| | \ DEATHS; Katharine Decker, wife of William Motter, of Georges Valley, died Mor - day morning after a short illness of a dropsical nature. Bhe bad been ailing for some time, but it was only Bunday previous to her death that her con- dition was regarded with alarm. In- terment will be made at the Spruce- town church, Friday forenoon, and the officiating minister will be Rev, H, A. Bnook, vastor of the United Evan- gelical chureh, of which the deceased was 8 member, Her age was thirty five years and nine mouths, Mrs. Motter was the daughter of the late Green Decker, and the mother of six children, all of whom survive her, as well as her busband, The children are Naomi, Ernest, Carl, Margaret, Garman, Jeese, all at home, and some are of very tender age. These brothers and sisters also survive : Miss Ella, of New York; Miss Jennie, Thomas, Colonel and Dolan, of Bpring Mills; Beott, of Sputh Daketa, and Joseph, of North Dakota, William Bottorf died at his home in Canton, Oilo, aged sixty-six years. The decased was born at State Col- lege, thia county. He was a partner of the late David H. Parker in the carriage making business years ago in Philipsburg. His daughter, Mrs, William Mouncaster, of Canton, was in Philigsbaurg at the time of the death of her father. AA ——— LOUALS, Methodist Day, at Lakemont Park, Altoona, will be observed Thurs iay of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ishler, Boalsburg, were in Centre Hall Sunday among friends. Miss Bara Keller, of Boalsburg, was the guest of Mrs. J. C. Dale, Miss Mollie Hcff r and others ln Centre Hall. Mrs. Stover, widow of the Isle Michael Blover, of South Philipsburg, has suffered several strokes of paraly- g's within the past few days and is now in a very critical condition. Mrs. C. H. Fleck, scompanied by her children, and Mss Mary Hering, of Altoona, are in town, the guests of the Arneys. The ladles are daughters of Mr, and Mrs. James P. Hering. The members of the Union Bunday School, at Farmers Mills, will hold a festival Baturday evening, July 30, at Bt. John's church. The proceeds ae for the benefit of the Union Bundasy Behool. Mrs. Andrew J. Katherman, of Mif- flinburg, aged seventy-seven years, died last week, She was the mother of Arbor I. Katherman, of Willisms- port, formerly railroad station agent at Centre Hall, There is a probability that Mr. Berry will head the independant ticket that will be pominated io Philadelphia next Thursday. The ms jority of the delegates to this con- vention will he lodeprodent Repub- licaons, but it appears that the provail- ing sentiment: favors a Democrat to head the ticket, The condition of James A. Keller, note ¢f whose illoess was made last week, is slowly Improving, he beirg pow able to swallow fluid io small quantities, He is obliged to remain in bed, owing to his weak condition, yet hss the use of hisarms snd lower limbs, the paralysis being confined 10 the one side of his face and throat, If you happen lo be in the moun- taios snd run across one or more cub bears, you will be safe in taking » good look at them, acd then pass on, without trying to capture them, be cause you might succeed and then it is that trouble will begin. Ian Cameron county three men were flued $50.00 becauss of the fact that they cculd not resist takiog the cubs home with them. Mrs. I. Y. Moyer and daughters, Misscs Ruth and Helen, of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the home of the former's mother, Mra. Mary Rearick, in Centre Hall, where they will remain for the summer. Mr. Moyer is one of the managers of the publication ¢stablish- ment of the Evangelical church, In Cleveland, and owing to this is not able to join his family on this vaca- tion trip. Jacob Wagner, one of Centre Hall's most respected and aged citizens, is eritically ill at the bome of his daugh- ter, Mrs, A. E. Kerlin. Tuesday a» week he attended the funeral of Rev. Lane, at this place, and was exposed to the rain falling at that time, He took sick that night, and sioce bis condition has been growing gradually more serious, Wednesday morning the members of his family were sum- moned to prepare for the worst, Dr. George Park Binger and George Park Bioger, Jr., of Lock Haven, stop ped with the Reporter for a half hour Friday morning of lsst week. They wese on a tour through Blair and Cen. tre counties, traveling on wheels. Dr, Singer Is a professor of sclence in the Central State Normal SBehool, st Lock Haven, and while on this trip was