SE Ihe Centre Democrat, T DIRECTORY, DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICERS Oongreass, Hon Jxo. Patron, Btate Senator, Hon. W. W. Brrrs, Clearfieid Representatives, Hou J, A. Woonwany, Hou. L. Ruoxe. Pr sident Judge 40th Dist, Contre and Nuntingdun Hon, A, 0. Furst, Bellefonte Associate Judges, Hon. O, MuNsox, Hon, Daxigt Ruoas, Conaty Commissioners, Jyo, 0, HENDERSON Jno DD, Doser, M.D Fripcea Com missioners’ Clerk, MATTERN Sheriff, Row'y Cook, Jn. Deputy Sheriff, K. K. WiLsoxn, Prothonotary, L. A. Scuacrrsa. Treasarer, Cyuvs Goss Begistar and Clerk Orphans’ Court, Jxo. A. Rure Recorder, xo, FF Hanren Dep puty Recorder, Pe District Att Coroner, Ii County Det LODGES, gol'sfonte Lodge No. 268, A. Y Ww &ht oa or before avery fall m Bolie o Chapter No, 241, meets on the first Pri Ay night of ever; month, mn Comstans Commandery No. 33 K. T riday night of every month Centre Lodge No 155, 1.0.0 F , on the second meet avery Thurs lay evening at 7 o'clock at 1. 0. O. F. Hall, opposite | jush House. Bellefonte Encampment No snd fourth Mondays of posite the Bush House, Bellefonte Conncil Ni uf U. A.M. meets every Tuesday evening in Bush A reads, , meets the second th in the Hall op- 72 onch mow ) a0, 1 1actl ied, Iny Logan Branch Oo Junior Order U M. mosts every ¥ evening Bellefonte Cunclave No ris’ New Buildiag the second and ning of each month. Bellefonte Fencibilos Co, “B.” 5th Reg. N moots in Armory Hall avery Friday evening fourth Friday eve Gg. pr CHURCHES Presbyterian, Howard street, Pastor Service y Sunday at 1 M. Sanday School (Chapel) at Mecting (Chapel ) Wed M. BE Church, Howard « Monroe, Pastor NN. an PN Ry = Meeting Wednesday at 7 Joh P Rev Laurie Wm. SOA M.and 7 . BYe nesday at 7-30 3 ang 2 v Sand Sa ial stant ¥ Oh wad some § To The H See Ooursely 2 Was In LF} 4 m, which in the list of the Centennial i Millbeim the ancient borough of | now ranks t 1 4 espe would be interes 1 n SEH wns of our State bel ¢ An eving he cit and vic RIV, BADR § al It er sted in a pen picture of n, and people, in order that they may see ithers see \ the word" them A in the stay here Millhe ils "Dooms "89 ® t Your ¢ WORD Is ¢ ymparitive and business some shat 1 yquiet, giog, but Millheim was not a “Dead duck" by ADY means as your readers will learn i fi) fn ey will keep their eyes e until it is finished, tur town contains over seven hun- yb tants, and almost every that trade and industry » mon to ir is carried an here. The general ap- pearance of the town as one enters it South the large from the and sees number of new and that proce al once suggests the t} Millheim coming to the front and h sndeome edfices wad AY e been erected others #s of erection, ight thai is that it will not be long until it will rank among the most enterprising towns of the State. There are in it, a number of large and costly churches mostly built of pressed brick snd afler the most modern and tasteful architectur- al designs, which indicates that its in- habitants generally are a church going and God-fearing people. Tne school house which is fairly in the Centre of the town is a commodious wooden strutcure, bul it baving been built a number of years ago it is hardly up to the standard, nevertheless the educ- tions! Interests of their children are sealously cared for’ and the schools under the principalship of Prof. F, Foreman are well patronised and is » highly prosperous condition, The leading industry of the town is the koittiog factory, which, if running at its fuliest capacity would give ome ployment to several hundred hands, but at present there are only forly machines in place, while the building Is capable of holding threes hundred sod with the expectation of placing that number, a forly horse power en- gine wis planted in connection with the building, and Is the motive power by which the half doven machines in operation are run, The mamoth struct M.. meets on Tues. | | interior A 1H1LL © 1]. meets in Har } of that | ' | Bakery had, for Sam lag’ | Lice Or more preientious towns, | | first attempt at barn framing. in | and Jesse Kreamer, all good rapidly A IA Nr a So hd fand the ! i ehored and ol orty boise power engine pars ol ( i Milheim (much of the money being ERR vy oil CHUN TIN freely donated) and the tax 8 paid on the property and fuel turnshod in order that the en erprise might prove a success, and it is believed it will prove a success eventually, At present Mr, J. 8, Crawford the Superintendent and general manager is in New York City wien St wk, ¥ taking orders for v and i have seed informed that he is meeting thi { with success, Me