VOL. LXX)
REFORMED REUNION,
Third Annual Gathering of the Centre Hall
Charge Last Thursday
On last Thursday the reunion of the
Reformed congregations of the Centre
Hall charge was held in the Old Fort
It was a gala day for all
formeds in various congregsa-
tions. The rather
threatening in the morning, but every-
body said to himself and herself that
it was not going to rain and started
for the grounds.
in the morning the conveyances began
to come into the grove, carrying peo-
ple prepared to stay all day and have
ing left all care behind were ready to
receive all the good that was to be got.
ten out of the services to be held and
the association with friends. Almost
five hundred people assembled on the
rrounds before noon and were address-
ed by Rev. A. U. Whitmer, of Lancas.
ter, on the subject of Home Missions.
He presented his subject in in-
structive manner and held the atten-
tion of his audience throughout, After
this address the dinner hour came and
with it the good things that had been |
Every body had a big pic-
one went away
Lire
woods. “
these
weather looked
a clear,
prepared.
nic dinner and
hungry.
In the afternoon many more people
the crowd
The servie-
Rev. Am
nte., Then |
the former pastors
Rev. 8. H,
the first
by Rev
He, and]
no
came £0 the grounds and
was swelled considerably.
rayer by
Tht
Bellef
es were opened by pt
brose Bchmidt, of
came the talks from
of the Centre Hall charge.
Isenberg, of Millersburg,
to speak. followed
Thos. F. Land, of Millersvi
thea Rev. W. H., Groh, of
The peopla were all anxi
Ok
ud anxiously
Was
He was
C
to
listen
ui lil.
His
from each ote a
to what each one had to
the services were Ls
gould remained and took
the grounds. Games werg played and
every one bad a gooa Lime 7
to go home égne Loo soon aud the peo-
ple went back fo their homes with
another happy day lalk
This yearly reunion is au iaatjutior
over
supper
time
ue
about.
od congregations of thischarge. Every
yesr has shown increased interest and
enthusiasm, and this day
ing more aud more & geasig] holiday
throughout the Reformed chureh of
thio region. But this day js not
iahly get apart for Reformeds
“The dey of church bigotry
gone by and where there is good in a]
spiritusi snd social way for all, every
one is most eordially inyiied.
The reunion of lust we ek BLOB Bi
liberal feeliog that pervades the whole |
community in this region. Everyone]
ge & Christian seeking
is becom-
geal |
has long
i
3 Lie
was there SOLE
good, and each ops found it both spir-
ftually and socially, This js the spir-
it that should be fostercd snd guitivat- |
ed until these reunions are an occasion
for a holiday for all.
Rev. Thos. F. Land, of Millersville, |
a former pastor of the Centre Hall}
charge, epoke of the Reformed church |
jn a general way,
The Rp aker began by saylng (Lal lie
counted jmself bappy to be present al ¥
this reuniom of the people of the Cen-|
tre Hall charge, for jt was among them
that hie had apent four of phe happiest
years of his life. Althoggh ke | d
some old familiar faces—those of [a-
thers Jolin Keller, Peter Hoffer, Si
mon Harper, Michael Tibbeps, David
Crape, and mothers Ainey, Joozer,
and others, still he ksew that their
spirits were present, rejoicing with
those assembled in the festivities of
the day.
He wag twice happy to be with them
in that this gethering revealed a unit-
ed spirit, a union. A spirit of harmo
ny and concord had ewer pharacterized
the people of the Centre Hail gharge,
and he was giad to see that this spit
still existed.
The speaker was thrice happy in be
ing present because it was a reunion,
where they Lad laid aside their labors
of head and of band, and bad met fo
greet each «ther, to renew old [ellow-
shipe, to recount the achievements of
the past, and to plan for greater things
fn the future,
Bat he regarded himself gs four times
happy, in that it was a reunion of
members of the Reformed church. He
rejoiced in these Beformed reunions.
