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WHY IT IS CALLED
FLOWERY KINGDOM.
The Norths Revel in Profusion of
Springtime Flowers and
Balmy Weather.
Chengtu, China, April 6, 1924.
Dear Home Folks:
I am going to attempt another let-
ter. How far I get before being inter-
rupted I do not know, for most of my
letters are written in installments.
Spring has arrived here. It comes
much earlier than in New York State
or in Pennsylvania. The leaves on
some of the trees have been out for
two weeks or more, while the tardier
varieties have given birth to new
leaves during the past week. The
weather is much warmer. We have
had little fire in the house for two
weeks, except far cooking, while over-
coats have been unnecessary for about
the same length of time. We have de-
casional cold days, but nothing like
the cold of home weather. This is
- the first winter I have passed without
seeing any snow on the ground.
Spring in China is much more in-
teresting than winter. The latter sea-
son has too many drab days with none
of the relief afforded by the white
blanket of snow. With the coming of
warmer weather the Chinese discard
the padded garments of winter. They
call them “pugais,” the same word
which they give to bedspreads, and
rightly so, for they :are cotton gar-
ments stuffed with cotton like the old
comforters at home. As they have no
fires in their homes, they merely add
more layers as the cold ‘becomes more
intense. With the coming of spring
there is algo the added interest of life
in the open. The parks are full of
people come out from their dingy hov-
els to enjoy the sunshine and to drink
tea in the ubiquitous teahouses. Flow-
ers are in bloom. Already roses,
peach blossoms, “mei hwa” (plum
blossoms), pansies, .carnations, dai-
sies, peonies, fuchias, .astors, fres-
ias, magnolias, :and ‘numerous other
flowers add gaiety of .color to the
dooryards of the better class of homes.
The fields outside the city have for
weeks been gay with the yellow ‘blos-
som of the rape. The change seems
more sudden and earlier ‘than at
home, although mot so marked, for
certain blossoms and vegetdbles.grow
all winter.
During the past few weeks General
Yang Sen, who captured the city
about the first of February, has been
making great improvements .and has
been much in evidenee at various
gatherings. The longer he is here,
the more we come to respect him. He
has compelled the eating houses and
other places to remove the stoves from
the front of the shops where they
cumbered the streets, so that the first
step has been taken in his attempt to
widen the streets for traffic. There
has grown up a custom of extending
one’s place of business as far into the
street as possible. The streets are too
narrow, as matters stand, without the
further narrowing of these encroach-
ments. He has cleaned up many pub-
lic squares, and has driven many of
the beggars off the streets. This
week signs have been posted calling
the attention of the people to the evils
of drinking wine, of smoking opium
and cigarettes, and of gambling. A
few days before he ordered the sale of
opium-smoking outfits to be stopped.
It had been possible to secure these
articles anywhere. He himself is
practically a teetotaler, does not use
tobacco, and does not gamble. To
Americans the first and last named do
not seem unusual, but to find a Chi-
nese, not a Christian, who holds such
principles is most rare—at least in
Szechwan. Better yet, many of his
generals follow his example, He is a
little man, but has big ideas. We
hope and pray that he may be able to
keep control of the government long
enough to accomplish something
worth while. He has on foot now the
project of building a good road from
mer resort a day’s journey away,
which is the head of the great irriga-
tion system which supplies the Cheng-
tu plain with water. He is using his
hordes of soldiers for this purpose.
His principal handicap now seems to
be a lack of money. His predecessor
and enemy, Hsiong Keh Wu, collected
taxes for several years in advance,
and also, of course, carried off all the
money he could lay his hands on,
when he fled from the city. Last week,
Thursday night, he spoke in our
church to a large crowd. He is most
friendly to foreigners, and seems
much interested in our work, religious,
educational, and medical. Week be-
fore last I had the privilege of attend-
ing a reception tendered to him by
the foreign community at the British
consulate. He posed for me, so that
I hope to send you a snapshot soon.
