VOL. LX ir . A LETTER FROM ILLINOIS, J. M, Buiffler Writes Intirestingly of Urop vonditions in kis State, Makes Uomment on ‘ Reporter's” Qounocil Article, Editor Reporter ; Burely we do not wish to merit the scathing arraignment recently dish- ed out to certain of your borough aldermen for dereliction of duty, ex- ceeding authority or the tolerance of a wild species of graft to taint the morals of an otherwise clean and peaceful community, We earnestly hope you may have succeeded in nip- ping this vile contagion common to larger municipsa ities, in the bud, be- cause without curb or hindrance it 8oon becomes a scourge, or epidemic, harder to control than small-pox or infantile paraly: ie, The writer, in the recent visits to Centre county, was compelled to ac- knowledge the general friendliness and hoepltality of the people of Lentre Hall, but does not hesitate to au- nounce that quite a few, not excluding the editor, are indebted to him to the extent of a long personal letter, Just now we are sweltering in torrid heat, day after uay, witn no relief in sight. Rair, too, 18 needed for mead- ows and the late potato crop. The early crop blighted and the yield is not what was expected earlier in the season. Potatoes retail at $1.00 per bushel. This has been a rather freaky year so far—cold and a superabuod- ance of moisture up until July ls when Lhe weather man put the oppo- site extreme into practice here, We are ;eminded by people who retain re cords of the weather of the year 1516 that suow and ice were in evidence iu the New Eugland States In July anc August of that year. Last year the ralu gauge showed a rain fall of nearly 8iX feel ere during which time there Were no idesl coro weather day. Our corn crope wae the nearest a fali- ure iu tue bistory of this county, Five stock was sold off by many ano Olhers bad Lo lmuport cornu from other locsliiies to brid.e over a enor age, Seed corn was al 8 premium sod sola at from three Lo siX dollars per Lushel, Corn on good lauds and with skilful handling prowises 8 bumper yieia this sumo. It is now six feet in heigut aud tasseling. Corn om the low lauds is rather backward ana Weedy, on account of the frequent rains prior to July 1st. ihe hay crop is immerse and was put up in ides: shape In the hot suushiue. Small graine will yield very bheaviy. Winter whea, rye sud barley are Dearly all lu shock snd will soon put the ihresher on the Lum. Oats, especialiy Inte seeding, will be Ig iu Quality. ‘Tunis crop ls uearly resdy to harvest, Tue second cutting of sifsifa is lu cock. Bown cutl.ugs were Very beavy. New Lay sells for $10.00 per ton; whieal, 31.00 per busies; ov ie, 35s per LUsuel ; Lasiey, 60. pet busue, The Lut crop is Hghl—u0 cherries oi grapes. A light ciop of strawberries, Inspberrice sud apples. Lhe tabie croup is abuudaut, Tue cry ior 1ntervention in Mexico has sboul euvsided hore sug Lhe Jiugoes sLd cowarus who triea so bara bo sinrt something 10 pollute our si- mosphere, have Lak: D 0 joy-ridivg oi Are ou a Vacation at the lakes. Very, very lew applied at our recruiting station when the call to muster 10 (he rauks was exieuaged, Many of us contemplate with Supreme norior Lhe account of the foolish, ciuel, barvarous sisug hter of the European war, as it has beeu offered to us th ough the press for about two years, It is an old saw thal “every ill, wind blows some goou.” Human inventive genius seemiugy has uo limitations when the war ora, Mare, is at the throttle, In spite of this huge weate of life and treasure ; in spite of commercial interruption and the deep-seated hatred engeuderea ANODE ualions and races by mo, - arcoe, jiugoes and grafters ( who by the way sie never 10 be found on the firipg line ) ; in spite of all this chaos resultant of war, we must conce © that during thie struggle numerous commercial devices have been pri fected tit will prove servicesbie 1s times of peace. Perhaps the ‘“ Deutecbisno,” the submersible merchant ship that recently made the Voyage ncross the Atlsutic in sixteen days, diviug like a duck wien dauge: Was luminent, aud deliver ite cargo of drugs aud chemicale, worth $1,000,000, in Baltimore, 18 vue of tne Intent wonders or iuveutious. Just now very many of us can lmagive what a distinct benefit the commerce of » fleet of submarines like tuis “diving Dutchman ”’ would be to this country, War certainly gave Inspiration