VOL. LXXXIX. HALL, PA., LAUDS KEXSTONE STATE, Pennsylvania Excels walifornis in Every Way, Verdies of Oae Who Has dived In Born States ~Advertising and Boosting, Filius Kastern Bralor, Made Onliforoia, [itor Reporter : There is nothing that makes me feel more happy ( unless it would be were there no more wars ) than when I read in the Reporter of my Pennsylvania friends coming to Californie, as it is tha only way to become awakened or svuueed to the fact that for pure eli- ¢ Pennsylvania can not be excell- ed, aud while you people are drinking the genuine water from your natural springs, we are drinkiog river water. No wonder those world-wide travelers pronounced the scenery from the top of Oid Nittany the finest in their travels ; they would have to say that f thay would want to tell the truth, Uae of our Bellefonte ladies (I will t give ber name ) made this remark ny daughter, ** You may have your Califorois, give me my Pennsylvanis.” Hie Enows a good thing when she sees aud don’t travel with her eyes shut, One can hear the remark every day, t Dr. Hosterman made ; yee, it is riificial, I think I am safe in saying re is not another state in the union at is advertised and boosted as Cali- They had to do it and it », and it is eastern money and ins that made it what it fe. I rd a mao who was born and reared : Centre county and who is a proper- ty owner in Los Angeles, make this iurk at the Pennsylvania picnic ile trying to enjoy his chicken. Yee, Lthia chicken would taste like egen if it had been grown and fed 1% in good old Pennsylvanie, but ua all kuow It is dry and tasteless, if occasionally one finds a gola , or more than one, the size of a fcorr, (I mean the size of a f corn grown in Pennsylvania ) craw of the chicken, The fish | here are uot solid like those | tin the lakes or enstern waters, » they bave the sweet fish Lartbquakes, or ramblings, 18 common nere as thunder storms When I see in my mind beautiful weeping willows, along uatural springs, expressing God's its in humility, aud the beauti- where the weary and tired ficds rest under its branches, fie scorn that is food for the imas!, and the towerirg chestnut : i'h sweet rich nute, it ls enough ke au atheist get on his knees i excisiw, “* Ob, God, what is map ou art #0 mindfal of him.” MARY ELLEN LOSE. ee, Cal, tr ———— A ———— LETTER FROM W, A. KRIYE, # rois ie, i i +0 na, Dfr, cilow ng Funeral of Their Son In Chleage, aud Yirs, Krise Departed for Usan- aharg. unday, December 26, the body George, was placed in the vault of Mount Auburn Chiecige, to await interment ter, funeral services being held at the unday afternoor, the pastor ral Park Presbyterian church ieting thew. ir, Krise is survived by his widow Earl; bis paiente, Mr. and A. Krise ; three sisters, Mrs. \ . 21 ck, of Centre Hall; Mre, J. '. Brown and Mre. B., F. Reisb, of iiroy, sod one brother, W, 8B. Krise, f Johustowp, all of whom were pres t ut the funeral, The floral decora- ona sent in by sympathising neigh- bore aud by bis fellow workmen were £0 great as to cover the casket several feet deep. A singular coincidence in nr son's life is the fact that he was nu on the longest day, June 21a, nr, mn ery, 6t i fi son oi { bor 1870 i mber 22, 1915, beiog therefore forty-five years, six months and one day old, During his boyhood he was & pupil in the Centre Hall schools, On Bunday evening following the fuveral Mre, Krise and myself with cur Suvgbier, Mrs. Reliab, and sop, W. ¥. Krise, left for Pennsylvania, the Int ier for their homes and Mre, Krise ne a 1 for Canonsburg, Washington county, where we are visiting relatives of Mre. Krise, Hoping Centre Hall folks are all well and bad a Merry Christmas— which was a sad one to us—I will close wishing all » happy New Year. Yours sincerely, W. A. Knise, Canonsburg, Ps., Dee. 29, I ———— SO ————— The borough council met in a #pcoiai session on ‘vhureday night to ¢ioss up the books for the year, paying v!l current bills, No other business of rny lmportance was transacted, Fri- day night of thie week the new body will reorganize by electing new officers. Thera will be but one change in the personne’, the new member belog “iillam J. Bmith, who succeeds John A. Msriz. The question of street Pahtiog with electric lights will be the most Important sutjeot to be brought before the borough fathers in , the uew year, poy EIGHT REFUSED LICENSE, Thres Hotels in Lower Ead of Uounty Knocked Out by Jadge Orvis, Judge Orvis’s last official act