he Centre Democrat, Circulation, Ove 300. § PROGRAM FOK INSTITUTE To Be Held in Bellefonte, Com- Some Interesting Evening Entertain- ments—Other Information School Teachers and the Public— List of Teachers. The 26th annual session of the Centre county teachers’ institute will be held in the Court House, Bellefonte, commenc- ing Monday, December 29th and con- tinuing to Friday, Jan. 3rd. For this occasion we publish the following infor. | mation from the Institute Manual for the benefit of all interested : LIST OF OFFICERS. President, —C. L.Gramley, county superin. tendent. Vice Presidents. —John "Nef, Recording Secretary. —~Miss Florida R. Dueck, Ass't, Secretary —R. Bruce Harrison. Enrolling Secretaries—M_ E. Heberling, John A. Williams, Door Keepers—~W. T. Winkleblech, Frank P. Fisher. Ticket Agent. —J. OC. Morris. COMMITTERS APPOINTED. Resolutions. —J. D. Horton, J. H. W. Morris, 8. W. Gramley, Legislation —~David O, Etters, C.D R. Nel, J.D. Hunter, E. A. Pletcher, H. E. Robb. Elections, Mary Warde, Edith Zimmerman, Nannie De laney. Auditing Accounts ~W. H. Limbert, L Musser, J. RB. Williams, E. BR. Hancock, F Emerick. Ushers. —~F. W. Dlllen, Geo. W. Breon, 8 Yorks, W. E. Mingle, B. B. Morris, Harry Loneberger. Ernest Ardery, W. M. Garner John C. Dunlap, John B. Rossman, Walter H Williams, O. N. Schenck Committee on Permanent Pointed by State Superintendent ) Etters, H.W. Morris, Lucy M. Rowen INSTRUCTORS AND SUBJECTS. Dr. Wm. W. Parsons, ana State Normal School, " Ind. Dr. Lincoln Hulley, Professor in Buck- nell University, Lewisburg. Prof. H. A. Surface, Professor of Zo- ology, Peun’a State College. Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, journalist, Lansdowne, Pa Music will be under the direction of Prof. P. H. Meyer, with Bessie H. Dorworth, as pianoist, D. Meyer, Alice 8S E. Wagner Koeh, C. Ww M H riificaten Ap David © President Indi Terre Haute, lecturer and Boalsburg, Bellefonte, EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS. Tuesday, Dec. joth, ‘Dramatic, Hum- erous and Literary Recitals,” by Fred Righ, Pittshurg. Wednesday, Dec. 31st, lecture and experimental tions,” by Prof. Davis. “Liquid air demonstra. Thursday, Jan. 1st, wo3, “Magic and | asic,” by Harry Motphet and Wm. H. Basson, TICKETS FUR ENTERTAINMENTS, For the Qourse, $1.00; Single admis- Ha Tosltay evening 25 cents, Wed. nesday efening 60 cents, Thursday even. ing 50 fents ; 25 cents will ed seat for the entire g tamments. The enrollment m., on Monday 1:30p.m. Th includes cost eral adm ments. Y a reserv. of enter. session at ing IR, book, and gen. des that teachers shall ir time while attending pensation can be claimed me actually attended. her ie expected to be pres- entire week, DOAL INSTITUTE COMMITTERS Penn. Miliheim, Halnes and Gregg rs, Committee. J. N. Moyer, H. A #, C. R. Neft, Harry Yeariok, Orpha I. | ley. | Osntre Hell, Potter, ‘Harris, Ferguson, wollege and State College Borough 56 teach- ors. Committes ~A. Merrill Allison, T, L. * Moore, H.M. Hosterman, W. W. Keller, An drew Gregg. J. D. Hunter. Bellefonte, Spring, Benner and Walker. 26 teachers. Committee.~J. I), Meyer, Rebecca Heckman, J. ¥, Garthoff and A. P. Weaver Milesburg, Boggs, Curtin, Howard Borough, Liberty and Marion —46 teachers. Committee, | . J. F. Harrison, John Dennis, M. Blanche Wentzel, J.C. Hoover, ¥. M, Pletcher snd L. WW. Musser, Unionville, Union, Huston, Worth, Taylor, Half Moon and Patton 15 teachers, Commit 000. HH. Hubbard, Maggie Williams. G6. R Silinmn. Bdith Zimmerman, T. C. Cowher, | WUT. Wrye, Mabella A. Morris, South Philipsburg, Rush Snow t and Burnside 82 teachers. Committee, D, Kook. Nettie Penepacker, Ella M. Ward, B. Robb and Rhoda E. Bowes, SCHOTE, DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATION. € School Directors’ Association of | county will meet in anoual con: in Bellefonte in Petrikin Hall, Klay, Jan. 1st, 1903, at 10 o'clock An aftergoon session will also be separately or in connection with the for | Zeigler, Milford | F. A. Foreman, J. F. Harrison, | gin at 9:30 a. | one dollar which | evening entertain- | Secretary and Treasurer.—Henry C | Quigley, Bellefonte, Executive Committee.