- f nem. warn —e COURT NEWS, Decemboar Court t'naes « The Nesslons Hears Commonwealth Firs® Few Days of th December sessions of court convenes Monday morning at ten after hearing a number of motions and petitipns as presented by the several members of the bar, grand jury was called and John N Riate Colle Be, as foren an thereof, of thi nd wards made eo court ment of the morn ing session the Court ealled the atten tion of the members of the bar to the and called specific the sworn th several townships, their and whieh was selected after constables boroughs terly returns to Before the adj wu (quar aivoree question, attention that the etter of div up to the atriet the Lhe petition and the allegations contained in the must be full, proven before a decree in divorce would be granted, for following dig for the ree, libel The civil list of cases this wee} was gone over and the posed of : Thomas Boal va WH. tinued to next term Hannah Gummo mo, settled. Monday afternoon in the case Commonwealth Jacob From, charged with larceny for the taking of corn from the shock of the field prosecutor James Stahl, the defsnd nt waived the finding of the grand jury and plead guilty to the charge of larceny. Next case luken was Joho gon vs. Bdward Haghes, being an ap- peal from the justice of the peace. De- fendant moved to quash the appeal or the ground that the appeal was im- properly taken. Appeal quashed. Joseph Brothers & Co. vs. Lewis Rosenthal, being an appeal from the Moyer, con- va. George Gum- of vs out Willian justice of the peace, and is for balance | of back account. Defendant did not | appear, but the case went to trial and | resulted in a verdict of the | plaintifis in the sam of §56 33 A petition was presented by Moon township asking the Court order an lection charge from work tax to cash rosd tax and fixing » datedfor the A vumber of young men diet for tetrayall These omitted in giving the court these columine, the Reporter | of the for the in favor Hall | te to election were in- ed CRSES Are | proceed Lugs in Uelieviog that the pater of parties involved good Colwmonwesllh house sud Rudolph dicted for forcible entry and detaiper ; | prosecutor M. H. Davidson. On trial all day Tuesday [no the case of Le vs. Jacob From, cuarged with stealing chickens, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. ClIuILission in WwW. H. Roadhouse, iu Va Roati- i Commonwealth s—— ins nnin Centre Conntians in 1HHnols Centre county people now residents of Stephenson counly are organizing next sum meetings have already tn hold 8 picnic some time mer. Seversl been held in the county with a view of obtaining the names of all Centre county people now living in that county. The vice aj pointed in the various towrships are as follows, and sre known to the court house preside; is ma- jority of the Reporter readers : Lotsu~Charles Musser, Fiorence~ Joho KN Stiffler Rock Rt anlien Ley “She ler Lancasts r—~Atustin Yarger Harlem~Calvin Young West Point—-A, A, Kage Waddams——Jacch Stemm Buckeye Oliver Cromiey, Dakota~—Dr, C. P. Leitzsl Bock Grove~A. N. 7 mmern Ouneco-FEll Heckman, Winslow William Emeriek a3 ssn Ap Lib. ALS — Mis. Gardner Grave a few returned from & vi-it te Mra. E U. Diez, of aunt, Me, Bac ie Hochman, Haven, A bisck fox was seety by E. W, Crawflord on Tussey Mouuotsin, Rey- pard was fired at, but the result was the black bunch of fur simply traveled the faster from mountsin to mountain. days pg fis Ir sister, hier Lock Howard, and at The interment of the body of Ray Condo, a notice of whose death appears eldew here io this issue, was made at Spring Mills Mondsy afternoon, the services being conducted by Dr, Laurie, As nu result of the smooth condition of the road owing to the packing of the snow, the horse Miss Mary De. linda Potter wae driving fell, and in doing so droke bolh the shafts of Lhe buggy in which the horse was hitched, Mr. and Mrs, Johu 8B. Dale, of Dale Bummit, will attend a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Grange, at West Chester. Before returning they will spend some time with Mrs, Dale's fa- ther, D. C. Bummy, la West Phin. delphia. George H, Goss, of the engineering force of the H. CU. Frick Coal and ( oke Company, who is located at Ecottdale, Payette county, is spending a few days with bis sister, Mrs. George A. Young, in this place. Mr. Goss re ports things very quiet in the coke ~ region, owing to the scarcity of ready money. The Frick Company and Americag Bridge Company, as well ss