THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE HALL, PA,, THURS. April 4 THE RACKET No. 9 Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte, We Open This Week New Spring importations of Kaika, DEATH OF MRS, MICHAEL STROHM, | Stricken With Paralysis Friday Evening and Died Soon After, | The death of Mrs. Strohm, wife of | Mr. Michael Strohm, postmaster at { Centre Hill, occurred last Friday night: from a stroke of paralysis, at the age | of sixty-nine years. | On the Wednesday previous Mrs, | Strohm had a slight stroke of paraly- sis, which confined her to her bed for | a day, but she soon recovered and was | apparently in good health again. Fri- | LARGELY ATTENDED. The Funeral of the Late Squire Boal on Saturday. of Bquire Boal, who died last Wednes- day afternoon, were held last Batur- day morning at ten o'clock. Services were held at the dence, and Rev. Henney, of the Pres- byterian church at State College, offi- ciated. The funeral was largely at- tended, many being present from a distance. and Dresses. It Pays to Buy at The Racket, + . We Open This Week A line of Black Dress Goods, that for beauty, quality and price stand unequaled. If U need a good black dress, it will both please and pay U to Kom and C. We Open This Week A large assortment of fine Dress of three of our best Dressmakers that no such “dress fixins"’ were ev- er offered tothe trade in Bellefonte. G. R. SPIGELMYER, SHEM SPIGELMYER, Jr. Bellefonte, Pa. MINUTE, PLEASE ! (amen (} This Letter Will Interest You ! READ IT. ONE Our aim has been, is, and shall be, to ast with the Jtimes, watch our juterests and wants, and fat auy time we can give youspecial inducements we will cheerfully do so. The coupon we had through February last, did lots of good 68 well as us Now we have somes thing else. keep abre pair Bamboo Furniture Given Away You can have your choice of either a book shelf, umbrella stand, music stand, centre stand, or a fire screen, by dealing with us to the amount of $25.00. The fur- niture is the most novel, most beautiful, and newest thing in the market, all fin ished in natural wood. We are not going into the furniture bus iness but are giving yous premium that is both new and dorsble. It must be seen to be appreciated You are therefore most cordially ed to our store room on High street, premium preseuts.” Yours Mest Respect'ully, W.T. MEYER, Bush Arcade. Two doors from postoffice fovit and examine our * Special. It is seldom that the trade that seeks Bellefonte markets has the advantage of such a mark down sale as Lyon & Co. are advertising in another column on this page. It will pay you to look it up. ——- PERSONAL. 1 sherifl Spangler. —Jonathan Harter, of Millheim, attended the horse sale on Tuesday. -Henry Rossman, of Tusseyville, was in town on Saturday. -.Jo. M. Huyett, the lumberman, has been housed up the last week from some ailment. —Mr. A. Fauble, the | ralysis. Medical attendance once summoned, but it was of no avail | and she died about two hours later. | She never regained consciousness, | | Mrs. Strohm was the mother of five | { children, two daughters and three) sons, of whom two sons are dead.| | Those surviving her are Mrs. William | | Kerr, of Centre Hill; County Commis- | sioner James B. Strohm, and Mrs. | Walter Bayard, of Pittsburg. | Mrs. Strohm was the daughter of | | Bernard Wagner, deceased, and was] was i ily. had next, | ried almost fifty years, and {survived until November the | den wedding. Mrs. Strohm was a life-long Chris- church. The funeral took place on | Tuesday morning from her late resi- the the { Illingworth officiated at in BOTrViIces. | Interrment was made Spruce- | town cemetery. | slyly Newspaper Plant Parchased, The plant of the | nal” was purchased last week by Wm. { L. Kurtz, of Somerset county, and for- | merly of Centre Hall, where he receiv- | ed his journalistic training under his | father in the REPORTER He graduated with honors | University, and being a ready and for | eible writer the “Journal’’ will be a | credit to Lewisburg under its new man- | agement and improved mechanically, {and in its general make-up. Mr. Kurtz | will take charge of the paper about the { first of May. “Lewisburg Jour- office. at —— Business Brightening at Bellefonte A dispatch from Bellefonte says bus- | iness bright for this | year. Jenkins & Lingle, founders and | machinists, report more orders than at {any time for two years and will be- i gin to run on full time this week. The { Valentine Iron Company, having near- prospects are {ly completed their repairs, will start running full blast soon. Certainly cheering, this, and the in- telligence comes the same from