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THE CENTRE REPORTER. |
ISSUED WEEKLY.
CENTRE HALL - - PENN’A.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1917
SMITH & BAILEY Proprietors
S.W.SMITH . «. . . . . Editor
{ Loca! Editor and
EDWARD BE, BAILEY Business Manager
Entered at the Post Office in Centre Hall as
second Olass mall matter,
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ditional insertion,
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS.
United Evangelical —Tusseyville, morning ;
Egg Hill, afternoon ; Centre Hall, evening.
Methodist. —8prucetown, morning; Centre
Hall, afternoon ; Spring Mills, evening.
Reformed. Centre Hall, Tussey-
ville, afternoon.
morning ;
Lutheran.— Union, morning ; Georges Valley
afternoon ; Centre Hall, evening.
“ Eut just buckle in with a bit of a
grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it ;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the
thing
That cannot be done—and you'll do
it.”
Pleasant Gap.
John Herman, who is employed at
Burnham, spent the week end with
his motber and friends at this j lace.
Miss Avna Rimmey had been con-
fined to her home for two weeks with
a severe case of grippe. Bhe is now
able to be out again,
Mrs. Frank Knarr and daughter
Jean of Bellefonte spent Thursday of
last week with her parents, Mr, and
Mrs. J. O. Hile, in this place.
Willism Durkee, the post master,
has resigned his position but will stil!
work until some one is appointed to
take his place.
Frank Keen and his two dsughters,
Mrs, Clayton Reish snd Mre. Edward
Mulfioger, attended the funeral of Mr,
Keen’s brother, Rev, Emsnu:l Ke r,
at Millbeiin last Thureday.
A crowd of young people drove fo
Charles Zettle’s last Wednesday even-
ing where the evening was spent in
playing games of all sorte. About
. 11:80 refreshments were served : st an
‘early bour” they returned to their
homes, all reporting a fine time.
The Grammar school tescher and
pupils will hold a box social in the
Grammar room Saturday evenir eZ,
Feb, 17th. Ice cream and cake will
algo be served ; the proceeds are to be
used for school It it an
rasch of a success ss they wish it to be
a Vietrola will be purchased, Every-
one is invited to help the good esuse
along.
Friday evening, Feb, 2, Prof. Repp
of the High school, chaperoned a
crowd of young people to the Old Fort
Hotel where an enjoyable evening was
pent in both round and square dene
ing. Music for the square dancing was
furnished by a violinist Reuben Coyler
and a Victrola was used for round
dancing. The party returned in the
wee hours of the morning, Since then
Dr. Barlett has been seen chasing
from one end of the town to the other,
Why ? To attend the sick, of course,
and Dr. says anyone who would go
out for pleasure on a night like that is
off “ up here.” Home of the party a
few days after were willing to sgree
with the doctor but sines they are .re-
covering they think they could spend
another evening as they spent that,
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Linden Hall
Mr. James Musser, of Illinois, is
spending some time with his sister,
Mrs. J. H. Ross,
Mr. and Mre, Lewis Swartz, of Hut-
lersburg, and D. Garhart, of Philadel-
phis, were week-end visitors at the
J. H. Rose home,
My, aod Mrs, Frank McClintie en-
tertained a number of the young people
on Tuesday evening in honor of their
dsught'r Ruth’s fifteenth birthday.
Mre. Lens Page Harshbarger, wife
of David Harshbarger, died at her
home in Youngstown, Ohio, on Wed-
nesday, February 7th, after a week's
illness with a complication of disease,
Her body was brought to the home
of her sister, Mre. Annie Noll, where
the funeral service was held on Batur-
day morning, conducted by Rev. Btov-
er, of the Boalsburg Reformed church,
Her body was laid to rest in the old
Rock Hill cemetery beside that of her
fats er and brother,
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Typhoid Fever Victims,
The typhoid fever epidemic which
is raging In Rush township, this coun
ty, clalxed its fifth victim on Hatur-
day iu the person of Miss Adeline
Williame, aged twenty-three years,
she being the second to pase away In
that family,
No pew developments in the dis
ense during the past few days leads the
authorities to belleve that the epidem~
fo is under contro, There are at pres-
ent 110 cases,
js
purposes,
Dr, Longwell Injured in Upset.
