THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS. July 20. i —————————— A — ——— ru rine THE RACKET No. 9 Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte. Leader in Dry Goods. Leader in Notions. Leader in Novelties. Leader in Shoes, Leader in Everything. Our Specialties... Botany Dress Goods Department. Vantine Department. Oak Cemical Department. Butterick Pattern and Publication Department. “New Idea” Pattern Department. Hounsekeeper's Department. Whiting Stationary Department. Hall's Legal Blank Department. Rogers’ Silverware Department. They say, “The Racket” is up to date. What do U say? : G. R. SPIGELMYER, SHEM SPIGELMYER, Jr. i Bellefonte, Pa. | PERSONAL. —Nquire J. C. Boal transacted bus- ness in Bellefonte on Monday. i —Mrs. Dr. J. W. Ward, of Belle | fonte, visited her mother, Mrs, Stiver, | last week. i Henry Rossman, the undertaker | at Tusseyville, was in town on Mon- day. i Mrs. Linnie Ruble, of State Col- | lege, visited D. B. Brisbin’s family last week. i Mr. William Jacobs, of Shingle | town, is on a visit to his son, Dr. W. | A. Jacobs. Candidate for Jury Commission- er, John D. Decker, was in town Mon- | day morning. —Sumner Hosterman on Monday at Dr. Wolf's Spring Mills. — Mrs. Vance MeCormick, of Mon- tandon, with her children, arrived on Monday evening. Rev. Baskerville returned home last week, after an absence of about five weeks in Iowa. ——Miss Bowers, of Bellefonte, visit- | ited her friend, Miss Jennie Odenkirk | several days last week. ~——Mr. L. Van Pelt and grand- | daughter, Miss Speed, of Ithica, N. Y. | and visiting at E. G. Van Pelt’s, — Mr. John Ross, of Petersburg, | gaveusa call. He tells us the hay | crop over there is not as good as here. | ~—Dr., Shady Harter, of Millheim’s | representative citizens, was a promi- | nent visitor in Centre Hall on Tues- | day. — Miller Goodhart and Misses Lot. | tie Ross and Mary Goodhart spent | Sunday with friends over at Hublers- | burg. : ——Frank Lukenbach, of Philips- | burg, and Miss Kate Bullock, of Belle | fonte, spent Monday with friends in Centre Hall i —— Miss Maggie Gilliland, daughter | of Mr. Joseph Gilliland, of New Bloom- | field, Pa., is visiting among friends in | this vicinity. : —Harry Camp, of Milroy, one of our former boys, circulated around here among old friends several days of last week. . . we Witmer Smith eame up from | Williamsport last Friday, and spent several days with his parents, return- ing on Tuesday. ~Mrs. Prof. H. F. Bitner and children, of Millersville, Pa., arrived last week for a visit with Mrs. Bitner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Murray. —eHatry Yearick and family, of Philadelphia, have been visiting in the valley the past several weeks and last week were the guests of his sister, Mrs. W. B. Mingle. wendy Reesman took a sudden departure for Plainfield, Ill, to join his family. It is said he has some in- tention of removing to Illinois and go into business there, but none hope it shall be sq. { started in school at i J, Whit. McCormick was in th vicinity looking up old friends this and last week. He is now located at Charleston, South Carolina, in an ex- tensive undertaking establishment, and holdss good position. He will return again on Aug. 1. He says he likes the south, and has become accli- mated. eur nominee for Assembly, Rob- ert Foster was around last week seeing friends, and to become acquainted. hopeful of his election, and him there was no fail in that. SAMUEL J. HERRING, Death of that Useful Citizen ou Tuesday af- ter a Long Tllaess, The readers of the REPorTER will regret to learn of the deathof Mr. Sam- uel J. Herring, one of the most estima- ble citizens of Gregg township, and favorably known all over the county, Mr, Herring died on Tuesday last, at his home at Penn Hall, after an ill- ness of several weeks. He showed signs of failing health for over a year. Mr. Herring was a graduate of Penn- sylvania College, and a gentleman of large intelligence, quick and sound Judgment, and of the strictest honesty and integrity. He was a consistent member of the Lutheran church all his life-time, and a Christian in every sense of the word. As a citizen and neighbor he wag eminently useful and all that a community could desire, He never swerved from what he deemed was the right. Mr Herring for over a quarter of a century was a justice of the peace; in the discharge of the duties of that po- sition he was ever impartial and fair, law gave his