VOL. XC.
y 1017
FUSBLIOLIBRARY FORSTATEOGLLEGE
Boro School Board Provides Site and Car.
negle Association to Give $7,000 for
the Building,
The State College Times, in its i=
#us last week, sppears happy over the
fact that a public library for that town
is about to become a reality. The
Times says :
HBtate College is to have a Public Li-
brary !
For several years plans have been
formulated and efforts put forth to se-
cure a library building for the bor-
ough. An association was formed sev-
eral years ago with Burgess J. L.
Holmes, president, and the following
committee : Prof. I. L. Foster, Dr, E,
W. Runkel, Rev J. McK. Reiley, M.
P. McDowell, Thos. I. Maire, Mrs, G.
G. Pond, Mre. Frank Gardner, Mus,
F. L. Pattee, Mrs, W. L, Foster, Miss
Mary Rupp. The association recently
has been confronted with the necessity
of making provisions at once for the
care of 2100 volumes already in their
keeping. These have been kept in the
High Behool building but it has been
necessary to use this room for school
purposes recently.
Burgess Holmes has been keeping
Uncle Sam busy caring for his eorres-
pondence on the library building prop-
oeition. As Carnegie had given the
Pennsylvania State College the mag-
nificent library building on the cam-
pus, it was not thought probable that
he would build another here, Bat
Burgees Holmes went gunning for
bim and his heart was made glad this
week by the receipt of a letter from the
Carnegie Corporation announcing that
they pad decided to give Btate College
$7500 for the erection of a building pro-
vided a site was provided apd an ap-
propriation secured for the mainte-
nance of the library. In lees than
twenty-four hcurs Mr. Holmes had
a meeting called of the Board of
Bechool Directors and they agreed to
give the site, and Council has passed a
motion giving $720 a year for keeping
the library going after it is erected.
As a result of this activity, the bor-
ough of Btate College i3 assured a pul-
ic library.
The library building will be located
on Frazier street upon one of two sites
that sre pow under consideration.
One of these is between the grade
school building and the Presbyterian
chureb, and the other is on the corc-
er of Frazier street and Nittany av-
ecue, Two years are allowed by the
Carnegie Organization for the com-
pletion of the building which probs-
bly will not be started at once on sac-
count of the pree-nt high price of ma-
terial,
The building will be one story wilh
a large basement. The main floor
will be all in one room.
—— AM —————
Over 38,000 Autos owned by Farmers In
Sate,
Oue cut of every six farmers in Peon-
syivaniasown sn automobile and one
out of every one hundred farmers
owns an an auto truck according to
statistics just announced by tne Penne
sylvania Department of Agriculture,
One year ago there was an automo-
bile on every tenth farm of the State
and the total number was estimated
at 22.608 but during 1916 there were
purchased by the farmers 10,660 auto-
mobiles making a total of 33,268 at the
present time, showing an increase of
almost fifty per cent over the previous
year. In 1915there were 15,000 auto-
mobiles on the farms of the State and
this bpumber has been more than
doubled in just two years,
On many farms the sultomobile le
used for both pleasure and business,
but many up-to-date farmers have add-
ed automobile trucks to their equip
ment snd is now estimated there are
about 2,150 trucks of various weighs
io use by the farmers of the State,
In twelvecounties twenty per cent.
or more farmers own moto! cars and
in only ten cotinties is there less than
one machine for every tenth farmer.
Seven counties show more than a
thousand farmers owning sutos with
Lancaster county well in the lead
with a total of 2,600 automobile own-
ed by its 10,000 farmers, or one car on
every fourth farm. Philadelphia
county shows one car on every third
farm but the totsl is only 247 sutomo-
biles as there are less than 800 farmers
in the county. Chester county shows
twenty-four per cent. of the farmers
or 1,860 owning cars while Bucks is
third with 1,824 and Allegheny fourth
with 1,186, Washington county farm
ers have 1,135 matos, Berks oojunty
1,112 and York county shows 1,000,
Other counties in which five hun
dred or more farmers own automobiles
are Bradford, 982; Erie 881; Mercer
866 ; Montgomery, 920 ; Somerset, 825 ;
Westmoreland, 826; Butler, 710;
Urawford, 782; BSusquebanns, 758
Franklin, 687; Lehigh, 660 ; Luzerne.
