‘»
Whe choicest
Oot the past six years.
[| Ellis L. Orvis, N. E. Robb. D. F
r=
Aa
CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed.
EX-OFFICIALS
BAI
A Royal Good
Smith and Singer.
A PLEASANT EVENING SPENT
Fifty-four Sat Down to a Royal Feast—Some
Brilliant Toasts Delivered—List of those
Present—A High Tribute paid to the Re
tiring Officials.
On Monday evening Ceader’s restau.
rant was the scene of a brilliant gath.
ering and banquet board laden with
viands and rare delica-
eies that the caterer’s art could com-
mand. At 8:30 o'clock about fifty-four
specially invited consisting
principally of members of the Centre
guests,
County Bar Association, court house of- |
ficials, citizens of the community and
representatives of the press, gathered
about the festive board and partook of
the elegant course dinner served by Mr
Ceader and his assistants,
When the
smokers were passed around an
C. M. Bower,
istincti
reached
1 Hon.
has won
last course was
who way
ceremonies
WwW. F.
ttorney Wm
upon the successful
ymotary
linger
termination of
respective official careers extending
The merriment
then began as the various gentlemen re.
sponded in brilliant, witty speeches that
kept the banqueters convul in laughter
» i
tothe close. Then the r toasts
were given
> parting Guests
“Some
greatness, :
thrust upon then
Esq.
“The
ble Billys"
time t
qq
Farmers Boys
R. Chambers, Esq
“By
Gone bye”
Remembran
Chas. R
goue
Kurt
Extemporaneous Address
field.
“Our Friendships''—Wm
unctious i
Smith,
"Sealed in my
mouny''—W. F.
»
.
1
The high testimonials of
formance of public duties given Messrs
Singer and Smith on this occasion were
truly appreciated by them and will loug
be remembered; and was especially grat,
ifying to them to know that they have
most
The
merited the hearty good will and
kindly feelings of the community.
following attended the banquet
Fort.
ney, A. A. Dale, }). K. Will
Conley, C. B. Garman, H. J. Jackson, C
M. Bower, E. T WwW. Rum.
berger, N. B. Spangler, J. M. Keichline,
John Blanchard, Thos. Mitchell, W. F.
Reeder, Thos. Harter, Chas. Gates,
Thos. W. Fisher, E. R. Chambers, Clem.
ent Dale, Jolin P. Harris, F. E. Naginey,
W. M. Cronister, Jos. Rightoour, J. H.
Woomer, Wm. Royer, Harry Keller,
Jas. Schofield, D. 8. Dunham, W. H.
Walker, J. C. Meyer, George Meek,
Earl C. Taten, Wm. F. Smith, W. J.
Singer, Daniel Heckman, S. D. Gettig,
W. G. Runkle, H. 8. Taylor, S. Krum.
rine, Abe Baum, H. VY. Stitzer, John J.
Bower, M. I. Gradner, Harrison Kline,
Thos. Donachy, I. A. Shaffer, W. E
Gray, A. B. Kimport, Chas. R. Kurtz, 8.
H. Diehl, H. C. Quigley, E. <. Hutchin.
Johnson, J.
Tuten, Geo.
——— -—
HE WAS DEMENTED
Suffering From Indigestion he Made an At
tempt to End His Life.
For some years Henry W. Stover, who
lived on a farm about one mile north of
Woodward, was demented owing to im.
paired health, The family kepta care.
ful watch over his movements on that ac- |
count. Om Monday he went out to one
of the fields and a member of his family
went after him who found Mr. Stover ly.
ing in a pool of his own blood, with two
gashes cut in his neck. At his hand was
a pocket hunting knife with open blade
which was used to inflict the wound, The
man was unconscious when found, from
the great loss of blood. He was removed
to his home and Drs. Musser and Braucht
were summoned and up the
wound, On Tuesday it was thought he
would not recover, but since then there
has been a noticable improvement in his
condition. He is a man of about 7s
years,
sewed
.-——— -
Senator Helnie's Baill
In the state senate last week, Senator
Heinle Introduced a bill to regulate the
manner of bringing suits before justices
of the peace.
