Bellefonte, Pa., October 19, 1917.
PLEASANT GAP ITEMS.
Mrs. Telford Fink is visiting with
her sister, Mrs. Boyd Spicher.
The home of Arthur Zettle was last
week quarantined for scarlet fever.
Mr. Leonard Barnes is spending a
few days with friends in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. William Durkee are
rejoicing over the arrival of a young
son.
Mrs. John Frazier, of Aaronsburg,
is visiting at the home of D. F. Rim-
mey.
Misses Margaret and Edna Wolfe
Spee Saturday and Sunday at Spring
ills.
Mrs. Robert Corl and daughter Ha-
zel spent the week-end with friends
at Altoona.
Mrs. Nancy Coxey, of Boalsburg,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T.
F. Williams.
Mrs. Joseph Miller, of Bellefonte,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Tressler,
on State street.
Mrs. William Bell closed her home
for the winter and is now staying
with her daughter at State College.
Mrs. Walter Dunklebarger and son
Donald left Tuesday on a visit with
friends at Snow Shoe and Milesburg.
Miss Mary Twitmyer, who is teach-
ing schoel at Vandergrift, spent a
few days with her mother at this
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kanarr and
two children, of Bellefonte, spent
Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. Hile.
Some four or five of the old stand-
bys severed their connections with
the western penitentiary, having
formed a new Lime and Stone compa-
ny. The new company will open their
quarries forthwith adjacent to Oak
Hall. Quite a bunch of men will be
employed at the new works.
Some of our public spirited people
of Pleasant Gap conceived the idea
that their beloved pastor, Rev. Mc-
Kechney, should be exonerated from
paying taxes. The following peti-
tion was hastily drawn up on Tues-
day evening and the signing was pro-
ceeded with. Our Lodge of Patriotic
Sons of Amerca learned of the exis-
tence of the little document and
promptly confiscated the same. It
required just thirty minutes’ time to
raise the required amount, after
which the money was promptly paid
over to the tax collector and the re-
ceipt was presented to Rev. McKech-
ney who, though much surprised,
seemed to appreciate the happy and
unexpected event. Our Patriotic Sons
are composed of a generous aggrega-
tion, and when they put their shoul-
ders to the wheel there is always
something doing.
We, the undersigned citizens of
Pleasant Gap, hereby agree to pay
10 cents each toward the liquidation
of our esteemed friend’s Spring town-
ship taxes as per tax duplicate. Our
action in this instance must not be
construed as a matter of charity, in-
asmuch as Rev. McKechney is not a
subject of charity. We merely want
to show our appreciation for invalua-
ble services rendered. He has prayed
at the bedside of the sick, and he has
assisted at the burial services of our
dear ones “who have gone before.”
He has been a faithful teacher in
his church and his influence like light
in the atmosphere has penetrated this
community and has extended far be-
yond. He is never found wanting in
every place that duty calls him; he
is not demonstrative or presumptious,
but quiet, unobtrusive and modest;
agreeable, cordial and frank in his
manners. When the sick need a com-
forter, regardless of church or creed,
he is ever ready to come to the front.
with his kindly ministrations, his
strong nerve, his willing mind and
hands and his brave and hopeful
heart.
In consequence of these facts we
want to show our appreciation by do-
ing our bit.
OAK HALL.
Miss Dora Sunday spent Sunday
at the W. E. Homan home.
A. W. Dale and daughter, of Boals-
burg, visited in this place recently.
Clara Coble has been visiting her
grandmother, at Spring Mills, the
past week.
The Lime Stone quarry of this
place was put in operation on Mon-
day morning.
~ Mr. and Mrs. George Hali, of Hunt-
ingdon, spent a few hours in town on
Sunday evening.
Jolin Peters, of Missouri, arrived
here on Sunday to visit his friends
and relatives at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Zong, of Lin-
den Hall, spent Sunday at the home
of their son, Edward Zong.
Mrs. Frank Whitehill, of Lemont,
was a visitor at the Charles White-
hill home a few days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Houser and
family, of Linden Hall, visited at the
home of Clayton Etters recently.
_ Harry Wagner, who has been work-
ing at Beaverdale, is spending a few
days with his family at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mayes, of
State College, spent a short time at
hie home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mar-
e.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ross and son
Joe and Mr. and Mrs. Haines, of
Pleasant Gap, spent the first day of
the week at the home of L. K. Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Rishel and Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Rishel, of this place,
motored up to Pine Grove Mills Sun-
day and visited at the home of James
Peters.
RUNVILLE.
