VOL. LXXXIL.
MEASURES APPROVED BY GOVERNOR.
The Governor Wielded the Veto Axe with
Vigor, but alse Approves Many Bills
Laws of Looal Interest,
The school code was vetoed because
the Governor saw the bill had been
juggled with after it had passed the
Legislature, In section 203 the word
district was crossed out and in red ink
*“eity " was written above it,
The Governor also stated in his veto
that * the bill drafted by the Pennsyl-
vania State Educational Commission
and submitted to the Fegislature was
80 changed by amendments during its
passage through the Legislature, many
of the best features of the original draft
being eliminated and numerous amend-
ments made which destroyed the har-
mony of the bill by introducing many
contradictory provisions, that it is
more than doubtful whether my ap-
proval of the bill would be of any bene-
fit to the cause of education in the
State.”
Vetoing that measure near and dear
to his heart, known as the Cross-State
Road bill, which he had advocated for
the past year, the Governor says :
** As I have been compelled to make
large reductions in the appropriations
made by the Legislature for the reason
that they are in excess of the revenues
of the State, [ have concluded, after
serious consideration, that in order
not to interfere with the sppropriations
for the maintenance of the public
schools, the indigent insane, the chari-
ties of the Commonwealth and the con-
sumptive poor, and as it has been
necessary for me to withhold my ap-
proval from other meritorious appro-
priation bills thie bill is not approved.”
Lack of funds also resulted in the
vetoing of the Capitol Park Extension
bill, which carried $2 000, 000,
The Governor also vetoes tige Siston
bill, providing for the payment of ex-
penses of County Commissioners in at-
tending the meetings of the State As-
sociation of County Commissioners,
** 1 do not believe. there is any public
necessity for the act,” says he.
The Thomson-Eyre bill, authorizing
the State to buy bridges over 1000 feet
in length, is vetoed because it is in con-
flict with the law prohibiting the ex-
penditure of public moneys except by
specific sppropristiou of the Legisla-
ture,
BILLS APPROVED,
The Murphy Pure Food bill, which
met with so mavy ups and downs dur-
ing its passage through the Legisla-
ture, and which was surreptitiously
amended in the S:nate so as to permit
the adulteration of foods with benzoate
of sodium in the proportion of one-
tenth of one per cent., became a law |
through the approval of Governor
Stuart, and those who profess to know
think it will stand the test of ‘the
courts,
Making the salaries of the Auditor
General and Becretary of Internal Af.
fairs $5000 per annum after the first
Tuesday of May, 1910. These officials
are now paid $4000, half of which is
received by the State Treasurer, who
is, like them, an elective officer,
Amending act, requiring publication
of county auditor's report, so that it
shall be published io June instead of
February.
Making it a misdemeanor for any
Biate officer to authorize, or for the
Btate Treasurer to pay, any bill against
the Commonwealth which is not spe-
cifically authorized by act of Assembly.
This is carrying into effect the rule
adopted at the beginning of the Ad-
ministration of Governor Stuart, pro-
hibiting the expenditure of unappro-
priated balances of Siate money for
any purpose whatever, Had this law
been in force during the building of
the Btate Capitol that structure could
not have been * trimmed ’ to the ex-
tent of $6,000,000. The stable. door is
locked after the horse is stolen,
Prohibiting spitting on sidewalks
and the floors of buildings to which
the public has access, in railroad cars,
under penaity of $1 fine or one to five
days in juil, and requiring owners of
publie buildings to equip them with
proper spitting receptacles,
Repealing the acts of 1005 and 1907
making constables ex-officio fire
wardens,
From 1linols,
From Bethany, Illinols, comes a
message ¥ritten by Mrs. Mary A.
Neff, which is appended :
The seven years I have lived in 11li-
nols have brought me to a stage of
liking the state, but I think this see
tion of country is not as healthy as
Pennsylvania, and the reason, I be.
lieve, is the changeable weather,
There are good prospects for fine crops
here, ~
Next week I expect to start for Ne-
braska to visit my brother, snd I
think I will remain a month or more.
— A SATAN
Auction Again,
So well pleased was George R. Meise
with the suction held Baturday even-
ing the nue the
wg
From Illinols,
pess, made these references :
self among the number but we think
things will be better soon.
