PA EH SH TE im > XVI VOL. LX2 CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR, 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. REVIEW OUMAJOR AND MH NOR EVENTS, GENERA!® File dotes and Observations, By T. P. Meyer, ’ * » r Regiment, PV. Experiences of the Hank sad Anve Sergeant Co. A., 145th Our great military horizon, viewed at this time, was almost concealed by elouds rolling dun; vet, since the war- day of Al President Lincoln, Ger by re. Me- army, and tielam, when, nes more took the ie enemy, the skies were a lit- the prospect Everywhere, in s brighter and BOING what more brief lull of the cannon’s roar, the cheering. the juyriad voices of earnest preparation were still heard. I'he ri ing in every hamlet and field, gather- devoted defenders seruiting drum was still roll- ing in its train the of the country and sweeping them yward at once to join the fighting which were being eadiness for an advance at all cle udy, took $e L sraase NNPRNY; tWO en Gest . desertions the day following 3 ILOTE | their example . Wolf, who ecotupany, wns tight be others who eon- ing the white feos und the guard ar 11 men at all hazard ry dark and rainy anc grabbed me by SRD led to Know i That why wasn't me, I said ted; you were yelling You i your man, I claimed, you must tbe vbed you. yell in this darkness must 1 to con ot “I" but own to the real offend- out- time horrible other side of «1 over ther around camp il the Fist ue SIV, in the rain midnight Mouoday quorning, December 8th, 1862, the com- [is «dd Le had everythiog yead v1 was routed out and we commenc- and daybreak we up But orders came t« next by cleared » PACK U} and were Fes day Hove oain fu barrecks Lo move atl ive a, mm, Ihe inch snow on the ground, a fierce w.n- We moved to the weather was very cold, a four fer wind blowing. glali froze waiting for our freight train and the bails fi We stood and stamped round in the snow {0 n at daybreak, where we nearly hie regiment. dawn until two p. m., and during this time the entire village seemed to be cooking coffee for us, bringing it, | Loiling het, in coflee pots and b ickets, | with bread and biscuit, a noble treat | gt this Lime i The lady stadents of the Female Bemivary, Maryland (lollege, | came over, accompanied by the prio-| cipal of the institution, Rev, Badtier, | who made us a very nice little speech | snd offered prayer in behalf of the sol- diers, Union and peace. Then| Mrs. Marston came forward and pre-| gonted a very nice flag to the compa- | Iy, expressing the hope that the boys | would never waver in now i the the defense of the “starry banner; it was received with cheers, The ladies remained among the boys in wind and snow, talkiog to and ex- horting them to avoid the pitfalls of griay life, and to remuember the great uncertainty of life in war, It was near two o'clock p. m. when our freight train, with the balance of the Regiment on board came. In a ghort time we were also packed in box cars, which seemed colder even than outside, and on our way to the army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, Va, {o join ln a winter campaign. ep, Churgh Dadieated in Altoons The new St. Paul's Lutheran chureh, & handsome gothic structure, at West Chestnut Avenue and Thirteenth treet, Altoona, was dedicated Sunday, A sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. A.B. Hartman, of Baltimore, secretary of the Home Mission Board, Rev, E. J. Mitzler is the pastor of the church, Gained by In Ohio, the schools of townships are vow fully centralized, and there is a partial centralization in 150 others, under a general law which permits the people the the propo tny township at annual town election to vote on small and transport the ehil- central centralization abandon the oa to district schools dren at public expense in nu school. I'bis townshis of schools began at Kingsville, Ashta- 1 bula Couuty, 1504 Five teachers are employed in the Kingsville school, and to it are Lrought sill the children of the townsuip (an area of the twenty-five square miles, exception of two districts ‘ou WAROUS are re- $97 a month, for the nine monthsof the school year. a total cost of quired, at There is an actual saving to the town- sbip under this plan, and, at the same time, a marked gain in attendance and in school efliciency. In Madison town- ship, Lake County, the superintendent reports the cost of tuition per pupil- on the basis of total enrollment, — as reduced from $16 to $10 48; and —ou the basis of daily attend I'he t he same as under the old i lan, t that