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"Bellefonte, Pa., October 1, 1926.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For United States Senator,
WILLIAM B. WILSON,
of Tioga County.
For Governor,
EUGENE C. BONNIWELL,
of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenaut Governor,
W. CLAYTON HACKET,
of Northampton County.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
JOHN MURPHY,
of Allegheny County.
District
Ticket.
For Congress,
CLARENCE R. KRAMER,
of Clearfield.
For State Senator,
WILLIAM 1. BETTS,
of Clearfield.
For Assemblyman,
ANDREW CURTIN THOMPSON,
of Philipsburg.
Democratic and County
Dr. Ralph Hetzel Elected President
of State College.
At a meeting of the board of trus-
tees of The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege, last Friday, Dr. Ralph D. Het-
zel, for nine years president of the
University of New Hampshire, was
elected president of the College to fill
the place made vacant over a year ago
by the resignation of Dr. John M.
Thomas, who resigned to become head
of Rutgers University, in New Jersey.
Dr. Hetzel is a lawyer by training
and graduated in 1906 from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. From 1913 to
1917 he was director of agricultural
extension service at the Oregon State
College and it was because of his suc-
cess there that nine years ago he was
called to the presidency of the Uni-
versity of New Hampshire, where his
record has been regarded as phenom-
enal. He is but 43 years of age and
will be the youngest president ever
in charge at State College. He was a
visitor at the College during Freshmen
week and was favorably impressed
with the institution.
Dr. Hetzel will not come to the Col-
lege until the first of the year and un-
til that time the administrative af-
fairs will be continued in the hands
of the special committee which has
had charge during the past year.
Mann’s Axe Factory at Mill Hall De-
stroyed by Fire.
The old-established plant of the
Mann Edge Tool company, at Mill
Hall, was entirely destroyed by fire,
last Thursday, with a loss of $200,000,
partially covered by insurance. It is
hardly likely that the plant will be re-
built. 2
The first axe factory established by
the Manns was at Axe Mann in Cen- |
tre county in 1827. It was built by .
William Mann who later was joined |
by his brother, Harvey Mann. Nine
years later Robert Mann built the
plant at Mill Hall. Some years later
another plant was established at
Lewistown. The Axe Mann plant was
operated until probably twenty-five
years ago when the Mann Edge Tool
company was organized. Then the
Axe Mann plant was abandoned and
all the manufacturing was done in the
plants at Lewistown and Mill Hall.
The latter plant was destroyed by fire
in 1877 but was promptly rebuilt. But
now that it has again been completely
destroyed it is very unlikely that it.
will be rebuilt, but that everything
will be consolidated in the plant at
Lewistown.
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Dads to Have Day at State College.
The week-end of October 8, 9 and
10 has been set for the annual observ-
ance of Father’s day by students at
the Pennsylvania State College. The
big day will be Saturday, the 9th,
which will start with a meeting of the
association of parents at Penn State
in the morning, two football games in
the afternoon and a smoker in the
armory in the evening.
A student committee is also arrang-
ing for a mass meeting to be held Fri-
day evening, when prominent fathers
and faculty members will speak. Girls
are arranging a Saturday afternoon
tea for mothers who will accompany
the dads, and a special dinner in the
evening. At least 1000 parents of
students are expected. Fathers’ day
was observed previously in May, and
was changed to a fall date so that
football could be made a feature. The
varsity will meet Marietta college and
the Freshmen eleven will open its sea-
, Sylvania State College.
son with Bellefonte Academy.
Philadelphia Nationals to Play in
Philipsburg Next Wednesday.
Baseball fans hereabouts are plac-
ing a red circle around the date of
Wednesday, October 6th, because of
that date the Philadelphia National
league team will be the attraction at
Scott field, and it will mark the first
time that any major league team has
made it’s appearance in Philipsburg,
although the game has been played on
an extensive basis there ever since it
was introduced some sixty years ago.
