With the Churches of the
County.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY.
Christian Science society, Furst
building, High street. Sunday service
11 a. m. Sunday school 9.45. Wed-
nesday evening meeting” at 8 o’clock.
To these meetings all are welcome. A
free reading-room is open to the pub-
lic every Thursday afternoon from 2
to 4. Here the Bible and Christian
Science literature may be read, bor-
rowed or purchased. Subject, Decem-
ber 9th, “God the Only Cause and
Creator.”
St. John's church (Episcopal).
Services beginning December 9th,
the second Sunday in Advent. 8 a.
m., Holy Eucharist. 10 a. m., church
school. 11 a. m., Mattins and sermon,
“Our Lord’s Second Coming.” 7:30
p. m., evensong and sermon, “The
Holy Bible.” Friday, a day of special
devotion for the Parish. 7:30 a. m.,,
Holy Eucharist. 12 noon, a ten-min-
ute service of intercessions for the
coming of God’s:Kingdom and for the
peace of the world. 7:30 p. m., the
Litany, with an instruction on “The
Four Last Things.” Visitors always
welcome. Rev. M. DeP. Maynard,
Rector.
.
Miss Eleanor Wallace Maconachie,
who has spent eight years in the Pun-
jab, India, will speak in the Presby-
{erian church next Sabbath morning.
Miss Machonachie will give an ac-
count, not only of the missionary ac-
tivities in that historic land, but also
of the way in which India, heart and
soul, is playing her part in backing
up the mother country of Great Brit-
ain in the great war for’ freedom.
She will also be able to speak from
experience concerning Germany's
fighting methods, as she spent fifteen
hours in a small boat on the Indian
ocean—the result of German treach-
ery.
Big Drive for Red Cross Membership.
During the week beginning Decem-
ber 17th, and ending Christmas eve,
the American Red Cross will conduct
a Christmas membership drive for
three million new members. This is
a great undertaking, but if every one
does his or her bit it can be accom-
plished. Let us keep Christmas this
year by keeping up the Red Cross.
Last week brief mention was made
of the number of knitted articles that
have been sent from here by the Red
Cross, and it was the purpose to pub-
lish the names of all those who have
done knitting and the articles con-
tributed, but the list is so long that
it will have to be omitted and only
mention made of the different articles
made by the Chapter and its Auxilia-
ries. However, the complete list will
be posted on the bulletin board at the
Red Cross rooms in Petrikin hall
where it can be seen by every one vis-
iting the rooms.
This work was all done under the
supervision of Miss Lida Morris, who
is chairman of the knitting depart-
ment, and to her and the women
whose names appear on the list should
be given thanks by the men when
they receive the good warm things
sent to them.
Following is a list of articles knit-
ted by the women of Bellefonte and
the Auxiliaries:
Bellefonte
Aaronsburg
Boalsburg ..
Fleming
Howard ...
Hublersburg
Julian
Milesburg
Blanchard
Pleasant Gap
Port Matilda. . 6 1
Rebersburg
Yarnell
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Total.....:ovcciniae 200 200 200
(In the above table the first column is
the number of sweaters furnished, the sec-
ond column scarfs and the third pairs of
wristlets).
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Edgar C. Miles son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar E. Miles, of Milesburg, is
winning his was to the top with the
U. S. army in France, having lately
been appointed first sergeant of the
First regiment of engineers.
Americans Taken Prisoner, Fight
Way to Liberty.
With the British Army in France,
Tuesday, Dec. 4—The best of many
exciting episodes related in connec-
tion with the Cambrai fighting was
that involving fifty American and
Canadian engineers, together with
some British fighting troops. These
men were cut off in the German turn-
ing movement near Gouzeau Court
and were taken prisoner.
A German escort of twenty soldiers
or more started with them along the
road leading for Gouzeau Court to
Cambrai. As they were preceding
disconsolately towards the zone of the
German prison cages, they came upon
a small body of British troops who
had also been cut off from their com-
rades and were wandering about.
The British Tommies immediately
charged toward them. The Germans
tried to drive their captives off to-
wards La Vacquerie, but the prison-
ers hurled themselves upon their
guards and struggled barehanded un-
til the Tommies arrived and disposed
of the Germans. The engineers and
their comrades took the German ri-
fles, and worked their way back with
their rescuers until they were able to
reach a point where they could reach
and join the British line.
A ‘party of Americans and Canadi-
ans also had an exciting time in a
motor lorry, which, coming unexpect-
edly upon six Germans holding the
cross-roads with machine guns, charg-
ed at full speed, tank-like, bowling
over the surprised enemy and escap-
ing down the road before the Germans
recovered from their shock and fright.
