“ $ NO. 21 VOL. LXXXIX. INTERESTING 5. 5. QONVENTION HELD AT REBERSBURG, “The Best Attended Uonvention Held In the County,” Says Oounty Ohairman,— Able Speakers Discuss 8, 8, Problems, The thirteenth annual Banday- school convention of the twelfth dis trict of the Centre County BSunday- school Association was held in the Reformed church at Rebersburg last Wednesday. The convention was called to order by the president, a good representa- tion of superintendents of schools, delegates and citizens being present, After devotional services Miss Jessie Adams read an excellent paper on “The Community in its relation to the SBunday-school.” Mrs, LaManee, national organizer and lecturer of W. U. T. U,, spoke, laying strong em- phasis on the value of our boys and girle, In the afternoon she was called on to speak on ‘The Bunday-school in its relation to the church.” This subject was not assigned, but she took it up and gave a talk on it as if she had known before what was coming. All the speakers did splendidly and without partiality we must not forget to mention the very able, thought out talk of Prof. W, F. Zeigler. This wasso well received and so masterfully hand- led that the county chairman has re- quested him to come to the County Convention at Howard and give a talk on the same subject, ‘* Emotion in Relation to Actior,” first giving a philosophical explanation, then em- phbasizing that in all convention work we must not let the work go by with- out putting it into action. This is often the case ; convention work can not be blamed for it, it is the indiffer- ence of those who represent their con- stituents in neglecting to bring action for resulta, A lesson that all may profit by, ee. pecially Bunday-school conventions, where it is a custom to send delegates, often young people, while the superin- tendent of the school stays at home : we must not forget the superinten- dent is largely the magneto that puts life and epirit into the school, and through his position of trust should be the foremost in all work which tends to bring the school to the place where it justly belonge, I'be county chairman said this was the best attended convention so far held in the county, This was largely due to the untiring effort of the presi- dent and the very'excellent program. Let this be kept in mind, * Emotion no substitute for Action.” “tr ———— I — A A ————— Next Week “ Death to the Rooster.” Birth control in the barn yards of Pennsylvania is advocated by the Btate Department of Agriculture which has declared war on the 1,000,- 000 roosters that are lords of many a chicken coop in the rural districts and back alleys in the cities. Not all of them are to be killed in the campaign in which the poultry se- sociatione, granges and organized re- tail grocers’ associations are ssked to co-operate. It is suggested, however, that at least 750,000 of the roosters be either killed or penned up, It ie said by the department experts that if euch steps are taken, the hens will be '‘ better contented, tamer and will live longer.” While sweeter tempers in the hens of the State are desirable, the department is principal- ly interested in the egg crop, for it is asserted that with fewer roosters the hens will lay more eggs. In order to bring about this change in the hene’ dispositions and the out- put of egge, the department advises poultry raisers to observe the week of May 29 as “ Rooster Week.”! The death penalty or close confinement of the roosters is to be carried out not later than June 8. The department has even adopted a slogan for the week. Itis: ‘ Death to the Rooster.” W. Theodore Wittman, expert poul- tryman of the department, is back of the campaignwhich has been waged in some of the western states with profit, The official statement, fixing the time for the slaughter of the roosters, says : ‘ Exhaustive experiments have proven that hens without males lay more egge, are better contented and tamer, and are in better plumage and live longer. Aside from the general improvement of the fowle, the egus produced are non-fertile and command the highest prices in the big markets, Expert poultrymen declare that millions of dollars will be saved by Penney/vania farmers and poultrymen if the war on the rooster is effectively waged during the week of May 29, “ Experiments prove that about all chicks hatched after June 1 are a lose sooner or later to the owner and that males kept over the year are generally poor breeders as compared with strong, vigorous cockerels. There are prob- ably 600,000 to 800,000 roosters running on farms in Pennsylvania right now sod with what are in the villages, towns and cities the total may reach 1,000,000 roosters. Three-fourths of Continued at foot of next columb, ) OX ROAST, JULY 4TH, Odd Fellows Preparing for a Big Day st Qentre Hall Parade and Athletie Con- tests, Orphans; e Band to Be Hore, The zeal and energy the various committees on the I. O. O, F. celebra- tion are displaying would lead one to believe that the big time was only about a week distant