Personally I have nothing to com-
munieate except that I am on the pro-
gram of one of the largest Chautau-
quas of this region this summer for an
address on ** We German Americans,’’
and have prospects for several other
engagements,
We have had plenty of rain and
crops are looking well.
This county mines more bituminous
coal than any equal area in the world
and we have now found gas in paying
quantities about twenty miles from
Bunker Hill, at Carlinville, the county
seat. This is to be piped to St, Louis,
it is said. This county is 24 by 86
miles, has six cities of over 5000 popu-
lation, has over thirty large coal mines
with the most modern and improved
machinery, is crossed by five great
railroads and some smaller ones, is one
of the richest agricultural and fruit
counties in the state, has the largest
and most expensive county court
house in the state outside the large
cities, and is sometimes called the
‘ Btate of Macoupin’’, Macoupin is
an Indian word which means * white
potato.”
There are but few Pennsylvanians
in this county and none from the
central part of the state but myself,
I delivered an address recently before
the County Institute here, at which
the State and County Buperintendents
Were present, on * Grammstical
Axioms in Relation to Grammatics!
Heresies,” which was published by
request. It reviewed and strongly
criticised a new book on grammar
adopted in this county, written by a
professor in the leading State Normal
of this state. It was conceded that a
Pennsylvania German can know some-
thing about grammar which some
other people do not usually koow,
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From MiMiaborg,
MifMlinburg is not fretting over the
panic nor feeling the effects of it, ac.
who is employed in the moulding
rooms of the Albright Manufacturing
Company. He says ;
** Business is booming in our little
town. All the carriage works are
crowded with orders, and working fall
time. Albright & Sons shipped two
hundred and seventy-five double-row
corn planters, snd twenty-five orders
resin unfilled. Now we are working
on cultivators,
* Buffalo Valley is now looking
fine, with its fruit trees ladened with
blossoms, and the wheat fields looking
most promising,”
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From Caltfornis,
“ Everything remains about the
same out here,” writes Charles P.
SBwint, au employee of the Pacific
Electric Railway Company, Los
Angeles, California. Continuing, Mr,
Bwint says: “ Our rainy season is
over. Just think, no thunder showers
to interfere with picnics ! In fact, it
never thunders in this part of the
state.
“Two Japanese cruisers, one of
which was captured from the Rus
sians, recently visited this port, and I
am glad to say they do not compare
in many ways to those of our own
fleet.”
EE ——— AO
Nieman Block Sold,
The Millheim Banking Company has
purghased the D. J. Nieman lot on the
northwest corner of the diamond in
Millbeim and will erect on the same a
fine twostory solid brick building.
The lower story will contain a store
room on the coroner aud a banking
room ; the second story will be built
into a fist for residences. Architect
Cole, of Beliefonte, will make a plan of
the new building and the work will
begin as soon as possible so that the
bank can take possession of ite new
quarters early in the fall,
a ——— To A ntl oss ——
90 Days More to Pay Taxes.
Beginning with 1910 there will be
ninety days instead of sixty to pay
taxes and get five per cent, reduction,
The ninety days will be from August
1 to November 1, instead of Ootober 1,
It will be a relief to farmers, inasmuch
as many who had to borrow can now
dispose of their crops and use their
own money, -
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From Manhattan, Illinols, Mrs
Amanda Bitner writes, under dste of
11th inst. that they are having very
nice weather in that part of Illinols,
where she has lived for thirty years,
The oats and pasture flelds lopk very
fine, and the farmers are busy plant.
Ing corn. Of this paper Mrs, Bitner
says : '* We enjoy reading the Centre
he proposes to conti
and it isa
DEATHS,
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JOHN W, MERSINGER.
period of several monthe, John W.
Mersinger died at his home near Tus-
seyville, Tuesday of last week. Inter.
ment was made Friday, sat Tusseyville,
Rev. B. F. Bieber officiating. Mr,
Mersinger was aged seventy-four
years,
The deceased was one of the older
citizens in the community in which
he lived, and was a resident there for
many years. His wife, nee Caroline
Decker, died about two years ago, but
four children survive, namely, John
H., Bow Bells, North Dakota ; P. Ed.
ward, Centre Hill ; Mrs. Alfred Ose
man, Altoona ; Mrs, William Hess, of
near Pittsburg,
Mr. Mersinger lived a quiet, unas.
suming life, but he was highly thought
of by his neighbors and acquaintsnces.
