Be Saito AER APSARA) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918 rn en BBL cnt Thirty-five Years Ago. ne. cami April 12, 1883.—George Jack, an old and widely known citizen of Boalg- burg, was buried on Saturday. His age was eighty-two years, Prof. Bmitbh, who is abundantly qualified, will open a gelect school at Spring Mills soon. Mrs. Oscar Dale, of Lemont, died » few days ago and was buried last Sunday. Yony Kreamer, long-time proprietor of the Millhelm hotel, has retired from active business, Samuel Potter was found dead in his bed on the morning of the Slat. ult,, at the residence of his son-in-law, Abram Miller, st Pleasant Gap. He was aged about eighty-five years. re Lutheran Minister to Leave State College, Rev. Walter H. Traub, the popular young pastor of Grace Lutheran church, State College, has accepted a call to become pastor of Trinity Luth- eran church at Hughesville, Lycom- ing county, The State College Times, comment- ing on Rev. Traub’s proposed leaving Baya : Rev. Traub came to this place im- mediately after his graduation from the Beminary at Susquehanpa Univer- gity in June, 1913, taking up the work with a zeal that has produced remark- able results. During the time that he haa been here, a debt upon the church of $4000.00 has been removed and one hundred and fifty members have been added, bringing the church roll of confirmed members up to its present strength of two hundred and fifty. He has also built up the student Bible class from a few members to over a hundred all of whom are among the two hundred and fifty-six Lutheran students enrolled at the College. He will preach his farewell sermon the last Eunday in the montb, Febru- ary 24th, and will take charge of hie new pastorate, which numbers some- thing over five bundred members, the first Bunday of next month, March S:d. As yet, no successor has been &e- cured, but it is probable that ons will be secured in the very near future. —————————————— A A—— The Potato Situation in Pennsylvania. According to reports abcut two- thirds of the entire potato crop of this country remsined in the bands of the farmers and the dealers on Jaouary 1st, and the U. 8, Department of Agr~ culture advises that farmers sell freely, and that the larger dealers sell their stock rapidly, and that the retailer content himself with the smallest poe- sible margin profit, realizing that he is now the most important factor in speeding up potato consumption. This fnformation is no doubt reliable, and the advice given is worthy of careful consideration. The Buresu of Markets of the Penn- gylvania Dejartment of Agriculture calls attention to the importance of looking after the seed potatoes that are to be used this year. Many thousands of bushels of potatoes throughout ihe Htate have been frozen during the se- vere weather of this wioter, and no doubt many more bushels will freeze before warm weather arrives. Unless the farmer is extremely careful he will be planting potatoes that have been slightly frozen, thereby reducing their vitality, if not completely destroying their germinating power. i The Bureau also urges that the farm- ers to be extremely careful in making shipments during the next few weeks. Several complaints from farmers who had loaded cars and shipped to the city, only to find their potatoes frozen on arrival, have been received. Before attemptiog to ship in car lotsa the farmer should get reliable Infor- mation ag to preparation to the car, method of heating, ete.,, and see that nothing is left undone that ls neces- sary to insure safe arrival, It Is evident that many bushels of potatoes must be consumed between now and seeding time if waste is to be prevented, It will be safer for the average farmer to sell bis potatoes f. o. b. station instead of making shipments to be sold on arrival unless he under stands the business, If farmers desire to make thelr own shipments they can write the Bureau of Markets at Harris. burg and they will be put in touch with reliable parties who will give them fair treatment, It is highly important that the sup- ly of seed should be taken care of fire’, and then efforts shenld be made to market the surpius stock as quickly as possible. Farmers should not be di« couraged becsuse of the unfavorable conditions which have confronted them this season, but should plant freely. The introduction of potato fiour should make an Incrers:d de mand for the potatoes, and the Depart- ment of Agriculture officiala believe that it will be a good policy to keep up the acreage this year. ——— —————— Transfer of Real Betats, John W. Mitterling’s heirs to Mary C. Fisher, tract of laud in Centre Hall; consideration $4850, Mary C. Fisher to Frank M, Fisher, tract of land io Centre Ha'l ; consider~ ation $250, 3 . WW oe BE cum. et ese ACH Gr $3 8 ATA SINGING IS LOST ART TODAY | {In This Age It Is Largely Confined to | the Professional Performers, Even { in the Churches. Singing, as far as most people ard concerned; is a lost art. Thousands at- tend operas, recitals and musical coms edies, but, as for singing themselves informally at their work or play, they have forgotten how, In times past people of all ranks sang together as a matter of course, Sailors sang at ‘their