f LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
There is a case of measles at Farmers
Mills,
There is much suffering from colds
and sore throat.
Centre County Pomona Grange will
meet at Lemont on Saturday, May zist,
Don't forget the band concert in
Grange hall, Saturday evening, by the
Milroy band. Benefit of local Odd
Fellows.
George W. Rowe, and his son-in-law
and daughter,Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kuhn,
of Boalsburg, spent Sunday at the J. S.
Rowe home,
Brick, sand and salt, in carload lots,
just unloaded by. Bradford & Co., at the
Centre Hall station, Prices are right.
Supply your needs now. adv.
A Children’s Day program, entitled
“These Little Ones,” will be rendered
in the Lutheran church, Centre Hall, on
Sunday evening, May 29,
Mrs. James B. Lingle, of Bethany,
West Virginia, spent a few days the
past week at the home of her husband's
parents, Mr. and Mrs, L. R. Lingle, in
Centre Hall,
The Centre Hall auxiliary of the Far
mer's Co-operative Association will hold
a meeting in the Grange hall on Friday
evening, May 20th, to which all farmers
are invited,
Prof. Frank Kerlin and sister, Miss
Tessie Kerlin, of New Cumberland, and
Miss Anna Hammelbaugh, of Lemoyne,
are spending a week with Mr, and Mrs.
P. B Jordan, at Colyer,
The Academy ministrels will show at
Bellefoute to-night and to-morrow
night, and will give the same high-class
show at Centre Hall next Tuesday
evening in the Grange hall, Don't miss
it, 8
The flower committee for Memorial
Day request that all flowers be brought
to the school at 2.00 p. m. on May 3oth
As in former years, the names of
children contributing flowers, will
published.
~ Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Bradford
pect to leave on Satarday for Charleston,
West Virginia, where they will spend a
week or more with friends, Mr. Bradford
will look after some business
while there,
all
be
ex-
interests
Mr, and Mrs. Clayton E. Homan and
baby daughter, of Cleveland, Ohio,
were arrivals in town the early part of
the week and will spend a short time
with Mrs. Homan's Mr, and
Mrs. H, G.'Strohmeier,
The Academy minstrels will
to please you, Don't miss
tainment in the Grange hal
day evening.
to defray the Memorial Day expenses,
so buy a couple of tickets.
The Milroy correspondent to the
Lewistown Gazette says: Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ramer, of Tusseyville, were
among those who attended the funeral
of Jennie Beaver in Milroy on Monday.
Charles is prospering as a general mer-
chant in the Centre county town,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Fisher left for
China Grove, North Carolina, on Wed-
nesday, to visit the latter's brother, Rev.
J. Hi Keller, and will be gone for sever.
al weeks, There is a of
their accompanying Rev, to
Florida on a pleasure trip.
Mrs, J. C. Dale and Miss Mollie Hof-
fer, who are making their home with
the former's son, Dr. P. H. Dale, at
State College, are spending a week in
Centre Hall as guests of Mrs. P. H
Meyer. Dr. Dale brought the ladies
down in his car on Monday,
Miss Helen Wolfe,
and Mrs. L. E,
of Centre Hall,
was a guest of
parents,
be sure
their enter-
next
possibility
Keller
daughter of Dr.
Wolfe, former residents
but now of New Berlin,
the Misses Rowe, over
Sunday. Miss Wolfe is employed by
Armour & Co., the big packing concern,
in their branch offices in Altoona.
The “Helping Hand” class of the
Lutheran Sunday school will hold a
festival in the Grange Hall on the even:
ing of Memorial Day for the benefit of
church work, and wiii serve chicken
and corn soup, salad, sandwiches, pick-
les, ice-cream, cake and coffee. Will
also have fishing pond, adv, 2t.