has dispos of immense stock of cotton hosiery they bad on hand. n. L. | hands, We wh Stine employmg s& number {of “pointers’’ which proved ver i 0 while o We neatness vod tou 1 OF Mision found his office a el adlines, his iob pres 4 and type in order and his work o the best stye, Ihe wrnal | | : ithe best loeal papers in the couuty [and ought to begwell patronized, Mr. D | aheditiveness is largely ¢ y / is one of A. Musser whose bump of go- devel ped IE] large T ae | | old | making extensive repairs on his in the rear of the town, | brick mill | the is remodied, belog | | burrs being taken on ors put in, So that ina w { days he will be able to manufac'ure a fine flour under the new roller ‘Patent } Roller Process other ihe { state | | | keep pace with ROY n bound \« A « y The ) oid d n he gets left, Time space prevent my a detail of rye or machine shop, planivg mill, wo uandries, conch manufactury and the rh f Mu A i pisces might be and wel ATTAD RY dise ff DS tore the Musser / finest, largest, 1 | in y ’ 150 : . peatest an handise has Tasper W. Stover | finest grocery stores in the County well i Then there . an ]] ii ire Mus er x | lemeyer's General Merchandise, Stamm Muger & y Asdntath arranged m . ~ stock. g is & Son yy & Giogery Do.. = hoe Sanuire | = oes cfquiIre Miss Mary Mi) Af MMBUK ] Medicines; Bram r gare, and the 3 Lian perous Meat Mar We roy their ander, D. L | book keeper woes Z able that and sold over Eg 2 large amount « 3 & last Februa fy LB ernoon we L LO the m Hon W. K. Alexander, mile sou wen h of sa to | Weiser kes crowd in a orislant jokes, “who ping. bank barn, ar A Hy = : god and the We r ght here that we never saw his innocent shi A ery hit neatly framed and ey to able as this one fitted together and go i, 8 bresdih little 11 i not ? : tencn a ba Me.H. W. the name of the boss place. Bollinge carpenter framed it, He is a comparitively y man and we were told that it was His H. Maize solid ninety n sistants were Wm. Keen, J re liable Democrats, AS Were One Another remarkable feature the fact that not one word of profane or obscene language, was ultered daring the whole afternoon. think to the large Democratic prepons derance. eh? Last but not least came the supper which was prepared by Mrs, W. K. Alexander and which was one of those great big affairs that makes us scratch our head for sufficien | language to de soribe, only to “get leit,” suffice to say the supper was a grand affair and all did ample justice to it. It was conced. od by all present that as a feeder Sam Weiser “took the cake” the amount of roast beef, bread, pie and cake he stow’ od away under his shirt front « was a oaution to hardened sinners. We would not have your readers be, liove that Millheim Is [not without ils drawbacks, It has a baseball club, It has ite share of dudes and dudines, and seeing a man with his left eye besuti- fully frescoed, we were lod to believe that it has its edvooates of the ‘manly art,’ nevertheloss we were [avorably impressed with the town and its peo ple. Millheim has two good, well regula’ od, cold water hotels, The National hotel kept by Mr, Bibby formerly of Was { furoished | | here | lors fitted with the most tast-ful de Anew enterpriss lately introduced is the cigar manufactury of | of I might be properly termed a village | churches. | nearness one has in going over the towns that spring up along the line per cent of all that were at the raising. | hotelist is first elas, and the Musser To the Musser hou Hous: of which Wm SN Pro In prietor, ft Was Owe our corpulency; we boarded th re dur- ing our stay io Millheia, anil we speak | whereof we know when we say iL is sec’ | i ond to none outside of the cities, «0 far | the the bed, comfort are concerned. HH tnble, and prepared in the highest degrees of | genaral | rgvy + th i nie | 10IIYY People Killed with everything seasonnbie | {of culinary uri; his bed rooms snd pur { signes, aod his beds so soft and downy | that one feels when lying on them, as if he were floating in the sir, Mr, Mu {er is one of the the slate and just why he should be depriv: best hotelists in ol of license, when we ki Damn of others who are far 1s deserving, Canc ol un lerstand, There is 8 gener al complaint among the farmers vicinity that Millheim ix pot fairly we will «kip treated in this respect but i our board bill and bie us to AARONSBU RG, little and This is a beautiful town, It Hillheim and the first indication is one mile east of it® first f i 0 hill from tne latter place is the sight o I there are no its towering church | than our in steeples heavonwat ol which Belonging