The Phillies started on a barn-
storming trip Wednesday which will
carry them through the entire month
of October. Some of the greatest
hitters in the National league will be
in the Phillies’ lineup: Wilson and
Henline, Friberg, second base; Huber,
third base; Sand, shortstop; Leach,
left field; Mokan, centre field; Cy Wil-
liams, right field; Nixon, utility, and
Carlson, Dean and Ulrich, pitchers.
This is the same group of tossers who
put the skids under Cincinnati’s pen-
nant aspirations in the closing days of |
the National league race.
Williams, Henline, Wilson, Mokan,
Leach and Wrightstone are hitters
extraordinary, as their records show.
Heine Sand is the shortstop for whom
the Phillies paid Salt Lake City $40,-
000 some four years ago. In Cari-
son, the fans will have an opportunity
of seeing in action one of the greatest
pitchers in the country, he has pitched
and won nearly one-third of the games
won by his team all year, usually
being matched against the strongest
of the opposition.
The Philipsburg team will be made
up of players from the Clearfield-Cen-
tre league. Those members of the
1926 variety of Philipsburg’s entry in
the league who are still available will
have a chance to show their stuff, but
their ranks will be augmented by the
addition of Lex McCloskey and Sol
Robison, of Clearfield, Steve Shiock
and Rube Haggerty, of Sykesville, and
last but ‘not least, the redoubtable
“Lefty” Vaughn, of Sandy Ridge, the
19 year old phenom, who has been
making the “old apple” do some pecul-
lar stunts during the past season.
Vaughn hurt his arm at Clearfield a
couple of weeks ago, but he is now in
good shape once more.
Potato Growers Have Day at State
College.
“Potato day” will be observed at the
Pennsylvania State College on Wed-
nesday, October 13th. The scene of
the day’s activities will be the 40-
acre potato field on the college farm.
Plans for the program include dem-
onstrations of the potato harvest-
ing methods peculiar to different sec-
tions of the country, comparisons of
the efficiency and economy of handling
potatoes in baskets, crates, bags, bar-
rels, and loose on the wagon in the
harvesting process, and exhibits and
demonstrations of various kinds and
types of labor-saving potato machin-
ery. .
Results of the experimental plots
in which imported disease-free seed
has been compared with Pennsylvania
grown seed will be shown and explain-
ed. There will be an inspection of the
modern potato storage house erected
at the college two years ago.
It is planned to serve at noon a free
lunch composed of products grown on
the college farm. For recreation
there will be several contests in all
of which ‘potatoes will be the bone of
contention.
County agents are taking the names
of all who expect to attend so that the '
college can be informed as to the num-
ber to be entertained.
Cider Making Time and Regulations.
Sweet cider making time is at hand.
With apples plentiful in all parts of
the county, many wish to squeeze the
juice out of part of their crops. The
making of unfermented apple juice is
very simple, declares R. S. Snyder,
fruit extension specialist of the Penn-
If sound,
well-matured, properly ripened fruit
is used for cider, the quality of the re-
sulting product will be higher than :
that which comes from insect-eaten
and disease-smitten windfalls.
According to Snyder very complete
information on the subject of blending
ciders and the methods and regula-
tions concerning the manufacture of
cider can be obtained in farmer's bul-
letin, No. 1264, issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture at
Washington, D. C. The question “May
I make cider or vinegar for my own
use and what are the government
regulations about it?” is often asked.
Snyder states that Regulation 60 ob-
tainable from the prohibition director
at the State capitol or from the
United States Bureau of Internal Rev-
enue answers all the questions and |
gives the information needed for com-
pliance with the law.
Death of Senator T. Larry Eyre.
T. Lawrence Eyre, State Senator
from Chester county, died at his home
in West Chester early Monday morn-
ing, following a protracted illness,
aged 64 years. Senator Eyre, who
was serving his third term as State
Senator, had been a leader in Repub-
lican politics in Chester county for
more than a quarter of a century. He
was regarded as the Beau Brummel of
the Senate. For a number of years
Mr. Eyre was associated with the late
Thomas A. Shoemaker, of Bellefonte,
in the contracting business under the
name of Eyre and Shoemaker.
Let Us Send a
Real Representative
to Harrisburg-
for the past one hundred years.
itic have been cultivated in him.
profiteers.
vania’s government.
