THURSDAY. JULY | _ VOL. XCIIIL 4 A Winning Candidate From The New York World (Dem.) NO. 27 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, ——— HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS The PINK label this week. Most of the farmers have completed INTERESTING LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS. Another Exciting Ball Game ; Centre Hall Wins. Baseball games with exciting climax. Park is rid of its surplus stock. A year ag they were a drug on the market, Not nearly the acreage was seeded this year as heretofore, but it is just as well, for that seed is saved, None of the farmers will even get their seed back, What will they do for food and feed? Everything is high in price, but farmers LETTER FROM BALTIMORE, Boosts Southern City and Indirectly Invites Us to Come South for Happy Living. By the nomination of James M. Cox the San Francisco Convention has given the candidate es have been the rule on Grange Good Friends of the Reporter Write Dakota, its party a leader well versed in this season, and the one played between rinciple Ff deMOCTRACY. & . 1 1 g { § ‘ principles of cemocracy, a Centre Hall and Linden Hall the Satur from North Maryland who has the pleasing habit of carrying hisown S day before the Fourth was no exception and Illinois. Here is the long promised letter to the tate and a man who in high of- | {4 this rule. The final score was og to 8, fice has demonstrated his capacity to legislate and to govern, Three times elected Governor of Ohio, being the only successful representative of his party on the State ticket in 1918 It f ¢ 1 successful ad- his record in that respect is unique. was largely through his ministration that Ohio in 1916 gave its Wilson an With Ge elector vote to Woodrow 10D thus assured his ernor Cox at the he icket this year, a never before failed the Repu national elect the Taft-Roosevelt sg sbatable ground f Ohio, Mr. Cox has to sel t v lornise 1 LO moQerniz f the Comm A fp Red School Houses and Marble High Schools. Oral appealc r eler A boy or girl v can mpm tit Re 13 ) ucation while at 1 y a good deal tally alert higher ed work, but obtained 16. public school children do not spell as elementary education must be in schools before the pupil The puj £ well, they do not write as legibly, they ithmetic geo graphy, as they ought to be, Dr. Fine- gan will do more for the State of Penn. sylvania by raising the quality of elem. entary education than he will be multi- plying the high schools of the State and filling the minds of more young people with the notion that a diploma will open the door to an easy way of getting a liv- ing. are not so good in ar —————————— AIM SSAA Mahaffee has $250,000 Fire. & On the first day of the month, just be- fore noon, a fire broke out in a Mahaffee bakery and before the flames could be checked, $250,000 worth of property was destroyed, The principal losses were the Wrigley hardware store, $90,000 ; Don Mahaffee store, $40,000, Nine fam- Centre Hall winning by heavy hitting and “waiting out” the relief Clintic, find th the last frame and forced in the wi ran, x pitcher, Mc- who failed to e plate in Lo £ nig Sam Ross, of long experience, essayerd * the visitors and i He had ne t was an off day for Sam, nothing but his hein ROOCKEU by Hu rive glove and that off too Ar old 4 ever made on ti tall timbers ¢ Clintic, a len Hall who hs gi ¢ 1 Ths fanl Tes 1 Msi control, his fault proved his the beginni the beginnit 1 the bases were loaded ee etoresemioin: Spring Mills Teams Win Laurels in Stock Judging. wr ——————— Gospel Tent Meetings at Colyer, ’ T Me eting g on Randa es On UnRGay svening Everyt ody welcon Daniel Dubendorf ——— i — Penn State Summer Session ance Breaks Record. Attend the an- teachers at nual summer session for school All records for attendance at The Pennsylvania State College were broken with the opening of classes last week when 1225 had registerad for the full course of Additional teachers registered up until the end of the week, the attendance reach a total of almost 1400, The highest pre- vious attendance was 1104 in 1916, six weeks, making Returned from Abroad. Colonel and Mrs Henry W, Shoema- ker have returned to “Restless Oaks,’ their summer home, at McElhattan, Clinton county, after a three months’ trip through East Africa, Spain, Italy, France and Eogland, Colonel Shoe- maker, who is a virile member of the state forestry commission, bas been ma- king a careful study of forest conserva+ tion, stream pollution, prevention and game preservation, and will embody the results of his observations in a report to his colleagues at the July meeting in entire belongings burned, Harrisburg. He says the French battle fields are yet barren, with not a tree or shrub as far as human eye can see, FROM REV, A, A, KERLIN, Sharpsburg, Md., june 30, 1920 Dear Reporter I am®sitting at m y usual place where | read, write and study, excepting when 1 pastoral d s, working on our » we grow more vegetables than and peaches and raspberries Our own use, time the house in in summer. hade is a tall