THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE AND VICINITY The Local Happenings Condensed in Short Paragraphs EVENTS WORTHY OF MENTION What Has Transpired at the County Seat-—Movements 0 our People Personal and Social Events—Lo cal Items Always Desired ~No fishing allowed in Sheffer’s pond by seine or throw ret, --Wm, Stewart, of Seattle, is east visit. ing friends in Bellefonte, —F. Potts Green is having his diug store treated to a fresh coat of pure white paint. —Richard Lane, of Philadelphia, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mitchell, —Robert Burns of the State College Times, as usual, was a Bellefoate visitor Friday evening. ~—Miss Eleanor Harris, who is attend- ing school in Baltimore, Md., is at home for her Easter vacation, —John M. Dale, Esq, isin Prescott, | Arizona, looking after the interests of | some clients down there. —Miss Anna Lowrie, of Washington- | ville, Montour county, is visiting at the home of J. C. Meyer, Esq. —Charles Smith and Mrs. Sadie Wood. | en went to Philadelphia Thursday even- | ing over the Central Ratlroad. | —Profs. A. A. Pletcher, of Howard, | and Milford Pletcher, of Eagleville, | paid our sanctum a short call on Satur- | day. | —Truck prices at Lewisburg are low- | er than at any other locality in the state. | Bellefonte does not come near Derrstown herein, | ! —Miss Adaline Olewine returned home | on Saturday from Wilson College Cham. , =J. Fred, Kurtz and Mrs, Kurtz, of Lewisburg, spent Sunday in Bellefonte, ~Communion in the Lutheran church, next Sabbath, Easter, morning and evening. ~The recent rains will cause the trout streams to be too high for fishing in the next two or three weeks, -~Among the new enterprises for our | town is the possibility of a new billiard and pool room on Allegheny street, ~Juo. A. Swartz, of Hublersburg, in- ! forms us that in April, about nine years | ago, there was a snow of near three feet in depth. i | Ten second hand organs on the floor | this week, at bargain prices, from $10 and upwards—M. C. Gephart, music dealer, Bellefonte. Monday night, The weather seems to i change just when it pleases, and there's | no use growling either, Miss Lola Strohm, daughter of James ( B. Strohm, of Centre Hill, was an arrival lin town this morning and is a guest of ! her friend Miss Bessie Showers. | —Montgomery & Co. have an import. | aut Easter announcement in this issue, on the i1ast page. You always find a | nice line of goods at their store, -There is apparent improvement in the order on our streets since Burgess Walker began his term. A few good examples seemed to set things right. — Arthur Kimport, farmer, of Harris township, was in town on Monday. He now is a genuine farmer, having taken a tworhorse farm for the coming year. ~The opinion prevails with the larger number of farmers, thatthe freeze Satur day harm to fruit, owing to the wind and dry | ~Milton Kerns resigned his position | at Frank Sasserman’s barber shop, and | has gone to his home at Millbeim where | he expects to go into the poultry raising | business, | —Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lingle | ‘have returned to their home in Beech | bersburg to spend Easter vacation with | { her parents. | ~The House appropriations commit. | tee on Wednesday night reported thay | they were favorable to giving the Belle | fonte hospital $5,000. —Mrs. C. T. Gerberich, of North | Thomas street, is making a several weeks’ visit to her children and grand. | children at Philipsburg. —Bert Robb, left Saturday for Couders- | port, Potter county, to look up the titles to some unseated lands for the Potter | Abstract Company of Pitsburg. —G. Willard Hall, who is in the brok- | erage business at Erie, was an arrival in | town Saturday morning, to arrange for | shipping his goods to that place. —J. L. Murphy, who is chief engineer in the Union Railway Palmer house in New York City, spent several days with relatives in Bellefonte and vicinity. ~ Daniel Kelly left Friday for Sparrows Point, Md., where he will be employed in a large irom furnace of which his father Wm. Kelly is superintendent. —M rs. Harper, aged mother of Calvin Harper, of this place, has been ill for some time at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Emerick, at