VOL, LXXVI.
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR. |
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania |
Volunteers.
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By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., 148th |
Regiment, P. V.
[To be Continued |
CHAPTER V. THE PRISONER'S STORY.
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OUR FARMER YOUTH
By Prof. Willet M., Hay
That the Panama revolution was
planned and engineered from Wash-
ington hardly admits of doubt. The
revolutionary government, not a week | Forty years have been necessary for
the experimenting with and the devel-
opment of collegiate courses in agri-
culture in our State universities and
Btate colleges. During the past fifteen
years, experiments have been success.
fully carried out in establishing large
agricultural high schools, and in a
third as many years of trial consoli-
dated rural schools, with free trans-
portation, have been successfully in-
augurated in numerous localities.
Once our educators generally realize
the practicability and the far-reaching
importance of these three classes of
schools, they will, doubtless, lead the
people to adopt them and to arrange
them into an articulated system. As
city primary graded schools, city high
schools, and university and college
courses have articulated into a
unified system, so the consolidated
rural school, the agricultural high
school, aud the college of agriculture
can be articulated into a parallel 8Y He
tem. The with its industrial
side strengthened, will serve the city
life; the other will serve the country
life, and without very serious loss of
time to the student who so desires can
has appointed as minister to Washing-
a leading stockholder of the French
millions of dollars of
American canal money. A president
is to be at once elected for the new re-
public, and a treaty made with the
to bag forty
ten millions of dollars we originally
hen we are commencing to hear
from the other side. Colombia isangry
and and will break off
ercourse with Washing
ton and make vigorous protest to all
the other nations of the world against
the successful secession accomplished
of the
Nenator
Alabana, at the approach-
indignant,
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aid
Washington administration.
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ing session, with other leading sena-
0} the administration
rogram and war with Col-
vecessitating the
the countenasvce and
gan, ol one,
tors, wiil pose
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ombla as its result,
and the PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
8, University of Minnesota.
| a8 has been established in each Cone
gressional district in Alabama, will
serve as the secondary high school for
farmers, as the city high school serves
the city people. Necessity, ‘the moth-
er of invention,” is largely responsible
for the first experiment in the line of
an agricultural high school,—the
Minnesota School of Agriculture. The
home requirements of the boys and
girls, as gradually unfolded to the
teachers in that school have largely
determined the direction in which the
instruction has developed. The course
covers three winters of six months
each, leaving the student on the home
farm during the six crop months,
where the industrial, business and so-
cial position is retained unbroken.
Eighty-two per cent. of the graduates
remain in agriculture, 70 per cent.
actually return to the farm. This
school now has five hundred students,
and the State Legislature is equipping
it for double its present capacity.
About one-third of the course of study
in this school is devoted to common
high-school studies, one-third to sci-
ences related to agriculture, and one-
third to the sciences and arts of agri-
POLITICAL EXPRESSION,
Gregg Township Democrat Pleads for Ree.
ogultion of Natural Ability
EDrror CENTRE REPORTER
The result of the late election in
Clearfield county causes our peonle to
think and talk about the coming elec-
tion in Centre county, and especially
in regard to the judgeship. The Dem-
ocrats feel that by united effort, and
with clean and efficient men us candi-
dates Centre county can be redeemed.
When the available men for judgeship
are spoken of, there seems to be but
one name mentioned—Ellis I. Orvis,
Esq. Democrats whom I have hesrd
express an opinion say, ‘Mr. Orvis, if
he will accept.” While we have oth-
er men who could fill the place, it
seems to be conceded by members of
both political parties that Mr. Orvis is
specially fitted for the place, both by
natural disposition, and a judicially
ing, and think if he were elected he
would make a clean, non-partisan and
scholarly judge.
Centre county in times past has had
a number of judges of whom the eiti-
zens of the county were Justly proud
and who had a Btate
Among these none earned nor enjoyed
a higher reputation than the late la-
lamented Hos. John H. Orvis, and
NO. 45.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Miss Emilie Alexander, of Tyrone,
is home for u week,
Claudius, a little son of Philip Baul,
of near Lemont, is fll.
