THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE Hal PA. be om — EEE ——— a fie i FIRST NATIONAL m= —-— = wv The Saving Habit to avola stnte | atsontown striking a ®hite highway, D. G, telephone pole Swerv'ng CH on oa iigh- Miller erashed into Aa smash g 5 $5000 auto. B—A—N—K CENTRE HALL Where helpful service takes the place of just ordinary attention 3 Per Cent Compound Interest | on Savings Deposits GENERAL and... COAL Buy of us and deposit the Savings to the credit of your Bank Account SPRING MILLS, PA. When You Need A REAL MACHINE JOB Done or some EXPERT WELDING, bring it to me and I will do it RIGHT! I Am Also Prenared to Do Acetylene Welding at Prices that Are RIGHT You will be | | Bring your work here. pleased with results W. A. HENNEY é CENTRE HALL, PA. STROHMEIER’S MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Cemetery Memorials STROHMEIER’S CENTRE HALL, PA. ENTRE HAL GRAIN ELEVATOR AND COAL YARD Wm. McClenahan, Prop. Dealer in i All kinds of Grain, Winter, Spring and Blended Flour, Dairy, Hog and | Poultry Feeds, Anthracite, Cannal and Bituminous Coal, Woven and Barb Wire Fencing. Prompt Service and Deliveries Made dn or Out of Town SATISFACTION GUARANTEED ITS A REAL GOOD CAR| ASK FOR DEMONSTRATION ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS VICINITY J. 8. BOOZER CENTRE HALL, PA, We Feed Them All And feed them RIGHT if you give your stock our Feeds. TRY OUR “PURINA” COW-CHOW You will be pleased with results Hay Straw Cement Brick Sand CENTRE HALL ROLLER FLOURING MILLS Bradford & Co., Proprietors CENTRE HALL, PA. Grain Coal Lumber That it will pay you well to get a RE-TREAD PUT ON YOUR OLD TIRE? I do real work and GUARANTEE EVERY JOB. GIVE ME A TRIAL S. R. RISHEL Expert Tire Repairing and Retreading BOALSBURG, PA. Compare the Prices WE OFFER FOR CHOICE WHITE EGGS Figure over a 12-month period and you | will have the answer Then there's 50 per cent. Beef Scraps for $4.25 And 17 per cent. Laying Mash for $3.25 A Combination That Spells PROFIT | Kerlin Poultry Farm | CENTRE HALL, PA. $150 condition, with four goed cord tires Look it over! It's a Real Bargain CHEVROLET (For Economical Transportation) Homan’s Garage CENTRE HALL, PA. HOM ‘retail stores than in all the banks. Their sales Is a Good Habit Start a Savings Account for your children Bank free FIRST by any other class. ‘than in any other trade. You can put the plus They are paying the “SIGHT UNSEEN" TRADE IS GAMBLE | Consurner Yokes Lo Long Chance When He Buys From the Mail Order House. GENERALLY IS L IS LOSING GAME Method of Doing Business Different When You Purchase Goods From Your Home Merchant. | | Copyright.) When you were a youngster, did you ever make a trade, “sight unseen? Of course you did. What boy has not | risked his jackknife or his cholce#it mar- ble on such a proposition and how oft- en has he repented of his rash deed when he discovered what he got in the trade? deal turned out to the advantage of the one who made the proposition. There Is a little of the woman and child, but even the hard- ened gambler likes to get a “run for his money.” The osition doesn’t appeal to him in the least. There are thousands of people, however, who would be properly indig- nant if they were accused of being gamblers, who every day take a chance world. And worse than that, they are seen” proposition. sends his money away to pay for some get, perfect ting what he expects to get. tures that catch the eye. | when thousands of articles are to be | described within the confines of one | book. No matter how hard the mall | the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it would be an Impossibility. | The buyer |s simply taking a chance. Buying “Sight Unseen” How much more satisfactory it is to walk into a store In your home town and ask to see an article which you | may have seen advertised In your | home paper, What would anyone think of your business ability or vour common sense it you walked aio a store at home and said: “I saw @ picture in the paper today of a sul, {| which I liked very much. Please wrap | up one for me. Here's the money." | The merchant would think that you were crazy, but that Is exactly what ‘ you do every time you send an order to a mall order house. You buy “sight | unseen” and you haven't a ghost of a | chance of getting your money back if | the article is unsatisfactory when it reaches you How different is the proceeding | when you go into the store in your own home town to buy a sult of | clothes, or a stove or a yard of ribbon, | You may have seen a picture of it in | the merchant's advertisement in the home paper and you know that, as the | merchant is reliable, you can count on { the goods being as he represents them | in his advertisement, But does he ask you to take his word for everything? | Does he hide the article behind the | counter and tell you that you can't | even see it until you buy it and pay i over the money for it? Hardly, If | the article is not already in plain sight { on the counter, the merchant produces it for your inspection. If It does not | exactly suit yod, he has others that are a little different and that he is glad { to have you inspect. Get Merchant's Guarantee. Then, If it Is a sult of clothes you are buying, or a plece of dress goolls | or a pair of socks, you may ask if the | merchant will guarantee that it will wear as long as an article of that kind | could be expected to wear and he will tell you cither that he will guarantee { it or that he will not. If he tells you