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LUUALS,
Wear a carnation en Sunday.
Mre, E. B, Ripka is eutfering from
rbeumatiam.
Centre Hall citizeo ought to display
a greater number of American flage.
The light frosts of last week are not
thought to have burt the fruit buds.
Mr. and Mre, Paul Bradford, of near
Milroy, spent SBunday with relatives
in town.
Mre. J. G. King spent Bunday with
her sister, Mre. Morris Furey, in
Bellefonte.
The W. C. I, U, will meet at the
home of Mre, T. LI. Moore on Satur.
day evening.
No quorum was present at the May
council meeting, hence no business
was transacted.
Dr. Allison, proprietor of the Mill.
heim hotel, purchased a new Max-
well touring car.
It appears the hay fields are in good
condition, there having been little loss
of elover plantas from freezing.
A Mothet’s Day service will be ren-
dered In the United Evangelical
church on Bunday morning.
Millbeim ‘eitizens recently pur-
chased a large flag to be suspended
over the diamond.n that town,
A. C. Ripka assisted his son, Bruce
W. Ripks, at Centre Hill, for a few
weeks in plowing and seeding.
Unclaimed letter in Centre Hall
Post Office, May 5, 1917: Mr, John
SBchafler.—8. W. Bmitb, Postmaster,
Touch up the dark spots about your
premises, The flies love filth and
breed there, consequently cleaning up
will leseen the fly nuisance,
William H, Baird and Frank Mil-
ler, of State College, motored to Centre
Hall on Thursday, the former paying
the Reporter a pleasant call.
There are few loafers about Centre
Hall these days, and the few here are
not needed. A loafer is a leech
and should be scraped off society.
W. M. Grove, the surveyor, of
Bpring Mille, was in Philipsburg on
Friday to lccate a pew road from &
point pear Munson to a point near
Ophir minpe.
The snpual Granger's Picnic at
Willism'’s Grove will not be held this
year owing to conditions accompany-
ing the war. This will be the first
mies ip forty-three years.
“The Pennsylvania Ion” the
pew pame of the Laurelton hotel
which was reopened a week ago by
A. W. Roekenbrod, formerly proprietor
of the Spring Mills hotel.
A sop, tipping the scales at nine
pounds, was born t> Mr. and Mre,
Musser E. Coldron on Bunday mornp-
ing, which is giving ‘Pete’ a shade
greater look of responsibility.
The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
Cleveland Mitterling was seriously ill
for several days, suffering from bron-
chitis which threatened to develop in-
to pneumonis. The child is now on a
fair way to recovery.
The iceh of rainfall last week was «
Godsend to a number of farmers
whose cisterns had become dry or
nearly sc, Farmer J, F. Breon, near
town, was ope who was compelled lo
bsul water for his stock for a week
preceding the rain.
Messrs. I. L. Harvey and Darius
Waite, president and secretary, re-
spectively, of the Centre County Sab-
bath Bchool Association, and More.
Harvey, on their retura from “the
district convention at Spring Mille, on
Friday, stopped over night in Cen-
tre Hall, continuing their journey
by auto to Bellefonte and Orviston
the next morning.
The Bell Telephone compsny will
give a free moving picture show in
Grange Arcadia, Centre "Hall, this
(Thursday ) evening. An interesting
film entitled, * Bpeeding the spoken
word,” will be shown, and will be
followed by an address on ‘The
growth of a great modern utility—the
telephone.” The show has been given
by the Bell pegple in every city in the
state. Remember, it’s free. Show
begins at eight o'clock.
Eugene Gramley, youngest son of
Mr. sand Mre. T. Mi Gramley, of
Spring Mille, and who is a sopho-
more at ** Penn State,” has landed a
position on the pitching staff of
“State's” varsity baseball team. He
sccompanied the team on its trip to
Maine a week ago, and was used on
the mound on three occasions, acquit-
ting himself in such style as to make
bis fixture on the stafl a certainty.
For many years Centre Hall was
proud of ite reputation for hospitality,
a quality not lacking in many of its
citizens in the generations gone by.
Hospitality is a fine quality for all
communitiés to husband, and just at
this time our citizens have an oppoi-
tunity to show their good feeling and
hospitable disposition toward those
doing religious work by taking the
workers and delegates to the County
Sunday Behool convention into their
homer. These people will not expect
to be fed like kings and queens, the
common meal, such se is prepared
every day for the family, is sufficient,
It fs an open heart and warm hand
that makes the stranger feel at esse
snd welcome within your portale,
This can be extended to many more
than will be necessary to make the
convention here the grandet aod
beet of sll similar gatberiogs ‘held
within the county. : !
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LOOALS
Wanted —sunshine, and lots of it,
Spell your hoepitality with a big H.
The pink label appears this week.
Look at it and see If you have proper
aredit,
Messrs. Daniel Bohn and J. J. Page,
of Linden Hall, were oallers at this
office on Tuesday.