work; peasants, shepherds, cow- boys, all had thelr favorite and appro- ‘priate songs. The songs of children at games, the lullabies of mothers, are in the collected ballads and folklore of many peoples. “The pastimes and labors of the hus- bandman and the shepherd,” says An- drew Lang, according to the Indianapo- lis News, “were long ago a kind of natural opera. Each task had {its own song: planting, seeding, harvest- ing, burial, all had thelr appropriate ballads or dirges. “The whole soul of the peasant class breathes in «its burdens as the great sea resounds in the shell mast up on the shore.” Nowadays the whirl of machinery makes all the noise. The workers in mills might find it unsatisfying to ging at thelr work, but it is doubtful if they would sing even if the be heard, while sir store would pretty ly be stopped bY the “boss” or the police, Thousands congregate every night in the silence of moving picture theaters in the songregat attendants to a pald sings Singing in fined to the professional performer. ir volces could in an office or sure and even churches where 8 fon used to now UsSusiiy u this age WOMEN WEAVE STRAW HATS All People of Island Depend Upon Earnings of Few Cents a Day Each for Their Living. a ot aclIviti Next to the transshipment of Mount Pleasant, the straw hats is tl come of the people, says ports. The quality, t for from $1.50 to 31.45 weaving of © cles nants woven are wel for these hat straw ported from Venezuela but the Dutch gov ing to raise it ir The hats are moderate ind plete a hat Ir island from early sunset the weaving rian purchaser from house or eleven cents gtraw fora h colony, &% they ¢ the quality of not improve. Humoring People “Hum: 1 pleasant and when ring one question of who ma does not seem very humorer or ‘ a lamer le sight is that of the hu i ity it implies r real re- wiween two ring is a and what an ab spect or understanding people In whe part of the daily When the one to be humored is a woman, it may mean that a man has been forced into the craven part of doing anything for the sake of peace. There are few con- cessions some men will not make to avold a domestic storm. Some unfor- tunate men there are who even give up vital friendships, legitimate forms of recreation and even thelr own indi vidualities in this unworthy cause Woman’ Home Companion. routine, sa it Putnam’s Camp. About two and a half miles south- east of Bethel, Connecticut, by a road that winds threugh rolling farm coun- try and then plunges into a succession of tight little wooded valleys, lies Putnam Memorial camp, better known as Putnam park, During the summer and fall this is more or less a resort for folk from Danbury, Bethel and Redding. But in December it les well nigh deserted and still as it did when, in 1778, “Old Put” selected it and two neighboring sites for a winter quarters of the weary right wing of the Conti. nental army. Though this park was begun in 1887 and practically come plete by 1800, it 1s much less generally known and visited than Valley Forge park, in Pennsylvania, which was not begun until 1803, Navigation, A ship at sea 1s constantly changing its position on the earth's surface, and it requires some skill to keep it in Its prescribed path to its destination. The oldest navigators were the Pheniclans. These hardy voyagers sailed from one end of the Mediterranean ses to the other and out into the open Atlantie without compass or chart, guided by the sun by day and by the Great Dip- per at night. In those days the dip. per was much nearer the pole than it’ is now and Indicated the true north fairly well. i ———— Po One Man Sends King George a Bucket of Snow Yearly. Another Gives British Ruler Bowl ot | Porridge for Use of Great Estate On June 18, the date of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington paid King | George the rent for Strathfieldsaye, the estate presented to the Iron Duke for his great victory. The “rent,” duly entered in the king's rent book, is a miniature napoleonie standard, which will rest for a year in the guard room at Windsor above the bust of Welllng- ton. The owner of the Foulis estate in Scotland rent to the king for these lands by sending him a bucket- ful of snow every year, says London Tit-Bits. As Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, is handy, and as lies on it sometimes the whole year round, and always well into sum- mer. a small bucketful can generally he obtained! Doubtless the king might have more if he wanted it, but this last winter, at least, he has had as much as he wants nearer home! the other hand, the tenant of in Bucks, has to send a gar- 4 Ory pays BOW (On to the king as rent for he up than ry year. Doubtless well—roses plled It i8 more ween looks forward ing of the most if comical Il to pay to our genial king, and if the he hugely tickled, especially In The rent is a bowl of porridge. As the king is sald not to appreciate porridge, per- haps the rent is winked at! The holder of the Corbet estates un- dertakes to provide the king with a flitch of bacon during the whole time he is leading his troops in person. He has rent since XI led at Dettingen, for, though doubt- Jess George IV would gladly lead his mrmies to battle, he knows it to be far wiser to leave it to the experts