Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, July 21, 1922, Image 2
Demovric aldon Bellefonte, Pa., July 21, 1922, OPEN THE DOOR. Open the door, let in the sun; He hath a smile for every one; He hath made of the raindrops gold and gems, He may change our tears to diadems— Open the door! Open the door of the soul; let in Strong, pure thoughts which will banish sin; They will grow and bloom with a grace divine, And their fruit shall be sweeter than that - of the vine— Open the door! Open the door of the heart; let in Sympathy sweet for stranger and kin; It will make the halls of the heart so fair That angels may enter unaware— Open the door! SHALL I BE A PRINTER? Never before in the history of the United States have there been such excellent opportunities for American boys to learn good trades than at the present time. In every field of indus- try and in all lines of business, the call is for trained men—for men who know how to perform this or that par- ticular kind of work efficiently. To meet this emergency, thousands upon thousands of bright, ambitious youths are needed to take positions as ap- prentices. The opportunities for in- struction and advancement are on every side, and substantial wages are offered to all young men who are will- ing to give their services. The working conditions for appren- tice boys in the industrial plants of this country have changed wonderful- ly for the better during the last few decades. Some years ago it was es- sential for the apprentice to work ten hours of every business day for very small pay. In many instances the boys worked in shops, mills and fac- tories which were anything but san- itary, and in not a few cases the ap- prentice was in danger through ma- chinery having no safety devices. But today, in the average industrial plant, the work-rooms are well lighted, cheerful, and are kept neat and clean; the apprentice works eight hours a day instead of ten, and, moreover, the apprentice is paid substantially while he is learning a valuable trade. One of the most interesting, educa- tional, and profitable vocations is that of printing. It has been well said that “the printing office is a great school of knowledge.” Many of the men who are renowned in American history, such as, for example, Benja- min Franklin and Mark Twain (Sam- uel L. Clemens), gained their early education in printing houses. The knowledge which Franklin received while he was working as a printer and publisher was afterwards exceedingly useful in his work as a writer, invent- or, scientist, and diplomat. Mark Twain’s experience in tke printing trade contributed to his success as an author. Many of the other great men of the world were practical printers, ! and they were all proud of the fact. The printing apprentice during his course of training learns the correct use of grammar and punctuation; he learns how to spell words properly; he learns color harmony, mathematics, and a great deal of other useful knowledge, aside from the regular mechanical work of printing. The compositor, or type-setter, handles “copy” written on practically every subject. He reads and sets type si- multaneously. He cannot help but ab- sorb some of the knowledge offered by the manuscripts he works on. Op- erators of type-setting machines in large newspaper and magazine plants have the pleasure of reading the lat- est news, special articles, and short stories before the public sees the mat- ter in print. The compositor must read as he sets type, whether he likes reading or not. He must spell words and punctuate sentences correctly, else his proof-sheets will mark him as an illiterate man. The average com- positor is well read and broad minded simply as a result of his work. The printing pressman, too, has the advantage of reading many different kinds of printed matter during the course of his work in the press-room. When making-ready forms of type | and plates on the presses, he bulids up weak places in the make-ready with small pieces of tissue paper so that the form of type or plates will print evenly and plainly on the stock. In other words, the pressman’s work is so fine and intricate that often a piece of paper as thin as tissue will affect it. This means that the pressman re- ally learns considerable about engi- neering. His experience in mixing printing inks of many colors and tints soon give him a knowledge of color, which knowledge could be applied to various kinds of work outside the printing industry. For instance, the expert color-printer knows that a frame house painted pearl gray, with the window-frames and shutters done in darker gray, and the window-sash painted light maroon, would be pleas- ing to the eye on account of the three different colors mentioned being in harmony. " Both the compositor and the press- man, during their work in the print- ing office, have to deal with figures and measurements which may be classed under the head of mathemat- ics, and in many