FIRST NATIONAL C. P. LONG CO. GENERAL B—A—N K MERCHANDISE CENTRE HALL and... OAL Our Guarantee of Quality and Our Service Go With Everything We Sell SPRING MILLS, PA. Where helpful service takes the | place of just ordinary attention 3 Per Cent Compound Interest on Savings Deposits 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 Prepared to Deo Acetylene Welding at Prices that Are RIGHT Bring your work here. You will be pleased with results | W. A. HENNEY CENTRE HALL, PA. STROHMEIER’S MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Cemetery Memorials STROHMEIER’S CENTRE HALL, PA. ITS A REAL GOOD CAR ELEVATOR AND COAL YARD Wm. McClenahan, Prop. Dealer in All kinds of Grain, Winter, Spring | and Blended Flour, Dairy, Hog and | Poultry Feeds, Anthracite, Cannal| and Bituminous Coal, Woven and|,gx FOR DEMONSTRATION OVER Barb Wire Fencing. so ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS Prompt Service and Deliveries VICINITY Made In or Out of Town . > ! GU r » J. 8S. BOOZER SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CENTRE HALL. PA " QUALITY MERCHANDISE ad SKTISFACTORY SERVICE DO YOU KNOW Now, Mr. we solicit Just unloaded our Second Car of-— 55 PER CT. MEAT SCRAPS and ‘ustomer, on this motto | That it will pay you well to get a your business. RE-TREAD PUT ON YOUR OLD TIRE? 60 PER CT. DIGESTED TANKAGE ALSO, CAR LARRO FEED do real work and GUARANTEE CAR SALT, and our Yard Filled With (EVERY JOB. GIVE ME A TRIAL THE BEST OF COAL. CENTRE HALL ROLLER S. R. RISHEL Expert Tire Repairing and FLOURING MILLS Retreading Bradford & Co., Proprietors DAD CENTRE HALL, PA. BUALSBURG, PA. $150 | Buys an Oakland Roadster in excellent condition, with four good cord tires Compare the Prices WE OFFER FOR CHOICE WHITE EGGS Figure over a 12-month period and you | | Look it over! will have the answer It's a Real Bargain CHEVROLET (For Economical Transportation) Then there's 50 per cent. Beef Scraps | for $4.25 i And 17 per el Laying Mash for | 3.25 A Combination That Spells PROFIT | Kerlin Poultry Farm CENTRE HALL, PA. Homan’s Garage CENTRE HALL, PA. TR TTR J Da" ; | The Saving Habit Is a Good Habit The optimist Is the fellow who pays next week's by retail stores than any ‘retail stores than in all the banks. Their sales by any other class. You can put the plus They are the County. NEW ONE BORN Mail Order Man Need Not Worry About Keeping His Old Customers. Give Good Values and Service in Order to Hold His Trade. (Copyright.) has been said that there minute. It is a sucker born every true, there are ers of the mail-order houses ushered into the world every 24 hours and the number reaches a total of 525.000 every year, ff course, regarding reports of his death, figures may be exaggerated, but serve to illustrate the fact that mail-order houses of ways have new fields to exploit these they the and the customers. If the mail-order buyer discovers that he has been “stung” and registers a vigorous kick, it means order man, long as there are some 90.900.000 other persons in the United States to whom i he may make his alluring appeals. i Ever Get Money Back? Did anyone ever hear of a mall or. | der house refunding a customer's | money if the customer wus not satis { fied with his purchase? Don't all speak at once, pleaze. The { houses In the cities expect to receive ia large number of complaints from their customers. They know that much of the goods which they sell will | not come up to the expectations of the | buyers, whose ideas as to what they will receive have been formulated from the pretty pictyres and alluring de | scriptions given in the catalogues. { The mail order houses prepare for i this contingency by maintaining large | corps of clerks whose sole duty it Is | to answer the letters of Irate cus | tomers. THese clerks, or correspond. | ents, as they are called, exercise all their powers of cajolery in an effort ' to appease the complaining customers, | but if this is found to be impossible, after an exchange of letters, the mail {| order man has no cause for worry. His | living is not dependent upon the cus- | tomer to whom he has already sold goods, “There are as good fish In the sea + have ever been caup''” and he ‘urns his ..ention toward L.« of the new fish. Local Merchant's Field Limited, Compare the position of the mall or- der man with that of the retall mer- The retail merchant has a certain limited ianding All his business must be done day and year after year same people. The buyers can appeal for business #8 few thousand ut the and in some cases a few hun- Unless he make his cus- his friends and bring them he cannot con- result is that after the dred, tomers can in business, The may be making at the time. It is It will profit him noth- profit off a customer that customer is not to come back to his store again. From which man can the buyer ex- pect to get the best values, the best service and the best prices in propor- quality of the goods sold? From the man who must plea him and give him his money's worth in or der to remain in business or from the who figures that he may never buyer again and that it no great difference whether af hear from the will make Gets It While He Can. The idea upon which the mall order the getting is good, If the customer celves, all well and good. The mall or- der man knows that the customer is kind of a man or woman who wouldn't the first figure that his Therefore order In he may first does not turn f the customer has spirit to make a kick, the trained correspondents in charge of even if the to pacify him. If they are not, It doesn't matter much anyway, for there are millions of others who may be one born every minute, you know, member these facilis If he is ings of the mail order house, home merchant has something at stake in every sale that he makes. The mail order man has nothing at stake, home merchant has stake on the manner in which he treats to take their places. man has nothing at stake for it is to his interest to get all that he can out of each sale, knowing that he may never have another chance at that par- ticular customer, ness with? “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” When Your Hens Lay Down on you instead of LAYING FOR YOU it's tough, but we have something that will make them produce. 