RE
PEACE
President Wilson issued a formal pro-
clamation at ten o'clock Monday morn
ing announcing that the armistice with
Germany had been signed,
The proclamation follows :
My Fellow Countrymen: The armis-
tice was signed this morning. Every-
thing for which America fought has
been accomplished. It will
our fortunate duty to assist by ex-
now be
ample, by sober friendly council and
by material aid in the establishment of
just democracy throughout the world.
“WOODROW WILSON",
The German government has acceded
to the following terms :
Cessation of hostilities on all fronts.
invaded territory,
g Alsace and Lorraine.
Evacuation of all
svacuation of Luxemburg
Surrender of vast qualities of guns
and munitions
Evacuation of the left bank on the
irrender of vast quantities of rolling
stock in invaded territory.
Abandonment of the Bucharest and
Brest treaties,
Unconditional surrender of all Ger
Africa.
Reparation for all damage
man forces in East
to
Yum
Guoae
Allied nations
ied nations,
Concentration of
nated
all aircraft at desig-
poiats
Black Sea ports.
Allied and Unite
States merchant vessels,
Evacuation of all
Restoration of all
Duration of armistice to be 30 days
y have
by
3, have acceded to th
following strictly mil
whi
authorities,
id down the
itary terms ;
1. Cessation of operations on land and
in the air.
2. Immediate evacuation of all invad-
ed country, including Belgium, France
I'his
in 14 days from
Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembur
it
ILL
is to be completed w
of
troops who have
tha
the signing armistice. German
"not
LOL
left above territory
be
Occupation
de-
by
pace
at expiration of this time will
clared prisoners of war,
Allies and U, S.
with evacuation in these areas,
forces will keep
3. Repatriation beginning at
and to be completed within 14 days of all
once»
inhabitants of above menti
A150 persons who are
the same
30,000 machine guns ; 2
2,000 aeroplancs; $500
t bombing planes, all to
Allies and United
be delivered to the
detailed con-
agnexed note.
States in accordance with
ditions laid down in the
WAY."
and they shall
“AFTER THEIR
De Ee .
seek peace, and there shall be none.
0 Cuomein
Lhe prince
the
“The king shall mourn and
shail be clothed wiih desolation and
hands of the people of the nation shall
be irgubled : I will do unto them after
their way, and according to their deserts
will I judge them and they shall kuow
chapter,
7th
~—Ezekiel,
25th and 27th verses.
that I am Lord
Uncle Sam Needs These,
If they step lively there is a chance
for 100 Pennsylvanians to become offi
cers in the United Statés Navy at a
salary of $155, a moanth, or if married,
$185. The United States Navy needs
more steam engineers and needs them
instantly, Men between the ages
twenty and forty years are eligible, but
ol
they must have had either a practical ex.
or a tech-
nical or civil or electrical engineering
course at college,
Applicants tor
to Eusign C, L
2ud Sureet, N. Y,
State Agricultural Notes.
normal
perience as sical cugineers,
admission should apply
Mclatyre, 225 West
The wheat requirements of
Penusyivania are 54,109,000 bushels at
Al average per Capita consumption of § -
bushels per person.
Penuvsyivania produces this year an
Cstimaled yield ot 26,023,674 bushels ot
wheat and its totai consumption require-
ments show a deficiency ot 28,085,326
ushels,
The wheat throughout the State has
made a fine start and very little Hessian
fly is reported,
Livestock has gone into winter quar-
ters Mm splendid shape apd there seems
to renewed interest in winter feeding,
There has been a big increase ia inter-
est in pig raising throughout the State
this year,
A ————_—— A A ————
The Pennsylvania State College will
again offer thus winter the regular short
course in agriculture, Because of the
labor conditions on farms, the course
will be shortened from twelve to eight
weeks. The course will begin this year
avuary 2, and close March 1,
Celebrated the Victory.
Centre Hzll, along with every other
wide-awake community, celebrated the
victory of the allied armies over the
Hun, as the news was flashed over the
country last Thursday noon. Whistles
shrieked and all the church bells in town
were rung, and in the evening a demon-
stration was held on the streets, a patri-
otic parade being the principal feature.