decisions accuracy. For most useful members of the Board of Directors of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Centre county, and has been its vice president for many years, A good and useful parted. citizen has All who knew him respected That community will deeply feel their loss, His funeral will take place on this, Thursday morning, from his late resi- dence. Heckman cemetery. His age was It may be worthy of note in this that the grand. father of the deceased filled the office the office uninterruptedly for about thirty-five years, and the position was Ws py A Great Farmers Meeting There will open at Williams' Grove, county, Pa., thirteen miles southwest of Harrisburg, August 27th, the largest agricultural exhibi- Atlantic The exhibits alone will cover Three meet- States, Auditorium, which will be addressed by speakers of national reputation. ance if official duties will permit. The of the There will farmers country on this occasion. to meet the practical entertainments every evening during the week. All who can should attend this great exhibition. For full infor- mation relative to exhibit space, cot- tages and tents, write RB. H. Thomas, general manager, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Excursions over all railroads, one fare the round trip. ssc A Ml May Get Into Trouble. Citizens of Tyrone are displeased with the doings of the boro council. They are spending money uselessly on Jobs and for the benefit of some of the members of council. There is talk now, we learn from the papers, of hav- ing an injunction served to stop pay- ment of such jobs. Tyrone is not alone in having councilmen who are getting up jobs to benefit themselves by spend- ing money on illegal work. Violation of oath seems to bea small matter with some officials, nce ———— Fire at MifMlinburg, Mr. M. L. Stunk, of MiMinburg, will never again try the experiment of destroying chicken lice with fire. The burning process was tried on Wednes- day of last week, with the result of a consumed hen house, wagon shed, ete, The barn, containing this year's crops, was on fire several times but was saved by the heroic efforts of the bucket bri- gade. Fully insured, Will Get » Call, Lutheran charge are likely to extend a call to Rev. Rearick, of Rebersburg, to become their pastor. The reverend gentleman preached sermons in most of these churches, which favorably im- pressed the members, and there seems be a general desire to have him Now Township, The commission appointed to form a new township from parts of Boggs and Bnow Bhoe townships met for that purpose last Monday. It is com- posed of Messrs. Jesse Cleaver, John Hoy, Jr., and John Holmes, Opens for Basiness, The Newton Hamilton cnump-meet ing will begin on August 14th and con- tinue until the 24th. ~The Sea Shore Excursion via P.JR. R. August 1st, promises to be very A PARK IN TOWN: Centre Hall to Have a Convenient and Beautiful Resort, The beautiful woods in the lower part of town, is to be turned into a reg- ular park, as we are informed by Mr. Isaac Smith, : The park will be fitted up with a view to leasing to picnic parties, or- ganization encampments, and the like. Mr. Smith is about to erect a neat fence on the front facing Main Street. The entrance will be provided with a suitable gateway, arched and lettered in bold characters, ‘Witmer Park,” in honor of Henry Witmer, one of the pioneers of the town, and the former owner of the woods, { The inside will be provided with | seats, needed booths, kitchen shed, | and other necessary conveniences, for | picnic and camping parties. | The woods cover probably six or | eight acres, with trees of fine foliage { and shade, A pleasanter and more in- { viting spot can not be found in the | county for such as seek summer pleas- {ure in that kind of an outing. | i EE i BIG PICNIC. i ——— The P. 0.5 of A, of the District to Plenle at | Centre Hall, | We are informed by Mr. Isaac Bmith | owner of the woods at the lower end { of town, that the Patriotic Order Bons of America, of the district, composed | of all lodges of the order in Centre i county, have made araangements with | him to hold their next annual picnic { in the beautiful grove in this place, on | Friday, Aug. 10, The order will have a restaurant on ithe grounds for meals and refresh- | ments. Bands, a big parade of the or- | der, speaking, and other attractions willbe on the program. The day promises to be a big one, and many | people are ex