VOL. LXXVII.
5
RENN Tae
4
ENTRE COUNTY
143th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
AR. 1.P Meyer, Sergeant Co. A. 148th
ie giment, PV
CHAPTER
[To be Continued |}
IX
A
must have been at the bottom
unknown to us,
of this
for the supply of fire
great agency,
night's display ;
works, torches, and candles seemed in-
ex haustible,
Quiet was not restored till the smal
had well gous
by, aud the sun was high in the heav
ens, ere the sleepy denizans of
hours of the morning
camp
had all turned out
On Mav 301th, 1865,
of the 2ad Corps took place at Bailey's
the last review
fry
Mee
famous
(ren
Cross Roads, a place mad-
the
Clellan, while organizing the Army of
the Potomac, deteated and
demoralized remnants of MeDowel's
Bull Run Army, and new troops, dui-
ing the first year of the war.
numerons reviews by
i
from t
ae
The Corps was reviewed
Gen Meade, commander of the Army,
and M»xj A. A. Humphreys,
Commander of the Corps, the
CitliZ»
Ly Muj
(Gen.
in press
ence of an immense crowd of Hs,
half of whom were ladies in carriages,
in which
View
they stood during the re
Chis wus the grandest review the
It passed off
the tro
Seeond Corps ever had,
very satisfactorily ; mareh-
'
ps
the timing
ed sullenly in review, to
din of drum-corg rss
the Regliuents i
ofheers
reviewing
by “company fix,”’
then, ou command of, “by ¢
left turn,
eonlumup, and pass off the (eld,
148.h P. V. had
officers,
Mupany,
march !" would swing into
$ 3a i
tit jut {
t
reviewing and received
putnsud @ no so or Lind
Harm Ov
word “mare,” rung through the
it, than the ¢ Mupanies, swi
otal men, in perfect ¢
» right of the compa:
eolumn nt a fur
Which was =#
ng ute eolumn,
wit
out premoniti
arrafigempent,; gave
bad
charges
I vad, fierce yell they
battle
vation of military decorum ;
given in
vi
bubbub
offi
ly there was
tiie minor
Meade
fre
zivd ; an ‘“‘underling’’
“Order that Regiment
Horses were spurred hither
“staff :’ ‘What
next.
ed
145th
on
8 great
reviewing ers, (en
‘orps Commander, looked puz
aid shouted :
under arrest !
er among the
ment is that? came
in the Regiment
“The
teers!’ |
SOE «
wally ste yo
Yell
Fiat voice, Pennsvivan
Vaolu
wet, confusio
this anuounce-
“Re
crowd uf spectais it
ident that the 148th P
of friends there,
ed nnd swuug their hats, while ladies |
of
he air in approval
oul 1a thie great
was al once ev. |
Vv host
Men laughed, shout!
rs 3
had &
cheered, and a
fluttered int
lively, yet uomilitary diversion
SPR
of this
the
multitude in attendance
delighted to hear, for ones, 1 battle
shout of a fighting Fhe
145: h passed off the field, and to camp
ii
Regiment
— aiid there were Do arrests
On the morning of Juoe 3rd, 1565
reveille sounded at day-break, snd the
bys turned out promptly. It at
once understood that it was
reveille Virginia forever
that the time for leaving
was
otir
in Now,
tiie
seemed Joath to return to civil life with
its vumerous cares ; still, they all re
fused offers of positions in the regular
ary aud prepared to go home,
[tie recruits in the 145th were
transferred to the 53¢d Regt, P. V,,
and marched over to the camp of said
Regiment, They had counted on
goiug home with the 145th, and as
they were marched away, some were
in tears over the harrowing
pointment.
At 7a. m. the 148th last
left its
ed to Washington, D. C,, five
to the R. R. station, north of the Uap,
tina, till 3p. m., when we were put
into a freight train, and started for
Harrisburg, Pa. We were awitched
out of the road for all other trains, aud
reached our destination at 9 a. 1m.
June 4th. The freight train, as usual,
had no seats, and were very uncom
foriable, For eighteen hours we were
packed in this seatiess, cheeriess, train,
on the road from Washington to Har-
risvurg, a distance of only owe bun.
drod and twenty-five miles,
Uired and cramped, we left our train
avd marched to « amp Curtin, two
mies away, and occupied “A’ tents
tial were already up.
What & change had eome over Camp
Curtin, It was here, in 1862, that the
148.h was organiz-d,
[Contraued on foot of next slum.)
