FIRST NATIONAL CENTRE HALL Where helpful service takes the place of just ordinary attention 3 Per Cent Compound Interest on Savings Deposits GENERAL MERCHANDISE weit... OAL Our Guarantee of Quality and Our Service Go With Everything We Sell. 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 Alse Prepared to Do Acetylene Welding at Prices that Are RIGHT Bring your work here. You will be pleased with results W. A. HENNEY CENTRE HALL, PA. (CENTRE HAL GRAIN ELEVATOR AND COAL YARD Wm. McClenahan, Prop. Dealer in Al 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 and SATISFACTORY SERVICE Now, Mr. Customer, on this motto we solicit your business our Second Car of-- PER 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. - we 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 MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Cemetery Memorials STROHMEIER’S CENTRE HALL, PA. ITS A REAL GOOD CAR ASK FOR DEMONSTRATION OVER ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS VICINITY J. 8. BOOZER CENTRE HALL, PA. om mm A —— A — ho mn 1 A coon A oo in 4 ss Ao DO YOU KNOW That RE-TREAD PUT ON YOUR OLD TIRE? GUARANTEE ME A TRIAL S. R. RISHEL Expert Tire Repairing and Retreading BOALSBURG, PA. it will pay you well to get a do real work and EVERY JOB. GIVE “For Economical Transportation” A Chevrolet THIS SPRING For Economical more Transportation’ than a catchphrase. Own a Chevrolet and the first hundred miles will thoroughly convince you of its practical economy-—on tires, and off. These are the big items the upkeep of your oar. in fow in Kerlin Poultry Farm CENTRE HALL, PA. Complete Line of Accessories; Tires. Expert Repair Work CENTRE HALL, PA, Also | by any other class. than in any other trade. the County. WOMEN CONTROL TOWN'S DESTINY Can Make or Break a Community Through Exercise of Their Buying Power. THEY HOLD PURSE STRINGS It Is Estimated That at Least 80 Per Cent of Retail Purchasing ls Done by Feminine Shoppers. (Copyright, 1917, Western gaid that the Newgpaper Unie It hins been hans the the world and nowhere liternily true than in ny town or cit The preponderance to make not only the retailer but manufacturer and the wholesaler realize that it Is the women they must please with their merchandise. thant that part of the buying in any community, the women have a responsibility that they do not woiwnen of a town, through their buy always appreciate, town. It is in their power to make it a8 prosperous town or a dead town. When the women of a town acquire the mail order habit, the just as well begin ments for its own obsequies, Hard to Understand. per by instinct and a shrewd judge of values in merchandise, should suc- cumb to the lures of the mail order house it is difficult to understand but, unfortunately, some of them do, No one knows better than the woman who has had some experience in the buy- ing of merchandise how difficult it Is to distinguish between the genuine and | the imitation even after a close inspec | tion. The good shopper, when on buy- ing bent, does not always take the | first article that is offered for inspec | tion. In fact this Is the exception Their sales You can put the plus know it and expect it. They expect a woman, if she is a good shopper, to “look around a little” If on woman should walk into a re | tall store and purchase the first suit | tried for instance, the shock probably would prove fatal to storekeeper or the saleswoman. The chances are that she will try on and look at as many more before she selects one that suits her taste or pocketbook, and the store she on hat the dozen sults keeper not only expects but wishes to do this, He } ixiled as he knows that t best advertisement her to be | a | Ler wishes 4 a satis mer is the that he can obtain, Taking a Chance. This same woman, however, may or jer a suit from a mall order house on ! rength of nothing more than a | pretty picture and an alluring dencrip- Khe has pot even the opportun- it on, to say nothing of the ng the fabric, noting material and She Is the = try of the manship. (ing chances on the suit fitting her the material being good and dur the shade becoming to her and | workmanship of such a character | the to pieces, | omen Ww * a ¥ n 111 sud 1 suit i ot fall NN hie take sb rye ho takes such chances » called a shrewd shopper. ily understood ithe nian find it easier in the cata- and look wanted or he that he | was getting gtore He might the picture i store habit. to order fron ORI for the might take ouldn’t anyway t he position know he if he went to the ight as well take a chance on the nail order gamble, but why the wom- un who knows what she wants and ghe is getting what she wants when she gets it should buy on “sight unseen” plan—well, that's the what and the Woman's Greatest Opportunity. Women