Mrs. R. R. Jones, and daughter, Miss
Gladys, expect to leave Centre Hall to-
morrow (Friday) for Altoona. where
*they will remain for a short time with
the former's son, Rev. Victor R. Jones,
before departing for their new home in
Lutzville. Rev, Jones will follow a
week or ten days later,
Miss Carrie Bartges, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Bartges, of near, Far
mers Mills, toderwent an operation for
appendicitis at the Bellefonte hospital
last Thursday, Mrs. William Breon, of
the sante place. on the same day submitt-
ed to an operation for the removal of a
tumor. Both ladies are reported to be
recovering nicely.
It is only a month more until Centre
Hall will have its Chautauqua. Start
now to be a Chautauqua booster, Talk
Chautauqua to your neighbor, Do you
know that it is a credit to any town to
have it said of it that it supports a
Chautauqua ? Look over the list of
towns where Chautauquas are held and
you will find them all to be wide-awake,
progressive towns, eager to gain new
ideas add new inspiration. The Chau-
tauqua does this. It might be called a
summer school, where old and young
“alike are fitted for better citizenship.
Begin now to boost Centre Hall and
community's Chautauqua,
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs, Harriet Best, of Nittany, i is visit-
ing at the home of her. brother, A, P.
Krape.
There was evidence of a light frost on
Tuesday morning. Mercury dropped to
34 degrees,
Bradford & Co,,
station, have just
brick, car of sand and car of salt,
prices,
Mrs. A. P. Krape, of Centre Hall, and
Mrs, Harvey, of State College, left for
Elmira, N. Y., on Wednesday, to visit a
sick sister—Mrs, Stanley Bartlett—of
Mrs, Harvey.
at the Centre Hall
unloaded a car of
Get
In an interesting twilight baseball
game on Tuesday evening, Centre Hall
defeated Potters Mills by the score lof 8
to 4. Harry Gross and Floyd Jordan
were the opposing pitchers,
John 8, Rishel, sixteen-year-old son of
Mr, and Mrs. Wm. F, Rishel, of Farmers
Mills, on Friday, was operated upon in
the Williamsport Private Hospital for
the removal of his tonsils as well as for
nasal trouble,
Messrs, Harrison Faust and Blair Pal-
mer, both of Potters Mills, were among
the Reporter's business callers Tuesday.
The gentlemen are carpenters and at
present are erecting an addition to the
residence of Edward Jamison, the in-
surance man, at Spring Mills.
A special meeting of the local Board
of Health was called on Tuesday after-
noon at the instance of Dr. J. L. Seibert,
of Bellefonte, county health officer, in
the matter of a hog pen on the J. W.
Runkle premises, which stands on the
street line and has been declared a men-
Mr. Runkle will be
asked to remove the pen.
ace to good health,
The aurorg borealis display, visible in
the skies on Saturday night and Sunday
morning, was one of the most brilliant
ever seen in this latitude, It attracted
the attention of very many of our people
the display,
ppearance of
and those who did not see
The aj
the Northern Lights was dt
missed a rare sight,
1e to agitated
spots ou the
nent astronomers,
: 1: y
sun, according to promis
Robertson
was obliged to enter a hospitalin Hart-
and on Tuesday
For the third time George
ford, Connecticut, of
week, according to a let
Robertson to her father. B
bin, Centre Hall,
performed - which
quantity of pu
last
Mrs.
ter from
D. Bris
of an operation was
removed a
ss from his lun
time of wiiting,
operation, Mr.
and it is thought the
large
At the
gs. h
a few days after the
Robertson was
resting
better, operation
was quite successful,
ioning the
the minds
ment
of a number of persons
Centre Hall for the
its editor
in and about
reason that one of
interested in
plans.
bit of a hint, the statement is
hing like
sand persons through.
§ is very directly
"
the consummation of the Just to
made somet
three thou
out the Upgited States
similar manner. Not another wor
til President Harding speaks.
twenty
twenty
interested in a
Sr ——— A —— oo ——— no ———
Ford Milk Truck Burns Up. p.
