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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED, KURTZ, EDITOR ANDPUBLISMER.
CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS. SEPT. 14
THE RACKET
No. 9 Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte.
HEADQUARTERS
OF
THE RACKET,
ON THE
PICNIC GROUND
Will be with the
THE BLOUGH MANUFACTURING CO,
OF HARISBURG, PA,
And if it 'aint a lively section of the
ADJOINING COUNTIES,
Items of Interest Paragraphed for Our
Headers.
Thursday morning Mrs, Elizabeth
Beck died at Mackeyville, of old age,
being 83 years old.
The annual exhibition of the Clear-
fleld agricultural park association will
be held at Clearfield, September 18th,
19, 20 and 21st,
The Lewisburg Fair will open Sep-
tember 26th and will close on the 20th,
Annie Crosby and John Henry
Greene, colored, went to Alderman
Love's office at McDonald to get mar-
ried, when a constable arrested Greene
on a charge of burglary. The bride-
elect was greatly shocked and became
ill, and in half an hour was a corpse.
A gang of men employed at cutting
timber in the woods about a mile east
of Conemaugh on Tuesday last, found
a human skull and some other bones
that had evidently been lying exposed
to the weather for several years. The
knowledge of how they came there
Greatest Show on Earth, it won't
the fault of the BLGUGH BROS,
and of
Yours Truly,
G. R. SPIGELMEYER,
SHEM SPIGELMEYER, Jr.
Bellefonte, Pa
PERSONAL.
—H. W. Stiver, of Potters Mills,
was a pleasant caller at our sanctum.
and are at a loss to account for their
presence,
i The Carrolitown
| Ebensburg banks have resumed
ness, after a than
three weeks. The deposits were large
and everything goes to prove that the
banks retain the confidence of the peo-
ple in spite of their unfortunate em-
barrassment.
The death of ex-Supreme Court
Judge Isaac (i. Gordon, of Jefferson
county, is announced. He died at his
and
busi-
Hastings,
suspension of less
JOHNSTOWN,
Interesting Items from sn Johnstown Cor-
respondent,
after completing his term of school in
Huntingdon county last spring, went
to Johnstown, and made application
position and in a few days was given
the position of shipping clerk in one
of the departments connected
that great industry. The company
employed between seven and eight
thousand hands before the present
panic, with a pay roll of over $500,000
per month. Now they are running
with scarcely over one thousand men
most of their departments standing
idle. Many clerks, foremen and work-
men who have been in their employ,
some of them for over thirty years
have been laid off, some permanently,
and others until times brighten up.
Mr. Jamison was one of the
til the panic is over,
W. Koch is working for
George Bmith, plastering contractor,
Creorge
and is one of his best hands.
H. Odenkirk, and James Benner, un-
cle of George Benner, of Centre Hall,
town,
ing machines for a Johnstown party.
with carbon oil, or, as Penns
people call it “coal oil.”
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W. A. Krise is principal of the Mor-
thirteen in number,
coBuns,
A Unlon Sunday School Plenle In Vonada's |
Grove. i
Quite a number of our people were |
in attendance at the Valley
| plenie on Baturday last, They all re-
{ port having had a good time, :
| On Baturday the 16th inst. there will |
| be a picnic held in Vonada's grove
| near this place, by the three Sunday |
There will be
{able addresses delivered during the |
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Cicorges
schools of this place,
| day by the ministers of our respective |
| churches, and the occasion will be en-
{ livened by choice music rendered by |
| the Millheim band. Everybody is in- |
| vited to attend. |
| The owners of the hotel property at |
{ this place have sunk a well on the
| premises. Mr, Clements, of Centre |
{ Hall, had the contract, Water of al
| good quality was struck at a depth of
twenty-four feet,
E. H. Auman hay his
sunk deeper by Mr. Clements,
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We il
Dur-
ing the drought it had gone dry, so to |
i
prevent another such an occurrence he |
is ing
! has cencluded to go deeper,
i J.P.
i teach
to Fiedler to |
there
May success attend
him in his new field of labor.
Garthofl’ has gone
the
“how to shoot,”
young ideas down
The schools of Penn tow nship will
open on the second day of October, to
j continue six months,
Andrew Harter has
i the postoffice at this place, and has se-
W. Hazel,
§
now charge of
cured the services of ( feorge
of Millheim, as clerk.
i Assessor J. C
to the duties of assessing those whos
| names were not on the
sak
Highest of all in Leavening Pow
Rol
er.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report.