One brother, who went west many
years ago, and whose address is not
known, may survive,
MISS MARY RAE SMITH,
After suffering for a year or more
from tuberculosis, Mary Rae Bmith
died at Potters Mills, Saturday after.
Hoon at about four o'clock. Her age
was twenty-three years, Interment
took place at Tusseyville Wednesday
moroing, Rev. B, F. Bisber officiating,
The deceased was the eldest
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Buith, |
of Potters Mills, at whose home she
died. She was a member of the Lu.|
theran church, and a patient suflerer,
For some months she knew there was |
no hope for her to regain her health, |
and she consequently prepared for the
inevitable. She made ail the arrange.
ments for her funeral, even to the
selecting of the hymns.
Besides the parents,
and a sister survive, pamely, Earl,
Nous sud Boyd,
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ARTEMUS C
Artemus C. Bower died at his mothe
et’s home in Penn tow nebip Wednes
day morning of last week, after a short
illness of pneumonia, aged twenty.
seven years. He was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. George M. Biwer, who survive, |
together With his wife and infant |
child, six brothers and four sistera, |
Funeral services were conducte |
day moroing in the United Evangel.
ical church, Millheim, by Ilsv. OC. ¥
Garrett, laterment Fairview |
cemetery, i
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Mrs. Lydia H. Jones, a native
Centre county, died at her home ip
Charter Oak, lows, of paralysis, Her
name was Miss Lydia Wieland and
she was born in Penns Valley eighty-
two years ago. Io 1544 she was mar
ried to Miller E. Jones and thirty years
ago they moved to Iowa where they
have since resided. Her husbsnd is
dead, but surviving her are fr ur hile
dren and three sisters, two of the latter
living at Altoona and one at Warriors.
mark.
of
Georges P. Files, of Philipsburg,
died Wednesday of last week of peri-
tonitis. He had been {il only a few
days. Mr. Files was born at Grand
Springs, Va., and was a little over
forty-nine years of age, For a number
of years past he has been employed at
the Philipsburg fire brick works. His
wife survives as well as two sone,
Harry J. and Olaude G , both at home;
aleo his father, three brothers and one
sister,
Ane—
Wilbur W. Davis died at the home
of his brother in-law, L.. I. Miller, in
Rush township, of Bright's disease,
He was a .on of the late E. A. Davis
of Philipsburg, and was born in that
town a little over thirty-seven years
ago. He was a jeweler, In 1508 he
married Miss Clara Southard, of Phil.
ipsburg, whosurvives with one daugh-
ter, Lucile. He aleo leaves his mother
and two bro' hers,
Ir—————
Mrs. Mary Auman, wife of O. J.
Auman, of Penn township, died Tues
day morning of last week of a compli
cation of disesses. Bhe was about
forty years old, and a member of the
Evangelical church, In addition to
her husband she is survived by the
following children : Alfred, of Coburn;
Harry and Walter, of Dauphin, and
Annie, of Pittsburg,
A AA SAY IAs.
Those in the habit of furnishing
liquor to men of intemperate habite,
will, without doubt, receive a warning
during the coming session of court,
when the two young men-—Blair Yar-
nell, of Bald Eagle Valley, and Boyd
Reed, of Bellofonte,—~now in jail, will
be obliged to face such a charge. If
they are guilty of the offense, they
should be severely punished. It ap:
pears the inebristes have no trouble
whatever in securing liquors, but if an
LOCALS,
United Evangelical parsonage,
Farmer James C. Goodhart has a
hunch of tine fat cattle that sre ready
for the block
A pension was granted May WM, to
Mrs. Annie Lape, of Johnstown,
through the agency of W. A. Krise.
James Lingle, son of Solomon Lin-
gle, who went to Virginia some time
#g0 to work on a lumber job, is located
at Potts Creek, that state,
The Pittsburg Gazette-Times men-
tions the marrisge of Miss Ruth C.
