CHAS. R. KUE® © Proprietor.
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FARMERS |
INSTITUTES |
| is worth remembering better
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young women out to the institute--it will
help to give them a start in the right di
Your
rection, wife will remember what
than you
| will—bring her with you to every session
Two Will Be Held in Centre Co. |
Next Week
PROGRAM OF EACH SESSION |
; | W. Irvin Shaw, Who Was a Native of
List of Prominent Speakers Who Will |
Be to Be Dis-
cussed
tre Hall.
Present Topics
This year two Farmers Institutes will
be held by the State
Agricultural and
in this county
will be
of Hon,
John A. Woodward, of Howard, who has
for many
Department
under the personal supervision
followed this line of work
years. The two institutes will be at Port
Matilda ana Centre Hall,
The principal addresses will be made by
pext week
men employed by the state department
who can speak with intelligence on the
yarious topics. In addition there will be
a variety to the program of each session
by farmers of the county participating in
the discussions. There will also be some
local talent assist in the various sessions,
also the query box, music and devotional
the
exercises, The following is
gramme for
pro-
Port Matilda—Jan. 9 and 10:
WRDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 2 O'CLOCK,
Address of Welcome—Rev. KE. S. Lat.
shaw.
Respounse—Prof. S.B. Heiges, York, Pa.
What to do with an Improvised Farm
R. L. Beardslee, of Warrenham, Pa.
Bpeeding and care of Swine—]. S.
Busts, of Clinton, Pa. |
Frat =f, Horo
WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7.30.
An Ideal Farm House—Mrs. Mary A.
Way, of Loveville, Pa.
Home Influence]. S. Burns.
Training Girls for Home Work-—Mrs.
Mina S. Latshaw, of Port Matilda, Pa.
Music.
Nature Study in the Public Schools—
Prof. Heiges.
THURSDAY MORNING, 9 0 CLOCK.
How to Establish and Mamtain a
Dairy-—R. L. Beardslee,
Little Things on the Farm—]. S. Burns.
Poultry for Profit—Prof. Heiges.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 1.30.
Diversified Farming—R. IL. Beardslee.
Feeding Cattle for Profit—]. S. Burns.
What Next ?—Prof. Heiges.
THURSDAY EVENING, 7.30.
Education—Rev. R. W. Runyon, of
Stormstown, Pa.
An Education for Farmers’ Children
Prof. Heiges.
Should Farmers Keep Accounts
Burns.
]. 8.
Centre Hall—Jan. un and 12:
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 1.30.
Address of Welcome—James A. Kel-
ler.
Response Burns.
leaks on the Farm —Henry Duck.
What to do with a Poor Farm—R.
Beardsiee,
Success the Farm—D. D. Royer.
Diversified Farming — Prof. Heiges.
Soiling—B. F. Homaau.
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FRIDAY EVENING, 7 30.
Recitation-—Miss Grace Boob.
The Social Side of Farm Life
lus A. Sankey.
The Farmer and his Wife]. §
How Nature Study can be Taught in
the Public Schools— Prof. Heiges.
How to Keep the Bright Young Men on
the Farm-—A. N. Corman.
SATURDAY MORNING 9 O'CLOCK,
Mrs. F.
Marcel
Burns.
The Benefits of Organization
Brown.
Fodder Corn, Silos and Silage
Beardsiee,
Line Fences—Wm. M. Grove,
Treatment for Unproductive Orchards
— Prof. Heiges.
Lime and its Uses—Dr. Frear,
-R. L.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1.30.
Our Public Schools—Rev, D. M. Wolf.
Recitation Miss Anna Bartholomew,
Commercial Fertilizers—Dr. Frear,
Dayry Cattle—J. A. Sankey.
Poultry for Profit—Prof. Heiges.
The care of our Timber Laads—Prof.
Neff,
SATURDAY RVENING, 7.15.
Leaflets—David K. Keller,
Recitation Miss Florence Rhone,
Potato Culture—R. L. Beardslee.
An Education for Farmers’ Children
Prof. Heiges.
When a speaker takes his seat he is
ready to answer questions, and his sub- |
ject is open to discussion.
