THEATRE
Miss Crouse, Organist
‘Week--Ahead Program
Friday and Saturday
“Diplomacy”
A Marshall Neilan Production
with BLANCHE SWEET and
There is enough mystery in “Diplomacy”
to hold one spellbound, enough love to
keep one captivated, and enough humor and
beauty to make one jot it down as a truly
human, honestly great picture.
Also, a great first run two reel Comedy.
Only 10 and 25 cents.
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Monday and Tuesday
FIRST NATIONAL PRESENTS
“Paradise”
with BETTY BRONSON and
QILTON SILLS
with a wonderful supporting cast, includ-
ing Noah Beery, Kate Price and Charley
adds new brilliance
to the fame of Milton Sills, coming after
Murray. “Paradise”
the epochal “Men of Steel.” Betty Bron-
son, the Peter Pan girl, has her first big
dramatie role. Milton Sills puts on a fight
in this picture that one seldom sees, and
oh, what a’ picture! ~~ °° a
Also, a first run twe reel Mack Sennett
Comedy, “Tell em Nothing,” with" Charley
Chase, that clever comedian.
As usual, 10 and 25c.
Only 10 and 25 cents.
ree { Jr eee.
Wednesday
PARAMOUNT PRESENTS
“The Cat’s Pajamas”
WITH
Betty Bremsen Ricarde Cortez
Arlette Marchal Theedere Reberis
Cortez as an opera star shiek. Betiy
Bronson as a pretty model in a Fifth ave-
nue gown shop, and gay old Theodore
Roberts back on the screen after a long
sickness with his eigar and all. A spark-
ling Comedy romance of 1926 New York
society and theatrical life.
Alse, Fox News and Sereen Snapshots.
Only 10 and 25¢.
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Thursday and Friday
METRO-GOLDEN PRESENTS
It’s Giant Special of 1926-27
“The Waning Sex”
Admission - » - 10 and 25¢.
”
Moose Theatre
Where You Always See Good Shows.
Country Store Every Wednesday Night
This
Friday and Saturday
“The Sea Wolt”
Ralph W. Ince Claire Adams
Theodore Von Eltz Snitz Edwards
Mitchell Lewis
A tremendous soul-stirring at sea—a
picture as great as the novel that made
Jack London internationally famous; as
powerful as the gale-swept ocean.
Alse, a great two reel Comedy, “Wise
Guys Prefer Brunettes.” 10 and 208.
A Boy of Twelve is None too
Young to Know His Soul.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt, D. D.
It was in this cycle of life that my
brother Daniel Bates died at Jef-
ferson College in his 17th year. He
was not only an athlete physically but
mentally and had the most brilliant
and precocious brain I have ever
known and the world lost in his death
a Pathfinder | in Knowledge. But
sick three days from virulent typhoid,
he collapsed with hemorrhages of
the brain. Those were solemn hours
in the farmhouse when my father and
brother were absent at his bedside.
My mother had a presentment that he
would not recover and I well remem-
ber as I was tripping down stairs
singing, mother said, “My son, do not
sing, your brother may be dying.”
Truly enough almost in the same
breath the telegram came that he had
gone all to early to the heavens. He
was buried inthe graveyard at Can-
onsburg, a snowy, wintry day where he
rested until I removed his body to the
family plot in Winchester, Virginia.
Though such a scholar, he was a
thorough boy, excelling in manly
sports and challenging all comers to
wrestling matches. He taught me to
box across the chicken coops in my
father’s yard and to take punishment
in many a sore buffet which served
me well years later when attacked by
a big, brutal, drunken Englishman,
who would have killed me. I not
only was able to ward off his blows
but to his astonishment to knock him
out and choke him into submission.
This occurred in the valley of Virginia,
when I was some time a minister at
the First Presbyterian church, Phila-
delphia, and gave me quite a reputa-
tion in that region as a “Fighting
Parson.” But that which attached
me most to this brother and made his
death so poignant, was his deep and
constant interest in my education
which he practically supervised. I
cannot convey in words the profound
impression his death made upon me.
It seemed terrible beyond imagination
that he was lying in the cold wintry
ground, the snow his winding sheet
and for months and even years I sank
to sleep amid weird dreams in which
he was the central figure, my pillow
wet with tears. And though a minis-
ter and compelled to conduct thous-
ands of funerals, I could never famil-
iarize myself with the grewsome physi-
cal aspect of this tremendous event.
