VOL. LXIV,
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Mr. Kerr, late member of congress of
this district, is the npauimouns choice of
all the Democratic members for clerk of
the house, All other casdidates have
withdrawn in his favor.
TT SET.
The yeat’s bounty on Vermont maple
sugar is estimated at $100,000 ~and no
qnes'ions asked. Buc why should the
people be taxed to pay the money ? The
goverument with the same right should
give the Pennsylvania farmer a bounty
on his wheat aud corn, bat the McKinley
bill is not built that way.
The friends of Hon. A O. Furst, Presi.
dent Judge, are pressing f rward his
claims for the Republican nomination
for Supreme Judge, Central Pennsylvas
nia deserves to be recognized on the
bench of the Supreme court aud the Re
publican party could do far wore by
not nomioating Jade Farst,
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Uufortunately for tbe farmer the
prices of wheat and other grain are not
up to expectations or what they s'ionll
be. Wheat especially has showyn sea
all along, in spite of Russiap rohibiting
the export of wheat. Whatever advans
ces the price of wheat makes, makes
plentier money and helps ail branche
es of trade. The farming interest is the
most important of ail interests, and its
depression is felt in all chanovels, hence
we are benefitted by the prosperity of
the farmer,
k
The correspondent of the Hyogo News
writes as follows respecting the recent
earthqaake at Ogukika: Close to the
river bunk are the remaina of the East
Hoogaugi Templs, In the latter at an
early hour on the fatal morniog, 500
people had convened at a special service
in connec ion with the harvest. Tue
huge edifice fell and crushed all of the
devoted worshipers, whose corpses were
afterward calcined by a conflagration,
The viection of Crisp to the speakers
ship is a good thin. The election of ei-
ther of the other candidates, would have
been equally as good. All were tariff re.
formers, Itis neither a Cleveland or
aoti-Cleveland victory or defeat. The
next presidential nominee did not enter
into the speakership contest. The De
mocracy are harmonious io congress, and
while the contest for speaker waa lively
and exciting, it all went on barmonions.
ly and all the contestants bore thems
selves honorably.
I I STS
Trains were tied up in the Northwest
end of last week by snow blockades,
With but one exception every railroad
raoning into 8t. Paal from the West and
Northwest reports that its trains are
either greatly delayed or tied
altogether. The Norrhweetern and the
Milwankee have trains tied up in Bouth
Dakota and the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific bave trains strong
along their lines, stalled from Mandan
aod Winnepeg to Jamestown and Moores
head. The spur lines, too, are having a
hard time of it and, owing to the heavy
winds, snow plows sre makiog litile
headway,
Be
A band of Kaosas sdventisis have
fixed apon next Christmas day se the
last of earth, The leader is a woman
who claims fo have her information
straight, Unfortonately she does not
tell us just how the end will come or
just at what hour, If it is very early
there will be no use bothering atout
Christmas presents, aud the money usu-
ally used for that purpose can well be
expended in ascension robes or some~
thing equally appropriate, Bat il the
time is late in the day we can go ahead
aod have the usual smount of fun and
then step off into the millennium. The
best part of it will be hearing the excu-
ses of this prophetess when theperforms
soce does not come off according to pros
gramme.
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Emperor William, of Germany, has
been makiog another remarkable gpeech
which has set Earope to talking. After
a number of young recruits had been
sworn into the service he told them they
were too young to understand the full
meaning of the oaths that they bad just
taken, and added: “They mesn that
you have given yourself to we, body and
sonl, You have only one enemy-—that
is my enemy. In the present socialistic
agitation I my order you, which Gud
forbid, to shoot your relatives—your
brothers, even your parents—and youn
must obey without 8 murmer.” This
energetic young monarch is evidently a
firm beliover in the doctrine of Louis
X1V., “I am the Btate,” but he is likely
to discover that the world is two centu-
ries older than it was when the French
monarch gave utterance to that semark,
and that even in Germany the people
CENTRE
It Will Cost Money to Vote.
