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Business Men of State College
T ender Soldier Boys Banquet
On Tuesday afternoon the Beal]
Machine Gun Troop, returned from the |
ous, was mustered out of the federal ser |
vice by Capt. Philip Matthews, of Fort
Patton, Long Island. The soldier
boys were immediately diemissed and |
returned to their
vice automatically threw
of the N. G. P., with a six-year enlist-
ment,
BANQUETED AT STATE COLLEGE. |
Tuesday noon the Business Men’s |
Association of mtate College tendered a |
grand barquet to the Boal Troop in|
First Sergeant—
John O. Lawrence
Duty Sergeants—
David B. Garner
Joseph Butterworth
Thomas R. Weber
John F. Harvey
William Inboden
Mess Sergeant —
Charles G, Getz
Acting Supply Sergeant—
Harry M McMutrie
Stable Sergeant—
Philip C. Shoemaker
Corporals—
Charles G. Cruse
Louis A. Derbique
Ralph B, Heberling
Lawrence F, Snook
Thomas C. Shoemaker
George W, Ream
Cooks —
Wallace C, Kerstetter
George I. Kerstetter
Conrad
Saddler—
Lester (
Mike J.
Herbert
Charles
LOOALS
Mre. D. W, Bradford had been con- |
fined to the house on account of an)
attack of pleurisy.
Mre. B. F Reish and dsughter Vids,
of Milroy, are at the W., A, Krise
bome where Mrs, Reish is caring for!
her aged parents,
A sledioad of the younger set of the
town erjoyed Tuesday evening at the
home of Mr, and Mre, D, Gelss Wag-
ner, nesr [usseyville,
About two hundred Odd Fellows,
their wives and families were present
at the annual barquet which was
held in the Grange ball last Thursday
evening.
Altoone, Latrobe and Pittaburghb, and |
will be gone for several weeks. At
Latrobe she will visit her brother-in-|
law, Thomas Henney.
Prof. and Mr, H. F. Bitner and
son Lynp, and D, LI. Bartges attend-|
ed the funeral of J, 8. Meyer, of Penn |
Hall, on Friday, A. P. Krape convey-
ing the party in his Dodge car.
The Bellefonte hospital will receive]
an appropriation of $14,000 for 1917,
which is $2000 more than the amount
received in 1915. The State board of
public charities clipped $80,000 from
the amount asked by the Bellefonte
hospital.
Bix inches of snow fell on Bunday
which was followed in the night by
sleet and rain, Old Boreas then put
the blower on but the crust which had
formed on the pnow refused to to per-
mit the high wind to fill the cross
roads with snow drifts,
Bruce E. Runkle moved his family
from west of Centre Hall to the farm
«of his father, John H. Rankle, east of
town, ou Tuesdny The young people
will take up the farm work this spring,
the older folks taking a well earned
rest, Both families will occupy the
farm dwelling house,
Capt. W, H. Fry, of Pine Grove
Mille, attended the Pennsylvania
Veterinary Medical Association meet-
ing, which was held in conjunction
with the Corn, Dairy and Agricultural
Exhibition, at Harrisbarg, on (ues
day and Wednesday, which accounts
for the absence of his breezy letter
from his home section,
Bugar at 5 cents a pound was a real-
ity in Pleasant Gap for a short space
of time Baturday night. Two local
merchants who determined to outdo
each other In the price of this every-
day commodity, alternated in clipping
oft one-half cent, starting at eight
cents, until the ** Jitney ’ figure was
reached when the cory of enough
was issued from the “ne store, It
was all very sammusing for the public
‘who literally made 8 beaten path
from one store to the other to learn the
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the bisuguel hall of the Btate College
I. ©. O, F. building, covers being laid
for one hundred and fifty. Cashier
David Kapp acted as toastmaster and
marks:
Arthur Holmes,
Msjor J. L. Holmes, Dean
Hon. John T. Meo-
Ahrend, Rev. J. McK. Riley, and
Lieut, Theodore Davis Boal. The af.
