Benet.
Bellefonte, Pa., December 19, 1924,
AN EXPERT WEAVER.
One of the most beautiful and
sweet-voiced birds that visit us is the
orchard oriole. It is said that this
i has only the good attributes of
ife
We may listen to the song or we
may watch the restless, hurried fath-
er bird in his constant hunt for choice
insect tidbits for his family; but if
you wish the most interesting study
just go to the nest. This is one of
the best pieces of architecture that we
can find among bird homes.
It is said that an old lady looked at
an orchard oriole’s nest very care-
fully and then remarked emphatically:
“well, I think that such birds ought to
be taught to darn stockings!”
You may smile at such a remark;
but as a matter of fact, the orchard
oriole is one of the most skillful wea-
vers possible. Doctor Dawson says
that a pair of these birds inter-weave
grass blades and rootlets with the
skill of a lacemaker, so that it is no
wonder that the old lady thought it
might be possible to teach them to
darn stockings. At first glance the
nest does not show durability, for fre-
quently the walls are so thin that you
may see eggs through them. It is so
firmly woven, however, that it lasts a
long time.
The nest is pouched-shaped, about
three inches wide and four inches
deep, and is made fast by the brim to
the spreading forks of the limb. Some-
times it is built between two or three
upright forks in which case it is tight-
ly lashed to the ascending branches
for its entire length. The nesting
sight is usually the apple trees. For
this reason the bird gets its name of
orchard oriole—Our Dumb Animals.
Real Estate Transfers.
Charles T. Bilger, et al, to John H.
Detwiler, tract in Potter township; $1.
J. D. Keller, et ux, to J. Max Stew-
art, tract in State College; $23,000.
J. H. Eberhart, et ux, to John Gal-
aida, et ux, tract in Bellefonte, $2,000.
G. Emery Grenoble. et ux, to Geo.
E. Gingerich, tract in Gregg township;
$300.
Eagle Cemetery ‘Association to C.
Hunter Dukemaan, tract in Boggs
township; $25.75.
Bellefonte Trust Company, Exr., to
Anna A. Johnson, tract in Spring |.
township; $125.
John Haugh, et al, to John Haugh,
et al, tract in State College; $1.
Centre County Commissioners to
W. G. Runkle, tract in Milesburg; $12.
W. Harold Foster to Pearl R. Mor-
gan, tract in State College; $350.
L. P. Korman to W.T. Korman,
tract in Gregg township; $10,000.
State College Football Schedule.
Graduate manager Neil Fleming has
announced the 1925 football schedule
for Penn State, which provides for
eight games, five of which will be
played at home. The list is as fol-
lows:
September 26, Lebanon Valley at home.
October 3, Franklin and Marshall at
home.
October 10, Georgia Tech at New York.
Oetober 17, Marietta College at home.
Oetober 24, Home-coming day, Notre
Dame at home.
October 31, Syracuse at Syracuse.
November 7, Michigan Aggies at home.
November 14, West Virginia at Morgan-
town.
November 26, Thanksgiving day, Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, at Pittsburgh.
Didn’t Care.
Rastus Jackson, a thoroughly mar-
rie darkey, was one day approached
by a life insurance agent.
“Better let me write you a policy,
Rastus,” suggested the agent.
“No, sah,” declared Ratsus emphat-
ically. “Ah ain’t any too safe at
home as it is.”
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.
City 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
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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
Dodge Bros. Motor Cars
Graham Bros. Trucks
Hockman’s Garage
...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 Quality Courtesy
Bellefonte Motor Service Co
W. F. McCOY
General Repairs All Cars
Tires Tubes Accessories
“The MOON SIX”
HUPMOBILE
It
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 Inks
Dennison Goods
Eversharp and Conklin Pencils
Conklin and Moore Pens
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Zoot»
We Invite you to drive it S
over any Mountain you suggest.
PENN STATE AUTO CO.
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DON'T BUY FROM
The
Potter-Hoy Hdw. Co.
Unless you want Real Quality
and Satisfaction for Your
Money.