Centre Hall. —Merchant D. E. Holter, while in town the other day favored our sanctum with a call. Although he is a republican Be enjoys reading the Centre Democrat. — Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Crider are in North Carolina for several weeks visit, Mr. Crider will look after his lumber in- {terian chaple { Creek, after spending the winter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Clark in | Bellefonte, | -An unlooked for wet spell set in | [VARIETY OF From Centre and Ad- joining Counties Gathered | | Events That Have Transpired Recent | ly and Worthy of Mention — Items of Interest for All—Doings of Neighbors » Clarence Kiester has been appointed clerk in the post-office at Millheim. | Mr. Eckard, of New Columbia, is the | | new landlord that followed Mr. King at Coburn, The Grange Encampment, September 12, The black spots left by recent Spring buildings going up. moon on the evening of April 11th, will be visible at 8:52 p. m, Aaronsburg M, M. Musser and | daughter, Mrs. Mary Edwards, have | moved to Bloomsburg. | The personal property of Julia Brown, | dec’d, Hublersburg, will be offersd at | public sale, Wednesday, April 220d, by | 8. P. Hockman, executor. | Blaine Noll has resigned his position as teacher of the Plum Grove school, | near Madisonburg, and gone to Altoona | to enter the YV. M. C. A. work. and Sunday nights did no great | you will find considerable information as to the location of your friends. Paddy Mountain, once so lively, has but one family left—that of section-boss Mark. Oaly a few years ago there were over a dozen families about that station At Roland the sick are : Mrs. McMeen, Trude Parker, Mrs. Amelia Ghinger, Mrs. Orlanda Bryan, Mrs. Samuel Bryan, Mrs. Wm. Prince, Mrs. Frank | Gettig, Mr. Cartright, Harry Lutz and Sim the Clothier has his store nicely | stocked for the coming spring and sum- | mer trade. He is an up-to-date hustler, | and cat always make it interesting for | | you to call at his store, —Rev. L. C, Edmunds, formerly of Aaronsburg, but now doing missionary work in the Cumberland Mountains, ad- dressed the prayer meeting in Presby- | la:t night. — Isaac Frain, president, with Geo. L. Goodhart and Jas. A, Keller, composing the grange executive com. of the P. of | H. insurance comp., held their regular | meeting at the Garman hotel, Saturday. | —1f any one says that during the | month of April the average circulation | of the Centre Democrat is 4000 copies | weekly, you can safely bet any sum of | money that it is not true—for it is several | hundred more. ~Oun Saturday evening last the proba. | tioners of the First Methodist church | Tyrone, presented a handsome chair to | their retiring pastor, Rev, John A. | Wood, Jr., who is about to leave Tyrone | for his new pastorate at Bellefoute. Justice Keichline is becoming an ex. pert in tying nuptial knots, and is liable to incur the ill will of the ministerial brethren for swiping a part of their most lucrative business. They say the justice has a peculiar twist for this kind of a knot that makes it fast and tight, terests in that state and other points in the south, ~Mr, and Mrs. Newton Gill departed | last week for Altoona, where they will | make their future home. Mr. Gill is em ployed in the Pennsylvania Rallroad shops at that place. ~Mrs. Frank E. Zeigler, who has been spending the past week with ber parents, Mr. and Mrs, William Wolf on East High street, left for her home in Duquesne Saturday morning. ~Panl Davis, of the firm of Davis & Brother, architects, of Philadelphia, was here last week looking over the building operations of the new VY. M. C. A. and offered some valuable advice. ~Mrs. Frank McFarlane, of Boals, burg, had a pocket-book containing quite a large sum of money, taken from her while in the ladies’ waiting room of the P. R. R. station one morning last week. ~Dr. W. T. Harter, dentist, of State College, while in town the other day in. formed us that he had not moved to Mill. heim, his former home. He occasionally makes professional visits to that place, that is all. ~Dr. and Mrs, Thomas R. Hayes ar. rived home ou Saturday. They spent the winter in California, where the Doc- tor is largely