A BAD BREAK DOWN, Messrs, George and Harry Bush, with two young ladies, ull of Bellefonte, met | with an accident near Penns Cave on | Monday afternoon, They were driving | in a two-horss carriage which saddenly | gave way, the front wheels and springs | separating and brought the party to a] | rather unceremonions stop. The oceu- | | pants were thrown forward over the dash | and landed in the road, while Harry, | who was driving was dragged some dis. | he “=| tance by his efforts to stop the horses | Hav, Pa., Tours, Ave. 30, 1888 | yhich finally broke away and ran some | | distance and struck a tree and became | i detached. Harry received a bad bruise | | on the forehead, and the others an un- | expected shaking up. The carriage was | somew hat shattered and one horse was | badly ent. Another vehicle was obtained | {and managed to reach home without any farther interruptions. From the natore | There will be 8 meeting of the Cenire | of t),6 yecident the party had a fortunate | Hall Democratic clubon next Saturday | escape with a few slight bruises. evening in Foundry Hall. A full attend- | — nln ance is desired as important business | np gp VAN VALZAH'S RUNAWAY. will be presented. All officers and mem- | : . ol, ; bers of the Executive Committee elected | Dr. Ven } alzah, of Spring Mills, bad at the last meeting are requested to be | an experience last Saturday afternoon present. Will be a public meeting and | in & rupaway which he will not soon all are invited to attend. | forget. He was coming down a very THE CENTRE REPORTER. | Eprror and Pror’n ssid FRED. KURTZ, RS SA ANI ASA om ———— nrg TERMS: —One year, $1.50, when paid in ad | -ance. Those in arrears subject to previous erms. Advertisements 20 cents por line for 8 inser ons, and b cents tor each subsequent insertion. CexTRE LOCAL ITEMS. DEM. CLUB MEETING, SATURDAY EVE, SEPT. 1. FAMILY REUNION. Tt was on that begatifol Thursday, Aug. 23rd, when a medlsyscompany gathered at the old family homestead of the Gilliland’s, in Georgea Valley, where Mr. and Mrs. Jog. M, Gilliland aad three themselves happy in in furnishing an occasion of joy for their union. Among the guests may be chronicled the following: daughter, of Washington, D. C,; the Rev. W. 0, Wright and Iady with Mr. Hammond with their two daughters, of Bellefonte; Mr. Alexander Kerr and son David, Centre Hill; Mr. Joseph Palmer, of Hall; Mr. Michael Decker and Carson M:. and Miss Sue Nefl. of Centre Hill; Wil- tor's family of Centre Hall, DEMOCRATIC CLUB ORGANIZED. Valley | That the Democsacy of Penns | is awake can be seen from the activity | | manifested during the last week, As | stated in our last issue a meeting was | held in Foundry Hall on last Friday | | evening for the purpose of organizing a | { club. At about eight o'clock the Centre | Hall band appeared in front of the hotel | | to escort Hon. John H. Orvis to the ball, | | where the meeting was held. There | | was a fair turnout of the Democracy with | { & sprinkling of Republicans, Prohibition- | ists and ladies present. | The meeting was called to order by | | Chairman McCormick of the boro. Jas. | | A. Keller of the twp., was elected Chair- | man, and Dr. Chas, Emerick of the boro, | | secretary of the meeting. Judge Orvis was then introduced and spoke upon the prioeipal issue of the campaign, tariff re duction. His speech was an exceeding- | { ly clear and plain presentation of the | i subject, in fact the clearest we have | heard, His explanation of the condition of our finances and the circulating me- | diam of the country prepared th « minds | | of his hearers to intelligently receive the | | question of tariff reduction as advocated | | by the Democratic party. The different | views taken by the two parties was clear. | We are now reducing our immense stock of summer goods, to prepare for our Fall purchases, and having that purpose in view, we have made 0-SWEEPING REDUCTIONS-0 IN ALL LINES OF GOODS. 