Mifflin county has four hundred and
pinety-eight miles of road.
There will be a regular meeting of
Progress Grange Baturday afternoon,
Harskell Treaster, of Milroy, was
caught between the bumpers while
shifting cars and crushed to death.
Bev. Davideon, of the United Breth-
ren church of Bellefonte, had the mis-
fortune to fall in descending a pair of
steps, and break his arm.
Eimer Runkle, Tuesday of last week
killed a fine, large wild turkey on Nit-
| taty Mountain, north of Jacob Bhar-
ers. The bird weighed fifteen pounds.
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Mifflin county has three Josephs on
[the judge's bench—President Judge
| Joseph M. Woods and Associate Judg-
{ es Joseph Wertz and Joseph C. Breh-
| man.
The Lingle foundry may be removed
from Bellefonte. The proprietors will
not say to what place the plant will be
trausfer from one system to the other.
The whcle system of American eduocs-
tion thus unified will become as useful
to country people as to city people.
CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOLS
maintenance on the isthmus of large culture,
Our war.
ships are gathering there, and marines
ready for
landing in considerable force.
President Roosevelt has been “‘rush-
ing things’' with his boasted strena-
distribution. The {osity, aud if the Upited States is not
peint to one of the heaps and ask, who {involved in another war and with
gets this? T ugly complications with several South
er way would answer promiscuousiy |
The equipment consists of
two hundred and fifty acres of land
fine buildings, live stock, implements,
laboratory apparatus, ete. A force of
more than thirty instructors give all
or part of their time during the six
winter months to instruction, which
makes of this a strong school. A large,
thoroughly equipped agricultural high
school, such as can be easily supported
| by ten counties in cooperation, as is
being arranged for in Alabama, will
surely succeed, while a small agricul-
tural supported by a
township or county, would be at a dis-
Neither the equipment
por the foree of teachers in the county
agricultural high school could be such
the vigorous farm
the students must
be away from home, boarding .in pri-
the people feel that the son could and | taken, but say they have inducements
would wear the mantle of the father | ©flered them by two towns.
with credit to himself and honor to Mrs. ¥. A. Carson and Miss Cordelia
the electors. Acker, of Potters Mills, were in Centre
The earnest wish of all Democrats is | Hall Friday to look after the affairs of
that no contentions arise before the Mr. Carson. who is busily engaged in
County convention, so that we may making preparations to accompany a
once more go into the campaign as a party of hunters.
united Democratic party and bring our |
county back into the Democratic col-
umn where it rightfully belongs. If
this is done, you may expect an old
fashioned Democratic vote in
GREGG TowNsHuip,
and expensive naval forces,
A CONFEDERATE
When all
shares were exactly equal, one of the
SHARPSHOOTER., have been landed and are
vere satisfied that the five
In Ohio and other States, and in
Canada, consolidated rural
formed by consolidating from five to
ten former country ‘“‘distriets,” are
centered in buildings of from three to
five rooms, to which the children are |
carried in vans from areas four to five !
miles square, and have proven their
the ad- general superiority. The writer was
defense as changed from a doubter to an advocate
deems ticcessary telegraphed broad. by making a thorough inspection of a
divided into twenty equa Lo ‘8 the future Are | number of these rural
‘nu all were satisfied tha | “Xpenditures of hundreds of millions, | gohools Ohio, and yet to
American South | hear of any one who has made a
speculators sud adventur- thorough inspection who does not be-
| to that, as Senator | lieve that this form of school, in all
as pointed out behind him. | Morgan declares, war with the repub- regions where good soil make: farm-
' ( Colombia. The American peo- fog profitable and supports a fairly
ple will be reinforced in their convie- dense rural population, will Inrgely
i displace the little schoolhouse.
