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The Centre Democrat,
THURSDAY, JUNE
{SCHOLARSHIP COUPON
Name
Cut this out, fill in name of some de-
serving young lady or gentleman and
send it to this office, where it will be
counted. If held over thirty days will
not be counted. '
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THE COUNT
Violette Wolf, Centre Hall
Ida M. Showers, Zion
Belle Shaffer, Nittany
A. H. Corman, Marion twp,
John Delaney, Howard,
Mamie Bechdel, Blanchard
leRoy Delong, Romola....
Mary Rumberger, Hublersburg
E. Charles Housman, Penn Hall
James Crader, Penn Hali..
Irvin J. Packer, Romola..
Flora Duck, Spring Mills. i...
J. F. Rearick, Spring Mills
WREKLY COUNT.
The following is a list of the votes
cast Surlot the past week:—Ida Show.
ers, 215; Violetta Wolf, 407;
We hereby certify that the above is a
correct statement of the number of votes
cast in the Scholarship Contest up to date,
Wu. T. Rover,
W. HARRISON WALKER,
Bellefonte, Pa. , June 24, 1897.
Busiest |
(Continued from Ist page.)
| 1854 ; Dr. J. P. Burchfield from 1852 the
beginning of the school, to March 1855;
the school in 1852, to Septerfiber 1854,
with Judge David IL.
Krebs' name first appears on the pro.
gramme at the exhibition held on Sept.
30, 1857, and on the prog:
one term out,
amme of each
| annual exhibition to and including the
{ one held in Sept. 15862
|
STUDENTS AT THE REUNION
i
| On the day of the Reunion ar
i
{ was opened for the name
|
nes
y of all the for
students of the who were
the
A | ’
Academy
{in attendance. The f
NIOWIn gy
Hon Jas A Beaver, W H Bailey, Nannie
Glenn, Wm H Fry, Sadie Gleun, BJ
aport, Len B Laport, Alice Ross Weaver
Miller, A H Smith, Milton Rider
DW Woodring, FB Stover, |S
Dr I. C Thomas, A J] Mattern,
Bailey, J Hall Musser, A Ross
Hou D I, Krebs, Thos
Fortney, Sam’l F Rider,
1
| complete i
|v
| L
I 1. ¢ ‘
Love,
Gray,
Kate C
Krebs,
DI
Elder,
’ M A
DH Weaver, J] K Bottorf, DH
Elizabeth Miller, H S§ Laird,
ie Louder, A G Archey, IL Ross Lytle,
Etta Ross, B F Homan, W
H Musser, S Shiffer Musser, GW Homan,
Albert Smiltzer, Dr J E Ward, 2
Dann! Maggie Housman, ;
Harter, Mrs Bell 8S Ward, CG W Rumber
Jas H Carner, D A Grove, | H Ross,
Jmer Ross,
ley,
! ger,
WELCOME AND
hose who
18 that in
welcome, |
| at which
given,
Pine Grove Academy and
was substantially the outgrowth of a
| private school established in 1852. Hon
| William Burchfield, William Murray and
Thomas F. Patton, the first two of whom
| had sons, and the third a nzphew, whom
they desired to educate, and preferring
to have their children under their own
immediate care, and realizing not only
the need, but the benefit a high grade
school would be to the entire community,
secured the services of Prof, C. B. Ward,
an energetic, live, scholarly Jman, and
opened a school for voung men and
women, in the kitchen of an old building
at that time, standing on the spot where
Samuel Martz now lives. Thus, like
very many of the good things of life, it
came out of a kitchen. A large oak
tree stood immediately in front, on which
there was hung a bell, which called the
students to their lessons, morning and
afternoon. Both thetree and house long
| ago disappeared. From this old house
| the school was moved a little further east
{into a large room om the second floor of
what used to be a hotel, where it contin.
ued until the fall of 1856. While in these
buildings, covering a period of four years,
the school was under the control of Prof,
Ward for two years, and Campbell one
{year and McKennon and Davis
school term each.
