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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
To-morrow
(Friday)
refgn
the ggundhoy
finishes his
Max llerr
to
returned from a business
trip Columbia county.
Wm. D
pure-bred
large sale some
a offers for
hogs in this issue.
Messrs A. B
son,
kee
Spring Mills,
and Edward Jami-
of were visitors in
town on Tueskday
Bethard M
Altoona
Keller is located in
he
michinist
now
holds a good posi-
tion as with the Pennasy,
There will be
the local
ng preaching services
in
Sunday
Presbyterian church on
to
owing filness of the pastor
Mr. and
bury,
Mrs. C. A
visited Mr
Hill,
Bover, of
and Mrs
Monda
Sun-
l.ee,
Tues
facob
Centro on and
day.
hY
now
and Mrs H. W.
occupying
Kre are
flat
amer
the Bartholomew
having moved into it the latter part
last week
Just
x hh
foro
Clenahan,
unloaded a ad of
Get
Wii
carlo: cement
igh quality brand
prices be-
Me-
elsewhere
Hall,
buying iam
Centre
Mr. and Mrs. W
ng this week
near Farmers Mills
where they will continue
Miss Grace Smith
rt on Tuesday to
Mrs, Sarah Hazel
daughts
Hazelte's
Miss Smith am
Mise
on Mon
daughtor
College
Ze; Was
business
stm eter
Ww
the Re
Tay po
Harry
cilled
cousin, Dinges
porter
way
‘indle
Phil
inniversary
del pli
of
that «ity.
the opertitg of
those
evens
his
who
in this
Iam 8S
office In
edd
section wore
Brooks. Dr
of Pleasant Gap
well
Among
Feely invitations to (he
Mr. and My
Bell js nn native
and when a jounsg
Hall
oxtends
vouth,
man
The editor «
felicitati
wasn Known
ff the
toy
in Centre
Report:
YN 4
hig friend of
Saturday, St Patrick
George M., Boal will «
elgidy
Captah
ite hiw
the
day,
odedyy
wrth’ anniversary tt homo
Mra C. J. Meyer,
presuming there is 16
\
The
of his daughter,
leeddsy illic,
'rovidential ioterference Cap
tain is quite a
of age. His
epeech Is
young man, regardless
his
movement is
~and he
reckon years
manners are
Young,
young, his
thinks poung
dosn't
he
he
young, all
CAalure
It I» a phedasure to say to the read
ers of the Reporter that J. Paul Rea
jek, of Martinsburg, Blir county,
formerly of the fl'm of Rearick Broth-
ere who conducted the undertaking
business in Centre Hall some yours
ago, is doing © prosperons businesa at
hs present Jocation. In addition t
conducting the furniture and undef -
taking business, he is vice president
and a director in the Martinsburg Fist
« National bank. The institution does a
good business and its official state-
ment shows a bendsome sarplun,
M
Al
ire
the
the
fall,
eR,
for
Fie
er,
is th
adve
the
neEn
Cop
now
to the office
seeds,
Reporter
15-Uncle Sam pays a
day on Liberty bonds,
Penn State stn
his
fred Chawford, a
gent Sunday at home In Cen-
received a supply of Tuankage
for
McClenahan,
and hogs.
Hall.
very best poultry
Centre
borough road up the foot of
mountain, so nice and smooth last
is a real pippin now
Ba
Centre
tges, son of IW
Hall,
weeks or
Bart
of who had been iH
more, ig about again
to Mr. and Mrs. Orvis
on Feb, 26th, a
child in the
orn
SON It
1s fourth familly.
Dewart Products Company
rtising for a man to take care ol
skimming station at Centre Hall
Belle Wh
restaurant,
of the
White-
was
teman,
for several days
bed with = gripe
able to be about
agam
Smith, of
= himself
Columbia
home «
bigrna
her dothing
#
kitchen stove
vir
atter
or,
Spr
of h
discs
to
ore,
been
tion
the
out
put
al are painfully
Reporte
that T. J
will hereafter his entire
ition to the sale of attomobiles,
Broth.
