penitentiary. In some way the
authorities of that institution got
trace of a strange man having been
seen in Buffalo Run valley. Officers
made a search of the valley on Thurs-
day and late that afternoon learned
that a strange man who exactly an-
swered the description of Sheets had
been seen on the side of the moun-
tain that afternoon and was evident-
ly heading across the mountain for
Unionville. Two penitentiary guards
were in the vicinity of Unionville and
word was telephoned them to be on
the lookout for the man.
Clayton Duck lives on a small farm
on the side of the Bald Eagle moun-
family did up the evening chores Mrs.
her daily custom. The next morning
a young son of Mr. Duck went out to
feed the chickens and on unlocking
the door was astonished to see a man
step out of the chicken house, hold
up his hands and aver that he was
willing to surrender. The boy called
his father and upon learning the iden-
tity of the man took him in, gave him
his breakfast and notified the peni-
tentiary authorities who went to
Duck’s house and got Sheets and
brought him to the Centre county jail.
Sheets had evidently hidden in the
chicken house early in the evening
and was locked in with the chickens
all night.
On Friday afternoon he was taken
before Judge Quigley who sentenced
him to serve out his unexpired term
and an additional term of two and a
half years. Sheets was taken back
to Pittsburgh on Saturday by sheriff
George H. Yarnell and A. Miles Barr.
Benefit for Work Among Soldiers and
Sailors.
The Y. M. C. A. has planned to
raise three million dollars for work
among the men of the army and na-
vy, and every association has been
asked to contribute a pro rata share
of that amount. The local Y. M. C.
A. will raise its amount by giving a
delightful operetta in the opera house
on Friday night April 27th. The
prices have been placed at 35 and 25
cents, and 10 cents for the gallery.
Mr. Garman has kindly donated the
use of the opera house and the Y. M.
C. A. management hopes to have the
place crowded on the night of the en-
tertainment, as they are very anx-
ious to raise their share at once.
Therefore, buy a ticket or help in
some way the good cause along so
that any Bellefonte boy who goes to
the front will have the comforts and
care of a Y. M. C. A. equipment.
tain above Unionville and when the
Duck locked the chicken house as is
NEWS PURELY PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Lukenbach is in Centre Hall, a
guest of her sister, Mrs. D. J. Meyer.
—Mrs. John M. Shugert and Mrs. J. Will
| Conley spent several days of the week in i
Williamsport under the care of Dr. Has-
kins.
—Miss Mabel Allison, of Spring Mills,
was in Bellefonte Friday, a guest of her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald
Allison.
—Miss Gladys Meyer, of Penn Hall, was
in Bellefonte a week ago for a short visit
with her brother and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. H. N. Meyer.
—Harry Crissman, of, Coleville,
daughter, Dorothy, were in Pittsburgh
over Sunday, the time while there being
spent with Mr. Crissman’s parents.
" —Mr. A. E. Gingrich, of Boalsburg, was
in Bellefonte on Wednesday on business
pertaining to the settlement of.the estate
of his brother, the late John A. Gingrich.
—Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sheffer with their
son, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sheffer, all
of Milroy, drove to Bellefonte and were
guests Sunday of Mrs. Samuel Sheffer at
her home on Curtin street.
—Richard Weston left on Sunday for
Chester county, where he has accepted a
position with the P. J. Sharpless Cream-
ery Co., the largest creamery and butter
manufacturers in America.
—While in Bellefonte this week Miss
Caroline McCloskey, of Potters Mills, has
been a guest of Mrs, Margaret Hutchin-
son and her daughter, Miss Fannie Hutch-
inson, at their home on Howard street.
—Mrs. E. P. Moore, of Tyrone, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Katherine
Moore, came to Bellefonte a week ago,
spending the week-end with Mrs. Moore's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Miller, at the
toll gate.
—Mrs. William J. Daley with her little
daughter, Virginia Elizabeth, of Burling-
ton, N. J., arrived in Bellefonte on Monday
evening for a visit with her husband's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Daley, of
east Lamb street.
—Mrs. Sadie C. Hile came to Bellefonte
from Lewistown, Tuesday, intending to
spend several days at Pleasant Gap look-
ing after some repairs to her property.
Mrs. Hile anticipates returning to Centre
county in the fall.
—The Misses Maude and Myrtle Miller
expect to ,go to Bilger tomorrow for a
week-end visit with their aunts, going
from there to Yarnell, where they will
spend the greater part of next week with
their parents, Mr. and ‘Mrs. H. O. Miller,
—William Rice, one of the most expert
type setters and pressmen of this section
of the State, left Wednesday to resume
his work in Philadelphia. Mr. Rice had
been in Bellefonte since shortly after
Christmas, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harper Rice.
