1902. ET P. IRVIN show assort- it ever | aiming | : Kom honest | Boxes 20, 25, wand ifU C lankets, KET. | nent | ! . | slightly | ir {tems | column, | llefoute, | ends in | | $s spend- | nestead. rent the is home {, spent 's home of choice the county, Mrs Mr. and ss Ruth i from a iined at 'k, after ¢etarn to 1g in the PATS, Te. spent a | §. Jacob | g of last ink, has become day with ent Sun. xked to or, (Mrs vho acci- | et ; hope arents at shoe, re. few days | in our ractice wo € Away; here will riends at to be a boys, get nmmuanion Sunday ——— w— ——— -— won mpm. unre n— MARKER DEDICATED. The dedication of the marker for the grave of Rev, James Martin, yesterday, near Penn Hall, was duly observed by the Huntingdon Presbytery and was an event long to be remembered by the members of Presbytery present, and others. The ceremonies were held in Peuns Creek Lutheran church. a short distance from the cemetery in which rest the re. mains of this pioneer minister of the Presbyterian church, In previous issues we gave a full history of all that per. tained to this subject, Rev, Martin, his grave, and the site of the first church erected in Penns valley and in which the Huntingdon Presbytery was first organ. ized, hence will not make a repetition of those facts in this connection, Rev, Dr. Schuyler, of Centre Hall, 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. Lloyd Smith, of Centre Hill, will go to Osceola, where he will work in the car shops. Rev F. W. Brown tendered his resig- nation as pastor of the Reformed church of Aaronsburg. LOCAL NEWS rom page 1.) | remove to some place, as I do not like their company ; and as the men of those here were not agaivst us, yet did them no harm, or else I would have them all | cut off. Belt (Indian so called) promised, | at Shamokin, to send out spies to view | the enemy, and upon hearing of our skirmishes, Old Belt was in a rage— | gathered up thirty Indians immediately, | and went fo pursuit of the enemy, asl | am this day informed. I expect Montour and Mona-ca-thoo- tha down here this week, with the de | termination of their Shamokin council, | The inhabitants are abandoning their | plantations, and we are in a dreadful situation, Iam, &c. this 26th OctoLer, 1755, before us John Eider, Thomas McArthur, Mi chael Graham, Alex McClure, Micnae! Teass, William Harrie, Thouius Samuel Lenes, Samue! Pearson, Wil | McClure, Reading, October 22, 175% Honored Sir ; I take this opportunity to and that six familes have been murder ed on John Penn's creek, on the west | side of the Susquebannah been found scalped, and twenty. cight or more missing. The people are in great consternation, and are coming down, up to help down one of their cousios with | his family, Black, Jam inform | you that I received news fron Shanokin | : about four | miles from the river, several people have | ‘When leaving their plantations and corn be. | hind them Two of my sons are gone | | Wasle You Hunt Let it be for zun:. bat don't your time haating tor presided. The Historical address deliv. ered by Rev, Kelley, of Williamsburg, was most able and interesting, replete in facts of historic value upon the subject for the occasion, of which we may print extracts hereafter, Dr. Van Tries, of Bellefonte, delivered the next address, his subject being, “'Fif- ty Years Ago.” The Doctor was listen- ed to with deen i=terest as he portrayed Emory 8. Ripka, son of A. C. Ripka of | Centre Hill, is now general mail agent in Joux Harris. the Pennsylvania railroad station at Pitts- burg. Mrs. Ellen Stover, who lives below ver last week and it went off, sending a bullet through both of her feet, Last week the Odenkirk farm and Old Fort Hotel, near Centre Hall, were bid Bellefonte, accidentally kicked a revol. | from his own knowlege—and he has a | up to $9,000 at the public sale by James | large storehouse of it—what he knew of | A. Decker, of Pine Grove Mills. Presbyterianism in Penns valley in the | last half century, facts new and of deep B. M. Wagonseller, formerly principal of the Centre Hall schools, has been interest, saying nothing of their historic | elected assistant professor