The commission, consisting of the sec
retary of state, secretary of internal af
fuirs and the aoditor genera', whose dn-
ty it is to select a style of polling booth
and ballot box for nse in this state, has
not sot arrived at a conclusion, and will
bardly do so before next week,
Auditor General McCamant said Fris
day that the first cost of the polling
booths, which will be borne by the state,
may reach 200,000, if a style is chosen in
which irou and steel enter largely into
its construction. There are others, how-
ever, built of wood snd caaovas, which
would cost less. Another large item of
expense under the new law will be the
polling places. These mast be filly by
thirty~five feet, and the interior arrange.
ments must be in accordance with cer-
tain specifications, This will in many
instances, perhaps iv nearly every case,
pecessitate the renting by the year of
suitable roms, or the purchase of movas
able pulling places that may be taken to
pieces and stored away between elec
tions. This means a large exp+nse to
cotlntly commissioners
The commission wil! soggest a style of
ba'lot box to be adopted, but this ex
pense, which may reach another $200,000
or more, will fall direetly vpon the coun-
ties. The box meeting with the grest
est favor ie the “Safety” the invention
ofa tifsburg man. It is of glass and
registers each yote. It is claimed for it
that it is impossible to tamper with the
votes except by the connivance of the
entire election board, each member hav
ing the key to a separate lock, and furs
thermore that it does not wear out. The
boxes in use in New Jersey and Massa
chusetts, somewhat similar in character
to this, cost thirty-three per cent. of
their first cost for repairs after each
election, The commission has some
doubt to how far its recommendation
goes, and it is thought that the county
commissioners of the state will have to
pass finally upon the selection,
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Always a Welcome Visitor,
No visitor in the bonsehold, particals
arly the raral household, is more wels
come than a ‘avorite publication, be it
newspaper or magazine. The newspap-
er, however, is foremost ia the affections
of the paople, and outside the cities the
weekly newspaper easily takes preced
ence. Ii is a necessity, and since it con-
taing the news of the week, in conjane-
tion with the freshest current miscellany,
all who are vot located where they can
receive the daily fresh from the press
prefer the weekly with its vast stores of
news i's choice stor.es and special de
partments. In this class of journals Tux
rrrsprRoHE Weekey Poser slands without
a rival, All the foreign and domestic
news fiuds a place ia its columns. Its
stories, original and otherwise, come
fresh from the pens of the most popular
anthore; its editorial expressions are
clear, forerible and bones!; its agri
cultural department is condacted by a
practical nineteenth ceutury farmer : its
financial and commercial reports are
complete, and altoge her it is a paper that
no wellvregulated family—especially no
well regulated family in love with true
Democracy ~can do without, Its great
worth is attested by ita large and stead.
ily growing circulation, Price, 81 25 a
year. In clubs of five or over $1 a year,
The Bellefonte and Eastern.
The Bugar Valley Journal says: Good
news concerning the proposed railroad
through Sogar Valley comes from High.
town. Several hondred men are at work
on the road near that place, so it is said.
They are heading westward, and if re
ports can be relied on much work will be
done toward the completion of the road
tojLogauton before April 1st, '02, It is not
positively known whether thisstatement
is wholly trae or not, but the fact that a
prominent citizen of Green township
actuallay saw and spoke with the men
at work as above mentioned, gives cred.
ence to the belief that this railroad will
be bailt in the course of another year.
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Now He Gets 85 More,
Bome time ago E. E. Conrath, princi-
pal of the schools at Conemaugh, whip-
ped one of his pupils and the father of
the boy bad him arrested. The citizens
of the place have come to the conolusion
that Conrath did what was right in pun.
ishing the boy, and as an act of jastice
the directors bave increased his salary
$5 per month. This demonstrates that
he is the right man ia the right place,
MSR A
Dill Again Arrested
W. H. Dill, ex~president of the defunct
Firat national bank was arrested again
on Monday night charged with convert.
ing $25,000 of the bank's fands to his
own use. He gave bail in the sum of
$3,000 for a hearing on Thursday. The
information was made by John McGrath
cashier of the Houtzdale bank,
we fivery weil dressed gentleman get
his clothing from the Philad. Branch
Bellefonte. They can fit you out in any
thing you want, at a big bargain. You'll
mise it greatly if you don’t call to see
are the state,
his stock,
PA.