”
Pellefont«
one of the firm of Decker
doing business it
Mila
his
and State Mi
Codlege
giving ot
but
been wnsiderable
fa time to lumbering. will
Hin
sold
iroth-
he
tinue thin line of work,
MMs was recently
The
handle the
meeting
Decker
who Chevrolet, have
with marked success
I
ane
of the severul of §
we
COs
Cement
Buy
and you
which
the
share in
Lehigh,
il cement, will
profits,
BRADFORD AND CO,
Centre Hall, Pa
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTR.
af Administention on the seats of
Inte of PF tter Township,
of Administration on the shove Snnte
ull
iy anual] Persons nowine
*
FRANK A. CA RON, ANminisrtar,
AE RH PR:
SEEING POWER OF INSECTS
Interesting Data Collected in Connec.
tion With Studies in Comparison
With the Human Eye.
Very curious data have ‘been collect-
ed in regard to the seeing powers of
insects, The human in perfect
condition is sable to objects sepa-
rately that are only one minute of arc
apart, Put two objects, as, for in.
stance, two black circles, on a white
ground just one Inch apart and then
place them at a distance of about
28614 feet, As seen with the naked
eye the apparent: space between the
circles will be a minute of are. This
space i8 plainly the limit of detall vis-
ible to the unassisted human eye,
Now it might be supposed that an
insect, having a compound eye, would
be able to see more detail than we do;
in other words, could separate small
objects closer together. As a matter
of fact, owing to the small aperture of
the lenses composing the facets of the
eve, and the spacing between the
facets, insects see less detall than
we do.
It has been énlculated that a dragon.
fiy cannot see separately two objects
eve
Bee
apart. In other words, to such sn in-
sect two silver coins lying on a
three inches apart, and viewed from a
| distance exceeding 14% feet, would
appear as a single object.”
Bees and flies,
same investigator, are still more
ited in their ablilty to see the
of objects presented to their eyes. A
according
ilm-
dis
feet,
CON RE.
at «4
seven
described
tance not about
It how remarked as a
quence of this that we can see the de-
tails on the antennae of a fly at
separately
exceeding
only
been
a dis
of two feet or more better than
itself can, though they are but
fraction of from its
-- Washington Star,
tance
the fly
the inch
an eYUS.
Power of Turning Everything He
Touched Into Gdld Quickly Palled
on King Midas.
Midas b
mnion of Bacchus
elped
It was because King
a drunken com)
up that he
of turning everything into gold at his
touch. Bacchus had.offered to
Midas any
king wisi
upon himself, ned
Midas enjoyed
at first, turning twigs, apples,
and clods of earth But the
trouble began as soon a8 he sat down
to eat. The he
to gold and defied his tecth
flowed down his throat
soher received the power
grant
asked, ana He
ant pow er
to Ovid.
thing be
ped fii unpiea
ording
himself immensely
g axl
into gold,
bread touched turned
The wine
as liquid
gold,
According to an
sion of the myth
fortune wrought
etibell
the or
guise wa when, in the act
daughter,
blessing's
AresSsSing tis
Lhe
turned into a gold
statue,
Bacchus
AWaAre that
but desirable.
had
anything
been
So,
he sent ing t
fount
Pactolus, As a
the sands of that
to aay.
ginned
ress
River ult
river
bath,
this
Peculiar Deep-Sea Filth.
The Aristeus, a deepsea prawn, has
a method of lighting that gives the ap-
itude of smoke rings,
the nearness
ieCLs re spiratory
tiny squirts and into this stream
is forced from countless
into the stream by fine
nicals combine, pully
particles float
screen”
mu
of an
wa
When excited by
prawi ©
ter in
juciferin
glands opening
As
of
ducts, the che:
luminescent
This
rlouds
is the “smoke
The species of luminous fish, called
dimmer
inside chamber and burns
continuously. When the
shut off the light, causes a
pigmented curtain to slide down over
eyelid,
KY
tem In an
he black
The light
conse oven when removed and fs used
by fishermen of the islands of Banda,
an preserves iis lumines
as bait for night fishing.
C—O ——— i STA,
The Singer and the Song.