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Powder -
SUDDEN DEATH.
Philip Habler Died in Miles
ship, Monday
Town.
Phil-
i respected farmer of Miles
He
mag, robmist
could learn,
unwell.
On last Monday morning, Mr.
ip Hubler,
township, was found dead in bed.
was a hard working of
frame, and so far as we
did not
Likely heart
He wos
who
complain of being
i
disease was the cause of
his death. of Georg
Hubler,
He
and leaves n wifi
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died soms years sgo.
. abit { wears of
was aol VO years ol
’
age
veral children
to mourn thelr los
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Fischer's h
entre Hall Shorts,
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thie
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nesday family
the sanu estination
Wie i
have had »
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hope it will se
printed,
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Resolutions
Whereas, the Rev. W. LE. Fischer,
after a most successful pastorate of eigh-
teen years, has tendered his resigns-
tion pastor of the Centre Hall
which resignation took effect
on the 27 day of August, 1593,
that the
entre Hall pastorate
wtion of Rev. WwW. E.
Fisher, as pastor of said charge, with
mingled admiration and sorrow.
ax
charg: 3
0 theref we
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resolved,
members of the
or
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resigt
accept th
Resolved, that while we regret the
breaking up of social and religious re-
lations which
their
have been throughout
of unmixed bless-
pastor and people, we,
f this here in
this public manuver, testify our very
high appreciation of the services of
Hev,. W. E. pastor of this
ist under his ministry God
blessed this charge and
made it a power for good throughout
the eutire charge. That he and his
family who accompany him will carry
continuance
ings to both i
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the members of chinrge,
Fisher as
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hn : i rellville schools
years. The term of Judge Gordon ex- |
. : exclusive of a high school class which
pired a few years ago and he has been |
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with them to their future field of labor
ot
the In
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{during n ¢
1 hursday and Friday of last week,
regular assessment, on | some of | : . :
—Chas, Kurtz, of the Centre Dem- only the respect, but the love, af-
main
my f
ocrai,
home.
Bellefonte, spent Sunday at
— Elmer Royer, the obliging clerk
in Josephs store,
town Monday.
——Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Brumgard,
of Millheim, spent Sunday with friends
in Centre Hall.
—Miss Lizzie Limbert, of Lock
Haven, is visiting friends in Centre
Hall and vicinity.
' ——Rev. H. CC. Goodling and wife
spent part of last week with their Lo
ganton friends.
——Mr. O. F. Mader and family of
this place, visited with friends in Mif-
flinburg over Sunday.
~—Mrs. Frank Fisher, Penn
Hall visited friends in Centre Hall
several days last week.
of
~Miss Anna Goodhart, of Centre
Hill, spent several days last week vis
iting friends in Centre Hall.
Mrs. W. W. Boob and daughter
Grace spent some time last week with
Mrs. Boob's parents in Millheim.
——Miss Beulah Brisbin departed
Saturday afternoon for Mifflinburg,
where she remained over Sunday with
friends.
~—Mr. Frank Moyer, one of Centre
Hill's farmers gave us a call. He tells
us crops have suffered there the
drought.
by
~ Rev. Fischer left for Berlin, Pa.,
on Friday last, to attend the funeral
of his aged mother, which took place
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cutler
and son returned to their home in Ty-
rone, after having spent several weeks
with friends in Centre Hall and vicin-
ity.
~—Mr. John H. Odenkirk, of the
Old Fort, is not improving in health,
since his return from Philadelphia,
where he had gone for medical treat
ment.
~—Mrs. John Bitner, west of town,
returned home Thursday evening, after
having enjoyed a few weeks’ visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Shadle, of Wil-
liamsport.
~—Mrs. W. W. Bayard, of Wash-
ington, D. C., was a pleasant caller at
this office on Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Bayard will return to Washington in
a short time,
~—Samuel Slack and James Spang-
ler, two of our leading cattle dealers,
gave our sanctum a call. They seem-
ed amused over the way one of our
fellows argues in favor of silver.
~~Clem. Deininger and Wilber
Henney left Saturday evening for
Willismasport and remained over Sun-
day with the family of Mr. Samuel
Bhoop, having been summoned to that
place on account of the serious illness
of Will Shoop,
~—Rev. W. E. Fischer's family left
this, Thursday morning, for their new
home, in Shamokin. The family will
be very much missed in this” place,
which has been their home for the
last nineteen years. We trust they
will meet with success in their new
home,
~Candidate Harter, on the Re
publican ticket for sheriff, called into
these Democratic headquarters on
Monday and had all the pleasantness
of a basket of chips, ofcourse.
