Demonic, ald
Bellefonte, Pa., March 19, 1920.
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THINGS WE CAN'T AFFORD.
We can’t afford to win the gain
That means another’s loss;
We can’t afford to miss the crown
By stumbling at the cross.
We can’t afford the heedless jests
That robs us of a friend;
We can’t afford the laugh that finds
In bitter tears an end.
We can’t afford the feast today
That brings tomorrow’s fast;
We can’t afford the farce that comes
To tragedy at last.
We can’t afford to play with fire,
Or tempt a serpent’s bite,
We can’t afford to think that sin
Brings any true delight.
We can’t afford with serious heed
To treat the cynic’s sneer;
We can’t afford to wise men’s word
To turn a careless ear.
We can’t afford for hate to give
Like hatred in return;
We can’t afford to feed such flame
And make it fiercer burn.
We can’t afford to lose the soul
For this world’s fleeting breath;
We can’t afford to barter life
In mad exchange for death.
But blind te good are we apart
Frem Thee, all_seeing Lord;
Oh, grant us light that we may know
The things we can't afford!
—Ex.
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VOTERS AND VOTING.
By Margaret H. Barnett.
The American ideal has always been
a country in which the people chose
their own rulers, where there was no
hereditary governing class, which
ruled by right of birth. Contrasting
their own country with European
monarchies, Americans are wont to
say with pride, that here the people
are the sovereigns. Has this Ameri-
can ideal been translated into reali-
ty? How do the American “sov-
ereigns” exercise their sovereignty?
The right of suffrage is one of the
most important means of exercising
the sovereignty of the people, and in
a country like the United States it is
of supreme importance. It needs no
argument to prove this. Yet there
are many who hold the duty and priv-
ilege of voting very lightly, who treat
it with singular indifference. Intel-
ligent men sometimes confess that
they have not gone to the polls for |
years. And their absence from the
polls gives to corrupt politicians an |
opportunity which they are not slow
to seize.
There is a second class of persons
‘found among the “sovereigns,” those
who vote thoughtlessly and careless-
ly. A young man, when he reaches
his majority, usually casts his first
vote with the party of which his fath-
er is a member. It is taken as a mat-
ter of course that he should so vote,
and occasions surprise, if he does not.
Then, if he is a good Republican, or a
good Democrat, as the case may be,
he continues to vote, year in and year
out, for the candidate of his party,
giving no thought to the questions at
issue, or to the character of the candi-
dates, at any particular election. The
leaders of political parties would be
much more careful than they are at
present, in regard to their policies
and their candidates, if they knew
that defeat awaited unworthy candi-
dates and dishonest and dishonorable
policies. The fact that a certain num-
ber of electors can be depended upon to
vote with their party under all cir-
cumstances, is one cause of corrup-
tion in politics. It is true that polit-
ical revolutions come at intervals, but
the intervals are too long.
There is a worse class than those
already mentioned. It is composed of
those who make merchandise of the
ballot, buying votes and selling votes.
Those who sell their votes are bad
enough, but those who buy votes are
many times worse. It is the vote
buyer who is the real meance to a free
government. A certain laboring man,
who could neither read nor write, told
with pride, the day after an election
day, what a good day he had had the
day before. He worked at his regu-
lar place of employment for three
quarters of a day, for which he was
paid as usual; then he went home and
was taken in state to the polls to vote,
and was “paid for his day.” Who was
the most to blame, the man who was
paid, or the men who paid him? It
was suggested recently, in connection
with the revision of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania, * that illiteracy be
made a bar to voting. But it is not
the illiterates who are the real source
of danger to the government. Those
literates who are onsidered leaders in
public affairs, who
voters, are a much more dangerous
class than the illiterates, who wield
no political influence.
There is a power in politics known
It extends in
as The Organization.
its ramifications, from the smallest
political units, where small politicians
control a few votes, up through the
cities and counties to the States and
the nation. A man for example, who
can control a county organization, isa
useful man to the State organization,
and for political services rendered, he
will be rewarded by an office, the im-
portance of which is proportioned to
the value of his services.
ization is a very potent force in poli-
tics, especially the organization of a
party which is in power.
lic officials are to be elected, it saith
to one man, “Run,” and he runneth,
and to another, “Go away back and
sit down,” and he goeth, as a general
thing; for a candidate is usually fore-
doomed to defeat whom the Organiza-
tion opposes.
