OL. LXXVIIY
CENTRE COUNTY
Volunteers.
» : i» r
Regiment, P. V,
{To be Continued |
CHAPTER X.
February 5, 1865, Bunday, regiment
joined in a move to Hatchers
Hecond
my's works captured and held ; work"
ed in trenches all night ; very cold.
HALL. PA.,
HURSDAY., MAY
STHOSE CONFESSIONS"
Hev, Cox Takes Exceptions to
Remarks—The
The Report
Correction,
“era
I'l Dillon are
confessions of Green and
very like the cor made that are not
J HIURSIONS
| the exact words of the prolessor—no reliance
whatever can be placed in such confessions,
the
same time the confessions are being made,
to save the necks of the
aud especially so when the attorneys, at
Aare CORUIVIDE ie
condemned,
Just what motive al adviser would
a spirito
¢ in confessions, piotures,
I remain 80 unless
I 3} ned by persons who deal in them. Green
unfortunate to the very end
| last week's Cen
| NEW SOHOOL LAWS,
[Tw o Laws that Effect Township and Bor.
ough Schools and Directors,
The legislature just adjourned pass-
ed two laws of interest to township
| and borough school authorities. The
| first act permits school children to at-
{tend high schools in other districts
than the one in which they live and
provides for the payment by the town-
{ship of the tuition, in-
| creases the pay of directors attending
ithe annual school directors’ conven-
Under the law of 1903 directors
The second
last night and today.
Feb, 7, worked all night,
returned to duty
Cummings afternoon,
snow and rain,
garrison at Fort
in the
Feb, 8, tore down tents and packed
up at midnight, and so remained (till
night of the 9th;
having come we again put up
Nearly froze during this uunshelter
wait, in zero weather and no fires,
Feb.
spection, the entire regiment
three with
shovels, to the advanced lines, worked
in th
late |
no orders
tents.
ed
went
miles arms, picks
orbit
froze as it fi
after
{ od
rain.
the
Dreadiul
or
ong
this jine,
outipues er
it lost in Killed
missing ot
iss Of
ance all along the line ; Confeder-
nes broken everywhere,
i started ore day-
break snd moved west through forest |
and swamp, in the direction of Notto-
way Court House, i
ated Petersburg and Richmond during |
the night ; Unio
gic n foretouis,
Confederates evacu- |
roops took posses
April 4, marched at 3 a. m. wesi,
d {ol
tow
federate
arn
jurkeville, twenty miles ;
army in fall
retreat ; Union |
wild pursuit,
LIFE 9
in
(treat
marched twenty miles,
Bheridan’s wake, to Jeteraville
Jeteraville ;
3»
battie at
defeated,
April Deatonaville,
eight miles, and took part in battle,
Later moved to Sailors Creek. Great
battle was fought; Confederates routed.
Unie
April 7, moved west, to
Farmville where the 2nd Corps fought |
its last battle,
April 8, moved out before day-break ;
crossed the Appomattox river to the
north and marched to New Btore,
twenty miles, and bivouacked in the
woods, CO retreat blocked :
infevse excitement throughout the
Union army
April 9, Bunday, marched very early
in {he morning, along the Appomat-
tox Court House road, ten miles, and
helied near Rockey river, five miles
from Appomattox Court House, A
truce was ordered at 10 a. m. and
articles of surrender signed at 4 p. m.,
at Appomattox Court House, one hun-
dred miles west of Petersburg and the
sane distance from Richmond, Va,
April 10, the greater part of the Un-
ion army started on the homeward
march, Bheridan's cavalry moved
from Appomattox Court House to
Prince Edward Court House. All of
April 10th and 11th were taken up by
the Confederates in drawing up and
signing the parole papers.
April 11, the 148th P. V. joined in
the homeward march at noon. March
ed to Prospect Btation, on the Peters
burg and Lynchburg railroad, fifteen
miles, and camped.
