THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, OCTOBER 25, 1900. LOCAL NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Happenings In and About Belle- fonte PERSONAL, SOCIAL EVENTS Items That are Worth Noting in a Few Lines—What Has Transpired in This Community During the Past Week— Movements of Our People. Saturday morning, 20, showed a freezing frost. -D. W. Bradford, horse from lock-iaw. — Edward P. Batts, of Hartford, Conn., is a Bellefonte visitor, of ‘Potter, lost a —There were about 12,000 paid ad- missions to the fair last week. —Excellent order existed at the fair and in town all last week. Bravo. We would like to have some of our respondents wake up, for a change. Pasture was revived by the rains ten’ days ago, greatly to the relief of farmers. —The poultry exhibit at the fair was the best ever exhibited in the central part of the state. —The Coleville band discoursed very excellent music during the fair last week, so all said Editor T. H. Harter left Monday to attend his brother Israel's funeral, at Canal Fulton, Ohio. Etters claims to have shot a At him. — Prof. wild turkey last week brought one home with —Millheim is moving for water works, the well means better health for the town. s being about dry. Better water Streams continue low and never were so low. Cisterns and fields alone were benefited by the recent showers. —Friday noon Dr. Klump got home from a hunt, the proud possessor of a large wild turkey and a plump pheasant, B. McClellan and W. R. Ander fair G. son, of Jersey Shore, took in the here last week and enjoyed themselves immensely. —Paul Fortney returned home Satur. day from Pittsburg, where he had been serving as a juror in the United States District Court. from a distance pressed the opinion that Bellefonte had the finest residences of any town of its size in the state. —Charles Runkle, son of Jacob Runkle, who for the past two weeks has been suf. fering from an abscess ou the leg, has benn seriously ill. creek, is operated partly by the aid of a traction engine, owing to the low stage of water in the stream. -Wm. A. Thomas, has toona where he is employed in the | Thomas, of son been transferred ve "i vatlraad h r sylvania railroad shops. Mrs. E lied Sunday afternoon of « .year-old daughter of Bush Additic 1 iropsy. iward Cody, al Tuesday afternoon. es I. McClure six redifoxes to Re Md The lub fox chases, shippe mond foxes ar Itimore, of the appie crog - n, over a month ago, was over Centre AS we are county, by farmers visiting the Demox back to and —Iyman Howe Is Bellefonte, Nov Sth, with new scenes coming pew pictures. Was here last se when it was pronounced a splendid su cess. -D. F. F week as democratic the meetings Rebersburg. this war horse arousing yrtney 18 in harness democracy in able addresses at at Woodward, Millheim and —A number of our attorneys attended superior court, in Philadelphia this week, PD. R. from this county, was on the The case of Burdine Butler vs. Thomas, list for hearing. —Bellefonte is getting tony, sure, for it now has an **All Shines 5c” room with piano to play marches while your march ers are being shined, Really “de world do move’ on your fect and Belle- wid it around de fontes keeps ‘‘movin sun." ~Uncle Josh Spruceby,” the first of the many rural plays now being present: ed in the different cities will be seen at the opera house for one night Friday Oct. This production contains the realistic sawmill scene the most exciting 26. and intense effect ever produced. Sometime during Centennial week H. C. Rice, of Philipsburg, lost a pocket. book containing considerable money and potes. Friday morning Jim McCafferty found the pocketbook in the haymow at the Garman House stable. The notes were still there but the money was gone, ~The patrons of the opera house will be entertained Friday, Oct. 26, by the big comedy production ‘Uncle Josh Spruce. by.” This popular play comes well re. commended and will no doubt be received with enthusiasm here. The piece is staged with every attention to stage realism. The startling “sawmill” scene is said to be the masterpiece of stage mechanism, ex- | —look for the sample ballot on page 4 of this issne. --You can see a sample ballot on page 4 of this issue, Francis Attwood will lead the men’s meeting at the VY. M. C. A on Sunday. —Wm. H. Stover, of near Centre Hall, has been on the sick list for a number of weeks. Koch, of Potter twp. has increase of —George been allowed an pension, from $6 to §10 —~Geo. W. Young and wife, of Jersey Shore, spent several days in Bellefonte last week, and while here attended the fair, —The 4 years old son of Xr, and Mrs. william Krape died at Thursday night of Clintondale obstruction of the bowels. —D. H. Shivery, residing about 24 miles west of Bellefonte, has purchased the material and good will of Robert V, Miller's dairy and will supply his cus. tomers with the lacteal fluid in the future, ~The ladies of the Methodist church will give a supper this Thursday night in the Bush Arcade building. Supper will be served from five o'clock until all pa- trons are supplied. The price will be but 25cts. ~Rev. Mr.Shriner, pastor of the Metho- dist congregation,departed this week for