Several weeks before a primary
election, a politician was asked his
opinion as to which of several candi-
dates would be nominated. He re-
plied: “If the election were to be held
today, it would be So-and-so,” nam-
ing a candidate whom the Organiza-
tion opposed. But he added signifi-
cantly, “But we’ll change all that.”
And they did; and the voters, the
“sovereigns,” had a candidate select-
ed by the Organization, not by them-
selves.
corrupt other
The Organ- |
When pub- |
| Lincoln in his Gettysburg address,
! spoke of a “Government of the peo-
| ple, by the people, and for the peo-
| ple.” One wonders sometimes, wheth-
er these classic phrases accurately de-
scribe the government of the United
States today; or whether it is not be-
| coming a Government of The Organ-
| ization, by The Organization, and for
! The Organization. The Organization
a vicious circle is formed which is
hard to break.
istence of corruption in politics, he
need only read the daily papers. A
United States Senator is on trial for
election frauds, and with him a num-
ber of other men. A number of elec-
tion frauds were investigated in Penn-
sylvania in recent months, and in
some cases convictions resulted. How
many election frauds there were that
were not investigated, deponent saith
not.
The oath of office in the Constitu-
tion, and the various laws intended to
prevent corruption in politics, which
books from time to time, also bear ev-
practices. The latest of these laws in
Pennsylvania is the “Corrupt Prac-
tice Act,” passed in 1906. As one
Judge said, it ‘was an “effort to stay
the rising tide of political corrup-
tion.” It has a very fearsome sound
to the casual reader, but a careful
reader will see that it was framed by
those who had no idea of making the
way of the transgressor too hard,
when that transgressor was a prac-
er to say of the authors of the Act,
that “A fellow feeling made them
| wondrous kind.”
The Act requires the filing of an
expense account by all candidates,
| presumably to give publicity to the
| expenses incurred by candidates. But
| these accounts are to be filed, some of |
| them in Harrisburg, some of them in
{the county seat of the candidate’s
. county. :
| In the seclusion of State or county
! offices,
{ them,
| publicity might have been obtained by
! publication in newspapers, as is done
{in the case of other accounts of pub-
lic interest.
ing of candidates’ accounts, but it pro-
vides that they may be audited, if a
expenses are found to have been in-
curred, the costs of the audit must be
paid by those who asked for it. The
Act thus makes it easy to let expense
| accounts lie unquestioned, and hard to
| have them investigated.
| One of the “lawful expenses” of a
candidate, allowed by the
of information to the public.”
formation to the public” sometimes
takes strange forms, when “dissemi-
nated” by a candidate, forms which
Webster would find it difficult to rec-
oncile with his definition of informa-
tion.
Being a candidate seems to have a
peculiar effect on a man’s mentality.
A man aspires to make laws for his
State’ or his nation, or to execute the
law, or to interpret it, when the prop-
erty, the reputation, perhaps even the
lives of some of his fellow citizens de-
pend on his decisions. Yet such a man
does not know what is done with the
large campaign fund which is raised
and expended in his behalf. His sol-
emn oath of office says he does not. A
defeated candidate was bitterly scored
by his political friends, because he re-
fused to put a considerable sum of
money into a certain part of his dis-
trict, several thousand dollars,—in or-
der that his friends might “organize
the county,” in his behalf. When it
was suggested that the candidate prob-
ably had conscientious scruples
against such a use of money in poli-
tics, the reply was, “He need not have
spent any money himself, he could
have given it to So-and-so, and he
would not have known what was done
with it.”
An organ of one of the prominent
political parties, in a recent issue,
criticises the other party, on account
of the immense fund which it is said
to be raising for the coming Presiden-
tial campaign. And it asks why it is
“necessary to raise such a tremendous
slush fund for the purpose of appeal-
ing to the electors.” Comment on this
quotation is unnecessary.
The jury will determine, from the
evidence, whether or not the American |
voter has measured up to the Ameri-
can ideal.
Whatever undesirable political con-
ditions exist today, the modern Adam '
cannot point an accusing finger at
Eve, and say that she has been the
In the greater !
cause of the trouble.
part of the United States, Eve has.
not yet reached her majority. But
her “coming of age” seems now to be
imminent.
ratified the Suffrage Amendment to
the national Constitution, and in all
probability the ballot will be placed
in the hands of all the women of the
United States, in the near future.
Woman suffrage was opposed long
and bitterly in this country. It has
been ridiculed, and cartooned, and
joked about, sometimes in a good-na-
| tured way, sometimes in a different |
spirit. But now the time for opposi-
tion has practically passed, and the
time for joking has entirely gone by.
