ATTORNEYS.
Be ee ———————
H. B. SPANGLER
Attorney-at-Law
Beliefonte, Pa.
Practices in all the courts.
Sotauations in English and German,
ce, Crider's Exchange Building.
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Penns Valley Banking Company
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Davaid K. Keller, Cashier
Receives Deposits & Discounts Notes
H. G. STROHMEIER
CENTRE HALL, : : PA.
Manufacturer of
and Dealer in
HIGH GRADE
Monumental Work
In all kinds of
Marble and Granite
Jno. F. Gray & Son
(Successors to GRANT HOOVER)
Control Sixteen of the Largest
Fire and Life Insurance Com-
) panies In the World.
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST
No Mutuals No Assessments
Before insuring your life get the
contract of THE HOME which in
case of death between ths tenth
and twentieth years returns all pre-
miums pald in addition to the face
of the policy.
MONEY TO LOAN ON FIRST
MORTGAGE
Office In Crider’'s Stone Bulding
BELLEFONTE, - PA.
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THIS NEWSPAPER?
Determination Of Cabinet Meeting To
Avold Any Act That May Be Con-
strued As a Break-—Secretary Lan.
sing Loath To Believe That German
sing Loth To Believe That German
Government Has Been Intentionally
Holding Gerard.
Washington. The fateful “next
step” in the controversy
United States and Germany will
be a declaration of war. This dec
was reached at a meeting of President
Wilsons Cabinet, which reviewed in
detail the delicate international situa
tion now confrontin » nation. Still
waiting for the “overt act” that will
force this country to move, the Presi
dent and his advisers let it be known
that the following course has been d¢
clded upon:
When the President is =atis
“American lives American
have been destroyed on the }
in vic f t} 1
lation of the
formerly made by
between the
not
sion
yr
and
He will not suggest
war, but will ask
of the
at LEH)
He will then proceed t
and naval for
the next
This would result
would leave the
It was stated unequi
determined that
must re
umstances for
ation is in lir
whict
ring the
carrying out th
was atated, however,
see to it that
honor
right
the of
Members of the Cabinet repo
the government
London —Dr. Wiillam vo
interviev
Hande
that
the measur
Ambassador
regrets
to take
prevented Count
»
n Bernstorff, the retir!
The interview, accor
Amsterdam
in Norden, Prussia
is declared to have said that German:
received from United
Btates about the treatment of
Von Bernatorff,
or German subjects
Btates
correaponder
no reports the
or of German consul
1 nited
in the 1
GERARD LEAVES TONIGHT.
Am
laft
Berlin (via London). Former
bassador Gerard and his party
Berlin Saturday evening
Mr. Gerard was offered the choice
of leaving Berlin Saturday or Sunday
and quickly decided in favor of the
earlier date.
Washington.— The American Govern-
ment still without the official evi-
dence of an overt act by Germany con.
sldered necessary to justify President
Wilson in going before Congress for
authority to use necessary means to
protect American seamen and people.
There no longer is any doubt that
the ruthless submarine campaign is in
full swing in defiance of the warning of |
the United States
Saved Only By Chance.
Everywhere it is believed that If no
American ship hag been destroyed it is |
because American ships are lying idle |
fn their harbors instead of plying their |
usual trade; if no American life has |
been lost it is due entirely to chance. |
It also is generally conceded that on
the basis of preliminary reports the |
torpedoing without warning of the!
passenger liner California with an
American on board makes out a clear
eut case of technical violatidn of the
rights of the United States,
Wilson Wants Full Proof.
President Wilson, however, is repre. |
sented as determined not to plunge the
country Into war on a technicality. |
When he moves it will be on complete |
evidence of an outrage about which |
there can be ho question. Then he ex. |
pects to have the American people and |
Congress behind him,
Unofficial dispatches told of the kill. |
Ing of an American negro sailor named i
George Washington in the sinking of
is
f
the British Turino. Few
and the State Depart
eteamer
ai were given
ment had heard officia
idered
nothing
be
I'he Incident will cons
BOON as reports are received
Departments Visited.
all
for
ident
h with
country
To get in personal tou
steps taken to prepare the
whatever may come Pre
made another quick rou
Wa i Navy
’ 1
anda
Secretaries
Depart:
visitin
Lansing, and Dan
stated that he would con
It was
practice al
me
Other Neutrals Protest.
me informa.
man fleet are
peculation
(ior
May Divert Ships.
ign Office
American
oral re
nd 1828
the Gov
ernment officials to Sp 1 and Swisg
intermediaries
The treaties have
rights of hationals
chants in either
their residence there
for the purpose of
business
Mr explained to
Montigelas head of the American sec-
tion of the Foreign pre
ref to the
A8 mer
continue
nine months
»
rence
residing
countm
for
closing
to
up their
Gerard
Office who
was no longer in a
tiate any diplomatic instrument Spain
in Germany,
for negotiations
He suggested that a way
wag through the
German Interests at Washington.
APPRENTICES IN INAUGURAL.
Going To Washington.
