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VOIl.. LXXIX.
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R 11. 1906.
A PLEA FOR CENTRALIZATION.
The burden of the President's speech
at Harrisburg was a plea for the in.
crease of the power of the Federal Gov
ernment through executive
through legislation and judicial ioter-
growing out of the extraordinary in-
duxtrid changes of the last half cent-
of corporate power.
President proclaims himself a pation-
alist and extols the doctrines of early
Federalists—James Wilson, Hamilton
sovereignty resides in the FederalGov-
ernment This contention of the Fed-
people of the United States, fresh from
experience of the thrall of a strong
Constitution by declaring that ‘‘the
Ntates by the Constitution, nor pro-|
hibited by it to the States, ure reser ved |
people,”
well for 116 years under the amended |
Constitution, The evils from
it sufters are most of then
evils which good laws, |
forced, will correct. The corporations |
are creatures of the State,
whieh |
law-mad
sroperly el- |
that he has shown the way to coutrol
them by enforcing existent laws and |
helping to bring about needed exten-
sion of the laws regulating iuterstate |
commerce, for which he found, assist |
ed by Senator Knox, ample constitu- |
tional warrant.
It is a little astonishing that in di-|
lating on the abuses growing out of the
enormous accumulations of wealth in
the hands of individuals and corpora-
tions the President should neglect to
recommend a revision of outrageous
tariff discriminations, which are the
main cause of the evil complained of.
This is the more disingenuous, as it is
well understood that at heart he
himself a friend of tariff reform. If he
do not touch at the tap-root, however,
he shows a readiness to satiack the
trunk by suggesting that the Govern-
meut shall seiz «a percentage of swollen
fortuues when the owners die and un-
dertake to pass them slong to their
heirs,
in
a
AUIS FOR CARSON 10 UKALK
Tressurer Berry has decided to pay |
no bis for Capitol furnishings until |
Attorney General Carson shall render
an opinion defining “furniture,” and
even if Mr, Carson should find that
flooring, mural paintings and pave-
ments are in the same class with tables
and chairs, carpets and draperies, Lhe
Btate lressurer may require
nouncement ou the subject Ly
Courts vefore settling any debis incur
red by tie Commission of Public
Grounds sud Buildings.
The position in which the Attorney
(General has been placed by Treasurer
Berry's request for advice is uoenvi-
able. Even the loosely-drawn law un-
der which this Commission drained
the Treasury contains a limitation to
the effect that no money, above the
$4,000,000 appropriated and entrusted
to the Capitol Commission, should be
used in ‘‘completing sud building.”
Unless the Attoruey Geners! should
Chuose to condemn the Adwinistration
of which he is a part he will have to
find that the Commission of Public
Grounds and Buildings did not incur
debts for “completiog’ the Capitol
when it contracted for flooring, wall
a pro-
whe
previously contracted and paid for by
the Capitol Commission.
But there is another horn to the di-
Jemma which confronts the Attorney
General, Has a mere Executive Board
the constitutional right to expend $9.
000,000 or more surreptitiously snd
without express legislative grant ? The
power to appropriate public moneys is
vested in the elected representatives of
the people, and the latter cannot tran: =
fer this power to another governing
body ; much less can a mere Board as-
sume it ipferentially. And how can
the right to spend millions on the UC: p-
jtol be inferred from legislative ucts
which provide that the Board alluded
to shall expend nothing for complet.
ing the building? A trustee who ¢x-
pends trust funds without lawiul su.
thority expropriates the same. Is not
the unauthorized expenditure of pub-
lic money, without legal appropris
tion, expropriation ? Is not public of.
fice a public trust ?
Bellefonte Fair,
On account of the Centre County
Fair the Pennsylvania Railroad Come
pany will sell excursion tickets to
Bellefonte, October § to 12, good to re
turn until October 13, Inclusive, from
Lewisburg and interine late stations
at reduced rates, minimum rate twen-
ty-five cents. On October 11 and 12 a
in ons at
JEWELRY STORE ROBBED.
Frank P, Blair's f tore Entersd by Burg-
lars Early Sanday Morning.
