- Bellefonte, Pa., January 17, 1919. THE REPORTER. He's sometimes a bit of a nuisance, true, He's oftentimes almost a pest (Especially so if the things that you do Would thrive in obscurity best) He’s nervous, persistent, irreverent, sharp, He works on a high tension plan, (A fact to consider by people who carp At the work of the newspaper man). it's From facts and from figures, from gossip and guff, Report of Sales of War Savings and Thrift Stamps as Credited to the Various Postoffices in Cen- tre County. Column I, is the number of W. 8. 8. sold during December, 1918. Column 2, is the number of T. 8. sold duyr- ing December, 1918. Column 3, is the total number of W. 8. S From rumor and whisper and hint, sold from Dec. 1, 1917, to Jan. 1, 1919, In hurry and haste he must gather his |Aaronsburg 183 128 2,980 Ton Axemann ..... 208 stu Benore ....... +00 351 And put the cold truth into print. Pelletonte ees 1 “ x7 of , anchard . . 214 Se and then there's an error Bolqar >7 56 1417 r Centre 425 10, In the stories he gives you to scan, Clarence 95. But, all things considered, the blunders | Coburn 11 1.157 are few Cartin: i... .con.siienes 22 Flemin 35 1,846 In the work of the newspaper man. Howar 119 4, Hublersburg 3 1421 It’s foolish to fight him or try to “hold | Julian .................. 18 1,046 out,” KAO wernvsierss 11 He'll follow his hunch to the end, Lemont 58 1.8 0 Linden Hall .... 633 He isn’t a foe, that it's wise to flout Livonia ......... BL 1 = But he sure is a regular friend. Madisonburg ............ " , . Martha Furnace .. 37 15 1.385 You trust him, he's with you; deceive | Mjjoghurg .........--.... 76 47 1112 him, you lose, Miltheim ........... 65 184 6,447 For he'll finish the thing he began, Mingarille eereen 24 1 30 Which is simply the job of supplying the | yrOBUICEL «= S '318 & news, o Nittany RTE 128 3 2558 0 be good to the newspaper man! a all ..... Orviston . .......ivsivenss 169 4 3,304 —Berton Braley. | pie Glen .......... 01" %...1 i s——— Philipsburg ............. ,058 1,746 37,391 a Pine Grove Mills ....... 89 131 718 An Interesting Letter from the Great | Pleasant Gap ........... 13 1522 Port Matilda 2.751 Northwest. Powelton ....... 26 1,692 Rebersburg .... 5 2485 _ Many readers of the “Watchman” Bae 2 150 in Walker township will no doubt re- Smul ton re dany “ sie i : now Shoe .... x call Will Truckenmiller, who Was | Spring Mills... 36 6.974 born, raised and spent the most of his | State College .. 1,089 17,662 life in that place, but who twenty | Tusseyville .... 53 Waddle ................. 46 184 years ago went to the great north-| Wingate ................. 4 350 west of the Dominion of Canada and | Wolis Store 3 located in Alberta. In olden days he | Yarnell ................. "255 was a frequent contributor to the col- | ZI0R «eceveiverininneen. 9 1976 umns of the “Watchman” and his beautiful poems and articles descrip- tive of nature illustrated most forci- bly his love for the great outdoors. And now, after years of silence, he has again written for this paper the following article descriptive of the country he has adopted as his home: Blackfalds, Alberta, Can. Dear “Watchman:”— Thinking a letter from this part of the great Northwest might be of in- terest to your readers I will endeav- or to write one and make it as reada- ble as I can. The climatic condition here is as to rainfall, semi-arid, there being about twenty inches per year, most of which falls during the summer. The win- ters are cold and dry with a compara- tively light snowfall, at present about eight inches. Spring comes on about the last of March, but frosts occur until the first of June. We have no blizzards and no cyclones. This is a great grass country and at one time was pastured by great herds of elk and buffalo. But now blooded cattle, mostly the Shorthorn and Angus breeds, have taken their place. Splendid crops of oats, barley and the new spring wheats—Marquis and Huron—are grown, while for hay, timothy, broom and rye grass are the leaders. All kinds of hardy vegeta- bles do well, potatoes, cabbage and lettuce of the finest kind being grown. The summer nights, however, are too cool for corn, tomatoes and melons. Wild fruit is to be found in abun- dance, such as suskatoons, blueber- ries, raspberries and cranberries. The soil is quite varied, running all the way from sand to stiff clay. The country consists of rolling valley with broken, dividing ridges. There are many streams and lakes. : If the editor of the “Watchman” loves fishing as well as he used to, I would like to take him with me on some of my fishing trips and see him hook a ten pounder. There is a large lake (Gull lake) ten miles west of here and I made three trips to it last summer, catching on the three trips one hundred fish weighing from two to ten pounds each. There is very little game here, only a few deer and a scattering of small game, but fifty to seventy-five miles west of here deer and moose abound in plenty. A few years ago pheasants and prairie chickens were quite numerous, and I frequently went out of an evening after supper and bagged a half dozen, but a disease blight struck them and almost wiped them out. A few scat- tering birds were left and as they are now breeding quite rapidly it is hop- ed that in a few years they will be plenty as ever. The town of Blackfalds is located on the Calgary—Edmonton railroad, eighty-five miles north of Calgary, and if any readers of this brief