Nb RS SHANI SR SAO THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS, Jan. 19 THE RACKET. No. 9-11 (rider's Exchange, Bellefonte. RACKET STORE NEWS Having leased the room lately occupied “by Shaffer & Son, the carpenters ‘will soon be at work eut- ting through the partition. This will add at least 2000 square feet floor space to The Racket. Some import: ant changes in the business are in contemplation, whic h for want of a better word I will call revo! ation In order to ge ; eady for this, I will start a REVOLUTION SALE! Commencing Saturday, Jan. continue to Tuesday, Jan. 31, clusive, and not an hour longer. Please notice dates. This sale will rival the great Dis- solution Sale of last year and will follow the same lines. Almost the gout in during past year. [I kno we always do money to gain understand. entire stock is new, having we advertise. I am First Come--First Served. 7.to in exactly lose a point U G. R. ‘Spigelmyer. URING the next few weeks you will find unusual re- ductions in many prices. It will be profitable for you to 5 @ = es t * Wolf & Crawford. Local Institute, A Teachers’ Local Institute will be held in the Methodist church at Boals- burg, February 10 and 11, The 18694, day. Morning session: Educational Value of Obedience M. Hosterman. The Teaching Heberling, J. R. iams, The -H. of Grammar—M. E. Bible, E. H. Will Teaching of Primary er, D. K. Keller, Bodily Health of the Child—Chas. E. Hower. AFTERNOON SESSION, The Phonic Element in Rev. G. W. Leisher. Observation Work as a Branch Study-—L. W. Musser, D. W. W. M. Kerlin. The Teaching of Language and Its , Use Within School and Without “ M. Wagenseller. The Use of the Dictionary School—G. W. R. Williams, Tate, D. R. Foreman. Supt. C. L. Gramley will be present and give an address. The program will be interspersed with excellent mu- sic under the direction of Prof. P. H. Meyer. Let every teacher in the district be present and be prepared to say some- thing on every subject, Thus we may have sessions that will be interesting and profitable to all. Preparation has veen made for the entertainment of the teachers in hos- pitable Boalsburg during the Insti tute. Teaching (elas, in the A. J. fas a Kind Word for Us, Clearfield Spirit. The Centre Hall Reporter has start. ed towards its 72nd milestone and the remarkable fact connected with its his- tory is that Hon, Fred Kurtz, its edi tar has owned and edited it for forty- five years or nearly half a century. Al- ways intensely Democratic yet fair to the opposition it has all these years sustained itself as one of the best “Country newspapers” in the State. “ Bro. Kurtz there isn't ait to good for you, The “Spirit”’ offers con- gratulations, ————— —————— Subscribe for the REPORTER. S0000000000000000000000000000000002000 DIED AT DANVILLE, Sudden Death of the Mother of Jeff, Shafl- or, on Sunday. The sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Jennie Shaffer occured last Sun- day evening at the state hospital at Danville, Pa., from heart trouble, at the age of 62 years, 5 months and 9 days. About eighteen months ago Mrs, Shaffer entered the hospital at Dan- ville for treatment for a nervous com- plaint. She made her home with her only son Jefferson, in this place, for several years. She was improving in health under treatment of specialists, until Sunday afternoon about three o'clock, when she was taken suddenly ill, and died about nine in the even- ing. Her husband, Daniel IE. Shafler, died about thirty-six years ago. Mrs. Shaffer's remains arrived ing. interred in the cemetery town. Rev, T. F. Faus, of church, of which Mrs. | member, offie inated in the services. — re ” Although there were | dwellings erected in | year, there will be the | and scramble this spring, and for the | next year Centre Hall will not one house empty. The supply although there atl the M. Houses Scarce Again several the town Hew is | quite equal to the demand, some families will’ move away i town. The building boom which has | | been characteristic of the town for the | past ten years, will continue at least | this coming year. Some new dwell lings are in contemplation, and the | work will be started assoon as the win- | ter breaks. Br te E conamie al Chicken Halser. The An exchange says: latest and | day, when a gentleman stepped into | this office and purchased 100 or more | to feed his hans, He tears the paper into shreds and soal