all sec- of the of last i tions falsity howl. country, indicating the campaign's calamity Wp Assignment at Tyrone. The firm of Wilson & Isenberg, deal- ers in general merchandise ! made an Camant. The firm is in that town. The i bilities are unknown. Mr. Wilson, of this firm, was former ly of Spring Mills, and we are sorry to in Tyrone, to And. H. M¢'- of the larg- assignment One est and lia- assela know learn of his misfortune, as we him to be strictly honest and that he | will not willfully wrong any one out of a dollar. BEE TP snow on Roads, i In parts of Potter township the pub- lie roads are still impassible from the drifted snow of the recent blizzard. on Tuesday. —, K was in town the other day on a busi- ness trip. —Mr. W. P. Breon, of Spring Mills, is now tenant on the Krape farm east of Centre Hall. days ago and is having a serious attack of pnzumonia. weJas, Durst, after a long and dan- to note is able to come to town again, Wagner Geiss has finished teach- ship and is home for the present. $8, F. Bmith has quit farming in Haines twp ; he gave us a call and says is about to move to Dakota, Illinois, where we wish him success, eA. F. Heckman, of Sober, gave us a pleasant eall. He has moved to Tusseyville on the farm of his father- in-law Frank Hosterman, Mr. George B. Orlady, the lead- ing member of the Huntingdon coun- ty bar, attended the funeral of his un- ele James C. Boal on Saturday. we Mr. George B. Crawford, deputy sheriff under sheriff Ishler, visited his old friends at Spring Mills last week. He is now loeated in Altoona, and we are of the impression that a little sua- sion will induce him to become a Cen- tre countian again, wie Ao Lae Little, Esq., arrived Sat. urday to attend the funeral of the late J. C. Boal. Mr. Little is at present practicing law at Bedford, Pa., and has built up a lucrative practice, Sev- eral years ago he had charge of our schools for two years. He left on Monday morning. | Although we have had fairly warm | weather, big drifts still remain, and are apparently good for several weeks yet. Where the are open big snow drifts along side the road melt- ing keeps the road muddy. roads slp sisi Attention Needed. Some of the walks need looking af- ter ; and, by the way, what has become | of the council's red-hot flurry last sum- | mer to change 4 foot to 5 foot walks? i One citizen complains he was ordered didn’t ; is this justice? Sudden Death at Lewisburg. Dr. H. C. Derr, one of the oldest den- tists in Lewisburg and surrounding country, was found dead on the floor of his house on the morning of the 28 ult. At the inquest the verdict of the Jury was that he died of heart disease, He was 50 years of age. The Pablie Schools, Director Hosterman informs us our public schools will close in a few weeks with an entertainment. Our schools have been satisfactorily conducted and will be able to give themselves a good send-off at the entertainment, a AIM Deserve the Credit. The Christian Endeavor Society of this place is still flourishing-—for which the ladies are mainly to be credited. sms we —— ~e Our spring stock of clothing is now in and a more complete assort- ment cannot be found in any store. Clothing never was so cheap and you DD. Mur- ray, William Wolf, B. D. Brisbin and Col. Andrew Gregg. The remains were interred in the cemetery at this place, The family desire to return thanks to those who kindly tendered their services during their late bereave- a— Bemisia A Good Word For Them, ro council for not having an attorney fee in last year's account—having here- to blame—as the council never gotany for which the attorney is not law nor did it ever need any, for this paper repeatedly laid down the law for on at last, We also cheerfully the council for halting in their illegal work commend | plainly showed was against oath, ordi- nance and decisions of the courts. We commend the council for having in these two particulars heeded our ad- vice—the " Reporter’ is always right. —— Trial List April term of court commencing on Monday, April 22, 1885. Trial list “for first week. | James Sample vs, Wm. C. End. Hoover, Hughes & Co. vs. Paul Me- Cully et. al. Helnle, Wm. Witmer vs. Brown & Kelly. Wm. Witmer vs. D. 1. Jonuston. T. E. Kennedy vs. James Lytle. Waite & Co. vs, Joel Braner. Sallie 0. P. of Bpring twp. Slover va, Krumrine Bros. vs. Mrs. Mary Par- J. A. Woodcock & Bons vs burg Produce Co. Eliza Walk vs. Vinton Beckwith. W. H. Philips vs E. Exr. Philips- Stambaugh’s A —-— The Horse Market. Contrary to all expectations and prophesies, horse flesh in this county this brought spring comparatively good prices. Almost everyone seemed to think they would