Hackman and Thomas D. Adams,
both of Miles township. The bride is
the daughter of William Hackman, of
Rebersburg.
Memorial Day services will be ob-
served at Centre Hall, Saturday even-
ing ; at Spring Mills, Monday even-
ing ; at Farmers Mills, Monday morc.
ing, 9 o'clock ; at Bprucetown, Batur-
day, 2 o'clock.
The Vacuum Cleaner is a novel and
eflective machine with which to do
{ house cleaning. It js not a plaything,
{ but does the work, and may be seen at
{any time at D. A. Boozer's saddler
tehop, Mr. Boozer having taken the
{agency for the sale of them.
|#f Samuel Stump, east of Centre Hall,
| is experiencing a general break-down
About a year sgo he
& wagon, which ap-
been the beginning of s
cidents that have very ma
terially reduced his vitality.
{of his health.
pears to have
For the purpose of payiog a short
vigit to her sister, Mrs, Henry Homan,
east of Centre Hall, Mrs. F. 8B. Arm.
rong esme from Williamsburg Thurs-
lay of last week. Rhe was sc Om pas
nled by her two daughters and one
{
ed a longer stay in the country, but
1
they all returned home on Monday.
Although the opportunities offered
young men are not as plentiful now as
they had been a year or more ago,
Bruce B. Gramley, of Bpring Mills,
Iteated himself in the testing depart.
ment of the General Electric Company,
at Fcheneclady, New York. Mr.
Gramiey is a graduate of Pennaylva-
nin State College, and cousequently
has had special training along the lire
of work in which he has engaged,
Much oats was sown this season at
the time when, under ordinary cir.
cumstances, corn would have been
planted. There was much oats and
barley put into the ground after the
teath. Corn planting, the earliest re.
ported in this immediate neighbor.
hood, was on the 12:h and 13th, by
Frank Moyer, west of Centre Hall,
He is always Among the very earliest,
snd usually has good luck in gelling a
crop.
While playing the other day, Bruce
Weaver, who is a member of the fami-
ly of Henry Moyer, near Tuseey ville,
sustained serious ivjuries, The boy is
sged fourteen or fifteen years, and was
#wingiog on the cross beam of a hog
gallows when the post broke and in
fallivg struck him on the side. No
bones were broken, but internal in-
Juries were inflicted, Causing great
suflering for several days after the sccl.
dent. Dr. H. B. Alexander is attend.
ing the lad.
* every foot of ground in Penns Valley
is sacred to me. The views of the
hotel and the Lutheran church” es.
pecially recall pleasant memories, the
former being the home and the latter
the place of worship of Mr. Mersinger
during his residence in your town.
We are having a great deal of rain and
cool weather which has very much
delayed farm work."
Jr. and Mrs. MoCluney Radoliffe
and daughter, Miss Sara, of Philadel.
phia, came to Centre Hall Saturday
snd remained until Monday morning,
when they went to Mifflin county
where a short time will be tpent at the
doctor's dairy farm near Burnham,
While in town they were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Shannon Boal, who
are relatives. Dr. Rudoliffe is a very
busy man. Besides his duties as head
operating surgeon at Wills Ese and
Ear Hospital, Philadelphia, he has a
large private practice,
Rev, W, A, McClellan, pastor of the
Reformed charge at Pleasant Unity,
Westmoreland county, has resigned
bis charge at that place and has ace
cepted the White Deer oh , West
Milton, of West Busquehanna Classis,
Rev. MoClelian has had a successful
pastorate at Ploasant Unity for the
past nine years, being his first and
only charge up to this time. He is a
#on of Centre county and was reared
bis mother and several. brothers and
sisters still reside. Rev. MeClellan
drove overland from Pleasant Unity to
West Milton a
Eagles at Pottsviije,
The Grand Castle of the Knights of
the Golden Eagle held ite annual
meeting at Pottsville, as did also the
Grand Temple of Ladies of the Golden
Eagle. Both orders will hold their
meetings next year at Getty sburg.