INSURANCE CASEOF MUCH INTEREST
Jury's Verdigt of 81,200 to Mrs Holdlord
Set Aside by Judge Hart,
Judge Hart at Wiillamsport has filed
an opinion and order of court in the
case of Alice Teress Holford vs. the
New York Life Insurane company.
his case was put on trial at a recent
of after hearing the
case the jury gave a verdict of $1,198.
erm court, and
33 —the full amount of policy and in-
eregt, The conrt reserved a law point
owever, aud now sustains a
verdict for the defendant
motivn
fnsur-
company notwithstanding the
The the case
was to the effect that James Raymond
Holford, of November
io made nn application for a
. New York Life
Ou November 21 the policy was issued
the Pe
for a
Hee
verdiet evidence in
=late Run, on
1806
$1 000 policy i the
mpany, and sent to the agent
to
aon
I'he agent went
to deliver the policy
Iw t the sta
the
had a
¢ the mon-
i As nt
Holford,
y suid that
id
ne
the fnither of
his son
He tender
was refused
Wil lias
death of
for the
that »
spplieation provided that
policy, but it
returned to
After the
brought
stil
nt, The
Was
nou defense was
clause in the
the policy did not become binding un-
i delivered to the insured,
was io good health
§o4
bwwg
til it bad
while he and the
premium p
-
A ness w——
Trunsler of Hen! Estate
to Fi
| 34 perches in
win Homes,
Michael
in State
#
’
i, to Reu-
Nos
$300
Chas,
Miles
its
in
Two thousand people as
Pennsylvania State Colle
morning to witness the Pe
the dedication of
Carnegie 1.
day exercises and
new $150 000 brar
among the crowd were
than
institutic These i
Mrs. Andrew Carn
Charles
m alien
were ever before gathered at that
d
Mrs
Penny.
Major Gen.
ire nn
yi
ciuding Mr. a
rie, Mr
and
M Schwab, Governor
packer and State officials,
ux., to John |
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u Spring twp. |
v BWP. |
Harry F. |
and 2 lots
Geo, W
14 acres,
£500,
4
10
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ation, Uct
in Bel Lod
A ww
fe» ¥iorida and
Hiillway is
offers the best
ugton and Richmond
and
eaith and pleasure
and
ially trains
ning Car service,
Carolinas
sti baie
tes, beautifully illustrated
full information, address
Ageat, Phila-
ono, 50
Pass
As A A A ————
Hara Barned
“
mrn and all it contents
Robert
Wm. B.
Suyder
was vutirely consumed by fire,
Five horses, five
of Mr. Smith's
were burned,
No insurance
rm owned by
Nii “i tenanted bry
' Croxeiville,
ieounty,
i
Wenll,
{Ouse nig! fast
of cattle and all
head
farmisg Implements
{Origin of fire uakuown,
on slock,
Continued from Previous Column, ]
Then it was a grand camp of thirty-
{ three thousand new men who were be-
{ing organized into Regiments, and
jsent forward as fast as they could be
| Thousands were daily com-
ing in, and thousands daily going out.
| The streets to, and through this camp,
| then, were thoroughfares of splashy,
hot, light dust, six inches deep, and
{the columns of men and hundreds of
| wagons passing through, would raiee
clouds of dust, so great und dense that
| the sun looked like a ball of red fire,
{and at times be totally obscured. Grass
had now overgrown these erstwhile
dusty roads, and weeds and grass cov
ered the plain that was formerly cov
ered by more than eight thousand
Now five hundred tents stood
{on the grass covered plain, occupied
{by a few thousand veteran soldiers,
| awaiting dicharge. The 148th among
| them, with twenty-five per cent. of
the men of 1862 present ; many of these
even erippled by wounds of bali aod
|shell. Where the seventy-five per
| cent. of those who camped with us
here three vears before, were, was well
{known Nearly every general battle.
| field and the locality of many of the
| skirmish lines of the Army of the Po
tomae in the fields pod forests of the
Lgouth, from 1862 to the doy of the sur.
Lrender at Appomattox, in 1865, are
{dotted by the graves of men of the
i vgnipped
tents,
"148. P. V , while others, crippled for
life, had been discharged from the ser-
| vice A glorious record, yet sad io ite
eyntemplation,
-
HON. ANDREW CARNEGH
eral Char
Miata
Aalpong w
Dresser,
Hon J. W
Assemblivims
sembivmasn
and seores of
tion from
Che Qa pia
by Superint
advantage
and
known throug!
Toe
prearranged p
hea
Hay Was
to the letter, «
the Eagli
Morley.
Every one was
wilh the prese
wlitutio
that
, bat
had be
Years
The 1aain »x
new Auditoriu:
Mra
crowded.
Nehwab,
There
state Librarian Thon
ery,
Their
Deputy
Fleitz
“Pennsylvania,’' a
lege choir sang “Come, Brothers Raise
the Song.”
fu his address Governor Penny pack.
er said :
“Every century has
No age is like the past We
the time of materialism. We like
have things in the concrete, The con
templations of Plato and Socrates have
been to a very forgotten
and the thought « f men is given to the
rush of the locomotive
broad prairies, to the erection of great
bridges, to the construction of factories
where at one end is put io the naked
ore aud at the other end comes out
completed steel work, wire fences and
all the appliances of machivery.
