LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs, W. Vernon Godshall, of Oxford,
Ohio, is on a visit among relatives and
friends in Penns Valley.
A Childrens’ Day service will be rend-
ered in the United Evangelical church,
in this place, on Sunday evening.
A carload of Larro dairy feed just in,
Larro is a real milk producer. Try it.
~R. D. Foreman, Center Hall, adv
The Potter township school board ex.
pect to elect teachers for the next term
at a meeting on Friday evening.
Shannon Boozer left for Chicago, Il1.,
last week, and will remain for some
time with his brother, Ralph C. Boozer,
The Boozer and Smith auto agency
has delivered two Buick touring cars to
Jacksonville parties within the past two
weeks,
David Bohn, of Linden Hall, was a
caller at this office on Saturday for the
purpose of boosting his subscription
ahead a year,
‘Rev. W, R. Jones, of Lumber City,
Clearfield county, visited his parents at
the local Reformed parsonage during
the past week.
Mrs, T. C. Adams, of Niagara Falls,
New York, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hoy, on the Kennedy farm,
west of Centre Hall. :
Tiling scattered along the roadside
from Pleasant Gap to Bellefonte ind-
icates that the state road construction
work is soon to begin.
Misses Marie and Pearl Kurtz, who
taught school the past term at North-
ampton, are at their home at the Luther-
an parsonage for the summer.
Be real generous, Mr, Citizen, when
you are approached for funds to defray
the expenses for the welcoming home of
our boys. Dig down deep for a big
piece,
Otto Bailey, of Boston, Massachusetts,
ing
4th for a two weeks’ va-
expects to arrive in Centre Hal dur
the week of July
cation at the homes ol his brother and
sister.
Mrs. Erdman West and little son Erd.
man expect to return to their home in
New Brunswick, New Jersey,
after having spent four weeks with Mrs,
West's parents here.
next week,
Some grass was cut beginni
week, and by the latter part
many farmers in the valley wiil be
in the midst of haymaking.
will be a heavy one.
Miss Bertha Miller is enjoying her
first vacation at her home in Tusseyville
since accepting a position under the
federal government, at Washington, D,
C., early in the year.
Mr. and Mrs,
son-in-law, William
children, Paul and Edna,
town, spent Sunday with Mr, Fetterolf's
nephew, William Fetterolf, below
Centre Hall,
Mrs. Catharine Bradford had the mis.
fortune to fall while descending the
stairs at the home of Clyde
Bradford, one day last week, and
tained such injuries that si
she
unable to walk since.
Irvin Fetterolf,
and
Barrett,
Lewis.
all of
her son,
Sus-
has been
Reports come from a good
sections in Pennsylvania that
growth of wheat has lodged, which will
hinder developing of the The
loss from this cause will be considerable
on a good many farms,
many
h nl
the rank
berry.
Grange Park is surely a most delight-
ful place. The shade
them maple—are beautiful in their rich
foliage and symmetry. No town in our
class in all Pennsylvania has access to a
park of such size, beauty and convenien-
ces,
trees—most of
It is not too early to plan your decora-
tions for August 2. Every dwelling
house. business place, church, school
house and public building in Centre Hall
and Potter township should be appro
priately decorated with the stars and
stripes.
Mr. and Mrs. C, F. Emery and family,
accompanied by Mrs. Ralph E. Dinges
and two daughters, motored to Union
county on Sunday and brought home
with them Edith Emery, a niece of Mr.
Emery’s, wiio will remain at the Emery
home for some time,
On Monday, B. D. Brisbin and daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Robertson, started for
the latter's home in Hartford, Connecti-
cut, by auto, This is the third time the
trip has been undertaken, and is positive
proof of Mr. Brisbin's staying qualities,
despite his three score years and ten,
Messrs. J. H. Bitner and J, E. Bitner,
of Milroy, were in Centre Hall on Thurs
day evening, on business. The former
is aclerk in Zook's store, while the latter
is engaged in farming, The young men
have many friends on this side of the
Seven Mountains who are always glad to
greet them,
Penns Cave had a large number of
visitors on Sunday, mostly auto parties
from a distance, The two cave boats
were crowded with passengers for the
greater part of the day. All about the
cave property groups of visitors picnick.
