THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS, June 28, THE RACKET No. 9 Crider's Exchange, “We kinder think its comin’; There's a softness in the breeze; An’ the green is almost peepin’ From the winter weathered trees.’ and | to for the advent of Spring, we now extend a hearty inv itation all both great and small to visit RE ranES S10 Y FE Departme nt.— Ladies of taste are delighted with the new idea. Ask to C Diamond Crepe, the latest all wool novelty in Blac k and all fash- ionable shades. The French Print- ed Flaunels in this department are of unusual beauty and U will find nothing like 'em in Centre Co. “The Racket” leader among Kom and C. is today easily, the Bellefonte's stores. R. BSPIGELMYER, SHEM SPIGELMYER, Jr. Bellefonte, Pa. PERSONAL. — David Foreman is off on among friends in Butler co. —FEd. Allison, of Potlers was a prominent visitor in Hall on Tuesday. —Miss Blanche Bellefonte, visited at the K. Geiss, over Sunday. —Miss Katherine Musser, Aaronsburg’s fair young ladies, the guest of Miss Grace Smith on Tues- day. Mills, Cronemiller, home of D. one has been in the town for a day or so, making arrangements for his sale vehicles, Mrs. John Mullen and children, | of Renova, Pa., have been visiting | of Centre Hall, on a short visit among friends in —{(ieorge Bushman caught a 14 inch trout the other day; he walks | right up head now, and not much danger of anyone trapping him. — Miss Lila Harper, who has been | spending some time with the family of Mr. J. C. Boal, returned to her home in Tyrone Saturday last. we. L. Goodhart, of Millheim, | was in town Wednesday morning. He | is an enthusiastic bicyclist and uses a wheel entirely in getting about the country. — Rev, Alkens, of Pinegrove Mills, gave our sanctum a call on Monday. He preached in several of the Luther- an churches of this charge on Sabbath last, and delivered an able discourse in the evening, in the church here, toa well-filled house. Wm. L. Kurtz, of Berlin, Som- erset county, accompanied by his fam- ily, is visiting his parents here. He reports the June frosts having done great harm out in Somerset; much of the wheat was frozen, causing the heads to be like cheat, and farmers have cut the wheat in many fields to make hay out of if; potatoes were also scorched; grapes, apples and other fruit have also suffered greatly. 4th of July—No Paper, No paper next week, in order to give all hands a chance to put in the Fourth of July patriotically, enthusiastically, gloriously and greatfully, This is the glorious week when all papers skip one issue for the good of the country, and they constitute the country. Your kind indulgence is asked, reader ~—please, Sadden Desth. On Friday, 20th, Mrs. Anna Flor ence Boob, wife of C. E. Boob, died very suddenly near Loganton, of heart disease. She was the daughter of Thomas M. and Abbey Brungard, and was 24 years, 8 months and 4 days old. Panther at Large. A panther is believed to be lurking in Mifflin county woods, not far from Biglerville, the mutilated body of a young steer having been found on the mountain. Bargains in Clothing, New suits made to order, $15 to Somery', Betletonta. © CHILD PLAYS WITH A BLACKSNAKE, A Foar-Year- Old Tot on Friendly Terms With a Serpent, On Friday last a little four-year-old | son of Will Nefl, on Church street, i while out in the yard came across a The the snake, bending have a good at the seemingly delighted. The look The little fellow presently called to his mother to come what a Mrs. Net! child's calls at nothing re- quiring her attention. The little repeated his calls, and tried to pick up the snake to show his mother, and she finally went to where he was, and standing over a between the and see the boy to | big black snake, coiled | feet of the child. The serpent’s head was | the forked tongue darting out and in. lit and raised and fréighten him away, but he was pleas- ed with the “pretty thing,” and it he stepped from it and she despatched a stick, It near five feet in length. measured En — Leg Amputated, James Coldren, of this place, employ of the company at Hastings for nearly thre years, and had a leg broken by the snapping of a chain from its holdings who cake cars are drawn from the mines, pital, The accident occurred months ago and was chronicled in the REPORTER the time. After and the sound again, sO at thie fair way to become Jim fell and again broke fracture. Since then of hospital Philipsburg. physicians found is in a critical condition. The Hall. —— reside in Centre Of Great Interest. week's issue, with in last Landmarks,” great interest all around others to look up further instances | homesteads remaining in the century and over. that hundred year list { than one would suppose, {running thus for a longer more Our article Of wns read and of same | The would come in are more common while those period are rare and noteworth | Centre county has an interesting his. { tory, and we shall give an occasional A Death of Bernard Lath, Bernard Lauth, of