Bellefonte, Pa., December 6, 1918. County Correspondence items of Interest Dished up for the Delectation of “Watchman” Read- ers by a Corps of Gifted Correspondents. ORVISTON. Clay Shope, who has been ill, is able to work again. Clayton Poorman had two sieges of flu but is again on duty at the upper works. Influenza is on the wane. The only deaths here were William Jones Sr., Tyler Fravel and a child of Forrest Emenhizer. Considering the fact that almost four hundred all told were ill, the percentage of deaths was small. The Floyds entertained the people of Orviston, Monday evening. Their acts consisted of high-class magic and sleight of hand. The Antrim enter- tainment course was a source of pleasure last ye: ;, and promises to be better this year. Mrs. Margaret Jones and little son William left for Wilkes-Barre to spend a few weeks with her mother- in-law, Mrs. John R. Jones. Mrs. Jones has not been well since the death of her husband, but news from Mrs. John R. Jones that she was far from well sent her to console the be- reaved mother, and assist her. A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE. Miss Grace Croll was pleasantly surprised by quite a number of her young friends springing a party on er. Mrs. Charles Young was hos- tess. The occasion was Miss Grace’s sixteenth birthday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young, at whose home the party was held; Mr. and Mrs. George Croll, Mr. and Mrs. Brion Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Ola Cy- hert and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton B. atson. The Misses Abbie and Char- lotte Herr, Bessie and Verna Shank, Lois and Dorris Young, Mary Croll, Josephin Poorman, Velma Poorman, Viola Poorman, Mae Lamison, Thel- ma Nelson, Kathryn Diem and Gladys Marshall. Messrs. Ward Walker, Joe Flack, William and Delbert Barnhart, Willis and Chester Thompson, Ben and Clair Poorman, George Moyer, Sam Schwarm, Maines Bower, Lloyd Heverley, William Johnson, Arthur Crotzer, Oscar Peterson, Alex Hume, and Walter Shank, and the following juniors who felt as big as the biggest and enjoyed themselves quite as much. Theo. Young, Beatrice Croll, Roy and Billy Cyphert, George Nelson and Charles Young Jr. |’ Everyone enjoyed themselves, a dainty lunch was served, games were played and the guests departed wish- Miss Grace many happy returns. She received many useful, beautiful and appropriate gifts. LEMONT. The steam thresher is busy getting the grain ready for market. Jack Mitchell butchered the largest hogs that have been killed in this community so far this fall. Mrs. Frank Brandt and two sons, of Altoona, visited at the home of her father, B. F. Hoy, this week and help- ad to butcher. Most of the people are done butch- ering and the hogs were in fine order and produced lots of lard, which is a good thing as it is surely needed in most parts of the world. Rev. C. C. Shuey, of Bellefonte, spent Monday near town, butchering for Fannie Shuey, and he reported that as his fifth day this season and that he still has two days. Edward Williams, Martin Williams and Charles Coblé each bagged a fine turkey this season along the side of Nittany mountain, but aside from that there was very little game taken. Rev. Thomas C. Houtz, of Selins- grove, spent a few days visiting among friends in these parts last week, and preached for the Beliefonte Lutheran congregation Sunday morn- ing. This town has had quite a visita- tion of the flu, but so far only a few have been seriously ill and it is hop- ed that it has passed its worst stage now as most of the sick ones are on the mend. The Houserville U. B. church was epened for services on Sunday and it is hoped that all the churches in this community will soon be opened again, as the Sabbaths are dull days with- out religious services. PLEASANT GAP ITEMS. Mrs. R. W. Noll spent the week-end with relatives in Altoona. Miss Mary Corl, of Boalsburg, spent Sunday among friends at the ap. Ed. Mulfinger, who is employed at Milton, spent several days here last week. Miss Catherine Williams, of Benore, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. C. K. Stitzer. Mrs. George Wise, of Tyrone, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. J. A. ‘Armstrong. Mrs. John Breon, of State College, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Brown. Our flu patients are all getting along very nicely. No new cases have been reported lately. Veida Tate, who is employed at State College, spent her Thanksgiv- ing vacation with her parents. Miss Marie Lambert was admitted to the Bellefonte hospital last week and underwent an operation for ap- pendicitis. At this writing she is getting along very nicely. BOALSBURG. Miss Mollie Hoffer is spending some time with Miss Sara J. Keller. Bruce Lonebarger came up from Virginia for a ten day’s visit with his family. Mrs. Harry Lonebarger and fami- ly, of State College, spent the week- end at the home of D. W. Meyer. