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THE CENTRE REPORTER
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920
ses A AA A A OIA
THIRTY-FIVE YZARS AGO
Paragraphs of News Taken from the
Files of the Reporter of 1885."
November 11, 1388s,
George Eckle has been appointed
postmaster at Pine Grove Mills,
There are rumors afloat that a new
hotel is to go up here,
John Bair and Dr, D, Mingle, of Mill.
heim, with their families, left for Davis,
Ill, which will be be their future home,
Spring Mills, and all Gregg township,
is in a fever heat over the postoffice
question—removal to the hill or keep it
in the hollow is the bone of contention,
One of the handsomest houses on
Church street is one refitted by Wm.
Wolf near the burnt church, lot. Mr,
Catherman, the new station agent, will
occupy it.
The bell of the new Lutheran church
has been put into the tower. It's of a
smooth B tone and very loud, being one
of the largest bells in the valley, we be-
lieve.
A meeting of Lutherans was held at
Coburn last Thursday, and an organiza
tion formed to start a congregation at
that place. A lot has been selected
with a view to erecting a new church on
the same.
Stone creek seems to be infested with
hunters right now. A party from Cen-
tre Hall spent a day in the mountains
last week with no success. The Modocs
of Boalsburg, also in that region, on
Monday had killed two deer and wound-
ed two bears, one of which they were
most certain of killing.
Adam H. Harter, of Millheim, not ap-
proving of the Penna. marriage license
Jaw, hied himself over to Camden, N.
J.. last week, and then and there wed-
ded one Millheim’s damsels.
Our farmers are btisy husking corn.
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Items from the Millhelm Journal.
E. E. Smith, of near Penn Hall, is en-
joying a visit among friends in Nebras-
ka,
The required number of signers for
electric current have been secured in
Aaronsburg and the line will be: extend-
ed from Millheim by the State-Centre
company in the near future,
One day last week three state game
wardens visited East Brush valley and
did away with twb dogs which were re-
ported to the commission as chasing and
killing deer. The dogs belonged to a
farmer.
A meeting of the committee of the
community picnic association was held
last Thursday evening. It was decided
to postpone the picnic this year from the
usual second Thursday of August to
Wednesday September 1, at which time
the Loysville Orphan Home band will
be available to furnish music.
David Kessler, who is employed by
the Westinghouse Electric company, at
Pittsburgh, since the close of his school
term at Avonmore, spent over Sunday
at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Kessler. He has been elected as su-
pervising principal of the Uniontown
schools for the coming term,
Robert Bruogart, the Rebersburg
mail man, one day last week was kicked
on the right arm by one of his father’s
horses. The kick barely missed Brun-
gart's head ‘and struck him a vicious
blow on the Arm, bruising it so badly
that he was uhable to operate his car
for several days, and G. A. Corman was
employed to run the car,
At a special meeting of the Millheim
school board held last Friday evening
the tax rate was raised from 10 to 12
mills, and the head tax from $1 to $2.
The ificrease was made pecessary by the
increased cost of running the schools,
At this meeting Miss Minerva Cowher,
of Sandy Ridge, was elected to teach
the grammar grade. The intermediate
grade is still vacant.
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Mail Planes Cross Continent.
Three all-metal airplanes started last
Thursday for a transcontinental flight to
San Francisco,
The monoplanes carried letters from
the mayor of New York to the mayors of
San Francisco and other cities along the
route. Cleveland was the first schedul-
ed stop. Other stops were made at Chi.
cago, Omahs, Cheyenne Salt Lake City,
Reno and San Francisco.
The trip is expected to make possible
the establishment in September of 'reg-
ular aerial mail service from coast to
coast. The air mail route previously
ended at Omaha, The through service
is expected to cut in half the present five
day letter time to San Francisco.
Transfers of Real Estate.
Harry C. Kramer, et. ux., to George
W. Zerby ; tract in Potter township.
81.600.
Harry W. Weaver, et ux, to John A,
Loong ; tract Gregg twp. $400.