New potatoes are in the local mar-
ket. The price ranges from one to
five cents each. :
Rainy weather set in Friday of last
week aud since then the san has been
seen only for a few hours,
Dr." H, F. Bitper left on Tuesday
for Lancaster to attend a meeting of
the trustees of F. & M. college,
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Krape, daughter
Florence, and Mre, Kate Saunders,
motored to Williamsport on Tuesday
where they consulted Dr, Haskins
with regard to little Miss Florence's
eyes, .
The Odd Fellows and Rebekah State
Convention will be held in York, op-
ening the 14th and closing the 17th
inst, M. N. Miller will represent the
former and Miss Lena Emerick the
latter organization,
Rev. R. R. Jones is attending the
exercises incident to the twentieth
anniversary of his class at the theolo-
gical seminary at Lavpcaster, to-day.
Rev. Jones holde the distinction of
being the only minister in the class
who has two sons in the mibpistry.
The coming Bunday-school conven-
must not be under-rated, It will be
yuite different from the county conven-
tion held here some years ago. Many
of the speakers have state and na-
tional reputationse-they are real
workers, who you will not regret hav-
ing given your time to hear. Centre
Hall with ite numerous churches and
Suupday-schools ought to wake up to
the situation.
Mre, Mary Goodhart has been in a
rather serious condition for the past
week, suflering from erysipelas and
other ailmente. Her speech is also
seriously affected. Two of her daugh-
tere, Mre, J. J. Glenn, of Carlisle, and
Mrs, W. BR. Winegarduoer, of Milroy,
as well as her sop, Robert Goodhart,
of Altoons, were home for a few days.
Another daughter, Mrs. John KE,
Rearick, of Hot Bprings, Arkansas,
was notified of her mother’s illness,
‘‘ We are experiencing the coldest,
most disappointiog spring eesson
covaring a period of hall a century.
Tbus far we have not had a single
warm day,” writes Dr. Alfred Beirly,
a former Centre countiap, from Chi-
cago, Illinois, Dr. Beirly bad the
great pleasure of meeting Marshall
Jofire, the French war leader who is
now in Americs, a few days ago, and
very ably writes of the reception ten-
dered him by the city of Chicago, in
another column.
Mr, and Mre. D. A. Boozer were
looking forward to a pleasure that bas
been deferred. Ke erence is made to
the coming home of their son, Ralph
Boozer, wife and two children, from
Chicago, who expected to begin the
trip in their car about the 20th inst.
The postponement of the visit is due
to the fact that the little daughter is
now suflering from scarlet fever, be-
ing one of numerous little folk at-
tacked by that disease in the commu-
nity in which the Boozers live.
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DEATHS,
Thomas W. Walker died at his
home in Rebersburg on BSsturday.
About five and one-half years ago he
suffsred a paralytic stroke and had
been an invalid ever since, He was
born April 3, 1548, hence was aged
sixty-eight years, one month end two
days, He married Anua E. Lose In
1871, five children being born to the
union, two of whom died in infancy.
The widow and three sons survive ae
follows: Orvis C., at home ; Cloyd B.
snd Victor I, both of Pittaburgh.
One brother, Wilson IL, of Dakots,
Iilinole, and three eisters—Mre,
Amanda Keesler, of Rebersbarg ; Mre,
Robert J. Vonads, of Hershey, and
Mrs. John Garthoff, of Bellefonte—
also survive.
Decensed was a charter member of
Rebersburg lodge, No. 1081, I. O, O, F.
Fuperal services were conducted by
Rev. J. M. Rearick, of Williamsburg,
on Wednesday morning, burial fol-
lowing in the Union cemetery at
Rebersburg.
Mre, Badie Hile died at her home in
Pleasant Gap, Wednesday morning at
seven o'clock, after an illness of three
weeks, On Tuesday she suffered a
paralytic stroke and never regained
consciousness, Bhe was aged about
sixty yeare, One son, George W, Hile,
and the following brothers survive :
Ouls and Harry Hile, of Pleasant Gap ;
Lawrence Hile, Axemann, and Will
inh Hile, of Bellwood, No faneral
arrangements have yet been made,
Barial will be made at Pleasant Gap.
John HB. Albright, a native of Mill«
heim, died at his home In Philadel«
phis, aged about seventy years, Mr,
Albright was born in Millheim, but
went to Philadelphia when a young
fmsn and married there. A number
of children survive, Mise Lydia Als
bright, of Millbetmw, isn sister, Inter-
ment wes made in & Philadelphia cen
etery,
Sin
MOBILIZING THE
NATION'S BUY-AT-
HOME PROMOTERS
James Eaton Tower, Domestie
Science Expert, Analyzes Mail
Order Advertising and the
Magazine Move Against It.
At the very lowest estimate the re»
tall trade of the United States amounts
to $10,000,000,000 a year.
This trade is shared roughly by two
groups of distributors. On the one
hand we have the large department
stores of the big cities of 100,000 or
over and the blg mall order houses,
located In but two or three of the very
largest cities,
On the other hand, we have the whole
salers and jobbers, the retail stores of
the smaller cities and towns, and the
general stores In the sparsely populated
regions. With this group we must place
the trade papers and house organs, rep-
resenting the interests of manufacture
ers and jobbers, and the great national
magazines of general circulation, whose
interests also lle on the slide of dis.
tributors of branded and advertisable
products,
The annual retall business of
country is $10,000,000,000 a year.
