4 THE OENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFO The Centre Democrat, CHAS, R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR FRED KURTZ, SR, bubibiodhucdeh CHAS. R. v2 SR. {epiTORS. CIRCULATION OVER "TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 Per year If Pald in Advanee.......oeenvsnss Loo “* With N.Y. 3-t-a. Week World ~~ EDITORIAL. 2800. THE assassination of President Mc- Kinley was clearly non-partisan, The assassination of Governor Goebel was as clearly partisan. ——————————— PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT refuses to ride behind docked horses. Right; the Crea- tor knew best what was becoming and added beauty to that noble animal, and all seusible people will hesitate to im- prove on the work of the Almighty. It is cruel and sinful to dock horses’ tails. THERE is possibility of a rumpus among the republicans in the next ses- sion of congress on the tariff question. Many think that the trusts have too much protection and that the people are preyed upon. The trust hirelings will fight for continued tariff protection for the wealthy corporations. Ivfluential republicans will join with the democrats to give the peo- ple a show, -> WE Give considerable space in this issue to a description of C. K. Sober's chestnut farm, which promises to be a most profitable As our county has extensive areas of wild waste mountain land, on which the uncultivated chestnut thrives, this matter should in- terest the owners. There is a large market for chestnuts and little danger of overproduction. The man who can grow two blades of grass where furmerly there was one, proves himself a benefactor to his race. If Mr. Sober’s experiment proves a success the mountain districts of our state can be turned to the culture of the chestnut and thus become valuable, which would become a lasting benefit to future generations. The hillsides and mountains of Pennsylvania should have some agricultural value and this experi. meut may prove it. investment, COURT PROCEEDINGS. Special Term of November Court con. vened ov Monday morning at ten o'clock, with Judge Love on the bench. Several hearings were heard by the Court under the Act of 18g5 for the ap- | pointment of guardians. Esq., was appointed for Frank R. Holt ; and William E. Brown for Sherwood Fetzer. all of Boggs township. This court was called for the purpose of disposing of the Kulp-Hough cases, | involving the title to several tracts of | land in the Jeremiah Jackson block, of | surveys in the Brush Valley Narrows and | across the mountain to Sugar Valley, | surveyed in 1793 and located in the east end of Miles township, but owing to the iliness of Senator S. P. Wolverton, of | Sunbury, senior counsel for the plaintiffs, | the plaintiffs could not go to trial and | the cases were all continu.d and court | adjourned on Monday afternoon until | Monday morning, November 25th. The | cases were as follows : Monroe H. Kulp & Co. Incorporated vs Nathaa Hough; summoned in ejectment, plea not guilty. | Emeline Hough vs. Monroe H. Kulp, G. Gilbert Kulp and D. C. Kaseman, trading as Monroe H.Kulp & Co., sum- moned in ejectment, plea pot guilty, Emeline Hough vs. Monroe H. Kulp, G. Gilbert Kulp and D. C. Kaseman ; summoned in trespass, plea not guilty, Nathan Hough vs. Monroe H. Kulp & | Co. ; summoned in ejectment, plea not guilty. (s p.G) A Beautiful Cantata. The beautiful cantata “Rebecca,” lib. eretto and music, by D. F. Hodges, will be rendered by local talent under the direction of Prof. Geo. Stanley West, at the Baptist church Blanchard, Thanks. giving evening. This is something along the musical line which is unprecedented in the annals of this community, The music is eatirely classical. With such an efficient director as Mr, West (who is a graduate of Boston Covservatory of Music, as well as from the Royal Acad- emy of Cardiff, Wales) the problem has been solved and an evening spent in listening to music of such a character as that written by Hodges, surely promises to be something more than ordinary. Admission 15 cents for children, 20 cents for adults ; doors open 7:15 Pp. m ; com. mence 7:45. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. All participants clothed in eastern regalia, ——————————. _ ———— Council Meeting. The following notes give the important matters considered by the boro fathers : Upon complaint of the condition of the C. R. R. switch on Lamb street to the steam heat plant, the company will be notified to repair the same at once or remove it in ten days. Numerous sidewalks were reported in bad condition, Complaint was made that the electric light pany did not keep lights burn. ing all night, The reading of the water meters show ed that the hotels and livery stables were fast consumers, Estimates will be made for the con. struction of a switch to the water works in order to save hauling coal, J MM. Parker, | Col. Dunham at a Snake Dance. | VARIETY OF Continued from 1st page, does not strike the Moqui. After dancing round, the chief heads the dancers and as each goes by the snake den he puts in his bear arm and pulls out a snake and later puts it in his mouth, as the chief had done, Finally all the dancers mix in aclump and grab for snakes in the den or as they come out, scared. Many are dropped if they are not grabbed right aud are about to strike, Some show vicious fight as they coil on- the stone floor and rattle their tails. The Indians either throw meal into the colled snakes’ faces or frustrate them with their whips of turkey feathers, Then as the snake uncoils and starts to run, the dancer grabs him up back of the neck, As all danced around there with one to five rattlesnakes in the hands and mouth of each dancer, it was a stirring, pictur. esque scene, Twelve dusky maidens, dressed in gaudy Costumes with their hair done up in great circles at the sides of their heads, bear bowls of fine meal which is sprinkled in a circle about four feet in diameter. Into this circle all the dancers threw their snakes quickly, in a seething, sniffing, devilish mass, and then danced | round it in an exciting, wild way. At last came the climax, when each dancer grabbed as many creeping mass as he could reach, were picked up the forty dancers with their reptile wriggling snapping, ran the steep rocky trails as fast as they could rum, towards the desert where deposited the suakes and then ran back up the heights tc the mouth of the den, where each dancer divested himself of all his beads, bangles, feathers, bracelets, etc, and everything but his small breech clout. The savage dancers then ran to the burdens and down they top of the steep cliff on the north side of | the village, where tubs of water and big | bowls of some kind of liquid awaited | them, drank the liquid which made them vomit, They would drink and then run to the | leaning over, | Washed and gar. | edge of the cliffi and “whoop up Jonah.” gled, they went to their bomes and ate | The | the first solid meal in nine days. ceremony lasted but little over half an hour from the time it started. I sat on the edge of the nearest house | to the snake den, thus I was about six | feet above and six feet away from the | centre of the ceremony. I did not see | | any dancer get struck by a rattlesnake. | forest of 1000 | | The primeval petrified | acres are about 120 miles from here. D. S. Dusuax ' Passadena, Cal., 329, W. Col. TO RECLAIM WASTE LAND. Continued from Ist page eight inches, were four tin arms, set like a wheel, The insects destructive to fruits and vegetables travel by night in swarms. | When attracted by a light, as in this case | of the moth, they begin circling arcund the flame. This is the keynote of Mr, Sober’s device. As the circle narrows | they inevitably strike one of the project. ing arms and drop into the pool of oil | and water below. were caught in this way, then scooped out and burned the following morning. chestnut groves next year, The best soil for chestnuts is a shaly, protected, mountain side. A lime stone soil is vot suitable. After a seedling has been transplanted it should be cut off three feet from the ground and grafted. It is best in grafting to cut back and leave only three or four eyes to form a bead. In a great majority of cases these grafts will, the first year after, develop a fan-shaped head. back so they will head out successfully. The experiment of Mr, Sober is attract- ing the attention of arboriculturists everywhere. It opens a wide door in the matter of reclaiming waste lands and as a source of profit to those who undertake the work. That a gentleman of Mr. Sober’s wealth and practical knowledge should take hold of this subject to de- monstrate to the country what can be dove in utilizing what may properly be termed a biproduce of agriculture is a subject of congratulation, OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW. Continued from 1st page the tree by which he held, breaking, he slid down the mountain as from the roof of a house ; but happily he was stopped lu his fall, by the string which fastened his pack, hitching on tke stump of a small tree. The two Indians could not go to