Howard, well- Known in business and private cir los, hav He How- inventor of ing been ill a number of weeks Was he in fortune was born in Germany, 4 years. was the manufacture thereby. He and near several patents iron and realized a aged —— Festival, The Rural Sunday School will hold | a festival at Plum Grove on next Sat. urday evening, 30th. The Farmers Mills band will furnish music for the | fee cream, cake, and all seasonable delicacies will served. Proceeds for the benefit of the Sunday All are cordially invited to occasion, be school, attend, Ws Fapensive Fan The young Americans who were prosecuted by Mr. Long for misbehav- | ago, got off with $4.20 out of pocket in the hearing before "Squire Rishell, last Saturday. dozen of them, and the evening's came pray high. sf fy Postal Notes, fan will be issued, and postmasters have been instructed that all such notes sued after that date will be void and must not be paid. All unused postal notes are to be returned to the depart- ment. A A si One Cool Place, If the summer is getting too hot for any of our readers, up in the direction of the North Pole it will be found just right to cool oft and ice free. On ac count of the cool evenings it is advisa- ble to take an extra wrap along. aim fd —— Religious Notice, Rev. J. OC. Krause, of Pottsville, Pa., will preach in the Presbyterian church at Centre Hill on July 1st, at 10.30 a. m., Spring Mills at 2.30 p. m. and Cen- tre Hall in the evening at 7.80 o'clock. Preached a Trial Sermon, Rev. A. A. Kerlin, of Alexandria, Pa., preached a trial sermon in the Lutheran church, of Milroy, last Sun- day morning. Bargains in Clothing, New suits made to order, $15 to $18, All new spring goods, at Montgoi "y's, Bellefonte, rman EASILY TAKEN, Contre Hall Pulls u Seoalp from the Pine Grove Mills Ball Team. This was different, Our redoubtable base ball nine repaired its fallen great- ness by managing to place enough scores to its credit in a game last Bat- urday wish the overgrown Pine Grove Mills boys, who came down here to dispute the honor and to recite whole pages of time-worn, weather-beaten rules, which they had carefully stud- ied the night before, At intervals when they didn't the occasion was taken for clever ama- teur playing and run-getting, and in this way the game was finally ended; otherwise they would have been play- yet. Aside from a few bad errors, talk ing both the the “buck in their playing ability, at bat and in the fleld, and which was a cross between ver" fright, under they seriously labored in game, was supplanted by dash. and stage their first nerve at the visitors points Emboldened by SUCCESS the right along, and had time betw een the smile bewitehingly at their throw at them- start they showed nets to girls and bouquets selves, HRam' Hoster- for like attachment, HRKkip' Smith and man occupied the points Hall and worked together Waterbury W were work with a Nao chang on first base made in our team which was a decided This BV improvement, always weak spot. The greatest trouble with Pine Grove Mills seemed that they mistook athletic contest for a platform which might have the debate, been on almost any subject from man’s duplicity to the ef- i i { i i i Pine Grove changed pitchers back. d forwards as if they were go- ing through a Pawnee war dance, bered like fire reduced jab. alarms, while our their flesh cavorting around the bases and piling up runs, The Grove Mil 100.1000 ee we by innings is as follows: oe pnt Changed Its Course A little came out from of the mill crossed the stream that bank on the east side at Spring Mills, and the « brine of having vibration channel the earth from a heavy up, wiginal dry. Possibly Lie of inder-ground passage of this stream, and tarned it der may have caused a cave-in an into a new course, —-— - The Coming Fourth I'he Fo n Ju out. trth of July this year ith. , hurrah, , sky rockets, lager, the fire, git Hall Col fire crackers, zwel | and Stripes, bum, iv the ? Ming, whizz shoot, Umma Stars Fiass LIGHTNING'S WORK. ed Down. During the heavy thunder barn near Madisonburg. Robert shelter under the overshot of the barn when the storm came on. two other men whose names not learn, under the overshot at same time, The bolt came down rafter. Miller was holding the The lightning killed the horse, we One of Mr. Miller's marks of severe burns arms from the Fortunately the barn was not set on fire, Another Stunner. Houseman, of Tusseyville, was at work the but missed its mark and struck an spple tree in the garden, He was somewhat as he puts it, “nearly He describes it as having been like a ball of fire. and gy Chain Workers Strike, This morning the men employed at McCoy & Linn’s chain works, just be- low the nail works, went on says Monday's Daily News, can be learned the strike oa was precipi- not so much because of the but by what the it was agreed when work was be- gun that all the old workers in considera- scale, This, he claimed, had not been done: but that most of the best