)L.. LXXVI1]. LUTHER LEAGUE UONVYENTION, tinll Monday Tuesday, Body Meet In Centre nud Central District Luther League met in the Lutheran chureh, Hall Monday evening. This the counties of Union, Centre. during which ticular The Monday afternoon dispensed with the first being io the evening Centre body linton and | The convention failed to meet | the two | mikes this itutereat, years just passed, a gathering of par- Wis! held | session session At this session Li | sub- | the principal speaker was Rev, C. McConnell, of Miflinburg. His jeet was “The Lutheran Church Her Young People.’”’ The in this synod knows and Lutheran Rev. bas something of interest {or his hearers, Monday evening tion to the rule, After speaking of the origin, the name, the method, faith of the church, the speaker up the second part of bis subject, young people. The one Luther League is instruct ainment has no part in it, MeConuell, He spoke at some len of the style of music age League, Sunday-School and Luth- eran church choir. It sed that a man as t ly Lutheran as ti e the that when MeConuell speaks, he and his talk was no Xt ep- the | took her | of the -grter- Rev gih aver- object ion said used in the can easily be gues {ence advo relict “jingo the doxology was horoughly, in-| ie speaker would use of us services and the of Ise. omission AS quence sung for first time in the Lutheran church Centre Hall for a year or more, Ihe style of music, fi ef t he the | at session was | Tuesday morning along the lines of the Io program, Rev, J. 1. does the absence of Stone- the «x of the young people’ ieties was by Me- His talk followed by neral discussion. r, the topic "Wherein la's sx ist? discussed tev. sneil Ww us i I'he second discussed “How ng Ded i : r was Hev, topic was | into first | |, | roduced The B. B. Uhl, of contended Can prayer be ir He's societies epeake =alon wha rightly that when the | Lutheran is properly eatechized he is] taught to pray. De. Hasskarl ut the d some time to] ridicule devole Ts was features of willy i8 JER I } pra: ers made those termed ‘‘the " by good, praying brother.” “The proper place we tnen in our yi was the topic ably discussed by Dr. G C. H. of Logauton. He de- floed position the Lutheran church on the subject by sayiug that a woman is permitted to perform all | and work for] ung people's societies’ Hasskarl, the of 2 delegated to the ale ex- vi oflice im y fil the of the ministry Bal dis the sacraments, ¢ ia peuse Fae meetings slay ening were of particular intere ugh the pri ] titutes for ti ¢k of spece fort iving « ui- Hues of the various addresses, «mission of the names of the delegate ‘| pre s1:t, the officers for the yenr, t tional leer, ele, id due Lo repeated foris from the of-| flcers. This explanation is indulge d| in because it is the custom of the Re-| porter to give full accounts of gaihierings., Fhe place selected for veution is Rebersburg. chairman, Rev. D. E. Rupley, of was re-elected, ensuing | he sud state tio: conven o, commits | ef- | futile to recure the same i sue h | next year's Coit i Lowe & Haven, LOCAalLs Dr. W. H. Schuyler, Thursday week attended she funeral of Miss Jeouie Barber, at Mifflinburg, frase? Adama county has a school teacher named John M.” Wolf, aged seveuty- one years, who has taught school fifty- Six Fens Bessie King, daughter of Landlord Kig of the Musser House, Millheim, for the past week has been the guest of E ina Robinson, J.wl Kerstetter nnd song Cleve and Burner, of Laurelton, came up to cut the wheat crop on the Station farm, wi ere they lived last year, I, C. Pierce, the new manager for the Wrought Iron Range Company, bis ndded several new men and teams to Lila working force at this point, ifuy making, which was unusually late, is about over, and the greater part of i lie wheat will have been cut by the tins o this item is read by the rural sub. poi ibers, Livery issue of the Pittsburg Sunday Dispatch contains special articles that appeal th the reading public. The Die. patah, in all its departments, week days and Sundays, furnishes an abun donee of the choleest reading matier, ‘I'he Huntingdon Monitor, after sus pending publieation for five manths, in being issued again, The editor and manager is J. C. Dim, whose first edition Is of such a character that should invite the united support of the Democratic contingent of Heutingdon coynty’s I. HALL, PA. LOCALS, A little daughter of Arthur Kim- of Linden Hall, is ill of typhoid Ex-Sherifl Spangler, last week, at funeral of Mrs. Spangler, George Spangler, Mrs. J. E. Hoy, Friday came to the Mr. of Philadelphia, home of her par. W. B. Mingle, in here she will spend sever entae, und Mrs, al weeks. fhe United Evangelical Church, of Milla, will bold a festival Bat- g, July 80, at that place. invited to attend, The funds used to liquidate the church urday evel All are will debt Dr. J Dale, of be Dr. David town Mon- snd BOL, X. Da I Aont, were in night, The the U Philadelphia, latter just completed niversity of Pennsyl- but yet a8 has wation, aud