VOL. LXXXIX. ps —— YOUNG LADIES WIN PRIZES IN W, vu, T, UL EsBAY CONTEST, Miss Lillian Ewery Captures First Prize on “The Nature and Ef ct of Alcohol." — Mise Mary Whiteman is Second, Miss Esther Parsons Third, The local W, C. T, U., a short time ago, offered two cash prizes for the best compositions on ‘* The Nature and Effect of Alcohol,” Only mem- bers of the 19156 High school were eligible to compete for the prizes. The verdiot of tue judges was that Miss Lillian Emery was entitled to the tirst prize—§3.00, Miss Mary Whiteman to the second prize—§2.00, while Miss Esther Parsons received honorable mention. Miss Ewmery’s composition is given in fall, The nature of alcohol is & poison. It is not in soy maoover a food, because it does not build up the muscles, blood, body or tissues. It lessens the desire for rea: food by deadening the nerves which tell ot the need for real food. Alcohol acts worse than any con- tageous disense. laken in small quantities 1b kills the weakest part. oi the body and weakens the strongest parts. laken in large quantities souner or later it Kis tue wuoie boay. The habitual user of alc.hol is on a slow but sure path Lo death. The most common alcoholic liquors are wiue and beer, Alcohol 1s decerutul and is a cowsid. It pretends w make one stronger, more active sud healtllul, when it is vuly Jueslroylug one morsily and physically ihe Deasulilu. sur rounaiugs waich Gud bss given us scew duli mua glovwy 10 the drunkard e- Cause he is unconscious of bis kuowledge of veasuty. People sowmetitues thu LAL Lucy are beueluled Dy urniukiug bee: because It wuskes Liew st, It » true that ol mskes tue Int, Dut tust Isat is dangerous ustead ol bealtnful. On cola days sowie peuple dLOK Deer thaukiag it Will make whew warin, Dut it only en larges tue LIOVA Vesdels aud lorees Lhe hea iron tue budy, Wie result Of wich 18 Oiten uenth. la wne sick room alcouol showld be absent. Io dues lar wore hain hau guud. lb causes drowsiuess sud uerv- OuUsucss. Wve tle palichl pure wales: Sud wulk wulch culileiu wi Lue cleweuls needed lor Dulldiug up Lue Ussues, Sell coutrol 18 wan's gremiest glory. AS 500U ms Le Deglus W use &.0LOL lu any «ou be Is g adusly losing his control. It affects wie strongest and Must luleiugeut pwils ol Lue Duddy Lrsi. SuOortly aller il 1s eke WO Lue LOUY IL iemches the Drmin where ues Lhe sed governing power. Wuen thus is guue What reiusius ol Whe wan 7 He Lecutues SUNY suJ uuCouscivus vi what Le is du ing. Louswg Dus sell coulivi leads tu crune. Those who habitually drink beer cau DOL teil tue ull Decalse Le Wewory Celis Cauiuul 1ecurd VIVid fespouses es tuey wre wstended W be, ou sccvunt of his weakeucd stale Oismiad Lue price Ol 8 gmat wi Leer 1s suid tw De Dive cents but tuis lu & Live sense 18 LOL ue. Slee beer leads W crane sowe places ust Le provided wherein Wie Criss: Must Le kept row tue people Lust wre Sau. li is eoliwatled Lal about eiguty peiceutl ui cides cust sie Colliilied ale due Ww Lue elect ul micolivl, MUdOus Ul dollars aie spent asuwuslly ww bulda Peuilecliaries, LOOr Luuses, Orplsus OUWICS alld Bay iUius (Or Lhese Clilsusis, It 1b woud not be lor sicolol nut vue lourihh vl tue puur people would be pour, DOL ue ball vi Lue Ul cosets Would exist ALA LWOUsauds ol Lue unbappy buiues Would De made Lappy. Is destiuys tine und plessure, suu ail these Uuugs Aud Weuy wore Laken tugetusr is Lue Price Ol a uruuk., A Durrell of llour coun laius elglly-vight peicewt [00d aud costes SIX UOliars, Which will leed aud satisi) Ieuy DULEry eu, Woes aud chuuren Wheie » Lael Jl Deel conlmilis uly two perceat vod sid cusis Lwelily-uve dol lars a Darrel, snd wil destroy msuy en, women snd chduren., Yet mauy Who Caunul allurd 10 Duy bread 10: Lueis families, thiuk they can alloid 0 buy bee: 10r Lhewselves ut this price, Persous wuo apply for a position ar Asked U4 Wey use sicoliol lo muy way It they do wine cases out ul ten UO LUL receive Lue posiliou. At Lass been proveu Lhat Deer Is DY lar a g eater Cueiny W Lerusny than ail the soldiers of ali Lhe vluer countries taken togeluer, It Kiils tue wess wen aud