instead of almost six. However, July 4th will come before you are aware of it, and if you have made arrangements to be out of town that day you will surely mise some big doing’ in the old home town for the local lodge of Odd Fellows ie going to epring an innovation in the way of celabrations, A big ox roast has been planned and centering about this will be a day of amusements and merry-making, The animal which is to furnish the piece de resistance for dinner and supper on Grange Park has already been selected and on = nearby farm is being fattened for the slaughter. You needn’t have visions of tough steak for old animals were strictly tabooed by the committee in selecting the subject for the big roast. Plenty of chop is part of the daily ra- tion of the young beast and no animal was ever sold to a butcher in finer con- dition than this one will be, A big parade with & fantastic feature will open the program in the morning and there will be something doing every minute thereafter throughout the entire day in the way of athletic contests. In every instance a worth- while prize will be awarded the win- ner. A baseball game will be played in the afternoon, A feature that was highly appreciat- ed during last yesr’s celebration was the appearance of the Orphanage band from Bunbury. Arrangements have been made to have these gentlemanly little fellows here again. Outside of their excellent music they are liked because of their 100 per cent, deport- ment and their short stay in this town Inst year was a treat to every resident. Plans have been made to have them here for the evening of the third of July when the Odd Fellows will open the celebration with a festival, ft ss Writes from California. C. W. Btahl, Es«q., a former resident of Potters Milis, and now a prominent lawyer in Los Angeles, Californis, writes the Reporter these few interest- Ing lioes in remitting for subscription: “I assure you that while I have been away from Peunsyivanias since 1877, that I enjoy the Reporter very much on its weekly mission of home news, As tnetime has been so long there are very few that I communicate with so that through your paper I keep posted as to the few that are liviog in the old home that I remem- ber. I certainly appreciate the Potters Mills items as that is where I spent my boyhood days. With best wishes and kindest regards to you and sll my Pennsylvania friends, I remaim, Yours very truly, C. W. Fran. Los Angeles, Cal., May 13, 1916.” ——— IAA A—————— Alnifa Fields Ruined, The alfalfa fielde, b. th large and smal’, in Penns Valley, have been ruined. Fearing thatsome pest might have made ita appearance, stalks and roots of alfalfa from the writer's flelds were sent to Pennsylvania State Col- lege, and from there they were for- warded to Prof, Eddy, an expert on insecte, who reports that the plants had died from a combination of causes, aod that while a few insects in the latva stage were present, they were not of a harmful species. The destruc- tion is evidently largely due to freez- ing after the plants had taken on new life in January and later, EE ———— I A A ——————— Examination for scholarsnip, The examination for the McAllister freshman scholarship in the Pennsyl- vania Btate College will be given ander the direction of the college on June 15th and 16th and will embrace English composition and classics, American history, algebra and plane geometry. The examination will be at State College. I ——— I AP ——————— Festival at Boslaburg, The Woman's Civie Club, of Boale- burg, will hold a festival on Memorial Day for the benefit of the local fire company. A lunch will be served from four o'clock on, A — lee Uream at Meise’, Oolyer. G. R. Melee, at Colyer, will have ice cream for sale every Haturday evening hereafter. Also, all kinds of fruit, (Continued from previous eolumn.) these male chickens we can easily and profitably do without and it is the earnest desire of those interested in the poultry industry of this Biate to have all poultry raisers of this state either kill off or pen up their roosters not later than the lsst week in May. Consumers of eggs can help in this movement by insisting that they want non-fertile eggs and such eggs only.” “THE BIRTH OF 4 NATION" Most Marvelous sod fpectaculsr Motion Floture Extant to Exhibit at Garmasn's Opera House, Bellefonte, Next Week, Joseph Henabery, the actor who por- trays President Lincoln in D. W. Griffith’s historical spectacle, ‘The Birth of a Nation," was selected from twenty playera who were coached and prepared for the part before the choice was made, Mr, Lincoln's appearance and manncrisme were carefully coun- terfeited, even to the small, but inter- esting, detall of the President reaching back for his shaw! just a few minutes before Wilkea Booth attacked him. It wag mn spring day in Washington, April 14, 1865, but a late frost had set in that night and it was raw and cold, Mr. Lincoln felt the chill, and drew the shawl around him, The first scene in ** The Birth of a Nation" showing the War President is of