™e SENTRE AEPORTEA ISSUED WEEKLY. THURSDAY. JANUARY 9. 1919. Froepristors Bditer and SMITH & BAILEY 8. W. BMITH . EDWARD BE, BAILEY 8" 4 { asia Business Entered at the Post Office in Osntre Hall as second Class mall matter. “ the Be TERMS. —The terms of subscription porter are ono and one-half dollars per year, ADVERTISING RATES ins of ten or more | in sertions, ten cents por inch for ooo Taches and for loss Pian three 1 fifteen to twenty-five oenta twas, scocordi to og charge seventy-five cents, to Fog Sp ine fy a Imrln, Siher eight cents per line, twenty-five cents, notices, twent Sema DE and ten oon! oan ar Sine 10 ditional insertion, . line for three line for each ad- rrrnent in std mericz for the the wa EEE EE with the cause of period CHURCH APPOINTMENTS Reformed—Spring Mills, morning: Union, aiternoon; Centre Halil, evening. Lutheran — Spring Mills, moming ; Centre Hall, afternoon’ Tumeyville, evening. United Evangelical. Linden Hall afternoon ; Lemont, evening. Evangelistic meetings start at Lemgont with Sunday Services. SOILED LINEN AS A BATTLE FLAG. The Philadelpnia Record, Next year there will be a Presidential election, and the Republicans in Con- gress are going to get ready for it by in- vestigating the conduct of the war in the confident expectation of finding de. ficiencies and mistakes which they will parade in 1920 as a reason why the country should repudiate the Adminis- tration that fought the war. They will find what they look f We went into the war on an en scale, and ** speed was the essence of the contract”. The civil and military officials of the Government are ordinary human beings, with no supernatural knowledge and with judgment that was not infallible. A diligent scarch will _ find many things that can be paraded by any partisan orator or editor whose chief object is to discredit the United States Government before the world. But the first thing to observe—and the country has taken note of it—is that the task of the Government in 1918 was at least 100 times greater than its task in 1898, and the blunders it made then were not less than 100 times as great as those it made last year, If Republicans were as intelligent as they are vindictive they would take some pains to avoid this comparison. No nation ip the world ever did so vast a military work in so short a time, and did it so well, as the "Inited States did last year. One must read in detail the reports of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Food Admin- istration, the Fuel Administration, the Shipping Board and its subsidiaries, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Railroad Director, the War Industries Board and the War Trade Board, in order to appre- ciate the vastness of the task. Few per- sons have access to all these documents, or the time to read them. But the work of raising an army of more than 3.500000, clothing and equipping it, caring for its hemith and that of the wounded, of more then 2,000,000 men to Europe, and of so using them there as to win magni- ficent victories, has been the astonish- ment of the world, both friend and foe. What we did in this war has glorified the American name to the utmost cor- ners of the earth, and for all time. But the Republican politicians hope to dig out of the records enough mistakes to discredit the American nation be’ore the world, and to dim the glory of i918 in American history. They have al- ready succeded to a limited extent fn im. pairing American influence at the peace conferente by creating the impression that the people are not backing up the Administration. In their mean little partisan souls they hope to do more, and to go into the next national political campaign under a banner of the soiled national linen, SPRING MILLS. Mrs. C. E. Royer is on the sick list. John Horner spent a day at Bellefonte last week. I. J. Zubler and wife returned from a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles the eighteenth of January, Mrs. Verna Bressler had sale of SpANGLER,—~Mrs. Mary M. Spangler, wife of Jonathan Spangler, of Rebers- burg, died Wednesday morning of last week at s o'clock of internal cancer, aged seventy-eight years and three days. She was married three times, the first time to Philip Woodling, who died a number of years ago and with whom she had two