I ——— THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS, Sept. 16 THE RACKET. No. 9-11 Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte, Butterick’s Publications, Pat- terns and Fashion Sheet for Sep- tember, and Advance Patterns and designs for Octobgr—now ready. — JUST" IN New Fall line “Gold Medal” Black Dress Goods, in Fancy Weaves. New Poplins, Mobairs and Cheviots. If U need a new Black Dress, don’t buy before see- ing these goods. « They are special, and not to be found elsewhere in Centre Co. Complete Fall Line -Jacquards, Suitings and Novelties in Dress Goods, representing Imported Lines and the famous Botany Mills products, exclusively at The Rack- et. Best Lining Department in Cen tre Co, U save money by buying yourown lining. We can tell U just what is required. G. R. Spigelmyer. The Picnic Will be in its full in a few days, and we celebrate with the rest. As before we shall be there and occupy former place for our 1: clilina, Curios, Weasl¥ ops and other little things you would take along home. [Both stores 11 will be open for any- i g * } ii ng you may want Wolf & Crawford. A Brilliant Lamp. son Hydro-Carbon Heating and In- candescent Lighting Co., of Philadel which is a marvel in its effect. By meaps of coal oil a very brilliant and soft light is secured, which equals the arc light. Friday evening Mr. Meese almost like day. on the picnic ground. brother of George Meese, of Tussey. ville, and a son of the late Jacob Meese, Ne Trial List, The following ec have been set down for trial at the special week of court commencing Monday, Septem- ber 26, 198: Wm. B. Mingle vs, P, et al. Catharine M. Resides vs. Cooke. David Rothrock Rothrock. Mrs. A. R. Long vs. Cyrus Gordon, John Curtin et al va. J. L. Bathurst, A. B. MeNitt vs. Geo, M. Boal, ad- ministrator. OS E. Grenoble John W, et al vs. Henry Started the Plant. Tuesday morning the fruit evaporat- ing plant in Colyer’s building at the railroad station was started in opera tion. The machinery arrived Monday and was set up at once. Four hands were put to work, and the proprietor, Charles Miner, will increase the force right along. The plant will be oper- ated night and day, and will employ a large force during the season Denth’s Doings, Recent deaths : Balome, wife of R. Kerstetter, of Loganton, aged 54 years, Mrs. M. E, Chesebro, at Nittany, died last Bunday, of typhoid fever. Nancy, wife of James T. Taylor, died on Mon- day, near Salona, of heart failure. Millheim Votes Against Water, At the election held at Millheim on Monday, for or against a boro’ water plant, we are informed there was a majority of 13 against a water plant. Ana — a AA SARA When you call for De Witt's Witch Hazel ve the great pile cure, don’t else. Don't be talked into accepts a substitute, for piles, for for burns; for sale Sith : & Crawford. ! by ® THE GRANGERS PIONIO, Large Crowds and Fine Exhibits Mark the Event, The 25th annual picnic and exhibi- tion of the Patrons of Husbandry of Central Pa., is now going on in Grange Park. For over a week past the park has been a scene of activity, The grounds are almost covered by canvas and buildings. Already on Friday, campers began moving on the ground, and shop keepers were setting up their booths, getting ready to tempt the many coins from the large crowds which would be sure to come if the fine weather continued, On Sunday the attendance was large. It is estimated there were about 1500 people on the grounds, Religious ser- vices were held in the auditorium. All day there was a constant stream of ve- hicles and bicycles passing through town to the park, and for miles around every conveyance was pressed into ser- vice for a trip to Centre Hall, Tuesday morning the pienic was for- mally opened by exercises in the audi- torum. Exercises are held in the au- ditorium in the mornings and after- noons. Addresses are delivered by men prominent in public life and the Grange order. During the evenings the auditorium is given over to exhi- bitions by a projectoscope, The attendance Tuesday was up to that of former years. Bellefonte. No large crowd is expect- there were about two thousand on the grounds. The exhibits of farm machinery are five and of a better class than any year before. Several large firms have elab- orate displays of farm implements, ever, and comprises everything on the farm. No tents this year from the state Arsenal, and the associ- About {hundred tents are set up, most of | which are occupied by those who want |a week's outing and take in all the | pleasures of the park. | There { booths and shops set up and you can | purchase anything from | thresher to a yard of lace. were received {ation purchased