—Dr. W. 8S. Glenn, State College; F. D. Hosterman, | Gregg; Samuel Brugger, Unionville. The list of school teachers also di- | rectors, in Centre county, with their | postoffice address, will be found on page 7, of this issue. | The Country Teacher. An exchange says: The | ments of the country teachers are num. erous. She must be a primary, interme. diate, grammar grade, high school | | require. teacher combined ; she must be able to build tires, adjust fallen stovepipes, | put in window panes, sweep, dust split kindling, drive a horse, keep out of the neighborhood quarrels, know how and | { when to whip a bad boy, understand the | school laws, raise money for libraries, | keep all kinds of records, plant trees on | Arbor Day, be of good moral character | and pass examination in all branches of { education. For these accomplishments | she receives twenty-five dollars a month. | Think of a girl getting that salary! Out | of this she pays her board, buys her | | clothes, attends the summer school, buys educational papers and books, attends | county conventions and buys slate pen- cils for the pupils. What is left she adds | | to her bank account or starts a bank if she prefers, E IN TOWN. GOV. STON Stone arrived in town on | Monday evening about g:1s, just one | hour late on account of the storm As the guest of Col. Fred Revoolds, he soon reached the palatial home df our towns man, the Colonel and his estimable wife, where shortly after many of the prom. Governor inent citizens of Bellefonte called to at. tend the reception in honor of the Execn- tive of the Commonwealth. Governor | Stone was in Bellefonte before, but it | was many years ago. Tuesday morn. ing the governor and friends accompany- ing him, left by rail for State College to the and inspect | the institution to learn the benefits it review college cadets de. rived from the several princely appro. | priations be signed in behalf of the col. lege. The governor no doubt, will be favorably impressed and receive such a hospitable reception at the hands of the | President of the college and faculty, that | he may inclined to repeat his visit at some future time, and when the weather will be such as to add to the pleasure, feel Some twenty-five members of the Legis. lature accompanied the Governor FORTNEY AT CLEARFIELD. Last Thanksgiving Day the citizens of | Clearfield dedicated their new high school building, and in casting around | selected David F. Fortney, Esq., of | Bellefonte, as the man suitable and able | to deliver the principal address. So well | did our lownsman acquit himself on this | occasion that all the papers gave the | most flattering account of his address | and in addition the Raftsman’s Journal | published the address entire, devoting over a page of their paper for that pur | pose. Ke seems to have surpassed their expectations in his usual forcefal and masterly style. When we recall the fact that a few | jealous 2x4 schoo! directors in Bellefonte took it upon themselves recently to en- to belittle and humiliate Mr, | Fortney for his years of service in be: balf of our schools, they dwindle to in. significance; and in that same infamy, | we are sorry to say our down town con. temporary, the Dally News, was a part. ner, Became exaitant, even filled its | columns with insulting abuse. Sach | | things are not soon forgotten, | deayor | Dr. Irvine Defeated. The conspiracy case of Dr. I. N. Ww. | | Irvine, the deposed rector of St, John's | Episcopal church, of Huntingdon, | against Bishop Talbot and Mr. and Mrs, | Alexander Elliott, of Huntingdon, for | | $25,000 damages, ending on Tuesday, | | when, on motion of the attorneys for the | | defense, the court instructed the jury to | render a verdict for the defendants. Counsel for both sides made elaborate | arguments, but the charge of Judge | Bailey was imperative to the jury and | | they rendered the verdict as instructed, Dr. Irvine and his couuse! say they will | appeal to the Supreme Court, - The Youth's Companion Calendar Free, The Publishes of the Youth's Companion | are sending free to new subseribers to the | r for 18, a very handsome Calendar, | Pe honraphed in twelve colors, with a border ambossed In god. The exquisite home seen which forms the principal testare of