ways this knowledge is useful to the compositor and press- man aside from their regular work in the printery. The point which the writer is trying to make clear to the reader is this: The trained printer soon becomes an exacting man; the great variety of fine work that he is producing forces him to be exacting. Therefor, if a good printer would de- sire to leave the printing trade for the purpose of learning some other trade, he would already be in possession of knowledge which would aid him in rapidly learning another craft. Printers, as a class, are among the highest-paid craftsmen in the United States. One of the many advantages of the printing business is in its being a steady, all-through-the-year occupa- tion. The average large and medium- size printing plant is constantly busy during all months of the year. The well-trained compositor or pressman may always feel sure of holding a steady position. His work is intense- ly interesting—so fascinating, in fact, that often the day passes before he re- alizes that it is time to go home. He works indoors, usually in comfortable quarters, and rains or snows never force him to “take days off” as is fre- quently the case with outdoor work- ers. At the present time, when a young man decides to become a printing-ap- prentice he has the choice of at least five different branches of the business, namely, hand composition, job press- work, cylinder press-work, rotary press-work, and machine composition. There are other branches in addition, such as imposition of forms and proof- reading, but the apprentice should first acquire practical knowledge of composition before taking up either one of the last branches mentioned. It would require about four years for the apprentice to learn any one of these seven “professions.” Hand composition means the set- ting of plain type of various faces and sizes, such as used for the printing of fine books, booklets, pamphlets, etc. It means also the setting of display type of various sizes and faces as used for business cards, letter heads, bill- heads; advertising literature, such as folders, catalogues, mailing cards, and posters; and display advertising, as it appears in newspapers and maga- zines. The hand compositor who knows how to design and set in type handsome forms for title pages of books and catalogues, business sta- tionery, advertising literature, and for display advertising, is called a ty- pographer,” and he ranks as an artist. Job press-work means “making ready” forms of type and plates on platen presses of various models and sizes, which print sheets of paper and cardboard of all sizes up to fourteen by twenty-two inches. Much of the fine color printing, such as art sub- Jects for wall calendars, booklets, ad- vertising folders, inserts for books, business stationery, etec., is produced on platen presses. Practically all of the smaller class of job and. commer- cial printing, such as business cards, tickets, bill-heads, circulars and an- nouncements, is also done on platen presses. The job pressman must know how to make-ready the forms so that the type and plates give perfect impressions on the stock; he must know how to mix different colors and tints of printing ink; he must know how to manipulate the ink so that it will properly transfer from the inked form to the paper stock; he must know how to adjust “guides” on the “tymp- an” of the press so that the form will print on the right position on the stock, and so that the operator of the machine will. have no difficulty in “feeding” the sheets to register. Cylinder presswork means making- ready large forms of type and plates which would be too spacious to work on platen presses. The cylinder press is used for printing large sheets of stock for catalogues, books, country newspapers, magazines, posters, and so Toth. All op the big, illustrated catalogues sent out by business con- cerns are printed eight or more pages at a time on cylinder presses. The cylinder press-man works in about the same way as a job press-man, with the exception that he handles larger and heavier forms. Both the job and cylinder press-men are highly-skilled craftsmen, and many of them may rightly be classed as artists. Rotary presswork means making- ready curved plates which are used for printing large editions of newspa- pers, magazines, telephone directories, etc. The great standard magazines are printed from curved electrotype plates on rotary presses, the paper passing automatically through the machines at high speed from rolls. All of the big city newspapers are printed from curved stereotype plates on mammoth rotary presses, the pa- per speeding through from rolls auto- matically. The make-ready is done in such a manner as to cause all of the illustration and type-matter in the electrotype and stereotype plates to print sharp and clear. Machine composition is done by means of a keyboard and a casting device. The operator of a composing machine can produce