648 ; Northswpton, 651; Tioga, 621;
Bedford, 607; Lebanon, 606; Schuyl-
kill, 540 ; sud Wayne, b61.
J. H, DETWILER HAS NARROW
ESCAFE IN TRAIN WRECK,
Escapes With Slight Injury While His Three
Hambietonisg Horses are Burned, —Four
Desths Occur When Express Train Hits
Derstled Freight Near Philadelphia,
Much local interest was attached to
the wreck of the Adams Express train
at Bristol, near Philadelphia, from the
faci that John H. Detwiler, of near
Centre Hall, was among those who
mirsculously escaped with their lives.
Mr. Detwiler left Oentre Hall on Bat-
urday afternoon with three Hamble-
tonian horses which were to have been
put up for sale at Madison Bquare Gar-
den beginniog of this week. The ex-
press train which was conveying the
animale to New York included two
horse palace cars, Mr, Detwiler’s horses
being in the first car while directly in
the rear was a similar car containing
seven head of valuable horses, owned
by Harry G. Duniap, of Williamsport.
The story of the wreck as it comes
from Philadelphia is as follows :
Plowing through a derailed freight
train and tearing up all four tracks on
the Pennsylvania railroad’s New York
division for 800 feet, an Adams Express
train was wrecked half a mile north of
Bristol Bunday morning. Four men
were killed and three injured,
Of the four killed, one was the fire-
man of the express train, and three
were attendants traveling with ten val-
uable race horses on their way to Mad-
ison Fquare Garden. Caught in the
wrockage among the injured and craz-
ed horses, these three men had no
chance of sacape and perished with the
Of the ten horses and five
dunts ouly two stiendants and
horses were rescued from the
purniug wreckage,
I'be dead are :
J. W. King, fireman of the express
train, of 120 North Thirty-second
street, Philadelphia,
Harry G. Dunlap, horse trainer of
Williamsport.
I'homuas Barrows, hostler,
liamsport,
Thomas Donley, hostler of Williames-
port.
The injured are :
P. H. ciayes, engineer of the express
train, legs burned and ankle fractured,
at Bt, Francis Hospital, Trenton, con-
dition not serious,
Thomas Rank, of
bruised and shocked.
William T. Hulibap, of Willlama-
porf, bruised and shocked.
A broken journal on the freight
train is blamed by railroad officials for
the wreck. When the journal snap ped
the freight train, known as P, G. N.
21, and made up of thirty-three cars,
vroke in balf, the rear half of the train
being derailed and thrown across the
east side tracks,
This was at 2:30 a, m., and the freight
train bad no sooner been derailed be-
fore the Adams Express train No, 2
with eleven cars, inciudiog the two
boree palace cars, came along and
smashed full speed into the wreckage.
ihe locomotive plunged down the ems-
vaukment, taking with it six of its
express freight cars which telescoped
aud took fire.
Mr, Detwiler, in telling his story
upon reiurniog nome on Monday morn,
ing, said that he and an express mess-
enger were asleep io the car with their
norses when the smash-up occurred,
but were soon wide awake when they
peard the car thump over the ties,
[hey were violenily thrown in a heap
when the car went over an embank-
ment but managed to get out of theh
imprisonment by breaking throu bh
the door, The horses suffocated inthe
smoke and fire which resulted frm
the wreck.
How Mr, Detwiler and the express
messenger saved the life of an attend-
sot in the car immediately back of
theirs was graphically described by
mr, Detwiler. Hesring a ry for help
in the wrecked car the two men broke
a hole in the end of the car and threw
a rope to the unfortunate man who
was lying under the mass of dead
horses. In this way they managed
to save him from certain death,
A representative of the express com-
pany called on Mr, Detwiler on Mon-
day to ascertain the extent of injuries
ne might have received. Outside of a
slight scratch on the wrist Mr, Det-
wiler escaped unhurt, His three horses
he valued at 8600, which claim will be
fully met by the express company.
tlLiioaty,
altel
ihre
of Wil
Williamsport,
Prof, Heckman Re-elected,
At a recent meeting of the Centre
Hall school board, Prof, W. 0, Heok«
man was re-elected principal of the
Centre Halil high school for the 1917
1918 term. Mr, Heckman is popular
with both the scholars and patrons of
the school, which condition could not
be ignored by the school board when
the question of selecting a principal
was before them. No salary was fixed.