Some time between 3 apd 5 o'clock
| sunday morning burglars broke into
| Frank P. Blair's jewelry store in the
| Brockerhoff' block, Bellefonte, and
| carried oft ennsiderable jewelry, says
the Daily News. Their means of en-
from a window on the
north side of the building, the second
from the Allegheny street
Trey first cracked the glass
then reached in and opened the catch
in
Pirsnce Was
window
corner,
on the window and after crawling
pried open the front doors.
All the most valuable jewelry and
this the thieves did not
But they carried
watch
attempt to
oft 35 gold
chain, one
watch and » number of baby rings.
Mr. Blair places his loss at $200. There
is no clue to the robbers,
ee nn
LOCALS
Mr
Mr.
and Mra. George Nearhood aud
M
Fair
Hosterman
n Peon to ship,
leration $750,
and rs. Joseph Lutz attended
world house
WwW. V
Daniel his
antl ot, Wi
»
tor
(Cons
Thursday night of last week there
wus an electrical display accompanied
by rain. Thus the beginning of Oc.
tober was ushered in
Wm. F. Lingle,
ployed on a farm on
Aho has Leen em
Island,
sun
Packer's
between Northumberland and
bury, was home over Sunday.
Former Commissioner's Clerk Am-
graph Company. He will fill the place
vacated by Edward Robb.
a railroad be-
ing built from Howard to Jacksonville,
report has it that work will
There is some talk of
be com
remarks the
probably
menced on it next week,
Howard Hustler. Iv
i air "
» al
Hine
Here is an experience that toay se: ve
While Thom-
Smith
boys ton good purpose
Orianda
Smith
as Maun sod
wrestling Mr.
were
thrown to
the ground snd in some manner broke
the booes iu his leg at the ankle
Was
With a view of thoroughly equip-
ping himself for the bar, Fred Cham-
bers entered the law department of the
He is a
nid
gchools
University of Pennsylvania
ER
his foundation in
of Bellefoute.
Ammon Burkholder had the good
fortune to kill to the limit of squirrels
the first day of and the
next day four more greys were bagged
by him. Nome of bis
Chaiubers, and
the public
the season,
neighbors ac
swenson, but there will be no prose
cuiion
Haymond White, aged about nine
of Coutractor Charles W,
White, of Beech Creek, broke his arm,
He attends sehiool in Blanchard apd
was jumping over a feuce post along
with other boys, when the accident
occurred. For three successive years
be has had the misfortune to break
one of his arms, the right arm
and the left one twice,
years, son
once
The October ** Arena ’’ is a magazine
tbat all thoughtful Americans should
read, Its table of contents is as timely
as it is varied, and the papers are for
the most part remarkably strong and
Among the contribu-
tious of special value is ** Individual
isu Through Bocialism : A Reply to
the Hon, Willisin J. Bryan,” by Prof.
Thomas Elmer Will, A. M
interesting.
Miss Ollie Snook, a Commercial tele
phoue operator at Millheim, simply
stepped across the Liall and entered the
services of the Bell company in a
similar capacity, Miss Mabel Meyer
will retire the Bell exchange
some tune in November for reasons
that can be explained by Daniel Koeb,
of Bunbury, employed by Seabold, the
musical instrument desler. It's the
sate old story.
The Daily News says: A, M. Ar-
vey, of this place, the electrician at
the electric light works, has resigned
bis position with this company and
sccepted a similar position with the
Niagara Falls Power Company, in Ni-
agars Falls, F. R. Buwler, formerly
of the Muncy plant «t Muncy, will
take Mr. Arney’s piace here. Mr,
Arpey is the son of B. H. Aruoey, of
(‘entre Hall. During the past two
years he has had many other tempting
offers all of which he refused, but fi.
nally yielded.
M. M. Condo and daughter, Miss
Anna Condo, of Darragh, came to
Centre Hall the Istter part of last
week for a short stay aswmong their
many acquaintances, Mr. Condo,
from the time he left Centre Hall four
yenrs sgo, has been with the Madison
Supply Company, and for some Lime
past his daughter has been sssisting
him io retailing meats of all kinds,
While in Penus Valley, Mr, Condo is
looking around for apples, potatoes,
from
4) train will leave Bellefonte for
dion nd termediate stati
00 P,
ete., to be shipped direct to him,
SACRED SONG SERVIOE,
A Senson of Song in the Reformed Church
Sunday Evening,
One of the most epjoyable services
held in the Reformed church was the
Sacred Bong Bervice Bunday evening,
under the direction of Prof. P. H.