It was to him an evidence that they
were coming to a sort of self-conggious-
ness of themselves, and toa realization
of the noble part they bad played in
the history of the world and our own
country. He desired to say that no
people had a greater right to weet in
this land on an ocession such as Lhe
present than the Reformed people, for
they were the first to be here. The
doctrines of the Heidelberg] Catechism
were taught on Manhattan Island in
1614, before the pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rook. And as for our own
state, the first colony on the banks of
the Delaware was established at New
Castle, by Peter Minuit, a German, a
deacon of the Reformed church at We-
sel. This was in 1628, more than forty
iia
$11858¢
1654 there was a Reformed econgrega-
tion at New Castle. Moreover, the
policy, for which Wm. Penn is justly
honored, of buying his land from the
Indians was practiced by this German
deacon of the Reformed church before
him, so that he did not have to buy
the land which Philadelphia
stands, it having been already bought
by Peter Minuit. The mother of Wm,
Penn was a member
teformed church, and he him-
his broad ecatholie
spirit of religious toleration to one of
Amyrault, a
minister of the Reformed church, Al-
though the members of the Reformed
Church did not begin to come in large
numbers until about 1709, the first col-
onists at Germantown being Mennon-
yet the very that brought
Pastorius colony in 1683,
Dilbeck, an ener-
getic member of the Reformed church,
aud in the 1684 of the
Van Bebbers in writing bome to Eu-
rope, & us, there are
at Germatitow srraed and Lathe
on
a Dutch woman,
self le Ref owed
his religious teachers
ites, ship
and bis
brought on it Isaac
next year, one
‘8 ezide
tran.”
The people of the Reformed church
have also good reason to be proud of
church because of its ancestry.
Not only were they Germans, but they
were of the best German Park-
man has stigmatized them as “stupid
and ignorant boore.” He did not know
writing Their
most fertile
industry and
¢ ita very girden of the
industry and thrift of
scendants have done with Lao-
ster county and the Lebanon Valley
in his “Duteh and Quaker Com-
h, “In jourvey-
ate, all the way
blood,
what he was about,
home was the finest and
Their
ik 3 va tl '
DIOLWYR # IYS LUIS J
1 Palatit
IR
lt
Frise rasiy Ls
HTOH Dias 10
Hterdam, one is
with
perpetually the general
snd refine
and per-
reason for
within the
our impres-
much the
ce and devotion to
Lge
sharaoter
there is
apy time
uries
¢ been very
wr fi
id hav
} ve oe)
sion wou
ame.’’
by bone.
horrors of the
hich in the
truth they suf passed
%
fiy. L this was only the be-
¢ as compared with
nd by Louis
the devagialian o land
i LGeir
XtVinl
’
HE Were
680. when ball a
three
uaiilion peo
days of grace
within which to leave the land, when
in flames, their]
their orch-
whole land
a wilderness. Says a
subject of legiti-
descendants of these
they not
the terrible suflerings
¢ persecutions that fol-
example of ove
pastors who was § coward of
sroved untrue to his office,
And their descendants in colonial
noted for their piety, and
ir love of the Bible, There is
ll German family that |
old heir: |
looms. The first Bible prioted in a
European langusge, in this country,
was printed in German German
town in 1743. It was not till after the
Revoletioy and after this German Bi.
sie had gone through ibis pgitiofs,
that an Eoglish publisher undertook
to publish an English Bible, and then
only after be had secured subscriptions
to guarantee him against loss,
We can be progd of our people in
every walk of life. The Wrst great ison
masters were Veupsyivania Hemam.
I'he first stoves weve iiogde by Barron
Stiegel. Their woolen and ff ax Indus
tries at Germantown were famous all
ver the colonies. The first paper mill
in Awmecicg wee built by a German,
Rittenhouse. 10 seenus you idape not
overlook Rittenhouse, the astronomer,
Muhlenberg, the botanist, Melsheimer,
the father of American entomology,
Leidy gud (iross, in surgery and med-
icine. It was a [fermen feper that
first annoguced the deglarglioy of in;
dependence. Nine governors of our
state have been German, among them
Wolf, who secured the passage of the
act setablishing the free school system,
and Ritner, whose manly protest
against the encroachments of the siayp
power brought forth from Whittier
thy lines
“Thank God for the token, one lip is
still free,
Untrammeled one spirit, unbending
one knee.”