work, to the finished had been given who had hardly basis of 4} hundred links cents a formant claimed that it was ble to make anything like He told of who worked two days on im possi- one but 67 cents in the two days, a The Gods Smile on Him. There isa man near Centre Yorktown, ete, am, Bunker Hill ati Fie TOOL, Jersey lightning, ete, ft rt f fF ¢ % ¢ 8 & 3 Headache, cannon July 5th shot off, edd, hors lock-up full, et black eye, arm broken nose, ran off, two squares - . oo. MiMlinbhurg Postoffice Robbed, On Monday morning at three o'clock burglars office and blew the safe. They | secured $30 in cash and some postage | The caused by the explosion aroused the neighbor open stamps, concussion hood. street signaling those in the office of danger. A few minutes later four men of town. burglars have not been captured. lito Two Stables Burned. Early Saturday morning two stables Jellefonte, one the property of Judge Furst, the other belonging to B. Maitland, were burned to A calf was burned to death along with some hay and grain, while Mr. Mait- The origin in a Nave the Stave Lining, Powdered soapstone and salt in equal an everlasting and fire proof mending for the lining of stoves; it is much less expensive and troublesome to procure and put in place than new firebricks, Don’t let fire spoil the stove because the brick needs mending. sn Ao nsousasisrnisliaon Cut His Throat. Some years ago Jacob Miller, of New Berlin, became surety to the extent of $8,000 for a man named Baum, Mil ler was recently obliged to pay the amount and it so weighed upon his mind that he destroyed his own life by cutting his throat last week. A Narrow Escape, At Punxsutawney last Saturday af- ternoon two children were swinging in a hammock under a large maple tree. They tired of this and left it just before a lightning bolt split the tree in two. «The popular Russet shoe will be in greater favor than ever this year. We have them in all styles, shapes, and shades, at prices to correspond. Mingie'a, Bellefonte, He i been sick a never had any corns or the IAs never [in his life toothache-his potatoes never rot weavil never eats his wheat never kill the frost # his corn or beans—the his wife never and he never gets the po Killed Both. i i i occured at the saw mill of Grossler & Fireman Joseph Rick- { ner, accompanied by his five-year-old | instantly killing the man and child. Bo —-— Injurious to Rabber interested re- marks that in the use of rubber tire for bicycles it must be borne in mind that no oil, varnish or grease should be allowed to touch them. Oil is an Care in this respect should be had in applying oil to bear ings, Our bicycle riders will be Mercury Up. The closing days of last week were quite hot, and a summer spell seems to have struck us, Friday and Saturday the heat was intense, the thermome- ter running over the 85 mark in the shade. Every one was hunting a cool place to escape the heat. wisi A ———————— Two Crops, The Lock Haven Express i& author- ity for the following: Michael Jobson, a Bald Eagle Valley farmer, has a pear tree which is well loaded with green fruit and is also in full bloom at pres ent for the second time this year, It is a peculiarity of this particular pear tree to blossom twice every year, iy Thaadergnsts, Thundergusts still seem to be the or der of the day-—and of night too. Hardly a day has passed without hav- ing one pass over the valley, or just on the edge, and they havn't been small affairs either, Mealthy Section, We are glad to note that the health of our community is good. Lit- tle sickness prevails and our Poya: clans are having an easy, though not profitable time of it. Ornate at Millhetm, Ira C. Mitchell, Esq, of Belltonte | is 10 bo the 4th of July orator at Mill J. 5S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder WEDDING, Rev. Samael © find Miss Sadie Kuhns Married, Stover On Thursday evening, June 14th, Rev. Bamuel C, Stover, of Cessna, Pa., {and Miss Sadie Kuhns, of Berlin, Pa., | were united in wedlock in the Reform- {ed church at Berlin. The church had been artistically decorated with potted cut ferns, The by A. { plants, flowers and ceremony was performed | R. Kremer. After the ceremony a reception was held at the at Berlin. | The brida the next day {left on a wedding trip to Atlantic { City and other points in the cust. { Rev. Btover is a native of our valley and his reside at Farmers i Mills. For several years he { in charge of the | Bedford county, Wy, Mansion house and groom parents been al has been On has church and successful in his pastoral work their return they will take Pa, A lpm smn Who is to Biame leformed Cessna, up their residence at Cessna, We have of late received several com- plaints from subscribers that they do their RerorteER regularly. fault is not with us, the regularly | not get The | is done accurately | clock work. There must be som | lessness In mailing and as ax : Care he postal service some- where, Wp Enormous Expense This summer's heavy showers have or