CENTRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY. JANUARY OFFICIALS | Resnlution |» Hutlon | Topics to be Discussed by Men of Practical Ol. LXXVY. 8. 1403. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. An unusually COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE, FARMER'S INSTITUTE, CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. DEATH~ —— ! —————— w——— u New Heads Assumes Charge in the Court i The Besslous Largely Attended House, { MRS, WILLIAM DAL} | New Year's day brought sadness in- A Centre county Farmer's Institute, y E v : [to at least one home ir is vicinity | under the auspices of the department | Be iu this Vicjaity, L. | of agriculture of Pennsylvania il t {for on that day the death angel stole OF agric 'é 0 e sy i w e |; i111 y : linto thé home of William Dale, {held in the town hall in Millheim Arvks the Ntate for a Pension, . { Knowledge. Monday morning the officers elected | The fifty-sixth annual teachers’ in- | in November assumed the respousibil- | stitute beld in Bellefonte ity of their respective offices. The po- | direction of Buperintendent litical complexion of new officers are | Gramley closed a successful session 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. under the bo large number of Penns 5 \ ¥ "alley people attended teachers mi GENERAL REVIEW OF MAJOR AND MI. NOR EVENTS, File—Anec dotes and Observations, A. 148th Experiences of the Rank and Sergeant Co. wl While train to pass a x siding for a telegram from Harris- irg reached that dinnper would be ready for us on arrival, this waiting on us, stating news, for our big breakfast and shaken into We were near- out rushed was good had now been settled a very small cornpass., few miles we | » Harrisburg ; a d for if our a train to pass [| we box-cars for fresh air; wel immense clouds of dust rising and | with I inquired of a native what the light ly drifting along reeze | hat meant and was told e out of Camp Curtin where thirty | thousand new soldiers were being or- | Ly “ Army of the Potomae, defeated and retregting towards Wash- | He said : “The dus! 8X | y over there and you is i 1 ® aee] urselves before evenin y 1 KK. We move to the Har i1 ~ t | and HACK tation. We lef 1, were dirty and t risburg ir it trai ners from the pit, . bruised, mad and bung he | ry, but t Democrats and Republicans, while there was a most strenuous the two opposing political parties to elect the of the party afliliations, auy animosity caus- ti long red men who were ed by the campaign has since riled. Reporter anticipates tha 1 their duties i broad been Tl ie Hl tthe of - ficials who assuae on liberal addil Monday will be and minded and perforin their 4 to ’ Lae p of fit and eredit of the tax The in any justifiable payers ntre county Reporter will re aly to acquiesce Le expenditure of the public moneys, no matter what the political complexion and it will iT ac- of the officers in charge: also be adem o tl ready Lo ¢ vithout regard to politics, when of judgment leads to éxirava- wr profligasy be may well to enumerate the sev- both lit- of Centre county, her with the p« toge ical party which they represent, t with teachers was ked The were also well patronized pac evening with spec- { i | talors, instructors capable and earnest men. i The were, as a rule, | many thoughts presented that would materially benefit the average school teacher, if intelligent grasp them. Officers for the follows : enough to omew, of Centre Hall ; of Howard. Reo, Bec.—Miss Moshannon. Assistant Sec Philipsburg. At the close of the sessions the usual resolutions were adopted. Those interest to the public are appended Whereas, We, the teachers of Centre county, have assembled b dence of God in the 56th vention ; and Whereas, Believing that iu cooper ation with the spirit of progress every where manifest, that we A. A Pletcher, } rs 1 Rankin, of Maude Ella War - M iss of wv the provi- annual ¢ yi ~ PEE { i proportional manner a supre | est in our work ; therefore Resolved, I. That mie iuter- Le wo We had neither asi ere fo d. for dinner $0 be d out and “over ti ound which we stor i vishieq I marche absolute + it