Mrs. W. O. Rearick, of Mil- turned safely from a visit to the Fair, not selected a le Mr Chicago, snd other west- Beginning of this week Hall, and took their children who among friends here during Cilies they hone came to Centre with ti loft their trip wesl, A Mich a lawsuit against a man who bad taken his pa- for years and refused to because, he said, he had never The Michigan man is the belief that the Lord the side of the 18 were igan editor won eleven subscribed, fir: ix it and the law are on H. D. Rossman, of Spring Mills, in umn, advertises the Sharp- Tubular Separator which® has many features { rmmend it to the Mr vill be wilh hat of Rossman pleased any in order that he merits of the to oon ontact ane 3 eparaior in yv be able to show the Millheim, . nh) ' Koch, of Bunbury, spent town S. KR. Sunday. BY ealey’’ his home at Ts Laie Landlord King drove to Cen- Hall Meyer spent Sunday at Boslsburg. laters have © on Lhe r. and Mi wgun putting the of A. A. Frank, J. B. Gentzell, of Clap, spent Sanday this roof pew house g H N iti place, Sidney eish and family, of SBpriog ille, were visitors with relatives in M town Sa osday. J. A. Bright, of was the Kane Hosterman Rev. Fopeka, £). 4 guest of F, as, ! # 1 aa! >i Fhursday. s Winklemar Wan of fis Nittany Val bome of J. H. few days last week, ¥ Wao n & Vigilor at i 3 B. Hart Mra, fall. a ad been on Will PW his, 4. W, Bltover, nou friends in Her eastern « re- i home Sqsturday. irs left Inst week for expects to days enjoying the at. incident t of HK. King Atlaotie Ulty, where she pend about ten iiractions resorts kind Harry Ce and in with his children, i, company little Monday wife one of his jdrove to Oak Grove busi- haviog loaded his wagon with in on ness, this plac The dog that Lit photographer W, W. Smith, about two weeks ago, the wound of which turned out to be quite serious, was, by order of Mr. Smith, About ten dollars was realized at the pink social held here on Baturday evening, by the ladies of the Reform- ed church. The Aarousburg band fur. nished the music for the occasion, and rendered some five selections. In rubbing its head while standing in the stable, one of the beautiful sor. rel horses belonging to 8. R. King, eame in confaset with a protruding nail, tearing a gash in the top of its head about three iuclies long. Four young fellows from Bellefonte, whose nates wo did not learn, came down one day last week to work on the water plant ; after one day's work they concluded it took too much el- bow grease, and threw up the sponge and left for home. William Kreamer has purchased some of those beautiful Ohio sand- stone whieh be intends putting down along his vacant lot on Penn Htreet, F. HB Albright will also put down a pide walk of the same material, in front of his residence on Main Street, A rooster belonging to G. B. Btover, evidently having nun eye to business, came right up the side walk one day last week an! entered the door that lends up to the Journal office, He went up a flight of stairs into the room but finding no oue there he went out the back door, As Mr. Btover is a dyedein-the-wool Democrat, it was sup. posed by every ong that Mr. Rooster was after the job to do the crowing for the Journal after the election of Alton B. Parker. HISTORY OF BY MARGARET Boalsburg was lald out by Andrew Stroup, of Mifflin county, December 10, 1810, designated as Bpringfield, the its immediate locality. by this name until 1820, when office was established and the Boalsburg adopted, in honor of David Boal, great-grandfather of Theodore Davis Boal, at that time a much re- spected and highly influential citizen of the place. He laid out addition to the town in 1830, In 1811 near the site of George Kaup’s house, one situated where the Presbyterian church now stands, near the site of Harri son & Ishler’s store, and a tavern that stood where Mrs, SBparr now The who an post Ri there was one house one lives, tavern was kept by Davis was afterward succeeded as landlord by Jeremiah Culbertson. The build- ing was afterward Converted into a store and fora number of years kept by John Bell. Among the other early store keepers were Mr. Petrikin, of Bellefonte, and Mr. John Irvin, In Col. James Johnston opened a store the following year erected the substan- tial building now owned by Mr. Boal and now known as the nrg Tavern. Another early sts was John Jack. The first about the time the 3oal, was Sr. 1818 and is Joalst we Ree per school house was built town was Isid out, the house Miss Lytle and Miss and stood upon the site of now occupied by Johnson The first te who was of acher was Thomas Evans, Quaker descent, and who, for some reason, The emmy originated by Fisher, Hon. Keller nud George Jack, and ti the efforts of liberal e ns of the and vicini ty, the undertaking was successfully was called “Captain.” of establishing sn acad.