destroys Lue Siroug ten, Peuusyivania is one of the blacksst States iu the union. Lhe peasants wuo elugrate iru burope Ww America sre Etuviniy sirvig, lealluy, aud wdusto- Ous laters wav cutie W America W lenin w tinue Lust wiki ensUie then Ww become wore uselul nud wesithier whew they rowurn wowe, Many of thew culue W Feousyivewa 10 wuik iu the cual Fegivlis where call Mutlug OWLS suon Spring up. As a rule Luey are pure sud Clean. sud Iguorsut ol Lhe curse ui RiCOLOI until sviue peopie iutruduces beer iuto their sali wwos, aud soon they sil live ws paupers 10 uirty, Ulugy BuOps. luelr culdien wre burt Weak BUA del red ; Wey grow Ue a Iguur~ Alce aud Bevel become DE Cclilizeus lor tue state. Un Selutday evenings when their work is used wuey bring Kegs ol beer iutw their wwos, sud ust. ad of Bpelding heir debbaih wu thelr ususl Way lu prayer sud resting they speovd it in Uriusiu, sud ughiing, Luereivre no one is beuelited Ly usaig sigubvl, the Curse ol Lue nstion. a A — 1 Candidate Hughes says: The Wilsou era of prosperity Is uot permausut, but vhatile scuwab spills the politics: beans by golug on sud spending $100, 000,000 tor entensive Improvements, Hugues 1s a candidate, woile Meoweb is America’s leaoing sud most success ful mauuisclurer, Bobhwab knows what be is doing and is confident of the future, The game bags snd the stomachs of the hunters, st the close of the first day of the sesson, were very. much alike—both empty. JUDGE ORVIS AND LABOR The Democratic Nominee for United States Senate Endorses the “Adam. son Bill” and Approves the 8-Hour Law for Labor, Hon. Ellis 1.. Orvis, an eminent jurist, is nominee for United The following communication clearly defines his attitude towards labor: Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 14, 19186. HON. ELLIS L. ORVIS, Democratic Nominee for U. 8. Senate: For my Information, as well as many thousand others, will you kindly define your position regarding the “Adamson Bill” recently signed by President Wilson; also, do you ap- prove the eighthour work day as a humanitarian principle? Respectfully, DANIEL T. M'KENNA, » y po » Thee ny r » Union No. 1, Philadelphia.) Of the Bellefonte, Democratic Senator, States {BRuecin 1 LEBUsIng nepl entativ Bric ORVIS FAVORS 8HOUR LAW AND APPROVES ADAMSON BILL. Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 17, 1918. MR. DANIEL T. M'KENNA, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir: In reply to your interrog- atory it gives me pleasure to assure you that without qualification | most heartily endorse the president's action in his attempt, first, to amicably arbi. trate or adjust the be. tween the interstate railroads of the country and their employes, and upon his failure to bring these parties to a common basis of agreement, | most unreservediy commend and applaud hig brave statesmanlike action in urg ing upon congress the pa Adamson bill. His p is wholly consistent with lightened and advance 4 ism and with t manshig the national and ind differences of the n therewith the most en sage £1 umanitarian. at quality of states. that has so happily preserved American peonle fr both inter gtria myself, ird 8 labor, and expect the | to the in. dividual and the nation by a general adoption of such standard day. Very truly, ELLIS eatin Mre A. P, Lasse Dies In New York. personally believe in the stand hour best results wil law for come hoth L. ORVIS. A tel'gram ann uncing the death of Mre. Haooab Luse, widow of Abram P. Lue, at the home of her deughter, Mr», John W, Neese, in Auburp, New York, was received by the sons io entre Hall Tuesday morning. No particulars were given save that death eccarred loesday morning. It was Rnown, bowever, that Mrs, Luse was failing health sud ber seventy-six years were not being borve with soy legree of vase. Iu August of this year she Visited here ju company with Mr, sud Mre, Nevse and wee troubled with «» Chroule cough, the body will arrive here this ( tbur«day ) morning snd burial wii Os made beside ber husband in the iocal cemetery. Rev, F. H, Fose, of tne Uuite: Evaugelical church, of #Dich she Wes 8 