The influx of Western ideas into a
region so far removed from fast mod-
ern means of transportation is really
surprising. When one considers that
it takes ten days to reach Chengtu
after leaving the nearest port on the
Yangtsze, that we are parhaps a
thousand miles from the nearest rail-
road, that there is a single telegraph
line which is out of commission half
of the time, that it takes six weeks to
get a letter from home, that it takes
three months to get an order from
Shanghai, after sending the order, to
say nothing of the time it takes for-
eign goods to reach here, it is little
short of amazing to see to what ex-
tent the progress of the Occident has
permeated the Orient at the capital
farthest from the coast. To give you
an idea of this, I'll mention a few il-
lustrations. Foreign hats and shoes
are fast displacing the old (Chinese
fashion. Fountain pens are becoming
almost common. Newspapers appear
every morning. Police are found at
all important centers—a purely West-
ern idea. It is not uncommon to see
Chinese in complete Western attire.
The uniforms of both soldiers and po-
lice are modeled on Western fashions.
The educational system of modern
China is in its curriculum not unlike
that of the Western world. Instead
of the study of the Chinese classics
alone as was the custom in the schools
a generation ago, we find the modern
Chinese High school student, even out
here on the border of Thibet, study-
ing chemistry, physics, algebra, ge-
ometry, and the other most commonly
studied branches of learning of the
West. The study of English is almost
a mania with some of the students.
Most of the missions have weekly
classes in the study of the English
Bible. Although the government
school students come primarily for
the English instruction, many of them
are reached and influenced in favor of
Christianity. Even though a student
may not embrace the Christian faith,
he comes to hold an intelligent and
|.often most sympathetic attitude to-
‘ward what so many of the Chinese
still persist in calling the “foreign re-
ligion.” I just mentioned the study
of English. One of the government
schools in Chengtu is called the For-
eign Language College. In it are
taught nothing but French and Eng-
lish. I am told that almost all the
students of that college are studying
English alone. There are various rea-
sons for the popularity of English.
For one thing, a working knowledge
of English isa prerequisite for en-
trance into the postal service, which
is controlled by foreigners. Besides,
most of the Westerners in western
China speak English. Aside from the
English-speaking foreigner- there are
in Chengtu only a dozer or fifteen
French, one Italian famuy, and the
Japanese consul and his wife. Eng-
lish, Canadians and Americans make
up the most of the foreign communi-
ty. I have a class studying the Eng-
lish Bible. It meets at my house be-
hind our church twice a week. Al-
though there are many transients,
there are also a few faithful ones who
are thoroughly anxious to learn more
of English. They are fine fellows,
and are certainly worth giving one’s
time to.
Life here is as varied and as full as
at home—sometimes more so. The
‘Chinese are a wonderful people in
many ways. Many of their ways
seem crude to us. They are behind in
material developments, as in many
other ways, but we Americans have
too often adopted the Pharisaical at-
titude, and our “I am holier than
thou” obsession has blinded us to
many of their admirable characterist-
ies, as well as to many of our own ab-
surdities. If any one in the United
States wishes to see himself as others
see him, I can reepmmend no better
way than to sojourn in the Orient, if
only for a few months. He not only
gets a new angle upen the political
and social life of his own country, but
he gets a new angle on religion. Put
a man in this country with a strong
religious tradition of its own, where
the “new student” approaches any
and every thing with a question mark,
and if he hasn't already “a reason for
the faith that is in him,” he by hook
or by crook must find one or go home.
In other words, only unadulterated
Christianity goes here. The age-long
traditions and non-essential details
that accompany the Christianity of
the Occident are seen in their proper
light here. If every American could
come to China with an unbiased mind,
to view life from an entirely new an-
gle, I feel he would go home with a
brand of Christianity that would help
to revolutionize some very un-Chris-
tian conditions there. We would all
be better home missionaries if we
were given the opportunity which life
here gives.
I see that this letter is growing
apace. For fear that I may weary
you, I'll not philosophize longer.
BILL,
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here to Kwanhsien, a prominent sum-
PAYNE.—William H. Payne, who
spent the past year at Boswell, New"
Mexico, for the benefit of his health,
passed away about six o'clock last
Friday evening. Only a few days pre-
vious he had seemed so much improv-
ed that his mother, who has been with
him ever since he went west, was
hopeful of an ultimate recovery, but
a sudden collapse about the middle of
the week resulted in his death at the
burg, Centre county. When a boy his
parents moved to Sandy Ridge where
he grew to manhood and married Miss
Christina Wesner. Twenty years ago
the family moved to Blue Ball. He is
survived by his wife, thirteen children
and four sisters. Burial was made at
Blue Ball last Saturday.
