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VOL. LXXXIII.
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GRANGE ENCAMPMENT AND FAIR,
Announcement for thy Several Days-—Sol-
diers, Tuesday ; State Oftigers, Wednes-
day : Grangers, Thursday.
The arrangemaents for the 37th an-
pual Eacampment and Exhibition of
the Patrons of Husbandry are nearly
complated and the prospects are that
it will ba the largest and the belt
Grange Fair ever held on Grange
Park.
Special trains will be run on the
Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad be-
tween Bellefonte and Coburn for
Grange Park, Centre Hall, on Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday, amd
excursion tickets will be sold from
Friday, the 9h of September, goed
going until the 16th, and good return-
ing until the 19th,
+THE PROGRAM,
Baturday, September 10th—Opening
of camp, when tents will be in readi-
ness for all who have engaged them.
7:3) p. m.—Grand Opening of Even-
ing Eatertainments in the audi-
torium, by the BSocorer Amusement
Company of Philadelphia. Mr. BSecor-
er himself will lead in one of his best
entertainments, which assures an
evening of mirth and instruction for
every one,
Harvest Home services Bunday,
September 11th, at 2:30 p. m. The
anniversary sermon will be preached
by Dr. W. H. Behuyler, of Centre
Hall, sabjeet * The Old Testament
Farmer.’ All are lovited to partici-
pate in this service, and thus en-
courage the farmers in their sonual
harvest home celebration.
Monday, September 12th—Openiog
of Exhibition. This will be the day
for the general placing of exhibit
and exhibitors are urged to bring as
large a percentage of-their exhibits on
that day as possibls, so that there may
be a creditable display on Tuesday,
the day of the Soldiers Reunion. Ex-
hibits will bs received every day dur-
jog the fair and should remain until
Friday.
Mouday evening 7:30—Mrs. Cora
Rabartson, the Eaglish Musical Ea-
tertainer, will lead in tbe entert«in-
ment assisted by the Scorer Company.
15 Tuesday, September 13—-R:aunion of
the Centre County Veteran Club and
Soldiers of the Civil War. Every
patriotic citizen should turn out aod
cordially welcome theb: Veterans of the
Civil War, Addresses will be deliver
ed in the auditorium by well knewn
speakerssboth in the morviog and al
ternoon.
F.vening entertsinment at 730.
The Heyer Amusement Company
will give their third entertainment in
which the Dietrics will sppesr,
specially io magic and music. The
entire company will also asalst,
Wednesday, September l14th—Ad-
dresses will be delivered by represen.
tatives of the Agricaltural Depart
ment at Harrisburg, both merniog
and afternoon. Speakers will be Hon,
N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of Agri.
culture : Hon. A. L. Martin, Director
of Institutes, and Hon. James Foust,
Dairy and Food Commissioner.
Wednesday evening, 7:30—The
Beorer Company will give an entirely
new role,
Thursday, September 15th—Grange
Day. Addresses will be delivered by
Hon, W. T. Creasy, Master Btate
Graage ; Hon. J. T. Allman, Becre-
tary State Grange ; Mr. E. B. Dorsett,
Lecturer of State Grange, aod by
members of the Htate Grange Execu-
tive Committee, The Executive
Committee in connection with the
committee on co-operation will hold
meetings on the ground during the en-
tire week.
Thursday evening, 7:30~The last
evening entertainment of the week
will be given by the entire Beorer
Company with an entirely new pro.
gram,
The Scorer Company is one of the
best Lyceum Bureau Companies of
Pennsyivania. - All its members are
professionals iu the business, and
throughout it will be a rare treat to
any one who ls fortunate enough to
be present.
Friday, September 16th—Friday
will be sales day and a general round-
Ing up of entertainments and business.
You can not afford to mise a day, as
every day will bring new features and
entertainments. The ioteresting pro-
gram for the entire week assures avery
one a pleasant sod profitable sesson.
Come the first day and stay for the
last,
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Turkey Dioner Sunday.
Mr. Decker, the bosrding house
manager on Grange Park during the
Eocampment, will serve a turkey
dinger on Bundsy. This will give all
who have a distance to come to the
camp sn opportunity to secure a first
class dinnper.
——— fd P——
Judicious advertising means flonan.
cial success, Never in the history of
o
LOCALS,
Baturday the Grange Encampment
and Fair opens. In the eveulng there
will be a first class entertainment, as
good as any ever given in Uentre Hall,
Allen Earhard, of Wellington, Kan-
sas, is in the east, stopping with
Charles W. Wolf, of near Aaronsburg.