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brooks, of Pleas- ant Gap, were in town on Tuesday as- Mildred and | fort | sisting Jacob Meyer with his butch- | ering. Miss Margaret Bingaman, of Bea- | vertown, spent a few days with *Squire and Mrs. John Zechman. CENTRE HALL. William Stump has been quite ill | with influenza for several weeks. : Miss Helen Williams, of Beech | Creek, is visiting friends near town. Mrs. Elmer Miller returned last week from a visit of several months in the west. Reuben Spangler and family, of Bellefonte, were guests of Mr. Spangler’s mother on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Stover, of Bell- wood, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. William McClenahan. Mrs. Sara Stover recently received word that her daughter Anna, a Red Cross nurse, had arrived safely over- seas. Mrs. Laura Harper and Miss Hel- en Harper, of Bellefonte, spent the Thanksgiving season at the G. H. Em- erick home. Mrs. Brooks and children, of Ohio, were guests during the past week of Mrs. Brooks’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Breon. Lee Frazier, who has been station- ed at Philadelphia for some time, vis- ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Frazier, east of this place, last week while on a short furlough. Big Closed Car Year. It is the general opinion among motor car men that this fall and win- ter will see the largest sale of enclos- ed cars and winter tops in the history of the industry. There are perfectly logical reasons for this expected trend. Heretofore a large proportion of motor car owners used to put up their cars for the winter. Times have changed. Motoring is now an all-the- year-around occupation, because it hase ceased to be regarded merely in the classification of pleasures, and the motor car has come into its own as a legitimate factor of practical trans- portation. But the drive on enclosed cars and winter tops has received an extra impetus due to the war. The universal desire to speed up, to keep going winter or summer, the necessi- ty for every man over here doing ex- tra work because so many of our men are over there, has turned the atten- tion of motorists to the advantages of enclosed cars and winter tops. Hav- ing decided to use motor car trans- portation to the utmost, they look for a car that can also give them protec- tion and comfort. It is, after all, a natural trend dictated by a common sense appreciation of utility and com- ort. Fish Can Shock You to Death. The marshy waters of Bera and Rastro in South America are filled with innumerable electric eels, which can at pleasure discharge from every part of their slimy, yellow-speckled bodies a deadening shock. This spe- cies of gymnotus is about five or six feet in length. It is powerful enough to kill human beings and the largest animals when it discharges its nerv- ous organs at one shock in a favora- ble direction. It was once found nec- essary to change the line of road from Uritucu across the steppe, owing to the number of horses which, in ford- ing a certain rivulet, annually fell a sacrifice to these gymnoti, which had accumulated there in great numbers. All other species of fish shun the vi- cinity of these formidable creatures. Even the angler, when fishing from the high bank, is in dread lest an elec- tric shock should be conveyed to him along the moistened line.—Pathfinder. One of the Oldest Languages. In richness of vocabulary the Lith- uanian language is only equaled by the English. Many of its 75,000 words are almost identical with the corresponding Greek, Latin or San- skrit words. So well have some of the primitive characteristics of the lengusgs been preserved in the undis- turbed backwaters of Lithuania that, if it were possible for the Romans and Greeks to rise from their graves, they would, it is said, have little diffi- culty in understanding whole sentenc- es as spoken by the Lithuanians fo- day, while these could just as easily understand some of the phrases of the Sanskrit. The language seems to have nothing in common with the Slavic or German. Although the Lithuanians were surrounded for cen- turies by Russian, German and Pol- ish influences, they managed to pre- serve their speech in its original pur- ity.