for this novel means of commerce from a country bedged on every side with bristling fortifications of sn enemy, Lest I should burden your readers with too long a letter the writer asks pardon for the various digressione, J. M. r TIFFLER, Freeport, Lilinols, July 22, luis, Vege His “ Hardships ” at the Mexioan Border Compared With Those of Mother's Sons in Blooay Earope, Mre., Henry Smith of Winamae, Ind., wrote a letter to President Wil- son complaining of the hardships her son was compelled to undergo as a member of the National Guard on duty in Texas, The President, in hia reply, has ex- plained to her that the National Guard is at the border * not for the purpose of dr'l], but for the purpose of protect- ing the countrv,” and that he *‘can- not believe that the men of the National Guard would wish to be ex- cused from it, or would lose heart be- cause of the discomforts and incon- veniénce of the service,” If Mrs, Henry Bmith were a wise woman she would not be writing to the President bewsiling the trifling bardships to which her son is obliged to submit as 8 member of the Naticnal Guard, 8ne would be down ou her knees thanking God that the President is exerting every honorable effort to bring about a peaceful solu- tion of the difficulties with M- xico, and that her boy is not already out on the firing line with the boys of 400,- 000 other American motu ers, The hardships to which the Nation- al Guard ls subjected on the Texas frontier are about ¢qual to the hard- ships of an ordinarily strenuous vsca- tion in the Maine or the Minpesots woods ; but war is serious business. When Mrs, Henry Bmith thinks about the petty inconveniences to which her son is subjected, let her think also of the millions of boys In Europe who are in the trenches snd who are dying daily by the thousand in the widst of the most ghastly war- fare known to human history, Let ber toink of the boys lylog on the fields with arms blown off, or legs blown ofl, or faces blown off, perishing in horrible agony for the lack of medi cal assistance which cannot reach tem, Let ber think of the millions of boys in Europe who after this war ls over will be crippled for life or with health shatlered doomed to eke out a wretch- ed «Xistence as hopeless invalide, J.et her think of the millions oi mothers who are not worrying be- Cause their boys have to eat army rations, but who are worried day snd night lest they will never see their boys again alive, Let her try to visualize the hourly terrors of 8 war in which 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 men bave airesdy been kill vd or wounded—most of them bo @ like her boy, ben let her remember thst except for the stat smavship of Woodrow Wilson the body of her own sou wight be lying to-day in an unmarked grave iu Fiauders or Frauce, Mire, Heury Bmith, with true materual soliciiud. , uaturally thioks it is 8 greal uueacce that her boy shiouid have to swelter in the heat of » leXas summer sud live off coarse food, aud 80 It Is, but the tr ubles of her sou are very swasll lu comparison with they would be if the Uuitea Sistes Lad undertaken stmed inter veutiou in Mexico, Her own troubles, are very swall io o mplrison witu what they would be if she were Watching the newspapers every day for the Lists of dead and wounded iu the fighting. Fbere mie millions of Mrs. Heory Smiths In tule country with boys who would be sut ject to military duty it the Uniteo Biates went to war. When they are disposed to find feult with the policies uf the President, let them devote a iittle prayerful cousiderstion to the millions of Ms. Heury Smiths in Earope whose boys are now only memories, But for President Wilson these American mothers would be drinklug the bitter dregs of that same cup, What too, AR AA AAA, Jonesstinbel, Wedoe day moruing st the home of the bride’s parents in Lancaster, Rev. Victor H. Jones and Miss Florence Babel were uuited in marriage by the groom's Isther, Kev. R. R. Jonee, of Centre Hall, Ibe courtship whieh ¢ lminated so happily began when the groom was a student in Frankiio sua Marsoall College. After a short boueymoon the couple will begin bousekeepliog in the Keformed parson- sge at Catawisea which is ull renay fur- uished, AA MAP ————— Milroy Feopie Motor wo Centre Uo, Oo sunday of last week J. 0, Mo Ulenahav, the auto man of Potters Mille, loaded up his Paige car