The Centre Democrat, THURSDAY, FEB. 26, 1891, CHAS. R. KURTZ EDITOR LOCAL DEPARTMENT. — over town —Since the boro election 1s topic of conversation about license vs. anti-license. —Mrs, Gilmore's milinery occupy the room in Bunnel & Aikens building by the first of next month, ~That cold winter for six weeks was a failure, It turned out the opposite this time, ~Mrs. David Boozer, of Centre Hall, died suddenly on Wednesday A husband and three children survive, be il wl wi ground hog day prediction of Beaver and wife will in Philadelphla until the 1st of Apri they will occupy their ee at this place. ~{ren. en recider ~Some of our local weather prophets say that winter is over and we will con- tinue to have Spring. But we doubt i Phil open weather until — Major wolf. « ipshurg., was in town on Wedng seen in company Nothing wrong Rel licer fonte They re 16 fone arped deal about Yelle the « new room —There talk about all the rumo will have mo Union cot niy ax were married a parents at Madisonburg, or evening. —A bill ding in the legis lature for an appropriation of $300,000 for State College. That much money ought to place them on a good financial footing. 15 now pen —The finishing touches vpon the ex. terior of the Brockerhoff House are being made this week. Handsome iron railing is being put on the top of the comer towers. —The old Clintondale has been sold to a lumber the timber will be cut buildings taken away by ti —We note that negotiations pending for the camp gronnd firm and all off. All the torn down being and 1 Owners, are are now the lh cted by J. of Con- would purchase of nel bailing at Spring Mills, ere A. Grenoble, for the purpose verting it into an Academy. That be a good idea on would be a valual addition Mills le to Spring wit Penn’'a attorney Zens alk stats opis wed an to rt to grant t The rreatly petition th hem a char ter for a bo that pla igh population reased past | impo | to mike Court HH ) lot of shad es should be planted fence unilding the park an ron moved in front of the little order kept ~{rarman & Luckenbach their new store on Saturday last. Theil: stock is composed of gents furnishing goods and a large list of articles. As their stock is new and of the latest styles they are eujoying a good opening trade. May success at. tend then If Dox gill had to officiate as justice of the peace in Spring twp. he would haye been com. pelled to neglect his extensive practice. The Dr. expects to be prepared to treat patients at his sanitariom, for sumption, with Dr. Koch's lymph ere long. and embraces been foreed Con. ~The Supreme Court recently render ed a decision to t birds from at lawful, thus reversing a decision of a Bucks County Court, which pronounced such form of sport cruelty to animals the defendant, a member of a marks men’s association, having wounded bird Instead of killing it. he effect that shooting in Some Philipsburger isadvertising in | the Williamsport Grit for nine ladies | for the purpose of forming a female base | ball team, offering a salary of $25 per | month and expenses. When they play | ball there will be scratching and hair | pulling instead of kicking. will have little to say, Umpires | ~The Williamsport Republican says | many of the men of that town who do | the most grumbling about people buy. ing things away from home are the same merchants who purchase their letter heads, envelopes and other stationery out of town and grumble because the newspapers do not give enough attention to advising people to patronize home industries, the | is | store will | evening. | | We are {to wade the opened | { sinks are found. | water and small springs that crop rap is not necessarily un. | AN INLAND LAK. oma— 1560 ACRES OF FINE LAND INUNDATED. Foot in 2 Depth The Water An Unexplain. Over Twenty Hases Outof the Ground Lverflow of a Sab ed Phenomenon ternnean Stream speak of an immense body of water sud- {denly rising and forming a small In years past we have heard people | lake | | strange feature is that suckers can be seen and caught most any time of the day, along the edge of the water; yet strange to relate, they will approach visitors and without fear bore them for | a chew of tobreco or a smile, of some of the “Oh! be joyful.” H. B. Sheffer, the photorapher, took two elegant views of the lake and they san be seen at his gallery any time. Since writing the above article we are informed that the water is slowly ceeding and it is expected to disappear re. before long. { near the Gentzle farms, in Spring twp. g | week the snow turned streams, During the past rains and melting little into rushing | m buntain rivulets to With the news of the large floods along | rivers, the report that another ki irge luke had made its appearance | brooks comes in Spring township. | This hearing strange phenomenon, the sharpened his pencil and started on his week, upon of this journey towards freak of the elements and write for our