April 12, formal surrender of the
Confederates at day-break. The Cone
federate parole papers were signed by
only vight thousand men ; seventeen
thousand Confederates, less honorable,
were reported * missing ;’’ they hav-
ing deserted since the 9th; nobody
cared or tried to hold them. Very
Confederates
6, marched to
1 loss 1180 men, Confederate 6000,
ten miles
mifederate
few of the Union troops saw this sur.
len.
i ry 3
{of Green and Dil
thie
| the confessions at the
who
wrote
dictation of the
Cox,
he
informs ler that
condemned
the
LOOK exceptions
and that
error, ele. for
very
Coin
i
whic
Jil
sonve, usks
£1 Erect ie
a]
writer
pp nity tre is
thankful,
cals : P18 pari
graphs con.
B
veyed t Cox,
Rev,
i the con-
lictated by
and pos.
LOX) is
cou fessors, had
He had un
Bul on the
writes
wriler no
L8]
to think
I'he
other hand
Hada in
did
were
is
not)
Hot a
falsehoods
{
Lrfeen
Dil
them,
aud
Sop
Mifflin
News from County
TO
‘
Mowery
home
fy .
After the close |
Golete 3
society, Mra,
re
with
nem
wd all
y
present
reported havi had
im
Mrs.
Eg Ver pleasant |
time.
K.
Lewis
W. MeGrirk of North Wayne!
street, ywin, and ber sister, |
3
Mrs. Marion Price of Johnstown, vis-
Mra.
bag-
the week,
wifeof the P. RB. R
Johnstown,
tha
in Lit
Price
gage maser
Mrs. Joh igler, of Altoona,
8
Mr.
was |
Mrs. |
from
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Ww here
Z
% visitor at the fu e of and
H
exter
Laub, Jr.,
fed
Pp
sister, Mrs. Jane Kerr, lives,
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f
return
te
widen,
rip
Columbia, Pa, and Milroy
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Wp
Prediction of the Journal,
Editor Bair, of the Philipsburg Jour-
nal, muskes this prediction
of May 10th :
In list
ments Lo day of
Dr. F. RK. f this place, who is
a candidate for County Treasurer, sub-
ject to the rules governing the Demo-
eratic partly. The indications point
very largely to the Doctor's nomina-
tion. He is recognized as one of the
most earnest of the party,
has never before asked for an office,
and possessing every qualification for
the , and realizing the fact
that Philipsburg is justly entitled to
recognition in this connection, it
pretty generally conceded that
nomination will follow,
in the issue
our of political announce.
you will find the card
¥y Lite, ©
advocates
position
is
his
New Hanking Institution,
Lock Haven will have a new bank-
ing institution in the near future,
The company will be capitalized at
$125,000, composed of 1,250 shares of
the par value of $100 each. BSBubscrip-
tion lists for stock have been prepared
and placed in the hands of the above
named, for the purpose of selling stock
to sll persons who desire to invest in
the same,
{Continued from Previous Column, ]
render ; it was witnessed by a part of
the 6th Corps only. The 145th march
ed east about fifteen miles, by way of
Hampden, Bidney snd Prince Edward
Court House, snd camped east of and
near the Bush river, a few miles south
of Farmville,
April 18, marched south-east about
twelve miles and camped near Burkes
ville, Va, Field hospital here to ac
commodate 10,000 men,
April 19, move! about three miles,
to better camp ground, in a clearing
one mile south of Burkeville,
{lars per diem is provided for. The
| measures are printed in fall below :
| HIGH SCHOOLS.
| BHectionl. Be it enacted, &c., that
{ maintained, may attend a high school
their homes ; provided the consent of
district in
school is located be first ob
gh
books, which shall not exceed that of
of
grades or courses in
the tuition and school books
the
district
3
00d,
same
the maintaining such high
shiall be paid to the district re-
out of the Ion-
purposes in the district in which said
iildren reside : Provided, that, before
such
found
to a high school,
examined and
the |
I
schoo
REFORMED SYNOD HAS BIG PLANS,
The Triennial of
ody Begun Tuesday,
fifteenth
General
Nensjon
The triennial
the d of the Reformed
Chureh in the Unlied States is in ges.