—Mrs. J. Voorhees Thompson, of Evan-
ston, Ill, has been visiting on the farm
with her sister, Miss Annie Gray, since
before Easter. Mrs. Thompson joined her
husband in Pittsburgh this week for a
short stay, expecting to return to Buffalo
Run to remain until June. ‘
—Harold Gardner will come to Belle-
fonte Saturday to be with his mother, Mrs.
M, I. Gardner, for the week-end and to ac-
company her to Hyde City, where she will
spend the summer with Mr. Gardner. Mr
and Mrs. Gardner contemplate moving to
Clearfield county in the fall.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Snyder, of Snow
Shoe, were in Bellefonte Tuesday, coming
in with Mrs. Snyder's mother, who has
been their guest for several weeks, and
their two children, Cordice and Margery
Anee, who accompanied their grand-
mother to Hollidaysburg for a visit.
—L. Olin Meek, of Philadelphia; Rev.
George M. Glenn, of Mt. Carmel; Dr.
Thomas O. Glenn, of Bradford, and Dr.
and Mrs. Reuben H. Meek, of Avis, were
at State College Monday, having come fer
the funeral of Miss Sara Meek, which was
held at Fairbrook, Monday morning.
—Miss E. M. Thomas came to Bellefonte
the after part of last week from Downing-
town, having spent the time since coming
from Florida with friends in Philadelphia
and Chester county, Miss Thomas went
directly to her apartments in Petrikin
hall, where she will spend the summer.
-—Mrs. Joseph C. Bright, of Bryn Mawr,
who had been visiting with Mrs. George
D. Green, in Lock Haven, came to Belle-
fonte Friday with Mrs. Green, both being
guests while here of Miss Mary H. Linn.
Upon leaving Saturday Mrs. Bright went
to Winburne, to spend several days before
returning to Philadelphia.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Moore, of Pine
Grove Mills, drove to Bellefonte Wednes-
day, spending the day in doing buying for
the interior of their home, where they are
making extensive improvements. Mr.
Moore, who is one of the successful far-
mers of Ferguson township, has lived just
west of Pine Grove on the old Mitchell
farm, which he now owns, since 1876.
—Mrs. James B. Lane and Miss Mary
S. Thomas returned to Bellefonte Tues-
day night from Philadelphia. Mrs. Lane
will not open her house on Allegheny
street at present, having arranged to live
at the Bush house until later in the spring,
while Miss Thomas, who is with Dr.
Schad, will remain there until getting pos-
session of her house the first of May.
—Mrs. H. B. Shattuck, of State College,
is representing the regent of the Belle-
fonte Chapter of the D. A. R,, at the Na-
tional Congress in session this week in
Washington. Owing to the war condi-
tions of our country, this great body of
representative women of the United States
met to consider only the most important
work of their organization, no social
functions however informal, were arrang-
ed for.
—Mr. and Mrs. Amos Cole and two chil-
dren, and Mrs. Cole's brother, James Mc-
Cullough, of Lewistown, have been guests
this week of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kirk,
at their farm home south of town.
Cole, who is off on a two week’s vacation,
and his brother-in-law spent last week
at the Kirk home and on Saturday he
went home and brought his wife and chil-
dren over to be with them during the fi-
nal days of their visit.
—Dr. Bdwin Erle Sparks, president of
The Pennsylvania State College; Lieut.
Theodore Davis Boal, of Boalsburg, and
his son, Lieut. Pierre Boal, of the French
aviation corps, were guests at a farewell
bachelor dinner given Judge Thomas J.
Baldridge, at Atlantic City last Thursday
evening. Judge Baldridge, who had al-
ways been considered a confirmed bache-
lor by his colleagues, was married this
week to Miss Anna Dean, daughter of the
late Supreme court justice John Dean, of
Hollidaysburg.
and his i
Mr. |
—Joseph Wagner, a motorman of Johns-
! town, is in Bellefonte for a visit with his
mother.
—Mrs. R. B. Freeman who had been with
her daughter, Mrs. H. N. Crider, returned
| to Tyrone yesterday afternoon.
—Mrs. Mary S. Haines, of Curtin street,
returned Tuesday from a visit with rela-
| tives and friends in Albany, N. Y.
—Rev. and Mrs. William Schoch, of Lil-
ly, Pa., are visiting Dr. and Mrs. M. A.
Kirk and other friends in Bellefonte.
{ —Chauncey F. York spent Tuesday in
' Bellefonte with Mrs. York and their son,
leaving Wednesday to return to Detroit.
—NMrs. ‘D. L. Meek, of Waddle, has been
visiting for the past two weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Francis Musser, in Al-
toona.
