FRED. KURTZ, Epiror and Pror'r 27, 1887, Centre Hann, Pa. July in ad- previous TERMS: One year, $1.50, when paid vance, Those in arrears subject to terns, Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser tions, and i cents for each subsequent insertion. —6G|0jO|D A|D|V[I|C|E] { —0 og mon) oe § KEEP COOL and buy at Bartholomews’ Store, Cheapest Store in tre County. LOCAL ITEMS, —— Corn crop in our valley will be about § of a fall crop. rolls into the Pine Creek grist mill. — Mrs. J. 8. Houseman, of Tussy- ville, is quite ill, from an affection of the heart. —John Grove, one of the well known citizens of Gregg, is announced for asso- ciate judge. crat, has entered the field asa candidate for associate judge. The crossings at the Evang. church lovely to walk over. —Fel fishing, with outlines, in the mountains along Penns creek, panped out better this summer than for several years. Lou Hassioger, who had his right band sawed off, at Poe Mills, a fow weeks ago, is getting along as well as can be ex- pected. Chas Derstine, the Photographer made a trip from Lewistown, last week to take a number of views in different parts of this valley. —At last, on Wednesday, a clear sky greeted vs, after a clondy and showery spell of a week or over, when there pot a day without rain, ~=Spring Mill's two landlords are entertaining a number of city boarders, There is nothing to prevent that place from hecoming a popular summer resort, ——A few days ago a daughter of Jo- seph Moyer, of Centre Mills, fell from the barn, a distance of 20 feet, striking on stones, and sustaining severe brui- Bes, ———Miss Anna Keller left last Satur- day for Freeburg, Snyder Co., where she expects to attend Moyer's Musical College. Mr. Chas. Meyer left on Monday to spend a week at same place, visiting relatives We suppose... ——The members of the Lutheran church of Lewisburg, have kindly voted their pastor, E. H. Leisenring, a leave of absence. He and family will, about An- gust 1st, come to Centre Hall, where they will remain until Sept. 1st. ——Monday night bronght rains, with chances for more on Tuer day. The frequent showers in the last 8 days will be injurious to the wheat and oats cut and on shock ip the fields. and we hear of some wheat already sprouted, This makes it still worse for the small wheat crop of onr farmers. ——Benjamin Myers, Esq, aged years died at the Irvin House, Lock Haven, Thursday evening. He was a resident of this county several years ago, and is a brother of Mrs. Jacob A roey and of Wm. Meyers of Centre Hall, and was possessed of considerable wealth, made, we believe, in lumber operations in Lock ts Haven and Clinton county, ~The boro school board received a letter this week from Prof. Mauger in reply to the proposition made him to teac our grammar school at per month. Prof. expects to go west and for that reason is unable to accept, He recommends a Mr. Little, a graduate of Franklin and Marshal, as a man ca- pable of filling the position, ~~On last Saturday evening a fellow from the other side of the mountain with a heavy load of benzine on, started horse and; buggy for home, each time to pick a fight. When leay- ing the third time, he did not think it policy tolreturn again, as he had receiv. ed a warm pounding, which evidently was what he wanted. ~——=Rev. E. J. Wolf, D, D., of Gettyse burg, who is visiting his brother, m. Woll, of Sur Sowa, ocenpied Rev, Fisch- er’s pulpit, on last Sabbath mornin , and preached a learned discourse upon the subject of Forgiveness. The Doctor handled the subjost very ably and his large number of hearers were oatly edified by the sermon. Dr, Wolf is on his way to Roaring Bpriogs, in Blair county, where there isa church re-union, at which he has been i iv. ot which he ba appointed to deliv ~=On Saturday a gentleman who re- cently moved into this section subscribed for the Rerorten. Hoe told us when he came to the neighborhood last spring, he intended becoming one of our patrons, and that a stranger came to him can vase ing for a newspaper, and had the brass to tell him it was the Rerorren he Was can- vassing for. The farmer gave hisname, as he thought, for this paper, but