The speaker closed by confessing
that on speh § theme, the time was
too short, and the materis) too abuogd-
ant to do more than merely spraleh
the surface. He hoped that this im-
perfect showing would serve to move
his hearers to feel an interest and a
pride in the race from which they
bave descended pod the chureb to
which they belong.
——— fA
Dorothy Bodd.
give
cities went up
is were destroyed,
the
wo, and
d i
rite
convert
recent w Lisa
+
OW could be
rashied. i
fo » 3
OF Wag Si
lowed there ig Noi 40
of their
orth
BURT wh Le J id
tues
does pot have ale Of
at
years before Wm. Penn came to Phila.
Dorothy D odd,
HA Ll,
FROM OKLAHOMA
A Letter from Samuel Kender Speaks Well
of New State,
Samuel Krader, on August 15th,
writes from Mountainview, Oklahoma:
I have been in this place one year and
bave never enjoyed better health. The
climate is delightful; during last win-
ter there were but three weeks of cold
weather, when the ground was frozen
to a depth of from one to three inches,
At one time there was ice on the river
five inches thick; snow covered the
ground at different times from one to
three inches but never lasted over the
day as the sun soon melted it. Cattle
run in pasture all winter.
In February farmers generally begin
to plant their oats and barley; plow
for corn and plant it in March and
April. In May and June they plant
their cotton, and in June harvest
comes; wheat was very good, rye light
in weight, the yield to the acre being
light on account of having been pas
tured too late.
Farmers sow from forty-five to sixty
pounds of wheat to the acre and plant
from one to two kernels of corn to the
hill. The corn is cut and on shocks:
Kafir corn is coming on and will be
ready to cut about the first of Beptem-
ber. Potatoes are all raised and the
ground planted for the second ctop
with tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes,
onions, ete, of which two
raised in a year,
Farmers have commenced plowing
for the sowing of rye and wheat for
pasture for the cattle during the wion-
ter. The sowing is done during the
months of September and October and
the wheat remains green daring the
winter. Great herds of cattle are pas
tured on the prairies where the grass
stands from two to four feet high the
year ‘round, and cattle are prepared
for market from this pasture without
feeding any grain.
Farming here is very easy and plow-
ing can be done almost all year. The
uew settlers came here and took pos
session of their homesteads last Au-
Crops are
I'hey at once started farmin
have wheat, rye, oats,
and all other necessaries, and
of them have less than from forty
one hundred acres in good state of
tivation. Plows run all
1g and now
acorn, ootion,
cul-
and whatever they desire
when planting time comes.
peach and pear orchards are
growing, and it Is surprising
willing hands can do.
| milling and cotton ginning, that
taking the seeds from the cotton,
{a
Is,
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LOCALS,
mixed car load of stock Friday.
ers Mills, were in town the other day,
Prof. J. . Adama,
has been elected an
Franklin and Marshall College,
caster,
Harry Bible, of near Centre Hill, is
clerkiog in the genersl stare of Meyer
& Musser, during the absenceof I. V.
Musser, the junior member of the firm.
Judge Love has appointed John D.
Decker, of Potter township, a jury com-
missioner to serve out the unexpired
teria of William Robt, decgased, late
of Curtin township.
J. P. Grove, of Farmers Mills, was
in town Thursday to attend the Re-
formed reunion, and showed his ap-
freeiation of the Reporter hy adyang.
ng his subscription for a year.