A AE ————
More iline Is being used this year
thao ever before on the fields lo the
The Centre Reporter, $1.60 a year,
northern section of the Biate,
“THE BIKTH OF A NATION.”
Will be an Attraction at Garman’s Opera
House for One Day--Tuesday, March 6,
In response to numerous and urgent
requests, D. W, Griffith's ** The Birth
of a Nation,” which scored in Belle
fonte the greatest triumph a theatrical
attraction has ever achieved, has been
booked for a return engagement at the
Garmsn Opera House for one day,
Tuesday March 6th, matinee and
night. In every respect this presenta-
tion will be the same as before, includ-
ing the same big symphony orchestra,
David W. Griffith, whose fame has
now girdled the globe, chose for the
theme of his great spectacle the tur-
moil and travail of over fifty years
ago, out of which a new and united
nation was born. A southerner him-
self, the son of Genperal ‘* Thunder
Jake” Griffith of the Confederate
Army, Griffith knows the heart of the
south. Through his wonderful pic-
torial story of what the south suffered
he has brought out the brotherhood of
the north and has done more to
cement the friendship of the two sec-
tions than all the books that have
been written. Editorials in Northern
newspapers say that he has forever
wiped out Mason and Dixen’s line,
Those who have seen ‘‘ The Birth of
a Nation” no more wonder that it
cost $500,000 to produce. They only
marvel that it did not cost more,
I'ake the battle of Petersburg, for
instance, The reproduction of that
alone cost a small fortune, Then the
burning of Atlanta and reproduction
in replica of Ford’s Theatre, Washing-
ton and of the legislative hall in South
Carolins, all cost large sums,
“ The Birth of a Nation” is the art
triumph of the twentieth century and
no one can afford to miss seeing its
wonders,
EE —————— A
LETS HAVE A REAL ONE!
From the Chicago Herald,
The Federal Trade Commission ls
about to start an investigation of the
rise in food prices, It will ask the
President to approve an appropriation
of $400,000 for that purpose. It pro-
poses to cover every side of the food
situation,
Good! Letus hope at last we are
going to have a real investigation.
The country has confidence in the
Federal Trade Commission. Now
let's have facts. Let's go to the bot-
tom~—to the fundamentals—and real-
iy learn sll that can be learned about
the subject,
The proble.a is legal and economic.
The question of whet'ier there are
combinations in restraint of trade
must be decided. That has heretofore
attracted the main attention. Now
it's time to go more into the economic
part—-and go into it thoroughly. Are
the people being eompelled to pay too
mich for what they buy? Nobody
can asuswer that until he can say with
ressonable approximation what it
costs to produce those things.
In some fi lds the trade commission
will find plenty of data, The packers
for instance, can tell exactly what it
costs them to turn out their products,
Government attention has encouraged
accurate cost accounting in their case,
Bat these flelds are limited. In the
biggest fields of all the work will have
to be done from the groundup. There
isn’t a farmer in Illinols who knows
what it costs him to put his product
on the market today. There lsn’t
one manufacturer in ten who has an
accurate ioea of what it costs him to
run his business.
Let the trade commissioner start
iiterally * from the ground up”. Let
it start with the farmer aod find what
production of everything, from eggs
and wheat and cattle, means in terms
of money and labor expenditure, He
doesn’t kuow, and nobody else knows,
Then let it follow the product to con
sumption, Many people assume high
prices don’t start until they reach some
large organization. From the econom-
ic standpoint they are just as liable to
start at the beginning ss anywhere
else, Prices cannot be permaaently
below the cost of production under
any circumstances.
‘The country is in the mood for an
investigation that will be Jong and
deep snd thorough, It is tired of
these continued flurries about high
prices that get nothing except possi
bly a politician into Congress or some
other job or into the newspapers. It
has had its fill of half-baked remedies
that spring from attention to only
one balf of the great problem. Let's
have an investigation that will enable
the country to see it steadily and see
it whole. It would be cheap at $400,
000 or $4,000,000,
Killed on the Hallrosd,
A telegram announcing the desth of
William Laird was received by the
decensed’s mother, Mrs, Rebecca
Emerick, iu this place, Inst Thursday.