The two gentlemen made a trip to the
sea shore,
James W, Swabb, receiver in the in
solvent estate of Clyde Stamm, pub-
lishes a notice of time for distributing
funds in the hands of the suditor, J.
K. Johnston, Esq.
Your complexion as well as your
temper is rendered miserable by a
disordered liver. By taking Chamber
lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets you
can improve both. Bold by Murray
and Bitner.
The Centre Reporter will be found
atl its usual place on Grange Park
during the Grange Eopcampment and
Fair, and it invites all its friends to
call. The Reporter headquarters are
for your accommodations ; call not
only once, but often.
Miss Elizibsth Booz, Baturday
morning of Iast week, went to Barves-
boro where she was elected to teach
one of the public schools, Bhe is a
graduate of the Central Btate Normal
Bchool, and last year taught very suc-
cessfully a primary schiool at Aaroos-
burg.
Clayton Homsa had the misfortune
to lose a five dollar bill Baturday pight
a week, on Church street, near the
residence of Mrs. Mary Ross. If any
one found a bill of that denomination
in that locality, they will have Do
trouble in finding the owner if the
is mentioned to Mr, Homan.
P. F. Keller, of Pittsburg, was in
Centre Hall from Satarday until Mon-
day. He is a salesman for the Globe
Soap Compaoy, of Ciocinoati, Ohio,
which company has employed bim for
several years. He reports all former
Centre county residents in the Pitts
burg district as getting along nicely.
During the next two weeks there
will be many strangers io Centre Hall,
and those who entertain them will
confer a favor on the Reporter and its
resders if their names, elc., are sent to
this office. Do not think for a mo
ment that personals and genuine news
items are purposely omitted from
these columupe, but if they are omitted
it is because the information falled to
rea’h here,
W. O. Gramley, the Bpring Mills
dalryman, is preparing to keep =
dozen or more cows the coming
winter. He is now cementing his
stables #0 that the animals may be
kept clean and comfortable as pos.
sible. Mr. Gramley® is one of the
rursl route mail carriers from Bpring
Mills, but he finds much time aside
from this work which can be put te
profitable use.
John B, Wert, of near Tusseyville,
accompanied by his two bright little
sons, Rossman snd Kenneth, were
callers at the Reporter office Friday of
Inst week, Mr. Wert is one of Potter
township's progressive farmers, and
is prompt in business matters. He Is
one of a number of Reporter subserib-
ers who never get behind on subserip-
tion, aud when they pay in advance
do so for a few years,
After the seeding of wheat is done
the farmers will have the corn crop to
harvest. There are many fine fields of
corn in Penns and Brush Valleys, and
thers are some poor ones, wo. In
flelds where the stand is not too thick
por too thin, first cisss yields may be
looked for ; where the stalks are too
thick there will be disappointment, ae
is always the case under those condi
tions, and where there is a scant set, not
much of a crop can be expected. As a
rule, this season, the corn fields have a
surplus of stalks over what is termed
a good set,
No doubt some people think news
paper men are persistent dunners,
Let a farmer place himself In a simi
lar position and see if he would not do
the same. Buppose that he raises »
thousand bushels of wheat, and his
peighbors should come and buy and
the price was one dollar or less, and
say, "I will pay the amount in « few
days.’ As the farmer does not want
to be small about the matter, he says,
“ All right.” Another comes the
ssme way, and soother, until the
whole thousand bushels of wheat is
trusted to a thousand different people
and no one of the different persons
concerns himself about it, for it is a
small amount they owe the farmer
and of course that will not help bim
farmer has fritted away his entire crop
of wheat, and that its value is due in a
thousand little driblets, and that he Is
seriously embarassed in his
matter. But if all would pay him
promptly, which they could as well as
not, It would be a large sum to the
farmer and enable bim to carry on h
the commercial world has advertising
occupied ro dominant a place as it dos
today. :
in
business without difficulty. Bo it Is
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THE BRAIN REQORDER,
Hubby sod Others Say be Undone by It.
strument, it is said, it will be possible
to determine whether a man ls insane
or not, and therefore pleas of irrespon-
sibility in criminal cases will no loog-
er be possible unless the party accused
was really insane,
If the instrument is all that ie
claimed, it must be s marvel in
mechanism, and the possibilities of
its use are limitless, Medical research
would be benefited in many ways, and
cases of insanity probably reduced to a
minimum. Physielans could deter-
mine just what was wrong with the
brain, and probably eflect a cure in
most cases.
