oeIgeIe MA
CHAS. R. KURT. Proprietor.
THREE LOCAL |
INSTITUTES
Programs that Are Prepared for |
Each Session
LIVE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
Instructors Who Will be
Public Cordially Invited
Roland, Unionville and
Prominent
Present
te Attend
Millheim,
Local teachers’ institutes are
throughout the county
these gatherings the teachers of the
relative
each year
lis-
tricts discuss to the
profession of teaching, and it has proven
quest: as
a wise and beneficial course as it awak-
new ideas, new impulses,
This
we give the important parts of the pro-
ens in them
new interest in their work week
grams of three of these institutes to be
held the coming week as follows
UNIONVILLE —JAN. 18-19
FRIDAY EVENING: —Address, “A Char.
acter Study,’’ Prof. R. M. McNeal, Supt.
Model School, Lock Haven, Pa
SATURDAY MORNING Address of
Welcome, E. J. Williams. Response, by
Miss Mabella Norris, and J. A. Williams
“How Do You Teach SReading /"* Har-
riet Grimm, Worth; G. D. Morrison,
E. W. Erhard, Taylor.
tation, Mame Delong. ‘How Shall We
Teach Literature in the Pablic Schools ?
H. B D. H. Way, Half
Moon M. Rowan, Huston Is-
say, Maggie M. Wil
You Make Your History (
ing 7'' J. H. Crain, Worth;
Half Moon ; Julia A. Davidson, Un
SATURDAY AFTERNOON: —Question Box
A. Williams, Worth.
othuse
Union ; Rect
Baisor, Patton;
Lacy
iams. “How Do
ass Interest
G
C. Sune,
on
to be conducted by |
“How Do Pupils
with a Love for Study, Love of Country,
You E Your
and the Part They are to Act as Citizens
of Their Williams,
Huston ; Bertha K
Patton
How
of the
Country J.
S. L. Lucas, pion ;
Cleaver, Huston ; F
Hoover
Recitation, Elizabeth
Can We Secure the Co-Operation
Parents in the Public Schools
Hancock, pion ; Ida R.
Worth; Elmer Henderson
Director, His
the Schoo Dr. \ ! Irwin.
Wi
lFaylor
Teacher an
Hust
Duty to
Geo. R
wood
“The
and
Moon
Smith
Recitation
Committee
Lundy Lu
ROI
Friopay E
to Teach Grammar
"How
to Beginners, Dor,
Isabel Taylor, Mina T
A Robb, Alice S. Neff
Recitat
otha Rechdel,
McCloskey,
Entertainment
SATURDAY FORENOON
Schoo Wilbur
Winfield Thompson, D. E
Wi The Air,
cal experiments conducted by Prof. Geo
Park Sager, of
This w
ive leature
Sadie
Soging, &
‘The Rura
Leathers,
Robb, 8. T
a series of practi
ons
Program
lams
lock Haven Normal
the
| be an interesting and instruct
“How to Interest a Physi.
ology Harry
Gregg, J. L. Gardaer, R
J E. Rickard
leathers AS
ASS,
sruce Schrefller,
SATURDAY AFTERNOON The Duties
of Parents Toward Teacher and Pupils
Milford Pletcher, C. V. Woodward, |
B. Miller, 8. 8S. Williams, E. B
“The Air,” Prof. George Park
“Busy Work," Lizzie M. Holter.
Bechdel, Elizabeth | Stroop
Wentzel, Nannie Delaney
Alice §
Schrefller, Wilbur Leathers
A
Holter
Singer
Sara E,
Blanche
Neff. R
Committee Bruge
MILLHEIM~ JAN, 25-26
FRIDAY Lecture by Prof
C. C. Ellis, of Juniatta College, Hunting
don, Pa
SATURDAY MORNING Paper, by W,
H. Limbert, subject, “How Can We Im
prove in Teaching the Subject of Gram.
mar 7" Discussion by 8. M. Weber, J. N
Meyer, H. A. Detweller. Recitation, Miss
Cordelia Acker. Discussion “Should
Memory Work Be Made a Part of the
publics School Corriculum?’ By C. B
Royer, L. A. Miller, E. 8. Stover, Ques
tion Box
SATURDAY AFTERNOON Recitation,
Miss Florida Duck. Paper by H. W.
Morris, “The Teacher as a Maker of
Society.” General discussion. Recita.
tion, Miss Mable Sankey. Discussion
"What Can Be Dose in Order (0 Secure
a More Hearty Co Operation of Teacher
and Director ln the Baforcement of the
Compulsory Scoool Law?’ Teachers:
R. U. Bitner, T. A. Aumas, |. C. Morris: ,
Directors: J. H. Wyle, BE. H Auman, |
U. 8. Shafer.” Question Hox, Report of |
Committees, ete. Teachers will Please |
bring their Uncle Sam's School Songs |
with them,
mittee :H, C.
eber, H. N. Meyer,
EVENING
Rothrock, 8. M,
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
Was It a Case of Suicide or Did He Do
It in His Sleep ?
