LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Chautauqua is on, Plum and pear trees in the valley are ) heavily loaded with fruit this year. = Miss Helen Harper, of Bellefonte, vas 7 a guest of the George H, Emerick family} last week. Mrs. Catherine Burris, of near Centre Hall, visited her son, Irvin W. Burris, at Yeagertown, last week. Despite the high cost of labor and material, Centre Hall is building new houses and repairing otsers, this sum- mer. Cleve. 8S. Brungart made a trip to Buf- falo, New York, last week, and brought in a new Dodge touring car for Boozer & Smith. An asbestos shingle roof is one of the improvements in connection with the re- modeling of the Samuel Durst home in Centre Hall. Rev, and Mrs. Melvin C. Drumm now ensconced in the Lutheran parson age, which has recently been improved awaiting their coming. are Misses“ Hazel and Margaret Emery left last Thursday morning for Philadd1- phia and Atlantic City, where they ex- pect to refhain for some time. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hauyett and daugh- ter, Miss Miriam, spent the past week with Mr. .and Mrs. William A. Magee and family, at Wenonah, New Jersey. “The Reporter is a welcome visitor and we would not want to do without it," writes R. D. Killian from Lewisburg in boosting his subscription ahead to Ig21. Mrs. Sue Reeder, of Newberry, pnd Mrs. Charles Greer, of the state of South Dakota, are guestsof Mr, and Mrs. F. P Geary, the ladies being cousins of Mrs, Geary. . W. F. force of road builders working a Ridge, spent Sunday at home. ports that the road 3 Floray, who is one of the local t Sandy He job will keep them Te- busy until October. Mrs. John D. La has gone to the bedside of her daughter, Miss Helen Lucas, at the Bellefonte hospital, where she is recovering from an operation for appendicitis. as, of Lewistown, A range of for ture grees in tempera. in twenty- rred last week during the cool hts and warm Friday Saturday af- days, Falling to 43 degrees night, mercury rose to 83 ternocon. A Pathe ph was recently purchased by ( es E. Flink ’ from F. V. Good! make of Pathe has there yet remains small bun commodity in the m Brown, west of Potters Mi of the farmers to have seve gooa q uality bay on hand, Howard Emery jis takin man W. J. Smith's of ing the latter's two weeks’ absence, COWS and 1s serving the cu Howard fi and is courteous Cherries are a fine crop in some sec- tions, and some trees are yielding beautifully. W. E. Lee three hundred and fi'ty quarts picked from a tree on the Charles C. Duck, near Burnham, he is en reports that were farm of where ployed. W. F. McKinney and Frank ]. Phil ips, forest rangers, are clearing a the gap above Potters Mills prove an ideal picnic groun ists. It is on the State land. and located right along her improvements will likely be the future, road, the made i During the forepart of June the grass fields did not look too promising, but to day there are plenty of fields that yield an abundance of hay. This goes to show what a poor job we make of 1t if we but for a season, blossoms would could control nature It is likely the clover peep through banks in January or July. snow A very creditable Children’s Day ser- vice was held .in the Lutheran church on Saturday evening. The church was filled to its capacity. The floral deco- rations were pretty, and the children performed their various parts well An especidlly pleasing feature was a pantomime by seven youog ladies, dur- ing the rendition -of which Miss Eliza- beth Royer very prettily sang music fit ting to the acting. consignment of eight hundred chix were sent by Kerlins Grand View Poultry Farm, to Florida, a distance of over oue thousand miles, with but a loss of four chix, and this after the chix had beea retained in the post office for a day and a half, owing to the addfessee living ten mites out in the country and un- known to the postmaster. Some vital ity these chix must have, as well as some mighty good service on the Buile- gon postal lines, The Decker Brothers, of Spring Mills, are getting their saw mill at the Old Fort ready for business, They have three good size tracts which they will convert into lumber this year and ext year. Besides the purchase of the Bart ges tract, mentioned