<3. LX XX. OLD RELIC EXHIBLY Grange Encampment and Fair The following the of exhibitors and articies exhibited the * . . 0 Encampment and ¥ embraces ¥ air A ) i. Strong Fg skin, bob nt, rat, \ , Buropeat WOASH Ar Bu squirre white hawk I.. Rhone : trap, an cake spinni two Q Bible X, spread, bib] ck rock rabbit, Grandfather 1d hammer, cool ¥.1 " SICKLE, axe, y I Sisters : $ : Dutch seyt Mary Riter : » Rob I't lamp, fryi rye il Y 3 vr. Sumner ie i Musser nade linen, home m 3S. W. Si Cyrus Brung Emma McCoy fire tongs, rs. Sylvia Grenoble throw, bed spread Mrs. 1. J. Zubler : Mrs. Ida Eungard : Mrs. Flora Bairfoot Mrs. G. R. Meiss : Jacob Walker : Candle Mrs. W. Musser : Two work I. G. Walker : Lantern, fat lamp, fat can, stew kettle, minerals Raw lead, relics from TT piece Lants Quilt, i pre ad stick pieces fancy Geo. Gingerich : Gettysburg, Indian tomahawk Mrs. I. G. Walker ©: Jug # —————— i —— A —-_— Farms Sold Olie Johnson has the Hanp- nah Royer farm, better known to most of the readers as David Krebs home near Pine Grove Mille. Mr. Johnson expects to oceupy it in the spring and make nesded improvements for his future home, Frank Lohr, of Bosalsburg, bought the Edward Wasson farm of 180 acres, in Buffalo Run Valley, and expects to til the broad and fertile acres after April 1st. The price paid was §3,000, Otis Hoy has purchased fifty acres of the Harris Bloom farm, near State College, and expects to build a house and barn before April 1st, C—O TMI. Jury Awards 83000 Damages, In the case of Joseph L. Neff, of Howard, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for injuries re- ceived from being struck by a freight train on crossing the track in a ve hicle, the jury found a verdict in favor bought the DEATHS JOHN GROVE After his desire was accomplished to visit his daughter, Mrs. Harry Btover, John Grove, past fat Yeagertown, Interment was the Georges Valley cemetery, instant, Monday forenoon, M. Wolf delivering the sermon, the being per- {rose church, ad ut grave Mastér W. B, H. Spangler, of the and A. ahureh, Mingle, Rev, itheran Yeagertown, were also pres. HErVIOes, citi= Years in of (iregy township, May a vn Grove was a well known n in Centre county for many He was born the lower end WEes Valley, belonging to 2, 1827, his parents ranch of the family whose apcestors Iondisns south § 6 unasacred by Minburg, refreshed in v hich historical event the minds of neration by the erection unveiled with ime He wer, was intermar- 1 oy + des resident of Haines sth occurred last of Gregg was sclive ln the sal Lownship as METEOK STRIKES AT EARLYYTOWN, Bursts Into Four Parts #st Helght of Twenty Feet-—A Hesutiful Sight, A besutiful sight was witnessed Wednesday evening of last week at about 6:80 o'clock by William H. Baird, at his home near Earlystown, two and one-half miles south of Centre Hall. Reports from various sections of Pennsylvania state that meteors of various proportions struck the earth on the evening mentioned. In some cases the balls of fire were accompa- nied by noises, and on exploding a loud report was heard and a more or less severe shock was felt, One of these meteors crossed Penns Valley from the north west to south west, and when high in the air ex- which seemed to have attached to it a chain of fire, falling to the earth portions of the meleor, dazzling flame thesize of 8 man’s hand from the tail which bits of flaae shot ofl into space, that at a height of from fifteen to twenty feet, burst mediately south of the home of Mr Baird. I'he buge sky-rocket, and when the main ball of burst four oistinet balls of spectacle resembled a fire tail Mr. Baird is none of the superstitious He I Live pureha-ed | i i i i James | tracts of wvalu- { Lhe Fos nDaving ut I'he timber was Mr. and him nel i (irove 'y Li Later he township and en- in lumbering and general farm- «1 is survived by three pamely : W. f near Centre Hill; Cyrus gndent schools of Hiinois ; Hiram in Morgdvzs Re Mrs. Harry Bslover, daughter, of eplhelson of unly, insliuctor formats ry Yeager! and wi. MASON of Grinpell, lows, on 