Among the things which were brought
into use for the occasion was a base
drum over a hundred years old,
property of F. M. Fisher, the instru-
ment having been in the Fisher family
for several The oldest,
and undoubtedly among the most enthu
the
generations,
siastic paraders, was H. W. Kreamer,
eighty-one years of age, who beat the
tenor drum during all of the two mile
march. The national airs were
and impromptu speeches were delivered
by Prof. N. L. Bartges and Rev. Josiah
Still. A number of people then left for
Bellefonte to attend the elaborate
celebration at the In the
streets were
sung
more
county seat,
“The
rife with people, pacing restless up and
down", Following a monster street pa
words of the poet,
rade, speeches by soldier boys and oth-
ers, a match was apphed by Col, H. 8.
Taylor to the huge heap of boxes, bar.
rels and other inflammable materal in the
of the diamond, and soon
flames were leaping to the sky.
center the
became known that the arm-
jot been signed the optimistic
1d consolation the fact the
premature celebration
them in shape f
in
had
or a bigger demonstra-
only put
tion when the right time came-—which
Con-
news came
they believed to be close athand.
sequently when the official
over the wire early Monday morning,
plans were at once laid for a mouster
parade at the county seat in the even
"4
I'he parade formed at 8 o'clock
State College cadet
in the parade were
Jo
led by the
Other bands
iris band
the Pleasant Gap band, Qur G
Milesburg and the Lemont band.
he Red Cross
0 stropg nu
organizations were
; na wall
mbers, as well as the
ial and firemen organizations,
E ]
and delivered
(Addresses,
others
agree
DParks
another
Was
boafire in the diamond
hat every other person had a
V SSESSI10N0 and
effect ©
prakers
| cracked 1a the
ddress, he stuppe i
hue ArKe
rem
Wal speeches were
wished
rate they dud,
{ Cantinned on inside page
is "Over."
moruing oilicial angounce-
> arrival overseas of William Bailey,
ol
the Reporter of
ambition has been
its were depressed when,
ifier having seen service on the Mexi-
er with the Boal troop, he was
jected for physical reasons at Camp
before hus
He cou-
iuued to berhopeful of getting back i
deuCuck, est winter, just
tlipany departed for France,
u the service again, and after doing his
nt ia civil lite by working in munition
plants, be registered on age, and was re-
Camp
sth,
medical
xamined, passed and sent to
steenieat, Georgia, on September
ile became a member of the
corps, aud two weeks ago leit camp for
a point of embarkation,
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ERS, NOTICE.
I'ractor Demonstration, Thursday
November 21st, 1 P. M.
The tractor demonstration that was
pustponed due to the influenza epidemic,
«ill be held Thursday, November 21st,
at 1 p. m. on the Beaver farm just out-
side of Bellefonte. We are expecting
sbout eight to ten tractors present which
will 1nciude the following :
International,
Case,
Moline,
Happy Farmer,
Waterloo Boy,
Huber,
Cleveland,
Fordson,
Frick,
Bates Steel Mule,
This is your opportunity to see the
several makes at work, Tell your
wighbors, Come and bring a carload
with you,
R. H. OLumsTRAD,
County Agent
SL SAAS ATI
It is time now to redeem your W. 8,
5 pledge. If you have not purchased or
pledged to purchase W. 8. S,, it is high
ime to doso now. You surely do not
wish to shirk from supporting the war
to the extent of purchasing the best
government security ever offered by any
government in time of peace or war,
Buy now : buy hberally,
Ct i 1% Inf
Dearest Mother
As this is
to a very heavy rain tha
1
a4 very disagreea
in ir Ys
Ing since late
very much doing
that case I think 1
time writing to you, Yesterd
to be a great letter day for
told it was a great d
ny missio
from
a letter here {
1a]
monntain
mouniains
py it
reached us yes
were telling ot the (
ing ior peace
to you and I «
you people back
we were equa
hardly wait till
peace is declare
mother, 1
could have ¢
over 1 want tc
possible fo
my life
ences ¢
rugner to
are operat
able
Ong as
present | have every
that I am co
nt
MNO
and
for I am very much alive
ing any hardships other
life,
KO with army
never known a sick
Just
port to Headqua
now re
over.
riers
I can imagine how happy
feeling about this time due to
news that the war is
news reached us last night
about over
agreeing to all our terms b
does not effect us and we are
continue to give the Boche what they
deserve us'il we are ordered to
hat will wonderful
can't ¢
it as
yet
'
firing. I be a
moment ani it
ome (00 soon to
suit me.