BHOULD BE ABLE TO READ,
Ex-8cnator Wallace Believes in Pulting
Restriciions on the Ballot.
ExsSenator Wallace replies as follows
to Representative Johneou's open letter
urgiog him to be a candidate for the
legislature: “I have no personal ambi
tion to bold offices now; my business af.
fairs occupy me entirely, and require
constant attension, Asa citizen of the
commonwealth, however, I try to keep
abreast of those current topics which af-
fect the welfura of our people, Among
these I regard a perfect system of secret
ballot reform as of great importance,
Besides this I have long been convinced
that we peed an educational gualifica
tion, When taking the chair in the
State convention of 1888 | expressed the
views opon this subject that I still en-
tertain, thus: “No man who votes any~
where should be deprived of that right
during his Lfe; but we should coerce
him to educate his children and put a
spor on the head of every boy of 16 and
every foreigner seeking to help govern
vs by at once providing by coastitntion
al ensctment that after five years no
new voler should bave that right who
cannot read and write the Eaglish lan»
guage, The peadoium has swang too
far in the direction of free suffrage. It
take heed of and provide
against the evils that threaten us, both
North snd South, from the masses of un.
educated and incompetent voters,
“You will observe that it is not a part
of my thought that anyone who now has
the right to vote should be deprived of
that right, bat that the whole process
sbould be prospective, Experience will
probably teach us that the ballot bill will
need amendment as youn suggest, and
both, it and the assessors’ bill may prove
burdessome to the country distrists, but
they have never been tiled, and it is our
duty to give them a fair test. The best
way to repeal or improve a defective law
is to execute it. Whether I shall or shall
not be & candidate for the legislature
depends upon my business fature ”
is time to
Changed His Mind
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
once decided that the use of the word
“damn” is not profanity, There is a
story about a Conaecticul clergyman
who, in a sermon upon profanity, said
thet the word “damn” might be right-
fully used by respectable people as an
The next day he
changed his mind on the subject when he
met one of the feminine members of his
flock, who salnted him thus: “Good
morniog, Mr. ——, That wes a damn
good sermon of yours yesterday.”
emphatic expression,
Religious Gathering in Altoona
The Epworth Leagues, Christian Eun-
deavor and other societies connected with
the Methodist Episcopal churches of
the Altoona District will meet in convens
tion in the First M. E. church, Altoong
on Thursday ,December 17, Every young
people's organization in the Altoona Dis-
trict of the M. E. church should be re
presented. Rev. R, H. Bender, D, D. of
Altoona, Pa. ia the corresponding secre
tary, to whom all names of delegates
should be sent,
A Remarkable Buit.
In Elk county, recently, a cow which
had been helping herself to some prize
cabbages was shut up by the owner of
the land on which she had been tres-
passing. He neglected to milk her, and
when the owner of the cow got her back
he sued for damages and won the suit
The Batler Herald draws this conclusion
Never fail to milk a cow when you find
one on your premises at this time of the
year,
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A Novel Question.
The novel question. “Can a farmer re-
cover damages by getting stuck in the
mad ?" is to be legally passed upon in a
suit bronght by A, W. Dunkieberger
against Martin Raker and Daniel Reed,
supervisors of Little Mahavoy township
Northumberland county, to be tried be-
fore Justice Miller, at Shamokin, The
farmer's wagon was stuck so fast in the
muddy road near his house a week ago
that he hasn't been able to budge it since
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Why Did He Blush,
A North Bend young man sent a
young lady in another place a bear leg.
When our devil read about this says the
Lock Haven Democral, he blushed until
bis face was as crimson as a turkey gob-
bler's gullet, When he read it the sec
ond time he conldn’t see what the than-
der he had blushed about.
Death at Bellefonte,
On Sunday night Mrs, Weaver, of
Bellefonte, widow of David Weaver,
dec’d, died after an illness of about
twalve days. She was aged about sixty
years, and was the mother of J, C, Wea-
ver, insurance agent in Bellefonte.
