FIRST a B—A—N—K CENTRE HALL } 1 i | { Where helpful service takes the | place of just ordinary attention | 3 Per Cent Compound Interest | on Savings Deposits C. P. LONG CO. GENERAL MERCHANDISE and... COAL Our Guarantee of Quality and Our Service Go With Everything We Sell. SPRING MILLS, PA. When You Need | i A REAL MACHINE JOB Done or | some EXPERT WELDING, bring it to | me and I will do it RIGHT! I Am Also 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. 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 eof Town SATISFACTION GUARANTEED QUALITY MERCHANDISE and SATISFACTORY SERVICE Now, Mr. Customer, on this motto we solicit your business Just unloaded 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. ad STROHMEIER’S MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Cemetery Memorials STROHMEIER’S CENTRE HALL, PA. ITS A REAL GOOD CAR ANY MOUNTAIN IN THIS VICINITY J. S. 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 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 $3.50. And 17 per cent. Laying Mash for | $3.25 Kerlin Poultry Farm CENTRE HALL, PA. A Chevrolet THIS SPRING “For Economical Transportation” more than a catchphrase. Own a | Chevrolet and the first few hundred mies will thoroughly convince you of {its practical economy-—on tires, gas land ofl, These are the big items in [the upkesp of your car. Also Tires. Expert Repalr Work CENTRE HALL, PA. this country. There is retail stores than in all More taxes are paid other kind of business in more money invested in the banks. Their sales industry. by retail merchants than You can put the plus business. Booster for these towns, They are the County. BY HARD TIMES Burden Is Lightest in Communi- | ties Boasting Live and Thriv- ing Towns, He Is Most Vitally Interested in Prosperity of Nearby Cities. (Copyright, 1517. Western Newspaper Union who has to pay them—but taxes some communities are much than in others, If you have ever have discovered that the are found In the most prosperous com- munities. And there's a reason. lowest taxes because amount of wealth in the aguinst which the taxes may sessed, There are chants with large stocks of goods up- on which taxes are levied. Property there is he industries which pay a large propor tion of the taxes, the greater the weaith of the comma- lower tax on each hundred dollars of valuation is required to produce the necessary revenue for the administra- ments, . Other Taxes Are Raised. On the other hand, take a dead town. Property values are low. Merchants’ stocks are small and they have little money in the bank. Industries which ordinarily pay a large part of the taxes of a community have closed down. There are vacant store bulldings which were formerly filled with stocks of merchandise upon which the owners paid heavy taxes, Who pays the taxes that were once paid by the mechants, the manufacturers, the bankers and the men who had large holdings of high-priced property! The taxes to conduct the city and county govern ments, to maintain the schools, to bulld Who pays them? The man who owns his little home or the vacant lot or two upon which he has been planning to build his home the merchants, the padkers, the manu- | facturers and the big property owners who bore the heaviest burdens of tax. | ation when times were good. | The farmers in the country sur rounding the town are also among the heaviest sufferers from the ebbing of the town's prosperity. A certaln amount of money raised by taxation to provide for the expenses of the county. Roads must be built and kept in repair. Bridges must be built and maint of county officers must institutions for the care and the poor must be maintain unties which contals one | thriving towns, a large the taxes for the county sre paid by the towns. The greater the wealth of the towns aud the higher the prop { erty valuations, the lower the tax levy | for the entire county. When the tax | levy is low the burden placed upon the | farmer is light. Burden Falls on Farmer. When the county contains no pros perous and wealthy towns, the greater { part of the burden of taxation for the | falls upon the farmer. The value of the farmer's property does not { fall in proportion to the value of the | property in the town and the higher | tax levy that results from the lower property values in the towns makes { his taxes higher. The farmer forgets at times that he {| is vitally interested In the prosperity of “his town." He thinks that it is up | to the town to take care of itself and | that it Is up to him to take care of himself and he overlooks that fact that the prosperity of the town means as much to him as it does to those who { live in it. The farmer who is inclined to overlook this fact has only to think of the matter of taxes and he is likely to change his point of view for taxes { are one thing that neither he nor any- | one else can escape, and they are one thing in which the farmer ordinarily | takes a very lively interest, How Farmer Can Help. There is just one way In which the farmer can best promote prosperity in the town near wich he lives and that is by spending his money in that town instead of sending it away to the far- distant city. Every time the farmer sends an order to a mail order house he helps to destroy the prosperity of his own community and to boost his own taxes. When he sends a dollar away from home he gets none of it back. When he spends a dollar at hotne, a part of that dollar comes back to him in some way. It helps the town where it is spent to provide a profit able market for his products and it helps the town pay a large part of his taxes, The farmer is the one man in the community, above all others, who should have no love for the mall order houses for they are doing more to add to his troubles than any other one agency. must be gained, Salaries be pald. Cou of the ed. In more proportion of or county 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. “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 SPRING MILLS, PA. 0.T. I. 