fair was a fitting climax to the end of
the soldier lade’ first experience in the
service of Uncle Bam,
The same day|Troop L of Bellefonte,
was mustered out of federal service by
Turnbull, medical examiner,
Privateg——
Harold A. Gill
George D, Gummo
Peter Hoopsick
Melvin E. Houser
Edward C. Howle
Alvis 8. Knarr
James C, Kane
Albert R. Lucas
Preston K. Lytle
Blair Markle
M. S. Matty
J. C. McCullough
Percy Miller
Dewey Menar
B. H. Milligan
Harry E. Norris
Myrl F. Packer
Wm. Ramondetta
Elmer E. Richner
Samuel Rudy
F. C. Shope
Joseph Slogoski
Andy Stofen
George Sincox
John W,
Edward 1. Taylor
A. G, Wasson
Joseph Wells
Linstrom
Kelley
Kline
Peters
Showden
Botson
L. Corby Smith
L, Tressler
Horse Sale—Saturday, Feb. 2,
R. C. Yoder, who during the past
four years has sold a pumber of car-
Centre Hall for Saturday, February 2,
al 12:30 o'clock. Mr. Yoder gusran-
tees these animals to be a lot of flue
Kansas horses, personally selected for
this particular market, The lot ie
comiosed of farm snd draft horses,
brought direct from the best Kavess
farme. They are quoted by their own-
er to be an exceptionally fine lot of
animale, and will be on” exhibition at
the Centre Hall hotel stables for a few
are the auctioneers,
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Hagen Child Dead,
The four months old son of Mr. and
Mre. Willism Hagen, of near Madison-
burg, died on Tuesday morning of
poeumonis, snd will be buried in the
Union cemetery at Farmers Mills on
Friday.
E—— i ——
Opened Meat Market.
Jordan, Royer & Co. is the frm
name of a new meat market at Colyer.
They solicit your trade, adv.
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LOCALS
W. M. Geary, of near Tuasseyville,
waa a business caller at this office on
Tuesday,
Mr, and Mre, Harry F. Hubler, of
Lock Haven, spent part of Monday
under the parental roof,
The Philadelphia dailies now ocost-
iog one cent will be raised to two
cente, beginning January 20th,
Pomona Grange meeta in the hall of
Progress Grange, in this place, today
(Thursday). There will be a fore,
noon and an afternoon session.
Frank Bible, at about the time of
bie sale in March, will have completed
#ix years ms tenant on the farm on
on which he lives at Centre Hill, Mr.
Bible expects to move to Coburn and
will be employed in the creamery at
that point.
Levi Stump, one of the oldest reel
dents of Miles township, Is not as well
aa usual, although in good condition
for one almost eighty-two years of age,
He was for many years a resident of
Potter township, and ie the father of
Mrs, J. § Rowe, of Centre Hall, who
with her daughters, Misses Verna and
Ethel, visited him on Sunday,
Col. Henry W. Bhosmaker will give
three prizes of $5, $2 and $1 each to
the school boy or girl of the townships
of Wayne, Dunostable and Pine Oreek
and the borough of Avie, in Olinton
county, who will construct the best
box or bird cage Tor the propagation of
birde. The opening to the box must
exclude sparrowe, The prizes will be
“Intent price on sugar.”
awarded on Washington's birthday at
Restless Oaks, MoElhattan,
TIMBERING MINES IS COSTLY
Owners Compelled to Put Millions of
Dollars Underground Every Year
of Operation.
Nearly 90,000,000 cubic feet of tim.
ber are placed in the anthracite mines
of Pennsylvania every year, if an osti-
mate in the Colliery Engineer, lately
acquired by Coal Age, that the amount
of timber in anthracite mines is ap
proximately one cubic foot for every
ton of coal mined, is correct. The tim-
bered gangways and drifts cover a
vast extent, exceeding 7,000 miles, and
the closely timbered shafts with their
miles of heavy guide timbers which
must be constantly replaced, form a
large item. The total output since the
beginning of anthracite mining is over
2,600,000,000 tons.
A billion tons of water, or over 11
times as many tons as the coal pro-
duced during the year, must be pumped
out of the anthracite mines every year.
According to the chief of the Pennsyl-
vania department of mines the timber
ing is an even greater expense than
the pumping. The cost of placing this
vast forest below ground is stagger
ing.
The cost of the material is giten as
about 6.5 cents .per cubic foot for
round timber and 20 cents per cubie
foot for sawed timber. At the lower
figure this would make 90,000,000 cubie
feet cost $5,850,000, In addition to this,
there are millions of mine ties, and
heavy white oak is used for the mine
cars. The use of steel timbers, which
are being adopted on account of their
longevity, for main gangways, turn-
outs, pump rooms and shaft and slope
bottoms, will add to the total cost of
mining for the next few years, but will
effect a final saving. Most of the tim-
ber now used in the anthracite mines
is yellow pine from the South.
“GIVE THE BOY A LANTERN”
Scund Advice for the Farmer, and
Also Works Well Along the
Lines of Education.
A writer in one of the farm papers
has a suggestion for fathers who
wish to keep their sons on the farm.
“Give the boy a lantern,” he says.
