THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, PELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 25, 1902, i —— THE RACKET . SPIGELMYER, BE. P. IRVIN CANDY DEP'T. Do you know that we sell Fine, Fresh, Pure Candy at 10 cents a sold at 20 to 25 cts, and that we sell Chocolates at 20 cts per pound, same Weekly shipments to us direct from factory, goods usually sold at 4oc, BIG BOX of COTTON BLANKETS, nicest goods we have ever had and the prices wont frighten U, KITCHEN DEP'T, is in good trim now, 1oor Useful things at Racket Prices—If U need a Hatchet, say, “Howard’' Steel Hatchet for 25cts OIL HEATERS, are here too. THE RACKET. Correspondents’ Department (Continued from page 7) Unionville. Herbert Finch, of Sandy Ridge, spen Sunday with his mother, on Walnut street. Mary Jane Fisher was a delegate to the W. C. T. U. convention, which was held at Bell:fonte last week, and reports having had an enjoyable time. Wm. P. Fisher has already stored in his fruit house 2000 bushels hand picked apples and will have, when all are stored, about 6000 bushels. The apples are said to be unusually fine. From 120 25 car loads of cabbage have been passing through town in a westerly direction daily, for the last two weeks. Dr. Russell has in his yard a fine lemon tree containing at present, 14 lemons of various sizes, the largest of which is the only one that is ripening yet and meas- ures over four inches in length. T. E. Griest has in his yard a large pear tree well laden with fine large pears and not a leaf ou the tree, presenting a unique appearance. Toner Calhoun is learning the milling trade. W. Comley is laid up for repairs, hav. ing been kvocked out by an abcess on his back. After spending three weeks friends hereabouts, Wm. McEwen for his place of business, in Virginia The Free Methodist, have purchased end are now in possession of the brick cburch that was built by the Evangelical congregation a few years ago. with left From 2000 to 3000 gallons of cider are made in a day at the Fisher cider plant, on Tuesday and Thursday of each week There is a large pile of crushed stone near the Buck and Wagvper mill. We would suggest that our coal dealer, Henry Earon, buy the heap, paint the stones black and sell the same for anthra cite coal as we can get nome from the mines, T. E. Griest is off on a three weeks visit to New Castle, Pa., and other points westward. A. ].Griest's fall and winter goods are ripe and are being pulled in great quanti ties. Everybody come quick before they are all gone John H. Cadwallader, of Braddock, writes : “Send me the Centre Democrat quick, I have missed two numbersof it and have lost my appetite. Send it real quick !" i . a ———— Rock View. Rock View is neither dead nor sleepeth but is wide awake as ever, Rev. Waguer, wife and children, from Glasgow, are visiting with the latter's parents, H K. Hoy's. Mr. Zettle and family spent Sunday at at the home of George Breon, near Belle. fonte, J. F, Hoy and wife spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Shuey near Shiloh W. H. Swartz and wife visited with friends at Clintondale. Mrs. Cramer and her niece, Miss Bertba Stover, speut Sunday with Mrs. Stover, near Bellefonte, Our town was well represented at the grangers picnic last Thursday Mrs. W.H. Swartz raised a sweet pump. kin stalk that yielded thirty pumpkins, Is there any person in Centre county who can beat that? Preaching at Axe Mano next Sunday night, M. Weaver and H. Hoy you would better take a day off to pick stones be. fore you go down to Spring Creek with our new buggies, for Mary and Gertie ven't time, 1 ration performed pound, quality the same as usually | delphia to have anoperation p : | could not benefit him any. | with all who knew him. | bending over with choice chestnuts, They we Sell Jenkin's | tie will occupy the house formerly oc- Instead of Miss Alma Sten teaching | our grammar school, Victor Brumgard from Rebersburg, is now teaching. West Brushvalley. ite a large number of people from t section attended picnic at grange park, The Madisonburg drygoods box band