“This characterizes only what
you see about you everywhere, but it
has aftected and will continue to affect
our colleges and schools, Now when
a young man goes to a university he
has an ambition to be a full man. And
in your colleges, while we have not
neglected the languages,
have not neglected onl ure, there is an
effort everywhere to introduce manual
training, to leach the and the
hand in connection with the mind”
Ia elodag the Governor sald that he
must confess that hie was surprised at
the magnitude of State College ; that
he knew it had been Hberally provided
% address
Montge
Libraries :
wa al
as La.
YPannavivania
fy
on
Relation to E
Attorney
excellent
on."
Fred
address
and
Ww
on
fncati
(#e eral
made an
fter
which the enl
ideals,
live in
its own
to
great exient
across fhe
fies
while we
syn
i
ab
qe
Sy oy ah tons a
as Hberal treatment in the future
”"
I'he
ting was Charles M
next and last speaker of
Schwab
Schwab said ;
isvivania i= great by reason of
ments
tate
trial aclhilevy
I'he bove
snnsyivania 8 ollege are
glare, upon whom de-
maintaining
¥ }
vania's supremacy. [I want
11 as having had experie:
a pleasant
) gremter
[a machine
the mornings exer-
thieon was served to 860 guests
ea Carnegie Library
witness the formal
y the cols
roegie made the pre-
He said :
ty vears since [| was here
iike Rip Van
yenty
Winkle. after
iad slept years, | ie
atid see what we have seen today has
and myself
evolution.
il. K Hand, has
all
ete of human Knowledge, Twenty
impressed Mre, Carnegie
Th in
fariiers'
deeply i" an great
his we lyom
high
Hos ninsleern COUrses, embirac ing
wil jo
sgo 1 found 170 students here,
700 and 800
and the ory is ‘still they come.’
Ne hrs
Foday there are between
“The evolution which education has
undergone in that time is very strik-
ing. The and cathedral |
schools of the Middle Ages have pass-
ed away. Metaphysics and logie, over |
which the world fought, have been |
relegated to toe rear. Let me pay a
tribute to the ancient classics. They |
were the medium through which our |
knowledge of literature was obtained.
monastic
“Now | want to say how proud I
am standing here today to hear that
the State College of Pennsylvania i-
one of the pioneers in the reform of
education. Your president tells us
that the Euglish conrse is unusually |
complete and thorough, and that this |
may be taken as the general character
of the education of this institution, and
he says, we teach American literature
firet,
“1 want to speak of my feelings on |
this occasion Old memories have
been stirred, If my foot be not on my |
native heath this mounent, I yet stand |
upon the first soll where with my pa-
rents I found a home in this Republic. |
If seotland be my aother land, then [|
tell you Peansylvania is my wife land |
by misrringe i
“It was an early marriage ; I was]
only 11, but I tell you, gentlemen, I'
am not at sli coucerned sbout the
question of divoree, I never mean to!
be div reed from Pennsylvania sud I
NO. 46,
DEDICATED NOV. 18.
vorce herself from me,
“It remains for me to perform the
cot y of handing over this library
to you, Governor Beaver, as president
of the Board of Trustees, and this I do
in the earnest hope, nay the confident
Hef, that year after year it must be of
greater of
ereity, with the hope that in
crmmuning with the teachers of man-
mon
usefulness to the students
this univ
kind you may no! only become edu-
+f 4
MAL
hat there may be here
n you the fruitful
fr
harvest
ma which, gentlemen,
to ever press upward te
i wisdom, the best, and
f he best : That one
pervios to his fel.
ate and to
ver, i
in
his country
you thie
who loves
hand
nhe
wes Btate College,
ie UU
serve them all
le of ti
uid
nited
CHARLES M, SCHWAB
president of the
received the key
turn pre
to hold in
of Trustees,
and in
Atherton
lege
ym Mr. Carnegie
i to Dr.
ippropriately idseribed memorial
ks was presented Mr. Carnegie
Board of Trustees, while the
t body, through F. J. Saunders,
ted Mrs, Carnegie with a hand-
up
ance of the cup by Mrs
in the most grace-
ar. Nhe mounted the stage,
the great iron master re
puted to be worth easily a half billion
dollars, held her hand she expressed
thoroughly satisfled with
institution that no one will dis-
believe that both she and Mr. Carne
gle, at that very instant, were decid
ing in their own minds the nature of
a future gift.
Penuayivania Day, 1904, will be a
memorable one in the history of Penn
sylvania State College.