canvas, are the usual number of The | nut roaster and pink lemonade | front you everywhere, while the mer- | ry-go-roundi and other devices clamor | for your patronage. | i stands The management has not allowed sny gambling devices to be set | They have turned them all down, al- ! | wanted the privilege. | Wednesday the special trains began | running from and | brought large crowds. It is estimated the crowd numbered | ye sterday over five thousand. The trains brought as many as a year 8go. east west, | Today, Thursday, will likely have | the largest attendance unless it should rain. It was cloudy all Wednesday {and this morning, but with probabili- | ties of clearing. | The order in the town all could be desired. The police on the | park and in town report no trouble, and find it easy to handle the large { good natured crowds, | The town is full of gamblers i is that who led to operate. Shell men have been trying to work on the streets in town intended victims, i TENT HOLDERS, | Centre Hall—Leonard Rhone, J, J. Arney | Dauberman, John Conley, Samuel Dust, Dr. Al i exander, J. A. Kelles, J. W. Henney, 8, W. Smith | Roxsona Brisbane, Jacob lee Jaa, Dunst, OG. M { Boal, Jas Stahl, D. K. Keller Lemont—Geo. Dale, Nathan Grove Oak - Pili Joss J ax. Gregg, Col. J. 8. Weaver gM. Jennie Rambarger Belliefoute—Amos Mallen, Harrison Kline Wm. H Allen, Isaac Miller, Mrs. HH. Monigom ery. Bellefoute Republican Pleasant Ge pe Adam Hoover Posters Milla—Henry Sankey Sate College Fred Resides, Robt M. Foster Colyer—Jonhn Loug, Lem M. Meyer Axeman-—-J. C. Jodoa Centre Hill G. L. Goodhart, M. C. Stover Philadelphia Mrs, Stave, Flemin Harvey Hoover, Taylor Ewing Spring Milis Hiram Cain, W. C. Horuer, M’ Finkle, Smith Bros, Boslsburg J. K. From, Mechanicsburg Geo, Davis EXHIBITORS, Pa. State College Experimental Station, plants, flowers, eto, Kreamer & Son, Centre Hall, general mdse, D. M. Osborne & Co., Auburn, N. Y.. hatvest- ing and farm implements, McCalmont & Co., Bellefonte, cream separator. Bafety Buggy Co. Lancaster, buggies, traps, road wagons, ic, Akron Cultivator Co. Akron, 0, the Kraus sul- key cultivator, Page Fence Co., Adron, Mich, wire fence. Miflinburg Baggy Co., carriages and wagoas Weaver Organ and Piano Co, York, Pa, or gaus and pianos, W. A. Huber, Mechanischurg. Pa., bicycles. Wolf & Crawford, Centre Hall, general mdse. Oscar Btover, Boalsburg, cultivators, Buck's Sons, Elizabethtown, Pa. separators, horse powers, elo, Thornton Barnes & Co., Philadelphia, grocer- jes and clothing, Garitee & Son, Philadelphia, clothing, ete, Crawford Bicycle Co., erstown, Md. they: cles, eto. CATTLE & SWINE EXHIBITS, Wm M. Groveand N B, Bhaffer, Centre Hill; H. J. Garbrick, Zion, a fine French colt and oth- er horses. Col. W, F. Reynolds, stallion, "Pride of the North” Isasc Frain, Abdera, stalions and horses; G. 1. Goodhart, Centre Hill, Geo. M., Gin- rich, Centre Hail, five exhibit of pure bred Eogiish Berkshire pls. oto. HW. Burd, Rebers- burg, Poland pigs; W. CO, Shaffer, Nittany, Po- land and Betkatiie pgs Woodland Stock farms, Shook Bros, Spring Mills, fine display of Guern- soy and J eatiie and pigs; Jas. Durst, Centre Fall, Sheep; D. K. Keller, Contre Hall, pigs; D. W. Bradford, Centre Hall, Bhorthorn calves. POULTRY EXHIBIT. Woodland farms, Spring Mills, Shook Bros, C. D. Bartholomew, G. W, Ocker, Centre Nall, A 4.8. Dale, Lemont; J. Detwiler, Aarons ws. S—— Seriously Til, John Thomas, of this place, private in Co. B, 5th Regiment, P. V. is seri- ously ill in the division hospital at Lexington, Kentucky, where the regi- ment had been encamped. Helsdown with malarial fever, and on Tuesday his father received a dispatch from Captain Hugh Taylor that John's con- that he would pull through, A CURTIN MEMORIAL, A Project to Build a Hall to Bear the Old War Governor's Name, One more step has been taken to- ward the erection in Bellefonte of a memorial to the late Ex-Governor An- drew (i. Curtin. It was at the twen- ty-fourth annual reunion and basket pienie of the Centre County Veteran Club, held at Hunter's Park Saturday, when General James A. Beaver, chair- man of the committee appointed at a meeting of citizens in January, 1895, to secure the erection of a monument to the “Old War Governor,” made a verbal report, in which he recom- mended, instead of a monument in the public square, a memorial hall be built, to be known as the Governor Curtin Memorial Hall, The project is to be in the nature of a public library, with free reading rooms attached, General Beaver stat- ed that he now had $5,000 pledged, to be applied in any way the committee saw fit toward perpetuating the memo- ry of Ex-Governor Curtin, and, as the