~=~When yon want a shoe that will
give you satisfaction both in price and
quality, go to Mingle's shoe store, Belles
fonte. He guarantees all goods sold and
you get & genuine article.
Handsome Cabinet,
The county commissioners have re.
ceived the first piece of metallic office
furniture with which the various depart
ments of the court house will be equipp-
ed. The piece unpacked isan office
cabinet. It is about eight feet wide and
six high, avd is made of steel and enam-
eled sheet iron, It contains a lerge
number of drawers for holding office sta
tiopary, blanks, etc. Then there are sev.
eral lurge spaces for filing important
docnments, protected by steel doors ard
locks, It is complete, compaot and con-
venient and a great improvement of for-
mer methods. When all the vanlts are
fitted in this manner the public records
can be securely and safely kept,
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Rumber of Marriage Licenses Granted.
In the matter of marriage licenses
granted in our county since the law went
into force, there bas been isened up to
last week 2010, During the past year
there have baen issued 309 licenses, an
average of almost one a day. This hows
ever is a falling off from last year of 39,
as from the first of December, 1889, to
the first of December 1880, there were
issued 348 licenses.
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Walks Like a Crab.
Joseph Copeman, a 11 year-old deaf
and dumb boy from Shannonville, near
Osceola, is at the Philadelphia Universi
ty Hospital for treatment for a curious
affection. When he was three years oid
he was stricken with a convulsive it,
Since then be is unable to walk forward
but walks backward like a crab. The
doctors are at a loss to unders'and the
case which has no parallel.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
—Fregh Oysters constantly on band.
~{3, 0. Banner,
~~ Batchering season has begun and
porkers are being killed right and left.
we Large stock of clothing for men,
boys aad children —C. P. Long, Spring
Mills.
—eMingle's shoe store
stock every day.
and reasonable.
receives new
Prices are always fair
el, P, Long, Spring Mills, will save
you 25 per cent, on Horse, Carriage and
Bed blankets,
~=Jacob Richard writes os from
Hinchman, Mich, Dec. 1st, “had a little
sleighing to-day and yesterday.”
we fiave you teen the new stock of
overcoats just received alt the Philad.
Branch 7
Mr. Peter Keller, proprietor of
the Keller Hotel, Lock Haven, died
there suddenly on Tharsday evening, of
heart failure
— A peat looking shoe, good quality’
and Jow in price, is the kind of goods
purchased at Powers’ Shoe store, Belles
fonte, A trial will convince you of this.
—lock Haven had two fires last
Wednesday evening, one at the Baptist
church, the other a private dwelling, but
both were extinguished before much
damage was done,
ee] {in need of anything in the boot
or shoe line don't forget that Miogle,
Bellefonte, has the finest line in the
state from which to select. He guaran-
toes all goods and you have good returns
for your money,
~The butchering season is on us
and the squeal of the porker in distress.
ing, and fresh esusages are geiting plens
ty.
Morgen komt der Baiern Fersht,
Un’ bringt uns’ en Sack mit Leber
werscht,
A quick way to clean your cook
stove is to pour a gallon of coal oil on
the live coa's. It will clean the stove
and kitchen too, The operator may exs
perience a rapid, though uncomfortable,
transition from this to another world,
wanes If {2 need of Fall and Winter un-
derwear, don’t forget the fact that the
Philad. Branch has received a full and
elegant line. Call and examine quality
and price and you will be convinced
that better cannot be done elsewhere.
ttle dealer, D, C. Keller, ships
two car loads of fine cattle to East.
ern markets last week. Mr, Keller in-
forms us for the past season he has ship.