was to dispose of the liquor liceuss applica- tions for the year 1916. This he did on Saturday night, dealing the sppli- cants the hardest blow during his ten years as judge of the courts of Centre county, Eight licenses for booze sel)- Ing were refused, as follows Rebersturg hotel, Clarence E. Long, proprietor, Millheim hote', ®, 8, Brown, appli- cant, Coburn hotel, Lewis E. Stover, prc prietor, Milesburg hotel, Frank Kohlbecker, proprietor, Howard hotel, proprietor. Two Philipsburg hotels, Samuel Kough and William Bowser, proprie- tora, The wholesale Bellefonte borough. The other twenty-one tavern li- censee, including Centre Hall borough and Old Fort, were granted, Also five wholesale liquor licenses and one brewer's license, A. J. Fitzpatrick, liquor license in Youog indy Baros to Death, The sad news of the death by burn- ing of Miss Mary Stine, at Annville, Lebanon county, reached the uncles of the unfortunate young lady, D. M. and Elmer Campbel!, of Linden Hall, Isat week. The mother of the degen: ed was Barah Campbell, who is married to Prof. Thomas Stine, principal of the schools at Annville. The scecident which resulted in the death of Mise Stine occurred Tuesday evening of last week when a lamp exploded in her bedroom. The young Iady’s clothing caught fire and runoing down stairs she fell, her screams attracting her pa- flames, She wae burned so badly that she died on Friday following, without regaining consciousness sufficiently to tell anything about the accident, She was buried on Bundsy afternoon. Her age was twenty-one years, EE —— A A— Here's a Big Hog, A Cbesterwhite hog, tipping the beam atl 750 Ibe, was sold by EJ. Lair, on the Keller farm, last week, to Arthur Regs!, of Ba'ons, * Some hog,” sure, and yet Mr. Lair says he was not fat and could easily have ad- ded another hundred or two to the porket’s big frame, A Daughter ia Boru, Christmas day io the home of Mr. and Mre. J, Cloyd Brooke, on the Rhoneymede farm west of Centre Hal’, was an especially joyous ocession, fer there appeared very early in the mornp- iog a eweet little girl—Florence Vir- ginis by name—who added greatly to the joyous spirit of the day. LOOALS Mre. Kate Conley spent a few days over the Christmusa seston with her sor, J. Will Conley, at Bellefonte, Mr. snd Mre. Harry F. Hubler of Lock Haven spent a few days last week at the home of the former's par- ents, Mr. snd Mre, Cook Hubler. Mr. and Mre, William MoClenabhan and family er jiyed the Christmas ses- son in Altoona as guests of Mre. Mo Cienahan’s brothers, Roy and Ira Stover. Mre. W. B. Blick of Centre Hall, Mie, J, W. Brown and Mre., B. F. Relsh of Milroy, attended the funeral of their brother, George H. Krise, In Chicage, Illinois, on Banday of last week, graduation from the State University of Kentucky, at Lexington, hes beeo engaged in civil engineering work at Terre Haute, ludiane, spent a few nd Mre. J. BR. G. Allison. H. W. Frantz of Earlystown was a caller at this office on New Year's day and advertised sale of a lot of farm stock for Saturday, March 11th, The sale is being held jointly by Mr. Frantz and E. R. McClellan and will take place at the barn of the former, Misses Mary and Pearl Karts, and Chester Kurtz, spent the holiday ses- son with their parents, Rev, and Mrs, D. 8, Kurtz, io this place, The for- mer isa teacher in the high school at Northampton while the latter two are students in the Corpell and Byre- cuse Universities in New York. William H. Durst, who for the past few months has been employed by the Westinghouse Electric Company at Esst Pittsburgh, spent 's few days of the holiday season at the home of Mr. snd Mr, Horry Harper. Mr. Dumt reports this immense plant’ in the midst of one of the biggest Industrial sotivitiea in ita history and its men are obliged to work overtime each day. It was the «flects of this continued straio on his physical resources that at home, THE FARMERS AT SOHOOL., Learn Many Lessons Dorlog Farmers Werk Bt State College. ~Wore Than 150 bac tures sud Demonstrations Dain g Week { Reported for the Centre Vorse, College News editor) How to make the old bigger dividend was the magnet thal drew hundreds of Pennsylvania f ers and their wives to Hiate for the opening of the anvual courte in sgriculiure, leat When the first bell rang morning they trooped Lo their by scorer, eager to hear discussion the live topics that wonld aid in sol ing the high cost in inoreasicyg the net fielder, culture, household economy