The entrance of a large number of
persons, probably twenty millions, in-
to the electorate of such a country as
| this is not a matter to be treated
lightly. It is a serious matter
both for the country, and and for the
women themselves. The right of suf-
frage carries with it a serious respon-
sibility, a responsibility which has re-
ceived too little recognition and atten-
| tion. This responsibility is condition-
| ed on the right to vote,»and once this
| right is given, it cannot be evaded or
| escaped. Every elector exercises the
right of suffrage, for they also vote
| Who never cast a ballot. Candidates
| are sometimes elected by those who
| do not go to the polls. This is a well-
| known political paradox. When wom-
"en become electors, they will share
this responsibility, whether they wish
to or not.
There is, in this country, a large
‘body of thoughtful, intelligent,
| Christian women. How will they dis-
‘charge their political duty? Will
makes possible corruption in politics,
and corruption in politics makes pos- |
sible a good, strong organization. So |
If any one requires proof of the ex-
"and earnestly, is about to be confer- |
They will exercise | heard an unpleasant word between a
have been placed upon the statute
idence to the existence of such corrupt
tical politician. It is not for the writ-
the eye of Omniscience sees
but very few human eyes. Real
The Act does not require the audit- |
request for an audit is made by five
electors. If, upon the audit, no illegal .
d “Corrupt !
Practice Act” is, “For dissemination '
“In- |
Thirty-four States have |
| they merely follow the well-worn
| beaten paths of the men who have
| heretofore exercised exclusively the
right of suffrage? Will they vote so
ruptly, that they will but increase the
carelessly, and thoughtlessly, and cor-
number of undesirable electors in the!
country? Or will they vote so care-
fully, and intelligently, and conscien-
tiously, that they will become, in pol-
righteousness ?
A time of testing is before the wom-
en of the United States. A right
which has been long withheld, and for
which many women have striven long
red upon them.
this right in such a lime-light as nev-
er beat upon their brothers. Will the
Future write upon the walls of our
National Temple, as its verdict upon
'the American woman.—“Tekel; thou
‘art weighed in the balance, and art
found wanting?” It is for the wom-
en to decide.
The women of the United States
will become a part of the governing
power of the country at a time when
there will be many serious problems
before this land, and before the world
at large. May it not be said of the
American women, as it was said, cen-
| turies ago, to a woman, at a time of
national peril, “Who knoweth wheth-
er thou art come to the kingdom for
such a time as this?”
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REFORMED CHURCH LAYMEN
WILL GATHER IN TWO CON-
GRESSES.,
Two great congresses of the lay-
men of the Reformed church are to
be held in April in order to give to
them as well as to the clergy the
knowledge of what is going on in the
church, and its moves to build itself
more strongly. This action was de-
termined on recently at a meeting of
| the Executive committee of the Lay-
men’s Missionray mevement of the
church, held in Philadelphia, at the re-
quest of the Forward Movement. The
Laymen’s Missionary movement has
| been delegated to take charge of the
conferences.
The first great gathering will be
held in Reading, on April 6-7, and the
second in Dayton, Ohio, on April 8-9.
It is expected that thousands of lay-
men will take this opportunity to get
| together, and to learn what the For-
ward movement surveys are doing,
and what is being accomplished in
other branches of the work.
Although the program of the con-
ferences has not yet been worked out
in full, they will be modeled in general
on the World Survey Conference of
the Interchurch World Movement at
' Atlantic City, and the more recent
National Laymen’s conference of that
| movement held in Pittsburgh. Many
' of the Forward Movement leaders are
on the Interchurch executive commit-
tee, and the two movements are work-
ing hand in hand in closest co-opera-
tion. )
Part of the program will consist of
addresses by leaders of the Forward
Movement and men outstanding in
the denomination who have helped to
make the survey of the church, and
have given their ability to the plans
for the raising of the huge budget of
the denomination. Their talks will be
illustrated by lantern slides picturing
powerfully and poignantly the phases
and difficulties of the task and the re-
sults when successfully accomplished.
The object of the conference defin-
ed succinctly will be to bring before
the laymen of the church the reports
of the Forward Movement survey and
to line up the men of the church sol-
idly behind the financial crusade
which will take place in the closing
days of April. Hitherto the opportu-
nity to learn firsthand of the survey
has been given to the clergy. The
privilege is now extended to the lay-
men.
The conferences will be in line with
the other great meetings of the Lay-
men’s Missionary Movement of the
Reformed church held at Harrisburg
in 1909, at Canton, Ohio, in 1911, and
at Allentown in 1915. Reading and
‘Dayton have been selected because
they are located in the most centraliz-
ed parts of the denomination.
