hi gletown, visited friends in town on ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
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Bellefonte, Pa., April 21, 1922.
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Items of Interest Dished Up for the
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Correspondents.
7,
PLEASANT GAP.
Civil war incidents, real in charac-
ter, seem to be appreciated by the ma-
jority of the American people. With
this fact in view I would like to re-
late a few incidents that might possi-
bly interest some of your readers.
President Lincoln made a brief tour
to the front before his election. Like
that great and good man (the soldier's
friend) the late Andrew G. Curtin, he
was in his element when visiting the
soldiers. It seemed to be the hap-
piest days of their lives, when in com-
pany with the war veterans, and neith-
er made a distinction between the
man who wore a star on his shoulder
or the private in the rear ranks.
On one of these occasions Lincoln
visited the boys at City Point, Va. He
went from tent to tent, shaking hands
with the boys and giving them encour-
agement in every possible way. He
happened into our mess as we were
dispensing with our usual fare—hard-
tack, pork and beans. We prevailed
upon him to join us, which he did.
We apologized on account of our scan-
ty bill of fare. He remarked that he
was delighted with his entertainment
and enjoyed it immensely, and said,
what is good enough for my boys is
good enough for me. Wonderful in-
deed was the career of this, the eigh-
teenth President of the United States.
Lincoln had no advantages, his whole
life being a hard and toilsome strug-
gle against adversity, and he fell at
the hands of an assassin, but not un-
til he had seen the result of his labor
in behalf of his country.
He was a “plain man,” with an
abiding faith in the “common people,”
and a great love for them. They lov-
ed him, too, and understood him. He
was nature’s nobleman, simplicity it-
self, and when his work was done he
1aid down his burden and went to his
rest among the sorrowing of the en-
tire world. His oratory was simplici-
ty itself, but grand and imposing.
Never while this world exists will he
be forgotten.
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Now one more little incident, which
1 never can forget. 1 will designate
it as Heaven's part of the Civil war.
Two Methodist ministers who had
served as chaplains to the lost cause,
going down from Memphis to Grena-
da to a campmeeting, got into conver-
sation about the way the war termin-
ated. “It’s all right—it must be all
right but I can’t reconcile the re-
sult with the doctrine I preach.
must be blind—of course I am, or I
could see it,” said one of them.
“Now Brother Mason, you have
touched on a subject I have thought a
heap about, but never spoke of it for
fear people might think me queer.”
Just so. I never spoke of this be-
fore for the same reason. Now I'll
give you a little of my experience as
a chaplain of the Confederate army.
1 went out as full of faith and as earn-
est as a saint. I thought over and
over again of the text, or promise;
«Ask and it shall be given thee,” and
that other one: “Whatsoever ye shall
ask in My name, believing, that shall
be given.” Then again, that if I had
faith as a grain of mustard seed, 1
could remove mountains. Well, 1
thought I had fuith as a mountain
consequently the Yankee army would
be as a mustard seed. I believed this
because I couldn’t apply the promises
in any other way.
When I joined the regiment up in
East Tennessee, I went right to pray-
ing, and I prayed earnestly, and when
the order came to move upon the ene-
my I could almost see J ehovah at the
head of the column. We met the en-
emy, and, much to my surprise, they
whipped us in less than five minutes,
and I was the worst whipped man in
the lot. I felt sure I hadn’t prayed
right and the defeat laid at my door.
So without eating my supper I went
to my quarters and wrestled the whole
night through. The next day the
Yankees left and I felt better.”
“Well, you had better luck than I
had. I was sent to join Johnston’s ar-
my at Buzzard Roost. When I looked
out on that immense army Sherman
had spread out in front of us, my
heart grew faint, but I said to myself:
‘If the Lord be for us, who can be
against us?’ Like you, I went to
praying for victory, basing my peti-
tion on the fact that our cause was
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just. It was plain to me that God was
with us. That monster mass of human-
ity camped around Signal Hill began
uncoiling like a great serpent, stretch-
ing itself for miles. The conflict came
at Resacca. The men fought like he-
roes, and 1 prayed until I was drench-
ed with sweat, and still they beat us.
«go it went day after day. It was
just fight and fall back; hold the fort
through the day and dig out at night,
until I got disgusted. Then it occur-
red to me that faith without works
was dead, or rather it was suggested
to me by a soldier, who remarked as
1 rode by; ‘If that preacher would get
a musket he could do a lot more to-
wards licking the Yankees than all his
praying will do.” I took the hint and
added works to my faith. I got a gun
and fought like a _treoper at Dallas
and Pumpkinvine, but with the same
discouraging results.