ed and seemed to enjoy themselves in
the beauty of the natural scenery about
the premises,
Jack” Hosterman and Daniel Smith
are enjoying boy scout life under a tent
pitched on the new school grounds, to
the rear of the Reformed church, The
boys have been sleeping out mights but
were not prepared for the cool nights
which suddenly came upon them, and in
the early hours of Monday morning
“Jack” effected an entrance through an
upstairs window at the home of his
grandfather, Dr. G, W. Hosterman,
for “more bed cover”,
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LOCAL AND NAL.
Messrs. B. D, Brisbin and C. F,
Smery have had theif®touring Cars ren
ovated so that they now have the ap-
pearance of new cars,
Mrs, Robert F, Williams, of Lemont,
is caring for her aged father, Thomas
Grove, of near Centre Hall, who has
been in ill health for some time,
Try Larro feed on your cows and note
the difference, Nothing produces quite
the same results. A carload just in.—R.
D, Foreman, Center Hall, adv
Joseph Lutz is assisting Harry Clev-
enstine, of Bellefonte, during the big
days—Thursday and Friday—in supply-
ing the “‘eats" for the big crowd.
Mrs, H. R. Brungart and son, Rishel,
have returned to their home in Pittsburg
after a two weeks' visit with her mother,
Mrs. M. L. Rishel, at the W. H, Sinka-
bine home at Penn Hall,
Every Red Cross member, of the local
auxiliary, .is urgently requested to march
in the parade, June 26th, at Bellefonte,
The parade will form at the residence of
Miss Mary Blanchard and march as a
unit,—~Chairman,
Harry Miller, for a number of years
employed at the Centre Hall flouring
mill, expects to move to Spring Mills
where he will be employed as miller for
the new firm of Dennis and Fetteroff,
successors to Allison Bros,
An airplane which came up the valley
on Monday afternoon, performed a few
stunts above Centre Hall, just before
passing from view across Nittany
mountain, A few flip-flops and a loop-
the-loop were pulled off with the grace
of a bird.
A new barn is about to be erected on
the Tomhave-Goodling farm, tenanted
by Irvin Shuey, above Centre Hall
John F. Treaster sawed most of the
lumber for the néw structure, and
practically all is ready for the carpenters,
The old barn was razed in May,
Dr. J. C. Moyer, the famous oculist of
will be at the home of Dr.
Eva Roan, at s22 East College Ave.,
State College, on July 4th, sth and 6th,
He treats diseases of the eye, removes
adenoids, Any-
one desiring his services, call Dr. Roan.s
office on Bell phone, adv.
Scranton,
cataracts, tonsils and
The air -line mail service appears to
have been put in working order again.
"lanes from the east and west have been
flying over Centre Hall daily, with
Beilefonte as their objective. One
morning recently the west-bound mail
plane, coming from New York, landed
at Bellefonte at 7 o'clock in the morning
and put off a small amount of mail,
Gohl, Rinkenbauch and Rouse, the
eyesight specialists of Harrisburg, will
be in Centre Hall on Thursday of next
week July 3rd. They have established
a permanent office at Centre Hall and
for nearly a year have given perfect
satisfaction in the fitting of glasses in
this place. If your eyes trouble you,
don’t fail to see them during their one
day's stay here,
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Germany Will Sign Friday.
The German delegation will sign the
peace treaty tomorrow (Friday) after.
noon, at Versailles,
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TUSSEYVILLE.
ry Moyer is ill at the home of
er, Mrs, William. Rockey.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Martz and daughter
Sunday at Huntingdon,
Mrs. Maria Wagner is spending some
time with her son, Samuel Wagger, at
Boalsburg.
The Children’s Day service in the U.
Ev. church, on Sunday evening was
well attended,
Arthur Holderman, of Colyer, moved
to the Adam Krumrine house, on Mon-
Rev. William R. Jones, of Lumber
City, filled his father's appointment in
the Union church here on Sunday morn-
ing.