- Rev. George Boal, project Was these men, snd tine town accomplished, by stock subscriptions of twenty-five dollar The first held in an old building on the lot occupied by Mr. Jo Io the fall it was school house-i The money was raised shares, AERO Was LOW Jacob's house, id present hn tC the « the ita moved 2 rr he site of heuse—and ater held Fishet’s house now occ Emma Fisher. In 1853 building was erected, the upper part which for school pur- and the lower for a place of wor. ship. The into the hands of the The LOrst instruct tion was Mr. J. GG, in his charge the prosperous condition, school Foam were in a room in Rev unied a Lwo- t was designed pose 5, bullding bias since passed Presbyterians, or in this institu. Austin, institution was in a and while haviug enrolled during some ghty ¢ The prosperity of this sch rupted daring the war, a of the students enlisting aud subee- quently entering the army. Mr. James Patterson was in charge of the school al this time, and caplain’s commission, Among the other leading teachers who had charge at different times were Mr. Holahan, Mr, George W. Leisher, Theophilus Weaver, Dr. D. M. Wolfe, and Mr. Fleisher. During the last term the attendance averaged twenty five, The principal in charge was Professor Vonada, . St. John's Reformed church was organized in the year 1822, one of the leading members being Henry Meyer, Meetings were first held in an old school house at Oak Hall, The con- gregation® at this time consisted of twenty to twenty-five members. The first pastor was Rev. Henry Rossman, In 1825 they, with the Lutherans, built a substantial stone churen, the corner stone of which was laid June 6, 1825, and was dedicated August 4, 1527, Rev. Henry Gries officiating. In 1861 the Reformed congregation had grown to a flourishing condition, their interests in the old church were disposed of, and a plot of land was pur. chased from George Bheneberger. The sessions ei tudents, O01 was inter great many he received a LOCA IR, friends in Centre Hall. The most interesting bit of human Uress-~daughter of Rev. Daniel and Mra. Grese—who came early Bunday morning. David Burrell, of Spring Mills, was in town Monday. Mr. Burrell is a member of the 148th Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and is anxiously swailing the publication of the history of that regiment, B. B. Wilson and family and James M. Clarke and family, of Bellefonte, enjoyed a week's eamping and flabiog in Greens Valley, Beside the pleas ure of camping the party succeded in landing a fine lot of fish, BOALSBURG, MOTHERSBA UGH, August eleventh, 1861, and Rev, Charles Léinbach preach- ed the dedicatory sermon. The cost of the building was about seven thous and dollars, In October 1568, a pipe organ was added at an expense of twenty-two hundred dollars, Its dedication was attended by a sad incident. Mr. Jo- seph Meyer, who had been mainly in- strumental in procuring the organ and defraying the cost, presided as organ- ist, and ufter the opening hymn had sung, he dropped dead. The cause of his death was heart disease, in the month of July, 1873, a severe storm partly unroofed the building but the damage was immediately repaired at an expense of about dollars been one thousand Two years ago the church was re- modelled at an expense of about seven thousand dollars. It was re-dedicated November second, 1902, The pastor is Rev. A. A. Black, The Lutheran congregation formed in the year 1525, They united with the congregation in building the old stone church, which they continued to use until 1868, when it was torn down and the present church erected. The present pastor is Rev, J. I. Btovecypher The man most prominently indenti- fied with the former year the Boal. in present Was teformed brick interests of Boalsburg in #, and who lived to enjoy of his efforts, was David born Ireland, and life emigrated to America, ug at Philadelphia. He started st once for the central part of Per and located He George Boal, who county of Antriem, : : hy BLUCOERS He early was in ineyl- Vania, al what is now Hon, it Lhe July six- with his father in 1840, inter of (he Boalsburg. had one son, WAR Ire , and cam bora land, 1 h. i MnLry ae © 8 Ie 1846 1 judge of the cour J legisla. irom WHS B88 inte He t He died July eighth, 1 ther 1 Ll J ind five seltlers Pric the old of Roslsburg still retain within their memory ibe known figure of Barnes He was a Live i about 1800 in Boalsburg. He at one time taught the old school al Two of his grand daugh- . Rankin and Mrs. are now liviog in Among the early in d Ten MIRE were illiam 1 f si Of Boslsb Bh John Wasson, Mi gents « once well liey, of Irelan: 1 a and Hin setlled ol in house Kreamer, oalsburg. Moone Ys id, came abou Patrick Irelan palive of Lime as early date, also a L the same Hobert Poker, al an alaburg, Kiley. Lrearge Mele f the first « here, 1 and nationality to erger, if that a German, Oho ¢ ts! iat f mettle wught lots of Btr up, he of Lhe the ut of his dsughters wife of David Keller, The ly pliysicians were Di Dr. Fabien Dr. Hortlaben, an old German physician, kuving a particular fondness for reck- less driving, and who boarded with Sbeneberger, is also remem- shorlly