be a drug on the market, and that they had greatly de- preciated in but agreeably disappointed value, many were in this. The opening of spring and approach of farm work gave the market an inipetus and ne fair prices were given. observer six weeks twenty-five said that during the last horses had increased fully per cent in value, The at which a horse was sold in the val- lowest figure lev at a sale was ten cents, and then Jut that not from an overstocked market, bargain. was a A Number of Unaes Coleville, a small village near Belle- serious time number of fonte, is having quite a with typhoid fever, and a cases are reported. The families | flicted used water from the Buflalo Run creek, and to this source the dis- ease is attributed. The spring thaws impregnated the water of the creek with impurities, and those families having other source of water supply af- have escaped from the disease. — Ra There's the Trouble, The Daily News says there seems to be a mania for committing suicide in | Milesburg, no less than three attempts having been made in the last i few weeks, but in each case the design was frustrated. | would subside were the rescuing delay - | ed a few minutes, and allow one job to become successful, i e— A Private Mint, | An exchange tells i money in an easy way. how to “Take a new | fold it several times each way and open it out again and you will find it creases. Take a silver half dollar, | strike it on the counter and it will ring; give the ring to your best girl and you will have the half dollar left. rl m—— A New Store, On April 4th, Katz & Co., limited, will open their new Dry Goods and Millinery store in the old Loeb store room at Bellefonte, They will sell for cash only, and have but one price, and that is the lowest. Their stock will comprise the latest in everything. i A A Can Do Without It. Last year, in April, we had a 15 inch snow ; we would pray to be excused this year after having gone thro the awful blizzard. af A A ~The merchant tailoring establish- ment connected with Lewins clothing get surprisingly big returns for your money .—Lewins, Bellefonte, ~Subsoribe for the REPORTER, $1.60 ’ house at Bellefoute, has the reputa- tion for turning out the best and most stylish clothing worn in the county. AN IMPORTANT OFFICE, Should Have a» Competent Justice of the Pence Appointed. Our people should thinkhow import- | tant itis to have a competent man for | | justice of the peace in this town to fill | the vacancy caused by the death of | Fug, Boal. Many may want it and | | few be fit. The office should be filled | | by a gentleman of business knowledge, | booked on law, sound judgment, im. | { partial and without prejudices and who | | cannot be approached to be the tool of | | spiteful persons to do wrong which | | our people have already had reason to | | complain of from some of their local of- | ficials who were thus misled from a { lack of knowledge as to their duties ;| |the citizens have, in the past few | | months, been talking over the wrongs | | suffered thus, and we desire to impress | | upon them the importance of electing | | a man for justice who is possessed of | | the qualifications above mentioned, as | | such a dispenser of law will be both a | credit and a benefit to our town—and | this care should be used as regards oth- | | er local officers, These suggestions are worthy the | | thought of our citizens, to the end that | | we again have a justice as competent | | as the late one, Bpare any community from a justice | or who is and the hidden breeder of strife among neighbors, and dishonorable transactions ; notorious for untruth would be justice gone to pleces. Wo Markets and other Dots, pleted for the occupancy of wagon ma- ker Swarm. Monday and Tuesday there were oc casional drizzles of rain, but not cold. Wheat is 61 in Philadelphia and 57 at the Lewisburg Buffalo Mills, at Bellefonte. and 55 Rome folks garden beds to be early in the race for onions are scratching lettuce and radishes, Have your friends outside the coun- ty subscribe for the “Reporter” and get the home news, Were you April-fooled, or did you | play April-fooler? Noone should miss lecture in the Reformed church next Nabbath evening, three and four weeks ago. Bearlet fever in a mild peared in different localities of the val ley. Public dinners are over and now you must earn your grub sales and free or go hungry. The grain flelds are preserving their promising appearance, We noticed the first robbins around ou Monday, April 1. Welcome. Wp Yourangetitatfaables anot her col- Chil- in LEPORTER, Faubles, Bellefonte, umn of the quote This is a big drive, and if not satisfactory your