also looking after the interests of the fpstitution with which he is conpect- ed. The prospects for the 1610 1911 term are very flattering, sod sccording to a statersent made by him the Insti. tution will bave large classes in all ite departments, of on FANCY WAISTCOATS. Introduced by an English Monarch by Way of Economy. The waixtcout—when at least it in a “funcy vest"—ls the lust remaining vestige of the gorgeousness which was voce displayed in men's dress, and on Ut, 15, 1g appeurinbes on the person of Charles Il. The novel garment was a “long cusnock,” ux the diarist terms it, worn close to the bawdy, It was of “black cloth, pinked with white =ilk under it.” Men will agree that the walstcoat is a convendent and commendable gar- ment, the absence of which would de- prive them, to speak of no other dis comfort, of an lnvaluable s4g of pock- els. It appears strange, therefore, that it should wet have come into being at an eartier date, Roon ufter the restoration a sleeve. lens vest, which Hkewise left the waist open, wus worn under the doublet. it wax not a true walistcont, This style of dress was hrought from France by Charles 11. From beneath the fullness of shirt exposed by the open vest “the breeches displayed thelr expanded width.” with bunches of ribbon at the walst ang lance ruflies below the knees The doublet worn over the vest was richly lnced nud embroidered. So cost Iy wnx this fuode of attire that the king resolved to give the ead toward a more and sober fashion, and In the fulfilment of thix design he donned the new garment, which Pepys halied with pleasure, Such were the circumstances which attended the introduction of the waist coat. It ene in the name of economy and reform, but ere long it developed into ax expensive and decorative a gar ment as any which man has eser tak- en to himself, Gradually it was ex- tended downward till it aimost reached the knees. It wax made of the richest materinis, apd the outer coat was shaped to hang well open to display te magnificence, Extmvagnce and love of finery were simply transferred from one style to another, and on the wialsteoat was lav. Ixhed all the embellishment which pre viously had lwen bestowed the breeches Fhose flowersd and em broldersd waisteonix of sheeny satin, with Inced Hap, certainly hare Doser tremiblesome and fantastic than the preceding fashion, but wheth- er they reduced the wearer's account with his tnilor ix highly doubtful The long Happs waistcoat remained in favor mmuy years. It was still wory by uvoblemen and gentlemen when George |. was king. In the following reign a shorter walsteoat wis prevaient, sd from this thine the fap begun to decrease I eogth. In stead of reaching almost 10 the Kee It came only balfway down the thigh As wens dress Deca more simp fied toward the close ol the eighteenth esntury and puffing, nce and embroid ery were ithe Bap disap peared economical on may Jers wort w hat abandoned London Globe The Name “Pepys” How shoud “Pepys” be pronounced? Perey Lublwek, who wrote 8 bDlogra- phy of Samuel Pepys, decinres “Peeps.” Hut there many peopie living and talking who cal themselves “Peppis” io MTU sas published 8 volte called ‘Lucida tnt by James Car HE vierk in the office of not Hike Pepys and Kind to spell Rt lidu't. He wrote: me, then; dumb devil mre erimiin,’ whe as a ie awd Hive Foor gy ut be vpn « wotial “Peep #81 thes Der Dyin Led Te arn Love gd Uw Him i must fig Sent ath Epmbatha sald to my praise who opened hath my we from navy to the ark by Pepys. the Londou Chroulcle con- io his contemporary Pepys From thi oldes that was “ips Jos Miller Was Not a Joker. whee ix generally believed the soul of wit, never tnade a xing 'e joke in his life. He was fan netor grave in manner as to become the butt of other people's Lilarity When any witticisin went the round Miller was accused of its authorship, und he would never deny it He lived an exemplary ifs and died universally respected But no soouer wax he dend than appeared “Joe Miller « Jests; or, The Wits’ Vade Meeum.” compiled by “Elijah Jenkins, Esq.” ~that is to say, forged by Jobn Mottiey, the Jacobite, just as years De fore Hobson's “P'olly 'eachom” and Ben Jobuson's “Jest” had been forged. Jw fo have Miller remnets inl =o The Masculine Wig. Civilization has to thank the French revolution and the subsequent wars for masculine emancipation from the wig. It was partly the scarcity of flour and the war tax on hair powder that banished the powdered wig, but partly