The farmers are busy raising their
potatoes.
Paul Bennett and Miss Enie Ben-
nett spent Sunday at Tyrone.
Ben Weaver, of Dix Station, spent
Sunday at the home of E. S. Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fetzer, of
Yarnell, and Mr. and Mrs. Flem Poor-
man, of Holt’s Hollow, spent Sunday
at the home of D. F. Poorman.
Mrs. Grant Houseman, of Altoona,
visited at the home of her mother
over Sunday.
Mrs. Eliza Walker is spending a
few days with her sister, Mrs. Ellen
! Bottorf, at Flemington.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Snyder and fam-
ily, of Mill Hall, visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kunes on Sun-
day.
Mrs. Chittister and family, of
Falls Creek, are spending some time
at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. O.
McClincy.
G. F. Walker and wife and Mrs.
Austin Walker autoed to Beech Creek
last Wednesday and spent the day at
the home of W. H. Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Ebon Page, of Mt.
Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Nevins, of North Braddock, returned
to their homes last Saturday, after
spending several weeks with Rev. Or-
lidge and wife.
AARONSBURG.
John L. Houtz, who is employed in
Milton, spent a few days with his
family.
Paul Sheesley and Mrs. Harry Sny-
aer, of Altoona, came down to visit
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam
Sheesley.
James I. Holloway is still absent,
having gone to Illinois to visit his
brother, William Holloway, and oth-
er relatives.
On Sunday morning the following
guests arrived, by auto, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Bartlett: Mus.
Frank Barrey and daughte: Margue-
rite and son Harold, and ank W.
Miller, all of Lewisburg. /.iter din-
ner they all, accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Bartlett and daughter Eleanor,
Myr. Earl Cummings and Miss Marian
Stover, and Mr. Harry Crouse went
to Penn’s Cave, the first trip for
some of the party. They were all
very much delighted with the beau-
tiful and famous Penn’s Cave.
Prefer Fighting to Diggin Zz.
According to a correspondent’s re-
port, the Canadian and Australian
troops in France are more than will-
ing to do their share of the fighting,
but they seek by every means to get
out of their share of the digging.
And so far as Americans in France
have had a chance to front the prob-
lems of the campaign, it is said that
they exhibit the same tendency. This
may be one reason why the Canadi-
ans have had so much of the fight-
ing end of the struggle around Lens
and elsewhere. That is the end they
want. And, says the Boston Trans-
cript, the fact may convey a line of
promise of the employment of the
American troops, when they are
ready, in the more active duties of
the great campaign. If it does, the
American expeditionary force will
not complain any more than the Ca-
nadians or the ‘“Anzacs” have com-
plained.
This is undoubtedly a digging war.
About all that has been won west of
Galicia since the battle of the Marne
has been won by digging. The Ital-
ians have set the great example of
success in this direction. They have
dug down mountains, or at least have
dug them down far enough so that |
explosives have been able to finish
the job. They dug their way to Gori-
zia. They will dig themselves over
the Hermeda. We may say that dig-
ging comes so natural to the Italian
that he even crosses the ocean to do
it. He has dug our tunncls and sub-
ways and heaped up our railway em-
bankments. He has become past
master of the art. Verily, he has his
reward on the Carso. It might be a
good thing when his victory is won
there to move the Italian army to
I"landers and let it repeat the exploit.
But we cannot possibly imagine
why it should be suggested that
American soldiers are by nature or
their history averse to the spade as a
weapon of war. In the past they
have done their full duty with it,
digging doggedly to many victories.
There was glorious digging in the
Civil war on both sides. McClellan
taught the art on the peninsula—his
military deficiency apparently being
that although he knew how to dig, he
did not know how to do anything
else. And never before had there
been so much digging in the history
of this country as Grant, Sherman,
Farragut and Pemberton did around
Vicksburg. Farragut and Sherman
both tried to cut off Vicksburg by
digging a canal across the peninsula
in front of the city, but failed. The
Confederates dug themselves in so
well that Grant had to excavate
mines to get at them, and succeeded
so well at last that Pemberton had to
surrender. Yet it was the Confeder-
ate spade which made that campaign
cost Grant several thousand men.
Afterward, from the Wilderness to
Appomattox, Grant did his share of
good digging. Petersburg was an af-
fair of redans and redoubts, . of in-
trenchments and abattis, of tunnels
and mines. No German shell has
made a much worse “crater” than
that which Grant made where a Con-
federate fort before Petersburg had
been—it was 200 feet in length, fifty
feet in width and thirty in depth, and !
the whole fort was annihilated. We
even did a superfluous amount of dig-
ging in that campaign, for Butler
dug the Dutch Gap Canal, to cut off
the bend in the James river. The dig-
ging here was nobly conducted, but
when at last the bulkhead was blown
out and the water rushed in, the mass
of the earth fell back, the canal was
swept by Confederate cannon, and
the whole operation was a failure.