Dr. H,H, Longwell is housed up,
suffering from the effects of three
broken ribs sustained in an upset of
bis sleigh on Monday bight about
eight o'clock. The doctor was on his
way to the William Homan home on
8 profesgianal errand and was sceom-
panied by Dwight Foss who was driv-
ing the team. Turning off Main street
at the L. L. Bmith residence, the
team encountered a badly drifted con-
dition of the road, and in attempting
to force a way through the sleigh up-
set, epilling the occupante, badly
wieckiog the sleigh and giving free-
dom to the horees' which started on a
bard run to the Longwell stable,
Now the dceetor is no small man, and
it required no little effort on the part
of ia driver to disentangle him from
the mses of robes and assist him to hie
feet, after which be pluckily walked
the greater part of a mile, the distance
from the ecene of the mishap to his
bom,
Dr. Longwell, in spite of the broken
staver, continues to dispense his usual
brand of good cheer and is taking care
of his office practice until he is able
again to tackle the rough by-roade,
which it Is boped may be shortly.
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Mengures Passed by the Senate,
The following bills have been pase-
ed fiually by the State :
Authorizing County
ers to establish and maintain
on county bridges.
Requiring County Commissioners to
furnish room for Judges of Common
Pleas and Orphave’ Cours,
Providing for clerks for Judges of
Common Pleas and Orphans Court,
Authorizing Common Pleas Judges to
fix compensation of Prothonotary and
assistants in computing election re-
turune,
Approximating to Btate Highway
Departnent money derived fiom ane
tomobile registrations for 1917 and
subgiquent years,
Permitting counties to approximate
aud expend money for lmprovement
end maintenapce of Htate highways
or any public bighway in county,
Commission~
lights
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Wha' School Directors Would De.
Tha legislative committee of the
Biate sclhiool directors association wade
8 number of important recommenda-
tions, which if enacted into laws
would go far to improve the schools of
all country districts, The chief rec-
ommendations are these :
Increase in the occupational
frome $1 to $38.
Free transportation of rural pupils,
Centralization of rural schools,
Election of school directors by non-
partisan ballot.
Abolition of HBtate
bonds,
The Reporter can subscribe to all
these recommendations. The increase
of ihe occupstional tax will help to
equalize taxation to a certein extent,
T'his paper has long stood for the
centralization of schools as the only
eolution of the school problem in rural
commuuitier, It is bound to come,
tax
tax on school
and soon,
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Marriage Licenses,
R. Benner Gummo, Bellefonte
Louelia Huey, Bellefoite
Cisude Williame, Pine Grove Mills
Ada Gardoer, Pe. Furnace
Samuel Byers, State College
Florence Garman, Philipsburg
Henry Blake, Philipsburg
Mary Richard, Philipsburg
Samuel Blazer, Lewistown
Viola Road, State College
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Want $346,000 for Laareiton Viliage,
After years of work on the part of
persona interested in the care of feeble.
minded women, steps have been taken
by the state board of public charities
to obtain an appropriation of $846,000
for creation of a village at Laurelton,
Union county,
The board in its recommendation to
the legislature emphasizes the neces
sity of such an institution, The Pub-
lie Charities Association of Pennpayl-
vais has indorsed this action, and
urges the legislature to make the ap-
propriation,
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Added Evidence of American Prosperity,
Everyday brings evidence that the
American public is willing to pay for
the things the people really want,
For many months’ newspaper and
mwagszine publishers have been hard
pressed, becsuse of the tremendous In-
crease In the price of white paper. In
many cities one cent newspapers have
raised their price to two cents without
any appreciable falling off of oirculs-
tion, but the most striking example of
the public’s willingness to pay an in.
creased price for a better product oc-
curred last montt, when the publish.
ers of Cosmopolitan, Americas Great-
est Megszine, determined that, instead
of cutting the quality of the magazine,
they would piint an even better mega.
zine and increase the price,
Over a million people have been
buying Cosmopolitans for many years
at 150 a copy, and, with the greatly
SR SRS I AR SE nS RY
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FARM,
By J, M. BTIFFLER, of Freeport, il.