Ambrose Slateman, the prothogc-
tary'y plerk, is ip ungsyally good spir,
its, because he hopes to hear ** papa '!
whispered into his ear as soon as that
new baby boy learns to articulate,
Prof. Chas. Griffin, accompanied by
his wife and daughter, left State Col
lege Inst week to go to Byracuse, N. Y.,
where the Professor will become a
member of the faculty of Byracuse
University,
Have you ordered your phosphalg
from D. W. Bradford ? If you have
not consulted him, perhaps you have
not compared your prices and goods
with the best grades of fertilizers and
inwest possible cash prices,
Centre pounty Josey a good Demo:
erat in the person of J. M. MeDowell,
formerly chemist in the experiment
station at State College, by his acoept-
ance of a position as {raveling saley:
man for a company with A
in Philadelphia,
Geo. H, Emerick is keeping abreast
the times ip threshing machinery, and
this seasan Lis added & new straw
elevator that tickles the farmers won-
derfully, There ls no such thingasa
great heap of straw in the barn fluor
when be gets through threshing a
prop, as wae the onse with the old style
levator.
—————————————————
Dorothy Dodd.
Dorothy Dodd,
HURSDAY.
DEATHS,
JOY VONADA,
Joy, a little child of Mr. and Mrs,
Pierce Vonads, of near Penns Cave,
died Bunday afternoon. The little one
was aged about eight months, cholera
infantum was the disease. Interment
Wednesday, Rev. G. W. Kershner of-
ficiating.
MRS. ABRAHAM SWITZER,
Elizabeth M., wife of Abraham
Bwitzer, died Thursday afternoon of
last week at her home at Coleville, of
tuberculosis. She was about forty-
eight years of age and is survived by
her husband and several children,
WILLIAM WOODS,
William,
Mr. and Mrs. John Woods, of Boals-
burg, died suddenly Wednesday of last
week, from heart Interment
was made in union cemetery at Boals-
burg, Rev. J. M. Rearick officiating.
disease,
J. M. Hubler, of near. Pine Hall,
died Friday night after a brief illness
of typhoid fever, at the age of fifty
years, Mr, Hubler was a
by occupation, and a man of powerful
physique. The
ther of J. W. D.
this place, He
deceased was the
Hubler, formerly
alsa leaves a widow,
ni
E(
CLD? LA
Clyde Coxie died at his home in
morning of
of nearly
interred at
by a wife,
and four small children.
His age was about
While a resident
employed by the
road company.
loony Wednesday last
week, alter
year. The remains
Boalsburg.
Ril iHness one
were
He is susvived
Nanuie Hook
thirty-three years,
of Altoona he
Pennsylvania
Was
rail
MRE J M. BRICKER
Mrs. J. M. Bricker died at her home
at Buffalo Run Bunday evening, after
a long illness. loterment at Salona,
jand Mrs,
iaged thirty-six years and ten
| Besides her parents to mourn her loss,
re her husband, Mr. J. M.
| Manager of Mr. F. H.
| and two daughters,
trude,
anys
Clemson's farm,
E. B.
of Jersey
in
of inst week.
Shore junc-
bed early
Mr. |
Mre. Hooge went to bed |
bead. Neither thought that it was
£11
fell
About
aswakeved, when she
band dead.
Before taking up his residence in
she
her hus
1480 o'clock
found
asleep.
His remains were taken to
Watsontown Baturday for interment.
MEE. MARY ERAPE
The death of Mrs. Krape, widow of
ness due to paralysis, early Monday
morning at her home at Spring Mills,
where she had lived for tweniy years.
Fuogral took place this ( Thursday )
morning, Rev, G. W. Kershner of.
ficiating.
The deceased's maiden name was
Mary A. Ross, a daughter of Irvin
Ross. Her marriage to Mr. Krape
took place July 4, 1867. To this union
the following surviving children were
born : Mrs. A. A. King, Spring Mills ;
R. Austin Krape, Centre Hall ; G, A.
Krape, Johnstown ; J. 8, and J. B,
Krape, Spring Mills,
Prior to takiog up their residence at
Spring Mills the eouple lived at Pine
Grove Mills,
lp
LOCALS,
W. A. Odenkirk bad charge of the
Mifflinburg railroad station last week
during the abgenge of the regular
agent.