ped on an average four car loads per
month from this station. Ose would
suppose all stock bad been shipped from
the valley, bat there still seems to be
some left,
A Generous Firm,
MeCamant & Oo, lime dealers and
manufacturers of agricultural implements
in Bellefonte, have thirty-eight men
work iog for them and to each man they
presonted a fine big gobbler for his
Thankegiving dinner,
os cha MIL. A
Shoulder Blade Broken,
Liltle Roy Milier, six year old sop of
Jerry Miller, had his shoulder bone
broken one day last week, cansed by
comiog in collision with a playmate at
school, ;
MAIL AT FARM DOORS,
Postmaster General Wanamaker's Big Free
Delivery Scheme,
The plan for the introduction of the
free poetal delivery system into every
postoffice in the United States, ss outs
lined in a letter of Postmaster General
Wanamuker, has excited the interest of
every live farmer from Maine to Califor
nia. Every little hamlet in the remote
sections of the country is represented in
the petitions forwarded to the postal an
thorities applanding the idea and urging
ita prompt adoption. Mr. Wanamaker,
personally, is enthusiastically in favor
of the scheme, and the farmers rely
much upon his uatiring efforts in the
matter. In a letter to appear in the
American Agriculturist next month Mr,
Wanamaker says :
HOUSE DELIVERY FOR THE FARM.
“To carry letters, newspapers and
magazines, snd leave them in an office
remote from the hone to be called for, is
only a partial fulfilinient of the duty of
the department. With the well-paid
railroad ster route contractors and mail
messengers traversing every highway to
the uttermost nook and corper of the
land, there ought to be some practical
way to utilize all these forces and spread
the housesto~house delivery over aimost
every square mils of this great country.
I firmly believe that when sach a
scheme is in proper operation for a year
it will be proven that the increase of re-
venue will fully counterbalance the nec-
essary expenditore.
“The lest congress listened to argu
ments on this subject and allowed the
postmaster general to use $10,006 of the
appropriation lor free delivery for an ex
periment io the small towns, villages
and farming districts, The first twelve
of these offices were designated Feb. 1,
1891, and a five months’ trial is all that
has allowed up to the close of the de-
partment fiscal year. It is, therefore.
too soon to get full results. Bot it is
clear from the figures at hand that the
increased expense. This is a signifis
cant fact, and if the same results follow
further experiments a great extension of
the free delivery is readily at hand.”
FARMERS ENTHUKIASTIC,
[tis article well exprerses the views of
the thousands of farmers who have writ
ten to the New England Homestead upon
the subject. Many of them advocate the
organization of a national association to
push the matier, and siready this sugges
tion is assuming tangible shape, The
farmers are thoroughly aroused, and are
presenting their claims in a businesslike
way throogh the proper channels. Oge
farmer living some four miles from a
postoffice, paying immense sums snnu-
ally in taxes, pays ten cents twice a day
to 8s milkman who passes his door and
leaves his mail.
Another similarly situated drives six.
teen miles each day for his newspaper
and an occasional letter. They urge that
the government owes them theright of an
educaticn, if nothiog more, and insist
that in depriving them of metropolitan
daily and inland weekly newspapers they
are denied the cheapest and most avails
able source of learning. They sssert that
inasmuch as they pay the greater per-
centage of taxes they are entitled to
some consideration on the part of the
government,
Electrice Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise. —~A purer medicine does not exist
and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will
remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheam and
other affections caused by impure blood,
Will drive Malaria from the system and
prevent as well as cure all Malarial
fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipa-
tion and Indigestion try Electric Bitters
~-Eotire satisfaction goaranteed, or
money refunded, Price 50 cts. and $1.00
per bottle at J. D, Murray's Drugstore,
ot Three Deer In One Day,
The Sagar Valley Journal says: On
Wednesday last tonsorial artiet C.F.
Herlacher went out on Rock Oak Ridge
to hunt. He returned home the next
day with a spring wagon load of venison,
having shot and killed three large deer,
two bucks and one doe, and he wasn’t a
bit excited either. This is the biggest lot
of deer ever shot in this locality by one
man in a single day and entitles Mr.
Herlacher to the championship,
i i MARIOS
Unclaimed Letters,
The following is the list of unclaimed
letters remaining in the Centre Hall
postoffice, December 10th, 1891:
Rash MeClenahan, Mrs. Kate Mapes,
Robert Smith, Frane C. Thompson,
B.D. Brusmix, P, M.
Ae MA.