Baltimore, in company with his daugh. , Viola, ed eyesight, who is suffering with impair. General Hastings made provision for r care and treatment while in the city H. Smull, of man, the town this | He has and Geo. Rebersburg, life insurance was in week and paid us a short call . again taken up insurance has been spending part of his time in the east. | Mr. | great deal of insurance ix Mr. and Xrs. | | ern cities, Smull | nounce the approaching marriage of { their daughter, Nell, Mr, at © m | Wide Bags " | They wi Decembe Bradford. The hased | after South Avenue, nery | Company | yr pure lellefonte creamery which important plant to company’s busine The plant at this cessful operation {rom place was in sud | the start, This company now owns all {the creamerys in the county, except | | ! Mills. his election | Gramley & Shooks’, at Spring Brungart has this Sheriff proclamation in issue of the and it will be found on page 3. It is | well to look it up to see when and where the election be located and places will {the hours for opening volls. ; The list | lished as well a8 a few extracts of the | | - | — Fisher's mill, Dear the head of Penus election law volers. Og | be found dicated to Bellef the poet laureate of Boggs township do not quite with agree ason | T Camp Fire will {1 n the Court House this evening and | to which the public is cordially invited, | Address of welcome will be made by | Hon John G. love, and the response by | comrade W. Miles 1 of ¥ The history of the regiment will Hon. W. C delivered by Clement H. 8. Taylor, W. Harrison Esq., A. A. Dale lisq.,, and A stereopti rvin Ams port, {be read by Heinle and speeches Dale, Esq., Capt Walker, others, nent men of the un exhibit of promi. regiment, military and wil local scenery | be given during the evening by Mallory & Taylor, photog raphers, number Wednesday evening a large of the old while this morning many more came on the early comrades arrived trains, - Who Can Vote. The constitution provides that in order to vote, a man must have been a citizen of the United States at least a month, shall have resided in the state one year, or if he has previously lived in the state and returned, six mouths ; that he shall have resided in the elegtion district two months and if twenty-two years old and upwards shall bave paid an assessed state or county tax within two years; assessed at least two mouths and paid at least one month before election. If a tax receipt should be lost a citizen's oath that the tax has been paid is sufficient, Stott-Frantz Miss Harriet Stott, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. James H. Stott, formerly of this place, and Mr. Joseph Henry Frantz of Harrisburg, were married Wednesday afternoon at the bride's home in Reading. The groom isin the mercantile business in Harrisburg, where he has a home al- ready prepared for his bride. | has 14 a . | ; | township. § Benjamin Bradley an- | Joseph | Agustus Riiey, on Tues y ‘ y that | | | paper | and closing the | of candidates is also pub- | thal are important to all | LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Gathered From the Various Offices About the Court House, MARRIAGE LICENSES, {1 Frank McCormick - Elizabeth E., Fye . {1 C. Bailey «. «. L.S. From - State College § Joseph Peters - Port Matilda Agnes Sherry - . Olivia State College “" ‘“ Pine Grove Mills Snow Shoe Clarence f Thomas ). Hayes t Gussie Oswalt - § John Vermick - . { Alpha M. Dugan - - : Harman J. Cunningham Eliza J. White - -. . Coyler « Philadelphia Pleasant Gap REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Ellsworth E. Ardery, et ux to Robert Billet, Sept. 22, 1920; tract of land in Spring township. $850. Mary A. Mattern, to W. C. Andrews, Oct. 10, 1900; lot in Philipsburg. $2625. Jas. N. Boal, to Theodore D. Boal, Oct. 22, 1900; tract of land in Harris township, $2050. A. M. Hoover, et ux to Belle |. Hoover Deg. 27, $500. The Safe Desposit, and Trust Co, of 1899, house and lot in Bellefonte. Pittsburg, to Andrew Nearhoof, Sept. 17, 1900; 2 tracts of land in Taylor township. $100. Samuel William Miles loose’'s Exrs, to Walker, April 1, 1847; 2 lots in township, $1420. Jono. Crader’s Admrs. to Susan Crader, Jan. 1, 1900; 2 tracts of land in Gregg township, $401 et baron to Benj Margaret Hartswick, Haines township. § WwW. W. 1500; 12 Kern, to acre Jas. A. Fi Oct Tyrone Mining Gray, May 3, 1900; 21 in Ferguson township J.H. Reifsnyder, to in Haines! | Gates. April 29, Walker township. § Thos. Huston’s Exr. to William ter Oct 25, 188g; 1 Walker township £350 Bella J. Miles et baron et a |! haney Oct. 6, 1900; 7 @ township, £3200. Jas. W. Boal t Nir filliam Bartley who resides on a on last Friday 1s attended farm near Jacksonville, in company with some frien Fair While along the Midway she felt a tw the Centre County walking tch at her dress and discovered that her pocketbook was gone. She noticed a stranger hurry. ing away through the crowd and notified her son Charles, who with county detec. | tive J. W but no'trace of the pocketbook was found, Rightnour, arrested the man Later in the day Mrs. Bush, wife of Dr. Bush, the veterinary surgeon, picked up the pocketbook on the ground near where