Grant Hoover, et, ux., to Thomas'B,
Gray ; tract in State College borough,
86.750.
I. G. Gordon Foster, ot. al., to Will-
iam C. Biddle ; tract in State College
Charles H. Bierly, et. ux., to C, C,
Smull ; tract in Miles twp. $1,000,
Clement C, Dale, et, al, to Clement
C. Dale ; tract in College township,
$17,500.
A IAPS,
Some few farmers cleaned up the hay-
making last week. They are late,
ON LOFTY ARARAT]
Beautiful Mountain Is a Long-
Extinct Volcano.
it Has Been Scaled, and, Contrary te
Tradition, No Proof That Noah's
Ark Ever Landed There Could
Be Discovered.
The iecent appeal made by the
pewly established republic of Ararat
for recognition by the United States
will be better understood, at least gco-
graphically, when It Is explainad that
the region in question 1¢ a province
of Armenia, 3
It takes its name from the moun:
tain on which the ark made a land:
ing after the flood—Ararat meaning
Noah's mountain,
The whole world, according to the
Bible story, was submerged during the
period ‘of the Deluge and Ararat’s top
most “peak wes the first dry land to
appear above the waters, for the sim:
ple reason that it was the loftiest—
In Armenia, at all events,
As viewed today It gives a notion
of the depth of the flood, inasmuch
as the peak is more than three miles
ghove sea level, It 1s dome-shaped,
and its slopes for 9.000 feet {rom the
top are covered with everiasting snow
and great fields, of glittering lee.
he climb down mist have been
rather difficult for Noah, his family
and ail the an'mals disembarked from
the ark. As'for an ascent to the top,
it was formerly believed to be tm
possible, The Armenian monks ten
clared that remains of the Noachian
hark still existed on the summit, and
that by reason of thelr sanctity a su-
pernatural influence forbade approach,
Nevertheless, In September, 1820, 8
bold climber. Dr. Johann Parrot. suc
ceeded In reaching the top of Araral,
and on coming down stuted that he
had found not even the keel of the
ark up there. Since then the feat has
been repented by several other ad
venturous persons,
Ararat comes pretty near to being
the most hesutiful mountain In the
world. It is 8s longextinet voleano,
standing almest isolated save for a
lesser peak, enlled Little Ararat, which
{really part of It) is a cone of exqul-
site symmetry—an ideal voleano of a
type plainly recognizable as an ash
plle formed about an eruptive chim
ney.
Below, In the valley of AFxes, was
the Garden of Eden, necorling to Ar
meninn tradition, At Marsand, In that
neighborhood, was (80 sag the monks)
the burial place of Noah's wife, At
Argurl. a village near a great chasm
that runs into the heart of the moun
tain, Noah planted the first vineyard.
Turkish Promises.
The first of more than a hundred
treation wrung from Turkey by which
the porte promised protection to the
Christians within the boundaries of
the Ottoman empire, was signed 145
venrs ago, at the instance of Russin
Not one of these hundred promises has
ever been kept—which Is sufficiently
indiented by the fact that all the treat.
fes cover practically the same points
Every time the European powers saved
Turkey from dismemberment, the
reigning sultan In his gratitude, sol
emnly promised that he would grant his
Christian subjects in European Tur.
key liberty nnd equality before the
law with Moslems. After France and
England, at the tremendous cost of the
Crimean war, had saved the Turks
from the Russians, the sultan issued
the famous Hattihumatoun of Febru
ary 18, 1850, in which he swore by the
bess of the prophet to give Christians
full equality. The promise, like so
many othérs. was hut a “scrap of pa.
per.” Abdul Hamid on his ascension
to the throne, declared that he would
make “no distinction of creed” and
posed as the protector of the Chris
tians and Jews, of whom probably
more than a million were slain during
his reign of 33 years.
“Radio.Compass® New Invention.
