LOCAL AND PERSONAL, ———————— si ———— Miss Anna Sweeney, of Boalsburg, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Jacobs, in Centre Hall, this week. days, on for a few at his home of grip. loozer, remain attack J. Shannon was obliged to account of an Mrs. Lucy Henney has a line of new spring hats which she invites the la dies to come and inspect, adv. Mrs, Col- sis of State guest of her H. Weber. of Irwin, vis- Mrs. J.7 Cloyd the week Edward Sellers, lege, was In town, a ter-in-law, Mrs, John Mys, Willlam Breon, ited her sister-in-law, Brooks, west of town, end, J. B. Rover, of Altoona, was a guest at the home of Mrs, Eliza beth Shirk, in Centre for a week Before returning to ited friends over his sister, Hall, his home he vis among in Bellefonte, A’ white navy drake was shipped here for Samue! H. Horner, tenant on the Spangler farm, Tusseysink., It is a fine specimen, will be the big drake in that region. The near day at and in the waters hose house, formerly oo & mill, on moved the Bradford afternoon was 10 near scale shed, east of the tion 1 present location is of ACCess, aspec is covered with Both IL. Kline, prox ind former to | | | Clemens Some time ago mention these columns of Mrs Ollie of Woodward, having undergone rious the to part again Cry } further Was n nat Clea WHS oper Ati but The Feidler hospital by Dr. Waterworth. WwW. WwW. Kerlin, manager the Grand View Poultry Farm of this place, -witl- install another Smith electric. 47, 000-exE capacity incubator within the next week. This gives the hatchery on the Kerlin farm a total egg ity of 364.400 eggs, or just twenty-four and one-half of egps undergo ng incubation at one time Frank Rines, a High school boy. on | Sunday afte return of last taken to treatment pital, able home, Mra, same week the latter was for of Capa tons rnoon was Walking OWT the concrete road from ¢ | va | in ha been very | 1g the week or | 1, at State College, | the irteries Mi resident past from hardening of ulcer of the stomach who toy was long several vow ting in been in good health Cox, a Missionary America for at the Col vening, Feb show some he brought China Ev- invited to attend fee, but China Rev Carson ww to China, who in at sevey We spon k will church on Monday « t. He will esting and’ cur him from ery one is cordially There i828 ho fering for received. months only. ! FTUATY 54 * “l® inter- alu ious things with Nanking an of will admission Missions "in be Relatives from a Mstance who at- tended the funeral of A. J. Weaver, on Saturday, were these: Carl A, Weaver, Willa J. Weaver, Harry J. Weaver, Wallace P. Weaver, Frank Zimmer: man and family, of Kutztown; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gelin, of Greens burg; Mrs. George Martz, Lemont: Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cressman and Mrs, Calvin Rossman, Siglerville: Mrs. Wm. M. Grove, Berwick: John Mease. Harry Eckiart, Mark Daley, Cressona; Mr. and Mrs. Calrence Hill, Reading: Clayton Bressler, Miss Breon, Mill- heim; Leonard Stover, Coburn; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frazier and family, Mrs. Arthor Cummings, Rebersburg: Mrs. Bamuel Estright, Mrs. J. O. Smith, Rev. Piper, Mileshurg; Mr. and Mrs Robert Glasgow and family, Belle fonte;, Roland Leitch, David Leitch, Mr. Fowler, Howard; Harry W, Decker — —— LOCAL AND PERSONAL The United States Civil Service Com mission has announced an examination to held at Hall to fill the position of rural mail carrier at Spring Mills, It was reported Wednesday morning that a flerce fire had been raging the night before in Willlamsport, Beside the destruction of a vast deal of prop- erty, lives ‘were lost, The Ladies’ Ald of the Methodist church hold supper in the school house at Potters Mills, on Friday evening of next week, from the hours of b to 8. Charles A. town be Centre several Sprucetown will an oyster Miller, of near Colyer, Wednesday off the ground for his ne which he will build on the cently purchased from DD. W Horner will build the to stake propertey lot he 1r«¢ Bradford foundation was in on Ww A oar from the Wednesday from a load of cows were Centre morning, Some on distance all before perhaps of them, were loaded eve ning bedded. cs A A MARRIAGE LICENSES, Penna ! “Night Life” in Mexico Secretly she Mexico Ig no holy city secretly she