tumed out to play some charming pieces of music for a young couple in town The whole band consisted of about eight “Jack Rabbits,” two drygoods boxes, mond a cow bell, from mowstain to mountain. Listen, Pllimore scribe had to say concerning you in Iast week's issue. “Milton Fair, On account of the Milton Driviug Park Association Falr at Milton, Pa, Sept. ember 30 to October 3, the Peninayivania Rafiroad Compasy will sell rosad-rip tiokots to Milton and return from Belle. foute, lock Haven, and termediate stations, on the above dates, to re. Gupod rates (micimum rate, ag cents), = Dayton Raliroad shoes Mingle's, The music was echoed | Usplouvilie sclibe, what the | but we need not wonder why. : | | Bertha Armstrong, Miss Lizzie Poust, Pleasant Gap. Don't forget the sociable Sat. eve. Messers Joseph Hoover and Winfred Noll returned from Portage, Saturday, to visit their respective homes at this place. R. P. Barnes, who had an operation performed at Williamsport, is improv. ing slowly aud is expected home soon. James Kuoffsinger, who went to Phila will return home this week. Doctors Ree Florey, four years old, son of Wm, Florey, of this place, died of diptheria Tuesday of last week. He was very in. | telligent for his age, and was a favorite The chestnut trees about this place are are somewhat early this year. A party of would-be hunters started on a coon hunt the other evening, going | | through a corn field of Mr. Noll they dis. | covered where they thought coons were | await the arrival ot the coons, they soon | became sound asleep. When awaking, they found a couple of Mr. Noll's mules staring them in the face. A sack sociable will be held in the M. | E church, Saturday evening; any one | ' not having received a small sack, can get | same at doar. The proceeds will go for | the benefit of the parsonage. W. 8S Tate has been very ill for some time and is not improving very rapidly. Two more cases of diptheria here, James Corl of this place, was called to Linden Hall, Tuesday, his mother at | | that place being very low, A couple of ‘Pawnee Bill Jr's,” of this place, left for the show on Saturday well armed. They returned all safe and sound but reported things “kinder slow.” | Geo. Noll went to Winburn to work at carpentering for Kerstetter brothers, Daniel and Emanuel Houser are erect. | ing a shingle mill on the mountain, on land of Loneberger, ! Axemann. | Quite a large number of our people attended the grange encampment at Centre Hall last week. Edward E. Mease has again returned to Pittsburg after a week's visit with his friend, Miss Mary Rote and other friends Arthur Kline and Blanche Kaup spent Sunday evening at Oak Hall. Cal. Gfrerer is again papa, boy to chop wood for him. another Mrs. Shatt, of Houserville, spent Sat. urday at the home of her son, Wm. The schools re-opened last week with instructors as follows : grammar school, Prof. Wm. Ott, of Bellefonte: primary, hliss Rebie Jodon, of this place. Axemann was well represented in Bellefonte on Saturday to see the ‘‘in. juns.” Lillian Schaars, of Kekaydin, is at present visiting her sister, Noah Breon and son Elmer, of Osk Grove, spent Sunday in town There seems to be a great attraction in our town for some of Pleasant Gap's “‘sports.”’ Grace Gingerich, formerly of this place, but late of Unionville, died Tues. day of typhoid fever, Oak Hall Mr. and Mrs. Kinter, of Harrisburg, spent several days with P. 8. Dale and family recently. Arthur Kline and Blanche Kaup, of Axemann, spent Sunday evening in town. Auntie Kline toona. Mrs. Wieland has been entertaining her friend, Miss Moyer, M. D., for the past few weeks. Issac Tresslar was able to spend Sun dav with his son J. J. Tresslar at Boalss burg left on Friday for Al- Irvin Johuson is able to be out again after a siege of malaria fever, Harry Burns, brother and family spent Sonday out of town, Clayton Etters and wife attended the show in Bellefonte on Saturday. Miss Mary Tresslar, of Rock Springs, visited here last week, S—————— Centre Hall, = Albert Nearhood came home last week | fo: a short vacation. He has