Mr. Harter wants to see Democrats es
pecially, although not a whit inclined
to be a Democrat himself—his sheriff:
alty salvation depending entirely up-
on Democratic votes, and yet its not
in his boots to take stock in the Dem-
ocratic faith. We will bet the next
cow killed on the railroad that Shady
Harter cannot for love or money be
had to call a Democrat a “secech,” or
: a “rebel” or a ‘‘copperhend,” for nay
living quietly at his old home since
that time. R
wuddles in the square to which
the REPORTER sO frequently called at-
tention, we trust have been abolished
by the filling uj The dis-
grace existed just a half dozen years
longer than necessary.
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Local Briefs.
» Process,
In the matter of paying licenses all
must be treated alike within the limits
of the borough,—there is no exception.
This is the law and the ruling of the
courts. You can’t let one go free and
ot another, no matter where located.
Apples are being bought up in these
parts by dealers at from thirty to for-
ty cents per bushel.
ing at fifty-five
Potatoes are sell-
sixty
and cents at
present,
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Hay, as we told our farmers some
months ago, is likely {to bring good
to sell, prices will be found better later
on. We desire to keep farmers posted
as to what is likely to benefit them.
Wheat is also showing an upward ten-
dency that will take it out of tl
f the
and 60 cent pit.
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Jur streets needed looking
pretty badly, but precious few
they have been improved at all,
will as bad
“bridge building.”
show Judgment
There is a right
and a wrong way of doing things, and
some have the misfortune of taking
the wrong way all their life time.
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Agents Wanted.
Energetic agents wanted in every
town, county and state, to introd
our “Lace Curtains,”
uee
Pillow Shams,
Chenille Curtains. We offer the most
liberal terms and guarantee exclusive
Agency. Goods furnished direct from
manufacturer at lowest possible prices.
Fine assortment of Patterns and quali-
ties. Every agent accepting an Agen-
¢y from us can make an independent
living. Write for terms and particu-
lars; full information free,
Nort Brivis Lace Mines.
sepld-dm 115 Worth 8t. N. Y.
. A or
Fingers Taken Of, >
A twelve-year-old son of John Geist-
weit, of Woodward, had several fin-
gers chopped from one of his hands
last week; the accident was caused
from an axe in the hands of a com pan-
lon, whom young Geistwelt was di-
recting with his hand where to chop a
tree. The axe unfortunately fell too
soon taking two fingers from the boy's
hand,
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Met at Eagleville,
The Christian Conference of Penn-
sylvania, held its sixteenth annual ses
sion at Eagleville, this county, on last
Tuesday evening. Many able speech-
es were made. Representatives were
present from many distant places,
among whom was Ira C, Mitchell, of
Troy, N. Y., who is well known in
Centre county, and was at one time a
practicing attorney at the Centre coun-
ty bar.
AS AA
The Guest of Honor,
The Pennsylvania State Miller's As-
sociation will hold their fifteenth an-
nual convention at Shikalamy, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, Beptember
12th and 13th. Hon. Andrew G. Cur.
tin, of Bellefonte, the war Governor,
will be the guest of honor at the ban-
quet Tuesday night.
Ay I A Shs.
Will go West.
Dr. Van Valzah, of Hughesville,
formerly of Boalsburg, has broken up
housekeeping and next spring thinks
of golag to the far west to look out a
day, the balance of the time
of the town. Morrellville is a town of
on the west,
Luther Smith,
Smith, who once clerked
brother of John
for Clevan
install
He
Dinges, is selling goods for an
ment of Philadelphia.
bought a the fifth ward
$1500, front and
house
lot It
thirty-three
¥,
.
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about
into which he expects to move a
couple of months.
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At noon Saturday, 9th, the
Cleveland were
{dent and Mrs,
| happy by the birth
ter, the first birth in the white house.
Hurrah for Cleveland.
day the population of these United
it
Niates was 65,000,000, now is
655. 000.001,
It will be historic, for it is the first
ime that a child has been born
White House.
little girl is deseribed by the few
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{ president in the
have seen her as being a fine chile
weighing more than ten pounds, and
likely to be as healthy and as happy
tas her little sister,
| almost as a birthday gift, inasmuch as
Ruth will be two years old next mont}
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Fish Law.