Meyer, the leader of the Reformed
church choir, Outside of the mem-
bers of the choir of the Reformed
church were a few others who were in-
vited to help render the service, The
music was of u high order and was well
executed. Those who participated
were ©
Sopranos, Mrs, Samuel Snyder, Mrs.
John Pufl, Misses Ruth Thomas, Clara
Krape, Verna Durst, Sara Breon,
Mame Emerick ; altos, Mrs. SBamuel
Kreamer, Mrs. Thomas Moore, Misses
Bertha Strohmeier, Rosie Krape and
Dora Meyer; tenors, Frank Bmith,
Frank Ishler, Samuel Kreamer;
basses, I. W. Crawford, G. W. Hoster-
Emerick, Wm. Boozer,
Paul Rearick, cornetist,
man, George
Bruce Rowe,
THE PROGEAM
Processional
- Bellini
Prayer
* Mighty Jehovah’ Cholr
No. @
Hymn.
* Jesus Lover
Ch. and Cong
'MeDowsl
-Farmer.... {
scripture Lesson
of My Soul Solo
real and Marvelous *' hoir
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» Where the Shadows ’
Ch. and Cong,
Ch. and Cong
Quar
Choir
i Cong
"Thompson
Herbert
Ch
don Re joloe
mu No
i AL
O Master Pass Me Through
the Gals
Yeon Bolo
{ Isrnel "Rossini Choir
Address Pastor
» Harvest "Parks
Collection
and Cong
Benediction
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PV. esident of Synod.
of the Central Pennsylvania Bynod of
the Lutheran church. He is pastor of
the Middleburg charge where the
Synod was held. It was expected
that considerable of the time of the
Synod would be devoted to the discus
sion of his relations to his charge, but
those opposed to him as pastor did not
bring their side of che case before the
body. A committee appointed by
President Diebl to investigate his own
case rusde an elaborate report which
will be priated in the minutes of the
Synod.
I'he church people in the Middle
burg charge are much divided, fully
three-fourths of the number being op-
posed to the pastor, who is using his
official position as a means of en-
The purpose of the mem-
of the
evidently to declare
the pastorate vacant aod bar the doors,
The Lutheran church is democratic
aud such a course would be entirely
witi:in their rights as a last resort.
Beaver Springs, Biaive and Rebere-
burg were favorably mentioned as
places tor holding the next session of
the Synod,
trenching.
bers of the charge, at the end
pastoral year, is
nef ——
South Side Sqgalbs,
Henry Lingle is on the sick list,
Most of the farmers are through cut-
ting ofl corn,
James Lytle will quit
the spring.
W. Gi Grossman has gone into the
huckster business,
Robert Smith is having a manure
shed built to his barn.
Andrew Bmith and James Swabb
are painting Stoner’s barn,
© W. A. Wagner, of Juniata, bought
the Lot Kimport farm Baturday.
Miss Fannie Knoflsinger,
driving catlle Baturday, was
w hat scratched by barbed wire,
A great many apples were taken
from this vicinity to Centre Hall for
shipment last week, H. A, McCiellan
loaded 199) bushels,
MI MP AIP SA
Nulan- Wigton,
Over two hundred invitations were
sent out for the marriage of Alex Nu-
lan, of Pittsburg, and Miss Mary kK.
Wigton, eldest daughter of John Wig-
ton, at Spruce Creek, which event
took place Wednesday evening. The
groom is engaged with the Csrnegle
people, at Pittsburg. After a honey-
moon trip Mr, and Mrs. Nulan will be
sat home io the Bmoky City.
farming in
while
HOB.
Eels Usught by tha Ton.