At the meeting at which this ac-
tion took place the following members
of the committee were present: Wil-
liam W. Anspach, chairman; Dr.
George L. Omwake, secretary, who is
also head of the Department of Ed-
ucation and Publicity of the Forward
Movement; William H. Dechant,
treasurer; Dr. William E. Lampe,
. general secretary, and secretary of
the Department of Life and Posses-
sions in the movement; F. E. Am-
merman, L. P. Teel, and Dr. J. H. Ap-
i ple, Prof. E. M. Hartman, and Harry
E. Paisley, who are respectively ex-
_ ecutive secretary, head of the Field
Department and Financial Campaign
| director, and treasurer of the Forward
Movement.
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41 Acres Unclaimed Land Taken by
State.
The Department of Forestry of
Pennsylvania has taken over forty-
one acres of land in Porter township,
Pike county, for which George F.
Sandt, of Easton, had filed an appli-
cation for a warrant with the Depart-
ment of Internal Affairs. This is one
of the largest tracts of unclaimed
| land known in the eastern counties in
a long time and when the application
was filed by Sandt a month ago, at-
tention of Forestry authorities was
attracted to it. There being no record
of ownership Secretary of Internal
| Affairs Woodward declared the land
vacant and the Department of For-
estry exercised its power under the
law and took over the property for
addition to State Forest Reserves.
The claimant made no objection and
said he was willing to have the land
become a part of the forest system.
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Horse Sense.
A hospital nurse was testing an or-
derly in his knowledge of practical
first-aid treatment. “Suppose,” she
said, “a man suddenly collapsed. What
would you do?”
“I’d give him brandy,” was the
prompt reply.
“Suppose there were none?”
“Then I'd promise him some.”
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——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
itics, a power that makes for civic:
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WHERE ESKIMO IS SUPERIOR
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Home Life Declared by Stefansson to
Be Practically Ideal—Hospitable
in the Extreme.
Vithjalmur Stefansson, in writing
of his 13 months’ stay among the Es-
kimos, tells of their great kindness
to a guest who could not pay for his
keep, says Harper's, a stranger whose
purpose among them they did not
know, thus: .
“In an Eskimo home I have never
man and his wife, never seen a child
punished nor an old person treated in-
considerately. The household affairs
are carried on in an orderly way and
the good behavior of the children is
remarked by practically every traveler,
“In many things we are the superi-
ors of the Eskimo and in a few we are
his jnferiors. The moral value of some
of his superiority is small. He can
make better garments against cold
than our tailors and farriers; he can
thrive in barren wastes where a New
Englander would starve.
“But of some of his superiority the
moral value is great. He has devel-
oped individual quality further than
we, he is less selfish, more heipful to
his fellows, kinder to his wife, gentler
to his child, more reticent about the
faults of his neighbor than any but
the rarest and best of our race.
“When I tried to express thanks for
their kindness in my fragmentary Es-
kimo, they were more surprised than
pleased.
“Do, then, in the white man’s land,
some starve and shiver while others
eat much and are warmly clad?
“To that question I said ‘Ne,’ al-
though I knew I was lying. I was
afraid the competitive system could
not: be explained to them satisfactor-
ily; neither was I, being the poor-
est -among them, very anxious to try
justifying it.”
OLDEST OF FRENCH JOURNALS
Qazette de France Was First Pub-
lished 238 Years Ago, and Is Still
in Existence.
The first number of the Gazette de
France, the oldest newspaper in
France, was published 283 years ago,
May 30, 1631, under the editorial di-
rection of Doctor Renaudot. This
most powerful of the early journalists
of France was born in 1584 and, after
graduating in medicine, established
himself in Paris about 1612. Richelieu
and Pierre d’Hoziner, the genealogist,
are said to have inspired Renaudot in
establishing the Gazette, which was
published weekly and consisted of two
small sheets, the first bearing the title
of Gazette and the second Nouvelles
Ordinaires de Divers Endroits. Doc-
tor Renaudot established the prece-
dent, long followed in European jour-
nalism and by no means extinct, of
présenting foreign news first and rele-
gating domestic and local news to the
last page. Soon after the establish-
ment of the Gazette Doctor Renaudot
was granted an exclusive monopoly of
printing and selling newspapers in
France. When the founder died in
1653 the Gazette passed to his sons.
The title of Gazette de France was
first used in the middle of the eight-
eenth century.
under that title ever since, with the
exception of a brief period during the |
revolution of 1848, when the name was
temporarily changed to Le People
Francais.
