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Bellefonte, Pa., February 28, 1919.
Country Correspondence
Items of Interest Dished up for the
Delectation of “Watchman” Read-
ers by a Corps of Gifted
Correspondents.
AARONSBURG.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hull, of North
Second street, entertained on Sunday,
Mrs. Hull’s brother, T. C. Bell, of
Coatesville, Pa.
Sunday the Rev. Horetz, D. D., of
Susquehanna University, delivered
two excellent sermons in the Lutheran
church, the occasion being that of in-
stalling the Rev. John J. Weaver as
pastor of the Lutheran charge.
Rev. M. D. Geesey, of Louisville,
Ky., spent a few days in town; also on
the other appointments on the Luth-
eran charge. Rey. Geesey served the
people here previous to his going to
Kentucky. His former parishioners,
as well as other friends, were very
glad to greet him again.
Monday, the 24th inst., W. J. Krape
received word that his sister, Mrs. Su-
san Stumpff, had passed into the life
beyond. For many years she had
been a great sufferer, but always a
patient one. For several years Mrs.
Stumpff has been an inmate in the old
folk’s home located near Lewisburg,
and it was there she passed away.
Funeral services will be held and bur-
ial made in her family plot in this
town.
C. W. Wolfe on Sunday morning
was pleasantly surprised to receive
word that his son Fred was on his way
home and to meet him down country,
as Mr. Wolfe did. Fred left here last
summer for Camp Lee, Va., where he
has been ever since, never having been
sent to fight the Hun, though he did
his share nobly where he was. How-
ever, we are sorry Mr. Wolfe has not
been discharged from service but is
only home on a ten day’s furlough,
but we hope his turn will come ere
long for final discharge.
: RUN VILLE.
Thomas Griffith, of Philipsburg,
spent last Friday at Runville.
Harry Fetzer moved from Snow
Shoe to Runville last Thursday.
Forden Walker and little son spent
Sunday in Altoona with his mother.
Emanuel Rodgers, of Tyrone, spent
Tuesday at the home of L. J. Heaton.
Edward Lucas is visiting with his
son, William D. Lucas, at Orviston,
this week.
L. J. Heaten visited over Sunday
at the home of his brother, Green Hea-
ten, at Peru.
Mrs. Ida Witmer spent Saturday at
Wingate, at the home of her sister,
Mrs. James Snyder.
Claude Lucas, of Snow Shoe, spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Annie
Lucas, in this place.
Mrs. Clayton Walker and children,
of Wilmore, are visiting Mrs. Walk-
er’s mother, Mrs. Ida Witmer.
Mrs. John Furl and son spent last
Tuesday at Unionville, with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hancock.
Carl Poorman, of Conemaugh, came
down last Sunday to attend the fun-
ih of his aunt, Mrs. James McMil-
en.
Miss Sadie Hoover, of Lock Haven,
is spending a few days with her
rand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
hirk.
Mrs. Harvey Bradley and son Gil-
bert, came back from Oil City last
Friday to move her household goods
to that place.
BOALSBURG.
Mr. Eisenhour, of Lock Haven, was
in town on Saturday.
Charles Faxon spent part of last
week in Philadelphia.
Frank Fisher and Samuel Kaup, of
Allein; visited friends in town last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knopf, of Al-
toona, visited at the home of William
Patterson from Friday until Sunday.
Riley Hunter, of State College, and
William Hunter, of Newton Hamilton,
spent some time in town on Monday.
Robert Bailey returned home last
week, after having been a patient in
the Bellefonte hospital for several
months.
Bruce Lonebarger spent a few days
with his family recently. Mr. Lone-
barger is engaged in lumbering in
Virginia.
Mr. Enoch Sweeney returned home
on Thursday, after spending three
weeks as a surgical patient in the
Geissinger hospital at Danville, Pa.
Rev. J. E. Brown, of the Susquehan-
na University, who has accepted the
pastorate of the Lutheran church, fill-
ed the appointments on the charge on
Sanday. Mrs. Brown accompanied
him.
LEMONT.
We have been having lots of rain
of late.
Rev. J. A. Shultz preached his last
sermon at Lemont Sunday, before he
goes to conference.
The Oak Hall Lime & Stone compa-
ny have not been running full time,
owing to lack of orders.
Rev. Fulton preached for the Hous-
erville congregation of the U. B.
church Monday evening.
The Houserville United Brethren
meeting is still in progress, and so
far has done much good.
Jacob Ray is still getting weaker.
John Stamm and wife and Mrs. Ber-
ry Ray came down Saturday from Al-
toona to see him.
. Orlando Houtz accepted the posi-
tion of teacher in the Lemont prima-
ry school, made vacant by the resig-
nation of Lavan Ferree.
