THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED.KURTZ, Eprrorand Pror'r
“TERMS: ~Ono year, $1.50, when paid In ad |
ance. Those in arrcars subject te previous |
rns. §2 per year, |
Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser |
ns.and H cents for each subsequent insertion, |
Centre Hav, Pa, Tuurs, Apri 11,
You will find
G. R. Spigelmyer’s
RACKET STORE
in Crider’s Exchange, Belle-
fonte.
under regular
prices.
hing
o
Everyt
LOCAL ITEMS.
—(irain fields in Nittany valley, are
wid to look promising.
—We are now in the transition state
from snow ball to base ball,
— Bartholomew is
tion to erect a new grain house,
~All kinds of business is stagnant
in the Clearfield region, Other parts of
the state make similar complaints.
——Mr, Campbell, late miller for Kurtz
& Son, has obtained a situation in a St.
f.onis mill, whither he went last week.
Success to him.
Mrs, Will Kartz reports having 16
inches of snow in Somerset county [ast
Saturday. We had 1) ioches in this
section at same time.
——The mild weather of last week has
tended to start vegetation and the grain
fields throughout the county have an ims
proved appearance,
——Will Swab informs us he has or-
ders for 30 of his new patent cornplans
ters, now being built at Buck's machine
hops, Bellefonte.
——James A. Keller, of near thistown,
had a valuable mare die a few days ago.
This is the third of his horses that has
died within a year, Really, at this rate,
farming does not pay.
—All the houses in
occupied, a number of new families hav-
ing come to fown-—one dwelling has two
claimants, with one to stay and the other
to be left, after a legal hearing.
-—Jsreal Rachau of the n. pret. of
most intelligent citizens, gave the Ree
porter a call. He tells us the grain fields
in that section of Brushvalley look well,
—Wheat in the buraed miil cellar
and outside the walls, which had been
scorched by the fire, has sprouted nite
freely and is larger and looks healthier
than the grain in the fields sown last
tificates will meet in the High School
room, Bellefonte, April 19 and 20, 1889,
to examine applicants. An examination
for professional certificates will be held
at same time and place.
—~Tinker Reeaman and soldier Brig
bin are having a lively race and chase
for the Centre Hall p. When Harris
through starting up the shat
down shops and mills he will settle this
little trouble too.
0
gon gets
little son of Jerry Mil-
ler, of this place, had a serious mishap
last Thursday. In attempting to climb
on a wagon, the horas started cansing the
bov to loose his balance, he fell to the
gronad breaking his collar bone
Johnny,
a
of this
—Rev. 8, [.. Stiver is writing some
and license,
1il., Advance.
pen and is doing the cause of prohibition
much good in Illinois,
Potter township.
in
it will get there, you bet, for the hens are
layiog an unusual supply of eggs for the
occagion, and thousands will
over the festivity, especially by
veailes, so ne of whom may
elves juven ills—egga-actly.
the in
Kurtz & Son have
ments for the erection of a new mill on
el. The mill will manufacture all grades
of corn meal and feed, and the best grades
of flaar will be kept to supply customers,
and all kinds of grain bought and sold
—eBgveral Inmbermen from Spri
Mills, bought Squire Rockev’s and Dr,
Huabler's woodland situated in logan
twp., north of the public road, and west
of Samuel ligen’s domain. A new mill
will be in operation before another week
is past. They ares lively set of work-
men, says the Sagar Valley Journal.
we Yony Deinioger expresses himself
satisfied with his removal to his new
house at the station. Yony very proper
ly laments that the enemies of improve-
ment bave heen the canse ofseveral
building projects being defeated in that
end of town. Yony must console him
in the way of ali that's good.
wee Mra, Mulberger, mother-in-law of
Jackson Bush, died at the home of the
latter, on Kurtz's farm, near Centre Hall,
aged 81 years. Mr. Bush moved on the
place only on Tuesday 2, and the day be-
ing damp and disagreeable and havin
been nowell, her illness was er
bythe exposure of moving. Her re
mains were taken to the Tusseyville
cemetery, on Tuesday morning, for bur.
Two of Mr. Bush's sons have been
quite ill of pneumonia, no doubt
on by the inclement weather of
f moving.