—William Furey, of Pittsburgh, and his
sister, Mrs. S. W. Kerstetter, of Curwens-
ville, were guests of their mother, Mrs.
Morris Furey, over Sunday.
—Mrs. J. E. Dubbs and her son Arthur
are visiting with Mrs. Dubb’s father, John
Schiller, at Cumberland, Ma,, having lett
Bellefonte early in the week.
—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rhoads and their
son Robert were guests for the week-end
of Mr. Rhoads’ sister, Miss Rebecca
Rhoads, having motored here Friday.
—Mrs. T. ¥. Connery with her little son,
T. F. Connery Jr., of Tyrone, has been
visiting Bellefonte friends the past week,
stopping most of the time with her sister,
Mrs: H. 8S. Ray, at the Brockerhoff house,
—The Misses Elizabeth and Dorothy
Platts, of Wilkinsburg, are guests of Miss
Miriam Smith, stopping off here yesterday
afternoon on their way from Elmira, where
they had taken their mother’s body for
| burial.
—Mr. and Mrs. Contair, Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Adams and Misses Anne Confair and
Sara Caldwell, all of Bellefonte, were at
Chester Hill last Thursday evening at-
tending the twenty-fifth wedding anniver-
ary of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Sauers.
—Dr. Wilbur Twitmire, of Lancaster,
and Dr. Ovelman, of Hollidaysburg, came
to Bellefonte yesterday morning to spend
several days fishing in Centre county. Dr.
Twitmire and Dr. Ovelman were class-
mates at the University of Pennsylvania.
—The guests whom Miss MeMullen and
her brother Lawrence have been entertain-
ing during the week at their home at Hec-
la include their cousin, Mrs. Johnson, of
Merion, and a party of Mr.
friends from Altoona, who were there for
the opening of the fishing season.
—Mrs. Edward Mobley and her four
children, including her married daughter,
Mrs. Edward MecMutrie, of Tyrone, and
her little daughter, were all guests of Mrs.
Mobley’s sister, Mrs. James McClure, from
Sunday until Tuesday. Mrs. Mobley and
her three younger children were return-
ing to their home at Beech Creek from
Sharon, where they had been spending the
winter with Mr. Mobley, Mrs. McMutrie
joining them at Tyrone to go home with
her mother for a short visit.
«Joseph Compani had a narrow
escape from serious injury, if not
death, shortly after noon on Saturday
when he was buried beneath a floor
and part of the side of one of the
frame buildings being torn down on
the Brown corner. Young Compani
was assisting in razing the buildings
and had torn out a partition on the
first floor of the frame building in
the rear of the demolished store
building. The front of the building
had ‘been torn out and the second
floor held up by two props. Compani
had been cautioned not to touch the
‘props but when he finished with the
partition he deliberately set to work
and knocked out the two props. The
result was the floor fell and pulled
down the upper portion of the rear
side of the house, burying Compani
beneath it. Fortunately it did not
fall flat and the young man was able
to crawl out after other workmen had
removed enough of the wreckage to
make it possible for him te do so,
having suffered no injury except a
few scratches and a bad fright.
Public Sale.
At the home of Mrs. Emma Meek,
at State College, there will be offered
at public sale, on Saturday afternoon,
April 28th, a horse, two buggies, a
carriage, broad tire Conklin wagon,
a lot of oats, corn and small imple-
ments. Sale at 1:30 p. m.
——We can afford to sell you your
goods for less, because we do not spe-
cialize in any line. Department store
methods of doing business is a great
saving to a community; where the ex-
pense of conducting it is reduced to a
minimum.—Cohen & Co. 16-1t
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
Sale Register.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28,—At the Toner livery stable
in the rear of the Bush house, 6 horses, car-
riages, cabs, buggies, sleighs and all the livery
property of the late James C. Toner. Sale at
10 o'clock a. m. L. ayes, auctioneer.
BeMefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by R. S. Brouse, Grocer
The prices quoted are those paid for produce.
Potatoes per bushel ...ccev.ueucvirierererecssnnns ee $2.25
Onions wn 150
Bellefonte Grain Markets.
The following are the quotations up to six o'clock
Thursday evening, when our paper goes to press.
aah ears rasesirri rt sae OOD
as Well 3
ve, per bushel........... .
Corn, shelled, per bush 1.25
Corn, ears, per b oe 1.25
Qats, old and new, per .70
Barley, per bushel........ 80
Philadelphia M Markets.
The following are the c closing prices of the
Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening.
Rye Flour Daa essa a 3 gion
Baled Timothy No. 1.....
a Mixed No. 1........ 13.00@17.00
SUTAW isc esivirnssisinenmmrsesrismsmmmrinses. -SI0E13.00
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