A song is a great adventure,
sands write it, tens sueccead;
when they have succeeded, its
with the singer,
one ever had it so much in his power
to make the worse appear the better
cause, or to refrain from so doing.
The ancients placed Thamyris and
Narada among the gods; the moderns
Bat
the singer's personality is still Incal-
enlable in terms of canonization or of
Thou
cash. That personality means all that
| and he may still enlarge It
| that he does miot sing, and to listen to
all the musle written for some other
instrument than the volce.~A, H, Fox
Strangways,
it Sometimes Happens.
When a wan won't make love to a
pretty girl he is either sick, sleepy or
sore,
tors:
disappear the moment
presents the check,
Some men take years to learn that
all you can get from a woman Is just
exactly what she wants to glve—and
the walter
New York Sun,
Wg
a
a
COWBOY’ S WEAPON THE RIFLE
Had. the Popularity of the
“Gun,” Which Was Name Univer.
sally Given the Pistol,
the
Vestern
In
cowhoy
Ashton
rifle, when
of the
+, Philip
The
describing
of the
tolling in his book says:
carried, was conveyed, not
by the himself, but by his
horse, which bore it in a quiver-shaped,
open-mouthed scabbard, into which the
rifle went up to its stock. This scab-
bard sometimes hung from the saddle
horn, but commonly was slung
butt forward, in an approximately horl-
zontal position along the near side of
the animal, and passed between the
two leaves of the stirrup-leather, The
rifle thus eschewed, because, be-
ing heavy, it interfered with ready
gaddling and unsaddling; and, being
bulky, it materially detracted from the
rider's comfort, :
After the early
less of its make,
“Winchester,” though
weapons
range
cowboy
more
was
"0s the rifle, regard-
was usually called a
this particular
name of a well-known condiment, was
paraphrased into “Wor-
* Failing thgse titles, the
weapon wank styled merely “rifle.” It,
except in the case of the rifles special-
ly designed for bison shooting and
called “buffalo guns” never was
termed “gun.” that save for the
single exception noted, being conse
crated to the pistol
“Seatter-guns,” otherwise
were occasionally produced by tender-
but ith “sawed-
off” barrels, ils or buck-
shot, and in the
sengers, served for the
word,
shotguns,
they, unless w
loaded with na
hands of express mes-
westerner only
as objects of derision.
OLD IDEA ‘IN UNIVERSITIES
tudent Bodies, Fraternally Linked,
Had Their Beginnings in the
Fifteenth Century.
ersity fife today
practices
Unis smibodies nn
ancient
form, Coll
back to the when
universifies mber and
were attra { them from
any
modified
really
erlit ln
Ignty
ante
students
urally g=
to national
known
organization
As
German unis
can
tion
iese
ing
Southwesterners,
others representing
f the 1
Poor st
tury drifts
ial offi
were
3
3
who
even
ens,
a university,
tiation ord
of the presse:
Homilies.
different ways
friends leave
usa ne ir relatives [ati Lo.
Eternity ig almost © yond
comprehensd « fmagine, if you
} would
to gave igh cigar coupons
human
can,
f period so allow
& man
to get a plang
Propinqguity
marriages,
even more
It has thousands of
years to acl his present technic;
yet the lai« {rom the earth
can always thing or two.
People sel yaxims over and
look at them from the It is easy
to believe that great oaks from littie
acorns grow, quite as easy
to belleve that Ii from great
oaks grow.—Ed Blanchard, in
the New York Su
Mr. Jones.
Consider the cage of Mr. Jones, He
bought a watch for 50 bones. Does
Mr. Jones rant, curse and swear,
does Mr. Jones his toupee tear; when.
ever in the day or night he finds that
wateh not running right? No, Mr.
Jones, a thoughtful man, Kkoows
watch never will or can, so long Aas
heat and cold prevail, hit time ex-
actly on the nail. Now this {dentieal
Mr. Jones will buy—well, not for 00
bones, but for the price of a cheap
cigar—-the right to ride on a trolley
car, a car that has to run its race
within no sealed and dustproof case.
but on a crowded city street where
all the tides of traffic meet, and yet
Mr. Jones starts a hot debate when:
o'er that car's a minute late~From
Electric Traction.
storeycle.,
for
responsible
unt many
for
fot in 1
TR
aus
"OTs
———————
Length of Birds’ Life,
The chief of the biological bureau in
the United States Is able to give the
ages to which some birds have lived.