schools are superior to the honored
show our | little school in the following ways: 1
The eourse can be lengthened so as to
include the freshman and sophomore
years of high school work. 2 (Chil
dren remain in longer, not
80 often tardy, truant, or absent, and
the school year is lengthened.
increasing the total number of “days'
particularly the Gulf schooling’ secured by the people of
Within the last Years on | the district. These schools, requir-
more than 70,000 per- ing fewer but better teachers, who are
Northern and Middle | better supervised, and have their work
tied iu the country be. better aystematized in grades, can give
children | tween New Orleans and Corpus Chris- better instruction. 4. Pupils are less
movement exposed to storms and have less wet
Americans, while as to the clothing :
oreigners it is stated that
5000 im-
m foreign countries have
men would turn his back to make the schools,
sergeant would
The new stone walk along the front
of the Lutheran church isa decided
improvement to the general appear-
ance in that quarter. The stones were
| purchased from Dr. J. F. Alexander
and are the O hio blue stone,
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American powers, and
ill
would | Without consultin
possibly some
fault,
the people or Con-
hot
by number, till all were taken {| Europea w not be his
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a blanket, {always lousy,
and
i ge rvantis
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i o aQr active i . Ed . !
bring iheir portion to the mess, where | ress, and acting in linste, high school,
of
the
ministration 1s having sueh
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A POINT IN POLITICS MADE CLEAR.
The result of the municipal election
Miss Sadie Fry, of Shingletown. who
| had been in several Philadelphia 1}
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in N Y | pitals previously, submitted to an ex-
New i py Jo { . i te
0 Ww York has certainly made clear | ploratory operation in the hospital at
toall the people a very interesting | Bellefonte, and it was found that her
question in politica. That is that the | pendix was all tangled up, =o it was
organization of the clerical and pulpit | removed.
forces of a great city against a political |
party works for the defeat of the cler-
ical party and the success of jis opposi-
tion by great and increased majorities
Few will question that this reflects the
deliberate and well-considered judg-
ment of any great majority the |
American people. And it is a right-| | bear Centre
eous judgment, viewed from the po- | Hill, was a caller Saturday in the in-
litical standpoint and what is best for {terest of the Egg Hill Christian Eg-
religion. Individual action by clergy- deavor society, Miss Grove is a daugh-
men is not objectionable in ities. { ter of W. M. Grove, Esq., and a school
municipal or National. But this is |'8cher by profession, having in her
changed and a new issue created when | Charge the Egg Hill school.
the clergy of a great city, numbering |
hundreds, are banded together to de. |
feat a political party or a certain set of
political ideas. Hundreds of sermons
were preached in New York before the
late election to defeat McClellan be-
cause he was the Democratic or or-
ganization candidate. Not a single
clerical voice was heard in his behalf,
The people rejected the counsel and re-
Jected the pulpit intimidation, for that
is what it amounted to. ma-
jority of 32000 two years ago is
changed to a McClellan majority of
nearly seventy thousand this year.
The question of morality was rejected
and covdemned because it had no
truthful basis to rest on. The people
voted their interest, the fair adminis
tration of the laws, the peace and
good order of the community were
safer in the hands of the Democratic
party than they would be under the
dictation of their self-appointed cleri-
cal advisers and would-be dictators.
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would be spreat out i! : advantage.
would
shares
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in he has
11s, with French, and as Lo satisfy 20 well
alike R
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Out esch want's share by num- A
the tw euly shares were exsctly
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one of the mess would turn his bacl boy or girl. Since
ers to add
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00 vale families, or in dormitories sup-
plied by the State, they can better af-
ford to travel a little farther and have
the advantage of the well-equipped
school supported by a group of coun-
ties, and the expense per county will
be less if ten cooperate in supporting
the large school. The North Dakota
Agricultural College, at Fargo, and
the University of Nebraska, at Lin-
followed the Minnesols
plan, and each now has an agricultural
high with several hundred
students.