to the ex-Governor at Camp near Iarrisburg, he deemed it best aid. will be taken in the near future, The reunion of the veterans was Fully 3,000 Addresses were an i interesting one. people were present, | sock, of Kansas: D. F. Fortney The officers elected | President, General James A, Beaver; | vice presidents, W. H. Fry and 8. H. Jennison; secretary, WW, H., Musser; treasurer, George M. Boal. others, were: i i essrmar——— lf —— Union County Fair. The 45th annual fair of Union Coun ty Agricultural Society, will be held at | Lewisburg, on Sept. covered half The premium list has been sodded and making it the the state. revised loam, best track in has been and increased, mak- ing it very attractive to owners of fast horses, live stock raisers, farmers and | farmers’ organizations, manufacturers and others, distinctively agricultural in every method and feature, competi- ample than ever before, several races { each day. tory of the Fair. { that this year's exhibition will be the ‘A with private boxes wiii ensure the best for witness the track events, he public js assures best ever held. new yrand stad ig to accomodations those desiriz Sudden Death wife of James at her { home at Spring Mills on Monday even- r o Mrs. Jane Kennelly, Kennelly, died very suddenly ing of heart failure. During the day Mrs. Kennelly had been attending the at Centre Hall, and to be enjoying her usual health. Short- taken Dir. Peter Leitzell was summoned vienie seemed ly after getting home she was itl. at once, but she never regained con- sciousness and died a few minutes aft- the Dr's aged about sixty years, and was the mother of children. Interment took | place this Thursday morning, er arrival. She was nine sinuses smallest Amount for Check, The Millbeim Banking Company re- treasury | check for four cents, said check being in payment for interest due on the new 3 per cent. Government loan £200.000,000, This check been the amount of interest the have a must due on bond of The they the bank for payment. bank will be out four cents, as of 1808, The govern- Aas ment. From Sayder County. milking she discovered that one of the cows had been partly milked. She took her milk stool, sat down, and fin- ished milking the cow. When she arose she noticed a large copper snake close to the stool. Being a brave girl she took the stool and killed the snake, and to her surprise found that the snake was full of milk and that she sad killed the robber, which had been the case before.—~Middleburg News Item. Ay. Died at Mill Hall, Augustus Miller, aged about 53 years died last Sunday morning, at his home at Mill Hall, from consumption, after an illness dating from the first of the year. He was employed at a grinder at the axe factory at Mill Hall, and leaves a wife and six children. He was the son of Mm. Catharine Miller, of Centre Hall, and a brother of Jerre Miller. The remains were taken to Spring Mills Tuesday after- noon by train, and interment was made in the cemetery at Georges wval- AGED PIONEER OF CENTRE COUNTY, Mrs. Naucy Barger, the Oldest Hus Lived 107 Yonrs. On Wednesday next, September 14, Mrs. Nancy Barger, familiarly known as “Grandmother” Barger, of Curtin, will celebrate her one hundred and seventh birthday, This interesting old lady is undoubtedly the oldest res- ident in this county and the incidents surrounding her life are particularly | interesting, as even at this old age she | is able to give reminiscences in regard to almost all the jmportant events which took place in her past life, Mrs, Barger is always glad to receive | visitors, She and her oldest son, Sam-| uel Barger, aged 70, live in quaint | old log cabin near Curtin, and have al- | ways been able to do all that is dent to keeping house, and sre Resideoot, n inci-| in but on | Monday last, while out in the yard at] her residence, Mrs, Barger fell and dis- | located her hip. no| ways dependent upon others, On account of the ex- | treme old age, the accident consid. the friends of these two old people expect to make this birthday, which is likely | to be her last, a particularly pleasant] i one, Nancy Barger was born on Middle | distance below Harrisburg, on Septem- ber 14, 1701. Her father and mother, | William Rebecca Tate, among the first settlers of the commu- | and were nity in which she lived, and after hav- ing cleared a small farm prospered, as | to fami- Bhe had five sisters and four wont do. Nancy was the fourth in a All of them being dead, the resided At the age of twenty, Nancy fellin who was a after he the War of her county, forgeman by occupation, and had returned from service | of 1812 LN n she ran off to the home who lived in w here she married