VOL. XCIII. MAY 8, U. S. DEBT, $24,824,345,000. Mostly Represented by Liberty Bonds of First Four Issues. Public debt of the United States Government was reported on Saturday by the Treasury as $24,824,345,000, Most of this represents Liberty Bonds of the first, second, third and fourth is- sues, but the Victory Loan is not in- cluded to any great extent. The addi- tion of Victory Loan Bonds will be largely counterbalanced by redemption of outstanding certificates of indebted- ness, No deduction is made for the $8,852,000 loaned to foreign Govern- ments, Consequently the net debt would be approximately $16,000,000,000. The Treasury plans to issue other bonds later this year and next year to meet the fag ends of war expenses, but in the aggregate these are not expected to amount to more than $5,000,000,000, so that the gross public debt of the United States is expected by Treasury officials to be in the neighborhood of $30,000,000,000 when the period of war financing ends. The Treasury now has a working bal- ance of $1,052,,000,000, of which $6357, 546,000 is on deposit with banks through out the country on account of bills or certificates of indebtedness and Victory notes. The Treasury holds $2,568.599.- ooo in gold, but a little more than half of this belongs to the gold settlement fund of the Federal Reserve Board. Silver dollars in the Treasury, which a little more than a year ago amounted to $490,000,000, has been reduced jto $229, 711,000 by melting down of approxi. mately 260,000,000 silver dollars for ex- port to India, ———— A — Lowest Bid for Pleasant Gap Road is $249,332.22. The lowest bid made to the State highway department for the construction of the stretch of road from Bellefonte to a point on Nittany Mountain beyond Pleasant Gap, was by the International Eogineering and Construction Company, of Scranton. Their figure was $249.- 332.23. No award has yet been made, —— I ————— Wheat Prospects Good in Kansas, Beloit, Kansas, May 28, 1919. Editor Reporter : * Enclosed please find draft to extend my subscription. Our wheat prospects are very good, Farmers met in our city last Saturday to discuss the question of help during harvest, and agreed we would need 1600 to 1800 men and expect to pay $4.50 to $5.00 for ten-hour day. . Wishing success to ** Nations ", The League of Yours, J. K. Gruss, ———— or ——— Major Boal Coming Later. A cablegram from Major Boal brings the news that he will not return with the 28th Division, but that he has been de- tained in France for thirty days. No doubt the assignment to further duties oyerseas was quite a disappointment to the Major for he had planned to return to the old home town with the organiza- tion for which he was sponsor—the ** Boal Troop, ” now Company A, ro7th Machine Gun Battalion, “The Magistrate *’. The Penn State Thespians will appear in Garman's Opera House on Friday evening, May oth, when they will pro- duce the popular farce comedy, entitled, ** The Magistrate”. The cast will con. sist of sixteen college boys, four ladies and a ten-picce college orchestra, Worth Twp. H. 8. Commencement. Commencement exercises of the Worth township High school, of which Prof, H. C. Rothrock is the principal, will be held on Friday evening, May oth, in the Methodist church at Port Matilda, Smith's orchestra will furnish the music. The complete program follows : Triumphal March - Liberty for All OVERTURE~—RAYMOND Invocation . Rev. B, Monroe Posten WHEN YOU COME BACK Salutatory - Jessie Max Witriams ** The Independence of Ireland Oration Sammut Cram’ Hoover ** Unadulterated Americanism ” MARY Oration - - Evizasetnt Peart Beck “ The 18th Amendment Class Oration - Stanrey Reese Wirritus * Work and Win " HINDUSTAN Oration Pavr Wintiam Warr * Our Heritage from the War * Oration Guuserr Lroyn Besswerr ** Ole Hanson and the Seattle Strike ” SELECTION--VALSE Oration Hazel Evzavor Lytie ** Just Treatment tor the Returning Soldier Valedictory - Wenorrr Warne Crain * Good Citizenship” ORIENTAL=~ARABIAN NIGHTS Commencement Address— Rev. H. F. Bancock SONG—*' OH HELEN" Presentation of Diplomas— By Presiden Board of Education A KISS FOR CINDERELLA - - - a = .