in the chemi- value to this Presbytery, and which will | cal laboratory of the University of Penn- now be cherished as part of its history. | sylvania, Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Wolf was the next speaker; his | A total eclipse of the moon will occur remarks were profound and impressive, on the night of October 16 and 17, and Shutch-work in its proper channels be- | yi; be yiible over north Atwerica, ing his theme. Next were five minute | While the phenomenon is not an unusay te res ca a prone 27d | cn i neresing sgh royal lunch prepared by the ladies. | JW. 0. Housman, of Millheim, left Several great-grand children of Rev. | for Wilkinsburg, Allegheny county, Martin were present. The following | where he has a contract to build a house. | He was accompanied by his son, Frank Ministers and Elders were present : i : | Housman, who is also a carpenter, MINISTERS AT PRESBYTERY. | ; ; | James Knoffsinger, of Pleasant Gap, Rev's, Mathers, Fioney, Johnston, Bar- | returned from Philadelphia where he Hepler, Haughawout, Freeman, had been treated for cancer of the rec. Steckel, ; Mateer, Townsend, Irvive, | tum. Mr. Kuoffsinger was temporarily Miller, Weisbey, Wilson, Falcher, Camp. | relieved by the insertion of a tube into Crittenden, Gibb, Beattie, ! | his side. Kochler, Jos. C. Kelley, Kelley, Laurie, Diener, Walker, Naddell, Leith, Jock, Carrie, Gardner, Moody, Berger, Harnish Eiders, Conley, Jenkins, Laird, Wea. ver, McNitt, Sheaffer, Blades, Temple- occupy a room oa the second floor in the ton, Thompson. Hamilton, Gannoe, Mc Holmes building Cormick, Shaffer, McCracken, Porter,! W.J. Harter, A. M. Harter and Rand. Davis, Huoter, Smiley, Somerville, | 81! Harter, of Coburn, and Elmer Smith, Wharton, Blair, Bovd, Hagerty, Pride. ©f Woodward, left for West Virginia last aux, Heichhold, Reed, Coldren, Brown, | week. They took their guns along and McFadden, Naginey, Holderman, Good. | Iotend to combine a little hanting with bart, (G. L ) Goodbart, (James); Markle, | the business that takes them there. Roberts, Knepp, Marshall, Seibert, Gilli-| Miss Priscilla Stewart has decided to land, Halffield. | close her Boalsburg home while she visits friends and makes ber howe with her brother Harry at Sandy Ridge. Mrs. ring the balance of | Robt. Hunter, of Shingletown, will move to the house vacated by Mrs. Bricker in Miss Dorothy Bechde! and Charles w, | Boalsburg. Cook were married at the bome of the Oa Thursday evening 20d Mr. Oscar bride in Eagleville, Thursday evening, | G. Martz and Miss Annie Roush, both of and by Rev, M. C. Prick. pastor of the | Pine Grove Mills, drove to Lemont Disciple church. Only a few intimate | where they were married at the Presby. friends add relatives witnessed the cere. | terian parsonage by Rev. Hepler of that mony. Mr. and and Mrs. Cook will be place. Mr. and Mrs Roush expect to at home in Blanchard after October 14 remain in Pine Grove Mills for the win. ter but in the spring will locate at Du Bois IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. ber, bell, Tennis: ton, Jonathan C Stiles, The Alpha Fire Company, State Col. lege, has sold their building to Kimport Bros., of Boalsburg, who will open up a meat market. The fire company now THERE will be no more poor family rackets worked his campaign, A very pretty wedding was celebrated Monday evening at 10 o'clock at the | home of R. C. Leathers at Mt. Eagle, | the contracticg parties were Elmer BE. | Spencer, of Pittsburg, and Ida Anderson, | ill of typhoid fever. of Jamestown, N. ¥Y. The bride and groom were tendered a serenade before | ’ i leaving for their future home in Pitts. | foue division was doue full justice when | it was stated that some of the trainmen burg. i 8 | had made thirty-five days during the Judge Gordon, of Clearfield, is lying | It was thought the activity on the Ty- At the meeting of the Central Penn. | sylvania Synod of the Lutheran church held at Lock Haven last week it was de. cided to hold the next convention at Beaver Springs, Savder county, begin. ning on the last Wednesday of Septem i Rev. J. M. Rearick, of Centre | her, 1993 