after 1 Cine Iaying 1 owl. HE Car Wolf, stock and Dr. Coverly. George bered. A military organization, styled the Yepring Creek Phalanx,” was formed about seventy years ago. It had some #ixty or seventy members, most of them being residents of Boalsburg and vicinity. It was created for the pur- pose of shielding its members from serving io the militia. The original captain was General Irvin, who after- wards was succeeded by George Boal. Boalsburg is pleasantly situated in the eastern part of Penn’s Valley, near Tussey Mountain, It is twelve miles from Bellefonte, aud withio a mile and a half of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Just south of Boalsburg are the re nowned Seven Mountains and Bear Meadows, The appearance of Boalsburg at the present time as compared with ite ear ly existence, shows a marked improve. ment for a A Village of that Glaus LOCA Ls. Among the many congenial callers Monday was ’'Bquire Herring, of Rev. James Hughes, head of the Bellefonte Academy, made a tour of ! Penna Valley in the interest of his in. stitution, The seademy, it will be re- membered, suffered severe loss from fire, but Rev. Hughes assured the writer that all would be in readiness for the fall session. The Bellefonte Academy bas a good record to its credit, and if its young men sre fol lowed through college nnd after grad. uation it will be found that they are not only successful in college life, but are fitted for the real Lattle of life upon which so much depends the early training. 1904. NO. 2%. THE ROAD QUESTION, sellefonte is advocating that Bpring and Boggs townships build the road lying between Bellefonte and Miles- burg under the new road law, where- by the state pays two-thirds of the cost, and the township and county the remainder in equal shares, It is esti mated that the cost per mile will be $2,000, or $3,150 for the entire road. It is remarked that the road, since it lost its ““pikehood’’ has greatly dete- riorated, and that the building of the roand would be a great benefit to the boroughs of Bellefonte and Milesburg. This is a repetition of the old story. The kick against poor roads comes mostly from boroughs, towns and cities—frowm the people who have no part in paying the tax to build roads, The people of Boggs and Bpring town- ships, when they asked to have the pike condemned, virtually decided that they preferred to have a poor road to paying high toll. In this move- ment—that of reducing toll gates— boroughs and cities usually acquiesce, and once that is accomplished they frequently endeavor to persuade rural districts that it would be to their great advantage to build and maintain, without cost tothe city or borough gentleman, a high class road. ————— Carl Schurz was one of the founders of the Republican party. In the na tional convention of 1860 he made one of the speeches seconding the nomins- tion of William H. Seward. Like a great many other originel Republicans he has long been outside of the party that bears the name of the one that elected Lincoln, and be represents as well as any man who could be named that independent vote which has de- cided the last four Presidential tions. He has written Parker elec. to Judge elections are determined by the votes of men who cannot be d upon by any ‘political ma- but who vote sccording to their consciences, their judgments and the exigencies of the situation. This ele ment will be found mainly on the Democratic side this year. ty The Supreme Court has just a decision Presidential counts chins . ——— CC ——— render. ed that not oniy bears the impress of good law but sound com The court holds that of. ficers in municipalities are not obliged to exercise more than reasonable care in Keeping the highways in condition Judge Potter, who deliver ed the opinion, said that it was next to impossible to provide absolute safe- ty, and that officers were not expected to keep roads and streets “as smooth ax a parior floor.”! The position taken by the highest legal tribunal in the will tend to discourage damage stils, which are increasing at an alarm- ing rate. Townships, boroughs and are made defendants in suits for excessive damages upon the flim- sivst pretextis, and to the discredit of many county courts and their juries they usually give judgment for the plaintifl hou sense, for travel. siale g Coulities I A ————— The Republicans seem to be worry- ing themselves a good deal more over Judge Parker's letter of acceptance than the Democrats are. The average politician of the grand old party is lost unless he has a fiuger in somewhere, In his own party Teddy's the whole thing-~the party, the candidate, the chairman, the platformi—and boss generally, so the party zealot must either go out of business, or devote himself to the Democratic end of the campaign. Assam AMAA Never growl because a newspaper falls to give every scrap of news, so long us you take no paivus to give the editor information. Readers are awful. ly put out at times because no nole has been made of the