Everybody is cordially invited to take |
part—keep the query box filled with years has been endeavoring to get a pen.
proper questions, and keep all improper |
and irrelevant ones la your pocket,
The query box will be opened at the
At Port Matilda and Cen- |
| position of United Stajes consul at Bar
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| One vein
other nine feet,
| the ore taken out for furnaces in Hunt.
| ingdon and Perry counties,
| what the family had on.
JOHN A, WOODWARD,
County Manager,
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COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Clearfield.
W. Irvin Shaw, who had been filling the
ranquilla, Colombia, and who was recent.
ly appointed consul general at Singapore,
committed suicide in a hotel in Philadel
He opened a fem
his throat
His health is ¢
posed to have effected his mind
phia, on Christmas
oral artery and slashed and
wrists with a knife. sup
He
Pa., where
Mr. Shaw is about years old
was born in Clearfield county,
he practiced law for several years,
His widow and two little
State College, where they were
main antil the husband and father
return from Barranquilla
GOT A WATCH.
Spring Mills, Pa., Dec. 19, 190¢
EDITOR DEMOCRAT: —I received my
watch Dec. 15 and am well pleased with
it. It keeps perfect time and has not
stopped since [ have it The three new
subscribers are well pleased with the
paper. They say it is cheap enough.
They received the paper last week I
must close for this time
Yours truly,
EARNEST W. ZETTLE
Other boys can do the same thing,
a nice watch for new subscribers to
paper
'
finer watch If
For four new names we sen
you want further
ticulars, write to this office
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Local Institute.
A local of the teachers of dis.
No. 3 be held
school building of Bellef
institute
trict will in the brick
mte on Feb. g,
1901, begunning at ga. m. Program as
D
Oratory in Public Schools, by James Corl;
Miss Mary
Prof. Mever
Ott ; Reading,
follows : Paper, by Prof Q. Etters;
Music in Public Schools, by
Twitmire; Eoglish, by
Nature Study, by W. H
by Miss Rose Fox ;
ary School, Edward Owen |
Program of a Prim
Busy Work,
by Miss Bessie Dorworth; Paper, by Miss
| Alma Stine ; Pros and Cons, of the Verti.
cal system, by members of institute
H. G. MEASE,
Chairman
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Calico Getting Cheap
Hull,
lay to a neighbor
Wil
wife the
iam of Port Jervis, sold h
wher for ten
cents, and the
he
home with him
and demanded
Hall,
ats the pr
tarped with the woman
the ten cents who re
back
fused to refund ce of
a wife down as
the Bel
a bunch.
low as yanch of onions
efounte curb
We
0 in this part of the vine
in market at hive
cents rather think the
wearers of cali
yard would bring bigger prices
Badly Trampled.
Harry Grove, aged nineteen years, son
of Wm. of Shiloh,
at work repairing
Mr. Zettle of that
was in the
striking the boy on the head, knocking
him
stood on the boys head until
Grove, Friday while
the stable of
a stall in
place, a horse which
stall at the time reared up
down and standing on him It
removed by
The boys recovery is doubtfnl
Mifflin Co. Citizen Killed.
force.
Rufus Esh aged 40 years, was instant.
ly killed in a saw mill at Belleville,
26 ult,
rate of speed broke from its bearings,
on
A circular saw running at a high
striking Esh on the head, cutting its way
body. Frank War-
12, was severely injured by
almost through his
ner, aged
| being struck by flying timber,
Rich Ore Find.
While sinking a well on his farm a
| mile west of Lewistown James H. Muth.
| ersbaugh drilled through two very rich
| veins of iron ore at a depth of 200 feet.
The ore has proved to be nich in iron,
is ten feet in thickness, the
Shafts wiil be sunk and
Another Fire.
Thursday evening the
Few only of the effects
and no clothing except
Loss, $1200;
on the roof.
were saved,
insurance $200.
. — .
Received a Big Pension,
William Alters, of Millheim, who for
sion, was made glad last week when he
was put on the pension rolls atsix dollars
per month and received back pay to the
nire Llemocrat.
HEARTS THAT
Holiday Season Prolific with Cu:
pid’'s Conquests.
| MANY NUPTIALS CELEBRATED |
| Thursday, Dec, 26th, in Snydertown, at
Brief Accounts of Some of the Happy
Events—Other Weddings Reported
in the Correspondent’s Column
Harvest-time for Preachers.