the Cal | endar is suitable for jraming The Calendar is | sold to pon subseribers for Afky cents, but to | pew subseribers for 105 itis sent lee w All the lssres of The Com anion for the re th maining wil your op pind’ 2 then being sept tor to Jan h KE YOUTHS CoM iow. 144 Ber street, Mans, Why is it that the fellow who is known | as a ladies’ man always remaing ‘slogle? BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1902. ‘WAR CLOUDS HOVERING Great Danger of a Clash With Europe | MONROE DOCTRINE AT STAKE England and Germany are Imposing on the Venezuelan Republic—*‘Peace- ful Blockade" must be Defined Serious Complications Poor Venezuela has been in the throes of a most serious internal revolution for over a year, which President Castro has | finally succeeded in suppressing. Vene- | zuela is one of the republics on the North. | ern part of South America adjoining | | Colombia, Guiana and Brazil. It has had a series of revolutions and its aflairs | have been in such shape as to make it an | easy prey for foreign nations, up- on a mere pretext, to begin hostilities. During Cleveland's last administration, while Grover was away on a duck shoot- ing expedition down the Chesapeake bay, upon returning he learned that England had endeavored to begin bostili- ties with little Venezuela by trying to raise a dispute over boundaries. purpose was to hatch out a war, and then appropriate the whole republic. That would be a violation of the famous **Monroe Doctrine,” foreign government attempting to gain foothold on the western continent that any thereby com- the prevent it mitted a hostile act, and United States stands pledged to Grover notified England to stop, and if they did not every resource in this coun. would be exhaasted to make them The bold, notice startled England, and the other try stog P. fearless, determined powers as well, for it meant war and nothing else, if persisted in. Now they are aga after poor Vene. This Eagland, Germany and ltaly have combined. The treasury tueia time of Venezuela is empty and finances are at a low ebb owing to the revolutions These foreign powers have claims for building railways, etc., which they are pressing Venezuela does not dispute the obligations, but in her impoverished condition endeavored to float a loan and at the same time claimed that there was just grounds for to the litigation as cor- rect amounts. Eagland and Germany to these but sent a combined fleet paid po attention contentions to their coast, which seized the Vesezuelian navy apd on short notice bombarded and destroy ed fortifications, seized custom houses, and committed other acts of violence that are contrary to all precedent and de- cency. It was the act of a set of brazen bullies agaiost a weak republic, unpec- essary, and unwarranted, In addition, they have established a “peaceful blockade’ which is about the same as white lampblack, straight fish books or a round square, a blockade is a hostile, warlike act. President Roose. velt has taken a determined stand and notified the allied European powers to define quickly what a “peaceful block. ade’ means, and what they propose do ing. In the meantime an American steamer, the Carcas of the Red Line D., is port La Guayra where the allied powers have their war vessels located. Ifthis boat is refused admis sion to the now blockaded harbor, that act may be the initiation of a most seri. ous naval war. Admiral Dewey and bis squadron are ready for an emer. gency, and may then be called upon to escort the American boat through the blockade. What that means no one dae at | can predict, for it may danse the most frightful naval encounters ever known | to the civilized wor id. This concerted action of leading Buro- pean powers is not considered as an honest effort to collect a det from Venezuela, as it is a determination to test the virtue of the "Monroe Doctrine’ and, if necessary, force the issue to a fright. ful naval war. Europe wants to prey on South America, but United States has stood in their way for over a century. Our imperialistic tendencies, the seizure j of the Philippine Islands, makes them think that we have little respect for “Declarations of Iodependence” or "Monroe Doctrines.” All the