THE CENTRE REPORTER
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921
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THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
ee — Cathie
Paragraphs of News Taken from the
Files of the Reporter of 1887.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1887.
Mrs. William Lohr is not recovering
much from her illness.
Miss Mary Burkholder, youngest
daughter of Felix Burkholder, deceased,
died of typhoid fever, and was buried at
Centre Hill on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Daniel Runkle, of Georges Val-
ley, died on Monday, of apoplexy. She
ate her supper apparently well, and soon
after complained of being ill, and died
in a short time,
Thomas Mingle, son of H. A. Mingle,
of Aaronsburg, has'come in from Iowa
on a visit to the parental home.
Dr. C. S. Musser, of Aaronsburg, has
returned from Washington, where he
had been attending medical congress.
[Following are a few paragraphs tak-
en from an article on a coming Granger
Picnic, on top of Nittany mountain,
above Centre Hall] :
Men who have ground privileges are
there putting up their shanties and
booths for vending anything from a pea-
nut to huge watermelons, There is a
merry-go-round, or flying horse.
D. C. Keller's boarding tent is 48x52,
supplied with several long tables to feed
the hungry. He pays the handsome
sum of $85 for the privilege.
Boozer & Brrisbin gave $200 for the
entire hawking right, aud get $15 for
each stand selling lemonade, peanuts,
or refreshments of any kind.
There are some 50 canvas tents, ob-
tained from the state, N. G. P. 3 These
are planted in four rows, making three
avenues, in the rear of the main stand,
and occupied by families and exhibitors.
A canvas tent, with bunk of straw, for
the two days, costs $3.
The telephone brings the camp in in-
stant communication with the outside
world.
The Spring Mills band arrived Tues-
day evening.
A dancing floor, independent of the
grange ground, has been erected by the
Horner family at the edge of the woods,
a short distance from the main picnic
ground.
Families camping on the mountain
are those of [.. Rhone, master of state
grange, L. Neff, W. P. Shoop, Samuel
Durst, Oscar Stover, J. Conley, John J.
Arney, George Dale, Wm. A. Boal, Jas
A. Keller, and others.
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£5 DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. —
Estate of J. D. LONG, late of Gregg Town.
ship, Centre County, Pa., deceased,
Letters of administration on the above estate
having been duly granted to the undersigned
he would respectfully request all persons know
ing themssives indebled to the estate to make
lmmediate payment, afd thos having claims
agai me to present them duly suthentl
cated without delay for settlement, y
CHARLES P. LONG, Administrator.
Spring Mills, Pa , Sept. 14, 1921 od2
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Special attention given lecting, Lega
writings of all Classes, es BB 0 ;
rp au. marriage iloenses and hun tet's
sll
ha matters peruining to the
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CENTRE HALL, R.D, 1, 364
Rumors of a hard winter go before a
fall,
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LOTUS HAS PLACE IN LEGEND
According to Mythology the Name Was
Given to Flower by the God-
dess Hebe.
The mysterious Egyptian lotus has
been more identified with the world's
history than any other flower.
The phrase “lotus eaters” is a com-
mon one in literature, and is used to
describe those who live In a dream
world, The food made from the dried
seeds of the Egyptian variety seems
to have had an effect similar to vari
ous opium products, and once in the
clutch of the drug the lotus eaters
forgot both past and family, and went
about, oblivious of demands made by
soclety, kin or even their own physical
wants,
The lotus is closely identified with
the ancient Egyptian religion, and was
dedicated to Osiris, no Egyptian think.
ing of approaching a temple without
three of the blossoms in his hand.
The name was given it, according
to mythology, when a beautiful nymph
of the same name, heartbroken over
the coldness of Hercules, went to Hebe
for sympathy, and by her was trans
formed into a flower,
The sturdy hero taking ship shortly
afterward with Hylas, a youth he
loved as his own son, came to an is-
land where the latter landed and
searched for a spring. He found one
in the center of a pool, the pool being
covered with beautiful blossoms, As
Hylas stared at them, Lotus, In her
nymph form, emerged from the blos-
som and drew him to her arms, and
then to the depths of the pool, where
he drowned.
NEVER GAVE UP A PROSPECT
Salesman Would Wait but He Had No
Idea of Losing Sight of a
Possibility.
Some years ago I went Into a store
to inquire the price of something, an
expensive thing this was, that I wanted
to buy some day when I had the price,
says a writer In the New York Herald
They were just as nice to me as they
would been If 1 come in
and plank down the eash
have had
ready to buy
Then for the time being I forgot all
about it, but didn’t About =n
year after my visit to the store the
I had seen came In
He wns a very agreeable
gentleman and in no way insistent;
he had just looked in on the chance
they
there
that now I was ready to buy; but my
bank accoant hadn't looked up to any
great extent and I was not ready, as
I told him: but I added when
I was ready I would come in, and
I would come to him.
That, 1 ended it as far as
hearing from them was concerned ; hut
not so. A year later I had another
call from the friend, if
he will now permit im
a pleasant call
and a talk, but with
the before; and now,
a year to a day after that second call,
he has been In again, We
had our usual pleasant little talk, and
then I asked him:
“Don’t you ever give up a prospect?”
To which he answered, smilingly :
“We never give up
he dies.”
that
thought
esSman, my
me so to call
on the same errand:
pleasant little
same resuit as
{Ox 80 Me
a prospect till
Imprisoned in Coffins.
The most terrible prison in the world
is in Urga, Mongolia. It consists of &
triple stockade enclosing a number of
underground dungeons which are pitch
dark and almost devoid of ventilation
But this is not all, The wretched pris
oners condemned to inhabit them are
shut up separately in heavy, Iron
clamped chests, in shape resembling
coffins. There is a small hole in the
side of each, just big enough for the
poor wretch inside to thrust out his
head or his manacled hands. They
see daylight for but a few minutes
daily, when their food is thrust into
their box-prisons through the hole,
They can not lie down flat, they can
not sit, for they are not only man.
acled but chained to the coffins, The
majority are in for life sentences, and
no prizoner is ever allowed out of his
box under any circumstances, except
when he Is to be executed or, as hap
pens very rarely—to be set free,
Antiquity of Peat.
The use of peat as a source of heat
goes back beyond the historieal period
in the ancient history of the early
tribes in northern Germany, Pliny, the
Roman naturalist, gives us possibly
the first indication of the use of peat.
He reports that the Teutons on the
horder of the north ses dried and
burned mud, what we now would call
peat. In Ireland, Great Britain, Rus
and parts of France peat has been
used as a fuel since time immemorial,
The peat was cut from the bog very
much in the same manner as it Is
still being done In many parts of Bu
rope, where It is cut in brick shapes,
allowed to dry In the wind and sun.
She Knew a Windfall
Mrs. Youngbride thought the apples
the farmer had brought her were
rather dirty, but he explained that
this was because they had fallen off
the tree onto the ground--in short,
they were windfalls—s0 she bought
them. n
A week later she called the farmer's
wite up on the telephone. “I ordered
the best cucumbers for plekling,” she
sald sharply, “and you sent me wind-
8.
“Sent what?’ gasped the farmer's
wife,
“Windfall cucumbers! I ean tell;
you needn't think I can't. There's
dirt on them.”
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