pected. & \ The Centre Hall young folks who | were encamped on top of Nittany | mountain last week, broke up “house- | keeping’ on Saturday, after spending Ay Broke Up. | 8 week pleasantly 500 feet higher than jour village. They had a pleasant | time, plenty of good things to eat, lots i of welcome visitors from different sec- | tions, and an occasional serenade from | mosquitoes, who left marks of having | been there, The young people seemed {to enjoy the outing and there was nothing to mar the pleasures of the i week's stay within sight of the {town. A week can be put in thus | with more real pleasure than st the | sea shore, and with far less expense. —— — Want Water Works, | MiMlinburg is just at present in the {throes of despond over the action of three of their moss-back councilmen voting against a system of water works, { although petitions with about two- | thirds the tax-payers in the borough | wanted it. The water question will | be the issue at their next municipal | election when three councilmen will | wonder what struck them. The town absolutely depends on wells and cis- | terns, and wants to get in line with towns of even smaller size, but their all-knowing councilmen prevent them from advancing. i i i } arses fan What it Cost the State, Warrants were issued from the adju- tant general's department on Thursday to pay the troops for their trip to | Punxsutawney. ‘The aggregate sum is | $25,563.57. This is what it cost the state to quell the disturbance at that one point. Strikes always make a big hole in the public funds, and never add to the funds of the strikers. slit sia Not a Suceess, The return postal card, that is, the double one with the prepared attach- ment for the answer, is a failure, as the postoffice authorities predicted that it would be, and although only 2,000,000 of them were printed sever- al years ago, the demand has been so small that the greater part still re. mains on hand. At residence of Mr. William Lee, at Tusseyville, on last Sunday, Rev. C. H. Goodling, of the Evangelical church, united in marriage Mr. Chas C. Gettig, of Linden Hall, and Miss Lillian V. Fleisher, of Tusseyville's fair young ladies. EMA ———— Prices. Hay is selling at $8 per ton. Wheat at 55 cents per bushel, rye at 50 cents; these prices for new crop. Old wheat is worth 60 cents. Oats is likely to be a fair price, as the crop will be under the average, Changed the Name, A gentleman fond of company built himself a country residence, and nam- ed it Come-and-see-me. This brought him callers plenty as snow flakes, and he changed the name to Not-at-home, ~Lewins, Bellefonte, has the most experienced cutter in these parts and at his establishment you can be suited in a manner befitting a prince,and at a reasonable price. ~The excursion to the Sea Shore via Penna. R. R. TWO YEARLING TROUT, The Time ittakes for # Trout to Reach a Good Size, The time for a trout to become full- grown, is put down by professors of fishology, at three years, and the length from ten to twelve inches, Trout that grow to fifteen inches and longer, would reach the latter size in about five years, Two years ago Jacob Shearer, the farmer near this place, put a can of trout fry into his spring and run form- ed by it. These trout, Mr. Shearer in- forms us, are now from six to seven inches in length, and in our opinion they will be ten Inches in ancther year. Mr. Bhearer says that muskrats commit havoc with the trout, and that another annoyance from the same pest is the holes they dig in the banks of his ponds, let the water out, and leave it too low for the good of the fish, Bo the muskrats are the only drawback he finds in raising trout. et ——————— Mountain Fires. Last week's hot weather caused con- siderable uneasiness to the people of Muadisonburg and farmers in that vi- cinity on account of the mountain fires. The mountains in that section were burning flercely, and everything being parched, farmers watched their fields lest a spark set the dry grass and grain stubble on fire and destroy their Crops, The people of Madisonburg turned out largely to fight the fire from the mountain which was nearing their village. Through their watchfulness the fire was kept from the houses, pe————— A Fall House. Daring the past six months the county jail has been filled with board- ers, says the Daily News. There has been an average of about sixteen in- mates during that time. This is an unusual record and Sheriff Condo says it