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Before You Buy
Any LUMBER, FLOORING,
FINISH, SASH, DOORS,
MILL WORK
Get Shope’s Prices
Bell 46 W United
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Bellefonte Lumber Co
MILL WORK SHINGLES
BUILDING SUPPLIES
ROUGH LUMBER LATH
Bellefonte Lumber Co
§ Enduring Gifts
Quality Forniture:.
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
Marble and 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’ldgSup. Co
NATHAN KOFMAN, Prop.
Knisely’s Market
Clean and Up-to-Date
FISH OYSTERS
BUTTER EGGS
SMOKED MEATS
West High Street
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. ee
MA a I
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
Casebeer’s
Christmas Window
for Gifts that, Last,
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REGISTERED
Optometrist and Jeweler
NEW ONE BORN
EVERY MINUTE
Mail Order Man Need Not Worry
Abort Keeping His Old
Customers.
HIS FIELD NOT RESTRICTED
Local Merchant, on Other Hand, Mus?
Give Good Values and Service
in Order to Hold
His Trade.
(Copyright.)
It has been said that there is a
sucker born every minute. If this be
true, there are 1,440 potential custom-
ers of the mail-order houses ushered
into the world every 24 hours and the
number reaches a total of 525,600 every
year.
Of course, a8 Mark Twain remarked
regarding reports of his death, these
figures may be exaggerated, but they
serve to illustrate the fact that the
mail-order houses of the big cities al-
ways have new fields to exploit and
are not hampered in their dealings by
the necessity of pleasing all their old
customers. If the mail-order buyer
discovers. that he has been “stung”
and registers a vigorous kick, it means
nothing in the young life of the mail
order man. Why should he worry as
long as there are some 99,999,999 other
persons in the United States to whom
he may make his alluring appeals.
Ever Get Money Back?
Did anyone ever hear of a mail or-
der house refunding a customer’s
money if the customer was not satis-
fied with his purchase? Don’t all speak
at once, please. The big mail order
houses in the cities expect to receive
a large number of complaints from
their customers. They know that
much of the goods which they sell will
not come up to the expectations of the
buyers, whose ideas as to what they
will receive have been formulated from
the pretty pictures and alluring de
scriptions given in the catalogues.
The mail order houses prepare for
this contingency by maintaining large
corps of clerks whose sole duty it is
to answer the letters of irate cus-
tomers. These clerks, or correspond-
ents, as they are called, exercise all
their powers of cajolery in an effort
to appease the complaining customers,
but if this is found to be impossible,
after an exchange of letters, the mail
order man has no cause for worry. His
living is not dependent upon the cus
tomer to whom he has already sold
goods. “There are as good fish in the
sea as have ever been caught” and he
turns his attention towazd the landing
of the new fish.
Local Merchant’s Field Limited.
Compare the position of the mail or-
der man with that of the retail mer-
chant in the small city or town. The
retail merchant has a certain limited
territory from which he must draw his
trade. All his business must be done
day after day and year after year
among the same people. The buyers
to whom he can appeal for business
number only a few thousand at the
most and in some cases a few hun-
dred. Unless he can make his cus-
tomers his friends and bring them
back to his store again, he cannot con-
tinue in business. The result is that
he looks beyond the single sale which
he may be making at the time. It is
to his interest to please every one of
his customers. It will profit him noth-
ing to make a big profit off a customer
on one sale if that customer is not
satisfied with his purchase and refuses
to come back to his store again.
From which man can the buyer ex-
pect to get the best values, the best
service and the best prices in propor-
tion to the quality of the goods sold?
From the man who must please him
and give him his money’s worth in or-
der to remain in business or from the
man who figures that he may never
hear from the buyer again and that it
will make no great difference whether
he pleases him or not?
Gets It While He Car.
The idea upon which the mail order
.nan works is to get the money while
the getting is good. If the customer
is satisfied with the goods which he re-
ceives, all well and good. The mail or-
der man knows that the customer is
the kind of a man or woman who
likes to take a chance or he wouldn’t
have sent in his order in the first
place. Therefore he may figure that
the customer is likely to take a second
chance even if the first does not turn
out to his liking. If the customer has
enough spirit to make a kick, the
trained correspondents in charge of
the complaint department may be able
to pacify him. If they are not, it
doesn’t matter much anyway, for there
are millions of others who may be
caught with the same bait—there is
one born every minute, you know.