his aid, but our Dutch fellow trav. eller did; yet not without visible danyer of life. I also could not put a foot for ward, till I was helped; after this we took the first opportunity to descend into the valley, which was not till after we had labored hard for half an hour with hands and feet. Having observed a tree lying directly off from where the Indian fell, when we were got into the valley again, went back about ose hundred where we saw that if the Indian ipped four or five paces farther he ve fallen over a rock one hun. Col. Bayard's bill for repairing the diamond was again held over snakes out of this | As ail They washed their bodies and | Bushels of insects | These must be cut | COUNTY NEWS [tems of Interest Gathered From All Sections SHORT AND TO THE POINT What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- tion, the Past Week—News From Over the County—For Hasty Read- ers—A New Department. J. B. Wagner, railroad agent at Poe Mills, is putting in a vacation at Pitts- burg. Lioyd Smith, of Centre Hill, who is confined to bed with typhoid fever, is improving. Henry Royer, of Johnstown, and Mrs. J. W. Long, of Red Oak, Iowa, are visit. ors in Brush valley. Robert Beuison, son of Samide! Benison of Walker, has secured an excellent po. sition in the factories at Blandshurg, Pa. Farmer E. V. Koch, of Ferguson twp., lost a good horse recently with tetanus, It stepped on a rusty nail two weeks previous. Rev, Dorstler, of Rebersburg, who had been {ll with typhoid fever during the past few months, was seen on the street | last week, The showers last week were light, but { bad a good effect upon the grain fields, | and may have arrested the breeding of the fly in wheat, Daniel B, Kunes has been appointed at Blanchard, and A ! postmaster office at Milesburg, James Smith, of Millheim, this week started out to travel for a Chicago rubber paint establishment, his territory com. prising several states, Young Packer, of near Pleasant G p. | is still living with stomach and bowels | penetrated by a rifle ball sume six weeks | ago. A remarkable case. The call extended to Rev. Isaac Kreid. | er, of Danville, Pa., by the council of the Aarousburg Latherau charge, has not been accepted by him, The ladies of the Evavgelical church Millheim will hold a chicken and waffle supper on Saturday, November { 23rd, in the school house hall, There are a few cases of serious sick. ness over the county, of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and other ills of less danger, | but no locality bas a heavy visitation, Alfred Kooff, who has spent the last | eighteen mouths in California, Colorado and Kansas, has returned to spend the | winter with his aged parents at Oak Hall Advertisers should remember that the { Centre Democrat circulates largely in | every settlement in Centre county and { that it goos to every post office in the county. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Andrews, one of the oldest residents of Philipsbusg, died {last Friday afternoon, aged almost gi vears. She 1s survived by two sons and two daughters, Miss Violetta Wolf, who entered as student at Bucknell, quit the college and | is at present teaching a public school at | Cross Forks, Potter county, under Prof. | BE. M. Brongart, principal, of Rebers. burg. | J C.F. Motz, of Woodward, is fixing up the old saw mull and is going to run it | with his traction engive on account of { the water being low in the mill pond John and Edson Fultz are doing the work for him. Last week Newton E. Hess purchased the Smith farm better known as the Leech farm, just cast of Shingletown. It | is one of the fine farms of that section and contains 195 acres of cleared land { and fifty acres of timber, At a recent meeting of the Daughters | of the Revolution, D. C. Keller was rec- | at | ognized for his untiring effort in securing | &a marker for “Indian Laue,” which was { unveiled November 10, 1900, by that | It is proposed to utilize this device in the | organization. They sent him a copy of | the historical notes as prepared by Miss Helen E Overton, the chapter historian. The Northern Conference of the Luth {eran church, of Central Pennsylvania. | was in session at Pleasant Gap from | Monday to Wednesday evening. On the | program we find Dr. Holloway, subject, i Original Sin; Rev. C. T. Aikens, The | Communion of Saints ; Rev. I. M. Rear- | ick, Theme, Everlasting Life. Ministers | from other counties were also in atten. | dance as members, {| The tram-road leading from Poe Mills { through Poe valley, we are informed, | bas been