the mail brought him, instead, a paper run to run the RerorTeR out, This plece of deception and dishonesty is on a plane with that which procured the names upon our list in a disreputable way, for mailing same paper to, a virtual steals ing of oar addresses to build up tion trade, as we learn from de the parties wanting to know their addresses were obtained to annoy them with what they did not want. IMPRESSIONS OF THE WEST. LETTER NO. 5 | mountains, and what is in light and trifling. ver at 7 p. m,, and remained there over night. Before retiring, Mr. Wolf and I dropped in upon pastor Heilman, whom there, vory his new parsonage adjoining the The church in Denver is hand- order of our cwn which side, instead of in front of the pulpit. for Colorado Springs, the great En route was an exciting scene. The country of our these And this is one of the marvels The wonder is that multiplied roads can be made to they evidently do. At 945 we reach Palmer Lake, a beautiful sheet of a fountain in its centre, of 100 It is a lovely spot, and ried long enough to take a turn st like a fairies’s castle out of the clear depths of At Colorado Springs we left charge of an obliging to His hoary head, crowned rose up long enough before we get 14,147 feet above the level of the of mountains, If he could speak, what unfold —tales of heroic and suicidal death! open those stony jaws and loose that Sphinxian tongue to tell the story they have for centuries hidden from the eager ken of man. The distance up the peak is eleven miles we were told,—although we were at the base ofit. The trail is very labyrinthian. That accounts for the distance to the top In a straight line it wonld not be over 5 miles. Wanting to see as much as possi. ble, we could not go to the top, as it make the ascent and return. The condition of the air would not allow faster movement than that. Whilst in Maniton, we were disappointment ing peaks. Such reverberations of thun- der, it bas never been my pleasure to lis- ten to before. There was somethiog weird and yet extremely musical withal abont the detonations, Pikes Peak was evidently enjoying a first-class snow storm, whilst we at his feet shared it in a few stray drops of rain. The city Maniton is almost sarrounded by moun. tains, Pikes Peak being the centre of There are some fine springs at Maniton, notably a soda and an It is one of the most fashiona Ove could spend a life the world. Rockys go close at hand, we were much surprised in finding plenty of zarrs where there were temptingly bas eX lift themselves heavenward, and near | by them a cube-shaped rock is balanced | on a pivot so slender that it seems a puff | of air must turn it over. Imagine, if] you can, all this massive sky-towering | with hewm- heav- of grandenr and grotesqueness,” here and there a cottonwood or a ors touched into a dazzle of glory by a fierce Colorado sun, and you have a pic ture which once seen, oan never be for gotten, In this garden the gods disport- ed themselves, doubtless the gods of the Norse Walhalla, whose outbursts of wild con- Our party reluctantly turned away from this rado Springs, where we were to take the cars for our return trip. Colorado City is J miles from Springs by the same name, and was It is the the now magnificent city, and it seems as if ambitioa in this direction would be At Col- orado Springs we took the Denver and Rio Grande R. R, to Pueblo, en route for Kansas City. The country between the Springs and Puoeblo is very bleak and un. inviting. In a distance of 45 miles I saw its re of that region. Gold, silver, red and moss-agates, smoked pearl, and tiger eye, were put into thapes, and one was tempted to invest indiscriminately io these things as pre- souvenirs of the trip to Pikes Peak. All these metals and stones are found on Pikes Peak. Tiger eye, a bean- tiful stone, is simply petrified wood, ribbon pyrites, SLs charm, is ex- I invest. ia stone, and ed into ear rings, pin or ed in several articles of t them. After regaling ourselves with a first class dioner, we hired carriages and started for the Garden of the Gods 3a. fore reaching that, our drivers surprised us by suddenly planging into