xactly what was seen. | ! | Pee I'he Ist of four farms occupied by Henry Gentzle, Perry entzle, Kauffman and Benj, wn. The greater portion being on Geo, Kauffman's farm. As one the hill from the Nigh ¢ vast expanse of water spreads and extends far in the It follows the shape of the the which SOme- he letter “NSN” lake covers portions y (100, Kaufl ore is At $0 wide that persons look | wen when they move \ to With 5 Lil hollow some on the d This Zion points feet of entire ide ke mere specks e road leading At under fifteen sable, some be » fences are in places The day was windy and | at the edge of the water came beating with a force a lashing the shore i You of the OCEAN s tides «de on the crest of the waves vas in fact a storm on an + small scale. WHEN IT APPEARED. Mr. Perry Gentzle informed us that in the hollo Friday and water commenced to form ws week, but that on it rose As the early last more location of this rapidly than body of Saturday before, water is in a basin it can only disappear | by evaporation or sinking again from it came, FORMER LAKES n 1865, in the early part of this the submerged, by a similar body of It was at about harvest the water whence same section of country was water, and, Hine as told, farmers were co and wear gum boo The Babtist INE country cans com and that large § and r all would go ! WOON Some Mm this Was A another wid i; ickedy Ou the young, the sore and open the eves of This idea penetrated over | the immtain of of ir faces but , that the their waters life, they 1 Her Sorrow FWrink- and and ated to us for truth But L that les grew deeper hair grayer their faces homlier, and it and se arcer This was rel may be true itis a f lake place HE CAUSE, asked In it \ppeared a WHAT IS 4 the person who hears of That hilly and in som: every there country tion places | The rocks are of lime stone and from the general appear of the caverns and sees it see is Mice utter All there are val country th out beneath the ley. at the base of Nittany mountain bet ween Pleasant Gap and Zion, run on the sur. face for and then sink, The reasonable inference is that these a short distance springslead to some subterranean water course that for miles drains the valley, | When the waters on high elevations increase in volume this course arry all away In this several large sinks and Ordinarily water runs into may be to ¢ and it Is} to small | foreed out. basin there are in one there is a cave, these | places but in times of overflows Lhe of the sinks and, a outlet, it submerges “ walter comes out there 8s no large territory and then gradually dis | appears A CURIOSITY Last Sunday hundreds of people from | Bellefonte and all parts of valley | were to see the lake. And every day this week persons can be seen Hoing that way. Itwas all the talk abe stores. Some enterprising tellows | talking of filling the openings with cement to keep the walters from sink: ing, with the intention of buliding a summer resort. John Sourbeck expect. to take his swan down and carry pes sengers to and fro on the road to Zion, Judge Furst thinks it would be a good idea to turn it into a fish pond stocked with trout, Then some of our marksmen are in favor of stocking it with bull frogs, shikepokes and sea gulls. One vhe the ue constant | and | raging torrents, writer, | Zion to see this strange | | up summer, | TALES OF LIBBY PRISON, | Related on Saturday evening by Gen, BF, Fisher of Philadelphia, | On Saturday evening the Court House | was well filled by Fisher relate some of the late war, { Gen, was born in this section to the war the lecture audience to hear experi. As went an | Gren. his | ences during the and county soldier ing as a Centre was all the more promi of interest, Judge Furst evening. introduced He by paying a glowing of the speaker i of the prefaced his lecture tribute to the Crén., men. ories Gen, Grant and sher- man. He engag if Lhe many gave a vivid description « ement un which wrisoners of id to others were taken | war by | Hich- Libby the confederates and marche mond, and tl prison. en introduce He related the horror and depicted y of th that occurred. The the men who managed to dig terrible (sen. Ww which over a hundred pris Many hin i rescind Were ri tured but he and easy ence enwrapt Major MceCa then favored the audier Next was the Post by the presen Gregg behalf of The Gen. to Tae of the post tainment were good ar in every particular Affecting Scene Last Mon day night at about 11 p.m., considerable commotion in Ward. All at the his went out, the hid its face behind a cloud, all the dogs set and the tom running to snd the the walks, found there was the South electric lig once moon a piteous wall cals howled. People were #ven door and fell to investigation fro in great agony and knobs cracked After a bit of the cause of all this pandemonium to Bob Hunter, » was trying while of friends in we whe Ie due some his ng lady Improving in Health ormer