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 - The Saving Habit Is a Good Habit The optimist Is the fellow who pays Inst week's board with next weeks Wages, This Is 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 suecessful 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, STAR AND DURANT Real Bargains in Used Cars Come in and get our prices today FETTEROLF'S CARAGE CENTRE HALL, PA. SPECIAL SALE ee N pe KITCHEN CABINETS NOW, 845.00, All Over Stuffed Leather Rockers, §IK All Other ROCKERS REDUCED. Cotton $9.00 Best Vacuum Washer on market, $15.00 RUGS AND HOME-MADE CARPET AT SPECIALS Combination Mattress. . John Smith & Bro. SPRING MILLS, PA ~f AM NOW SELLING-— COAL AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES: PUNXSUTAWNEY and LUMP.... ..30¢ Per Cwit, ..37%e Per Owl, Sec Per Cwih ..89%¢ Per Cwi CANNEL PEA NUT & A.-M. GROVE Coal, Lime, Stone, Cement, Roofing, Hay, Straw SPRING MILLS, PA. STOVE DIAMOND GRID BATTERIES Guaranteed for two years by the manufacturers as well as ourselves All Makes of Batterfs Charged and Repalred, Insyde Tyres—Blowout Proof Coffield Pure-Gum Tire Protectors CLYDE A. SMITH , CENTRE HALL, PA. PATTERSON'S FOR GOOD GROCERIES AND General Merchandise G00D GOgDE 1%, ARTRACTIVE When you tafe, ete~WE BOTH PATTERSON'S BOALSBURG, PA. CTR TI Sa Berwick. Inuries suffered in a galt caused the death of Mrs, Alvin Coles, long a resident of this place, Gliberton.—George Ormsky, aged 85, a miner, died suddenly while convers- ing with relatives and friends. Hazleton. —Members of the Hazle- ton Rotary Club distributed coples of the Declaration of Independence and United Btates Constitution in all of the school rooms of the city, West Hazleton and Haze! towmship Hollidaysb James CC. Duysart, philanthropist, has given $87,500 to the Presbyterian Home for Aged Wo men in this city to complete first unit of the home, which will be named In his honor. Tamaqua. —His tf protruding pipe ing on a motor in the and Navigation Company's shaft, Wallace Sneddon, years, was Instantly killed Plains Thomas Duddy, of Youngs town, OO. wag struck by a Laurel Line car on a ! ¢ and probably fatally injured Philadelphia. —Faliure take the key to his home to work with him caused the death of Willlam Lloyd, 1618 South Conestoga street. When Idoyd arrived at his home he rang the doorbell, but his wife was out He then his next door peigh- bor to » their roof go that he cou! 1 e . The neigh- bor agreed. and while lloyd was walk ing fron . roof to his own twenty feet, He was ianken to 2 ospital where he dled shortly aft being admitted Bunburs “oron aid that an in the death of Walle child had : der b plerced ware I« sRvag« said he ! Pitts worth of morris Nelson Bridge Con las county, W. ¥ lee of Washingtor arrest of city, were found | ings and Trust Ce urg abdomen plerced by he wag rid- Lehigh Coal No. 12 aged 28 while ridg to asked use fell snoring = fering arrest inughter Thy a J the D. C. af wrge 1. Miller én the McGlllick Sav- mpany's bank here, No fnformation was received from the Washington police relative to the presence of the bonds here or why they are wanted Williamsport —ngineer V. F. O'Brien and Plreman William Breen, both of Buffalo, were killed when the Phila delphia-Buffalo express on the Penns sylvania refiroad lefy the tracks near Keating. The locomotive rolled over on its side, but the baggage car, din- ing car, two day coaches and two Pullmans, although leaving the ralls did not overturn Ooatesville Acting quested order from authorities here, the Chester county have rural postmen to carry “feed for the birds” with on their routes Since the rece ywitorm the pheas ants, grouse and quall have been without sufficient nourishent to keep them allve and the game officials are doing everything within thelr power to preserve them. Nearly every car rier takes with him a bag full of wild rice or corn in his journey through the coumtry sections and at different intervals placese the food where the birds will find it Shenandoah Council sold a bond issue of $200,000 at auction to Phila delphia brokers Lock Haven. fer the (34 that under a re the state game postmasters of instructed thelr them nt snd The mid-year Rtate Sabbath Bchool conference will be held here March 0, 10 and 11. Hazleton.— Apout 200 girls employ. ed at the Progressive silk mill at West Hazleton struck because of the discharge of one of thelr number Hazleton, Twenty-four crippled children from this city and vicinity were operated upon by a Philadelphia specialist at a clinic under the aus pices of the Rotary (It i. Glasgowm-—Crushed by a fall! of coal in a Ine William Holland died while being taken to a hospital Shenandoah Rev. John P. Briges, of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, cele brated his 15th anniversary as rector. Altoona. Run down by a shifting engine In the Pennsylvania railway yards, Charles I. Shellenberger, a car Inspector, lost both legs, dying five hours later, ~ wt F. V. GOODHART FUNERAL DIRECTOR FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS, &ec. CENTRE HALL, PA. Bell Phone 37R2 {
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