CORRESPONDENTS’ DEPARTMENT Happenings of a Week Over Cen- | tre County. THE PEOPLE'S POPULAR PAGE What has Transpired in the Various | Localities—Cempiled by a Corps of Alert and Able Writers— Section Represented ? Yarnell. Mrs. Jane Williams and daughter Mrs, | Lizzie Ridge, are visiting friends and re. latives at this place. Mrs. Oscar Lucas and five children re- turned to her home in Altoona, Saturday, after visiting friends at this place. Irvin Confer and Miss Lucy Woomer | spent Sunday at J. T. McCartney's. James Johnson and Miss Elsie Mec- | Closkey, of Prosserville, were pleasant callers at Geo. Walker's Sunday. James Poorman and wife and Miss May Ayers, of Snow Shoe, Sundayed at A. G, Walker's, Don’t ask the boys who saw the ghost | at what is known as Ben's Bars. The scribe of Prosserville called on the scribe of this place and said he saw | our blacksmith washing his feet; this is allright and if the truth 1s known he was | around tryimg to borrow some sweet home soap to wash his feet. Davy says the fish are getting scarce where he lives; it is no wander; don’t ask him about the ground hogs he caoght; itis a | pity he wasn’t living at the time the whale swallowed Jonah. Geo. Walker is still on the sick list un- der the skillful treatment of Dr. W. J. Kurtz, of Howard. Mrs. Lizzie Poorman has gone to Kart- haus to visit friends and relatives there. Misses Gertude and Frances Confer | spent Sunday in town. a ! Jacob Heaton, of Pine Glen, was seen | on our streets recently. Miss Burnice Harrnis is visiting at Snow Shoe. Miss Viola Kline left for a visit with friends in Philadelphia. Miss Gertrude Confer returned last week from a visit in Clearfield and Jeff erson counties. Isaac Heaton and wife, of Snow Shoe, | are visiting at John L. Crofts. Miss Ada Poorman is visiting her uncle at Snow Shoe. Henry Heaton is suffering from the ef- fects of a severe fall. Quite a number of young people from | this place attended the festival at Miles- burg Saturday night. Raymond Butler left Monday for Moshannon. Misses Olive Watkins, Millie Kelley, and Maggie Nyman, of Fairview, attend. | ed ¥. P. S. C. E. here Sunday evening, = The U. B. Sunday school will hold a plenic and festival at this place, Saturday Sept. 13. to which all are cordially in- | vited, Miss Anna Schenk is visiting friends in Tyrone. Claude Yarnell left for Clearfield Mon- day. Clayton Yarnell and wife are now the proud possessors of a new girl. Miss Florence Butler is suffering from | a bealed jaw. Prof. W. T. Meyers has gone to his home in Philadelphia after a month's visit here. Misses Roxie and Helen Mingle, Bellefonte, visited here last week. Fred Reigel and wife, of Vicksburg, is ing in this place. . Ogle Barley, of Tyrone, returned Saturday after a visit with Mrs. F. J. Forster. Mrs. Wm. Throssell is visiting her parents at Sunbury. Julia Bower spent a few days recently in Loganton. Mrs. Francis Porster attended the funeral of Mrs. Wm. Barber, of Lewis- burg. Clyde Boob, of Salona, spent Sunday here, of Clyde Stover, accompanied by his sis. terdn-law, Mrs. Mazie Stover, were to Woodward Sunday. Lizzie Yarger returned from a pleas. ant visit to her sister at West Fairview. Frank Tomlinson, of Clearfield, is cir- culating among friends here, James S. Weaver and wife spent Sun. day at Klondyke. Catherine Frank has just received a fine lot of fall hats. A Sober. acob Breou and wife were visitors her parents, Jacob Stovers, at 8. iss Lottie Hackenburg, of near Mill- was a pleasant caller with our postmistress, Lizzie Wolf, on Sunday, Miss Sadie Bower, of Green Brier, was geen in our vicinity on Sanday. We think that gentleman that calls at Sus ovioRice went home rather late on | da y morning, how about it ? The potatoes are a | and no sale. arge crop this year Zion. Miss Pear! Hoy, of Hublersbur a few | with friends in this v ity. The examination of scholars to enter bh school will be held at riday, September rath, Nearly all farmers are ready to sow but are waiting on rain, Spent ted since Noll, our merchant, is not very well, at present he is Improving, Is Your | Rebersburg. | The farmers are all busy getting ready | | for seeding. Last Friday afternoon one of the aviest rain storms of this season pass ed through this valley, Sam’l Frank and family, from Harris- | burg, are visiting friends and