Then, again, the instrument might
prove a dangerous weapon if it ever
came into universal use. Buppose the
time comes when every department
store sells the instruments at popular
prices. Every woman weuld have
one. This scene then presents itself,
A young man thinks he loves a girl,
but is not sure enough to propose,
Under the influence of the girl's love.
making, however, a vague proposal
flits through his mind. Just at that
moment the girl turns a brain record
er on him, He must then marry or
face a breach of promise suit. The
girl would but need to show that a
glittering array of hearts danced
through his cranium.
The married man would no longer
be able to get away with those fairy-
tales about working over time and
launching with business friends. In »
moment of unsuspecting day-dream-
ing, his wife flashes the brain record-
er and learns the horrible truth. The
wife sees flitting through her hus
band’s brain a fantastic kaleidoscope
of dancing nymphs, and hubby is lost.
The grafter would be compelled to
wear a bralo-shield, for If the instru.
ment recorded a jumbling mass of
dollsr-marks he might find it difficult
to explain, Then there are others
who need not fear the brain recorder,
for in many cases it would record a»
blank:
Spring Mills.
Miss Rosle Bmith Saturday made =
trip to Bellefonte, -
Homer C, Zuby, of Youngstown,
Ohloe, spent a few days io town,
The public schools in Gregg town.
ship opened on Monday with s good
atiendance,
Albert Peters and wife, of Reading,
were guests af the Wood House a few
days Inst week,
Quite s number from town will
pitch their tents on Grange Park,
Centre Hall, next week,
Edwin Royer, of Rebershurg, was s
guest at the home of Charles Becrist,
iast Tuesday.
Jolyn E. Rishel, one of Potter town-
ship's progressive farmers, transacted
business in town last Friday.
Mrs. John A. Grenoble, of Yeager-
town, was a guest at the home of I. J.
Zabler, over Bunday.
Miss Rena Shires and brother Drew
on Wednesday left for a few days
visit at Lewistown,
State Surveyor, W. M. Grove, spent
Sanday in town with his family, Mr,
Grove is at present located in Bedford
county. .
Violators of the game law who
make a practice of hunting rabbits
under the guise of laying in wait for
ground hogs, had better, go slow, as
$500 reward has been offered by »
special self-deputized game wardeg
for the detection of the culprits.
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Woodward.
Miss Mary Snyder returned to Lew-
istown last Friday.
Miss Maude Ard returned to Phils.
delphia last week.
Mrs, Phosbe Wise Is visiting her
sister, who Ia very ill at Milton,
Mrs. Cleve Von Neida snd baby
spent a week with her sister, Mrs.
Keister at Aaronsburg.
Miss Bemie Von Nelda baving
speut a month with her parents, re
turned to her home in Reading.
Harvest Home Fervices will bs held
in the Evangelical Association church
Sanday evening,
Deserter to Pay for Sohoollng Uhlldren,
Judge E. L. Orvis made a decree in
a desertion case fram Philipsbuig in
which he provides not only for the
maintenance of the wife, but has made
the sum to cover the schooling of four
little children. The case was that of
Harry J. Beck, whose wife sued for
support. The defendant sdmitted
that his income iu the shape of salary
was about $7500 per month. The
court ordered him to psy his wife
$40.00 monthly, in advance, and fur.
ther to give a bond in the sum of $500
for the faithful performance of the
court's order,
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Grist Mill for Sale,
The J. K. Moyer mill property, lo
cated between Millheim and Rebers-
burg, snd generally known as the
Centre Mills mills, Is offered at pri-
vate sale by the executors of J. K.
Moyer. The property consists of a
first class grist mill, with never falling
water power, two hundred acres of
of land, ten of which are cleared, two
dwelling houses and other minor im-
provemenis. The timber consists of
chestnut, oak, hemlock and pine.
The mill has always been a paying
proposition. For further particulars
writeorcallon J. N. Moyer, H. B,
Moyer or J. K. Moyer, Jr., executors,
Rebersburg, Pa.
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Shrader Guilty of Murder.
William Bhrader was found guilly of
murder in the first degree In the
Miflin county courts for having
shot to death Myrtle Bingley, while
satride a horse,
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LOOA 8
Labor day was observed by ninety.
five per cent. of Centre Hall's populs-
tion by laboring.
Mrs. Galem Shivery and son Johu,
of MiMlinburg, were guests at the
home of Mr. snd Mre. J©- W., White
foan, in Centre Hall.
Mra. J. Emoty Hoy and dsughter
Elizabeth returned to Philadelphia
after a stay in Centre Hall of several
months, with the former's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mingle.