It is impossible to say that Amer-
ican soldiers are not traditionally
diggers. It may well be that they
will choose the fighting end, if the
choice is left to them in France. But
they will not balk at the digging that
must also be done.
. Some Dinner.
“Was it much of a dinner?”
“I should say it was. There were
seven different kinds of forks at each
plate.”
As a result of her extensive
sugar and tobacco production, Cuba
is reported to be the most prosper-
ous of all Latin American republics.
A LECTURE, --CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
(Continued from Page 2, Cols. 5 and 6.)
had taken place there was that certain human beings, who were governed by
the carnal mind, had accepted a changed belief concerning Lazarus. They be-
lieved that he had lived in matter and was material, and hence that he had
died in matter. Jesus looked through the mask and saw the real man who
was alive all of the time, and by seeing the real man, Jesus destroyed the
false concept and thus made it possible for the real condition of Life to ap-
pear. Having seen the real man, who was alive every instant, all that Jesus
needed to do was to say, “Lazarus come forth,” and he came forth, alive.
MAN IS NOW IMMORTAL
The belief that man is not material, but that his immortality will appear
after the death of his physical body, is rapidly giving place to a better under-
standing. It is beginning to become tolerably clear to many people that death
is not the doorway through which human beings pass from a material state of
existence into the kingdom of heaven. :
St. Paul taught and declared that death is an enemy that can and will be
destroyed. Enoch got rid of his physical body without dying. Elijah did the
same. Obviously they destroyed and got rid of every material and erroneous
mental quality. This evangelization went on until there was nothing left in
their consciousness but the spiritualized thought. They brought every ma-
terial thought into obedience to Christ, and when the last mortal thought had
thus been conquered and destroyed there was nothing of the carnal mind left
in their consciouseness to throw a material concept over them. People were
then no longer able to see thers as material men. They literally walked with
God, as the Bible states, for materia! beliefs of the carnal mind no longer in-
tervened to separate them from Him. ~
Jesus submitted to the crucifixion of his body on the cross in order that
he might be the Wayshower. He had already raised from the dead, Lazarus,
and the daughter of Jairus, and the son of the widow of Nain, but he wanted
to go further and prove for the benefit of mankind that death is not a divine
necessity and that it is possible for one to conquer it for himself through his
own understanding. Hc wanted to prove that man is now immortal and that
his immortality is brought to light not by the death of the physical body but
by demonstrating the power of the Spirit. He, therefore, resuscitated his own
body, after it had been in the tomb until the third day. He brought it back
and exhibited it to hundreds of people, so that there might not be any ques-
tion or dispute about it. Therefore he got rid of his body precisely as Enoch
and Elijah had done. He thus proved the omnipotence of Spirit and its avail-
ability to meet the last and final human need. He proved that God is Life,
and that man is now immortal and can never die, and that even the belief in
death, that exists nowhere except in the carnal mind, can be destroyed by the
truth which he taught.
MAN I5 NOW THE SON OF GOD
Do you think it is arrogating too much for us to claim that we are now
the children of God? If so, then read what St. John says in I John iii, 2,
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for
we shall see him as he is.”
In making this statement it was as though John had said, “Jesus has now
taught me the truth about myself. I now know that we are spiritual and not
material. I cannot tell you what my spiritual self looks like, for I cannot see
the spiritual man through material eyes, but I know that when he shall ap-
pear we shall be like him.”
St. Paul has said substantially the same thing in Romans viii, 16 and
17, where we read, “We are the children of God: and if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.”
Every one knows that when an estate is left to heirs, jointly, they take
it share and share alike. If we are joint heirs with Christ, we have inherited
the same spiritual being, the same Life, the same immortality. It is through
the understanding and apprehension of our real being that we rise above the
fears and material beliefs of the carnal mind. In this way Christian Science
heals the sick, regenerates the sinner, destroys fear and brings peace in place
of discord.
Jesus said, “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heayy laden, and I
will give you rest,” and Christian Science is teaching the human race that the
true way to come unto him is to live the Life that he lived, to manifest the
Love that he manifested, and to demonstrate the Truth that he taught. In
this way it has helped many people to find rest, and peace, and health.