Latin countries on this hemis- phere sympathize with Venezuela and look to Uncle Sam to bold the Buropean bullies at bay, and no doubt would join forces if the worst should come. The latest indications are that Great Britian is awakenlog, and is inclined to arbitrate the question, after having des. troyed more Venezoelan property than their claim represented. England knows what war with the U 8S. means. Fist, her food supply would be cut off; next she would find that we have a navy that can take good care of our coast line; and worst of all, In the event of war, our forces would so quickly invade Canada that the British Jack would forever go The | territory would be annexed by Sam. Germany has been soliciting troubles Uncle | and for that reason we believe and hope that dire results will be averted, On Page 2 you will find several articles { bearing on this difficulty. | boiled down the situation in a general outline, lic realizes. - IN TIME, CAUGHT and the Groom sent to jail. | All arrangements were made for the tolemuizing of a fashionable wedding at Warriorsmark last Thursday, but the mat- ter was brought to an abrupt and most sensational termination the evening be- | fore, it having developed that the would. | be groom wat already a married man. | The lady who was to be the bride is Miss Nora Henderson, and is highly esteemed {in the Warriorsmark community. The name of the man who was to become her husband is Frederick A. Bittner, of Alle. gheny. The preparations for the wed. | ding were elaborate, a large number of guests having been invited, some of whom were already at the Henderson home, | which was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and a sents were neatly large number of pre. arranged for tion in an upper room On exhibi. Saturday evening Miss Louise Mack, a telephone and telegraph opera- tor in the Monongahela house, Pittsburg, received a an person that Bittner, husband of her niece. message from unknown Prede was to be informing her rick married to Miss Henderson, at Warriors mark, at noon Thursday. ately She immedi. informed he: mother her niece, of what she had learned. M: sister, of Bittner was told and she went to Attor. ney Frank G. Pa'terson, formerly of Al toona. bul now located in Pittsburg, with her story, Came 0 stopped Mrs. Bittoer and the attorney Tyrone Tuesday evening and at the Ward House. After con. sultation with Hicks & Templeton, Mr Henderson was sent for, and his Arriva: in town he was told the story of the d of Bittner, Mrs covincing him of her statement by upon piicity pro ducing a certificate which testified to the marriage of hersel! and Bittner at Sten benville, Ohio, on the 17th of last by Justice of Peace B. F November Penters, Wednesday afteinooon of last Bittner and his best man, Harry Barr, of Braddock, appeared at the Tyrone de. pot, not beiog aware that Mrs. Bittner was at the botel close by, Mr. Hender Son was at the depot also and met Bitt. ner cordially as if nothing was the mat. ter. About that time the afternoen train Roing welt came along and Mr, Hender. son supposed that Bittner and Barr had aken it for Altoona, but instead they took the train for Warriorsmark, and when Mr. Henderson arrived home a couple hours later be found the two men at bis house active in the entertainment of the guests then present. Having been previously cautioned mot to commit a rash act, the father of Miss Henderson at once charged Bittner with being a mar. ried man, and demanded that he leave his house at once. Bittner protested that he was innocent of any such charge, but the statement of Mr. Henderson was so firm and convincing that the premises were hastly vacated by the two men who secured a rig and drove to Tyrone. From there they drove to Bellwood, and from there wen! to Altoona on the trolley, where it was but a few minutes until Bittner was in the bandas of Officer Swart. rel who brought him to Tyrone on fast line and placed him in the lockup In the mean time Mrs. Bittner remain. | ed at the Ward House, being completely week Miss Euphemia Mack, of New Kensing. ton, Pa., and before their marriage Bitt. ver had been paying attention to her for several years. She had absolute faith in ber husband and