An unuspal hearing will be had
before aq, Linn, nt Bellefonte, to-day,
Two of our citizens, Dr. Emerick and Mr,
Kennedy, claim to have leased the Wits
mer homestead for the present year,
from the bwner, Mr, Smith. Dr. or.
ick bases his right upon a regularly writ.
ten lease and the notice served up.
on the other party in December, by the
owner, to quit. Mr, Kennedy bases his
right upon a verbal understanding
vions to receiving the notice to quit, Mr.
Smith denies there was such
A Bellefonte Man Held by the
Cubans 27 Years.
WAR TAKEN PRISONER AND SOLD TO A CU- |
BAN FARMER-MEETING OF MOTHER |
AND BON,
The meeting of Joseph Wesley Witten |
and his mother, cow Mrs, Edward Stons |
er, after twenty seven years’ absence, in |
Ww
dents occuring between
and last union, seem
ction.
Wesley and his brother went to the
{ war. The latter was killed on the field.
| The former was soon afterwards reported
as having met the same fate. His com-
| nia Volunteers also mourned him as dead,
Jut Wesley did not die. He recovered
mand and near the end of the war was
taken prisoner, His comrades regarded
{ him as one of the victima
| ville,
| more than death,
He was 80'd to a Cas
i hardships that few could endure and sur.
| vive. He and all the other slaves were
| compelled to work without clothes, with
| inbuman tasks to perform, and at the
least provocation the poor
lashed from head to foot until the blood
| trickled to the ground. Then, to add
{ gall to the bitterness, they were dipped
into the strongest brine that could be
made, This was done so that insects
would not deposit eggs into the sore pla-
cea cnt into the skin by the cowhide
lash, Witten wished he was dead, or
that they would kill him, but fate presers
ved him to see his mother again. One
day he succeeded in engaging in convers
gation the captain of a vessel plying be~
tween Philadelphia and the West Indies,
i to whom he told his story. The latter
aided him to make his escape and
! brought him back to the United States
It was 80 many years sincs the war, and
Wesley natorally conclnded she was
dead. But he worked to Mil
lerstown, Perry county he was
born, until one day to
person at Bellefonte and through (
Williams, of the Bush House,
that hig mother was still in the
the living, was married again ar
ward Stoner, and lived
When his old mothe
son's whereabouts
fied age and infirmi
instant down Perry
there was such a meetis ‘
witnessed on thisearth. Those hallowed
occasions are mostly reserved for the ans
gel throng.
iis Ww ay
where
ne wrote some
HHOrge
learned
land of
1 to Ed-
at Pleasant Gap,
r learned
i of her
matheriv faaline da
, motherly feeling de
ties
She went on the
county, where
often
to
y
Ig ass not
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Arbor Day.
Governor Beaver has issued
mation designsting Friday, April 26, as
{| Arbor Day, In the course of Lis procia-~
| mation the Governor says: “The plant
ing of trees and shrobbery in our public
school grounds and along our highways
is earnestly recommendsd to our peopie
The subject of tree plaoting, however,
has become so importantin many ways
that the Executive feels i
give wider scope, if possible, to the obser-
vance of Arbor Day than is hereinbefore
| indicated. Poblic parks are being pro-
vided for in several of our cities and
| towns, through private mupificence and
{ public enterprise. In « hat way can the
individaal citizen of these several cities
and towns better show Lis appreciation
of and gratitade for the benefactions
than by plancting trees, which not
only manifest his appreciation, but at the
game time deepen th interest
self and his family in a work whicl
essentially for the public good ”
‘What better nallying po
family in a public park than t
their own planting and sorture
more beantifal tribute to the men who
have so nobly provided for the health
and happiness of futare generations than
such a mark of grateful appreciation on
the part of the people of the saveral com-
mnnities benefited * The for
such tree planting id be designated
by the anthorities in charge and the re
(salts could not but be in many ways
beneficial.”
a proclas
compeiled to
shal
oe Of
Hin
1 is 80
nt for the
tree of
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Checks
and pi
(rooda, (srs
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a
Death of Mrs. Woodring.
The wife of exeherifi
at Bellefonte, on Mon ¢
lay night.
the mother of five children, three boys
and two girls
iin all, t
She is
at two daughters and one soo
home.
