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CHAS, R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop.
CHAPEL ORGAN
GIVEN AWAY
An lostrument That Is Useful And
Urnamental
PATRONS MAKE THE AWARD
Read the Conditions Upon Which This Will be
Coupons and
Who
Done-—~Commence to Save
Your
Shall Have It?
Enlist Friends Assistance
The editor of The Centre Democrat
does not possess the wealth of a modern
Croesus, but there are times when an
to
some
opportunity presents itself for him
make a small opriation to
worthy cause, or help some deserving
appr
movement, Heretofore we gave away
five scholarships to Lock Haven State
Normal, and allowed the patrous of this
paper to select some deserving young
person to have the same.
As announced in these columns, two
weeks ago, we are prepared to make an.
other gift and will ask the readers of this
paper to say where it shall go. A hand
some Chapel Organ was recently pur.
chased from the well known firm
idges we have sel
Boyd A. Musser,
ana ;
mers office
% to the box
ne ine
COUPON
Che Centre Aemocrat,
No. 1
DECEMBER
14
holder to on
"CORNISH CHAPEL ORGAN
{Made by Cornish & « Washington, N. J.
to be
by the Ce
given to School or OC)
ntre Den eflonte,. Pa
This vote cast for
If this coupon Is held longer than HX wenks
Or six No's, It will expire and eannot be eount
ed. Bend by mall or personally to this offles
and have it deposited In the Ballot Box
We will publish short articles, in
this connection, for any congregation
or Sunday School in which they desire
to let public know where they are
located and that they would like to have
the assistance of friends in securing this
instrument,
There
until the first issue of the paper in Janu.
ary. That to
ballots for weeks
will be no count announced
will enable all
about three before
sending them to this office
this
that it
str
In giving strument away itis
in
our desire shall
ome
pendent uggimg church or Sunday
School, and there are many of t
who do not have an
, often bardly enough
L EXPENSES Or a tor
i could n
We want it
most
¢ organ, to go where
be the appreciated. Of
course, that matter lies with
to vote as may choose
throw out this gentle hint,
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IMPORTANT NEW RULES
Which P. R. R.
Will
the Adopt January
ficials of the Pennsyl
The
eral new rules, to go
January 1,
their
of thei:
* been in the ser
ywipany thirty years and are
on the retired
iraw a pens
and ending at 11
the greatest planet; { mctions that
have taken pla 1 five thousand
years will take t the same time
4]
when eptune,
Wat
a bout
sun
moon will all be on one h
strange appearing forms
moon, if dark wads do not
awful scene
.——
Will Bulld Axe Factory
W. H. Mann, of Mill Hall,
recently that he will gointo the axe busi.
stated re.
ness for himself within the next year,
For some time past there has been a de-
mand for his special of
which has given great satisfaction to the
trade,
brand axes,
Mr. Mann has already secured
an option on land in Mill Hall, which he
will hold until
he determines more de.
finitely where he will locate. Lock
Haven Democrat
» -— »
Extension Taps Rich Fields
Arrangements are being completed for
the Pennsylyania railroad company to
extend the Altoona division of their road
from Willlamsburg, Blair county, to
Petersburg, Huntingdon county, where
emorcy
LEADING TOPICS
{ Cates
it will agam intersect withthe man line, |
The new extension will follow the couse
of the old Pennsylvania canal and cover
a distance of about twenty miles through
| & rich farming and limestone district,
— - -——
Married at Tyrone
Wednesday evening 7th John R. Mc.
| Ginley, formerly of Tyrone but now of
Cleveland, 0, and Miss Minnie L
| Martz of Pine Grove Mills, Pa., were
| married at the M, K. parsonage, Tyrone,
a.
AT WASHINGTON
National
Contemplate,
What Our Lawmakers
PROSPECTIV] LEGISLATION
The Gola Standard |
Once The
Att
Kely
Uuestion of
tract ntion ol Congr
with limited
[he democrat
the adoption of a
them to get ready for
important measure
preparat)
consumed eight mon
The
1)
1g of this bill
proceedit
in the extr
rhelming
The img
this winter w
having charge of
territ
new ry A :
There is naturally great pressure
ure membersh p upon these committees,
in both the House and Senate
that
be considered eligible,
of
Knox, of
Speaker
Henderson announces only the
leading men will
Among those named are Dalzell,
chairman ;
of
republican
Will
lams, of Mississippi, and De Armond, of
The
republi
Pennsylvania, for
Massachusetts, and Fowler New Jer
sey, republicans, among the
Texas
members ; and Bailey, of
Missouri, on the democratic side
of
cans and eight democrats, and a good
commitiee will consist nine
deal of care is being given by Speaker
Henderson to get men who will, collect.
ively, furnish capacity for handling
intelligently all the questions, necessarily
of great variety, which will come before
the committee
The provision for this committee indi.
that the republicans to
treat the Philippines as permanent pos.
sessions of the United States, If
intend
only
| temporary expedients were to be devised
| for
| there would have
| separate committee to consider and re.