five times as much plain type-matter as a compos- itor can set by hand. Practically ali of the plain type-composition used for the large daily newspapers and for the standard magazines is set on ma- chines. The two popular composing- machines which are in general use are called the linotype and the monotype. The operator of a linotype, by manip- ulating the keyboard, sets lines of matrices from which solid lines of type are cast automatically. The op- erator of a monotype also works on a keyboard, and as he strikes the var- ious buttons of the keyboard, holes are perforated in a roll of paper. Afterwards, this roll of paper is plac- ed on a casting machine, and the holes in the paper cause new, movable type characters and spaces to be cast and set in lines. It is not the writer's intention to present in this article a complete treatise on the art of printing. The intention is merely to give prospect- ive apprentices an idea of the duties required of a printer in the various departments of a plant. Enough has been written on the technical side of the subject to point the way to the particular kind of work in which the reader may be interested. One youth may prefer to learn the art of hand composition, another may have a de- sire for learning job presswork, still another may prefer the work of ma- chine composition 2nd so on. It would be well for the young man who believes that he would like to become a printer to go through all depart- ments of a large printing house for the purpose of studying the differeent branches of the work. He would then be in a position to decide on the branch of work that he would like best to learn. For the information of boys who may not know of the fact, in nearly all of the medium sized towns and large cities of the United States are located vocational schools whare print- ing and other trades are taught in EET evening courses. The course of in- struction is free. It should be under- stood, however, that these vocational schools are not capable of making full-fledged craftsmen. This could not be expected with the student at- tending the classes only a few hours of each week. The evening trade school will, nevertheless, give the printing apprentice preparatory train- ing which will prove very valuable to him when he accepts a regular posi- tion as apprentice in a printing estab- lishment. Boys desiring to learn something about printing and its allied trades from books will find many instructive volumes on the subjects in the free public libraries. One of the best ser- ies of books ever written on printing and its allied trades is called “The U. T. A. Typographical Library,” con- sisting of sixty-four volumes, each one devoted to a particular branch cf the printing industry. These books may be found in the “Useful Arts De- partment” of any large public libra- ry. The series of books by Theodore L. DeVinne, a famous American printer, will also be found valuable to the student. Any intelligent youth, sixteen years of age, or older, who would like to learn the printing trade, will exper- ience no difficulty in finding a position | as apprentice open for him in his home town or city. Even in the small villages throughout the land are lo- cated job printing and country news- paper offices which offer opportunities for boys to become apprentices. The country printer, as a rule, is a good craftsman, and he is capable of hold- ing a position in one - of the large printing and publishing houses of the city, but in these days even the coun- try printer is fairly well paid, and there is no need for him to move away from home. While he would earn higher wages in the city, living ex- penses would be higher there, so he would gain little by leaving the coun- try printery. In this age, so important and useful is printing that no other industry could hardly exist without it. Every business, no matter in what line, needs printed matter to keep it in op- eration. The United States govern- ment is one of the largest users of printing in the world. Who has not heard of Uncle Sam’s splendid print- ing office in Washington, D. C? So rapidly has the printing and publish- ing business been growing during the last thirty years that today it ranks as the third largest industry in the United States, and it is still develop- ing and expanding in every direction. With these facts in mind, it is easy for one to understand why there is al- ways plenty of work for good print- ers, and it is crystal-clear that the fu- ture for printing-apprentices is ex- ceedingly brilliant.