THE CENTRE REPORTER | CENTRE HALL, . . . PENNA. | Protrctd weeting ut the Uniwd | Evangelical courcn st Zou, which be- | gun Sunday wvealtiy vue week ago ds = | still in progress nud is very successful, & SON. Colyer. a ENGLAND'S SEA GYPSIES, A Strange Little Tribe "Phat Lives Always on Boats. A strange and almost nnknown part THURSDAY, JAN oi ee The New Yer finds us UARY 9, 1902 The Holiday geason is Spring Mills. John Heckman has been the cham- pio sucker fisher with hook and line. Mrs. D. H. Rubl and son Baker spending the past two Willis have been weeks with her daughter, Mrs, Rishell, at Montgomery. Windom Gramley, son of T. M, Gramley, spent a week with his pa- rents. Windom is a student tyshurg College. Some sneak thief stole oysters from O. T. IT the thieves are discovered they will get their just dues, a bucket of tracted meeting in the United gelieal chureh. Rev, Koontz preached some very able sermons; there have been several conversions. ter Mabel, having considerable speed furniture 8 eigh to swing around and strike a | plank, throwing the occupants to the | ground. They received several bruis- e+. It takes an expert driver to upset | on the level road. Last Saturday evening a sled load of young people went to Madisonburg to | | huving thee seekers, | Mrs. Peter Plilips and daughter | Miss Ells, also Mrs, Calvin Cooney, speut New Yenur's doy at the howe of J. 8. Housman, | John Houtz, of Snyder county, pussed through this viciully jue duy last Week. He is dealing with chant Gi. as sletss, leaving bi a good Freeburg, | eigars, ete, und ste, ped supply of the salue, Among the guests ut Mrs, Kate Rei ber's ou New Yeui's day, partukiog of a splendid which was served | were, Gurney Sith and sunt, Miss | Kila Swith, Mrs. J. HM. Moyer and duugliter Biauche, Mrs. Peter Boul, aud Mrs, James Runkle, Miss Nuunie Miess was presented with a gold wa'eh, a gift from her fu- | ther, Play and tafty parties are again in progress, there being a taffy party at Bottorf on New Year's evening, quite a number of young folks being present, who enjoy- ed the evening eating good things. Miss Ruth Bower, of Potters Mille, spent several days with her friend, Miss Blunche Moyer, William Reiber’s had an turkey dinner on New Year. Ou New Year's day there was a bag | roust i excellent of the population (If It can be called that) of the British isles Is the (queer semiwlld foik known as sen gypsies, Real gypsies they are, differing from their fellow gypsies In the fact that {| they always live on the sea and that, never having mingled with landsmen, thelr type Is much purer and more nearly resembles the original. There are about 500 sea gypsies In ritalin. They crulse along the coast, seldom touching the land, but always close to it, In old and wedatherbeaten craft that may have carried thelr grandfathers. When the tide 1s out, the old craft will often drop anchor by a sand bank Island far out at sea, and her crew will grub for cockles with their hands, fil ing a score of baskets, but saying noth i over, 1902 greets you, Throughout the coming year We have determined To Sell More Goods Than we did in 1901. Come and e nupare our Atter Holiday Prices. The 1 Dest goods Ing to each other, for they are alinost out of the habit of specch, They find | fifty shellfish where the ordinary fisher | man’ finds one, but they rarely do the same thing two days runnping. and in the next hour they may be snaring rab bits on a headland miles aw ay. The sea gypsies are wild eyed and thickset. Their halr Is always either Jet black or golden. They are still of almost pure Norse or Danish descent. never having used the land and mixed with the folk to any extent. | Their hands seem to be all thumbs | stead of fingers, so powerft are the digits, becnuse nothing but haul ropes and diz In the i { | | ! | i i | { | { shore in il and stubby | t! tv ey have done | At the Lowest Prices Ougehit to connt, It will count, oods A... , Here to Serve You With the Best G at the Most Reasonable Prices. m—— . * * . . You will find we keeep consta On ] ntiy wand a full line of Dry Goods and Groceries, FineNotions, Boots and Shoes, Rubber Goods, Or any i ry ods usually found in a general Store, . 