= OL. XOV._ FARMERS’ INSTITUTES BEGIN THIS WEEK. Able Speakers Have Been Assigned for Meetings At Hublersburg, Pine Grove Mills and Spring Mills. Farmers’ Institute meetings under the direction of C. L. Goodling, County Chairman, in cooperation with County Farm Agent J. N. Robinson, will be held in Centre county three days begin- ning Friday of this week. The sched- ule of the Institute meetings for the county follows: Hublersburg, Febru- ary 11; Pine Grove Mills, February 12 and Spring Mills, February 14. The State Department of Agriculture has assigned three speakers to the coun- ty for the sessions; particularly selected as filling the needs of Centre county. Particular attention will be given at the meetings to the dis- cussion of dairying, and injurious weeds, assigned by the state are L.. W, Charles F. and Dr, Gross. ? L. W. Morley, State College, instructor in dairy husbandry at sylvania State College, anc con- nected with the field e of the college. Mr, Morley is a graduate of University ot Missouri and has been a member of the faculty of State College for several years. He is entirely fam- iliar with dairy probleins. Charles F. Bottingham, Pa., is a practical farmer and dairyman. Mr, Preston is one of the best men cn the Institute lecture force to present up-to-date agricultural subjects, For a pumber of years he was identified with the A ultural Extensi the Pennsylvania specialize Secretary of the Association, and that the same was organized. Dr. E. M. Gross, Botanist Pennsylvania Department ture, botanical years standing. For he was professor of botany enley High school, Pittsburgh ing which time he purs courses at the University of where he was awarded gree some tim Pittsburgh he was instructor in several high s He is recognized lant life and during the past six mor mths has bee engaged in enlarging i the State of Peta vag. barium which ntains than six t common in Pen be one of these people being potatoculture, seeds and the speakers Morley, Preston E. M. Pa., is Penn. is also xtension work Preston, qualified or gric On WOrkK Of State College and He State Potato 2 1 in agronomy. was also Growers’ it was due to his efforts for ¥ § seen l of Agricul- for a number of is a authority many I ued special Pittsburgh Doctor's de- € since. } chools about authority on p n of her. already co more cimens of nt 13 pi Ans iil cted to 1=and £o f1 aousand sg fe sylvania, is expe the best in the country. HISTORIC SPOT IN PENNS VALLEY TO HAVE MARKER. Col. H. W. Shoemaker Heeds Appeal of Former Aaronsburg Pastor.— Suggests Dedicating Marker July dth. A few weeks ago, Rev, J. J. Weaver, former pastor of the Aaronsburg Lutt eran charge, and now of Everett, cau to have printed a splendid article in the Millheim Journal appealing for a suita. ble marker on a historic Penns Valley. The article has come the notice of Col. H, W.-Sbhoemaker, who with characteristic generosity has consented to provide a marker. Rev. Weaver's appeal was as follows : In the year 1759, General (then Cap- tain) James Potter with a companion, Captain Thompson, discovered Penns Valley. Captain Potter feeling that en- closed by the mighly mountain ranges, which he had beheld from a distance, there could not but be fertile valleys and bubbling brooks fringed with mighty forests. Suiting the action to the thought, he and Thompson passed up the Susquehanna River from Ft, Augus. ta to the mouth of the Bald Eagle creek; passing up this majestic stream to where Milesburg now stands, they past thence overland through forests and vast wild- erness to the top of noble Nittany Mountain, with all the beauty of valley and mountain stretches before them ; and, grasping the arm of Captain Thompson, the noble frontiersman, sol dier and benefactor, exclaimed **Thomp- son, I have discovered an empire !". This however is only preparatory to that which we wish to state. We have all learned, or at least should know, if interested in one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys in Pennsylvania just what this noble soldier, General Potter, did for the early inhabitants of Penns Valley. The fort was built near the ‘present town of Centre Hall ; has been properly marked by those noble women, the D. A. R,, and all good citizens hold in sacred memory the heroic deeds of the men and women who dared the dan” gers of early settlement in this valley. There is another § place, however, which should be just as much enshrined in the hearts of our citizens, which until this time has been entirely forgotten or neglected. I have in mind the old Low- er Fort of Penns Valley. One hears lit { Continued ou lnside page. ) a HN sed 1 spot in lower to CENTRE MEETING oF THE , CENTRE CO. CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION. Annual Convention to be Held at Bellefonte, June 17. A meeting of the directors and mem- bers of standing committees of the Cen. tre County Conservation Assoc, was held at Bellefonte last Thursday. Thirty-five