with a xtoup of Milroy young foiks and took them on a spin Lo lnteresting points In Centre county, including the Penn- sylvania Biste Uollege, tue peniten~ tinty grounds, Pleasant Gap flash hatchery and winding up with a zrsnd rapper at the Old Fort hotel. The fol lowing were in the party: Misses Sylvie Fultz, Me.va Gearhart, Grace Duuu, Viugiuis Layl r, Attala Gesr- bar, Myrue Peuepscker, Mabe: Biron, snd Albert Brook, James J, Gramiey Writes, Editors of the Reporter; The past two weeks we have had a stretch of extremely hot weather, the thermometer registering from 90 to 96 In the shade. In all that heated period there was only a sprinkle of rain, It may be seen though that the weather was ideal for bay making, The corn has made remarkable growth, & good refreshing rain just before this great heat came on, working wonders. It was the longest stretch of hot weather that I have experienced in my seventy-four years, I did all the mowing for my son Joe for forty-eight loads of hay. I pur- chased an umbrells and when the sun's rays became too great for me I opened it up and under its shade work~ ed the tedder and hay rake, My son Ellis helped us one day and out- side of this we did practically all the work ourselves. The latter felt un- easy about my doing such hard work and advised me to make a visit among my friends in the state, Bo I went to his home and taking his horse and buggy drove to Dakota, (Ill.) and there saw Thomas Bhafler and George Smith, the banker, formerly from Penn Hall, as well as other Centre county folke. I next went to Orange- ville and 100ked up my friend, Bruce Goodhart, his good wife and their charming daughter. They were busy making bay, but had only four loads to flolsh up. Mr, Goodhart hse bought an old farm a short distance away. There is a big brick house, baving five rooms above and five be- low ; there sre more cupboards and closets in this house than in any I ever saw, Thereisa big bank barn, very similar to the ones found in Pennsylvanis. The land is rolling bat very fertile—very much like the good farms in Brush Valley. I remained with the Goodhart family over night and on Bundsy morning at five o'- clock went with my host to take a look al the horses and colts io pasture, After the milking was done we made a (rip to the creamery in Oravgeville, His last milk check was $150.00, He is a good farmer and his crops sre fine, I found more Penpsylvania people in the city of Orangeville than in any western city I bave visited. I next drove to Cedarville aud visited the George Wert family. Mrs. Wert in- formed me that her father, George Corman, brother of A. N. Corman, of Centre county, was badly ivjured by being pitched off the reaper seat, bis right leg being teld in the lever which is Ueed to lower the guarde. His horses stopped at his call, but backed until one big wheel nad passed over bis hand. By s superbuman effort he threw himself upw.rd until he caught bold of the seat and then rsiscd hig self up, flually releasing his foot which was firmly beld io the lever, The fleshy part of his leg below the knee received a bad wound. He Is now walking with cruiches, Bo far I have been able to determine from my visite, this year will show the biggest: hay crop iu the pest four years, Hye flelds shocked well with the txceplion of a few flelds which were sowed broadcast, Bearley snd oats also stiocking well, Altogether it Jooks like the biggest crops all sround since I came 10 Illinois. This leaves my boys and myself well, hoping it finds you and the read- ers of your papers the same, JAMES J, GRAMLEY. Freeport, I'L, July 24, 1916, To Delinguent Subscribers. Reporter readers who are a year or more in arrears on subscription should remit at once. With paper, ink, roll- ers and other material steadily advanc- ing we are obliged 10 pay from finy to one hundred per cent. more on these articles than a few months ago. And these bills must be met monthly. There are many subscribers, happily, to whom this notice need give no anxiety, but there are others who are in the habit of allowing their sub- scription to drag over the limit of ope yea: allowed us by the postoffice de- partment, Look at your label, you cansee at a glance how far you are back. There should bea "6" or “77 on your tab, Is there? Let this be a final request, please, The Governor and scoretary of Agriculture to be lere on