I'he only information the message con
tained was that Laird, who was about
forty-two years of age, was killed on
the niirond at Lodisuapolis, Indians,
on .
NORTH Di KOA LETTER,
W. L: Royer Writes of 40 and 49 Degrees
Below Zero Weather. FPotatoes Still st
8100 a Bushel,
Taylor, North Dakota, Feb, 17, 1017.
Editor Reporter :
I have read about the conditions of
the weather back esst and I will now
tell you about the weather in North
Dakota. I don't believe I can tell
about people freezing up here as I see
in the Reporter, although it was cold
enough to do so up here as it has been
the coldest winter since I came here,
and that was 1805. Our winter started
in the latter part of November and
kept pretty cold ever since. We had
46 and 48 degrees below zero with
three snow blizzarde, but in spite of it
all I was out every day. The snow ie
about 14 inches deep, and sleighing
bas been good all winter ; but best of
all, we have our own coal here
those eastern coal dealers could
freeze us out.
I eaw in the Reporter about the
North Dakota 1916 crops. If you only
could see the farmers hauling grain to
the elevators. In part of North Da-
kota the wheat was poor, but sround
bere we had a fair crop and with the
high prices of today the farmers have
bank sccounte, We are just as certain
of a crop in this country as in Illinois
or old Penpsylvanis. I made a trip
down to Illinois this winter and I find
thelr corn crop was not the best; I
also stopped in Chicago and took in
in the automobile show; saw the
finest car ever built ; about 400 ounces
of 24 carat gold were used in finishing
this car. It was valued at $30,000,
rom Chicago I went to St, Paul apd
attended a carnival there, The first
evening it took the parade two hours
and twenty minutes to pass a certain
corner ; 25,000 in this parade. The
second night there were 8000; they ¢
all wore special uniforms to represent
their own lodge and State, Part of
the parade looked like a 4th of July
celebration and part of it like Barnum
and Bailey's treet parade. From
there I came home the lust day of
Janusry and I find there is no place
like home even if it is in North Da-
kota, We are not suflering ss we
have plenty of potatoes, butler and
eggs. Polatoee are selling at §1.00 per
bu,, butter al 30¢, eggs at 35c, wheat
seliiog at $1.68 a bu., No. 1 flax ai
$2.64, barley 55¢, oals 46¢, rye §1 30.
I would like to hear through your
columns from some of my old school
mates and friends who are scattered
through the west, J. M. Stifler and
brother write very interesting lelters,
I never miss seeing Mr. and Mrs,
stiffler when ever | go east to lllinois.
They are located about one mile south
west of the court house at Freeport,
fil. They have a fine mansion with
all modern conveniences. He usually
bas the finest crops that are raised in
Northern Illinois and hss been very
successful, wide awake, and progres
sive,
With these lines I will close and
main yours truly,
BO
nog
is
Te-
L. W. ROYER.
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Woon lousg Chan,
Theeixth and last number on the
Centre Hail Lecture Course will be
Woon Young Chup, the Chinese lec-
turer, who will appear in Grapge hall
Tuesdsy evening, March 6th, The
Chinese gentleman was educated in
America and at the present time is tak-
ing a post graduate course in Harvard
University, at the same time wriliog a
book for use in Chinese schools, To
hear him is to go away without any
disappointments and with increased
knowledge, especially as concerns the
great Chiuese empire. He has four
principal lectures, anyone of which is
well worth bearing.
Go near Woon Young Chun next
Tuesday evening.
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Mrs, Addie B, I'araels Uoming,
Mrs. Addie B., Parsele, foe exira-
ordinary of tue ram traffic and State
W. C. T. U. lecturer, of Philadelphis,
will be in Centre Hall on Saturday
evening, March 10th, and will deliver
one of her noted lectures in the Grange
hall, Jo listen to Mrs, Parsels is to be
converted to the cause in which her
whole soul ls set. There are few
temperance workers, male or female,
who are better able to drive sledge
hammer blows at the iniquitous
traffio. No admission will be charged
to the lecture.