From the beginning, the school increas.
| ed in numbers, and gained influence and
power in the community. It very soon
became apparent to the rugged, honest,
heroic, thoughtful and intelligent
yeomanry, who then peopled this town
and the magnificent farms by which we
we were students should
SCNLNATY
one
school would be of endless advantage to
' them, and a glorious blessing to their
children,
Believing this, they pulled themselves
together, and determined that the school
should be continued, and a building pro-
vided in which it could be housed. Hav.
ing determined this, they organized a
Joint Stock Company, purchased ground,
and in the fall of 1855, commenced work
on the building known to so many of us
as the "Pine Grove Academy and Semi.
nary.” There it stands! How many fond
recollections cluster about it. I believe
I am within the strict Hmits of truth when
I say that, to this Joint Stock Company
all the influential, progressive, Godfear-
ing and educational loving citizens of the
community belonged. This statement is
| borne out by the names of the men who
Hon. J. H. Osmer, from the beginning of
Miller, !
| of
are this day surrounded, and who had |
sons and daughters to educate, that the |
Daniel Moser, a man of great intellectual
and spiritual power, a minister of the
Lutheran congregation, not only of Pine
Grove, but of Boalsburg, Houserville,
Pine Hall, Gatesburg, the Seven Stars;
who had ministered to this people a full
generation or more, aggressive in all
that pertained to the happiness, progress
and welfare of the community, was
President and also professor of the Ger-
man language. J. BE. Thomas was
secretary and John Archey was treasurer,
These were the officers Then followed
Thomas F. Patton, William Burchfield,
George W. Meck, George Ard, Henry
, James H. Mitchell, Wi
Murray, Jacob Zimmerman, GG. Dannells
David Krebs and Alexander Sample
» building commenced in the
55, was completed and first of
by the school wider the
fessor]. BE a graduate of Jeffer-
son College, of the
term in 1856. There it
his care, increasing in power,
its influence,
nany young
within it
until i
when
thought
hooks, leave
room, the happy
loved of home
Lrebs, St
fall of
charge of Pro
opening
continued und
doing good to and
men and
$ and under its
the
the
women
influence,
the War,
s port 1
shock of the
cng
18
1}
+ 1
was Frank Ze
David
Zentmyer, it
10 meet
man hood,
Nobler
seldom
A magnificent
courteous in
gallant in his bearing,
and gentle in disposition
woman, brave and courageous a man ¢
ever drew a sword
Both of these men Army
of the Union mn 1861 as members of the
sth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Re.
serve Corps. They were soldiers of
which any army could be proud. After
passing through all the hardships and
battles of the Peninsula, and Antietam,
they were wounded unto death at the |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Frank having |
already attained the rank of Major,
These men were at the Academy in
carly years of the administratiom of
Professor Thomas. During the same |
period, James W. Boal now an earnest
and eloquent minister of the Gospel in |
the Presbyterian church, located at Port
Carbon, Pa., and John H. Harpster,
D. D., a minister in the Lutheran church,
and now a missionary under the care of |
the church located at Guntur, India
One or two Holts from Clearfield, John
F, Potter once District Attorney of the
county, Gibbony killed in the war and
McMonigal from Mifflin county ]
Of the other students down to about
1860, I personally knew but little. When
I entered the school in the fall of 1860,
I found there, David IL. Krebs,
“Dave’’ we called him, ‘Judge’ we call
him now, and well he deserves the title
He was a great student always at |
work, and this has been charactieistic |
his professional and judicial life
Jacob Rhone, the same who now con- |
trols the school, Andrew Cooper now
dead, David H. Weaver, now a merchant |
in this place, John Shreffler, Jerome
Meek, D. G, Meek, Frank Durst, W, H.