Two thousand five hundred fresh
water eels were caught in a single
night by John Pennington, of Lew-
istown, in a modern eel basket lo-
eated in the Juniata river near Lewis
town. The eels are placed in ‘live
boxes" and will be kept until winter,
In market dressed eels are worth from
twelve to fifteen cents,
AI A Si
Although not able to walk about
without the use of a cane, Harry Pot-
‘ter is much improved aud in a short
time will be able to reste bis work
as a clerk, near Pittsburg. Mention
of this Is here made because of an er
roneous report that Mr. Potter at this
time was in a serious condition.
Council Meets,
ning. Little business of general
terest was transacted,
in
The street com
been made on
slreets,
several of the
Luce were ordered to build new walks
and a half dozen other walks were
dered for the second or third time
be repaired,
Le
building large enough to sccommo
The site selected was
north side of Locust street where it in-
tersects with Hofler street. President
Bradford appointed Messrs,
erected nn
tee Lo execute the resolution.
Beveral bills were ordered psid, but
the amounts were not stated,
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Dr. Colfelt Hesignus
Rev. Lawrence M. Colfelt, D.
pastor of the Oxford Presbyterian
church, at Broad and Oxford streets,
Priladelphia, tendered his resignation
Sunday. Dr. Colfelt is well known in
Centre county, having st one time
filled a pastorate at State College.
Dr. Colfelt has long entertained a
conviction that a minister should re
tire from his work while he is still at
his best, and before the decline of old
sge unfits him for the active duties of
his pastorate. He Is still a vigorous
speaker, He Is not dependent upon
his ministerial work for his living, but
bas independent means. He owns
a newspaper at Bedford Springs, the
Pennsylvania Hawkeye, and will de
vole more time hereafler in editing
this periodical.
AM —————
Grading the Hallirond
The work of grading the raliroad,
which will extend through Bugar Val-
ley to Loganton, has been commenced
at the latter place. The other morning
a crew of about twenty men
menced work at Logaoton and will
work east until they meet the crew
who are working toward that place,
The distance to be graded is about
three miles. The people of the valley
are very anxious to see the road com-
pleted, as it will be a great advantage
to them, and it now looks as
their wishes will be realized
near future,
com
though
in the
a — A —————
Wild West Show Destroyed
The Wild West show and Walter L.
Main’s circus, which exhibited in
Bellefonte recently, met with an over
whelming disaster. The destruction
was by fire, and occurred at winter
quarters in Geneva, Ohio. All the an-
imals, except four elephants and two
horses were burned. Col. Cumming’s
magnificent stallion is also dead. lhe
total loss is estimated at $50,000,
——— A MS
LOCALS,
Sugar Valley will have rural free de-
livery, the distributing point to be
Loganton.
Prof. Irving C. Btover, the lecturer,
appeared before a Millbeim audience
Saturday evening.
Fred Robb, formerly of Bellefonte,
but now employed at Pillsburg, recent-
ly underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis,
J. B. Rishel, ou the Ard farm, near
Coburn, along Pine Creek, will move
to Coburn, and John Whitmyer will
move from Coburn to the Ard farm.
The Clinton county commissioners
have appointed Miss Maude C. Meo-
Closkey tax collector in one of the
Lock Haven wards to succeed her
dead father.
The Louck farm Na. 1, in College
township, better known as the old
Krumrine home, was sold to John
Strouse for $3620. The old Peter
Louck homestead was bought by Sam.
uel Corl at the §3,220 mark.
Thomas Boal, tenant on the Brock.
erhofl farm, east of Old Fort, a short
time ago suffered the loss of a work
horse, The animal was sick but a
short time, Last week one of John
Runkie’s horses, a neighbor of Mr.
Boai's, was also very sick, but it is
now improving.
Afier experiencing all kinds of hard
luck in Pittsburg, Joseph Meyer and
family returned to Gatesburg where
they will live in the future. For the
fourth time Mr. Meyer had gone to
Pittsburg, and the last time most of
the family became stricken with fever,
and to cap the climax Mrs. Meyer fell
from a moving car breaking her arm,
Severs] breaks, the one counteract
ing the other, terminated very luckily
for Robert J, Smith, of near Millheim,
ns he was driving through that town
the other day. First the neck yoke
strap broke and then the harness
broke at several points and detached
the horses from the carriage in which
wife and three children, and
Springer, For a time thi hou
bee
ne the oulevme wou
rious, they escaped
mn
1
Ended Her Lite
The Pittsburg Times contains the
- | cepted chorus girls as guests, Lillian
Davis, wife of J. Clarence Davis, pro-
prietor of the Davis house, at Connels-
ville, told her husband she was going
| to end her life, Davis did not think
{anything of the threat until 5 o'clock
| the next morning when he found his
| wife on her bed dying with an empty
y | vial marked carbolic acid by her side,
Bhe died fifteen minutes later.