Hall, was elected president to succeed Rev, C. T. Aikens, who has served in office for the past three years. Post Commander Amos Garbrick, | Adjatant, 8. B. Miller, Charles Glenn, reumonia. | ogver. | new field | Lafayette Mulholland, James Whittaker, Andrew Lucas, Al Roberts, Chas, Ecken. roth, Colonel Amos Mullen and wife, Mr, and Mrs. Wilbar T. Twitmire, all of : | Bellefonte; Jobn A. Daley and daughter, t went to! wd wife, | of Romola; Harry Zimmerman, of Pleas. mouth just closed. Since then we have been informed of one 37-day mouth, | one of forty four days, and the top | notcher is an engiveer with 48 days 10 | | his credit —Tyrone Herald. Hon. 8. R. Peale snd wife celebrated the forty fifth anviversary of their wed ding Monday of last week, at their home | at Lock Haven. A sumptuous dinner | was a feature of the occasion, and 21 | Peales surrounded the board. Semator | Peale is still sligtly lame from the effect | of a sprained ankle, but this dida’t ma. | terially interfere with his enjoyment of the occasion. M. C. Johnson, of near Mill Hall, is one of the foremost farmers of Bald Eagle township. Each year he grows a Geo. Boal ant Gap; Isaiah Zimmerman, of Kansas; | large crop of cabbage, most of which Is erick and mes were ihed. was shot | waning by aking an d men fo | se of the way Co, | bhouns, of was that | Dansel Stine, D. B. Stine and James | Knox, of Fillmore, were among the Cen. tre counly people who left Monday for Washington, D. C,, to attend the Nation. al Encampment of the Grand Army of | the Republic Little Ones, Some women are good looking ustil | after they find it out, After a girl attends ber own wedding she loses all interest in similar sabse- | quent proceedings. ] i | When a boy gets to smoking cigaretts + teewidow | and speaks of his father as the ‘old | man’ he is starting to graduate from a «dl Satur. | mighty poor school, r Salona | , aged 83 Apvroved tty, ate, Pa. + number mg them, If some girls were compelled to eat bread of their own baking they wouldn't live long. Some fellows who deserted thelr wives {found out afterward they had left the | best friend they ever had, When a married woman wishes she was somebody else's wife she is getting in the mud up to her knees, Some men ride the goat every night in the week and forget the kids at home, shipped to the Pittsburg market, This year Mr. Johnson has six acres in cab. bage which will produce about $0,000 beads. Specimens of the crop age of immense size. Mr. Johuson says he could load one car with cabbage that would weigh from 10 to 15 pounds each. It is not quite one year since the build: ing of the big shops at Oak Grove was commenced but the contractors will com- plete the first ‘year's work on schedule time as all but one of the buildings, which is included in the fir! year's work, have been erected and are about com- pleted. The freight car shop, which is | incladed in the first year's work, will be commenced in a few weeks, Machine and erecting shop, power house, office building, store house, oll house, round house, coal trestle, blacksmith shop, scale house, tool house thirty seven tracks 1,000 feet long, transfer table. Machine and erecting shop, tank and boiler shop freight ear shop, store room, office build. ing, oll house, round house, coal trestle, power house, blacksmith shop, scale house, yard of 8,000 cars capacity daily, wood mill, tool house, transfer table. | P.8. The night ensulug our sttack, | the Indians burnt all George Gabriel's | bouses—danced around them. Heidelberg, Nov. 24d, at night, 1755 | Honored Sir ; I am going out early mext morning | with a company of men—how many I | cannot tell, as yet—to bring away the | few, and dispersed families, on the north side of Kittatinny hills, yet alive : | they cry aloud for assistance, and shall | give it my opinion to-morrow, in a pub: | lie meeting of the townships of Heidel- | berg and Tulpebocken ;—but the few | that are alive, and remaining there, | (the greater part has come away) shall | be forwarded to the south side of the { hills ; and we will convey them to this | side. Idon't go over the hills myself; | I