money back for the asking. They are making big drives in all lines of cloth- ing goods at from $2 to $3.50. ing, and it is surprising how they can = ” sell the goods for the prices. Every- lishment and you know just exactly what you are getting. Wf —-— John Carper. den Hall, died on Sunday last, aged upwards of 90 years, after an iliness of He of the most respected citizens of Harris town- several months was one ship. We do not have any particulars, | Ap Only One to be Chosen. Who is going to be "squire for our bo- ro? many want it but only one will get it. bani suit. You want it cheap and good, as well as of the latest cut. lLewins, Bellefonte, ean accommodate you in every partic- { ular, and is bound to please. | | ~-You will want a new styles in the leading nov- elty of the season—Crepon | —starting from 50¢ np —{Crar- | mans. erges, Checks, Cheviots, Cravenetts, Henriettas, Novelties, Crepons, and all the leading styles of goods for Capes and Dresses —(iarmans. | : {| ancaster Gingham, bc, Ap | leton A Muslin, 5e, Turk- | ey Red Printe, Shirting Prints, | | Outing, ete.—Garmans. ace Curtains, Serims, Dotted | Muslin, Madras, Heavy! ‘ortieres, ete.~—(Garmans. hirty patterns of Percals and | | Madras Cloth, Duck, Dim- itve, Pique, Pleid and Striped Whité Goods. - <Garmans., i uckles for Trimming Dress. | es, Initial Stick Pins, be, | /riting Tablets, and Lead Pencils at about one-half price. ~(Farmans, i ! nice oval glass Dish, full lass, choicest Patterns at ruin- ously low prices.~Garmans. rownie Lunch Boxes, Tin and Agate Ware. Oar gate Ware is of the finest quality at cut prices.—Gar- mans. size, Oe. Imitation Cut | This is the name by which our We are located in the rooms so long oc- On MILLINERY DEPARTMENT On April 4th, we open our doors cupied by 8. & A. Loeb. pril 4th, We Open Our Dosrs for Business. {) momma {|} For the last three weeks we have | for business. On that day and the Millinery :-: Opening. had scores of mechanics busily at|succeeding day, we will our work getting our store room in have been busy ourselves opening We our up and arranging our stock. the result of efforts, and trust the satisfaction Ji11 } bal wiil be mutual. ) wememsnarmasne We will show about—— 100 FRENCH PATTERN HATS AND BONNETS. As a result of our work we will show the BEST, the TASTIEST and HANDSOMEST STOCK of Dry Goods... .and Notions Mise McCann, who will have | Ever Bellefonte. We § } . ave paid particular attention to €) mmm 1 " Ts 1 # .y . shown in charge of our Millinery Par- lors, is 4 most competent trim- tour mer, and is justly considered . . DUsiness. DRESS 600DS DEPARTMENT| ~~" in We have made a special feature of our BLACK DRESS GOODS, feel sure we can suit the most criti- nd have no doubt our eflorts his line will be appreciated. Our designs are exclusive, tl and some of the most striking confined and exclu- sively to us for this part of the novelties are 1 sant i y 1c # } oh cal taste. All our goods are bought state, as they are exact copies or SPOT CASH Dry 5 than one-third of Goods any cheaper than we do. > cost in Europe. of part ef the importation of one of the largest Retail Milli- Phila- deiphia, which we have pro- nery Establishments in And we know no one OWINIE Never in the history of the Dry Goods trade have goods been as 2 2 . clhieap as they are now, and we have {er ‘ 4 ” s b. ‘ taken advantage of every legitimate method we knew of 80 a8 to give Our prices will be very mod- at il erate compared to the prices Fine rong the beneht thereof. heretofore charged for mms} Millinery. We will sell our goods at a very Moderate Profit ~ But for Cash Only. There Will Be But One Price And that the very lowest to every- body. We aim to do the LARGEST AND FINEST MIL- LINERY BUSINESS In the city, and the have the stock to do it with. We pro. pose to suit the most fastidious and cheerfully m—— | All goods marked in plain fig invite eriti. A child can trade with us just as cheaply as the most exper. ienced shopper. We will sell goods with a CASH GUARANTEE that they cannot be bought for any ures, cism. Omen) All Hats Will be Trim- med Free of Charge when Materials Are Bought from Us. iO 0 Any article bought in our Dry Goods or Notion Department that is not satisfactory can be returned (if in good order) within six days refunded. Oem ssn No combination of words or fine phrases will add force to the statement that we will show the Fost and Tstest Exhibit nthe Cy, We have organized a Mail Order Department, and orders will be filled the same day as received. Samples cheerfully sent on appli- cation, KATZ & CO LIMITED. Bellefonte, “
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