that he will guarantee it you will know that you will get your money back or another sult or another pair of socks | should, for the merchant, { ing an honest man In most cases, can not afford not to make his word good. and that of others in his own commu- | sent his goods. see what you are buying, you take your sult or your stove or whatever it Is after you get home and take another look at it and decide you don't want it after all, you send it back. unseen” when you buy from your home merchant. You don't look at u picture of an article in.a newspaper, read a office and buy a money order and send it to the merchant with the instruc tions, “Send me a suit of clothes"—or a stove or whatever it may be-—*and I'll pay your delivery man 50 cents for delivering it to me” There's a world of difference If the two methods of doing business and its not hard to figure out which Is the best for the man who is doing the buying. SPRING MILLS, PA, $350 BUYS A BUICK 1917 Condition with two Extra Cord Tires IT'S A REAL BARGAIN Come Here and See Expert Repairing ON ALL MAKES OF CARS Hauser’s Garage SPRING MILLS, PA, "’ STAR AND DURANT Real Bargains in Used Cars Come in and FETTEROLF'S GARAGE CENTRE HALL, PA. get our prices today SPECIAL SALE eV Foe STOVES AND RANGES Tapestry Rugs, 9x12, REDUCED TO $16.00 Home-Made Rag Carpets, 90c Yd. Kitchen Cabinets, $45.00 50-1b. Cotton Mattress, $10.00 ALL FURNITURE REDUCED FROM REGULAR PRICES John Smith & Bro. SPRING MILLS, PA. Now Is the Time | To order your coal for the coming win- We give you good coal at RIGHT PRICES Feeds for Poultry, Hogs, Cattle and Horses | Get our prices before buying elsewhere A.M. GROVE Coal, Lime, Stone, Cement, Roofing, Hay, Straw SPRING MILLS, PA. ter. mobile while pussy esc and slightly Injuring himself, aped unhurt Greensburg. —M, LL. McFadden, 70 years, of Latrobe, is the oldest and Thomas Dominy, 14 ears, t voungest applicant to take out hunt ing licenses In Westmoreland county this year, Hazleton. —The brated Its 6.¢; eal for famill nged HEeG hier Liberty Band cele anniversary wit ez of members g.~Tw vania ecuntieg and one represe ited at the State lancast r cinl troubles, old, mitted sul~lje tv } i 8 BO Bloomshur enty-three Pennsyl. New York « £1 are among School this yea we student Normal Worry Daniel of Weaverland, ing over Martin 45 near here, o« MnEing Falling frem car at Packer No nery, @ tally injured Pottsville two bandi inck, a hotelkeeper, of mo ing 838 Two Norristown girl are the envy of all thelr Hitle friend Bhenan mine, Thor yeurs old, was probably white Alexande and wt #ndg st Weakin 2 ts held up masks, r Chy- ole a bag ney contain Norristown " is since they have received a lette, ! i i lal the ce of W Hire af is exceptionally i the bears generally re- ging in the mountains. This es ial food iful that the ani- mals will not thelr favorite gpots if chased but will seek new fed Altoona of Taylor Viola Dodson's home t« for $2.65 sc gd } are pe is 0 ple return to away, ing grounds When 4 township metable Gorman, to Mrs. ake a levy ax, reg she re- we took her Holli- was freed when husband paid the tax. Ru in down by by Peter Lesca ace nessen., Anna, John Dom ich, was When the oh 1 started In machine Les od gra sh pole and in an effort to avoid her, but the child eaught by a fender Media. —Under the of County Detective O'Toole 2100 gallons of poison rum was destroy ed, with 50C gallons of bottled beer sald to have been of high voltage The liquor and beer were ‘poured down the sewer in the yard at the court house hefore the gave of county officials and other on lonkers, Wenkevilie went he alleg sisted ar to the dayshi Irg fail She 1 her t Greenshuy a taxi of Mo. hter of rg cab driven K-year-old instan front of the into tele Car nr swert wrecked his Was supervision “The family of Reuben Showers, near here, claims a record for huckleberry picking. Mr. and Mre. Showers and three daughters picked 1300 quarts of berries during the season. The berries retailed pt i18 and 20 cents per quart. most of tehm being sold at ‘he latter figure. Pittsburgh. <A box of powder plac ed by an enemy under the hood of his automobile résulted in serious injury to Albert Donavaskey, a coal miner of Newfield, near North Bessemer. Donavaskey was hurled through the roof of his garage when he attempted to erank his automobile, the Ignition throwing a spark into the powder. The machine and garage were blown to pleces, Try our ‘Symco’ or ‘Pratt’s’ EGG MASH YOU'LL BE SURPRISED HOCKMAN’S FULL LINE PRATT'S REMEDIES, BEEF SCRAP, OYSTER SHELLS CENTRE HALL, PA. will make them produce. “PILGRIM” IS THE REAL GOOD EVAPORATED MILK Put up in Attractive Cans and made right here at home, Ask your grocer for it by name Don't Say Evaporated Milk, Say “PILGRIM” Preserved and Evaporated Milk RPRING MILLS, PA. 0.T. CORMAN SPRING MILLS, PA. DEALER IN General Merchandise, Poultry, Potatoes, Lard, Fish, Oysters and All Kinds Country Produce Bring me your eggs and poultry and receive highest market price PLAMOND GRID BATTERIES Guaranteed for two years by the manufacturers as well as ourselves Insyde Tyresliowout Proof an Coffield Pure-Gum Tire Protectors CLYDE A. SMITH CENTRE HALL, PA. PATTERSON'S —FOR— GOOD GROCERIES General Merchandise GOOD GOODS in an ATTRACTIVE CLEAN STORE When you trade here—WE BOTH GAIN PATTERSON'S BOALSBURG, PA. F. V. GOODHART FUNERAL DIRECTOR FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS, &c. CENTRE HALL, PA. Bell Phone 37TR2
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