will see the men so far as the hills, | and give such advice as I am able to do. | There can be no force used ; we are con- | tinvally alarmed ; and last night I re | ceived the account from Andrew Mon. | tour that Belt, Scarroovady, and others, wanted me to come up with my men to John Harris’ Ferry, and to consult with them. I sent an account for my not coming, with my soo, Sammy, who set off by break of day, this morning, with an invitation to the Indians to come down The same send © to my house for consultation I bad George Gabriel, message ventared to ’y I seat by Sammy, a copy of which, I sent by George Gabriel, When [ received the letter from Harris’ Perry, signed by sev. is here inclosed. eral. among whom were Mr. James Gal. breath and Mr. Allison—it was late in the night. I dispatched a messenger after George, and he came back this morning ; here inclosed, as sald before, is his errand. I hope to see my sou back again to-morrow night with intelligence ; that is one reason why I can't go over the hills. My son, Peter, came up this | evening, from Reading, at the head of about fifteen men, in order to accompany | me over the hills. 1 shall let him go with the rest. Had we but good regula. tions, with God's help we could stand at {our places of abode ; but if the people fail, which I am afraid they will, bec ause only some go, other's won't. Some plead religion, and a great many are | cowards. [shall think of my, and my family's preservation, and quit my place | I can get none to stand by me, to defend my own house. I hope you will excuse | this—I have no clerk mow, and hadno sieep for several days and nights. I am, sir, Your obedient servant, Conran WriseEr I, and Thomas Foster, Haq, Mrs Harris, and Mr. McKee, with upwards of forty men, went up, the and inst (October, 1755) to Captain McKee, at | New Providence, in order to bury the dead, lately murdered on Mabahany creek ; but understandiog the corpses were buried, we then determined to re. turn immediately home. Bot being urged by John Sekalamy, and the Old Belt, to {go up to see the Indians at Shamokin, | and know their minds, we went on the | | 24th, and staid all night—ana in the | { night I beard some Delawares talking | about twelve in number —to this purpose: | “What are the English come here for?’ | Says another : “To kill us I suppose ; | can we then send off some of our nimble young men to give our friends notice, that can soon be here?” after sang the war song, and four In. ed-the one canoe went down the river, and the other across. our leave of the Indians, and set off bomewards, and were advised to ge down the east side of the river, but fear ing that a snare might be laid on that west side, having behaved in the most civil and friendly manner towards them the mouth of the Mababany creek, we were fired on by a good number of In diand that lay among the bushes ; on which, we were obliged to retreat, with the loss of several men; the particular number | cannot exactly mention ; but 1 am positive that I saw four fall, and one struck with a tomahawk on the head, in his flight across the river, As I ander. stand the Delaware tongue, I heard sev, against us, speak a good many wofds in that tongue, during the action. ADAM TRRRANCK, The above declaration was attested by the author's voluntary qualification , no magistrate being present—at Paxton, | this side the Susquehavna river; | fear they will, since they meet with no! | opposition any where. I hear of more that will defend them: selves ; but George Gabriel the peo | ple down here seem to be for ourselves, | and says: The Indians will never come Sporting Goods Yo any better guns or ammunition for i of any kind can never find buat | I do not doubt We can fornish any kind youn want, your Honor bas beard of this melancholy affair before now, by the way of Lascas- | go demand ter, perhaps more particelarly ; yet | " thought it my duty to inform you of it; and when my sons’ come back, I will write agais, |{f particular, I have beard nothing of the Indians that bave gone up to fight against ti French on the Obio; their going 1 fear, id Quality bas been occasion