Deck the body as we may, it is a “body
of humiliation,” food for worms and
its last resting place though “a whited
sepulcher” is but a charnel house full
of dead men’s bones. To the deepest
read in the attributes and destiny of
man it is a profound and absorbing
mystery, a fearful anomaly in God’s
world.
It was the death of this brother in my
12th year that turned my thoughts to
the importance of religion. I had
been impressed through the years
with the reality of religion by my
father’s inculcations and my mother’s
gentle persuasions, reinforced as they
were by truly good examples in daily
life. Next to my. parent’s influence
was a black man, an, ex-slave who pur-
and became the owner of a 100 acre
mountain tract. I saw that man un-
der provocation and in’ many trying
experiences and there was always
something about his life and actions
that savoured of the real Christian
spirit. He used to relate his conver-
sion after this manner: He said in
his slave life near Moorefield in the
Rommey valley, Virginia, he was a
strapping fellow and one day got into
an altercation with his master’s son
and gave him a good beating. Know-
ing he would be summarily punished
and without a doubt sold to a far
southern cotton palnter, that night he
stole in under the dining room wia-
dow of his master’s home at the hour
the inmates gathered for family wor-
ship and his fate would be settled in
family council, determined if rigorous
punishment was decided upon, he
would flee that night by the under-
ground railroad, as it was called, to
Canada. What was his astonishment
to see his old master kneel down and
pray among other petitions, fervernt-
ly for his black slave, Ben Gates, that
he might be pardoned his fault and be
brought to a better mind. The poor
black soul crouching there was over-
come with emotion, his heart was
broken with a sense of his master’s
mercy and his own self-condemnation.
He resolved then and there to crave
forgiveness from his master’s son and
to seek the sort of religion exempli-
fied by his master. He passed through
the throes of an old time Methodist
experience of religion, sought a long
time for peace in vain, but at last one
day in crossing a ploughed field he
cast himself face down in the clods
and in an agony of contrition, dedicat-
ed his soul fully to God. Then he al-
ways insisted he had visible manifes-
tion of Divine acceptance in the form
of a wheel that came rolling over the
woods and adown the sky and settled
upon his head. Hallucination or not,
no one that knew him from that day
could doubt that he had “gotten re-
ligion” of a genuine sort. He became
a trusted overseer and preacher to his
fellow slaves. One morning in the
woodyard of my father, for he became
gardener to the household, it being
during the Civil War, my father re-
marked that he did not believe the
war would ever end until the slaves
were emancipated. To this, Ben Gates
replied that in the slave days and
when he conducted the camp meetings,
he always prayed lustily that the
slaves might be freed but his prayers
always elicited scoffs and jeers from
the whites present who said, “Ha Ha,
pray on, Ben. Peradventure God may
hear.” But he said, “I am as sure as
there is a God that He will hear and
redemption draweth nigh.” Both lived
to see their prognostications glorious-
ly filled. I cannot forbear injecting
at this point another fact connected
with this black man, proving the om-
nipotence of prayer. Ben Gates had
a son, Nelson by name, who ‘bade fair
to bring his father’s gray hairs in sor-
row to the grave. For nigh sixty
years he was a, prodigal, displaying
chased - freedom: of ‘himself and son |
not a trace of his father’s character,
or inclination to a religious life but
became a slavering drunkard. But his
father used to say, “I have prayed
for him to God and He will keep his
covenant and I am certain he will reap
the harvest of my prayers.” He died
without the sight. But years after in
the city of Philadelphia, I read a copy
of the religious paper entitled “The
Messenger” and on the front page was
a several columned Biography by
Judge Hall, of Bedford, relating the |
remarkable conversion and the beauti-
ful Christian work of Nelson Gates in
the closing years of life. It was the
wonder of the village. !
One other personage was vitally
connected with the religious impres-
sions of my childhood. This was Cap-
tain William Welch, a diminutive
Irishman from the Alleghenies who
sojourned in our home on various oc-
casions as a professional ditcher and
who spaded miles of the same on my
father’s farm. He was a Roman
Catholic to the back bone, crossed
himself at all meals and while not
obstructive as to the tenets of his
religion, he was thoroughly grounded
in the theology and forms of the
Catholic church. He was a well
known figure in his day to all resi-
dents of Bedford County as the head
of the Catholic professions. Withal
he was so gentle, kind and reasonable
in all his explanations of the doc-
trines and usages of his church, so
capable of giving a reason for the
faith that was in him—in a word, so
genuine in his piety that he might
have been canonized. Though doubt-
less he knew nothing of Thomas A.