- = » - - A Pleasing Entertainment. A capacity house greeted the Rock Springs amateur theatrical performers in the Grange hall on Saturday evening, when they presented their three.act play ‘Her Honor the Mayor.” As the title suggests, woman had the ballot and elected one of their sex to guide the des- tinies of a municipal government. There was a complete reversal of pres- ent-day conditions : men were found do- ing domestic duties while the women folk grappled with the sterner things of life, politics included. But they proved po stronger than mere man when temp- tation arose, and the accepting of a bribe in the shape of a five-pound box of candy daily for ten years from the “French Chocolate Company,” for using her influence in framing legislation to the chocolate company's intererts, got her honor the mayor into hot water, and all sorts of complications developed. After the affairs of the city government reached a point where they became no longer endurable under woman's man- agement, an awakening suddenly re- vealed the fact that it had all been a dream, or should we say, a nightmare ! Things returned to where they rightful- ly belonged and barmony again pre- vailed, | The parts were all well taken. Miss Nancy McWilliams, who played the important role, was a forceful character. She was ably assisted by her sister per- formers, We have a lurking suspicion, however, that the ladies selected the male parts for the purpose of strength- ing their cause of suffrage. We don't know. The piano duets were especially pleas- ing to the audiency, as were the vocal selections by Miss Nancy Williams and Elizabeth Goheen. Miss Sarah McWill- iams recited in very good form, The proceeds on admissions totaled almost fifty dollars, and the net profits were equally divided between the Rock Springs people and the local W. C. T. U, Big Musical Company to Come Centre Hall. The Liberty Concert Company, com. posed of the best young talent of Mifi- linburg, will appear in Grange Arcadia, Centre Hall, on Saturday evening, May 17th. They will present a real after-the- war program ( full of pep), guaranteed to please everybody—old as well as young. The excellent program given here last year by the Mifflinburg people still lingers in the memory of those who were fortunate enough to bave heard it. The coming attraction promises to eclipse that one, The proceeds derived from the enter tainment will be for the benefit of the Soldiers Jubilee fund of Union county. adv, at to “$22,000 Loss in Fire at Tyrone. Fire, which started about five o'clock Wednesday morning of last week, par tially destroyed the G.C. Boeckling block on Tenth street, Tyrone, It is thought the fire started in the cellar of the grocery store of Miller Brothers. The grocery store was prac. tically destroyed, as well as the adjoin- ing drug store of 8S, M. Irvin. Miller Brothers’ loss is estimated at $10,000 and Mr. Irvin's at $5,000, The damage to the building will amount to about $7,000. The walls were not seriously damaged. The second floor was occupied by four families. They got everything out. The third floor was occupied by the Masons and was not badly damaged. ———————— AAA Penn State to Honor Men Who Died in Service. The Pennsylvania State College will hold a commemoration service on May 30 in honor of her men who died in the war. A committee of faculty members is arranging the program. The college authorities have an- nounced that those seniors who died while in military service will be listed as graduates of Penn State in the com. mencement programs and in the alumni registers. Diplomas will be prepared for each and sent to his parents, Honorary certificates, bearing the name of each member of the faculty, alumnus or student who entered the military or naval service-—except such as were merely members of the 8. A. T. C.—will be issued by the college on commencement day, The certificates will bear testimony to the enduring gratitude with which the college cher ishes the patriotic devotion of her teach- ers and students, Through the activities of Government al departments, with the cooperation of the States and municipalities, thousands of discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and former war workers are being placed in permanent and profitable jobs, Although Republican opposition in the recent Congress defeated the appropria- tion for the Federal employment service, Government officials have overcoma the obstacle and are places for the returned fighters at the rate of 100,000 a ' week. ————————————— when dealing with animal disease. HELMETS FOR VICTORY | LOAN SUBSCRIBERS. Fourteen Captured German Helmets to Be Chanced Off.