Indulges In all | vices: secretly her people poison themselves with alcohol and drugs cretly they assassinate each other She is a hypocritical city. She prac tices every vice that the modern world | has Invented for its self-annihilation. | She Induiges In the dissipations of | Paris and New York, but without the | Joy that gives them a pretense of ra- i tionality, or the craving for beauty and happiness that lends them a noble | pathos. In Mexico vice Is petty smd | affected—an alien parasite on the old | colonial life. We Mexicans are taciturn by nature Rarely does joy excite us to song and inughter, We know nothing of the high spirits of the French. Were person sing at midnight In he would seandalize citizen returuls with havi falthful a; to our | every £ 0 ti . rr g from the cinema, contented ng geen his stupidity from THE RICHELIEU THEATRE CONTINLOUSLY 2 M. 25e. Showing from to MP Adults, Children, 10¢ —————— TODAY (WEDNESDAY) Hing story of ayed Ad Romance and a A tr venture 4) back gre against of the Al the ( surging sea. Felix Comedies 10 and 2 =, Special ind ONLY “iy nt, Beecher Stowe Tom's Cabin) drama Best of ONLY Harriet Une le A startling fast Jazz P Run and | and | Or romance Comedies 10 and Also rst News, FRIDAY SATURDAY “SPANGLES"— The greatest circus picture ever seveened., Also “Adventures of Bill Grim” and Gumps latest Comedy: First Run News. Some show for 10-25¢ AND MONDAY AND TUESDAY (Next Wk) BIG DOUBLE BILL: “HED HEADS PREFERRED" The biggest lmugh of the year; HAROILAY TA0OYD IN" “CAPTAIN KID'S KIDS" with Bebe Daniels and all-star cast. Also Aesop's Fable and First Fun News, A great show for 10 and 20c. also isi WEDNESDAY (NEXT WEEK) “THE SIGN OF THE CLAW" Staged by the man who made BEN HUR. Al best of Comedies and Short and Jack G. Decker, of Centre Hall Subjects. ONLY 10 and 26¢. THE CEr “RE REPORT ER, CENTRE HALL, PA. SERS Nd CATUN LOCKS Increase of Freight via Panama Route, Largely Due to Oil Ship- ments, Indicates Rise of United States to Leader- ship of World's Commerce. By JUDSON C. WELLIVER | One of of | the striking evidences eial and industrial leadership of the | world, ig the Panama Canal, will al most certainly handle more freight in 1926 than will Suez. For several years the two canals have been In a neck | and neck competition whose implica | tions are the more Interesting be ! cause the Panama ditch is owned by | the American Government, and that | at Sues by the British Government | Of course both Canals are open to | the ships of all nations; and competition between them fi» not only | between the United States and Brit | ain, but In a larger and even more, plgnificant view it 18 competition be tween old world and new world. When the Panama Canal was open ed in 1815, Suez was already transit. ing about 25000000 tons of freight annually. Almost nobody believed | Panama could ever auract anything | approaching such a volume. But dur-| ing the war fear of German sobma- | rines In Mediterannean caused many vessels to take the Panama route the far cast rican poris the between Ane This gave | and it has] increased : 1923 1 ropean In in Ye barely ex Lad in ad But ite that ain’s in- | while Panama certain to 1926 s losing, owing Br dustrial depression, doing better and resume the load. The present | Canal has been in operation nearly sixty years, Pan ama only eleven, Although few peo ple except antigquarians know it, the first canal at Suez was built more than 3.000 years ago. It was in op eration as early as B. C, 1380; how long before, is mere conjecture. Be fore the Christian era began the ditch had been bullit, destroyed, rebuilt eilted up and built up again, time after time. When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt the Ca nal was one of the oldest of engi neering works, Between 1904 and 1915 the presen Panama Canal was constructed. It cost about $400,000,000, Suez about one-fourth that sum. But Suez is a simple, sea-level ditch across a sandy plain; while Panams is a lock canal, the greater part of ita length lying 85 feet above sea lovel, so that most of the distance from ocean to ocean fs through an artificial freshwater lake, is pretiy Suez Early Profits Unexpected When Roosevelt started building at Panama, neither he nor any other prophet of optimism would have dared suggest that within