old apple tree with dense | lisoe my ollage, m panions are birds, of various 1 bs mel COOL stace the The many of which nestie in old me if 3 5 1 Cra tree lapnascape arou lovely. the yard where | an is fragrant ' two very large ‘ ¥ wel : Jorter ever since and it ked for'now as ever it In regard to conditi North Dakota, let me say the outlook not very promising. Last yeat's € rops were almost an entire failure owing to The only grains to be harvested were wheat the dry weather and grasshoppers, and rye. and they were very poor, the yields being but from two to seven bush. els per acre. This year there will not be even that much, as the grasshoppers are taking every thing as they go. They are so plentiful that the side walks be. come slippery qwing to the large number of the pests being crushed under foot. What will becomre of us poor people up here God only knows, for I don't. When ths farmer fails every one fails, for we all depend on the farmer for a living. The past winter was such a cold, bard winter and so much snow. It is said the snow fall was as much as eight feet. We had one blizzard in October, three in November, then no bad ones until the 15th and 16th of March, when we had the worst blizzard that struck this sec. tion since 1888, 1 thought: I had seen some bad ones since I am up here, but they were no comparison to the last one, So many people froze to death , others froze their hands and feet so they had to be amputated. Some had to give up fin- have nothing to sell. Sott coal sold for $12.95 and lignit, poor grade of coal, at $6.00, The sand storms were not as bad thi but bad enough. prosperous, and with an my old to set us, | remain respectfully, Mrs. Mary H. Prics N, KELLER. Mcline, illinois, June 27, 1920 Editor Reporter one-fingered he banks of the Missis the only safe anc » place to be f the old rive sure is in the shade ! home on De the posit i 3 vr oune x. on M he o look over the », and f yressed with to stay. over 351i. show top notch 2. and ill take in over About a month wrestling bout here Meyer, the «1d yori he gate. great middle-weight as the main al. | cleared over a thousand dol- nigtht, another for chance | enjoyed with you on the grounds after | came home OVErseas, from is to Regare ali. W. N. KeLigx ——————————— Weddings. At the Lutheran parsonage, Aarons. burg, June joth, by Rev. J. J. Weaver, Elmer C. Lingle and Miss Velma C, Weaver, both of Spring Mills, At the same place and by the same, on Pearl Sleiffer, of Spring Mills, were united in marriage. These young people are well known in their journey through life. a AI MU BAIR SI Hettinger-Overly. this state, bride's dunts, at Mt. Pleasant. the east. They will live in Detroit, baggage room at Lewistown for ship- gers and toes. Horses and cattle perish. ed by the hundreds, so this community ment to 8t. Louis were copper-lined and Reporter, the paper I now so much more than ever appreciate. 1 appreciate it for every bit of news ia it, and again for the reason that 1 know just how much effort it requires to accomplish the me- cha nical end of each of fifty issues each year. The bome paper at any rate is not fully appreciated until one becomes separated from the dear old home town and the companions of one’s youth, When on September 24th of last year, my chum, Belle Meeker, and 1 reached Jaltimore to continue a 8 our school work in the Eaton and Burnett col lege, acknowledged to be the most com- plete institution of its kind in this city, it seemed that the point we now have reached was a long, long way off at the best, if we ever reached at all, We have since taken a full course in stenog- raphy, and after graduating were fortu nate en business it sugh to sec ith ith the s positions w same firm, in alty claim depart- 3 i 3 a the casus Our 1 | ment of the idelity and Guar- anty Comj positions in pre war times would have no doubt been re. ferred to as having * lucrative ” salaries attached, but the increases granted since ' 5 #5 1 - yr and those anticipated can easily be ex. pended without attractin accorded the spen thrift Perhaps up in dear old » s 2 als you Go not so realize wonderful forward ides and produces more than mellons and bivalves ‘rm them, of different, course born a t 1732 Hou with city streets, has ipal docks and $23," modern sewerage t SVsl lohns Phen ia large number of ationally we have the great University an less aliho What other « 1 Saat ”~ i institutions i mean « iy can take from its waters products every year ye worth $15,000,.000--products which rep ¢ the toil of nature iate the prophecy ascribed gton that Baltimore was des- rd to become the greatest Atlantic from the ship} seaport on you year the coast, let me eg ing reports of last the statement that 1166 vessels from this be P 511 carried exports and 1180 imports, To at least please the compositor who chances to put this in types, for I know h work on long and uninteresting communications, I will begin ons, but not be- fore giving you a quotation from a dis- from experience they hate to x myc OBC tinguished New Englander so often