a few weeks ago, they have also purchased from Arthur Grove a twenty-two acre tract, and from Hor Orwig, of Mifflinbure, they the tract of timberlacd on the former Peter Smith farm at Centre Hill, a..." THE DEATH RECORD. Stoner,— The suftéring of Mrs, Re- becga (Leach) Stoner, wile of William Stoner, came to an end on Monday night at 12:15 o'clock when she passed peacefully into the spirit world. For the past six weeks she was a patient at the Bellefonte hospital, suffering greatly with cancer, Mrs. Stoner realized that the end was near, and made prepara- tions for her burial, selecting the funeral hymns and Scripture reading. She was agetl past forty years and is survived by te and two children, Lila and Paul, Her remains were brought to her home, near the Centre Hall station, on Wednesday, and on Friday morn. ing at ten o'clock the fuheral services will be held at the home. Rev. Cather- man, her pastor, will officiate, assis‘ed by Rev. Bingman, Burial will be made at W————————— ® PLEASANT GAP. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Wagner and two sons, Harold and Ralph, of Beaver, are visiting with friends and relitives here. Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Peters and family, of Niagara Falls, Satur- day to visit with Mrs. Wm. Irvin, Harry Rimmey, of Olean, New York, spent Sunday with relatives at this place, Mrs. Rachael Miller, who had the nns- fortune to fall her leg, was taken to the Bellefonte hospital. Centre Hall here latter's motored the mother, and break A fA —————— Marriage Licenses. Loyd E. Guiser, Mingoville. Mary E, Peters, Mill Hall, William Wyant, Hollidaysburg. Clay Lingafelt, Hollidaysburg. Lewis I.. Crain, Sandy Ridge. Sarah M. Cowfer, Port Matilda. John H. Kuhn, Boalsburg. Emma K. Rowe, Boalsburg Willis W, Stephauns, State College Emily A. Neiwdigh, State College, er L. E Lingle, Spring Mills, Velma E. Weaver, Spring Mille, Ralph W, Man Id, Morristown. Helen I n, State College FARM FACTS Timely Reminders from The Pennsylvania State College ORCHARD Over loaded trees should f and Thin so that fruits : pull or shear the fruit, WOODLOT While the leaves are on mark dead and x 0Ou rees for | nol be able 1 cutting these trees inter. DAIRY «Prevent the accumulation. of stable, It fur. for fi of the ire about the ¢w shes t best breeding place PAINT on the outside 'e So es, walls nseed oil juipment THE GARDEN needs water, but not J Better a heavy watering han a sprinkling every day useful only when it reaches the week do not thrive should be latest % the ais time of the th year ted for insect parasites. The to administer 1 pig then the rent is in capsule form, Eac dose which makes pith The vinage blacksmith shop under the spreading chestnut tree is for rent, The smithy has gone to sea to learn some new tricks of the trade in the U. 8. Navy schools, Blacksmithing Is now a highly specialized trade in iron working, Once Aa man masters It he Is sure of a good living for life, eithgr in or out of the service. A real Interest in one's work is as necessary in the Navy schools as in others, ‘but Jack is paid to learn and is sure of his Job as long as he wants it, providing be is In earnest The above photo shows a couple of anvils doing a big business at a Navy Artifiger School, : GREAT EVENT FOR MOSLEMS ———— Holy Carpet” Leaves Cairo for City of Mecca. Always pleturesque, Cairo 1s never more fascinating than during the “Pro- cession, of the Holy Carpet”, In the bazaars we wateh the barefooted workmen embroidering, holding the cloth In their toes, which appear to be prehensile, or “watch them go to the nearest mosque to bathe five times a day. As many day also from the minarets of mosques the muezzing are reminding the natives of the approaching festival, and that “God is great, there Is no God but God, and Mohammed f(s his prophet. Come to Prayer.” Howling dervishes are dancing In the mosque nenr the Square of Sutten Hasan, while devout Moslems are en- gaged In eventide prayer on their housetops. Water carriers are on the way to the yellow Nile for water, or are benring wine In their gontskins the same as in Biblical times, while aged men In the mosques are appareled ex- actly as In Abraham's day. The streets are filled with soldiers, while thousands