surviving children : Chas L., of Nyack, N. Y., and Mrs. Florence J. Burd, of Philadelphia. The sgcond marrage was with John H, Reifsnyder, late of Millheim, and the third with Jon- athan Spangler, who survives. These brothers and sisters also survive : W. H. Leitzell, of DuBois ; L.. H. Leitzell, of State College; F. E., and H, H., of Mifflinburg, und Mrs. Henrietta Jordan, of Crystal, N, D., and Mrs. W. J. Carlin and Mrs. W, S. Miller, of Rebersburg. She was a devout member of the Lutheran church and a good christian woman. Funeral services were held home on Sunday afternoon at clock, and Revs. Shannon and Womels- dorf officiated, at the 1:30 0O'- —— rin Runkie.—Maurice Runkle, a brother of our townsman, Lawrence Runkle, died at his home near State College on Friday morning, of poeumonia, result- ing from influenza. He was a farmer by occupation, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Runkle, of Tusseyville, where he was born. He would have reached his fortieth birthday on the Sth of January. His wife, nee Mamie Kline, but no children, survive. Burial was made at Boalsburg on Monday after- noon. The parents and two brothers—Law- rence, of Centre Hall, and Wilbur, of Tusseyville, survive. DuskiesarcER ,—Grace, the three. year-old dadghter of Mr. and Mrs. Go- mer Dunklebarger, of Pleasant Gap. died early Wednesday morning. child took ill with whooping cough, rebro spinal meningitis developing as a result. The home has been quarantin- ed. Burial of the little girl was made Wednesday, —————— I ATAPI Notice. All sidewalks must be cleaned of snow The Ce. lowing snowfall. Cleaning a path will not be sufficient ; the stow must of sidewalk. dence neglects to comply with the pro visions of the ordinance, charge of fifty cents, No ashes may be thrown on street, ged to parties responsible for same. ~RY ORDER BOROUGH COUNCIL. —————————— Christmas Tree Financial Statem & RECEIPTS. Total amount collected EXVENSES, 130 bulbs Tinsel Printing invitations $34 12 490 Balance $ $2.18 turned over to the local Cross Auxiliary. F. P. Geary, - - a. “ Treasurer. Marriage Licenses. Ray C. Erway, Westfield Lillian Brown, Bellefonte Joseph T. Ross, Pleasant Gap Emma K. Smith, Bellefonte Charles Koon Died of His Wounds. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Elton Koom, of pear State College, who a month or six weeks ago, received a telegram from the War Department stating that their son, Charles E. Koon, had been seriously wounded in France on October 2nd, re- ceived another telegram last week stat. ing that he had died from the result of his wounds on October s. Private Koon enlisted in Troop L, at Bellefonte, in May 1917, going with that command to Camp Hancock, where, when the troop was broken up, he was transferred to the rog Field Artillery, and accompanied the 28th Division to France last May. He was aged about twenty years and six months, Col. Theodore Roosevelt Dead. Col. Theodore Roosevelt died at his home at Sagamore Hill at 4:15 o'clock Monday morning. A clot of blood on the heart caused the former President's death it was sta. ted at the house. The Colonel went to bed feeling well and the end was peace ful, None of the members of the Roose- velt family were at his beeside when the end came, 3 Col. Roosevelt returned home on Christmas day from the Roosevelt Hos. pital, having been suffering with sciat. ica for some was 60 yoars old. hav: pp on October 7, 1858. He was the 26th President of United States, having succeeded to the highest office in the United States on the desis if William McKinley who was shot and killed at Buffalo, N. VY. The former President’s health has not been good for some time, In fact he had only left the Roosevelt Hospital a short time ago returning to his home. Shortly before that time he had under gone an Spsstion which bad left him F Soiith Dakota Subscriber Becomes Reminiscent. the Reporter, Rev, D, J. Mitterling, of Madison, South Dakota, where he is en- gaged in the business of selling musical intruments, in the following interesting letter, lets his memory revert to the good old days of long ago when he a young man in this valley, Several ar- ticles appearing in the Reporter put him in a reminiscent mood, he expressing himself as follows WiLs as Madison, S Dak. Dec. 2 Dear Editor Reporter : In looking at the label on my paper does not appear satisfactory to me doubtless to you also ; will inclose post office order that will set another mark-— 1920. Wish 1 could recall the when 1 first subscribed for the paper Think I was about sixteen. years old when I took that important position become a reader of the paper. Can sure you that through these years Reporter has been a most welcome visit or and seldom is it passed without ing it upon receipt. Enjoy the from subscribers whom I knew in boyhood years. The letter from A. Runkle, of California, set my memory to review of the many pranks common with him and his brother, William Runkle. How I did Sunday evening * rivel-soups” the f his father, Hon. J. K. Runkle do 1 recall the morning when Will, Mike Ross ebersburg Nor « 1915 $ i i ant Year {to a the th reads letter +1 my - an active enjoy home o Weil Runkle took man and me his son to R prepare to teach the following That was my start beyond the There at times certain whether ** John ™ school at Tusseyville, WAS Tt for improvement as Was Was 8 Common since there were re] or proper noun, many *' ns" The late issues of your paper redline 'N Seven mot antes 030 I could inte eports from th iniains. Wish joy the Sport wi th them. I vividly recall my ex : pany with our neighbors when {ollow ir th Lae perience 1n ing one of th that e argent bucks tains nrods Ly from the mot uit perienced nis 1 ¥ is our hel t+ r hou For to wood until we enter of the Old Fort and when suddenly that fearless buck, out regard for my feelings, ran past not over fifty feet distant. then expecting the buck or Well, the former ga latter to such degree that kuew which was which but I knew svmething had sudden] the gt fect. Did however get a dead aim on on him and the borrowed gun discharge. The deer waved on his way to 1 i Was the fever ye me a I sce y happened was not in question at yo a Fopt 3 nrat gun fail a Egg Hill mountain bungry fellows, venison retreated to the home cupboard for some degree of satisfac In connection with perience cannot well ing what was told in my presence but a small boy, The from * Loop ” section then would gath the evening at the Tusseyville s review their exploits of the day's hunt. Among them whose fever evidently was many grees higher and more what lay hold on me. This characteristic Pennsylvania very graphically and emphatic adjectives) set forth his experience follows ;~*' Say boys, | was standing by a large tree waiting for a deer to come along when I heard like bump, bump, and a big be ek ed bef me and looked me all I tell you, boys, I set my gun down at the tree and hunted a stone, with the re- mark, ** If you do not get out of this | a re forlorn, witho tion, "oe no this personal refrain Ban aunlers » ! 1 i #4 £8 rr 3 ey Was a ae * : srolonged thao Fes man Io Lrerman, ally (with as ¢ suddenly a noise ump ore over. the deer being in such danger heeded the suggestion, This exploit was the acme of enjoyment for the eager listen. ers, for some time to come. Yours respectfully, D. J. Mirreziine, GEORGES VALLEY. Mrs. J. C, Barger went to Milton on Monday to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Garrett. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lingle, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lingle were all visitors at the home of ID. D, Decker, on Sunday. Lloyd Leister is able to be out again afrer being housed up with a severe at- tack of the flu, Thomas Flynn, of Camp Uptoa. N. Y., spent a few days last week at the home of his sister, Mrs. Robert Lingle. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foust and little daughter, Alice, of Centre Hill, spent Sunday at the home of Mr, and Mrs, J. C. Reeder. C. W, Lingle and family were welcome guests at the same place Sunday afternoon. I A SS Airplaines in Mail Service Are Not Sat- isfactory. Unsatisfactory machines is the reason assigned for abandoning the proposed airplane mail service, It is understood that the de Haviland type of planes used up to this time will be scrapped and a new model installed as soon as possible. Four planes started from New Jersey for Bellefonte one day last week. One did not get off. A got off its course and landed nd. A third came down Stormstown. The fourth landed at Huntingdon with a broken propellor, Just