Newport, R. I.—A brigade of 600
apprentice seamen with a band will
go to Washington to take part in the
{ Inaugural ceremonies, in accordance
with orders received at the Naval
{| Training Station here. This Is the
| first time the brigade has been asked
{to take part in the ceremonies,
LABOR AGITATOR CONVICTED.
Guilty Of Murder For Bomb Explosion
That Cost 10 Lives.
San Franclsco~Thomas J. Mooney,
labor agitator, was convicted of mur
der in the first degree by a jury In
the Supreme Court here for a bomb
exploxion, which cost 10 lives, during
a preparedness parade July 22, 1916.
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IN SHORT ORDER
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
nb in
required in a bill
House by Repre
Donnelly, of Schuyl
requires the operating
the present mule
something swifter
1 ot yulance
Lhe : in Bers 3 3
introduced in the
Jam
biil
replace
for
gentative
kill. The
company to
drawn
os
vehicles
When the water st ceased at
High the
disconnected, at the meter,
perch from three
length were taken
Most of the fish were
still They came from the
Spring Brook dams
¥ Ek
1ppiy
School, two-inch
was
eighty-two
inches in
to
and
eight
alive
At a meeting of the New Century
Club, of Chester, all of the members
themselves to assist in Red
work in this cougtry in the
of war between the United
and Germany. The meeting
presided over by Mrs. 8S. Blair
Luckie, president of the ¢lub
Arrested for forging and passing
worthless checks, Annle Rargus, aged
eighteen, Informed the police that she
committed the crime under threata of
death by Fred Rinus, aged nineteen, of
Pittston, who already has a police
record. The girl was sent to the
Tnited Charities, and Rinus is under
bail for court.
Reeidents of Washington Heights
have renewed the agitation for incor
poration into Lemoyne Borough. They
have prepared a petition, signed by
half the district's residents, and will
present it to Lemoyne Borough Coun:
ell. The new petition asks that the
’
Saint
which she it Q
ntal in founding and promoting
ring her life time
000 unde
bequeathed $23
i 12 of the will
Mise Elizabeth Swift, of Norristown
In addition $6,000 is given for an altar
and a reredos, and $6,000 is bequeath
rector and his wife, Rev
Edward R. Noble
the ter of
ed to the
and Mrs
A loss of §5260.000
caused at Columbia, when fire of
known origin, destroyed the plant
the Btandard Garment Company. Fall
ing walls added to the perils of the
firemen, but no one was injured. The
entire section of the town
was threatened, but firemen succeeded
in confining the flames to the bullding
of their origin
Or over was
un
of
business
The students at Lafavette College
rose as one man and asked that mili
tary training be made 5 part of the
curriculum at Lafayette College. The
meeting of the students, at which this
faction was taken, demonsirated the
greatest wave of patriotiem that has
swept Lafayette since the days of the
Civil War. The movement has been
in process of formation for some time
It was brought to a head by a speech
which President MeCracken gelivered
at the chapel exercises at noon.
Mrs. Samuel Sipe, over 104 years, |
the oldest person in Cumberland coun. |
ty, died at her home at Carlisle. The |
personal friend of Molly Pitcher, the
{ heroine of the battle of Monmouth, to
| whom the State last year erected au
| #pecial memorial, Mrs. Sipe told many |
| stories of the early days of the heroine |
iin Carlisle. Mrs. Sipe was bora in |
Switzerland on October 5, 1812, and |
{came to this country with her parents |
| when but six years of age, making the |
FEED COST CUTS
DAIRY PROFITS
Mrs. Cow Will
Little Straw With
Meals
Future Have a
form
i0TT
yet one th
cheap also abundant,
i i= 0
Washington county. A few enterpris
ing dairymen of the West Side are
making good use of their surplus straw
and at the same time reducing the cost
which is
recommended by Prof. A. B. Nystrom,
Dairy Husbandman of the State Exper!
ment Station at Pullman, Washing-
ton
They gather all the coarse hay left
in the mangers after feeding and run
it through an aififa chopper, adding
enough finely cut straw make a
day's ration for their herd. This fine
ly chopped feed iz then allowed to
especi this true In Eastern
to
with molasses, prepared by mixing
molasses and water in the proportion
of one quart of molasses to nine quarts
of water. Before feeding it iz placed
on a drain board and the surplus
moisture allowed to drain back into
the tank. After draining it is better
to mix the grain to be fed with the
molasses mixture, although good re
grain on the feed in the manger.
The molasses used should be a good
grade of crude molasses and can be
purchased in barrel lots. Care must
be exercised in using this feed as it
ger unless it is kept clean. This mix-
ture furnishes a bulky sueculent feed
and one that is eaten readily by the
cows. It will go a long way in provid.
ing succulence In the ration where
silage or roots are not available.
Vacancies On Agriculture Board Filled.
Governor Brumbaugh appointed the
following to fill vacancies on the State
Board of Agriculture: Lloyd B. Bwing,
Mt Union, three yess. Charles F.
Camp Hill, be incorporated.
{in Philadelphia.
J. Walton, Hummelstown, one year.