—Detroit News. Asking Too Much. The success of Samuel Gomper’s war mission in London and Paris led a New York labor leader to say: “Gompers is a wonderful executive. There’s nothing he can’t do. Some of his followers, indeed, demand too much of him. : “Late or. Saturday night Gompers was awakened by a ring at his door- He aL on a dressing-gown bell. and hurried down to the door. A lit- tle girl stood on the steps. She said breathlessly: “Mr. Gompers, mom says pop’s come home drunk again, and she wants to know if you’ll please step round to our house and give him a good beatin’ up.’ "—Washington Star. The Thrift of Years. Every man should strive to live at least one hundred years and die all hitched up in working harness. Many a man feels that he would like to re- tire at about sixty and spend the rest of his years with nothing to_do but lead a gold headed cane around by the hand. It is thrifty to stay on the job just as long as possible. Every man should make the century plant his fa- vorite flower and the undertaker his worst enemy.—Thrift*Magazine. CASTORIA Bears the signature of Chas. H.Fietcher. In use for over thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bough. Roads in China. Every Chinese road is a forced con- tribution on the part of individual Chinaman to the public welfare. But nothing on earth is of so little inter- est to a Chinaman as public welfare. That he should be compelied to make any contribution to it is extremely galling to him. Add to that the fact { that the road that is made across his land is still counted as part of his land when it comes to paying taxes, and you may form some idea of the reluctance with which the Chinese landowner gives up his portion of the public highway. e very sight of neighbors and Strangers making use of that strip of land brings the bitter- est resentment to his bosom. In order to lose as little soil as pos- sible, he puts the road at the end of his field, where the adjoining owner must share one-half of the public do- nation with him. But his neighbor’s land may not be of the same length as his, so that the two pieces of road do not fit together well. Chinese high- ways have a wonderful tendency to zigzag. The road is the exact width of the Chinese vehicle. It is true that carts must meet somewhere, but for such inevitable meetings no provision is made; in such case the drivers must turn out on the planted field. To pre- vent that, the owner has cut a ditch alongside the road, as deep and as steep as a gas-main ditch in our cities. The driver on the road can neither turn out for the driver he meets; nor can he pass under or over him. Just how the two will pass is one of the many Chinese puzzles, which the landowner does not think that it is his business to work out. Constant travel over this narrow road causes dust, which is blown across the near-by fields, and tram- ples the surface of the way down hard. Both causes lower the road perceptibly. As soon as the rains be- gin and the land has received its fill of water, seeks the lowest level—which is the road. But one road is still lower than another, so that the water flows in the direction of the lower “highways.” The higher roads form creeks, and the lower ones collect the water into lakes. In any case, travel is out of the question during the rainy season. The action of the flowing water is not favorable to the roadbed. The water tears away the looser seil and cuts great gaps in the path. Gradu- ally the roadbeds become well-nigh impassable. The farmer does not treuble himself about the uneven road; he is concern- ed with his field. In case some soil has been carried away by the water, he digs into the road and throws whatever oil he can get back into his field. It sometimes happens that a road is lowered as much as one foot during a single year. Next year’s rains will work still worse havoc; but why should the farmer worry? Pub- lic welfare is concerned, not he. If folks wish to travel by a better road, they may look for one. The obvious suggestion that roads be built higher than the fields, fall on deaf ears. One farmer could not do it by himself. To find two farmers agreeing on this one issue would be too much to expect in China. As for the traveling public, not one of them would raise a finger to encourage or assist the farmer; that would help too many other people. The municipal government on its part has enough to do keeping the imperial highway in order; rural roads are none of its concern. Should the Chinese villager come to see some day that the welfare of the many is the welfare also of the few, and that service is worth while according to the benefit it affords oth- ers, these troubles will doubtless have an end. Meanwhile, traveling in the land of Confucius is not a pleasure, but a penance.