It has been stated that the farm busi-
ness has been conducted successfully
and safely where the management was
but 76 per cent efficient. No doubt
such a statement was more or less su-
thoritative when the most fertile lands
under the sun, in our Misslesippl val-
ley could be purchased at the govern-
ment price of $1.25 per acre and living
requirements were very simple by come
purisor, What then was lost through
inefficiency was more than oflset by
the rapid rise in land values as | opula-
tion Increased hence it wae not due to
methods in farm management in land
prices that made many of our early
settlers very wealthy, Faith and con-
fidence in the country, its climate and
the producing capacity of ite soils was
sufficient data on which to bsee hope
for rapid settlement and a gradusl im-
provement in marketing conditions.
A very large percentage of the immi-
grant population that came to this
country in the past century were
people of limited means. Through ir-
Custry and prudence a large percent-
age of them grew into substantial eit!-
zens—the owners of vast tracts of cholee
lande. Today quite a*different prop-
osition confronts a young man who
by sccident of birth must like the poor
immigrant of sixty years ago, begin
on the ground floor. A business sys-
tem less than 100 per cent efficient on
land that costes $200 per acre is rather a
risky undertakiog, unless there is
sll a possibility of still greater rise
in the priceof land. Leck of efficiency
on the farm in the past sccounts for
much of the rush to the cities from the
farm. The farm business becomes at-
tractive only when it becomes profit-
able and it cannot become profit.
able at the present time uniess it is
conducted 100 per cent efficient, No
ope need bope to suceed on the farm
without a system of cost accounting.
The guess work plan is unwise and
unsafe, Our farme, whether owned
or leased, are producisg plants,
Whatever we have Invested in laud,
huildinge, stock or machinery is capi
tal. In order to be on safe footing our
returns from produce must meet inter-
est charges on investment at the legs!
rate, must provide for taxes, insurance,
depreciation and lsbor charges, If
our business will not support these r-
quirements on the average, the sooner
we resolve on a change the better. It
is entirely reasonable to expect a great-
er interest in farm aflsirs se greater
profits, when we adopt a system of
farm accounting. The loafer scre, scrub
steer and hog, the bunch of useless
horses that eat their heads off and the
cow that eats more than she produces,
sre paris of the equipment of our farm
that must be eliminated if we are oper-
ating for profits. Good farm manage-
ment provides that every acre fa fitted
for some commercial purpose or the
other, The improved lands
farws in this country are rat-d st a
little more than 50 per cent. [= it
not possible under thorough scientific
handling to raise this limit to at least
90 per cent? Farm life becomes more
atiraclive as we educate ourselves to
ita pos-ibilitee, We all know that
farm products of all kinds commands
bigh prices at the present time, [ -
vealigations show that the produot-
ion is not now keeping pace with po -
ulation, The farm business possibly
reata on a safer basis now, than st any
time in the past. Prosperity on the
farm aflords a good market for the
products of the shope, factories, mills
and mines, The census buresu shows
more than 40 per cent of our populs-
tion now live in the cities, [It
as though we were goiog to become a
nation of city dwellers, It mast be
evident /to all true economists that
any abnormal trend Lo the citdes will
still further enhance the high cost of
liviog and add more to the buraens of
great mass of the middle and poorer
classes of ou: working population,
The young American inclines at si
times to follow the lines of least r:-
sistance. Practical men in every de.