keeps them busy cooking for such a large list. During Sheriff Ishler's term there were very few prisoners in the jail at any time and often only one or two. It looks as though criminals were getting plentier in Centre county or else the officials were becoming more vigilant. steed mi —— Dunnstown Centennial, One hundred years ago Dunnstown, Clinton county, Pa., was laid out. To commemorate the founding of the town and to honor the memory of its founder, William Dunn, a Centennial celebration will be held in the village Wednesday afternoon, September 6th, 154. T. C. Hipple, Esq., a leading member of the Clinton county bar, will deliver the Centennial address at 2.50 p. m. All who take pride and in- terest in the development of the coun- try are invited to participate in the celebration, Dry Weather From Mifflin county and all parts of the state, up to last week, something like the following wail went up: The dry weather still continues, causing the oats to ripen very fast. The pota- toes are suffering. The corn leaves all roll up during the day and pasture is very short, and yet if main comes in a week it will still save the corn, but the potatoes are in a sad plight most everywhere in the valley. AM lM Inklings. Bince we found his pipe, Puff can puff again. The weather was hot-ten-tot as well as hot-an<dry. To keep cool, get into ‘the refrigera- tor, or camp on an ice-berg. You sleep with a cleaner conscience if you subseribe for your own paper and pay for it, instead of borrowing your neighbor's. Try it. th Drew Them too Fast, John Rourke, a former supervisor of Carbon township, Huntingdon coun- ty, was arrested on Friday last and placed in jail on the charge of issuing bogus orders amounting to $160 on the township. He sold the orders to John Mulvahill, who in turn sold them to Philip Brown, of Huntingdon. At Last. The electric railway in Philipsburg and adjoining towns is now a settled fact. The money has all been raised and it has been decided to put the power house at Philipsburg. The res- idents over the mountain are conse quently rejoicing, . Just Got Out, There Is a man in SBayder county who is forty-five years of age and was never in a church till Sunday, June 28. Perhaps it is not the man's fault, Perhaps there were no churches in Snyder county heretofore. Greatly Improved, B. Richard is im his resi. dence down street, and it is neat and cory enough looking for a prince. Fine taste is seen all around the premises, 7 ~The low rates offered by the P. R. R., for a Seashore Excursion August et ar © eer as it may ° ~The low rate offered by the Penna. Baking GRAND BAND TOURNAMENT. A Movement to Form an Organization in this Section, The Bellefonte band is making prep- arations to hold a Grand Band Tour- nament and contest in Heels Park, on the line of the Central Railroad of Penna., Thursday, Aug. 30th, 1864. The first date announced was Beptem- ber 6th, but as that conflicts with a re- union of the Knights of the Golden Eagles, at Altoona, the time is chang- ed to Aug. 30th. The Tournament will include annu- al Tournament; after that the grand contest. There will be three pieces for the contest; 1 Overture, 1 march, 1 selection, all the bands having the same pieces. The method of deciding the contest will be perfectly fair; the judges decide by number, not seeing the bands at all. After the contest there will be dancing and a social good time the balance of the evening. Din- ner, supper, and all kinds of refresh- ments will be on the ground at reason- able rates, Don’t forget the date. For farther particulars address Wa. T. MEYER, Musical Director Bellefonte Band, Wo A A Spirited Rivalry. Bellefonte now has the choice of sev- eral resorts out of the town where pic- nics, ete., can be held, They have for several years favored Hunters Park, along the Buffalo Run R. R. with their patronage, but since the Central R. R. of Pa., has been started, parks have been fixed up both at Hecla and Clin- tondale. The opening of the last men- tioned has caused the two companies to hustle after patronage and a cheap rate can soon be expected. Agents were in Centre Hall last week trying to induce Sunday schools in this place to picnic at Hunters Park, but owing | to its distance from here it is not like ly any school will take a day off and go up there, A What Halrpins are Good for A naughty exchange says there is scarcely anything a woman cannot do with a hairpin. They use it to pick their teeth, button