Consistent member, will uave coarge, Mre. Luse was Hsovsn Ream, daughter of Micusel Keats apd was worn io Georges Valley. In the year 1855 she came with ber Losband to vuire Hall where the former began peratiug the Centre Hall planiog «iil. Four years ago Mr. Luse passe sway sud for two years Mre., Luse uade ber home among her several sous. For tue past two years she had oeen in New York. Toe following children survive: viement W., W, Muford, John M., of venitre Hal), sud Mre, Joo W, Nees, of Auvury, New York. Oue sister, Mre. Jacou Heup, of Des Moines, luws, sud two bell sisters aud one uall brotuer also survive, ————— AA, “Peg U' Mm) Hear: ” Voming, Oage of the greatest successes of the past decade, 8 play which does not des peld upon the seriousues: of any one shee, with no mention of any great political question, no crooks, and without Lue inevitable triangle or any uf the deeper problems of sex, ls ** Peg U' my Heart,” which will be at the Opera House Bedlefonte, on Monday venloug Oot, 238, hs M 1, GARDNER Democratic Candidate for the Legis'atare The election of Mr. Gardner will mean that Centre county ls represent- +d by a competent and copsclentious vitizen who will always place first the interests of the msjority of the people ————— —— a — in Ventre county. - ~y or REULAIMING SOIL, State College Demonstrates How the Poor. est Boll on Allegheny Mountains May be Made to Yield Profitable Crops at & Cost of 83.46 per Acre. It was to convince the public, farm- ers in particular, that the poorer soils in the state cad be made produce profitable crops at a low cost, that the Pennsylvania Btate College held vublic demonstration, Thursday of last week, on Allegheny Mountain, in the vicinity of Boow Bhoe, The soil in that section is termed De Kalb by the scientific mer, and is identical to a dozen million aeres« more in slwost every section of Pennuyl- vapis—in fact, almost half the terri- tory of the Keystone state, and found in thirty-three of the sixty-even counties, DeKalb scil is of th» slate variety, usually thir, but not go everywhere, In thie ps: ticular portion of Penney i- vabnis, in the Snow Bhoe district, there sre weapy abapdoned farms, and on one of these farms that had not felt » friendly band in forty vears the pro- fegeors of the Agricultural Depart ment at Penvsylvania NBtate College asl spring began to till and plant, I'hey plapted in cor fidence, of cours velleviog in the theory they wer about to put into practice. The *Ul 8 were a jealizstion shove their rXpectatione, The abandoned scores yirlded remarkably —yielded at a rate 10 weke faring profitable, There was really pothing pew in their Welbod of tres ing the soll—it was simply thorough tillage snd the ap- plea lon of two very deficient ele- mentt~ljme and phosphorie scid—ir vearly nl] soils that have long beer tilled 8% well as in many new goils, Lime wag applied in the form of ground lime stone and phosphorite scld 10 the form of common seid phos- phate, Ihree tons of ground lms stone sand three bundred and fifty Polbgg of sixteen per cent, acid phos. phste was used, Under this 8 stem the plots yielded at the rate of a. tor and one-half of bay, thirty-five bushels {#belled ) corr, inhirty bushels #iXteen bushels wheat, The cost of lle nnd fertilizer, $8.46 per scre, Many of the farmers who read this seccomplishment on the DeKali «oil will pot be dircotly inte rested, bu there ia a lesson for every farmer whe ‘ills the ordinary farm. The plots st the Bnow Bhoe demonsirstion show conclusively that peither lime, phos- phoriec seid or manure when used alone will bring the best results, bat that it is the combinstion of the ‘hree that works the miracles, An- other lesson ia that soils c«n be built ap without either nitrogen or potash tn commercial form, apd that clover is the key pote, Clover may be grow: after applying lime and phosphorie «eid, ana clover will replenish nitro- g+u and add potash, #4 At the last meeting of the borovgh war made of the eollecting of fines for except to say that the counell bad no knowl ’ fee % ‘ nts f { i I ————————— AAA. Collecting