relatives | of this place. The people of our town were favored with three able sermons on Sunday. In | the morning by Rev, Harmon, in the | evening by Rev’s. Solly and Cromling. | It was very amusiug to see that Pitts. | burg painter dance a Jig on his lady's | train on Sunday evening. Better walk | by her side, C. I. Crouse who was unable to work | he again at work, | Last | into the cellar, now the them out into the woods. neighbors report that half of the crop is | rotten, | H. H. Royer and wife, Claude Haines | and lady (Miss Alma Gramly) were to | Mifflinburg over Sunday, Mr. Shull’s photograph gallery is well | patronized, | | new porch, A secial examination was held at this | place on Saturday. Mingoville. | | spendin Mary Workman, departed for Beech { Creek, Friday, where she will visit her | grandmother. F. W. Shamp spent Friday at Lock Haven, Miss Belle Guiser is visiting her broth. | er John at Windber, Apple butter boiling is the go now. | Some of our little folks have the whoop- | ing cough. [| | | | the measles, Mrs. Simmers and Mrs. Richard re. | turned to Philadelphia after a pleasant {| visit here, { Mrs. Joseph Alters and son Charles | visited in our village last week, Sam Guiser spent a week here with his | parents. | partment store at Williamsport, | Curtis Johnson and family, of Belle. | | foute, visited his aunt, Mrs, MuMullen, | who is very sick, with no hopes of her | recovery. John Workman and daughter, Mary, | and Erenna Sproul attended the Knights | of the Golden Eagle reunion at Williams. | port, on Monday. Gertie Zong is ill at this writing. | The cake walk at the park, Friday | evening, was allright. | Roland. | — | are about over and elderberries are all the go now, | is Bove of her recovering. { Mack Curtin, of Pittsburg, visited his | parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Curtin. Mr. McCormick and wife, of Lock | Haven, are visiting at the home of Mrs. | Jennie Curtin, | Eagle at Williamsport. Mrs. Smith and children visited at her | parents, Mr. VanValin's, of Unionville, over Sunday. | Wm, Long and wife visited at her par. | ents, James Bargers. | Grandma Barnhart is suffering with a very sore limb, The new miller has arrived and they are making number one flour. Master Willie Shope, of Bellefonte, is visiting at bis uncle's Wm. Allen's. Austin Curtin is seriously ill at his home at the rolling mill, Woodward. Mrs. Mary Yearick and son, Milton, were to Hublersburg the latter part of last week, looking after their farm. Miss Ada Hosterman returned from Buffalo instead of Bellefonte as was stated in last week's items. Ed. Ketner, wife and child, Yeagertown, last week. Mise Della Rei Mrs. Motz. Mrs. Rev, Eby’s. Rev. Wm. Ketner Is the Ruest of his parents. He delivered an excellent ser. mon on Sunday evening, C. D. Motz was to Williamsport to at. tend the P. 0.8. of A. convention and reports it as being a decided success. West Brushvalley., Some farmers are done plowing, while | others are not, Loyd Duck, who had hs arm broken, is able to work again. Many young folks of this place took | in the festival at Penn Hall, last Satur. y- Owing to the wet weather through July many potatoes decayed. The whistle of the engine is heard everywhere, Edoa F., coomed dar Bd. Ertel net stu uft dart nunner ? ANY CHURCH or parsonage or in. stitution supported by voluntary contri. bution will be given a liberal quantity of h Martinez Paints when. 4 i~This bas been our custom for twenty-seven years; any building not will be repainted one gallon of Lin. added to every gallon of from visited relatives in town, ghard was the guest of Sheeder visited at N. Ww. for a few days,caused by a sore hand, is | week people hauled their potatoes y are hauling | Some of the | Mr. Krape improved his home by a | Miss Lulu Miller, of DuBois, after B two weeks with her cousin, | Lula and Verna Dunkel are down with | He is employed in a large de- | The huckelberries and blackberries, | We are glad to say Miss Lacy Barn. | bart is much better, at this writing there | Quite a namber of our people took in | the reunion of the Knights of the Golden | EXERCISES II" NOT ALL THAT OOXILO BE DESIRED ~ NT —— Spring Mills. { Mrs. Dr. Braucht spent ten days at Atlantic City. : | Robt. Gardner, of Rock Springs, drop. | ped in on us to shake hands with his | many friends; he