DEATHS,
Mrs, Catharine Emerick died at he:
home in Centre Hall, Monday morn-
ing, just three weeks after the death
of her husband, Henry Emerick, In-
terment will be made at Centre Hall
this ( Thursday) morning ; servicas at
the house, by Rev. B, F. Bieber.
Mrs, Emerick was tha daughter of
Samusi Weaver, and was born below
Penns Cave, in Gregg township, No-
vember 30, 1534, making her age
seventy-six years, thres months and
five days.
Oae brother, Daniel Weaver, of
Gregg township survives, as do also
these children : J. Frauk, Pean Hal ;
Harvey H , Charles City, Iowa;
HMamue! 8B, in Siate of Washington ;
(George, North Angle, California ;
Newton KE, Altoona ; Benjamin H.,
Centre Hall ; Howard, Miouesota,
Montaua,
After a brief illness with heart
trouble, John Emerick died on Wed-
pesday night of last wesk at his home
near Unionville. He was born ip
Georges Valley and was sixty-five
years old, He followed farming
most of his life and was an upright,
honorable citizen, Burvivieg him are
his wife and the following children :
Mrs. Wilbur T. Peters, Mrs, E. P
Dupkle and Miss Lida, of Pittsburg,
and Clark st bome. Mr. Emerick was
a member of the Methodist church all
his life. The funeral was held on Bun-
day afternoon, burial in the cemetery
above Unionville,
Ellen Miriams Kuizanknabe, daugh-
ter of Professor and Mrs. J. H. Kur-
zenkoabe, died at her home at Harris-
burg of hemorrhage of the lungs
She is turvived by her parents, six
brothers end four sisters. Miss Kur-
zepkuabe was an uoasually gifted wo-
man and conducted an art studio in
Harristu.g.
in
he
(George Wal z:r diad at his home
Tylersville of the infirmities of age,
Laving reached his seventy first year.
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Fruit Growers Association Mee! ag,
The Centre County Fruit Growers
Association will hold a in
Centre Hall, Friday evening, March
3rd, at which Prof. H. A. Burfaca will
be the principal speaker,
CYRUS BRUNGART,
Centre Hall, Feb. 8 President.
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LOCALS,
meeling
L. G. Rearick made a business trip
to the Pittsburg district.
3
of snow fell
there
Five Inet
snd since then
sleighing
Miss Mable Taylo-, of Tyrone, fis
visiting ber sieter, Mrs. J. Max Lantz,
in Bpring Milla,
The L.. T. L. will hold
meetirg the United
church, Saturday evening.
Robert Keller and Miss Rath
ler, of P. F. Keller,
gram, were ill of typhoid,
have recovered
George W. Kline, son of Jobn A
Kline, of Centre Mille, has gone to
Antes Fort to assist a pew miller in
the Brosha mill.
Miss Awelis Musser, of Centre Hill,
had the misfortufie to fell the begin-
ning of this week, severely in-
jared ber shoulder,
hes
on Monday
has been good
a regular
in Evangelical
Kel.
of Io-
fever but
children
and
Henry Douty and family, of Centre
Mille, are preparing to move to Texas
Their asle of personal property, held
recently, wos largely atiended.
Hoo. Leonard Rhone,
ill for two weeks, ventured out
house beginning of the week,
since has been gaining strenglh.
Adsro Bmith, of Bhiogletown, now
tenant on the Dr. Dale farm, will move |
to near Colyer on the farm his moth-
er, Mrs. Elmira Bmith, will vacate,
The Misses Mildred and Mary
Grimm, of Bellefonte, were guests of
the Misses Elsle and Virna Geiss, in
Centre Hall, from Friday until Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Tsaiah Fleisher,
Phi'adelphis, have been ia
Hall during the past week, and are |
guests of the former's sister, Miss
Catharine Flelgher,
Mrs. Eliza Stomp Is recovering
from an illness. Her son-in-law,
Bamuel Stump, who lives with her, is
sfiicted with pneumonis, both
lungs being effected,
H. I. Foust has lessed the Ross
farm, at Farmoars Mills, and conse-
quently has called off his sale of
farm stock and implements adver-
tised for March 2lst,
Do you know that croup ean be pre-
vented ? Give Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the croupy cough
appears it will prevent the attack, It
is also a certain cure for croup and has
never been known to fail. Sold by
Murray & Bitner.
