= 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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