Farm lospection Tour, A farm inspection tour, under direo- tion of tre Biste Department of Agri. culture, wiil include a stop at Centre Hall on Tuesday of the week of the Encampment and Fair. The Govern or and Secretary of Agrieullure Charles E. Pattop, together with one hundred interested parties, will tour the state In autos and make addresses in many towne, Aged Usuple Marry John B. Harnden, sged seventy- three, and Mre. Louise Gray, sixty-six, both of Altoons, were married in that city Thureday afternoon. The groom is a native of Centre county. Old Veteran Gone, Thursday morning of last week, at 12:20 o'clock, death sum uwoned Will- ism Elliott Snyder, one of Potter townehip’s aged citizens and Civil war veterans, He psesed away at the home of his daughter, Mre. James Osman, at Linden Hall, with whom he had spent the preceding ten days. It was bis intention to return to his home near Centre Hall on Baturday. For the past four weeks he had been very feeble, but had not been required to take his bed, Mr. Bnyder was the last surviving gon of John Adam and Phoebe igert Spyder and was born near New Berlin, Boyder county, eighty-two years ago. In 1859 he removed to Centre county and has lived in and about Potters Mills and near Centre Hall ever since. In 1864 he enlisted #8 8 member of Co. D, 208th Pennsyl- vanis Volunteers, and served to the end of the Civil war, receiving an honorable discharge, At Petersburg he received a wound but not a serious one, In 1860 he married Sarah A, Bpicher, daughter of Michael = picher, who sur- vives him with five children, four having psesed away. The remaining four daughters and son are: Mrs. James Osman, of Linden Hall: Mre, Anps B, Bhuok, of Spring Mille : W. H. Boyder, of near Centre Hall ; Mrs. Martha J. Markle, of Axemann, and Mre, Walter Erdley, of Miiton. Two balf sisters also remsain—Mre, Phoene Basserman, of Tiffin, Ohio, and Mrs Abbie Guisewite, of Oil City, Twen- ty-nine grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren also survive, The funeral services were held SBun- day morning at the house and burial made in the Centre Hall cemetery, Rev. F. H, Foss of the United Evan- geiieal church officiating. a———— 4% Go 10 Atlantie vity from Here. The thought of getting mixed up with the sharks had po fear for the Sunday excursionists to Atlantic City sod more than 400 took passage from Bellefonte to Coburn. were rap, the first with leaving twenty minutes before schedule time and the second following a half biour ister, The following number of tickets were sold slong part of the local branch: Bellefonte, 287: Le- mont, 45; Centre Hall, 42; Bpring Mille, 14; Coburn, 380. A total of £,800 people from Bellefonte, Sunbury, Willismeport and other pointe, as well #8 from Lewistown and Altoons, were conveyed to the playground of America by the Pennsy. Two trains were sent fromm Lewistown and three from points north of Harnisburg, in- cluding Bellefonte and W liliamsport, From the sale of the excursion tickets the Penney received $8,400 and with the deduction of switcolug and other charges, the event will net the company sbout $5,000, I'be train hotue reached Centre Hall al 1:45 Monday morning. —————————— Ford car Toppies into Creek, On their way home from Bellefonte Wednesday night of lsat week, Calvin Lonts and four other men, all of Pless- sont Gap, went down over 8 small em- bankment in Mr. Lontz’s Ford car and were spilled into the creek at a point a mile oelow Plessant Gap. [t was about the midnight hour and » heavy fog could not be plerced by the lights of the Ford, causing Mr, Loniz to leave the road, The car wae pot golog fast and very gracefully turned over on its side into the creek. The occupants received a good wetting and the top of the car was badly damaged. Irvin Dreese, of Lemont, played the rescue act with his big car when he charced to pase by a short time after the accident, —————— A ————— Bad Freight W.ock at Martha, One of the worst freight wrecks in the bistory of Tyrone division took plsce at Martha station Buoday after- noon when a broken axle caused a pile up of twenty-five cars loaded with coal, The broken axle occurred in the front part of the train, Fortunate- ly no one was hurt. The track was torn up for a distance of about 600 f. et, The Williamsport division derrick and wreck crew sesisted in clearing up the debrie, —— AA A ——— Juiy's