Improved Rivet Cutter.
A pneumatic rivet cutter for use in
structural steel work and in repair |
shops consists of a long barrel, with
compressed air connection at one end
and a chisel at the other, the stem
of the chisel being held by a coiled
spring, which draws it back after each
stroke. A plunger travels freely in
the barrel or tube, and a small bypass
pipe connects the ends of this tube.
Two men are employed, the one at
the rear operating the valve and the
one at the front keeping the chisel
against the rivet head. The force of
the blow can be regulated by the valve.
Air pressure of 30 to 90 pounds may
be used, the higher pressure being the
more effective, A punch can be in-
serted in plage of the chisel for back-
ing out the rivets, In the larger size
the stroke is 40 inches, and the weight
of the machine complete is only 65
pounds. A smaller size will cut rivets
up $0 three-elghths of an inch in diam-
eter.
When Bitte;, py a Mad Dog.
When bitten by an animal that is
suspected as mad, the best thing to do,
acgording to Drs. J, C. Regan apd A.
Silkman of New York, who describe a
recent case in Archives of Diagnosis, is
to squeeze the wound to encourage
bleeding, wash it with a solution of
mercuric chloride (1 in 1,000), cauter-
ize it with fuming nitric acid, apd ap-
ply a wet dressing of the mercuric
chloride solution,
The wound should never be sewn up;
if a deep punctured wound, it should
be cut open with a scalpel.
The sooner this treatment is applied
the more likely it iS to be successful.
Afterward the routine Pasteur treat-
ment should be taken.
In the Future.
Recently several airplanes were
moving over the Circle, and the usual
crowd had stopped to watch them. An
old woman in the crowd began count-
ing. “One, two, three, four, five,” she
counted. “Five of those things.”
Then she turned to the man nearest
her, “Did you ever see the like?” she
asked. “Five of those things. Why,
pretty soon the atmosphere will he
just lousy with them.”—Indianapolis
News.
It has been published |
U. S. Plans to Bring Back 50,000
Bodies.
Washington.—The bodies of about
50,000 of the American dead in
France will be returned to the United
States while between 20,000 and 25,-
000 will remain permanently interred
overseas, Newton D. Baker, Secretary
of War, informed James W. Wads-
worth Jr., chairman of the Senate
military committee.
The Secretary estimated the cost of
returning the dead and concentrating
the bodies remaining in cemeteries
overseas at $30,000,000. Congestion
of the French transportation systems
and shortage of materials used in the
manufacture of coffins is handicap-
ping the work, Mr. Baker said.
While 111 bodies of American dead
have been returned from Archangel,
Mr. Baker said the same number still
remained in Northern Russia and that
it was improbable that anything could
be done toward their removal for a
year. Evacuation of bodies in Eng-
land is progressing, he added, while
irasea ready for return to this coun-
ry.
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Political Announcements.
DELEGATE TO NATIONAL DEMOCRAT-
IC CONVENTION.
We are authorized to announce the name
| of Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte, as a
: candidate for district delegate to the
' Democratic National convention to be held
jat San Francisco on June 28, 1920, subject
| to the decision of the Democratic voters of
| the 21st Congressional District as express-
Je gt the primaries to be held May 18th,
1
J. Frank Snyder, Clearfield, Pa., an-
| nounces that he will be a candidate, at the
Spring Primary Election, for Delegate
| from the 21st Congressional District of
| Pennsylvania to the Democratic National
convention, and states that, if elected, he
| will support that candidate for President
i who shall have received the highest num-
| ber of votes cast in said District by the
| voters of the Democratic party for said of-
| fice, and will use all onorable means
‘within his power to aid in Securifg the
Jomination of such candidate for Presi-
ent.
1
' DELEGATE TO NATIONAL REPUBLI-
CAN CONVENTION.
{ We are authorized to announce that
Mellville Gillett, of Smethport, McKean
i county, Pa., is a candidate for Delegate to
the Republican National Convention, to be
. held in Chicage, in June, 1920, subject to
| the decision of the Republican voters of
| the 21st Congressional District as express-
Ly the primaries to be held May 18th,
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ASSEMBLY.
‘We are authorized to announce the name
,of Frank E. Naginey, of Bellefonte, as a
' candidate for nomination for Assemblyman
| for Centre county, subject to: the decision
| of the Democratic voters of the county as
| expressed at the primaries to be held on
i May 18th, 1920.
FOR ASSEMBLY.