7 heart of ib and i Wie a nalive vir. ' 1 reared tie enns Ya ati y 5 i ing beer ¥, LaVing Dewi f Peter Durst Ja the call to arms, Mr. Mason enlist. ih Regiment, snd later be- Regi- } Lhe f sird ie Miss Jenuie L.. Rhone, who was uarried to sister of Hon. gs dO 8is0 LWO BONDS He ne, vives Lim, sud daughters. His age was sixty- Mr. sud Mrs. Mason went t about 18685, engaged iu farmiog he took the of these Years Wall BEVETR] JERI AEO W hen up he sa e of vehicles throughout Lot west, sU0 IL Was On OoDe vertook him, wos {entre Hall hen f her husband's jli- , and about the middle of Septem- trips thal death © Mrs. Mason ii Ww she heard o Ee ber returped to her home, MES. JOI F ERS F. MYE Mrs. Flora Myers, wife of J. F. of Milibeim, died Tuesday of just week ut the hotae of her prrents, and Mrs. Andrew GG. Kubo, at in Benner township, of iN Myers, f 2 Hockview, (quick consumption, aged thirty years, [3 ceased, since the beginning of May, bed been at the home of her parents, aud everpihing possible was done to #4 the disease but for the past month she rapidiy grew weaker and floaily peacefully passed to the great ei ¥ beyond. Mrs, Myers kind, loving mother, a faithful wife and a sympa thetic friend to survive her husband and two small children, also her parents and a number of brothers and sisters. loterment at Boalsburg Friday afternoon. Was 5 she leaves MISS MARY ANN MILLER. Thursday morning of last week Miss Mary Ann Miller, of Pleasant Gap, pasced away. Miss Miller's death was very sudden, Although she had not been io the best of health lately, she was able to be around ber home and help do the housework. fhe leaves to mourn her death three brothers and three sisters : Abraham Miller, Isaac Miller and Robert Miller, of Bellefonte; Mrs, Jane Russell, of Abilene, Kes, ; Miss Tamazine T. Mill- er, of Philadelphia, and Miss Eliza Miller, with whom ale made her home at Pleasant Gap. Miss Miller was sixty-two years, ten months and eleven days old. Ioter- ment was made in the Friends bury- ing ground on Quaker Hill, Bellefonte, Hiram Friday was found in an un- conscious condition, due to a stroke of apoplexy, in his fleld and abogt two days later desth ensued, He waa a German, and lived at Vail Btation slvee 1858 He enlisted in the 148th regiment, and later was transferred to kind, and consequently was not fright- ened by the phenomend n or the slight sulphurous oGor noticeable but epjoyed will not be forgotten, A diligent search will be made for the particles of meteor, but owing to the soft condition of the earth, likelihood is that the heavenly penetrated the soll to a cousidersble depth. | Meteoroids heretofore found have | visitor the general appearance of a solid plece | | ball cut from The | they | pounds to} of iron ore, and resemble a which large chips had been composition is largely iron, and vary in weight from several the larger ones having found in the far north. At] Mount Joy, this state, jo 1857, a me | tearite, oblong in shape, weighing B47 | f i i many tops, ! been pounds was found pe House apd Barn Barned, I'he house aud barn of Lewis Batley, | 8 farmer living near Greenburr, Sugar Valley, were burned to the ground. | Nothing wes saved of the household | goods and the family had to flee for] [tie entire season's orops also destroyed, but wpelghbors saved the most of the live stock. Hev- eral pigs aud chickens were buroed, as well as all outbuildiogs about the premises, and the farming implements. Fue fire ig thought to be the work of | au incendiary, as Goth the house and | barn were discovered 10 be burning at the same time. The loss Is partially envered by insurance in the Annville Mutual company. their lives. were A Father ang Son Strack by Train. Friday (jeorge Bisuley and gan Charles, aged respeotively [fty-four and twenty-four years, were struck by the evening mail train at a point just below doward. The men were knock- ed to either side the track, and, strange to say, neither was dangerously burt. The father had bis leg broken below the knee, and the sou pegpived Dummer ous