“I made up my mind there was an
Achan in the camp, and I went to the
brigade commander and told how I
had fasted and prayed, and wrestled
and fought and still there was no
sign from heaven. He wasn’t a saint
exactly, but his parents were pillars
in the church up here about Trenton,
and I knew he had been raised right.
‘Well, he said, ‘my opinion is that
heaven is on the side that has the
heaviest artillery, the most men and
the advantages in the lay of ground.
I talked with others and got about the
same answer. 1 found the men were
gambling and swearing and doing all
sorts of wickedness, which so dis-
couraged me that for a while I was on
the verge of back-sliding. However,
I stuck it through, and believed if all
our men had been praying men we
would have whipped them at every
turn.”
«I did worse than you, for I did fall
from grace. I got so disheartened
that I said right out; there is no just
God! and I was clear off the track for
a month or two.
«A letter from my mother brought
me to my senses and I went at it
again. I feel satisfied that if the dev-
il, or some other influence, hadn’t in-
terfered with my prayers, backed as
they were by thousands of others, our
flag would have been floating over the
capitol at Washington today; as it is
it is a mystery that I cannot fathom.
“My Colonel used to tell me to keep
it up; not that it would have any ef-
fect on the result, but it would keep
the account square with the Yankee
chaplains who were also sending up
petitions. I never could make out
whether he meant that as a joke or
whether he was in real earnest.
«I had an uncle who was a Quaker,
and I told him about it. He said:
‘Thomas, war is an ungodly, wicked
thing, and God takes no part in it. He
may have done so against those who
were obstructing the progress of light,
but He has no part or lot in a foolish
fight between brother and brother,
and thou may depend upon it that thy
prayers were never heard.
«Sometimes I think the old man was
1 | right.”
LEMONT.
The wheat and grass look fine at
this time.
This month has brought lots of rain
for these parts.
Most of the schools in College town-
ship will close this week.
The farmers are busy getting ready
to put out the spring crops.
Workmen are busy repairing the
state highway near Lemont.
Guy Fishel came up from Aarons-
burg to spend Sunday with his par-
ents.
Mrs. Thomas Boal and daughter
visited among friends in Tyrone last
week.
Mrs. William Hoy and Horkey
Kerns have been quite ill the past
week.
Mrs. William E. Grove, who has
been ill for some time, is slowly im-
proving.
Everybody has been busy so far this
spring, which makes the people hap-
py and contented.
John Lee has purchased a lot from
B. F. Hoy and is getting ready to
build himself a home. :
A few people from town attended
the play given by the Civic club of
College township, last Thursday even-
ing.
Mrs. Catharine Vonada, who has
made her home with the family of B.
F. Hoy for about a year, moved to
Lamar, on Tuesday, where she will
make her home.
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JACKSONVILLE.
John Holmes has opened an ice
cream parlor in our town.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Grubb were
Sunday callers at the Joseph Neff
home.
James Mackey has about completed
arrangements to go to Rochester, N.
Y., to spend some time with his son
James.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yearick and
daughters, Hilda and Maxine, were
visitors at the Clyde “"earick home on
Sunday.
Benjamin F. Neff and son George,
of State College, visited among rela-
tives and friends in this section over
Sunday.
While considerable sickness has pre-
vailed throughout this community
most of those afflicted are getting
along all right and are on the road to
recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hoy were_in
Lock Haven on Monday visiting Mr.
Hoy’s mother, Mrs. Z. W. Hoy, of
Howard, who was taken to the hos-
pital in that place last week for a ser-
ious operation. She is now resting
fairly comfortable.
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PINE GROVE MENTION.
All the sick in this section are now
convalescing.
Miss Catherine Dunlap is in Altoo-
na for an indefinite stay.
Most of our fishermen in this sec-
tion have drawn blanks so far.
mers back with their spring work.
Dr. C. T. Aikens, of Selinsgrove,
greeted his old parishioners here last
week.
Clyde Price is driving a new Ford
car and thus far has met with no ac-
cident. :
E. E. Royer recently purchased a
fine Hambletonian stepper which he
may try out on the track.
Newton T. Krebs, our very success-
ful traveling salesman, spent Sunday
with his family in this place.
Will Rossman, of Pleasant Gap,
spent Easter Sunday at the Fred
Rossman home at Rock Springs.
Miss Edna Ward, teacher in the
eighth grade schools at Altoona, spent
Easter at her parental home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. E. Irwin, of Ty-
rone, spent Easter Sunday at the Wil-
liam T. Gates home, at Baileyville.