its first decade the Canal would earn a profit. Its chief justification concerned the national defense, and the establish. ment of competition with the trans continentalerailroads, Although both Canals are open to shipping of all nations, British ves- sels constitute the majority of those using Suez (565.8 per cent), while American vessels are 54.5 per cent of thosa using Panama. RIVER CROSSING the Suez r ¢ 24 nations were maritime caravan id War was not the only r in bringing Pana 10 equality with Sues, important, The enor Panama trafic in 1923 represented almost entirely by p leum and its products, mov. ing ¢ alifornia to the east coast and Europe 924, collected, unexpected fact ma so quickly nor the mous rease in 1Gon were of which 99.071.000 "the matter is that exactly 80 per cent of all tonnage through the. Casual was between the two Ocean frofita™ of the United Btates. that is, 13.500.000 toms; and of th tons, or more than two-thirds was pe treleum It from California, refineries In this petroleum hea but nd i R . en route to succeeding year movement fell off 1926 it Is again In increase is likely to But for the Canal would cit in every year of the for crearing a the con e years. eum business advantageous ntly increa 4 hipping Can gse OC y cheaply Panama and mill the mumber Moreover {11 still farther rmous oil Colombia, and American countries 102, AS fnerepaaon Panama adv as antage w eno sources of Venezuela other South are developed increas: the re. Great Service of Panama If cheap petroleum has thus served Panama so well, Pagama in turn has equally the American motor. ist, who consumes most of the world's petroleum products. For Panama has brought the Pacifics Coast petroleum to the eastern market at costs which, but for the Canal, would be vastly greater, Thus the Canal has given the United States the cheapest pe trolenrmy products in the world, and served T New Spring Arrivals Dt The latest Spring patterns in Coats just in from the city’s fash- ion centers. Prices at Nieman’s are always below any of our com- petitors. If you want NEW STYLES, FINEST QUALITY, and Most Reasonable Prices, Come to NIEMAN’S DEPARTMENT STORE MILLHEIM FEB'Y 2181 WEEK STARTING .» THEATRES... STRAND-- Big double Fazenda, Lloyd Minusa De Luxe MISHLER-- Mon. cal Fri STATE-- (Starting Sat, Feb, Ronald Coleman. ORPHEUM-- “The Big Lyrie Revue"—Musical Comedy. CAPITOL-- (Starting Feb, 19, Sat)—Norma Shearer In “Up Stage.” OLYMPIC-- (Strating Feb, 19, Sat.)—Lon Chaney in “Tell It To the Marines” Louise Ney raoris with Len Orehestra, at Play™ with and “The Trap,” used. Ten-plece feature—* Ladies Highe s: sereen Kenyon, Chaney. Danghter,~—Spe- Burlesqué., Thur, feature picture, “ Enlighten Thy mat. for ladies Wed. High-Class Vaudeville Tues, at Sat. ~usual and lecture and each only. 19)—*“The Winning of Barbara Worth,” with THIS FEATURE 18 FURNISHED THE REPORTER EVERY WEEK EY and our modern highway system. This mutually helpfal relationship betweon the Canal and the petroleum users is the more impressive when one realizes that it was not even re Roosevelt started building the Canal. So late, indeed, as 1910, when Admiral Evans wrote his articles about the Canal and decided that fit could not be profitable for several decades at least, he based all his cal culations on ‘the probable cost of coal for bunkering ships. He did not dream that merchant marines were on the verge of the revolutionary change from coal to oll. So he figured that, as there is practically no bunker coal in the countries burdering on the Pacific, that ocean could not com- pete, by way of Panama, for a great. ly increased share of shipping. The oll development overturned the proph- ecies of Admiral Evans, and of all others who h d foreseen that fuel problems would make Fanama um dent Por 1924, ships of 21 nations used rofitabl p ta a a a ” - L Biediiihehiieiedh dhe hihehe hdiedieiieiedidhididhihdhhe didie diid PPPOE PPT EPTPEOPI PCCP LEPPPOPS 4 4 wed te Hogs’ Delight AUTOMATIC FEEDER Is Dependable and Profitable. The Greatest Labor Saver Ever. Every Feature Necessary to a REAL SELF FEEDER. Self-Feeds Swine NATURE'S WAY. Size A-6 Stall, Feed Capacity 540 Ibs. Size A-10 Stall, Feed Capacity 900 Ibs. i Start today on the Road to Bigger Profits C. T. 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