to The number, the following denomination Gers Reform«d, 1d Methodist, they are all of mods ro and tasteful architectural in costly structures, ts citizens mre generally Rg We found work 7, God fearing, nerou we Hon in H. smiling Len iy atl his A ex | enmmissioner Ever ® ‘ } corn patch in the rear » Are several tf M. Mu H. Phil ATS of the pe were particul ¥ impressed o' dry gO | immense stock S87 Hy 4 overflowing with new, of every hit vred, is. He has UFURIIY reg general merchant i we were surprised to learn vis Ha nr Are mar warkably low his g farmers of l need t Aasronsbnrg fi cheay ja tas Mr. 1 ¥ pe nave rgoiten but pul r we lent dinner ge relives and f manner Is a railroad town, and. like a of vl contains s newly bull railt s considerab y | seattered, 11 s number ‘ gant residences beautifully pals i of finish fis fiaest might Andrew Stover's Eq hraim Bartholmew' in in h wh Michael Everet's, Squire Garthoff"s Mr | Weaver's, Mr. Moyer's, Sambel Ulrich's, Ascribable we | | names : | number of others the we did not and a les rm, It has several churches, a number of stores, a grain elevator and a few other | and | we i in the | {° clock this afiernoon fire was I Wan $ 4 : | t 3 ’ | : ‘ : : ure was built, the of grou d furnished | 8 ring Mills, whose repuniion as a a wise selection in the appointment of Musser | Mr. VooiGa as Postmaster st Coburn’ Tom jolly good follow Sam Ard i« bis Mong S——A—— DuBois Destroyed masini ant but ANON the Thriving City. | MANY MORE BADLY INJUR ED-AL THE | PORTION OF THE TOWN |for describing the condition of t | SWelPTBY FLAMES ANDS HOMELESS. THOUS oung BuBols Contributes Half Mill on Dollars to the S8affaro-a The Tota] Loss Over 82. 500,00 0 Br IR, ~1 structive conflagration 10 the history of wr a i sproRp, June we most de Western Pennsylvania « Bois weurred sat Da 4 on Monday, Shortly sfler } seen issu Hou we 1 Pica Fire Depart the § near the Baffalo, R chester T..4 but ling from windows of the sker An burg Railroad depot ment was called had IFO ames he out, far«bhl grined cons “" beaiway the srrival of t} mpossihle to ge control t The fire spread rapidil V westerly Evangelical, Luthern ! | mend arnpers direction, its progress greatly fF br | anagmen ted by o'clock ns ight it that remains of the hy {thriving little city of ten ions hut fe atly spread the ( areman arg com Owns Had the water supply | thought the been brought under ’ ) t flames « 1 oontroi before Lhe terrible destruction was completed, and other Further pare tioulars cannot ba obtained to- Hundreds of horses, cows. animals were cremated, until business placed of less note, There | morrow. are no manufacturing industribs here except that of a whiskey distillery of which 8. R, Getlig Esq is government store keeper. There is at present about twenty thousand dollar's worth of whiskey in the “bonded” ware house, Coburn conlaios a licensed hotel, RV. Shafler, formerly of Howard, is proprietor, What Mr, Shaffer don't know about running a hotel is not worth knowing. Hels courteous and and obliging to a fault, His tables well spread with everything substantial, his beds clean, soft and downy, his parlor commodious and richly furnish- od and one is very soon made to feel that he osn make himself at home there, R. F. Vooada one of Uncle Sam's pels, is one of the most obliging who. souled follows we met In our travels lo keeps a first class general merchans diss store in connection with ‘he post office, and we are sure Uscle Sam made WHAT THE CITY CONTAINED, DuBois was a flourishiog little city in Clearfield county, which owed all ita woll known lumberman and manufac. turer. The first settlement was made in 1573, and it was pot incorperated as a borough until 1881. It contained sey eral large hotels, five churches, (wo banks, two opera houses and a sum ber of mills and factories most of which belong to Mr. DuBois, the heir of the founder of the city. Solicitor General Jenks is trustee of the estate, THE LATEST REPORTS. Mipxranr.