We are authorized to announce the name
"of I. L. Harvey, of Bellefonte, as a can-
| didate for the Legislature, subject to the
| decision of the Republican voters as ex-
| prossed at the primaries on May 18th,
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
\ARMERS TAKE NOTICE.--I will in-
sure dwellings at $1.00 a hundred,
and barns at $1.60 a hundred, on
the cash plan for three years, and dwell-
ings 50 cents a hundred, and barns at 80
cents a hundred on the assessment plan
for 5 years as against fire and lightning.
64-28-1y J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent.
E mentary upon the estate of Har-
riet T. Kurtz, late of Bellefonte
borough, deceased, having been granted
to the undersigned, all persons knowing
themselves indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make prompt payment, and
those having claims against the same must
preseat them, duly authenticated, for set-
tlement.
NELSON E. ROBB,
XECUTOR’S NOTICE.—Letters testa-
Executor,
Harry Keller, Bellefonte, ’a.
‘ Attorney. 65-8-6t
JDITOR’S NOTICE.—In Re-Estate of
Christian Sharer, late of Taylor
township, deceased. In the Orph-
an’s Court, Centre county.
A
in Italy all bodies have been concen-’
Vallimont and Felix Vallimont her hus-
band, of Coudley, Pa.
You are hereby notified and required to
be and appear at the Court of Common
Pleas to be held at Bellefonte, in the
County of Centre, and State of Pennsylva-
nia, on the third Monday of May, 1920,
next, being the 17th day of May, to ans-
wer the plaintiff in the above-stated case
of a plea wherefore, whereas the plaintiff
and the defendants, in said action, to-
gether and undivided, do hold ten certain
certain messuages, tenements and tracts
of land situate in Centre county, Pennsyl-
ania, bounded and described as follows,
wit:
No. 1. All that certain messuage, tene-
ment and tract of land situate in the
Township of Boggs, County and State
aforesaid, beginning at a walnut corner,
thence North 28%; degrees West 130 perch-
es to a white oak stump corner, thence
South 56 degrees West 80 perches to stone
corner, thence South 32 degrees East 52
perches to a stone, thence South 56 de-
grees West 18 perches tc a stone corner,
thence South 30 degrees East 56 perches to
stones, thence South 59 degrees West 16
perches to stone, thence South 32 degrees
ast 5 perches to a fallen cherry on the
bank of Bald Eagle creek, thence North
4 degrees East 37 perches to a post,
thence North 50 degrees East 14 perches
to a post, thence North 30 degrees East 16
perches to post, thence North 18 degrees
West 204-10 perches to post, thence
North 77 degrees Kast 19 perches to the
Place of beginning, containing 68 acres
and 78 perches net. Being part of a larger
tract of land originally surveyed in the
name of Christian Spade, see Patent Book
AA” Volume 13, page 212, and being the
same premises which Jacob Kidlinger and
Mary his wife, by their deed dated Janu-
ary 1, 1864, recorded in Centre County in
Deed Book “Y,” page 0502, etc., granted
and conveyed to John Bronoel (the name
of said Bronoel in said Deed having been
incorrectley spelled Brunewell), and the
said John Bronoel having been so thereof
seized died leaving to survive him a wid-
ow, Mary E. Bronoel, (afterwards inter-
married with John Rolly and the said
John Rolly now being dead), and eight
children which by deed from the heirs of
John Bronoel bearing date the 11th day
of December, 1883, and recorded in Centre
County in Deed Book “V’” No. 2, page 633,
became vested ir Alois Kohlbecker except-
ing, however, two tracts heretofore con-
veyed to R. R. company containing .789
acres and about 10 acres respectively.
No. 2. All that certain messuage, tene-
ment and let of ground situate ng Central
City, in the Township of Boggs, County
and State aforesaid, and designated as
Lot No. 112 in the general plan of said
Central City, bounded and described as
follows: On the South and West by pub-
le road leading from Milesburg to Unien-
ville, on the North by the said Bald Bagle
Valley railroad, and on the East by lot of
Samuel Orris, it being the same lot of
ground which E. C. Humes and Adam
Hoy, administraters of James T. Hale, de-
ceased, by their deed dated March 14,
1867, conveyed to Rebecca Linn, which by
gouveyatices became vested in Alois Kohl-
ecker.