It was decided that there will be
levied a per capita tax of 20 cents, 10
for the Grand Castleand 4 for the com.
mittee on the new X. G. 1. hall. The
former rate was 25 cents, which
went to the Hall Committee The
castle adopted a resolution that all
laws of subordinate castles pot in ac
cordance with the constitution should
be declared null and void after Janu-
ary 1, 1609,
The officers elected are : Grand chief,
Charles Denby, Philadeiphia ; grand
vice chief, Wm. Y. Irwin, Chester
grand high priest, Milton P. Bchantz
Allentown ; grand master of records
Lewis L. Ciallagher, Chester :
keeper of exchequer, John B
bh of
grand
3. Pearce
Philadelphia ; grand sir herald, Hor-
ace W. Behantz, Allentown - grand
first guardsman, Frank J, Burkh
South Bethlehem : grand
guardsman, Ewald Winds ir, Perkasie
grand trustee, Charles A. Bhunkw fer
Reedsville ; representative to Bupreme
Castle, Harvey J. Lutz, Philadelphia
arat
seCcono
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For the Hospital Ambulances,
Great interest js beivg manifested in
the entertainment to be held in
Garman Opera House,
Friday evening, in the int
ing money to purchase an up-to-date
rubber tired ambulance for tl Belle
fonte hospital.
A pew and up-to-date am!
the hospital is almost an absolut
cessity, and the one it sp
ting will not only be a credi
stitution but one that will |§
Lis
Beltas
Bellefonte,
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“rest « rais-
ie
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Uianoe jor
Fi.
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urposed get.
FROM ALL PARTS.
Beautiful weather since the la
of the Reporter,
48 busy ss a bee,
The local I. 0. 0, F. and Rebekah
lodges will hold a festival
Saturday evenings, 2
tl
yvii
and 20h inst.
be held
his week,
SOUTOE~
Teachers’ ex amination will
in Centre Hall Saturday of t¢
Ihis is a change from th
ment in the teachers’ mar
PN
Fearful of forest fires, someone inter.
ested in the Neff Brother
rations the Beven
keeping guard over the
and day.
4 Umber Ope
Mountains is
timber night
io
In this issue Mra. John H, B
offers for sale her home, ¢
Hall, It
tiaere is with it five acres of ground in
ny der
ast of Centre
1%
& very nice home, apt
good eonditi yn,
Cleveland Kerstetter, who had been
in the of Washingt io, relurned
to Pennsylvania, and
will stay with bis faths
eller, 1 roprietor of
1olel,
William F, Nearhood, of A urora,
i, Is visiting friends an
dillbeim and vicinity,
irns to his western
accompanied |
slale
the present
Ker-
the N ow Berlin
r, Joel
1 ad relatives in
When he re.
he will be
'y his grandmother, Mrs,
home
Peter Confer.
At sn meeting of the Central Pennsyl-
ania Funeral Direct
\itoona, Undertaker 8.
f Millheim, was elected
Or's association in
% , {
M. Campbell,
fi delegate to
the slate conve notion
which
in scranton June 8:h to 114
eld
Rie
i# former se
18rd Brooks is fone
'e »
if than he has for ¢
a
much comfort as possible to patients
who have to be taken to the
I'he price of the ambulance will ix
little over four hundred dollars &nd
order to insare its purchase as soon
possible the people of the town and
county must ba liberal in their patron.
sge of the coming entertainment. In
addition, they ean be assured of get
Hog a good evening's smusement in
return lor their money, 88 sme of th
best local talent in Bellefonte and
Siate College will take part
same. Prices of admission wil
<5 cents up.
hospital,
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in the
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The Philmdeiphia Record
During 1908, The 1
ord printed nearly a million lines of
display sdvertising in excess of that
published by any other Philadelphia
newspaper. This supremacy is due to
the fact that The Record hss a larger
morning circulation than sny other
Philadelphia newspaper. The same
qualities of ** Record ' circulation that
make the exploitation of merchandise
pay, make The Record” the ides)
medium for summer resort advertisi ng
The proprietors of resort hotels and
summer boarding-houses seeking pa
tronage from Philadelphia and vi
cinity, should be represented in ite
advertising columunps,
AP —
Ark the Professor Questions,
Any of the readers of this paper de-
siring Information in regard to the
enemies and diseases of fruit trees, or
other plants of the garden and farm,
should write at once to Prof. H. A.
