ra VOL. XCIII. Boy Writes from Luxemburg. ( From Private N, R. Young, Infan- U.S. A., to his mother, Mrs. W. B. Young, at Boalsburg.) Flaxweiler, Luxemburg, Feb, 11, 1910, Boalsburg Dear Mother and all : Just a few lines to tell you I am in the best of health and hope you are all the same, : Well, we are indeed weather here at present, mercury reach- ing but little below freezing. We have having ideal CEN EAS WRITE H From William Bailey. " Nantes, Fraoce, February 20, 1919 Dear folks : ix To-day general embarkation inspec- tion of the personnel and the personnels equipment will be made by the embark- ation inspector, If we puss the inspec tion 0. k. chances are we will get to the States in a month or so; if not, can’t tell when the unit will leave. Here's hoping we make it. A bunch of red tape to go through before a soldier had but little snow so far ; at present we | haven't over three inches and it is a| good thing for the climate here is very | damp, more so than in America, and these houses are not steam heated by | any means, Practically all these bpuses | are built from stone and therefore they are rather cold. In a great many houses the men are obliged to sleep on| the floors and if it were very cold they | would freeze Jo death. Being able to speak a little dutch I finally managed to | get my self a feather bed, and it is a| peach, and the lady of the house has even been so kind as to put a hot brick | in my bed. Well, I must say that there are few men in Uncle Sam's army ing such attention, After each meal she washes my pan and knife, fork, and cup, and as) soon as I change clothes she asks me for | them and she washes them up clean as] new. She says she doesn't want me to] leave her house with dirty clothes in my | pack, | The latest rumors are now that the | gett- | mess | 33rd Division must go into Germany. | We were in Germany once as far as | Strassburg, then were ordered to ! back to Luxemburg as reserve occupa- tion troops. I don't know what the fuss is in Germany unless the revolution has gotten worse. The paper said night before last that our Division would not see America un- till June, and I believe it, too. It might | not be so bad if we had some k tertainment but we see nothing here | earth and sky and that gets monotonous. | I walked three miles today toa Y. M. C. A. canteen and when I got there all | I could buy was a small piece of choco- late and two packages of ‘cigarettes: the | bill amounted to 2 francs, or 40 cents American money I had a letter from my wife this a. m. | and she is well and she says she has not | heard from you for some time. I also! bad a letter from Aunt Mable and they | are well. I am expecting a ten day leave soon and then I shall ask permission to Paris. bad a letter yesterday from my brothes-in-law ; he is stationed e with an M. P. Battallion. In civil life be weighed about 160 pounds and now he says the scales yell 196 when he ; steps oi. He sure must be living a hard life, ha! ha! Well, in fact, I am in need of no flesh myself for I weigh over 175, 80 you may know we are not exactly starving over here, Well, mother, as this is my last sheet of paper and ‘I “bummed” it off the Lieutenant, I will close, with love to all, Your son, N. ROY YOUNG. tins From Pvt. John Garis. (To the editor of the Reporter.) Bazougors, France, | Feb. 21, 1919. | BO mn of a : ind of en- | ot Laer Dear friend : I have been at the soldier's game so long now that | am beginning to think! itis my only occupation for life. But I'm proud of my record, and feel it to be my duty to do my best at all fimes, for 1 realize that I shall never again be oblig- | ed to go through such an experience, | and more than that, I don t care to, You know Henry Mitterling and I i were among the first boys to leave the | old home town. And speaking of Hen- ry, he and I can talk of some rich exper- iences when we meet again at home. He wgs in the dressing station at Vallet. on Chateau-Thierry sector, only a mile and a half from Fismes when she was taken. That was a bloody spot. I saw Henry there dressing ‘the wounds of Hun, French and Americans alike, 1 saw sights I want to forget but can't. I helped carry the boys off the field, as 1 was put on as an extra duty man, as- signed to the 110th Infantry, as.a stretcher bearer. I then went over the Vesle river and was in the fight for the Argonne forest where I had lots of close calls. I lost some mighty good pals there, I next went up into Belgium as far as Brussels ; then back to France where | am now. + ’ Well, I will close. I hope to see you about July 4th, in time to hear some Pvt. JOHN GARIS, Hdq. Co., 109 F. A, Amer, E. F, aiios, ER A A —— Dr. Schaeffer Dead. Dr. Nathan C, Schaefter, State Super- intendent of Public