members were present. County chairman of standing commit- tees were elected as follows : Forestry, Prof. J. A. Ferguson, College. Fish, T. H, Harter, Bellefonte, Game, ]. R. Miller, Millheim. Song Birds, Richard Harlow, College, ia Flowers, Mrs, |]. B Colley Reogation. Thomas Horne, Phil bury. Education, Prof. J. A. Pletcher, How- ard, It was decided to hold the Convention of the Association fonte, June 17. Prominent will be asked to address this State State Hill, State ips- Annual Belle- speakers at Convention as well as experts along the lines of For. estry, Fish, Game, Birds, Wild ste, [he convention will be flowers, in the na. The Cler ynservation Exhibitio dq to e of a Ci Wize irectors were authorize Contests were suggested along several the best col- forest ion ot wild flowers, the exhibition of ti lines—the best bird houses, lection of the leaves of trees, the best ww Scout best collect 1e work Troop or Gir] Scout Tr 0p, he best to match 5 IC 8% ects A auspices Says On Son COn-~ servation, 1 Iver relating Perr tt os ov shooting Assoc a4is0 county under the of the lation be held n for t may and give trou as as ay previous to the convention the } £ Many ox heaviest catch of trout. ha acl DE ASECO uuty zations will to make ex- vor a OT al 1 on record as favorin simplifica fF tha x ry 1a the game laws ing the open season for all and n ~N og TY » a co ares oy Tus i « November large game including oppoOs- 14 wowia deer and bear in December and ng the proposed chan ahb buck before compel unter to see ty prongs on a 1. ler ‘Tr # legally shooting, and that the rec. ome ewe of 2 t wher * respect 5 be zame laws, Cinder Roads for Grange Park. y Bee by BGO deep leading throu; gh wd on mua on I'he possibilit the dr of iveways Grange Park, such was experienced last Septem- been ically g£ ug week, ber, has eliminated throug gh - 3 with cinder, pract the buildin 3 of driveways ) this Five carloads shi tye "3 $ land by _ n* Northum LA LEE of and here from P. R. RR. free and about fifteen teams were ee ber- he all ch Arges, a score of Grangers worked on the job of spreading the cinder to a width with suffiient the possibility of ng sa the mad, The good women of tHe Grange served dinner in the Grange hall for the workmen during the days the job was in progress, double tr raise to preciude u flounder rack Autos aga First Visit in Twenty Years. George McClellan Smetzler, of near Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been visit. ing his brothers, James H. Smetzler, in Centre Hall, and R. J. Smetzler, at Pot- ters Mills, ring the past week. Mr. Smetzler is enjoying his first trip back home in twenty years, since which time he has traveled throughout all parts of the west, through to the Pacific Coast, but for the past thirteen years has been engaging in farming in Minnesota, part of the time for himself, and now man. aged a large farm for another party, Mr. Smetzler, like most tormer residents living in the west, is enthusiastic about that country. He expects to return in a few weeks, and will be accompanied as far as Ogio by his brother, James H., where the two will visit another brother, David G., of Clyde, Ohio, 1 mi fs fon p— MILLHEIM. From The Journal) H. F. Confer, of Rebersburg, on Fri- day shipped a carload of horses from "Coburn station to an eastern market. On Monday morning a milk truck driven by Glen Kerstetter, of Coburn, and the Ford touring car of Harvey Hough, of Wolfs Store, collided in front ot the tollgate north of Millheim, Ford car was badly damaged and was towed into the Breon garage by the oth- er car, A certain resident of West Main street claims to have a quart bottle of whiskey in hs safe, He says the safe is one of the old-fashioned kind which is locked and unlocked with a key and that sever. al years ago he broke the key and has been unable to get a few one made, This is a hint to locksmiths to get busy, Breon garage during the past week sold and delivered cars to the following Ford touring car to Paul Wise, of Madisonburg; Ford sedan to { Rev. C. F, Catherman, of Spring Mills, # du HALL. PA. IS IT A SIN Why do the citizens permi Will all dancers be lost ? Note. —This same sermon at Sunday, TO DANCE? tit? REV. MELVIN C. DRUMM. Spring Mills Lutheran Church 7.30 p. m. LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WON PRIZE. | The Bést Written Essay on “Why | Want to Attend the Centre Coun- | ty Auto Show.” Miss Ellen Burkholder, the Centre Hall High first prize offered this school in the cted by the Centre aunty Auto Dealers in connection with swunty Auto week, Eu f the school, captured re- cent Co the which closed andl contest ¢ Show H. show, has | first Centre Cx last director o Re; porte r's prize-winoing Lederer, the r Miss Burkhold- | ition on “Why tre County Au- is herewith forwarded the COE} ) 2 I want to attend tne Cen to Show” sented : and the same pre- » are many reasons why the Centre County bec nd ever held First, ause it is the tai 1 d 8 Ki