65 Summer Suits, all wool, were $10,, we cut down to 4, 5.00 Jonx Rirer, President, EC A tp Apes The section hands tell a mighty big snake story. Farmers are towing. The r-cent rains put the ground in fine order for plowing. —(Gieorge Rowe ‘and mick are nursing bealings hands. Vance McCor- on their day from one of the back counties with some horn cattle. Messrs, Peter Jordon and J. 8. see us on Monday afte rnoon. —Mrs. Royer, the mi cing Millheim woman, has returned to her home. had been with friends at Tyrone. Wm. Bradford will farnish horse feed at the Fort Woods during the Pa trons exhibition, at very reasonable rates, td | steep hill pear Jacob Harter’'s farm be- low Spring Mills, when the holding-back | imai’s heels, The horse started down the hill on the run, and became unmans i ing Creek, at the foot of the hill the bug- | gv was npset and threw the horse. The Dr. and his little son were thrown from bart, while the Dr. was bruised the face. The poor animal had ran his his neck was broken instantly when he gtrock the ground. It was one | sorry to part wi h insuch a manner REPUBLICAN CO. CONVENTION. The Republican ¢ met in Bush's hall, poon, at Bellefonte. C yer Gray, secretary. The ballots for Assemb | lows: : gnty convention on Prof. Heston, yl Lage ly stood as on Wednsaday morning from a th ee week's visit to Atlantic City and other resorts, Mrs, Rav, Earnest wife of the Lutheran pastor, of Mifflinburg, and daughter Annie, arrived at the hotel on Monday evening for a stay of a week The Sering Mills bali club wr pected here last Saturday morning give our boys a game. Like many vious arrangements they fell through €x- pre: ———Sgmael Neess was appois master at Biglerville receuatly by t fourth postmaster general. Mr. Neesn formerly was from Gregg township, this county. {Chemists say it takes tad p at a more than cook, ag it docs to sweetén after the frait is cooked. Public service in the Evangelical church, at Centre Hall on next Sunday morning, at 10 a. m. by Rev, Miller, Sub- jeet, Moral Ignorance and Religious Ba- perstition, There ware light frosts in some calities Thursday and Friday morniogs of last week. Frost reported in Penn township, Saowshoe and Osceola, damage done. ——A black snake, measuring eight feet and a half in length, was killed a few days ago by the section hands, on F. Kurtz's farm. This large sarpint had frequently been seen, — Centre Hall has a dandy piece of pike leading through the main part of the town. We have to pay toll on it all the same. The stockholders are protectionists no doabt. —eli. L.. Young, of Jefferson conaty, Pa., regularly lifted the Rzrorter for near two years, and now cheats us ont of the pay. Guess he'san honest man, of course —but off goes his head all the Bae, ~=Do¢ Rankle, of Philadelphia, so~ journed a few days among friends in this section. The Dr. takes an annual summer jaunt to this locality and are a ways glad to see him. —has, W. Bolton, of Philad., the architect of the Lutheran church at this lace, was in town last Saturday morn: ng. He had been to Bellefonte in re gard to the erection of the new Lutheran church at that place, i No is of our people 48 feel disposed, wonld ad- vertise that they wili furnish meals and lodging —especially the lodging—for strangers during picnie. We will publish such names for 25 eents each, we Will Dinges arrived from Annapo- lis last week, having successfully coms pleted the second year's course of study in the Naval Academy. On his way home he contracted a cold from which he has been kept in doors a few days, wesThe Tusseyville band favored this vicinity with several excellent pieces of music on Tuesaday. They have new nni- forms and look quite baodsome in them, The band is improving very much and is one of the best in the county yield of wheat, now threatens to beat others of us farmerson yield of corm. Howard must know a thing or two about farming. He knows how to build 2 barn apd how to raise something to fill it up . wee A iow crossing was put down this week pear Deininger’s lots, The street at that point will be widened some and a portion of the walk taken to the other side in front of Fleisher's land, When thst iz completed we will bave a e-ntin~ nous walk to the station. ws Late Bmaith who has been over a large portion of the state with a crew of agents taking orders for wringers spent a few days in this section, his former bomwe. He b) doing an extensive busi~ ness and has a serge nnmber of agents at work under him. Hope prosperity is smiling on him. weJohin Spangler started from one of the western counties last week with a drove of