The Gente Democrat, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1883. CHAS. R. KURTZ EDITOR THE RACKET What the People Say and Think. Caught on the fly). everviime we come in here «This is a store 1 to Bellefonte we come to look around: U can get anything here, just anything, ai ing. Are The arrivals this week art drictly in THE LINE OF BARGAINS A bargain at Tl Racket U ki ns ¢ GOOD NEWS! LYON & CO. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. (zu { vi greaLiy 5 J how the court house iid be im. proved of offering a prize for the best and most practical of this difficulty, the be in supremacy in our bor- ns as to They are thinking solution since cows will ough. —N 0 been trout have Bellefonte. more fifteen inch caught lately about There seems to have been a check upon that kind of fisherman's luck. ‘I'rout fishing at its | not very successful this season owing to the cold weather and high wast has been streams. —Last Saturday Tony McAllister's brass band from Sandy Ridge, arrived in Bellefonte and delighted the inhabi. | tants with some of their choice music. There are all the way members of this band, ali play horns, and attract considerable attention. The band tar. ried with until Monday evening. They left here for Sunbury. Hix us — Harry Jackson, son of banker Geo. W. Jackson, left on Tuesday morning for San Francisco where he obtained a position on the Pacific Mail steamship line. These boats are in part controlled by the Government and carry the mail from San Francisco to foreign ports. Harry spent several years on the school ship Saratoga and has practical exper. ience of life on the ocean waves, Monday morning Bellefonte with Me) out {In vas alive band was natives, sain mn ’ music. llister's early on hand grinding out music with a birds were their morning songs and with the bright warm rays of the sun and the clear sky and balmy atmosphere, it made one feel as though summer had come with a sudden change. vengeance, ‘he On Monday evening a portion of the Bellefonte bieyele club took a spin out to Pleasant Gap and concluded their ride by a spurt along Allegheny street, Noticeable in the procession, mounted on a Victor, was Rev. Jas, P. Hughes, principal of the Academy, who is a man in about the 65th year of his life and is remarkably suple and active and can keep up with any of the boys. He thinks a bicycle is just the thing fora man of his age and calling. ANOTHER RAILROAD. TO BE BUILT TO MILL HALL AT ONCE. A Competing Line of Rallroad at Last Con pection With the Beech Creek, Reading, Lehigh and New York Central Systems The To be Completed This Summer Central Ratirond of Pennsylvania 30) oblig- { serenading the | Several hand organs were also | singing | For years past the citizens of Belles inte, and the business men especially, fi have realized the necessity of our town having a competing line of railroad. As fa railrond cerned Bellefonte is well facilities are con as SUuDDH HL | | | travel out in direc Tyrone Shoe, Lock Haven, over Lhe wd lines; {| can at present {4 ] t 11 1 tions toy Sow Lewisburg, to State ng with pron of town. took the matter ded to m have a com» ation and it was finally dec a united effort to of railroad reach Bellefonte an link from Bellefonte to ’ coded . connecting Hall was It is said the that Bes | not build a bran owing to { reek Ig. b ul into Bellefonte P? 2 PD 3d compact to compete wilh ter these circumstand have to be built | pany, but could connect | Creek at Mill Hall and be Lehigh { large lines on friendly terms. tribut ary the other to the Reading and About a year ago a company was or- | ganized to build a railroad from | fonte to White Deer Mills, about in length, to connect This org ranization Belle sixty miles with the | Reading. | fected anything. never ef The same company | was interviewed recently by Bellefonte | |eitizens and became interested in the branch from Bellefonte to Mill Hall, by | | the way of Nittany Valley. The com. | pany was reorganized last month with He election of W. L. All The | Hugh, secretury and treasurer, {these men are Philadelphians, board of directors comprise the above | { gentlemen and Charles O, Kruger and | William MeLaughlin, of Philadelphia {C, M. Clement, of Sunbury, and J. L | Higbee, of Watsontown, It wus decided to build this branch, to be known as the “Central of Pennsylyania, { people subscribed at least $75,000.00 for [the construction, to show that they were interested and would patronize it when built, None of the money is to be paid until the road is constructed and they are to receive Ist mortgage ponds bearing 6 per eent. for their in. vestment. This very liberal proposition was accepted and the full amount of the 875,000.00 guarantee has been sub. scribed by our people. OPERATIONS BRGUN, For several weeks past an engineer corps has been at work running lines for the new route. J. 1 Higbee, of Watsontown, has been on the ground and has secured the right of way for al- most the entire road to Mill Hall, Las! ing laboring week a large shanty for quarter. men was erceted on the Curtin farm. about two niles east of dellefonte, Wagon | pieks, : £1. nds HOVE 5 IY wheelbarrow Deer ti ‘ that taken out, and all the teams had are being engaged to go to work on the road bed. A large force of foreign- ers