No. 3. All that certain messuage, tene-
ment and tract of land situate im Central
City, Boggs Township, County and State
aforesaid, numbered 115 according to the
plot or plan of the said town, and bound-
ed on the West by Lot No. 114, on the
North by an alley, and on the East by
Lot No. 116, and on the South by the turn-
pike, being the same premises which John
C. Swires, et ux, and C. C. Swires convey-
ed to Alois Kohlbecker, said deed bein,
recorded in Centre County in Deed Boo
No. 66, page 68, etc. ’
No. 4. All that certain lot or piece of
ground situate in Central City, Boggs
Township, bounded and described as fol-
lows, to wit: On the North by the old
turnpike, on the East by the western line
of Lot No. 11 extending across the turn-
pike to the Bald Eagle creek, on the
South by Bald Eagle creek, and on the
West by lot of Daniel Mahone, being the
same premises which E. C. Humes and
Adam Hoy, administrators of James T
1 Hale, conveyed to Alois Kohlbecker by
their deed dated September 1, 1883, record-
ed in Centre County in Deed Book “V2,”
page 652, ete. :
No. 5. All that triangular piece of
ground lying at the junction of the Snow
shoe pike, Bald Eagle creek and Bald Ea-
gle Valley railroad, west end of Central
I City, Pa., bounded on the North by alley
sin town plot of Bald Eagle railroad,
on
| the South by Bald Eagle creek and Snow
Shoe turnpike, on the Kast by alley on
8. VW.
. town plot, and on the West by B. E
'
Railroad and Bald kagle creek and turn-
pike crossing, at which point the land ter-
minates in sharp point, thereby making it
three-cornered, containing 20 square feet
more or less. Being the same premises
"which E. B. Lipton, et al, by their deed
The undersigned an auditor appointed |
by the above named Court, to pass upon
the exceptions to the account of the ac-
countants and restate the account in ac-
cordance with his findings and make dis-
tributions for the funds found to be in the
hands of accountants to and among those
legally entitled thereto, will meet the par-
ties interested for the performance of his
appointment, on the 5th day of April A.
D. 1920, at 11 o'clock a. m., at his office,
Room No. 14, Crider’'s Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. When and where all parties
are required to present and prove their
claims or be forever debarred from com-
ing in on said fund.
KLINE WOODRING, Auditor.
65-11-3t Bellefonte, Pa.
UDITOR’S NOTICE.—In the Orphans’
A Court of Centre county. In the
matter of the estate of Henry IM
Kessinger, late of Liberty township, de-
ceased.
The undersigned, an Auditor appointed
by the Orphans’ Court of Centre county,
account of the Accountant, and re-state
the account if necessary, in accordance
with his findings, and make distribution
to and amongst those legally entitled
thereto, in the estate of Henry F. Kessing-
er, late of Liberty township, deceased,
will attend to the duties of his appoint-
ment and meet the parties in interest at
his offices in the Masonic Temple Building,
Bellefonte, Pa., on Wednesday, April 7th,
1920, at 10 o’clock a. m., when and where
the parties in interest are required to ap-
pear, present their claims, or be forever
barred from coming in upon the fund as
shown to be due for distribution purposes
in said estate.
W. HARRISON WALKER,
65-11-3t Auditor.
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PPLICATION FOR CHARTER.—No-
tice is hereby given that an appli-
cation will be made to the Gover-
nor of the State of Pennsylvania on Mon-
day, the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1920, at
ten o'clock a. m., by G. F. Musser, Richard
Brouse, BE. B. Bower, A. J. Heverley,
Thos. §. Hazel, J. Frank Smith, and For-
rest Ocker, under the provisions of an Act
of Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled, “An Act to Privide
for the Incorporation and Regulation of
certain Corporations,” approved April
29th, 1874, and the supplements thereto,
for the charter of an intended corporation
to be called THE G. F. MUSSER COM-
PANY, the character and object of which
is to conduct a general mercantile business
at wholesale, consisting of groceries, sta-
ple notions, flour and feeds, produce, can-
dies, tobaccos, hardware, wood and wil-
low ware, and articles of a similar and
cognate nature, and for these purposes to
have, possess, and enjoy all the rights.
benefits and privileges of the said Act of
Assembly and its supplements.
SPANGLER AND WALKER,
65-9-4t Solicitors.
OTICE BY PUBLICATION.—In the
N Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Centre, State of Fenn-
sylvania, No. 76, May Term, 1918.
Henry J. Kohlbecker vs. Frank C. Kohl-
becker, Stella M. Kohlbecker, Frances A.
Kohlbecker, Josephine A. Kohlbecker and
Alois Kohlbecker, Jr., of Charleston, West
Virginia; Henry J. Kohlbecker, Guardian
of Emma Kohlbecker, of Boggs township,
Centre county, Pa.; and Mary C. Valli-
mont and Felix Vallimont her husband, of
Coudley, Pa.