taken up. The Weibly lamber | operation used this road to make their | shipments from the Kettle, several miles | west of Garrity's, to reach Paddy Mount. { ain with their lumber, but have aban | doned the Poe Valley route and now i ship to Milroy, via Garrity’s. This vir. | tually is dn abandonment of all lumber { operations at Paddy Mountain and that | lively lumber centre will be “one of the {bas beens” Fire has destroyed the | most and best’of the buildings and the | axe of the woodman has felled all the { timber in that once vast and valuable | lumber section. Exit. The Weibly op- {eration in the Kettle is about the only | large operation left in the county, and { in ten years that will be finished. Thus {it goes, IN ADJOINING COUNTIRS The well known Graff store in Milroy | has been sold to 8. Milton Zook, of Belle. | ville. | The thirty.fifth annual session of the | Blair county teachers’ institute will be | beld in the court house, Hollidaysburg, | the week of December 16, | The accidental discharge of a target rifle in the hands of FP. Lavergood caused the death of Wm. Cassidy, aged 14 yerrs, at Newberry, Thursday morning. At the recent session of the Mifla county court, W, K. Brindle, who plead. ed guilty to the charge of cattle stealing, was sentenced to serve six years in the western penitentiary, Laura Burd, wife of George Pard, died at her home in Lock Haven, on Sunday afternoon, after a long illness, aged 18 ears. Mrs, Burd was a daughter of the ate Valentine Breom, and a sister to Mrs, H. H, ILeltzell, of Spring Mills, She 4 survived by her bisband and three child. NTE, T.] Boggs has been appointed to the same | PA, NOVEMBER 21, 1901. week in a house wagon, He said he is on his way around the world. He left | Seattle, Wash., March 22, 18¢4, accord. | ing to his story, and since that time has | traveled 12,900 miles, Ope daughter has been married and a boy and girl were | born on his journey, Shortly after g o'clock Tuesday even- ing, the 12th, Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs united in marriage Charles W. | Inghram of Brownsville, and Miss Annie | Tipton, of Bellefonte. The ceremony took place in the parlors of the Hotel | Roval, at Altoona. Next morning Mr. and Mrs, Inghram took Pacific express for their home in Brownsville. Williamsport has had two deaths from lockjaw within a few days. The first was J. Ross Springman, who had his leg and foot burned by molten metal several weeks ago, and which resulted in the | dreaded disease. The second was Mrs, Elizabeth Wurster., The lady stepped upon a small nail over a week ago. The wound healed, and nothing was thought of the injury until Saturday, when lock jawset in. After suffering intensely two days, she expired, In the vicinity of Karthaus about 200 men are now at work putting the ballast on the railroad tracks between that place and Keating. The tracks have been baiiasted from Keating to Birch Island | with limestone from the Salona quarries, A crusher is being put in at Salt Lick and stone from that section will be used, { Long sidings are being put in every three { miles between Karthaus and Clearfield, { indicating that the traffic over the pew lire when completed will be immense. It | is stated that it will be several months yet until the tunnels ou the line are com- pleted, | a Aaronsburg. Zack Thomas and sister Mary spent a few days with their brother, near lo ganton, Miss Ma.y is paying a visit to her relatives at Milton, Dr. and Mrs. Staines, of Mifflinburg, spent one day last week as guests of Mrs F. J. Forster. Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Meyer, of Belle. fonte, were seen in the burg one day last week. The remains of Mrs. Polly Keen, of Millheim, were buried in the Lutheran cemetery at this place, on Monday fore. noon, Rev. George 8S. Bright, of Ohio, spent a few hours with his aged grandmother Bright, on Tuesday. County Sapt. C. IL. Gramley was visit. ing our schools last week. Miss Mazie Forster spent one day last week with friends at Centre Hall. Miss Catherine Frank bas stil] a few very stylish bats left which she will sel! at cost for the next ten davs Cort Carner and Miss Regina Hubler, of Hublersburg, and Dr. and Mrs J. D Hubler, of Tylersville, were the welcome guests of Mrs. George Charles, on Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wert were to Kreamersille to help their son Charles to butcher, last week one day. Rev. Sheider, of Mercersburg, will preach in the Lutheran church of this place on Sunday forenoon Mrs. F. J. Forster and daughter Mary bave