other flims, are paylog all salaries in script of the Senominulion $2.00, $6 00 od $1000, Cash is very scarce and aay Yom, ble to buy $100°00 worth of SLY een - Harris jownship Prof, Angel, the eye specialist from Bellefonte, was here on Monday, look- George Keller and son Wayne, of Houserville, spent Thanksgiving day in Boalsburg. Mr. and Mrs. James Irvin, flinburg, visited Mr. and Mrs. the parents of Mra. Miss Annis Lohr spent the from Saturday untit Monday sat home wt Centre Hall, Prothonotary A, B. Kimport with his family spent Thanksgiving with and aunt, James Kimport aud sister, Missy Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs, MeClellan Fry, of Fairbrook, were guests at the home over Binday. of Pine Grove Mills, Mr. snd of Mif- Adam Irvin, time her his uncle Geo Kimport, iiss Hara Reed, visited her brother and wife, Mrs. J. 1. Reed. Mre, Frank Allen fever Misa Maria is ill of typhoid Alexander, who has suf- fered from rheumatism for several yesrs to the extent that she was un- able walk without assistance, is now laid up with a br ken limb, the the knee and to fracture being between ankle, The members of the Lutheran ehureh sent a box of clothing and pro- their Orphans Home at Loyvavilleas a Thanksgiving offeriog. Mrs. WS Bailey and Miss Margaret pent a day visions lo College, ~inle Misses Goheen. ~tuart visited at Pittsbarg, Fhanksgiving season, N. W, Meyer funty seat Knox, of with the Xk. H during the vd Mrs spent nt ti an (runner visited his parents, View, the early part of Wilh near this week. Mr. and Mrs George Sweeney, of near Centre Hall, spent Saturday eve. eck Mra. Alice Magoflin erjoyed a week with her brother, Dr. George Woods, Pine Grove Mills }. J of the attended to Houserville busipess in Dreese, of Centre Hall, is Leech Miss Martha Bosal, st Shingletown Gap. Although the corn crop was a short and of inferior quality, yet quite 8 number «f heavy hogs have slsughtered during the last fort. Bh Mrs Lenker, her grandson, Guy Edmiston, visited Mothe rebsugh home E. W. Hese, H. C. Bailey and H. M. Hostermsn sttending court as Fuss of Renovo, with a slu- College, at the are jurors Mr dsughter, ani Mrs J. A. Miss Beulah, dinner Fortney and entertained a select party at on Thanksgiv- ing day. Mra Harriet Musser died Friday, of beart failure, haviog ill only a Her parents were Jesse and dloom ) Moore, and the esrly her life was spent in Boalsburg. warried to George Gilmen, by whom she had two children. After of married life be died, wis afterward married to Musser, died about yeasts ago, Mre, Musser then re- ped to Boslsburg and cared for her ther until the Iatter's death, »inee «pring she aud her brother Charles made their home with her dsughter, W. Miller, near Boalsburg ides her daughter she survived by one son, Harry Gilmen, of near Re- bersburg, twelve grandchildren and four brothers, Wm. and Henry Moore, Samuel B., of State Col’ of Boalsburg, Goes Dd few days <arsh | pail of she was EVEN yenrs atiti she Jopathan who seven tur fe § inst i= io Missouri ; ege, and Charles D —— a —— smith, the Pavtographer, Ww. sinith, the Photographer, will tw in Centre Hall Friday, Dee WY. tuber 6 Ap the United Evsn- geiical church will hold a chicken and waffle supper in Grange Arcadia Bat. urday evenivg, piddor to Christmas day. : hie members of (ES i *phool, Hello, there, Kids! Alu't you glad For the good time you ve had, Aud don’t you think School is on the blink? Of course you do; You wouldn's be tun To yourselves if You didn't wast to hit it a biff, And kick it in the pants, Aud koock its chance To get its hooks [ato you for the books, + Thats your style Bat hold up awhile And think” Wouldn't you be gezink If you bad no schools to teach You how 10 reach For the highest and best things? To give you wings To fiy with above those who cgpawl All over this terrestrial ball 7 Do you want to dig And live like a pig? Or do you want to fly And live on Ple, And pull the plug fa a big red chug-chug ? Hay, Amy you bulls thst Way Or the other? Do you want The crown of effort or ils cross! Iw gain or loss? , What 7 Yor want the hot But ? That's enough | sori $75.00 cash the first day, 2a'tke ten were somewhat ; Aaronsburg, Z. D. Thomas, accompanied by his niece, Miss Beckie Bnyder, attended the funeral of his brother, Logan. ton, Friday. Wm. Breon, of Mill Hall, has come to spend a few weeks with Lis mother. Miss Miriam Keister returned home after a few months’ stay with friends at State College. Mr. and