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VOL. U AM,
CENT
RE HALL, PA.,
APRIL
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N(). 1
GRANGE LECTURERS
TAKE COURSE Af
.e on
P. 8d
dina and
rhout
Mra
ror,
Willis
xtension
bein
of
department
rns the
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ry § Kerns termed the cou
successful ang out
cularly poin
the conference
omy mily
videspread
FTAngers.
Group
d Rosalind
dist; Beat'y
nd Im C
n John, agricultural
Russell,
Nor
instructor
They
had
umnong
resources
interest the
jeaders were Kenneth
Jowett,
Dimit Slippery
Johnstown ;
extension Spex
Rock
Gross,
economist
and
and
al
a devel
Rev
Ray
sociologist |
Seth
rad Duncansvilla
Conger in physic:
tr lopment
cation CIV nd rec
discussed
INTRODUCES
ro SELI A
RECKER BILY
CEMETERY
MWC ker, of Centr«+ county
Sta‘s
to
the
ont Of
departm
jars soll the land
a hich
o for u AS a
purchased
VAT
acquired
military
The land
Meodore
timg no
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“123 MILLION PEOPLE" DO
WANT CERTAIN
Huntingdor a
March 27, 19837
NOT
1 nt re
‘antre Hall
sntlemen
yond
‘fie Reporter
Pa.
Encl
wyment
ription to
"37
foci
The
Reporter
or nt rt
was inters
pending
JONeY i
standing
nser to the
they would
truth.
Very truly
EDWARD ER.
stick
YOurs,
WEBER
CONGRESSMAN FOCHT DEAD.
Benjamin K. Focht,
wl newspaper publisher, of Lewis-
turg, died Saturday night in a taxi-
sab in Washing®onn, D. C., on his
wy to a hospital. He had become 74
vears old on March 12th. The body
sas shipped to Lewisburg where bur-
jal was made on Wednesday.
He served in the State Senate from
1901 to 1904 and was first elected to
Congress in 1907.
Hs was a son of a Lutheran min-
ister. A wife and daughter survive
him
CONETressSmar
AA ——
‘Borne of our, people are complain-
ing that the dollar
cheap and that prices
high. Also we hear fear expressed
that the public debt is becoming so
large as to be dangerous, yet the facts
are that such public deit today, in
terms of gold and commodities, is not
nearly so large, burdensome, or dan-
gerous as the debt inherited by the
present administration.”—8enator ¥El-
mer Thomas, Oklahoma.
i= already too
Ara Now too
W. Atlee Burpea & Co, seedg are the
most dependable garden seeds that
can be bought anywhere in the United
States. Bold in bulk by H. P. Schaeffer
Hardware, Bellefonte, x17
WEDDINGS
NEFF—=BRENNAN,
bride
The
age
of
Iblue
bride
by
Kingston
herr bHirot!
igh
fur
sn
ensenm wolfe
{with a worries [ DAVY blue
| wore Hl
rOSO8
vil
‘pink sweet
ley
Mrs
Wore
Bre:
Crone
HETTINGER-JODON.
RIPKA—
Charles
farm
Shawv
cently
SHAWVYER.
Ripka, living on
of Spring Mills,
er of Penn township, were
married. The couple wil
on the Ripka farm where
has been
tions for
the Ripka
west
re.
live
conducting farming
several years.
opera-
A A— tl a
STATE MAY TAKE OVER 13
MILES GF ROAD IN CENTRE
Addition of more than thirteen
miles of rural roads in Centre county
tc the Sta‘'e Highway system
posed by a series of billg
by Assemblyman J. W.
Mills,
Decker would bave the Stat, take
over the following roads: 4.3 miles
from Houserville north in College and
Benner townships to Route 346: 8
mile from near Lemont westward in
College township. .7 mila from near
Shingletown norfhwest in Harris and
Spring townships: 26 miles from
Route 871 north in Benner and S|pring
townships to Route 346 at the Belle
fonts borough line: 53 miles from
near Curtin northeast jin Boges and
Howard townships to a point near
Howard borough: and Route 14052 ex.
tending northwest in Gregg township
to Route 306 near the iregg-Potter
township line.
is pro.
introduced
Decker, pring
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Remember the time when we were
told to BTAND UP for our rights?
HARRIS TWh
PAYMENT
GETS S1LS10.97
ON SCHOOL PROJE(
Andre
tain
THOMPSON, BOALSBLU RG,
KILLED IN MOTOR
LOTT
{OREN BORE RS
IN
INCREASS
CENTRE COUNTY CROP
inte
of the new year,
Corn borers are fond also of farmers
cobs lying
and barnyards
they think all
do poor of
are
i who leave
jaround the buildings
and they think. if
{that farmers who
| plowing under
fine fellows,
Unfortunately
stalks and
at
a
cornstalks
job
pretty
the only way
borers have of showing thelr appreci-
ation get hosy, multiply, and
not replenish the earth but eat all the
corn that they can, says County Ag-
ent R. C. Blaney That i= just what
makes them so dangerous to the Cen-
tre county corn growers. Yes, ft is
Centre county and not other
place that has a corn problem
now.