To Frank C. Kohlbecker, Stella M. Kohl.
becker, Frances A. Kohlbecker, Josephine
A. Kohlbecker, and Alois Kohlbecker, Jr,
of Charleston, West Virginia, Mary
to pass upon the exceptions filed to the
dated April 18, 1890, recorded in Centre
County in Deed Book 64, page 178,
veyed to A. Kohlbecker.
No. 6. All that certain messuage, tene-
ment and tract of land situate in Union
Township, County and State aforesaid,
beginning at a chestnut oak on line of
land of Reuben Iddings’ heirs, thence
along same South 60 degrees West 102
perches to stones, thence along land of
Joseph Hoover 30 degrees East 82 perches
to a chestnut oak, thence along land of
William P. Fisher 60 degrees East 102
perches to a post, thence along land of
Jacob Hoover's heirs North 30 degrees
West 82 perches to chestnut oak, the place
con-
. of beginning. Containing 52 acres and 44
. last recited.
perches neat measure. Being the same
premises which William ¥. Way by deed
dated October 28, 1899, recorded in Centre
County in Deed Book 82, page 198, convey-
ed to Alois Kohlbecker. Ii'or right of way
in connection with this property see deed
No. 7. All that certain lot of ground
situate in Eagleville, County and State
aforesaid, beginning at a point in center
+ of public road, thence joining lots of Mrs.
Maggie McCloskey 280 feet to a post,
thence joining lands of David Kunes 10
feet to a post, thence by S. M. Hall 280
feet to a post in the center of the public
road 10 feet to the place of beginning,
containing 2800 square feet, being the
same premises which Sarah McCloskey by
her deed dated March 16, 1897, recorded in
Centre County in Deed Book No. 76, page
40, conveyed to Alois Kohlbecker. .
No. 8. All that certain lot of ground
situate in the Village of Eagleville, Coun-
ty and State aforesaid, beginning at a
stone corner in the center of the public
road, thence along the line of Samuel H.
Kunes and James I. Kunes 280 feet toa
post, thence along land of David
Kunes, Sr., 43 feet to a stone cor-
ner, thence along land of McCor-
mick Hall 280 feet to the center of public
road, thence along said public oy 42
feet to the place of beginning, containing
a quarter of an acre more or less. Being
| the same premises which Sarah McClos-
key by her deed dated March 16, 1897, re-
corded in Cemtre County, Volume 76, page
41, conveyed to Alois Kohlbecker.
No. 9. All those four certain lots of
ground situate in Central City, Boggs
Township, Centre County, and State afore-
said, fronting on the Township Road lead-
ing from Milesburg to the Ridges, bein
designated in the general plan of Centra
City as Lots Nos. 28, 29, 30 and 27, there-
on erected a two and one-half story frame
dwelling house and other temporary build-
ings. The same was conveyed to Alois
Kohlbecker by deed poll of Robert Cook,
Sheriff, August 20, 1888, recorded in Cen-
ie County in Deed Book Volume 54, page
No. 10. All that certain lot, piece or
parcel of land situate in Central City,
Boggs Township, County and State afore-
said, fronting on Railroad Street 50 feet
and running back to an alley 190 feet, ad-
joining lot of Benjamin Snyder, and being
numbered in the general lan of said
Central ily as Lot No. 165. Being the
same premises which John G. Uzzle con-
veyed to Annie M. Kohlbecker, by deed
dated October 18, 1895, recorded in Centre
County in Deed Book Volume 73, page 51.
With the appurtenances, they the said
defendants partition thereof between then,
according to the laws and customs of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to be
made do gainsay and to the same to be
done do not permit very unjustly and con-
trary to the same laws and customs, etc.,
the same Frank C. Kohlbecker, Stella M.
Kohlbecker, Frances A. Kohlbecker,
Josephine A. Kohlbecker, and Alois Kohl-
becker, Jr., of Charleston, West Virginia;
Henry J. Kohlbecker, Guardian of Emma
Kohlbecker, of Boggs Township, Centre
County, Pa.; Mary C. Vallimont and Felix
Vallimont her husband, ef Coudley. Pa.,
thereof between them to be made accord-
ingly to the laws and customs and have
vou then and there this writ and the sum-
moners.
By order of the Court, this 27th day of
February, A. D., 1920.
HARRY DUREMAR
heriff.
Sheriff’s Office, Bellefonte, Pa.
March 2, 1920. 65-10-6t
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