ANDREW CURTIN THOMPSON
Andrew Curtin Thompson, the Democratic and Prohibi-
tion candidate for the General Assembly from Centre County,
was born at Stormstown, in Halfmoon valley. He is a typical
product of one of Centre county’s oldest and most substantial
families. His ancestors lived in' Centre county for a number of
generations preceding his birth. Mr. Thompson’s great grand-
father moved from Lancaster county into Centre, and settled upon
a farm just outside of Stormstown early in the nineteenth centu-
ry, and the Thompson family have been residents of the county
His family has always been active in the public affairs of
our county. His grandfather was Sheriff of the county from
1840 to 1844, and was an intimate acquaintance and associate of
Andrew Curtin, our famous Civil War Governor and Statesman,
and for whom Mr. Thompson was named.
He has lived practically all his life in this county. He was
educated at the old Quaker Grammar school connected with the
Halfmoon Quaker meeting, and at Pine Grove Mills Academy.
When but a younth, he began his career as a school teacher,
teaching near Unionville, Halfmoon township, and at Cold
Stream. For a number of years he was principal of the schools
at Snow Shoe and about twenty-five years ago gave up his posi-
tion as an educator and entered into the wholesale hardware bus-
iness, which he has followed ever since.
Mr. Thompson has always been active in the affairs of the
community in which he lives, and in matters of general interest
to the county. For the past twelve years he has been actively
identified with the work of the Centre County Sabbath School As-
sociation, and at the present time is the superintendent of his own
Sabbath school at Philipsburg. He has always been one of our
county’s most sincere and enthusiastic supporters of high educa-
tional standards and a leader in work among young people.
With a career of honest, intelligent and patriotic citizen-
ship behind him, Mr. Thompson is an, ideal choice to represent
our county in Harrisburg. He is not blinded by the sectional in-
terests of one particular district, but can and will represent the
entire county. Of broad mind and scholarly habits, he is well
equipped mentally for the position. . Progressive in thought and -
vigorous in activity, he is remarkably well qualified for the task.
Raised upon a Centre county farm, and schooled in a regimen
of hard work, the interests of all the people and the
body pol-
Centre county should send to Harrisburg a man who can
be relied upon to play an active part in overthrowing the despoil-
ing of our State by machine-nurtured politics.
tions can only be remedied by the intelligent ballot of the coun-
try districts. The substantial disfranchising of the electorate in
our cities calls for an awakened and continued interest from dis-
tricts such as Centre county. To maintain the dignity of our
Commonwealth we must put men in office who are reliably hon-
est, sincere, and not the servants of a small minority of political
Present condi-
Possessing a personal history that is beyond reproach, the
people of Centre county can, with confidence, vote for Mr.
Thompson, as their contribution to the regeneration of Pennsyl-
County Drive for Susquehanna
University.
Leading Lutheran church members
and alumni from Centre county are
among the members of the general
committee of two hundred which met
yesterday at Selinsgrove to work out
details of Susquehanna University’s
$450,000 program of development.
i Centre county is in Zone No. 8,
which is headed by Sterling R. Decker,
Frank M. Crawford Heads Centre to attend a corn roast during the even-
ing.
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Not far from Oak Grove a large
STOVER.—Jacob Stover died last
Saturday at the home of his son
George, at Woodward, as the result of
a stroke of paralysis. He was a re-
tired farmer and was 78 years, 1
month and 4 days old. His wife died
two years ago but surviving him are
the following children: Howard
Stover, of Lake Worth, Fla.; George,
of Woodward; Boyd and Herbert, of
Coburn; James, of Northumberland;
. | John, of Sunbury; Mrs. J. J. Breon, of
Antes Fort, and Mrs. C. R. Burk-
holder, of Coburn. He also leaves
three brothers, Philip and Leonard, of
Coburn, and Ellis, of Woodward. Bur-
ial was made in the Fairview ceme-
tery, Millheim, on Tusslay afternoon.