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MORRIS.—Mrs. Mary Harris Mor-
ris, widow of the late Wistar Morris,
time above stated.
extended overseas, having
He was a son of G. C. and Mary
Long Payne and was born at Roan-
oke, Va., on April 9th, 1896, hence was
28 years, 4 months and 27 days old.
The family came to Bellefonte in 1905
and he was educated in the public
schools here, graduating at the High
school in 1915. He later entered The
Pennsylvania State College, but his
course was interrupted by the world
war when he joined the Boal Machine
gun troop and was made a lieutenant,
his first military experience having
been received as a member of the old
Troop L, of Bellefonte. His record
served
in France as a member of the 48th
died at her home at Ovérbrook, near
Philadelphia, at one o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon, as the result of gener-
al debility.
She was a daughter of Joseph and
Jane Miller Harris and was born in
Bellefonte on September 4th, 1836,
hence was 88 years and 5 days old.
Her parents dying when she was a
child she made her home with the
family of William Thomas, living all
her early life in the old stone house
of the Thomas family on north Thom-
as street. In the early sixties she
married Mr. Morris, one of the leading
directors of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, the young couple going direct to
Philadelphia to make their home; and
where, owing to the position of her
artillery.
Returning home at the end of the
war he resumed his course at State
College, graduating in June, 1923.
At the College he was a member of ;
the A. T. O. fraternity and during his
senior year president of the student’s
council. Following his graduation he
spent a few weeks at home then ac-
cepted the position of supervisor of
agriculture in the High school at
Northeast, Pa. Three weeks after he
went to that place he became ill and
upon the advice of his physician he
went to New Mexico last September,
accompanied by his mother. He made
a heroic fight for life but the odds
were too great to overcome.
He is survived by his mother, two
brothers and one sister, John B. and
Gideon CG. Payne, of Bellefonte, and
Mrs. Paul D. Seanor, of Roanoke, Va.
The remains were brought to Belle-
fonte on Tuesday evening and taken
to the John Payne home on east Lynn
street. A full military funeral was
held at 10:30 o’clock on Wednesday
morning. Troop B, the Boal troop
and the Brooks-Doll post of the Amer-
ican Legion attended as units. Re-
ligious services were held in St. John’s
Episcopal church, of which he was a
member, by the Rev. Malcolm DePui
Maynard, and burial was made in the
Union cemeter.
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MOSER.—Miss Katharine Moser, a
native of Centre county, died at her
home in Washington, D. C., last
Thursday as the result of a complica-
tion of diseases, aged 88 years. Born at
Pine Grove Mills in 1836 she was a
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Daniel
Moser. Her father was one of the
pioneer preachers of the Lutheran
church in Centre county. She was
educated at the Pine Grove Mills
academy -and for a number of, years
was one of the most success hool
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lowing the death of her father in 1864
the family moved to Altoona and she
taught school in Blair county until
advancing years compelled her retire-
ment. During the past ten years she
French Cross
husband, she has always been social-
ly prominent.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris had but one
child, a daughter, Holly Morris, who
married Rev. Wood, a well known
Presbyterian minister, who died a few
years after their marriage, leaving
two children,
Green Hills Farms, at Overbrook, and
Marguerite, wife of Logan McCoy, a
-well known attorney of Philadelphia.
Both grand-children have lived on the
Morris estate at Overbrook all their
life, Mrs.
from a trip to Europe only last Sat-
urday. Mrs. Morris has been a semi-in-
valid for many years, but was a fre-
quent visitor in Bellefonte until her
health would not permit her making
the journey.
Morris Wood, of the
McCoy having returned
She was a member of the Friends
church and burial was made at Over-
brook at three o’clock yesterday after-
oon.
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KERSTETTER.—Richard Jacob, in-
fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn B.
