i 1 Ul 0 /d VOL. Cli. == FIRES AT SPRING MILLS Then from Week-——Ross- Burned As Last and Rearlek Two Months Earlier. Buildings Sites Store Same mnp Store Destroyed LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS Royer Says It Zero North Was 25 Dakota. W. kL. Below in T™ Dear Editor: 1 bey is e tl m ) : for $150 payment. It reach- Saturday e has check os me every January month many degrees below zero. Ev just the same Yester above zero. Today it down some wit light snow. Flu is still with us. The following tells of a giant freight engine that to through our town soon. and 1 believe it will be of great interest to you Eastern people The largest steam locomotive In the world, which measures nearly half the length of an ordinary city block and three times the length of a standard freight car, has been constructed Tor the Northerfi Pacific rallway and i= now enroute from the enstern mang- facturing plant. This leviathan of the rails which 126 feet long, wag «fipped recently the American Locomotive company from its plant at Schenectady, N Y. It is experimental and of the four: cylinder simple Mallet type. It is ex- pected to arrive at St. Paul, the head quarters of the Northern Pacific way. some time this month. The enormous proportions of this lo- comotive, which will ride the rails on 44 wheels, including 12 on the tender, were conceived ita designers and builders with a view to burning semi. bituminous coal, of comparatively low heating value, which is obtained from an open pit mine in the Rosebud coal field in southeastern Montana, This mine is operated by the Northern Pa aifie, ber fve are: In working order, with coal and wa. tet, it weighs 1,116,000 pounds. Ite helght from the top of the rail is 16 feet and 4 inches, It has a pormal tractive power of 140,000 pounds and a total tractive power of 153,400 pounds, including the trafler type booster, with which the en. gine ig equipped. The firebox. which is built to provide the greatest heating surface for burn ing the semi-bituminous coal, ls equip- ped with five thermic syphons, three of w inter-Mke old been heen 4 not so It up here, but fia other places has 25 in out | 14 | eryhody fay it was a in pass Is by i. adi by features of this super-locomot- wills a i — (Continued on next column) AGREE ON TERIANS Be Me Reached at Alliances by Joint Pitthurgh Compact Churches Further lp Sales of Real Estate. Feeding Game In Seven Moun nint that ni sede : mn that sentatives shor tak of tt ng are rons f you is the t f fall game Humanity may but so-called, the ing next fall and feeding “inte this now me take care « route prex favor dumb imals, therofore red ani per cent. sportsman. wlies © wiing, fa'ns 3 1 not eo unt- to hund- which are in the firebox and thd «combustion chamber. the including the combustion wide: ong a total area, It of special 19 feel 2 inches wide. foot the grate is by 6 feet of 182 6 sxjuare mechanical stoker, design and delivering firebox hourly has a is crushing, to the two In inches which gallons of water and 27 tons of the boiler by two centrifugal The engine fs equipped with all safe operation, train stop including be placed In through Dickinstn between and Mandan, it will operate ia of undulating one train conl, pumps Yours very WwW. IL. CIVIL CASES, to Be Court, | Nineteen Prosersutlons A at Fehruary of Cadet Rover Salling Seas, ver takine ral ) surge to be follow The age which ning = fhe vo twran Friday Trinidad, and other ports on the Span covering sea distance of They will return to PO#l first of April Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Rishel Celebrate. The fAfty-sixth of ‘a former Potter township was recently at Anthony. Kansas. Reference is made fo Mr and Mra. Aaron IJ Rishel, who were mar. ied by Rew J. Max Tongsdorf. Mr. flishe?! will be recalled as the ath d of Mr. and Mrs John ishe!l. Both Aecenmed Mra Rishoel Before marriage Annie Spangler. daughter of taco Spangler, the only member of the Spangler family. The five sons of Mr. and Mrs Rish- and thelr respective families, made targe part of the group who cel. ehmted the event on tncludes stops at Barbados, rasan sh main 4.488 mil adelphin a os the martiage anniversary couple colobwated aon won Miss ol, un a MERCHANTS CLAIM MUCH LOSS OF TRADE Lock Haven's Drastle Enforcement of Trafle Regulations Sald by Wer chants to Have Bronghi Loss to Them of Nearly $100,000, At a meeting of the Lock Haven Merchants Association, held at the St Paul's BEplkcopal parish house, Lock Haven, on Firday night, the results of the drastic enforcement of traffic reg ylations was discussed, the claim De. Ing made that the merchants had Tost in trade between $75,000 and $100,000 because of It The statement was made that rural residents, trading in Look Haven, Tad heen subject to fines for parking against the rules, etc, the city treas- ury receiving $3000 from this source last year, and that these people were now bhoveotting Lock Haven mer chants, It was decided to ask the Chamber of Commerce and the Motor fssoctn: tion to join with the merchants in an effort to persunde the proper authors ities to make thelr rules less drastic. THU RSDAY, Won and by Musxie Elght Compete for Prizes elyn Colyer—Playlet Also Part of Program, - rts OF PEXNMNS YALLLEY MINISTERIY A Well Known Holelman Dead, Work for the present at He "Velled dong the Brush Valle road eset of town, has heen suspended The cleaning wp of the main mys the proprietor, C in abhaut from aver cavern Edward Haupt, About 400 foot the mouth a stream of walter was found. and indications point to a lnrge cavern 2000 feet further on Five auxiliary caverns