YHE GENTRE HEPORTER. |
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1919.
2 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
Paragraphs of News Taken from the
Files of the Reporter of 1884.
November s, 1884.
C. Dinges has been appointed express
agent for Centre Hall. The first express
packages came on Tuesday and were re.
ceived by the Reporter office.
The opening of our railroad from
Spring Mills to Oak Hall, on Monday,
was celebrated by an excursion to the
last named place. The train, composed
of six passenger cars, was chuck full of
people from Coburn, Spring Mills, Cent-
re Hall and Linden Hall, Centre Hall
was almost depopulated, A special
train, containing officials from William-
sport, was an hour in advance of the ex-
cursion train. Arriving at Oak Hall
there was a very large crowd from that
section and Bellefonte, among others
Governor Curtin, Judge Hoy, A. O.
Furst, and other prominent citizens.
The excursion train added some 600 to
the already large crowd at Oak Hall
Most of the excursionists had their lunch
baskets and spread their cloths on the
lawn at the station. After listening to
addresses and an hour spent in social
chat, the signal was given, “all aboard”,
and the train started homeward, all
happy and having passed the day very
pleasantly.
PINE GROVE:MILLS.
John Moore $0ld his Grant car and in-
vested in a Ford, "~
Miss Sue Danley is a victim of sciati-
ca and is holding down the arm chair,
Rev. Ralph lllingsworth, of Philadel-
phia, is spending some time with his
grandmother Snyder at White Hall.
Mrs. Mary Wright Clark, of Philadel
phia, on her way to Akron, Ohio, stop-
ped off a day here to visit her mother.
W. A. Carson, democratic canidate for
the sheriff nomination, was here last
week looking up the voters,
Baby boys arrived at the homes of
Homer Grubb, Edward Mays and John
Barr, within the past week.
Mrs, Bessie Walker Miller, of Johns.
town, is visiting relatives in the valley
with the hope of recuperating her shat-
tered health,
Mrs. E. M. Walt left last week for a
brief visit to her former home in Pitts-
burg to greet her brother who had been
reported among the slain in France, but
who has returned safe and sound.
Arrangements are being made for an
old-time Fourth of July. A big flag
will be flung to the breeze and speeches
and band music will be features. Also
a big parade to welcome home our sol-
dier boys. Everybody is cordially in-
vited to come and help make the eagle
scream.
A severe electrical storm passed over
the western part of the county on Fri-
day evening, accompanied by heavy
rain and hail. Wheat fields were flat-
tened. George Grazier's mated team
frightened at lightning and ran off,
throwning Mr. Grazier to the ground
and badly twisting things up. Cyrus
Powley's team ran away, unseating the
driver and wrecking the machine. The
Scott Bressler home was struck by light-
ning, tearing out part of the west end of
the dwelling. Several children lying
on a couch were slightly stunned. The
big house dog, lying on the porch, was
pitched over in the yard, Several ceil-
ings were shaken loose. The William
Homan home was struck, the fluid pass-
ing down the flue and filling the interior
with soot, dust and dirt. A number of
trees were struck.
State Agricultural Notes.
The young chicken and turkey crop
are exceptionally good in Perry county.
Flowers are the most unselfish crea-
tions in the world—they do nothing but
give.
Agriculture represents the largest and
most important single industry in the
country, and it brings the least influence
to bear upon the problems of the time,
It is a common custom to give the boy
the poorest tool about the place. This
practice should be changed and the be-
ginner should have the best implement.
The number of fleeces of wool clipped
in Pennsylvania this spring is estimated
at 672,000, This is four per cent larger
than last year. The average weight of
fleece is 6.6 pounds. The approximate
aggregate weight of clip is 4,435,300
pounds,
According to estimates, Franklin
county has an average area of twenty-
three acres of wheat for each farm in
the county for the 1919 harvest, and
ranks first in this respect. Cumberland
is second with twenty-two acres to the
farm and Mifflin third with nineteen
acres,
Transfers of Real Estate.
Maggie Bitner et bar to Ida Condo
Hackenburg, tract of land in Gregg
Twp; consideration, $1.
Jerry 1. Condo to Ida Condo, tract of
land in Gregg Twp ; consideration $1.
Centre Hall Water Co, to Centre Hall
Borough, tract of land in Potter Twp;
consideration $2307.
AI SS
Never More.
Pleading guilty in Blair county court
to operating an au tomobile while intox-
jcated, George M. Hoover, of Yellow
Creek, was seqjtenced to pay $150 fine,
serve until September 1 in jail and lose
his license, Hoover said he never
would run a cir again,
ad
CASE IN 8TH WEEK
HENRY FORD—CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CASE STILL HOLDS THE
ATTENTION OF COURT.
