THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
“
ee :
eI TET TEE TREE TSS meme
Ea oe
E—-—
€ - -
CTR L-
“
"
-
3
a a
K
B—A—N
CENTRE HALL
place of just ordinary attention
3 Per Cent Compound Interest
on Savings Deposits
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
and...
COAL
Our Guarantee of Quality and Our
Service Go With Everything
We Sell
SPRING MILLS, PA.
——
—
When You Need
A REAL MACHINE JOB Done
some EXPERT WELDING, brin
and I will do it RIGHT!
I Am Also
Acetylene Welding
GHT
or
g it to
me
Prenared to Do
at Prices that Are RI
our work here. You will be
pleased
W. A. HENNEY
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Bring
with results
ENTRE HAL
GRAIN
ELEVATOR
AND COAL YARD
Wm. MecClenahan, Prop.
Dealer in
All kinds of Grain, Winter, Spring
and Blended Flour, Dairy, Hog and
Poultry Feeds, Anthracite, Cannal
and Bituminous Coal, Woven
Barb Wire Fencing.
Prompt Service and Deliveries
Made In or Out of Town
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
QUALITY MERCHANDISE
al SATISFACTORY SERVICE
yw, Mr on this
we oll business.
Justomer, motto
it Your
our Second Car of
SCRAPS
Just unloaded
PER CT. MEAT
and
60 PER CT. PIGESTED TANKAGE
ALSO, CAR LARRO FEED
CAR SALT, and our Yard Filled With
THE BEST OF COAL.
CENTRE HALL ROLLER
FLOURING MILLS
Bradford & Co., Proprietors
CENTRE HALL, PA.
rr
wo
Compare the Prices
WE OFFER FOR
CHOICE WHITE EGGS
Figure over a 12-mon
will have the answer
Then there's 50 per cent.
for $4.25
per cent,
$3.25
A Combination That Spells PROFIT |
Kerlin Poultry Farm
CENTRE HALL, PA.
And 17
STROHMEIER’S
MARBLE AND GRANITE
WORKS
Cemetery Memorials
STROHMEIER’S
CENTRE HALL, PA.
A REAL GOOD
ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS
VICINITY
J. 8. BOOZER
CENTRE HALL, PA,
DO YOU KNOW
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.
“FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION
A Chevrolet
THIS SPRING
“For Economical
more than
Chevrolet and t few
thoroughly convince
ts practical
and ofl. ‘These
upkeep of your «
economy
the big
ar,
Homan’s Garage
Complete Line of Accessories; Also
Tires. Expert Repalr Work
CENTRE HALL, PA.
tires,
Ae items
by retail stores than any
this country.
retail stores than in all
other kind of business in
the banks. Their sales
More taxes are
by any other class.
than in any other trade.
business.
You can put the plus
ard to the retail
s to idlor the w ays
This
the County.
FORTUNES MADE
WITHOUT | EFFORT
Profits of Stockholders in Mail
Order Houses Stagger the
Imagination.
CUSTOMERS SUPPLY CAPITAL
on $25,000 Investment in Nine
Years—Hundreds Like
Him.
(Copyright)
There 18 one way to make money by
dealing with the mail-order houses bul
it Isn't by buying goods from them.
The man who thinks he is making
money by buying his goods from mail-
order houses has « my to re ny of the
amazing profits made by some of these
lize th at all the
money is belong made by the man on
the other end of the deal
The Ider i
CON
i {0 res
stock he
spin, but he piles up
that it makes the ordinary man's head
swim to read about it. Here Is the
experience of the stockholder in one
of the large mall-order concerns,
told by a reliable financial Journal.
gives a glimpse into the Inside work-
ings of the mall-order business
should be of Interest to
have made such things possible,
How the Game Works.
as
in question when the stock was selling
£40 a share, the 600 shares
In 1911 the company declared a stock
In other
dividends regularly, had accumulated
a surplus profit of one-third of the
amount of capital invested in the
business; but instead of
this profit among the stockholders the
company kept the money in the busl-
to the stockholders, By this action
200 more shares of stock were issued
to the man who had originally bought
000, Increasing his holdings to S00
shares, without his having put any
Another stock dividend of 50 per
was declared In 1015 and this
giving him 1,200 shares in all, A third
25 per cent was paid
in 1017, bringing this man's
stock holdings up to 1.500 shares, still
without h'« havipg aid In any more
They are
and are making this |
of |
noney, i this 1.500 shares of st
nds of £8 a sh r Are
This
iving £12
investment of about
000, and the stock Is now
id $160 a share, the
g stock is $240,000,
£215
eash divide
being pal
recs
his original
investor f
there
HN nn
£25.
ax
present ma
piv.
rofit of
ON) in addi
tion to cas} which he
celved hr i
many more
Only One of Hundreds.
; in
to thousands of dollars,
the story of just one
The Saving Habit
Is a Good Habit
last week's board with next
Wages,
a Savings Aceount
asm, makes regular deposits
time and then tapers off to the
ishing point. His Intentions are
good but his resolution Is slipping.
Most saeceessful men are
who have paved the way
deposit slips,
First National Bank
SPRING MILLS, PA,
for
with
$350
BUYS A BUICK 191
(or
ir
{
i
Expert Repairing
ALL MAKES
Hauser’s Garage
MILLS, PA,
ON OF CARS
SPRING
[siamo asm sos smn mensch ssn $5
STAR AND DURANT
215.0063 mad
3 ider in nine
t of le www than g
nm but it is financial
hundreds of other
this and other mall-
of whom
on investm on 000!
It reads like
The
lders
an
re are
stock he in
corporations, some
made millions while this man
thousands. Add the profits of
all these stockholders together and the
result is a sum that staggers the imag
ination.
