ECTS a: TI TR ORRIN AL RL I RIT UE NIL I I A I. a fi CENTRE HALL place of just ordinary attention 3 Per Cent Compound Interest on Savings Deposits GENERAL MERCHANDISE cestitthses by retail stores than any this country. There is retail stores than in all More taxes are paid by any other class. Our Guarantee of Quality and Our Service Go With Everything We Sell SPRING MILLS, PA. than in any other trade. other kind of business in more money invested in the banks. Their sales by retail merchants than You can put the plus When You Need A REAL MACHINE JOB Done or some EXPERT WELDING, bring it to and I will do it RIGHT! I Am Acetylene Welding RIGHT me Also Prepared to Do at Prices that Are Bring your work here. You will be pleased with results W. A. HENNEY CENTRE HALL, PA. ENTRE HAL GRAIN 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 Barb Wire Fencing. Prompt Service and Deliveries Made In or Out of Town SATISFACTION GUARANTEED QUALITY MERCHANDISE aud SATISFACTORY SERVICE Mr [ $ | your busine wstomer, on this motto 4, lad our Second Car of-- CT. MEAT SCRAPS and 60 PER (CT. DIGESTED 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. nloa p ER business. STROHMEIER’S MARBLE can be done by Being a AND GRANITE WORKS paying the heaviest taxe Cemetery Memorials the County. DEAD TOWN VERY SELDOM RECOVERS STROHMEIER’S CENTRE HALL, PA. a IT'S A REAL GOOD CAR ous Cannot Attract New Residents. IS LIKE bi CORPORATION People Are Stockholders and When They Spend Their Money Away From Home They Deplete its Capital. (Copyright) There is nothing deader than a dead town. Try as it maj t ceal the over it so ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS VICINITY J. S. BOOZER CENTRE HALL, PA. hard the truth at he who runs n as facts th DO YOU KNOW That it except the nal ca have bee revived, ha taken on life and prospered, but these are mers ly the exceptions that prove the rule The fact that a can seldom back” is easily explained. The growing and prosperous town today is the that can attract new resi dents and new capital. It is one that can offer attractive inducements the location of new Industries. The dead town offers no attraction to out capital. A man looking for = place to launch a new business or a new location for an old industry, Is not going to pick out a dead town | He is going to select a town in which money is plentiful, a town whose busi Ve new will pay yu 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. town i “come one side Compare the Prices WE OFFER FOR CHOICE WHITE EGGS will have the answer for $4.25 $3.25 Kerlin Poultry Farm CENTRE HALL, PA. | ness men are progressive residents, as a whole, and contented, There a man to risk his future in one that is dead. FO 2 CONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION | | n town, once dead, A Chevrolet | mains dead. THIS SPRING Town Like Corporation. Beonomical Transportation” I There Is just one thing, ordinarily, than a catch-phrase. Own a | that kills a town In the first place and Chevrolet and the first hundred | that is a lack of money. A town is | Just like a corporation and the money | possessed by its Inhabitants is its cap- | ital, If this capital is depleted the | town will fall just as the corporation, | whose capital is depleted through poor | management or other causes, falls, | And just as the corporation which has Also | once falled can seldom retrieve its lost fortunes, the town which has failed | cannot often “come back.” for almost always re- “For few on tires, the big pro in eonnomy These are Tires. Expert Repalr Work CENTRE HALL, PA. on you instead of LAYING FOR YOU | it’s tough, but we have something that | will make them produce. Try ‘Symco’ or ‘Pratt’s’ EGG MASH YOU'LL BE SURPRISED HOCKMAN'’S FULL LINE PRATT'S REMEDIES, BEEF SCRAP, OYSTER SHELLS CENTRE HALL, PA. i : “PILGRIM” IS THE REAL GOOD EVAPORATED MILK 0. T. CORMAN SPRING MILLS, PA. DEALER IN right here at home, General Merchandise, Poultry, Potatoes, Lard, ' Fish, Oysters and All Kinds Country Produce | Bring me your eggs and poultry {and receive highest market price 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. to consider the ways This Booster for these towns, They »s and are making this of | from home in a way t to the sit BInount al ainoun return benefit tnkes no gre } be able to realize individual, cannot last i8 paying out takes in. [Irom tae That does not perous town Is one mn do not "nt i . nirary, % ni r je opie any ich the ped shopping y own's capital at extent and if enough money from in that apses and virtually into bankruptcy just as does the ation h dissipates its capital, The peoy apt to overlook fare stockhol and that thelr fortunes with tho of the do not re @ spent home the town BWoajy coll Cor. par whic de of a community a fact that th their town are bound up ae as a whole. They if thelr town fal h it. They—or y leas st—se nd thelr i order hie re the ey ders eotnmunits that they will I wit of them at money rigr 4 