Hon. John Noll daring the past
week purchased the Montgomery
Hasg hotel and will make that his
home after the first of April, 1511.
The price paid was two thousand doi-
lars.
Ira Gramley, of Aaronsburg, made a
misstroke with a knife while skinning
a beef, and cut a deep gash into his
knee. He Is an employee of P. P.
Leitzell & Bons, butchers in Millheim,
snd the injury wes of such a character
that he was disabled for a while.
fruit on his farm west of Centre Hall,
and proves the statement made by
every one acquainted with fruit grow-
ing who has visited this section, that
Penns Valley wills are especially
adapted to the growing of fruit,
D. H. Bhiegal, of Spring Mills, was
in Centre Hall on Monday, and from
bere went to the new dwelling house
Frank Gfrerer is building, west of
town, to take messurements to esti
male the cost of plas ering the same,
[he contract was awarded him before
leaving. and be expects to begin work
there this week.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lohr and
daughter, Mabel, of Rutledge, came to
Centre Hall Saturday worning and
returned Wednesday afternoon. Mr.
Lobr continues (0 bold his position at
Broad Street Ststion, Philadelphis,
but having purchased 8 home of his
own, he now lives in a pretty subur-
ban section in Delaware county,
The rains that passed over this sec-
tion the latter part of last week came
jast the right time to aid the farmers
in preparing the seed bed to receive
the wheat for the 1911 crop. Bome
grain was sown in vhrious sections of
the valley before the rains, but it was
a very small percent. of the whole
crop. Bince the rains the farmers
have been unusually busy.
Gramhoppers are mere plentiful in
the rural sections adjscent to Centre
Hall than they have been for a num-
ber of years. They only put in their
about the first week In
July, but now they have grown to be-
come big fat fellows. The most of these
BER 8, 1910.
LETTERS FROM sUBIURIBERS,
. umn-—Now Department.
We moved from Cast Steel,” Vir
want you lo send us the
Reporter
Fohrioger drives team,
Mrs D. C, FOHRINGER,
Covington, Va,
—————— AS A
The Reporter Campy Headquarters.
Encampment and Fair. Thése head-
tion of the Reporter readers and their
friends, all of whom are invited to get
all the comforts and advantages from
them possible. Do not fail to eall, not
once, but often.
Chalisnge from Murray and Bitoer,
Murray and Bitner are seeking the
worst case of dyspepsia or constipation
in Centre Hall or vicinity to test Dr.
Howard's new specific for the cure of
those diseases.
Bo confident are they that this re
markable medicine will eflect a lasting
cure in a short time, that they offer to
refund the meney should it not be
successful,
In order to secure the quickest pos-
«ible introduction Murray and Bitner
will sell a regular fifty cent package of
this medicine at half price, 25 cents.
Thuis specific of Dr. Howard's will
cure sick headache, dizzy feelings,
constipation, dyspepeis and all forms
of malaria and liver trouble. It does
pot »imply give relief for a time ; it
makes permanent and complete cures,
It will regulate the bowels, tone up
the whole intestinal tract, give you an
appetite, make food taste good and
digest well, and increase vigor,
a —— —— A»
LOCALS,
Letters uncalled for in the Centre
Hall post office, Bep'ember 1st, 1910 :
Mre J. P. Bwint, Rev. Samuel 8B, Bos
ton.
Mrs. Ellen Bower and Eleanore B.
and John J., Jr., grandchildren, were
guests at the home of the former's
last week.
It pays to read the advertisements
of enterprising home merchants.
They are the people who make it pos
sible to have conveniences right at
your door, 80 lo speak.
Two school teachers pot previously
mentioned are Lester Baird snd Ash
bury Pletcher, The former is teach-
iog the Manor Hill school sand the
istter the Colyer school. These tesch-
the school board held on Saturday
previous to the opening of the school
term.
Mrs. George Baldwin, of State Col-
lege, accompanied by ber son Kenneth
and daughter Esther, came to Centre
Hall Friday and for several days
were the guests of Mr. snd Mre. J.
Frank Smith. Mrs Baldwio and Mrs.
Smith are cousins. Young Mr. Bald.
win is quite a musician, and is the
organist in the Methodist churzh in
State College,
An event of more than usual inter
est to Methodists in State College will
be the ceremonies attendant upon the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
St. Paul's Methodist church, which
will occur on Bunday afternoon, Bep-
tember 18th. It is proposed that
every person who shall on that day
contribute one dollar in cash shall
have his name put in the cornerstone.