Mrs. Carrie Emerick Ruhl), wife of
Andrew Ruhl, of Buffalo Cross Roads,
is visiting in Centre Hall, hes former
home,
The Fenvaylvavia railroad compa.
ny has decided that all steps on coach
es and passenger cars shall be increased
from three to four,
Hohwab's advice : how to succeed, Is
sales: | given in angther column. Not every
one who follows that advice may be-
come a wealthy Bchwab, but he will
become a man in ita truest sense,
The Sunday school of Emanuel’s
church, at Tusseyville, will hold a
pienic Saturday, August 30, on Zion
Hill. All Bunday schools aod others
are invited,
Harvey Burd and wife, says the Mir
flinburg of Rebersburg, who
stopped off for a brief visit with jewel.
er Leitzell and family on their return
from Philadelphia, went home Wed.
» 1902.
—— NO. 33.
POOR ROADS,
Grumbliog but not Willing to be Taxed to
Make Good Roads,
A greatdeal of complaint js made
against road supervisors for not keep-
ing the roads in better condition. This
complaint is general, not only in Cen-
tre Hall borough, Potter township and
Centre county, but all over the
he unusual fall of rain during
past eight weeks has wrought
damage to the roads and it will require
the total annual tax to put the roads
in the game condition that they were
prior to the beginning of the rainy sea-
son. Thus the tax of will be
#pent without any improvement what-
ever on the general condition of the
roads, The same was case last
the year before and go on,
The condition of the public high-
ways in the country districts will nec.
esearily be poor for years to come, un-
der the present system, other,
ald of
state,
the
great
1002
the
| year,
or any
to the
listricts in road
and maintenance,
To put the roads of a tow nehip li
Potter in such conditic
mouths of the ¢
{ woul
unless the state comes
country { construction
ke
in as to close the
ironic road grumble
the levying
that
to
i
d necessitate
enormous tax, a
owners would be
tax
unable
many instances tl who
1e person Com.
plains most of the
i 3
roads and other
be the first t
ithe
surroundings,
0 compiain
initial step toward buildi
roads, if the money to be
to be derived
I
and insi
by direct
very citizen shoul
gL thal the
present sysiem
levied une
ied
ax
be
best possible manner,
the appl in tl
on to “work out’ : if
i be
f
fa Ter
AEs PETS
his tax he
apy | on the road, he shoul
{ dustrious as thoug
most impor
applying the cash tax
will be
h hew ring
‘his own tant
ully
i
LOT,
BUDETVIsOrs 1
Euperv i" Pe
their duty, aod leave no reasor
complaint under the present road Ia
an I — —
LOCALS,
Mrs. Maggie Allison, «
ce
{ Howard,
ent Hall
Was |
guest of friends in
week.
1 he
four
Ie
Huntingdon
bundred and
mates,
The Reporter is indebted
Arney for beautiful
Pretty,
a
indeed.
£
{3¢ orge Meias, Of Pp is that |
olyer, repor
his pend h orchard at
night recently and dropped mail, that
Bat
pplication.
Leona Barner, daughter of Mr
Mrs. (G. H. Barner, north of Logan
nd
on
a
$
ia
mornin of
aged one
holera in
abd
g
year eig
F. M. of
company with
tany, “did”
Pletcher, Blanchard,
A. A. Pletcher, of Nit
Penns Valley last week
publishers, and candidly, honestly and
1
rectors.
Cyrus Luse, wife and grandson Paul |
friends in Centre county. Mr.
a resident of Tyrone, but never fails to
where he receives a royal
wherever he goes,
welcome
caller Monday, and states that
year or more ago was destroyed by
fire, on account of the high price and
soareity of lumber. That may be
thought a peculiar condition about
Potters Mills, but it isa fact.
Dr. Radelifte, wife and daughter,
Miss Barah, Monday went to Mifflin
county, where they will remain a short
time before returning to their Phila-
delphia home. While in Centre Hall
Dr. Radcliffe exam. isd the eyes of
many patients who insisted on him de-
voting part of his vacation for their
benefit,
. John W. Bottorf, son of C. A. Bot-
torf, of Yeagertown, is spending a
short time with relatives in and about
Colyer, and was also a caller at this of-
fice. Mr. Bottorf handles an electric
crane with a lifting eapacity of fifteen
tons, at the Barnham Steel works, and
has been in the services of that compa.
ny for two years,
B. E. Bpangler and wife, of Chieago,
came to Centre Hall Monday for a
week's stay with Mr. Bpangler’s father
W. W. Spangler, after which they
will go to Howard, the fo.mer home
of Mrs, Bpangler, whose maiden name
was Mary Wister, a daughter of Geo.