ili= S43 i ett Ht ndance,—from ial expense, bowever, this is explained by the fad Niate =, Wik i i Hig new | een ' EX ent it r oi in its complete col ¥ t forin, bu lecting country «chool pupils in larger taken a firm lodgment: icts have been consolidated, reports Ww transported inn school in 181 regularly and fre Wagons [Hinois g still with it a the Superintendent aw permitting transportation of pu- : . pils; B iy lien $ Ales the union of weak tke strong ones wherever In A no farther than to permit high there viliage or Michigan legislation, ofganisation of eentral in townships in which not already existing graded schools; but no provision is i 3 in made for the trapsportation of pupi Iu the Upper Penin- some districts to the schools sila, however, school HARRY 8. ROSSMAN After an illness that had extended over a period of sixteen months Harry 8. Rossman passed away at the home of his mother, at Nittany. Deceased was about forty-five years of age and held in high regard for his many gstimable qualities by the people of Nittany Valley. GEORGE C. 2ETTLE George C. Zettle, one of the oldest residents of this county, died at his home near Shiloh chureh, Friday aft- grnoon, after an illness of a few days, age being eighty-eight years, BSurviv- ing him are the following children : George W., of Milesburg; David, of Bennett, Nebraska; Mrs. Emanuel Pe ters, Oak Hall; Mrs. Emanuel Shuey, Dalton City, 111; Mra. Clyde Thomas, State College; Mrs. William Grove and Samuel, of Bhiloh; Mrs, Wms Musser and Mrs, Joho Shade), of Bellefonte The funeral took place Monday, Dr, W. P. Bhriner, of the Methodist chureh, of which he was a member, officiating. Interment was made al Shiloh cemetery, MRE. JOHN GENTZEL, The death of Mrs. John Gentzel oe. curred Thursday morning of last week, tation, without any special sanction of Btate law, and are well satisfied w the results of the experiment the Buffalo Center plan of In own, centraliza, lion has been in operation for the pa five years; this is eseentinlly tise Nebraska is portance of consolidation ux system, alive to toward the betiermuent of hes schools he same thing is Minnesota and the two Dako! One of the school distriets County, Tenn. ,—the county Knoxville is situated, —is now ing attempt to establish a model dustrial school in stiract- mucho attention ws the rurai-in- which lustruetion will be given in both indoor and out- door mauual training. thisdistrict citizens, and The people of the tenth are intelligent are dissatisfied schools now in trict, operation in of which there are nine pupils and two for colored sus of 1900 showed that there the district 803 white i Theave for teachers The determine and 124 colored. sation has month. people of ad Lo ui one ¢fheies purp I'he Genes have now white schools in school, and for this Ki raised about §5.1 cation Board will cooperate wit citizens in building u dustrial i school, ement taught el training tnife worl scientific cooking, borticull Teun R&R BCHOOOE will be added to, if necessar tended this sche growth, and probably agriculture, and the like. be secured as that required years will be ] tion. The progress school will te terest, especially South, and stimulus to {IK sections Fbese notes on the se tion movement, north at that the scheme has | ticable, io one form or anot Ww idely fiverse conditions tema under which school raised and expended differs great the different Btates: but we that, whatever Have see the system way has been. found to bri merging of feeble schools gnes, to the satisfaction and that this with seemingly equal facilit trict, No scheme of ¢ has been ac township and county snsolidation or that can Lg Ep plied with equal rucoess to every lo- Iie considered io each ization can be devia cality lopal situation inust Le Be dcceed- sepainle Case cause the people of Ohio have ed io centralizing their so wuship pian, It by noe lows that the people of Tennessee do precisely the same thing in precise ly the same way, working under their county system. For ws ties that have yel plan of aotion, Ohio's met HE seem practicable; for others, ly In the Bouth, the expeiience of! southern states may have far more uee- | ful lessons, tion, =o nue communis not adopted any may tticular- No advocate of consolida. far as'known, believes that identically the same scheme employed in all the States, can be She was a resident of pear Coburn. In terment was made in Georges Valley, Death was due to apoplexy. ELIZABETH CROVSE Mrs. Elizabeth Crouse, of Smullton, died Bunday evening after an illness of about two months of heart trouble, Hhe was the wife of Johu Crouse, who died about twenty-two years ago, and she had been with herson George, at the old homestead ever singe the death of her husband. 