of elvilians attend the ceremonial held In the sacred prophet. fe Inclosu the great square near the The, enclosure Is a pyra- midnl wooden structure with embroidéred stuffs emblazoned with gold embroldery and quotations from the Koran, Here the people receive the blessings of the prophet, together with tions and sacred talis- times n re in citadel, covered SP al disper ns mans, The khedive and his dignitaries are all present to formally start the cara its military escort toward fur-off Arabia, The people ard to touch the sacred In- ing It with fervor. Wom- n thelr Is and face vells windows, as the prodession arts, Following It are the who will accompany the car- the mosque at ter with wring the Marriage in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's tow the unconditionn oils swoddi wedding do those « bride earefu from except that ing her 3 in the “hope chest” from } takes it for the privileged hangs it up on cords which are stretel- the the the trouseean she only fow ed across house the room of 5 owed on wedding by all main Here it is Friday before the the matrons of the bride and the maldens dance the until the matrons have given their full eriticism of ench g and If they of them the girls must help the bride make them over until “sult. ahle” Instend if plet ty. is i town, while the before door and remain there irment, disap prove of rice, corn gs an emblem showered over the bride groom, who sire escorted » with many © ily imprisoned to their remonies and they within its New Uses of Raw Products. The Weltmarket directs attention to new uses of raw products. In Holland a usefn! gum or paste is being from garlic. The balbs are pressed and the julce or fluld matter so obtained is thickened by Inspissa tion. A good substitute foreork ig ob tained from fungl. which are dried) and mixed with cement and consolidated by pressure. In Nor. wny a process has been, patented to enable carbide to be used for driving motors. In Denmark a company has been floated to make briquettes from heather, These have a higher heat value than peat. Experiments are be ing made to use chalk marl, especially that which comes from the Limburg mines, as a manure, Typhoon Hurt Coconut Trees, The Christmas typhoon which swept over the southern Philippine Islands did considerable damage to the coco it plantations, Trees, especially those along the seashore and places most open to the wind, were elther blown down or weakened to such a degree that unless the affected groves are cleaned up and taken enre of, the trees still standing are doomed. but for an other reason, says the burean of agri culture, The fallen trunks will be come breeding places of all manner of beetles, borers md other coconut de stroytg pests and diseases. The wenkenid trees, unable to fight these odds, will sooner or later succumb and thus the farmers will suffer more losses, some mide certain ground, A ——————— Got Him at Last. He was a large, dapple-gray, sensi ble-iooking horse. It was his task tc pull a baker's wagon from house to house in a district on the North side. as the driver dodged In and out of the houses with his basket of bread and cakes, . “Fritz,” enlled out the driver as he ran down the porch steps, Intending that as a notice to his falthfal friend to move on down the street. The horse did not move, “Charlie,” spoke up the driver again, and the old dapple-gray stepped off promptly.~Iodianapolis News, Uncle Eben, y "Owin' to de way smarter men dan 1 fs has got mixed up In arguments” sald Uncle Eben, “whenever anybody 'splaine de league &' nations to me, 1 Jes’ ways ‘yesslr' an’ goes on "hout my business” | { si i ZL for Sale. SPECIAL Afternoon and Evening. nian — WANTED. Two girls for gecera housework ; small family ; good wages, Write, Mrs. R. C. Colbaugh, 435 Rose- dale 8t., Pittsburgh, Pa., Williamsburg Branch, PIGS FOR SALE ~-I purchased the Duroc Jersey sows raised by the Spring - ¥ Mills Pig Club, and Em offering for sale the pigs, old from March 30. These are very nice pigs. The sow pigs of the older litter were sold to the County Agent of Hunti county for Club work..«]. R. wt, Spring Mills, Pa The Centre Reporter, $1.50 a year, . TERMS REASONABLE CENTRE HALL, PENNA.
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