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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
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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.”
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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<scoring contests
belles s==2acted by the department of
dairy husbandry at the Pennsylvania
State College. The first contest was
held April 35. A large per cent of the
lower scoring bulter was due to the
fact that the creamerios were
too much old, stale, sour cream. Even
though the buttermakers use the latest
and most improved methods in manu-
facturing butter, it is impossible to se-
cure high-scoring butter with a good,
clean, delioate flavor from cream that
is old and stale. In a number of osses
the delioate flavor of the butter was
spolied by too high » of
salt. The highest score for the first
contest was ninety-five per cent,