8he was a daughter of John Long sud wes born in Beaver- town, Union county, November 5, | 1886, aged sixty-six years, three months aud ten days. She was a member of the Reformed church for many years, and will be greatly miss ed in the community and by sll friends + aod neighbars. Thoge who mourn the lows of a king benried mother are, Ma. ty Bruogart, Anus Weber, Emma Brangart, east of Rebersburg; Della Haugh, Ida Walizer and George W,, of Amulitor ; Sallie Frazier, of Illinois. Funeral services were held Wednesday forenogp, at Rebersburg, conducted by | ev. Wetzel, Interment In the Une [ton celnelery. C—O Write Grant Hoover for prices on insurance, ooo 1903. : Salem Reformed Church, Penn Hall. Erected 1859; Re-dedicated Feb. 15, 1903. THE SALEM CHURCH A marble slab placed in the by H. GG. Btrohmeler, Céntre Hall. The carpet for the Fisher family. Brief Deseriptioo Dimensions —Cost —¥e morial Windows, Ete formed church, east of vem R was rededicated Bunday 15, 1903. The day mally disagreeable ond, nts did embers Prof. Hosterman, contractor, and made by the The pulpit chairs in memory of Mrs, Charlotte Keller by Mrs. Frank M. Fisher, The choir chairs by not control the of the ¢ y assemble her daughter, YOR rey 14 to forma purposes Lheir beau- Hp D. rs BETION, as The Bunday school bo M. Wolf A chandelier delivered by the jee Centre for Sarah IL. presented Mrs week, was : auditorium Kershuoer, of the wi The extract will Fisher. The Bmith, the contractor church. sermon recess was ne, and an The building committee posed of Messrs. W. P. H W. Evans, J. K. Bitner, } J. B. Meyer. The contractor for was Robert Bmith. ids was do The the church was $2 . § Boalsburg 240 had been pro- the Spring Mills. The present church officers are : El- ders, J. Wells Ev Frank Hoster- man. Trustees, W. P. Hosterman. J K. Bitner Deacons, W. A John H rman, Elias N cepe woodwork usiy, and $654 was subscript i On iption RIN, + Salem con- art is without a pastor, . na N eepe hav been the on ; Weaver, J. D ¢ is, however ' the matter of HISTORICAL VACTS # begun {to re. Ihe Was No more boas rand Concersiug the Salem Reformed Church CHurcn Pastors and Members Salem tory structure 1 1858 with a membershi he : Fhe Hake ra } ie church that . . i i La % 10 meet was remodeled, built ia 185%, under the Rev. L. C. Edmunds The first union f 1 «lor: te of church pe pastora ople » was lowered, tl} re church in the tow 1. 8 well hh, and . ship was the one that wrmerly stood f the D. J- Musser farm. It erecied by the IF ereeledd to receive a on ’ Was" the fathers and Presbyterians. In 1810 nt generation to . toiled lived it became a union church, and was re pulpit Decessary sdivncts it the after rehip, and a 3 } 4 : Models iy ¢ addition of 3 ears they had m y the add yh i and seats, which A had lacked until then dimensions of the remodeled ’ . ; were shared equally Weel s tw frame structure are forty by sixty feet, e sl 1 jually between the two divided I'he €0 BY INIrNy sen denominations, which is into two appart- ation wuditorium is thirty -sev. : the Bun- day school room twenty by thirty-sev- The earliest of the Reformed preach- ers was the Rev, George Gelsweil, who began his labors in 1794 to 1804 1808 to 1810 Weiflenbach assumed the charge. From 1812 to 1826 Rev. Henry How ments ‘nn feet, and From . 12 Rev. Jacob en feet, Both divisions are ceiled with ids white metal, besutifully designed. A section of wainse ing, oil finish, forms ’ y sharge “ congregat the bare of the walle, and a delicate N81 nany ngregations straw colored paper covers Lhe balance of the these preachers supplied I am not able to say. From 182% to 1833 the Rev, B. 8. Schenck had walls The furniture in color fs it uni=on with the colors men- tioned. The exterior is white, which color designated the former century Aas and this preserved, The seating capacity of the auditor ium is ¢six hundred, and is made pos- sible by comfortable and handsome pews. The beautiful stained glass windows were furnished by Conroy, Prugh & Co., Pittsburg. These win-| dows are all of a memorial nature, and | Rei a .s ) were placed there in memory of and | eiter from 1867 to 1 7 ; J. G. Shoe by the following persons and families : Makeh Teo 137% we HH A 0 W " B. ; . : | gel from 187910 1882: Z, / earic "a Bim, Join Meyer by J, 8. from 1882 to 1889 ; G. E. Addams