Lincoln's signing the call for 75,- 000 volunteers. Around him are his Cabipet heads and private secretaries, Lincoln fully realized the momentous character of the act that summoned Federal troops to subdue the indivi- dual sovereignty of rebellious Btates, After the deed was done and the at- tending company departed, he slowly buried his face in hands if In prayer, Another view of Lincoln’s character Ia exhibited in granting A pardon. As this scene opene, the gorgeously uniformed diplomatic re. presentatives are being received by the President, They then depart and he turns to a plain middle-aged woman dressed In sombre black who had been awaiting a hearing. tries to kneel to him, but he gently raises her up and talks to her, reads her petition and signs the paper granting to her the life of her son, After the Appomattox surrender the Leader of Congress calla with a pro- posal to deal harshly with for its rebellion. * I shall as if they had never Lincoln's gentle gnawer. or three days later, comes ewful tradiedy in Ford's Washing- ton, when Bouthern hopes of clemency are blasted by the Booth’s manise act, That great terrible #soane ia reproduced minutest histories] detail. bery, the portrayer of the great Presi- dent, Las been widely for the sincerity, dignity and pathos of his characterization, At Garman's Opera foute, May 31 and June 1st, and night, Prices, 50, 75, $1.00 and $1.50. — tn . Boss Vox Deed, his as his of Hhe 3 » the Moulh treat awey!’ them been In Ther, two the heatre, GBROnsEIin and in the play to the M r. Hens commended Belle. afternoon House, George B., Cox, former political leader and boss of Ohio, died at at his home pear Clifton, a suburb of Cincin- nat!, Hsturdsy morning. Cox suffer- ed a stroke of apoplexy late in Febru. ary and a few weeks ago pneumonia developed, hastening his end, He waa born in Cinclonati in 1853, and was the last of the great polities] bosses, Mir. Cox bimsel! scknowl edged the title. From bootblack and newaboy he rose to the highest politi cal place in Ohlo, and died & million aire. He was forced to leave school at an early age and support his mother. After he had accumulaied a thousand dollars he went into the saloon busi- ness and rose to the highest place in the politics of Ohio. Ntudents Who Earn to Learn, Four handred students at the Peon- sylvania Siate College heave earned more than $4,600 to help psy ‘or their education during. the present college year, according to the report of W, H, Weigel, secretary of the student em- ployment bureau, This is an increase of a thousand dollars over the earnings of the student workers inet year, It is estimated that double this amount will be received by the students for their work this summer. Hundreds of them are accepting employment with industrial plante, munition fac- tories and steel mills, 4 One-third of the students of the col lege are earning their own way and the report shows that the employment bureau alded scores of worthy students to positions in the town where they received board and room worth $200 for their services. For odd jobs, such as house cleaning, table waiting, garden digging, furnace attendance and lawn mowing, the students are paid 20 cents an hour. Many other students are typists and stenographers while others tutor their leas advanced college mates. A i J ——— Just look over the dark corners again and see that there is nothing there that ought to be hauled to the eink. SA Mn. Garden truck 's growing rapidly. It is long too Iate to be the first to se cure onions and lettuce from the new beds. To-day ( Thursday ) is Good Roads MEMORIAL DAY BERVIUES, Hours for Holding Services Throughout the Valley in Houvor of Nation's Heroes, The Epeakers, Centre Hall, 6 o'clock p. m.—Par- ade consisting of various Bundsy- &choole, I. O. O. F. and K, G. E. members, and Our Boys band, of Milesburg, will leave Grange Hall at 5:30 o'clock and march to cemetery. Col. J. L. Bpsngler will be the orator. Bpring Mills, 6 o'clock p. m.—Rev. W. H. Williams will deliver the ad- dress in the Presbyterian church. Farmers Mille, 9:30 o'clock s. m.— Rev, Luther Miller will speak in the Union church. Georges Valley, 2:80 o'clock, p. m,— Rev. D. 8B. Kurtz will speak in the Cross church. Bprucetown, 1:80 o'clock p. m.—Rev. W. H. Willisms will speak. Boalsburg, 6 o'clock p. m.—Rev. G. L. Courtney will make the address. Madisonburg, 9 o'clock 8. m.—Col, J. L. Bpangler will be the orator. Rebersburg, 10 o'clock a. m.—In wonnection with the decoration at this place, a monument to the memory of George Christopher Bpangler, a Revo- lutionary soldier, will be unveiled by the grandchildren. Col, J. L. Spang- ler will be the orator on this occasion. The Asropsburg band will furnish music, Millheim, charge of Bons No. 110, Aarousburg, 6 o'ciock.—~Rev. W. H. Williams will be the orator. Pine Hall-6 o'clock p. m. The Sunday-echools will take part in the exercises, Rev, Mr, Horn will deliver the address. m.