While School of Agriculture
tiolds an annual session of six instead
of nine thouths, nearly all of the stu-
dents work the other six months in
practice work in farming and home.
makiog, generally at home, and get
more of real education per year than
does the average city boy or girl who
attends the city high school for eight
or I'he improvement
msde in the young man or woman by
Lhis three years’ course of study and
training is so rapid as to cause con-
slant comment from observers. A
large part of the students who enter
this school expect to remain on the
farm, and would not be 80 much at-
tracted to other schools, and probably
would uot go beyond the rural school,
Common experience proves that the
city high school, with its nine months’
work in general studies, weans coun-
try youth from the farm. It empha
sizes other things, does not give ape-
cial preparation for farming, and the
business position in the, home farm is
ber, as it w
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lie of I'he Cammings Brothers, of Linde n
| Hall, are doing a large amount of hay
baling. They have been in the busi.
| ness ever since they were able to
{stand a bale on end, and consequently
| understand the work thoroughly.
the rations were “short” they
to supy
while we were always hun
Pie
sufficient wri st)
: that they have a very unsafe and
President. Bat Colombia
why not
gry¥y. no sol ition These
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dier starved to death in rebel prisons. | UHcertain
suitable |!
| powers in grand larceny ?
an weak state -
Jut raany died for want of A weak state;
A vorthern man raised f
food. of
riety and wheat bread, will
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IMMIGRATION SOUTH.
Miss Vera Grove, of
Lot
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while BR =OULLe
History tell
1 rose early,
corn alone ;
ish or
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number of the “Forum” school
maintaining
immigration is
iting iu strongly toward the South-
{to
five
will 8 us that ** + he currel are
an
Washingto ate hi Isagazine has an article colu. have
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that the tide of white
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rn-cake, hor ” thus
fast of os
and be was
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The beating of the drum
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ing meal time, was always greeted by 3 the The real estate of the late Jonathan
Tressler, of Linden Hall. will be sold
&1 public sale Friday, December 11. at
10a m., by the executors Messrs. Jo-
#¢ph and Daviel J. Tressler. The at-
torneys are Fortney & Walker.
advertisement in another column,
i iT $ ¢
the hungry prisoners with the wildest | this authority
of j
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would | *¢ rm
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bands, run |OtRies
demoustrations hey
cheer and yell
through the
overjoyed at
Fie fiave spt
like
al le i
reets,
the
plain & meal as was common here
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of “0 |
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blankets under
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bread, |
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prospect even Nee
the schoolhouses are better
incoming of f heated, lighted and ventilated, have
more appliances, and may be situated
demonstration grounds, where
practice lessons in agriculture may be
provided for The future farmer be-
Comes acquainted with the people of
the towaship, instead of a small school
district ; the whole community is
drawn together, the school vans often i
serving to carry parents and children
to lectures, entertainments, and even
tochurch services. 6. The ‘chores’ and
other industrial work on the home
farm, which gave the education of the
little school half its value, are here re.
tained as an exceedingly important
educational adjunct to the rural school.
7. Buch schools help to retain more of
the best people in the gountry homes,
the same dirty, Jousy
which we slept, were
sick, and brought
A bold attempt was made about 2
o'clock Bunday morning to rob the
postoffice at Patton, the hustling post-
master of which is E. Will Greene.
The safe was so badly damaged that
the would-be thieves could not open it
and nothing was taken from the build.
ing except a shotgun belo nging to the
postmaster,
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CRrTie our | Wi hi e inst Year nenriy
in our corn migrants jr on nine months,
which was also shared out on them.