are taking a more and more time. They are alding now In the affairs of state. Even where they fo not have the ballot they are playing + big part, individually and through heir organizations, in the conduct par- jcularly of local governments, yet in he one field where they can do most help build up thelr communities hey may be overlooking their oppor tunity. With the buying power in their hands they can do more for their community by stanchly supporting their home business men than they can possibly do in any other way. Man may think he is a’ very impor tant element in the progress and devel- opment of his town but when he re flects that 80 per cent of the buying power of the community is in the hands of the women he is apt to real ize that he is a very insignificant atom. 0 asm, slips. with next week's with real enthasi deposits for a van- His Intentions are stil optimists bank a - BARGAIN Come our prices today al) N ree All Other AND ROCKERS REDUCED. Mattress HOME-MADE MILLS, PA. AT THE PEA PRICES: LUMP 30¢ Per ,.37%e Per Cwi Se Per Owl 6%¢ Per Owi, and Owi, Mrs. Caroline Sauffer, of Harris burg, and Mrs. Angelina Kleckner, of Bunbury, believe they are the oldest twing in the United States Two Malne women recently clalmed this distinction, but they are only 80 years old, while Mrs. Bauffer and Mrs Kleckner, who were born in Tremont, on Mareh 19 will thelr 824 birthday When her car stalled pavements, Miss Ma: Bayre, slid over the bank in the Mi- lan narrows Towanda, and fell with her coupe to the Lehigh Valley rallroad 150 feet below The was pinned I and {t was with diffie fast passen. ger train was rltopped at a short from the wreck. She was to the hospital at Sayre, where she Is In a serious con dition Mrs. Elizabeth Yerkes Chester will celebrate her 107th birthday on July 22 of this year, had her halr bohbed by a friend, Mrs. Mary Cheyney Previous to this Mrs Yer keg had s p for her friends Her Zz flowing white locks had grown thin recently de cided to hav them in the style of this age, although she was opposed by her daughter, Mrs. Eis worth Darlington, with whom she Hyves every { Isadore from a heart attack brought his 4-year-ol n being gas f or vl ¢ wag placing Heense plates on his sutome In garage running After turned t him 13 The he revived the fut The mitted Men annour members will he the par Floyd Reeser ning, wer celebrate on the ley Richardson, of near tracks the car iity that No. K running east distance removed Plerce of who hotograph taken 10 and she trim ed inter Feviin, 48, of Scranton, died en hy wercome by new his morning. he found glass cutters new socks to await the ATTIVA the Members of lub distributed claration of Indep of nd Hagel George Orms) #3 0s miner versing wit Pulask!i Lodge will ff 4) Midd . Arthur v MY . hfork ® gt Ww Fallure § work wil of William When ldoyd rang the out He then eighbor to that he could enter neighbor agreed and king fron o hig own he slipped feet, suffering a fractured vas taken to the Misericor pital, where he died int ndmitted Dr. C. H. Bioom of Phillipshurg J.. has bean perintendent Hospital Accused of having robbed = sport ing goods store in Yernon Berryman, Clifford Goodman George Elsenhart, all of were arrested at Altoona A balance of S$A0.HINDTH in the Northumberland county ury at the end of the fixeal year Berwick council reelected all ough employes and increased the «ai ary of Police fanning $10 monthly. doorl 1et wa the ne rool t shortly appointed assistant at the 4 leowistown, and lewistown, remained tress wir Chief " - “PILGRIM” IS THE REAL GOOD EVAPORATED MILK our Put up in Attractive Cans and made | ‘Symco’ or ‘Pratt’s’ right here at home, ; | Ask your grocer for it by name General Merchandise, EGG MASH ae YOU'LL BE SURPRISED | P"™* S47 Evaporated = dk Say— | Poultry, Potatoes, Lard, HOCKMAN’S : “PILGRIM™ | Fish, Oysters and All Continental Condensed Milk Co. Kinds Country Produce 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 F. V. GOODHART FUNERAL DIRECTOR FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS, &ec. CENTRE HALL, PA, —FOR— GOOD GROCERIES AND General Merchandise GOOD GOODS in an ATTRACTIVE CLEAN STORE When you trade here—WE BOTH GAIN SPRING MILLS, PA. BATTERIES DEALER IN Guaranteed for two years by the manufacturers as well as ourselves Makes of Batteries Charged and Repaired. Insyde Tytes=ilowout Proof an Coffield Pure-Gum Tire Protectors 0.T.CORMAN F#Hi=S | . . PDIAMOMD GRID All FULL LINE PRATTS REMEDIES, | ’ BEEF SCRAP, OYSTER SHELLS | Preserved and Evaporated Milk | Bring me your eggs and poultry CLYDE A. SMITH PATTERSON S CENTRE HALL, PA. SPRING MILLS, PA. and receive highest market price CENTRE HALL, PA. BOALSBURG, PA. Bell Phone 37R2 | tre
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