Following are the dates for fishing:
Salmon or grilse, March 1 to August
15; speckled trout, April 15 to July 15;
under five inches in length protected;
lake trout, January 1 to October i:
{ black, yellow, rock, Lake
Erie and green and wall-eyed
willow,
bases,
to February 1; nike and pickeral, June
I to February 1; less than six
inches in length protected; German
carp, September 1. to May 1.
ally stocked streams
three years after stocking.
bass
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Do Away With Hard Times.
It is estimated that if the people
who are in debt to newspapers through-
out the United States would pay same
| indebtedness it would place an addi-
tional $37,287,748,73 in circulation, as
the editors would immediately use the
money to pay their more pressing ob-
ligations, This, then, is the way to
do away with hard times—pay the
printer what you owe him.
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On a Cheap Seale,
A Centre county farmer who went
to New York recently to look at horses
returned home with a violent admira-
tion for the great metropolis. “I got
a hall bed room for $1.50 a week and
eat on fifteen cents a day,” he explain.
ed, “I found a saloon where they gave
lots of free lunch. I went there morn-
in’, noon and night, bought a beer
each time, and eat till T nigh busted.”
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Resumed Work,
A general resumption of work oe
curred at Homestead mills last week,
some departments on single and oth-
ers on double time. The resumption
gives employment to about 2000 men
who have been idle. It is thought
that the departments on single turn
will shortly be put on full,
A sr
Will Take OF Trains,
It is semiofficially stated that the
Pennsylvania railroad company in or
der to curtail expenses will soon take
off some of its fast through trains.
SR I A SA AAR.
Died In Miles Township.
Mr. Jacob Shultz, an aged citizen of
Miles township, died last week, aged
about 78 years,
.
A. F. Harter had Orie sheep killed
t during last week.
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| by dogs one nigh
a
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and Barah Wilson, of this
| parted this life on last Saturday. The
RT wall n
j child was well as usual
j fore noon, the day previous, when
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ook sick and died the day following
of the cider mill «
The hum
Andrew
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| sign that cider is plenty in
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y
ning
i Nearly everybody is {al g abou
foing oo the granget picnic next weel
i of Altoona, are vi
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‘remain t
HEAD BLOWN Ory,
cident.
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frightful a
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{ day, by which
John Cowher, |
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a res
blown of
£3
tof I
to hit
from § ‘ £1 14 :
from an sceidental discharges
iS gun, while ascending a
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int for Muirrels
tiesar 4
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| Cowher slipped
In attem
£354
il and the charge blew of
in
his
his head, killing
| was iY
accom panied
{as we learn from
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thie (far
His
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| was Zl years,
| 9 a
4 Aaronsburg Ve, Centre Hall,
In
| tre Hall last Friday, to have a
{of ball with the Hall
There was fair batting both
1 Aaronshburg nine came to
Centre nine
£333
| The game resulted thirteen for
| Hall and eleven for
i
Aaronsburg.
Aaronshbury boys got i supper
{and then went home, jolly as if they
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had come out ahead.
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Killed by the Kiek of a Horse.
Last Friday while Charles Shontz,
was putting a horse away in his fath-
er’s stable, in Lewis township, the an-
imal kicked him the and
knocked his head against a stone wall
with such force as to fracture his skull.
Death resulted almost instantly,
Lewisburg News,
in face
Acc ————
Huatingdon Presbytery.
at Bellefonte, October 3, 1803. All the
ministers and many elders will be
present. Dr. Wm. Laurie, the effici-
ent pastor of Bellefonte's Presbyterian
church, ix doing his full share in hav-
ing all preliminarys thoroughly ar
ranged. He is ably assisted in the
work by John C. Miller.
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Oldest in the State,
The oldest man and woman in Penn-
sylvania, and probably in the United
States, according to their own figures,
are Mary McDonald, aged one hun-
dred and twenty-eight, and John Gib
son, aged one hundred and twenty.
one. They are both inmates of the
Home for Aged and Infirm colored
persons in Philadelphia.
A Monster Rattlesnake,
The biggest rattlesnake Killed in
this state this summer was slaughter
ed on the mountain near Tyrone, a
few days ago. It was seven feet, nine
inches long and was armed with twen-
ty-cight rattles. Such a large snake
could only be found in the vicinity of
Tyrone.