Mrs, John Gettig, of Wil- kinsburg, have come to pay his pa- rents a visit, Mrs. Lenker and daughter attended a wedding at Lemont on Thanksgiv- ing day. Mr, and Mre, James Breon spent a day last week with friends at Lo- ganton. Miss Bessie Stover has come home 10 spend the winter with her parents, Bhe had been with friends st Bpriog Mills during the summer, J. W. Foster accompanisd by his mother and sister spent Thanksgiving with friends at Tyrone, returning home Baturday George Btahl, of the residence of Mrs. days last week. Mrs. Mollie Kerns, of Irvers, Oblo has come to spend the winter "months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bam- uel Gettig. Mr. and Mrs. Troxell, of Winfield, returned bome after 8 few days’ stay with their daughter, Mrs. Harvey Crouse nt Milton, visited at Deshler, a few mm —_ A A ————— Woodward. Messrs. Thomss Welrick and John Mitebell, of Liverpool, and Harry Gilbert, of Millersburg, after spending a week bunting io the wilds of Centre county, returped to their homes on Monday. Mr. and Mrs, Charles Musser spent several days at Lock Haven, visiting relatives. Miss Florence Yearick, daughter of A. M. Yearick, formerly of this place but now of Pittsburg, was married at the home of her father on Thanke- giving, to Lloyd Beall. The wedding took place at 7 o'cleck p. m., thre of- ficiating minister being Rev. Gharret, The young couple left for Bewickley Batu day morning, where they will make their future home, Howard Bowersox with his sons, | Leroy and Randy, left for Pleasant | Gap Monday morning, at which place (hey are employed on a lumber Job Charles Hoslerman, dren, Milton and Grace, of Buffalo, N. Y., are visitors in town, fm ———— Oak Hall, Daniel Lowder is able to be out again, after being housed up from a siege of carbuncles. : Luther Peters went to Rock Bprings wife and chil on Bunday to take charge of his broth. er’s farm for a week, during the latter's absence al court as a juror. Mrs. Newton Miller returned to her | home in Altoona, Monday, after a two | weeks’ visit with her parents, James CC. Gilliland numbered among Lhe sick. Mrs. Johnson and daughter, Mary Jane, of Alabams, expect to spend the winter at the home of Mr. and Mrs, J. G. Irvin. Misees Ella and Cathryn Dale were among the guests st a dinner given by the Misses Cornelis and Mary Dale, at Dale's Mille, on Thanksgiviog. The scholars of the Grammar school are erjoying a few days’ vacation, while their teacher, Miss Goheen, in visiting io Pittsburgh. Misses Jane Marshall and Blanche Musser, of Hunter's Park, spent Mon- day in town, Heott Wieland, wife and children, of Bellefonte, were guests at the home of O. L. Rishel, last week. nit Rebersburg. Misses Celia Bruogart and Avneadas Royer, and Samuel Bierly, all students at the Central State Normal School, Lock Haven, visited their parents, last week. * Mr. and Mrs Edwin Brungart and daughter, of Belinsgrove, are visiting relatives at this place. The fumily of William Zeigler is at present stricken with illness, Floyd Bowersox and wife, of Spring Mills, accompanied by Oliver Gramley and wife, of Mifflinburg, spent a day in town this week, Floyd Gramley, a student at State College, spent a short time with his parents, in this plage. Mra, Harter, wife of the late EKEman- vel Harter, deceased, is critioally ill with little hope of recovery. Miss Emma Gramley and a gentle- man from Miffiinburg visited relatives in this community s few days this week. Lather Frauk is spending a short time in Lock Haven sod Williams: port in the interest of business, Oviatt SR 10 sod is CORONERS IN MAINE. More Than Officials For Probing Cases of Violent Deaths, Suppose you know all about the du- tles of a coroner. Perhaps it would be safer to say you think you do, for the chances are that your real knowl- edge of what these officials do is some- what lhmited. It wouldn't at all strange If there are many lawyers who not thoroughly acquainted with the duties and privileges of these officials. - T fme outranked nbout thaty ugo. required to glve the sheriff be inre wag when coroners of Maine the sheriffs, Ever hear It wasn't so many years In those days the coroners were n bond of £30,000 and one of £40,000, Today it Is different. The sheriffs give the big bond, but the coroners have ineinl backing to the only about a thousand. The ture has changed the law, Even now there ure only two officials who can serve a paper upon a sheriff, a coroner or a high sheriff of another county. It