Mrs was in it together with £100 Bartley lost it, The owner's name in money and a bunch of keys. Mrs tively Bartley and ber identified the man om Monday | before Justice Harshberger, The theory of | the police is that that Mrs. Bartley missed her pocketbook | he at once threw it away. that a sister of Mrs. Bartley man throw the pocketbook away. The Justice regarded the evidence as sufficiently strong to hold the prisoner in the sam of §i1.000 for trial at the November term of court, in de. fault of which he was committed to jail. Williams is a man about 35 years of age, § feet 10 inches in height and weighs about 115 pounds and gave his home as Pittsburg. two son's posi when he discovered | It is said saw the Thomas-Green. In the presence of a few intimate friends Miss Maud Thomas, daughter of 1.1L. Thomas and Lee Green, of Brooklyn, were married on Oct, 3rd at the home of the bride at Milesburg, by the Rev, Rich- ard Wharton, of the M. KE. Church, Mr. and Mrs. Green will make their home in Brooklyn, N. ¥. — - Gloves are coming in handy. THE BIG FAIR IS OVER. If there was one event over which the people of this county were interested it was the opening of the new fair ground at this place last week, During the past year it was the topic of conversation and to have it realized in a successful manner was than to all cerned as well as the public at large. Thursday more gratifying con- was an immense day in point of attendance as there were no less than from ten tot on the ground and the weather could not | welve thousand people | have been more inviting for the occasion, The ball drop, particularly, was a success. yon ascension and the parachute The other entertainments were appreciated. The races were fine and the object of the | greatest attention, Nineteen horses plied the turf in three events, while it took six it was won by Sue Patchen by one half a heat. Best time 2.23%. Dot C. won the 2 35 class by half alength in yor heats to decide the 2.27 class, when made three straight heats, best time 2.26%, while Sallie Derby won three straight heats in the 2.18 class, best time 2.194. The attendance on Friday was not | but | quite as large as the former day, there were a great many people on the closing events as some of the best horses | | | ground from adjoining towns to see the | | the | for greatest | Ains- | ia | maae | hand the the prizes in country were on The qu all, the lowered the trac and rd race of week, took piace worth daring down The Tad was managers 1 with the Wedding Announced Wedn ' Markiesharg, | and in Calvin, December 1 1 | Hutch {f Warrior’ chairman, | (» nson, Juniata counly w have institutes at East Port Royal, February 6 and 7 4 and 5, and at | Matthew | 1 oreside | presiae, Salem, February Rodgers, of Mexico, will Miffly McVeytown, and at 1 county's institutes will be held | at December 19 an Belleville, December | stine, of Lewistown, will pt i - : A Mockery : of a woman for three days for The burial alive, now an attraction morbid minds, at a dime for a peep down into | : the grave, is a sacrilegious burlesque up the death, and but a mockery on solemnity of of the tomb in which we can only see a sacrilegious play upon the burial of the Savior and his resurrection i the third day. This traveling abomina- tion should not be permitted to make its mocking exhibit in any community and should be classed with prize fights, bull : fights and such, —— ————————— Were Released, i Last week, at the U. 8, District Court atl Pittsburg two men were charged with robbing the post office at Centre Hall, about two months ago. About a half dozen witnesses were there from Centre Hall, but there was not sufficient testi. mony to hold them, and they were dis charged. Dale-Scholl, On Wednesday evening, Oct, 17, at 6 p. m., at the Bush House, Belléfonte, by Rev. GO. W. Lunt Clement C. Dale, of Oak Hall, a Miss Carrie Scholl, of Houserville, ———————— * : . | and exemplary in h | burg's ve nerable lof the late ac Git | old daughters, fifty-one grandchildren and |, [ty. Peter, 1 rine Looker sisters of th he noon r1Ove N d at Pine Peer ls K d township, last Tuesd heart failure and o S year He leaves and two daughters He was an ardent Demo member ent church 8S WAIKS ID peral and ry to-day. Mrs HArrmT Gixcnunr: one of Miles lies, died Wednesday morning 17th ased was the widow gher who preceded ber to the grave about six years ago She was 75 She years, 1 months and 19 days is survived By six son , three twenty-six great-grandchildren. Hexey H. Kripgr: a well known resi dent of Tyrone, died on Wednesday eve ning 17th at his home in the latter place, of paralysis, aged nearly 62 years. He was a galiant soldier in the civil war, and for several years carried on the cantile business at Buffalo Run, this coun. Surviving him are his wife, three mer. sons and one dangider, WILLIAM WiLson: «Associate Judge | of Mifflin county court, died at his home | at McVeytown Monday of cancer of the | He was sixty.six years of age | and was elected associate judge last fall, | bowels, assuming the duties of office in January. = Gnoncx Lopgn:—died Tuesday morn. The t Miriisat Bed wheat per! 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