—Ex. Returned Soldiers Will All be “Road Boosters.” Washington, D. C.—“There will be a couple of million real ‘Road Boost- ers’ back in the United States when the war is over, as I think all of the men over here appreciate how good roads can be made invaluable. In my mind there is no doubt that the good roads of France saved her in two in- stances.” Col. Robert H. Tyndall, of the 150th Field artillery thus writes from “over there” to Chairman Carl G. Fisher, of the A. A. A. Touring Board. It will be remembered that these two were closely associated several years ago in the trans-continental tour from In- dianapolis to San Francisco, at which time much of the route of the Lincoln Highway was decided upon. Col. Tyn- dall is an inveterate road driver and has covered thousands of miles of good, bad, and indifferent American highways. In his letter “home” he goes on to say: “I have seen movements of troops made in the dark which would have been impossible in any other country than France. Here the roadmakers have scientifically planted trees that absorb drainage on the side and at the same time shelter the highways so as to keep them just moist enough. Tn some instances you will find a tall Medical. Helpful Words FROM A BELLEFONTE CITIZEN. Is your back lame and painful ? Does it ache especially after exer- tion? Is there a soreness in the kidney region? These symptoms suggest weak kid- neys. If so there is danger in delay. Weak kidneys get fast weaker. Give your trouble prompt attention. Doan’s Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. var neighbors use and recommend em. Read this Bellefonte testimony. Mrs. Fred G. Houser, 10 Potter St., says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills and found them very beneficial, in fact, Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me of very serious kidney trouble. I gladly recommend Doan’s to any one bothered with weak kidneys. . Price 60c., at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Houser had. Foster-Milbu Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 63-48 the remaining moisture ily measure distances with the eye. “One of the great things they do here is to repair a road and even make an entirely new surface without interfering with the stream of traffic. In one campaign we were in, over a thousand trucks passed my regiment, each carrying 22 soldiers. This was for reinforcement on the flank and was done without the slightest confu- sion. One does not find here the lit- tle holes that cause so much trouble remaining in a road. places are drained, right up tothe front line al- most.” The Art of Tattoo—Ancient and Modern. Our fighting men will come back | from Europe, especially those of the | navy, strangely adorned with tattoo- | ing. It is bound to be so. Sailors and soldiers to a less extent, have devel- | oped this curious fad since times long | prehistoric. Consider the jack tar for example. One of the first things he learns on entering the service is that a pig's foot tattooed on his left instep will | protect him from drowning. This is! more than ordinarily important in, these days of submarining. The antiquity of tattooing is evi- denced by its almost universal em- ployment gong In New Guinea the young women are tattooed all over their bodies, their faces being similarly treated after marriage. In the Solomon Islands a girl is not eligible for marriage unless she has poplar standing higher than the rest of the trees bordering the road, at! every kilometer, so that you can read- | The potted | immediately filled and | primitive peoples. Aliens Lose $200,000,000. | business in which German-owned in- terests are to be sold to “100 per cent, | Americans” in January and February | was announced by the alien property | custodian. With concerns previously listed, the businesses to be sold are valued at more than $200,000,000. Included in the new list are the German-American Lumber company, of Millville, Fla., which was said to be an important link in the German economic .espionage system in the United States, but is now building ships for the United States Shipping Board; Lutz Shipping company, also . of Millville; Elly Coal company, of Girard, Ill., owning 30,000 acres of Ill- inois coal lands; American Lava com- . pany, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Dr. Jea- ger Sanitary Woolen System