Misses Blanche and Emma Rowe,
of near Linden Hall, attended the
teachers local institute, and were
guests of their cousins, children of
Mr, and Mrs. Bamuel J. Rowe, The
former is one of Harrls township's
school teschers, On Sunday, Mr. and
Mre. George W. Rowe and daughter
Daisy drove to Centre Hall and took
the young Iadies home with them,
who had been
of the
and
of
Tenchearn Looal Institute,
Toe teachers’ local institute held io
Grange Arcadia Baturday was one of
the best ever held in this district.
With the exception of one or two,
every one whose name appeared on
the program was ready to iespond
when thelr names were called. The
attendance at the afternoon session
was (quite large, the forenoon session
not baviog atiracted quite so many.
Oue of the chief talks of the day was
by Prof. CO. R. Neft on ‘* Agriculture
in the Public Behools,!”” The subjects
were all well discussed,
Tue attendance of teachers, while
good, was not as large 88 should have
been the case,
The Reporter offers the suggestion
that Buperintendent KE:ters should
insist on teachers attending these
institutes unless prevented from doing
80 fur a good reason. And further,
that programs should be made by as.
signing topies to teachers only, If
there is time to do to, others not
teachers could be invited to speak, but
the program proper should, in the Re-
porter’s opinion, be given over to
teachers. All teachers in the district
should be assigned topics, and take an
active part in discussions.
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A Touch of Human Nature Amid the
Horrors of War,
the midst of the
battle of
touching
tha
the
Out of
rors of
COLeS 4 Sweet
hor-
Fredericksburg
incident
t the rage of
bloody
the
and
which goes to prove
i tenderness
of men. The
Major Robert
“Four Years Under Massa Rob-
The Fede was entering
town, shot was
Buck, a
round the
cannot obliterate
in the hearts
taken from
ert.’ al
the
tions, and
n=, 84nag
army
flying in all direc-
sol
corner of
Confederate
dier, was peerin
Ig
a house,
little three
girl toddled out
year-old, fair baired
of the alley, ac-
infed by a Newfoundland dog,
ist of the hissing shells
1 ball down the street
his gun, dashed
and his great
the Then he
little one
out
swung
baby
the
und
company,
8 breast
yv took refuge behind the
hich has now become his
ie, and there for hours and days of
the baby kept Fierce
petting her while
the storm raged and shriek
ed. Never so cared for,
and scouts scoured the countryside to
get her
When the struggle
Federal had
wall
terror was
nurses took turns In
of battle
was a baby
milk
wns over and the
left the
the
arms
behind the
honor in the to lead
into the town Buck stood
the middle of the regiment, the
in his 1% There long
and the } igade staff hurried to and fro
The not to be
found
Suddenly
company
rodelved post of
umn
ut in
baby
halt,
the od
aw
van
was a
regimental colors were
Buck sprang to the front
aloft the baby girl, her lit.
tle garments fluttering like the folds
of a han and shouted
“Forward, men of
Hers olors!”
Ofr brigade,
lustily
SHIRKING JAIL WORK.
Bidwell,
He swung
ner,
the Twenty-first!
are our
started cheering
the Forger, Was a Champion
at Malingering.
is mon in jail, but
«1 froun his own ex-
the late gov
“Crime and
com
Malingering
surely a case
perience by Dr,
of Holloway, In
Criminals” is a record The “hero”
was a violent prisoner who feigned
stiffness of the finger to avoid
king wns angry
finger was foreibly bent
returning to his cell he
placed the offending finger
hipges of hiz table, which was
ed to the cell wall, and violently
rajsed t leaf. with the result that
the finger was absolutely shattered
and had to be removed.”