about a hundred cattle, the most of which he disposed of on the way east. He kept twenty of the finest to supply his butchering trade at this place, He has 8 fins Durkin ilk Sow hid he picked up along rou fers her for sale, their heads to- have a and if Wm. Allison, Wm. M'Fariane, Ctias. Fryberger, RK. I. Waler, J. E Murray, 10 Chas. Fryberger, of Philipsburg, was | mominated on first ballot, and Wm, Allis | gon was nomioated on 2nd ballot On motion of H, C. Bailey, the pations were wade unanimous For Jury Commissioner the ballot Waddle, 20; Ira F 1 Daly, 06, resulting iu noi was, in I. a Hennes islier, N dane ihe n pation of Mr. Daly. Dr. Sumner Muse was nominated for ( tion. r., of Aaropaburg, yroner by scclama - CLEAN UP. Let all who take pride little town, take to their premises ® in cleaning uy 3 before the our ap big pretty yi t t abou gible to the beauty of it. There are many weeds in front of some principally the camomile, let these be pulled and along with other rubbish, re moved. The pike needs looking a: er from one end of the boro to the There are many loose stones on the road which shoald be removed and the rough places on the pike be made smoolh, that persons in carriages and bugei will find it a pleasure drive rather than a jolting humpty-dumpty highway. Clean and trim up. - oo - - AT WILLIAMS GROVE. The attendance at Williams Grove from this section is quite large. Beveral har viet. £ lar train on Monday morning and well filled, From this section were Wagner Geiss, Chas. Meyer, James Con- ley, 8. D. Gettig, John Fortoey, Mr. and Mrs James Ott, J. B. Soli, Badie Bitner, D. 8. McNitt, John Danberman, Mollie Sankey, Will Girerer, and others, t exhibition will be a much larger affair | than heretofore. The line of exhibitions is much larger than i year and the attendance is increasing. | Many of the implements will be shipped to this place for exhibition when through there, - tt — THE PENNSYLVANIA'S ALTOONA i SHOPS, It has been decided by the Pennsyl vania Company to begin immediately the erection of five mammoth shops baild 150 will give em- shops will have a eapacity to locomotives a year, and | ployment to sixteen hondred machan {3es. This me .ns a gain to Altoona’s pop- | lation of at least 10,000. These shops i are a part of the plan of the Penosylvan. i i and car building at one central point. up and improvemen'; contemplated at | 1rast $1,000,000 will be expended in that city doring the next fourteen months to increase the facilities for road equip ment, i A Se A A A BRUTE. Master Willie Foote, who is still hob. bling about on crutches, the result of a rattiesnake bite, was recently the vietim of the most inhaman treatment we have ever heard of. While playing with a ball attached to a piece of gum tied to his ball pailed the weak little hoy from the stops to the pavement and then kicked him until be became speech lesa, this too, without the slightest provocation for such an exhibition of innate cossedness, ~Lewisburg Newe, a SNE AH SPRING MILLS, Mr. C, P. Long and wife attended the Clintondale campmee ting last week, A large namber of citi zoos from here went to Williams Grove, Mr. John Wieland, one of bur ok band members, made ashort visit among his many friends hore ‘ast week. = Last Friday the Cleveland snd Thar man clob listened to two stirring speech os made by Messrs. Grove and Ulrich, They will meet next Friday night at Farmers Mills. ren I MPs, FESTIV | and long before each had fally where each bad lived, and what euch | bad done, the company were called to { the next room, where they soon found | done —Low she bad robbed the floek of | its best, and shaped the meal, and { ed the family board with viands fall appetizing temptation, Following this came the | work of the day burdensome ~digestion—which was greatly assisted by the yearning langhter { of the juniors as the brisk tongues of the keen eyed fathers turned the page memory, and in turn cited the merry rem- { iniscences of “ye olden time.” During the vacant moments, npressed with the fact that any rarely have the oking with veneration all were go small a privilege of upon six Col. James Gilli Kerr, 83: Joseph Gilhland, William {an average of 70 years: i land, 84; Alexander { Palmer, 82: Samuel | py occasion was the act of the