sion in Zion Reformed Church, Allen-
town. The sessions will continue for
about ten days. There will in at
tendance over 300 delegates, lay and
clerical, from all parts of the denomi-
nation in this country,
The Reformed Chureh, of which the
s tL}
Myra
be
general synod 1¢ highest judica-
tory, is one of the historic denomina-
th It to this
{country from Europe by way of Hol-
172 continucd
under the care of the Holland Church
until 1793, when iti
{and independent bod
tions of land, CRIne
| land as early 0, aud
i
CAINE A separate
y. HB
a membership of above 255,000 ;
represents
it igs
100 cons
more than 1100 ministers and 1
| gregalions. There are more than 1600
Bunday schools and more than 200,000
1905.
INCIDENTS OF 1860,
Loon] Items Taken from the Centre He
porter of Interest to 19005 Renders
Deaths—~Mrs. John
| sudder being ill
{ Her
’
Kimport
Hy, but two
age was 70 years,
aged 99 years. At
John Funk, aged 60
DECEMBER 17 (
Jacob Thomas, a jol
are,
d
i Jerks
re Hall
two weeks, swears that
J
boy, stopping at Cent
past
for
the county.
JANUARY 7, 1870-11
house, one
mile south
was burned to the ground C
night,
Married— December QO,
of Mi
3 1
ughter of
] 0, Thomas
Bogenrief, Minburg, and M
, da )
Mary G - Mever,
lon
1) cetnber
M
Ji
Aaronsburg
Bamuel la
of
i
and
| Bunday school scholars, i
| The general synod was cor |
tin 1863. All the other
{ the church, of w hich
#y nods
reporis
ititated
{
v { r 1
judicatories of |
there are eight |
snd fifty-eight classes, make |
Lo this Ix dy. Its powers are |
Its retiring presi- |
Dr. John H. Prugh, pas- |
Chureh, Pitts |
advisory.
dent is Rev
wr of Grace Reformed
preached the opening ser
is Rev,
Fhe
John Philip stein, pasior of B
stated clerk Dr
gt. Thom- |
as’ Church, at Heading
he
whict
adoption of a new constituti
i Was prepared by a commits
Dr |
Lancaster,
wWiich Laren
COnRIGerabi
much divided
r beginning June,
4
ne hundred and five,
i annually thereafter, at the county-
able place ip
if
ol directors of
snsideration and
pertaining
quest
i inistratioan
administration
discussing
di admin.
director
al-
h annual convention shall
it his necessary expenses,
dol
rate
f
rate of t
wo
lars per diem, and mileage al the
af t to
district
hiree wr mile be :
f cents |
ff is ¥ ad
{ the funds of the
paid
oti
which he
But the expenses shall not be
paid for more than two days at any |
A on ——
LAMIALS,
Roy White is enjoying a visit at
Ww
and his |
at Jack- |
the |
{ on 1
Ros
ley, in this piace. ¥
mother have been living
sonville,
James J. Gramley, of Madisonburg,
was in town last week shaking hands |
to |
the for
County Commissioner.
for nomioation
The reservoir was drained Saturday
morning for the purpose of cleaning
the bottom of leaves, ete., that gather-
ed during the winter, The basin was
full to overflowing when the operation
began,
The Herrick Beed Company, of Ro
chester, N. Y,, want an agent to can-
vass this section. This Company is
all right. Their references are the best.
Any one out of work write them for
terms at once.