Kempis, his life was a noble Imitatio
de Christi. So deeply did he affect
my opinions that though I was
brought up in the strictest sect of
Protestantism, he filled me with a
profound respect for the Catholic
religion which could take such hum-
ble clay and fashion so fine a speci-
men of godly character. And this
will perhaps explain why in my after
life as a minister I have often shock-
ed my Presbyterian brethren by: the
public defense of Roman Catholicism
from the assaults of bigotry. Later
opportunities of hearing the great Do-
minican and Jesuit preachers of the
Continent deepened my respect for the
intellectual dignity of the Catholic
system. Protestants are wont to take
it for granted that Catholicism flour-
ishes best in ignorant soil. But what
body of Christains can boast of a
longer line of defenders so distin-
guished intellectually as the Fathers,
from Augustine, Fertullian Cyprian
down to St. Thomas Aquinas, Pascal,
and Cardinal Newman? What sect can
furnish saintlier names than St.
Francis Assizi, Thomas A. Kempis
and the heroic nuns who have minis-
tered to the lepers of Hawaii? The
fact is that all the persuasions of re-
ligion combined are but partial and
inadequate incarnations of the full-
ness of the body of Christ. It is
proper for every man to be persuad-
ed in his own mind and loyal to the
faith of his fathers and of his own
choice, but the championship of the
most sacred cause is but weakened
and shamed by the zeal that is with-
out knowledge and by the disregard of
truth and charity.
With the aforesaid influences. in-
clining. my: nature. to religion, accents
uated by my brother’s sudden death,
I began to seek earnestly after what
was called Conversion or the New
Birth which in the original language
of the New Testament is to be inter-
preted as a “Change of Mind.” “Ex-
cept ye change your minds and be-
come as little children, ye shall aot
enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” 1
sought light by reading Doddridges,
“Rise and Progress of Religion in the
Soul;” Baxtler’s, “Saints Rest;” Bun-
yan’s, “Pilgrim’s Progress” and my
New Testament. After vain attempts
to pattern my experience after that of
others, in dispair I simply went to my
knees in contrition with no prayer
but that of sinking Peter, “Lord, save
me or I perish.” I gave myself in full
self-surrender to Christ to be his will-
ing disciple. I shall never forget the
relief of that descision and how the
very sun shone more benignant and
the birds sang a blither song and the
wholz earth seemed thenceforth to be
of a truth, my Father’s House. My
mother’s ear was the first into which
I poured the tale of my resolve to
make open confessions. I shall never
forget the kindness of an old Elder of
the Presbyterain Church of Bedford,
James Rea by name, who had been
visiting my father’s home the night
before and next morring on my way
to school broached the subject and
said, “Though but twelve years old,
you are not too young to join the
Church.” Little did that good old man
know that my whole being was
aquiver with that very subject. I re-
vealed to him that it had been a mat-
ter of thoughtfulness and he counsell-
ed me to go to my pastor, Robert F.
Sample, and under his instructions in a
Catachumens Class, © th a number of
other young folks as my companions,
I was prepared for admission and first
Communion in the Presbyterian
Church of Bedford.
In the Churches of the County.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Rally Day will be observed this Sab-
bath day. Bishop M. T. Maze, of Har-
risburg, will be the special speaker.
Morning worship at 10.00 o'clock.
Sunday school 9.15 a. m. Christian
Endeavor, 6.30 p. m. . The public is
very cordially invited to attend any
or all of these services.
Reed O. Steely, Minister.
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
9.30 a. m. Sunday school. 10.45 a.m.
morning service; Sermon: “Trading
Servants Of The Lord.” 7.30 p. m.
evening service; Sermon: “Thou Shalt
Not Kill.” »
Clarence E. Arnold, pastor.
BOALSBURG REFORMED CHARGE.
Boalsburg Church school, 9.15 a. m.
Pine Grove Mills—Holy Communion,
10.30 a. m. Preparatory service, Fri-
day, 7.30 p. m. Pine Hall—Church
school, 1.30 p. m. Public worship,
2.30 p. m.
The annual union Thanksgiving ser-
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"IR? W.R. Shope Lumber Co.