Mie We FAYE Al A yn ! wher of 8 plac © pat ws placed bani langhter, grafts of are grafts { week An Old Custom. Ce 1100 try ly d costom in the brother of a fan get ahead of him dance elder must thout music idhered to at weld in 4 of Dau el Was Arge | ! Wan | | i | | 1 Miss Eva A. Wallizer on 4 Aig Walk walker 1 of Fort start, on Aspir pray Dime tix islance is Brown, ng wall to Als he Seu People can that thro ue wi ive ngt altogether nu merm Kline Swarts Thi the {of Mr. Robert Kline, of this place, Miss Maggie Swartz, of Pleasant will take 8 Thursday evening wedding | and Crap, place at the home of the brides | Rey : will conduct Lhe Trostle of Measant Gap | @ 1 Mie parents, ceremony CHAT extends congratulations License Court Ni 4 T f RY. Mar h the t for holding present there | ] i { ] ] | | be the ourt. Al licensed enty the num. ime Heense « are nineteen Centre county and t+ It wsdoubtiul if places iu nine ICRLION some of them will Ie eased and | got left A Mistake Last week we stated] that 500 singers | had attended $rof. P. H, 4 he correct yon nis Movers cone. number ia { follows flebersburg 14%, Centre Hall 90, Pine Mills 1 shiloh 102, Zion 110 and Boalsburg 166. Totat 782 ns (s1Ove Sumter to Appamatios On Saturday evening, entertain ment will be given by the young people of Howard, Pa.. entitled from “Sumter to Appamattox.”’ It will be a war play and the proceeds are for the benefit of an | his { horrible ma | over on the street | effects of heart disease, he PP, O, 8, of A. of that place, INSTANTLY KILLED In us Raltrosd Wreck st Mileshurg, on Mon. day. As the early morning passenger train, from Lock Haven to Tyrone, w ing the Milesbury | Monday n ratled at $ 1d station : the giriov orning, engin Gregg Was running at a high rate of speed at the time, freight track and The engine struck cars standing vith on adjoining eaough force to smash mn “un one scatter coke every The collision stopped the train suddenly and the front of badly smashed by it, The tender and baggage car left the track coaches were not derailed, CRUSHED When the ac man Ed, Ca to the furnace jar threw | the tend: torether, tl was but the passenger TO DEATH ident happened, the fire | wing coa tL, was thro It is supposed i that the 1 | He wa cnt face, body w to the ris prep forwardo Mr. C Years depot DARING DANIEX How he Walked 2 Cometery at Through Might Daniel, of and Wel Danie this place ster Webste had of his name sakes walk through the dark dread | box of cigars, but a8 mu 1 Cemetery at Ul nd all made down at Rines store an went up high itt take his task In the mean: ety wen ie ea number of youn t ahead give Daniel | ion as he passed th the “city of the dead.” He started gO sir in bravely determined aight tha and would n goblins them SCAlwe sort of way after hi him there would Ix were man hey captured for ¢ » oth ngdom wher Dan expe 4 gars in to on RO. Bill Nye i= Right Bill wart on h itton ride in the or. est on his conductor at night his “i” gels around, stop his watch save wear and tear, leave 17" without a dot and cross to save pastare h 1s but a man of this sort a gentleman and a scholar compared with the fellow that takes a or three years and when asked to pay for it puts it back in the office marked “refused.” newspaper two and has it Good Horse Gone Last Friday the old horse the Adams Express Company used by dropped died from the He was an in telligent and faithful old animal. That day he fell several times but the greedy, grasping, managers of that corporation ordered the men bere drive the animal until he died and heartless A Handsome Present, On Satdrday evening a handsome rec. | ord book was presented to Gregg post by the gentlemen of this town. It is large volume, bound a handsomely engraved, The book is said to cost over one hundred dollars, have Thirty six Cows Harned to Death The Young, near Williamsport, was destroy. ed by fire Sat. night and the building and contents destroyed, valued at #0,000, Thirty-six cows and five horses perished in the flames. There was 85,000 insur. ance. Will Marry From an exchange we notice that a license has been jsued in Blair county | for the marriage of Mr. Thomas Dale, | of Unionvilleand Miss Minhie ranuffer, of near Tyrone, several | direction, | for ai a recep. ! Nye says that a man may use a | ink, | mother's grave to save com | to in | : fine leather and the pages are beautifully | : : barn on the dairy farm of Mrs, | | RAILROAD SITUATION. | ADANGEROUS BILL PASSES THE STATESENATE. Would Revive the old Chart Creek Hoad for Vive % Boven Monns r for the srs More Obstruction by th | 4 Ru nos Persons who are interested | & competing railroad built to | Were a in ellefonte the news seeing roused Lis week over passed ty the State little that among the bills | denate was an innocent bill whiel HIN FIRM ! looking out to be an ominous and even danger of It '}) | OUs measure for the interests fonte bill authori and ad] Hing conn