—The Watchword. FIRST CITY RADIUM CLINIC FOR RICH AND POOR. A municipal radium clinic, the first in America, was recently opened in Philadelphia. The city purchased two grams of the precious element for $154,000, a bargain price, for this quantity would ordinarily have cost $200,000. The commercial possibili- ties of this substance when used for treatment of cancer are seen when it is stated that the emanation obtained is usually sold at $13 per “millecurie,” the standard of measurement. The emanation mentioned is a heavy gas, and is the first disintegration product of the original radium, whose power of yielding the emanation is estimat- ed to last for over 1,000 years. While many radiologists use minute parti- cles of the radium itself, properly in- closed, for application to cancerous areas, it is, of course, its emanation that has the curative effect, and in this hospital the emanation is collect- ed and sealed, in millecurie doses, in tiny silver tubes. As a first supply, a quantity of 250 millecuries, salable commercially at $3,250, was collected. Treatment will be free in the city hospital, however, to those patients who cannot afford to pay. The radi- um is contained in a lead-lined, her- metically sealed safe in the laboratory of the hospital. The room is protect- ed with a fine network of burglar- alarm wires, and every precaution has been taken to protect the sub- stance that is about 130,000 times as valuable as gold. While physicians emphasize the fact that radium emanations cannot cure every case of cancer, yet they believe in its curative properties generally. The radium, about as much as two peas, is dissolved in water and hydro- chloric acid, the result being an am- ber-colored fluid. The gas emanation resulting from its disintegration is pumped through a glass tube from which the air has been withdrawn. A series of bulbs filled with mercury prevents air from getting back in. Tiny quantities of the gas gradually accumulate in the tube after the mer- cury is withdrawn from the traps. The emanation, purified by the tube being run over a red-hot copper bar, is forced into a glass tube the size of a hair. This is sealed and divided in- to tiny fractions which are also fused and sealed. Each section is placed in a silver container and put in a jewel box. The silver tube is applied to the cancer, the emanation burning out the dis- eased tissues. Great care is taken to protect the workers, the tubes being handled with forceps, and the persons handling the radium remaining be- hind lead-lined cast-iron blocks de- signed to protect them. The appara- tus to measure the strength of the emanation is the finest ever devised, and cost $10,000. Fifteeen to twen- ty persons are examined each day, by a staff of the best physicians in the city.—By Douglas C. Miner. er——— —— Exchange of Compliments. Mr. Jones at a dinner party had been trying to say something nice to his hostess. “What a small appetite you have, Mr. Jones,” she remarked. “To sit next to you, Mrs. Smith,” he replied, “would cause any man to lose his appetite.” And then he wondered why he was not invited to the next affair. eett——— pe ————— ——Subscribe for the “Watchman” ! THE JOLLY BACHELOR. | Sr ——— By L. A: Miller. valuable space on the important top- tal existing, simply because he is not burdened with the responsibility of endeavor to prove is a serious mis- take, and will be so long as the pesky old maid exists. As a rule the char- acteristics of the old maids are that they understand their business to per- fection, and other people’s business as well. Now, then, the question is, to marry or not to marry. This isa question of far more importance than Hamlet’s: “To be, or not to be.” In fact his is not a fair question at all, since we are not consulted as to whether we will be, or will not be. The first thing we know we are, and all that is left for us is to make the best of it. Whether we do, or do not, marry, is quite a different matter. as best suits our tastes or conditions, and mankind is justifiable in doing either, which leaves some in a quan- dary which to do. Now, then, what prompted me to , give my views on this all important | subject was occasioned on account of | | a pleasant chat I had some time ago { with a dear old friend, and by the way | ‘a happy, intelligent bachelor. 1f my | memory serves me right his senti- ! ments as expressed to me were as fol- | lows: “I am a professional man, thirty | years of age, and have an income suf- and a wife, if need be, but the neces- sire to refer to you for an opinion. books and did not go into society, consequently did not devote any thought to the question of love, court- ship, or marriage; and while engaged in preparation for my profession the same acted to prevent my seeking the society of the opposite sex. After a number of years of constant applica- tion to my profession, during which time I made a number of male friends and formed certain bachelor habits, and I reached the position first stated. I am perfectly satisfied with my prsent condition and consider my- self far happier than the majority of married meen. Strange to say, my female relatives are not content to allow me to remain tinually bringing up the unpleasant question of matrimony. They seem to consider that a bachelor has no rights which they are bound to re- spect, and in accordance with