Russel Con-
ute for the
Spring Mill was coming up
the steep hill near the Union cemetery
at Farmers Mills, when the Ford truck
which he was driving suddenly burst
into flames, and having no means with
which to fight the fire, had but to watch
the entire destruction of the truck. So
complete was the damage that it pre-
sented the appearance of a pile of junk
after the flames had gone out. The
engine was much damaged, but parts of
it might be salvaged. The only ex.
planation Mr. Confer can give for the
fire is that there must have been a leak
in the gas line and the exhaust ignited
the gas,
A number of poles for an electric
light line were lying close to the truck
when it took fire, and Hey were badly
ly burned. i
The fortunate part of the destruction
was that Mr. Confer was driving an
empty truck, He had forgotten to visit
the Wilbur Lucas home that morning
to get the milk and was making a spe-
ial trip, so that he was carrying no milk
cans whatever,
About noon on Tuesday,
fer, who drives a milk ro
Is condensary,
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Last Auction Sale.
The last auction sale for the spring
season will be held at Meiss’ store, Coly-
er, on Saturday evening. Everybody
ig invited,
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Duties of Queen Ant
When the queen ant lays her eggs
the workers gather about and pick up
each egg as It is lald and earry it
away to the undérground nurseries,
where it Is watched and eared for by
other workers. Sometimes the queen
will escape her attendants. Away she
hurries, evidently bent on playing a
bit, but the moment her disappear
ance is noted the workers scurry out
in every direction to find her, and
once she Is located she is dragged back
to the home by force and gets many
a sharp nip on the way as punishment,
The queen is three or four times as
large as the worker ant. Her first
brood finds her busy cleaning up her
house, digging a new room for a nurs
ery, washing aad cleaning her bables
with her tongue, and feeding them
from her store. After the first brood,
however, this work 1s done by the
working ants, and the queen has noth.
Ing to do but attend to the functions
of motherhood,
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Treasure Deptatted in the Temples
Was Impressed With Badge or
Symbol of Djvinity.
"5 far as i8 known, the Lydians,
. 5 Herodotus, first intFoduced gold
and silver coin, The Invention was
not far to seek, Treasure came to be
deposited for safety in the temples,
where It was consecrated to the care
of the divinity by being impressed with
a badge or symbol. The sacred sym-
bol being accepted as guarantee of
value, the pleces of metal so Impgessed
found easy circulation, The enrliest
Lydian coins extant, deriving, probably
from the reign of Gyges (about 700 B.
C.), are bean-shaped lumps of native
Lydian gold, blenched with silyer.
jach coin bears on its obverse the
figure of a lion and on its reverse the
Impress of the nall-head serving to
keep the metal in place, while being
struck. From Lydia the one-sided coin
spread throughout the coasts and §s-
lands of the Aegean sea, each city is-
suing coins bearing the symbol of its
divinity. In Greece the earliest coins
of ‘silver, with the fizure of the tor-
tolse op the obverse, are sald to have
been struck by Pheldon of Argos. To
Solon, about 500 B. C,, Is ascribed the
introduction into Athens of the tetra-
drachm, its obverse the head of
Athene, on its reverse sn owl, Sparta
enjoyed all te itself the luxury of a
purely fron coinage. The Greek coins
from 480 to 8300 B. C. marked an great
advancement the of art, and
Anthenin wins the chief medi
um of this period.
Other thelr own
coin continued to Im-
of civilization.
on
in way
n money
exchange during
nations later ads
which hins
prove with the adv
ipted
age
ance
HAVE BEER ALWAYS ON “TAP™
Beverage Free to All Members of Af.
rican Tribe, but Littie Drunk.
ennecs Reported.
ta
Moru tribes of
Africa, eX.
Liresw eg 3
ii or
there
1 of municipal
hit among
A special hou
nd all the women
part of their
from millet
have tasted It
to be a first-rate drink
wr and heady results,
i
of the
in making
White men
time
goed,
de.
of
The
and
tribe spend
beer
who
Kept In enormous jars,
is attached a number
The
to each jar
i CHIN,
fom the tribe mem
i omen will stay
und not go ran
n from nearby tribes,
are taken wi
inkd on the ground while
i and knock
or incisors,
ything but
was, The
of a
ing
on fen or twelve
oid and
ang
i to pry
. t x
0H 10%
in Oonsista
¥ 3 i
ana
dirty
the
the waist,
is so
agninst
The Human Species.
on COT ling to the
best theor 1 rm of it, is com-
posed of two distinet the men
who borrow and lend.