Another case even more remarkable
its way the notorious
Bidwell, who was
penal servitude for life
with the Bank of Eng
quote
Quinton,
ernor
index
He
oakum ph 80
when the
that * "
t f O60
Li
pri
in the
attach
smptly
the
in was that of
American
eriminal
to
in connection
land forgeries.
“He was in good health on convie-
flon, but never did any active work.
Felgning loss of power In his legs, he
lay in bed from day to day and from
year to year, defying all efforts of
persuasion and resisting all unpleasant
coercive measures devised to make him
work. When 1 saw him at Dartmoor at
the end of eight or nine years of his sen-
tence long disuse of his legs had ren-
dered him almobt a cripple. The mus-
cles were extremely wasted, and both
hip and knee joints were contracted
in a state of semiflexion, so that he
lay doubled up in a bundle. Though
he was examined time after time by
experts, no one succeeded in discover
ing any organic disease or any cause
for his condition other than his own
firmly expressed determination never
to do a day's work for the British
government, a threat which, I believe,
he uitimately carried out,”
Dangerous Sport.
First Lady (reading a newspaper)
This golf seems to be a very danger.
ous game. Did you see what hap
pened to a man named Tayi? He
went Into bunker and was in two
when he came out,
fecond Lady~How dreadful!
“Yes, here are the words: ‘Taylor
getting out in two, Brald secured a
half.”
“Does It say what happened to the
other half?”
“No, but there was worse to follow,
According to the report, Taylor then
fell altogether to pleces.”"—~Word of
asls,
STORIES OF STANDING BEAR.
The Race the Old Chief Was Willing
to Hun Against a Government At-
torney-——~A Gallant Brave and His
Mirror—Arm Invisible Bridge.
The fmpression prevails widely that
the Indian lacks the saving sense of
humor--*“that of
all American qualities,” To the cre
ating and the spreading of this Im
pression many recognizable traits of
Indian character have indisputably
contributed his ancestral pride,
exclusiveness, his gravity of face
dignity of manner in publie,
Nevertheless an injustice
him, for among no primitive
is the sense of humor keener or
gpontaneous and kindly,
Yeurs ago 1 was conversing
group of children of the
They were on their way
tion school, and directly
lay a swamp an eighth of a mile
wide, and straight through this they
were required to wade twice a day.
“It 1s too bad,” I remarked. “Can
You not go around the swamp? Your
feet will be wet, and you will be une
comfortable and possibly 11.”
“Oh,” cried a girl of about twelve
years, her dark eyes dancing with
merriment, “we walk over the £1,200
bridge.”
They ali laughed
could It mean? [I saw
was no bridge to
them merry
I heard them laughing and chatting
as they went through the water and
mud. Afterward I discovered the hu
nor in the remark years pre
vious to that time the government had
abpropriated $1,200 to build a
over this but
money had vanished
pocket and the
One
most characteristic
his
and
is done
peoples
more
with a
Omaha tribe.
{0 A reserva-
in their path
at this What
no bridge: there
It made
stifled,
be seen
{0 see me my and
Some
bridge
swamp, somehow the
into somebody's
work was not done,
evening I saw nn gallant
brave making his way swiftly
the prairies of the Omaha
He was dressed In
at his side da
Manifestly hb
This 1 should hb
reas
young
aver
reserve
ill his finery, and
and eag
known hin
nine,
not
4
03
his
tured to stor
cious as 1 knew hin
*That mi
marked,
Prairie Flower to discos N
she Is, Is It not? He considers
moment, nd then vith
eye, he replied
*No. hop 80 she
much to me, and then 1
my mirror to see how ti
This certainly
surdity
Examples of Standing
I could
During
Judge
gover
hopes
Twe
was the
Bear's
give without
the
Dundy
rel eve $s
nent ati
the content
roes
dian Is not a person wit
ing of the law
chief greatly
One dav nt
ne
ously plying
suddenly he
ed up and,
noble
we remarked: The
neys say 1 am a person
ean use a knife and fork
do it he,
son I am one also
knis and forks
: $1
sue iis
ator
But
Does a bes
pet
th
not
that? the attorney, Is a
We both eat w
indeed, 1 think 1
can use them faster than he can. If
he wants to race me eating I am
ready.” We all laughed at this. Wh
we were quict Standing Bear added
“That is, I will rou an eating race
with the attorney if be will pay
the bee fate ak.”