te latest discoveries improvement, and demonstrati the week. delivered by visiting instructors fr cultural schools, and nearby States had pr the program. It was the eleventh Week, which Btate ( and New Year's Dav lar student body is sb sion closed January 1. The entire rquipment of and all the fac tarned over to Reporter by A. fara pay # iri - Col! wee! on Mondas of ving and fe Pop returns They lLeard experta is rond building, 1 ming Lthem mud hie 150 Jee ¥ in farm t bv More than LB Were gives du Iu sddition to the lectuy State College mem mn olner farmers inent pine is CO Jollege between iities of the the iege students a week, Deprived of course, which msny the daughters are er joying, the soil took Te ey bought textbooks a like apy freshmer, a spoke familiarly of thelr special interests, en who cap be cul up their DISTRIBUTION OF FARM PR Fsulty is the stumbling block farmers their nerer, scco ding Beiby, head of the Beli pany; of Philadelphis “ Co-operation’ Tuesday morniog. there has been a populasti in this country of durivg the last years, productions Line jumped onl cent, Economists could d from this cqastion mand that portionaiely more, ! Hewes the farmer stnsller returns be co-operate tu piecing bi the marker, distribu ion of fare from reaping , who ’ ¥ : 0 a Ug As twenty-one en in sup; Mie grower is ius ut Mr ig sCiUN OBRUe Ov THE BENEFITS OF ALFALFA Many valuable ls 01 Wednesda:., A portant was Lha! concerning which is gradually ree tention from the average names $ sifalia, F. D. Gard: fessor of agronomuy at geve a report on the flndiogs of ty years experimenting wilh the college firme, He demonstrated conclusively crop osn be snc Pennsylvanie, that the soil on wich acre of alfalfa produces | He hey as sn acre of red clover, sud it is relished by all ¢ including pige and pouliry,. Thi facts, socording Lo Professor justify the insietoncs that f this State make every reasonable eff ort to establish alfalfa felds farme, Another lesson of the day that the unprofitable cow in loafs on the job, eating her good hay and grair, but without n ing sdequate returns In milk butterfat, Fioally they learned tt} steers fed on the common Pen: vania ration of corn mond cob brap, corn stover snd mixed hay showed 8 net loss per steer of about $8.00 a year, Sheep raising for mulion rather | than wool was recommended to farmers by Profeseor J. W, Hammond, of the Ohio experiment station, He | wanted the growers in Peuneylvania to get in on the present good market for lambe, and predicted good prices for years to come. He did not ap. prove of sheep raisiog on ail farmer, Howard W, Selby, of the Reiby Pre duce company, of Pniladelphis, told the farmers how to sall things, In Lis oplnidn houvest grading sad hooest packing of farm produc s were the bass advertisements needed to dispose of =» orop profitably, He sdvoested suc tion markets for selling perishable vegetables and fruits becsnae thet method demands that the good be sold at onoe, CARBLESS HANDLING OF MANURE. Farmers of Penveylvaniaare snnue's ly losing abtut thirteen millions of follars throtigh careless handling of barnysrd manure, socordivg vo F, P, Weaver, of the ontiege t xienminn enrpe, ERO wera is mong Lhe mic fi iviog my farmer ’ Miaie said it wially grows it «a a itis grow lasses of livesls Gardier a0 $a bul owners’ yak - and Byles { Continued on last § age. ) CPRUNKEN DEBAU JH FATAL, i stats College Bloons Oatter Hea from the Fir. ots of Ton Much * Celebration” | Christmas Time of # Frank Roberteor, tones culler i : tate (College. § ’ i pie t'n ge, ! {drunken debsuch at dead sg the resnilit © hiriatmas tine Bobertsot ho | was married, { 1 | lived fre morning, lesving. Bakes db YW joineg w Browr, who sione hanty about a mille m Biate Core 0 wi with 1 3 i sMinrday Both with a gond which they et old his themuelves on > 1" Line, on Hober! Brow: from delivered hey both 1916. 6. “NO. WILL TURN GAME LOUSE, Lik, Tarkeys, Qu ll and Kebbits 10 be Disteibared in Closed Uounties, Quail, will be tury turkeys, rabbits, dear and elk ed loose in geme pre rves and closed enunties of Pennay!