The engineers were not the only ar-
my men from the United States who
did their bit during the most intense
part of the German counter-attacks
at Cambrai. Not less than ten Amer-
ican army medical officers were work-
ing in the British casualty stations
along the Gouzeau Court front. In
fact they had been laboring there
since General Byng began his great
offensive.
CONGRESS CONVENED MONDAY.
President Wilson’s Message a Thrill-
ing Paper.
Congress met at noon on Monday
for the second period of the Sixty-
fifth session, and which will undoubt-
edly prove the greatest history mak-
ing Congress since the Civil war.
President Wilson read his annual
message on Tuesday and while the
paper is too long to publish in full we
give the high points of it as follows:
“One very embarrassing obstacle
that stands in our way is that we are
at war with Germany but not with
her allies. I, therefore, very earnest-
ly recommend that the Congress im-
mediately declare the United States
in a state of war with Austria-Hun-
gary.
I hear men debate peace who un-
derstand neither its nature nor the
way in which we may attain it with
uplifted eyes and unbroken spirits.
But I know that none of these speaks
for the nation. They do not touch the
heart of anything. They may safely
be left to strut their uneasy hour and
be forgotten.
We shall regard the war as won
only when the German people say to
us, through proper representatives,
that they are ready to agree to a set-
tlement based upon justice and the
reparation of the wrongs their rulers
have done.
This intolerable thing of which the
masters of Germany have shown us
the ugly face, this menace of combin-
ed intrigue and force which we now
see so clearly as the German power,
a Thing without conscience or honor
or capacity for covenanted peace,
must be crushed, and, if it be not ut-
terly brought to an end, at least shut
out from the friendly intercourse of
the nations.
When this Thing and its power are
indeed defeated, and the time comes
that we can discuss peace—when the
German people have -spokesmen
whose word we can believe, and when
those spokesmen are ready, in the
name of their people, to accept the
common judgment of the nations as
to what shall henceforth be the basis
of law and of covenant for the life of
the world—we shall be willing and
glad to pay the full price for peace
and pay it ungrudgingly. We know
what that price will be. It will be
full, impartial justice—justice done
at every point and to every nation
that the final settlement must affect,
our enemies as well as our friends.
The peace we make must also deliv-
er the peoples of Austria-Hungary,
the people of the Balkans and the peo-
ples of Turkey, alike in Europe and
in Asia, from the impudent and alien
domination of the Prussian military
and commercial autocracy.
The worst that can happen to the
detriment of the German people is
this, that if they should still, after
the war is over, continue to be oblig-
ed to live under ambitious and in-
triguing masters interested to disturb
the peace of the world, men or classes
of men whom the other people of the
world could not trust, it might be im-
possible to admit them to the part-
nership of nations which must hence-
forth guarantee the world’s peace.
‘It might be impossible, also, in such
untoward circumstances, to admit
Germany to the free economic inter-
course ‘which must inevitably spring
out of the othey partnerships of a real
peace.
It is impossible to apply any stand-
ard of justice so long as such forces
are unchecked and undefeated as the
present masters of Germany com-
mand. Not until that has been done,
can Right be set up as arbiter and
peace-maker among the nations.
The cause being just and holy, the
settlement must be of like motive and
quality. For this we can fight, but
for nothing less noble or less worthy
of our traditions. For this cause we
entered the war, and for this cause
Ti ve battle until the last gun is
red.
EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The
R First National Bank, No., 9249, at Howard
in the State of Pennsylvania, at the close
of business, November 20th, 1917:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts........ $ 103,993 76
Total loans.................cciiniis $ 103,993 76
QOverdrafts, unsecured..........oeceveezee 425 00
‘U. S- Bonds deposited to secure cir-
CHIBLION o-oo seioes $ 25,000 00
Total U.S. bonds (other than
Liberty Bonds) and certificates
of indebtedness 25,000 00
Liberty Loan Bonds, unpl
per cent »
Liberty Loan Bonds, pledged to se-
cure U. S. and other deposits, 3%
per cent and 4 percent............... 21,300 00
Securities other than U.S. bonds (not
including stocks) owned unpledg-
CL RARE Re .... 3 53,450 7
Total bonds, securities, etc ........ 53,450 79
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50
per cent of subscription............... 1,050 00
Equity in banking house........ 4,000 00 4,000 00
Furniture and Fixtures... 2,500 00
Real estate owned
ing house.. 2,700 00
Lawful reserve
BANK .......c is ieinresesmeseesertn yas 11,770 38
Cash in vault and net amounts due
from national banks.....ceersene........ 16,148 61
Total of Items 14, 15, 16, 17 an
38 i iecaiar nine seria eke 16,148 61
Checks on other banks located out-
side of city or town of reporting
bank and other cash items.....c..... 990 10
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasur-
er and due from U. S. Treas. .
