a alate fiat do UE AS THE CENTRE REPORTER ISSUED WEEKLY. See CEN TRE HALL - . PENN'A. csr “THURSDAY, AUGU ST 1. Ms 19:9. SMITH & BAILEY « « v» +» Proprietors B. W. SMITH. . « « + + + + Bditer Loca’ Rditor asd EDWARD E, BAILEY Business Tanager Entered at the Post Office in Centre Hall as second Class mall matter, TERNS. ~The terms of subscription to the Re porter are one and one-hall dollars per year, ADVERTISING RAT Display advertise mot of tan or more inches, for three or more in sartions, ten canis per inch for each issue, Dis pis; advartising onoupying less space than ten nohes and for than three insertions, from fiftesn to twaniy-five cents f Soh for each fsa, sconrding to compos Minimum charge sevoniy-five cents, Loon! notices ancompanying display advertis- ing five cents per line for each losertion ; other- wine, eight cents per line, minimum charge, tweuty-lve conts, Toga! notions, twenty ceuts per line for three insertions, and ton cents per line for esch ad ditional Insertion. CHURCH APPOINTMENTS. Methodist— Spring Mills, morning ; town, afternion ; Centre Hall, evening. Bproce- Reformed Tusseyville, morning ; Centre Hall, evening. Lutheran—Union, momming ; afternoon ; Centre Ha'l, Georges Valley, evenirg. United Evangelical. — Egg Hill, morning : Tusseyville, afternoon ; Centre Hall, evening. Congregational meeting at close of service st Cautre Hall, Presbyterian—Centre Hall, moming. Rev, D, J. Mitterling, of South Dakoty, will preach, ————_— A ER A—— Political Announcements, FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Wea are anthorized tn announce the name of GEORGE M. HARPER, of Marion Township, Nittany P. O.. R, D., ccocupation farmer, as a can- didate for the nomination for County Commis sioner, subject to the rules governing the Demo cratic primaries. “ Wo are suthorized to snnounes the name of W. H. FRY. of Ferguson Township, as a candi date for the nomination for County © nm isson- or, subject tnt he ral lem governing the Demoerat'e primaries Sept 1919, Wa are anthorzed tv annrunce the name of GEORGE H. RICHARDS, of Philipeburs, as a candidate for the romination of County Commis si*ner, subject to the mics governing the Demos cratic primaries FOR SHERIFF. Va are authorized fa snoonues ‘he name of {+ DICK") TAYLOR, of Bellefonte Bor fas a candidate for the nomivation of ff of Cont e eonnty, subject to the rules gov the Democratic primaries pd. FOR PROTHONOTARY. We are anthorized to announce the name of HARRY N. MEYER, of Belisfonte, as a candi date for the nomination of Prothonotary for Cen tre County, subject to the rules governing the Democratic primarics, FOR REGISTER zed to announce the name of J. of Bellefonte Borough, ss =a » nomination of Register of Wills Orphans Court of Centre County, rules governing the Democratic Wo are authort FR ANK SMITH, candidates for the and Clerk of the subject to the primaries FOR TREASURER, Weare an'hwized to snnounce the name of J, E. HARTER, of Pean Township as a candi date for the nomination of Connty Tremsurer.sub- jeot to the deci don of the Democratic volers as expressed at the general trimaries to be beid Tuesday, September 16.0, 1919, pd. FOR RECORDER. We are anthorized to announce the name of D, WAGNER GEISS, of Bellefonte, ss 8 candidate for the nominafien ni Reenrder subject to the decision of the Democratic voters as expressed af the gepers! primaries to be held Tuesday. September 10th, 1919. pd By ihe way, the * luxury tax " is on factor in the high cost of living, and the President has repeatedly urged its abol- ition. The Republican filibuster pre- vented repeal last March and the Republican majority in Congress con- tinues it in force, ita ive A A A Ss. Republicans have always regarded hugh prices as great blessings. From this viewpoint the present excessive cost of living would appear benediction. Is that why the Repub- lican majority hesitates®o move against the profiteers ? ———————— — —————— Senator Penrose is again in print with a promise of “‘economy ” in governmental expenditures, If the country could only cash Republican promises the national debt would be paid every Saturday night, A —— A AAPA Has it been noticed that the Repub- lican “ investigations” begin with liberal appropriations which go in part to pay salaries