been work: | ing in a hospital in Harris Plans, N. | | Jewet Gorham and wife left for their home in Elbridge, N. ¥Y. Mrs. Gorham spent the summer here, Asher Stahl is home from Pittsburg He is threatened with typhoid fever. Dr. Park's left last week for Nelson, Tioga county. He expects to locate there in a few weeks, Miss Sallie Brungard, of Bellefonte, | spent several days with her aunt, Mrs, Alexander, Rev. Kershner is spending bis vaca | tion with friends in the eastern part of the state Mrs. Geo. Floray and daughter, Ger. cupied by Isaac Shauver, The brick work of Mr. Colyer's new house will soon be completed, Pine Creek. Joseph Hassinger and wife and Miss | Avgeline Eiseohuth of Rankletown, were visitors at Daniel Eisenbuth's, Sunday, Quite a number of our people attend. ed grange picnic. Some of our people talk about going to the fair at Bellefonte. Alfred Long and family and Benj. Sto. ver of Fiedler, visited in this section on Sunday. Orvis Meyer travels west quite often, Potters Mills No. 2. The sick about the town are Miss and Daddy Strong, who js very poorly, Mrs. Heckman, of Centre Hall, fs visiting her daughter, Mrs. Reish, Mrs, Nettie Smith and daughter, Ray, spent Sanday with her sister Nora Mover, A A burned child may dread the fire, but lots of widowers warry again. | community. | Scottdale. | thing to eat and clothes to wear, Linden Hall. J. A. Long and wife, of Centre Hall, visited here beginning of this week, Miss Mame Swabb, of Pine Grove, is spending a few days at her grandpar- ents, Miss Annie Corl, of Pleasant Gap, is spending a few days with ber grand. father, Robt, Corl, Sr. Charles Bitner, of Potters Bank, was | | noticed on our streets, Monday. | Mr. Catherman entertained his mother | and sister, of Snyder county, during this | week. | { Lizzie Rupp, of Altoona, spent a few | | days visiting relatives here, | Grace Yearick, of Nittany, visited here | beginning of the week, | John Rossman, of Farmers Mills, | visited bis brother-in-law, Henry Zeigler, | Jast week, { “Ike” Tressler and “Bill” Swabb, | two former residents here, but now of | | working on the corn; sitting down to Rock Spring, were callers in town last | Mrs. J. H. Ross, after spending several | weeks with friends and relatives in the | west, returned on Monday of last week | well pleased with her trip. Mrs. John Schreck, of Brishin, has been entertained for several days at the | home of John Weibly, Mrs. Emeline Fehl, of Rebersburg, | spent several days of last week in this | Mrs. Robt. Corl, Sr., is very ill and but slight hopes are entertained for her 1ecovery. Hon. W. F. Pelding, who for some time has had charge of the principal trolley lines in Brooklyn, N. Y., and is one of the popular young men of that place, returned howe last week. Mr. Felding is a very popular young man, and therefore society is all a bustle since his arrival. Some of our people were left on Wed- | nesday night at the grangers picaic by | missing the train and had to put in the night on the ground, Well! Miss Jane Zubler, of Spring Mills, Did they swear? { visited Henry Zeigler, and family last | week, Wm. Ravmond and son, Roy, spent Sanday with the former's brother James at Pleasant Gap. Will Kerstetter and family spent Sat. urday and Sunday at State College. George Miller has his new bouse about ready for occupancy. Henry Zeigler, who has been very il with heart trouble is slowly improving and is much better, Don’t forget the village camp meeting to be beld in the new charch at this place beginning this (Thursday) evening and continuing over Sunday ; services every night in the week and all day on Sunday ; among ministers from a dis. tance will be Revs. Koontz, Shortess, Crumbling, Shultz, together with the pastor in charge, Rev. J. F. Shultz, Rebersburg. Farmers are about all done sowing. A heavy frost last week put all the corn in condition to be cut. On Wednesday morning our communi. ty was saddened by the news of the uu. timely death of Carl Miller Smull, son of C. H. and Ella Smull, of this place. In- terment took place on Friday. Henry