Kerstetter, of Coburn, died on Monday
morning, aged 28 days. Funeral serv-
ices were held on Wednesday after-
noon by Rev. J. S. Hollenbach, burial
being made in the Fairview cemetery,
at Millheim.
Dedicated; General
Miner Honored.
A number of very distinguished of-
ficers attended the annual meeting of
the officers club of the 28th division
at the home of Col. Theodore Davis
Boal, at Boalsburg, last Friday and
Saturday and took part in the dedica-
tion of the French cross on Saturday
t afternoon in honor of General Edward
Sigerfoos as well as the memorial
services to: the late. Major General
Astor Mier, The number included
: Pp . | Major General Charles H. Muir, Ma-
teachers In Ferguson townshi Fol jor General William H. Hay, Briga-
dier Generals E. C. Shannon, Dennis
Nolan and Edward Martin, as well as
a score of captains and lieutenants.
Col. Boal gave a dinner on Friday
Mrs. Etta Irvin, of Baltimore.
Rose Hill cemetery.
had made her home in Washington.
She was a member of the Lutheran
church all her life. Surviving her are
the following sisters and brothers:
Mrs. Mary Felty, of Altoona; Rev. M.
L. Moser, of Gettysburg; Mrs. Lizzie
Gardner, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs.
Kemmell, of Portland, Oregon, and
The
remains were taken to Altoona where
funeral services were held on Satur-
day afternoon and burial made in the
evening in honor of General Martin
and among the guests and speakers
were Dr. John M. Thomas, president
of State College, and Judge Henry C.
Quigley, of Bellefonte. The dedica-
tion of the cross and memorial serv-
ices for General Miner took place on
Saturday afternoon and were attend-
ed by a small number of world war
veterans from Bellefonte and Centre
county who served under General
Miner in France. General E. C. Shan-
non presided at the ceremonies and
the principal address was delivered by
-| Frank Palmer, at Potters Mills, fol-
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ARMSTRONG.—John Armstrong, a
life-long resident of Potter township,
died at seven o’clock on Sunday even-
ing at the home .of his sister, Mrs.
lowing an illness with a complication
of diseases which dates back to Octo-
ber 20th of last year.
He was a son of James and Cathe-
rine Carson Armstrong and was born
at Potters Mills on September 29th,
1867, hence was not quite fifty-seven
years old. He was a farm laborer by
occupation and an industrious and de-
pendable man. A member of the
Methodist church from hoyhood he
was concise and conscientious in all
his dealings with his fellowmen. He
never married and his only survivor is
one sister, Mrs. Palmer.
Brief funeral services were held at
the Palmer home at 9:30 o'clock on
Wednesday morning after which the
remains were taken to the Methodist
church at Sprucetown where the fun-
eral sermon was preached by the pas-
tor, Rev. H. H. Sherman, after which
burial was made in the Sprucetown
cemetery.
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POTTER.—Mzs. Ellen Jane Potter,
wife of George W. Potter, died at her
home at Centre Hall last Friday
morning, following an “illness of two
years with heart trouble and Bright's
disease. She was a daughter of
George and Sarah Garbrick and was
born at Spring Mills sixty-nine years
ago. In addition to her husband she
is survived by the following children:
Mrs. Sallie Kellerman, of Coleville;
Mrs. Annie Ingram, of Bald Eagle;
Mzs. Mary Rice, of Waddle; Mys. Eliz-
abeth Galbraith, of Youngstown, Ohio;
George, of Phoenixville; Mrs, Bessie
Rudy and Miss Alice, of Centre Hall,
ri
leaves one brother and a sister, Mrs.
Clara Rolls, of Blandsburg, and James
Galbraith, of Washington, D. C. Bur-
ial was made in the Centre Hall cem-
etery on Wednesday morning,
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STONEBRAKER.—William Stone-
braker died at his home at Blue Ball,
Clearfield county, last Thursday morn-
ing, following an illness of two years
with cancer. He was born at Miles-
Emotional
Work,” which was very much enjoyed
by the members of the ministerium,
and the paper was discussed and com-
mented upon by them.
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General Martin.
Meeting of Bellefonte Ministerium.