To original diversities may be
re all those impertinent tlassifi-
entions of Gothic and Celitie tribes,
vhite men, men, red men. All
upon the earth, Par.
Medes and Elandtes, flock hith-
da fall in naturally with one
other distinction. The infinite
former, which 1
as the great race,
figure, port and a
sovergignty., The
He shall
is some
this cast,
Faces,
the men who
these
inced
black
thie dwellers
thians,
er nnd
superiority sof the
choose to designate
is discernible In
certain instinctive
Iatter are
serve hie brethren There
in the air of one of
lean and suspicious; contrasting with
the opén, generous manners of the
other. Charles Lamb,
born degraded.
thing
Credit Belongs to Franklin,
Everybody knows that the versatile
Franklin was the originator of many
things. But fw realize that he was
the first American cartoonist. “Join
or DMe” the familiar sketch of the
chopped-up serpent, with each piece
representing one of the Colonles, was
entirely the work of Franklin, Even
the cutting of the type-metal was
done by his own hands. This firs!
newspaper cartoon appeared in the
Pennsylvania Gazette, May 0, 1754,
and was a device for urging united
action upon the Colonies at the time
of the French and Indian wars. It
may be noted also that he engraved a
map of the siege of Loulsburg and
published jt In the Gazette. This is
sald to have been the earliest attempt
at Mustrating news.—Asa Don Dickin-
son in New York Times,
Weight _of Air,
Until very recently nobody knew
how much alr weighed.
We cannot sce the ale, and, except
when the wind blows, we do not feel
it. Hence it seems to us to have al-
most no substance.
Yet It is a rather substantial fluid,
hen it moves at a rate of one hun-
dred miles an hour it uproots great
forest trees and throws the waters
of the ocean into turmoil. If our
bodies were empty of alr the pressure
of the* atmosphere surrounding us
would crush us to an immediate pulp
A room den feet long, ted feet wide
snd ten feet high contains ¥8 pounds
air,
wo
lk District of Shoreditch Had the First
Building Erected for Purely
Dramatic Purposes,
Yeo
There was a thine, shortly after the
first theater was opened in London,
when the opposition to the new form
of entertainment was so great that
an ordinance was passed by parlia-
ment for the compulsory closing of
these “palaces of amusement,” and
making It a crime to be present as a
spectator at a play,
This was In 1642, when only two
theaters existed in London. The first
bullding specially erected for dramat-
le purposes was bullt by an actor,
James Durbage, at Shoreditch, In 1576,
and called the Theater, A year ar so
later a second theater known as the
- Clurten opened, also at Shore-
ditch, and these two playhouses ca-
fered to London audiences until the
suppression of the theaters.
When plays were once more per-
mitted several new theaters opened,
including the Globe, mt Bouthwark,
which was built by James Burbage,
the Rose and the Blackfriars and
Whitefriars theaters,
Probably the most luxurious of these
early theaters was the Fortune, built
Ly Edward Alleyn, an actor, in 1500,
und so christened because it cost its
owner the then fabulous sum, includ
ing the ground it stood on, of £1,820.
The only fllumination during the per-
formance was that afforded by candle.
light, gas unknown until 1817,
when the performance by gas.
light was given at Drury Lane.
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DOCTOR SERVED COSTLY DISH
Unexpected Guests Caused Sacrifice of
Blooded Pigeons to Set Forth
Required Meal.
avocation of a widely
own surgeon is his model farm near
go. It pays no profit except great
ure, He is hos always ask-
One Bunday
ted guests ar
aghast. “My
haven't a
was
being
first
The favorite
pitable,
UneXped
was
sald,
them."
ything will do.”
“we
sald the doe
of the house consulted
out that crate of pigeons
arn?’ asked the cook.
ny are there? ‘asked the
was the
necks
eighteen.” answer,
i and fix
and the large
brought to the
exclaimed the doo.