this view they take every opportunity to {heap reproaches on me. They tell me tit is my duty to get married; and I | | owe it to society; in fact, leave my own feelings and inclinations entirely out of the question. Am I to become | a martyr and immolate myself on the | altar of matrimony, simply through a i sense of duty, or to please others? While I have no bad habits, I know that were I to marry I should be obliged to give up my present mode of life and surrender all the joys of my existence. To give up my old friends, my old ways, no more chats and smokes in the evenings with my associates; no occasional visits to the movies; no more calm and peaceful nights devoted to pleasant reading and meditation; nothing of this kind, but everything reversed. All from a foolish notion of duty. Please give me your advice on this question, with- out consulting the old maids or vi- vacious young girls.” Here is a case worthy of careful at- tention, as it involves the question of duty. This gentleman is pleasantly situated, his surroundings are to his taste, and his life of a bachelor ap- pears to suit his nature and disposi- tion. Has he a right to remain there ? He realizes that he has the means necessary to keep a wife in good style, and is of an agreeable dispo- sition, as most bachelors of his type are, yet he is not sure that getting married would not spoil his present comfort, besides making some woman unhappy. From the earliest ages of which we have any record, marriage has been regarded as an institution of heaven. Some nations hold it to be a gross violation of nature’s laws not to marry, and for that reason it was made compulsory. During the age of strife, when men were continually fighting and killing each other off, thereby leaving a large excess of fe- males over males, the laws not only permitted a man to have many wives, but made polygamy compulsory. The prevalent idea that the polygamy of those times was due to sensuousness is not well founded. If men had not been permitted to take more than one woman to wife, fully one half the women would have become old maids, and the world would have been very little better for their having lived. Mothers were what the world need- ed then, and the laws were adjusted to meet the demand. The whirligig of time has carried us past the point where polygamy is a necessity, as the sexes are now so evenly balanced that each man may have one wife and each woman one husband, at a time. At present there is a slight excess of women in this country, but it is not sufficient to justify even the more modern forms of polygamy. It may be concluded, therefore, that marriage is no longer a necessity in the sense it was in past ages, yet, as a social institution it is still, and ever will be a necessity. It is so written in the book of nature, and so speci- fied in the laws of economy. These do not say that men shall marry, but that they may. The law is not man- Ldatory in character, but enobling. This, however, makes little difference as far as the matter of duty is con- cerned. Every man owes it to world to make himself and everybody else as comfortable as possible, or lies in his power, and, leaving the world, have it said: His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, —this was a Man,—Shakespeare. Marriage would, therefore, seem to It is something we may or may not do, ficient to support myself in good style, ! sity of the latter is the question I de- | While at college I was busy with my | in this blissful condition but are con- | the | &! . be purely a matter of choice. The old | maids are antagonistic. They allege i the bachelors might be put in those J just feel like killing some of your | positions which are attended with | 1 much danger; then if their lives were | ic which I will designate as the jolly | jost there would be few to mourn. ugly head in Pennsylvania, 71 cases bachelor and the restless, cranky old | They might be heavily taxed for cer- heing reported to the State Health De- maid. Many of your readers imagine | tainly no others have as much right | partment from Canonsburg, Washing- that the bachelor is the happiest mor- | to bear the public expense as those ton county. . who have none depending on them. | When drafts are made to fill up de- providing for a family. This, I will pleted armies the proclamation might | typhoid fever last iread: “Draw from the list of bache- lors.” They might be made gas in- | spectors, dynamite supervisors, or as- ' signed any position in which it would i be dangerous to put a great and good iman. With all these senseless abus- | es heaped upon the jolly bachelor, if i the old maids say please sir to him he | goes straightway and does her bid- | ding, or at least makes her believe he | is doing his level best to do it. How- | ever, if he is not a bachelor from | choice, he may be crusty and contra- i ry, or may fawn and splurge around ! like a youth with his first mustache. | The good