Many of our farmers are spending
this week at State College, trying to
gain some valuable information at the
farmers’ week exercises.
Rev. Brown preached his first ser-
mon at Shiloh, Sunday afternoon, and
will preach again in two weeks from
that time.
The winter wheat does not seem to
be hurt so far.
CENTRE HALL.
There will be a sale of horses by |
Mr. Shively at this place next Mon- i city, there hangs on the wall the origi- |
day.
Mrs. W. F. Bradford spent a short
time with friends in Philadelphia and
Ardmore.
Miss Margaret Jacobs visited her
cousin, Mrs. Ray Gilliland, at State
College, last Wednesday.
Mrs. G. O. Benner returned from
the Bellefonte hospital last Tuesday,
and has been improving rapidly.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Homan, of
State College, are guests of Mr. Ho-
man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Homan.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jacobs and daugh-
ter Margaret spent Monday at Boals-
burg, with Mr. Enoch Sweeney, who
has been seriously ill.
Drs. Luther and Warren Weaver,
of Philadelphia, accompanied by their
families, spent a short time with their
cousin, Mrs. Flora O. Bairfoot, last
week.
On Wednesday morning Dr. J. V.
Foster, of State College, accompanied
Mrs. F. P. Geary and Miss Elsie Boal
to Philadelphia, where both ladies will
receive treatment for their eyes.
Jim Buckley Finally Proved Truth of
Saying That He Was Fond
of Repeating.
“Thar ain't nothin’ in the world but
fs good fer somethin’” is one of the
favorite sayings of Jim Buckley of
Bear Lake.
Buckley is a thrifty soul. He farms
in summer and traps in winter and be-
tween wheat and furs he is growing
rich. One worning his wife was cook-
ing breskfast. She broke a rotten egg
into a sliilet and wes starting toward
the door to throw it away when Buck-
ley stopped her.
“Woman, don’t throw
away,” said Buckley.
“But it's rotten,” protested his wife,
“Makes no difference,” declared the
that egg
philsopher. “Thar ain't nothin’ in the
world but—"
“James Buckley,” exclaimed his
. wife, “I've heard that a thousand
times.”
The wolf never sniffs at the doors of
the prosperous farmers of the Peace
river country. But foxes are different
animals—here is something you don’t
know—rotten eggs are rated as an epi-
cureau tidbit in vulpine menus.
That night Buckley set a trap in a
poplar grove near his home and baited
it with the rotten egg. He hoped to
catch a red fox or perhaps a coyote.
But when he went out to his trap next
morning. what do ycu think he found?
The biggest silver fox Buckley ever
had clapped eyes on. He sold the pelt
in Peace River the other day for $346.
“A right nice lot o’ money to hatch
from a rotten egg,” remarked Buckley,
us he stuffed the money in his pocket.
“I've allers allowed that thar ain't
nothin' in the world but is good fer
somethin’."—Chicago Post.
Gautier and His Cats.
One of Gautier’s peculiarities was
love for cats. As soon as he could
conveniently do so he afforded him-
self the luxury of twelve of the hand-
somest felines that money could pur-
chase. It was an interesting sight to
behold this Hercules in his writing
room playing with his regiment of
cats, whom he had taught to love one
another as they did himself. When
some of them broke a valuable object
of art—his study, by the way, was a
curiosity shop—he seriously deliberat-
ed upon getting rid of them; but when
the man he had engaged came to re-
move the obnoxious pets, he relented
and sent him away. He named each
one of them after some well-known
person to whom he fancied it bore re-
semblance, physical or otherwise. He
seldom wrote anything without a cat
or two in his lap.—Maurice Mauris.
Arctic Circle Flower Garden.
A flower garden in Spitzbergen
sounds like an anomaly, Spitzbergen
being within the arctic circle. A
party of British travelers, struck with
the beauty of a plateau, called it the
Flower Garden ever after. It was in
the nineties of last century and the
party that of Sir Martin Conway.
Landing in midsummer on one of the
headlands by Dickinson bay, they
were impressed with the deep water,
clear as crystal, the marvelous wealth
of seaweed, the splendor of a great
glacier and the sharp blue peaks of
the mountains separating glacier from
glacier; while in another direction,
over Advent point, coiled wreaths of
ragged clouds. Added to it all was a
carpet of flowers—andromeda, saxa-
frages and dryas; so the Flower Gar-
den was actual after all.
Throwing Chalk for Luck.
In throwing a piece of chalk after
his men for luck as they poured into
the enemy’s trenches, the Irish colonel
was but reviving a superstition which
dates back to the ancient days of
Thrace, where the custom originated
of marking lucky days with a white
stone and unlucky with a black one.