Sir ce coming up here in the mountains
we have had a lively time and on ac-
count of being on the move contin
it has made it very diffic for me
write.
letters from here,
'
uit
We are
a week since any has reached us, and
Reporter ' and ** Democrat” received
a few days ago.
read them,
As 1 sit here in my smoky dugout and
out of all danger, while the artillery are
doing some shelling on near by mout-
tains, 1 can't help but picture what all 1
hope to do when I get back, I was
thinking how grand it would be to get
out in the garden and work among the
plants. That will be a rare treat to me
NOVEMBE
14, 1918,
NO. 45
TOTHER DIES, FOLLOWING
FATHER ; LEAVE 3 ORPHANS.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd E. Potter Influen-
i .
Lieut -Both Buried One
za Victims, in
Grave.
Last week the Reporter chronicled the
death of Boyd E. Potter
’ “wt 5 ’ :
i AL OL¢€
’ €ltwo year Centre
at hig home in
« AL IS ome In
urred on Monday
ctly forty-e
Lh mrt ve FF . . * 1
Wednesday afternoor at three o'
3
ight hours
1 the Reporter came «
Potter passed
From D. Ross Bushman
(ye
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“Pennsylvania Day’ at State College
Has Much Military Color
jay Pea:
3
added
A SP —————
Wiliam Taylor Dies in France of
Wounds Received in Battle.
am i Avior,
eived a
AL iy $
ani Mk Pid
aim of the death of his son
who
message
appris
William
aud
roth
He was aged twenty.
WAS action
ction on th d 10 the base ()ctober
1
Speaking in | from the wounds
lodge and [tw
think + * 1 ves
LUINR YOul n
He :
ed in August and was sent to Camp Lee
ap and had many friends
» greatly appreciat
He is suivived
nd
premon-
and
his
belongings with the different members
of the family. He
Disciple church,
and from there oversea
» 3 ” .
lapsed since | by his parents and six brothers sis.
vie and the ters. Some time ago he had a
be woold
IR ! wrote and asked his father to divide
When 1 get back to the States 1 can ro.
1 ¥
l
late to you t
terrible, ! itioa that never return
excitig experiences,
1e different experiences that was a member of the
confronted me.
Have h.d a chance to fight the Hun
for a short period of time and at present
am having my first leave from the firing
Did not contract any disease and!
came out of it all without a eratch. Am
well and happy and ewjoying the best “|
i
A committee. from Washington ar-
rived last Tharsday at Bellefoute for the
purpose of selecting a landing site for
the proposed aerial mail service station,
which is to start in December.
ine,
health,
How many men of the present mem. i (Continved from previous column.)
| bership are being called or already in Persbing will push the buttons that will
some military trainiog camp? Yon never ' send the d— f— to doom. That is the
need to worry about losing many more | place where he and his black hand gang
men for military purposes because the | belongs.
| Kaiser is making Lis own gen, installing | Wishing you the dest of success in-
{his own electric outfit, equipped wiih dividually and as a lodge,
| about 220,000 voltage, making his own I remain fraternally yours,
| chair in the pen with a three push-but. Pyr, Geordie A. Crawrorn,
ton meously, Gen. Hq Co. 314 Inf.
aud General APO AERP
switch ; asd simu't
.
h, General Haty
¥
yb
HAPPENINGE OF LOCAL INTEREL TY
FROM ALL PARTS
api
orestry
ago
demand f
the Penasylva
term oO1
hundre«
coliege a
students
ning camp dur
3
i
Monday of this weel
young men were adm
that time
have sent to
ing
beea empowered by
rorala is oh
repiace wao
officers
month
he 3 4‘
ioe ast
War
the
St
Depar
Army
his
m
Training (
at to recruit
is
orps to 16
be done in part by offering vecial
fit
nomi Ary
1
ana
terms for physically were
Se; -
have h high
registered {«
12,
school training
tember who
Concerning a former resident of Cen-
tre Hail, the Lewisburg Journal said
last week . Mr, Henry F. Bitner, who
has been a resident of Lewisburg since
last spring and who is doing his bit to-
ward licking the Huns Ly taking a job
ou the day shift at the Milton shell plant,
hall his right arm broken above the el-
bow Tuesday while returning home, bx-
ing injured when the Aumiller auto
was stuck by another truck. A load of
workmen was returning home to Lewis
burg and at Housel's run the Aamiller
bus collided with a truck driven by an
employee of Sam Baker, the Lewisburg
junk dealer, Mr. Bitner had his arm
hanging outside and received a blow,
whieh fractured the bone above the e -
byw. Dr. Leiser brought the injured
man to his home on N. Third street ax d
redyted the (racture.