The New Postal Rates.
| for New York, San Francisco, Gal-
veston or Huntingdon, will cost three
EVERYTHIN
HAS NOT GONE UP
IN PRICE
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
We a
usual
this time last seascu.
MINCE MEAT.
re now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our
high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and are selling it at our
former price of 15 Cents Per Pound.
Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches, Prunes, Spices,
Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole
line of Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing and many other articles are
selling at the usual prices.
COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE.
On our Fine Coffees at 25¢, 28¢, 30c, 35¢ and 40c, there has been no change
in pri
ce on quality of goods and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has
not advanced in price and can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes.
All of these goods are costing us more than formerly but we are doing our
best
to Hold Down the Lid on high prices, hoping for a more favorable
market in the near future.
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER
and we will give you FINE GROCERIES at reasonable prices and give
you g
Bush House Block, -
ood service.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
On and after November 2nd next
postal rates in the United States wili
increase for the period of the war.
As a wartime measure the govern-
ment has decreed that the rates on
first-class mail matter, and this in-
cludes postals and souvenir postcards,
shall be increased, and the new sched-
uel has just been issued by the Post-
office Department. The rates will go
into effect on the morning of Novem-
ber 2nd. The postmasters will be per- !
mitted to use up their stocks of!
stamps under the new ruling until |
new stamps and postal cards are is- |
sued by the department.
The new regulations are here pre- |
sented: Drop letters, or those which |
are mailed in one postoffice for deliv- |
ery by that office, will cost two cents, |
as heretofore. As an instance—A |
letter mailed in Bellefonte to a point |
in Bellefonte will cost two cents. This |
will apply to all postoffices.
Letters mailed in Bellefonte for |
points outside or in postoffices any- |
where for delivery through some oth- |
er postoffice, will cost three cents an |
ounce or fraction thereof. For in-
stance—a letter mailed in Bellefonte |
i cents an ounce or fraction thereof.
| In the matter of postal cards as
: manufactured by the government and
- which can now be sent anywhere in
(the United States for one cent, the
i sender must attach a one cent stamp.
{ This applies to all denominations, and
{ will hold good until the present stock
1 is exhausted and the government can
distribute the two cent postals. Sou-
venir postcards will no longer be car-
ried for one cent. Two cent stamps
must be affixed.
Until the new law goes into effect
the old rates, as a matter of course,
will be in effect, and if a person wish-
es to send a letter to California or
Kalamazoo it will cost only the two
cents an ounce or fraction thereof.
After the law goes into effect a per-
son will have to pay three cents an
| ounce or fraction thereof, and if the
postmaster has no three cent stamps
in stock, the sender will have to at-
tach a two cent stamp and a one
cent stamp or three one cent stamps
to the letter before the government
will carry it to its destination, pro-
vided it is not a drop letter.
CASTORIA.
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Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his pers
All Court:cricits, Imitations
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
and “ Just-as-good ? are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger ihe health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ;
therefrom, and by regulating
allaying Feverishness arising
the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALways
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In Use For
Bears the Signature of
® ,
Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY,
59-20-e.0.
Shoes. Shoe=.
I HAVE A FULL LINE OF
LADIES SHOES
to sell at $3.00. Made of Gun
Metal and Cabaretta leather
(Cabaretta meaning sheep skin).
The styles are lace and button,
high and low heels. Many of them
are on the English walking shoe
style.
These shoes are not of a quality
that I can conscientiously recom-
mend to wear, for honestly speak-
ing $5.00 will not purchase a pair
of Ladies Shoes made to-day, that
is absolutely solid.
I have these shoes for the people
that do not have the money to
purchase a good pair.
Yours for a square deal,
Bush Arcade Bldg.
Ce
YEAGER'S,
The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
Centre County Must
Not be a Laggard.
ntre County has a brilliant record for men sent to the
front in the cause of a World Democracy.
We must not permit this record to be denied because of our
fai
lure to provide our share of the funds to maintain them
comfortably there. :
is
THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
now ready ror subscription. Centre county subscribed
$600,000.00 of the First Loan and our duty will be to sub-
scribe for approximately $800,0c0.00 of this Loan.
Will You be One of the Subscribers ?
A
Government Bond is the safest investment you can make.
We will receive your subscriptions now. Two per cent.
must be paid when application is made.
be
18 per cent. will
due November 15th and 40 per cent. on December 15th
and 40 per cent. January 15th.
60-4
This Bank Offers Safety for your
Savings and every possible service.
CENTRE COUNTY BANKING CoO.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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