some as nich as 150 feet In length, have been opened. These wonderful formations, pools and basins of water, slopes and erevices are oalouinted to give t sghtiscer plenty of thrills The two farm houses purchased in connection with the cave will he fur nighed with a view of accommodating touristiea and outing parties Cotiages will also be erected later, completed re A LM Mr. #24000 VERDICT FOR SELINSGROVE COMPANY Jury In Case Against Thoee Insure ance Companies, on Trial for Near. Iy Two Weeks at Lewlsharg, Brought ‘In Verdiet. The jury In the case of the Selins- grove Silk Milla company against thrée insurance companies, which has been on trial before the Middle District of Pennsylvania Federal court at Lew. isbuirg for nearly two weeks, brought in a verdict for the plaintiff of $24.000, The case ia of special interest here because of the fact that stock is nield » a number of persons in this sec: tion, The case was brought following the refusal of the insurance vompanies to pay Insurance on policies held by the Silk Mil company, following a fire at the mill. The insurance companies claimed that the assets of the Silk Mill company were greatly exaggemted, and also that there was evidence that the fire had originated from causes with- in control of the owners of the in: sured property. The taking of testimony In the oh was completed Friday and the ocase given to the jury. This was the last nee for this term of court NO. G. T. V. SCHOOL NOTES. Orblsonia WIN Friday Pu Rpring Mills ght—Petershurg Bad- by at on ly Beaten March. Play Senlor Class In Property Sold, Prayer for M jsnlons, EE Districts Teachers Ralaries, Sdheol Receive Money On $5.702 distr The Stat 935.72 the teachers’ portion i= $0646 089 up In Wi ships. Centre last week sent out to 2.34% rural school te in its contribution toward county's Hiale as salaries Centre were held town. Payments siker and Snow Shoe od from for one-half be received Hall borough recely this fund $1577. This year: the remainder will in August, —— A A ———————— Shipping Potatoes. John RBlmuser, of Potters Mills perintending: the shipping of soveral ear loads of potatoes to Ialtihore thie week to the well known firm of wth & Pressley, The first oar, fond ing of which begun on Monday whan from the majsed hy John L Rimmey, south town Shipments will be comtinved by Mr Blauser, provided growers are willing to sell, The price paid ir 45 cents per bushel f= je mus was crop of Lutheran Minister's Sudden Death. Rev. In P DD. Lutheran clergyman and superintendent of the Allegheny church, died sudden. The funeral sérvices afternoon at Jfs Young, prominent missionary synod of the TLatheran ly Friday night. were held Monday home, Dr, Young, who was also president of the board of directors of the Sus. quehanna University, was aged 54 years, and was a native of Belleville, Mifflin county. Besides his wife, who was formerly Mise Margaret MacCuls um, of Belleville, he is survived by three children: Prof. Donald Young, a member of the faculty of the Hollidays- burg High school. Miss Dorotily Young, a member of the faculty of the Salis. burg High schools, and Miss Marga: ret Young, a student at Susquehanna University, A brother, Butler Young, of Lynch, Ky. also survives mt ——— — tt —— Dues Social The annual dues social by the local W. OC. T. U. will be held in the High School building on Saturday night, All members are invited. Light refresh- ments will be served. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. a tog de this the wig ade well ae at ticle Ww adverse and hold & . In inet postery well kind of advertise itiv State College their walks of fined by the burgess under an ordinance providing a for ne* glect of performing this important duty. The burgess made personal inspection of the walk before imposing fines The fines 0 something footed $150.00. a Ww In neglected WN nne a up Hke born to ‘Mr and Gross, in Bellefonte, on Sat” The youth tipped the pounds. No name selected at the time this hotio wak written. Toe mother, before mage riage, was Miss E Jien Meeker, daughe ter of Mrs Clara Meeker, at Potlery Millis A Qauvghter Mra. Philip urday evening. scales to was ten bean Under a new wage scale adopted bY the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the trackmen will receive an advanoe of one cent an Jour, equal to a bit more than $2.06 per month. Foreman Hartley, as well as other track fore men, will receive $2.50 more per month, These are the only employees about her affected by the new scale We hate been having uniformiy cold weather during the past two weeks, The thermometer has been firting about between 14 and 20 degrees much of the time. Fields are nicely Covers ed with snow, held down by a crust which prevented roads being blocked with it, except where conditions for dirfting are unusually bad With potatoes moving at 45 cents pes bushel, it will Hardly be necessary to call a special session of Congress to give ald to the agricultural class. Many farmers will recall what hap~ pened g'few years ago when the tariff on wheat was raised. If they have forgotten it wag this: The market price of whent a week later wae high er in Canada than in the States The Methodist Episcopal coldgrch at Warriors Mark was totally destroyed by fire the st Sunday of Januar. at about noon, a short time after a morning service had closed The loss is estimated at $40.000, The chureh wig a frame structure and was bul't in 1813, and semodeled at varie times since. There wae $12.000 neo. ance carted. <A, faulty flue f« supph of x to have boon the cause of the fire.
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