never forgets to speak | a good word for candidate, W. J. Kep- | ler. John Smith & Bro. have bought out { Geo. Dunkel’s wall paper establishment, | which they have placed to their furniture | business; you will find a large stock of wall paper for less money than it has | been sold before; you will find it head. Quarters for wall paper. R. D. Runkel is improving slowly | Alter several weeks’ sickness; his many friends long to see him about. The Knights of the Golden Eagle took in four new members from Centre Hall. Rain is very much needed in this sec. | ion for farmers to put out their seeding, The festivals have been 30 numerous | that they are getting stale, and are the thing of the past; the talk is now Grangers’ picnic and Centre county fair. C. J. King, our village landlord, is building up quite a trade; he has made a | ood many changes and everythiog new- i ly furnished | The game season has pot come in yet | and we have parties who go to the woods | already with their guns, just to see if | their ate any grey squirrels and young | pheasants, but they would not shoot any. | thing out of season. SPRING MILLS NO 2 | Mp saw In the planing mill. on Friday last, a piece of edging broke off and struck him in the stomach, penetrating to a depth of I loches | causing a very ugly wound | Yet, does not apprebend any serious resalts The new Lutheran ehureh has been erected | almost roof and the carpenters are now b my in the In When finished It will be a yery cided improvement to the neighborhood E beautiful pew by magie | terior de Last week ( Zeigler sold to Mrs Hiram Durst Milton plano, | Musical eritics bave pronounced the Milton a | very superior instrument, and many regard it | 88 the Anest plane Introdeced Into this county a very The Penn Hail band festival on Saturday evening last, was a grand success | managers made a mistake In refusing to sell lee cream by the q | It looked too much like Jot Us make all we can | and sell only 5 and 10 cent plates This sharp | practice does not always pay From 1000 to 120 bushels of huckieberries, and possibly brought to this village since the berry season opened , but blackberries appeared to have no market. and of course only a limited sale, while huckleberries were always in demand G. F. Corman shipped over Mw bushels, ©. J about the same number Corman and Pinkie purchasing from the pickers The other mer chants just bought what was brought to thelr stores What do bleyelists mean by riding up and down the road at a break neck speed at night without a lighted lentern on thelr bleyeles, thus endangering life and limbs of pedestrians? Has the law prohibited such folly and reckless. ness become obsolete? Portion of this fommunity have been very much exercised of late over the mysterious dis Appearance of shingles and loose boards from off low sheds and outhouses The supposition Is however, that It is the rascally work of spar. rows grasshoppers or “spooks d Port Matilda. The laying of the corner stone of the new United Brethren chapel at Black Oak, was per formed on Sabbath, August 11. in presence of a large congregation, whieh foundallon is plant ed near the spot where the ancient and origl nal chapel stood, erected some fifty years or More ago ; Its long wee had unfitted it for a comfortable place of worship: in view of adding bodily comfort to that of Spiritual, 1t is being put und er construction which is truly a noble effort of Rev, W, Dillon, present pastor In charge. The event was fittingly observed Rev. A. B. Wilson, pastor of the U. B, church of Tyrone, assisted by opening the ceremeny with A very appropriate discussion : the church eholr rendered fine selections of voeal music, and the aot of placing the hewn stone was most solemn, and certamnly should Impress those who witnessed it with the fact that It is In overy way absolutely necessary to build places for worship and spiritual Instructions, and to that end all should work, regardioss of age, sex or religious belief, and build up In our land christian Institutions, thereby bringing about more chureh as well as mora! refinement, ———————————— Boy Cured of Colic After Physician's Treat ment Had Palled. My boy when four years old was taken with colic - and in his stomach, C.D. Royer, while working st the elreular | His physician as | The bulldiog is all under | But the | UArt to visitors desiring it | 170 bushels of blackberries, were ] Finkle 350, C. P. Long 20 and Howard Rossman | | especially in the winter, as bears will climb | tach had a wagon In the Juouniaios twice al Miles George S. Sides, state councilor and Walter Graham, of Phila. delphia, delivered excellent addresses ; their principal topic was the upbuilding of the order, There will be a temperance song ser- vice in the Baptist church, next Sunday afternoon at 3o0'clock: singers from Belle. foute will be present. All are invited to be present, James Watson, Mitchel Watson and wife, W. G. Watson, Irvin Watson and H. J. Watson, of Snow Shoe, members of the council of Snow Shoe, were present at the reunion and festival and took part in parade Mrs. Nearboof, of Port Matilda, was a recent guest of Wesley Crain and family A game of base ball was played on Saturday afternoon between the uptown and downtown married and single men; a lively contest between them and it was intermingled with madness and Riadness like small boys. A number of white. washes or skunks was given after the 7th inning. Score in favor of downtown | men 15 to 6, Hurry Austin, after a brief visit with friends at Pittsburg, returned home re. | cently. Solomon Shay and fami] friends in Howard, Howard Martin and family, of Belle. | fonte, were guests of Charles Price and | family, on Sanday. Wm Cox apd family, of Coleville, spent Sunday with his wife's parents, A 'G. Rager and wife. y are visiting | High Valley. Samuel Alter says his potatoes have some retlen spots Jack Rimer, who lives at of | Rankeltown, says It is rumored that A mansion will be bulit at east end of the town Buckwheat harvest will soon commence itis a full erop ; corn is getting yellow, and bersies { Are about over; what's oext on the program 1 am not able to tell Our school will soon open with Orvis Moyer on the bench, and one scholar to see to William Harter, who lives at Pipe Creek mill, says a present was sent to him And nt looks like the Centre Democrat: he thinks | there would not be any trouble to hold the west end | | | county in the democratic column if all would { do like the seribe of High valley, as he wants | Very poor man to read up th ¢ campaign As | stepped from the train on last Thursday | 1 was surprised to meet my brother scribe who lives In Georgetown. and as jolly as ever and will keep him there for the next six months George Rider says It Is not as dangerous to carry a bundle of corn fodder as to climb a tree trees and one may be taken for a bear and get shot Mills, lost a valuable cow on last Monday, on account of a rattlesnake bits; it seems that rattlesnakes are plenty Mrs. Billmeyer, who keeps a boarding house In Somerset, Is visiting her parents; and also Mrs. Eisenhuth's two sisters, one living In Canton, Ohio, and one in Trenton ; they were residents in the valley thirty years ago. claim High valley Is still their native home. througn town on Saturday. sister a short visit on Saturday. Now the merry whistle of the thrasher is heard all over the valley, Isaac Miller, one of the oldest citizens In the valley, Is not very well at this writing. Chas. Barner, wife and their daughter, Etta, of Ralona, paid her pareats a visit over Sunday. Anybody wishing to buy a good young cow should call on F, K. Miller, of this place, The United Kv. Sunday school of Tylersville, have elected as delegates to the Sanday school convention, which Is to commence at Mill Hall, on September 0th and 10th, the Misses Myrtal and Regina Miller, Newton Walzer and wife were welcome visitors al the home of G. K. Miller, on Sun. day. An Every day History, High Strung, Nervous, Excitable, Constant Headaches, No Rest at Night, Heart Weak, Appetite Poor, Loss of Weignt, Strength all Gone, READ THR FOLLOWING : Miss Barbara Broek, Osldwell, Pa. )2 miles out of Lock Haven, Pa. says: “I have been ex. tremely nervous for a long time—any unusual noise would upset me. 1 simply had no appe tite at all jand felt weak and tired. My head ‘nehed a great deal and at night | was troubled { Tuesday morning and Coburn was | ! THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 4, 1902, Coburn The Highvalley scribe came down on lively for a time, F. P. Yonada and wife, of Penn Cave, | were visiting relatives here last week Mrs, Theodore Hosterman and