Fred, jnst
gnid his wife,
are these?" he expostu-
go ahead and
ong we found in the
“reat + excinimed, “those
plece "Journal of
al Association.
pigeons cost S00
t
i! Hi 5 - i
ae American Med
Ben Franklin Took Poker into Paris.
In Paris poker was first Introduced
Benjamin Frankitn, first United
Sites ambassador, who taught mem-
urt that poker had dom-
To this day a group
af white-haired Frenchmen, descend
ants of the club Franklin founded,
night at six o'clock on the
first floor of the Tavern Royale and
play poker, with many ejaculations
and the most absorbed seriousness une
til it is time for dinner. They num
ber among them two milliogaires, the
head-of a famous dressmaking firm, 8
senator and a famous Socialist author,
and they play with sous as chips and
a limit of 50 centimes—about 7 cents
at present rate of exchange—on the
game,
One of Franklin's peculiarities was
a contention that a flush beat a fall
house, and even now the majority of
Frenchmen play that way.
by
bers of the «
inoes beat a mile
meet evers
Wood That Does Not Rot
The wood of the mangrove tree,
which is found in French Guiana, Is
considered by the French as a wood
that will not rot, All exposure and
efforts to break down its fiber in four
years' experiments by the Freuch rail
way service have been useless,
The grain of the wood is so close
aus practically to exclude all moisture.
Its density is placed at 110, as against
40 for fir and 70 for oak. In addition
to this closeness of fiber the man
grove has a large amount of tanning
in its composition. This protects it
from insects and such blights as mold
and damp. While not as brittle as
onk, it has twice the resistance to
flexion and has about the same po-
tency against crushing and twisting.
No Exchange,
“There's one thing about selling
postage ‘stamps,” sald the tired
druggist.
“What is It?" asked the customer.
“There's no profit in the deal, of
course, but It's one thing I sell that
my customers don't bring back and
want to exchange for something else.”
Detroit Free Presa
¥ Embarrassment,
“Of course,” remarked Senator Sor
ghum, “I was proud to have a vote so
overwhelmingly in my favor. And yet
it has its disadvantages.”
- what way?"
i am Souppetied to feel a genus ul of
obligation town sruigbody Who
votes for me; and a landslide” makes
the number so great that I can scarce
ly keep up with the responsibilities.”
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H AVE YOUR
Watches and Clocks
Repaired
By WALTER 8S, WOLFE
at C I. Stover's Hardware Slore,
Spring Mills, Pa.
AN Work Guaranteed,
WANTED White 2ily « over sixteen |
at Mont Alto, Hamburg
kitchen, dining room, cleaning.
to Katherine Mullin, State Dept. of
Heats, Harrisburg, | Pa. gt |
FOR SALE. A Chevrolet car offered
for sale, Inquire of W, E,
Centre s Hal, R 1. Bell phone
~ THE VERY BEST
- Implements
Only are good enough
for the Farmer.
Sanatoria, {or
Apply
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You will find this kind in a carload
which we have just unloaded, The most
improved, most substantially constructed
load of implements that we have ever re-
ceived, The line includes :
®
Hay Loaders, Side Rakes
Dump Rakes
Manure Spreaders.
Drills, Mowers
Hay Tedders
Spike Harrows, Lever Harrows
Perry Harrows and
Tractor Disc Harrows.
Come and look this line over before you
place your order.
Also a Car of Wire
All Styles —Cattle, |
The right kind at the right price.
Bradford &
CENTRE HALL
log and Poultry Wire,
0.
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WE ARE RFADY to show you
the most up-to-date line of Spring
wearing apparel for men and wo-
men, This line was bought of the
largest manufacturers in New York
City, and everything is up to the
very latest in style and workman-
ship, and remember that everything
will be sold at
Pre-War Prices. You
don’t need to pay high
prices at Nieman's Store:
We extend an invitation to every-
body to vi.it our store and see the
great values we are offering.
I
. J. Nieman,
Millheim
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