in sour milk { until the whole mass becomes a pulp, when he feeds it to the hens, and he | claims that it adds greatly to their egg | producing qualities. The newspaper | has gradually extended its field of use- fulness, From food for thought, it has | expanded until within its sphere is al- 8 it ready included food for gosta and hens. opens Religions Meetings Extra religious meetings are now in progress in the Presbyterian church in | next week. Rev. M. L. Ross, D. D., | pastor of the Presbyterian church at | Mifflinburg, Pa., will preach the 23d, | 24th, and 25th, WwW. W, Evangelical | dence. dev. Rhoads, of { United church, preach some evening next week. next Sabbath evening at 7 o'clock. will Ser vice and to Members of other congregations alls friends these meetings are cordially iovited i How a Town is Populated. - Aleck; some pretty girls; i than it needs: a woman or two tattles; an old y that the { would be better off without; men stand on the street corners and remarks about more who fog women; a man who { laughs an idiotic laugh every says anything; scores of men caboose of their trousers worn as glass; war question should be settled i who have made a dismal failure Bo i Wanted aC correction. —— i rushed to have the “error” The editor explained that he could not do it until the seven had been paid. AA» Odd Fellows Banquet. Last Saturday evening the members third floor of the bank building. The members invited their best girls to share the spread, and there was a gen- eral turn out. It was a turkey supper with all accessories, and it required six or seven large generous tables to ac- commodate the banqueters, ————— a A Large Tree, Ellis Vonado, of Zion, recently felled an oak tree that stood on the corner of bis farm. It measured five and -one- half feet across the stump. According to Mr. Vonado's statement the tree has stood for two hundred and fifty-eight years, IU was the largest tree known of in that community. A MA AI Note of Thanks, Mr. George O. Benner desires in the colums of the Reporter, to express his heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for assistance rendered dur. ing the recent iliness and death of his wife. May the hour of need always find them similarly surrounded with assistance, Farm Sold, The farm of the late U, D. Osuofhn, about one mile west of town, has been sold by the administrators to Daniel Houser, for $1300. Wm, Curry Is the Preset venus 0% the plas, Death of 8, Stuart Lyon 8. Stuart Lyon, one of the last sur- viving members of the well known iron manufacturing firm of Lyon, Shorb & Co., died last week at his home in Bellefonte, aged over 76 years. He was born on the old Lyon home- stead in Penns valley, this county, was the son of John and Margaret Ly- on, coming from one of the oldest and most influential families in the coun- ty. The deceased, though always =a busy man, was a great student of liter- ature, and as a Latin scholar had few | equals. The family are doubly bereav- ed, as only a week ago the only son, Bright's disease, The surviving child- ren are Anna V., of Bellefonte; Clara V., wife of Wm. J. Nicolls, { delphia; Mary T., wife of Ellis L. vis, Esq., of Bellefonte, | at home, po ee — The Nittany Peach Crop The Lock Haven Democrat says : | The recent cold snaps, it is stated by | | o¢ with the peach buds. The | drop of the temperature New | night is the cold snap that did the most mischief, Bince that time J. 8. Brownlee, of Mackeyville, | a peach orchard, has examined twenty-five trees, on all buds completely Dr. were frozen, , has examined 200 trees, ~the in Nittany valley branches of with the same finding dead. In not trees examined could be found that showed any signs of life. Several trees in this city over and a single have also been sub- ers, with the same result. These | tlemen state that the their section next season will be failure. Sti An Old Friend. The gentleman named below was a former Rebersburg merchant and well known and esteemed this side of our county and a friend of the editor of | the left Rebers- burg to spend the rest of his life in his Serlin, on teporter Mr. Gross, native town of New | The Lew- isburg Journal says : YMr. George Gross now enters upon his 41st vear as a director of the Lew- National continuously 1858, jJank, having served in that capacity We doubt whether there the connected isburg since i= ane other director in who