child. ren and Mrs. Kreider Stover, of Collins, W. Va., came to this place Saturday and will spend about a mouth with their friends in Penns valley. On Monday Randall and Stuart Harter | went to Lewisburg to take a course in a i i business college, Tuesday of last week three men of Pleasant Gap were tn out vicinity and in the Evening came to our town to hear some selections by the band after which they went to catch ells. We did not find | out their success, but one of them was | who asked him whether he had | wreck, | i | daughter very suddenly approached by two ladies a bicycle For further information ask W. K., of Pleasant Gap. On Saturday forenoon J. P. Garthoff will sell a his home, near the depot at public sale, also some household goods. Vonada's cider press will be in opera- tion every Tu~sday and Thursday, ex. cept Thursdsy H Grunger's picnic week. The evaporating plant went into operation this week. This will give sev. eral months employment to some of our . wt sud | people wh t FIND TWO COURT LADIES' AND THE CHAMBERLAIN peop'e who are afraid of work, Mrs. Chestie Bartholomew and grand. Edna spent several days in Harrisburg, Eph felt very lonesome | during their stay in the city. was trampled under foot Mrs. Nicodemus Luse, of Fiedler, who by cows two | weeks ago and sustained a broken arm, visited relatives in our town several days this week. Mrs. Emma J. Vonada is visiting her son, Boyd and daughter Mabel, in Read- ing. J. F. Garthoff had charge of J. EB Harter's store during the latter's stay at Atlantic City, Nittany. Miss Annie Minick has retuined home after spending the sommes with her sister, Mrs. Bartley, at Rote. Mrs. Card and her two Potter county, were the uncle, John Sunday. children, of guests of her Bartley and family, over There are quite a number of children around this place at present with sum- mer compiaint, A. Pletcher was in attendance at the convention held at Howard last week. Mrs. Joe McCaleb is still unable to use her one arm. Mrs. Yarnell Emerick and her daugh- ter, Lovina, were to Agar’s grove attend. | ing the ox roast, on Monday; and from he | said this week he will let the bull in pasture | Emanuel Roads, who live near Pine Creek | | [ are visiti Aquila Rubl and wife, of Salona, paid her ! | | thence they went to Jersey Shore and Lock Haven to visit friends during the week Mrs. Newton Dorman has returned to her home in Jersey Shore after having spent ten weeks at ber old bome: she is | very much improved in beaith. Some of our folks drove to Agar's Rrove on Sunday to see the ox being roasted, we suppose Charley Shaffer, of Mifflmburg, Sunday at this place E. B. Winkleman has the contract of pulling a sew wire fence around the Presbyterian graveyard at Hublersburg The band festival was well attended on Saturday evening; they realized a snug little sum of money, and they had music anyhow if the band did disappoint them. There will be preaching in the Evan. gelical church pext Sunday morning, at ten o'clock to which all are invited. Caruer’s thrashing machine has been in this section over a week, thrashing seed wheat and oats for the farmers; it is turning out all right, Centre Hall. Apples are plenty Getting dry for plowing. D.C. Keller will again have the meal tent on grange picnic week. W. A. Odenkirk had charge of the Sunbury railroad station last week. Jas Lohr, in the employ of the P.R. R_ | at Philadelphia, with his wife and child. | ren is visiting his father, Wm. Lohr, We noted Wilbur Henney'’s illness of | typhoid fever in Pittsburg; be has recov- | ered and is bere now and will open his | | carriage shops again, The father of John 8. Auman been taken {ll at Fort Wayne, M spent having Both | Iadios look quite young for thelr age: they Miss Helen Hosterman, of this place, left for Allentown Female Seminary, Mrs. Weaver, wife of Dr. Luther Weaver, and daughter Helen and son | Warren, and Gertrude, a little daughter | of Dr. Warren Weaver, of Philadelphia, ng Mrs. Rarefoot, Ferguson Twp. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Musser, ville, Ill., are visitin atives—looking well their locks. Rev. C. T. Alkens and wife and D. G. Meek and wife were among the Ocean Grove campmeeting excursion ists, Carpenter Wallace Musser Jost a gooa cow by an overdose of green apvles and dry chop which she belped herself to, Fred Bottorf and Jim A. Decker were in Fulton county buying a lot of stock cattle, A. M. Brown was to Lancaster, public sale of a carload of cattle. of Orange. | K Centre county rel. » but quite gray are making per, but in y treading on sake, of paralicled by the man who i i i : i if i i | uric acid polsoni i aly by frm “1 first used Aver's Sg in the fall of 1845, ) have taken it every spring o blood - purifyin strengthening medicine. S. Y. Jones, Wi ita, If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand- ard family medicine, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, I's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. $1.00 a bettie. All Grugyista ctor what he 14 He knows all sis : rie i ne ¥aollow wr an tisfied I.C. AYER Co» nis of Aver's tihie grand Lis advice and well, Mass Houserville. L.G. Peters returned to day evening, weeks, thin Wednes, I several place after an absence 0 James Peters and family, of Rock Springs, Visited at the home of Jacoh He user, on Sun. day Jd. E. Wagner left for Bellefonte morning me of the Be D. K. Gels visited this section on Monday 10 assume his duties as instructor in iefonute schools Inst week In search of cows, wh are quite al SCaAree present F.and BE. M. Houser have m » Nittany mountain ved Lhe where the iumbering Catarrh Cannot be Cured Wilh LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot f the d the seat o lisease Catarrh bs a 1 or const nd in order t« i purifiers act surfaces. The perfect oO Ingredients is what ing Catarrt rodu 1 v ICTR results in Send {or testi F.J. CHENEY Sold by Druggists, 760 Hall's Family P PENNSYLVANIA R. R. EXCURSIONS. TO NIAGARA FALLS The Pennsylvania Railroad Company bas selected the fo owing dates for its popular ten. day excursions to Niagara Falls from Washington and Baltimore : August 7th and 21st, September 4th and 18, and October 2 and 16. On these dates the special train will leave Wash. ingion at 500 a. m., Baltimore Gg 0S a. m., York 10452. m., Harrisburg 11.40 a.m. Millersburg 12 20 p. m., Sunbury 12. 58 p. m. Williamsport 2.30 p.m. Lock Haven 308 p. m., Revovo 3555p m, Emporium Juncticn 505 p. m., arriving at Nragara Palls at ¢ iS p. m, Excursion tickets, good for passage on any regular train. of limited express tra exclusive of limited express trains with. in ten days, will be sold at $10.00 from Washington and Baltimore: $s 15 from York; $10.00 from Littlestown; $10.00 from Oxford, Pa.; 5 15 from Columbia; $5.50 from Harris urg, $10.00 from Winchester, Va, $780 from Altoona; $7.40 from Tyrone: $6 45 from Bellefonte; $5.10 from Ridgwa $6.95 from San. bury and Wilkesbarre; $5.75 from Wil. lamsport; and at proportionate rates from principal points. A stop over will be allowed at Buffalo within limit of ticket returning The special trains of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will be run with each excursion running through to Ni- agara Falls. An extra charge will be made for parior-car seats An experienced tourist agent and chaperon will accompany each excur- sion. For descriptive pamphlet, time of com necting trains, and further information apply to nearest ticket agent, or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant Ge neral Passen. ger Agent, delphia The man who is willing to admit his mistakes seldom makes any. THE PRESIDENT Of the City Council, Wilkes. barre, Pa., Cured of Rheumatism. Col. Wm. J. Harvey, a president of Wilkesbarre's city council, who will ong be remembered for his great work for the city, was once a mare physical wregh torn in every muscle and nerve from fhe frightful pains caused by rheumatism. He consulted the best physicians, went abroad, took mud baths and almost oniais, free & CO. Toledo, O § are the best return exclusive ng, regulaar train, Broad Street Station, Phila. | every known treatment for the Crone, A friend had had a very similar experienc and Dr. David Kennedy's Fuvories Ris, edy had cured him, #0 he recom this great kidney medicine to Col. Harvey and he is today a well man, bale andl hearty. He writes straight to the potas Dr. Davio Kexxuny, Dear Sir This is to certif thet |} Was permanently cured of wm tism by the use of Dr. David Keo tedy’s Favorite Remedy, Wa. J. Hanvay, Rheumatism a but another name fr which is caused pe Cure and
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