MTB ci ossss srrcenieriarion ; 1,250 00
Interest earned b
proximate)... 750 00
Total, nil ii eae $ 245328 64
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paldin.................cecie0ia; $ 25,000 00
Surplus fund................cocontreiinie ions 10,000 00
Undivided profits... $9,398 86
Less current expenses
interest, and taxes paid...$1,819 02 7,579 84
Interest and discount collected but
_ not earned (approximate)........... 600 00
Circulating notes outstanding............ 25,000 00
Net amounts due to National banks. 2,162 96
Net amounts due to banks, bankers,
and trust companies (other than
included in 30 or 31).............c..coee 760 68
Individual deposits subject to check.. 115,568 61
Cashier’s checks outstanding............ 194 03
Deposits requiring notice but less
_ than 30 days....... sseervens
Dividends unpaid.
Total demand de;
Certificates of deposi
Total of time deposits...........
10,250 00
45
48,167 52
.48,167 52
Total........oi ici nis isis $ 245,328 64
State of Pennsylvania, County of Centre, ss:
I, MATTHEW RODGERS, Jr., Cashier of the
above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief.
MATTHEW RODGERS, Jr., Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th
day of November, 1917. :
HOWARD A. MOORE,
i Notary Public.
My commission expires March 30th, 1919.
Correct—Attest:
ABRAHAM WEBER,
H. L. McDOWELL,
THOS. A. PLETCHER,
62-48-1t Directors.
The Thrice-a-Week Edition of the
NEW YORK WORLD
AND
Tee Democratic Watchman
for 1918
PRACTICALLY A DAILY AT THE PRICE OF
A WEEKLY. NO OTHER NEWSPAPERS
IN THE WORLD GIVES SO MUCH AT SO
LOW A PRICE.
time.
in France.
to say more.
i THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD'S regular
subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and
this pays for 156 papers.
equalled newspaper and THE DEMOCRATIC
WATCHMAN,
pers, together for one year for $2.15.
The regular subscription price of the two
papers is $2.50.
The value and need of a newspaper in the
household was never greater than at the present
We have been forced to enter the great
world war, and a large army of ours is already
You will want to have all the news
from our troops on European battlefields, and
1918 promises to be the. most momentous year
in the history of our universe.
No other newspapers at so small a price will
furnish such prompt and accurate news of
these world-shaking events.
the leader of county newspa-
It is net necessary
We offer this un-
Boxes for Bellefonte’s
Soldiers.
The community Christmas boxes
that were solicited by the Woman’s
club are on their way to Troop L, at
Camp Hancock, in care of Capt. H. L.
Curtin. Seven large shipping boxes
in the “do-your-bit-spirit” were con-
tributed by the Lauderbach-Zerby
Co., contained one hundred and fifty-
two boxes, nicely wrapped and label-
ed in true Christmas style. Their con-
tents were selected from lists sug-
gested for the soldiers, many, how-
ever, containing additional gifts.
Every soldier will receive a box ad-
dressed in his own name. Three ex-
tra boxes were included in the bulk in
case soldiers’ names did not occur on
the roster. The solicitors spent a
busy afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Christmas
New Advertisements.
URNISHED ROOMS, also furnished
F apartments, with all conveniences,
are for rent in the Shoemaker
Apartment house on Spring St. Inquire of
Roberta Smith, on the premises 62-38-tf
ed Estate of James A. Beaver.
In the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County,
Pa.
Term, 1892.
To the creditors of the Assigned Estate
of James A. Beaver and te all other per-
sons interested:
Notice is hereby given, .and you are
hereby notified, that om November 20th,
1917, the Commonwealth Trust Company
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (formerly the
Commonwealth Guarantee Trust and Safe
Deposit Company of Harrisburg, Penn-
sylvania), Trustee and Assignee for
James A. Beaver for the benefit of credit-
Nea Esta the matter of the Assign-
No. 204 January
ors, presented its petition to the Court of |
Common Pleas of Centre County, in the
above stated matter, praying for the ap-
proval and authorization of a proposed
private sale for the price or sum of Five
Thousand Dollars ($5000.00) to James C.