Fines, couneli po mention speed gm edge of the number of parties retnrp. od, the number fined, or the amount onllected ns floes, It was intimated when such information would be giver out it wold come through Burgess Arney, From outside sources it je learned that a large number of persons have been returned ps having exceeded the speed limit, and that fines have been collected in large sume, a single fire and costs being $14.00, Ib some onees those exceeding the fifteen mile limit hy a small fraction bave been sent hills for $14.00, Until the officers in charge make a report the Reporter je pnable tno give a correct statement to the public, The withholding of all from the public is causing no little ur- sasiness among many of the citigenes whn are not in sympathy with the movement, A ————— si The Biggest Hag of Game, Few reporta of full game bags were heard on the fir<t day of the hant- ing season, but among the most sue cessful hunters was B, Gardoer Grove, who lives slorg Nittany Mountain, » few miles esst of Centre Hall, Mr, firove had the good fortune to bags 20-'b, turkey with a ten-inch beard, a p'ump phessant and six gray squirrels, He la a farmer, but each hunting ses- son brings in a report that makes the professional hunters look green with envy. information MIM ss Miss Adame for Wilson, “1 am going to vote for Wilsor,"” wae the announcement recently wade by Mies Jane Adame, of Hull House, calle ed by Theodore Roosevelt ** Americs’s greatest citizen,” The most widely known social worker in the world sr- rived in Chicago from a sick bed in Maine in order to east ber first presi- dential vote for Wilson. Miss Adams was the central woman figure in the Progressive National convention iv 1912, A ———— Deaths of ventre Countians, Willlam H, Guisewite, aged seventy years, died in Oil City, October 2, following a paralytic stroke. Mre, Mary Stover, of Centre county, and Mra. W. R, From, of Miflinburg, are slaters of the decessed, —————— AIA MA S—— Peace or wer, which? You oan osst your ballot on November with either a peace party or war party. Take your ohoice, FRUIT AND SHADE THReES ALORG STATE HIGHWAY, Forestry Department Will Grow Treesand Tarn Them Over to Highway Dept, and Frivate Good Hosds Organizations for Planting, Arrangements bave been completed for cooperation between the Depart. ment of Forestry and the State High- wny Depsriment in planting shade and fruit trees along the Btate High- ways. The Department of Forestry will grow the trees from seed In its big nurrerier, They will be transplanted into areas set aside for the purpose, *0d when they have reached suitable wige the trees will be turned over to the Highway Department and private good-roads orgauizations for planting. The Highway Department of Missouri has bee: planting fruit ano U «hearing trees along state rosds for a number of years, Many of the trees sre now besring, and Peonsylvania Commissioner Forestry the Missouri Highway Come missioner says that very little of the fruit i= stolen, The ides Ix favored b Governor Brumbsugh, sud undount- edly will be given s thorough trial, Of be Department of Forestry has no fruit fur transplanting excep: hose which tear sual! fruits for bir food, heuee only shede trees will Used st present, I'he Epecies mlready transplsnted are Meotch, winite, ana viteh pives ; Norway spruce, Dougies fir, sugar maple, white ns} y White elo, Disck cherry, bousy locust, pean laren, tiees bien transplanted ino especially tioge, Franklin, Huaotipgdon, sua Pike counties, Spaced fifty feet apar 0 LWO rows, this DUmbLer of trees will c:ver a bundred miles of righway, Fhe trees will be cultivated to en- courage rapid development, and be again transplanted next »prios the purpose of producing a stocky aud Vigorous rool system. ——————— A ——— Gralied Tomato and Potato Eleven fully matured } ai many lifesized potaloss growing on s pliant in the the vegetable garo- the Pennsylvania State { marks the sdvent of the pees: of ‘resk plants in the vegetable world. If further experimentation proves its commercial value, the latest creation in plant life