In its early youth Rome adopted the
custom, and although chalk, not being
- indigenous, was chiefly known, as its
name, creta, implies, as an import
from Crete, it was generally used for
the marking of lucky days. Accord-
ing to Horace, the marking was done
with chalk for good and coal for bad
luck.
its Class,
“Do you happen to have an X about
you?”
“My dear fellow, that is an unknown
quantity with me.”
WAS ONCE “WASTE LAND.”
Present Site of Great Bank in New
York City So Described in :
King’s Grant. !
In the office of George F. Baker, in |
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the First National bank of New York |
nal patent from James II, king of Eng-
land, dated February 4, 1685, for the
land on which the First National bank
now stands, therein designated as
“waste land” outside the city gate of
New York. It was issued to one Thom-
as Dougan, “late governor and now
admirall of New York.”
There is attached a small sketch of
the property, showing Wall street with
its fence, and the city gate, through
which leads “Broad way.”
When one considers that this “waste
land” now represents one of the most
valuable spots in the world one real-
izes what changes a little more than
two centuries have wrought in New
York city.
What would Thomas Dougan have
said if he had been told that on this
“waste land” would one day stand a
banking institution returning its stock-
holders over 80 per cent a year?—
Wall Street Journal.
“Trompe.”
The old French word “trompe”
meant a pipe or tuba, and the term
trompe was applied to the apparatus
by which the blast is produced in the
Catalan forge. It is a simple, effec-
tive and ingenious contrivance for
producing a continuous and equable
blast, but its use is restricted to lo-
calities where a fall of water from a
height of several yards can be ob-
tained. The principle is that water
can be made to fall through a pipe
in such a way that it will draw in
through side openings a considerable
amount of air, which by a simple and
ingenious arrangement can be utilized
as a constant current or blast, and
which has the merit of costing almost
nothing. It has been utilized to a lim-
ited extent elsewhere than in the de-
partment of Ariege, in the South of
France, where it was formerly very
generally employed. Iron has been
made in that district for more than
600 years, but the use of the trompe
blast was not introduced until the end
of the seventeenth century.
Chinese Lanterns.
Particularly gay and attractive are
the shops of the lantern venders in the
Chinese cities. All varieties of lan-
terns are to be seen—the large silken
ones three and four feet high, gor- |
geously painted with variegated colors,
embroidered in gold and silver or dec-
orated with deep fringe of the same
material, costing from $100 to $200 and
used by the wealthy mandarins and
others; and common small horn and
paper lanterns, used by the coolies,
which cost one-sixteenth of a dollar.
The mode of making horn lanterns is
very ingenious; the horns are cut into
remarkably thin slices which, by means
of heat and pressure, are joined to-
gether and formed into various shapes;
round, square, hexagon, octagon, and
some shaped to resemble an hour glass.
The Piston.
“The piston is in the form of a
solid iron rod that enters the cylinder
through a hole pierced in the middle
of one of the ends,” writes Henri
Fabre, “and just large enough to give
free passage to the rod, without let-
ting the steam escape. This rod is
bound to another iron piece, called a
crank, and finally the crank is attached
to the neighboring wheal. The
piston, advancing and retreating in
turn in the cylinder, pushes the crank
forward and back, and the crank thus
makes the great wheel turn. On the
other side of the locomotive, the same
things are taking place by means of a
second cylinder. Then the two great
wheels turn at the same time and the
locomotive moves forward.”
Really Sisterly.
Hortense—I can only be a sister to
you, Alphonse.
Alphonse—Then give me back my
presents.
Hortense—Why. Alphonse! Who
ever heard of a sister being so silly?
State Buys Big Forest Tract.
Harrisburg, Feb.—Governor Sproul
approved the purchase by the State
Forestry Commission of one of the
largest tracts of forest land acquired
for the Pennsylvania reservation in
years. It contains 20,392 acres and
217 perches, and was bought from
the White Deer Lumber company at
$2.40 an acre. It is located in Union,
Lycoming and Clinton counties.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
KEMP'S
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One on Famous “Fatty.”
Fatty Arbuckle, the screen come-
dian, tells this on himself:
“When I was in Catalina Island,”
he says, “making scenes for ‘Camp-
ing Out,” a queer looking old codger
disengaged himself from a group in
front of a store, and, as I passed down
the street toward my hotel, accosted
me.
“‘Beg y’r pardon mister,’ he re-
marked, ‘but y’r face troubles me.’
“‘That’s nothing—it’s troubled me
for years,” I replied.
“‘What I mean is,” he persisted, ‘I
can’t seem to place it anywhere.’
“‘Don’t let that annoy you, either,’
I returned. ‘It’s already placed, as
you will observe.’
“‘But I can’t figure out where
seen it before,’ he insisted.
“‘Don’t try; it may comfort you
to know I’ve never seen it behind.’