Instruction, died at his home in Lancaster on Saturday eve- ning, after a lingering illness, from a complication of diseases, aged seventy places a foot on the gang plank, believe me. The Red Cross entertainment commits tee is showing the movies of * Patna * ter, ned from time to time. It's a serial picture and is contin- Movies of this everlasting monotonous camp life, visit Paris and I am in hopes that I can obtain same before we leave, I have an application to Some of the fel- "ie is lows who have been e say some metropolis, * We haven't been working very hard work for the many patients who are waiting transportation to the It's a good with That's the job all the tel- Doing kitchen States, job lows crave, In a way I would like to be transferr- ed to the 28th Division, now in the army id of occupation, bat, I will take the States the hat Germany has the arm- I read in the European edition of Herald t istice, At present it the before) taking cold thou ime of (as I wrote v the beauti Understand Bill Garis ‘* over here.” It's about so will conclusion of a line Or 80 Now # inform f our Pvt, Willi ¥. Convalscent Camp No A, P.O. .9%3. A. BE. P. Nantes, France. me —— Winfield ——————— Agent at Drops Dead. past twenty years and rail- county, dropped Irvin Reber, for the 2 n wh as road at Winfield, Union for the P n there Thursday morning past Death a Reber who was widely and po half frees irom o'clock. Mr pularly He had been in Lewisburg the day previous, apparently the of health’ and mingled freely his numerous friends in the town. Mr. Reber was also in his usual good health Thursday morning when he went to the station. When the express train 0 the station he started to help to load milk cans onto the train. He was seen suddenly to collapse and fell to Before medical abo nine resulted stroke, known, was aged about sixty years, best with $e au up t =Surviving Mr. Reber are his widow Joseph. The funeral services were held Mon- day morning from his late home in charge of Rev: R. S. Starr. pastor of the Winfield United Evangelical church, of which congregation Mr, Reber was a member, A i ——————— Bill Changes Primary Date. It was announced Saturday that the to the provisions of the primary law now in force, the various political part. ies thruout the state will nominate their A bill is being prepared to change the date to September 23, The change in the primary date is to have the backing of Philadelphia inde- pendents. It is aimed to give the good government organizations an opportun- ity to examine the registration lists prior to the primaries. It is recalled that at last spring's pri mary, the independents were refused ac cess to the voting list prior to the pri mary election and the board of registra tion commissioners claimed that they were in use by the board in preparing the list for election day. There wre three registration days this year before the primary, September, ¢ and 13. The independents are afraid such a con- dition might arise again in the fall if the primaries are held September 17, and for that reason propose that the pri maries be postponed from the third Wednesday to the fourth Tuesday in Ssptember, AY AORTA Congressman Gillet, protege of Pen- rose, has the speakership, and Congress. man Mann, pet of Joe Cannon, controlls Representatives, What is left for the public 7 ® years, : » CARLOAD ARMY HORSES SOLD AT CENTRE HALL, MONDAY. Twenty Head Average $156.50. Sale Largely Attended by Farmers. J. D. Bair’'s sale of a carload of army horses, at Centre Hall, on Monday after- noon, was largely attended’ by farmers from all parts of the county. Twenty head sold for $3130.00, an average price of $156.50. IL. Frank Mayes was the auctioneer, The purchasers and prices paid follow ” Bruce Struble, State College, Newton Driebelbis, St. College, Walter Driebelbis, St. College, 2 Roland Spicer, State College, D. A. Grove, Bellefonte, 1 . . - - S. W. Zettle, Bellefonte, 1 - » - - Robert Walters, Bellefonte, 1 Aaron Weller, Bellefonte, 1 G. A. Carper, Linden Hall, 1 Harry W, Klinger, Boalsburg, Elmer Houtz, Boalsburg, 1 - « « « 331 Paul Hackman, Millheim, Miles Bressler, Spri W. H. Sinkabine, Spring } Richard Brooks, Centre Hall, 1 - 1 Willard Smith, Centre Hall, 1 - $360.00 - $ 350,00 325.00 3 - 280.00 182.50 175.00 177.50 120.00 170,00 00 190.00 140.00 124.00 40.00 127. LO Total Average, $156.50 ———— pt A nt Branch of Dairyman's League. Hall Dairyman’'s League was o Monday night, Jay H. Smi nizer, of Orange county, $3130.00 The Centre branch of zed 1. 