The Davis hotel has always "been =
| popular stopping place for chorus
{ girls, and employes say they were the
{cause of frequent
Davis and his wife,
1
between
alleged
quarrels
Davis is
his wife had made
| frequent threats to end her life, and
| for that reason he paid no attention to
{ this one,
| to have said that
About & month ago she tried to end
her life, it is said, but medical aid was
secured in time to save her. Bhe was
{fifty years old and was a native of
Howard. Her
Behenck., Interment
day in the Bchenck
Howard
maiden name was
Kri-
Hear
made
cemetery,
Wis
New Blood . New Methods
The younger blood more recently
admitted to executive positions in the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
against the civil service the
the in-
rapidly
ALY nan
regardless
This
policy, being carried through all de
partments for a period of
rule of
company. It is declared to be
tention of this new
coming into power to get
who can get
lepgth of service on
colere,
results, of
the road.
years, will
lay such havoc with the pension sys-
3 I )
f
i
tem now in vogue as to nullify it
fects to a
* ¢
who
alten.
pres.
among the
Pennsylvania employees, One of them
is made up of the personal {i
large extent. Those
are authority for this story call
tion to the fact that there are
two
at
ent distinct parlies
lowing of
A. J. Cassatt, and this is strongly com-
mitted to the pension scheme and
civil service The other the
younger blood, more recently admitted
the
ruie. in
to executive positions and insisting on
resuits whether or nol the organiza
tion, as it now stands, is kept intact,
. --
The Styla's Al! Right
f ~
i CO
The old style o is al
certain of terminating
To this Miss Lizzie
mo, of near Tyrone, attests,
brought
Edgar G. Toner f
Lting not
together in
arriage. Cum-
she has
suit ex-Councilman
$25,000
she
against
" and re
that
Way
fuses a compromise,
Toner courted her the good
Came to see her atl least every Sunday
and often during the week, and that
every tine he came he would lead her
into the parlor, take her in his
and kiss her, callivg her
love" aud his ** darling.”
And this went
through for twelve long years, or, say,
twice n week would make thou-
sand two bundred and forty-eight
times. Reckoning further it will be
seen that Miss Gummo estimated at
the rate of a fraction over §20 per visit.
Now it appears that the only ques
tion for the jury to decide how
much pleasure the fair complainant
got out of these visits, and make de-
ductions,
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old
arms
fils
“ honey
performance he
Oohe
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Former Editor Dies of Consumption
Williaa W. Trout died at Lewis-
town Friday night, from tuberculosis,
after an illness of more than a year.
He was fifty-eight years old, and a
veteran of the Civil War, having
served in the 196th Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers, enlisting when only 16 years
old. He was former owner and editor
of the Lewistown Free Press,
He was a Democrat, and served as
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
pome years ago. He was a Justice of
the Peace and secretary of the Lewis.
town school board at the time of his
death, having held the latter position
for fifieen years.
sm ———————
Federation Convention
The eleventh annual meeting of the
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
will be held at State College October
16, 17 and 18, by lavitation of the
Women's Club of that place. Bessions
will be held in the new auditorium.
Among the speakers who will be
present are Miss Agnes Repplier, Mrs,
Sarah Tyson Rorer and Mrs. Rudolph
Blankenburg, and the subjects dis
cussed will be domestic science, fores-
try, civies and reform in State and
philanthropic institutions,
School Directors Resolve.
At the county convention of school
directors in Clearfield the following
resolutions were passed :
Resolved, that we request the payment of a
minimum salary of 885 per month by the state
out of state funds. ;
Resolved, further thst we recommend that
the state adopt a genoral State Compulsory Vac
cination law to be enforced independent of
school directors snd bleachers,
There is good sense iu the roquest
that the vaccination law be divoroed
NO.