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. Preserved and Evaporated Milk SPRING 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 _— ICE DIAMOND GRID BATTERIES Guaranteed for two years by the * manufacturers as well as ourselves Insyde Tyres—Blowout Proof and Coffield Pure-Gum Tire Protectors CLYDE A. SMITH CENTRE HALL, PA. * This Is the same person who opens a Savings Account with real enthusl | asm, makes regular deposits for a {time and then tapers off to the van- ishing point. His Intentions are still good but his resolution Is slipping. Most successful men are optimists who have paved the way with bank deposit slips, First National Bank SPRING MILLS, PA, $350 BUYS A BUICK 1917 b-Passenger Touring Car in Excellent 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, Real Bargains in Used Cars Come in and get our prices today FETTEROLF'S GARAGE CENTRE HALL, PA. SPECIAL SALE wl} N wn KITCHEN CABINETS NOW, 845.00 All Over Stuffed Leather Rockers, $15 All Other ROCKERS REDUCED. Cottom Combination Mattress $9.00 Best Vacuum Washer on market, $15.00 RUGS AND HOME-MADE CARPET AT SPECIALS 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 ter. A. M. GROVE Coal, Lime, Stone, Cement, Roofing, Hay, Straw SPRING MILLS, PA. PATTERSON'S GOOD GROCERIES AND General Merchandise GOOD ooops | in an ASTRACTIVE When you trade here—WE BOTH GAIN PATTERSON'S BOALSBURG, PA. ~% K El Mount Carmel —Josepi Narconts, 82, died at the State Hospital at Moun- tain Bpriogs, from a broken peck sus tained a week ago when caught under a fall of coal ut the Relfance colliery, Philadelphia. Hungry and punctil lously polie, thieves broke into the etore of John Hennig, 9835 Bustieton avenue They took $50 worth of fooll, mostly canned goods, but the cash register and cigurs were left untouch- éd, Hennig found a note which read: “Please take notice your cash regis ter has not been tampered with, All we want is food. You will be repaid when we get jobs.” Franklin, Grave diggers filed strenuous protest against “digging their own graves.” Promiscuous shoot- ing by careless hunters has made thelr task hazardous, A steel wagon was all that saved two grave diggers from near fatality The rattle of shot sent scuryying into the grave, much warfare in France narrow escape strike, Bigns were Franklin Cemetery in that vicinity Alle sNlown “human fly, Thomas climbed up the front of town's highest turned t friends he fell walk, He mediately up for ever, an clap than hurt Sora them in the It was their thi and they trench rd $s 10 ax threaten about the hunting Paste forbidding the role of *l, young son of Northampton, one of the When he admiring laying 10 forty to the landed on his feet, glide. but im- picked how. by a physi » fr rightened feet collapsed and He gi vr Les gad #xXaminea was revived soon, d whet was foun nton your pardon, ladles,” suid a dap man to Mis Myers as they w “but 1 ing at hat i: ! it a Joke until from that { handed i the robber them and gave them permission to move along Sharon mp ive Sremonies marked the churches Episcopal as gelical Lut Lewistown. —In a Carl, of Harrisburg, up in the Lewistown | the highwayman | and his 1924 { The Hlcense nw ig to the { letter, was 9407368, and he offers $10 | reward for the recovery of the ma- and the arrest of the highway perly dressed young Moyer and Ethel neward bound, ses Elsie requis dedication two First Methodist Holy Trinity Evan- new ere, d the the neran letter here H. A reports a bhold- Narrows in which £300 in cash Ford auto accordin took model inne man Butler.—But | sold £100,000 i has ional | City Compan) rk, to con | tinue we Tig ge disy on ort miles southeast comstruction S400. 000 h is being noquesnessing roek, five of Butls The n and will SewWa WORE plant built l bonds were sold at a premim ma- ture in 1948 McAdoo. years old, a pump runner of the Haddock Min Silver Brook, having luring the night wi to have with 8 Hye elettri York —Eli Flinehl maker. of Dallas was struck and fatally automobile ry. fractured at the hase the car which hit him Increased his speed and got away. The handle of the car door was hroken off and found on the highway, 20 that officers have a good clew and an arrest is expect. ed shortly. Flinchbaugh died in the York Hospital Towanda.~—Two local men H. M Eroh and Roland N. Benjamin, while hunting deer near Marsh Hill, In Ly coming county, had a thrilling en- counter with a large black bear on a rocky ledge 250 feet up the side of the mountain, The animal rushed from the woods toward the two hunt. ers, throwing them off thelr goand hy the suddenness of its attack. When the bear was within five feet of the ledge one of the purty Killed it with a well directed bullet. The beast nearly rolled from the ledge after It was shot, but the ner kept it from rolling off onto the rocks far below, and brought it back te town xn Charles Ha in the slope at at his death iisizer, ing Company ind dead shocked n is 81 in Was for post, been to 1pposed contact acclde waugh, Aa aged G0 years, injured by an His skull was The driver of cigar gown in Cr | W——_ F. V. GOODHART FUNERAL DIRECTOR FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS, é&c. CENTRE HALL, PA. Bell Phone 37R2
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