from James and Rebeces Evans by their | 1880 to 1803 ; F. W. Brown from 1894 : to 1902 when the rebuilding of the son and Dr. D. M. Wolf, D. D. Jacob Bitner by his children, Shuteh ommend. Lintoraml . . . om 0 ormation, or Mea. J: B. Fistor by their | it is learned that six persons are living Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Meyer by who belonged {othe Salem Reformed Mr. and Mre. Elias ('. Zerby. church when the organisation wss Adam and Margaret Grenoble by formed in 1859. They are Elias Weaver and John Grenoble, Mus. LB Kistiet, Mr. aud Mrs. Frederick Meyer by Mra James (3. Evans. their children. Mr. John Rossman. The pastors of the congregation by | Mrs. Henry Frankeoberger, * Rev. F. W, Brown. | Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dreibelbis, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krumrine by | The building committee of the Mr. and Mrs. Bolender, Henry Krum- | church built in 1859 was J. B. Fisher, ring and 8. Krumrine. | Christopher Meyer, Jacob Meyer, John Clara M. Ulrich by her daughter, Rossman, Peter Zeigler, Lola M. Ulrich. . The first church officers were : El A. Calvin Fisher by his mother, | ders, Jacob Meyer and Michael Zeigler, Mrs. J. B. Fisher. | The cost of the first church was A window {nn ener of Dr. Wolf by $1045.49, the Bunday school and many others, | The contractor was Henry Bartley, A window by J. Wells Evans and | of Bellefonte. family. { A window in honor of Ms. and Mrs. | PEDICATURY SERMON, Aaron Ulrieh. : | Brief Sketoh of a Sermon by Rev, G. A window In honor of Mr, and Mrs, | W. Kershner. ¥. D, Hosterman by their family, | Text : Psalm 84 1-2. No other book Two recess and one transom window | 10 the canon of the Old Testament structure “the white feature has been er, who labored from 1835 to 1852, M A. Smith from 15852 to 1856, half a resulted in the erection of a new church by each denomination. The first Re- church was the Rev, L. C. Edmunde, who was on the charge from 1857 to 1863. He was succeeded by 8. Keuhn from 1863 to 1867. Then came C. H. i by Conroy, Prugh & Co, | Continued on Fifth Page, NO. 8, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS “We beat !? Miss Auvpeline Lon Tuesday. (ie, LE. master at Moshau Lot Struble, of Z bien granted u pension of £12 r montl ii taken ill Tobias was French « 11} i Ww prost- A $30.000 jifice 5 y ¢led for Grace Reformed chureh, Hazleton. Mrs. Williams Heekn ut the home of herdaugh { Kel- ler, east of Centre Hal Ww. J another ear load of ve, bulls, stee Mr. and Mrs. Fra day morning drove 1 {day's visit among relatives Miss Esther 1. Bit! | Hill's handsome youn ¢ | guest of her friend over Sunday. Ty i The bill s pproprigli 1 iege ils share of Stat stead of Representat Miss M. 1 “41 B81 i £8 Were iV tnorn- freit While eattifal inder Wil Was i Hey awaitis order tus Appiying bins is stone masoning fhe coal and Womelsdorf schoo ganion was re school building made from being dest reduce the tow Arthur Holloway, a son of Rev, H. ( of Bellefonte urg, Md., D. D., Lutheran Was - .y TE He was io the U ment of the General Electric sting depart- Com pa- ny. and in some way came in contact Thomas Wertz, a Lewisburg citizen recently bought a double bitted axe and immediately tested its qualities on a pile of wood. The axe caught ona clothesline, and then rebounded on Wertz's head, cutting out a large piece of flesh and rendering him uncon. scious. His recovery isdn doubt Anron Thomas and Ruth, Saturday went to Asronsburg, where they were the guests of the former's brother Zaccheus and sister Mise Polly Thomas until Monday morning. Mr. Thomas seldom goes imughter, Mies enjoys the visit just like other people, Monday morning trees, vines and shrubbery presented a beautiful ap. pearance on account of the glistening coat of ice on every projection. Walks and lanes, flelds and mountains were also covered with a half inch cont of ice and sleet. The precipitation re duced to water was eight-tenths of an inch, V. J. Bauer, upon whom has fallen the management of the affairs of the Brockerhof! estate in this locality, has narrowly escaped an attack of spinal meningitis, says the Watchman. On Monday he and George Cunningham drove to Spring Mills to look after a farm. Before starting Vinee had com- plained of not feeling well. Arrived at that place be became much worse and they started to return ly as possible. At Centre Hall " almost a collapse and it wa ¢ greatest diffiouity that Me. C ham was able to get him
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