arrival or de parture of friends visiting them, or of social aflaire, or of the heaven sent babies that visit their homes over night. The average newspaper man fen’i & medium nor a mindreader, but gets most of his news the same way the milkman gets his milk-—by pumping. I SA ——— Dr, Warren, the pure food commis sioner, has given notice that no more violators of the pure food laws will be permitted to settle by the payment of a fine. This policy has been taken in consequence of the bad faith with which certain parties have acted. Af ter having secured release by paying a fine, they continue to violate the laws the same as before, evidently sup. posing that they would not be molest ed again for at least some time. A MM SO SSI, The wind blows Parkerward. The fact that the Now York Herald sup- ports the Democratic candidate Is . TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. rm — Carl and Calvin, sons of John W. Runkle, of Middleburg, are visiting at the home of their uncle, J. W. Runk- le, in this place. Henry E. Davis, of Bunbury, was nominated for Congress by the Demo- crates of the Sixteenth Congressional district. The other Bsturday mornings fire destroyed the tabernacle and two tents on the Bugar Valley campmeeting grounds, near Boonville, Daniel Buriek, of Lock Haven, while trimming a maple tree was blown to the brick pavement below aud killed. His skull was crushed. Chas. N. Beott, the A. B., C. book man of Willismsport, while at Tyrone recently, had one of. %!z fingers com- pletely severed by a passenger car door striking it. D. W. Bradford, last week, fell from a load of hay and seriously hurt his leg at the knee. The accident was caused by the trip rope attached to the hay fork breaking, causing him to lose Lis balance. Miss Elizabeth Gettig, of Braddock, visited friends in Bellefonte and Potter township. Miss Gettig is a trained nurse, and is favorably known by the many readers of the Reporter, she being a daughter of the late Samuel Gettig, of near Tusseyville, The Republican conference of the Thirty-firet BSenatorial District, com- prising the counties of Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, nominated William Henry Manbecke, of Juniata county, the con- ferees of Mifflin County voting with those of Juniata. Robert C. Eldred, of near Mackey- ville, was instantly killed by the wheels of a wagon passing over his bead and left arm. The man was standing on a load of wheat when a part of it gave way, drawing the driver to the ground. At a meeting of the Potter township school board held last week, J. Nevin Moyer, representing the R. L, Moyers Co., secured’ an adoption of the Edward Weldenheimer mental aritbmetices and copybooks. A meet. ing will be held Saturday to decide on grammars. Irvin Kerns, son of Jacob Kerns, and Miss Almira Auman, aged fifteen years, daughter of Frank Auman, both of Greenbrier, Penn township, left their homes in clandestine manner and were married in New Yok. The young couple returned in a few days to ask forgiveness, John H. Bmith, the junior member of the Smith Prioting © ompany, Reedsville, will become a resident of Willimmsport after August Sth. His object in changing locations is to se- cure better educational advantages for his daughter, Miss Matgaret, who will enter the Dickinson Beminary. 8. E. Kimport, of State College, met with a peculiar accident recently. He was putting ice in the refrigerator of bis meat shop when he felt in his foot what be thought was rheumatism. Towards evening the paiu increased, whereupon he consulted a physician who told him he had a broken bone in his foot. . The auto that passed through Centre Hall last week was on its return from 8t. Louis to New York. The main object of the trip was to Jay out a route between New York and St. Louis to be followed by auto parties from New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Wash« ington who expect to run to the Fair for Auto Day, August 10th. The Millheim Journal makes this reference to a Potter township farmer : A bundle of oats and timothy stalks raised on the farm of James Sweet- wood of near Centre Hill, was shown to us on Tuesday that measured in length five feet, nine inches, This shows that Potter township is not always short but is occasionally long on some things, George W. Koch, east of Centre Hall, made one of his occasional trips to Centre Hall Saturday, and while in town called on the Reporter and “paid up.” Mr. Koch isa veteran of the sixties, and the greater part of the time is confined to his home owing to poor eye sight and other physical ailments, but when he comes to town he is al- ways greeted heartily. In another column will be found a history of Boalsburg written by Miss Margaret Mothersbaugh, These his- torical facts were brought out through prizes offered by Theodore Davis Boal for the best history written by auy member of the Boalsburg High School. Another of the prize winners was Miss Marion A. Murray, whose
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