knew of nothing wrong | nutil she received a message from her aunt at the Monongahela House, Pitts. | ostensibly started on a hunting trip, was | in reality to marry another girl, Bittner was a brakeman on the Pitts. burg division running between Altoona and Pittsburg, and bad told his wife that she should go home on a visit as be had obtained a leave of absence and was go- ing on a Munting expedition, Bittner had been paying attention to Miss Henderson the past three years, The community at large will regret the sad taro of things, and will deeply sym. pathize with the young lady and ber family on the one hand, but will con. gratulate them on the escape from ser. lous complication by so narrow a margin, And all will be sincerely sorry for Mrs, Bittner, unless it should develop that she has been at serious fault, Bittner was taken to Huntingdon county bn the charge of perjury in secur. ing bis marriage license. He is in jail OUR HISTORICAL with us; Eugland will avoid it if possible, | We have | No trouble may follow, but the | situation is more alarming than the pub- | A Wedding Postponed at Warriorsmark [ mill prostrated. She says she was formerly | burg, telling ber that Bittner, who had | REVIEW Information in Regard to Rald Eagle Twp. OF INHABITANTS More LIST 1801 An Interesting Sketch of the Dale Fam. ily in Centre County—Have pos- | sessed Same lands for Generations A Sturdy People. Lower Bald Eagle township in 180: was bounded on the north and east by | | the river and the Lycoming couuty line, | south by Nittany Mountain, west by al diagonal line running from the top of | Nittany at Logan's Gap to the mouth of | Jeech Creek, thence up Beech Creek | about thirty-five miles to the river. It | | therefore included the eastern (triangu- lar) baif of Walker, and a small triangle | of Marion in Centre county, all of Porter, | Lamar, and Bald Eagle townships, and | northern end of Greene, and parts of | Beech Creek, Chapman, and Grugan io | Clinton county, The following were 1501 inhabitants in | Allison, Matthew L Bain, John Bodle, Robert. Bolt, John Boyer nn, Patrick, tailor Long, Jacob, tallor MeCloskey, Joseph MeGaw, William, ver McKibbin, David MeKibbin McKibbin, W MeMurray Mackey Miller W Montgomery wea | Francis, bias smith Boyd, James, saw mil Joseph. Brewmler, George Hiam Fist, two saw.-mi William own. San fasept ~ uni ph am Hays Hays Hays Hays, Robert Heslet Jolt Hufl, Nathanie lohn, mil ree Wan! Watson " (ge David John William fr. Andrew Iams, Am mill Watson Hunt, William 0, Catheriz Watson Weave Ww Williams, Ellis Wilson, Yost DaAsay 1, Joseph " Joseph Wienslager, Henry Leech, Matthew Limber, Richard i biscksmitl Samus], John Mung Binge Freemen Miller Miller, John Mullen, John Mullen, Patrick Mullen, Philip Pieteher, Samuel Fletcher, William Roush. John Allison, William Boyoe, Thomas Brownlee, Joseph David, Issa David, James Dunlop, David Fearon, William Fryer, Thomas Grier, John Steel, James, eutler, Hess, Jacob Wartman. Matthias Larew, George Findley, Matthew. dis Miller, Caled tiller Findley, James, distil ler James weaver In 1804, Joel Herr erected a grist and saw-mill, which passed to John McGee in 1513. In 1804 also Nathan Harvey came in, and opened a store and mill in 1505; be built his forge m 1812 Dr. | Alexander Lindsay is the first physician noticed in 1804; Dr. Joseph G. Andrew in 1506. John P. Delaas came on the list in 1807. John Fredericks’ tavern, 1508, Robert Quay, grist and saw-mill, 1809. John Dunlop and William Beatty, | store at Washington Mill in 1810 The | furnace in 1811, and the forge in 1813, | Nathan and Samuel Harvey's falling. | in 1815, as also Henderson & Quiggley’s. COMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY. FIFTH PENNSVLVANIA. William L. Raphile, Bellefonte, 1st leut Harvey H. Benner, Bellefonte, 3M leut wounds received at Petersburg June 17, ‘4 Austin Garman, Bellefonte, sergt, Whitaker, James, Bellefonte, musician Privates Bowell, William, Bellefonte. Bower, Frederick, Spring Brown Harvey, Bellefonte, Byke, Samuel, Halpes, Contner, Allred, Bellefonte, Cox, Abraham, Spring. Dixson, Samuel T., Bellefonte. Drummond, Robert, Bellefonte, Grafos, Abraham, Bellefonte 24 lout. U, 8. army, Nov, 