of this murder 1 have nothing more to add, but am, Hon ored sir, Your very bumble servant, We are here to meet the demand, We ill arm ourselves to supply it if whit you want, Ww we do not have it in stock. Our Hardware the they bring anvibiog t in town. Price ment 15 fines the 4 LIM McCalmont & Co. lellefonte, Pa. ’ N Ny proe« BRIO TL, CONRAD WEISER. Case Wears a! polntof contact with (he hand or pocket, A #0lid gold cave wears thin and weak and a cheap flied case wears shabby. A Jas. Boss Stiffencd Gold Case 18 140 wear for : a quarter of Ww metal will # LE B88 TOU wear It. This is why thousands wear the JAS. BOSS ry Watch Case on costly works in preference to a solid gold ease. Ask your Weler 10 show you & Jas Hoss Case and look for ihe Ld a trademark stam ped inside. Send for Booklet. THE KEYSTONE WATCH CASE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. They soon | dians went off, in two canoes, well arm. | On the morning of the 25th, we took | side, we marched off peaceably, on the | while with them ; and when we came to | eral of the Indians that were engaged | Suggestive of Economy, Calculated to Arouse a Desire to Investigate. Dress G ds Some of the sp~cial valucs in this department at 75¢. a yard, for goc Oxford, blue and blac inch ; all : 3¢ tations of French Coats We offer a Ladies’ Wool Kersey Jacket in black or colors. cut in very latest style, for $500, which we are confident cannot be bought elsewhere under £7.50 ; its a special value and may not last all scason, as at present time we are unable to purchase any more of them otf this grade to sell at the price. Children’s Short Coats for £1.50 and $1.75. 1n red or blae, tnmmed sailor collars Long Coa's for Children, sizes from 4 to 14, in red or navy, at $250; cut very full ; quality extra good for price short, at good material and well lined. We are prepare ' for big business in this department Will make it an object.for you to “00k us over” before purchasing. this department to second floor—not Skirts enough room down stairs. Walking Skirts start at $2.25 for heavy Melton Skirt, Oxford gray only, nicely made, graduated corded flounces. Strapped and Kilted Skirts start at £3.50, all colors Few samples of Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits, worth up to $20.00, selling at §9 50 ; great bargains for you if we have your size. Norfolk Suits start at $8.50 ; stitched skirts, jackets have strapped seams and beit, ~# Outing Hats in every conceivable shape. Prices, Millinery as you know, are reasonable. No need to expiate on our Trimmed Hats. Too well known for any further need of com ment Once a customer, always a customer in this department, Af Increasing trade every scason shows the appreciation of the public for Katz's Hats. Some new things in the notion Notions & Novelties scpartment. Nota Hook for tener for waists, plackets, etc, exclusive sale for this practical idea in Bellefonte, price is very low, card of 8 fasteners for 10 cents. Golf vests, pure wool, good line of colors, $2.00, Chiflon Ruffs and Boas start at $1.25 for a very pretty boa with long accordion pleated ends. Lace and applique collars in white, cream and ecru from 75 cents to $300. Rennaissance Turnovers, hand made 25 cents, Remnants and Room Lengths Carpets & Mattings left from spring go at sellin 15 off regular price. It means you get a 90 cent Brussels for : cents etc. Just now we are offering a good quality Brussels at 50 cents a ard. Three good patterns from which to make a selection. Matting dr at nearly half original price, Jute Rugs—Oriental designs, size 3ft.x6ft., $1.50. The Best Rul for the price in town. : are 30 inch Cheviot; all wool ; sold regularly §6 inch Suiting, worth £2.00 a yard ; in gray for $1.23 oronation Cloth, very new; 40 a vard Waist C} th, in cotton, for isc. I miga- 25¢C Wool Albatross, 40 inch, soc. a yard vv LT WOO! 3 / annsi, Have made preparations for an increased trade this season. . -p Mises’ Coats. 3 3 ’ Had to move \ The Globe.....Katz & Go. Store closed from 6 p. m. Frida - Joys ors ojosed ys Oct, 10, 6 p. m, Satur
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