when the service will be put in working operation is not known. * RA I Ean NOt REBERSBURG. ersox, of Kansas, is visiting at this plac Ss n Zeigler and wife are guests at he b Joseph Meyer home, : Ww illiam Bmull, of latives at this p William with a Clem Gramley it Belle Mrs, George Brachbill, after spending Yittsbure J Illinois, is visiting It rel confined to his bed »f sick ness, . $14 14 shuilz is severe spell « is spending this week fonte on official busines: ot has re- left on } Monday for ril 3 WwW be employed » is spending several & Loganton with his i of Adam hi 3 ‘ ais Lerd purebred first prize in the county pig-breeding contest, Reish, has farm, situated Showing Harold Alexander, of Julian, and sow, which won pounds Registered Pig Kreamer # gaived in 130 days, yori: 1 Hilams- to Vy The Flea, the Fly and the Flu. a of his at S00 uried Aflyand a flea By the § fide that : {i i gaged were engagy When these ee; With tl 4] ¥ TUESDAY, MARCH 4b, one o'clock Joby Burkholder, § miles south-east of Hall, will hed stock sale: 2 heews, 11 ec ws, § head j0ung young cattle, shouts, J sows, 10 bead shoep. WEDNESDAY, MARL west of Spring Mills Cows sheep, bogs articles or in Weave n of this place, | Said the one with the ** flu” H 1 # Hwood, end be f ive 11 $05 0 teary give il 10 you, 100 aid the t ae i “Oh. plegse don't i While the fly sneezed ‘ Let us Or signed as flea, tut and left in glee. MARCH ¢ Hall, on the pasle of farm stock and IRWIN, THUREDA mile east of Linden Cleats 1 Pittsbury 51d i 5 nrg 2» fur her broth- we'll both calch the * fig’ BH with the ** flu’ cho-¢ Be, the BATURDAY. MARCH 1 mile north of Penn § sell Live stock and } Ot at 12 Sneezed ~ Ker Ww hen the Be “ Let us flee from the flue” ha Lg imp ements, nday ly will 6 alsh a said to the " . sATURDAY, MARCH 10h, one mi Centre Hall, on the Spxyd {arm stock and implements © sould farm jubu W te —_——— PLEASANT GAP. Me TUESCAY, MARCH, Lee, 1 12 miles east Plossaot Ferm stock snd mplements suet is. s In, Gag TUESDAY, MARCH 15th, 3 miles south of tre Ha r Tussey vill the old Rishe Big line of farm #ock and Hoplements (BINED eXxosiiont ot : % ast week. On 3 > sonal tig. a wveq wo Pit ! oondilion MARCH 19h, 1915 ensl of Fring M 68 gosta, WEDS EIT vs 4 $00 % i Liartaides Iron aves sl ii stains from cloth mt ordinary sep will nol re yf Miss Gladys Jones, Oenlie JAY. MAF mile east Old Fort stock and implements a r" sale of the herd of the ; aburiion pre. Lo PF. Mayes, anct i Wp 3 1 SAT- UR- DAY REMEMBER — Space prevents our enumerating all our Great Bargains, so Sale Starts: Jan. 11 mgm NIEMAN'S JAN'Y CLEARANCE SALE NOTICE--- No merchandise will be charged during this Sale. A $25,000 STOCK of Men's, Young Men's, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Clothing and Shoes, will be sold at a Great Sacrifice in price. This sale will prove beyond a doubt the greatest of all our January Clearance Sales. Our entire stock of Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s Coals, Suits, Furs, Dresses and Skirts will be Sold at 60 Cents on the Dollar ! Think what this means ! You ladies who have put off buying that Winter coat or set of furs, here is the opportunity you have been waiting for. But remember, others - too have been waiting for such a chance, so remember the old adage, “The early bird —'" etc, and come JARLY. READ OVER THE FOLLOWING FIGURES : LADIES’ COATS, | MISSES & CHIL o DREN'S COATS 20.00 iia s 1 50 2 2.2% 0. 3.00 40 00 4.50 60.00 6.00 8 $0 2 50 Men's wool sweaters .75 ¥en's wool hose. 25 Ven's heavy socks. «25 Canvas gloves , SHOES Our entire stock of Shoes —+the very best makes-- REDUCED from $1.00 1.50 49 15 a5 : Ladies Kt .$ 500 8 0 12.00 14 50 18.00 25 00 40,00 LADIES’ SUITS Coals , 0 $ 300 Coats mow . 4.00 “" 5.00 7.50 10.00 15 00 “i ot “ fr . . wt tt “ " Men's Furnishings Ladies’ $1500 Suits, , 1500 o 20.00 25.00 10 00 49.00 $ 625 850 12 00 14 50 18.00 22 00 to $1.50 ON A PAIR, and in some cases as much as $2.00. Here is certain- ly a golden opportunity, Women's, Misses’ and Children’s Dresses--60 Cents on the Dollar Sys I SATS 1 3 OF MEN'S & BOYS’ wows NIEMAN'S like these Department Store MILLHEIM Greatly Reduced $1.50 Men's heavy underwear § 98 3.00 Men's union suits . . . 198 1.50 Wen's working shirts . 98 La " i y » EXCHANGED come soln ;