to '* experts,” clerks and other employes who are chosen by reason of their partisan pull ? —————— I A SA ——————— There is something harder to establish than a League of Nations-~that is a con- cert among its Senatorial opponents, A IMA A SPRING MILLS. Miss Ruth Smith, of Altoona, is spend ing some time with friends and rel. atives, William Allison and wife returned to New York after a week's visit with tte former's father, Wm. M. Allison, Miss Gertrude Musser, of Altoona, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. R, D. Musser, The Lutheran Sunday School of Penn Hall will picnic on Grange Park grounds to-day (Thursday). Mrs. Clair Ohl, after a few weeks’ vis. it with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, C, P, Long, returned, with her little son Rich- ard, to her home at Lamar, The order of the P, O. 8, of A. is pre- paring for a festival on August 16th to be held on the school grounds, The Girls’ Band of Milesbuirg will be an at- traction. The army worm has destroyed a great deal ot oats in the neighborhood, Beck and family, of Lock Haven, pe time at G, C, Decker's home, ne hry awa ABE eid ca — Mail Sérvice Via Aeroplane. \ Mail service via aeroplane being in op- eration connecting Bellefonte with points east and west, I wish to call the attention of the public to the great con- venience that is theirs and to urge that you take advantage of this rapid method of commuunication, The rate of postage on letters has been reduced to 2 cents an ounce or fraction thereof and this includes sealed parcels not exceeding jo inches in length and girth combined. The hours of clos- ing mail to be sent via aeroplane are 7 A. M. for west bound and 10.42 for the east, This means that letters dropped in the post office after 8 o'clock at night and 7 A. M. the next morning addressed to points west of Pittsburg will be in Cleve- land by 11 A. M, the same morning and Chicago by 2 o'clock the same afternoon, Letter mail for the east including all of New York State, the New England States, New Jersey and points as far south as Washington D. C., as well as places in Pennsylvania east of Harris- burg, dropped in the post office before 10.45 A. M, or in street letter boxes in time for the early collection by carriers will be dispatched by plane going east and be in New York by 2 o'clock that fternoon. From this point an hourly dispatch is made with Philadelphia aad in the same proportion with other points, P. Jellefonte, M. Pa P. H, Gueraity, ns Ap Ml —— U. S. Army Now 85 Per Cent. mobilized. The United States per ceat demobilized, According to an- nouncement made this week by the Department on August 5 there were 545- 918 officers and men, only 225.000 more than the authorized peace strength of country. Troops that have sailed from Europe number 1,818,784 123, still remain in Europe, 8,477 in Siberia and 945 are enroute to Europe while 27.- 241 are enroute to the United States. “The re are 161,367 officers and the United States, 28.013 States ons The partment announced have been 96,126 army since started. De- army has been war while 18¢ men in in United possess | war ie- that there al A350 enlistments in the the campaign A —————— Impressed By Potash Deposits. A prominent member of at State C ge visite deposits of Tioga county He says there is Experts Not the faculty ollie ted the potash last week, undoubtedly potath in the outcrop which was shown him, but he did pot try to buy any stock and does not advise his friends to invest, At place was he shown potash in paying quantities, 050 wl e— Marriage Licenses. Calvin A, Cheesman, Altoona Luella Dale, Dale Summit Clifford R, Roberta B. Andrew C, Vaugher, Sandy Ridge Sarah W. Crain, Sandy Ridge Mayrus E. Schreffler, Bellefonte Helen R, Miller, Bellefonte We tosis A SAAS A S. E. Weber Property Sold. B. H. Arney. who since last spring a year has been living in Niagara Falls, N. Y., will again become a resident of Centre Hall, having purchased the S. E Weber property, now occupied by Law rence Runkle, This property was long owned by Miss Lizzie Soyder, deceased, and has been rented for a number of years. Reports make the sale pricein the neighborhood of $1400. BOALSBURG. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Felty, of Altoona, were recent visitors with the latter's sis- ter, Mrs. John Jacobs. Miss Hazel Hoover, of Altoona, visit. ed her grandmother, Mrs. James Poor. man, from Saturday until Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mallory, of A) toona, spent ashort time recently with the latter's sister, Mrs. J. F. Kimport, Mrs. George Houlz and little daugh. ter, of Williamsport, are visiting friends and relatives here, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyer, Mrs, Edw. Meyer and daughter and Mrs. Fred Reitz and daughter spent Sunday at the John Kline home at Centre Mills, Misses Anna and Nell Holter, of How- ard, were the guests of Mrs. Charles Mothersbaugh, last week, Mrs. Bliss Meyer and daughter, of Farmville, are visiting Mrs, Meyer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ross, Mrs. Anna Kreamer, of Altoona, is visiting her sister, Mrs, Maude Will jams. Mrs. Schock, of Punxsutawney, Mrs, Snell and two daughters, of Niagara Falls, visited at the Henry Hosterman home last week, Wissinger, Akron, Ohio Miller, Port Matilda Two prisoners escaped from the Rock- view prison on Saturday, by taking ad. vantage of a nearby cornfield. The usual reward of fifty dollars is offered for their arrest. A MRM SLL The first thing the Republican majority in Congress knows the people will begin to demand an investigation of the in. vestigators who are spending time and money to discover why wars are expen. sive, while at the same moment one set of Republicans io the Senate are oppos- ing the League of Nations and inviting conflicts, y i ish BE ae oven ah NEW VALUABLE FOCD PLANTS Recently Brought From Peru by Mem bers of the Yale Geographic Expedition, A new and important breakfast food plunt has heen fetched from Peru by the Yale geographic expedition. It vields a product declared to be quite equal to ontmeal, The plant In ques tion Is a cultivated pig-weed, and an- clently was one of the two prineipal grain producing crops of the Incas, Today in Peru it is chiefly used for the manufacture of “chicha,” a native beer. From a valley high up in the Peruvian Andes the expedition obtained a new and remarkable wild relative of the tomato, It has an apple-like flavor, and is the fruit of a desert plant, found In company with cacti and other such water-starved vege table species, The plant Is a vine, say the experts, may be trained It may be crossed with tomatoes for the production with special edible vir- remarkable acquisition that grows on little tree, four branches that it a flat. tomatoes are ER which, wer arbors, nr own of varieties Another kind of tree. It Is only a wr five feet high, with sprend horizontally, topped effect, The hoped, and borne In pendant clusters near the ends of the branches, prize, deemed valuable “ian the United which ean discovery inas- been a popular rich, mealy nbling in wrt potate, tomato giving from Yet another into uma,” Ins textare and wn in Flor alifornia. HAD REGULAR SINGING TIME Thoreau's Intiresting Account of the Chanting of Vespers by a Whip. poorwill Chorus. would be to know wom folk he LE as Tho- tells us in after the eve 18 seven iid begin to sing ecision as particular setting of the sun, every utes of a time, gd a8 unity to pinted rRre with their habits, nt hy onport pn heard four or five irie of the once wood ace. another, and inguished note, ound like iy prog wrtion would cl wiwnis a 16% Oh 4 in the if tethered by a protmbliy 1 was near its r ait Intervals throug In as musi and Rs about , takes but =a for jeiry artes, fless expenses, much excited of the York called , on the long dis tines daily and il of £3.00 for Yery fit one city nS w cekiy bil itetn alone, “Who Iz he? to whonsy thu the story, Honalre ing pict queried a bystander, hotel proprietor related “One of the new oll mil wae the reply, “he 18 8 mov. That is just a cost of turning today. "Wall ure director. of the high moving plctures Street Journal, sample out Flu Again Ravages London. Influenza has hroken out again in London, making & third wave in less than a year. The eases that are com- plicated by pneumonia tend to follow the usual! course common in the years before the war, This Is In contrast with the rapidly fatal type character. izing the summer and autumn epldem- few, and suggests a distinet decrease In virulence, Of