Lumber, Sash, Doors, Millwork and Roofing
vice will be held in St. John’s Reform-
ed church, Boalsburg, on Wednesday,
November 24th, at 7.30 p. m.
The annual roast chicken supper by
the Ladies’ Bible Class of St. John's
Sunday school will be held in the
Knigkts of Malta Temple on Saturday
evening, November 20th. : ;
W. W. Moyer, Pastor.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.—Letters
A of administration on. the estate of
Thomas S. Hazel, Dec'd., late of the
Borough of Bellefonte, Centre county,
Pennsylvania, having been granted the un-
dersigned, all persons knowing themselves
indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment thereof and those
having claims should present them prop-
erly authenticated, to
ELIZABETH N. HAZEL
Gettiz & Bower, Attys. Administratrix.
71-4516¢ Bellefonte, Pa.
DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.—Letters
A of administration having been
granted to the undersigned upon
the estate. of Abraham Weber, late of How-
ard township, deceased, all persons know-
ing themselves indebted to same are re-
quested to make prompt payment, and
those having claims against said estate
must present them, duly authenticated, for
settlement.
BALSER WEBER,
Administrator,
W. Harrison Walker, Howard, Pa.
Attorney. 71-46-6t
Boys’ Shoes
$2.85
Boys Dress and School Shoes sold
for $2.85 at YEAGERS TINY BOOT
SHOP are equal in quality to any
shoes sold at $3.50.
This low price is made possible by
the very low cost of operating our
store.
Please note that this is YEAGER’S
TINY BOOT SHOP advertisement.
Not Yeager’s Old shoe store.
Yeagers Tiny Boot Shop
BELLEFONTE, PA.
71-35tf
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| NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
tracts after school; send for free
sample. Wakefield Extract Co.
| Sanbornville, N. H. ih T1-42-4t
Wine ons to ‘sell flavoring ex-
OST. —Beagle dog, ' tag 38029, white
| . body, black ears and head, back of
Daniel Harpster farm near Storms-
Finder notify CARL BAUMGARD-
Port Matilda. tno pT-40-1t
| town.
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IRA D. GARMAN
JEWELER
101 Seuth Eleventh St.
PHILADELPHIA.
Have Your Diamonds Reset in Platinum
64-3¢-tf EXCLUSIVE EMBLEM JEWELRY
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Sunday Nov. 21st
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Leave Bellefonte......... ..10.00 P.
% Milesburg .........1810
Howard ...........10,29
Eagleville ....... ..10.36
Beech Creek .......1040
Mill Hall ..........1051
Returning, leave Philadelphia 5.55 P. M.
Tickets on sale two days preceding
date of Excursion.
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Independence Hall, Memorial
Arts, Commer-
Zoological Garden, Ses-
i the
Exposition, and
other objects of interest of
many 0
‘*The Quaker City.’’
Pennsylvania Railroad
to Save.
all wool.
to the minute
lar Bill.
It's Your Time
Men’s Overcoats that are
Hand tailored — up
sold for less than $25.00
on sale Saturday
at $17.50
See the Coats, about fifty
of them, and you will discov-
er where we save you a ten Dol-
It’s at
Fauble’s
in style—never
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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OR SALE.—Four Ford Trucks, wih
Anthony Dump Body and Ruxstell
axles. Inquire of American Lime
: OST.—A blue and green plaid shaw:
L Wednesday, 11th, on school house
walk, opposite Mr. James Potter's
residence, Linn street. Please return to
MARY MILES BLANCHARD. 71-46-1t
ARMER WANTED.—To rent a farm
F fully stocked, and equipped, or to
farm by the day. This farm is in
Snow Shoe Township Centre Co., Pa., and
is under a good state of cultivation. Or
will sell on easy payments. Inquire of W.
F. Holt, Philipsburg, Pa. 71-44-3t
UERNSEYS FOR SALE—A fine
G Guernsey cow, a heifer and a bull
calf, all eligible to registry. These
animals are all in good conaition and of
A 1 blood that might improve that of any
grade herd. Inquire of Cross and Meek,
Bellefonte, Pa., or phone Bellefonte 520-J
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.—Notice is here-
A by given that the undersigned, ap-
ointed by the Orphans’ Court of
Centre County, to make distribution of the
funds in the hands of the Executor to and
among those entitled to receive the same,
in the Estate of Harry Baum, late of Belle-
fonte Borough, deceased, will hold a meet-
ing in his office, on High Street, Bellefonte
Borough, Pa., on Tuesday, November 23rd.,
1926, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at which time and
place all persons in interest may appear
and be heard.