But It 18 the country and small
town merchant rather than the city
retailer who suffers most from mall
order competition. The New York
Times Analyst of March 8, 1013, esti.
mated the number of country stores at
500,000, with a total business amounts
ing to $2.500,000,000. It will therefore
be seen that the mall order business,
competing mostly with this class and
amounting to $500,000,000 a year,
anounts to 20 per cent of the total
rural trade of the country.
The fight between the retail men
chant and the mall order man is his
toric. For years local merchants’ as
socintions, boards of trade and similar
bodies have been striving to promote
the “buy at home" idea,
But if the recent startling news
which comes from New York means
anything It means that these hundreds
of thousands of “buy at home” boost
ers, scattered throughout the land
have won a new and powerful cham.
plon, whose co-operation means lead
ership, force and direction for the “buy
at home” movement everywhere,
The Dutterick company of New York,
with an output of 150,000,000 period
feals a year, has definitely allied itself
with the local merchant as against the
mail order man.
From one printing plant there go tq
the women of the United States every
month no less than 1.500000 maga
zines, Among these are the Dellnes
tor, the Designer and the Woman's
Magazine. At one fell swoop, begin
ning with thelr April issaen, these
magnzines banished Trom thelr col
imns all mall order advertising. The
in revenue, It 1s understood
amounts to hundreds of thousands of
dollars annually.
The verdict as to whether for them
this wns a plece of “good business” or
ea costly concession to sentl
the nation's retall
this
spcrifice
merely
ment rests with
merchants,
Without wishing to pose as a prophe
et, It 1s my personal bellef that this
step on the part of these magnzines ls
sa significant, vital to the retail
merchants of America, that they will
inevitably fall in line behind thesg
leaders of the host and accord them
substantial and sustained sup
port as to prove thelr recent stand ta
have been not only a courageous inno
vation, but a plece of “good business®
a]
such
Local Grocery Cheaper Than M, O.
The Dry Goods Reporter, published
in Chicago, calls attention to a Wis
consin grocery store that advertised in
the local newspapers a list of seventy.
three articles, giving mall order house
prices and its own. In every case the
store was as low or lower than the
mull order house. The grocer made an
offer of a saving of 25 per cent over
the mall order price to any customer
who would place a twenty-five dollag
order with him.
Saves $3 Buying at Home.
Professor Paul H. Nystrom placed
an order with a local merchant in
Madison, Wis, amounting to nearly
$50, In the provision line. The total
cost to him amounted to $3 less than
mall order house prices before con.
sidering the freight at all. The total
saving, including the freight charges,
amounted to not less than $6.50 on a
$50 purchase,
’
82 Per Cent Profit For M. O. Mouse.
The largest mall order house in Chis
Centre Reporter, $1.60 per year,
¥
State Legisintors Want More Salary.
Grand Onstie K. OG, ¥, Session,
Mr, and Mrre, Poul Bradford are the
bh presentiatives from the local lodges
to $2600.
The member-
i
his volce againet the menrure,
thousand ; recelpte, $420 459 ;
benefi'e, $144,644 ; for
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
DALES ARD BOYES WANTED. ~
Men and boys wanted, at good wages, for oon
tract or day work. — Apply to HAYES RUN
or CENTRE BRICK & CLAY OO,
Orviston, Pa. 19022
FOR BALE A few Black Hawk Corn Planters
tent of $260,000 biennially.
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pumersls legs than “1777?
tance will be much appreciated,
| ed for relief,
a MI SP ABS.
The Bell Telephone Company will
{lst in ite directories the fire wardens
{in the fifly-six counties in the state,
| The iden is to sseist the Department
Dead Stock
Removed
Quick Service
All Hours
Both "Phones
To conform with State laws
Hides MUST NOT
from dead stock
be removed
Call at my expense.
L. L. Smith,
| of Foresiry to reduce the demage from
{ forest fires,
fact that they were purchased before the ad vanes
~CLEVE EUNGARD, Bpring Milis, Fs
THREE HORSES FOR BALE. 1 driving hors
and 2 ali-pur) horses are offered for sale, All
and all right PERRY K. DETWIL
ER, Bpring Mills, Pa. oZlpd
FOR BALE~Hal! dozen window sesh, complet
with lights, will be sold cheap—Inqguire of % HB
MARGARET THOMAS, Centre Hall Ps.
CHESTNUT SHINGLES FOR BALE ~1 have
will be sold ressonsbly Order early 0. M
The supply is limited,
Milesburg, Pa. ua
A Full Line of
WALTER A. WOOD
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Crown Grain Drills, Black
Hawk Corn Planters, Krouse
Cultivators, Binder Twine.
We also have a Jeffrey Lime Pul.
verizer ami ave prépared to crush
stone for
Concrete or Agricultural
Lime
Cleve H. Eungard
Spring Mills, Pa.
the fire going.
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from punctures and “blow-
solutely free from
to do it—eq
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tis a demonstrated posi-
doubles tire mileage, cuts tire cost
from tire troubles.
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