The first public
Bear ever made given In
church. In the course of It
was pleading for assistance he address
ed various classes of people present
the men, the women, the clergy.
businegs men, the children.
was pleading with the women he sald
“I appenl to you because you
and patient
i.
on
address
was
Standing
my
Whenever you have any
it Is done.”
ment worthy
This was a gallant sent
of a chlef
dered the sentence thus: “You
are patient
This was so true to
that the audience laughed.
Standing Bear was puzzled.
mistake he had made Bright Eyes, the
beautiful Omaha maiden,
ward anl said, “My
chief's thought.”
proper rendering.
The Chicago papers took
with Standing Bear's name, one
Upright Bruin. When this was ex-
with great good nature,
“What does It matter? he remarked,
his face beaming,
with names,
in his lariat. Father Hamilton, the
Presbyterian, calls me elder. The
Episcopalian clergyman calls me ward:
en. For I am an officer In the little
church In our village, where both these
good men preach. And now the papers
call me—what Is 1t¥ Yes, Bruin. No
matter. The Judge In Omaha says 1
am a person, and that satisfies mee
Southern Workman.
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It troubled with lodigestion, cone
stipation, no appetite or feel billous,
give Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv.
or Tablets a trial and you wil be
pleased with the result. These tablets
invigorate the stomach and liver and
strengthen the digestion. Bold by
Murray & Bitoer,
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Oentre Reporter §1 a year,
Doug
glad
the ¢
get a
of it,
half
how
Aay
came
EK
Mrs,
Ww
one
HELY
an
work,
Ctistom
see
it
ohh if
WHY HE DOES IT,
Rais Murray & Bitoner Give Lessons
for rel'ing wt Half Prive.
have faith
up hy
eure,’
Mit Wa mre
for
pd lon and dy ep prin
to sell Dr, Howard'a
ure of cunet
pve fhe
Howard 'o order
quick introduc ory
' in in
in ater § Oil.
mie with orig
ent hot.
for ha'f } cars.
tnd althcugh we have »
and guaranteed every
ioe . on
uid a yn will
pach pge
ms Lie
ing the
sithough re
ba able
price,
Pittsburg,
i i
" =n Makers of *
p2rsoa who
dizziness,
ora gepersi
to tak
It the
they can
and we
Gasolines
ought
right back to cur store, Valentine Po
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Say
Winter Dress Goods at Special Prices
Ladies’ Skirt Patterns
vo 5c
Black Skirts . 50c and 75¢
Prices 206 per ct. lower at Long's
Shoe Department than any Shoe Store in Centre Co.
We have an excellent line of Shoes and Rubbers for Men, Wo-
men avd Children at Lowest Prices.
Ladies’
UNDERWEAR . . . |
MEN'S & BOYS’ TH
Horse & Bed Blankets
ies,
Same Goods for Less Money
More Goods for Same Money
We were to the eastern markets the sec-
ond time this season, as our business in-
creased and demanded it, Our custom-
ers will derive the benefits,
Winter i is Here !
Make up a list of your needs in winter
goods and secure them at the special
prices, We ask that you come early for
your share of the many bargains,
Hardware Department.
FARMERS, ATTENTION !
Horse Nails, 8c per Ib, Wire Nails, 3c pet 1b.
Best Galvanized Pails, 22¢
Chain Pump Buckets Dinner Pails
American Wire Fencing
Full Line of Staple Hardware, Prices the Lowest
We are Closing Out Our
Stock of FURNITURE
Gash Purchase of 194.
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