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Bellefonte, Pa, January 16, 1925.
TELEPHONE COMPANY TO
SPEND MILLIONS FOR IM-
PROVEMENTS.
The Bell Telephone company of
Pennsylvania has estimated that ap-
proximately $31,000,000 will be spent
to provide extensions to telephone
plants in Pennsylvania during 1925.
This is more than three times the
amount spent in 1920 when the after-
math of the war with the renewing of
normal conditions required much ad-
ditional equipment. Next year’s pro-
gram will affect every town in the ter-
ritory and at some time in the year
telephone linemen or other workers
will be in every part of the State to
add to the far-reaching net work of
wires already in place.
It is estimated that 220,000 new
telephones will be installed during the
year, an average of 750 for each work-
ing day. The net increase in tele-
phones for the year will be 70,000.
The telephones already in service
with the new telephones to be added
bi handle an estimated number of
4,500,000 local connections daily and
around 60,000,000 toll and long-dis-
tance calls throughout the year.
A large part of the extensive pro-
gram is the additions to pole lines,
Dodge Bros. Motor Cars
Graham Bros. Trucks
Hockman’s Garage
«<1 DC:
Center Oil and Gas Co
Distributors of
Products
Bottorf Bros.
The EXIDE Battery
Service Station
outside wires and conduit system. ; : sories
This equipment grouped together is Automobile eanorion
called in telephone parlance “outside Radios and Supplies
plant.” and
The budget for “outside plant” ex-
tensions alone carries an apprvopria-
tion of $10,060,000. Over half of this
expenditure will be for cable construc-
tion in underground conduits and on
pole lines. Enough wire will be laid
in these cables in 1925 to provide a
Electrical Contractors
Bottorf Bros.
telephone circuit of two wires from ’
the earth to the moon. Bare and insu- GALAIDA’S
lated wires strung on poles in the less SANITARY
congested areas during the coming -— =
vear would be more than sufficient to
run eleven single circuits between
Philadelphia and San Francisco.
. Underground conduit which will be
laid during the next twelve months
would form a single duct from Read-
ing to Chicago. New teiephone poles
for the additional wire and for replac-
ings old poles represents a very ma-
terial portion of the year’s outlay. If
used as a single new pole line, these
new poles would reach from Philadel-
phia to Madison, Wisconsin.
Nearly $3,000,000 will be spent in
new building construction. : The com-
pletion of eight new buildings and
major additions to two of the present
structures will enlarge the veritable
city of buildings which are used by the
telephone company in this district.
In the words of one of the telephone
officials the program “attempts to be
both conservative and progressive,
conservative in that it adds plant only
where and when needed and progres-
sive in that it attempts to look ahead
to the future with a broad, clear vis-
ion.” -
Telephone officials are looking ahead
to a year of general business pros-
perity.
Fishand Oyster Market
Bush Arcade—EBoth Phones
Fish, Oysters and Dressed
Pouliry at All Times.
Bell Telephone 82 M
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
Weak Eyes? Camphor
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If you have weak, aching eyes try |
simple camphor, witchhazel, hydras-
tis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptic eye
wash. One small bottle helps any
eu weak, strained — Sore So Eversharp and Conklin Pencils
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Drug Store. eye Ub ree i Conklin and Moore Pens
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Caldwell & Son
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Licensed Agencies for
Hoosier Kitchen Gabingls
Cle Werticke Book Cived
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W. R. Brachbill
Spring St. Bellefonte, Pa.
NAAN IAPS SIS PAPA A
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 & Bldg Sup. Co
NATHAN KOFMAN, Prop.