Commissioner of Fordslry R. 8,
Conklin, last week, superintended the
planting of a large number of piue
trees on the Hiram Ross place, near
Reedsville, which is a part of the for-
estry reservation. Additional trees
are to be planted in the near future,
Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Duck and
George Duck, of Grampian, came to
the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Duck, near Penn Hall, to stay a short
time. Mr. and Mrs. Duck are grow-
ing old, and it was on the account of
their physical condition that the
children came home, |
G. W. Dunkle, of Centre Hall, ac-
companied by Mi Carrie and
Blanche Dunlap, daughters of Andrew
C. Dunlap, of Spring Mills, were pleas
ant callers at the Reporter office Batur-
day. The children took a great inter
est in the art preservative. Mr.
and Mrs. Dunkle, whose friendship
the children won, entertained them
over Bunday.
Joseph 8. Houtz, of Kirkland, Ill ,
writes the Reporter, under date of
May 12, thus: The Centre Reporter
always reaches us every Baturday
worning, and is always welcomed by
my family, Oats, barley and grass are
looking fine, but corn planting is de
layed some on account of heavy rains
ern seclions hie {
ue more
itberal
ise rvalive
lp
DEATHS
¢
followit
r Sid
Se BUgar Vv
of Mrs
aii
Saas
suddenly Hat |
irday in Greene lown-
shiip, due to heart disease, at the age
¥ £5 Fo 5% fs wivie » i
Gf HILY-OLe Years Surviving ber
Mrs
altendiong
are
Hens |
the husband and two sons
was alo He
work when the
Mr. Hess and
elo
fins
Honus Came,
having gon Los
turn home in ti
found
ront
nis mother
porch. Interment was made at
¢
4 gies
Srungarts « ery
§
LLIAM ¥.
WNE
th of William F.
ale reside
he dea Pownell at |
bis is # Dear Yarnell came |
very unexpectedly and was a severe |
i family and community
fe
Ww
he soon
March
known and much
his many amiable qualities and |
genial hospitality.
He
Nettie Pownell,
Mary Wilson, of
children,
which disease succumbed.
1856 He |
He was
11
Was well
born
“ith,
for
Mrs,
Mre. |
and several |
is survived byshis wife,
his mother,
Yarnell,
WILLIAM R.
William R. Noll died at his home in
Jeannette, Wednesday of last week, at
the age of thirty-four years. Inter-
ment took pierce at Pleasant Gap, Sat-
urday forenoon, the funeral being held
from the bome of his parents, Mr. and
Mra. Tooy Noll, of near Pleasant Gap.
Death was due toa tumorous growth
in his side,
The deceased was a plasterer, and is
survived by a wife, a daughter of Ma-
jor Huss, Bpring Mills, and three
children,
R. NOLI !
i
i
REV. R. L. ARMSTRONG
Rev. R. L. Armstrong, late pastor of
the Methodist church at Wallaceton,
died in Howard, while on a visit to
Rev. E. M. Aller. He was a member
of Central Pennsylvania conference.
Beginning of April he went to Lock
Haven to make his home with bis son,
I. P. Armstrong. His age was sixty-
two years,
JONATHAN LUTZ
Jonathan Lutz, aged eighiy-two
years, died at the home of H. Condo,
in Logauton, of diseases incident to
old age. He leaves five children :
Harrison, Tylersville; Frank, Mill
heim ; William, Flemington; Jona
than, in the west, and Mrs. Cal. Hen-
ry, of this state.
MRS, CATHERINE NEFF.
Mrs. Catherine Neff, aed eighty-
five years, died htaday last week,
at her home in Hecla, Centre county,
after a year's illness, suffering from
we have had lately.
Shatdiee, Interment was made at
Heam, both of Gregg township
23, John and
M.
December
December
Miss
slewarl
Ellie Boals-
A, Alexander Mo-
Potters Mills, and Miss Mary
Wilson, of
Moser, both of
if
:
wnitord ir yf G1 1al
daughter of bBamuel
aisburg.