Heat Record, July's thirty-one days showed sn average temperature of 87 degrees, There were eight days when mereuty stood at 90 or over, the highest point reached being 98 degrees, on the Sib. Twenty days the 80's had it, while only on three days did the mercury contract into the 70%. Almost tbree inches of rain fell dur- ing the month, I ——— ——— Will Preach Harvest Mome Service, Rev. Walter H. Traub, the Lutheran minister at State College, will deliver the Harvest Home sermon in the auditorium on Grange Park on the sunday of the Evoampment and Fair, Two sections nive cosches, which will be September 10th. DEATHS, Mre. Kathryn Grossman, wife of Ira Grorsman, died at her home in Potters Mills Bunday afternoon at four o'clock from the effects of a paralytic stroke tustained four hours previous, For two weeks or more ber health was not of the best. Funeral services were held on Wednesday morning at her late home and burial made at Tuesey- ville, her pastor, Rev. D. RB. Kurtz, officiating, Decensed was Kathryn Bweeney, a daughter of John and Mary Bweeney, and was born at Sprucetown sixty- Beven years ago. Besides her husband one daughter, Mrs, E. Clayton Wag- ver, of Centre Hall, survives, as do one brother and two sisters, pamely, William Sweeney, of Georges Valley, Mre, Byron Garis, of Centre Hall, and Mies Julia Bweeney, of State College. ————— Keene, of who last John Michigan, several Edwardsbarg, Summer spent months in Centre county visiting his sisters, Mrs. John H. Horner, at Tuseeyville, and Mrs. George Bhook, at Penn Hall, died one day last week, sccording to a letter received by the former lady from her brother in the same Michigan city, He was found dead in bed. His age was about sixty-seven yeare. Mr. Keene was a npative of Colyer aod went west many years ago, being engaged in the carpenter trade. His vigit bere last summer was the first in Iwenty-three years. He was married for the second time shortly after his return home last summer. Besides his wife two sisters and a brother survive. From Taylor, North Dakots, comes the snnouncement of the desth of Charles M. Royer, son of W. L. Royer, who a year ago visited his sister, Mre, H. C. Bhirk, in this place. The young man, aged thirty-three yeare, was ill but two daye, his desth resuiting Wednesday, July 1¥ih, from the rupture of a blood vessel in the bead, He had not been In good beaith for some time, baving been subject to faiuting epelie. His wife aud two children are left to mourn his death. The was shipped to Orangeville, lilinois, the i irth place of the decessed, where Interment took pisce Friday. body Mre. J. 5, Waite, of Lock Haven, died at ber mother’s howe in Lemont n Friday evening of a com plioation of diseases. Nhe is survived Oy ber hue band and three GsUghiters, Helen, Anpa snd Marie, of Lock Haven, and one son, Dr. J. H, Waite, of Boston. she is also survived by her motber, Mire. Jacob Bottorf, of Lemon. : three sisters, Mire. M. Euzav-th Olewine of Bellefoute, Miss Kila Bottorf, of Le- aire. BR. R. Reev, of Cuam- paigo, lil, and two brothers, P. Hall Botwr!, of Lemont, and Willis M. Bouwr!, of Beudeloute, Fuueral services were private and were conducted from the Bottor! home Mouday moruing. ct enemas Littie irl vurned 10 Lesth, Luella Musser, the four-year-old dsughter of Mr. and Mre. Howara Musser, of State College, was burnea #0 budiy Iast lbhured y evening that she died a few hours afierwarde. Tue mother was away from home and iu company with the father and another sister little Luella went to a store to make purchaser. she slipped away and golug home took a chair wo resch the cupboard where she gained the match box. Bhe then went out on the back poich and lighted paper. Her clothing caught fire and burned wo rapidiy that when a neighbor who beard her screams resched her the little tot’s flesh was burned so badly that she died shortly afier, The little girl was buried Saturday afternoon in the Piue Hall cemetery, The parente, a brother and a sister survive, nont ; Discouraged Spinster Ends Lite By Burning, Miss Mollie Hass, a middle-aged spinster of Roopsuurg, a small town a few miles west of Bellefonte, ended ber life Friday afternoon by going into the kitchen of ber home, saturst- ‘ng ber clothing with oil, applying a lighted match snd then rupniog ous on the porch and burning to desth in sight 0: the nelghbore. Nhe