is « xvected to revolution- z= vegelable growing by combining cconomy of spsce in the vegetable grower’'s garden with «Mciency io plant growth, Fhe experiment was copceived and earried to completion by , E. Myers, professor of experimental vegetable growing at the college, A polato wes pisnted and on the walk produced there was grafied & youog t mat) shoot, «ingle ene of Gliegs wax snd bound with reffis, exscily done fu the ordinary grsiting fruit trees. A luxuriant growth of Vine restited, Ou the vine there were many tomato blossoms, and ‘hese deveioped 10to normal tomsloes, Under ground, st the same time, the poistoss thrived sa if they were grow. ug under the stimulus of thelr ow: lope, i= ———————— Auto Aceident Fatal to Two wirls. sulo socidents in occurred Mexico, Juniata county, on Bunday, when two girls, aged 8 and 15 years, daughters of Willism Kline, were kili- ed snd seven others severely irjured, [be party were on their way to Holli- daysturg and bad a big csmp cquip- ment in their Mludebsker oar for s few days’ huni'ng. A blow out of one of the tires caused the driver to apply the emergency brake (oo hard, causing the Car Lo sawing sbout sidewnye, bringing greal welg: b on the left rear wheel, Ube wheel collapsed snd the bub be entoe imbedded in the earth, The momentum caused the car to overturn twice, throwing the occupants out and ploping some of them under the wreckage, a — Mt ————— Penvaylvenia has the largest labor vote in this country. It is made up of miners in the snthracite and bi wai ous coal fields, workers in the great iron and steel industries, many thou- sand rallway employees scattered over the state, snd an srmy of industrial workers in wills and fectories—sil in favor of the S8-hour work day. Most of these formerly voted the Republican ticket, but this time they bave the * Wilson ides.” That is why Penn sylvania now is 8 doubtful state, ———— IM ———————— Even the straw votes are gaining in their favor for Wilson. Now, we don’t ples too much confidence ip the straw vote, but it is interesting to recall at this time that in past preei- dential campaigne the straw vote se a whole never looked good to Demo- cratic managers, AS Ai TOBA The Democratic State organization announces that careful canvasses indi oate the election of at least twelve Democratic congressmen in place of the six now representing the State at Washington, There Is a fighting chance for six or eight more, ————— A G —————— Many thousand laboring men in Peuneylvania have registered as Re- publicanpe, but will vote for Wilson in November, The re-election of Wilson means continued pesce with honor. The election of Hughes means war and ail One of the worst this pari of the state near ite horrible consequences, The Hunters’ Luck on Opening Day, The first day of the hunting season proved more or less of a failure to local nimrode. Turkeys were clear out of #lght, few hunters reporting as much as even having seen any sigos of their whereabouts. Grey e quirrels, sceord- ing to pre-sesson reports, were found plentiful, Robert W, Bloom bagged the limit—six, while Emmett Brooks, who nearly always returns home with more than his gun, had five greys and & woodcock. Erdman West succeeded in bagging the only pheasant on Mon- day ; William F. Colyer shot five greys in the Dsuberman woods along Bipk- ing Creek ; John H, Knarr and Paul Bradford each brought home four greys, Home other hunters had from {one to three grey squirrels, | Qn the other side of Nittany Moun tuir, shove Pleasant Gap, the hunters found turkeys more plentifal than any thing elee, and as a result thirteen happy each carried home a five specimen of this great bird, The ucky Were: George Horper, | Osean 3oyd Louberger, Auruan hunters EhOle y Marry suvd | David Moyer, Baird, Geurge Ueltig, Willism snd Guy Kerstetter, Norman Hile, Harry w yere, George Bliger, Willis Hoy, a, Big Mitchell Car Barns Up to Seven Mite, A large Mitehell-Six the property of Robert of the 1ate Forestry department, who with his wife, two dsughters apd chrufleur, was crossing the Reven Mountains set Wednesday