Gilbert, formerly from this place, now from Washington, D. C., is visiting his parents. Sam’l Bierly sold his horse last week to Eiry Krape from Clintondale. Making cider and boiling appler-butter ‘s all the go The thieving party going their round at night and especially when people are attending services, robbing neighbors of pears, plums, peaches, and grapes, may profit by an advice to keep within the limits of the Jaw or have their anatom- ies well perforated with bird shot. The parties are also known. Boys beware. Harvest Home was beautifully and appropriately observed by the Lutherans on Sunday. Vaccination is in order just now, and many have been vaccinated. Ed. Bierly went to Boston last week where he will attend the theological seminary. That obliging belle at the P. O. has again returned home from a visit to We are all glad to see her. Will Meet in Bellefonte. Miss Susan Carpenter Frazer, of Lan- caster, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, recently an- | nounced that next session of the state ! body will be held in Bellefonte, on Oct. Sth, ¢th and roth. Rx.Governor and | Mrs. Daniel H. Hastings will tender a | reception to the delegates in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, of Washing. ton, D. C,, wife of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana. She is president general of | the order. | 3 Once Wealthy Now Poor, Edwards, who built Wilkesbarre's | first hotel, and whose wealth was at one | time estimated at $1,000,000, Monday | applied at the rooms of the United Char. | ity organization in that city for some- He is 98 years of age and says he is penniless. | In his old age the man was made an easy victim of sharpers, who got him | to go into all kinds of schemes, none of | which paid, but were the means of im- | voverishing him. The old man will re. | ceive good care for the rest of his days, | | Hon. James. A Beaver as Juror, Bx-Governor and Superior Court | Judge James A. Beaver is to serve in | Pittsburg as a juror for the special term of the United States district court to be held Tuesday, Oct. 7. Judge Beaver re. turned his summons Wednesday morn. ing, saying he would be on band when court opened. Once before ex Governor Beaver served on a jury in the United States court at Pittsburg. ~"Side Tracked" at the opera house tonight. It is considered a good play. * | week, By January it will be even larg. | er. | October 15 | gart in Miles township, "bridge over that Big Bold Knob, in the Allegheny VARIETY OF LOCAL NEWS Gathered from Centre and Ad- joining Counties, SHORT AND TO THE POINT Events that Have Transpired Recent ly and Worthy of Mention—Items of Interest for All—Doing of Neighbors. After an absence of twenty years Oscar Long, of Texas, is now visiting his old home at Coburn, We now print regularly 3500 hundred copies of the Centre Democrat each Dr. W. E. Park will move from Cen. tre Hall to Nelson, Tioga county, about He is there now making arrangements, Last week J. C. Auman threshed 10 bushels of oats from a four-horse load of sheaves on the farm of Jerry Brun- Frederick, the three months old son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Malone, of Snow Shoe, died Saturday at the home of his parents. Interment in the Curtin ceme- tery, Sunday. On Monday evening Nevin Royer, the g-year-old-son of Seymore Royer, who lives with Frank Houseman, in Millheim, while playing with other children acci- dentally felled and broke his right arm, The ladies of the W. C. T. U. of Miles burg will bold an ice cream festival on Saturday evening, Sept. 27, in the Pub. lic Hall. The proceeds of which will be devoted to the purpose of building a new fence and otherwise improving the Miles burg cemetery. | days old. Col. James PF. Weaver, a veteran of the civil war and also a veteran demo. crat, was chairman of the great gather | ing on democtatic day at the grauge pic. | nic and in a neat opening address intro duced Ex governor Pattison. Last week Claude B son operated ou for for appendicitis. Hess returned home satisfied that the | boy would come around