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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed.
52ND TEACHERY
INSTITUTE
Convened in the Court House at
1:40 p. m., on Modnay
ABLE CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS
The Superintendent to be Congratulated Upon
the Good Quality of Evening Lecturers
The Attendance is Large—Complete Pro
gramme for the Week
The annual sessions
tute are in progress, in the court house,
this week, The attendance of teachers
and others is as large as usual. From
ressions of those
are
rtaining, but
ive, In every res
success, for which Supt
serving credit for his efforts.
ft
able space oft
issue 1s util
his id
to have a complete report of the
sessions, which is carefully
Cc.
Centre ¢
Delong, of Romola,
unty’s progressive
ructors
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock County
Superintendent Gran lled the house
to order, after which Insti
Singing
Impres
they should
Rowen,
Ww.
psychology,
on ‘‘Co-ordin
Deatric
rofl
k gave sev
term "‘Co-ordinati
wish to «
centration
should be t
ance of the tea
from Lord T
then taught from :
§
hree
_.
,
f know edge,
ant whole.’
After roll call Institute ;
TURSDAY
institute convened at g
of the Reformed church, c¢
The
were
devotional exercises, minn
read
E. Ward,
1001
Miss Mary
proved
The teacher ger
Ach
Prof. 1.
rs m was t
W. Musser,
Hege schools, who spoke brie fly on the
al Exercises for Fr
W.H spoke, be-
y Miss Mary Warde, who
hen opened
principal of State
Co
subtect * N
subject, Spec day
afternoons,
ing followed b
Ott then
gave a good talk on the subject, saving |
that we can secure the best exercises
through our educational papers. Profs.
W. F. Leathers and A. Reist Ratt gave
excellent talks on the same subject, after
which, Prof, Myer conducted an exercise
in singing.
tical writing and special work, presented
by Prof, Musser. The papers were pre.
pared by seven of Mr. Musser’s pupils,
and all the teachers who examined them,
pronounced them as an excellent lot of
work.
subject of the forenoon, ‘Quick Wires of
Intelligenr-"' He stated that there is no
such thing as white matter in the nervous
Smith,
{ Chester, Pa.
Prof. Deatrick gave a talk on the ver. |
Prof, Deatrick then took up his |
he
and Prop.
system, the so called white substance is |
acting in the sane way
the
best
nothing but fat,
in a
rol.
wood around graphite
» of
as the
pencil. One the themes in
Deatrig was, that there are no
'
s who have the same kind of
He presented
thumb prints a drawing
of the print of his own thumb which he
The Profes
1
talk was good throughout, and
has bad copyrighted sor's
was high
ly appreciated by the teachers
‘ then
continued hi
If we could
s then
aen
Supt. Gramley made
tions to the te
RBC
should u
for the
stall
sufficient work on the chart.
Prof, Deatrick, from a seri
us an interesting
1g aud
of geog:
He stated
that the days and nights are never equal,
* talk on the facts phy
generally understood
the day being as much as 22 minutes
March
hr. sa
longer than the night. That on
20, 1868, the sun arose at 8 min.
utes a. m. The day's length being 12
hrs. g minutes, Autumn began Sept. 22,
1898, at 7:35 p, m.
hrs. 11 minutes.
The day being 12
Institute enjoyed a few minutes inter-
mission.
Prof, Gramley introduced Dr. A. T.
Professor of Pedagogy, West
The Doctor spoke of the
"Vices of the Imagiuation.”” He defined
the two kinds or types. of imagination, |
Some of |
as the Receptive and Creative,
the practical impressions made, were as
follows : 1st, we want to be very carefnl
sf the perceptions of our pupils; nd,
keep the mind actively and pleasantly
engaged with that which is worthy; 3rd,
preveut, or correct, every exercise of a
Continved on page 5.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
|
R. A. BUMILLER
DIED SUNDAY
of the Millheim Journal
Called to Rest
Editor
WAS ILL SEVERAL MONTHS
Was One of Centre County's Active Newspaper
During
Deaths th
Lounty
After ag
Death Of Mrs, Jane Atkens
A. Ai
Hugh
Mrs, Jane Aikens, mother of
kena, of thi lace,
Alkens dead
home of her son W
H Alike
wid
ir county, Friday morning
and widow of
was found
She had
iling health for some time, but
on Thursday night retired apparently in
The discovery of her
W. H. Aikens
morning. The
phyrician who called said she had died
ber usual health
dedith was made by Mrs
about 5 o'clock Friday
of heart failure some hours previously,
Deceased was born in Earleystown,
Centre county, September 25th, 1812
making her age at the time of her death
86 years, 2 months and 21 days. She
was married in Centre county to Hugh
Alkens and from here removed to Mil.