(OUETED
| convened in the M.
| ville on
Time shown Messrs |
| Song,”
| cises
and Prop.
LOCAL INSTITUTE NO. s.
Local Teacher's Institute District No, s
E.
evening
church at Union.
the March oth,
Tustitute opened by singing a “Welcome
of
by the choir. Devotional exer
R. H
The president then introduced
R. H.
subject
were conducted by Rev,
Gilbert
the lecturer of the evening, Rev
Gilbert, of Huntingdon, Pa.;
being ‘A Handful of Hits."
dent certainly made a good ‘‘Hit" when
nis
The presi.
he secured Rev. Gilbert, for he held his
hearers spell-bound for over two hours,
and every one was well pleased,
SATURDAY FORENOON,
The subject "How to Prevent
| He was followed by Prof. C. L.. Gramley,
who gave some good points on the sub-
ject. Miss Alice Buck then
essay on “Tennyson His Life
Works.” E. W.
topic "How may we secure better
read an
His
discussed the
and
Erhard
at-
tendance at titules 7’ He was
rector and
He was fol
remarks.
hy 17 1 |™ 3
oy GC. CG. Fink, of the wnshi
same t
Owen Uaderwood
principles
discusses
Not
Dead
hio newspaper recen
vole to determine the
American, and gives
Admiral
William Jennings Bryan, 7,
President William M i
Rear Admiral Schley,
Hh
1.4 te .h
LJcuienant
Ad
Governor Roose
Hobson, 4,674; Rear
3,534
some time the repub
Ww. J.
above
Sampson,
42 "
nounced Bryan
the those report
.——
Forgot te Flap His Wings
David Klepper, who resides Cole.
in
ville, a suburb of Bellefonte, conceived
the idea of making a pair of wooden
wings with which he could sail in the air
with the birds. The wings completed,
he went to the top of the house, where |
he adjusted them to his arms and jumped
off, but instead of flving, he went to the
ground and came very near falling on
his mother, who thought he was the evil
one, grabbed a hoe and belabored him
unmercifully. As soon as David got
loose from his harness and at a safe dis.
tance from his mother, he commenced to
explain his actions to her and ended by
saying that when he jumped from the
top of the house he
wings, hence his fall.
fotgot to flap his
- - »
No Count
Sheriff Wagner, of Union county, was
| out through the country last week notify
ing the men who were drawn as jurors
| for the March term of court that they
need not appear as there are no cases on
the docket for trial, either criminal or
civil. This isthe first time that anything
of the kind has occurred in that county
——
Water Election,
State College boro will hold a special
election on March 18th, to vote on bond-
$15,000 for the
works About
five or six years ago before the boro was
incorporated a company invested about
$20,000 in bringing the water about five
miles to supply the town,
.——
ing the town for over
erection of a new water
School Entertainment,
Armagast’s school, Benner Two., near
Hunter's Park, will hold a free enter.
tainment Friday evening, March (7th
All are invited, T. 1. Crusy, teacher,
Tardi- |
ness,’ was first taken up and discussed |
| by G. D. Morrison, of Union township.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1899
'POSTMASTER’S
MISTAKE
Philipsburg's Official was too Anx-
ious for Free Delivery,
HE SOLD TOO MANY STAMPS
To Business Firms outside of that town and
was Reported by a Jealous Individual
Change in the Bellefonte Office takes Ef
fect this morning
The threatened removal of J. Albert
Walton as postmaster of Philipsburg, be.
cause of a violation of the postal rules in
selling stamps to parties out of town,
prompted by others with a view of secur
ing free delivery for Philipsburg, was
Mc-
Kinley by the appointment of Andrew J.
y 0} Pi
disposed of Monday by President
Bolger as his successor,
Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Walton,
who has made one of the most
Philipsburg
tmasters
Lo our
administration
with a clear recor
of duty well j
was ably assisted
gave all matters his most
lirection
vision and «
.—-—
A Large Deal
A tran
thousand dollars, was made at the Regis
sfer of property, Involving many
ter and Recorder office in Clinton county
last week By the terms of the transfer
the Lackawanna Lumber company, se.