:
|
the government of these islands,
been no need for a
pott upon them, The present commit.
tees of the House are ample,
The Industrial Commission expects to
submit its first report (0 congress about
the middie of January and to follow it
with seven. other special reports on dif.
BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14.
ferent final
that
| be
subjects, and one
summing up the whole work has
been done The first report wi
ticularly as it deals
the
interesting,
trusts and contains all
h
'
it contain
testimony ot
the subject whi has been
the commi nn
of leg
decisi
Carly
Mm 1
enough
that has
Jane G r vs. George L. Potter
administrator d [PR J |
a MH elec. 0
f
Margaret Glenn, deceased, summoned
in assumpsit, plea non assumpsit Ner
dict in favor of the plaintiff for $245.66
Court adjourned on Thursday after
noon
.——
Effects of Conl Famine
Owing to the scarcity of coal, there is
a probability that the big Standard steel
company’s plant at Burnham, near
Lewistown, will soon be compelled tw
shat down
Agents of the firm have been scouring
the country in the effort to get a supply,
The
the
but have not been very successful,
scarcity of coal cars is stated as
principal cause of trouble,
The plant emplovs over 2,000 hands
and a shutdown would cause much hard.
ship to his army of employes,
——
Notice
The annual
Union
meeting of the Zion
Cemetery Association will be
held on Jan, 1st, 1900, at the Grange
Hall, at 1 o'clock p. m. All members
are requested to be present by order of
Isaac Stover, President: 8. H. Shafer,
Secretary,
report
par.
with
|
OUAY’S CHANCES
NOT GOOD
Get To The U. S. Senate on
Stone's Appointment
To
SITUATION IN THE
themselves, must
Atiacks of mer
Cur be fain)
AWE ust
reed Sale and
vernment be free Ir
I taint
: and
be pure and untrammeled
:
iucstion n
nut m
. an
HIS, Primary genera
Free sch
and
fr
eregn
eader
pub « url be divores
he will of
that of a factional
Appointment to
insure wnpetent and
performance of officia
MI partisan polities
KR OV
people, not
nas control
office must
blu duty
INKTITUTION LATED
The people of Penmsyivania
cently withessed Lhe del
of the fandamental notably in the
Executive veto of the Joint resolution
submitting to the people a constitutional
amendment for the protection « { the suf
frage, and the unwarranted veto of a part
of the item Appropriating woney to the
public schools, by the latter of wh eh
public education was sacrificed to nne
worthy and selfish ends ; the nullification
of the Constitution, and the violation of
wil precedent, in the appointment to a
seat in te United States Senate of an as
pirant rejected by the rep esentaiives of
the people in legislative council the in.
famous work of bribers, seeking to de.
bauch the Legis'dture to satisfy . Against
the people's will, individaal lust for office;
the adopting of State platforms, promis
ing reforms which (the party and the peo-
ple have been dewandiog for years, only
to be broken when the necessition of ther
framers demanded, and the perversion of
public moneys to private use,
They have beheld the office of United
Continued on page &.
nave re
berate violation
aw
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FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
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Original
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There is nothing that
average woman's
head
stylish new hat
Speaking of timely wedd
what the brideg
bride and R
presence of mind
You're as fine as silk
“Yes
“in your bye
needie to the thread
the thread,
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METHUEN'S HEAVY LOSS
lon, Methuen
h a
Modder river
A later telegram states that Genera
Lond (venera
Monday at
He suffered great losses
Deg
met wit serious check
Methuen reports that the battle contin.
ued two days
an 12
slorm the Boers, but failed.
He war compelled to face
He tried to
He is bold
ing his present position and is throwing
up entrenchments,
. a»
army of 0
men
Baptist Services,
On Sunday afternoon, at hall past
three Rev. KE. C. Houck, pastor of the
Baptist church at Milesburg, will bold
services in the Young Men's Christian
Association Hall. The public is cordi.
| ally invited to attend, Rev. Houck is
| an excellent speaker and no doubt will
| please all who go and bear him. There
{are quite a number of Baptist families
| in Bellefonte and it is very much desired
that they attend.