It is well for the consumer to re-
member ‘these facts if he is ever
tempted to take a chance on the offer-
ings of the mail order house. The
home merchant has something at stake
in every sale that he makes. The mail
order man has nothing at stake. The
home merchant has everything at
stake on the manner in which he treats
his customers, for he cannot get others
to take their places. The mail order
man has nothing at stake for it is to
his interest to get all that he can out
‘of each sale, knowing that he may
never have another chance at that par-
ticular customer.
Which is the safest man to dc busi-
ness with?
The Best at Less
Pianos Radios
Phonographs
HARTER’S MUSIC STORE
18 N. Allegheny St.
WHY
wait until Spring to have
your Car done over ?
Now is the Time
S. H. POORMAN’S GARAGE
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Your Satisfaction
IS OUR RECORD FOR SERVICE
That Good (j{J]F _Gasotine
on the edge of town, on the State
College road.
EDGEFONT FILLING STATION
and REST ROOM
BOND C. WHITE, Prop.
The Scenic
Moose Temple Theatre
PICTURES
(00 SHOWS
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Have You Been
getting everything that’s com-
ing to you when buying groceries
We give you Service and Good
Groceries at Right Prices
THOMAS S. HAZEL
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries
: :
$1.75 $1.75
Ladies’ Silk Hose
(Carented)
We will give a new pair free
for any pair that shows a run-
ner in the leg or a hole in the
heel or toe.
Yeager’s Shoe Store
AAAS AANA APPS
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BEEZERS GARAGE
STUDEBAKER
International Trucks
See the “‘Duplex’’ Car
GEO. A. BEEZER
"TRADE
Serv:
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G. F. Musser Co
WHOLESALE GROCERS
FRANK . MAYER
Manufacturer of
Snow-flake and White-lily
FLOUR
We carry a large stock of All
Kinds of Feed in both our Mills.
‘We are always in the market for
Grain,
Bellefonte Mill Roopsburg Mill
Was Never in Business
in Any Other Town
Wion Garage
New Location...W. Bishop St.
BELLEFONTE
PUPP PS PR
Bring Health and Happiness
to your home with a convenient
‘“Heatmore”
Pipeless Furnace
CLEAN AND SANITARY
Saves Fuel Saves Work
Extra Heavy Castings
Deep Cup Joints
Revolving Cinder
Crushing Grates
Properly installed in your
Home at a price that will sur-
prise you. Carload buying
gives us this advantage. A
few remain unsold of the car-
load. Place your order now
and save some real money.
Bellefonte Hardware Co.
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Montgomery & Co
BELLEFONTE, FA.
Genuine
ENGLISH BROAD CLOTH
SHIRTS
Specially Priced
$2.45
Blue — Tan — White — Gray
BIR PUP 50 SP A PUTS
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SINICA VOLS AO SAPP SS PP,
The Real
Coaster Wagon
“The Premax”
The best built wagon we
know of.
Just an ideal X-mas gift
for the Boy.
Olewine’s Hardware
The Talk of the Town!
Selby’s and Just Wrights
Arch Support Shoes
FOR MEN AND Woy
Mingle’s Shoe Store
KISgel's Meat Market
is in on the Buy at Home Cam-
paign because it offers such
Choice Meats at the Right
Prices that there is no reason
for anybody buying elsewhere.
Fruits Vegetables
EVERYTHING IN SEASON
EVERYTHING OF THE BEST
Carpeneto’s
Buy in Centre Bounty
Buy from whom you please
BUT
Buy in Centre County
Hazel & Company
ooo T H E esse
Bon Mot
EVERYTHING THAT
IT’S NAME IMPLIES
Schlow’s Quality Shop
Offers you Many Opportunities
in Quality and Service
that you can’t get by
buying abroad
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