partment of industry are realizing the
need of vocational training. In this
way it may be possible to make the
lines of natural adaption coincide with
the lines of least resis ance and thus
map out an attractive route for a every
young man to fol'ow to honorable and
profitatie purpose. The leading lights
among var educators favor an ad« quate
syetem «f vocational training as a
means to greater efficiency. The long
lease and a greater cooperation bee
tween Iandiord anduand tenant, or be-
tween father and son, will tend to
build up the producing ocapsecity of
every /arm, and at the same time ee
tablish a tetter and more profitable
system of farm procedure. Temper-
mental differences, discordant inter-
ests or view can as a rule be brought
into harmony when resson, common-
sense and the equare deal play the
part they should in any controversy,
Wisdom gained by experience, if of
real merit, is capital earned or dearly
bought. A light placed under a bush
ol is of no service. Experience ripe
sud gove to seed on the farm, and
Inter on retired to somo city or town,
rarely proves to any great service to
other lines of business, Hoarded
on the
looks
Do returns of interest ; valuable ideas
gained by experience on the farm
{ Continued on next page.)
SPREAD CHEER, NOT GLOOM
as Easy to Remark “You Are
Looking Fine,” as to Say
the Opposite.
Just
“By George, old man, you are look-
ing fine!”
Did you ever notice how you perk
up, no matter how poorly you were
feeling before, when some friend
greets you in this way?
According to Dr. 8. R. McKelvey,
secretary of the Colorado board of
health, the human system just natu-
rally begins to tone up under the stim-
ulus of such greetings.
He declares it is an aid to health
and a help in preventing disease, and
to that end he advocates a new move.
ment—a “tell your friends how well
they look” movement.
“It is not only bad taste to talk of
your pains and ailments,” says Doctor
McKelvey, “but a reflection on your
ntelligence and knowledge of health,
sanitation and good health. We are
not far from the time when the cause
fliness will have to be accounted
for personally.
“In other words, nature is no long-
er going to be blamed for sickness
when it is simply the result of igno-
rance, indifference or wrong ways of
VIDE.
Do you not think it is worth giving
Doctor McKelvey's idea a try?
We do! So here goes:
“By George, you are looking fine!"
AERO-MOTORS USED IN WAR
French Are Said to Be Fitting the
Fast Machines to Use as
Transports,
of
mbination of aero-
8 now being used
for the purpose
and food and
BWAIND
ground.
by an
volves in
at a
a minute,
)¥ an engine
8 of the
sAVEnD
1 re
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“a
Car
Il are
to light.
BH od
in France,
ed to a large
“A Far Freer-Going Comrade”
A British soldier home from the
the change of
8 wife
as perky
th no hair
d down to
k, found
or 1
found her with two neat
in smart little boots, and a
angel's version of a
swagger. Tell you, I was
The surprise was all
nt, for he said “she was younger
¢ and a far freergoing comrade
than when he left.”
ike an
Grenadier's
urprised!"”
Prime Requisite for a Soldier.
The very essence of a good soldier
condition. That as a na-
are individually not in such
was very strikingly shown
2t the busines: men's encampment at
Plattsburg This regiment was re
cruited largely from athletés—polo and
football players, militiamen. big game
hunters, and such people, probably far
above the average of our citizens,
They had a month's vigorous training.
And yet ten miles was the utmost
limit they could cover as a body on
the march in one day. Yet the Thir
tieth United States infantry, two days
before the amateur war began, ar
rived at camp about 4:30 in the after
noon, the band playing “What the
Hell Do We Care,” having covered 32
miles to a man since reveille—
World's Work.
physical
tion w
condition
United States Citizenship.
Citizenship is the gift of the federal
government. It requires that an alien
shall have lived in the United States
five years after having declared his
intention to become a citizen. He is
not a citizen until he has secured his
second papers. it there are several
slates in the Union in which aliens
are allowed to vote. An alien who
has declared his intention to become a
citizen may vote in Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Indiana (after one year's resi
dence), Kansas, Missouri (after one
gon (one year), South
For the Birds.