NEBRASKA-WEDDING
A very pretty wedding occurred at the
of H A
y., Tuesday,
home Raymond,
The
of
lO many
ra Elsie Broth
Charles R
Larimer, of
De
family were
cember 15th
Larimer former
residents
ty and are
Miss FI
this « we known
of our reade:
Larimer,
l.arimer, for.
this
Hugh
Hill,
orated in holly
¢ of
Gathered at Grand
merly connty
Miss
re
i
The house was «
Mabel Larimer, nie the
cited “Why We Are
Mis
a wedding march,
groom,
pa's House," Susie Larimer played
to the music of which
the bride and groom entered the room,
preceded by the bridesmaid
Rev
ceremony.
and grooms.
man Mr. Hulhurst performed the
The
numerous All
presents
did
M1
employ of Thomas Dillon & Co. at Bat.
tle, Wy
after
were quite
justice to a very
elaborate dinner Larimer is in the
They will be at home at Battle
January 20, 1901 The best wishes
f a host s go with them
home «
Jacksonvilie, being the marriage of thelr
sister, Eleanor Louise, to Jesse B
of Mill Hall
entered the parlor
of
Rosser,
The party slowly
sweet strains
Lohengrin, Mrs, HD
Mart The bridal
party marched in the following order
Ushers, I
Nixon,
Bel
by
Allison Irwin, Harry E.
Dr. H. W. Tate, of
John Bathgate, of Le.
of Lamar,
1
an
ana
cfonte,
mont ; bridesmaids, Gertrude and Sue
1 3, sisters of the bride, Miss Clara
» and Miss Mame Gard.
by Miss
Jennie Irwin, of Bellefonte, as maid of
Nixon, of Lamar,
per, of lock Haven, followed
honor, and John Hemderson, of Philadel
phia, best man.
YOSS- MTS
Lutheran chur
was the scene
ling ceremony Chr
ock when
Alka Musser,
riage by
T. Aikens
M. E
while John H. Bai
Arthur
The bride was attended by her
Miss Anna Musser,
honor, and Misses Stella Heberling and
The bride
was given away by ber brother Curtis H
7 0'¢ Samuel E
{f that
,
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the pastor
church, | The groom
was attended by Heberling, as
nan, ey, Andrew
Heberling and Fortney were
ushers
sister, as maid of
Anna Kreps as bridesmaids
Musser. The groom is a popular young
school teacher and son of Wm. Goss
MARTIN“HOLMES
A pretty Christmas wedding was that
John B. Martin, of Pittsburg, and Miss
Emma A
of
Holmes, of State College, at
the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs
avenue, State Loliege
James H. Holmes, Sr., on Beaver
The groom was
attended by his brother, George Martin,
of Pittsburg, as best man, while the maid
of honor was Miss Margaret Steiner, of
Tax k
playe«
Haven. The wedding duet was
by Miss Maud Kennedy, of State
College, and Miss Mabe! Holmes, a sister
of the bride. The groom is employed in
Pittsburg where they will make their
future home
HOCKMAN-GROVR
A very pleasant wedding was cele
brated at the home of Peter Hockman,
pear Mingorville, at nooh, Dec. 25th,
when his daughter, Emma J. became the
bride of Witmer B. Grove, of Spring
Mills. Her pastor, Rev. H. I. Crow, of
Hublersburg, performed the ceremony,
Between sixty and seventy guests were
present and partook of the bountiful
dinner prepared for the occasion, The
bride was the recipient of many preity
| and useful presents. Their many friends
wish them mach happluess in their jour.
ney through life.
residence of |
John Williams, of Bald Eagle township,
was destroyed by fire, which originated
GRTTIG-GUMMO,
Minnie BE. Gummo, daughter of Charles
Gummo of Waddle, were married by
Rev. T. W. Perks, pastor of the United
#rethren church, Bellefonte, last
| Wednesday, The best man was 8, D.
