THE CENTRE REPORTER.| THURBDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1017 ye Thirty-five Years Ago. EsDecember 14, 1882. ~The Y. M, C, A, of Centre Hall, on last Friday evening gave a reception to the business men of the town iu the association hall, Voeal and instrumental musie, social chat, ete, were engaged in for an hour, after which a table was spread and stewed oysters with extras wereserved, D. J. Meyer has purchased Bherifl Rpangler’s balf interest in the Centre Hall hotel. December 21st.—~James Treaster shot a large wild cat on the Miffiin county glide of the seven mountains, "Wesley Henney and Samuel Shoop have become guccessorato J. O, Dein- inger in the manufacture of carriages, etc., in this place, i fp fA —— STATE AGHRI(CULTUBRAL NOTES, More tractors were purchased by Pevneylvania farmers during the pres- ent year, records showing & substan- tial increase in nearly every county. Incressed interest throughout the Btste in the sheep industry promiges to show another increase in the pum. ber of sheep this year. Thesverage potato yield for the Blale will be considerably higher than last year when the poor erop showed bud seventy bushels to the acre. An incresee in the number of silos in the State is shown by reports of the Department of Agriculture statisti- cians at Harrisburg, —— Bheep growers claim that Is possible to establish a flock at present high prices and realizs from 50 to 70 per cent, profit on the! investment durisg the first year. It js estimated that Pennpaylvanis's 8,660,000 people annually coneume 48,- 012,000 bushels of wheat while the pro- duction this year ia but 26,364,721 bush- els, A——— FRUITTOWN. Charles Fye, of State Colleg-, spent a few days last week with his family at this place. Mre, T. J. Fleisher i= speniiog this week with her daughter, Mrs. D. PB. Wer!, at Aaronsburg, Mre, William Barson and childrer, of Btate College, spent last week at the Edward Babb home, Clayton Ripks, of State College, epent a few days last week at the home of his uncle, 8, E. Jordan. Ammon Bubb, of Heedsville, epent a few daye this week at the home of his parents in this place. Mr, and Mre. Clyde Wert, of Lewis towr, and Lillian Fleisher, of Yeager- town, took dinner on Funday at the home of their grandparents at thie place, A A —— Boys Aitempt Bobbary ; Shoot 10 Kil, Two boys—Qeorge Conrad and GeorgaiMoorchousc—both 18 years of age, and of Altoous, palled c ff a wild West scene in the grocory store of Da- vid Parish, aged sevent;-two years, in Altuone, last Trorsday night, when ‘hey attemped to rob the caeh drawer io the stcre. A daughter of the groe- eryman surprised the boys and when the sged man went to her rescue they opened fire with revelvers and hit the man and his daughter. The boys then beat both into unconsciousness, It is believed that both will recover, although there is some doubt about the aged man, Moorehouse was arrested ehortly al- terwards at his home where he was found sleeping with a 08 calibre revol. ver under bis pillow. He was prev- jously im plicated by Conrad ina con- fession to the chief of police. Be — Penn State Ambulances Men Drill Stadents at College, One of Penn Btate’s ambulance see- tions bas come from Allentown camp to assict the army officers detailed here by the War Department with their ig- struction of State College students in modern tactice. Bince early last May, when the Penn State men went into the “‘UssAcs” camp, they have devot- ed many hours every day to military drill. They are now regarded as the crack ambulance section in the cape tonment, and they have been fur. loughed indefinitely eo that they may remain here to train the State College regiment of 1500 uniformed men dare log the winter. Home of the ambu- lance men are helping drill the recent ly organized Officers’ Reserve Train- log Corps contingent of 140 students, @thers are handling the freshman and sophomore battalions, a —————— A a — New Artificial Eyes. A new artificial eye has been perfects ed sud patented by John ©. Rosser of Mill Hall, that promises to revolu- tionizs the manufacture of artifiolsl eyes. The inventor claims his invention has a number of advantr ges over the present day srtific.al eye, being made of valeanized rubber and non<bresk- abe. It is said to look more natural than tbe regular gines eye now in us, Ri A soul oa | Women