The following are his figures: Thrush,
15 to 25 years; swallow, 9; canary, 20;
cardinal, 21; raven, 68; ‘magpie, 21;
large owls, 68; golden eagle, 46; white
pelican, 41; cormerant, 28; large blue
heron, 60; swan, 102; mallard, 20;
other ducks, 11 to 28; oyster-catcher,
80; herring gull, 44, and wandering
a
MCHTANA WO iLD IN ITSELF
State Needs No Outside Aid to
port in Comfort Pecple
Within its Borders,
Soins
Sup.
If Montana
r from the
herself, |
Argus,
lack none of the
laxuri
food, she
walled In
few of the
or
rise
1Hi's
and
teniperate
& (oem
For
200.600
acres of
of
fuel
ail
her
denosl is
» 2.740.000 horsepo
TWAIN HATE D FAL
Great Humoriet Asserted It
Made Him Feei Both Ashamed
and Hum ted,
lia
been inf
feast,
At all
that there
quite a little scene, cal
and. before
him nn s&s!
Nelson i
he mn
serv-
when
bread
Taxed
the whol
events
was no
his
corny
aut any,
gave filing and ordered him
o
2
alo “It is hard
country’s battles 1
tier bread.”
to buy a oll. sayin
after fighting m$
should be grudge
————————— 50 ssa
Why Eddies Whirl Counter-Clockwige.
writes to Scientific
true that all
\ A correspondent
American asking If It is
whirlwinds, tornagoes, cyclones, 1y-
phoons (movements of air). mael
stroms, water leaving a wi ashbhowl, or
hathtub (movements of water), unless
ertificially interfered with, revolve
contra<clockwize, If so, what causes
this revolving aiways in that direction?
The answer ia: “The rotary mo-
tions which you describe are cansed
by the earth's rotation on its axis,
They are counterclockwise In the
porthern, and clockwise in the south
ern hemisphere.”
————————— a ——————————"
A Sage's Limitations.
“Did you ever study the Darwinian
theory?
“No* replied Senator Sorghum; “1
can't see how it would help me in my
business, He alfers (ho suggestions
that would assist me in flattering the
geif-oxtoeni of wy auditors, Darwin
was a smart man, but no politician.”
Wa a
WANTED :
By GROCE & BLOOM SILK
MILL at SPRING MILLS,
FIVE (5) GIRLS
16 Years of age or to
learn winding of silk they
‘an gperate our ne
when installed.
over,
: BD
machine
work Is
pleasant. We
dally
Centre
Our not
will
which
difficult, but
rig
will
Hall to
again,
an auto
mobile bring the
from
and
help
Mills,
charge.
If
ing
Spring
hack free ul
girl Is
the
with
any interested in
SHk Mil,
the
calling
WOrx-
in please get in
touch firm mnt
Gree by
either or writing, as we
are ready to start additional help
at once,
‘ROCCE &
1 {2 Round
Trip
BLOOM,
Ove:
EASTER
16-Day Excursion
CENTRE HALL
i
TO
Atlant] Ic
dwood, Ocean City Cape
ys Isle City Angleses, Ava
tone Ha
Peermont.
MARCH 30
FRIDAY,
b
Ons, $3 2.
er t
Additional Excursi
26 ;: Aug £9, 23;
»epiemi
wor
Pennsylvania wry
System Ki
a
ASHINGTON
OVER EAST
16-Day Excursion
FRIDAY,
MARCH ! 30
Anni Lmidionalipobs wisn ods. winadin.d
nd £
nde Adin pi
Insurance
Real Estate
Want to Buy o- Sell ?
4
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CENTRE MALL, Pr,
PAA As GP PPG POT TITY I
COMPLETE LIN: OF
CHAMPION
FARM MACHINERY
and REPAIR:
Be sure you see the Coampion Line and
get prices before buying sry [am ime
plements vou may need,
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