Gettig, Esq. of Bellefonte, a brother of
the groom. The bridesmald was Miss
Kate Gummo, a sister of the bride. The
groom is employed as a carpenter by
ol
i
| the
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| Condo, on New Ye
BEAT ASONE |
J. Andrew Gettig, formerly of Linden |
Hall, but now bof Braddock, and Miss |
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901
home of the bride's father, J. C,
H. F. Mec-
Manaway was the groom's best man and
Miss E. the
bride, was her maid.
officiated. A
ar's day.
Blanche Condo, a sister of
Rev. F. W,
and reception fol.
Brown
diuner
lowed the ceremony.
TILIMAN-HECKMAN.
A quiet wedding was celebrated on |
the
Tillman
Miss
by Rev. H. I. Crow.
home of bride's father, when
GC.
the
Fred of Clintondale was
married to Miperva S. Heckman
CARVER~CH
Milton
Clara
ITENBORDER.
Carver, of Rock Forge, and
Custenborder, of Warriorsmark,
were united in marriage Christmas afer
The ceremony was
the Lutheran par
Neils by Rev. C. T
noon performed at
sonage at rine Grove
Ailkens.
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G. L. POTTER PROMOTED
The announceme vas made recently
of the promotion of I.. Potter, a for-
mer Bellefonter, to an
the
important position
in service of the Penna. Railroad,
that of manager of all of their lines west
of Pittsburg. Some of the Pittsburg
papers gave considerable space to the
announcement and published a
good
portrait and a complete biographical
sketch of Mr. Potter from which we note
the following
Mr. Potter began his career by starting
to work in the Penna. Railroad shops at
Renovo in 1876 and served an appren.
ticeship of three years. He then became
assistant mechani
Fort
master ittsbhurg &
that
Fort
was offered
Warne railroad
after
master mechanic of Pittsbur &
Wayne railroad ; thereafter
a fone position as manager of the Shoen
Pressed Steel Car C)., which he refused,
and was made general superintendent of
Motive
Pittsburg
Power of Penna
On December 26th, 1900, he
was made general manager of Penna
Lines West of Pittsburg with headquar-
ters at Pittsburg. This is a very desita
ble position and has a large salary con.
The
him unsolicited, upon his merits and as
nected with it position came to
1
i
being the right man for the place.
hn
He was the son of Potter
and is a brother of James H of
the drm of Potter & Hoy, hardware men,
Seliefonte,
Geo. L
Potter
killed
f Agriculture
Over 1,200 Cattle
John
oul some interesting
tuberculosis among
iia. Daring the past
r, according to a
ronan
report of State Vet
y leonrd Pearson, which is about
to make public, the number of cattle tes.
ted for the discase was 9.274
of which
227 were killed. The amount paid to
owners of the infected animals was $28.
139 50 or an average of $23 10a head
the
present law went into effect four years
Secretary Hamilton says that when
ago, twenty five per cent. of the herds
examined were found to be more or less
of
disease
infected, while now not ten per cent
the the
The law provides that not more than $25
herds examined have
a head can be paid for ordipary cattle
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and not more than $50 a head for regis
tered stock
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Crop Prospect
The wheat fields of this county, un
protected by snow, have suffered some.
what from the several freezes that set in
the A
are suffered
during past three weeks few
fields reported to have
materially, while others have been less
damaged. Should the winter continue
thus, there would be much harm done
the prospect was good, but all depends
upon a favorable winter. Last year the
fields had the same promising appear
ance as this fall, but a cold winter, bare
of snow, caused an almost entire fallure
of the wheat crop
Dividing a Township.
On Tuesday of next week, the Sth, the
voters of Boggs township will have to de.
cide by a special election as to whether
they are in favor of the township being
divided,
eastern aud the northern precincts into
one to be known as “Roland” township |
and the western precinct to be known as
“Boggs.” There is considerable senti.
ment stirred up over the division and the
result is hard to foretell.
Christmas Suicide.
Edward Hamoberger, a well. known
citizen of Flemington, committed suicide |
Christmas afternoon by hanging himself |
in the barn, He is survived by his wife
and two children and by one brother,
He was a member of the firm of Ham.
berger Brothers, bakers, of Flemington
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Married 14 Couples in Two Hours,
Christmas night, at Schacflerstown the
Rev, J. A. Bookman, a Reformed church
The purpose is to combine the |
HISTORICAL
REVIEW
An Interesting Sketch About Early
Immigration
GERMANS OF PENNSYLVANIA
Descended; from a Hardy, Frugal and
Industrious People—Deaths from
the Voyage and other Sufferings
Continued in Next Issue.