arti- cle ever come this way I hope they will stop and see me. All Pennsylva- nians are welcome. My home is just across the street from the railroad station. Has Bellefonte changed greatly in the past ten years? I suppose not; but the faces on the street, they no doubt have changed. Many of the familiar faces of those days are gone forever. Others, like myself, have accumulated gray hair and glasses, even if they have accumulated noth- ing else. So now I suppose it would seem like a strange town to me. Well, well! tempes fugit! Life’s years are short when one looks back and pon- ders over them. WILL TRUCKENMILLER. ——Japanese manufacturers are now experimenting with articles made from a tough fibre paper which is manufactured from the fibre of the mulberry tree. A collapsible life- boat, which can be folded up and weighs but a few pounds, is among the most interesting productions, now in an experimental stage. ———Subscribe for the “Watchman.” The above is the final report of W. S. S. sold at the several postoffices in Centre county, not only for the month of December, 1918, but for the entire campaign. A large percentage of the postmasters devoted considerable of their time in advancing the sales of these government securities. In certain localities, where postoffices seemed to have had large sales, the sales are’ entirely due to the efforts of district chairmen. Taking it as a whole, however, great work has been accomplished by reason of the fact that the postmasters, as a general rule, stood back of the government, as well as the boys at the front. SCHOOL REPORT. Immediately after November 11th, 1918, (Victory Day) your chairman sent a letter to every school teacher in Centre county, numbering approxi- mately 835, with the request that the several school teachers should, with +he assistance of their pupils, pur- chase and sell W. S. S. to the limit of their ability, ‘and that an appropriate | certificate, showing actual service of the various schools in the county would be presented to each school in the county showing the number of W. S. S. sold from “Victory Day” to December 31st, 1918. The county su- perintendent, Mr. Etters, sent a let- ter out to each school teacher, urging that they do all they possibly could in this particular government work. Much to my surprise, however, only nineteen of the three hundred and thirty-five school teachers in Centre county have seen fit to comply with not only my request but the request of the county superintendent of schools, and in order that proper cred- it may be given to those nineteen, I wish to give the following tabulated statement showing where credit is en- titled to be given: Reports from schools purchasing and selling 400 or more W. S. S.: Plum Grove, Potter township. High School, Walker township. Schools purchasing and selling 300 W. S. S. and less than 400: Seventh Grade, Bellefonte School building). Zion, Walker township. Schools purchasing and selling 200 W. S. S. and less than 300: Oak Grove, Ferguson township. Pine Hall, Ferguson township. Schools purchasing and selling 1 W. S. S. and less than 200: . Hublersburg Grammar, Walker Twp. Seventh Grade, State College. Dale, College township. Pine Grove Mills Primary, Ferguson Township. Schools purchasing and selling less than 100 W. S. S.: Tower Grammar, Rush township. Munson, Rush township. Tower Primary, Rush township. State College High, State College. Pleasant Gap High, Spring township. Special Grade, State College. Linden Hall, Harris township. Rebersburg, Miles township. Runville, Boggs township. About ten days ago I received from Philadelphia sufficient “Certificates of Service” so that every teacher in Cen- tre county would be supplied with one, showing the exact number of W. S. S. purchased and sold in each grade or school in our county. Should there be additional teachers in our county who might wish one of these appro- priate certificates for their schools they will receive it promptly after I (High ‘receive the total number of W. S. S. sold, etc., according to my former re- quests. It might be advisable for the dis- trict chairman of each school district in the county to make inquiry of the teacher of their respective districts as to the activity of such teacher, and also ascertain why, if thereis a rea- son, such teacher did not make the report requested. Your chairman dislikes very much to make public the limited informa- tion concerning what the 335 teachers in Centre county did in the W. S. S. campaign, but the 19 teachers who made their reports as requested are entitled to receive credit and also to receive the “Certificate of Service” which has this day been mailed to them. LIMIT HOLDERS. Centre county has 181 limit holders of W. S. S. Appropriate buttons and membership certificates have been presented to each of them. No cor- poration in the county took advantage of the purchase of the limit of $1000.