Hennleh
Mills, to
: 3 : 8 Furs
rlizabelh Rote, bot}
township Knuary
of
Jan
Miss Eliz
Centre ©
Harris t
wubea Slump and
FW nisi p
Uary 4, t
nn of
Andrew
Miss Emma Year
Jane Smetzler, b
i
J ALUATY 0,
Hosterman and ck,
th of Haines township Japuary
Adam Hosterman,
Riter, John 8. A aman,
Miss Catharioe {
1, of Pean township
house of
H
fillbeim, and
{ie
i=
February
R. Hamil, George L.. (ood-
Miss Susan of
Hev
and A., dsughter
r
i
van Evans, of Potter township
January Frederi of
Aaronsburg, and Miss Anna Bitoer, of
Harris township January 15,
Adam Maize and Miss Caroline Brown,
both of Miliheim.
Deaths—January 12, at Centre Hall,
years, 2
wee Thomas Kk,
o
w-y
Samuel Harpster, aged Q
months At Centre Hill, January
12, Elizabeth, wife of Michael Smetz-
ler, aged 54 years . In Buena Vista,
Illinois, George W. Heckman, about
January 25. He was formerly from
Penn Hall. Death was caused by a
fall from the roof of his house.
FEBRUARY 15—~Chicago market :
Wheat 88¢, corn 70¢, oats 38¢, rye 66c,
gold $1.19 . Milroy market : Wheat
$1.05, rye 80¢, corn 75¢, oats 42¢, butter
250, egrs 18¢, potatoes 50¢.
MARCH 4D. Finkle sold his grist
mill in Millheim to Bimon Wolf and
William Moyer, of Miles township,
for $10,000
ibis ———
Delegates to 1, OF, Grand Lodge,
The Btate Grand Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F.,
met in Scranton beginning of this
week. The delegates to that body
from the various lodges in Penns Val.
ley, who attended the same, follow :
Lemont William Hoy.
Hiate Oollege—Milton Hartawick.
Boalsburg—Calvin Wieland.
Millbeim-—E. W, Mauck.
Centre Hall—-John H. Krumbine,
Rev, G. W. Melloay, of Spring
Mills, represented the Loysburg, Bed.
ford county, Lodge, of which he is a
member,
AA bi
Centre Reporter $1.00 a year.
oS
20,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Mrs 1 W. Weber
58 Fay, of Boalsburg, we
+ Hall
saturday
Eagles will
Ch moved
Danie
from Btone
Tressle
14 :
+ Hall, in order to « ngage
with J. H
r of
i fl
farm,
in tl
ad
©
umber business Ross
for
i
ned
¥
>
ner
Miller
Xie 1
ambria
e is
postmas-
also conducting a
ore and undertaking
Br
alers and un
’ ite y
iurniture
1
iis
or
=
M
deriakers, are
addition to their furniture
amply accommodate
wagons when loaded
building is so
ionding. may be
done from the main ware room. They
are also enlarging their stabling and
sheds for the hearse and other
vehicles.
thers, the Spria
GIUK an
ooms that
#5
will
or
WoO more
with furniture, and the
arranged that the
An early caller Baturday morning
was Rev. W. A. McClellan ;: of Pleas
ant Unity, who arrived at the home of
hie sister-in-law, Mrs. J. B. White,
Friday evening. Rev. McClellan is
the pastor of a Reformed charge in a
flourishing district in Westmoreland
county, and is doing good, effective
work. He is a native of Potter town-
ship, and occasionally pays his old
haunts about Tusseyville a visit,
Miss Bertha Duck, of Spring Mille,
was in town Saturday, sod called at
the Reporter office. She came home
recently from New York, where she
had been located since July of last
year, being engaged as bookkeeper in
a large business office. Her sister,
Mrs. Blanche Philips, is expected
home from New York in a short time.
She is employed with a structural
steel company, ss record-keeper,
The new game law will give more pro-
tection to deer. It takes from the hunts
er the privilege of using anything but
a single ball, but should have included
repeating rifles of all types. The sea
son is shortened to fifteen days, and
the limit is one deer. Wild turkeys
are also given additional protection.
Quail need not fear the pot-hunter so
long as they remain In a bunch, be-
cause he dare not lawfully kill under
those conditions, See the game laws
in another column,