Sarface, Siate Zoologist, Harrisburg,
who takes pleasure in answering ques.
tions on such matters. He is daily in
receipt of letters from all over the
state, which cover a wide range of sub.
jects, from epraying for the destruction
of Ban Jose scale and oyster shell bark
louse to the ridding of cellars of rats
and mice. Ask the professor questions.
A ————
J.D. Murray's Succes,
J. D. Murray, the enterprising drug-
gist, rather than await the ordinary
metbods of introduction, urged the
Dr. Howard Company (0 secure a
quick sale for their celebrated #pecific
for the cure of constipation and dys-
pepeia by offering the regular 50c
bottle at half-price,
The wonderful success of this plan
Was a great surprise even to Mr. Mur.
ray and today there are scores of people
here in Centre Hall who are using and
praising this remarkable remedy,
Bo much talk has been caused by
this offer, and so many
"hiladelphia Ree
{
new friends
have been made for the specific that
the Dr. Howard Company have
authorized druggist Murray to con-
tinue this special half-price sale for a
limited time longer.
In addition to selling a 500 bottle of
Dr. Howard's specific for 2 Mr.
Murray hes #0 much faith in the
remedy that he will refund the money
to any one whom it does not cure,
nple is made of one or two such
porter wishes him a pleasant and suo.
LW0 weeks, ten
About
{fered greatly from ps
i
#8 that ind
OE Indi
$ tia Fars t
ALA vig, Dut
appendic
brought him src
operation.
treat.
La all ngot
thout an
A committee of the Pa r
ms Rural
Pelephoge ( company will meet
Harrisburg officials of the Bell Tele.
paone Company of Pennsylvani
d important
will be
morning in
several
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Tre
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Furs.
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vation
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held this
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inference
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Henry Gill bought the fio
ff. G. E. Corl
Oommer bought
iring mill
Linn
Mr. Cori
id
ii
Pine
the farm.
Cronem
ah i
ai hii,
%
purchased the Geo tie
farm
snd after April 1st, J, will give }
undivided
191
altention
Rrowing fancy stock
was §6 500
g ard
price paid
to farmi:
The
PR
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Robert Campbell, on the m
Cave, is back from
and personally
looking afler the guests who visit that
besutiful natarsl 1
commodations at Penns Cave
a
beiler than ever, and those w
(he
prietors of Penns
Cleveland, Ohio,
#cenery, he ace
ls
ho have
have
fourth
will
been in the cavern will not r
ug made a second, third
trip there,
egret
or
“A most welcome visitor to our
home is the Centre Reporter, and « ur
remittance for subscription is always
made cheerfully. Bpring hss been
very backward, being cold and wet
til the last few days it is more like
immer. Kverybody is busy planting
corn, the ground being in good con
ditisn.” These are the words of
Joseph 8B. Houtz, of Kirkland, Ulinois,
W, Bpeer Breon, of Penn township,
company with his brother Charles
er,
Mrs. N. 8, Weaver, of Philadelphia,
started for Penn Hall Sanday a we k
to visit hie brother, Wallace. On the
wey he was seized with an attack of
pleurisy and was taken back fo his
home where later developments show-
ed that his sickness was typboid pneu-
monio. His condition later grew very
serious,
a
wl!
roads was thought to be safe only for
those of mature age and experience,
bat now it is pecessary only to be in
possession of a railroad ticket, and the
railroad company will do the rest.
This Is illustrated by the fact that
Miriam Meyer, granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. J. Meyer, was able to
mske the journey from her home at
Reedsville to Columbia, South Oaro-
lina, withcut the Jesst diteulty.
While
guest of her sunt, Mm. J. W. M
Cormick.
Mr. and Mrs, William © Barber, of
Joliet, Illinois, are east on a business
and pleasure trip, and while in Centre
Hall were the guests of Mr. and «Mrs,
D. A. Boozer, Mrs. Barber is a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Agnes M. Spangler { nee
Love ) and was born near Tuseyvitle:
Mr. Barber is at present devoting h
time to the settlement of his father's
estate, who was one of ibe wealthiest
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