The Bellefonte district Ministerium
met for their first meeting after the
recess of the summer, at the Y. M. C.
A., on Monday.
at the jail was reported on by the sec-
retary of the Y. M. C. A. and the com-
mittee, composed of Messrs.
Rine, J. K. Barnhart, Cyrus Solt and
C. C. Shuey, was commended for the
splendid service which they rendered
py summer in taking care of the
work.
The religious work
James
Rev. Watson reported the financial
progress of his congregation, which
showed splendid work on the part of
his own people and the friends sup-
porting it.
Rev. W. P. Ard and Rev. Reed O.
Steely were appointed a committee to
co-operate with the board of directors
of the Y. M. C. A. in formulating a
policy and program for the winter's
activities at the Y. building.
Rev. Ard read a paper on “The
Element in Christian
At the next meeting, on October
6th, Rev. Dr. A. M. Schmidt will pre-
sent a subject for discussion.
Marriage Licenses.
Harry S. Neese and Ruth Frank-
enberger, Miilheim.
Clarence C. Schnure and Minnie
Slifer, Millheim.
Andrew James Saylor and Cathe-
ne Morrison, Bellefonte.
Ear] E. Teaman and Lyneth ¢. Ril-
and John, of Hublersburg. She also | lett, Bellefonte.
Benjamin H. Dunkle and Bianche
Irene Bard, Johnstown.
Malcolm W. Zimmerman and Elmi-
A. McKinley, Milesburg.
Albert O. Curtis and Margaret Ma-
| rie White, Philipsburg.
For Sale—At the Brant house, a
trunk containing the personal effects
of Mrs. Mary Wolfe Hunt, held for un-
paid bills,
35-2t
Keller—Stevenson.—Quite a sur-
prise wedding was that at Cumber-
land, Md., last Saturday, of Ellis O.
Keller, of Bellefonte, and Miss Mar-
guerite Stevenson, of Waddle. The
young people motored to Cumberland
where the wedding ceremony was per-
formed shortly before noon by a Bap-
tist minister. They returned as far as
Bedford the same day, spending the
night there and on Sunday morning
came to the home of the bride’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Steven-
son, at Waddle, where they remained
until Sunday evening when they came
to Bellefonte.
The bride is a graduate of the Belle-
fonte High school, class of 1923, ‘and
most of the time since then has been
employed as a stenographer in the in-
formation department at the Penn-
sylvania State College. The bride-
groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Keller, of Bellefonte, and is a member
of the faculty of the Bellefonte High
school. On Monday morning- he was
at his post of duty as usual while Mrs.
Keller returned to her work at State
College. Until they are able to make
definite plans for the future they will
make their home with the bride-
groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Keller, on east Linn street.
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Teaman—Billett.—The home of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Billett was the scene
of an early Sunday morning wedding
when their daughter, Miss Lynette
Billett, was united in marriage to Earl
Teaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Teaman. The ceremony, which took
place at six o’clock, was performed by
Rev. Reed O. Steely, in the presence
of only members of the two families.
The young couple were attended by
Prof. Clarence Smeltzer and Miss
Ruth Teaman.
breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Teaman left
on a week’s wedding trip. The bride
is a graduate of the Bellefonte High
school and during the past two years
has been linotype operator in the of-
fice of the- Keystone Gazette, a posi-
tion she will continue to fill for the
present, at least.
Ward—Rosincroth.—Word was re-
ceived in Centre county this week of
the marriage on September 1st of W.
S. Ward Jr., of Pittsburgh, and Miss
Mabel Rosincroth, of McKeesport, the
wedding having taken place at the
home of the bride. The young couple
are spending a portion of their hon-
eymoon at the home of the bride-
groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Ward, at Baileyville, where they were
given a rousing calithumpian serenade
on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs.
Ward will make their home in Pitts-
burgh where Mr. Ward holds a good
position with the Pittsburgh Steel
company.
ome
Neese—Frankenberger.—The mar-
riage of Harry S. Neese, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Neese; of Millheim,
rand Miss Mc Ruth -Frankenberger, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Frankenberger, of Penn township,
took place at the Reformed parsonage
in Aaronsburg, at 9:45 o'clock on
Wednesday evening of last week, the
ceremony being performed by the
pastor, Rev. John S. Hollenbach. The
bridegroom is an employee of the
Beatty Motor company, in Bellefonte,
and the young couple plan to go to
housekeeping here in the near future.