were expected on Monday but they did not arrive, but will be on hand by the close of the week, ROUTE OF THE ROA The station « at the foot ol lamb § tric light station, ona plo ground Ross, president; | 8. H. Hicks, vice president; W. J. Me- | Railroad | ' providing Bellefonte | owned by the Reading railro I'he d Snow Shoe office and compa ny. freight depot has been leased from the | Lehigh ey ra ul company, wl | | | i i hit dong H ¥ ns work, it be it completed to be a ls can be done. Ing mean busines found in an el white and wk 1 lit livered immediate! be oak and at found uperin- of Railroad of Pennsylvania. | Mr. Gephart called at Monday furnished above facts, He has this credit hed. The road will be equipped necessary rolling stock ete. ~and be operated {the same will W. Gephart 2.11 ye wllefonte, ne of : tendent of construction, | the Central office with interested to has our on and us the been particularly in and him enterprise much is due for what been aceompli with all engines, cars, by the Central | Railroad of Penna., and not by the | Reading or Beech Creek companies as some Suppose. way for the former survey, Sugar valley have no intention of doing anything with that part of the road at present. The length of the road from Belle. fonte to Mill Hall will be about 27 miles making it the same distance as over the Pennsylvania. During the past two months the CENTRE DEMOCRAT was fully aware | of the movements being made in the | organization, surveys, subscriptions of | this road. But as things were not in a | definite shape and as obstacles might | then have arisen to prevent ils con. | struction it was deemed best not to | make any | colums of the paper. This week, Mr. | Gephart, who Is one of the leaders of 1 of the movement assured us that every. | thing was definitely settled, that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania would be built at onee and in operation before SUMmer was over, The effect of this road, in a commer. | 6L8, can be i The same company holds the right of | on through | to Watsontown, but they | stock and other matters pertaining to | mention of it through the | tein way, will be to add greatly to Belle- fonle's shipping facilities, It will give new advantages to the many industries established nging new mark in our midst by bt them in contact with many reduce freight rates late Yaneow expand, will be a for erp i868 10 locate here where they Cun dLimuiu Hew en secure so many advantages io the shape of raw materials and a most delightful place to lucite, As we sald inour ki issue Bellefonte is not dead yet, oh, no. A ol pi up i i new era per ated by a Bellefont MARIIA Daring the Fromthe operations of Ing to give any community a deci Death of George Rogers May Mr. George Rogers of this place, On Wednesday evening, on his way home from to Pit sees his sister, Mrs. a business trip fl at vt is tsburg, stopped Robert Roan. fore retiring he complained of a pain in “he next was his breast, morning he found a corpse in bed. Mr. Rogers was For some time past he invention 53 years of age. has been at work on an ith, | while | KILLED INSTANTLY. TERRIBLE DEATH OF THOS C. WEAVER In Kentackey Crivhed in » ant Thursday Log Jnm-<Incidents of the Accident Formorly of this county On last Thursday, Thomas C, Weav. er, a son of Mr, and Mrs, Noah Weaver, ! of Woodward, who had been living a Williamsburg, Kentuckey . engaged ' ’ } 1 i in | FAUBLE'S We Aim to Please You 2 Ss GEeaLil. ] + v ] n Bellefonte opened The attendance was not 4 e¢ farmers do not have 1S season of Altoona to | Be- | LEADS TO CONS1 MPTION at f A for | heating railroad passenger cars by the | He was of an inventive mind and a fine mechan. i The interment occurred day use of hot air from the engine. on afternoon. Rev, Presbyterian church, officiated. An Elderly Lady Falls Monday morning Mrs, Curtin, an elderly lady who resides on {In Sun- | Laurie, of the | Eliza | the corner of Allegheny and Howard | | streets, went to the cellar where some | plumbers were at work making repairs, | In going down stairs she stepped on | something that caused her to fall for. | ward and her had struck the stone wall, | A deep gash several inches long was | cut in her forehead and Dr. Hayes was | summoned to stich the wound. She is slowly improving considering her ad. vanced age. Charles Plerce Married, Charles Pierce, of Jacksonville, | Oregon, some years ago a student in | | the law office of Orvis, Bower & Orvis, of this place, was married on April 12th | to Miss Laura Harrison. They will | reside at Seattle during the summer, | | At one time it was thought that Mr, | Pierce would come to this section when | he would select a bride. : Mains Show Coming Walter LL. Main’s famous railroad show will visit Bellefonte on Saturday, May ihe 27th, Main's circus and me. nagerie is a first class railroad show and visited Bellefonte on former occasions, so that our people know it will be worth seeing. A large advertisement con. taining full description, will appear in our next issue. Hermsdorf dye for the Baby, Young Lady and Mens sizes, The largest finest stock of goods in town and at lowest prices, and GARMANS. he year Lo | Style, (Juality Value YOUR MONE FAUBLE'S STORES, BELLEFONTE,
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