interested in fruit culture. ~—From what Wash Reese says tbe job of Beputy Revenue collector in this district is not the picnic that it is cracked up to be. There are times when Wash would like to be back again at the store, whitling edges on cracker boxes and cracking jokes with the Methodist brethern, The freeze Saturday night was quite severe, manufacturing from an half to ome inch of ice, according to locality, Sanday night also brought a freeze but not as severe as the one of the previous night. Fruit may have been somewhat injured but, from reports, not seriously as the prevalling winds served to protect the buds. ~~At the first annual County camp meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America, held in the lodge room of the Bellefonte Camp on Wednesday, Dr. W. 8. Harter was chosen delegate to repre. sent the Woodmen of Centre county at a meeting of the State Camp to be beld at Beaver Falls, Wednesday, May 6th. ~W. Goodbart, who was one of the organizers of the Commercial Telephone in this county, Is now living in Youngs. town, Ohio, where he is connected with the Central Electrical Co., a large manu. facturing concern of electrical supplies, He was here for the purpose of securing They will remain in Bellefonte this summer, ~N. B. Spangler and Thos. J. Sexton are now comfortably located in their new offices in Criders Exchange, former. ly ocecupled by W. BE. Gray, dec’d. RE, R. Chambers purchased Mr. Gray's law library. —If some housekeepers were as cleanly about their premises as Donachy is with the court house and premises, there might be less to do for the doctors be- sides the praiseworthy tidiness and beauty lent which refinement and culture the Bd. McGarry invention, Mr, Good. | bart appears to be prospering. | —One of the finest pieces of bar furni- ture to be seen in this part of the state, was placed in the Brockerhoff House the past week. It is truly artistic in design andlof the finest workmanship, The ap- pearance of the office has been improved by the addition of two large mirrors, When the painters and paperhangers finish their part of the work Landlord Ray will have the hotel in the finest shape ever known. He has demonstrat. ed that he knows how to successfully conduct a first class hotel, i John Ghinger. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilliland, of New Bloomfield, are on their semi-an- nugl visit to their old bome and friends at Centre Hill. Their daughter, Miss Bertha, who is a student at Pennsylvania State College, is spending several days with them. “Col” Jack Hartsock, of McPherson, Kansas, returned last week to Buffalo. run to visit his brother, John. The Colo- nel bas been a resident of Kansas about twenty five years and in that time has been prosperous beyond the degree of | the average man. Mr. and Mrs. George Morrison, of Unionville, have sent out cards announc- ing the approaching marriage of their daoghter, Anna, to Charles Stover, of Altoona. The happy event will take place at high noon Wednesday, April 15 | at the Morrison home in Unionville. James I. Thompson had a sale of blooded cattle at his farm near Lemont. The 22 cows brought $1273, or an aver. age of over $7150 per head; 1 cow brought $108, 1 bull sold for f110, 4 cows brought $405, 5 cows $401, 6 cows $575, and 14 belfers—calves and yearlings- brought $477. The total amount of the sale being $2700. Edward T. Storm, of Tyrone, a freight brakeman on the Bald Eagle Valley rail road, on Wednesday wight of last week, while in the act of twisting a brake wheel was 50 unfortunate as to break a bone in his right arm between the wrist and elbow. He was taken to Tyrone, where Dr. J. M. Gammill reduced the fracture. ing, having the following officers : Presi. dent, Lawrence Morgan ; vice president, Charles Simler; recording secretary, Allen Boalich ; financial secretary, Law. rence Isenberg; treasurer, Millard Peigh- tal ; conductor, William Brown ; warden, Willlam Nelson ; trustees, T. G. Boalich, Wm, Nelson and Lawrence Isenberg. B. F. Gramly writes from Big Rock, Kane county, Ill, our spring is very snow storm but the snow disappeared next day. I begin to sow oats today, My oldest son Charles has bonght a farm and moved to Missouri. This spring