For the benefit of the public it is
stated that it ie contrary to law for
newspapers to print lists of drawings
or raffles, It is even a misdemeanor
to print tickets on which the words
drawings and raffles appear. Printers
run a great risk when they print
tickets of this character and are liable
to imprisonment sud a heavy fine,
We trust that our friends will not
take offense when we politely decline
to publish such lists or print tickets
containing the objectionable words.
In planting shade trees along the
streets a great mistake is often made
by not trimming up the stem to sul.
ficient height to permit easy passage
under the branches. The lower
quently trees are pisoted with
when they become they
p>
eed,
: NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Frapk Lee, the negro, was found
guilty of murder for the secend time
in the Mifflin county courts,
Mervin J. Ross, a student at the
Buequebanns University, is sciing ae
8 supply on the Lutheran charge st
Loganton.
‘The members of the EK. M. Huyett
family are spending much of their
time at the cottage built at the Me-
Nitt-Huyett Lumber Company's mills
at Waddle,
Miss Mary Potter, who had been
seriously ill for some months, has ful.
ly recovered ber former heaith, which
was but faintly loesked for by those
who very much wished it,
The Elizabeth Brown farm
sold today (Thursday
C. Alexander, of Col
fara now tensnted by Franklin
Moyer, and is fully described
sdvertiseruent in this issue,
’
will ba
uy Lhe x4 cutor,
This is the
AT 33,
in sn
C. F. Dausberger, of Waynesboro,
the guest of Mr. and Mre. Emory
Ripka, at Centre Hall, during a part of
the vacation granted him the
Landis Tool Company, for
company be is head bookkeeper.
uy
wach
John F. Treaster is operating his
lumber job, west of Centre Hall.
the Kennedy timber tract. He
working with him regularly 1.
SBweetwood, Tony Garver and Jerry
Smith, and, of course, others when
needed,
Judge Bmitb, Clearfield county,
fined a Dubois dealer §25 and costs for
selling cigareties miso The
Judge intimated that many others in
thecounty were violating the law and
should be apprehended by the proper
aalhorities.
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Charles Bilger, of Pleasant
operating a saw mill several miles enst
of Bellefonte un a timber tract owned
by the MeNitt-Huyett Lumber Come
pany. There sre fifteen or more men
ou the job, smong whom sre Hobert
I. Bmith, of Centre Hall, and Charley
Bilger, of vear town,
The water supply in Centre
Gap, ia
Ii hes
éplendidly this
summer. Oaualy a few days, during the
entire summer, passed around that the
reservoir did not overflow. If sll the
leaky hydrants snd side lines were re-
paired, one-half the present supply of
water would meet the demands
on the borough plant.
made
It is becoming more popular than
ever Lo become 8 Reporter subscriber,
New names are coming in right slong,
snd always scocompanied with the
in Bouth side Cenire county news
have no other way of getting the news
from the old home than through the
Reporter, that dear old sheet worth
many times its subscription price.
Mre. J. Wesley Bromley, of Pitte-
burg, for a week or more was the guest
of her brother, Cyde E. Dutrow, east
of Centre Hall. Mr, Bromley is on
the pay-roll of one of the many branch
companies composing the Standard
Oil Company, and at present is loca-
ted in India. Mrs. Bromley is anxious.
ly awaiting the coming of the October
days, doring which time she expects
to sail from New York to meet her
husband and remain with him. ~~
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Moore, 6f
Philadelphia, are guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Rossman in Centre Hall.
Mr. Moore, for some -twenly years,
has been connecled with one of the
leading real esiateé firmus in Philadel.
phia, and while bis business took him
to many points in New Jersey and
Pennaylvania, this is his first trip to
Penns Valley, sod, of course, he is de-
Hghted with the piace and thinks
Centre Hall an ideal country tow.
As is usually the csse in this
section of the country, the faltz wheat
is yielding as good, if not better, than
any other variety. The fultz wheat,
at is well known by the farmers, is a
smooth variety, the straw is still’ and
stands up well when the growth is
rank ; it ean be better shocked than
the bearded varieties, and when it
comes to threshing time, the thresher-
men will invariably say that it rans as
good if not better than any of the
bearded kinds, although it is not in it
for exhibition purposes when an the
stock or in the shook.
With a view of restoring his physic:
al and mental condition, J. E Geltig,
Gettig, was brought to Centre county
Penns Valley having been® the home
of his youth. It will ba recalled by
most of the readers that during the
latter part of June Mr. Gettig mysteri-