40.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Thursday : Fair—rain or shine,
Arbor Day—October 19, Will
plant a tree on that day ?
About four hundred Pennsylvania
Bate College students attended
Capitol dedication,
you
the
Bamuel Gingerich, of near Linden
Hall, delivered four porkers in Centre
Hall Friday of last week.
An additional store house and dry
house are being erected by the Penn-
sylvania Match Company at its plant
in Bellefonte
Miss Mary Haris Weaver, a Belle-
fonte young lady, returned to Phila-
delphia to resume her duties as a nurse
in the Presbyterian hospital.
The evaporating plants at Centre
Hall and Coburn are operation,
The plants are operated by D. A
Boozer, Centre Hall, and Mr. Miner,
of New York
The been
most favorable to the development of
wheat, and there was
iderable sowing done during the
utler part of September,
in
weather conditions have
the late sown
Hi
{
lg
if
A former Btate College citizen, 7,
Wilson Way, West
Chester, was through Centre coupty
now a resident of
recently in the interest of the Sharples
Separator Company, by which compa-
ny he is employed.
Frank D. Lee, one of the Imstling,
bustling farmers in Nittany Valley,
was over through Penns Valley the
week. He was the
only man on the place—over one hunp-
dred acres summer, but
latter part of last
during the
he got there,
J. Wilmer Henszey, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Annie Thompson Hamilton,
of State College were married at the
{f Prof. John Hamilton, sat
The groom is engaged
Baldwin locomotive works,
home o
State College.
with the
in Philadelphia.
With the price of eggs looming sky-
Chas, D. Bartholomew, assis-
tant cashier at Penns Valley Bank, is
in line for a continuous harvest of hen
fruit. He has just completed fencing
“ runs snd building houses
for pullets he hopes to be prolific.
Messrs. John
Rhoads will be thet
f
ward,
several
Knisely and George
milders of the new
chapel to be erected in Bellefonte by
the Reformed congregation. The edi-
fice will i in order
to correspoud with the church. The
contractors are residents of Bellefonte.
we faced with stone
those mentioned last week
as having witnessed the Capitol dedi-
cation were Merchant W. H. Meyer,
who York fair;
Williams McClepahan, Miss Sara Mec-
Clenahan. The latter was the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taggart while
in Harrisburg.
Besides
also attended the
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa
ny played a joke on a host of Penns
Valley people who stayed at home
from the Capitol dedication because
there was return train Thursday
night. These were much chagrined
when the special, unheralded, went
east to bring home the excursionists,
The only solace : It rained.
no
Charles Resides, a young man about
sevenleen years of age met with a seri-
ous accident Saturday. He is working
for Clayton Heckman on his farm in
Benner township, and while climbing
a fence he missed his footing and fell,
a large splinter piercing his flesh
under the armpit inflicting an ugly
gash that required nine stitches to
sew up.
Guy W. Jacobs, a student in the Me-
chanical Engineering Department at
Pennsylvania State College, was home
over Bunday. He is a graduate of the
Centre Hall High School, and like all
others who went from the Centre Hall
schools to colleges, finds no trouble in
keeping to the front in his class. He
is making his home with his uncle,
Col. John T. Stuart. ‘
Mrs, James H., Smetzier, of Cite
Hail, is at Tipton, Spaulding county,
Ohio, having gone to that point last
week. She accompanied to Ohio Mrs,
David Bmetzler, who came east several
weeks ago to visit relatives in Penns
Valley, Mr. Smetzler, when a resi
dent of Centre county, was employed
by William Allison, at Spring Mille,
but two years ago moved to Ohlo
where he began farming.
Without Centre county from which
to draw mechanics, many other seo.
tions would be unable to produce the
wares, erect the large structures, ete,
that are daily being driven to comple
tion. Among the many others who
chanieal skill everywhere in demand
were Mesars. Jeremiah Irvin, A. W.
Zettle and Lawrence Runkle, of near
Spring Mills, who a week ago return.
ed from Juniata where they were ene
gaged in the erection of an Evan
irom the schools.
gelical church.
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