Williams Canon--a narrow rent in the monntains, with only here and there a sufficient width to pass another, This canonis a marvel- ons freak of nature, It splits in two one of the isolated lower peaks ofthe Rocke ies, and is fall of varied wonders. The drive is enchanting, and just as nature been a pick or shovel upon it to keep it tocks to the height of 200 or 300 feet pierce the blue above youn, and at times you can barely see the day over your head, 80 near do the tops touch one another, Sparkling, cooling water the side of the road. The distance of the drive is about one mile. The Cave of the Winds lies at the end of the drive, and up the side of a craggy peak, whose dizzy heights make the timid hesitate I saw one place in this canon cut and penciled their names trinmph- antly high up where no hand or foot of on done, the Garden of the Gods was Fancy has given name, a garish red and are perfectly stark and barren. 1 was strongly reminded of my boyhood days when we used to have “penny a peep’ shows, as [ passed into this leantic sure prise. T felt as if one should pay his ad- mission fee into this theatrical scene. The rocks are of the most tesque shapes, mammoth caricatures of animals that clamber and eronch, or spring into the air hondreds of feet above you. There is black and brown, drab and white, yel« low buff and pink strangely and weirdly intermingled in this rocky masquerade, As you enter the western portals, your first impulse is to utter an exclamation of sarprised delight. At every succeed- ing step you take, yon are awed into a solemn silence. You feel the weight of somethingunreal and unearthly upon you, You travel on over miles of plain, cover ed in all directions with monster rocks, whose colors are almost kaleidoscopic in variely and beauty —some standiog in sombre isolation, piercing the woaderfol blue of a Colorado sky with a distinct. ness that putsito blush the fine preten- tions of our homan art. Under your foot is a richly variegated carpet of sand, stone, grass and moss, and back of it all, as if to make a master backgronnd, is the snow crowned massiveness of Pikes Peak. You pans a leaning tower whose ready to fall without the base, and send the tower thundering into the n at your feet. Clusters of Sp rest of the conntry being an almost ral desert. Bome of our party felt mensely relieved on resching signs of This is a city of 18,000 souls, and is called the Pittsburg It is miles from Rocky mountains, on Arkansas river, at the point where the Fountaine Qui Bouille empties, This will account for the enormous water re- sources it enjoys, both for irrigating and water power. We tarried long enough for a first-class lunch, and found that the city enjoyed the luxuries of gas electric lights, telephone system railway, and sewerage. The works of the Colorado Coal and Iron company, are located bere, and were built at an ex. pense of three million dollars and they manufacture from native ores, pig iron, Bessemer steel, steel rails, merchant iron, gas and water pipe, and pails, | iron and steel, v. B lites im- bn 30 the the street »oth DEATH OF J. M. HARPER. The death Mr. J. M. prominent citizen of Tyrone, Tuesday afternoon, 19 "Weare ind ed to the Daily Herald for the following Early in the morning while at work in the mill he was prostrated by the heat and was carried across the road to t business office, Dr. Sm was summoned and everything that was within human power was done to reglore his normal cond tion, snd a before noon it was deemed advisable to convey him to his home on Ridge street. where w p.m. April 13, 1545, Mr. Harper was married to Mrs. Margaret Barr, sister of Samuel W. Barr, of this place, Rev. J. C. Barr, now of Dauphin county, and Mra J. C. Boal, of Centre Hall, To them were born nine children He became a member of the Preshy. terian church at Centre Hill in 1853, and was ordained as an elder in I'yrone church in ] ) nior member of session at his death of Harper, a woeeurred feht. the ith ith Wir $ ain vO little the wf September, --. (: EO) Rank died DEATH Mr. Gearge A 4 Mills, « Sabbath night at Mr. Kaok became ill some six weeks ago, on his return from