Knisely’s Market
"Clean and Up-to-Date =k :
OYSTERS
FISH
BUTTER EGGS
SMOKED MEATS
West High Street
Lyon&Co Lyon & Co ¢
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BELLEFONTE, PA. B L
: 5 . R We specialize in Ladies, Misses
Plumbin nd Heatin 5 L and Children’s Ready-to-Wear .
g an g 0 Come and see our Blankets and ¢
aa K 0 . + Comfortables + Hie
a E Visit our store before you do @
i Hot Water S N your Winter buying. It will be
Vapor We Inge vou to drive it S a Big Saving to you.
over any Mountain you suggest.
Steam PENN STATE AUTO CO. LYON & CO.
Pipsless Furnaces PUINAININININININ | «APPS PPP PPP PAPAL
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F ut I te of ; Pipe ad Fl ittings DON'T BUY FROM Bellefonte Filling Station :
The and Rest Room
ALL SIZES OF Es
: : ; A Service Station for Impatient
r-Hoy Hdw. Co.
Tera Cotta Pipe and Fittings Potte y Motorists
Unless you want Real Quality GREASES OILS GAS
and Satis faction for Your Confectionery Tobacco
Filtmates Cheertuliy and Promptly
Burnished. Money.
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Before You Buy
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
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Any LUMBER, FLOORING,
FINISH, SASH, DOORS,
MILL WORK
Get Shope’s Prices
Bell 46 W United
WNUAAAAPS PALS SIPS,
PPI SNS SDSS ANNAN
Bellefonte Lumber Co
RPP ASIP SES SP
with our “other baked goods that
lend variety and deliciousness to
your meals at little expense.
BREAKFAST ROLLS URTLIENS
‘ COFFEE RINGS CA
FANCY BUNS RAISEN BREAD
CURRANT BUNS PIES
They give you the same food value
INNA SONA PSPSPS SS
#8 our wholesome Bread.
In Ordering Bread
CITY BAKERY Bellefonte Lumber Co
Don’t forget to enrich your table
MILL WORK SHINGLES
BUILDING SUPPLIES
ROUGH LUMBER LATH
Oil Changed Free
FRANK SASSERMAN, Prop.
IISA PSAP POPP AS
Russ-Bell’s
Sodas, Ice Cream, Candy
Martha Washington
CANDIES
Old Time Home Made
Headache
may come from the eyes
Try Casebeer
Registered Optometrist,
DEAD TOWN VERY
SELDON RECOVERS
Community That Is Not Prosper- |
ous Cannot Attract New
Residents.
IS LIKE BIG CORPORATION
People Are Stockholders and When
They Spend Their Money Away
From Home They Deplets
Its Capital.
(Copyright.)
There is nothing deader than a dead
town. Try as hard as it may to con-
ceal the facts, the truth is written all.
over it so that he who runs may read.
No camouflage of bluff and bluster can
conceal the true situation from anyone
who comes within the limits of the
community. A dead town is dead and
that's ail there is to it.
The worst of it is that once a town |
dies it stays dead. There have been
exceptional cases in which dead towns
have been revived, have taken on new
lite and prospered, but these are mere-
ly the exceptions that prove the rule. |
The fact that a town can seldom
“come buck” is easily explained. The
growing and prosperous town today
is the.one that can attract new resi-
dents and new capital. It is one that
can offer attractive inducements for
the location: of new industries. The
dead town offers no attraction to out-
side capital. A man looking for =a
place to launch a new business or a
new location for an old industry, is
not going to pick out a dead town.
He is going to select a town in which
money is plentiful, a town whose busi-
ness men are progressive and whose
residents, as a whole, are prosperous
and contented, There are too many
live and thriving towns in the world
for a man to risk his future in one
that is dead. This is the reason that
a town, once dead, almost always re-
mains dead. :
Town Like Corporation.
There is just cone thing, ordinarily,
that kills a town in the first place and
that is a lack of money. A town is
just like a corporation and the money
possessed by its inhabitants is its cap-
ital, If this capital is depleted the
town will fail just as the corporation,
whose capital is depleted through poor
nanagement or other causes, fails.
And just as the corporation which has
once failed can seldom retrieve its lost
fortunes, the town which has failed
cannot often *come back.”