those attacked previous. ly very few have been again infected. Some immunity seems to have been established, for In most cases of rein- fection there are only vague rheumatic pains and malaise lasting a few days, Start Education Early. The street ear was crowded, which wasn't unusual, A man carrying a haby boy pushed his way inside to a strap. The swinging plece of worn leather caught the baby's eye, and he reached for it, and missed, It swung again, and the baby caught it tightly. The crowd laughed, and was glad It had something to laugh about, “That's it, son,” sald the father, “Might as well lssea young, You'll have use for that if vou stay around this town long." Country's Lumber Production, A total lumber production of 32,760 000.000 feet is the estimated cut for the year 1018 on the basis of partial returns received by the forest service of the United States Department of Agricul ture from 713 sawmills, each of which cut 5000000 or more feet in the years 1017 or 1018, In 1917 the total phoduction amounted to 86,000,000,000 feet, The decrease in 1718 is not confined to any one region but is general. It Is largest in the southern and eastern states and least GEORGES VALLEY. Mr, and Mrs. G, F. Lamar on Saturday the day with friends, day at the Fraok Ennist home, at Pot- ters Mills, Mr. and Mrs. V, A. Auman, Hall, spent Sunday at the home lof the latter's sister, Mrs, Wm, Lingle, James Reeder and family Crystal Spring Park on Sunday where they spent the day, C. W. Lingleand E, L. Liogle their families spent Sunday at Cave, Wm. O, Ripka is all smiles over the arrival of a baby girl. It stork’s first visit in twenty years. Miss Abbie Barger and C, of State College, spent Sunday home of J, Barger, Mrs. C. J. Ripka, of Penn Hall, the week-end at the home of J. B, ka. Mr. and Mrs, Clark Yeater and son, Arthur, spent last week with friends Mifflin county, Mr, and Mrs, D, D. Decker and Miss Ella Decker were Soally visi home of their brother, Ed, $01 alsburg. Mr. and Ms, E.L. Y¢ ter, of Schuylkill Haven, Mr. with Penns is the Ww, at R ip- in tors at the Decker, near are spendi Mrs. ing this week with and George Breon. Mr. and Mrs. J. McCle : two children, of A ters Mills, were visitors at the W. F. McClellan home > sully. on W———— CENTRE MILLS. Henry Sweely sunday at the spent home of his parents, here. have been r in the Millheim Narrows The gypsies, who camp- Mrs. ted Joseph Bressler, Mrs. this pia of Sugar V her sister, t, last Tuesday at Mrs, me of her son Reish spent sor iping care for her who has been very ill A val uable cow Walker farm one eve 1 belonged to St Myers Mr. Edward of Boalsburg . Mr. wan and Mrs. Ketcham, of Mr. and Mrs, unaoay. ughter, ghter, ¢ Nn . Hon 1, and Mrs, y, visited Geary Kline, on S ———— A = Advertise in the Repcrier—it EE meres Public Sale Register. Sati day August 10, at 1:30 o'clock. { Mrs. John A, Rupp, at Boalsburg, will { sell lot of household goods, at the Rhone home in Centre Hall : Lot of household goods, Saturday, August joth, at 1.30 p. in Centre Hali boro, Gertrude will sell household goods, Spangler Friday, August 29th, o'clock Mrs. Huldah Meyer and Mrs, Verna E Musser, administratrices of the es of W, H. Meyer, deceased, will at 2:00 11 wel i taining about 282 acres. description, ADVERTISEMENTS A, DMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE.~ D. Tet , late of Potter township, deceased. i Letters of | having been duly granted the nndersigned, would reepectfully request sll persons kno themselves Indebsed Lo the estate to make in i the sane 10 present them duly sutbenticstsd Io r | wottiement, ELIZABETH A. TATE, Epring Mills, Fa Admrx., Houte 1 BALESMEN Uricstioe ols, com wm iss lon Heveland, O WANTED to soil EroRses, AY Address THE for in or £4) pd cit orders paints, Halary VITOR OIL a train got si ¢ not movi re conde He collected td EVeryhHoay % wird our fidgeted he wheels or back while the to they ion crew a hungry whiskers as to mo when to bars afd uiries Ww d the Iustered | ie If the ze farmer ns the ie On yw and yrs fan tho %. ft 3} i £ ¢ probably into HARDWARE a —i —— abundant ; We dont. you get. to get some of this. 4 40 35 30 25 20 18 bi é“ i“ 1 i“ é $33.75 30.00 20.25 22.50 18.76 16.00 13.50 The >
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