For your birdloving friends there
bird bath or bird house. To be sure,
it cannot be used just now, but the
winter will be shortened for i
ciplent by contemplation of
that is coming. Shallow
ment or marble are sold
pore, and on some of
ble birds are perched
' EXECUTORS ROY iun—~
Letters testamentary on the estate of
Barah 8. KE. Kennelly, Inte of Gregg township, de-
chmod,
Letters testamentary on the above estate have
ing been duly granted to the undersigned, he
would respectfully request any persons knowing
themselves indebled to the estate to make im
mediate payment and those having claims
sgainst the same to present them duly suthen.
icated for settlement,
n at Once,
To act as Detectives in all parts of
the State. Experience not Necessary.
You can earn money from the start.
This is a bona-fide Detective Agency,
incorporated under the State Laws of
Ohio = Address No. 7 Diamond Block,
Youngstown, Ohio. lLo4
C. E. ROYER,
Bpring Mills, Ps,
Executor.
b.0.10
W. Harrison Walker
Attorney
FoR BALE —~A HOME, LOCATED ALONG
the pike between Penn Hall and Spring |
Mills, Centre county, containing three acres of | Sars rok ; .
and, Thereon erected a house, barn and other | Rising 4 ¥ old, 3 oo” sagt and dou
outbuildings. Known as the Adam Grenoble | Pie, will work anywhere ; sound and ail right
home. Possession given April 1st, 1417, Further | Reason for selling, have more horses than | need,
information may be had by sddressing J, A. | RS G C p y I {
GRENOBLE, Yeagertown. Pe. bpd | ~ROY M, GARBRICK, Centre Hall, RB. D. 1.
OR BALE. ~TEAM DARK GREY BORSE:
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P0000 DOPI NILOT HOOT DOES
For Winter Sewing
Sheeting, Pillow Tub-
ing, Table Linen, Shirt-
ings, Ginghams and Dress
Ginghams,
Old-fashioned Calico for
piecing.
Lot of New Queens
ware at 10c,
Oysters |
From now you will find
us supplied with the choic-
est quality of Oysters the
market affords.
Two grades—for stew-
ing and frying,
FRESH CRACKERS
THE GOOD CRISPY KIND,
that fairly melt in the mouth.
BREAD, PIES AND
CAKES
ALWAYS FRESH AND GOOD
CANNED GOODS
of various kinds.
Pennington’s
BAKERY
In the Hotel Building
CENTRE HALL
Heavy Hose—wool and
cotton,
A few more Blankets,
Sunbury Bread,
fF tore closes every Wednesday even.
ing at 6 o'clock
H. F. Rossman
SPRING MILLS, PA.
COP0PSPPIVIDEIIGDIERLONO0OOVOONNB LIPOIC T ROI NOPONBPEOR0S
Big Drop In KESSLER'S Prices
All of Kessler's Fine Men's and
Ladies’ Suits, Coats, Furnishings,
Shoes, and all other Wearing Ap
parel Reduced from figures that were
lower than average to begin with—
Get That !
LOWER Than Average TO BEGIN WITH !
All season long we have been selling Kessler clothes
below the market, keeping our prices close to the old levels, in spite of the
world wide advance in woolens, tr.mmings and’ making. Yet we are pow
reducing even those prices in accordance with our custom, in spite of the
fact that most of the woolens are far higher now than when we bou ght them
and many of them will not again be in Millheim before the war is over. In
fact such a variety in this season of shooting and shoitage is vpothing short
of phenomenal. And beyond that, there is the modeling and making, al-
ways individual always different, acheiving new angles in cut and new
wrinkles in tailoring, the equal of the finest merchandise that ever came out
of this town,
Better get busy today— waiting wont get you any-
thing any better or as good! Just one word
more—It is best to come carly and take advantage
of the wide variety.
Kessler's Department Store
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The Centre Hall Pharmacy
For Your Chapped Skin—
USE
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Mulford’s Cold Cream, 25¢
OR
Parke-Davis’ Cold Cream
Cough Syrups—
Dr. Longwell's Syrup White Pine and Eucalyptus
Dr, Longwell’s Syrup Honey and Glycerine.
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THE CENTRE HALL PHARMACY
A Store You Like to Go to