Rev. Wilson P. Ard, of Bellefonte,
was warmly greeted by his many
friends while in town on Wednesday.
Alfred Reed came in from Greens-
burg and spent Easter with relatives
here, returning to his job on Monday.
Oliver Bloom is looking for the au-
tomobilist who run down and killed
his beagle hound on Monday morning.
Joe Johnson was an over Easter
visitor at the home of his daughter,
MS angaret Robinson, at Warriors-
mark.
Guy Rossman and wife, Herman
and James Ewing spent Saturday
evening on a shopping trip to State
College.
A family gathering was held at the
Will Glenn home at Boalsburg on Eas-
ter Sunday, where all enjoyed a boun-
tiful dinner.
Mrs. J. R. Smith and daughter, Mrs.
Mabel Martz, of Cleveland, Ohio,
spent Easter Sunday with relatives in
the Mountain city.
Pierce O’Bryan and wife came over
from State College and spent Easter
day with the elder Mrs. O'Bryan, at
her home on Church street.
On going to the barn last Thursday
morning Leonard Griffin found his
Percheron stallion dead in its stall.
The animal appeared all right the
evening before and its death is a mys-
tery.
Miss Emma Johnson said good bye
to her many friends on Sunday and
left for Youngstown, Ohio, to help
take care of her sister, Mrs. Wood,
who recently underwent a serious op-
eration.
Miss Ruth Little, of Tyrone, visited
relatives in this section last week. She
was accompanied home on Saturday
by Paul Goss, who spent Easter with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Goss,
in Tyrone.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Reish, of Re-
bersburg, spent the latter end of the
week visiting among old friends in the
vicinity of Pine Hall, and had their
Easter dinner at the John Stover
home at White Hall.
Rev. J. S. English, of Williamsport,
Md., was elected pastor of the Luth-
eran charge here last Sunday. The
charge consists of the churches at
Gatesburg, Pine Hall and Pine Grove
Mills, and the three congregations are
now anxiously awaiting his accept-
ance.
Dr. Stork visited the J. F. Musser
home on the Branch on Sunday and
left a little son who has been christ-
ened J. Foster Jr. Grandpa E. C.
Musser will soon have to open a new
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Loss of Appetite
Pimples, Boils, Eruptions, Ete.—
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Are all very prevalent just now,
and are positive proof that the blood
is awnting in the power to defend the
body against contagious and infec-
tious diseases. They show conclusive-
ly that the blood needs thorough
cleansing, enriching and vitalizing.
Do not put off giving attention to
these dangerous symptoms.
Get Hood’s Sarsaparilla today and
begin taking it at once.
Remember, this medicine has giv-
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as a treatment for the blood, stomach,
liver and kidneys, and for catarrh,
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food taste good, and helps you to eat
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ledger to keep track of his grandchil-
dren, as one arrived only about three
weeks ago.
Miss Phoebe Potter, who makes her
, home with the family of Mr. and Mrs.
1 Isaac Campbell, is quite seriously ill
. with pneumonia.
i Our well known bandmaster, W. X.
Corl, who has been housed up for
some time with illness, was treated to
an Easter postcard shower by his
many friends. Some eighty cards
were received, as well as other re-
membrances.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Williams
motored to Tyrone and spent Easter
with their son Fred. The latter has
charge of the large herd of cattle on
the dairy farm of J. Bailey Campbell,
near Tyrone, and is proving the right
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BOALSBURG.
W. H. Stuart is driving a new Ford.
Misses Mary Reish and Nora Miller
visited at State College on Sunday.
Mrs. Lida Leach and Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Musser and children, of Shin-
Sunday.
Misses Anna M. Dale and Mary
Corl spent Saturday in Bellefonte.
Miss Blanche Rowe came up from
Harrisburg to spend Easter with her
parents.
Mrs. Catherine Saunders, of Centre
Hall, spent a part of last week at the
home of Mrs. Henry Dale.
Mrs. Ellen Stuart, of State College,
and Frank Fisher, of Altoona, were
Euehs of Mrs. Amanda Fisher last
week.
Samuel Kaup and daughter, Miss
Nellie, of Altoona, were week-end
guests of Ms. George Kaup and
daughter.
Postmaster and Mrs. Jacob Meyer
transacted business in Bellefonte on
Saturday and spent Easter with their
daughter, Mrs. Lee Brooks, at Pleas-
ant Gap.
Mr. and Mrs. William Goheen, Mrs.
Alice Magoffin and Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew Goheen motored to Arch
Springs on Friday for a visit at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Tussey.
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