- win? under the this« er by the stale game the recently sp- propagation plans, big coorigument of expected at Now Fhese whicl ican highlands with an ide of 1,000 fee, will be distributed 1 ther counties and i commlesion i proved state game and the first of » I AF. § Md lv xican in rk this quail week, oe from Mex quali’, uiaer: aor observation will be ch they will the be sent counties the ured near Tam pie of a hardy Fennessce ves of those a weslern 4 ene cme Lhose in 6 BEd breed, BNC pa o'her ontails?? A turkey go have number of bblars woods having vent and shi pmenls turkey hens frat of nie he year, ed wit food on. ssi he Penr- Wy BEAR to be ich su numbers Lo ge! 8 ven- om the Yellow. vinter., The last Jot abip- . but the ol ers sud have leer inve been ributed well £8 jast kept on iif ap — Masser-SeWil 'sme, werk Ieabellsn parrisge nt: Mr, sl Rock juviled nue the altended witness were Harold in spd eclively, Mrs. , and engaged in kdale, a sobarb place he took i fuser and and f Me vied it rapt Leen begin he ¥ 2hout the youn people vel ey friends he, r of em ma sg sm———_ A co Muriz.-Melow tha de se rR, Yi ina parents, Melsr, OG. Ise &¥ re. at Ada J. . Rw Martz united wy Rev, F. B, Fos, [he third dsughter of Mr. and er father in , b clerk, The Mre, Wil- yvilie, and A were id sesisted | M « ficient f Mr. Ty ima wie Ing =n and Tt ene ne. zg, of ry young War Bixee ups gs in his last sesr nNogical Beni. yinnpanied by s siuder uth i he Laveassteor, ace Florenon nt the Christmas , Rev, snd Mre, his plse George Bohr, & Penve Valley who for almost a year has been located Miunesente, jo ary at Babel, «f Lanecsste wit Jones, senROn ™ 2 Bh B, i ope 4 parents i nt Dover, where he afveral Wert, Nparr Wert, with his re, John sville, a { A aronsburg. tar more ungler, Ment and (Clagde : Tas 5 d D. at William Bs : i! siley, for several years a ich time he did the multitadinons befell & boy in yy left for greener | { pastures on Thureday morniog of leat iweek, his temporary Joostion being | { Cleveland, Ohic, where he ia vielting | Ltriende, W fifism bas nothing defivite | Hn view bul believed thst the navy | | would be 8 good field for ‘ed smbition. i Oumof the most beautiful of the fvarions Christouss © entertainments | rendered in the churches last werk wae that given by the Favday schools of the Reformed aud Lutheran churches at Tuweyville, Here boys snd iris never become too big to take part in Christmas entertainments, and the eat pestnens and Interest mauifesi ed by the young sa well sa the older folks of this union cchool spesks volumes for the religious and moral standing of that thriving community, H The Fenrch for a King,” a oantatia in two paris, was so well extonted as to oremin ua profound impreea upon the Isrts sudienos that filled tbe church to the doors, {¥ ih tle § be which r. and Mre. BR. P. conduet | fame €1ij f t family Campbell, who us Prnoe Cave icing over an sddition O11 the 29d of Janu- ary & healthy eight-pound baby daugb- ter came Lo their home, Tha little one ee been named Jave Eliz. beth Camyp- i bell, H gr ®t 0 3 -— A A ———— Fraciared Her Arm in Fail. In stepping from «ff the porch of a neighbor's home, Mire, I. O. Packer {fall and freciored a bobe in ber left arin the wrist, Christmse { morniog, Dr. 3. H., Lovgwel!, se | sisted by D-, J. Barlett of Plessant | Gag ' reduced the Wii i EH ——_— an] al Hear an Will Tasiall New Officers, Centre Hall Csetlr, KE. G. E., will {install thelr newly elected officers on { Friday evening. Refreshments will be verved following the ipstalistion, ss i AMAT HSS Ten now Laws Become Operative, inws became ¢ffective (throughout Pennsylvania on Janumy 11, and in addition, *'eps are now beirg "fen to pot irto effect two olbere, | The seta effeciiog the largest number {of persons are the workmen's comper « sation snd ebild labor lawe, Other acte, which become effective January 1,mre: { " i Ten pew Increasing powers of second clase Sitiin 1 relative ty vuliding inspection and fire preven ton, The practice acl for common pleas courts, The uniform sales sot. " Froviding tor state inspection of sagrienliurel Ing anthreeite and bitum timinons coal mining acts wo that miners shall be evagt under the work men’s com petisstion system The stock Lrunsfer tax aot, Providing for uniform policy contracts for fire fnsuranes. AI A Miss Helen Packer, who lsattending sobonl at Plitsburg, spent the i hn her parents bere, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FM ALL PARTS May the year 1916 contain three hundred snd sixty-six days of happi- ness and prosperity for you, Miss Mary Foreman of Btate Cole lege spent a few days Inst werk 98 the guest of Mies Mery Kennedy, Girl Wanted, —A housework, io L. O. Packer, 1.8 Rs girl to do general sn smosll family. —Mre, Centre Hall, IE On vi Tuoecday returned io where he is work- a kK