shoes, clean finger nails, punch bed bugs out of cracks, fasten up stray bangs, clean out their husband’s pipe, their head, pick their toe nails, run it into cakes to see if they are done, and about a million other things that the poor de- luded men know nothing at all about. scratch A Sunecessful Institution. A catalogue of the Bunker Hill, TIL, Military Academy, for 1864, is upon our table. Rev. B. L. Stiver, A. M., a native of this valley, is the proprietor and superintendent. The catalogue is illustrated and its pages show a suc- cessful institution as we are pleased to note, Cooler Weather Last week's scorching heat ended with the close of the week, and since Saturday we had quite cool weather, Light rains set in before the close of last week which refreshed vegetation somewhat and opened the shriveled corn leaves. Monday afternoon it be- gan to rain which became quite brisk before night. Crops Short. Northumberland county and Buffa- lo valley in Union county report crops short. Along the river districts the flood washed out the fields, and in the higher districts the drought caused in- Jury to crops. A A ——————— Farmers Pleased, Our farmers are pleased this year— they had the finest kind of weather for haymaking and harvest, not a sprinkle to interfere with the work or dampen the crop, and, besides, both crops are good, Grangers Picnle, The annual Grangers picnic at Cen tre Hall will be held this year in Grange Park beginning on Monday, September 17th and continue until the 220d, through the week. Must be Paid. The supreme court last week decided that borough and township auditors Denths, On the 14th inst, after a brief ness with typhoid fever, Miss Bertie May, daughter of Wilson and Mary M, Haines, of near Asronsburg, aged 14 Years, 10 months and 22 days. Remains were interred at Wolfe's Chapel. Mr. Augustus Montgomery died at his home near Howard on Tuesday, at the advanced age of 67 Years, Mrs. John Strunk died at her home below Howard on Tuesday, of daropsy. She leaves a husband and seven chil dren. Ephriam Morrison, of Reedsville, died at his home in that place Tues day evening from something like rheu- matism, he having been unwel for some time. cme——— Pay Your Subseription A newspaper in Illinois recently brought suit against forty-three men who would not their subscrip- tions, and obtained judgment in each case for the amount of each claim. Of these twenty-eight made affidavit that they owned no more than the law al- lowed them, thus preventing attach- ments. Then under the decision of the supreme court they were arrested for petit larceny, and the sum of $300 each. All but six gave the bonds. The postal laws make it petit larceny to take a paper and refuse to pay for it. pay bound over in Wp Short Items Tic ter last the shade in this town Berries were scarce in huckleberries, berries did not Bellefonte is paying 55 cents for new wheat and 50 for rye The steam thresher is on road, and keeps up a racket threshing crops. Friday was 97 in this valley blackberries and rasp- come to half a crop. the — Boarned by the Strikers, Another tipple was burned on Fri- day night by striking miners near Os- ceola, and the homes of miners who went to work, bombarded with stones by the strikers who would not return to work. The ringleader and { the rioters were arrested by the sheriff, and taken to the Clearfield Jail, where they will find that their re- ward will be fine and imprisonment. were eighteen o ot asec -Everything in the Shoe line can be had at Mingles, Bellefonte, stock, abd all panic prices, too. A postal card to the Registrar, will bring the 120 page year book, showing the five departments—College, Acade- my, Ladies’ Institute, Music School and Art Department, and cuts of the ten buildings of Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa. Next year begins September 13, 1864, Large GRAIN MARKET, Wheat n— — OPE cnn sninnscnisrinn UME BIOW ovossons sissies ssssnsssnsnsssmsnsasmssss su ininmms BREIBY .ovnvoinsisinmnsiiemissiins Book wheti.. iis PRODUCE AT STORES, Buller, —— Shoulders Your Husband's Dollar.” An increase in the purchasing power of your husband's dollar is worthy of consideration, weeediSN’t it? It's worth while to say when by so your husband's dollar. weengisn’t it? what we have you save Commencement Furnishings, DRESSES, FANS, GLOVES, LACES, HOSIERY, RIB- BONS. HAND- KERCHIEFS, &c. Witt ed by GARMAN'S, J
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