was dead before any one could reach her, Mies Hans' fatner at one time owned and operated a brewery . t Roopsburg aud was well to do. When refused a licence he died from worriment and bis estate soon dwindled away, until his daughter was in want. I A —— Fise Crops in North Lakota, W. L. Royer, of Tayior, North Dakots, in writing the Reporter under date July 24, says: “Our crops are simply fine. The weather and mols tare ovald not have been better, A &00d man le getting $60.00 per month sod many wore are ueeded at that price. Female help, 100, is soarce.” NO. 30 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, FROM ALL PARTS J. Reifenyder, of Linden Hall, who was a patient at the Lock Haven hospital, was discharged on Friday. The barn on the William Homan farm, esst of town, was rodded with “National” lightning cable last week. Mre, Harry Bpangler and two daughters, of Chicago, Illinoie, are vieiting at the home of W, W. Hpang- ler, in this place, Mre. W. Gross Mingle and son Philip, =f Zhiladelphis, are enjoying a short visit with the former's father and sieter at the D, A. Boozer home. Miss Jane Markle, a school teacher of Jeannette, was the guest on Bunday of Mr. and Mra, W. F, Keller. Miss Marke! is attending summer school st Penpeylvanis State College, and is a niece of Rev. 8, H, Dietzel]. Mr. and Mre, Robert K. Roush, of Reading, are visiting st the home of Mr. and Mre. W. F. Rishel, nea: Farmers Mille. Mr, Roush is a native of Rebersburg and for some years has been an engineer on a passenger loco motive, Approximately five hundred loads of tones were crushed east of Asrons- burg for repair work on the state highway in that vicinity. A week 8go the crusher was moved west of Millbeim, where another lot of elones Are being crushed, A baby boy, weighing eight and one-half pounds, wes born to Mr. and Mre. R. B. Burne, at Muncy, on Bat urdsy. He hae been named Lewis Esrle Barpe., Mrs, Burns will be known as Mise Nins Snyder. It is the second child in the family. Mre. ¥. P. Geary and daughter Agnes are spending a few weeks at the Central Osk Heights camp meeting grounds, near West Milton. They are with relatives who own a cottage on the grounds which are the property of the United Evangelical association. Miliheim sppears to be euflering from the hands of & band of petty thieves whose operations range from robbiog front porches of cushions and Coverings to chicken stealing and breaking into stores, The thieves ehowed their contempt for the law by raiding the chicken houses of both Justices of the peace in that borough. An epidemic of paralysis ie preva- lent among Perry county borees, especially in the vicinity of New Buflslo. Three homes of George oveaver, of that place, have died sod Cither farmers report that their bessts are sllivg in the same mauper. The backs of Lhe animals weaken and their rear lege stiflen. They finally go down and are unable Lo rise again. Farmers in the Junista Valley, Mifflin county, eay there will be a fad for dark bread this sesson s# much of tbe whestl is growiog in the shocks, owing to the extreme wet weath:r. Ibe iarmers have experienced a great veal of trouble from grasshoppers culling the twine band svhich en- circie the abeives when tied by the binder and are looking forward to 8 brand of twine that will eradicate this feature, Mre. J. T. Baker, of Kansas City, Missouri, formerly Mise Margaret KE. Keller, writes the Reporter concerning the healih of her mother, Mrs, 8. Ellen Keller, wno will be eighty-one years old Beplember 6th, next. After a severe sickness last winler she is able to be up and around again and ie quite aciive for one of her years. She de- lights in reading the Reporter whieh brioge her the news from her former home. Ptomaine poisoning aftected eighty people at the sunual Bunday-school picnic of the Meek’s church at Faire brook which was belong held at Erb Gap, near Pine Grove Mills, Batarday a week age. A number of ihe victims became violently ill and a burried call for physicians at State College and Pine Grove Mills was sent. The doo- tors were busy for several hours going from house to house administering antidotes to counteract the poison, No fatalities occurred. Most of the pienickers were of the opinion that joe cream, purchased at iyrune, was the oause of the wholesale poisoning,
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