800C0GOCHOGO We pay market | Country Produce and will ir ZIVC YOU nice, new, chan Kreamer & Son, Centre Hall, Pa. wet sand. — New York Press. = a Bimkins attend a festival. O. T. Corman and | race at the «tare of G. R Meiss, some- Edward Jamison were at the head | thing wuew 4. (1d viciuity. They | of it, | were compelled to walk a certain dis | ..H.F. RosshaN,.. New Furniture Store, Spring Mills, Pa. Of an Large Class. i Bilkins junlor strikes me as | man. or The Y. M. C, A. held a song service | tance with their feet tied together, the | Sunday afternoon in the Methodist | prize being a box of cigars. Two only | chureh, which was well attended. | wou prizes, | Mrs. Annie King, of Bugar Valley,| The sad news reached this place of | spent Sunday with her mother. Mrs. | the death of Ralph, youngest son of | Mary Krape. Wi. Cooney, of Yeagertown, former- | | ly of this place. ¥ { Calvin Bottorf returned home Fri- | in the Acad baildi day after spending several weeks with | { 10€ I 1€ ACRGemny aliging on 33 i 10 meet in the. Academy building { his son John, at Jersey Shore, and also | the 30th uit., to consider and make ar- | : a E a ! | other points iujthat section, rangements for his Golden Anniversa- | : hp . | Wm. Moyer spent several days the! ry,~—fifty years as preceptor—was ex- » “i : . i mF ea 7 past week with his sister, Mrs, Ezra ceedingly interesting and quite large-| . . Ripka, at Lewistown, ly attended, and no doubt from the | ’ . + : X Ralph Rickert, of Centre Hall, spent | great interest taken in the proceed- lav last k at the | f Wm. : ; : day last week at the home o mi. ings by all his pupils both former and I Bg wee ue X siiier, resent, the Golden Anniversary will A . . of > oe of such ota and Miss Ballie Wright, of Tusseyville, | character, that evidently it will not be visited her friend, Miss Myriao Moyer | 5 Sunday, John Ishler bad a roast New Year's | day to which a number of his fiiends | ed through the village streets attired Wele invited in the most absurd costumes and a few Lalvia Rubl and Aaron Detwiler | mounted on jaded animals caparisoned | left or Yeagertown, where they are | It kept the employed in the axe factory. The preliminary meeting called by the former pupils of Dr. D. M. Wolf, vary soon forgotten. New Year's day here was celebrated a3 usual by the Mummers, who parad- riders very busy to prevent their “skel Alfred Reiber left Monday for Phila- | i = bh FU) I i. . * : . . etons” from going in the direction of delphia, where be has secured a posi- | tion as stenographer. Mrs. Reiber will | follow iu a short time when they will i far beyond the ridiculous. | { a feed store, The merchants are now very busily engaged in figuring up the business of | $1art house keeping, i the past year—particularly profit and | Que evening last week Messrs. Rob- | I'he volume of business | €Tt Glasgow and George Kline, of Lin. den Hall, aud Misses Katie Boal and Carrie Bottorf, of this place, had an | upset which spilled them all out; for tunately not any of them were serious | ly irjured. loss accounts, has been larger than usual but the merchonts say the profits will prove exceedingly Competition Is very strong here, and of the | margin frequently verges on the danp- ie : ger line Jouas Bmith, formerly of this place, | Dr. P. W. Leitzell appears to be con- | Vt ow of Philadelphia, where be | stantly driving up or down the road | D8% a position on a street car and was | with almost the rapidity of the wind, | Yufortunate in injuring Lis leg, which i The doctor has obtained by his profes turned into serofuls, after a ten day's | sional skill and ability, also his agree- | visit at the bome of Lis parents, will i able demeanor in the sick chamber, a | 8%ain return to bis position. La grippe is again in this vieinity, light, Course ~0st, only in | the village, bat for miles the sur- | ye ! sonndite country. | Potters Mills. Win. Ruhl, proprietor of the livery | From dist week. i establishment at this place, is doing an excellent and says that while sleighing lasts he could easily not in very extensive practice, : ! i { : i { The Bportsmen’s League, of this | place, had a shooting coutest Christ- { mas day; the prize was a gun and business use a dozen more teams, us at present | he i= able to comply with only about | half the demand. Mr. Ruhl is fully | equipped for the ordinary livery busi- | ness, but when the extraordinary ar- i rives, sleighing for instance, he is left, i The children connected with the M. | E. Sunday school of this place, were | i treated Lo their usual Christmas gift of | candy, and the candy too, was of al very superior quality, unlike most gifs | eandy, which generally contains in : each package a sufficient quantity of | gum to make the recipient a pair of second-grade rubbers. Miss [da Condo left on Wednes lay | last for » ten day's visit to Williams- port and Montgomery. At the latter town she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rishell, formerly