The maiden name of deceased was
Margaret Catherine Huey. She was
| born in this county forty-eight years ago,
| near Pive Grove Mille, She leaves
{ sisters, Mrs. D, F. Fortney and Mrs, Cy
i tus Strickland, of Bellefonte, and Mrs,
Williamson of Milroy. Mr. Woodring,
sympathy in this affliction.
rs A
Seersucker Ginghams and Percales
Glarman's,
we {30 10 Fauble's clothing house for
a fine suit of clothing, new spring styles
-
The Stone Mill Store.
Mr. Kerlin has returned from the city
with a solid stock of general merchan
| dise, such as will meet the wants of the
| farming community and all others. All
i the late styles of dress gocds, notions,
i clothing, bats, caps, boots, shoes, grocers
i lea, ete, will be found at the old Stone
i
| that are fair to buyer and seller. Yon
| can get & bargain any time at Kerlin's
produce.
Fancy Easter Baskets, Garman's,
1H vent Balbrigan Hose, for Ladies,
Garman's,
A isha
Death of Col. Jas. Gilliland.
Col, James Gilliland, known to most of
the citizens ot our county, died at hia
home, in Maryland, April 1, aged 85
politics and business when a resident of
our county, years ago.
yo
Silk Umbrellas, Garman's,
wen florae collars from $1 up at Boozs
ors,
; wees Fanble's stock before purchas-
ng.
we We will venture to say, spring is
here.
we Fall and winter stock of clothing
at the Philad, Branch.
~w(itnin looks fine in Sugar Valley,
says the Journal,
Post Office Lightning.
The first Harrison lightning has struck
Centre county—L. 8. Bricker has been
appointed post master at Boalsburg; BR.
imple, Port Matilda; J. G. Yarnell,
Snowshoe; J, D. Long, Spring Mills,
Next.
A Ap
‘Local Briefs
Lace Curtains and Scrims. Garman's.
~Jigos are 12, butter 20, lard 8 and
0,
~ Rochester Clothing House, Belle-
fonte, for fine clothing.
— Boozer received a new assortment
of horse collars, price from $1 up.
=I. D. Osman, left on Tuesday for a
E. L. Powers $3.00 dress shoe,
~—~Buy New Goods and save 25 per
~[f you wish to be well dressed in
| latest styles, go to Fleming, Bellefonte.
Aaronsburg.
Willis Musser purchased 8. H, Diehl's
horse and now drives a pair of horses in
his creamery wagou.
A fire De out in the mountsin south
west of the Coburn distillery, and all the
cord wood chopped and ranked for use
in the distillery has burned.
Mr. Bladle, the new mail contractor, |
was around trying to sub-contract, but |
learned that suckers will not bite, and |
that there are no candidates for the |
poor-house in these parts, |
It is currently reported that Jesse |
Wert has taken unto himself a wife. |
Well, Jesse is a good fellow and desery-
ing of a good wife, and we wish him joy, |
Rev, Deitzler and wife went to Ann!
ville and were obliged to leave their |
children here, both of whom have taken |
scarlet rash,
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Spring Mills,
Mr. Ed. Jordan, of Williamsport, spent |
a few days with his parents this week.
Mrs J. F Rearick returned home last |
-Kurtz & Son advertise a letting, in
{ another colum, for a new mill building.
~—\When in Bellefonte stop and see
E. L.. Powers £3.00 dress shoe,
~The buds are springing, the birds
are singing and the bees are humming.
| ——If you wish a dress suit give Flem-
| ing, the tailor, your order and you will
not regret it,
~J. B. Linn, eeq., will deliver the
next memorial address at Mifflinbarg.
— For a well fitting and well
onte.,
we Potatoes, this spring, are telling at
25 and 30 cents per bushel in the valley,
E. 1. Powers $3.00 dress shoe,
—— For a fineand cheap winter suit go
to Fleming, the fashionable tailor, Belle-
fonte.
day, in the loss of a yearling colt which
hung itself,
— Ready-made clothing of every de.
gcription and quality at the Philad.
Branch, Bellefonte,
Dress Ginghams 64 cents, and best
Aproa Gioghams 6} to 8% cts, at C. P.