842
acres of land in the Kettle creek region,
cured control of all the timber on ¢
the greater portion of which is in Clinton
county. The timber was purchased from
Munson,
The company, however, only have use of
Mr
Munson reserving the land and all min.
Edgar Esq, Williamsport
the timber standing on the land,
erals that may be found beneath the sur
I'he
required
The consideration is §65.000
the
sixty-five dollars worth of
face
deed transferring land
government
| revenue stamps
——
Careless Bookkeeping
An error of £2,500 in the last Clearfield
county audit bas just been discovered
| It appears that in 18¢7 and 1868 Treas.
C. Dyer was twice credited with
the
urer I,
disbursements made on account of
fund set aside for paying sheep damages
In the
their
supplementary report county
mistake,
that he
holds $2 500 of county funds in excess of
The
sensation,
auditors acknowledged
and Treasurer Dyer admits
the amount charged to him dis.
coveries have created a and
more interesting developements are be.
ing roundly censured
» - -
Act te Pay School Directors
The legisiature last week passed finally
for of
schoo! directors for attending the trien.
an act providing the payment
nial convention for the election of county
superintendents and for the punishment
of candidates who pay ex.
penses,
directors’
- .-—
Took Horses Away,
Benj. Gentzel, of Spring township,
shipped eighteen horses to Buffalo N. VY .,
last week, They were all picked
the county,
| more
BITUMINOUS AND ANTHRACITE,
The output of bituminous coal in the
United States last year exceeded the out.
These
are the figures of the “Engineering and
the total
put in 1897 11,400,000 short tons,
Mining Journal,” which puts
production of bituminous last
short ton The
nu of anthracit
oO tot
0 tons,
35 than in 18qg7
These are important start points in
conside coal question
crease of 11,400,000 tons in bituminous
and a decrease
“Ox
cite, Mtummous coal is supplanting
anthracite as fuel in most industries, and
fact
For
each year this becomes more and
apparent, example, in the
census year 1570 the output of bituminous
coal in the United States was only 1,195,-
gH0 tons in excess of that of anthracite
coal. Im the census year 1880 it was
12,675,510 tons in excess anthracite.
In the calendar year output of
Nous ( of anthra
purchased
from a young
juainted with the prog
is. He got several
in a small flask and
ie of
in the insi
his overcoat pocket, He then walked up
street and stopped in front of the court
a short conversation
Kline,
was interrupted by a loud explosion in
Mr
Quickly he took off his inner and outer
house where he had
with Treasurer Harrison which
Sholl's coat pocket that shook him,
coats and all
round the pocket the fab
ric was burnt away and would have
penetrated to his body had he not done
this
The cause of
plained
the explosion is easily ex
Nitric acid and turpentine mix
ed produce a dangerous combination,
!
In this case the nitric
heat
generating heat
acid and tarpentine developed
which increased the pressure until it broke
the vial into fine fragments with much
The only injury Mr
tained was the ruin to his garments and
force Sholl sus
being badly scared.
.———
Fatalities of the War
The killed in hat
since the forwa
in the Phillippines
ft commenced,
August 6, incle r Jast reports, has
been of died of wounds, 24; died of dis.
ease 216, total deaths, 156. The wound.
ed are roundly stated at 410. The total
deaths in the army since the outbreak of
down to March 1 has
war with Spain
been 5.741
> -——
Beoming
The Howard Pa., Hustler says ‘Ten
:
kin's Iron and Tool works of this place
are running up to their full capacity at
present, and shipping their products as
fast as they make them, Oualy this week
they shipped 2000 dozen of their celebra
ted garden rakes over to England
» -———
Tramp-—"Say, friend, kin yer help a
| poor feller along who don't know where
| his next meals comin’ from?" Jokelets
SCHOOL BOOK
,000 tons anthra. |
i
(QUESTION
Some Practical Advice on an Im
portant matter
ADDRESS BY D. F. FORTNEY
felore the School
of
Filled With Aporopriate
Delivered March
Directors
aad
Association Peansylvania
at Harrisburg
Ideas
The following address, on an import.