Musser, who afterwards became the
famous Corporal of the 45th Regiment
P.V., James W. Lautimore, now living
in the West, Luther C. Neff, Wigton and
Johnson from Spruce Creek, Durbin
Gray, Davis Rumberger, Joueph B. and
Wilson P. Ard, '"Joe' and "“Wils" they
were called, the one living nnd doing a
prosperous business in this community,
and the other practicing medicine in a
distant part of the county. E.S. Dor.
worth now practicing medicine in Belle.
foute, noted for his ability to work with
ease any problem in Greenltal’s Nation.
al Arithmetic,
Among the young women were, one,
rhap4 two of Rev, Moser’s daughters,
man of
meanor,
generous
entered the
i
upied |
phia., one or two Miss Dunlaps,
Nicholas, one or two Miss Mussers.,
This was the term immediately follow-
ing the election of Mr. Lincoln as Presi.
dent of the United States, and towards
spring secession began to raise its infer.
nal head, the peace of the country was
threatened, Some time during the
month of February 1861, there was a
meeting held in the school room of the
Academy for the purpose of tendering to
the Governor of the state, the service, in
case it was needed, of the Company of
Militia commanded by Capt. James Dun.
lap. Luther C. Neff, tudents,
made the speech of the
ed afterwards, whe
Mary
one of the
occasion
n the shock
came, the mili
olution,
front
Neff was ¢
|} 00d o1
{but among them were William
{their country, but among
{ wounded at Chancellorsvil
ise Thomas, Mary Moore now the
brought | t
ally hanged dur
what ext
Many of
the
th
from th unts
S. M. Moore, th
3 rch, mad
t only speech that was made, and the
re the school days of a large num
ber of as noble young men as ever li
closed §
Re
Presbyter chu
Lg 5
rever
1 at
schoolroom, the
and we
The next moming we all assemble
the regular hour in the
roll was called, prayer was had,
separated never to all meet again Rev
S. M. Moore was there and took charge
those who remained As the boys
who has enlisted with the professor walk.
ed out of the room, every young woman
brought ber handkerchief to her face,
and it has always been doubtful to my
mind, whether they were crying after the
young men who left, or the professor.
Those who had enlisted immediately
scattered to their homes to say farewell
of
to fond parents and loved friends, and
hastened to the front
I do not now have certainly the names
of all the students who enlisted that night;
Bible,
Allen B. Cross, H. C. Campbell, William
Gemmill 8S. P. Lansberry, Frank Mattern,
Frank Durst, John J. Fleming, David H.
Weaver, Samuel Shavon,B. F. Bloom, C.
A. Ramsey, J. Shirey, C. D.Runkle,P. 8
Imboden, I. F. Fortney, these were at
least most, who were then in actual at.
tendance upon the school. With them,
however, enlisted quite a number of young
men who had been students at the Aca.
demy at previous sessions
I have already mentioned as among
the heroes this little school gave to the
country, the Zentmyers, Nefl and Daniel
CG. Musser. I cannot now recall all who
gave their lives, either on the battle field,
or died from disease in the service of |
the first to
fall was William Bible, who was mortally
lle. William
H. Weaver, who after being wounded,
perished in the fire which broke out in
the woods on that terrible field, James |
A. Murphy and B, F. Bloom. Bible was
a man of most sterling worth, slow to |
acquire knowledge, but with wonderful
capacity to hold on, He could be trust.
ed with any undertaking. Accomplish
it he would, if it was within range of |
ponsiuiiny. I cannot go over the entire
ist, Some were wounded, some died of |
disease resulting from the service, some
were killed in other battles ; those who
escaped or who were wounded and re.
covered and are here, must speak for
themselves,
As 1 proceeded yon have observed that
special mention has been made of a num.
ber of students, young men both dead
and living who or became promi.
nent figures in life. I have no disposition
There was Sallie
Adams, and the
nor should they be,
Nicholas, now Mrs,
| mother I think, of seven children, noted
for her sprightly disposition and brilliant
conversational powers, There were the
four daughters of Rev, Moser, one or the
other of whom was in the school from
about 1853 to 1864 or 65, who are remem.
bered by all who ever were students at
the Academy, as the brightest, best, most
thoroughty educated yoang women
the entire community, In this
they were prepared to teach, and tl
qualifications were such that they could
command a school as
where. Then
to help advise and
how, )
any ume ana §
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they were always on |
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am not fitted to speak, as
I kuew neither of them personally, I
have no doubt, like Thomas, they all
builded much higher and did much more
good than they realized at the time
With one of Professor Ward's students, it
has been my lot to be acquainted since
1862. 1 saw him first in the uniform A
a colonel taking command of a regiment
; and frequently + with earn.
peech borne
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