bruises. They were brought to qe Bellefonte hospital, and were sc. companied by Drs. Melaotire and Kurtz, of Howard, They were walk- ing on the track when the train round- ed a curve, and by mistake stepped on the wrong track, Ep — The Hepuey Farm Salad The Henney farm, east of CUenlre Hill, purchased a few years ago by B. D. Brisbin & Company from Ivy W, Bartges, and was resold to H. C. Shirk, was last week sold again to J. H. Detwiler, of Aaronsburg, who will occupy it himpgelf after April lt, The price paid is said ta have heen clage tn $4500. Tue tract originally contained 155 acres, but the sale to Mr. Detwiler does not include the territory west of Indian Lane, which is mostly wood- land und was retaived by B. D. Bris bin & Co. in their sale to Mr. Shirk, (amp Lighter Burned, A week ago Russel Soli, who wee employed to light the Howard street lamps, was horribly burned. He bad filled » lamp with gasoline, and in do- ing so some of the fluid got on his clothing. When he struck a match the fumes took fire and ignited the clothing of the yojog man, and before the flames could be extinguished hp was badly burned. He was taken to the Bellefonte hospitel for treatment, where he died Thursday evening of Inst week. Interment was made at Howard, Armagh township, Mifflin county, will reeeive about ope th usand dol lars in taxes from the state, on moun- tain lands. Thissum will go to the of the plaintiff for $3,000, the 56rd regiment, LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Paragraphs Pleked from Exchanges Interest to Heporter Readers, Millheim Journal— Mrs, EE. W, Mauck returned from several weeks’ visit with Shamokin, Rev. and Mrs. Emanuel Berwick, spent several days with rela- tives in this place Miss Mary Mauck Philadelphia where spending some time, Mr. and Mra. Jotun Ridell, of Free. port, Ill, were guests of relatives in this place several days. Mrs. George Musser, of Yeagertown, is visiting her parents and other rela- tives in this place Mrs. John Dibble, daughter and mother, of Eikbart, Ind., sre visiting at the home of William Kreamer. Mrs. E. J. Bwanger and grandson, Guy, left for Millmont to spend month with relatives and friends. Aaron H. Bower, of Renovo, spent u | werk visiting bis father, John Bower, relatives at returned from she had been H snd other relatives at Aarousburg. | Mr.aod Mrs. I. B. Walker, of Pit- | cairn, spent some time with relatives sud friends in Rebersburg and vicinity, | Ssmuel Wilson, who works on the Sheesley lumber job in West Virginia, {is spending several wegks with his { family in this plage, { Mra Charles Bassler, sud son, Glen, of Freeburg, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Bassler's parents, Mr. and Mrs, J sSpigelmyer, CGieorge Harter, of Hartleton, wss a Millheim. George likes to come back to the place where he spent his boyhood days, Mrs. Charles Ulrich, after spending weeks al the of ‘visitor in her for home her home at Lock Haven Miss Margaret Weaver, one of Commercial exchange girls the ir lakiog her vacation apd is visiting friends at Milesburg and other places, Dr. and Mrs. G Frank returoed from a week's visit to Reading, where Dr. Frank attended a meeting the t ™ of glate medieal sssogistiun Bruoe Auman left for Pittaburg to visit his brother, Fred, who is employ there, attend Fred's and aiso to Mre. 8, Ward Gramley and daugh- ter, Lucile, left for Pittsburg, where her husband, Prof. Gramley, is gaged in teaching the public sghaojs, Mrs, Gramley will be acoom- pauied to ber home by Mm. A, Wal. ter and Mrs, 5. M. Campbell, Mrs. P. B. Brenneman Robert, after spending en- in and son, the summer with Mrs. Brenvemau’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, F. P. Musser, left for home at LaFayette, Ind. Mrs. Lyda Owens, of West [lnian, [s, sgcom- panied Mp. Hreuoemsn sod will spend several months with her, Wat road between and Milesburg is completed, Ihe Bellefoute Melliadiss church re- gently pald off a mortgage for $2000. The only debt now standiog is one for $1500, which is amply provided for Miss Avna