consisted of a| ink of boiled fat pork, a hunk of dry , black, chaffy and unpal- ol than none of us| the on through with our din- a8 We were in slart r when we moved ont to Camp Cur- 1 the middle of the road, dust whi id ross }. ar h splashed | al Jdouds that n « sur clothes now assumed a uniform color of Pennsylva. tried to up tted river > At d evers and tO i rt We Cieall to go to the fair afternoon from to a thousand naked men in where the river and pee ple Vv 0 drove "} n aud trains ran. ip Curtin was an immense Lie en- over thirty usand awaiting out We no ouds ¢ ldiers, fits and new shipment south. longer wone- thi AWAY. dered at el yf dust we The KOOUtl = I ¢ hho iif the great at saw, while we were yet miles # $4 3 » Fas § dust was something dreadful, ’ ‘ f ligl x inches deep, hot and ae clouds under Ail ly many would rise in immen ad of the ¢ lg g of hit § aug Ou Lt}! HE moving, coming a oin thousand men, in or Te ¥ dintely | tesms bringing dn nrissary stores, were issued to us (ned assy! fixed up, aug to forty fe it them Uo on lines to us, moved into them and Water we drew from wells in they were thirty er camp; deep, about fifteen feet diameter, i ( in wall with brick and contained fairly good water, A fall outfit uniforms were i= up of eamp equipage and | and order the military authorities, sent home, I of our soldiers | took sick and pever got any farther; nothing like a timely attack of some. | thing Camp Curtin, where we were detained, | sued to us every vestige of citizens’ outfit, by of ' n this camp some Only a short time was spent in | awaiting arms. Thé response to the enll for three hundred thousand more | men was so promptly met that the government found it impossible to far- | nish arms to all as they came in and were organized, therefore, we armed ourselves with clubs, to drill with, do guard duty and turn out ou dress pa- rade. A photograph of these dress pa- raudes under the camp commander, General Tarbutton, would be a valua- ble addition to the collection of funny pictures in a dime museum. When the parade was formed and the general n stentorian tones commanded, ' to the rear ; open order | harch!!” The rear rank would begin to wabble and “ harch 7 backward ; every man's head wabbled snd all gaped right and jeft, downward and skyward, treading he toes of hig neighbor and elbowing for room, until commanded to ** halt"; and all halted, and stood fagt with feet out of sight in the dust oh | what a line that was; of green militia country. men | straighter, perhaps, than any stake and rider fence in the Common- wealth ; and still the general coms mnnded * right dress,” and so we had for every hau had his prince Albert coat on! What soldierly positions the boys , would not assume ; ns their patriotie ardor whe being peppered with great clouds ¢f dust, and roasted to wither- t b ing under a scorching sun; even the lp gy LOCALS it al ts i @ Was A | i Py » Af y ih vierian danse RW ing the Mill irgalis Colver, of Colyer, is and Mir wi which recents fine Hall 0 re 2 Colyer is a corpetist ana fal r He went to I will ya rid Mill Hall Toesday an 1% role instructo ’ of Miss Helen Sechle erk R bert Sech- re iT New presents mentioned Kk place at Lewis! recently, illiamt H. Cox, of { 4 We g the ith the shit was a check of ¢ iniher, is Was RB light of Mrs, Yea. ¥, OOF eg of 13 Ie is there morning wii xt 1} . th and hid Allegheny slieets, is the second Ui COV $5000 = hort {hat witl to in a w hien leads one believe incendiary bas designed ft v it John H. Durst, of Glenn Iron, Un- - sh ion county, in the spring will agsin of having rented the Hiram Durst farm, Centre Hall, of Coburn become a resident Centre county, fF f ge That farm is now occupied by Thomas Scholl, who will pear Aaronsburg and become the farm “ move ti a tenant on Zeigler below at town toed, reel-footed and looked five, the ap- HiAn was fit of his knogk-kneed, warance of every hanoed by the lege, while our prince the shoes: oh those shoes; roomy and easy. But our military caps must not be omitted ; they fit the head all over ; they had goose hill handles; round be- hind, so rain, hail and snow would fol: low the spine and produce the most cooling sensations imaginable, colder the weather the more noticeable it would be, Now as you looked along the line of Gen, Tarbutton's dress pa- and HO posed in every imaginable position; some had themset down on the right ear; some were down on the * wrong! ear : some in the back of the nek, the goose bill skyward; others had the goose bill on the nose; this varied pose of the caps added much to the military and ferocious appearance of the column. The first post I served as guard, armed with 8 part of a gant book handle, was in front of the general's tent. I walked the beat constantly back and forth; time dragged so slowly; I got so tired ; it was so hot ; and late in the night; I wished 1 could sit down and rest just a minute : there were fly-rope plus about two feet high aud I concluded te sit on one and rest a minute, but I had no sooner perched myself when I slept | the general came out ; he rushed at me and yelled: hello, i 3 { ful of their own interests as to absent themselves from some of the sessions without sufficient ca II. That the study of nature ooCuUpy a more protuine gourses of instruction. IIL That | legislature to enact i | the pensioning of teachers R IV. That recommen | regular i188, {HiRle We recomimena a law we also | the State Legislature en § { pelling uniform examinations | various counties, d boards should not allo a that ah Le Woe below a certain minimum salary. d » RECTUS The annual convent held | Thursday forenoon. Esq , of Phi Col. Austin Curtin reclors was in { f i lipsburg, was read a were seconded by Joho A E. G.G. F | tendent Gramley spoks way, touching on the sub] pulsory schools and (Grove and education, towi high centraligati { The officers elected are as {oll : President, 8. H. Beunison, Marion. Vicespres, Dr. 8B. M. Hull, Milesburg, J. P Becretury, H. C 1 ¢ j HER SCHOOLS. PW gr “ae Quigiey, Delegates to i F. Fortuey, Bellefonte ; | Boggs ; U. L |C. T. Fryberger, Philipsburg; | 8 Christ, State College. | Executive committee : Hon . i Heinle, Bellefoute ; 8. W. BEmith, Cen. {tre Hall; Dr. J. A. Thompson, Btorms- | town ; C. H. Pletoher, Howard : A. N | Brungart, Miles, . | The auditing committee reported i that the receipts were $751 17 and ex- | penditures $700.66, leaving a balance | of $80.51. Heckman, Cire Mlate A a) Ciram ley, Rt W. The local institutes will be held as fol | lows ; | | No. 1 at Rebersburg, Feb. 15-14 { © 2at Centre Hall, Jan, 16-17 ¢ 3at Hublersburg, Feb. ‘ 4 at Blanchard, Jan, 30-31 5 at Unionville, Feb, 20-21 6 at Philipsburg, Feb. 6- tr — ! LOCALS, | | Miss Grace Smith is in Williams- | | port on account of the serious iliness of | her friend, Miss Alice Hazlett. | | Miss Jennie Bartholomew, of Loek | | Haven, sister of W. H. Bartholomew, | of this place, is visiting relatives here, oe re “ i i i ! i | Benjamin Emerick purchased thir | | teen acres of land from Mrs. Mollie | | Ross, The price paid was $65.00 per | | more. | A baby boy came to the home of Mr. | and Mrs. Abner Alexander, near the {Old Fort. 1Itis needless to say that | the tiny bundle of humanity is very | welpome, Philip Durst, of near this place, kill ed two hogs that weighed, respective- ly, 206 and 838 pounds, that were re- markable for the amount of fat they rendered. Miss Florence Rhone, daughter of Hon, L. Rhone, Tuesday afternoon left for Wichita, Kansas, where she will remain with her uncle, Robert Bankey, for the winter, O. M. Louberger, of near Pleasant Giap, was one of the many callers at the Reporter office Monday. Mr. Lon berger is a busy man, and pever finds time to loaf after having done his ere i rands and transacted his business, and Friday, January 1 {and 16 | The following program has been ar { ranged for the institute ; THURSDAY AFTERNOON, | My Success in the nr -M + Use of Commercia . 8. Bond, Danville Ww. F Fertilizers We Find Them Hmith, Penn Township. Care and Application of Manure—J. Y Patton, New Castle, Farmers as Rebersburg. EVENING, FHURSDA) sft Prof. Hosterman, Penn Hall. set FEuemie 1 { Prof, Caw + 0f Farm and Garden Jutz, St { * Constitutes a Country Home . 