Thousands of Families
bless the day when they learned the «
of Humphreys’ Specifics Nos. One =
Seven. Cought Colds, Bronchitis and
A Dime Novel Hero
In 1862 Mr. Sanderson and his wife
and child were crossing the conntry near
the Arizona line with a wagon and ont
fit. A band of Comanches came down
opon them and killed the child, and al-
80 the woman, after horrible outrages.
Banderson was tied to a post and coms
pelled to witness the fearful scenes.
After this the Indians began a series of
tortures, and his life was only saved by
the timely arrival of 8 detachment of
soldiers who drove off the savages,
Banderson was taken to the fort with
the soldiers and remained there until be
had recovered his health. Then he took
a solemn oath to be revenged in & mans
ner that would make his name a terror
to the Indians.
The avenger supplied himself with a
rifle, revolver and ammunition snd
started out on hie tour of extermination.
By July, 1865, he had over 100 scalps
and had killed at least 140 Indians and
70 ponies, He made no distinction be
tween men, women and children, but
killed any that he could get near to.
After the close of the war of the rebells
ion, when the Government turned its
attention to the Indisns, a treaty was
made with the Comanches, and it was
stipulated by the Indians that Sander
son should be called away from the
country. He beard of it, and for many
months kept out of the way of the sols
diers and continued his work of destrucs
tion, but at last was found avd told that
he must give up the work. He complied
with great reluctance, and has taken ad-
vantage of every Indian cutbreak since
then to go oat snd kill the savages,
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THE FATAL FLAMZS,
Twe Children Burned Wednesday Morning
at Port Matilda,
Wednesday morning at 7.30 o'clock a
most horrible catastrophe took place at
Port Matilda, this county, Two children
of Mr. George Ammerman were burned
to desth. One was an infant of one year
old aod the other a child aged four.
Both of the parents were sway from
the house at the time and it is not
known how the fire siarted. When the
flames were first seen: by neighbors they
rushed to the house, but the flames ad.
vanced so rapidly that they cond not
find the children. A brave man who
went into the house to search for the
children was compelled to jump from an
up-stairs window. The bodies of the
two children have sicce been foucd in
the ruins
When Mr, Ammerman left the house
the children were eating breakfast, sud
in some way they must have come in
contact with the fire, and that probably
was the origin of the fire which consums
ed them and the home. — Daily Gazetle,
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A Place to Prop Dimes,
ary society of this place, will serve to
the public ice cream, cake and oysters,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening,
December 24tu, 25h and 26th; aud will
also give a chia | weflle supper on
Saturday evening 26t. A cuit of rooms
have been engaged on second floor of
bank building, aud every effort will be
made by the ladies to have everything
tastily arranged. Many handsome and
suitable articles for Christmas presents
are offered forsale at the Bazaar room,
to which your attention is also called,
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Wedding in the Church,
This afternoon, Thursday, st 345
o'clock, there will be a very pretly wed-
ding wolemnized in the Presbyterian
charch in this place at which Miss Mag.
gie Thompson, of Centre Hall, and Mr.
wee Allimon, of Howard, will be united
in the holy bonds of wedlock.
Married.
At the home of Mr. George P. Rearick,
near Spring Mills, on October 13th, Mr.
Isanc Y. Moyer, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
Miss Ida V. Rearick of Spring Mills were
united in marriage by Rev, H. CO. Bas
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Communion Services,
Communion services will be held in
the Presbyterian church at this place, on
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Preparas
tory service Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
Buckwheat Wanted.
Beveral hundred bushels of Buckwheat
wanted at Kurtz & Son's mills, Centre
Hall,
~-Lowins, at the Philad. Branch
Bellefonte, is disposing of stock very
cheaply to make room for fall goods, A
bargain is offered among his large stock
Powers, Bellefonte, handles aii
grades of heavy winter boots and shoes,
and aa for prices, no cheaper can be pur-
chased anywhere else. A trial is asked.
~The farnsce for the new
terian church arrived this week and is
being put in place, and the room will be
Souler heated for services on SBan-
James Kerr for clerkship