T. Jeanes, of Philadel. phia, died at the Friends’ Home in Germantown, leaviog an estate valued at from three to five million dollars. Among her bequests were five thou. egud dollars each to Mary Rhoads, Re- becea Naomi Hhoads and Joseph James Rhoads, who are relatives of the deceased. There is no disposition on the part of the voters to make a change in the office of Prothonotary. Authur Xim- port has been so faithful, competent and ooyrteoys that his services are too valuable to dispense with jast at this time. He hasvarefully conducted the office through =» term that has not been profitable and during a period when he has suflered many personal losses 80 that everyone feels that be should be re-elected with as lijtie ex. pense as possible to bim. Are you doing what you can to that end ? Helicforde Daily News— Yesterday { Wednesday ) evening, Brint Wallace, of Milesburg, and Mise Pearl Powers, of Bellcfoute, were mar- ried. The announcement of the marriage of Mont Bingiser, of Renovo, and Miss Adaline Woodring, of Bellefonte, is made for (Jetober HO. Charles MeClure, who was admitted to practice law in the courts of Centre county last week, was also admitted to practice at the Philadelphia bar, He has not yet decided definitely where he will locate. Joseph Floray, who went west from Pleagant Gap thirty-one years ago, is back on bis firet visit, He has been farming in the meantime, and owns a a flue farm in Osbourne county, Kansas. Keystone Glasette— Mr. and Mrs. Harty Stover, of Al toons, attended the funeral of the late Samuel Gault. Mrs. U. M. Bower relurnea home their i Demnorati i The state TE Beliefonte i SUNDAY FARMING Regular Farm Work-Harrowlng and Sow Ing-FPerformed on Sabbath Day.! October 6th was the first day of the week-— Bunday — the Christian bath. The weather during the month has been very unfavorable preparing the wheat bed and the grain. Outeide of the moral, ana religious—Sunday an ideal day to perform farm labor, and while, perhaps, many farmer wished throughout the day that their farm work had not been interrupted, all ex- cept one near Centre Hall laid aside the plow, the harrow, the grain drill, This one man followed out his desires -went to the field with his harrowed the ground grain. The sight of a farmer performing farm labor on the Babbath day in Christian community naturally caused much comment. It was the fense of the kind committed in the rec- ollection of the oldest inhabitant, The criticisms, of course, were as severe as numerous, and past t ( BUWInNg furil Civil, Inw Was team and and sowed his a first of Ji Were the worldly men and indulged in by women and by those who have church roll. their names on the What does the laboring of this ticular farmer 1 par- 3 il $ indicate Does 101 reveal the fact that he is simply aping man? The siways been accused « and Appears ¥ Mister Farmer is in the front ranks of the business farmer { i £ Lae being ning | 1 the times, it t that his clase and has adopted the method long pursued by the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, You BSabbath-observing man woman, look about you and see wheth- Or er or not almost every business is car- ried on to a greater or less extent the First Day of Week. 03 are so minded, can’t you buy On you pound the If i of coflee, sugar, cigars, peanuts, meat, ride on the railroad train, hire a car- riage for pleasure or profit the y ¢ 3 5 Is not factory wheel whirli ig the thie { wir © toe printing press sendin Hews Ui 1 1 i i ft 10 both good and ners of the earth Is not the miser ing his hoard, the money shark ting to rob? Is not the politician lay- ing bis plaps, and has dent of the U of uo § piled Slates ences political significance these, and more on the Babbath How many of you have or the other party to Deel these or si transactions Not content may come to him in the Dus Dess chewing gum low enough catch the pennies from the hands with whal business § the ordinary way i { on Sabbath Day, does not the man isce his sutomatic } seller t to of children, whose parents endeavored