The paval communication service Is
perfecting a new and Important invéh
tion called a “radio-compass”
To Mustrate its use: A ship, let us
soy, Is 200 miles out at sen. Owing
gnting officer has not been able for
many days to get a sight of the sun
He has lost his bearings, and can onl}
guess at his latitude and longitude,
But he has on board a radlo-compass
~an instrument otherwise called a “db
rection-finder.” His wireless outfit en
ables him to receive messages from
shore stations, The radio-corapass
#ves hin the directions of the sta
tiona from which these messages come
Thus he can locate the position of the
ship with exactness, and the problem of
navigation is safely solved.
_ Their Surprising Way.
“] was never more disappointed Ir
anybody In my life than I was in my
cousins up to Kay See,” admitted Gabe
Gosnell of Grudge, who was just back
‘from a visit to the Big Burg. “Why
with everything on earth going on and
happen at any moment, I'll be switched
if they don't poke off to bed at be
the world I"—Kansas City Star.
Animals in War Service,
the war department November 2
1018, were 118,725 cavalry and riding
SEE INANCIAL REPORT
OF THE+SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF CENTRE
HALL BORO BCHOOL DISTRICT, FOR
YEAR ERDING JULY lst, 1920,
Whole number of schools
Number of teachers
Number of pupil
TREABURER'S ACCOUNT,
MONEY RECEIVED,
Balance on hand from last year,
Received from State appropriations
From Tax Collector ,...............
From tuition Potier township and
tndividuais
From all other gources. ... aka ai
Total receipts ..................
494 71
$1810 10
282 01
048 80
2%
sous 87
MONEY PAID OUT.
For teachers’ wages ................
For rent, repairs. ete... ........
Amount teachers for attending
Inatitu
FOr SeXt DODRR.... oocosn sosaiinrss
For supplies other than text books
For fue
Fees of tax collector
Trossurer's selary
Secretary's anlary and pomsge.
For printing snd audliors’ fees,
For janftor's service... ........
Fortoltion,............. ines
To Btate Behool Employees’ Retire.
ment Board
For a!l other pur
exXponses
Total money paid out
$3004 45
180 00
#0 00
129 85
107 7
316 36
68 46
25 00
58 47
26 so
188 80
$7
58 96
wm
$4290 03
RESOURCES
Cash on hand
Money on interest, from sale of
school ground | Laienns
LIABILITIES
None,
Witness our hands this 13th day of July, 1900,
E 8 RIPEKA. Viee Pres,
EDW., E. BAILEY, Bec'y.
We hereby certify that we have examined the
above and find it correct.
THOS. L. MOORE,
J. H. KNARR,
Auditors
FINANCIAL REIORT—
OF THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF POTTER
TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT, FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING FIRST
MONDAY IN JULY, 10
Whole number of schools, ......
Aversge number months taught
Number male teschers employed
Number femsle teachers employed
Whole puisber scholars in atlend-
SHS ,. 40. Senna caddsnn
Aversge daily stientance :
Number mills levied jor school pur
purposes
RECEIPTS.
Prom State appropriations
Balance on hand last year
From ‘ax collector .e
From loans
¥.om County
ed lands ‘
From all other sources,
3349 05
1061 *
+467 42
kag) : Hn»
Treasurer, for ulisest-
: 41 17
85
Total receipla $470 &
EXPENDITURES.
High school tuition,
Bulidiog ........
Furniture
Repairing |. .
Teachers’ wegee
Teschers attending jostitule
Purchase of text books
Purchase of supplies
Salary of Becrelary
Fam .......3-
interest paid
V+ en of pollecior
rer re SAAR. 4
Printing and suditon’ fees
Trans tion of pupils
Miscellaneous . ...
Total expenditures
RESQURCES
Tuition due from other townships
LIABILITIES
Amount borrowed and unpaid
Liabilities in excess of resources
Witness our hands this 5th day of July, 195.
E. W. CRAWFORD, Pres,
F.P. FLORAY, Bec'y,
We hereby certify that we have examined the
shove and find it correct,
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