3 FOCAL rgani on yr 3, AK New York, t of « O-Opera- orga reves 1 4 med 3 & £4 having formulated the spiri milk Between joined the league, tion among the producers the week previous, fifty farmers pose of which league is best possible price f ers last fall in New league forced the the leagne's now obtains ¥ sched ] ana 3 1 3 hundea aunalieq heohar mgher per price paid by tract for milk through the league. P who do dealers not The local prganization was formed electing Jacob Sharer presid Marcellus Sankey, An effort will be made to form other leagues throughout Penns and Brush It will be well for progressive “5% co-operation BC retary-treasurer Valleys. farmers who believe in to ue and yee i investigate the merits of the leag on Fors un if they it based sound ciples, its plans workable in this Joc which they should connect t} Prof. C. R. Neff was designated a delegate to attend an important meeting of th Jtica, New i 0 loubtedly will, * iemselves with it, 1 e league to be held in 1 York, in the near future. ————— $150,000 Hotel for Philipsburg. Philipsburg is to have a new 12¢-room hotel of from six to eight height, and to cost approximately $150.- 000. The plan is bave there the modern temperance hotels now be- glories im in to one of ing erected in many cities and enter prising large towns. The project has the endorsement of Hon. C. W. Rowland and other local capitalists, —————— AAA AAAS. School Report. Report of Intermediate grade for sth menth, Pupils present every day dur ing month: Edna Luse, Ruth Runkle, Miriam Moore, Helen Runkle, Mary Weber, Loiuse Smith, Algie Emery, Dorothy Odenkirk, Emelyn Brungart, Elizabeth Gross, Helen Brown, Esther Martz, Mildred Bitts, Margaret Luse, George Luse, Wilbur McClellan, Byers Ripka, John Meyer, Joseph Ruble and Bond Bible. Percentage of attendence Boys, ob; girls, 935: total ¢35 —Olive Way, teacher, sata A oI ML AAA New Berlin Man Suicides. When Jesse Havelett, an aged resi- dent of New Berlin, failed to appear at his home in that place on Monday of last week his housekeeper, *Mrs. Bowersox, made a search, of the premises and found bis lifeless body hanging from a timber in the barn, Mr. Havelett having committed suicide some time previous, He was aged seventy years, a ——— a IL * This is the Life.” Heralded both by press and public as a genuine sensation in musical farce, Robert Sherman's new song and dance show, ** This is the Life ” which is sche- duled for an appearance at the Garman theatre Friday evening, March 21, goes beyond expectation, The company is unquestionably one of great merit, and its refined, versatile and talented artists are capable of giving a most pleasing entertainment. The de. lightful feature of the performance is the happy mingling of the musical num. bers and uproarious comedy, This has ‘been done with the most consumate taste. ‘Add to this the many pretty girls, funny comedians and splendid stage surroundings and you get an ideal production, Prices, 3s¢c, soc, 75¢, $1,00, AI A RA It will take more than thirty-nine Sen. Progress Grange Adds Largely to Its Membership. That Progress Grange, P. of H., of Centre Hall, is a live Grange,’ and that its title is no misnomer, is proven by its ever-growing membership. On Satur- day evening, at a regular meeting, claes of thirty-one candidates was ad mitted to the Order, the majority of whom were young people having the agricultural erests at heart. J. H. Smith, representing a man’s organiz i int int dairy state, ation, of New York > large class, thus Jacob Sharer, At ilar Grange work, secret work to ng Master close of the master declared a recess, during which ; time refrest nis were served, The class consisted of the following Dutr John A. Ww n Dutrow Mrs. Joh Eat 3 Habel Ly, 8. Raymond Walker Mrs. H, C. Mc Mrs, W. 8. Slick Adalene McC jertha R Subscriber from the West Writes. i Mr. Mrs. W. C. Sweetwond, former residents ; 3 } brows # : neporter readers who kpow and who for some inter Mr. and d, Oregon, me from arned that our two sons the service we them 1n have scharged from to meet San then we been state and haver de- { anywhere, the I worked at ship Now I bave por you will please ad- lia Drive, Riverside, g in Port chased a 18, 396 Mag: fornia. home and dress Cali We will be glad to have our eastern friends come to see us.” —————— Farm Loan Association for Centre. A representative of the Federal Loan Bank of Baltimore, Md., will be in Belle fonte, on the 26th, to address farmers who may be interested in forming a Farm Loan association. In order to ac- complish the organization of such an as- sociation, application to borrow a total of not less than $20,000 must be made, by ten more land owners. The whole scheme of a Farm Loan Associa- tion Will be explamned, and will be of interest to all wishing to borrow mon- ey. , Don’t take the explanation 0” some one who perhaps is opposed to the or. ganization of these associations, but go hear one who knows the scheme mn de- tail and will give