Long's, Spring Mills,
~Mr, Al. Walter, of Millheim is
again able to be out—after an illness of
several weeks,
i
—Floming has a complete line of
winter goods, which he offers very cheap
and at a bargain,
——If you intend to build, write to
Union Roofing Co., Tyrone, Pa., for prices
of slate and metal roofiog—see ad,
~~ A little daughter of Perry Breon,
two miles east of this place, died of dip~
theria on Wednesday.
For cheap clothing go
' Rochester clothing house,
lar stock in town,
-- Fleming fashionable tailor,
Bellefonte, makes the cheapest and best
fitting suits in the county.
to the
cress d
wrens}
the
of daller Limes than ever
before exper
enced.
—fleming, the fashionable
Bellefonte, has gained quite a reputation
for cheap and well made suits,
New Bpring styles Dress Goods,
Notions, Groceries, Shoes and Hats, at
C. P. Long's, Bpring Mills
¥
Doctors Jacobs and Emerick re
por
aids of practice,
opposite the Conrad bouse, is the place
for bargains in men and boys’ suits,
—{ieorge Royer and family, who
moved to
have returned to Millheim.
~Fauble keeps the finest stock of
rea. y made clothing in the cousty an
cannot be undersold by any competitor
begin to leave we begin to have shade
and when the trees are away we have no
shade,
——-Fanble’s line for eady made clo h-
| ing is complete in every par icalar, and
| conaty.
| winless one in hired to attend to
mind another's business, it will be found
! siness,
inspect their stock of watches, clocks,
gin watches from $8 up.
Zab. Krise and wife were visiting
in this place last week. Also one of
Reberaburg's handsome young men, Wal-
lace Miller.
— Our first invoice of boy's and
| children’s clothing, from Jacob
| Bons, will be opened Saturday Mareh 16.
Moxraomery & Co.,
Bellefonte
| we Peter Hoffer has left his mountain
farm aod made his home at Centre Hall
| =which adds one more excellent citizen
to our town.
~If you wish to be well dressed, got
| your clothing made by Fleming, the
i fashionable tailor, Bellefonte, who has a
i
{| ~The wheat market is no! improv.
ing—prices in the valley are 03 to 95,
Oats 30, corn 41. The eastern wheat
Saturday after an extended trip to New |
{ York city.
i Augustus Kennelley left on Tuesda
| morning for New Berlin, where he will
{ enter the Evangelical college to study for |
| the ministry. George W. Mark, of Penn
Hall accompanies him,
{ South Carolina, but expects to go back in
| a few days.
{ The select schools for the firet term of
| the summer season will open on the 16th.
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The Great Dakota Fire.
Huron, 8B, D, April 4, 1889,
i
i
i
}
A-T T-H-E
}
i
| the prairie on April 2nd.
| north-west, at the rate of 60 miles per
hour,
| south west of Huron. I started for an old
i straw stack that had been burning for a
few days. The sand and ashes were so
thick in the air that a person could not
see the distance of ten feet, Those who
| were entirely bummed out are:
' J. R.and Eogene Baldwin, Jesse
low and John McArter, Barns were de.
stioyed for Thomes Harvey, V. B. Davis
and J. C. Robins. In Hand county there
| Mies Anos Sweeney lost her life by the
fire, near Higbmore.
Here in Dakota each
own a whole section of land and binild
in the centre and have it all broken to
prevent fire raoninug almost every place.
| This is all for this time,
; Respectfully Yours,
| EW, Jayson,
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ff ——Springleta
and on to Charch st
digging garden.
The flitting agony is over and if stove
| pipe are all fiitted then the swearing is
! aver 100,
operation this week ; it is a branch of the
| Spring Mills creamery.
:
ut at
i ~—Itema of Interest: M'Feely’s have
the job for a new roller mill at Coburn
for Moyer & Motz,
| ly of Gregg, died in Sugar valley on 9.
| end of our valley are on fire.