natured bachelor generally children to look after, which he does cheerfully, and it makes him feel good | to be called uncle, regardless of the age, sex, race or previous condition cf the self-styled nephews and nieces. Young ladies, when preparing to entertain company or to enter society, | like bachelors to practice on. Any young girl is glad of the chance of going out with a bachelor uncle, be- cause he takes such good care of her, and knows where the nicest suppers and lunches are to be found. It is a mistake to think bachelors are heart- less. Never could they have become ' so popular with children and young people if they were. While the ma- this life, they have their ample share of trials and ‘difficulties to contend | with. (While our correspondent devotes ‘his energies to defending the jolly | bachelors a Hazleton minister upholds | the bachelor girl, as witnesseth the | following :—Editor). { Hazleton, Pa., July 16.—Jokers call | bachelor girls a disgruntled set, said Rev. Dr. C. A. Smucker, pastor of St. | Paul’s Methodist church, tonight, in a special sermon to young women, whereas he claimed the facts show they are a happy group, as well as a ed God made more women than men, which the preacher took as an indica- tion of the Divine plan that all of the fair sex shall not wed. The majority ! of the bachelor girls remain single, he declared, because the offers made of marriage were not satisfactory. senses fesse Agricultural Course a Desirable One. There are perhaps a number of boys in Centre county who would like to en- {ter a two-year or a four-year course {in agriculture at The Pennsylvania : State College but they feel that such {a course fits them only for the suc-: ! cessful management of a farm. | of these boys desire a college educa- | tion in order to follow some occupa- | { tion other than actual farm practice after graduation. attention is diverted from the agri- ! cultural school because of the wrong impression they have of the field of work for which an agricultural course prepares them. The fundamental purpose of the school of agriculture is admittedly to send out graduates that are equipped to operate a farm efficiently and with some measure of success. That Penn State is fulfilling its’ purpose in this respect is amply testified by the fact that more than one-third of its grad- uates are today engaging in actual farm practice. The majority of the remaining two-thirds are in profes- sional work for which they prepared while in college. It may be generally understood that courses in agriculture, in addition to training men in farm products, also prepare graduates for professional services in fields of work essential to agricultural enterprise; fields in which the country boy will discover his early farm experience to be of im- measurable value. The demand is steadily increasing for graduates that have trained themselves for service as agricultural instructors and inves- tigators, extension specialists, for- esters, landscape architects, plant pa- thologists, agricultural engineers, and for other specialized lines of service. Penn State aims to train this type of skilled workers also. Americans Becoming Drinkers of Milk. A dispatch from Washington says America is fast becoming a milk- drinking nation. In 1921 every man, woman and child in the United States consumed an average of 49 gallons of milk, or nearly a gallon a week per capita. In 1920 the per capita con- sumption was 43 gallons. The Department of Agriculture has been delving into dairy farm statist- ics to ascertain just how much milk and cream the 25,061,000 cows produc- ed last year, and its distribution. Production of whole milk, which in- cludes milk and cream, for household purposes in 1921 was 45,153,000,000 pounds, 5,000,000,000 pounds in excess of 1920. The whole milk represents 46 per cent. of the total quantity pro- duced. Butter, cheese, condensed and evaporated milk, ice cream and other products consumed 46,483,408,000 pounds. Conducted “Experience Meeting.” Dr. J. M. Buckley, the Mehtodist di- vine, was asked one day to conduct an “experience meeting” at a colored church in the South. A colored woman arose and bore witness to the preciousness of her re- ligion as light-burner and comfort- ver. “That’s good, sister!” commented Dr. Buckley. “But how about the practical side? Does your religion make you strive to prepare your hus- band a good dinner? Does it make you look after him in every way?” Just then Dr. Buckley felt a yank at his coat tails by the colored preacher, who whispered ardently: “Press dem questions, doctor; press dem ques- tions. Dat’s my wife!” has a dozen or more other people’s'’ jority of bachelors seem to enjoy! most useful one. Dr. Smucker claim- | Some ' Consequently their | TIMELY INFORMATION FROM | STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. | TYPHOID AND TETANUS. Typhoid fever has reared again its This town, with a population of 1 3891, had 40 