continuously state been with a banking institution long these years Rs During all he | hag been faithful in attending to his as | Gross has. | duties, and missed but very few meet- | ings." Wp Bill Met Wil | ter known all along the Susquehanna | river from Cherry Tree to Marietta, “Bill McCartney,” died ton 12. During the bounty jumper, and boasted of $5,000 at Sartney, of Unsavory Record, Dead As i rious $ that busi- After the war he settled in the lower Karthaus Hills, where his home | was the resort of all the counterfeiters made upward Hess, and other noted criminals who desired to hide from the world. Several “Bil for counterfeiting, but he always man- aged to escape, except He was acts of outlaw- the was 60 years of age. times was arrested Onoe, also mixed up in other ry. He served Clearfield jail. many in He oy. Death of Gen. Jesse Merrill (ieneral Jesse Merrill died on | Saturday evening. He was | known throughout the country. | was an old resident terms last well | He enlisted in 1861 | ty in the Signal Corps. In 1862 of the Ohio. He was appointed by Governor Geary in 1871 a major gene | | ral of the National Guard of Peonnsyl- | vania. } snisenissabsd f M— | Will be More Candidates Now | Since the decision of the Supreme | Court, last week, that constables are { entitled to fifty cents for each name on a subpoena they serve, and ten cents { per mile, but not circular, there is like- | ly to be a large nuniber of candidates at the February election for that office, Under this ruling it will make the of- fice a very lucrative one, and, inas- much as the term is for a period of three years, it is probably the most de- sirable township office except that of district treasurer. iii Mashed Some Toes, Thomas Wilson, manager of the Howard Creamery Co., at the station, was unfortunate last Thursday in hav- ing several toes mashed by having a large cake of ce fall on his foot. He was assisting in packing ice in the creamery cold storage and the cake fell on him. He has been laid up since for repairs. ———— Will go to Jamalon. After the inauguration ceremonies of Giovernor-elect Blona, Governor and Mrs. Hastings will sail for Jamaica, where they will remain several weeks for rest and recreation. Coughing injures and inflames One ent the cig THE SI0K, | Many Of Our People Housed Up With the | Grip. With the country at large generally aflected with the ravages of la grippe, our healthful community has not by | any means escaped from its clutches, and the past week many of our people have been down with attack of more! or less severity. ‘The physicians in the valley have been kept on the jump | almost night and day of late. The dis- list The frequent changes in {uted the reason for the disease spread- ing, and until we get down to common every day sort of weather again, there will not be an abatement. In the town among those who are | affec ted are: D, F. Luse, D. | Mrs, Geiss and Miss Elsie Geiss, Mrs |W m. Wolf, Mrs, J. W. Wolf, William | Wolf, M. B. Richard, J. D. Murray, Dr. Riter, John Showers, wife, | and daughter. K. Geiss, 801 i Wo py Caucus Meetings, | The Democrats of Centre county will | hold their caucuses for the nomination | of candidates for borough, ward, town- 25th The committee | men of the several precinets and wards { will take notice hereofand fix the hour {ship and precinet officers on the { day of January, 1509, | or time for the holding of these Instructions and Cat will due | cuses, blanks in K. JOHNSTON, Chairman. | be received by committeemen, J. time. bit Masical Jubilee, , under the Ald society of teformed church, to be held on Monday, Feb, 6, gives promise of belng quite a success- { ful affair. The will be under the personal direction of Prof. P. H. Meyer, who has had experience in Bicvesstally affairs. He Anna Brooks, of Pleasant organist, The grand musical jubilee { auspices of the Ladies’ the the week beginning jubilee wide such Miss as Yair for singers from a distance. handling will be assisted by Gap, Free entertainment will provided a Deferred for Several Months, The Commercial Telephone Co's ex- tension to Centre Hall has been defer- May Ist. When our town was canvassed the lines were | promised by March Ist, but the exten. sive work of installing the system al lellefonte a later day The peopble of Mifflin county are clam- the pany and want a line acrbes the Seven Mountains. It will likely be them. red