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~
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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
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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
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|
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-
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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.