cases and 5 deaths from summer. The ' source of infection proved to be a well , used by many of the townspeople de- i spite the fact that they have a clean ! borough water supply. This well was ‘ ciosed but the present epidemic has | been traced to another one which was ‘closed by the State Health Depart- | ment on May 22nd. | Department of health engineers are ' now inspecting all the wells in the | town, and the local board of health i will compel owners of properties along streets that are sewered to con- | nect with the public water and sew- | erage system, closing outside privies i and wells. The Commissioner of Health states ' that not one case of typhoid fever last summer developed from any properly controlled public water supply. They all were traceable either to springs ; and wells, or to milk infected by a ty- i phoid carrier. | He said, “properly pasteurized milk carries no active typhoid germs, but i there is no surface water in Pennsyl- | vania that is absolutely safe, though {it can be made so by boiling; by ade- i quate and complete filtration; prefer- anly by sedimentation and chlorina- . tion. | Wells in limestone districts are all dangerous. There are safe wells in , sand stone formations. There are also ' safe springs, but communities depend- ent upon well water or springs should take measures to insure their freedom from sewage contamination. Tour- ists should not drink from wayside springs or wells. “The laboratories of the State De- partment of Health are at the service of any community in the State, though | they can be used only exceptionally | for the test of a well used by a single | family.” The Commissiner of Health states that torn, bruised wounds, particular- ly when deep contaminated by street or stable dirt, and all wounds caused by fireworks are dangerous. He advises first aid treatment of these wounds by washing with water which has been boiled and applying over the wound a clean boiled cloth, preferably linen, wet and kept wet in this boiled water, until the doctor comes. “Antitoxin for such cases should be administered at once—the sooner the better. The dose is fifteen hundred units. It will prevent lockjaw,” he said. “In bad wounds which show no ten- dency to heal in a week, the dose should be repeated.” Tetanus antitoxine stations in Cen- M. B. Runkle, Belle- : fonte; Miss Mabel Arney, Centre Hall; Troutman & Co., Philipsburg; | Ray D. Gilliland, Sate College. , tre county are: ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” BOALSBURG. Miss Eleanor Glenn spent Saturday night at her home on the Branch. Frank Crawford, of Bellefonte, was a business caller in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer transact- ed business in Bellefonte Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mayes and fam- ily, of Milton, visited among friends in town recently. Misses Mary and Rachel Segner spent Friday at Linden Hall, guests of Mrs. Robert Gearhart. Forester Ludwig, with his wife and two sons, of Johnstown, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Barr. Miss Nelle Holter, of Howard, re- cently spent a few days at the home of Mrs. Charles Mothersbaugh. Jacob Meyer, Frank Ream and Wil- liam Brouse have improved the ap- pearance of their residences by paint- ing. Mr. and Mrs. John Weber and grand-daughter, and Mrs. Lutz, of Centre Hall, were guests of S. E. Weber and sister on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Showers and family and Mr. and Mrs. Miller and family, of Madisonburg, were visitors at the home of A. J. Hazel on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coxey spent sev- {eral days in Altoona. Mrs. Harriet i Koch, of Aaronsburg, and Miss Cath- erine Koch, of Pine Grove Mills, were in charge of the Coxey home during their absence. Mrs. E. R. Tussey and children, of Arch Springs, spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Goheen; Mrs. Tussey coming to at- tend the funeral of her aunt, Miss Lu- cretia D. Goheen. MEDICAL. The Weary Way Daily Becoming Less Wearisome to Many in Bellefonte. With a back that aches all day, With rest disturbed at night, Annyoing urinary disorders, "Tis a weary way indeed. Doan’s Kidney Pills are especially for kidney trouble. ; Are endorsed by Bellefonte citizens. Ask your neighbor! Mrs. Howard Shuey, S. Water St., Bellefonte, says: “I had a severe at- tack of kidney trouble. My back ached and pained so I couldn’t get a night’s rest. My work tired me out and I often had to neglect it. There was a steady, dull aching over my kid- neys and I was hardly ever free from headaches and dizzy spells. My kid- neys didn’t act right. I used Doan’s Kidney Pills from the Parrish drug store and they helped me right away by stopping the backaches and other signs of kidney trouble.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t sim- ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Shuey had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 7-28