—Every Sub- scriber in Centre County Has An Equal Chance for One. Victory Loan headquarters are in re- ceipt of fourteen captured German hel- mets, which will be chanced off to Vie- tory Loan subscribers of the Centre county district. The helments will be divided among the different districts on the basis of bank quotas, which of course will take in the surrounding dis- tricts of the county. Every person who snbscribes for a bond, no matter what the amount of the bond may be, will be entitled to a chance on the helmet or helmets in the bank district, through which the subscription was given. Immediately after the loan closes on May 10th, every bank in Centre county will submit to Mr. Charles C. McCurdy, chairman of the district, a complete list of the names of every person who sub- scribed for one or more bonds through that particular bank, and the helmets to which said district is entitled, will be sent to the said bank and chanced off under the direction of the chairman of the Victory Loan committee, W. Harrison Warkes, Chairman Publicity. Helmets and Medals Workers. The Woman's Committee has been al- lotted fourteen helmets. These will be given to the fourteen chairmen, whose committee raises the largest percentage of their district's quota. Medals struck from German cannons, captured at Chateau Thierry, will be given to all workers, Evizangrn Mis Bracn, for Women Local Lodges Entertain in Honor of Returned Soldier Boys. All the returned soldier boys, from overseas and those discharged from camps, were guests of honor at a recep- tion tendered by the local 1. O, O. F, in their hall on Wednesday night of last week, There was a splendid outpouring of Odd Fellows, the hall being taxed to its capacity. An unpretentious program was prepared for the occasion, Male voices rendered several selections, A talk on the war of 1861-65 by B, D, Bris- bin, grizzled veteran of that conflict, and oldest member of the local Odd Fellows organization, was the most interesting feature of the program. Mr. Brisbin showed that the brutality which char. acterized the Germans’ method of war- fare during the World War, was also present in the Civil War, for the man in charge of the Andersonville prison, where Mr. Brisbin and thousands of his fellow comrades were incarcerated, was a German, and one of the type with which the boys "over there” had to contend. His disregard for the welfare of his prisoners resulted in their dying like flies, Mr. Brisbin's part in the war was given with no claims to personal bravery or achievement, no school girl could have been more modest than be in giviog his reminiscences of a war in the participating of which he has every reason to be proud. Mr, Brisbin hoped to draw out from the soldiers of the late war some personal experiences by his talk, but young men, with that ** I.want-to-forget-it ” spirit, were silent, and the Rev. R. R. Jones followed with a de- k, after which all were lun >On ice cream and lightful short tal treated to a sweet pickles, of sandwiches, coffee. P. O. 8, OF A, ENTERTAIN, the Centre Hall of A., at a regular served elegant On Thursday evening camp of the P, O, 8, business meeting, re \ Chairman, Centre county. Asylum for Big ** Cootie ". What a big cootie did for an America soldier, and what an American soldie did tor a big louse is related by Rossma Smith, who did service on the French front and police duly in Germany. While a terrific engagement was cooling down, Soldier Smith states, a companion soldier was sitting back of a shelter that only protected him from view, when a *cootie ” was everlastingly * digging im" on his knee, There was a lull for an mstant in the firing from the Ger mans, when the soldier bending over unwound a puttee from his leg, and carefully bariog the knee, the big louse was captured ** while in action”. Just then a bullet whizzed full length along his spine, and this is what the soldier said and did : * Old louse, I was going to kill you, but since you saved my life my bosom shall be your home ” The Ice Cream Tax. Carry your ice cream home free of , and pay tax if you eat it where it is sold, is the new ruling on<this popular dish, The ruling which comes from Washington, reads