clerical i graft io the family tree, Rev. Wright, when all were solemnly seated in | room where many year+ ago the souls the honored grandparents took the un- : 1 3 beantid 33 religions exercise, most appropriately on “Koowledge” we to for and serve has who love him with gratitade interest ofess to have in that | commending to the | 0 ses the Buailder of that home. These exercises were interspersed with the dy of friendship, ia praise; and sol sd with prayer by clerical wren present, Soon after the bene- diction by Rev, Wright, that parting be- | gan, which will scarcely be followed by | another meeting here, but hereafter it is | hoped will be superceded by a more lorious meeting in the changeless home ch knows no parting. Covsry Denny. - TUSSEYVILLE. William Smith, of near Millheim, noticed here on Sanday. : w hiect J Hil those gone prepare ering aged snd the the p tender ones r : y the Was Last Friday evening the Democrats of South Poller met in the school house here and organized a Cleveland and Thurman club, The meeting was called to order by ‘Squire Houseman, after which W, (i. Rankle sas elected chairs | man of the club; vice pres, John B. Fort | ney; sec, B,D, Gettig, ard treas. James { Moyer. Major J, L. Spangler, of Belle- | fonte, the choles of the Democracy of Centre county for Congress, being pres- i ent, was called upou for a speech. The Maj. ably discussed the tariff for an hoor {and a ball, The band was present and selections, Spea eveningsre N. B Houseman. The festival last Saturday evening was a grand succen, both socially and finan- | cially. Friday J. B ers for next Spangler and | ground and they | quite nobby. Hi make the boya The band will go to anden Hall festival next Saturday. tended the pienic here last SBatarday. {i We will let you have the Reron- i Ter for the camp | cents, cash, > ws'The disappearance of Mra, Royer, | of Milltheim, having caused mach talk as | to her whereabouts, the Journal prints a | copy of a leiter written by the i Mr. Hamshbarger, Here is the | just a8 it is written: Tyrone, Aug. 14, 1888 i Mr, Harshbarger Dear friend. George for killing me aud that is not the a letter to him and | received one from him and hestated that folks dont believe bim that it was from me now 1 will write to you I bope they will trast you things are in a gorrowinl condition but I cannot see that [ can or am responsible to let him keep my nose on the grindstone all my life l got itoffand I think I would not do wrong to keep it there It folks won'!d Know how I was treated no one oud think hard of my strange condoct ow you know thatl am not killed but am liveing a happier life than I had for a few years John trouble foarced me harden my heart against everything 1 am in av awful condition and there is no one to blame bat himself I must close Please write as soon as you get t his Address Hannah Grimes Tyrone Blair Co. Pa. I did not intend to cause him an trouble be told me he did not care if would have tell folks that I am living and am all right, A dH SI M5 5s ic COURT, Court met Monday, Ju the bench assisted by A es Munson and Rhodes. A lnrgopart of f, and b. cases took up a big portion of time, There were several which should not have all, The Brushy bet Do ubvalley -— Farst on ly pointed ont and defined. He began his argument for tariff reduction i and showed the many flagrant evils of | the present systern and especially how { they made the poor laboring men of the conntry bear the prineip 1 bordens, and ! what they thought protected them and brought bread to their door, took it from them to swell the rich monapoiist’s ill- | begotten gains. | His speech enlightened a { laboring men’s views on the { set several Republicans to | thinking as to how they will vote, After the speech, he made a few brief | remarks urgiog the Dem. of the vicinity to organize a Dem, club, which was re ceived with favor and was immediately | acied upon, The club was then organiz | ed wit: the following officers | President, John H. Rider; vice pres., R D. Foreman: sec, A. 8, Kerlin: treas., | John Arvney. Executive Committee, W, { H. Bartholomew, B. H. Arnes, Ww. tariff, and 2, Neff. The constitution used by most { throughout the country was adopted. motion to go 0 Bellafonte sooompanie by band was carried —adj