Visitors at the William Rockey home,
on Sunday, were the following : Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Rickert, of Dewart; Mrs,
George Lee, of Lemont ; on Wednesday,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Horner, of State
College, were guests of the Rockey
family,
Find for Autograph Fiends.
The visitors’ book at the Hotel Ma-
jestic or the Hotel Astoria, at Paris, Is
an Interesting record of the signatures
of wellknown men. Nearly everyone
who is anyone has written his name in
one or the other and besides being a
proof positive of the universal illegibil-
ity of the writing of celebrities the
books would be worth their weight In
gold to autograph fiends. It has been
suggested that when the conference is
over and the various British, French,
United States, Itallan, Siamese, Jap-
anege, Russian, Czecho-Slovak, Polish,
and other celebrities scatter to thelr
own places, the books might be put
to auction, a page at a time, to help
to defray the expenses,
No Bride, No Wedding.
The only serious fault of the bride
to-be was that she was never known
to be on time, Hyvery place she went
ghe was late, and It had gotten to be
such an old story that even the min-
ister, knowing of her falling, attempt:
ed to remind her of It at the wedding
rehearsal,
“You know,” he sald, “the wedding
ceremony is at 8 o'clock sharp; you
must be here on time”
She looked up at the clergymen with
# twinkle In her eye.
“Well, ‘here Is one thing—this wed-
ding cannot go on very well without
me, can it?
And the clergyman had to admit
that she had the best of him.
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ATTACK ON FORD
WITNESS WHO CALLS MANUFAC.
TURER “ROTT.N AMERICAN"
DRAWS COURT'S WRATH.
PROPAGANDIST TAKES STAND
Says Ford Told Him World War Was
Started By Bankers and That
He Knew Who They Were.
-
Mt. Clemens, Mich —The Chicago
Tribune is now in the third week of
{is attempt to prove Henry Ford an
gnarchist and to demonstrate, to the
ratisfaction of the jury which is hear
ing the testimony in the $1,000,000
libel suit, that there was no libel in
the now famous editorial which pro-
voked the present court action
Wood Becomes Caustic,
From the testimony of Mexican
border residents who told of the
bandit rufds In Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona, The Tribune has turned
to witnesses who talked with Mr.
Ford both before and after the United
States entered the war, Henry A
Wise Wood, a preparedness propa.
gandist from New York, was called
to the stand to testify to Mr. Ford's
attitude previous to 1917. He said ho
found the manufacturer a “rotten
American.” On the other hand Willls
J. Abbott, a New York Journalist,
testified that after the United States
entered war he visited Mr. Pord
ard went through the great Ford fac
tories which turning out enor.
mous quantitios of war material with
out profit to their principal owner
“] thought Bim one of the most
militant Americans | had ever met,”
sald the witness.
the
were
Claim Ford Was “Converted”,
The evident intention of The Tri
buns Is (0 contrast thease apparently
conflicting attitudes and to claim that
Mr. Ford was brought to a sense of
his duty by the criticism of The
Tribune The remark of Tribune
counsel that “Henry Ford is not the
only man who bas changed his course
as a result of criticism,” is sigaificant
in this connection
A definite ruling from the court on
the extent to which the
unpreparedness of the United Stats
for war is material, has cleared away
the doubts of past weeks and has
made the path for the remainder of
the trial fairly clear.
“1 am of the opinion” the court
ruled, “that the amount of prepared.
ness Henry Ford believed Is not ma
terial, Whether Henry Ford sough
to Interfere with or nullify the efforss
of the government to prepare to tb
extent {t conceived necessary, whether
that prefaredness was much or litle,
adequate or inadequate, Is 1 think
relevant”
evidence of
Must Prove Ford Un American,
In other words, the defewsse must
show that Mr. Ford attempted to em
barass the government In what it con.
ceived to be necessary steps for the
protection of this country, The mere
fact that he opposed militarism and
fought it to the limit of his strength,
before the adoption of armed force
for the purpose of national defense
became the settled policy of the gov
ernment, will not be material.