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BRUNGARD—Mrs, Mary Cather-
ine Brungard, widow of Samuel Brun-
gard, lifelong residents of Nittany
valley, died on Sunday at the home of
her son, G. B. M. Brungard, at Mill
Hall, following a general breakdown,
aged 84 years. Her husband has been
dead a number of years but surviving
her are six children, G. B. M. Brun-
gard, of Mill Hall; Fred, of Rosecrans;
Newton, of Rote; Mrs. Charles Hollen-
back, of Lock Haven; Mrs. Herman
Walizer, of Mackeyville, and Mrs. Nel-
son Light, of New York city. Burial
was made in the Cedar Hill cemetery
on Wednesday afternoon.
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WOLFE.—Anthony Wolfe, a native
hospital last Thursday morning, fol-
1lowing an illness of some weeks. He
was a moulder by occupation and had
lived in Altoona and vicinity for many
vears. He was seventy-seven years
old and his only survivor is one son,
J. A. Wolfe, of Altoona. The remains
were taken to Hublersburg, Centre
county, where burial was made on
Sunday.
spa andrew Spele of Snow
Shoe township, died at the Centre
County hospital on Monday afternoon,
following two weeks illness with ty-
phoid fever. He was thirty-three
years old and is survived by his wife
and: five young children. Burial was
made at Snow Shoe yesterday morn-
ing.
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Football Game at Hughes Field This
Friday Afternoon.
The All Scholastic football team, of
Irwin, Pa., will play the Bellefonte
Academy eleven on Hughes field
this afternoon at three ‘o’clock. It
is not a professional team but is made
up of ex-High school players who
have won renown at their various
schools and is considered one of the
best amateur teams in the western
part of the State. Because of this
[fact a good game is assured. :
- The Academy defeated the Gettys-
burg College Freshmen, on Saturday,
by the score of 18 to 0, but it should
have been at least double that. The
game was played in ‘a downpour of
rain, on a very slippery field, and the
Academy players simply could not get
going. Several touch-downs were
. made which looked all right to the
"crowd on the side lines but were riot
| allowed by the referre. Hood, one of
i the best of the Academy players, had
| two toes injured during the game and
i was taken to the Centre county hos-
pital for treatment. Just how serious
I the injury is, or how long it will keep
him out of the game is not yet known.
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Bellefonte Trust Company to Enter-
| tain School Teachers.
In accordance with a custom inaug-
urated several years ago the Belle-
fonte Trust Company will be host to
‘the school teachers of Bellefonte,
| touring car traveling at high speed Milesburg and Unionville boroughs,
and with only one light, hit both Mor-
gan and Pope. The former, who
weighed 160 pounds, was thrown
thirty feet and was dead when picked
up. Pope was only hit a glancing
blow and sustainéd an injury to his
right leg and shock. The driver of the
car did not stop and is therefore un-
known. Morgan is survived by his
Montgomery, as chairman. The coun- | father and two brothers, George and
ty district chairman is Frank M. Richard.
Crawford, of this place.
Members of the Centre county com-
mittee include: Rev. Clarence E.
Arnold, Bellefonte; Lewis H. Beck,
Nittany; Lester Condo, Spring Mills;
Rev. F. H. Daubenspeck, Aaronsburg;
H. L. Ebright, Centre Hall; W. J.
| Emerick, Bellefonte; Rev. J. S. Eng-
"lish, Pine Grove Mills; Dr. G. S.
' Frank, Millheim; A. E. Garbrick,
Bellefonte R. D.; C. L. Gramley, Re-
bersburg; S. Ward Gramley, Millheim;
‘Rev. S. F. Greenhoe, Centre Hall;
Rev. John F. Harkins, State College;
E. M. Huyett, Centre Hall; W. H.
Haney, Spring Mills; Ezra Harter,
Spring Mills; Wallace Ilgen, Centre
Hall; Mrs. J. M. Riden, Bellefonte;
Harry Royal, Rebersburg; L. E.
i Stover; Millheim; ‘Rev. Stephen
Traver, Rebersburg; Rev. W. W. Wag-
ner, Boalsburg; D. S. Wert, Center
Hall; H. S. Winklebleck, Aaronsburg;
John Zerby, Spring Mills.