damaged a great roads and bridges. We think 1894 will ake the lead for extraordinary ditures upon roads and bridges from bill county | destroyed many ex pen- this esuse. In some counties the {will will feel enormous. Our the effects to be own a considerable degree, dp Gelling Searcer. Fishermen from outside counties are more numerous along the of i the Paddy Mountain region, than ever The lined anglers, and it is wonder streams fore, i the {speckled beauties are getting scarce, WwW ith the in in streams are no | spite of stocking. a - Too Woody Like. Haymaking is coming on. We saw an acre of grass cut Wednesday of last i week. The hay crop will be an aver- age one. What is called the is greatly under par with our farmers, siem, big clover {it gets too much of a wood like near as good hay HE {and does not make | the little, old fashioned clover, ! a —- Mifflin Co. Democrats The of Mifflin county | have nominated the following ticket: Dr. L.. B. Banks; assembly, 1 J. F. Sartain; register and recorder, J. | R. Jenkins; sheriff, J. P. Calhoun; | jury commissioner, Samuel Walls, jr. Democrats i Congress, ey - It Is Exponsive tried in the courts at the recent term, only $6, in which the costs were $50, saying nothing of attorney Take as little medicine and as law as possible and you will find quite en-riching. Clearfield involving A suit was over foes, little it rl ania Prohibs to Nominate, The Prohibition county will be held at Bellefonte, in the court house, on Tuesday, July 24, at 10.45 a m., to put in nomination a full tem per- ance county ticket. convention ——— i ——— Resuming Again, The Pennsylvania railroad company has issued an order to rush all empty ooal and box cars to the west, which means a resumption of the coal and coke business, nese To Get in Shape. Girls who contemplate purchasing a bicycle would do well to harden their muscles in advance by running their mother's sewing machine or rocking the baby. A oS Po CAN ———— Dag a Well, Jacob Lee and Alfred Krape have Just finished a well for Mr. Lutz, near Zion, 132 feet in depth, and striking sufficient water, The Fun Begins. Next week our farmers will be in the midst of hay making, providing rains do not interfere, Some grass has been mowed this week already, but it is too showery for making good hey. is pp A © RKaghtly Touched. ‘It Is noteworthy that Potters Mills and the south side of the Walley did not have near as many rains as we on the north side. Wor Sale. A SHORT CROV, A General Scarcity of Hay Will Result the Valley. in Much alarm is being felt by scarcity many of the hay erop, which is not promising and The heavy snow and all the spring, which did much to injure the yield. On most of our farmers from a up to the average. ed to this wax the unpropitious Cause assigt- late weather during farms the yield will scarce- tit plenty be one-fourth wh Wits tie of enough ly ago and there will be year farm- to feed of the hay. able we are ers who will not have their stock, and greater part of the stock, ist dispose or buy Baling hay has been a consider source of revenue Lo many, but ittie will be thin informed that very | The reached ship- ped. and hes Kriss is vi ry usial ill find only about one-half its height, and what is harvested w a ready sale. Ea. ad CAN YOU AFFORD before posted on We most erit- The Bivens 'o buy your clothing horoughly prices, inspection of the are t styles and the ical, 5 (il invite Allour goods are the Very the and o atest production of lead- ing manufacturers, prices the lowest. MoxraomMenry & Co. Clothing, : PA. dellefont — strawberries Arve leneficial Eat all They Lo say an exehange: strawberries you ean, are excellent medicine, nothing Do money their nutritive qualities with meat and spend the berries while they last : splendid complexion purifier ntities and some celebra taken what beneficial baths in crushed They eaten in qua ed beauties they be- vied to Ix lie anal : 1» » ’ f ani strawberries make a good acid wash for the face and a fine dentifrice for the teeth. - » - Cansed by the Strike, The Pennsylvania railroad that its coal and « far has compared with 877 corresponding of 3,945.74 tons wer oval, id 1,151,478 ton crease of 1,213,524 tons reports the Lons, the 13, a decrease { 4 3 = ke tonnage for year thus : in I riod of 1 tons, 3am 1G de- i le Ceasd tons, a py - Everything in the shoe line ean at Mingles, be bus ahd all panic » had Bellefonte. Large price 8 100, GRAIN MARKET, Whest Kye Carn {wis PER § Barioy Buck « hos w PRODUCE AT STORES, Batter Faye Lard Shoulders Ham Tallow Pola lines Rides Your Husband’s Dollar.” An increase in the purchasing power of your husband's dollar is worthy of consideration, wndiS’L iL? It’s worth while reading what we have to say when by so doing you save your husband's dollar. wenyisn’t it? Commencement Furnishings, DRESSES, FANS, GLOVES, LACES, HOSIERY, RIB- BONS. 'HAND- KERCHIEFS, &c. ed by GARMAN'S. Ag ¥ UIAENSE LIN Hats STORE...
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