» was done
jie
herself =o
the
Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. and
Mrs. Schwab, the latter's secretary,
maids and servants traveled in the
Schwab private car “Loretto,” one of
the finest and most completely ap-
pointed cars in Amerion. The cost of
the car, as it stood on the track at
State College, is $125,000 —a pretty for.
tune. Buch a traveling palace is, how-
ever, none too good nor too safe to
transport men and women of such
generous spirit and capacity as its
occupants,
President Atherton was voted by the
audience the most devoted champion
of Peunsylvania «tate College. Dr.
Atherton brought into play his almost
unbounded tact in dealing with the
tion, and fally iaformed the governor
of this great Commonwealth and the
legislators, who upon invitation were
present, of the needs of the institution
and ite worthiness of more liberal
stale support.
The owt of the library building was
$160,000, and it Is a magnificent
5
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Thanksgiving Bupper—Grange Ar-
cadia, 4:30 to 10 o'clock.
The name of the postoffice at Kip
ple, Blair county, has been changed to
Juniata.
Clover seed wanted, Price aceord
ing to quality—J. H. & 8 E
Centre Hall and Oak Hall.
A large of young
from the surrounding country
Weber
number pres
nd
ages were in town Saturday night
Gio to Grange Arcadia for ir sup
per on Thanksgiviog Day. The order
will appreciate your pmironage, and
you
give you a splendid supper.
The
Company's plant, st Philipsburg, was
destroyed by fire, The loss
partially covered by iusurane
A force of
gradiog the new railroad between
field and New Berlin, Tue line
completed will be pine miles |
Moshannon Manufacturing
is 815 000,
men, last week
Win-
when
Ig.
George Earhart, who farms for J. T.
Potter of Centre Hall, husked
1248 bushels of corn from eleven
The corn was all of a fine quality
west
act
James Leitzell, of Spring Mills, was
in town Thursday. He will go to
Portland Mills
main with his son, Dr.
for the winter.
s 10 & 8hOrY time, 1
P.W.}
0 Te-
~itzell,
Jacob Bparr, of Madison, Ohio, came
«ast last week to look after | al
tate near Boalsburg
homestead
Mr. Sparr inhe
ited the Sparr f1
Spare sisters, who were hi
DP. A Boozer
across the alley
property
cently purchased it and
purch
from 1
from Olive
house on Church sirest
heirs,
Mr. and Mra,
Hall,
ty where thes
{ye eg
rge
near Centre Saturday
from Union coun
for a week with the latter’s sist
John Nihart,
miles out from M
Will A. Wagner
Lauber, came dow:
Mod
Valley for a ten
J iti the CR SHOCRTN Pw
days’
Wagner, with her
visited relatives on the South sis
Mrs. Ira Stover,
of Osk Hal Gur
last week was the f
ad t ff A
gues; nr.
r
!
ing
and
Mrs. George Stove Ear
ut Iystown,
le her husband attended
Mr
Branch school, west of Bo
William Walker,
ployed by E. L. Auman in ol
flour mill at Millheim fo
years, has accepts
wh tenchers
institute, Ntover teaches
the
“burg
who em
loz
five
ith a
He
Dear
da posit
storage house Wilkins
will
al
move his
future
“Buffalo Valley
By’?
company that
build its lines in
family in
Pelephone Compa-
is the name of
1 i 2a) $ i
“ ail iephione
ins W0mimne in
The
Re.
Union eounty.
lines will extend through every
tion of the county now covered by the
U.T. and T. Company. John Rahl is
superintending the construction of the
lines,
J. B. Wagner, the efficient and se-
commodating operator at the Penn'a
Station, at Mifflinburg, his wife
and children, departed Taesday ona -
visit among relatives and friends in
Linden Hall and other points in Cen-
tre county, where he formerly resided.
He expects to spend part of his vaca.
tion hunting, remarks the MiMlioburg
Telegraph.
The December issue of Everybody's
Magazine will certainly attract atten.
tion, not only because of the sensation-
al interest of its jostalment of Thomas
W. Lawson's “Frenzied Finance,” but
through the distinction and excellence
of its general contents and the beauty
of its illustrations. Some of the best
fiction writers before the public are
represented within its covers.
Daniel Krader, of Coburn, was
lucky, in shooting a two-pronged
buck which weighed 115 pounds when
dressed. Mr. Krader, in company
with a number of other hunters, had
started early in the morning enroute
to Price's camp, in the Seven moun-
tains, and had not gone far until he
landed the fatal shot, says the Jour-
nal. It is reported that the party saw
three deer at the same place.
Any man can take a newspaper. It
is the cheapest thing he can buy.
Every time the hen oackles and lays
an egg, his paper is paid for that week,
It comes to you every week, rain or
shine, calm or storm, No matter
what happens it opens the door of the
great world and puts you face to face
with its own people and its great
events. It shortens the long winter
nights. It helps to brighten your
homes during the hot, dull s son. It
Is your advisor, ggssiper and friend,
No man i» just to his children who
does vot give them the loos! paper, No
man is good to himself who does
Wilh