used by the Southerner when inviting his come south. The runs something like this 1f you have made a living and now want to live and are tired of * nine months of winter and three mouths of dew cold weather,” come south. Northern cousins to expression Miss Meeker and myself were surely most fortunate in securing as a living place the home of the former's Mrs, H. M. Hipple, a daughter of Mrs. Maypard Meeker, of Centre Hall We are most deightfully located in a suo- burban of Baltimore, and this communication is not scrap- ped the paper containing it will be de- livered over rural mail route No. 6 from Towsand, The Hipples live in a pri- vate house, but conduct a hotel and an extensive truck farm. Trucking is a great business here and requires much skill and careful management to bring the balance on the right side of the ledg- er at the close of the season. With best wishes to you all and with the fond hope that I may see all of you again about the time the roundabout be- gins to creak, I remain, most respect. fully yours, sister, section if i Apereng McCLexAnAx, A—————— A AP A — 3 New Lookout Towers for Detecting Forest Fires. Three new lookout towers for detect ing forest fires in Centre county will be built this summer by the Central Forest Fire Protective Association, according to a report sent to the Pennsylvania De partment of Forestry by Forester W. H. Horning, of Snow Shoe. Secretary R. A. Smith and Forester Horning are se. lecting suitable location for the observa- tion towers. s The Association decided to erect the towers to ipcrease the protection of its forests from fire and it is expected the towers will be ready for use before the beginning of the fall fire season. Forester Horning has notified the De- of Sandy Ridge, was fined by Magistrate J. E. Hawkins for refusing to assist Fire Warden R, A, Smith to extinguish forest fires. —— IA SRA contained 26 gallons of whisky. making their hay, The crop, taken all through, was fair as to yield. Julius Strohmeier, of Philadelphia, spent a short time with his uncle, H. G, Strohmeier, in Centre Hall, recently. of students in the Pennsylvania State College summer sesy The enroliment sion has reached 1315, the largest num- ber ever, Only a little over seven weeks until the Grange Epcampment and Fair be- gins; 4 That means that fall will before we realize it. A Mrs. husky youngster was greeted by f f a most welcome member of the be here son was recently born to Rev, and ard K. St fN T wr ' of Newport. ihe vy itz, our sisters as family. Four well preserved apples of crop were brought to this office ' Iressler, having been grown by his son-in-law, William McClintic Linden Hall crop on most farms thorugh ga promising Dg in appear- § ioes not showrmuch effect of ack wand Nearly all Dring Spring. 211 set with plants The plane day of next week and elaborate nd one of og | he entertaini feat yighest order and the lectu rey Peta ev Va ny iL Chalaul jua work. $ ihe rir home at Rockwood, prior to mn 4) in the here of the reverend gent! oH 8 aces hic hand 10 grasp Dis dana Whe the loft above a rear portion of his oC Merchant C ling house, a short to get a » of cured meat, he discovered three bacon 0 were the f Dagville, of Mcliovay, formerly enn's Valley Charge, is now pastor, bas just closed a four-weeks his church. This is the first school of the kind within the bounds of the Central conference. Vacation Bible School in Pennsylvani Catharine, the ten year old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. James C. Goodhart, serious mishap just before the Nation's 1920 birthday. The little girl had been watching her older brothers use carbide in celebrating, and when alone tried to imitate them, with the result that there was a premature explosion. The child was badly cut about the face and was at once rushed to the Bellefonte hospital Mililbeim did itself credit ip its celebra- tion of the Nation's birthday. A great crowd of people witnessed the parade and many remained for the remainder of the exercises. The speakers were Rev. Illingsworth, formerly a pastor on one of the Millheim charges ; W. Harri- son Walker, Esq., the booster of War Savings Stamps in Pennsylvama ; Col, Theodore Boal, and the latter's son, Pi- bad a The junior editor and his family en- joyed the vacation period in Philadel- phia and Atlantic City. At the seashore they were royally entertained by Mr. and Mrs, John L. Rowe, at their beauti- ful apartments at the Le Grand, one of the most fashionable apartment houses in the city, and located close to the «fa- mous boardwalk, thus commanding a grand view of the Atlantic ocean and the Traymore hotel, which is considered the world’s greatest hotel achievement. As is well known by most of the Re porter readers, Mr. Rowe's native bome is Centre Hall, and like many young men who have left here for the larger cities, he has made good. He supervis- ed the installation of the plumbing in a number of the finest hotels and business ; , and is con- The PINK label this week. #
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