FORD CALLED “ANARCHIST*
Soldiers Testify That The Ford Ce,
Held Places Open For Them
And Helped Families,
~
The Case to Date
The Chicago Tribune in an ed!
torial printed June 23, 1916, de.
clared “Henry Ford Is An Anarch-
fst” It followed this with the
charge that Mr. Ford would not
hold jobs open for the men in nis
employ who were called to the
Mexican border, nor would he as
sist any of their dependents who
might be In need,
| ‘Mr. Ford vrought suit for iibel
i against the Tribune for the sum of
181,000,000 and the case; after many
"legal battles, was Brought to trisl
| in Mt. Clemens, Miéh, «al
In an effort to justify the printed
statement, The Tribune has sum
| moned a large number of wilnessas
| trom tie Mexican border to testify
| to the gfate’ of unrest which pre
\ yailed at the thie The Tribune was
calling for armed intervention and
Mr: Ford was counselling gentler
methods,
Mr. Ford, in presenting his case,
summoned a large number of em
| ployes who left the Ford Motnr
i Company to serve on the border
{ and overseas. All of these mean
| teatified that their jobs were wait
ing for them when they returned
Wives of the men also took the
| stand and testified that they nad
| received regular financial assist
! ance from the Ford Molor
| while their husbands were in the
| service,
a
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A
Mt In fits sixth
Clemens, Mich
week and rapidly approaching iis
seventh, the Henry Ford--Chicago
Tribune $1,000,000 libel case promises
to break all records for legal baities
of this kind
When attorneys for Mr. Ford closed
their case, after occupying a full weak
with the testimony of soldiers and
their dependents, the defense opened
by calling witnesses from Texas and
proceeded to recreate for the beuefil
of the jury, the situation which existed
on the Mexican border at the time
The Tribune called Mr. Ford an an |
archist,
All of this testimony has been ad
mitted by the court over the general
objection of the plaintiff's atlorneys
who claim that the case should be
confined to the “four corners of the
editorial” and who declare further
that The Tribune cannot find Justifica.
tion for calling Mr. Ford an anarchlat
in the mere fact that he is a pacifist
Big Business Blamed.
One of the witnesses called by The
Tribune has been Norman Walker,
Associated Press bureau chief In El
Paso, Texas. Mr Walker thrilled the
sonal story. lle was captured by the |
Mexican Federal forces in 1911 and |
narrowly escaped being executed as a |
spy. During the course of cross-ex
amination, Mr. Walker stated that he
had heard representatives of Amer
fcan business interests in Mexico in |
sist that srmed intervention was the]
only way out of the trouble. This Is
one of the points at which Ford coan |
sel is driving. One of their conten |
tions is that The Tribune advocated
intervention in Mexico because Ks
owners and stockholders were Inter
ested in the Standard Oll snd Inter
nitional Harvester concerns, both of
which have large business interests
in the country, Further than this, the |
Ford sttorneys make the distinet
charge that The Chicago Tribune was
sro-Cerman up to the time the United
eli ars
Stales entered the world wat kbd that
tn advocating war with Mexico it was
playing Germany's game
The Tribune's witnesses are prob
ably ‘the most pleturesque ever pro
duced in a middle-western court case,
They wear thelr border garb of mole
skin clothes high leather boots, high
crowned velour or felt hats and mos
of them are heeled with beautiful
pistols
Ford to Take Stand.
The Tribune has announced that if
will call both Henry Ford and his son
Edsel Ford to the witness stand, It
has also announced that, if the court
permits, it will ‘air the entire question
of national preparedness to show thal
in his endeavors to promote peace
Mr. Ford became a dangerous enemy
of America,
Counsel for the plaintiff, on the oth
er hand, keeps nailing the jury's mt
tention to the issue in the case, which
{s that The Tribune called Mr. Ford
an anarchist. This was libel, they in
sist because, it is thelr contention
the charges on which the editorial
was based-—that men who entered the
service of the nation would not be
given employment when they return
od and thelr families would be per
mitted to suffer want and privation
while they were gono—were utterly
Mifflintown Man
Supervisor.
Pennsylvania's Federal Census for
1920 will be taken under the direction of
twenty- three district supervisors to be
appointed on July 1-
A. Parker McMeen, a farmer of
Mifflintown, has already been named as
supervisor for Franklin, Fulton, Hunt-
ingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Sayder
and Union Counties. This is the only
to be Census
The position
thousand for the population enumerated,
Enumerators are to be paid on a per
diem or a per capita basis, at their own
Su-
A conservative estimate places the
cost of the war at four hundred and
fifty billions ($450.000,000,000). This
would mean that the cost was $7.41 a
second ever since the birth of Christ, or
$271.25 for every living being on the
face of the exrth.
A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. —
Letters of Administration in ihe FEelale of
Amos Waiters, late of Gregg Township, Centre
County, Pa , decessed.
Letiors of administration on the above estate
ted to the undendaned,
be would respectiully request all persons kpow-
immediate payment, and thos having ciaims
against the same to present them duly suthentd
cated without delay for setiiement.
JOHR H. BAIR, Administrator,
30 Spring Mills, Pa
£5 DMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE. —
Letters of Administration on the estate of Will
fam H. M ryer. late of Centre Hall boro, deceased,
letters of Administration on the above estale
diste payment, and those having claims against
the 0 1 present them duly suthentioated for
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JUSTICE OF THE PEACH
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Special attention given to collecting, Legs!
writings of all classes, incloding deeds, morigag
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CENTRE HALL, PA.
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