The Germans of Pennsylvania, ahardy,
frugal, and industrious people, who have
preserved in a great measure, their
manners and language, immigrated into
this province, for conscience sake, and to
itual and tem.
there is no
more the
frequently
remark in the early history of
luring the
ury, than the Germans, whose numerous
descendants are found
not only in
this state, bu every western
and southwestern
Though
and
state of the Union.
* than twenty-five thous-
pames of German immigrants are
recorded in the Provincial Records from
and after 1725, few of those are record.
ed, who arrived in Pennsylvania prior to
1700. Among the first whose name has
been handed down, is that of Heary Fry,
Wi
atenback, who came a
who arrived two years liam
before
Penn ; and one |
few years later
Those who left their Vateriand
1700, endured many rdships
on
way to their ture new home; some
suffered much , while others, after
their arrival here, Passing over
of twenly years, from 1650 to 1700, they
suffered comparatively little
more than
was the common lot » colonists
of that 1720
they
ly came from Palatinate, whith.
the Palatines, so call because
priancipa
er many had been forced to flee from
their homes in other Europe,
they
parts of
endured before
reached the western continent,
many privations
1708 and 1709 upwards of ten thous.
ar-
for
miserable,
and many of them very poor,
in England, and were there
a starviog,
sickly condition, lodged in warchouses ;
who had no subsistence but what they
could get by their wives begging for
th N
acm
in the streets till some sort of provision
ine ; and
was made for them by Queen A
then some were shipped to Ireland, oth
ers to America
Hundreds of and
sustained for some time by Queen Anne,
transported
those,
were gratuitously furnished with religi.
their
Wilhelm
before
parture, by Auton
Boehm, Chaplain of
The principal book was ““Arndt's Wahres
Christentham.”
ous and useful books, de.
the Rev
Court St, James
Among these German
emigrants were Mennonites, Dunkards,
German Reformed, and Lutherans
English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish, who
were unable to defray the expenses of
crossing the Atlantic, were sold as ser:
vants
729 there arrived
Castle government, the Gazette,
forty-five hundred persons, chiefly from
Ireland ; and at Philadelphia, in
year, two hundred and sixty-seven Eog-
lish ahd Welsh, forty-three Scotch--all
In in New
Savs
one
servants.
From 1730 to 1740 about sixty-five
vessels, well filled with Germans, arrived
at Philadelphia, them
ministers of the gospel and schoolmas-
bringing with
ters, to instract their children. A large
in Philadel.
phia, others went seventy to eighty miles
from Philadelphia
number of these remained
peighborhood of Lebanon, others west of
the Susquehanna, in York county,
Some of the Germans who had settled
on the west side of the Susquehanna,
were constantly annoyed by one Cressap,
a Maryland intruder. In 1736, Cressap
publicly declared, that in the winter next
coming, when the ice was on the river, a
great number of armed men would come
up from Maryland, and be in the woods
near the German inhabitants, and that
he, with ten armed men, would go from
house to house, and take the masters of |
the families prisoners, and when they
had as many as they could manage, they
would carry them to the armed forces in
| the woods, and return again till he bad
all taken who would not submit to Mary-
| land. Several of the Germans were sab.
stantly harassed; in many instances
driven from their farms.
From
in some of them, though small, there
were between five and six hundred pas.
sengers. In the summer and autumn of
| 1749, not less than twenty vessels, with
| German passengery, to the number of
| twelve thousand, arrived.
:
some settied in the
|
1740 to 1755 upwards of one |
buudred vessels arrived with Germans; |
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VOL. 23, XO. 1.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selected
and Original,
The Other Fellow,
You may be an arden
ut no matter
Always wateh
For he may be working you,
what you «
the other Ie ow,
Don’t take any undue chances,
Always to yourself be true;
Work your neighbor on the quiet
While he's planing to work you
Ch News
age
“WOMEN AND “LADIES”.
“Woman should not be out after 12 p.