as follows : ** Ice cream cones are taxable where ever sold. Jce cream purchased and carried home is not taxable. Ice cream sold in hotels, restaurants and public eating places is not taxable if included with a meal as dessert. If listed separ- ately on the menu and included as des- sert, it is taxable", It is expected that this will clarify the complex situation which arises in regard to the new “luxury tax” in a great énany cases, ——— ABSA Died While He Fished. James Dougherty, of Middletown, aged seventy years, was found dead along Jocks Creek, in Mifflin county, on Thursday afternoon, by a boy and girl who were passing along the stream and saw from a distance a man sitting upon the creek bank as if he was waiting to draw a fish from the water, Upon go- ing nearer they discovered that the man was dead, His fishing rod was held firmly in the death grip of his hands and the fish were still nibbling at the bait on the hook ot his line, Inquiry at the Mifflin county home disclosed the fact that Dougherty left there early in the morning to go on a fishing trip. He was subject to attacks of vertigo and he was probably seized by a severe illness early that day while enjoying his chief sport of fshing. His white whiskers attracted the at. tention of the passing boy and girl who made the gruesome He was a familiar figure at the county home where he usually spent his win. ters, He was an itinerant painter and it is stated that his relatives, several !brothers and sisters who reside in Dauphin county, are well-to.do, ME SM Last Auction at Meiss' Store. G. R. Meiss will hold an auction sale, , the last for this season, at his store at | Colyer, on Saturday evening, Come if you want bargains, adv, A ——— Rats and mice have been found to be in honor of three of thei man, the secre- freshments members—D). Ross Bush tary ; Alfred Crawford. and W. W, Kerlin, the presidest—the former tw having been in France, and the latte! ready to sail when the armistice was signed, Several new members were taken nto the order at this meeting, bringisg the membership up to the one hundred mark. A A A SA A— Penn State Football Card Announced for Next Season. Penn State's football schedule for the 1919 season contains eight games, four at home and four on foreign fields There is one less contest than has been the practice in former years, An outstanding feature of the grid- iron card for next is the date marking the resumption of football re. lations with the University of Penuosyl- vania, The last meeting between Penn State and Penn was on Franklin Field in 1916. Cornell is another attractive op- ponent. The Ithacans were on the 1918 schedule, but because of war conditions the game was not played. State will journey to Lake Cayuga on November 15 for the first game with the Red and White in several years. Dartmouth is again booked for a con- test at Hanover, N. H., on October 18, A two-year agreement brings the Green to State College for the Pennsylvania Day game in 1920, The complete schedule follows : October 4—Gettysburg College, State College. October 1:1-—Buckaell University, at State College. October 18—~Dartmouth, at Hanover. October 25—Ursinus, at State College. November 1 Pennsylvania, at Phila- delphia, November §—Lehigh University, at State College. November 15--Cornell, at Ithaca. November 27-Pittsburgh, at Pitts burgh. season at All surplus TNT and other explosives that can be used in clearing land, build- ing roads or in general construction or other work is being turned over to the Department of the Interior by the War Department. Such material on hand, once considered practically worthless, is now valued at $15,000,000. This is the Administration's version of beating the sword into a ploughshare. Republican bigh-tariff advocates a going to find it difficult to get the coun. try to accept prosperity as an issue, The country’s prosperity is reflected in the enormous foreign trade, with the balance heavily on the side of exports, and the fact that the Treasury Depart ment’s call of March showed the country banks to have made the most notable in- ! crease on record, A MI MA ISSA, A year ago, vocal patriots were de- “ ceased to function ”, When the arm- 1stice was signed, the American troops on the' western front were second in number to the French, only as was the extent of the front