you a correct insight of it. of A ——— a —— A ——— Odd Fellow's Sermon March 30. On Sunday evening, March 30th, at 7:30 o'clock, Rev. W. R. Picken will preach a sermon to the local lodge of Odd Fellows, in the M. E, church in Centre Hall, Nbt oaly Odd Fellows but the public in general is invited to ats tend. Rev. Pickens subject will be, * The pleasure and profit of unity as exempli- fied by Odd Fellowship. ” SAA AP AAA Daylight Saving Measure Opposed by Penna. Farmers. Strong protests against the proposed daylight saving regulation for the com- ing summer were expressed at ‘State te, Friday. Group 3 Met at Bellefon ® 4 % WS.S. ‘WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES « COVERNMENT The first meeting of Group Neo. 3 was held at Bellefonte, at the Court House on Friday, March 14th, at 10 o'clock a m, As chairman of said Group, 1 notified the several County Chairmen of W. § S, and also the County Superintendents Mr. Associate Director Philadelphia, was ed fully the War Sav of schools, to attend this meeting, J. Curtis Patterson, f War Of f present and out Savings, of tugs Society plan, Chairmen of W, 8. S from yeoming, Potter counties were present perintendents of schools from Clinton, Cameron, Lycoming, McKean, Potter and Tioga counties, several city and borough listrict and $iCL " Tioga and also the su Centre, to wit} y +} gether chairmen ithout ntegested the aving Societies, the superjuten dents expressed their willing work harmony with the several County Chairmen of W, 8. S.. in of these the public schiools in this sec- tion of the State, ques in forma- S S and ness to in starting societies in a large number The whole idea of a society is to be- gio and continue a ** of buying W. 8. § lesson of + only systematic system and T. 8. The be taught not children attenting the in normal schools, colleges, dustrial plants, thrift” will to the schools, im is but and in fact to every man, woman and child, no matter what his or her busi ness may be, Meetings will be arranged in every county of the Group shortly after the ictory Loan" campaign ends. A renuous year in the W, S. move- ment is being mapped out, and the real lessons of * thrif and * saving" people throughout # S +11 1 wiil % the the entire nation. be explained to ACQUIRE THE * many child should and to buy as their cir- * Systematic” buying is what is stroogly advised by our Government, For the week ending March 8th, Centre and THRIFT Every man, woman and begin now to buy W them every week or month ) cumstances may warrant 1919, had a per capita of gaze, the list of counties in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The per capita to date for the Eastern District is 36c. The per capita to date for the United States is 8c. W. Haxrison Warxes . Chairman War Savings Committee county nn is third for Centre County. Rev. Bieber Accept Muncy Charge. Rev. B. F. Bieber, of West Milton, and former pastor of the Penns Valley Lutheran charge. has accepted a call to succeed Rev. W, F. Steck, as pastor of the Lutheran church at Muncy, Rev. Steck, who has resigned his charge there has been pastor'of the church for the past twenty-five years, He was a recipient of a gift from the church in the form of a liberal purse, Rev. Bieber has been in charge of the Lutheran pastorate at West Milton and vicinity for some years, and while his many friends will regret his departure, they will be glad for his success in being called to a larger field. Ss ——————————— THE DEATH RECORD. Suarzer.—Richard Shatzer, a native of Boalsburg, where he was born Octo- ber 12, 1844. died at his home in Lewis town, on Saturday afternoon, aged sev- enty-four years and five months. His wife whose maiden name was Mary Kauffman preceded him to the spirit world thirty-seven years ago. He was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted from Mifflin county, He en- gaged in practically all the battles of the 61-65 war and was a prisoner in Lib. by. Belle Island and Salisbury prisons. He leaves a son and a daughter ; also three brothers. Burial ‘was made at Lewistown oa Tuesday afternoon. - Suires, Mrs. Michael Shires died on College by hundreds of Pennsylvania agriculturalists attending the annual Farmers’ Week conferences, They unan- imously adopted a reso'ution oppos ng the measure, and R. L. Watts, dean of the Pennsylvania State College agricul | tural school, sent it to Washington, The farmers contended the daylight saviog program was a hardship to them. As a wartime measure, they declared, | they had abided by the regulation last summer without complaint, but they were opposed to its resumption for the feason that they lose valuable time early in the mornings when the soil and crops are to wet with dew to permit working. i ! ators