- 00 maturity value. Of our 181 mem- bers of the Limit Club of the U. S. three memberships are held by young men who have seen active service in . | France, and who are “over there,” at this time. “OVER THE TOP” CERTIFICATES AND FLAGS. Your chairman will, during the week, send to all district chairmen in 2 | the county who took their respective 286 districts “over the top” a certificate issued by the National War Savings 859 | committee, signed by Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, the national chairman; by Mr. William West, acting state direc- tor and countersigned by your chair- man. Honor flags have been distrib- uted to those townships, boroughs and villages where the per capita exceed- ed $20.00 per person. I trust that the people of Centre county will during the present year, remain interested in war savings, and purchase these government securities to the limit of their ability. They are a first-class investment; in fact, the very best that can be obtained. Stamps for January, 1919, cost $4.12 and are redeemable January 1st, 1924, at $5.00 each. War savings stamps for the year 1919 will be blue and slightly smaller than the 1918 issue and will be orna- mented by a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. The new war savings stamps will be pasted on a new certificate and will not be redeemable when pasted on a 1918 certificate. Thrift stamps, which are redeema-. ble in war savings stamps, will not be changed in the new year. Thrift stamps purchased in 1918 can be put on the same card with those bought in 1919 and both can be used in the purchase of war savings stamps. FINAL 1918 W. 8. 8S. REPORT. From a letter just received from the State Director, the following appears: “The following counties went ‘over the top:’” ; Column 1, P. C. for week. Column 2, P. C. to date. Union $26.01 Cameron 25.08 Fulton 20.72 Centre 20.37 Wyoming 20.14 “Huntingdon county is in the 20th place with a per capita for the week of 30c. and a per capita to date of $12.20; Blair county is in 11th place with a per capita of 34c. and $15.73, respectively; Clinton county is in 6th place with 74c. and $17.70, respective- ly; Clearfield county is in 30th place with 18c. and $8.65, respectively.” “From the above will be noticed that there were five counties in Penn- sylvania which went “Over the Top” during the 1918 W. S. S. campaign, and that Centre county secured fourth place with a per capita of $20.37, thereby raising $892,645, maturity value, during the year.” Very truly yours, W. HARRISON WALKER, Chairman War Savings Committee for Centre County. Bellefonte, Pa., January 13th, 1919. . ——For high class “job work come to the “Watchman” office. . Losing Faith. Old Lady—I don’t believe this Sure Cure Tonic is a goin’ to do me any good. Friend—It’s highly spoken of in the pagers, ld Lady—Yes, but I’ve taken for- ty-seven bottles, and I don’t feel a bit better. I tell you what it is, Sarah, I'm beginning to think these newspa- | per editors don’t know everything. That is what everybody wants to do this winter. And it is exactly what you can do if you have a Perfection Oil Heater. With this additional heat you will be comfortable all winter and burn from one to three tons of coal less than before. Perfections are safe and they burn an eco- nomical fuel —kerosene. you use However, be sure ATLANTIC Rayolight instead of some unknown, unbranded kerosene. Use it in your Perfection, your lamps and lan- terns. Ask for it by name and be sure to get the genuine. Highly refined and purified, it burns without smoke, smell or charring the wicks. Get your Perfection Oil Heater now. There is going to be a big demand for them this year. . They are reasonably priced—$5.65 to $10.00. THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO. Everywhere in Pennsylvania and Delaware Your best friend on dark, stormy nights. Never blow out or jar out. Construction in- sures perfect oil com- bustion. Ask your dealer. Catholics Protestants - Jews All share in Armenian Relief funds. Help these wretched, starving peo- ple of the NEAR EAST! The First National Bank. 61-46-1y Bellefonte, Pa. Shoes. Shoes. TEAGERS SHOE STORE BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS ! No matter how much care and thought I give to the purchase of my Shoes, I make mistakes. For example, in order to get good quality in Boys’ extra heavy High Top Shoes I purchased them in the black leather, because it is very much better than in the tan, but the average boy or parent does not look to the wear and service of Shoes; they want what they think is style. In this case boys want Tan Shoes and this black one is not selling. My motto is to have nothing on my shelves that does not sell and I will sell them to you at a loss. These Shoes are made of leather, not shoddy, but absolutely solid. They are the old-fashioned peggy kind, bought to sell at $5.00 I will close them out at $3.50. I have many other such bargains to offer from now until Christmas, this space is too small to tell you of all the bargains that I have. Inever advertise anything that I do not fully carry out, all I can say is to come and see for yourself. YEAGER'S SHOE STORE THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co. White Sale The Greatest White Sale in the Town We are selling Undermuslins, Linens for dresses, Bed Linens and Table Linens at less than wholesale cost. Outing Cloths (dark and light) Bed Mus- lins, Percales and Apron Ginghams. These cannot be bought at the factory at our prices. Our Customers have been telling us Our Prices are Lower than Elsewhere. Clearance Sale In addition to our large White Sale we are selling Winter Coats and Suits at a sacrifice price. Also Silks in waist and dress lengths in new plaids and stripes. Plain Satins, Georgettes to match all colors. Dress Goods All Dress Patterns in Wool Serges, Batistes, Poplins and Crepes, at less than wholesale. meee Lyon & Co. «» Lyon & Co.
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