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WERREIRE
B—A-N.K
CENTRE HALL
Where helpful service takes the |
place of just ordinary attention |
3 Per Cent Compound Interest
on Savings Deposits
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
aaltitth,..
COAL
Our Guarantee of Quality and Our
Service Go Whh 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 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 Pencing.
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
Just unloaded our Second Car of--
55 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.
STROHMEIER’S
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,
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.
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.
per cent. Laying Mash for
83.35.
A Combination That Spells PROFIT
Kerlin Poultry Farm
CENTRE HALL, PA,
And 17
“For Economical Transportation
A Chevrolet
THIS SPRING
“For Economical
more than a
Transportation” is
catchphrase. Own a
Chevrolet and the first few hundred
miles will thoroughly convince you of
its practical economy--on tires, gas
and oll. These are the big items in
the upkeep of your car. =
Homan’s Garage
Also
Tires. Expert Repalr Work
CENTRE HALL, PA.
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”
Continental Condensed Milk Co.
Preserved and Evaporated Milk
SPRING MILLS, PA.
retail stores than in all
the banks. Their sales
‘by any other class.
You can put the plus
business.
They are
the County.
PICTURES ARENOT |:
Them Very Useful in Their
Business.
Concerns Can Give Wrong
sions With lllustrations
Sticking to Truth
Descriptions,
While
in
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
“Figures never lle,” it has been
claimed, but this is far from the
truth. The defaulter who has “doc
tored™ his books In such a way that he
has escaped detection for years, knows
that figures can be made to lle. The
shrewd politician, who knows how to
Juggle statistics,
be m
the truth.
But there is another medium of ex-
a stickler for truth,
greater prevaricator
That is a picture. A picture of any
person or thing, supposedly, i= an ex-
act reproduction of the original, but
this is frequently only a wild suppo-
sition. The photographer who did not
but which
than
is a
and then would soon go out of busi-
ness from lack of patronage.
Pictures Better Than Words,
Pictures have come to occupy a very
in recent years, It has been sald that
for newspaper purposes a picture
which tells its story strikingly 1s worth
more than columns of written words
on the same subject. Newspapers and
magazines have realized the truth of
used profusely in (Nustrating the news
and fletion of the day
No one has been quicker to realize
the possibilities of the picture when
properiy—or it might be sald improp-
erliy—used, than the mail order man.
He has realized that a picture will
do more to sell his kind of merchan-
dise than a column of words and fig-
ures, One reason for this is that it
is harder to catch a picture in a lle
than it is printed words and figures,
For instance, if you sell a man a table
on the strength of a printed statement
that it is 48 inches wide and if when
the table reaches the customer it is
only 38 inches wide, the customer not
only has a moral right to kick, but
he has a legal right to accuse the sell.
er of obiaining money under false pre-
ever, if the
wks in a picture
+. but which
rrival to be only
legal grounds
aint if the
Customer
peas "in ble which lk
to be nches wide proves
no
upon
a com sell
t told him
table was
in so
the 48 in
Stick to Truth in Figures.
mall
many words
that hes wide,
un order
tage of this
wer of i
VAY.
in the acto
1 thelr eatnl
have
descriptions which
qualities and
offered,
jes of
which they to sell,
exag
appearances
but when it
measurements
are technically
Then these concerns rely upon
erate the
articles
inl
descriptions given
picture will make a
prospective buyer than the act.
A picture of a wide,
attract the eye and
will not stop to
ual figures given,
bed will
the reader probably
the catalogue to sce
whether it is as wide as desired. Fig
ures, in the abstract, mean little to the
average reader and do not convey the
impression that is given in the pic-
A former manager of a mail order
his concern manipu-
lated pictures in this way to suit its
purposes. It had pictures of (t=
retouched so that the legs
seemed to be an inch and a half In di-
ameter, when they were really less
than an inch. It made narrow beds
appear in the picture to be wide and
comfortable. Posts of iron beds that
were really an inch in diameter were
made to appear as if they were three
inches In thickness, These things are
easy for any competent artist to do.
Patrons Had No Recourse.
This concern. however, adhered rig-
idly to the truth in the measurements
included In the descriptions. Custom-
ers who found, when they received
their goods, that they were not what
they expected, could kick, but it would
do them no good. The mail order
house could show that it had set forth
the measurements truthfully in cata-
logues, and there was no recourse for
the customer,
There is no question but that ple
tures will lie, sometimes without any
manipulation, and the person who Lays
an article of merchandise from a pic-
ture ig taking big chances, even though
the picture is not intentionally altered
to give a wrong impression. Any ama-
teur photographer knows from experi-
ence how the camera often will give
a wrong idea of proportions,
The only safe method is to buy from
the local merchant where one sees the
article itself and not a picture of it.
The article itself cannot lie about its
dimensions, st least,
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
PHILCO.