my youngest son Ira has bought some 400 acres of land in south east Kansas and moved there last August, 1 am still on the old farm wotking 120 acres alone this year. We keep hogs and steers, as I am Dutch as you know, and never learned to milk, At Prosser town, near Bellefonte on the evening of April 7th, 1903, Jacob J. McClosky was united in marriage to Emma Watkin, by J. M. Keichline, Bev., of Bellefonte. After the marriage cere: mony was perfomed, all were invited to a bounteons repast with the bride and groom. The table was full of good things which all enjoyed. While they were eating the calitbumpians were play. ing at a high pitch with all kind of instru. ments. The bride and groom made their appearance and the calithumpians were treated to cigars and candy, The bride isa young lady from Howard. The groom is employed by Nittany Far: nance Co, . BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 9, 1903, SHORT AND TO THE POINT | Grange | Park, Centre Hall, will open Saturday, ! Mills fires have been wiped oft by new | There will be a partial eclipse of the | It | After a residence of thirty-one years in | his | { the North Precinct Almost every section of the county is | | represented in our list of movings. Here | air, | late, although the grass is well started. | The 20d day of April we had a little LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, MARRIAGE LICENSES, James Snyder . Annie C, Rossman Edgar J. Grove Eliza H. Morrison Irvin A. Runkle | 1 Jessie P, Floray i { Samuel Spicer Lula Baney {co J. McCloskey | { Bmma Watkins Alexander Gillespie Kate Scott . § Joh A. Sholl | { Lula C. Stover | § Chas. M, Harshberger . | {Jessie I. Hicks . REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, { State College Philipsburg Tusseyville Potters Mills Bellefonte Bellefonte Howard Munson “" Millheim Booneville Stormstown Real { Estate transfers were omitted | owing to want of space will appear in {our next issue, i - - - Rural Mail Carriers. | Several weeks ago the Democrat an | nounced the four free rural mail delivery | routes from Spring Mills, The car. | riers have now been appointed as fol. lows : Route No. 1—=W. 0. Gramley, Spring Mills. Route No Valley. Route No. 1—~Wm. McClellan, Beech. Route No. 4~John Snavely, Spring | Mills, The route from 2]. A. Wagner, Georges Centre Hall serving of Poller township has also been granted, and will be put into operation July ist. The territory covered by this route has previously been given in detail, The carriers for the new rural routes from Bellefonte have not been appointed, - . . The Veterans, Captain Fry, states he ex. pects to have a reunion at his home near Pine Grove, about the 18th of July of his old company, E of the Porty fifth Penn- sylvania volunteers: The annual meet. ing of the Centre county veteran associa. tion will be held this year at Pine Grove about the second week in September. Veteran, -— Howes moving pictures, on Tuesday evening, was a rare treat, Harold Lingle, student at Trinity college, Hartford, Conn, is howe for his Easter vacation. 8. E.Goss, the proprietor of the in. surance agency formerly owned by Boyd A. Musser, has an announcement iu another part of this issue. ~Robt F, Hunter expects to leave on Monday for a months work among the zinc operations at Joplin, Mo., where be is the manager of four mines, ~~Dr. Shriver, the retiring pastor of the Methodist church, Bellefonte, with his family will take their departure this afternoon for his new appointment at Carlisle, Pa. ~Jacob Shaffer, of Zion, was a caller yesterday; be reports considerable sick- ness near Zion, mostly typhoid fever cases, there being four cases in the family of Wm. Vonada. —There will be a special public meet. ing of the Salvatian Army held in the Court House Sunday evening at 8 o'clock It will be called a Seif-Denial service. Also commissioning of local officers. ~Mouday evening it is thought some prowier gained an entrance 10 the Hast. ings house, at about 1: p. m. He evi- dently became alarmed by the women telephoning for the police and skipped. ~Our Metkodist brethren are preparing | to give their new pastor, Rev. Joha A. | Wood, Jr., and his wife a welcome on { | their arrival in Bellefonte from