Clearfield County Boy Killed by “Hit
and Run” Car.
Maynard Morgan, seventeen year
old son of Richard Morgan, who lives
just over the line in Clearfield county
not far from Philipsburg, was instant-
ly killed by a “hit and run” automo-
bile, near Oak Grove, last Wednesday
evening. Morgan and Joseph Pope
were on their way to Oak Grove to
meet Robert Barger, of Winburne,
who was due on the 7:30 trolley car,
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earner.
Motor Wrecks High Street Porch.
Undertaking to park at the curb in
front of the William Ott house, on
High street, last Thursday evening
Doyle Gearhart, of State College,
| must have stepped on the gas instead
of the brake. His car shot up over
the curb and across the pavement un-
til it crashed into the corner of the
Ott porch. There it stopped, but not
before having completely demolished
the steps and pushed the entire porch
about eight inches down the street.
In the mix-up the rear of the Gear-
hart car got so badly tangled up with
a Ford coupe, also parked there, that
it had to be lifted off before the car
could be turned around and run down
the pavement to the crossing where
it got back onto the roadway. Strange,
the Ford showed no signs of damage.
Ott’s porch was a partial wreck and
Mr. Gearhart will have a new bump-
er to buy because the porch didn’t
yield without first breaking his.
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-—-Levi A. Miller and the Atchinson
family, of Pleasant Gap, who had an-
ticipated taking the Mrs. J. Will Con-
ley home, on Logan street, for the
winter have been compelled to change
their plans owing to the sudden and
unexpected illness of Mrs. Atchinson.
Mr. Miller will probably spend the
winter at the Garman house here
while the Atchinsons are without
definite plans owing to Mrs. Atchin-
the three young men having planned | son’s condition.
. Benner, Boggs, Huston, Marion, Pat-
ton, Spring, Union and Walker town-
; ships, at a luncheon to be served at
| the Bush house at noon tomorrow.
: The purpose of the meeting is to ex-
plain to and impress upon the teach-
| ers the value of teaching thrift to the
| pupils and to establish banking in all
of the schools within the above dis-
trict where the banking system has
not already been installed.
In these days when there are so
many ways for the children to spend
money the teaching of thrift and sav-
,ings is a commendable study in all
public schools.
Memorial to Former Superintendent
of Bellefonte Schools.
Mrs. David O. Etters, of State Col-
lege, has presented to the library of
the Bellefonte High school a valuable
collection of reference books from the
library of her late husband.
It is to be a memorial to David O.
Etters, former county superintendent
; of schools, who was principal of the
High school here from 1884 to 1890
and superintendent of all our schools
from 1892 to 1905.
In the collection are Gibbon’
“Rome,” Grote’s “History of Greece”
and Chambers’ “Encyclopoedia of
English Literature.”
Thelma Williams on the Stage in
Pittsburgh.
Miss Thelma Williams, of Port Ma-
tilda, the girl who was selected as
“Miss Pittsburgh” in the national
beauty show at Atlantic City several
weeks ago, has been appearing in a
small part on the stage of Pittsburgh
theatres this week, both at the Davis
and Olympic. She is in the Keith-
Albee vaudeville company and in ad-
dition to appearing in the regular
vaudeville program makes a brief
address from the stage.
of Centre county, died in the Altoona |
OF THE
IN THE CHURCHES
COUNTY.
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH,
9.30 a. m. Sunday school; 10.45 a. m..
morning services; Sermon: “One
Thing Thou Lackest.” 7.30 p. m.
evening service; Sermon: “I Am The
Lord Thy God.” This will open a
series of sermons on the Ten Com-
mandments, which will interpret them:
to meet the needs of our present day.
Clarence E. Arnold, pastor.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
The pulpit will be supplied with a
speaker from the Quadrennial Mis-
sionary Convention in session this:
week in Lock Haven. This Sabbath
will be observed as Foreign Missions
Day, and the message will be along
the line of Missionary endeavor in the
Evangelical church. Morning services
10.30 a. m. Evening 7.30 p. m. Sun-
day school 9.15 a. m. Christian En-
deavor 6.30 p. m. Everybody wel--
come,
Reed O. Steely, Minister.