| roy, where she resided until finally she |
| went to Altoona to make her home with
her children Mrs. Charles Moore, of
Altoona, and W. H. Aikens, at whose
home she died. The following children
survive: Ms. C. W. Moore, of Altoona;
W. H. Alkens, of Juniata; J. A. Aikens,
of Bellefonte and Mrs, Jonnie Harcy, of
Bellevieu, Ohio. The deceased was a
member of the Presbyterian church.
The remains were taken to her old home
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
22, 1808
Milroy
and interment tool
Lin where the
day
ting
Died at Pleasant Gap
'; la 4 wu
nger, f Pleasan
ill with pneumonia and
her deat
h taking pls
Farmer Hamilton Makes Hay
ceed Thomas
Agricultural
tone
Hutchinson,
connected
ler Go
George
who is with
Food
Hamilton as deputy
RON
Shipping Machinery Away
Department wants
the
manufacture of spokes and wheels, at
| Cenire Hall, has sold his wheel machin.
W. W. Boob, having discontinued
other parts.
{engine and boiler with one of smaller
| ery in the shops and is shipping it to
| size, and the spoke and whee! industry in
our town is now a thing of the past.-~Re.
porter,
Valuable Property.
In another part of this issue will be
found the advertisement for the sale of
the C. C. Loose real estate, in Miles
township, which embraces some fine
property io that section.
place Tuesday, January 17th,
He will replace his large |
STRANGE FACTS
OF PORTO
Peculiarities that Prevail
New Possessions
A DENSELY PEOPLED LAND
been without an owner
nsidered as a part
and has
Carnegie Steel Company,
rty-third | mills are now
The property contains 6
supposed 1
Ma)
heirs bad no title
it was generally
Denny estate, but
juietly made applicati
the C
atent to the property and secured
ymmon wealth Martin
in his own name after proving
that no claimant existed.
Major Aull says the matter will be ad.
.
justed and later conveyed to the Denny
estate. The only cost of securing the
patent was about $400, and the Carnegie
Company
easily have obtained possession of it.
Safe Shattered.
The Bald Eagle Vailey railroad station
lat Mill Hall was entered on Tuesday
The sale takes | not secure the contents.
morning, The robbers tried to break
the safe by the use of dynamite. Two
explosions were made but they could
The explosion
was beard sume distance away.
or any other perscis who knew |
of the status of the proverty could just as |
VOL. 20, NO.
ily has an old -—a very
old rvant n Jeff, who is an
heritance
rther back than any cae
The other
his
his
relly
from fu
can remem?t day he asked
yy
to ' 5 ‘
ges of, Wo
“Why, Jef
aunt
see aunt in Atlanta
:
said mistress, “y
ur
must be © old, isn’t
bout hun.
A hun.
exclaimed ‘he
“why, how on earth does she get
" “Deed ah dunno, missus,’ re.
“she livin’ up dar wif her
gran'mother.”’
“Yas'm ; pretty ol she's
nerd an’ five years ol’, ah’'spect.”’
and five years!
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Always in the Lead
The Christmas aumber of “The Pits.
| burg Sunday Post,” ‘ssued last Sunday,
| was the finest newspayer in appearance
aud all-round excellence ever published
in that city. It consists of 32 large
| pages everyone filled with interesting
| and timely maiter. There were 44 balf-
tone pictures, 63 zine etchings and over
200 columns of reading matter. "The
Sunday Post” is certainly Pittsburg's
best newspaper.
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