ry ng the crlension of branch in that the ns to im. The docks burg would make it almost Wr survey. ene ight of way practically 1 her ine Some of our leading and enterprising pred a charter line to Beech of thi t their { men have taken the proper liminary ires for obtainin and iid a PAsSsage meas | right ! comp | Thi 2 of way to | reek b hi Wal be depen powers th Employees Contribute A already con We and thes off 4 is nd numbered Fes] fersta nearly one dd to each contribute « rebuildi a very best of feelir HOY hundred re 341) | " x . week's labor towards Lhe generous the Wer Our 1d Evervh to ndustries in operation. te informati Wednesday says Furnaces AKLXious large WwW hu Nps The new \ | Bellef hard | ti n ave no defind of gentlemen who will compose the 1 Company and entre Iron met Tuesday Are DOW nie om work perfecting an organiza. and going through the legal i | | forms required by law and necessary for | complete ganization. Nothing | definite in regard to the time of starting the works will be done before Friday, | at which time there will be a meeting held for the purpose of considering that all-important question, a “The Meadern Pagan * H. Gen. George Sheridan, the gifted { this heading orator and lecturer, will deliver his great | lecture entitled the “Modern Pagan,” in Bellefonte, on Saturday evening, March 7th, It is the most effective ply ever made to Colonel Ingersoll’s at. tack on the Christian religion. It will be delivered under the auspices and for {the benefit of the Bellefonte M. E. | church, re. She Got the Roadie { Hungarian died at Port Royal recently, {and left §1.900 in money, the savings of | several years' hard labor. When his { wife was spoke to about burying him, { she sald: “Me no bury him: him no good now: him dead!” She took the cash | | bersburg MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued Dariug the Pest Week Taken From the Docket James Gummo. Boggs twp., and Miss Emma Lose, of Pine( Mills. 0, 1.. ishel, Oak Hall and Miss M. N, hy and, Linden Hall, HH. Em oward Wa, Ellen Force, Burnside twp. Rubin A. Emerick and Miss Sarah . both of Walker twp. i 'E Kline and Miss Maggie E. both of Spring twp. rfove leszer. and Miss New Lumber Operation the lumberman, tract in the Brushvalley Narrows. { diffi there is railroads Alfred Graham, large of timber The the and AVErags Mr. id chased a nity in operating the estimated that it gd £ LE) would teaming. lad to will haul sey take The purch a in that way Can al one trip n of 1S bondsman +) 1 . . rier aevelopment We Vers General's Depart rer for ure VR 18 aq 5 penditures for relief in ia West foods of tw Branch s ago the sub and 0 Year member of House approg Governor Beavers ch ge (xOvernor was mt : Jud i WOrTies 1 v the S RepuELed Joss, Holt found th islaid documents in that been ed, Thu ‘ it a freq uently n package hand balances to wat Grover be a candidate in The S| re. anxious lo him MAKKIED Pe nity, Fa Beliefonte. Grain Market NAloes jw re ned Corn per can Len per dog ried Sweel Corp ons per pot Public Sales, All sale bills printed at this office will of the same under Parties having bills print. A noLIee In. ve receive a {ree notice od at other offices can have serted in this registry for fifty of Manon 15. WH cast of Bellefonte niire fare rss. Ollie nds of arn Tavior, on Spring nm ol WEDNESDAY farm one mile twp, will dispose of his sisting of & pair of mules, bh and a valuable assortment of all k implements TuespaY James J. Gramiey sale of horses § Slowed Manes 5+AL the Miles torvynship oattle near Re farm imple | ments, ete : : The West Newton Times states that a | sows, 5 shoats Land left for Hungary, The dead man’s | friends mised a collection and had his | emains intered, ~The pews for the new United Bretheren church, this place, bave ar rived dnd are being put in place. ] : | peyvilie, a lar 15 i Wm A Ishler Rhos In Benner (wp, oh a Yarge lot of farm team of THURRDAY, Manon 12 iff. at his former residence the Robert Valentine farm implements of every description dapple grays, heavy Weight, team of blsek | drah horses, two bay mares and two colts, 10 head of young eattie, 7 mileh cows Breed Also a lot household goods WeoNEsnaY, Maken 11 At the re dense of | Daniel Lesh, near Zion, the following | § horses & cows, 10 head of young eattle, 10 head of sheep and large tot of farm implements FRIDAY. MARCH 15<AL the ate residence of Conrad Singer dee'd, on Marsh Creek, the fod lowing : 2 work horses, | onll, Holstein Ball, cow and heifer, § cows other farm mpl ments. Treenay. Manos 10h<AY the residence of LOharios 8 Beck, near Nittany Hall a barge Jot | of farm implements, I work horses, Toni, 2 | mileh conn, Short Hora bull, ete Fripay Manon ih Al the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Getiig, two miles west of Tas fot of = and imple arses, 4 hl oh Cows, 4 et jo, Osborne AROnS, ody A and ead
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