—A late report from the destroyed town states that the losses will aggregate more than (wo million five hundred thousand dollars. John E. DuBois, the young millionaire, hae donated baif » million dollars for the rolief of the sulferers. The cumber of dead reported 0 be thirty and the wounded six. Over fifteen bundred 1 | pro i Lewis & No wind the buildings were destroyed, stirring at this thine and fire partially spent its fury, Only tw are left the J. BE Yates in town. They are (he “riy ol DuBois and Bell, Thres Lotels remain ou’ of seventeen sand one drug store out of nine. Four thousand p ople sre homeless, 1n| BUSINESS | Harmony Ten Feet Deep i Enthusiastic is a very mild worn he : Democratic members of ¢ ongress who { have just returned from the 81. Louis n i : ; | convention and there is gd reas wh v avery Democrat in enough to hold every Domoerat in the | conntry ifficient causes 1 Never the Democratic are s wr unl | versal enthusiasm, before in | the hist ry 0 f party ! | with such good prospects of yictory: #3 never before was the party so thor t That much ered; very flattering state rty d to M de Hed, He conntry a good, honest, painstaking {oughly united, this the is due Cleve mng ca not be has given th administration one that has been cor servative and s eady;: no firework hi WnKu mn every day plain ] id fashioned, Democratic ideas business ins adminmstratl Arrears wouse, Lhe measure, it i, it i an possibly be be present session of vhied ISDAD A and l ele ted 4 at the in He comes Lo Thurman n this week invite the President and Mr. Cleve 1 to attend the Ohio centennial to : £5 is expected an umbas next September, given a grand reception crats of this city and The capital will be painted red with bandana handkerchiefs. The Old Roman and the president came to know acd love each other well about {a year ago, when Mr, Thorman made a visit to Mr. Cleveland and was en- | tertained at Oak View the president's | country residence. | The torchlight procession and rati- fication meeting will take place in i ¢ NE ross, prosperity to the late Johan DuBois, the | this city on the evening of the 26th | inst, the day on which the Demacrat ic nations! committee meets hore for reorganization, Attorney General Garland, who has been quite ill, is con , but | General Sheridan's condition contine ues precarions, His death may be expected at any time, Representative Oats, of Alabama, hae introduced a bill in the house which lmpoces a tex of $25 on every immigrant arriving in this country, All the ex-woldiers in the employ of the government, both Union and Con federate, will ba given leave of ab #o0oe Lo attend the reunion at Gettys. burg on the ausiversary of the battle at that place. | bas it entered a presidential eampaign | for | affairs in| Wav, | n arownedqd | dara | Stanfornd, Huntington and a Bold'ers Widows May Rejoice. sct ns 10 at pens gre hieara’ter of the commence ofr graoied willows bel their husbands of soldiers war of the re 1 ut i VTE Bins the death of The legislation favorably affects all claims of wilows of the 1a hay fie é beer I in the of the nijvret but of July CiRim, fav Lay the canex stich widows as were filled before s 1880, and which bave been ay allowed, ¢ been allowed of the having alr es from the date i, and not unaer will d ! name icale yw ed deisy as practicable, —] —— d rv in wi srafl :ld BR d 1 in ne dam on Clearfield eres At that hour they were missed from the | the creek. drown g 1014 Mm witpessed there death iE Ww ead r » A i new CXACH twasadr ul tragedy that BO us A more it was unexpected catieed a | sensation in pi Altona Tribune —— a — Railroads in Pol tics Jan The interest is represente 1 here The Wn, Croas 18 railroad rome Pa cape Ol en ure ast al - | de across the continent with a Cc @ wii hurrah, is made up in the interest of Messrs. ! Crocker, the Central Pacific magnates who lits erally regulate the currents of trade in California, N.ovada and the Terri- (tories. The chairman of the Califor- nia delegation is Mr, Creed Haymond of Santrancisco, the General Solicitor | of the Central Pacific Railroad and as- | sociated with him ls Col. Fred Crocker one of the Vice Presidents of the Cen- trai Pacsfic Com any and a son of one of the original “big four” of the Pacific Coast. The Nebraska contin gent is headed by Mr, John M. Thurs ton, the chief attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mr Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, stands for the New Yok Ceniral Railroad, while ex-Sevator Sewell, of New Jersey, and Messrs. Quay, Ma. gee and Cooper, of Pennsylvania, act in harmony with the Peoosylvania Railroad Company. Candidates John Sherman is one of the Directors of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne aud Chicago Company and & trustee of some of its hypothecated stocks. Altogather the railroad vote is count. od at 204, but by combination it may be increased to 450. I To olden t'mes the granamothers used ‘0 dose the family every spring with sulphur, sasafras tea, and thor oughwort to “purify the blosd.” Now a health writer in giviag directions on spring diet, says onions are very and that during une r i 14
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