His idea, as hé expand . is that the
the lantern is his
will make his work pleasanter
ing it. . He will do work before
and after dark more cheerfully
because his
darkness and the
We do not have
city, but the Gary school
8 it
once own prop-
dawn
the
gery
in the
system
to light
with t shows them that
ides poll
parrot study, street corner loafing and
the perfunctory r on, for
“a Job.” It is a lantern that shows
them what is suited to their tempefa
mer and ta Instead look-
ing forward to the day
when they “find a
ess to the
their knowl
rk
3
takes away
(fe
lantern
S07 of dru
gives our
their livos
there is sc
“roe WN 1.
search, iat
ts ates, of
with dread
must go out and
job,” they leck with eager:
time when they can use
kill In lines of we
» bec ine
‘ toy and
the job, ana
iting for the boy
attache
iting knd to scholars
a war
wn
mnt of waged be
tamia
battle
Ap
Guick
8 in Mesoyp
The
1 and Abel
avs been
rences by
is sald to have
who
first
flalnt v
fighting
rmancyas of Egypt.
Asia and conquered Hac
B. C. Palamedes Pao
gos 1s mythically re; to kL
been the firs{ who ranged an army
in a regular line of battle, placed sen
tineis rcund a camp and excited the
solcier’'s vigilance by giving him a
password. This occurred during the
giege of Troy. the date of which is
variously estimated at about two
thousand five hundred years before
the Christian era
fend
nto
2100
orted ave
Porpoise in Long Race.
Four porpoises, the largest ever
housed at the New York aquarium,
one measuring nine feet, were put in
the center tank reeently. They no
sooner hit the water than they started
cn what locked like a race. J. Shay
of the aquarium force, who brought
them here, said they probably bad a
hunch that after aout 9980599 laps
they would catch up to an opening out
to sea. They circulate from left to
right, with the sun,
The porpoises were caught in a net
at the fishery of Joseph K. Nye at
Hatteras. Théy came on the Old Do-
winicn liner Princess Anne,
Their racing diet will be 20 pounds
of fresh herring apiece.
The last porpoise«in the aquarium
lived 21 months and 9 days and ate
six and a half tons of herring.
How to Avoid Faulty Postures.
The other day a certain woman
asked one of her friends who had a
most graceful figure what she did
when she was young to prevent herself
frcm assuming faulty postures and
falling into bad walking habits. She
answered that as a child she was made
to practice walking before a mirror
for a short timo every day, and she
had to hold a stick behind the back,
moving it slowly from the waist up-
ward, and then down as far as possi
ble.
There were also other exerciseos of
this nature. Deportment is not prac
ticed wo carefully nowadays, one im:
agines; but it might be a good idea for
mothers of growing children to revive
this practice,
AA SPAREN
Centre Reporter, $1.50 per year,
’
ment,
farmers in & county, which makes hie
| work worth many times the compare.
extension representatives varles with
the needs of their communitice, bu
ment of agricultural methods,
gp
LOUALS,
Judge H. C. Qaigley
in
through demonstrations, talks and
through calling attention to good meth-
ods already praticed by the best farm-
ers of the community.” The
extension work is thus briefly sum-
med up by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture,
The county extepsion work In
Penneylvanis, conducted under the
supervieion of the department of agri-
cultural extension of the Peénnsylvan-
in State College, affords some striking
examples of results accomplished in
counties where the work is under way.
Up in Bradford, which is primarily a
dairy county, wonderful improve
ed through the efforts of the extension
representatives, Several examples
will illustrate tne nature of this work,
The owner of one herd in the county
had an ordinary looking red cow of
unknown breeding. He had tried to!
sell her a number of times but vo one |
seemed (to want her. Her product-|
ion for the year in the cow testing as-
sociation was 7470 pounds of milk, |
containing 407 pounds of butterfat, |
Her profit above feed cost during the
in the herd made as much profit as |
this one,
cows with yearly records, eight of |
these did not produce enough to pay |
their feed coste. Had the owner kept |
ouly his eight best cows he would
have made a profit of $55.00 more thah
be made by working twice ae hard to
keep the whole sixteen. The best
producing cow in the association show-
ed a profit over two and one-half
times greater than Lhe total profit
made by this whole herd of 16 cows.
It was such conditions ss this which
existed in Bradford county before the
advent of the farm bureau leader, and
which he has since helped to remedy,
A dairyman in one of the Bradford
eounty associations gave the following
facts several years ago to prove the |
immediate value whicu he obtained as
result of having his cows Llested,
Before testing he sold heifer calves
for $20.00 esch and bull calves for $5.00
esch, Assoonss he had his testing.
sessociation records he sold two heif-
for $50.00 esch and three bull
ealves for $15.00 each, making the to-
tal increased receipts due to the fact
that he had records, $80.00, The
testing represenied a cash outlay of
$15.00 for the year. In other words for
every dollar invested be received $6.00
in return, |
It is the ability on the part of the
extension representative to discover
and spply 8 remedy to bad practices
and to increase agricultural profits to
ara
attraction at the Bellefonte Opers
House on Saturday evening, January
27th,
Potatoes in Lewistown are retailing
at $2.40 a bushel or 66 cents a peck.