compa- ny, International Hide and Skin com- pany and Gerstendorfier Brothers, color manufacturers, New York. The custodian also announced that he will sell here within the next two weeks $1,000,000 worth of pearls, ru- bies, emeralds, tea, leather, motor-cy- cles, cylinder oil and other commodi- ties formerly enemy owned. ——When Elsie came home froma neighbor’s house munching a choco- late, her mother said reprovingly, | “Now, Elsie, how many times have 1 told you not to ask Mrs. Gray for chocolates 7” : “1 didn’t ask her for any,” replied | Elsie calmly. “I know where she . keeps them.” been tattooed. The girls of Borneo ! are thus adorned from waist to knees in most elaborate fashion; likewise | their hands, feet and ankles. In Burmah, under the last King, every male was required by royal | edict to be tattooed from waist to | knees; and it was customary for the girls to have their tongues tattooed | with charms to attract the men. Widows in the Hawaiian Islands, up to very recent years, had the names of their dead husbands tattoo- ed on their tongues. Egyptian wom- en today have their lips pricked blue | for becomingness. And in Yezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipeligo, the fashion demands that girls shall greatly enlarge the appar- ent size of their mouths by tattooing in red about the lips. Most remarkable of all tattooers, however, are the New Zealanders, whose men of rank have always been distinguished by an ornamentation of this kind covering the body from head to foot. The face, dug out with gash- | es inflicted by a sharp shell—the cuts prevented from healing by rubbing ocher and other colored earths into them—presents the appearance of a carven mask adorned in complex pat- tern with two or more tints. The whole effect is that of an elaborate scrollwork, which is supposed to be highly ornamental. Airplane Mail Popular. An average of 1,000 packets of | mail are now being carried regularly every day between Vienna and Kiev by airplane. The distance between the two cities is 750 miles and the claim is made that this is the longest route now being, operated in any part of the world. The trip takes from 10 to 12 hours, compared to 40 hours by train. It is made in four stages, the intermediate stops being Cracow, Lemberg and Proskurow.—Ex. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. N o Tonic Like Hood’s Sarsaparilla for a Time Like This, After Influenza, the Grip. When purified blood, rebuilt strength and regulated bowels are es- sential. In the after-effects of influenza, the grip and other prostrating diseases, ood’s Sarsaparilla has remarkable health-helping effect. It expels the poisons that have weakened and depleted the blood, causing pallor, anemia, flabby flesh and lax muscles, It is the standard blood remedy with a successful rec- ord of nearly fifty years. : Many people—it is really astonish- ing how many—need a fine, gentle, easy cathartic in these trying times. We recommend Hood’s Pills, used in the best families, and equally effec- tive with delicate women or robust men. Easy to take, easy to operate. FINE JOB PRINTING o—A SPECIALTY—o0 AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no style of work, from the cheapest ger” to the finest BOOK WORK, that we car: not do in the most satis- factory manner, and at Prices consist- ent with the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office’ EE ————————————— Get the Best Meats. You save nothing by buying poor, thin or gristly meats. I use only the 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. I alwavs have -—— DRESSED POULTRY — Game in season, and any kinds of good meats you want. TRY MY SHOP. P. L. BEEZER, High Street. 34.34-1y. Beliefonte, Pa. boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. C / THE DIAMOND BRAND, HO Tadies! Ask your Drug ist for o ) ©hi-ches-ter’s Diamond Bran W'ake no other. Buy of fo if Beugoisi, Ask for OI J-OI ES. DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for 4 years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable ¥ilis in Bed and Gold metallic OLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE | | WHEN THE COAST ARTILLERY ; SPEAKS. ! We Expect Death for Our Enemies— Here is a Word from One Who Has Served His Coumtry and Tells of an Eenmy Con- quered. Mr. J. S. Pettingill, ex-member of 49th Co., Coast Artillery Corps, now residing in Lock Haven, Pa. says: “For twelve years I suffered from nervous indigestion. I had it.so bad that I could scarcely eat anything without bringing on headaches and palpitation of the heart. I was trou- bled with gas in the stomach and was very nervous. I had not been able to do any hard work for two years. I started taking Goldine upon the advice of a friend and am now work- ing in the brick yard and though Ido the heaviest kind of work I stand it fine and feel better than I have in years.” Mr. J. S. PETTINGILL, Lock Haven, Pa. For sale at Green’s Pharmacy, Bellefonte, Pa. New York.