h western silver mines. The seat of the trouble was in his stomach, an { supposed to have been cancer. He soffered much, sll the and was scarce able to take any nouri ment, yet bore up with patience resignation nntil the last moment. received every attention from a d wife and kind neighbors, and re consciousness to the end Mr. Rank was one of oor most esteen: - ed friends; be was a good citizen, oblig- iog and kindhearted o all in his vicini ty. We deeply sympathyse with Mrs, Rook in her sad bereavement, The re- mains were embalmed and taken to Frenchtown, N, J, for interment, on Wednesday 17, His age was 62 years, 00 Mr. Runk some years ago resided California, Mr. Bunk went to California and lived there 30 years. San Franciseo when it was than Spring Mills, A post mortem examination held by Dr. Van Valzah showed that his death was caused by a tumor in the stomach. -—— DEATH OF MR. SWEETWOOD Mr. John Sweetwood, of Georges vals ley, who had been quite ill for a long time, died on Friday last Mr Sweetwood was one of the oldest persons in that neighborhood, where he resided and followed farming for a great many years. He bore the character of an up- right man, and was a devoted member of the M. E. church. He was the father of Mrs. Jacob Harpster and Mrs. John Arney, of this place; also Wils, and J. W. Sweetwood. were several other children names do not occur to ns at the moment of writing, His remains were buried at Sprucetown, followed to the tomb by a large concourse of relatives and friends. (iF i last in in in 1846, He was in not larger days. i qu SERIOUS RUNOFF. Jack Limbert, of near Madisonburg, one day last week, had a serious as he was on his way, with a two-horse team, to Lock Haven, havings load of mill, one of the front axels broke and the teem began to kick and run. ed off, the wagon upset and he and his son were thrown out, The son had a leg broken and his father was badly bruised. The wagon was wrecked and a long stretch of the road was danbed with smashed eggs and smeared with butter, Besides the injuries sustained by Mr, Limbert and his son, he bas a serious loss on wagon, butter and eggs, ———— AI A ny FESTIVALS, The, woods are fall of them and every Last Saturday was a good to bring them ontand the people turn out too. Fillmore, Bellefonte, Valen- tines Forge, Pleasant Gap, Tossey ville, Potters’ Mills and Aaronsburg, had festi- vals last Saturday and every one we hear was a soccess, Naxt Saturday one will be held at Linden Hall by the Evan- gale) church, and Friday and Saturday ollowing Aug. 5th and 6th, the youn American cornet Band of Lemont, wil hold forth, Let the Centre Hall Band follow suit and have a and E body HE WANTED PENSION MONEY. HOW A CITIZEN HIS OWN WI OF COBUERN PEI NJ Ed John Ernst, a citizen of Coburn, is trouble because his desire to procure a pension led him to commit forgery and perhaps perjury. John FErnet is partially deaf, which aflliction, he rays, was cans ed by his member of Company D, 76th Regt, P. V. It is necessary to have witnesses in regard to such disabilities, and either be cause he could not get them or because it was too much trouble to do so, John unwisely concinded to do all the ness himself. Accordingly, it is alleged, he 'Bquire J. 8. Leiser, in Snyder Co., and under the name of Isaac C. Mussulman, a member of hiscompany, made affidavit in his own behalf, It is also said that he went before "Bquire J. C, Boal, in Cen- tre Hall, and there, over the name of William Walter, of Woodward, averred that he was deaf when he came from the army and had been deaf ever since. He made similar affidavit before ’'Squi Samuel J. Herring, at Penn Hall, tere personating William Keiser, Still similar frandalent aflidavits are against Ernst, The matter was investi gated by United Btates Commissioner McDevitt, of Sunbury, who made com plaint and Frost was arrested, He was taken to Williamsport, where he will detained until the meeting of United States Court in that city. The above facts are News, Mr. J. C. Boal of ou: : a witness at the hearing, at Sunbury, other day. busi- went to re other alleged the fnven by Last Reformed church satardav at 1 i iy nappy