afternoon, Was almost totally destroyed by fire ue # result of crossed wires in the electric starter system, The mishap occurred joo Loog mountsin, about five miles f+ this side of Milroy. I'he ParLy wae sintion eginbilished touring car, ounklipn, chief enroute (oo a in the region ps- troiled by D, K. Warfield. The ma- chine was taking 8 steep grade when the sparke were generated and set fire 0 the oll soaked undergeariog of the Car. Fhe tourists Lsstily slighted from their gests and ater the brakes had { been applied all retreated to a sate die jtapce. Ax the fire progressed the | brake mechanism was burped away {and the uviezing csr rolled backward {down the sleep jucline to bring up flually fo the bed of Lsurel Run at the side of the Long Rosd bridge. There was DO mesns st band to combat the {fl sues snd fn 8 short time the gasoline inuk exploded with a loud report, Helle! came to the stranded party from: Potters Mille, transportation bee ing provided for the State official and Lis family to Milroy. Fortuuately no one of the partly was {11 jured in any way but the sutomo- {bile lteelf was destroyed almost be- youd all bope of rehabilitation. All the woodwork wes consumed by the devouring flames, the uphbolstering tuined, tires of the front wheels burn | ~d almost eutitely off and the many five parts of the power mechanism war,ed by the intense heat, The re- mains of the aulo were taken to the Perry McKinney place, above Potters Mills, pending further disposition. ————— A AAG ————————. soldiers on Border kxperisnce Severe Storm new I'be boye on the border, and es pec inlly the iste arrivale—ibe Boal Ms- chive Guo Troop—who are located in Usmup stewart, witnessed a most severe rain and wind storm last Thurs- day evening, Camp Siewsart and the other militia camps of the Ei Paso district were swept by the worst wind aid rain storm in years, Within a few mivutes the streets of the camp were flooded aud the arsinsge ditches ren lke millraces from the water that p ured from the wmwouuntsios. They overflowed snd the ween in the Camp spent a Very uucomforiable night, I'he wind that attained a velocity of fifty miles su hour piasyed havoc in Cniip Stewnrt, More thao 160 tents wer. Dilown down aud several build Lge WieCk+d, A letter received from Private Will- ism Bailey, of the Bosal Guo Troop, on Moudsy, says that isst Wednesday was pay dey sod many thoussode of collars were distributed by Uncle Sam AMOUR the Lrovpers, fhe Y. M, CU, A, at El Paso has booked 8 number of good Jeciurers for the beuefis of the boys. ‘* A rquare Deal” was the titie of a lecture on fuesday night, when oid Demon Booze was dealt a heavy blow by the speaker. After the leciure fifiy new teataments were distributed among the soldier boys present, AA A Which do you prefer, the Demo- oratic income tax, whicn is paid by those wio ean sflord to pay and which goes Lo Lhe goverument, or the Repub. ean conl tax which is paid equally by the wash woman sud the miulonsire, abd which never goes to the tressur)y at all? It wasdecinred unconstitution- al, but the consumer never got anything buck, snd the Siste Treasury is still empty. Tost is Republican flosncial genius | ——————— IA Former Pastor to Preach, Rev. Gideon Sarvis, who twenty- eight years ago was pastor of the Methodist jcuurch st Pleasant Gap, and who now lives retired at Rall. wood, will preach in the M, E. church at Piensaut Gap, Sunday morning st 10:30 o'clock, ———————— A N——— Clover seed is being hulled on » oumber of farme in Penns Valley dar fog these beautiful October days. The yield, aa » rule, Is good. Clover seed, by Lhe way, Is a thank you grop, the only cost belug the expense of barvesting it. Whether big or little the crop is a valusvle one and indi cates a soll worth tilling. — NO. 4 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS Mre. J. E. Campbell, of Linden Hall, spent Thursday in Centre Hall, If “filthy lucre” stinks, we ought goon to be able to smell the speeding fines. Frederick Carter raised eighty bush- els of A No. 1 potatoes, last week, from his small lot. The borough of Bellwood, Blair