DIAMOND GRID
BATTERIES
Guaranteed for two years by the
manufacturers as well as
ourselves
All Makes of Batteries Charged and
Repaired,
Insyde Tyres—Blowout Proof
and
Coffield Pure-Gum Tire
Protectors
CLYDE A. SMITH
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Te
The Saving Habit
Is a Good Habit
The optimist Is the fellow who pays
Inst week's board with next week's
WARES,
This Is the same person who opens
a Savings Account 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 saccessful men are optimists
who have paved the way with bank
deposit ships.
First National Bank
SPRING MILLS, PA,
$350
BUYS A BUICK 1917
5-Passe Excel
Condition with two Extra Cord Tires
IT'S A REAL BARGAIN
Here and See
nger Touring Car in lent
Come
Expert Repairing
ALL MAKES OF CARS
Hauser’s Garage
SPRING MILLS, PA
ON
———
STAR AND DURANT
Real Bargains in Used Cars
Come in and today
FETTEROLF'S GARAGE
CENTRE HALL. PA.
gel our prices
SPECIAL SALE
PN
KITCHEN CABINETS
NOW, $45.00.
All Over Stuffed Leather Rockers, $18,
All Other ROCKERS REDUCED.
$9.00
Best Vacuum Washer on market, $15.00
AND HOME-MADE CARPET
AT SPECIALS
John Smith & Bro.
SPRING MILLS, PA.
Cotten Combination Mattress
RUGS
«J AM NOW SELLING-
COAL
PRICES:
LUNP....
86c Per Cw,
37%e Per Cwt,
PEA ..obe Per Cwt,
NTT & STOVE . 8% Wer Cw.
A. M. GROVE
Coal,
AT THE FOLLOWING
PUNXSUTAWNEY and
CANNEL
Lime, Stone, Cement, Roofing,
Hay, Straw
SPRING MILLS, PA.
PATTERSON'S
GOOD GROCERIES
ND
General Merchandise
GOOD GOODS in an ATTRACTIVE
CLEAN STORE
When you trade here—WE BOTH
GAIN
PATTERSON'S
BOALSBURG, PA.
TT
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Wilkes Barre dark B
elles,
Center township, gave $1000 ball
fig Appearance at
charge of stealing
Ke yh
hip
Tewistown
presented an
Fifth ward
ceremonies,
Evan
tree while digging out shale
Herman Bower
broken and
instantly
Mayor
the police
tg anxwer
automobile cur
taing from
lem towns
with nol 11e
ith appropriate
Hie Ktruch by a falling
re
palring a
suffered
aimaost
Hazieton
dered
road, a5 ged
go
24, Leck adie a
Harvey has or
to pick up all young
i
men and women seen on the street
after midnight
Hazleton. — Frank
Adolph Kubuchi working
at Jeddo arrested, «
having
taken
vy ext
Abramschick
Were
deserted
to New York
("hester
from the
A conrdins
ning
vices from the
of the « pit
kind of explosive
she had Just places? on the
York. — Hanon
munity hote
making a drive
the erection of
town is one
and growing In
needed Improvement will add
to its facili
Seranton CC, 8
announced that he
On
fire
er i to have a com
The citizens now
obtain $350,000 for
the new structure. The
of the most
are
10
Prosperous
the county, and this
greatly
Weston
will bu 1d
natatorl
playgrounds,
banker
an aud
Westor
the
um at
Field gift
city
Washingion
bigamy in the
a8 0 to
The sire
} isiory
known
man, it was disclosed,
men at Dor
ing he war her real
the other man in
only a boarder. The
stranger aspect still
Scruggs, 35, one of the “hushands”
was arrested on a charge of bigamy
and in default of £2000 ball Is In Sail
awalting trial in court. The woman.
Mrs James Livingstone, married
Scruggs ag Miss Pearl Halnes, and
took him to the Livingstone home in
Danora. The men were emploved on
dilerent «hifts at a Donora mill and
the dval roles of the woman and the
men ‘lid not become known to either
man.
Altoona in down hy a traln west
of this city, Will!am Eckhard, a Penn-
s¥ivania track foreman, was killed
Lewistown Efforts ure being made
to obain a postoffice for Juniata Ter
race, the new village at lewistown
Junction, where there are 3080 per
sons to he served
Erie ~Announcement
projects, £3. 000.000
made during the last
construction work to
in the spring. I: Incl
apartments, one n skyscraner, a
gtory hank building, a new ¥Y W, ©
A. and a 1200-room elon]
Architects predict a £10.000000 bald
ng year, making a new Erie record
The city stood third In building in the
atate last year
Blom shure Uniiog earnenters
nounced that after April their
"i cents hom,
ngest
of Washington
here. A wo
lived with two
each of them
husband
the he
case oft
became
heliey.
and that
OTE,
yasehold was
case assumed n
when Frank
of hindi diva me
iG b,
fotaling have heen
of the
under
ides
week all
get way
two new
12
grade
an
rate wil
he an with an eight
hour day
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F. V. GOODHART
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FURNITURE
CARPETS
RUGS, é&c.
CENTRE HALL, PA.
Bell I'hone 37R2