all right. Miss Sadie Robb, daughter of the late | John Robb and Mr. Schenck, son of | David Schenck of near Howard, were | married Wednesday evening, 17th, at} the bome of bride's mother by Rev. Geo. | F. Boggs, pastor of the Methodist church. | The grange picnic manager s would | minister greatly to the pleasure and com. | fort of all on the park if they would | have at least the main avenue sprinkled to lay the dust which is always created during that week. Very little expense | in this direction would do it and be ap- preciated by the crowds present. Why i the neglect? ! Contractor Bilger pow has the iron Spring Creek, at the Nail | Works, ready to swing. It is the stroct. | ure that was carried away by the flood | last spring and left high and dry near | “the turn", a part, straightened out the twisted irons, | welded some broken ones and replaced iton the old abutments, Two brothers, John Sankey, of Mifflin- | burg, and James Sankey, of Harrisburg, i accompanied by their nephew, William | A. Wolfe, of Beatrice, Neb., arrived in | Millheim on Monday evening of last | week. They came to visit the old Jobn | Sankey homestead in this place and | also to show their nephew, who had | never been bere before, the place where | his mother was born. They visited the | graves of their father and mother and | also the grave of their brother, Samuel | Sankey, (who was one of the old Cali. fornia,’'4q) who lies buried in the ceme- | tery at Aaronsburg. They drove all over the town hunting up places that would remind them of their boyhood days spent in this place and when they took with them several bricks from the old homestead as relics. —Journal, The farmers’ institutes in Mifllin coun. ty will be held in Lewistown February 6 and 7 aud at Milroy February g. Forest Edger, sov of BE. J. and Rlvre Yearick, died on night of 13, aged 13 weeks. Interment on Tuesday afternoon ast, in the cemetery at Hublersbarg. Ira Guusalius, of Beech Creek, while at Mill Hall, became involved in a quar rel with William Hendricks. The form: er was badly used up, he having been kicked and otherwise maltreated, The Lutheran Synod of Central Penn, meets in Lock Haven, Wednesday even. ing the 24th and will be in session about one week. The Synod is composed of 50 ministers and the same number of lay. men and has a communicant member. ship of 11,000, A. BR. Patton, Republican candidate for State Senator from this district, is re ported to be lying fl) with grip at his home in Carwensville. While here at. tending the Granger picnic he was com. plaining of being lndisposed. A civil englyeer having charge of a branch of the Penusylvania railroad in Westmoreland county has discovered Hess, of Fergu- | township, Centre county, took his | son Joseph to Philadelphia where he was | Mr. | Bligers men have taken it | mountains, is the highest point in the state. The elevation at that point is 3,- 000 feet above the sea level. Bernbart Mader and Jacob Bauman, farmers of Woodward township, Clinton county, have each lost a valuable horse recently from some disease that resulted fatally in a very short time after the animals became ill. The horses were in apparent good health a few hours before they were attacked by the disease, Ira Gunsallus, living near Eagleville, who was 80 sevelely injured in an alter. cation in one of the hotels at Mill Hall, Wednesday morning, 17th, is stil] con- fined to his bed and under the care of Dr. H. H. Mothersbaugh. He was frightfully injured about the eyes and nose, and being a man over sixty years of age, was for a time in a critical con- dition. He was returning from Salona with a load of lime and had been in the hotel only a few minutes when the trouble occurred. He was brought home by Liveryman Harvey's conveyance and his sons went to Mill Hall asd drove the team and wagon to that place, Mrs. Eliza Gulich, near Clearfield, was fatally burned a few days ago. Her granddaughter, Mrs. Doshia Murray, bad gone to the lawn leaving ber baby in charge of the old lady, She took the baby, laid it over in its carnage and went to stir the