Wister. Mr. Spangler is engaged
with a large factory which daily
turns out a large number of cigar boxes
made largely of wood that is im ported
in surfaced logs from Cuba and Mexico,
Mr. Spangler speaks highly of Chiea-
£0 as a money making eity, is anys
the municipal im
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Miss Velma Bimkins,
is the guest of her
Schuyler,
Mrs,
of Lansdown,
sunt, Mrs. W. H.
Calvin M. Bower departed last
week for an extended visit to friends
. Joseph, Mo.
in Kt
tn Mi $
Miss Emma Hoffer, of Philadelphia,
Was among friends in Centre Hall and
Bellefonte ] week,
ile fst
The C
ciation will hold
at Hecla Park,
The
x"
YY heat
enitre
Veteran's Asso-
theirannual reunion
“nt
PL.
county
» Li
threshing season has opened,
§ 1.41 or oF g
18 yields very well to the
id fairly well to the
ig
i slraw ar acre
! the
ind
were
front of your
see how you
would lik not your own.
A village campmeeting will be held
in the United Evangelical church,
Linden Hall, eplember 24-28 ineclu-
inst, a festival will
1 of the Lutheran
ds will be used to build
f
of the church.
burglars made
Holmes &
but were
into
lege,
gained an
irlady, of Hunting-
or court judges,
to pay hijs reé
Shannon and
electric rail-
to be
aiists of the form-
uid be a great con-
Milroy people,
of an
eedsville
two stories struck
carpenter of Slate
with such force
ck into several
the want's
3
i
ever cut
£ ly
4 and
Murgaret Dalby,
i wife and
of
home of
re Hall,
Dalby
si,
sia
James,
£4
bad
ities of sec-
this section.
ecoud erop of
ilk then the
peTior, especi-
I prevails when
IAN
aiiy 13
Are, Monday
a1 which place
iis brother
He
iter Miss
I para-
ie
4 disabled
Calne
0%,
burg, for
iil at the
Nhadle,
rginia Her
for last week,
f his wife as
reports
proved.
sedis
de
From last
| Mrs.
M iss
f Jen
Tressler, daughter
{ Pine Grove Mille,
ibe {
» Aressler, «
of
and Shorthand, Kansas City,
« Hihow leaving that iostitution has
desirable position with
{ Kansas City, Mo.,
With very fair chances for promotion.
The Lock Haven Democrat says,
Dr. Charles Leitzell, of Cedarville, IIL.
is circulating smoug former Yriends
bere. Dr. Leitzell is the son of Dr. J
EB. Leitzell, who for many years prac-
ticed medicine at Salona, this county.
Charlie, as be was familiarly called,
bears a strong resemblance to his
father.
a gracuale
Busiu
Mo
eutral College of
The shrill whistle of the steam trac-
tion engines gives notice to road super-
visors to have bridges in good con
dition and thus avoid accidents, delays
and law suits. These heavy praction
eugives have become a necessity, and
provision should be made go that
their progress is not retarded by un-
safe bridges,
The location of the chapel at State
College is causing considerable discus.
sion, There appears to be a great va
riation of opinion just where Schwab's
gift should be located. There is a
right and wrong loeaticn, and great
care should be taken to select the most
suitable spot, from every point of view,
upon whizh to erect this magnificent
gift,
‘An important case was argued before
Judge Bell Wednesday, of last week
says the Daily News, involving a judg-
ment of $3,000 growing out of a parts
nership between D, H. Hastings and
the late John W. Cooke some twenty
years ago. Thomas B. Harned and
Clement Dale represented the John W,
Cooke interest while Ellis L, Orvis
not and Wilbur F, Reeder d D.
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