of this village. John IJoyd, Democrat, has an- nounced himself a candidate for con ttabulary honors. Orvis Beatty is alin # candidate for the same office. these gentlemen are well known, sound Democrats, aud either one would be a credit to Gregg township, Michael Shires, the popular insur ance agent, remarked a day or two since, that if his business continyed to improve aud accumulate like It has for the last month or two, he would be forced to employ an assistant to keep matters even. Mr, Shires is do- ivg a very large insurance business, and only with the best companies in the United States and Europe, C. P. Long in addition to his gener- ber business. At present he has twelve teams employed in hauling to Landlord Reish was the lucky man. The following persons from this place s pent the holidays at Altoona: Mrs. John Harper, Cora MeClenshan, Mrs. J. T. McCormick was in town bruises, The sick in and about town are Will iam Smith, Malinda Heaton, Nancy Pierce, Mrs. Perry McKinney, Mr. Mattern, Bessie Harshbarger. Grand. ma Smith, who has bern very ill at the home of her son-in-law, Dr. H, 8, Alexander, is slowly improving. ALA You ean buy a first-class blanket at a low price from Boozer, Centre Hall, elise Write Graut Hoover for prices on insurance, ooo ans GRAIN MARKET. Ol Whoa! Ho: NOW ...oovcnionimniss omens corso KYP ovine nen... Old Oats FERRET RRR SORE REE Re a Harie v Eiht id ob bb Lo oH HEE ereee weave vera a 4 “reves reves sesenssis seiner DR Sn - FRODUCE AT STORES, BOUIAE .coiinns os smmnressemmmmn ommirmsns. srg ssssssns UE cs soni conspirns SER ERR VSO AEE i LBP coin iesvmmmersinmonsins spr ss sm sosspess. saves PAVEREOIE THEW sone. sstssinssesiommeissummssssnenmtn Hide MOL. coors mmr ony 3 ¥ * wae TEE rer n : 1" ev Fong * BB coovevinn sarviien FOSERRRE ACR RRS SN CF Se —— SPRING MILLS.O, T. CORMAN, (In excharge for goods, Cash also paid,) TRAE. oouiris se ssninisnns 5 | Rida wwesnses sipsemnsiss OF IVA iu snir sn ninnnin TRHOW. .concpirrssirn ay Huckioberties........ ——- Ret Sp far are ST erat PER aE rae Chickens, 7; 00 Pek... ...... aprons PD TIS rene RE. oirn nsnrininy eeareshibanes my LINDEN NALL MARKET, pring Mills from bis several mills, ¥,500 feet of lumber per week, Of Co rected weekly by J. H, Hoss. Wheat, POR counasnoncyympmess eopimm rome inn ssmmen erin W hont, BU co corns svar enismis srs srsesss stair i PRI pie verern FERRE rsa SEER SR SO SRR Se EW in EERIE Nh SR EAA db bb tet A tt being a very promising youn Timkins—Yes, more promising thap paying.—~Chicago News. - we Semstm—— A ——— oo ———— Woodward. A. Treaster and wife returned from Yeagertown last week, where they spent a week visiting his brother. reports business booming in that see. spring. Monday morning five of the young men from this place left for town. Some of them were Stover and Hosterman tract, Bunday morning Rev. A. mon in the Evangelical church. His Bunday evening C. W,. ed meeting beld by Rev. Burley. Rev. was very glad to have the people come and It was owing to the good by the sled load. about six inches thick: along the side of the pond it is about ten inches thick ing the last rain, measles are spreading rapidly among the children. mill ready to saw any kind of timber, shingles, ete, John J. Orndorf is on the sick list; look oul for the measles, ard took a load of pork Monday evening. C. J. FINKLE Sp ing Mills, Pa. New Store, New Stock .. .... I will be pleased to have a call from all persons wishing to purchase goods in my Hne.....%.... DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, All kinds of Produce taken in exohango for goods, and at prices SESS TOO EO I RR Se sia that will surprise you, New Goods, CRANT HOOVER Controls sixteen of the largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies in the world. No mutuals ; no assessments, Office in Crider’s Stone Building, | Bellefonte, Pa. Bed Telephone connection. BEABOARD AIR LINE KY. CHANGES, METROPOLITAN LIMITED P | M., and Washington UDA AND FLO} Leaves Philadelphia 3 20 Baltimore 545 P. M 100 P. M., daily, and arrives Jackson- ville 350 P. M., convecting for points as far New ing cars to] Atlanta, Jacksouville and Tampa, con- necting with Miami or Port Tam pa. Through sleeping cara to Pinehurst | ns 1 Smyrna. Through sles ’ g ff Bienincrs jor Cuba via Tuesdays, Thursdays and Raturdays, commencing December 3, except pas- setgers in cars leaving Saturdays will | CAFE DINING CAR FERVICE To Florida and Atlanta on Florida | and Mstropolitan Limited, which in al entirely new fealure, SEABOARD FAST MAIL = on “20 A. M, Baltimore 9 34 A. M., and Washington | Leaves Philadelphia connecting al Jacksonville for all Flor. | ida East Const points and Cuba, via | for Tampa, Tallahassee, | and all other interior Florida, Ses. hour of arrival in Atlanta, Through | coaches to Jacksonville on both trains, | STOP OVER PRIVILEGES At Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Cam- den, Columbia and Bavannsh on Win- ter tourist ticket not offered any other line, good either via Richmord or Portsmouth over Seaboard Air Line Railway. MILEAGE TICKETS Good from Washington and between all points on Besboard Air Line, in- cludiog Florida, are on sale at $25.00 for each thousand miles, geod one year from date of sale, These afford many privileges and cheap rales, This is the shortest, quickest and best line to Florida, which this season is more attractive than ever, as never before in the history of the State has the orange crop been so large and the many other fruit growing industries so far developed. Vor all information call on Ticket Agent or address Joe, KE. Miller, Pas: senger Agent, 838 Chestuut Bt,, Phil adelphia. Jono. R. Duval, Passenger Agent, 20) E. Baltimore 8t., Baltimore, Md. W. H. Doll, General Agent, Wash. ington, D., C. oo. POLITICAL ANNOUNUEMENTS, (The rate for snnouncement under this bead is 1.00, when paid in adeance, otherwise $2.25. @ RePonTeEn san not advocate the election of any Democrat por to nomination by the re niar canens Al commnnioations bearing on the sab. Jeet will be oharged for at the mie of ton cents Pet lines iy provided 3 previous arrangements have m att LH James Horner announces thet he # a candi date rr the olfice of Constable of Potter town. stip, su’ ject ta the decision of the Demoeratie erneur of wid district, : Philip Frank announces that He is a candida for the office of Constab’e of Potter township, subject to the decision of the Democratic eanous of sald distriet, A ——— J. Harris Hoy, who is associated with Col, Fred Reynolds in tle agri culture and dairy interests, will be dis associated In the spring. Mr, Hoy has New Prices. HOLIDAY GOODS. We have the larg f roroet 4 1 gL glock of 18 \ ) Talla : { in I enns Valley to seiect 11 i # will be sold at reduced prices first of the vear. ir st Was never so complete, Prices on Stoves, Heats A y Who make a purchase. SMITH BROS. Dr. Smith Salve, For all Kinds of Sores. Post paid by Mail, 25 cts. DR. SMITH CO,, Centre Hall, Pa. CENTRE HALL CARRIAGE ¢ "WORKS. rR GTI i aiitg down. are § i Way a ami Spring Mills, Pa, a | RIRIRNEE \ The Cure that Cures Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis and Incipient We bave been planning for some A Consumption, Is time, not 10 give you Cheap work, But to give you The GERMAN REMEDY Cures throat and \ung diseases. od by all druggists. 25 850s Good work cheap. i : AL the prices we are now doing all kinds of Woodwork, Painting and Trim: mign, using only the very best stock and workmanship is a proof that good work can and is done very cheap i «: T. LEE, Centre Hall, Penn’a. 00080000000 000000000 soos ® ® ® » ® ® ® 5 ® ® © o ® o ® » ® ® You will find the wbest brands of Je ee9°99% 999 Né FLOUR *SeTDDBDBDTBDDYND are kept by JOHN §. AUMAN, CENTRE HALL, PA. Pillsbury Flour ana John $S. Auman Brand are the bes on the market, . SHORTS BRA ry MIDDLINGS always on hand, Custom chopping done at all timer. 1 also keep Salt on hand at all times n grain bags or in burlap sacks, Bam's Pout 4 “Horse & Sto S000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080000000000000 EE SAI Sold by J. ¥. Smith, Centre Hall : ¥. E Wieland R. D. FOREMAN, WM. F. FLORAY FOREMAN & FLORAY {(Suooessors to Geo. W, Ocker,) ~~ DEALERS IN ain, Coal, Flour, Mill Feed, alt, Fertilizers, Farming Implements, &c. We pay the highest cash prices the market will afford for all kinds of grain, and at the same time will offer you goods as mentioned above at the lowe est possible prices consistent with the quality of goods, We make a specialty of FLOUR and carry in stock the best brands to be obtained anywhere, including both winter and spring wheat varieties, In the line of farm implements we offer only the best, including Cham- Plen Binders and Mowers perior rain Drills and Bucher & Gibbs Imperial Plows ~- - - § ~ ul Spring Tooth Harrows and Ove-horse Cultivators. The Champion Binders and Mowers, as well as the Su Deities hive an abil on or durability, of tion, ho tion of work, a es SO as dn a ular since as the low made, Rhares superior to the homer both In 4 and quality of
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