clubs A d the saarged - - A BIG MEETING. The Democratic mesling at Bellefonte {| Tuesday n Was an unexpected word ¥iit Bil Bit is} i cers, notwitl sent ira had that M i present, 4 to grant tanding all over the county » would not he ad refused ANEeLe Frosaa hy 6 of 10 members and ) selive speech to the mm ence in the court house, to wi uld not gain entrance on account } ith sania Wilh + pie. Judge Orvis fies being jammed court room being packed, necessi« tated having an overflow meeting. The crowd filled the entire court house yard and extended out into 1 street. Atl this meeting G. W. Rambarger presided, with J. B. Leasthersand J. G, U as vice presidents, and Wm. 1. Kartz as secretary. { D.F. Fortney appeared upon toe plats form and held the vast crowd spellbound for an hour discussing the tarifl issue and fishery question in his wvsual able manner. Mr. Fortney gave the aodience much light apon these estions, and his speach was a telling He was followed by J. L. Bpangler, who spoke | over an bour upon the important issues | of the campaign, and he was listened to with the greases! interest until the time for the departure of trains at 11 p. m. His speech was full of unasswerable facts upon tanfl reform and the position of Cleveland and the upon the subject, There were sight bands present, viz. Centre Hall, Tasseyville, Millheim, He bersbarg, Pine Hall, Pleasant Gap, Zion and Bellefonte, VRS he LEQ ane, 1 J i Llemocracy GREAT INDUCEMERSTS, As the doll season approaches, extra | inducements are offered in fine tailoring’ | Baits and overcoats made to order from | new Fall goods at very low prices Moxraomeny & Ce., Tailors, Jellefonte. - ale. Our public schools in the boro, | open September 10th, Monday a week. wee We are pleased to notice that the pike thro town is being put in better con- ' dition. wel, H, Murray left on Wednesday | points, eB pyecial trains will be ran at differ visitors to the picnic, Many persons have gaged tents for the picnic, i ee [11 COUTE. this week, it was notice able that Centre county has many “ine | fant industries” which seek wee The festival held by the Tassey- ville band last Saturday eveving was well | attended and petred about seventy dol- | lars, | at Lancaster for some weeke, reached bome last Friday; and a Mr. Wakefield, al! of Clearfield, arrived the same evening aod will re main ashort time. weeJwing to the extensive improve- ments making in the mais building at Penna. State College, it is found neces. sary to postpone the opening of the fill term until Sept, 20th, ~emeThe Tossoyville band in their new uniforms and with their charming music attracted much attention at Tuesday night's meeting, —There were forty cases of foralea- tion and bastardy at this week's term of co were on the list and 8 were added on Toesday, This was a crop that exoeoded any year's record in the coun ty. The county having gone Republican last fall may be the reason for this kind of “reform,” it certainly can’t be attribut- ed to Cleveland's message on the tariff or retaliation. The next census of Cen tre county will make a big showing of increase of population at this rate., MARRIED, On Aug. 16, by Re, W. i. Groh, Me @ y 0 «AD ae Ba aro, so oink MOI MA AAAS DIED i i i 1.00 3.50 1.79 D0 60 1.00 1.590 2.00 1.50 1.29 1.00 1.25 1.00 735 25 40 35 25 20 15 124 20 15 10 58 Seersucker Coats and Vests for 1.50 and Cassimere Pants, were 4.75 now 215 + is Ladies Walking i ii Shoes, i i 6 Ladies Shoes, Yard Wide Embroideries, i* Black Silk Mitts, Cold Silk Gloves, French Satines, “i fi The above goods mention only a small ) portion of the immense stock of goods we have. You will save money by coming here to buy, and a much more varied and complete stock to buy from than any other store in the county. LYON & C0, BELLEFONTE. H. A. McKEE & BRO. N—53 BH BELLEFONTE, PENNA. HARDWARE! HARDWARE! NOTICE, to the General Public! We having purchased the entire stock and good will of KR, HICKS & BRO, are now ready and hope to receive your pa- tronage. Our intentions are to do business fairly and treat everybody alike, and do not intend to be undersold. We carry the ARGEST=STOCK. and have added largely to the present stock. Call and see us and we will treat you well,
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