Mre, Parsels will also speak at the
following places on BSuuday, March
11th:
Penn Hall, Lutheran church, st 10
o'clock a. m.,
Rebersburg, Lutheran church, at 2
o'clock p. mi. :
Millheim, Evangelical church, at 7
o'clock p. m.
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D. L. Bartges, administrator of the
estate of Thomas OC. Bartges, deceased,
will sell farm stook and implements
on the Bartges farm, one mile west of
Old Fort, Saturday, March 8rd, begio-
-
nlug at nloe o'clock, Bes posters,
Centre Conuty ¥Y
South African affairs interested the
True Blue Commonweal Club last
week when Miss Mae Hoerner, who
has been teaching in Africs, showed
the girls some of her curios and told
them sbout the life of the girls there,
A pecular comb, somewhat like a very
large wooden fork, used by the Afri-
can girls (who comb their hair once
a week) was one of the general objects
Miss Hoerner brought with her.
Good pictures and Principles of Dec-
oration were discussed by the Howard
Branch at their last meeting, Mies
8. C, Loveioy, of Btate College, was
acked by the girls to give a talk thal
would help them in furnishing the
Club room which they expect to have
in a couple Miss Lovejoy
gave 8 most interesting talk, and had
with her a large pumber of piclures,
pointing oul many beauties of mapy
W.,C. A, Notes,
months,
of the master pleces.
(Girls, do send in your physical score
cards, The standiog of the Clubs
can not be accurately determined une
til all cards for each week are in. At
the end of the first week, of the Clubs
having reports in, Biate College gym
class had the highest average. The
highest individual seore to date be
longs to Miss Leotia Rouse, Howard
and the Mies Charlotle
Kuriz. There is still a chance for ev-
erybody, however. Who will come out
best ? Hemember it counts for your
club, as well as for yoursell, Keeping
the record, good or ill, counts for your
club, but the better it is the more it
counts, which Club will get the ban-
per? There was one perfect report,
Following is the rest of the poem by
Apgela Morgan, Learn it so that you
can say it when the spring fever gets
you.
“ WORK-—A BONG OF TRIUMPH. ”’
Work |
Thank God for the pace of it,
For the terrible, keen, swift race of
it;
Fiery steeds in full control,
second to
the goal
be
Nostrils s~quiver to
Work, the Power
hind,
Guiding the
mind,
Holding the runaway wishes back,
Reining the will to onesteady track,
faster,
greet
that drives
purposes, taming the
Fpeeding the energies faster,
Triumphiog over disater,
Ob, what is #0 good as the pain of it,
And what is #0 greal as Lhe gain
of it?
And what
goad,
Forcing us on through the rugged
road 7
is so kind as the cruel
Work !
Thank God for the swing of it,
For the clamoring, hammering
ring of it,
Passion of labor daily hurled
Ou the mighty anvil of the world.
Oo, what is go flerce as flame of it?
And what is so huge as the alm olf
it?
Thundering on through dearth and
doubt,
Calling the plan of the Maker oul.
Work, the Titan ; Work the friend,
tshaplog the earth lo a glorious end,
Lraipipg the swawps and bissting
the bills,
Dolug whatever Lhe Bpirit wills—
Bending a continent apart,
To answer the dream of the Master
heart,
thank God for a world where none
may shirk-—
Thank God for te splendor of work!
A ——— AA AI
Guard Lotatoes With Gan,
Over in Lewistown a load of pola
toes al present receives Lhe same care-
ful guarding that a consignment of
government gold receivea when pre-
pared tor ebipment. Here ia what the
Daily Sentinel says anent the high
price of the tubers :
With potatoes reiailing among local
tradesmen at the lordly price of $3.20 a
bushel, or 80 cents for a paltry peck,
no chances are being taken by dealers
hauling tubers over the streets. A
man with a drawn revolver stood
guard over a wagon load of potatoes as
the consignment was being transport.
ed from a warehouse to a grocery store
last evening.