The Confederate G WWEerninent, as ear.
ly a8 1863 was in most desperute straits
at home,
ple of Richimoud had jess to eat thar
we had, Bread riots during the fall
and winter of 1863 were of frequent oc- |
must |
improved, a:
{along the line of asingle railroad south 5 Low's
{of the Potomac and east of the Missis-
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of Virginia is being settled
up, owned and tilled by white farmers,
The used-up lands of the Old Domin-
ion are being reclaimed, enriched and
Fie comumon aud poor peo- | HIppL. “ax once known
ack belt
Dr. H. B. Warren, State Dairy and
Food Commissioner, spent several
days last week with Hon. L. Rhone,
in this place. While here Dr. War-
ren, in company with T. G. Wilson,
#pent a few hours hunting birds. Their
success was four quail and two phens-
ants. In another column it is noted
with what earnestness the Dairy and
Food Commissioner is prosecuting the
currences, and matiers later
have been much
The Union Cavalry, io
frequently circled Richmond, destroy -
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¥h d the region made as pro-
| ductive snd prosperous us some of the
[rich lands of the West. It is an ene
sup- | coursgirg indication of widespread
jand general prosperity that the South
ja getting a move ahead in this respect,
o doubt Southern lands offer
{afield for the investment of capital
and for honest labor, with the certsin-
WOTrse
great foros
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ing railroads and train
plies, k= at
supplies worth couniiog
io, in consequence, searcity,
want and hunger the
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would come |
and, Phere i
un would stalk
streets of Richmond, and the hungry,
half starved people would gattier |
great cro sds he strects, snd seize |
anything to eat to sight, and bresd
riot would soon develop, These bres
riots were sometimues great, and of »
most serious character, Ope of tle
inmost serious of these occurred on Oct.
28th, (1863) wud broke out again
the 29 h. Bells were tolied, fire alarms
were sounded, and the companies
turned out ; all of the available troops
about the city were called out, and the
riot was put down with an iron hand.
The poor of Richmond were sufle:-
log for want of bread, and supplies for
the prisoners had to be sent through
the streets under a strong guard, 1
prevent the poor hungry men, wome 3
and children from seizing them.
The condition of affairs nere, becom
ing kuown to the National Govers.
ment, a large amount of the U. 8B, Ar |
my crackers was sent here for the Une.
fon Prisoners, and were issued to us by
the Confederates, at the rate of three
crackers a day, in addition to our reg.
ular silowence of corn bread, and they
never tasted better, The U 8, Army
erscker in one of the very best crack
ers, for a “bread erncker,’”’ ever mad
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oseph G. Irenberg, s former Sherif
and Associate Judge of Huntingd n
couniy, died Friday evening sat Mui.
tinsburg, W. Va., where he had been
visiting, Ivterient was wade st
Huutivgdon. He was prominent io
Repubiivan politics in bis county.
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and will articulate with agricultural
high schools. 8. While the combined
cost of the vans, teachers and school-
house may be a little above that of the
old way, the cost is less per day of at.
tendance, and far less per unit of value
received by the district, It pays in
dollars and cents, pags in the better
civilization, and the sooner adopted
the better,
AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOLS,
The agricultural high school, such |
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ty of rewards that promise, to break
down race prejudice and sectional
walls
The Democrats in Centre county
dent Roosevelt, who although a very
busy man, went many miles to vote,
In this county many hundreds of
Democratic voters were too indifferent
to spend n half hour's time in going
to the polls,
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President Roosevelt is entering half-
heartedly iuto the work of “turning
the rascals out’ of the posi-office de.
partment. The work will not be fin.
lshed until gafter March 4, 1905, when
there will be a wholesale cleaning.
The brosdside Roosevelt got in New
York last week indicates that,
Wants More Money.
Postmaster General Payne nsks that
congress give him $168,085,770 to run
the postoffice department for the next
fiscal year. Quite a tidy sum. It is es
timated that the postal deficit for the |
fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, will be
$8,613,700, which is almost as large as
the deficit for the present flseal year. A
large part of the deficit for 1903-4 went |
into the pockets of the graftersand it
Is not unlikely that much of the funds
for the fiscal year 1004.5 will go the
same way. More money will be re.
quired to enlarge the free rural mail |
delivery system. Under proper man. |
agement the money that is appropri.
ated to the postofMice department |
should be used for the legitimate ox.