—In Camp o'clock of ~ p. Veterans, Pine Grove Mille—2 o'clock p. m. The civic organizations and Bunday- schools will attend : also the Citizens band. Rev. McRiley will be the orator of the day. A ———— New vorporstion Formed In Bellefonte The Co-operative Investment Com- pany of Pepnsylvanis js the name of a new corporation for which a charter was granted last week, The new con- cern aime to be of great benefit to Cen- tre county farmers in furnishiog a mediom through which they may dis- pose of any sgnount of produce, re- celving the highest onsh price, The corporation is oapitalized at £100,000 ana much of the stock has al- ready been subscribed for, Centre county people are given first choice in purchasing the stock. At a meeting held in Bellefoute on Monday the fol- Inwipg officers were elected : Walter Coben, president; George Beezer, vice president ; G. Oscar Gray, secretary- treasurer. The directors are Ellis L. Oivie, Col. H. 8B, Taylor, Clayton Brown and Laird Curtip, all of Belle- fonte, The company has an option on one of the best stores in Bellefonte, the ob- ject being to own and operate its own mercantile establishment in Belle fonte. In the course of time it is planued to open small industries in Bellefonte, such as furniture factories, ele, giving employment to 8 number of persons, EE —— — —————— BOMBERGER 1S QONVIOTED, Sharper Whe Clrenlated Among Penns Val. ley Farmers Last Winter is Convicted for False Fretonge In Westmoreland County. Westmoreland county farmers have been victimized by H. B. Bomberger, of Palmyrs, who claimed to represent the Penpsylvania “ State Osttleman’s Protective Association,’ but was haul ed before the court and convicted of false pretense. Testimony produced proved that no such an association existed as the swindler represented himeelf to be an agent for, He did a thriving business as long as it lasted, This is the same individusl whe operated among Penns Valley farmers Inst winter. He was a member of the Palmyra hunting club which was en- camped at John Venrick's, above Cole yer, and made it his business to come back and circulate among farmers on the south side shortly after the close of deer sesson. He had little difficulty in persuading farmers to sign up and hand over ten spote, and it is a fagt that a few with whom he had become well scquainted he placed on his list grotie, stating that because of thelr good fellowship he would pay the fee for membership in the pseudo-associa- tion, This swindler is another warning to farmers that they ought to deal cautiously with strangers, and the old plan of '* sleeping over” the contract before signing it will work to a great advantage in many oases. The sharp. ers well know that at this time the farmers have good bank accounts, and that thelr obhecks are not Give the stranger the go-by, unless he [comes with a proposition that he ls pot afraid to discuss in public and pres sent evidence and documents that can- not be disputed, 1916. HAYES sUHENCK BENTENOED, Former Justice of Howsrd Must Serve Two Years or More lu Penitentiary for Boun- ty Fraads Also Pays Cost of Prosecu- tion, Becond week of court convened on Monday morning. Hayes Behenck, who bad nine bills of indictment for bounty frauds hanging over him sinee February sessions of court and late on Wednesday afternoon plead gulity thereto, and withdrew the motion for a new trial In the one in which he was convicted at February sessions of court, was called for sentence, and was sentenced to psy the costs of prosecu- tion, one dollar fine, and to the peni- tentiary for not less than two years por more than three years, The trial list was then gone over and the following cases disposed of :— Bamuel Grant Dale vse Moshannon Coal company, sa corporation, in an action trespass; continued under terms of settlement, Mary E. Krebs ve. Ellis XL. Miller, executor of &. Wood Miller, deceased, mortgagor with notice to E, L. Miller, and Albert Eves occupant. Verdict for the plaintiff for $1663.00, rlected Principal of Danbury (Oona. )%chools Prof. John 8B, Hosterman, youngest son of Dr. G. W. Hosterman, of this place, was last week elected principal of the High school at Danbury, Con- necticut, at a salary to begin at $2000 per year, The Danbury Evening News, in making comment on his election, had this to say : Concerning Mr. Hosterman’s quali- fications Buperintendent Borst made the following report : “He is thirty-three years of age, married, and a graduate of Franklin and Marshall college in 1904 with a de- gree of A. B. Hetook his A. M. de gree from Teacher's College, Columbia university in 1910 and he has spent all of the past years as a graduate student in Columbia, working for his Ph, D. degree. A great deal of his graduate work in Columbia has been along the line of pedagogy and I consider him very well trained indeed for the posi- tion, ““ He has had eleven years of experi- ence, having been principal of the Hublersburg High school, assistant principal of the Bellefonte High school, atid principal of the Philips- burg High school. He then went to the position of supervising principal of the schools