A short time ago the king's stock of uel was increased by the addition of kel faggots. These came from the corporation of London as rent for cer- fain lands. The city remembrancer had duly to attend at the law courts Ath the faggots and get a quit-receipt for them. But the funniest of all rents on the king's rent book is the one which in- pists on the holders of certain lands powp over way noiding the king's fig one rents « king ever looks down his rent roll be days of fo must these wi shortage. thus escaped George fed Heil fe 18 BeasioR | © AS Ring C(ieorge, like his great-uncle, William of miles, of this lHkely thousands either is farther, by pny monarch other age, It or that he not ous rent, Government Experts Aid in Installing System to Prevent Damage to Metal Structures. The damage done annually to under ground pipes, cables and other metal Jars. There are or lead very few cable systems that water, gas not are stray cour does damage from Moreover, the merely In the the life of such structures; ctroly- tic damage is one of the caus of the gas from distri The failure gystems on account of electrolytic ac tion may also involve various danger to the life and health of human helngs. According to the bureau of standard: more than separate and di methods of dealing with the electrol: gis problem have been propo loss shortening «of al “8 of suct at —) 1 and even harmful, The bureau of stand ards has been studying the subject of electrolysis mitigation for the last gi years, and has alded in installing « plete mitigative sys in The bureau detailed tests in each of the { about once a year to make sure i $ rvs Les cities, nankes sSOMEW the protective gystems are being pre erly maintained. An ext nded serl of experiments has rece ntly been dertaken In of Spring Mass, with the three system of electric railway operntd the city so-called affers con stion of fl which promise for the mitigs sls troubles under c« with in cities system . 1¢ Ciro ritalin conditi frequently met Horse Was a Littie Slow, Seagirt uld n he is dreadfully truth. He hired to go to was =o slow web in the whe made mud ples in the buggy. At one point he had an excit- ing race with a caterpillar. A wom- an came out and asked him to please drive a little faster, he was Keeping the sun off her t He sald the borse was slower n & barber he knows, who is so slow that the whis faster than he and by the time be is through the cus tomer has a full beard. —Ex« hasage. shade of the tha tna kers grow can shave, » | = and single line leaders, with t al, TWO-YEAR-OLD GRAY. plete, good as new, Both have been hitched. 4 NICE FAT Six are Holsteins and have had BEEVES *@5 Conklin Wagon, in. tire, 20th —No. 4 wide spread, Cormick Corn Binder, T head, 20-disc Alfalf4 and Plows, McCormick Mower, poon Hay Forks with new ropes, 2 sets 15 DeLaval Cream Separator, W shovels, etc. I steads one iron, 2 Carpets, and many other Wieland Wagon--4 Manure Spreader Mec- GBR BN BN 0 B25, FE Rl THE UNIVERSAL CAR There are so many Ford cars in nse ground you that there is mo room for doubts as to the absolute stability and service-giving merits of “the universal car,” The Ford is always ready for use, summer and winter, giv. { ing all you expect from a motor car in pleasure and w rk—doing it all with { small expense, Place Your Order To-Day Do not wait until spring and take the chance of probably paying more, and endure the usual delay of delivery. Full line of Commercial Delivery 4, 1 and 2 Ton Trucks on hand. Ford repair work done on operation prices by Ford mechanics, using genuine Ford parts. Prices on Ford cars : Coupelet, $560 ; Town Truck Chassis, $600. Touring Car, $360 ; Runabout, $345; Car, $645; Sedan, $695; One-Ton All f.0.b Detroit, BEATTY MOTOR CO. BELLEFONTE, PA. Rear of Crider’s Exchange Both Phones TIRES, ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES. de Business Women and those ladies who wish to avail themselves of the safety and con- venience of conducting a bank account, find the facilities fur- nished by this bank ex- ceptionally good. Any business man of stabil- will PALLY ity will furnish you with information as to our stand- ing, as:cts, capital, surplus and reliable and cautious methods of conducting cur business. The Farmers National Bank { Depository for Funds of U. S, Government ) Miltheim, Pa. Et 1 GOING TO MAKE SALE? If so, have your date advertised in the Reporter at once. This will cost you absolutely nothing provided you have your bills printed here. We are espec- ally well equipped for Sale-Bill Print- ing and can save you money on this class of work. Telephone us your sale date. The Centre Reporter CENTRE HALL PIP 46V0CP 00000000000 ® Insurance and a Laun Real Estate’ 3 dry Leaves the Reporter office WEDNESDAY A. M.,, NAR. 6 WEDNESDAY A, I. MAR. 20 Cutter, 13-in, 2 Albright Cultivators, Bobaled, Hay ng Harrows, f4 Oliver Chilled 2 Har Tug Harness, good ae new, 2 bu, Silver Mine” Seed Oats, No. Want to Buy or Sell? : SEE US FIRST : and sveny unt! further notice Returns Saturday following Chas. D. Bartholomew CENTRE HALL, PA, CYRUS BRUNGART JUSTICE OF THE PBACE OENTRE HALL, PA, tion given to Ee of Le tt (oka | de prises od be EX ovsx FOR BALE.~
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