8, Beeds, Birmingham, HIDAY BORNING sreeding Poultry—J. 8. Meyer, Pean Fownship. 1 Preserving i V Peach ( Ri Moisture—James Y. $8 y n £253 alt Prof. Butz, Make oud. ure the Girls Can Farin = AFTYRN iN \ BN . ud Loss in th Rebersburg ¢ Dairy—D. D, Good Clover —d Y. “ertility and Cheapest Way to SR. Beeds. We Reduce Local Taxation Bond, Silage—J. W. Shook, Bpring I'reatment ¥ ern of Apple Orchards Butz, { Life Ex posed -R. B. Beads for the question box f - OF tao iven ning session ; also To - Linden Hall Bliss Meyer, formerly now of Bowling Green, Vir- spending several weeks ds aud relatives, Saturday Ke« returned to il bride returned tour Tuesday. DD. W. Miller, of Pine H. Miller M iss Mr Clar- Morgantown, West of F. E. Wieland last and and M rs of the Hess home EE. Hepler, of Lemont, i» people in this section Rev. D called on b Tuesday Mrs. Elmer Houtz and children visit- ed Grandpa Houtz last week. Miss Maggie Markle is at home with her brother George for a few weeks. Henry Reitz is prospecting for coal farm near here and from pres ent indications he may soon strike a paying vein, F. E. Wieland secured a car load of stove ¢oal this week, the first he has had for some time, M. C. Gephart, of Bellefonte, trans- —_————_-—— A —— LOCALS, Ladie's Fleece lined hose, with light colored feet-—Garman'’s. The stork in distributing its portion of dear little wootsy-tootsies during the first part of January, did not for- get the home of Bruce and Mrs. Rip- ka, at Centre Hill, and left them a lit- tle girl the second day of 1808. J. F. Btoverand wife, W, F. Me- Mills; Henry Homan and wife, of Old Fort; Mrs. Rebecea Cummings and daughter Elsie and son Earl, were all royally entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moyer, west of town, on Bunday. All church people will be interested in the series of articles in the Woman's Home Companion which deals with “The Great Movements Which are Making the World Better.” The first article in this series, dealing with “The Great Work of the Presbyterian Church of America,” appears in the January number, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Musser and little son, of near Penn Hall, on their way home Monday stopped to take a peep at the 'eoons in their winter quar- ters. Mr. and Mrs, Musser delight in pleasing their haudsome littleson, and this particular treat was one the little lad had looked forward to for weeks with the usual childish glee. | Pleasant Gap, and took hence the spir- {it of a loving and affectionate { Mrs, Mary M. Dale, Death was due | to cancer from which the deceased had | been a patient sufferer for over a year {says the Bellefonte Daily News. | The departed was born at the old { Rhone homestead in Potter townshij + {and was the daughter of Jacob and [Barah Rhone. She was seventy years . | of age and was a member of the Luth- ? wife, as been | church work. | of Logan Grange, of Pleasant Gap. Surviving ber are her husband [the following brothers and sisters : Ja- | cob Rhone, Allegheny; Hon. Leonard | Rhone, Centre Hall; Mrs, John Hess | Pine Grove Mills; Mrs. E. E. Bankey, { of Potters Mills; Mrs. John Hixon, Al- Mrs. iden, lowa; Louis i nell, Towa. The funeral services the Lutheran church at were held | Pleasant Gaj Cy pher, Interment at Boalsburg. i ! 1 L friends of re The many M » i i 3 Meese will be sorry to hear of her sud- 3 . den death which occurred at her | Oe jon; Monday morning, 9 Mills. For has been suflering a.m, in Bpring some time Mrs A “ from dre pEY just at this time her death was r unexpected. of She is survived by ni -five son= and f« children ir daught Mr. Nee e having nreceded her to ti Erave Years ago. Interment will be made t day he in Georges Valley, Rev. J. ick, her pastor, officiating Alice fam morping in 1{ Cross cemetery M. Hear. The children are : ua J., Bpring Mills; Rebeces, Vista, Va.: KR. W., J. Howard, and F Aubura, New York: J A.., West Superior, Wis.; Emma, Scalp Level. Deceased ’'s age was sixty-fi two months and eleven days. and Lavi- Beuna d Ve Years, IENRY The death of Henry Brockerhof! oe curred at { Philadelphia, Saturday morning had ni KERHOF} the niversity Hospital, He been a sufferer fre