White Goods and Embroideries
(rarman’s,
| burg to Cambria county.
| Alumberman named Schlifer had an
| arm broken at Paddy mountain.
| ~——Bee Faoble's new spring stock be-
| fore purchasing elsewhere,
{ Thad. Stover of Haines bad a cow die
| from eating poisonous weeds,
{Lace Curtains $1 per pair, Garman's,
Dayid Neese at Peans creek hac a sur-
| prise birth day party set up on him by
bis neighbors, "tother day,
i Sn A A O—— OS
Curtain Poles, Chains, Hooks, Pins, &c.
Garman's,
~A.C. Miogie keeps leading in the
shoe business at Bellefonte. Honest
goods always take the lead—and these
| two points make Mingle's store the lead.
er. Boots, shoes, gaiters, rubbers, any«
| thing needed by men, women, |
dren, in every variety, at Mingle's, in the |
| Brockerhoff house block.
~Last Saturday ushered itself in
by the
usual supply” of slush and mud. These
weather regulations goon as of old—
there is not going to be sunshine every
day, nor gloom in the atmosphere day
Natare loves variety and
—(3et your boy a nice sit at Lewins
and save a conple of dollars thereby,
The largest and best assortment of spring
suits, latest styles ever brot to Bellefonte,
Lewing leads iu ready-made clothing for
men and boys,
~==The Tyrone Herald says that Miss
Lizzie Parks, of that place, has just bad
a sixty pound tumor successfully removed
from ber person by Dr. Goode!l, of the
Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia.
She isable to be about the house, and
exceptiog that she is very weak, feels
quite well.
= Lowins beats the state for large
assortment of men and boy's clothing
market runs from 92to $1. Oats 31, corn
wma dollar saved is a dollar ea rned
county.
we Adjutant-General Hastings has se
cured transportation for the entire pa-
tional guard to attend the centennial
Selebrution in New York on the 30 of
pril.
we Spiyder Sisters bave gone to New
York, and will retarn with a | line of
millinery. Grand benched de
April 20th, We invite citizens of Belle-
fonte, and Centre county to call and look
at goods,
Bxypunr Sterns,
Bellefonte,
wewdiporge Reisb, of Union county,
sold a tract of timberland situated in the
Brush Valley Narrows to Meyer &
ott. of Centre Hall, for $6,600, which
bought less than a year aco for $5,000, by
t. Our
yet,
not
¥
liapdt
which he realized $1500
landlord may be a big lam
and tries to Huyett to the dine,
«What the Philad. Branoh
have in the line of Biuoth doth me
spring stock
in not worth havisg. T
now on the is inmyise and
and he beats the world and all clothing
The Pennsylvania railroad will
hereafter carry parties of ten or more
persons on one ticket at the rate of two
cents per mile per head over the entire
m of the road east of Pittsburg and
¢. The rate isthe same as that als
lowed otheatrical Sroupes, w ot the
Pennsylvania railroad, has issued » nos
tice that the al rate two cents per
mile allowed a party of ten or more
sons when jraveling on one ticket,
been withdrawn, mite has onl
been in offect abont two weeks,
When the rate was issued it was a
on whether it wasa violation of
law or not. The commission has
apparently decided that it is.
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mre (NOE DIT ELITOMD TET ITSEETOOT
roprietor.
——C. P. Long, merchant,
of Spring Mills, has left for
Philadelphia to purchase a new
stock of Spring and Summer
oods, which he intends shall
the largest, best and cheap-
est in the valley. Charley
never does things by halves,
as you will see when his goods
arrive, next week.
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1 and see our fine line of Davis
Home sewing machines which
we FRES
8rd
calf, at D, P,
COW for with
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Lace Qurtaing, a Beauty, at §1,35, at Gar
mans.
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9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 20, 22, Cy
5 A A, Ws
“TELEGRAPHY
—
Notice
On account of losses by the recent fire,
the undersigned is obliged to call npon
all having accounts at Bartholomew's
store, to make settlement within a rea-
sonable time, by so doing they will great.
ly oblige limalm. R. E. Basraocromsw
Caution.
All persons are
against the purchase of a note, given b
me to Elmira Showers, for $80 or b
dated lat September, —~not havieg re
ceived value Ru gates Twill not pay it
unless compelled by .
Wi, Guosamax,
cautioned
NOTICE :
1
late firm of
indebted to the
man & Kreamer will