they held, ——— A YP ———— 1919, NO. 19 THE DEATH RECORD. ¥ Heims,—Mrs, Lizzie Virginia Heims, widow of the late Thomas C. Heims, died at the family residence, Osceola Mills, on last Thursday morning, She bad been in failing health for a long time, Mrs. Heims was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Hess, of Linden Hall, and was born there sixty-nine years ago. She is survived by one son, Eugene Heims, of Osceola Mills, and one daughter, Mrs. Comfort B. Brown, |; of Detroit, Michigan, Burial was made by the side of her husband in the cemetery at Tyrone, on Saturday afternoon, McWirLiams, — James McWilliams, one of the best known men in the west ern part of the county, died in the Belle. fonte hospital on Sunday evening. He took ill on Friday. His death resulted before an operation could be performed, Deceased was born near Graysville sev- enty years ago. His life was spent on the home farm, retiring ten years ago. He was an active member of the Presby- terian church at Graysville, a kind neighbor and friend : in fact, a man without Burial cemetery Campbell an enemy. was made in the Graysville on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. officiating. Dirrgnv.—Julia Catherine Dippery wife of Miles Dippery, died at ber home, n Reedsville, Mond week, aged for months and seven days. y forenoon of last ty.three three use of years, The ca ysis of six months her death was tuberc: Sh 1 ssbhand and I ‘aul, Eliza. at home, and 3, of Centre hers and Dewat : Mrs, duration. e leaves her ht John, Harry, beth, Roy and Mary all John C. Kul six children, ber father, Hall, and the Howin sisters : W. 8. # Gi Rome DeArmitt, th, of State Col John Sweetwood, of Kuhn, of Milton ; Phoenixville ; Ed toona ; Beatrice Kuk Kuhn, Jadob Newell, Hecla Park; Mrs Mrs, Roy Charles Smi lege ; Parkersford ; David Kuhn, of Kuhn, of Al . of Lock Haven of Centre Hall; Mrs of Reedsyille, Mrs. of Lewistown, ward James and dam Suoday, The funeral services were held Reedsville Methodist church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. E. B. Davidson offi. clating. Interment was made io the Church Hill cemetery, Reedsville, in the Penn Hall Native Dies in West. Mrs, George Bolender, nee Sara Jase Krumrine, died at ber home in Orange- ville, Ill week, and was buri ed on Friday, She was the daughter of Henry and Susan Krumrioe, and was born near Penn Hall on Dec. 9, 1842, hence was in her seventy-seventh year. Her marriage to George Bolen. der, of Mifflinburg, took place in 1862 She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs, J. W. Benopehoff, of Orangeville ; one sister, Mrs. J. Gren- eble, of Gettysburg ; five brothers, Elias G. Krumrine, of Weikert; Dr. H. A. Krumrine, of Newburg: Syd inois, Wedn sesday of last Lrumrine, ot Rebersburg ; E. C. Krumrine, of Al toona ; and Fred Krumrine, of Milton, ht. ————— Receive Bids for Building School House. The Potter township school directors will receive bids for the construction of a school building, at a point near the Dauberman farm, along Sinking Creek, Specifications may be had by applying at the home of E. W, Crawford, Centre Hall, All bids must be in the bands of the above named party by Saturday, May 23rd, — By order Potter Twp. School Board. ———— A AS ———— Teachers’ Salary Bill Passed by the House. The Woodruff teachers’ salary increase bill was passed fipally by the house at Harrisburg, last Tuesday night, by a vote of 199 to 1. There was no debate on the measure which was recently amended so that its provisions do not apply to janitors, clerks, nurses and other employes of school districts. The bill provided for approximately a 25 per cent. increase in salary, fixing $60 as the minimum salary, ——— A ————— “Bill” Bailey Arrives in U. 8. Private William Bailey set foot on American soil last Wednesday when the steamship Finland docked at New York, carrying principally the 103rd engineers, the Philadelphia men who threw the first bridge over the Marne at Chateau- Thierry under terrific German fire, “ Bill ” did not get to France until the signing of the armistice and had since will TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, —— HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTERES FROM ALL PARTS Sunday is Mother's Day, and the sym. bol is a white carnation, The wheat fields show how the frost of