now until about necessitates toring for a connection with Corm- given a Fut in New Engine. for Having sold all his machinery manufacturing carriage wheels, W. W. Boob disposed of his large engine and boiler and has placed in a new engine power. The stack and boiler was taken iron Inst indus six-horse large of down week ard shipped away. Two Poulson’'s handle fac- tory and the wheel works, which hoped would employ many hands, are tries of the town, was dead, and the manufacturing boom has had a slight relapse. a Fawns in Johns Urzle's Park of Lock Haven, has placed a Rocky mountain deer in the park of John Uzzle, of Snow Shoe. | Mr. Uzzle recently shipped asa pre-- Lent to William Butler, superintendent | of the western state fishery, at Corry, | the largest and finest doe ever raised | in captivity in Pennsylvania. The an- | imal would have dressed 140 pounds, {and was most handsome in every fea- i George W., Good, lure. md —— Ship ping Stone, HS. Mills, who leased the Bruss | stone quarries on Nittany mountain, | is taking out a lot of the fine building | | blue stone these days. He is shipping | a car load a day to different points east to be used in constructing nearly four hundred car loads than any in the state, pci cos 8 5000 Damages Awarded the Bald Eagle, | Nittany and Brosh Valley Pike Co pike company $8000 for vacating and freeing the pike of tolls from February next, the company to retain the three toll houses. The pike company had asked $16,000, a Shippers Must Pay. nold in the common pleas court in a suit brought to determine whether a shipper or the Adams express compa- ny should pay for the war revenue stamp to be attached to bills of lading for express packages, decided in favor of the express company and that the shipper must pay for the stamp. 1 Af, AO In Good Standing. The County Commissioners’ report will show a cash balance of over $12, 000, after paying out for repairs to the court house and furnishing steel cells for the fhil costing $5,000. This year they will reduce the county tax to three mills. ajjouy is elused b Burue and L Taenge ER media by Do Wits Wit Wich Hazel Smith & Ruionn; for iby THE {goesesesesese seosssssenes = Star Store. Dstablished 1589. G. 0. BENNER, See the New Mottled Gran- Proprietor, § ite Ware. GRAND CLEARANCE SALE. - Carpets woven in one piece—newest designs—called Pro Bruseel. - Until February 15th, we will : Druggetts and Art Squares. following Not on 8. Tin- sell you anything in the -_ lines at cost: Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, Hardware, On an average new goods (zlassware Don’t come 1} Ne every day. ere . . 3 for old stock. w and mod- ern goods at much less than 1 old stock. WE MUST MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING STOCK. Come and See. ssssavetsascssess £000006000000000800000000000 -~ Garman's Store. y 11 olefnnt Bellefonte, or w THE STAR. y 1 214 phone re I'¢ connection $ SAVED It Is No... Humbug 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT from prices on Fur= niture during Janu- ary and February. W. R. BRACHBILL, Bellefonte, Pa. = GLOBE. Millinery ‘Phone 1203. Dry Goods Carpets Price Reduction Sale ! PREVIOUS TO TAKING ACCOUNT OF STOCK. and We take our Annual Invoice early in February, # in order to have as little etock on hand, and more money in bank, we make a material reduction in prices for three weeks previous. Those who purchased from, us the past seasons, at this time will no doubt seize this opportunity to get good dependable goods at prices less than cost of manufacture. Everything Marked in Plain Figures ! One-half off on Overcoats, and all Clothing. One-half off on all Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats and Wraps. That is you pay us just one-half the original price. One-quarter or twenty-five per cent. off on all Dress Goods. One-quarter or twenty-five per cent. off on Carpetf. One-third or thirty-three per cent. oft on Millinery. One-quarter or twenty-five per cent. off on all Table Lin- eng, and Men's, Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear. One-quarter.or twenty-five per cent. off on Blankets and Flannels. Take Advantage of this Great Price Reduction Sale, As we want to get our stock as low as possible previous to Inventory, and purchases for Spring business. RAIN i ON 5 IANS. KATZ & CO. Bellefonte, “Makers of Low
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