YY Just Atle
supreme court a
m.”, 1s the ruling
drews in the New York
few days ago, when a woman had made
complaint that her landlord, of
whom
she had leased two 1 sas a dressmak-
mignt, the own-
she could not en.
r apartment, The
od the word “women,” hence
» must infer that it don't apply to la.
dies, and these may stay out as late at
The ruling from the
supreme bench does not cover much fem-
night as they wish
"
inineterritory. There are few “women
at this enlightened day—they have pret.
ty nearly all turned to be “ladies.”
In the Holy Scripture the Democrat is
as
buudred and fifty
sure the word “woman occars
often as
times, while ' is mention.
In the
nt days there were
And it
iatler
3 RB
the word "lady
ed not over balf a dozen times.
old bible and testame
few ladie ul many women. is
ian that the
on thal the
came
home much before 12 o'clock at might,
fre.
Perhaps
else there w been more
juent
when the next 1
had, the learned
lars will
find there was a mis-tr and will
change the word
But,
ruling, if
‘woman “lady”.
Andrew's
12
down
to fall back wo Judge
one sees a female out after
o'clock at night, we her
as belog a lady an a woman,
There is n that. It has
often been asked, what is the diflerence
ady, and
We have
it now, and from high authority.
i —
BY THE WAY.
0 getting ou! of
between the word woman and
never a satisfactory solution
“Want you for dinner to-morror, Pete,”
go to the
me neck meat
Ugh, you canniba butchers
before the
“How
woman be ut at
de.
should a
ross-roads
bating society late
married night **
Husbands only on the
A
Swear
jury
reader wishes to the
origi.
A man's wife had
that she
ittle in-door
to
with the request,
know how
word, “Darn
thus
mv stockings
pated. It was
so much out door calling to do,
thoge
husband
Me™ veg
didn’t find time f
duties, hence the went
neighboring wives
‘darn my stockings’
comes home
with the announcement that several of
the biggest ones dropped in for him, the
What thea becomes of
Since every fisherman
question arises,
all the ng fish?
“Keep cool,” is good enough advice in
summer, but much out of place in win
ter,
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Highly Elevated
Bellefonte's elevation above sea level,
1s 826 feet, For purposes of comparison
the
Lewisburg, 450 feet ; CentrelHall,
we give elevation of some sister
towns
1100 feet ; Lock Haven, 500 feet; Phila.
delphia, 117 feet; Reading, 280 feet:
455% Somerset, 2,250
ege 1,191 feet ; Williams:
Selinsgrove, feet ;
feet ; State Co
port, 530 feet
Turkey Farmer.
The champion turkey farmer of the
south side is John H. Bare, of Potter, In
the summer we mentioned that cholera
had taken off some go of his spring brood
daring the summer, That left John 200
for market the past season, of which he
sold 1620 pounds to an Allentown mer.
chant at about gc per 1b. live weight,
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Engagement Announced.
The Scottdale, Pa., News containg'the
following :
“Ata charming dinner given on Christ.
mas day by Mr. and Mrs, John Walter
of Chestnnt street, the announcement
was made of the engagement of their
daughter, Viola, to Herbert 1. Brangart
| of Rebersburg, Pa.”
sequently abducted, others were con.
Mr. Brungart until recently was locat.
| ed in Bellefonte as turnkey at the jail,
Big School of German Carp.
A school of German carp made its ap-
pearance in the river at Farrandsrille
near Lock Haven, Thousands of the
fish swam into the mouth of Lick Run,
and fishing at once became the occuphs
tion of the residents of thal place,
| Hundreds of carp weighing from one to
Thousands of those who immigrated
to Pennsylvania between 1740 and 1758,
| amented bitterly that they had forsaken
four pounds were caught,
~Muslin underwear, linen embroid-
eries and lace curtains at special value
at "The Globe's’ annual white sale.
the Braddock Traction company: &
beginning of each session. Be prompt h J!
#0 that you may not miss any of the good
‘things which come out of it,
Arrange to get the young men asd
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| elergyman, married fourteen couples in
MRYER-CONDO. {wo hours, all members of one or another
Harry N. Meyer and M Tarrie of the seven congregations be serves as
Condo, of Penn Hall, were ira at pastor,
$7
amount of $711.
Reference books are not always in.
spiring, but they help one to look up.
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