Immel—Rearick.—Wallace J. Im-
mel, of Spring Mills, and Miss Alme-
dith O. Rearick, of Zion, were married
on Wednesday of last week at the par-
sonage of the Reformed church in
Lewisburg by the pastor, Rev. H. H.
Rupp. The young couple for the pres-
ent will make their home with the
bridegroom’s parents at Spring Mills.
Paul—Shaffer.—Charles Paul, of
Philipsburg, and Miss Eva Shaffer, of
Clearfield, were married at the Epis-
copal church, in Bellefonte, on Thurs-
day afternoon of last week, by the
rector, Rev. M. DePui Maynard. The
bridegroom is employed at The Phil-
lips hotel, in Philipsburg, and it is in
that town they will make’ their home.
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Emel—Bachman.—Chester Emel and
Miss Eleanor Bachman, both of Belle-
fonte, were united in marriage at the
Reformed parsonage, Wednesday of
last week, by the pastor, Rev. Dr.
Ambrose M. Schmidt.
Dunkle—Bard.—Benjamin H. Dun-
kle and Miss Blanche Irene Bard, both
of Johnstown, were married at the
United Brethren parsonage, Belle-
fonte, last Saturday, by Rev. Frank
B. Hackett.
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——There was a very decided frost
yesterday morning but no great
amount of damage was done to farm
and garden truck.
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Loeb and Leopold Escape the Gallows.
Chicago, September 10.—Youth
alone saved Nathan F. Leopold Jr,
nineteen, and Richard Loeb, eighteen,
from death on the gallows for the kid.
napping and murder last May of four-
teen year old Robert Franks,
Judge John R. Caverly,
Chief Justice of the Criminal
Cook county, sentenced the two young |
intellectuals to life imprisonment on |
the murder charge and to imprison-
ment of ninety-nine years each for the
kidnapping. !
Under the latter it was stated they
could not be released on parole until |
they had served more than thirty-sev-
[en years in the Joliet penitentiary.
, The life term alone would have per-
| mitted such release after about twen-
ty years. s
The Court urged that the parole
privilege never be “extended to the
self-confessed doers of what he called |
“an abhorrent crime.”
Leopold and Loeb will begin their
terms in the penitentiary tomorrow
morning, Criminal Court officials an-
nounced tonight.
retiring
Court of
Following a wedding 9:3
Church Services Next Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The pastor will speak at 10:45 o
“His Heart in the Right Place,” an
at 7:30 on “A Valuable Element o
Worship.” Sunday school 9:30; Ep
worth League 6:30, leader Miss Jan
Miller.
Tuesday night class; Wednesda
night prayer service.
E. E. McKelvey, Pasto:
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Services for September 14th: Thir
teenth Sunday after Trinity, 8 a. nr
Holy Eucharist; 9:45 a. m. chure
school; 11 a. m. Mattins and sermon
7:30 p. m. evensong. Visitors alway
welcome.
The Rector, according to his annus
custom expects to attend the priest:
retreat at Holy Cross Monastery
West Park, N. Y., held during thi
week,
Rev. M. DeP. Maynard, Recto:
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Mornin;
worship 10:45, theme, “The Need fo
a Hopeful Christianity.” Evenin;
worship 7:30, theme, “The Curse o
Lukewarmness.” Prayer meetin;
Wednesday evening at 7:30.
William C. Thompson, Pasto:
UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST.
Sunday school 9:30, election of offi
cers. Morning worship 10:30, “In th
Presence of God.” Holy Communior
C. E. 6:45, election of officers. Even
ing service 7:30, “The Ambition of th
Christian.”
Frank B. Hackett, Pasto:
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
“The Friendly Church.”
Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
Sunday school with organized classe
and competent teachers for all age
:30 a. m. Morning worship 10:4F
“The Divine Artist.” Vesper servic
with sermon 7:30. Mid-week praye
service Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Vis
itors always welcome.