stomsch | trouble for a year or more, and sought {relief in the institution which he died. He was a son of Henry Brocker- { hoff, whose death in 1878, and who at one time was a prominent Bellefonte the Brocker- or the greater part He is survived by a | sister, Miss Mary, aod one brother, Dr, Joseph Brockerhofl, both of Bellefonte m $ Al occurred business man in The deceased managed hoff estate, which f | remained in tact, HENRY PENNINGTON {| Henry dis State | College, New Year's evening, from the | eflects of a stroke of paralysis, being the second time he was stricken. He was a member of Company C, 145th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, | having very faithfally served the cause | of the Union Deceased daughters—Mrs. Robert Mrs. Wm. Kennedy. IToterment took place Sunday morn- ing, the services conducted by Rev. E. | R. Heckman, of the Methodist church. ~ 4 Penuniagton i at and two Brennon and leaves a wife TONER LEATHERS Toner Leathers, at one time a prom- inent politician and merchant at Un- fonville, died in Washington, D. C,, Wednesday afternoon of hemorrhages of the bowels. He was born at Union- ville and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Leathers of that place. He was forty-eight years of age. For several years past with his wife he has been conducting a boarding house at Wash- ington. At one time he kept store at Unionville and during the Spanish- American wer he served with the 17th Regiment P, V, Nano, WM. GRAHAM Sallie, wife of William Graham, died at the home of her stepson, George Graham, at State College, Sunday morning, at the age of sixty-six years. Interment took place Tuesday after noon, Rev, C. T. Aikens officiating. Death was due to paralysis. Mrs. Graham had been for many years a resident of Philipsburg, and was at State College on a visit, CO. BE OfMoers, The Christian Endeavor Society at Egg Hill is one of the most interest. ing and well attended religious servie- es in that quarter, The officers of the body are: President, P. ©. Frank; Vice President, J. M, Carson; Becreta- ry, Lillian P. Frank; Assistant Secre- tary, Elsie Alexander; Treasurer, Bes sie Grove; Librarian, James Alexan- der; Organist, Vera M., Grove. file, Mise Katie Keller went Baturday Viunson Station where sort time Noll, i“ ain a4 (1. W, Lear the pas Lif He { phoid fever Me hiarnta ts Vere nan s i OLhiere , Who have ans sho the market porte i . The serm J. M. Ihe IGATTIage Of Rearich Kip, daughter of and Frank McFaria will take place Ot uary 14th, at the H. Hastings, the Dr. J. F. Alexauder h liscovered a sen and car-sick ] is The of sealed planning to put o: market. remnedy is put up in the form traveling. I'he Grand High Priest of Arch Masons has appointed KE. deg uty grand high priest for the countie of Lycoming, Royal Clarence Else, of Williamsport, district ye ~ linton and to sucoeed his father, the late Daniel Bail ey Else Centre, George W. Earhard, of near Belle- fonte, next spring will move onto the farm of J. T. Potter, west Hall. He will buy in Mr. Potter's stock. Mr. Earhard is a son of Wm. Earhard, deceased, for- merly a resident of Potter township, but was a small boy when his father died at the Old Fort. of Centre one-half interest rof, Crawford, wife and son Alfred, Friday evening arrived from Balti- | more, where they had gone to have an operation performed on the throat and nose of the latter, mention of which was made in last weeks’ issue of the Reporter. The boy will apparently completely recover. He is able to swallow freely, and his hearing, which was very faint, i= again normal, The train east Saturday evening was several hours late, owing to a break- down which occurred at Lemont sta tion. On reaching that point the ex centric shaft beenme disabled, and the train was obliged to wait there until the passenger going west had made its trip to Bellefonte and return when the engine of that train was used by Cone ductor Cook to continue his journey, It was fortunate that the accident hap- pened where there was a siding, or else the delay and inconvenience would have been greater.
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