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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917
Thirty-four Years Ago.
January 4, 1883.—[ With this issue
the Reporter appears in eight page
form, similar to the present form, the
change being made from a nine-col-
ump, four-page paper. ]
George Hoffer, of Boalsburg, had a
serious stroke of palsy on Thursday.
He has been unable to speak since.
Rev, J. EK. Miller, of this place, was
presented with a fine silver watch, by
his friends, as a Christmas gift,
John Bhoop, of Will county, Ill,
who left this section sixteen years ago,
returned last week for the first time
since he left,
ki A. P, Krape has returned from Mis-
souri,
Rev, J. K, Miller, of this place, has
accepted a call from the Loganville
Lutheran charge and will move to
that place in the spring.
The Masonic fraternity had a grand
supper at the Meyers hotel on New
Years night, About seventy guests
were present,
Married.—On Dee. 26, at Centre
Hall, by Rev. W. E, Fischer, James
Btahl and Mis Mary Gfrerer, both of
this place.
The Georges Valley Lutheran con-
gregation presented their pastor, Rev.
W. E. Fischer, with a handsome new
sleigh, which Messrs. Samuel Harter
-and Jehan Coldron brought t) town
and unloaded at the Lutheran parson-
age.
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Los Angeles Dry,
Complete tabulations of the vote at
‘ the “wel” and *““‘dry’-Jelection! showed
the adoption of an ordinance to close
saloons March 31, 1918, by a ma-
Jority«of 20,174 votes, the total returns
being 54,455 for the ordinance and 34,-
281 against it.
The ordinance provides for the ab-
olition of all liquor traffic in the har-
bor district.
Pine Grove Miils.
Mrs, Margaret Krebs is ill.
The top notch price on corn is cau:-
ing early butchering by many.
Jasper Rishel and wife were Sunday
visitors at the Mrs, 8, Peters home.
Clift. Close is manipulating the
wheel of a new Buick car,
Mesare. Waldo and G. C. Corl each
have a new Dodge car, bought of the
Boyder agency at State College.
John F. Kimport, of Boalsburg, was
a business visitor in town on Tours
day, having some dental work doue,
Miss Nora Goheen, of Baileyville,
spent several weeks with her brother,
Dr. G. B. Goheen, at Coalport,
The Louder brothers have invested
in a new McCormick corn husker and
are ready for business,
December 12th, J. 8B, Miller will. sell
his stock and implements and quit
farnaing to accept a position at the
Rockview institution.
Mre. Annas Fry for the past week
has been visiting relatives at the
Branch, where she spent her early
life,
Mrs. Margaret Lytle, after a two
weeks’ visit with friends in Altoons,
returned to her home at Baileyville on
Friday.
Mre. Mary McCormick, accompanied
by Mre. John Bowersox, spent several
days in Altoona, visiting and on a
shopping expedition. They found
, everything marked to the top prices.
After April 1st, 1918, J, A. Fortney,
now tenant on the D, J. Meyer farm
near Linden Hall, will till the broad
and fertile acres of the Archy-Tate
farm near town,
The sale held on the Dr. Fry farm
“last week was well attended. The
bidding was brisk and Cryer Reed had
only to wait for a wink to keep the
goods soaring in price, The sale
totaled $2650.00,
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Aaronsburg,
* Mr. and Mrs, E. A, Bower autoed
to Bellefonte on Bunday.
Charles Wolfe went to Akron, Ohio,
to visit his only son, Fred, who holds a
good position in that city.
Harry Crouse, the barber, spent a
day in Bellefonte with Mr. and Mrs.
B. V. Vonoda,
Miss Lodie Harter, after a
month at the Garthoof home in Belle-
fonte, returned to her home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Tressler
moved their household goods lait week
from Yeagertown to this place.
Rev. W. D. Donat had an sttsck of
illness on Bunday evening and was
not able to preach,
ai Mn Bs. ©. Monrl spems Doses
rs, EB, G. Mingle
at Potters Mills, .
Laat week T. 0. Weaver returned
home from Akron, Ohlo, where he
bas been employed for the past four or
more years,
Mra, Allen Keener,
Was a welcome guest of her
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COMFORT IN AMERICAN HOTEL
(Caravansaries Surpass Those of Any
Other Nation of the Earth, Is
Opinion of One Writer.
| 1 remember somebody once saying
ko me a long {ime ago that the Ameri-
cans had attained luxury by jumping
over comfort. I think there is a cer-
tain amount of truth in this, and yet
it would be foolish to call American
hotels uncomfortable. They are not
juncomfortable. Only there is this to
‘be sald: That to some people all
hotel life is uncomfortable. They hate
living in a crowd. They hate bustle,
‘confusion, noise, the arrival and de-
parture of people, ete. And there is
‘certainly more hotel life in America
‘than in other countries. And yet what
‘a saving to the nerves, and to the
‘temper, are so many of the devices
and the arrangements in American
hotels. The telephone, for instance.
If you want a nice test of temper, try
to get a number at the Hotel Cecil
in London; or, better still, spend &
happy morning in ringing up people
on the telephone in Paris. In America
it is either done for you at once or
you know it cannot be done, and the
matter is settled, Hotel life in Ameri-
ca seems to me infinitely better or
ganized than in any other country in
the world, with the possible exception
of China. Because when you order
a room at a Chinese hotel, in a small
Chinese town, the room is built for
you while you walt; you choose the
style of room, and the paper, the car-
peting and all the furniture are put in
during the day.—Metropolitan Maga
zine. s
STREWN WITH WAR MUNITIONS
Parts of Colon Found Liberally
“Salted” With Ancient Make of
Bombs and Grapeshot.