gone to visit friends in Harrisburg, Catherine Bower has come home to spend a few months with ber grand mother, on North 20d street. Yarnell. Stahl The sale of Orvis Fetzer's was well at. tended, everything bringing all it was worth. It is too bad that Francis fell over the bank, on Friday evening, and wasn’t able to come to church on Sunday; you had better borrow a lantern the next time, Lucenda seemed quite gay on Friday evening ; we don't know weather it was because William was there or not Miss Verna Hosterman, of Rebersburg, has come here to spend the winter, Any one desiring a good plain cook should apply to Edgar 8S. We were sorry to have our friends Wille and Robert leave us on Monday morning. Every one is invited to attend the spelling school on (he 6 of Dec., come! let us have another magic trick. Gertrude Confer spent Sunday with her parents at this place. Another bear was shot pear the Water Rocks, last Friday, by Joseph and Roland McCartney. Chester Walker, of State College, is visiting his many friends at this place. The spelling school, held at this place last Friday evening, was well attended, L. Merrill Batler being the champion speller, Butchering parties are all the rage, Just now, Miss Ada Poorman bas returned to her bome, after an alwence of several weeks, C. W. HAVE TO GIVE UP It's All Over When Nervous Sick Headache Comes to Young or Old Everything Stops and Nothing Goes on but the Nervous Sick Headache. If anythin Ah engender a disregard for even lle itself it is continued or oft Jepoated attacks of nervous sick headache, You maj be able to partiatly deseribe It but the Englis language fails to fully do it justioe—-{ts misery *a concentrated, so condensed, so prostrating, that all else is enveloped in its os Jes i Mrs, John H. Beck, of 115, 5rd Mt. North Philipsburg, says: “Dir. A Chase's Nerve Pills are just fine. 1 used to suffer all the tims | with nervous sick headaches—terrible head. | aches that weaken one and make one nervous and trembly, 1 was told of the Nerve Pils and got a box at Krumrine's Drug Store and the result was remarkable. The medicine stopped the headaches completery. A single box did this for me and | am only too glad te : say 80." Dr. A.W. Chase's Novve Pills are sold at Soe, i A box at dealers or Dr. A.W. Chase Medicine | Co, Boffalo, N.Y. See that joriian and sig | nature of A. W. Ubase, M. I) are on every package. 5 Stricken With Paralysis. Henderson Grimett, of this place, was stricken with partial paralysis and com. pletely lost the use of one arm and side, After being treated by an eminent phy. sician for quite a while without relief, my wife Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and after using two bottles of it he is almost re crud, Oto, R. Mc. DoNALD, Man, Several other FAUBLESY To Store Tike Ait A Busicr Store Than This you Will Not Find in Central Pa. OO00000000000000 A Better Store Than This You Will Not Find Any Place. i eS Our recent Big Clothing Purchase of good goods only gives us a Clothing ad- vantage that should make this store even busier than it has been, if such a thing be possible. There are money-saving Clo- thing opportunities at present that you should not disregard. Some lots of this lucky buy of ours are small, others large, but all are of the most desirable and new- est of fashion’s creations. You can come when it suits you best; we have plenty for all and will have until the season clo- ses. This store prepares for its custom- ers’ wants. Late and ealy buyers can al- ways find exactly what they want when they want it, and as they want it. This week's freight brought us some Overcoats and Suits that are simply clo- thing dreams. We challenge any custom tailor to surpass them, and few—very few Its the kind of cloth- ing that wins you at the start; more than pleases you at the finish. It's as good as good cloth, good trimmings and good ~—can equal them. tailors can make, and we sell vou this kind of Clothing for less, a whole lot less, than you have been paying for the ordinary kind. is Economy, Pure and Simple. When you trade here vou get what you want. You get it better and always for less money. You run no risk; you take no chances. If you are not satisfied we return you your money without a question, and when you buy Clothing from us they not only fit you in the store but they will fit when you get home, and they will always be satisfactory. Compare us with others. DOOO0000000OOOO00 You will find it Positive Economy ¢ ; to Trade Here. sss estteseneses
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