“‘I mean,” he went on desperately,
while the bunch at the store chuck-
led, ‘I can’t seem to recollect who you
be—’
“ ‘Arbuckle,’
I’ve
I answered. ‘Fatty
| Arbuckle—’
“He slapped his knee heartily and
rushed back to the others.
“‘Fork over that quarter,” he cried.
‘I made him tell me his name.’ He
turned to me: ‘I knew you all the
time—seen you cuttin’ capers on the
screen, I have.’
“ “Thanks,” I muttered, ‘but you
could have asked me outright what
my name was and I'd have told you.’
“‘The bet was,” he explained, ‘I
wasn’t to ask y’r name outright ard
Medical.
Unshaken
Testimoy
Time is the test of truth. And
Doan’s Kidney Pills have stood the
test in Bellefonte. No Bellefonte res-
ident who suffers backache, or annoy-
ing urinary ills can remain unconvine-
ed by this twice-told testimony.
Mrs. J. F. Thal, 23 N. Thomas St.,
Bellefonte, says: “I suffered with
backache and severe pains through my
kidneys. I had headaches and dizzy
spells, when I first got up in the morn-
ing. My kidneys acted irregularly.
My attention was called to Doan’s
Kidney Pills and I heard of so many
being benefitted by their use that I
procured a box at the Green Pharma-
cy Co. That one box removed the
backache, the headaches and dizzy
spells left and my kidneys became
regular and I felt better in every
way. I cheerfully recommend Doan’s
to any one who suffers as I did.”
(Statement given October 21, 1907).
On October 18, 1918, Mrs. Thal
“I am very glad to confirm my
| former endorsement of Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills. Today I am a well woman
and to recommend Doan’s is a pleas-
ure.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Thal had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mirs., Buffalo, N. Y. 64-9
sis City Journal.
Pennsyivania is in many re-
spects the most important State in
the Union. Her absence would not be
Altoona Tribune.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
In Blood Diseases
Like Scrofula, Eczema, and Many
Skin Troubles,
As well as a general spring medi-
cine for catarrh, rheumatism, dys-
pepsia, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is of great
value to men, women, children.
It does its thorough work in these
well-defined diseases by cleansing the
blood, on the pure, healthy condition
of which depend the vigor and tone of
the whole system.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is equally suc-
cessful in the treatment of troubles
that are not so well defined—cases
of a low or run-down condition or
general debility, loss of appetite and
that tired feeling, or cases in which
we see now very plainly after-effects
of the worry and anxiety caused by
the world war and the debility follow-
ing the grip, influenza and fevers. In
all such ailments it has accomplished
a wonderful amount of good.
Hocd’s Pills help as a stomach-ton-
ing, digestive cathartic.
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8. TAYLOR—Attorney
Attorneys-at-Law.
KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-at-
La, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Criders
Exchange. 51-1y
B. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-Law.
Practice in all the courts. Consul-
. tation in English or German. Of-
fice in Crider’s Exchange, Bellefonte Pa.
and Counsel-
Office in Temple
Court, Bellefonte, Pa. All kinds of
legal business attended to promptly. 40-46
lor at Law.
KENNEDY JOHNSTON —Attorney-at-
law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at-
tention given all legal business en-
trusted to his care. Offices—No. 5 East
High street. 57144
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional business will receive
prompt attention. Office on second floor
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE—Attorney-at-law. Con-
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. 58-5
ssa.
Physicians.
S. GLENN, M. D.,, Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his resi-
dence. 35-41
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ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style desired, Sand-
wiches, Soups, ang table, can
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purest syrups and properly carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Employers,
This Interests You
The Workmans’ Compensation
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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-
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Bellefonte 43-18-1y State College
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The institution with which you main-
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you in many ways.
The Centre County Banking Co.
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trons ceases with the safeguarding of their
funds.
It keeps in personal touch with all
of them in such a way as to be of assistance
very often when other matters develop
affecting their interest.
It Invites You to Take Advantage
of Its Unusual Service.
GUARANTEED
| FINE GROCERIES
We are receiving fairly good shipments of
Supplies for the New Year
NAVAL ORANGES are in. The
quality is fine and the price
reasonable.
CALIFORNIA WALNUTS and
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OUR WHITE GRAPES AND
CRANBERRIES are very fan-
cy goods.
CANDIES. In Candies we have
succeeded in gn a fair sup-
ply of desirable goods.
EVAPORATED APRICOTS,
PEARS AND PEACHES are
very fine this season and we
have all of them.
We Have the Supplies
MINCE MEAT. Mince Meat of
the usual high Sechler & Co.
standard. Positively the finest
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Try it.
FANCY, MILD CHEESE, Sweet
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Ketchup, Pure Olive Table Oil,
old fashioned New Orleans Syr-
up and fine table Syrup by the
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and Will be Pleased to
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Bush House Block,
57-1
Beiiefonte, Pa.
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