If what engineers and others inter
ested in the additional reclamation
work on filled fields in Colon report
is true, parts of the city are fairly
well salted with bombs and grapeshot.
A rumber of these have heen dug up
by a suction dredge, which is now ex-
cavating near the end of the slip, to
the west of the pler at Cristobal.
About half a dozen of the larger
projectiles and a peck of smaller balls
were found In the stone box of the
dredge recently, and it is estimated
that a greater quantity went through
the discharge pipe into the reclama-
tion fill east of East street, Colon.
The projectiles were Incrusted with a
kind of natural concrete, made up of
coral deposits, sand and shells, to the
thickness of two Inches. Below this
was a coating of rust; beneath the
steel was clean and well preserved.
The mark, “O. R. D. D. 1562,” was
found in the interior of some of the
largest projectiles. One, when it was
opened, contained black powder in a
state of fair preservation—From the
Lima (Peru) West Coast Leader,
Golf Ballistics.
I do not see why all the inventions
which have been applied to other pro-
jectiles should not be utilized for the
purpose of persuading the golf ball to
go where it is wanted to go. There
ought to be a sight on every golf club
as there is on every rifle, so that one
might take aim properly. Every golf-
er ought to carry a range finder,
which would enable him to calculate
the length of his approach shot, of
his chip shot on the edge of the
green, and of his approach putt. 1
think it would also be well if the
golfer could be provided with a little
instrument for measuring the strength
of the wind, the destiny of the air,
the stiffness of the blades of grass on
the green, and the gradient of its
slopes. It would be well if some
great mathematician were to compile
a series of tables giving the amount
of borrow in the case of every imag
nable combination of slopes, wrinkles,
undulations and crow’s feet. What
we want in golf is a stream of facts
instead of a stream of guesses. For in-
stance, we want to know whether the
green is fast or slow, and how fast
and how slow. Surely it would be pos-
sible to Invent a speedometer for
greens!—London Opinion.
Unmannerly Tourists.
The Laplander is annoyed with the
tourist who visits him. The nature of
his complaint may be gathered from
the notice posted In the districts of
Lapland most visited by travelers,
which in several languages runs as
follows:
“Dear Tourist: What would you
say if an unknown individual with
out asking your permission or even
knocking at your door pushed his way
into your home, made himself com-
fortable on your sofa, peered at every-
thing, rummaged everywhere, laugh«
ed at your domestic arrangements,
asked how much money you have,
wished to interest himself in your
love affairs and seized hold of your
children to photograph them?
“What would you do with such an
unmannerly intruder?” ;
STATE AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
Lancaster county is again the honor
corn growing county of the Btate,
Bradford county carries off the
buckwheat production honore, but
there are many changes In the relative
standing of other counties,
Lancaster county has csplured the
potato growing honors from Lehigh
county.
Seven counties had yields of over a
million bushels of potatoes this year as
compared with three counties with
such yields lest year.
Only twice in ten yeare, 1902 and in
1911, bas the present average yield of
99.6 bushels of potatoes to an acre been
exceeded In the Btate. In 1912 it was
100 bushels and in 1614, 105 bushels.
Ther are less than the average
pumber of hogs being fattened for the
Btate, the returns to the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture showing about 92
per cent of the average number,
A pm
Transter of Real Estats,
Cy1us Ziegler to Edward R. Wolfe,
tract of land in Miles Twp. ; $800.
7 Barah L. Orndorf to Chas. J, Stover,
tract,of land in} Haines Twp. ; $1200,
J. N. Moyer et al to J. N, Moyer,
tract of land in, Miles Twp. ; $4500.
Amanda Decker’s heirs to Frank
Auman, tract of land In Peon Twp. ;
$600,
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Tree Talks.
Have you a plece of veeant land
which cannot be farmed ? Make it
work oy planting it to timber trees,
The V’eonsylvania Department of For-
estry will give the trees for the ask-
ing.
+ To get the contents in board feet of
8 sixteen foot log, mia ure the top di-
ameter joside the bark in inches, tut-
tract four, equare the remainder, and
add twenty per cent for the final rc-
sult,
When you are in the woods, remem»
ber that this is forest fire season,
Break your match before you drop it.
Not everyone knows that the fire!
Pennsylvanian to really appreciate the
value of forests wes William Penn
himself. In 1681 he providéd that for
every five acres cleared in Penneylvan-
is, one acre should be left in woods,
When winter's gales rattle at your
windows aod creep under your doors,
remember that you might have plant.
ed a wincbreak of pines and spruces
last spring.
Oune of the most expensive woods
used in America Is boxwood, It sells
for about $1,600 per thousand board
feet,
EI OUsE FOR BALE.
A six room house localed on Hoffer street,
at corner of alley, and built a few years sgo, Is
offered for sale, There is a good stable onjthe
lot and everything in good repair, Will be sold
reasonable. If you are looking fo ra nice jittle
home, do not this up ~CLEMENT W, LUSE,
Centre Hall Pa,
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