to fulfill ir vows Lo support the cause of Christ by ease Lheir conscience and 1 sit giving their offeprings a dirty co as an offering ! piper Fhe plea is necessity, cessity ! necessil, , ne is bet plowing, harrowing and sow- ing the Sabbath Day more honorable to the pace sel by the average business man ; on infinitely han follow or, if you please, the man of leisure or wealth who spends God's Day in flit. ting the road in a rattle-trap carry-all, rubber-tired runabout, finely appointed carriage, or 40 borse-power steamer ¥ The question is not difficult to decide. But two wrongs do not make a right. The farmer should not sow on the Sabbath Day, nor should the business man sell his wares, nor the man leisure ar wealth desecrate the day by reveling in pleasure, Whose skirts are clear cast the first stone at Day desecrater O! What a shame ! —————— "Ls A A AS over of fant the he may sabbath Dr. ¥. W, Sgoepe Dead, Dr. P. W, Swoope died at his home at Julian, the result of self-inflicted injuries. The age of the deceased was seventy-eight years, eight months and two days. For years he was a ticing physician in that locality. Deceased was highly respected by all who knew him, and in his practice was kind and generous. He is sur vived by a wife and twa daughters, Mary and Emma, bath of whom are in their teens and live at home, ————————— A A ————, Timber Land Sold, Mrs. Harris Shafer, of Gregg towns ship, sold the timber on her tract of land to E. H. Zimmerman, of Mill. heim, for §600 Mr. Zimmerman will erect a sawinill on the tract at once and convert the timber into lumber, prac- {Continued from previous column.) Williamaport and in Buftalo, N. Y. The three weeks’ old child of Mr, and Mrs, Charles Guisewite died the other day. The parents have the sym- pathy of their many friends in their sad bereavement, Jacob Btruble, of Pittsburg, depart od 1a datwrany for his howe in that n Car Taaled by Hoag and Miss Mary TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS HAPPENINGS OF FROM ALL 7,000 Over ¥) In marking the J. C. MeClenahan Mikkleson Af vf MONA art { bert YO aol, IR Al a cost Of Hl 8 1iey £5 the J waits Mille, If you have a notion that ing placed i: al Pine Grove Prat problem is ouly im to Centre Hall Orers or mech and Lat Conductor Hs ter Alice from New Bucher, of line, for Wurtenburg, Joon is employed by to superintend a i the daughter « Brisbin, of Centre Hall thie Cror 3 piant ’ { Of gpecia mscainery. ¢ NE. . S48. BIG The interior of bank was remodeled that it is mors W. B. Mingle Bartholomew. place of the i the aflords sccommodation to the patrons of institution, pi ture have also been added. Lie and ang sssisiant hs Grille work takes old wooden panels, an new arrangement ter Ded fearm several eves of furnis- 1 a A massive monument was erect the burying grounds at the Salem Re formed church, below Penn Hall, marking the last resting place of Mr, and Mrs. James G, Evans, who were prominent residents of Gregg town- ship for many years. The monument also contains the name of Wolf, Dr. D. M. Wolf having selected that his place of burial shall be by the of his benefactors. The inscriptions on the stone are in raised letteis, The monu. ment was erected by H. G. Strohmeler, and is a handsome piece of work, the material being Quiney granite, No one enjoys a visit to Old Penne sylvania more than the westerner who years ago left these fertile valleys to seek his fortune, Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Miles Miller, who just came east from Pittsburg, Crawford county, Kapsas, It has been many years since Mr. Miller and his wife, nee Lydia Bible, went to Illinois, and from there to Kansds, While in the west they prospered and now own a fine farm, but it was not to tell of their success that they came east, but to ens joy the pleasures of coming in contact with old associates and relatives, They are now at the home of Mrs, ina side is. “Ambrose | M, after a delightful visit with friends in Miller's brother, John C. Bible, at
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