Death of Mrs, Kinsloe,
Mrs. J. B. G. Kinsloe, wife of the
editor and publisher of the Clinton
Repubiioan, Sued at hee lose In Rook
Haven, on Sat vening of last
| proschable fro
| the road has bee
plaints of t
singe of
On every nue,
autiful as
HE bleak
and it too, will have its charms,
{and our a
Ww Hhe
{ flower garden.
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Growing iirighier.
It is becoming more and
dent that the financial and
situation is
iday. Tix
{ and the black clouds are rapidly break-
growing
bens
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worst
{ing away. The mills in various parts
| of the country are resuming work, and
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{ the great army of idle men and wo-
| men is Ix ing mustered out on service.
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Better Prospect,
Wheat is beginsing to advance in
price, and has gone up some four or
five cents within two weeks. This is
cheering news for our farmers, and
along with the revival of business in
all sections, the people in general will
feel glad over a better prospect ahead.
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Banks Saspended
Since January 1, 145 national banks
have suspended. Of this number one
has gone into voluntary liquidation,
57 have been placed in the hands of
receivers, 52 in the hands of national
bank examiners with excellent pros.
pects of early resumption, and 34 have
already resumed business,
AM SS
synod Meets,
The central synod of the Lutheran
church will meet in the Lutheran
church at Bellefonte, on Wednesday,
the 27th inst, to remain in session
several days. It will attract to Belle-
fonte several hundred clérieal and Jay
delegates,
A i ASM SA SRA IOS
Now Stamps.
Postmaster General Bissel Is eredit-
ed as saying that at the expiration of
this year an entirely new set of pos
tage stamps will be issued. The size
will be the same as those issued in
1872, and one of the denominations
will bear the portrait of James G.
Blaine.
Invitations Tesued.
Invitation cards are out announcing |
the marriage of Mr. William MeCor-
mick, formerly of near this place, but
now of Tyrone, to Miss Jennie Spran-
kle, of Tyrone, on Tuesday, September
19th, ; i | i .
lection, good wishes and prayers of
this entire charge.
wesolved, thal a copy of
these reso-
ions be spread at large upon the
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records of this charge, and that a copy
t presented by the church
W. E. Fisher and
a copy thereof also be
and church
thereof be
county
papers.
M. L. RisugL,
J. P. HECKMAN,
Waaxser,
NITROHMEIER,
. MUssER,
Committee,
unsani-
ir sale by
, Centre Hall, at
bushels were sown
were
Lt. Ist. 1863.
pty
seed Wheat for Sale.
f.
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I'he
NE Lt nd
sMichae]
hy
w Rudy wheat,
Burkhol
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$1.00 per bushel.
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i pear seven acres, yielding 200 bush-
els of fi w heat, threshing 8 bushels
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heaves, Order soon.
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Smallest on Record
The Punxs itawnes News says: A
very small baby was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Davis Wachob, of Battle Hollow,
I'he
and a half and its moth-
er could slip her finger ring over the
up the arm to its
it is probably the smallest
baby on record.
Ai
a few weeks ago, baby weighed
only a pound
baby’s hand and
shoulder,
At present accounts
i¢
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was doing finely.
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Great Cash Sale.
Cash of Stiff Hats—
brown, light brown, tans and blacks
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Gireat Sale
r men and boys,
$1.50 Hats,
$2.00 Hats,
now $1.00
now $1.50
£3.00 Hats, now $2.00
MoxrTeoMERY & Co.
Bellefonte.
$2.50 and
GRAIN
MARKET.
Whoal.
Rye
LA nverinin vesrne
Cals Dew
Bariev —— BA a
BUCK WBORE .ooneuncorncins snsnososss ROA
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A New Line of choice
— - = Patterns,
of Ish Lawns, Challis, Ging-
hams, etc.
Straw seats, ham-
mocks.
Ol)
Fora dozen of Palm
Fans.
Od
for a pair of very neat
Lace Curtains,
Oe
For a nice brass trim
walnut Curtain Pole.
10C.
Ody
for a fair Gingham for
SC.
Aprons.
Ooonity
fora lar 10c. bottle
5¢. of Mucilage.
(my
for a spool of Coat's
4+ Cotton, the best in the
world. Others offer inferior
thread for the money.
C. for a cake offine quali
10C.
50C.
Interment