The capital of a community is de-
Jleted when its money is spent away
from home in a way that brings no
return benefit to the community, It
takes no great amount of thought to
be able to realize that the town, like
tne individual, cannot last long if it
dS. paying‘ out more money than it
| takes in.’ That does not mean that a
prosperous town is one in which the
people do not spend any money. On
the contrary, a prosperous town is
| one in which the people do spend mon-
"| ey but it is one in which they spend
the money at home. As long as the
money is spent at home, the town
gains by having it kept in circulation,
but when it is spent away from home,
either by being sent to the mail order
houses or by shopping trips to other
cities, the town's capital is impaired
‘| to that extent and if ‘enough money is
spent away from home ‘in that way,
‘| the town collapses and virtually goes
into bankruptcy just as does the cor-
| poration which dissipates itS capital.
The people of a community are apt
¢ overlook the fact that they are
stockholders in their town and that
their fortunes are bound up with those
of the community as a whole, They
do not realize that if their town fails
they. will fail with it... They—or many
‘of them at least—send their money
away to the mail order houses in the
great cities, without realizing that they
are impairing the capital of their own
corporation and that if enough'of them
pyrsue that course they will force their
. corporation into certain bankruptcy.
Merchants | Not Only Ones Hurt.
Many customers of mail order
‘| nouses say that they are under no
‘| obligation to trade with their home
:| merchants and this may be true. They
overlook that fact that the business
men of a town do much for their com-
munity and are entitled, in return for
what they do, to the support of the
people in the community, but leaving
this out of consideration, they over-
i00k the fact that they are bringing
about their own downfall when they
drain their town of its money—its
capital,
The home merchant will not be the
| only one that will be hurt when the
., town
“goes broke.” The merchant
can reduce his stock and cut down his
expenses and get along
he can sell out and move to some oth-
er town which has not been so blind .
to its own welfare. It is the great
body of the people of the community
including all those who have sent their
money away to other cities instead of
spending it at home, that suffers most
when the hard times come.
The time for all the people to pull
together for a live town is while the
town is still live and not after it is
dead, for when a town dies it is a
long time dead—if not forever.
Learns His Faults.
A man never realizes how many
| faults he has until he gets married
/| then his wife tells him,
some way or
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The Best at Less
in
Pianos Radios
Phonographs
HARTER’S MUSIC STORE
18 N. Allegheny St,
Sam
Says
Fixit
S. H. POORV ANS GARAGE
Your Satisfaction
IS OUR RECORD FOR SERVICE
That Good GULF Gasoline
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
600d sHows
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
(Guaranteed)
We will give a new pair free
for any pair that shows a run-
ner in the leg er a hole in the
heel or toe.
~ Yeager’s Shoe Store
emotes GARAGE}
STUDEBAKER
International Trucks
See the “Duplex” Car
GEO. A. BEEZER
REGISTERED
G. F. Musser Co
WHOLESALE GROCERS
FRANK M. 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
Bring Health and Happiness
to your home with a convenient
“Heatmore”
Pipeless Furnace
CLEAN AND SANITARY
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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.
Be Bellefonte Hardware Co,
hdad eas oH VV VL COs >
AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AA
Montgomery & Co
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Genuine
ENGLISH BROAD CLOTH
SHIRTS
Specially Priced
$2.45
Blue — Tan — White — Gray
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ENN PAPI PP PP APS
FIexibIe Flyer Sleds
claimed by all boys and girls the only
perfect steering coaster sled made—
A Few Left
at Reduced Prices
Olewine’ s Hardware
PG 0 SR eS PRT re Se se I
The Talk of the Town!
Selby’s and’ Just Wrights
Arch Support Shoes
FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Mingle’s Shoe Store
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Nissel'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 Gere Gaunty
Buy from whom you please
BUT
Buy in Centre County
Hazel & Company
THE...
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