ant topic, is of special interest to school
directors, and all persons who are inter- |
ested in educational work. The following
is Mr,
as delivered before that body, assembled |
Wednesd
Fortney's address, given in full, |
in Harrisburg, on ay, March
Ww oastr
and tT)
char
the
book shou
ged
adop
d be
to
Yerien
i teaches are
by after dis ! invent a. Of
tion of new pris
changed the moment
any part
n An the very iatest prin pie Gis
wis of forees stublect 1
or the apy all
hit may relate
do
o8
the veries
hange theor
L. that it
the
nthe s
ones syd to
corre sald the I ary be
i'n rit of Edinburg, a
tAken oul onee Ina
years. and replaced by ater and
Thisonly and it Is given
for that purpose, how very alert school direct
ming
books ENOON Are
period of ten
newer works shows
ors should be, in all school districts where such
book s are used
T™
goog? aphie »
of reas
Wohnen
A same line ning wil Apply Wo
discoveries, inventions
the progress of commerce, or politica
of the world make it ne
for proper and o«
ect
The school books being now furnished by the
istrict which it
seems to me would justify or demand achange
inh
Take
has been In
of them
have bee d from wu hav
through tne hands of at least three
five different puptis, that on
common decency, and for the
the health of the pupils and
d Iv
changes
othe nations CREAT
free! instinction In this sab
a change should be made
there are still other causes
olka, other than those already mentioned
f you will series of readers
ise from three to five
Any that
Many
rest
yOars
Are the
Ome
entirely wornout. and
sO™ we
TR passed
nd perhaps
the ground of
preservation of
the prevention of
disease, they sion lestroyed and replaced
with new books
Ind
that ean
ing this
be otained h
added seb then the
rd £ 10 the best
the very lest and best
id te
wren
it
oh, Mm
adopted
for go ola series wh
Ehime have on the sub
or that we are able to
or his agente b
Eh educa ore, sduoat! aa
y earelnl
oan. net alone
he publisher it from and
tle fornals, and
thorough and complete personal
examination on the part «
opted
This reasoning will apply to all the
books which may be used In cur publie
schools, from the Hitle red school house at the
cross roads, to the most complete and best
equipped high school in the Sate. These ame
some of the causes which seem to be suflicient
Lo demand a change of text books,
the second ques
Sn
{ihe board should be |
YOL. 21, XO. mn.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs Selected and
Original
re
Die ‘lasses |
je flies wal
An sl de so
An’ of vo' finds
SO dark y g
De way ter make
Is jes’ ter let it
{ Lakes a
his
crage
»
around
Miss Mary,
sister Eve
» tem
J
yu
VARCES me one number
A man never cares anything about
necting his wife's relations—unless they
are rich and distinguished.
Although a girl may know but little of
business, she always knows enough 1
consider sealed proposals
Some people wait until they are re
quested to do things, and some wait un
til they are requested not to
The Chicago man
killing his wife and burning her body has
exonerated himself by confessing that he
drowned ber in the lakes
who is accused of
“Are you the toastmaster inquired
“Not
mposing
the guest who had arrived early
exactly, sir, answered the
personage in the dress suit. ‘I serve it
A Chicago minister has resigned his
charge to go to the Klondyke and dig for
gold. Most of his
to the New York
ging
“Poor Cassidy had hopes of being em.
spring
“Why, there was a premature
fellow .workers went
pulpits to do their dig
ployed
"Well
explosion to-day and the poor
in that quarry all
fellow 's
hopes were blasted
An Illinois woman who shot ber broth
erdn-law says she was compelled to doso
This
woman will be eligible for a place on the
Philippine Peace commissson
Cholly - What did him
when be calied you a lar and said he
was your buckleberry if you wanted to
fight’ Fweddy I told him, haw Jove, 1
pevah ate bucklebewwies' Baw Jove, it
pawalyzed him 1"
Alkall The "Mighty lucky for me,
Pete, that we catched that boss thief this
mornin’.” Rroncho Pete "What ye driv.
in’ at, Ike?’ Alkali Ike—""Th' old wo.
man told me when 1 left home not ter fur.
git ter fetch some terbacker, an’ tyla’ th’
knot aroun’ his neck reminded me ov’ it,
see 1
in order to keep peace in the family
you answer