the ce rented an The occas sliver (Groh. inusla ion wa Wh edding I'wenty-f 17th, inst,, they were unit This day falling on Sunday and reason ie celebration inti the Zird. 8, 1 The guests were Mr, Adam family, of Boalsburg, Mr. Stitzer, of Bellefi mont They received a1 costly and i the proper time the who n toa most plentiful, enjoyable dinner, compre HICR Ap prog jown and {th 1s: © Bean and a social t 1d made parties members of the o aun lirecti interestod DOAriy d band or belonged other heretofore and can handle a horn in good style. The meeting was called to order and temporary I elected. Committees were appointed secure a teacher, for two weeks, pose of the instruments to members ittend to other matters. From this led to believe that the band taken hold of will be a success, Among the p Wes. Henny, Sam Rowe, Ezra Tressler, Jas, 1. Chas. Arney, Bashman, Dingea, Cal Wieland, Dave Boo lieb Strohmier, Sam Kreamer, Orris Cormick, Rob Miller, and We are glad to see the band ized as itis a desirable thing to have in the community. We are told that the members resolved to ask for no aid from the citizens and will Ves all i he are Rome fo are are J, Dr. Jacobs, Heary Boozer, Harry er, rot Me- avers mentioned nr (100, others. a reorgan defray themsel NECOsRAry expenses, Oar tizens should go them one better and give them a boost even if not asked. as it is needed Again we say, let the band play. > lee cream every day ad at Shirk’s ice cream parlor, ward for his new house, down town. we Farmers are putting away their oats, which has vielded well this year. good wee FOr a chance to make a in. PORTER. Bulky plow, advertised in Rerors TER, can be bought at a bargain by apply- we ()il-clothe, every pattern and width new and beantifol stock, at 8B, & A Rain showers have been quite within the last ten days, and satorated with water and cisterna are filled, The rain h been favorable for corn and potatoes, ~(ur station is becoming quite a shipping point. In addition to the large amount of lumber shipped, shipments of This week the first car load of prop tim- ber from the Decker tract was sent off and many more will follow. —(Garman’s new hotel building is about completed, needing only the finish - ingtonches, They are now provided with all the modern appliances for enter- taining their guests They expect to open Aug. 9th—the day the Democratic Co, Convention assembles at Bellefonte. wei] shim Pile, of West Perry towns hip aged 80 years, cradled, bound and shocked four shocks of wheat in one hour on the Fourth of July, each shock containing twelve sheaves, Can any of our old Centre county farmers beat that? se Mr. Chas Boars, of Muncy, who has been visiting hin brother, the stalion agent at Spring Mills, dropped in on us on Monday, My Soars isa mer be of the Senior class, ackne niversity and a young man of considerable ability.’ LOCAL PENCILINGS: -Kaufman & Long, Millheim, Mr. Kaufman continues the store, A son of David Miller, of Millheim, was killed in a railroad round-house at Freeport Miss Kate MeCormick, of Tyrone, is | visiting at the home of her brother Orris, this place, — -Karlin's store, at the Btone.mill, is doing a brisk business, under the man- agement of Arthur Kerlin, my Mr, Ed, Tyrone, spent Sunday in Centre Hall, graph operator at that pls —=Y 68 Wwe are going to have a band and no one has been asked to They evidently mean basiness. Stine, f tele 5 a subscribe, The National Gaard en at Mt, Gretna, this vear, will be n “Camp Winfield Beott Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, oflewis- are visiting their gon in-law Mr. John Hefty, of this place. 2 of every alnedaq nro rg, 3 — (Carpet and an entire and rads in the eonnty, at » A A. grade givie price new stock, irgest nest Loebs itt ywer end of town look like it had Iding boom, e Cre pen Be IsUp now, which 1 A imber } makes the a real Du -The | YB Are « Dove advertisement y scarce in this section. 