Tho testimony of Mr. Wise Wood,
who as a strong advocate of prepared.
neas was naturally bitterly oppoasd
to Mr. Ford's policies, contained a0
much animus that Judge Tucker call
ed a halt In the recital to warn the
witness that his line of comments
were out of place and must be dis
continued,
Mr. Wood, it developed, had visited
Mr. Ford while on a speaking tocr.
It evidently was his intention to at.
tempt to conver! the manufacturer to
a belief in a great arm¥ and navy. He
informed Mr. Ford, so the testimony
ran, that Germany was lkely to ir.
vade the United States and that Japan
menaced us from the west,
Mr. Ford's comment, sald Mr. Wood,
was “Oh, you're full of Eastern scare
gas” “i
Bankers Blamed For War,
Mr. Ford declared also, the wit:ioas
testified, that the world war waa
started by two great bankers, that he
knew who they were and that he m-
tended to draw thelr teeth before he
finished with them, Speaking along
tiie same line, Mr. Ford was sald to
have made the declaration that (he
revolution in Mexico, which resulted
in raids Into the United Btates, was
staged by financial interests who
hoped to bring about Intervention’
“l know who they are 00,” Mr. Ford
is sald to have stated.
Mr. Wood, it appears, pleaded earn.
estly with Mr, Ford In an endeavor to
persuade him that the Unite® States
was exoeodingly vulnerable cad that
there was Immediate danger that
some nation would step in and con
—
She Condemns Ideas Formulated
by the Theorists,
“I am always amused,”
Evening Post, “at
seem to
can be
fee, The theorists
that such a change
plished right about
requires lifelong training, yet never
who knew the difference
wiping floors,
Is ignorant of the simplest
ay be taught,
but
Ing. Cooking she m
cleaning she may
principles and hab
so readily, Many
to a mald: ‘Had you gone to kinder.
garten you w piled
your dishes and saucers lke that! It
wns fat a kindergarten conference in
California, you mu n
was sald that no
that state had |
lesides thelr
learn,
3 are or
it are ni
i time have
ould never have
Foy
ing. 1
the homes of others
ing In their own hon
themetliene
be—unless they
more knowledge abot
and means.”
young
:
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Bill Dudley and
chile players who are
progressive pinochle
South side
Grove the other night.
tain square
Grove car Bill and
far away from the car to
the other ten went to Beech
Then Bill got an 1d and Beck
stole home to where Bill's car rested
for his wife won't let ake It out
after dark. They opened the garage
door nolselessly the car out
and down the street for a block and
then stepped the starter, They
got to Beech Grove before rest
of the club did.
eleven other pino-
members
club left
to go to
While at Foun-
for the loech
Joe Pe ok
tech it and
(irove,
homes
PTT Rp
whiting
oryt to
£01 100
pushed
an
the
after thé club meeting and repeated
the performance in getting the
the house. Presently the crowd came
along and yelled at Bill through the
window, Of course, that entailed ex-
planations on Bill's part to his wife as
to how he got home first. The other
members of the club say Bill has not
yet been able to explain to his wife
how he beat them home.—Indianapolis
News,
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Great Reductions at
Nieman's Department Store
Our Spring Season — just closed —was the greatest since
we have been in business,
The Great “4th” is Coming
and we have decided to give the people of this commu-
nity a grand opportunity to be well dressed for this oc-
casion at a minimum expenditure of money
at Cost.
Our Entire Stock of Ladies’ Garments, from now
on until July 4th, will be disposed at ACTUAL COST
PRICES. Seldom, indeed, have you an opportunity
such as this.
Special for Our Soldier
' Boys—
Sr ——————
Ladies’ Garments
Those heroes who fought our fight in the World War-
we offer them great Reductions on our ENTIRE STOCK
OF CLOTHING. It is our desire to show our apprecia-
tion of them and we have taken this means.
Don’t fail to come and take advantage
of these Low Prices.
D. J. Nieman
Department Store MILLHEIM
They're “scientifically placed to
prevent skids and those dangerous
side slips.
Their firm, sure grip means safety.
And yet, they don’t “fight the road.”
Just the tires for our kind of roads.
There are four other United States
Tires—every one of them a good
tire.
No matter what your individual
needs may be, we can fill them.
United States Tires
are Good Tires