ten days ago nipped the ends of the plants, Wallace Weaver, of Birdsboro, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Weaver, near Tusseyville, last week, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Walker are rejoic- ing over the arrival of a baby girl at their home in Centre Hall, quite re- cently. It is the first-born in the family, John A. Heckman and H. E. Schreck- engast) both Potter township farmers, purchased new autos last week, the mer a Dodge touring car and the latter a Ford touring car, If you enjoy good music, hear the State College musical concert in the Grange Saturday even for- don't fail to ladies in their hall, on ing of this week, Ad- mission 15 and 25 cents. Mr. and Mrs, Henry Stoner, of College, are planning to make a the west next Monday morning, will be gone u State trip to They in August, 1 the Dakotas. antil some time and expect to react B. Wollner, of the Mi Was a of Lewistown, magpager ng ¢ Smpany, ce last issue y for the dead stock free of charge. business call week, See t removal of At the annual business session of the Pennsylvania Odd Fellows’ beld in Williamsport Tx week, Milton for the - Association, of last unanimous choice g of the Association. 1esday was the 1920 meetin Among last week wasHarvey D. Hagan mers Mills, doing for the state's greatest educational in tution. the Reporter's callers during . , of Far- w hie resent is engaged in csrpunier v fate Philipsburg Budwig, was forced trouble, from G. G. oplane, who had a visit a piiot of a mail aer land to owing 1o motor nig He re- it, while a in a field on Wednesday in Philip at. mained guard stood b close {0 the town. The Philadel tpl a Public Ledger, its Saturd in n. makes the Robuck & Co., increase of over 3 usiness seclio iat Sears, an thirty-three per cent. over its sales for the same in 1918. This dicates that there is business and - in- h and those who are after it are landing it. Those from this place who did the war train at Bellefone, day, at least had the pleasure of seeing the airplane which was to have been a part of the day's doings. The machine passed over Centre Hall late in the after- noon, reaching Bellefonte too late for playing its part in the day's program. a not Se last Wednes- A dozen or more wild docks were found dead or maimed in Miltheim, one morging last week, Several flocks of geese and ducks were heard flying over- head the night before, during a storm, and it is presumed the fowls is became be- wildered and remained it that vicinity by the attraction of the street lights, Compulsory attendance of children be- tween the ages of 8 and 16 in school has become a Pennsylvania law through the signing by Governor Sproul of the bill introduced in the House on February 3, by Representative Frank B. Mallery, of Venango county. This bill met with opposition in both houses but was finally carried by an overwhelming majority. The skunk was ordered protected by law as a friend of the farmer and ot the public generally because of peit and oil in a bill passed by the House of Repre- sentatives at the night session Tuesday of last week, amid considerable merri- ment. The muskrat was also ordered on the protected list from November 15 to March 1. The bill'\forbids taking the skunk except by ‘‘dead falls” and smoking out is prohibited. The vote was 105 to 52. 500,000 books are needed for the boys who are still overseas. Books maintain army morale, and nothing appeals to the men more than clean, fresh books, prin. cipally works of fiction. The Peansyl- vania Free Library Commission is en- deavoring to collect books in this state. If you care to contribute a good book or two, give them to Mrs, John H. Weber, Centre Hall, and when a fair sized col- fection is gathered, the books will be shipped, destined to reach our boys * over there ". Heed the appeal ! The Miliheim Journal says the follow ing with regard to an outbreak of diph- theria in that town: On last Thursday H. R. Auman's home was quar ————————— I SAAS. Spring Mills Grange to Give Play. On Saturday evening, May 17th, the Spring Mills Grange will render two Playa 1s tie Guange ball at that place. “Mr. Bob” is “comedy, and “It's All tn the Puy 8 Streak” is a The best way to keep the Hoes aad them out. — cultivators polished this summer is by lm a
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