Possess This Faculty More Than Men and Usually Get What They Decide They Want. » s— “The main difference between men and women is nowhere so marked as It is in the distinction between chare peter and ability. A man's ability is entirely separate from his character. A many may have genius and no character at all. He may have small abilities and large character. In a man the two things appear to be entirely independent of one another, But a woman's character is detere mined by her ability, and her ability is determined by her character, writes TT, I. M. in Life, In reality, therefore, women are much more simple than men, although they do not appear to Women are more complicated outwardly than men, They offer more superficial variety. But closer obser« vation and association among them tend to make them more alike, Men, on the other hand, grow more complicated #8 you come to know them better. This {#2 because thelr abilities and charactefs being unrelated and the proportionate measure of each sube Jeet to variations, new combinations are constantly being presented. The varie things which go to make up the power of woman, on the hand, are more closely related. n, therefore, more n, although they do not seem being uncone he so. nus motive other Wore than {no concentrate do so, the process scious, why, If a woman ts a thing and a man doesn't want to have it, ins ys gets it. When a man wants a thing he plans to get it nuch he can throuzh the processes of his I and will woman wants ing she ian at all—but y than the wer whole nsclous, 1s her she alwa just as ordinary » ets it much more of , because keup, the ated work Lid machi nan wat she Little Acorns.” v clerks in the old post id, Joined (dig. r did were in's-le-Grar 1 208 riter In fact, they re Ceres ital of veen the nplast form ness, The sful that operations, soon two or re bought at a 1 grocers ives did not want them with also was both tea and ard, which irst of the Civil Service bled. Ft roth Her Pride Hum Miss Sydney Fairl nerennato 3 1 r. the Ime once had doubts mid her, *“I had been to the loeal military ho “and a but he gailed leave, and I day, a few of the up to me, and I recognized fy friend, who had returned from Canada. “*You remember me? he said, Ginger from the hospital. “Of course’ I replied. *Yon saw my name in the program. For my make-up as Mah Hubah converts me into a hag of about seventy years, and I thought It was a complete disguise, “ *Oh, no, I never saw the program,’ Ginger replied. ‘I recognized you di- rectly you came on the stage. “It was the biggest blow I ever re celved” . rather a ful compliment 1 pt pay fe pital,” recalls Miss Fairbrother, Se I became g Can for Canada on long sick lost of One hs later, enme te good friends with youn ian officer, sight im, ns 1 + door. an officer ename out ‘I'm Choosing Employees by Test. During recent years much has been heard on the sclentific use of human imaterial, including the careful selec. tion of men best suited for various classes of manual labor. An important point is the discrimination between strength and manual dexterity. A number of devices are proposed for testing the latter quality, such as the time to transfer a number of matches fromm a pan into a series of holes pre. pared for them, For other classes of work strength of fingers and forearm may be tested with the ergograph, or, again, grip may be tested with a dyna mometer., As regards manual dexter ity, the shape of the hand and fingers often offers a'good guide. It is said that the very finest typists have exe ceptionally small fingers and that gen. erally small dimensions tend to quick ness and deftness of movement. Desperate Remedy. “1 don’t know how to rid myself of Mr. Grewsky's attentions,” said Mrs. Twoddle, “He has proposed to me half a dozen times and simply won't take ‘no’ for an answer,” “I understand he is a great stickler for correct English” sald her friend, thoughtfully, “Well, what has that to do with me?” him with ‘nix’ The shock . 