to stop the world's progress to-| ward the abolition of wars and the guarantee of peace, # James B. Spangler, of Tusseyville, has decided to hold sale on April 8th, w Monday of last week at her home in Scranton, after an illness of ten days. The funeral services were held from the home, 1301 Linden street, on Wednes- day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and burial which was private, took place in the family plot in Dunmore cemetery, Mrs, Shires was a native of Centre county and had many friends in this sec. tion who will be grieved to learn of her i burg, was born on March 11, 1845, died on Sunday a week ago at Glen Iron, a stroke. He was a resident. of Har township, Union county, for the past NO. 12 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREL TY FROM ALL PARTS April 1st is fast approaching. wen Mrs, Paul Halfpenny, postmistress at Miflinburg, is ill with typoid fever, The public sale held by Manna Kline, at Axemann, last Thursday, s to the enormous total of nearly imed up £5000, rior Hie To-morrow is the first day of spr but we have been having t} weather which goes with that season f« some time, ie sort of 4 A carload of manufactured ice was re ceived in Centre Hall, last week. be- cause the natural ice crop this winter was a complete fails The he and expenditures for Centre Hall bor auditors’ report of t receipts ough for the year 1918 has been place the hands of the printer a in next week's issue, il 11 na will appear a The question we are all asking, seriously too, is, why has the building the road from Beliefoate to Nittany mountain been called of 7? Who can give a correct answer ? r of Henry Lingle, Brockerhoff farm oa the Fort, is moving week to w is known as the Prof. M. Wolf property, southeast of Spri Old this D. £34 a east of h wh Mills. The place contans about twenty- five acres, 0 agent W. L. Campbell, of Coburn, and Harry Baker, of Ingleby, are two boys from the lower end the valley who have been mustered out of the ser home again. Both France. son of statio of 3 vice and are saw aclive servi The banner sale of the season section of the county was that of Winkleblech’s near Woodward, on day, says the Millheim Jour The sale total $6 613.46. Twenty cows were sold at an average of $104. and a bull sold for $214. Elmer Be Saturday netted $4 500. mm i Ges 1 on WR, fat b's sale on Patrons en rural mail r plating changing their address April 1st, should write the names of all persons receiving mail in their box to- gether with new address. This slip will be filed in your local post office and makes a permanent record of your address for forwarding your mail, outes contem” about their This (Thursday) evening, the degree team and others of Centre Hall jodge, I. 0. 0, F., will go to Bellefonte to con. fer the second degree on a class of can- didates., The local lodge bas a county- wide reputation because of its work on the second degree and requests come frequently from all quarters to **put the work. on Patrons of the Reporter who change their post office address this spring should forward notice of such change at once, giving both the old and pew ad- dress, as well as when the change shall go into effect. Do not wait until you move to give this information ; it now, so there will be no interruption of your mail service. do American college athletes, now with the expeditionary forces in France, have organized a track team to compete with representatives of European countries, Twenty-five cinder path stars, mostly from prominent Eastern United States colleges, have gone to Nice, were they will train for the next three months in preparation for the various meets. Several farmers in Centre county have made application to the District Federal bank, at Baltimore, Md., for a loan, and as a consequence a meeting of farmers has been called for March 26th, in Belle- fonte, with a view of organizing a Farm Loan Association, These associations are formed wholly in the interest of land owners, and the opportunity to gain a real insight of them should not be miss- ed. At the clos2 of the annual Conference of the Central Pennsylvania District, United Evangelical Church, ‘held at Baltimore, Md., last week, appoint. ments of pastors were announced, as fol- lows: Rev. ]. A. Shultz was returned to Centre Hall ; Rev. 1. C. Bailey has been placed at Spring Mills; Rebers! burg, C. E. Hewitt; Millheim, C. B, Sayder ; State College, W. L. Hummel ; Mifflin, |]. R. Sechrist ; Bellefonte, E. B, Dunn, The conference for next year will be held at Williamsport. Rev. G. W. Mclinay, a former pastor of the Penn's Valley Methodist Episco- pal churches, is ending his fourth year as pastor of the First M. E. Church of
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