fire in the stove, Lifting the lid she probed the burning coals, and in a stoped position, her apron or the front of ber dress, caught fire While badly burned the shock was too much for one of ber age, and she died. The deceased was born in Half Moon, Feb. ruary Ss. 1820, hence at the time of ber death she was 82 years, 7 mouths and 7 She is survived by five chi dren, OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW. (Continued from page 1.) L. 882). They reported Feb. 16, 1871, they had marked the line upon the ground and placed monuments at corners and cross- ings of public roads: Beginning at the “Tea Spring” (which is on the Joseph Wister tract at John Zimmerman’s near head of Big Fishing Creek), south, forty. four and one-fourth degrees west five miles to a marked stone ou south side of the public road in Brush Valley Narrows (about fifty perches west of where the road to McCall's mill enters the public road on the Jacob Siegfried tract); thence south thirty-eight and three.fourth de- grees west seven miles to a marked stone on the north side of the turnpike in the Penn's Valley Narrows (on lines of Simon Snyder and Philip Gheer tracts); thence south forty nine and a half de- grees west six miles and forty perches to a gum corner, between counties'of Cen- tre, Mifflin, and Union (near the north- west corner of the Thomas Castoris sur- vey; whole length of eastern boundary, eighteen miles and forty perches) (This subject will be continued in our next issue) ee —— The next interesting event will be the dedication of the marker for the grave { of Rev. Martin, the ea:liest Presbyterian | minister at the site of the first church of | tbe Huntingdon Presbytery, sear Penn Hall. This interesting ceremony takes place Wednesday, October 8. It will be a pleasurable occasion for Presbyterians, avd all others, a general invitation being Several weeks ago the Cen- tre Democrat furnished a complete his. extended tory of all that pertains to this subject, covering the “away back” and the pro- ' gram for Oct. 8, next WATCH PROTECTION The Jas. Boss Btiffened Gold Watch Cases are an improvement on soll They are stronger and wor Made of two Iayers of gold, stiffening metal between, Into one solid sheet ooniains more gold than can be worn 6 case in 35 years, Lhe time for which a Jus. Boss wed. BEND OR DENT Jas. t bend or den with a layer of welded together iayer of} The outside Stiffoned Gold Watch Cases are recognized as the standard by all jeweler, They are Mentionl with solid gold cases In appearance and siee, but much lower in price, Don't sooepl any ones sald 10 be © juntas good "ne the Boss, Look for the Keystone trademark. Send for booklet, The Keystone Watch Case Company, Philadelphia, ddd 4 SISSIES SST NISSEN SSS. Special Values WE ARE OFFERING During the Fair 36 faced, $2.00 a yard g value for STII SIT IIIS II ESS Dress Goods. inch, all wool Cheviot, black and blue only, 75¢ value S50c¢. Suitings for Walking Skirts, 56 inch, all wool, double laity, for $1. Umbrellas. Gioria Silk Umbrella, steel rod, plain wood, Dresden or silver trimmed handles, worth from $1.50 to 2.25, on sale at 08c¢. Coats. Children’s and Misses’ Long Coats, blue and dark red only, cape and collar appliqued with soutache braid, $3.75 $2.25. Three numbers of Women's Coats we bought to sell at $7.50, very latest styles, 21 or 27 inch, on sale at $5.00. ’ 25. WISTS TIT NII NITITINININIY Carpet Dep't. Jute Rugs, 3x6, Oriental designs, £1.50. COTTAGE CARPET; entirely new ; made from linen fast colors ; manufacturers guarantee it to wash ; carpet de- sign on one side, matting design on reverse ; exclusive sale & for this in Bellefonte ; per yard 2Qe NOVELTIES JUST ARRIVED. Lace, Beaded and Applique Collars. Cirenlar Shawls made fiom Shet Innd floss. Beaded and Jot An Tam O'Shanter, ta. New shapes in Side and Beck Combs. Nota-Hook Placket Fastener. Chiffon and Silk Neck Roffs Tie aod Fancy Neckwear. Renaissance Turnovers. Largest line of Outing Hats shown in Bellefonte. The Globe... Katz & Gog 4
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