ing ti st rough ain bankrug Merchants Not Only Ones Hurt Many houses corporation into cert ney. customers of mall say that they are under no | obligation to trade with their home merchants and this may be true. overlook that fact that the business men of a town do much for their com munity and are entitled, In return for what they to the support of the | peaple in the community, but leaving this out of consideration, they over. look the that are bringing about thelr own downfall when they | drain their town of its money—its | eapital. ! The home merchant will not be the oniy one that will be hurt when the { town “goes broke” The merchant can reduce his stock and cut down his expenses and get along some way or he can sell out and move to some oth- | er town which has not been so blind to its own welfare, It is the great body of the people of the community including all those who have sent thelr money away to other cities Instead of spending it at home, that suffers most when the hard times come. The time for all the people to pull together for a live town is while the | town is still live and not after it is dead, for when a town dies It is a long time dead-Iif not forever. order do, fact they Learns His Faults, A man never realizes how many feults he has until! he gets married— then his wife tells him, DILAMORM DG - oD BATTERIES Guaranteed for two years by the manufacturers as well as ourselves An Makes of Batteries Charged and Repaired, Insyde Tyres—Blowout Proof and Coffield Pure-Gum Tire Protectors CLYDE A. SMITH CENTRE HALL, PA. CI CC The Saving Habit Is a Good Habit The optimist Is the fellow who pays last week’s board with next week's WARES, This ts the same person who opens a Savings Aceount with real enthusi- 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 saecessful men are optimists who have paved the way with bank deposit slips. First National Bank SPRING MILLS, PA, —— $350 BUYS A BUICK 1917 ith two Extra ( RE BA R( ‘ome Here and § AL Expert R pa iring ON ALL MAKES OF CAR! Arthur Shirley, attacked by a vi verely bitten on the hands. The interior of the a lancaster picture house, was completely ruined by fire which started in a furnace room Willis A. Schnader, deputy ney general of Ps enns¥ivants named chairman of the mittee which alms lo to complete buildin Franklin and Maram caster, Death most unusual Share! dents of Catawl learned when word was the death Wat beth City, N. C. The four m short time if Maple cious dog face, Hill, was and se- legs and Aldine Theatre, moving attor- 1, has been executive com- raise £500,000 at Lan- operations College, recently broke of the 4 of which resi- it was of of Eliza en met in ago. all of Waters. ga, be one ver heard, eived re of George ere. Catawls them being nam Povs ng i George Two of them lived in Catawli ing uncle Iwo Were he other Ziizabetl Miss chester, Le wed Fred Altoons caster, Reuber almost Is ped belt hack on gasoline engine whew Come in and get our prices today FETTEROLF'S GARAGE CENTRE HALL. PA. BE SPECIAL SALE | KITCHEN CABINETS NOW, 845.00, All Other ROCKERS REDUCED. Cottom Combination Mattress RUGS AND HOME-MADE AT SPECIALS SPRING MILLS, PA. Now Is the Time To order your coal for the coming win- ter. We give you good coal at RIGHT PRICES Feeds for Poultry, Hogs, Cattle and Horses Get our prices before buying elsewhere A. M. GROVE Lime, Stone, Cement, Hay, Straw SPRING MILLS, Coal, Roofing, 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. by an in Sout} Hy home attracted bullding, thes bullet wound in body. The been the Several months stabbed severel; and a few ghot to deat! the have WeeKSs Polson lig has caused the 1 Philadelpt nths, according 1 who sald : 1 of the “llgu« MEETS AF Patton point there stances in rt. wore which she de showed the have been p He e investigated 3 180d by holism.” y heart, and found the deceased were drink habit The Exch: 1ilding In y, erected was destroyed by first floor, nge Hotel, the ¢ Montr are dest Rus hanne thar fire Ee, ount 11%} years igo, hen ar oll stove on the to prevent walter pif The s estimat- od at $25.000. John J. Burke, owner Wf the hotel, the only person in the building when the fire started. He scaped without injury A trial marriage, wherehy and wife agreed to separat tow each other the rights of single hiessodness, ended disastrously for wife when Judge Arird in War ren. denied Lottie Mae Norris the right to contest a divorce suit brought hy her husband, Albert I. Norris The wife appeared In court two hours after the suit had been brought by wer hushand and petitioned for leave to interpose a defense Attached t her petition was a copy of the unsign. agreement, which nrovided that hushand and Hive kent light od wx from frees ing, exploded loss wna WAS hushand ¢ and al 0 the wife agreed to NA — F. V. GOODHART FUNERAL DIRECTOR FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS, &ec. CENTRE HALL, PA, 3¢ll Phone 37R2
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