also the leveling influence of Jacobinism, “1 do sot know the pres- ent generation by sight” wrote Wal- pole in 1791, complaining that the young men “in their dirty shirts and shaggy ha'r bave leveled nobility as much as the nobility in France have.” Unfair. Hazel, aged seven, while feeding the cat at the dinner table was reproved by her father, who told her that the cat must walt until later, whereupon the small girl wept and sald: *“] think It is a shame just because she is a poor dumb animal to treat her lke a hired girl” —Harper's Magazine, But Did She? “My head aches awfully,” she sigh- ed, “If you weren't here I'd take my hair off and rest IL" “What?” he cried, “I mean down,” she corrected. New York Press. The corruption of the best becomes the worst.—Latin Proverb I ———— I A. Cente Reporter, $1 a year. y 3 LOOA WN The Reporter has a letter from G H, | Long, of Newark, Ohlo, which wii] appear next week. | ix-SBheriff Cyrus Bruogsrt and] wife are at Youngwood, the guests of | their daughter, M-s. Jack Getchell. | Mr, and Mrs. OC. C. Ramsey, Pleasant Gap, were entertained Wednesday by Mre, Mary Rearick, Centre Hall The stork visited the home of Mr. | snd Mrs. Harry M. Bitner, in Pitts | burg. This puts the distiretion of grandfather upon Dr. H. F. Bitner, in | Centre Hall, Ou Bunday a buneh of * Honkas were boozing nesr the Hellefonte lime kilos, when one of their number fell into the reservoir connected with the lime plant and was drowned, Misses Katharine Heckman and Marion Kaylor, both of Johnstown, | the former the daughter of Mr. apd Mrs. 8. H. Heckman, are the guesta of | Mr. apd Mrs. H. W, Kreamer, in Cen- | tre Hall. Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which can be controlled by giving Chamberiain’s Collie, Chol- era and Diarrboea Remedy, All that is necessary in to give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than nature] and then castor oil to cleapse the system. It is sefe and sure. Hold by Murray and Bitner, Bo delighted with Centre Hall as a place for an outing, this Soubury party, namely, Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Keefer and son Harold, Mra Jehu De Haven, Mr. and Mrs, Eugena M, Bavidge, is back again fora week's stay. Mr, Keefer isthe senior of the large mercantile firm of 8, H, Bnyder & Co., snd Mr, Bavidge is the bead of the postoffice money order department in Sunbury. Mra. De Haven is the! mother of the ladies. A I A AAAI Fiatival at Epring Mills, The members of the United Evan. gelical church will hold a festival at Sprivg Mills, on the church lawn, July 30th. All ars invited, CoOMMITT EE. A — i —— Reporter Heglster, Mm W,T Bitts, Pittsburg Dr. George Park Singer, Lock Haven George Park Finger, Lock Haven Mr J. H. Runkle. Centre Hall Claire M, Murray, Plessant Gap Ecna M Grenoble, Chicago, 11 Ait ive C. Grenoble, Chicago 1 Bainey, Pleasant Gap flee L. Dun) ap, Bellefonte 0 RK. Foreman, Bei Jet fonte | of | oD | in | Mrs At pus A nkle, Ashiar Anna Condo, Centre Hall Mm J. W. ( uley, Centre Hall W. A. Belber and family. Johustown Charles MeCrorey, Johnstown H. B, Weaver, Mercenburng ida Frick, Margaret Gritzinger. ean, Elmbeth Fooht Wolle, Lewisburg James I. P. Gregg, Tyrone Mm Eliza Stump, Centre Hall Mrs Samuel Stump, Centre Hall E M Miller, Coiyer Rebeocs Kremmer, Centre Hall Marian Kaylor, Johnstown Catharine Heckman, Johostown Mr. and Mr LL. KR Stover, Altoona Mr © H, Fleck, Altoona Dorthy, James, snd Wallace Fleck Mary Hering, Altoona Pearl Amey, Centre Hall Robert Bloom, Centre Adal! Savilla Rearick, Centre Hall Euth and Helen Mover, Cleveland, Ohio A. B Beezer, Bellefonte Jathes Steinkuchter, Newilon, Kanes Mr. and Mm Cigde Keeler, Sanbury Harold Keefer, Sunbury Mrs. Jehu De Haven, Sunbury Mr and Mn. Eugene Savidge Louise Dun. folie, Bowman Jane Altaons Ssunbtaury GR 515 or br. ak. subject, sides no dead | Stiperior | TO THE “Syracuse” Riding Plow w7...1 Docs its WwW org 8g en To Perfection There are many of th em in machive is giving satisfaction light, yet no other spreader The wear and tear reduced to the minimum in 1 work as well. THE OLDS Grass Seed Clover Seed she Alfalfa Seed CENTRE STATION Sadi SNE 2 a of Bellefonte, Moore, do not irritate ; that aggrava'e the trouble meant to eure, Sok see X Toa Bell 'Phore i but “Spun” Aluminum, the organ. “ 1 892 doctors’ scale bills. indigestion. Iron ex- rust, or corrode. venient to handle, accept no substitute. Lin will not
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