—An additional list of | tended to promptly. J ces—No. 5 East High street. We — Attorneys-at-Law. KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-at-Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in all courts, Of- fice room 18 Crider’s Exchange. 5l-ly B. SPANGLER—Attorney-at-Law. Practice in all the Courts. Consultation in Eng- sh or German Office in Criders Bue 1i change, Bellefonte, Pa. S. TAYLOR —Attorney and Counsellor at aw. Office in Temple Court, Belle. fonte, Pa. f legal All kinds o business at- 40-46 KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention given all legal business entrusted to his BB M._ KEICHLINE—Attorney-at-.Law and Jus- tice of the Peace. All professional busi- ness will receive prompt attention, Office on second floor of Temple Court. 49.5-1y G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul- tation in English and German, Office in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte. 58-5 Physicians. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Su State College, Centre county, Pa, | fice at his residence. 35-41 INSURANCE! Fire and Automobile Insurance at a reduced rate. 62-38-1y. J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent. ESTAURANT. Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res. taurant where Meals are Served at AllHours Steaks, Chops, Roasts, ters on th half shell or in any a an wiches, Soups, and anything eatable, can 1€ hadin a few injmites any Hie: Ji on I have a complete plan ared to furnish Soft Drinks in ar as POPS, SODAS, SARSAPARILLA, SELTZER SYPHONS,ETC.. for pic-nics, families and the public gener. ally all of which are manufactured out of the purest gyrups and properly carbonated. C. MOERSCHBACHER, 50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa, 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 | LET US Solve Your Heating Problem Thousands Of in city, town ad country testify to the wonderful efficiency an economy of the oric Pipsjess Furnace. e’ve a book of remarkable letters written by Caloric owners and not in one is there a word of anything but praise for the Caloric. We'd like to show you the and have you read some of the letters in this book Comein and investigate this furnace that heats through one i ygsister, It'sa wi ET 0 BT e happy ownersays he ‘ PR can get up- I i We { stairs by A, % and CATED, le an len” mh AI BEA How would that WN 3 EN \ em , the fin Nd iio Caloric is guaran- teed todo every 7) thing we say— Ban¥, must do it or > no one is as to’ buy it. COME IN The POTTER-HOY Hardware Co. Bellefonte, Pa. 62-35 BS The Preferred Accident Insurance THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY BENEFITS: $5,000 death by accident, 5,000 loss of feet, 5,000 loss of both hands, 5,000 loss of one hand and one foot, 2,500 loss of either hand, 2,000 loss of either foot, 630 loss of ome eve 25 per week, total disability, (limit 52 weeks) 10 per week, partial disability, Qlimit 25 weeks) PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR, pavable quarterly if desired, Larger or smaller amounts in proportion Any person, male or female, engaged in a prefarred occupation, including house, eeping, over eighteen years of age good moral and physical condition may insure under this policv. Fire Insurance { invite your attention to my Fire Insur- ance cy, the strongest and Most Ex tensive Line of Solid Companies represent ed by any agency in Central Pennsylvania H. E. FENLON, Agent, Bellefonte, Fa, VA A/Ta 50-21. Good Health Good Plumbing GO TOGETHER When you have dripping steam pipes, leaks water-fixtures, foul sewerage, Or escaping , you can’t have good Health, The air you Breathe is poisonous; your system becomes poisoned.and invalidism is sure to come. SANITARY PLUMBING the kind do. It’s the only kind yous ro to er Wedon’t trustthis work to boys. Our workmen are Skill Mechanics. no better anywhere. Our Material and Fixtures are the Best r inferior article in our entire Ny And with good work and the finest material, our Prices are Lower than many who give you poor, unsanitars: work and the lowest grade of finishings. Fer the Best Work try Archibald Allison, O ite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa Dposee 56-14-1v.