all
Mre. Irvin Bhowers and son Harry,
sod Mrs. Willlama Bhowers, of State
College, spent Tuesday with tha form-
ers parente, Mr, and Mre, W. Cook
Hubler,
A number of scholars in the local
grammar and High schools, together
with teacher Elmer Miller, enjoyed |
A medical inspector and the “ must-
er out officer ”’ were to call officially on
| William Bailey on Monday and Tues-
day, respectively. The soldier boy
| has been confined to bed since his are
| rival from Texas,
| aggravated vase of tonsilitie.
by muster you out of the
“1 here-
United
is all there was to the
mustering out ceremony.
A new tapestry brussels carpet was
local P. O. B.
of A. camp, io the bank building, on
Monday evening, Just recently the
were papered and painted,
lighted with braeco electric lighte,
and with the addition of all new furni-
| ture the young order begins its exist-
| ence with great promise of developing
| into a strong fraternity.
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All Philadelphia papers will,
January 20ib, be raised to fifty cente
per month, Patrons who desire to
discontinue their papers owing to the
raise will kindly notify me before that
date.—J, H. KNARR, news dealer,
after
Don't fool with
cold. Cureit.
Pile
CASCARA EP QUININE
was
FOR BALR Good fox hound. Por particulars
address G. IL. HORNS Pleasant Gap, Pa uf
road be
Finder
Centre
LOST ~—~A brown muf nthe public
tween Spe nid nire Hall
plese ret VERNA ROWE,
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BAI rr
TRAVEL IN ARMY FORMATION
Observer Has Told of Pecullar Mab.
its of Crabs Found in Philip.
pine Islands.
On some of the sand-flats of the
| Philippine Islands, uncovered st low
| tide, there are often to be seen huge
numbers of the graylsh-blue crabs
called Myctirls, The body has the
shape and size of a cherry, and the
legs are set close. Dr. R. P. Cowles
has given us a lovely picture of the
ways of these creatures,
They move about like diminutive
armies, though the individuals seem
to be scrambling along rather awk-
wardly.
But what is most remarksble is
their power of intrenching themselves
with extraordinary rapidity. At ome
moment there are tens of thousands
on the sands, the next moment there
Bre none
By approaching very slowly and
carefully, Doctor Cowles was able to
gee what happened When he got
and stamped with his
crab dug into the sand
iegs on one side, and at the
e*rotated ite body, so that
ank out of sight in a spiral
In two or three seconds the army
ried itself, After a few minutes,
he sand was not shaken, they be
dig themselves out again and,
ing their ranks, resumed their
enough
every
with the
{
foot,
ie fer
African Fashion Notes.
prettiest dresg of the Mpongwe
a cloth drawn up
»
the shoul
under the
and a
coiled
gearf o
dkerchi lef
der Bg,
th
folded over the
a high well up
on the head, rath 1ild’s idea
writes Jean Kenyon Mac-
the Atlantic There ig a
great fancy for purples and lavenders
get off with shades of rose and red
note of gilt,
will be a touch of
ate bright green. A cloth
worn by a woman of beautiful
gesture—and a Gabonnaise is always
that—have a certain mutable charm;
the movements of the body, the wind
that blows those
new and display the
ment so that the eve
of a erown,
Kenzie mn
With
most
del and a
leat
scar
from the sea— Te
folds of the gar-
is intrigued.
Turkish Hospitality,
The Turkish people, like most oth-
ers, are of “mingled yarn” and have
their virtues as well as their faults.
Writing about a visit in a Turkish
home an Englishworian, Miss Grace
Ellison, says: “In no other land have |
met with such lavish hospitality. . . It
is the custom, too, for the master of
the house ot pay all the visitor's bills.
That I should have proposed to stamp
my own letters hurt my friends.” The
Turkish bathroom is described as an
improvement on the western European
one, for it is “a marble basin like a
fountain,” enabling the bather to wash
always in running water instead of in
a vessel more or less soiled by immer
| sion.
Help make the Rep¥rter more Dewey
by telling us—in person or over the
‘phone—of any little interesting hap-
pening.
TR
NOTICE
No g
will be char-
ged during
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Ladies’ and Misses
Coats
$8.50 Coats are now $4.25
12,50 Coats now 6.98
16,50 Coats now 8.50
20,00 Coats now 10.00
25,00 Coats now 12.58
30,00 Coats now 16.50
MEN'S GOATS
| $8.50 Coats now $4.98
| 1250 “ now 7.50
C1500 “ now 9.48
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