at Montrose where he re- mained for eight years. He resigned from this position last epring to do = year's graduate work in Columbia.” Motor Oars Becvived on L&T, RB. BK. W. V. Betts, supervisor of the Lew- isburg & Tyrone R. R., last week re- ceived five motor cars to supplant the old band cars used by section crews along his road. The gasoline cars are capable of making bigh speed, and are powerful enough to pull heavy loads of material used in construction work. The local crew, of which A. B. Krebs is foreman, expects to receive one of these care. This section bas possibly the hardest grade on the road and to pump bome the old hand car after a day's hard work at either ex- treme of the section, was no child's play. The motor car can come none burg Reformed charge, action was taken to have Rev. A. G. Btaufter re- consider his resignation. There was a unanimous request for him to do so. Sometime ago he sccepted a call to Hawthorne, which he has pow re- called. Owing to impaired health the Rebersburg people have asked him to take a vacation and when his health will permit to become their pastor again, Benlor Student at State ” Dies, William Leroy Kester, a senior at Pennsylvania State College, died Fri. day night after a short illness from ty- phoid fever, at the Pi Kappa Alpha Hunters’ Licenses to Unrry Laws, The State Game commission will begin the issuing of the new and to : i : 7 Eo i TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, FROM ALL PARTS Lewistown wants a Y. M. UC. A. building. John D. Meyer, of Altoons, was home over Bunday. William Bhoop, of Bellefonte, spent Bundsy with his father, Hamuel Bhoop. Vietor R. Jones delivers] an excel lent sermon in the Reformed church on Bunday evening. Alfred Crawford was home on sa short vacation from the Central Htate Normal Behool, Lock Haven. Roy White, who is employed in the manufacture of war shells, at Lewls- town, was in town over Bunday. Next week is ‘ Rooster Week.” The Department of Agriculture recom- mends the axe or close confinement for the bird st that time, Mre, T. W. Bimkine, who for the past few monthe was with relatives at Bloomsburg and Philadelpnis, re- turned to the Presbyterian Manse on Thuredsy. A full house greeted Centre Hall's first “ moovie " show, Saturday night, Mr. Jury will not show pictures again until Baturdsy night and then three times a week thereafter. More than seventy people were fed at the Oid Fort hotel at dinner on Sunday. All were tourists from vari ous parte of the state and one suto carried a New York state licenses tag. The home of Mr. and Mre, Elmer Hettinger, near Penns Cave station, was brightened recently by tue visit of the stork which left a ten-pound baby girl at that home. It is the fourth child in the family. Claude E. Wert, of near Tusseyville, is quite proud over the fact that he has a nice lot of Berkshire hoge that appeal to farmers who prefer that breed of hoge. He is giving hog breed- ing more or less attention. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. Moore at- tended the sessions of the Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly, I. O. 0. F., held at Conneaut Lake, Crawford county, lsst week. More than nine hundred lodges were represented by delegation, Mre. Byron Garis, Mre. John Kreamer, John and William Garis motored to Burnham on Bunday where they visited the former's daughter, Mrs. John Mowery, who has been ill with sppendicitie. Her condition ie somewhat improved. The town of Milroy will have elec tric light in sbout six weeks. The Penn Central company, of Altoons, secured the contract for the service within the past week. The line will be built from Naginay, about a mile and a half distant, where the company suppiies current for the Cambria Steel Company, ¥ uch of the corn crop was planted since last Friday. An occasional farmer in this section had planted be- fore that date, but planting was not generally begun until the latter part of Inst wees, at which time the ground was in fine condition although the temperature was rather low for good corn weather, Miss Myrtie M. Miller, solicitor for the Bellefonte hospital, on Batuarday canvassed the business places in thie town for advertising space in a cook book which is to be published for the benefit of the Bellefonte hospital in equipping the institution with an X-ray spparatue. The space in the book sold for twenty dollars a page and the advertising for most business places in the valley will occupy » quarter nage. Tne funeral of J. C. McCloskey, whose death ss announced in this paper issi week occurred in Logan, Utab, on Tuesday, took place in Mill- heim, the home of his wife, who was Mies Lida Musser, on Monday morn- ing. The funeral was in charge of the Masonic order and was attended by the following from this place : Mesars, Hon. Leonard Rhone, Julian A. Fleming. Dr. G. W. Hosterman, J. H. Weber, D. J. Meyer, D. A. Boozer, W. C. Booger and Edward Durst. Fifty-seven creameries in Peunayl vania entered the first of seven eduos- tional creamery-butter