Back
counteq
corn
is to
some
borer
in 1928 corn borers were
in the second decimal place,
only .06 or one per vent here in Cen-
tre county, Last fall; however, the
infestation was up to 27.08 per cent
In 1931 the infestation was 2.5 per
cent A general cleaning of stalks
and refuse on farms followed and as
a result, the infestation dropped («
less than one stalk in a hundred in
1932. The following year the number
of infested stalks was less than half
of the preceding year's figure.
Then the number began to increase,
three times ag many in 1934 a= in
1933, 10 times ay many in 1936 as in
1934, and last year more than one.
fourth of all the stubbles examined
con‘nined borers. The average on 17
farms in five communities was 27.08
per cent. Corn that was topped re.
vealed as much as 38 per cent less
CONFIRMATION, BAPTISMAL
LUTH., CHARG
Warren
baptiz
nemoery
srr
MILLS
HOLY
COMMUNITY
WEEK SERVICES
1
\
STUDENTS
CONTENT
PENN STATH
ARF WINNERS
od
in
orsbhureg
ral cation
won
od
COUraes
first pri
students in
at the
College competed
of the hydraulic
walter system,
Ralph F. Harbach Jr.
omore in agricultural
prize in the
was sponsored by a
turing concern
ex IN An
wericuitural
Pennsyly
contest which
engineering
ania State
Ha wroty on
ram in a moderr
Livonia,
education,
Contest
Virginia
soph-
won
which
manufac
sevond
EE ——— A A ———————
COLLEGE STUDENTS TO SIT
IN “MODEL” LEGISLATURE
Twenty-three students will repre.
sent the Pennsylvania State College
when 400 delegates from eastern ool-
legegy meet in Harrisburg, April 98-11
to act as a "model jegislature” at the
annual Intercollegiate Conferences on
Government,
The general assembly to be formed
by the delegations will go through the
procedures of a legislature in intro-
ducing bills bolding committees meet-
ings and voting on legislation submit.
ted.
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Lightning struck an
occupied gt the time only
children of Mr. and Mrs
inson,
humble home
by the three
. George Rob-
Thursday morning While the
house and all furnishings were totally
destroyed none of the children were
injured.
a el tl AT.
The supper to be served bLy the
Ladies’ Ald of the Sprucetown M.
E. church on the 10th has been post.
poned to the 17th of April
MOVINGS IN (CENTRE
DOWN TO
|
| HALL
FORINT HOAs
HISTORIC OLD OAK TREF
RO
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“THE TIGER" APPEARS
i Then ti
{ verti
ore is the :
business
of which
difficult
wg from local men
j without “The
{ Tiger”
the support
would have
Yive
The leadership of the English
er, Mrz. Agnes E. Jamison,
stands out in ail the work,
her great credit is due for a
while school enterprise
teach-
clearly
and to
worth-
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The percentages of illjterates
Centre county is not as hgh as In
either Blair or Clearfielg county. The
percentage runs 2.2 in Centre 26 in
Bair and 35 in Clearfield.
in
DISASTER STORY
PUBLISHED IN THIS
WEEK'S ISSUE
Expedited service permits the
Reporter to give its readers in
today’s issue a complete story
of the New London, Texas,
school explosion late last week
which snuffed out the lives of
several hundred children and
teachers.
A special corps of correspond-
ents was moved to the scene im-
mediately. The story in today’s
issue is the result of their
work, giving a vivid description
of the catastrophe,
“TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
FROM ALL PARTS
5 must
g Tor beer loense
¥
«
The morn-
clock
bidding | { :
Hairy Johns ©
Mile
privileges on
‘opeida Park in
along NO
was outhid by
Union county
place for ten
Keven
45. Harry H
John Hickernell,
Mensch had been on the
years owns the
building in which he will oon-
tinue to do business until] May first
At that time Be buildings will be
razed and reconstructed on 5 site west
Mr, Mensch
Narrows
Mensch
’
route
o
and
The high
price of horse power ree
itself in the mje of farm tract.
When horses were cheap and
products the same the tractor
farmg left stand in the
and few new ones were sold
ore,
i= be
Farmalls
DW
each to Ralph
and Charles
into service
the local agent,
inciude one
John Rimmey
sold by
Bohn.
W. Bieber Rishel son
Mrs. W. F. Rishel,
al home during the Eastes vacation
from school work. Mr. Rishel is serv.
ing his second or third year as super.
visor of agriculture in the Darlington
{Beaver county) Vocational school, and
is also athletic coach. The school i=
made up of some seventy pupils and is
doing good work in the class-rooms
and also in athletics, Mr. Rishe] is a
graduate of Penn State ang i= thor.
oughly prepared to follow the profes
sion of teaching and supervising.
of Mr. and
wag at the parent-