Anderson Lutz, well known throughout
the Philipsbarg section, shot and killed
himself Sunday night, in his bedroom at
Forest Mine, No. 2, located about half
Munson
Alfred
Great was the shock the son sustained at
way between and Winburne.
He and his son slept together
the hour indicated when he was awaken
ed from his slumber by the report of a
gun and the body of his father falling
the bed The
jumped quickly from the bed, and spoke
over backwards on son
to his father, but received no response.
[aghting a lamp he was horrified to find
that his father was dead, the shot, which
1
penetrated just below the left eye
de him instantly
The deceased was aged about ¢
NO 2,
He was checkweigman at Forest
position he had been fi ing for some
time
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A RICH FIND
William Gar-
gould hidden
A report is current that
lin found $14.000 in in the
hollow of an old tree, which he chopped
Sandy Hollow,
The
hidden
there in the early party of the century
down, on his tarm in
Carrol
money
township, Perry county
1s supposed to have been
by Lewis the robber, who was associated
with the robber Connelly, and comm
the Seven
ries in the early days in
other sections of Centre
mountains and
It was beli
had
¢ Seven
that these high
waymen large
in th
den
which search was m
We
but
without success, gave a history of
their ope will priat a more
compie
$1,000,000 for Coal Land
It is said that four big deals for coal
lands in West Pennsylvania have just
been eonsummated by which 10,000
acres changed hands for over a million
dollars The most important was a sale
of 22,000 acres in Young, Black Lick and
Pp Away
around stru the
ait She hurried
k her on
cons dera! le 4
bouse and sat down pear the cook st
the door of which was open Mrs. (
fer noticed herse
ed, falling
hand thr
After a
Ousness,
mgh the
hire =
CON
horribly burned
ber hand found it
end of the fingers being
crisp. She was alone in the house at the
time and might have been burne
death had her clothing taken fire. Ex
Beech Creek Connecting Link
Philadelphia special
ug
ue system
A
Philadelphia and Read
says that the
TRLIwWAY to
be made a great trunk using
the Baltimore and Oblo to the west and
Rochester at This
opens up lines to the lake ports and w
The « muecting link
Vanderbilt plan is the Beech (Peek. and
the Buffalo, 1 Pittsburg
Pittsburg in the
the purchase of a contro ng interest by
the Morgan syndicate in Jersey Central
and its acceptance by the Reading com
pany directors is accepted as the open.
ing of a new system under the auspices
of the New York Central
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No More Elopements
and
bashful maiden hie themselves across the
No more will the festival youth
borders of the Eumipire state there to be
wedded together by enterprising and
thrifty clergymen or justices of the peace,
whose business will now be seriously af
fected, for a license law has gone in ef
fect in New York state | a law even more
stringent than that in effect in Pennsyl.
vYania.
Courageous Town Officials
Mayor James Gleason, of Houlzdale,
Acting in conjunction with the council of
that town, has come down like a ton of
brick on the slot machines operating
there. The mayor and police visited the
establishments, about six (nn number,
where the gambling machines flourished,
last Wednesday evening and closed
them,
The bar to hobo's
happiness is soap.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Some of the Uprisings Among In-
dians in Pennsylvania
PENNS CREEK MASSACRES
Other Atrocious Deeds Along the Susque
hanna by the Wicked Mingos and
Iroquois—Story of Luke Holland,
a Famous Indian
amity |
A strict
Indians and the inh
northwester
along he
against the En
their former frien
of whom, at the instigati
the French, they
4H
atd
alge
Eogli
beriand «
fifteenth
1
Indians
Mahahany
nto the r
‘We found b
Dose Lo be «
sups i Are
The house where
sent them to your 101 he
terror of which has driven away almost
all the back inhabitants, except the sub
scribers, with a few more, who are wi
ing to stay and defend the lar
we are not at a
the want of gus
that
and
few In numbers, so without
ance, we must flee cave the
to the mercy of the enemy
We
Honor would take the same into consid.
wef
for the safetyol these back settlements.
therefore, desire it, that your
eration, and order some speedy re
and be pleased to give us speedy orders
what to do
George Gliwell, George Achmudy, John
McCabon, Abraham Souerkill, Edmund
Matthews, Mark Curry, William Doran,
Dennis Mucklehenny, John Young, John
Simmons, George Suabble, ( worge Aber
heart, Daniel Braugh, George Lynn, and
Gotfried Fryer Records
Jacob King alias Jacob Le Roy. men.
tioned in the above petition, had only
lately arrived in the country. At the
time he was murdered, his daughter,
Anne Mary Ie Roy, and some others,
were made prisovers, and taken to Kit.
tanning, where she was kept a captive
for
{Prov
She arrived at
Philadelphia, May 6th, 1750. A narra.
tive of her abduction and «¢ aplivity, and
about four years
that of Barbara Leininger, was published
by Peter Miller, 17%
Zeitung
On the 23rd of October, 1744, forty six
of the inhabitants on Susquehanna, about
Harris’ Ferry, went to Shamokin, to en.