J. K. JOHNSTON,
71-44-3t Auditor.
OTICE IN DIVORCE.—Helen Marchie
N Harter, vs. Paul Weaver Harter.
In the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre county to No. 188 September term,
1926. Libel in Divorce. To Paul Weaver
Harter, Respondent, WHEREAS Helen
Marchie Harter , your wife, has filed a
libel in the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre county praying a divorce from you.
Now you are hereby notified and required
to appear in said Court on or before the
First Monday of December, 1926, to answer
the complaint of the said Helen Marchie
Harter, and in default of such appearance
you will be liable to have a divorce granted
in your absence.
T1-44-4t E. R. TAYLOR Sheriff.
Little vs, Frank R. Little. In the
Court of Common Pleas of Centre
county to No. 236 September Term, 1926.
Libel in Divorce. To Frank R. Little,
Respondent: WHEREAS Mrs. Olive A.
Little, your wife, has filed a Libel in the
Court of Common Pleas of Centre county
praying a Libel in Divorce from you. Now
you are hereby notified and required to
appear in said Court on or before the
First Monday, of December next, to answer
the complaint of Mrs. Olive A. Little, and
in default of such appearance you will be
liable to have a divorce granted in your
absence. ; ati
T1-44-4t E. R. TAYLOR, Sheriff.
HERIFF'S SALE.—By virtue of a writ
S of Levari Facias issued out of the
Court of Common Pleas of Centre
County
to publ
Nz IN DIVORCE.—Mrs. Olive A.
to me directed, will be exposed
ic sale at the Court House in the
| Borough of Bellefonte on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 1926.
the following property:
All that certain lot of ground situate in
| the Borough. of Milesburg, Centre County
il and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and
‘| described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning on
the East side of the Bellefonte and Phil-
ipsburg Turnpike at the line of IL. T.
Kddy; thence extending along said Turn-
pike North 48 feet to lot of William Miles;
thence East 200 feet; thence South 48 feet
to lot of L. T. Eddy; thence West 200 feet
to the place of beginning. Thereon erected
a frame dwelling house and other out-
buildings.
Seized, taken in execution and to be sold
as the property of W. H. Smith, A. F.
Smith, Lee R. Smith, Clair W. Smith,
Claude W. Smith, and Alfred Smith, all
heirs at law of Alfred S. Smith, late of
Sale to commence at 1.30 o’clock p. m. of
said day.
E. R. TAYLOR, Sheriff,
Sheriff’s office, Bellefonte
Pa., Nov. 8th, 1926. : T1-45-3t
1 Mileshurg Boro deceased.
hereby given that the e¢o-partner-
ship heretofore existing between
John J. Snyder and Boyd E. Miller, trad-
ing and doing business under the fictitious
name of “STATE COLLEGE MOTOR
COMPANY,” dealers in automobiles, trac-
tors, parts and service, at State College,
Pa., was on the 1st day of September A.
D. 1926 dissolved under and by virtue of a
mutual agreement duly executed by the
parties in interest, whereby The First
National Bank of State College, State Col-
lege, Pa., Administrator of ete, of the
estate of John J. Snyder, who during his
life was one of the Copartners in said
“State College Motor Company,” withdrew
from the said firm, and the business of
the said firm under said fictitions name of
“State College Motor Company,” will be
continued by Boyd E. Miller, surviving co-
partner, who has all of the books and will
make settlement of all accounts, either for-
or against the “State. College Motor Com-.
pany.” All persons knowing themselves:
to be indebted to the “State College Motor-
Company,” or those having claims against
the said “State College Motor Company’
will kindly call at the place of business:
of said Company at State College, Pa., and
make settlement. 3
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF STATE COLLEGE,
State College, Pa.
By DAVID F. KAPP, Cashier.
Administrator of the estate of John J. Sny-
der, deceased.
T1-44-4t BOYD E. MILLER.
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FIRE INSURANCE
At a Reduced Rate
n286m J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent:
N “er OF DISSOLUTION.—Notice is
Dairyme Notice
A special sale of Mayer's
Dairy Feed—a Ready-
Mixed Ration, 22% protein
$40.00 per Ton
Delivery Charge $2.00 per Load
Frank M. Mayer
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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