Furst and W. Fred Reynolds, their heirs
and assigns, of all the undivided one-
fourth part or share of the said assigned
estate in certain coal lands known as the
“Swartz Lands’, situate partly in the
Township of Rush, in the County of Cen-
tre, and partly in the Township of Coop-
er, in the County of Clearfield, in the State
of Penasy vania, on the waters of Moshan-
non Creek, together with the interest of
said assigned estate in coal leases relative
to said lands and all other rights of said
estate in the said lands ar arising there-
from, as in said petition is more specifie-
ally described. that by preliminary decree
of the said Court the said petition has
been filed of record in the above stated
proceeding and the said Court has order-
ed that the said petition shall be heard by
the said Court on Monday, December 24th,
1917, at ten o'clock, A, M., or as soon there-
after as the business of the said Court will
permit, at the Court House in Bellefonte,
Pa., when and where all persons interest-
ed may attend and show cause, if any, why
the prayer of the said petition should rot
be granted.
BLANCHARD & BLANCHARD,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
62-47-3t
OURT PROCLAMATION. — Whereas
the Honorable Henry C. Quigley
President Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of the 49th Judicial Dis-
trict, consisting of the County of Centre,
having issued his precept, bearing date
the 25th day of October, 1917, to me di-
rected for holding a Court of Common
Pleas, Orphans’ Court, Court of Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer
and General Jail Delivery, in Bellefonte,
for dhe County of Centre, and to commence
on the
SECOND MONDAY OF DECEMBER.
00 | being the 10th day of December, 1917, and
to continue as business may require.
Notice is hereby given to the Coroner,
Justices of the Peace, Alderman and Con-
stables of said County of Centre, that
they be then and there in their proper
persons at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
the 10th, with their records, inquisitions,
examinations and their remembrances to
do those things which to their offiee apper-
tains to be done, and those, who are
bound in recognizances, to prosecute
against the prisoners that are or shall be
in the jail of Centre County, be then and
inete to prosecute against them as shall be
just.
Given under my hand at Bellefonte, the
3rd day of November, in the year of our
Lord 1917, and the one hundred and forty-
second year of the Independence of the
United States of America.
GEO. H. YARNELL,
Sheriff's Office, Bellefonte, Pa., Sheriff.
November 3rd, 1817. 62-45-4t
John S. Walker, president of the
Woman’s club, packing, listing and
labeling the boxes. The thirteen ex-
tra boxes—“left overs”— will be sent
to the Bellefonte conscripted men.
The boxes, weighing 1057 pounds,
were sent by express, the charges be-
ing generously and patriotically met
by the Order of Elks.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
WOMAN'S CLUB.
No Sliding Up Hill.
There is no such thing as accom-
plishing a righteous reform by the use
of “expediency.” There is no such
thing as sliding up hill. In morals,
the only sliders are back-sliders.—
Thoreau.
INSURANCE! |
Fire and Automobile Insurance at a
reduced rate. |
62-38-1y. J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent.
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New Adve riisemn: nis,
DMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE. —Let-
ters of administration having been
granted to the undersigned wvpen
the estate of Harry W. Tate, late of Eelle-
fonte borough, deceased, all persons know-
ing themselves indebted thereto are re-
quested to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against said estate
must present the same duly authenticated
for settlement.
MARY M. TATE,
Administratrix,
Bellefonte, Pa.
W. Harrison Walker,
62-47-6t* Attorney.
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New Advertisements.
E *nentary NOTICE.—Letters testa-
mentary having been granted te
the undersigned upon the estate of
Martha Alricks Johnson, late of Belle-
fonte borough, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted thereto are
hereby requested to make prompt pay-
ment, and those having claims against the
same must present them, duly authenti-
cated, for payment.
W. HARRISON WALKER,
Exeeutor,
62-48-61 Bellefonte, Pa.
CARMAN OPERA HOUSE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10th.
The La Salle Company’s Big Musical Comedy Success
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Tinkling Tunes Pretty Girls
Prices—25, 35, 50, 75 and $1.00.
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pleasure with the use of
a “STERLING.” Washes
Clean, Wrings Dry and
does not injure the most
delicate fabrics. Either
Electric or power. Where
current is obtainable you
will want the Electric.
In the absence of Elec-
tricity, attach a small
Gasoline Engine.
We Have Boi
I YOU could use one
WASTE PAPER BALERS—Save waste paper. Waste Paper is worth more
money than you have an idea of:“ Get ‘a BALER to-day and save BOTH.
Soon pays for itself and is a constant source of profit.
DON'T feed 6 cent milk to calves.
“RYDES” CALF MEAL.
Sell the milk and feed the calves
Is less expensive and better for the calf.
BEEF SCRAP—55% Protein, 10 per cent. SCRATCH FEED—Lay or Bust.
Grit, Oyster Shells, Charcoal, Linseed Meal, Old Process Oil Meal.
ons, Sleds, Sleighs, Pumps. Etc.
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