county, will have free mail delivery beginning November lst, Trespass notices, printed on besvy cardboard, for sale at this office at 5c each or 6 for 25¢, mailed to your ad- dress. Mre. H. F. Bitner sttended the missionary convention of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church, held ip Bunbury the latter part of last week, W. D. Zerby, Eeq., snd former register J. Frank Bmith were in Centre Hall Bsturday evening works ing in the ipterest of the Woodrow Wilson rally, If you want Centre county repre- sented in the lower branch of the state legislature by a wan who will vote the sentiment of the people of the county, vole for Mr. Gardner. Musser E. Coldron is serving the patrons along route No. 2 out of the local post office during the two weeks’ vacation period granted Jesper Wag- ner, the regular carrier, by Uncle Bam. The town’s supply of water has been reduced to a few feet in the boro reser- voir. The sprioge have suffered be- csuse of the drought and the council has posted water notices advising againet the needless waste of water. A letter to the Reporter from Clyde P. Wieland, of Mitchell, Nebrasks, says that crops in western Nebraska are good, especially the beet crop. He saye that on the ¥ih lost, the day of writing the letter, a heavy snow was falling almost continuously. Hall High school is more than fifty per cent larger than last year, and larger than for a number of years. Toe class now numbers sixteen against ten last year. Principal Heck- man is very much plessed over this condition and is making every effort to develop the newcomers. A large straw shed, 70x40 feet, was erected on the farm of the Rankle bomestead, tenanted by James Runkle, near Tusseyville, last Thure- day. Thirly stalwart fsrmers, from far and near, were present to sssist in the raising of the heavy timber in the framework. Of course, the preparing of the dinner and supp+«r for the big gang of men was & big task, too. M. P. Musser, of Plessant Gap, sc- companied by his daughters, Mrs. Louis Biddle, of Unionville, and Mrs, Frank Irwin, of Plessant Gap, were in Centre Hall last Friday. The ladies visited Mre. Lucy Henney’s millinery store io the morning and from there all went to the home of Mr, and Mure. George Emerick, east of Centre Hall, to spend the day. Mrs. Emerick and Mre. Museer are sisters. Mre. Mary Rearick and dsughter, Miss Savills Rearick, closed their home on Saturday afternoon, following their public sale, and wii spend a short time with the former's son, D. H. Rearick, wear Spring Mills, Mies savilia in a few days will leave for Dewart and Walsontown to visit friends and then go to Martinsburg, where her brother, J. Paul Rearick, resides. Mrs. Rearick expects to spend the winter with her son, W. O. Rearick, at Mihoy. Work of changiog the pipe line of the Milibeim water plant from 4-inch to 8-inch pipes from the reservoir to the diamond bas been started, 8a num- ber of men having been engaged in un covering the pipes along Phillips creek since Moncay, saye the Millbheim Journal. Three carloads of the pew pipes arrived at Coburn on luesdsy aflernoon and they are now belong hauled on wagons along the line. Ten carloads of pipes will be required to complete the jou. John F. Musser hae the overseeing of the work. Oo Sunday forenoon Col. and Mrs. H. W. Shoemaker favored the Report- er’s family with a social call on pass ing through Centre Hall on their way to their summer home at McElhatian. They aleo paid their respects to Mr. sud Mm, D. J. Meyer. Col. Bhoe maker is intimately acquainted with every nook and corner in Central Penpsylvanis, especially the moune tain regions, from which he drew material for writing numerous moun- tain stories and preserved a large num- ber of legends by interwinding them in pretty tales. Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker spent Haturday night at Fairbrook club house, and being #0 near Centre Hall, toe Colonel could not resist showing a most loveable woman what Penne Valley and ite metropolis, Oen~ tre Hall, looked like,
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