Rev Wilson P. Ard, Ministe:
ST. JOHN'S REFORMED CHURCH.
Services next Sunday morning a
10:45 and evening at 7:30. Sunda
school at 9:30 a. m.
Ambrose M. Schmidt, D.D., Ministe:
The Thomas Family Holds Firs
Reunion.
The first family reunion of th
Thomas family was held at the hom
of Jacob McClelland, on the Tomm;
L. Gray farm, in Halfmoon valley, las
Saturday. About one hundred an:
twenty members of the clan gathere
for the meeting and the tables ha
just been spread outside for the fam
ily dinner, when the clouds let go wit]
a veritable deluge and all the plan
for a jolly picnic dinner were knocke:
galley west.
However, the food was hastily gath
ered up and taken into the hous
where things were a bit crowded, bu
everybody enjoyed the scramble an
the jam. In fact they had such a goo
time that it was deci¢ed to make th
reunion an annual affair. According]:
they will meet next year at the hom
of D. R. Thomas, at Loveville, on Jun
8th. Guests at last Saturday’s gath
ering were as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Thomas and grand
daughter, Frances Blair; Mr. and Mr:
Frank Thomas and children, Lena, Fran
ces, Samuel, Jennie, Andrew, Katie, Nan
cy, Herbert, Dorothy, Josephine, Christe
na and Federman; Mr. and Mrs. Irvi
Thomas and children, Dorothy, Mary Jane
Melvin and Betty; Mrs. Gertrude Glove:
Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas and childrex
Verna and William; Mr. .and Mrs. Arthu
Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. William, Thomas
Mrs. Sue Irvin, Misses Estelle, “Bdith, Brn
estine, Hazel and Helen Lytle, Malvin Ly
tle, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Eves and chil
dren, Pauline, Bessie and Mary; Mr. an
Mrs. J. A. McClelland and children, Mar
Catherine, Sara Jane, Ardus, Beatrice am:
Clarence; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Blair an
children, Elaine, Sylvia and Lillian; Jaco
Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomas an:
sons, Harry and Milford; Mrs. Mary Cam
ming, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Crust and chil
dren, Edna, Guyer and Betty; Mr. an
Mrs. Ray Stine and children, Mary am
Ray Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Guyer Stine an
children, Phoebe, Gardner, Dorothy, Mar;
and Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs. George Thom
as and children, Elowyn and Janet; Mrs
Harrison Shope and son Charles; Mr. an:
Mrs. George Shope, Mr. and Mrs. Charle
Shope and children, Francis, Bernadin
and Ernie; Merrill and Claire Blair, Mrs
Frank Holland, Charles Gummo, Mr. a
Mrs. Charles Croft, Mr. and Mrs. Geor,
Stine, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stine and chil
dren, Harold, Ruth, John, Harry, Gra;
and Walter and grand-children, Walte
Rumberger and Violet Stine; Mr. and Mrs
J. L. Mattern and children, Gladys, Alice
Howard, Marjorie, George and James.
CENTRE HALL.
Mrs. Reese, of Cresson, visited he:
son over Sunday.
Rev. Drumm greeted his old friend:
on Monday, for a short time.
Mrs. George Potter’s funeral wa:
largely attended on Monday forenoon
J. F. Moore left for Dickinson Col.
lege, Carlisle, on Wednesday morning
Guy Jacobs and daughter visited a
the home of his mother, Mrs. Eliza:
beth Jacobs, for several days.
Mrs. Brungard is spending severa
weeks with her grand-son, Nevir
Hockman.
Miss Eliza Moore, of State College
Is spending the week with her broth-
er, J. D. Moore, :
: The Odd Fellows Lodge attended
the funeral of John Armstrong, at
Potters Mills, on Wednesday.
The borough schools opened on
Monday with an enrollment of 194 pu-
pils; 60 in High school, the balance in
the grades under the supervision of
four teachers.
Mrs. Beulah Brisbin Boone, of Hart-
ford, Conn., spent a week at the home
of her father, B. D. Brishin. She mo-
tored here with friends from Hartford
win have been visiting about Rebers-
burg and Williamsport.
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