Bewraiitmn "Bellefonte, Pa., December 5, 1921, HISTORY OF OIL WELLS INTERESTING. Colonel Drake used the first driv- ing pipe. Adolph Schreiner, of Austria, made the first petroleum lamp. The first oil well drilled by steam power was opposite Tidioute, in 1860. Jonathan Watson put down the first deep well on Oil Creek—2,130 feet— in 1866. William Phillips boated the first car- go of oil down the Allegheny to Pitts- burgh in March, 1860. The Chinese were the first to drill with tools attached to ropes, which they twisted from rattan. The Liverpool Lamp, devised by an unknown Englishman, was the first to have a glass chimney and do away with smoke. The first tubing in oil wells was manufactured in Pittsburgh, with brass screw joints soldered on the pipe, the same as at Tarentum salt wells. The first steamboat reached the mouth of Oil Creek in 1827 with a load of Pittsburghers. The first train crossed Oil Creek into Oil City on a track on the ice. William A. Smith, who drilled the Drake well, made the first rimmer. While enlarging a well with a bit the point broke off, after which greater progress was noted. The accident suggested the rimmer. The first white settler in the Penn- sylvania oil regions was John Frazier, who built a cabin at Wenango-Frank- lin in 1745, kept a gun shop “and trad- ed with the Indians until driven off by the French in 1753, the year of George Washington’s visit. Jonathan Titus located at Titusville in 1779, on land made famous by the Drake well. In that year the first oil + skimmed from Oil Creek to be mar- keted was sold at Pittsburgh, then a collpesten of log cabins, at $16 a gal- on. Early well owners found the tools and fuel, paid all expenses but labor, and paid $3.50 per foot to the contrac- | tor, vet so many contractors failed that a lien law was passed. ‘George | Koch, in November of 1873, took out a patent on fluted drills, which did away with the rimmer, reduced the time of drilling a well from sixty days to twenty, and reduced the price | from $3 per foot to 50 cents. Sam Taft was the first to use a line to control the engine from the derrick at a well near McClintockville in 1867. Henry Webber was the first to regulate the motion of the engine from the derrick. He drilled a well near Smoky City, on the Porter farm, in 1863, with a rod from the derrick to the throttle valve. He also dressed’ the tools with the forge and derrick, perhaps the first time this was done. He dril'ed this well 600 feet with no help. Near this well plank derrick in the oil country. The first derricks were of poles, twelve feet base and twenty-eight to - thirty feet high. The ladder was made by putting pins through a corner of a leg of the derrick. The Samson post was mortised in the ground. The band wheel was hung in a frame like a grindstone. A single bull wheel, made out of about 1,000 feet of lumber, placed on the side of the derrick next to the band wheel, with a rope or old rubber belt’ for a brake, was used. When the tools were let down the for- mer would burn and smoke, the latter would smell like ancient -codfish.— Sketches in Crude Oil. She Liked Her Job. A suburban housewife relates over- hearing this conversation between her new maid and the cook next door: “How are you Hilda?” © “I'm well,” said Hilda. “I like my . Job. We got cremated cellar, cement- . ary plumbing, elastic lights, and a * hoosit.” ~ “What's a ‘hoosit,” Hilda?” the puz- zled cook exclaimed. “Oh, a bell rings. You put a thing to your ear and say ‘hello,’ and some : one says ‘hello,’ and you say, “Hoo- sity” Buy at Home We pay taxes here and con- tribute to every public move- ment, And we sell Groceries that are as good as you can get anywhere (ity Cash Grocery In Ordering Bread Don't forget to enrich your table with our other baked goods that lend variety and deliciousness to your meals at little expense. BREAKFAST ROLLS CRULLERS COFFEE RINGS CAKES FANCY BUNS RAISEN BREAD CURRANT BUNS PIES They give you the same food value as our wholesome Bread. CITY BAKERY : GALAIDA’S SANITARY Fish ana Oyster Market Bush Arcade—Both Phones Fish, Oysters and Dressed Poultry at All Times, Bell Telephone 82 M was the first | Motor Cars Graham Bros. Trucks Hockman’s Garage Dodge Bros. ...The... Center Oil and Gas Co Distributors of §® Products Bottorf Bros. The EXIDE Battery Service Station Automobile Accessories, Radios and Supplies and Electrical Contractors Bottorf Bros. Service Courtesy Bellefonte Motor Service Co W. F. McCOY All Cars Accessories Quality General Repairs Tires Tubes “The MOON SIX” HUPMOBILE UNBREAKABLE Can’t Break, Crack or Leak A Le Boeuf Fountain Pen is Guaranteed Unbreakable Come in and Try to Break One The Mott Drug Co Hunter’s Book Store All Standard Lines Eaton’s and Craine’s Papers Blair Tablets Carter’s and Stafford’s Dennison Goods Eversharp and Conklin Pencils Conklin and Moore Pens Inks Z2ooHEH> We Invite you to drive it S over any Mountain you suggest. PENN STATE AUTO CO. is DON'T BUY FROM The Potter-Hoy Hdw. Co. Unless you want Real Quality and Satisfaction for Your