The food riots and outbreaks in
Philadelphia and New York against
exorbitant food prices have evidently
impressed a local lesson and it may be
that esch food shop will shorily be ob-
iiged to have guards on duty at all
times as nn safeguard against violent
protests against prevailing high prices,
Wat tee] Work to Step,
Employes of the Standard Steel
works, pear Lewistown, predict a
merry soramble for other positions at
the big plant in & few days when they
say the company will have completed
their shell contracts and the exorbitant
wages pald for the past eighteen
months will be reduced to a minima,
It Is rumored tiie bulidings utilised by
this department will be turned into a
boli aud vat will
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Only three more weeks until
first day of spring.
Dr. G. W, Hosterman is spending a
week or two in Lancaster, the guest of
bis son, 8B, V. Hosterman, Ksq., and
family.
The sixth snd last number on the
Centre Hall Lecture Course will be
Woon Young Chun, the Chinese ora
tor, woo will appear in Grange Ar-
cadis, Tuesday evening, March 6th.
H. J. Lambert, the corrugated shear
man, is home for a few weeks’ rest
after having covered a number of
eastern states visiting the barber shops
in all the principal towns and cities,
Mrs, I. M. Arney is recovering from
the effects of an injury rustsined
while at the barn one day last week,
when in falling she was unfortunate
enough to have her left shoulder bone
broken,
the
Franklin Garis, a nephew of Byron
Garis of this place, lost hie right hand
& week ago when it came in contact
with a circular saw while engaged in
sawing wood at Tylersvillee. Ampu-
tation of the hand was performed in
the Lock Haven hospital,
William G, Fieher, of Bunbury, ine
gpector for the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Labor and Industry, was in
Centre Hall on Tuesday inspecting
manufacturing plants and public
buildings and ordered a number of ime
provements to comply with the law,
A fire started on the third floor, of
tue Dean Holmes house, at Biate Col
lege, last Wednesday night, but
prompt action on part of the student
body sud town fire fighters soon had
it under control. A defective flue was
supposed to have been the cause of the
fire,
“A Reporter ad. brings the answer,”
said Roy Garbrick who appeared
pleased when he sold a team of young
horses aller having an advertisement
appear in Lhe Reporter for two issues,
Charles Stover, of Milibeim,' was the
parity stuscied by the advertisement,
and making a trip to the Garbrick
farm last week, he paid the $300 asked
aud took the team home.
Gruver Rboads, of near Reedsville,
while rambling through s mouniain-
ous locality in the vicinity of miiroy a
few days ago encountered a full grown
wild cat. Fortunately he earried with
him a trusty rifle which he leveled at
the beast and blazed away. The feline
wae quickly tumbled to the earth and
the slayer bore the prize home in trie
umph. There is a bounty of $6 upon
wild cats.
If you are in arrears on your paper
you will be doing tbe editor a true fa-
vor by remitting the amount due. The
newspaper publishing business was
never 80 much of a drain on funds as
at the present time. Many papers
bave been forced to suspend publica
tion while others, including many
large city dailies, are opemating at a
tremendous loss. Pay the printer and
be will thank you.
Last week's Lewisburg Journal con
tained the following item concerning
a former Centre Hall couple : Mrs,
George W. Ocker entertained a few
friends at her home on Bouth Third
sireet on Thursday at an excellent din.
ner io honor of the sixtieth anniver
sary of Mr. Ocker’s birthday. Born
on February 22 he was given the name
of George Washington Ocker. The in-
vited guests at this delightful fanction
were Kev. and Mrs, Frederick Aurand
of MiMlinburg ; Rev. and Mrs. A. K.
Zimmerman and grandchild, of Seline-
grove ; Rev. and Mrs, H. C. Rose and
daughter Helen, of this pisce. Rev.
Aurand, who ie a retired minister,
of MiMlinburg, confirmed both Mr,
and Mrs. Oc=ii in Oentre county
when they were young people. Rev.
A. K. Zimmerman performed the
marriage ceremony.
There's only one way for the home
merchants to counteract the influenee
trouble in making sales. The mall
order house wins because it
expense in presenting the
cerning ite goods before the
such a way ss to create
that is the whole secret of its
creating desire. The merchant
would clear his shelves and turn
his stock oftener during the year
create desire for his goods on
of his customers, and what
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