used to he that Me coroner was the only who could do this. There are times when it becomes necessary to writ of attach ment upon a and this, when hi the man who makes the atachment a single penny, A brings a suit against B and at- taches his property to Insure getting his cash. B, however, owes C a cer- tain suln. Now, the property which A has attached is worth a great deal more than the amount of A's C ean't very well attach it, there Is alrea attachment must of have fin legisla- one serve a sheriff, doesn't owe claim. dy an he To laim custodian his « sheriff as COYer attach the property had the attachments where “the made comes in, Here te COrong: make the for the they CARES, The coroner also does the a sheriff his deputy the dgath of a sheriff When a sheriff dies his deputies with him.” ty Is left ty sheriff civil pa rervice, part, AS caroners Hout Host accessible, work or In such an event the coun. without a sheriff Its only constal officers are des, and nttachments Some made by law pers cannot make taln sum above provision has to to guard On the against death of firet of all, appoints a vo that Sqn $ } 0s a sheriff Ben there m be bisve charge of nstitution of Yicts tution county t he names n term But Sers tu fill bi Hunexpired doesn't provide for the eg er i vw here He flue power (0 serve The Maine wan county in his death EN OCRREOY, field, the coroner steps in. the has 1s Pel under jaws of state, these pa to in office In Sheriff Reed of Penobscot 1905. In the aid the Charles R there ast sherify die time his Brown of Spring an important attach. on a Baagor concern Hed In by ho had the case, requested to make the a new duty for the man, cessfully grappled with it You see, coroners are something more than officials for In gating cases of violent deaths. — Lewiston Journal appointment of came ment to be made Aas Cy It was but he suc service Vesti An Emp winter eror's Attic. ¢¢ of the czar sur palace In Enrope. It ke of the Neva and owes to the Empress Catherine extraordinary woman, in abLillty and In vice, her contemporaries oi ler of all who have stud The buliding Is of a light brown ornamental In archi tecture. It Is a wilderness of halls, gtalrowars and apartments. The Nich- olas hall asl the 8 George's hall will never bo facroiten by those who have The preses pnd is on the 1 its exis © 11. tha extrao ol hey tnost HITS tho ¢ clap of all fed hig ; four sto jes high, color and highly List interesting rooms is icholas |. died. It Is in of the northeast corner : and i: approached by (id Loally by a narrow i= a small room, only vu feet loug and twelve with two small windows, and the place where the emperor gpent most of his time when not of- Gelally ecu yell. It Is the room In which he died some say by poison ad- ministered by himself In a fit of mel aucholy laduced by the outcome of the Crimienn war The room remains just as he leit it. Near the center is a plain fron bedstead. Sbme chairs and a fer cheap pictures adorn the room, and a dilagbdated, down at the heel pair of sii; pers complete the furnish- ings of the aitic roow In the palace. Dancing, 8 rds. Oue of the wud strange sights on the pialus 0) southern Africa is a par. ty of vinil ing ostriches. Their queer antics have 'eca deseribed thus: “When thee are nn number of them they will giart od in the morning and sfter running a few hundred yards will stop nnd wilh rabed wings will whirl rapldly vounl til they are stupefied or perhaps break a leg. The males pose ulso before f2' lag and to make their court. The, Kkueel on their ankles, vpeniiog Yheis singe and balancing thew: ives wltenalely forward and hacky ard or {lo one slde or the other, whittle the wool Ie stretched on a level with the © cad the head striked the sides, nod 01 the right, now on the left, vhlie (le feathers are bristling. The Mrds wppear nt this time so ab sorbed In thelr occupation as to forget ull that fu golug on around them can be approached and male alone utters a cry, | feet wide, fx I “BBN NN BBY SHIRTS SHOES mma ET Zz po Lf Tw - ’ . We have on hand a large num- ber of the celebrated Keith's Konqueror Shoes for Men. Price $2.50 & $3.00 A full line of Men's and Boys’ Shirts at 50 cents and $1.00. Centre Hall “NN Kreamer & Son. tea ave 29 D9 NWN 09D 0D DD VV 200 23003 lind didi did pip Bp di dip di Bp dpe Bindi dip Bin Bp dB Bp Bn BB BD 2 Sededndnddnd de 4, rx a 5 Tre Lend Us Your Ear, Mr. Farmer ! You will never regret it. 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