penditures of the postoflice, not to en-
rich political favorites in the de-
partment,
Write Grant Hcover for prices on
st sf AOA
Pure Food Commissioner Warren
has ordered 3656 suits brought against
men who, it is alleged, sold adulter-
ated liquor in many counties in the
State. Of the samples examined 85 per
cent. contained salicylic acid. The per-
sons agninst whom the suits are
brought will not know it antil they are
placed under arrest,
AAR fl 5 DIANA
For sick headache try Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets; they will
ward off the attack if taken in time,
F:.reale by C. W, Swartz, Tusseyville;
F. A. Unrson, Potters Mills,
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disarranged, the result being that the
student is educated away from the
farm. The agricultural high school,
on the other hand, has been found
adapted to educate toward the farm
and into good farming. Agricultural
high schools will provide our rural
schools with teachers, trained to Carry
inspiration for country life into our
ruial schools, while teachers trained in
opposite influence.
Nippenose Valley Postoifics Kobbed.
The postoMee at Bastress, Nippenose
Valley, which is loeated in Anthony
Ottenmiller's store, was entered by
thieves Tuesday night of last week
through a window. About $40 in
«tamps and money was stolen from the
postoffice, and from the store some
money were secured by the burglars,
They left no clue,
Burglars failed in an attempt to
orack a safe in the postofMice at Osceola
Mills Wednesday night of last week,
They fired several shots at a passing
citizen who escaped unharmed, A
policeman fired a few shots at the flee-
ing burglars but without any result.
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For a Bad Cold,
It you havea bad cold you need
ood reliable medicine like Chamber.
ain's Cough y to loosen and re-
Heve it, and to allay the irritation and
inflammation of the
Bills Introduced in Congress.
Palmer, of Pennsylvania, to regulate
the trusts,
Bibley, of Pennsylvania, to increase
the pay of rural free delivery carriers.
Tawney, of Minnesota, to prevent
giving premiums with packages of
tobacco.
Mahon, Pennsylvania, making $12
the minimum pensions per month of
all pensioners who have reached the
age of 63,
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Sliver Wedding.
The following taken from the Hunt.
ingdon News, tells how they used the
brother-in-law and sister of Adam
Neese, of near this place: Some one
said, “All roads lead to Rome,” but
Saturday night, October 10th, people
would have thought all roads led to J.
A. Dailey’s home, near Baulsburg, by
the number of teams going there from
all directions. About sixty friends
gathered to bonor the ocoasion of the
25th anniversary of their married life,
After the marriage vows were renewed
the guests partook of the delicacies of
the season which were bountifully sup.
plied for the occasion. After social
chats, excellent music and a royal
good time, the guests departed declar-
ing they had enjoyed themselves and
wishing Mr. sud Mrs. Dailey the bless
fog of many years of usefulness and
violation of the pure food laws.
Bpeaking of the donations received
by the hospital at Bellefonte, the
Watchman has this te say: The
Indies of Centre Hull, where they have
an suxiliary, have just sent over two
dozen silver tea spoons, with the “Belle.
fonte Hospital’ engraved thereon, one
dozen napkins, two tray covers and
five yards of muslin. This was an es-
pecially acceptable gift as it fills a great
want and is of articles that the hospital
would not be likely to receive from
any source not thoroughly acquainted
with its needs.
Messrs, John D. Meyer, principal of
the Bellefonte High School, and C. A.
Heiss, teacher of the second Grammar
grade of that town, drove to Centre
Hall Saturday, and in company with
D. J. Meyer proceeded to Mr. Meyer's
farm near Linden Hall, where the
day was spent in hunting rabbits.
They ascribe their poor luck to the fact
that they observed the rule not to
shoot when game was running away
from them, and consequently only
killed two. From information gained
through Mr. Yarnell, the tenant, it is
stated that the two rabbits killed had
been on the farm for at least ten years,
and never missed doing obeisance to
the senior Meyer, when they saw him
approach, and it was while the pair
at
throat and lun
For sale by OC. W. war i
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happiness.
i5ka, spring Mii.
Prices—B, W,
were doing this gracious act that they
a aos Siw by those unaoquaint