3 » smoke cigareties ill far h the cl rt is being made by Srd and throoghout the nereased, Who » Hall COAajl ing res pairs near act, and hope they w t up from one ead of town to ti } ihe hill in town is in terril nD and a give-away to the sur: Repair it at once and ever bo 4 8 0 ndings Little of Bedford, principal of the boro schools this coming term. He comes with good recommendations as a student and instructor, and hope he will be cessful in his work, Toe public schools will open about the 2nd week of Beptem- | ber, — has been 1 sue. Candidates licks on the — are pulling in their home stretch—some get home to stay. Some of the candidates report that threats are made by a few known as disorganizers, to make trouble, if the nominations don't suit their tions, We, too, heard such threats, and all we have to say, nominate good, hon- | est, consistent Democrats, and no disor | ganizing element can hurt the ticket, ~Carpenter John F, Hagan with his | force of hands, viz: John F. Hagan, W. { D, Hagan, B. M. Greninger, Frank Wait, Noe | William Feidler, did some quick work on Wm. I. Kortz’'s new house at the They began station, | had the houee, a 2 story plank frame up and ready for the rafters, | or intend going to the Cave Hotel, Rpring Mills, to spend a week or two in the shade: Mrs. Bmink and children and Miss Guesie Thompson of Reading, Mrs Lewis Rothermel of Lewisburg, Mra Beard of Newport, Mrs, Mrs, Dr. Gast, Mrs, Jas, H. Snodgrass, Mise Nettie Stizer, Mrs. M. A. C, Gem-~ berling, John A. Beard and Oliver P. Badger of this place .—Miflinburg Tele graph. "™. The well-dril\ers who were boring for water on Alexander's lot for some time, have left without getting water, after shifting to three spots, owing to the nature of the soil which seemed too loose. This is a surprise as any one would have supposed there water could be struck at 20 feet. We judge, at most any other place in town this would prove so, and the present failure need not discourage any one from trying it on other lot We are certain that water can bo struck on the east side of the road, within three foet, without search by divining rod. STABBED, Hugh Riddle, a noted character known in our section, was gerion bed, on Baturday evening, while tand ing on the corner at the Drocke: i house, Bellefonte, by a fellow named O'- jryan, Riddle had his pocket his band and whitted a 3 for passtime, when O'Bryon came and asked Riddle for his knife Riddle handed to him, and (V' Bryan the blade into Riddles thigh a one of the main arteries, causing suc! flow of blood as endanger b l What possessed O'Bryan to do so cowar ly a deed, we did not learn, Ie 1 A rested, and will be tried at Augu nile ieee of to . A CENTRE HALL BOY We are in receipt of copies « Jance, a daily published at fexas, with the name of Harr ug editor and proprietor It ly sheet, full of the vim and of the country. The roung man who spent hig early it this place and is known to 1 i tic WAY BW in certain 2 i s B04 wit Interna Lesson h notes lost in Ce week, a will 11 nire lia ud ees be rewarded by Owing to the fact tha stock on hand, and rat! aver, wa have « pportunity not to be missed We mean just what we ads you oo ney Also ed prices, hats, shirts, ele, ¢ Next door t S. U. THOMPSON. BELLEFONTE, PA o post-office NT ELMO HOTEL, A, Ne B17 & 819 Avch Street, Pinion Reduced rates to $200 pe traveling public will still ind at ¢ tel the same liberal provision comfort, It is located in the centres of business and places of amus ment and different railroad depots, as we Oars constantly doors. It offers special to those visitingtheoity for pleasure Your patronage respecifuly solicitad JOS M. FEGER *Propritor passing in th business or CENTRE HALL MARKETS, PRODUCE AT THE STORES 10 Eges 12 Rides Potatoes Batter Ham... . —— GRAIN, REPORTED WEEKLY BY KURTZ & 80N, Prices subject-to Suctuations of market, wesnind BB CRBs " Wheat, white + BD Rye...c.o.. ? Oorn, shelled. cove. @ Batley No, 1. a6 Barley No. 2, mixed with ost, bought at oals weight and price, Wheat mixed with Rye bought at rye weigh and price, i — FLOUR AND FEED. Raney Pat. Flour. 1 45 Bran per ton . Best Roller Flour. § 1 85 Bran, retail, cowl, 2 Best Roli'r Flour 126 Chop per ton... Middlings per ton. 18 80 ~ retail per owt Plus sony commas bamiassivsine WAORIAN ...cocscrsssmrnion covers VEEL A RR EE a a above prices are for cash or grain only. KURTZ & SON