BOALSBURG RErOKMED CHARGE.
Church services for Sunday, Octo--
ber 3rd.
Boalsburg—Church school,” 9.15 a..
m.; morning worship, 10.30 a. m.
Pine Hall—Church school, 9.30 a.
‘Houserville—Public worship, 2.30 p..
m.
W. W. Moyer, Pastor.
Florida Recovering from Recent
Disaster.
Lake Worth, Florida, Sept. 26, ’26..
Dear friends: —
Here I am, sitting at my desk with.
four windows open and enjoying the
delightful breeze coming through. It
is a beautiful day. The sun is shining,
birds are singing, automobiles rolling
by and trains moving as usual. One
can scarcely realize that we have just
passed through one of the greatest
storms ever experienced in this sec-
tion. But at that, we feel pretty lucky
for it did little damage here as com-
pared with the awful destruction in
other sections of the State.
To look our city over now you
would not know. that we had been in-
the storm’s path at all. The nice
weather of the week has been taken
advantage of to fix up shattered roofs.
and clean up the debris scattered
about by the gale.
Lake Worth is one of the nicest
cities on the east coast. It is growing
rapidly and will eventually become an:
important industrial as well as pleas-
ure centre. The railroads sense that,
for the East Coast line has put in a
big yard and is building a $45,000
freight station here, while the Sea-
Board Air Line is built through here-
to Miami. Also, they are developing:
the lake so that we may have the agd-
vantage of shipping by water. With
all the hard luck the future of Florida
looks good to me.
{ Postal work in Florida is very fas-
cinating. = Always, one is seeing new
ifaces and making new friends.
Strangers seem to be coming here
almost as fast as ever, notwithstand-
ing the temporary alarm that might
have been spread throughout the
country by the news of our great
storm. It looks as though work for
mechanics of all kinds will be plentiful’
here this winter as more substantial
buildings are to replace those destroy-
ed
Hoping that this finds everyone
happy and successful in old Centre:
county, I am
Your friend,
C. C. KEICHLINE!.
A Few Fall Movings.
' Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hartranft have
bought the Al Heverly brick house,
on Logan street, and will move there:
from the mill property on north
Thomas street, recently purchased by
the P. R. R. Co. Mr. and Mrs. Hart-
ranft expect to take possession of
their new home as soon as possible so.
that the R. R. Co., can make the
changes they pianned when buying the-
property.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Craft will move
to Pleasant Gap this fall, arranging to:
go just as soon as their house is ready
for occupancy.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Con-
radi vacated the Parker house, on
Wednesday, and moved back to Sun--
bury by motor truck. The house va-
cated by them will be taken on the:
first of November by Ralph Mallory:
and family:
| BOALSBURG.
Miss Anna Sweeny is ill with rheu--
matism.
| Miss Elizabeth Meyer, of Mifflin--
ville, spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. C. H. Boyer is nursing a
broken arm, the result of a.fall.
{ Mrs. Wm. Meyer, Mrs. Sarah Sweet
and son Perry, and S. R. Rishel made:
a trip to Lock Haven on Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Wagner return-
ed home on Thursday from. attending
the 100dth anniversary of the
Gettysburg Theological Seminary.
Miss Ruth Taylor, of Carlisle, was
"an over Sunday: visitor with Miss
Dorothy Lonbarger. Both ladies are
teaching in the High school at Hub-
lersburg.
Mrs. John Wright accompanied a
party of friends to State College, Sat-
urday afternoon, and while walking
across College avenue was run down
‘by a passing auto, suffering severe in-
juries to her knee and ankle.
A festival and bake sale will be held
by the ladies Bible class of the Boals-
burg Reformed church Sunday school,
on tHe church lawn, tomorrow, Satur-
day; October 2, afternoon and even-
ing. The committee in charge cordial-
ly invites everyone to attend.
——The eightieth annual institute
of the public school teachers of Centre:
' county will be held in the court house,
' the week Beginning October 25..