Quire of the Indians there, who they
| were that bad so cruelly fallen upon and
reine. the settlement on Mabahony
in (Saner's
7. 1901,
creek ; on their return from Shamokin,
they were fired by
some Indians
ed,
four drowned, and . t put to flight ;
upon
who lay in ambush, and four were ki
on which, all the settlement between
Shamokin and Hunter's mil (formerly
we { the space of fifty miles,
were de
In the of the summer of the
Ar a most ous and shocki
altro
murder nit Le
own to » eep
ng off their Jey same
pur.
and the had taken
We
were hanged up to dry See said
Luke Holland to his astonished com pan
the
but Mingoes, as | truly tell
ions there is enemy! aot of any
nation
you
in less than half
an bour they will all be fast asleep. We
need not fire a gun, but go up and toma
hawk themn. We pearly two 10 one
and need apprehend no danger. Come
on, and you will now have your fall re
venge'" But the whites, overcome with
fear, did not choose to follow the Indian's
advice, and urged him to take them back
by the nearest and best way, which he
did, and when they arrived at home late
At night, théy reported the number of
the Iroquois to have been so great, that
they durst not venture to attack them
“This account, says Heckewelder, is
faithfully given as I received it from
Lake Holland himself, and took it down
in writing at the time." Heckewelder's
His. Acc. of Ind. Nations; p. 168-70
The near approach of the enemy threw
all, in the outer settlements, into con.
sternation Their only safety was to
flee and leave all to the. enemy. They
had in vain looked, for some time. for
eflectual relief from government, Houses
that bad been occupled | barns that had
been filled with the frumns of a rich and
plenteous harvest | and newly sowed
fields, and standing corm; and some
cattle, were all abandoned by the hardy
and industrious frontier settlers, ex pect
Ing as they did, daily the enemy upon
them. They were constantly in fear of
being cmt off. Kven John Harris and
his family were threatened with death,
stated by Mr. Harris himself,
They are 1 our power
Aare
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A REVIVALIST
RAISES CAIN
Run Out of Lewisburg For Abus-
ing Other Churches
WARNING FOR ALL RANTERS
Pulpit Jumping-Jacks
Frauds Cause More
Pro
Dangerous
and Religious
Hl Will Than
rood sional Revivalists are
ttown thought
few days ago, says
when notified by
wen depo
these
the fa
notes, and
tight
10 the farmers,
farmers,
ad by swindling games,
watch for new traps
a
New Landlords
Shaffer, who for many
at Madis
w! s week occupy the Old Port hotel,
Years
kept 1 unlicensed hole mburg,
icense transferred to him
landlord James
W. Runkle, beginning of February, will
the hotel at Centre
Hall, which be purchased recently, and
and have the
He will be an obliging
take possession of
will have the license turned over to him
Mr. Runkle is well
known to many of the Democrat readers
by order of court
in Penns valley, and will be
found an accommodating landlord, with
Mrs. Runkle and daughter Laura, pre.
siding over the table department in a
mannver to please the inner man.
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Gas in Bald Eagle Valley
The Howard Hustler in referring to the
leasing of land in Bald Eagle township, |
says it is thought that in the vicinity of
Howard there is a belt about four miles
long on which it is said are the best indi.
cations of oll in the Bald Bagle valley,
There are several places where gas es.
capes from holes in (he ground
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especially
Five Generations.
A recent issue of the Christian Herald i
contained a picture of Jacob Berry, of |
Berryville, I'l, and his descendant five
Kenerations. Mr. Berry was bom in
what is now Bald Eagle township this
county then Centre cougly, Mr. Berry
' has relations in Clinton county.
Booneville, Clinton county,
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FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected
'
inal
and Orig
money
wm when he
light-
same
ut to
KCTS
10
by
ing
home of
giving his
and that led to his
then and
with
aug ht
Hurt
Harter, of Coburn
Badly
Wm
Harter Bros
while work
BK
hollow
had both bones of
mill yard in Pine Creek
day afternoon the Sth
his 1
the
ight leg broken below the knee, says
Journal He was rolling
the accident happened and
taken to their camp and was mov.
ed to his home at Coburn on a spring
wagon, all of whi five
hours and which
We
bh required about
weakened him consid.
erably hope he may improve
rapidly
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Will Prospect for Coal
A stock company is being formed to
purchase a mineral drill which will be
used in prospecting for coal in Gregg
township. Cousidereble money has been
expended in that valley by parties pros
pecting for coal. About the only induce.
ment is hope. People who put their
money in such an enterprise should have
the advise of a reliable geologist or ex-
pert. Locating coal measures is a busi.
| ness that must be understood.
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Thieves
One night last week thieves made a
raid on the chicken coop of James I.
Delong at Ragleville, Clinton county,
and stole about fifty chickens and guin.
eas, besides taking the head off twenty.
seven, the bodies of which they left in
the coop, leaving two guineas alive
Death of an Aged Lady.
Mrs. Hanna Frank died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Daniel Wolfe,
Monday
sonia. after a week's (lines of pues.
ia. She was 8 years old.