Money. - Before You Buy Any LUMBER, FLOORING, FINISH, SASH, DOORS, - MILL WORK Get Shope’s Prices Bell 46 W United Bellefonte Lumber Co MILL WORK SHINGLES BUILDING SUPPLIES ROUGH LUMBER LATH Bellefonte Lumber Co i] Enduring Gifts Quality Tuniture.. Showing the largest Lines of Exclusive trade-marked Furni- ture in Centre County W. R. BRACHBILL Spring St. Bellefonte, Pa. They Say they Know—that The Variety Shop China and Toy Departments are the Best in Centre County. Kom and C what U think. G. R. SPIGELMYER & CO. M. R. JOHNSON Marbleand Granite CEMETERY WORK of every description Before You Vote BE SURE TO READ THIS We have nominated as our leaders the MODERN GLENWOOD STOVE W. W. Lawrence & Co’s READY MIXED PAINTS, Val- spar Varnishes, Enamels and Stains, H. P. SCHAEFFER, Hardware COAL! Our careful selection has ena- bled us to sell and deliver at any time the Best Grade of Coal mined in Centre county. Centre Co.Fuel &B’ldg Sup. Co NATHAN KOFMAN, Prop. Knisely’s Market Clean and Up-to-Date FISH OYSTERS BUTTER EGGS SMOKED MEATS West High Street PUAN AA A AS ASAP ASA A AAA PA AANA AON SANNA Lyon & Co Lyon & Co We specialize in Ladies, Misses and Children’s Ready-to-Wear Come and see our Blankets and Comfortables Visit our store before you do your Winter buying. It will be a Big Saving to you. LYON & CO. NAPPI SSOP SSSI II NONI S SPS PNP Bellefonte Filling Station and Rest Room A Service Station for Impatient Motorists GREASES OILS GAS Confectionery Tobacco Oil Changed Free FRANK SASSERMAN, Prop. Russ-Bell’s Sodas, Ice Cream, Candy Martha Washington CANDIES Old Time Home Made Only a Few Christmas * iy en Watch Casebeer's Windows For Suggestions ¥ C.D. CASEBEER Jeweler and Optometrist PUPS A SP AP NP fd GOLDEN RULE HAS PLACE IN TRADE Has Been Found to Be Goo? Business Policy Both for Buyer and Seller. OBLIGATION NOT ONE-SIDED Consumer Gains As Much By Being Fair With Merchant As Latter Does By Being Square and Honest. (Copyright.) Some cynical persons have remarked | that the Golden Rule has no place in business. They have taken the posi- tion that instead of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, the only safe and sane plan is to do others before they have a chance te do you. Fortunately for business and for the world at large, however, these persons are few and far between. The great majority of people are honest. It has been proven repeatedly that even in business it pays to practice the Golden Rule, just as it has been prov- en repeatedly that “honesty is the best policy.” It not only makes a man feel better down in his heart when he em- ploys the principle of the Golden Rule, but he finds that it is good business. This applies not only to the man who stands behind the counter and gives a full pound of sugar to the man who asks for a pound, but also to the man who stands on the other side of the counter and pays his money for the pound of sugar. Does Consumer Do His Part? The consumer expects the merchant to be honest and square and give him his money’s worth for every penny that he spends with him, but how often does the consumer stop and ask him- self the question, “Am I being as fair and honest with the merchant as he is being with me?” The consumer not only expects the merchant to give him honest weight and full measure at the lowest possible price, but he expects a world of other things at the same time. Nine times out of ten he expects the merchant to give him credit, and nine times out of ten the merchant does it. ‘Many times he expects the merchant to “carry” him for three or four months before he pays for what he buys, and as many times the mer- chant does it. He expects the mer- chant to pay for advertising space in the church program which he is get- ting up, and the merchant does it. He expects the merchant to “kick in” most liberally when he is raising a fund for the benefit of the town band, and the merchant does it. He expects the merchant to provide the bonus which is to be paid to ob- tain a new factory which will benefit the working man, the clerk and every- body else in the town, and the mer- chant does it. He expects the mer- chant to “come across” with a dona- tion to help the poor family which otherwise would become a charge upon the common funds of the community, and the merchant does. Another Side to Picture. Now, look on the other side of the picture. Mr. Consumer decides that he needs a new suit of clothes, or Mrs. Consumer decides that she wants a new kitchen range, or some of the little Consumers express a desire for a train of cars or a bobsled. Mr. Con- sumer picks up the big mail-order catalogue which the mail-order house has printed with his money or that of others like him, and he looks it over until he finds a picture that strikes his eve. It’s a picture of a “nifty” looking suit of clothes. Of course, he can’t feel the picture to see whether the cloth is as good as it looks; he can’t look the mail-order man in the eye and ask him whether he will guarantee it to wear for at least a month or six weeks; he can’t tell the mail