in the county. au ie or not. tomo “Probably some people dren was chile 1 yw ; what do juestion, *Why do school they Don't age of to attend an Auto Sh know about autos and tractors 7 you know we are living in the That attend mod invention ? main ern reason why I want to the show. Every one knows the big , slaved the automobile and truck has played isporation system. Not only tomobiles but tractors are big playing a adustry. If auto and play a big part in the future of our nation, children of the such part in our agriculty tractor ar er yp actor are going to why shall we, the school to- We must the most lately improv- what advan. day. not attend the auto show? know which au strongest built ; ed ; the highest powered ; tages the small car bas and what advan tage the large car has. There are a number of other things which we must and tractors are the tos also koow, Now the question is where can we find these this Why, go to the auto show, and 1 can find out a great deal. ** Another reason is that you will not only find this out, but whic dealers in | the county sells the best cars, or the best | tractors, whichever it may be. “Still another reason is that the differ- ent bands are coming from all over the | county. So you will not only learn aj great deal about autos and tractors, but] will also be entertained. “ELLEN BURKHOLDER.” ——— ASAD, 475.65 Sales Red Cross Stamps. The entire sales of Red Cross stamps | in Centre County was to the value of | b$475 65, and contributions $12.48, mak- ! ing a total of $448.13 for use to combat | tuberculosis. Of this sum seventeen and one-half per cent, or $85.42, is sent to the state asssociation, aud the re mainder is retained in the county coms mittee's treasury for expenditure in Centre county. There figures were giv. en out by Miss Helen E. C, Overton, the efficient head of the Centre county organization, The chairman is desitious of organiz- ing Health Rule classes in the schools in Centre county, and upon expression of the various schools to take an interest in the work, aworker in that line will be sent.out to effect an organization, ————————————— Trout Distributed in Centre. Part of a lot of 39,000 two-year old rainbow and brook trout were distribut- ed in Centre county streams during Jan. uary, by the state department of fisher- jes, igs out 7 think you tS A. fn A Celebrate 74th Wedding Anniver sary. ; Mr. and Mrs, Barr Spangler, of Mari. etta, this state, the oldest residents of that section, celebrated their seventy- fourth wedding anniversary on Wednes- day. Mr. Spangler, who is in his ome hundredth year, is president of the First Nationhi bank of Marietta, and is the oldest bank président of the United FStates. He is daily on duty. He attri- butes his longevity to ‘work and more work” and the foiowing of simple tules of health, Letter From Ohio. Barberton, Ohio Feb. 4th, 1921, E ditor Centre Reporter, osed fin Encl d money order for the Re. reading. now ; so and most of those who have work, have had a cut re ’ limes are very dull here ple out of work, in Am working for the Dia- nd Match Co,, have had an in- them, they having nt me on two trucking trips Belle- fonte factory, transfering to that factory some machinery from this plant, d a trip to New York city to bring a truck from there. New York is Returned by aod followed the as far as I could back Une | ana m teresting year with 5 f to I also ha esrtalnly of Lincoln hig w ry to Ba "1 lence durin y noe guring v way roars fou roerion. interesting in exper- York was from an areoplane, ter sen match ick » take the place as located at a point 1 spent two that 1 can still for the most asked days around bere is, Do 1y stay in New to view Lhe city Ys I was la t to the timber the same in to start a em, ft near months thankful job, question : you still Yours truly, Joux F. Brooxs Want to Locate Biggest Trees. The Pennsylvania state department of forestry has started wiry to obtain the li tree in the state and also to list and historic trees of the common- The campaign to locate is called by Prof. J. S. chief of the bureau conda facts about each the wealth, trees, the Tilick, research, will be cited throughout the spring and it is the intention to follow it up by taking scientifig data on the measurements of the largest of each of 100 species in the state. Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, a member of the forestry commission, has already given the commonwealth infor. mation on several jrees, Bedford county claiming the largest swamp white oak, Sullivan the sugar maple at Eagles Mere, while Dauphin bas a sycamore twenty-five feet in circumference at the as it of of in Pennsylvania antl to be among the | giant trees of the state, Professor [l- lick says in sending data to the capitol measure. height of Noble Work by the Red Cross. John Earl Baker, director of famive relief at Peking for the American Red brief report of present and prospective activities. Mr. Baker states that the Red Cross is pow feeding about 37,000 persons daily. About 3 3,500 men are en- gaged on highway construction to im prove communication and facilitate ‘the relief work. Mr. Baker says in part : “We expect to get up to 20.000 work- men and feed 100,000 per day. Our plan is to call upon the village headman for a list of their needy families classifi- ed as to most needy and moderately peedy. Our investigators then exam- ine these families and offer jobs to the able-bodied men on highway construc. tion. We call them in groups of 30; each group furnishes its own headman and cooking utensils and native tools, ‘About the end of each fortnight each of the men from each gang is given two days’ vacation and a standard package containing thirty rations to take home to their family,” AIA A The Editor's Critics. Of all fields of buman endeavor, the work of the editor probably is most gen erally and continuously criticized. And 99 per cent of his critics could not dis- tinguish a news story from the thirty. sixth chapter of Genesis, and the other 1 per cent could not write it up in 300 words to pass the approval of the pri: mary English- tudy class in the least of- ficient school of the slum wards of Telok Suggested Change Deer Law. (From the office of the Board of Game Commissioners, Harrisburg, Pa.) Reasois tor in Since the newspapers of the State an- nounced that the Game Commission would approve a change in the deer law 80 as to protect all bucks until they reach the two-point or prong age, (about 2 1-2 years) many sportsmen who do pot understand the situation are protesting to this office, as well as their representa- tives in the Legislature, while fully as many more sportsmen highly the change without hesitancy t they have enough confidence in the Joard of Game Commissioners to know that such Board thing endorse cause no would not approve be detrimental to er the sportsmen or,the deer. In the first place, the idea of protect- any- th that would eith- future supply of ing spike bucks did not the Game Commission, but inated and is requested by sportsmen who have hunted for many years and whose sole interest is to protect hu- man life and their future sport. The reasons and scientists in originate with instead orig- deer advanced by sportsmen favor of such change are as follows : 1. To protect n baby bucks. Duting 1920, 198 kil deer 66 baby bucks were ed-—more than f twice the number of the Game Comn in t both ission can possib 3 One man was also killed in a deer. €n at “large chance on killing a spike buck the spike antlers are usually very cult to see on account of the ears, etc 2. Bucks in their second year may bave spikes from one this winter. mistake for now Too many m shoot deer,” taking a because half inch to or eight inches long, u seven sually four to six jecause of this sportsmen and scientists say inches, fact many a provision fixing the length ly of antlers is exceeding- poor law, 3. Scientists who have followed the hase many years id ck o every You ir Of have age lo say we shoul desirable & ive one bt bree ding does ; that when the number of does is greatly in excess oft ratio the offspring will often degenerate and especially will this occur if practic- mm ally all procreation males. 4. Bucks in their third year are much better breeding animals than the year previous, as they are weigh 25 to 3¢ is left to ature BOTS matuye, y ibs, more. and have g troph. mounting. where accurate worth In section data was collected 83 per cent. of the breeding this fell to spike bucks, as legal spikes. This same condition is rapidly developing io other sections. Breeders stock would pot thiak of using immature stock animals : why should not the same precaution be taken with deer to keep up the stamina, size, antlers, etc. 5. A buck with antlers having or more points can be seen much more readily than spikes without points, and the main objection sportsmen seem to have 1s that the party with whom such persons have been honting have in the past been killing spike bucks ; some- thing that in the opinion of many indi- cates that in some instances hunters are not as careful as they should be. While the number of legal male deer under the proposed law would be con- siderably reduced the first season, there. after there would be just as many bucks killed as before. However, sportsmen must bear in mind that the Game Com- mission simply approved this change if the majority of the sportsmen want it, It is therefore, a matter entirely Wor the sportsmen and the Legislature to con- sider carefully from the standpoint of future conditions rather than a meat supply for the present, and then act ac: cordingly. ws one past season so out of the first Go deer killed were of 1 domestic two : Port Matilda Plant Uhder New Con- trol. Charles W, Albright, of Altoona, one of the stockholders of the Superior Silica Company which operates the brickmak- ing plant at Port Matilda, has purchased the shares in the company held by Ellis L. Orvis and Ives L. Harvey. Mr. Al- bright some time ago bought the large holdings of James Scott, deceased, and the taking over of the Orvis and Harvey stock, along with some blocks of shares he purchased recently, makes him con- troling stockholder, He will move the office of the company from Bellefonte to the Lincoln Trust building at Altoona. Disposal ot his holdings in the East. ern Refractories Company to Messrs]Or- vis, and Ives L. and Ellis Harvey was made by Mr. Albright. The company controls the brick making places at Or- viston and Snow Shoe. The = fice of this company willbe hig any Bellefonte to Orviston. EA (UT John D. Jr., Gives $1,000,000 to the Starving Children. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the Standard Oil magnate, has contributed NO. 6 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEHEBT ALL PARTS The fifth month of the school term Centre Hall comes to a in close this week. “Gasoline Price Is Again Cut,” paper headline, Where do they this “again” stuff ? news~ get The Morrisdale and Grassflat both in Clearfield county, have been advanced to $1,200 class offices post- offices, Job” Jones, the noted evangeli is scheduled to open a campaign at State College, beginning March 6th, and con- ing two weeks, Scarlet fever and whooping cough first with are in the fever honors sport, scariet or Bg out on of axe is home near Centre Hall, Bruce Stump, who has been fir one of the Pen Altoona, | andi J. Reed Irvine, grand patriarch of the rand epcampment 1.0. OO. FP. of was in attendance at the Millbeim f Odd Fellows on Tuesday evening. J. F. Alexander borough is advertised this issue by James C. of the estate of Lillie Insy's locomotives, jas felt the retrenchment & now at kb $ Dow al gr of Pe 1s yivania, me fting of the lodge of The Dr. Centre Hall home Or lexander. Archie Moyer fox hunter this wi been a successfu ter, and grey foxes on On last Thursday he bagged another red fox. Ds, H. H. Longwell was forced take his bed for a few days week, uffering with grip. The been a very busy man, taking care of a s practice this winte i has having ki in dd number of bot h rec Nittany mountain. to last 1 “ Hac coclof” has ' under the strain ate Board of Charities have rec- a’Legis la- host i he fdospital ap- yded to the Pennsylvani ture that the Bellefonte propriated $22,000 for the coming two allows 14:8 ¥ Ol years. If th amout tha B8g0. The Newell legislature be $2.000 t appropriated the hospital two years e will CXCESS Brothers, evangelis McKeesport, have been engaged Millheim United Evangelical ¢ conduct a series of evangelistic ings there, and began with the f the of hss woh caurca cont Hi vices The services will inue for weeks, The n at Bellefonte, buiit by. C. Y. Ww agner about ready for operation, the las machinery having arrived, has a capacity of about one hundred an twenty-five barrels of flour per day, sides grists. Large storage bins amply take care of the normal harvested in that section in any se Rev. John A. Bright was again elect. ed chaplain of the house of representa tive of Kansas. Rev. Bright was first elected to this position in 1887 and has at various times since held the position, There are but twelve Democrats in the body, one of whom is a woman. Three women were also elected to the house by Republicans. Nofrio Saia, an Italian who has been residing in a dwelling owned by Charles Austin, a Philipsburg barber, wos lac- ed in the jail at Bellefonte, last week, and is charged with arson. The roof of the dwelling was burned in December and the Philipsburg authorities were suspicious as to the cause, investigating the matter and finally placing Sala um- der arrest. A valuable grey horse belonging to the Reese-Sheriff Lumber Co., of Wil- liamsport, whose men for more than a year have been hauling lumber from pear Hecla to the Centre Hall railroad station, took sick on the Brushvalley road one day last week, and the animal was placed in George Heckman's barn where it was found to be suffering with azoturia. The horse died the following day. The Reporter is indebted to Guy W, Jacobs, of Steubenville, Ohio, for copies sent us from the office of the Steuben- ville Herald-Star during the evangelistic campaign now being conducted by evan- gelist “Bob” Jones. Frou the press ac counts Bob” Jones is awakening that city to the need of a more righteous live ing. “Bob's” epigrammatic broadsides of words sound much like “Billy” Sun- day's and, of course, he is getting San- day results. The twenty-sixth anoual meeting of Group Six of the Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association will be held in the Second National Bank building, Altoona, oa Lincoln's birthday, The banks in Cen~ tre county belonging to Group Six are : Bellefonte, Bellefonte Trust Co., Cen- tre Co. Banking Co., First National Baok ; Centre Hall, PennsValley Bank'g Co. Howard, First National Bank ; * *
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