24 ‘61. Grimth, Joseph, Spring. Hinton, James, Bellefonte, Tokboff, William, Bellefonte, Laher, Jacob Benner. Long, John, Spring. MoAllister, Henry, Bellefonte, Miller, John, Belletonte, Novhsker, Samaue] M, Pruner, Robert, Bellsfonte, Raphile, Joseph, Bellefonte. | Got a yaller dog named Sport- 1 Got a ¢ | But, | He reaches at me with | tells us that there are VOL. 24. NO. 5 FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Select- ed and Original. “Justa cheery word or two As you pass along ; Buch an easy thing to do Just a smile or SONg You may comfort, soothe or rest Bome poor, weary, aching breast Though the world forget it, dear He'll remember, never fear - . - JES' "FORE CHRISTMAS, Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie fellers call me Bill Mighty glad I ain't & girls Without them sashes, curls an worn by Fauntieroy! Love to chaw'n green apples an’ go in the Jake Hate to take the castor lle but the ither be a boy, things that's swimmin' they give Ir belly ache! Most all the time the hull year roun’ there ain't no flies on me fore Christmas I'n as good as I kin be. But § “xt sick "em on the eat! Fust thing she knows she doesn’t know where she is at Hpper sled, an’ when us boys go slide, Long comes the grocery cart an’ w hook A ride! somelimes eal when the worried and eross grocery man is lis whip, and larrups up his hoss then | fl an’ ho An afl er Oh teched me! never i Jes’ "fore Christmas I'm as good as | kin be For Christmas, with ita lots ar ts of candies cakes and toys Was made they say. for prop (ids, an for naughty bo no 50 wash yer face 06% pass yer plate J as ver kin be Eugene Field Half a ton is better than none. A lawsuit never suits both sides. A coaled cellar makes a warm house. Drum music 1s not sold by the pound. Gas bills are seldom light, in Decem- ber It's bard to get in the push without a puil A coat of warm It il arms doesn’t keep a man isn’t always the fly youth who wears A swallow-lall coat Christmas shoppers are highways and buy.ways seen in the A woman's love more emphatic than a man’s, and so is her temper. When a woman paints she may be said to be sailing under false colors. The moon gets full, but goes on shin- ing; the rain drops, but it gets up again, the stars shoot, but do not kill; the wil- lows weep, but never shed a tear; night falls, but doesn’t break; day breaks, but doesn't fall; the swallows fly and the is | swallow flies; the bees buz and so do the girls. County Roasted for a Duck. For a long time there has not been a { case before the courts in Northumber- land county which has evoked more in- dignation than that one tried over a 45 cent duck and the county paid just $186 for the litigants’ privilege of getting in a white heat over the proceedings, Michael Simmonds, of Shamokin, | brought suit against John Menchock for | the larceny of a duck, and when ques. tioned by Judge Auten, Michael said | under oath that the duck was not worth over 45 cents. Scores of witnesses, con. stables, justices and lawyers, figured in the cast and Denchock was found not guilty, the county being ordered to pay costs of $116. 30, But it did not end here. Denchock brought a cross suit charging Mrs. Sim. monds with being a common barrator and when the legal maze was untangled the twelve good men and true said that Mrs. Simmonds was not a barrator. The hackneyed term “county to pay the costs’’ was inserted in the verdict. That made the duck cases cost $186 71. Lewis. burg Journal. v Killed Three Wild Cats, On Monday, Lewis Heberly, of Curtin twp, was in the Centre Democrat office, with the skin of a wild cat, that he shot at Salt Lick point, on 6th, while out hunt- fog. He spied the varmint while it was on the ground, and lifting his rifle sent a ball into its head. It measured 4 feet, 3 inches from tip to tip, and was what may be termed a big ove, with the regu: lation stampy tail. The pelt Bad a fine and soft coat of fur, Tom Chatham, of Curtin, also shot a wild cat on Coalhill this fall. A third one was shot and killed by one of the Lucas’ in the same region. Mi. Heberly many of these ani. mals in that section of the county. The bounty is $a per scalp.
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