Small wonder that the men who own
the stock of the big mail-order houses
can live in palaces, ride in the highest.
nobiles, own palatial pri-
and buy $1000 paint.
ha furnished the
have
vate yachts
ings, jut who %
wohiles and the yachts and the
g2? The people | n the
kept an endless stream of money flow
all this
re have
have made possible.
gane to
great
Their millions dollars
the automobiles and
other luxuries for the
in these corporations.
Present From Mail.Order Buyers.
These men who have piled up such
in the mail-order busi-
of
and
stockholders
The
This is shown In the case
invested, The generous
present of £215,000 worth of stock and
He has never even had to
write a letter to get It.
The generous mailorder buyers have
handed it to him on a golden platter.
There's money In the mailorder
business without a doubt, but its on
the side of the man who does the sell.
ing and not the who does the
buying. If you must do business with
the mail-order house, buy some of its
stock and let the fellow in the next
town buy you automobiles and private
yachts while he struggles with the
hard times that come from draining
his town of the cash that goes to keep
you in luxury.
one
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.
“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”
Continental Condensed Milk Co.
Preserved and Evaporated Milk
SPRING MILLS, PA.
i
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
DIAMOND ORID
BATTERIES
Guaranteed for two years by the
manufacturers as well as
ourselves
All Makes of Batterles Charged and
Repaired.
Insyde Tyres=Jiowout Proof
Coffield Pure-Gum Tire
Protectors
CLYDE A. SMITH
CENTRE HALL, PA.
-
Real Bargains in Used Cars
Come in and get
FETTEROLF'S GARAGE
CENTRE HALL PA
SPECIAL SALE
el} Nn
KITCHEN CABINETS
NOW, $45.00,
All Over Stuffed Leather Rockers,
All Other ROCKERS REDUCED.
Combination
Cotton Mattress
RUGS AND HOME-MADE
AT SPECIALS
John Smith & Bro. |
SPRING MILLS, PA.
Now Is the Time
ter. We give you good coal at
RIGHT PRICES
Feeds for Poultry, Hogs, Cattle
and Ilorses
Get our prices before buying elsewhere
A. M. GROVE
Coal, Lime, Stone, Cement,
Hay,
SPRING MILLS,
Roofing,
Straw
PA.
PATTERSON'S
—FOR—
GOOD GROCERIES
ND
General Merchandise
GOOD GOODS in an ATTRACTIVE
CLEAN STORE
When you trade here—~WE BOTH
GAIN
PATTERSON'S
BOALSBURG, PA.
Bunbury The Mary
Hospital received a f#i Christmas
gift when the Northumberland county
commissioners voted $30.000. This
institution suffered severely from lack
of funds when Governor Pinchot pe
duced its appropriation and various
methods were used to rales money.
Laneaster —harging his wife with
being Indirectly responsible for the
death of four persons, two of them
his sons, Willlam Stathopelus, restaoe-
ant manager, has filed suit for ag 4
vorece from Aphrodite Nickles Statho-
polus, now living Chester. Thetr
marital troubles reached a climax on
May 12 last, when William and Peter
Stathopolus, sons of the couple; thelr
cousin, Robert Sugrs and Helen
Evet, a colored ms suffocated
gas In the SBtathopol while
Mrs SBtathopolus a } in-law,
Mrg Sugrals, were at a movie. Stath.
opol De fe had
remnained at hon r her chil
dren the) en kibed
M. Packer
ne
in
were
home
"ol
gigter
es eq that f 1 wi
by gas fumes
Alto While
f { Irs
Count
T 1 (
to
the ax
found ne
reInoYi
and nest
top a i
evident!)
the
York
a re
bas
mother
as Mrs
to pla
and, t}
shot
York
of Wi
of three
Bre
year ; Rut Care
m
front i} effocts of the
at
gm
er had
night
quarter metey
i
Hazleton Members of St
parish, of this city, and Patrick's
at McAdoo, proteéet
od the plan of the C. M. Dodson Coal
Company to biast from
under the old Fren Cemetery,
at Beaver Brook, and possibly cause
the oaving In of the ground The
company has agreed to remove the
bodies from but this
proposal is unsatisfact
("hester I M
hester Hospit with
the chest and
Gabriel's
QT
out the coal
chiown
1
the cemetery
ory
aT in the
let wound
is inder
charged with the shooting He
a quar
wife saves
when she
fu
an shot him in
at their hor
hat the shoot
tempted to
Miller, who had
her
Shamekin Burns
while playing th
ranused the death
11 years
zospital The
anta Claus cost:
aining several
sisters who had
are when she came
The
rel ne The
wrk plac
wrest
ng t
revolver Frat
revolve from
% hoot
a
threatened to
she suffered
of Santa Claus
of Helen Kop« ohat
nt Shar
rode
old the
g
t small
heer
flimsy garme
Before neighbors
1 extir
THR
wis
wai
was badly burned
body
State Oollege
the pollege |
ture as the
Metallurgy
the,
»
to mors
‘he character of the tr
The sehow
enrolin
dents
mbined
lurgical students
hoool enst of the M
total of 165 this
«1 more than
School of Mir
0
na
the Pennsyly
W. Burket, 2 braken
A ndenreld Dogs bm rk
when burglars robbed] the
Adam Valeskie of
£75 In merchand's
————————. | ——————
*
ta
an
iamne
161
Alten
are in
Jolted from a drs
yard
¥illed
vain
of
and
store
SUM n cash
Wr —_
F. V. GOODHART
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FURNITURE
CARPETS
RUGS, &ec.
CENTRE HALL, PA.
—~
Bell Phone 37R2
A