him. sister, Perry Thi proved distasteful to her parents and ® Union two years later the newly-wedded couple decided to emigrate to the had come up from Chester Centre Ww ho to It iis { i where Valentines, county embark in the iron business, had b a forge and held out inducements for With Samuel, then a arvas, and babe in ler husband she wagon for When the family reached ber started Bellefonte, that slans well le found a ment of a dozen or houses more porting three stores and RD = i the seat of government of a county just fif nd employ- boasting George fou ment in the Valentine works and stay- until 1520 Roland Curtin hired him to the new Eagle Works, which the when nl work had just been built near the site of present forge at Curtin's. tells During the time they lived in Be fonte Mrs. Barger saw many a its Was pack train start to Pittsburg with load not disposed of In that market was ship to Susqguehan- x ped in arks down Mpring Creek 3ald Eagle, thence to the de was at the old Washington furnace the na river and Havre (race. Bhe murder- er in the county, was and of hung members well the excitement res that Works and After moving to Curtin’s they removed to Mill Hall, then From present day has been an occupant of the house in which she now lives, In 1852 her husband she little died, leaving of seven | ex. Clear. | children, all of whom living in are William resides all | four Curtin’s, served his through the rebellion. country Of the Samuel, the] times, but| remained at] and two four he For a few days after her fail the old] lady was unconscious, but she has | greatly improved and talks quite free | ly of her fall. She spoke of how fortu- | nate it was that the accident had not] occurred further away from the house, as if it was her practice to wander quite a distance, Her mind is as clear as can be and the only thing notices ble is a little deafness. She is very hopeful of her complete recovery, and the doctor in attendance believes that the wonderful vitality of this old lady nny puii her through, On account of the accident Mrs. Bar- ger sleeps in her favorite chair, and is unable to be moved, Her son, Sam- uel Barger, 80 years of age, is able to attend to all the wants of his mother, Both of these interesting characters do not seem to object to the constant flow of visitors, and the household in con- sequence is never in need. The log cabin is filled with old furniture which has been collected during their long lives, A MS it, Getting tu Shape. The new creamery company have their building up a short distance east of the station. The boiler and engine arrived last week. As rapidly as pos sible the plant will be completed. The other machivery will arrive im a short time, AA HE Star Store. sone Established 15889, 6. 0, BENNER, Clothing ! Clothing ! If you need a suit for your boy or at the right price. Call and see our cloth ing. We have a Dress Bhoe for Men at $1.10, Never before in the history of our flour trade, has anything come up to the sale of Columbia. 25 or more customers in town using this flour and getting the best results. The price until further notice is $1 59 Don't forget when you want an axe to try our It Is a good one and will give sstizfac tion Weaslso have anything in the handle line Goods in Season. Fruits of every description. Potatoes, Salt Fish, Bhouider, Ham fodder, Bweet Ajax Byrup Corn Cutters, Table Ol Cloth When attending the pienie don't fil to You will see the very thing want and for less money thas you buy it e visit you In We are now offering Piles you ever saw fore. Hin the bigrest bargains Never anylhiog like it oornered Files at 8c, 5 in. F THE STAR Td, . Telephone connection, Lies, Hi TO Porch Settees. "Phone 1302. Our Business Grows Jecanse we are leaders in our line Because it deserves to, and will | grow as long as it deserves to, | and no longer, | Because our stock is kept at full tide of completeness and wariety, | Because low prices on highs quality goods always rule here. Because fair and honorable dealings ares supreme rule of the house, Because custom like our way of do- ing it, and being a good thing, is like a wheelbarrow. pushed along by each one who uses it. The last of our Shirt W aists, §1, The, b0c styles. Your choice at 2c, of (ringhiams for —, The last of a lot dresses, Be and 10¢ ZOO is the bal- ance He--can't last long A few Challis and lL. iW In He and Ge = were now o wait GARMAN'S STORE, BELLEFONTE, . Don't blame us if t00 ‘ long, PA. OUR— $5 OO $1.25 in Fu To the year, rmture than C000 CROOSO00RORCLOONOOINONESOO00000000000SS Bellefonte, Pa. and goods. no goods over. tise. KATZ & CO.,. Bellefonte,
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