5 him wo dnd Si ST PRISONERS WENT ON STRIKE Refused to Go Back to Jail Until One of Their Number Was “Fired” By Workhouse Superintendent. Perhaps the queerest strike on recs ord was that of workhouse prisoners in Delaware county, Indiana, recently, when they refused to return to jail un less one of their number recelved his freedom. And it was not that they de- sired him to be free, either, but be cause they wished to be freed of his presence, “I had my gang of prisoners way out by Yorktown, working on a country road that needed repairing” sald Jumes Cole, workhouse superintendent, nccording to the Indianapolis News, “when I noticed, about time to load them into the automobile and bring them back, that the prisoners were hanging back and talking among them- gelves, Finally one of them cnme to me with the story and his demands, ““The boys here won't go back to jail with you unless you fire Danny, there,’ sald the spokesman. “They won't ride back in the machine with him be- he has vermin In his halr and on his bady, You elther let him go or no more jall for us. We've agreed to make a run for it if you don’t, and you can’t catch all of us’ “Of course, I had no right to allow the man his freedom,” Cole continued, “hut the fellow jumped up nway just then and I'm bound to admit {n't try very hard to eatch him, Anyway, that broke the strike.” cause “TOMMIES” CALL IT “WIPERS” British Soldiers Haye Given Their Own Pronunciation to the Little Belgian Town of Ypres. The little Belginn town of Ypres is sure enough a place in history; but, in England, at any rate, #t will always be specially sure of It under a name vhich no eloth worker of Flanders ever heard, and would certainly never rec ognize, The British “Tommy,” who for over two years has held up the ' around the famous insists on calling it I and the name has “taken * as he would say. It traveled over o England, and “Wipers” began some- w to be associated with “hot con mn forces | salient, a »" ipers, course of one of his fously enough, it is not the first this, or at any rate a + for it was in the looms of was made, in the middle ' table linen, or diapers. Testing the Eye. ing Degrees of Bri t" before the Hiuminating En. society recently, avis nd horizontal lines in red headache, when either black or red. Doctor Kerr ques. tions whether a target is more distinet when a brilliantly llluminated disk ap. pears on a jet black background than when the surroundings were diffusely illuminated. wo spr wi : rnin — i Joker Dressed as Bear. | Representing himself as a bear which) is sald to have annoyed the residents 'of Reddon, Del, a young man of that village was shot at and badly beaten ‘before his identity was discovered. | For several weeks residents of Red: \den declared that they had seen a bear in sections of the village. Taking ad vantage of the fright in the little town, lone young man dressed himself up td represent a bear and’ started out to igtartle the villagers. His practical oke took the wrong turn when a num er of men with guns and clubs started chase him, Before he could tell wha the was he was badly pounded with ubs and came very near being shot, Movie Film as Evidence. A moving-picture film is to be Intro duced into court in Paris as evidence in a divorce case, The plaintiff in the action saw on a sereen on the boulevards pictures of the procession of Italian delegates through the boulevards to the Place de la Concorde to lay a wreath upon the Strasbourg monument, The procession was followed by a taxicab in which, to his astonishment, ithe spectator saw his wife, seated with ia stranger. He bought the film, to be d as the basis of his action for di. voree., King Has Many Namesakes Now. His majesty has sundry namesakes in London now that he has adopted his inew surname, says the London Globe. "There is a solicitor in Bishopsgate and a cabinetmaker in Dalston, to name two. There is also a Miss Windsor, who has a respectable business in South Kensington, Likewise a Mr. Cornelius Windsor lives in North Lon- don, and another Windsor has a gro- cery shop in Lewisham. A firm of fronmongers at Roehampton and some clothiers at Finsbury Park can also claim the same surname as the royal family. i &o Bonin - ag F Louis Dammers Philadelphia EYESIGHT Specialist SPECIAL NOTICE I personally will be One Day Only in Centre Hall Centre Hall Hotel Parlors Saturday, Nov. 24, 1917 Office Hours, 8a. m, 102 p. m. sharp I offer you a fine pair of glasses, including Dammer's eye examina- tion, clear crystal lenses, gold filed frame and clegant case, as low as $1.00 Special ground lenses at lowest prides, Invisible Bilocals~Two pair In one. No ines, No cement. 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