Tyrone in the vicinity of Snow Shoe Intersection, | this Thursday afternoon. This evening a reception will be tendered them by the congregation in the lecture room of the church, Beech Creek. Ata meeting of the members of the | Presbyterian church held immediately | after the preaching service Sunday even. |ing Frank Thompson and Harry | Mothersbaugh were elected ruling elders, Florence, the seven year old daughter | of Joseph McCloskey and wife, of Eagle. | ville, died Monday night from es. She had been ill a few days when in some way she took cold with fatal re. suits, The funeral of Elizabeth A., wife of Mitchell Biter, took place Saturday morning. Services were conducted at | the house by Rev. M. C. Prick. Leonard Metzgar bas been sworn Io ‘As overseer of the poor to serve for a period of two years, The Maidsville drum crops paraded on our streets Monday evening and serenaded the business places. Frank H. Berry killed a black snake five feet long along the mill race near his barn Saturday. Squire Liggett, Alex Shoemaker, and 8. W. Gardaer will be on the state for: estry lands and form a fire guard to patrol the state's possessions and ward off forest fires. They will camp at the bead of Pish Dam run and be on Jonrd two months, The state now owns ) acres in the region between Beech Creek and the Susquehanna river, The saw mill of Orwig & Crider was moved Friday from the McDowell farm near Mackeyville to the farm of Frank Taylor along the Bald Bagle mountain a mile east of the B. KE. V. station. Mrs. Emily Gardner re ed her home Bete ow ® ding te winter w ughter, Mrs, ar Holt, at Northumbey mad, Miss Cordie Kitchen has as assistant mistress, Miss Mae Mc Cartney 4 filling her place, The fellow who always tells the truth may be depended upon to create a lot of trouble, Phillipsburg painters and paper.-hang- ers organized a union on Tuesday even | i Absolutely Pure, THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE COUNCIL MEETING. Regular session was held on Monday evening, Balance on hand, $1,147 84. The request of Richard Lutz for water at his property on East Howard street was held over for investigation and re. port at next meeting. The Street committee recommended an electric light at the intersection of Armor and Linn streets, near residence of Bar gess Walker, Messrs. Kirk and Reynolds protested against the present of the streets. Mr. Jenkins offered the follow ing resolution : “That the Street committee are here. by instructed to ascertain the cost of material and laying brick pavisg. Also, the durability and cost of maintaining the same, and also, the advisability of laying brick paving on the streets in such parts of the borough as it suitable for, condition may be Also, to ascertain what the objections may be to the use of such pavement, consideration beizg given to local conditions.” The motion was adopted. The Water Improvement committee was instructed to build a fesce around the reservoir. The request for the removal of the bill. board on North Thomas street was referred to the Nuisance committee with power to act. Burgess Walker reported the collect. ing and turning over to the Borough treasurer the sum of $27.50 from fines and licenses. The amount was ac- knowledged and a vole of thanks was tendered Mr. Walker, Two bills for coal furnished the Water works by R. 8. Taylor were not ap- proved, the majority of the Finance committee not signing them. Colonel Reynolds objected to them on the ground that the price charged by Taylor was 35 by the Fuel & Supply Company. The Water Saeperintendent claimed that the Taylor coal had better steaming qualities and was the cheaper of the iwo accord: ing to a test be had made A communication from Borough So- licitor Fortney was read by W. Harrison Walker, advising council in regard to the manner of borrowing money for current expenses, The Fitz Water Wheel Company are shipping a pew pump for use in com pection with water wheel at Water works which they guarantee will do the work. vails in Walker township. Those who have the ailment are : Wm. Vonada and three sons, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Cleven. in the vicinity of Zion; Harry Stover, Hublersburg. They are under the care of Dr. Fisher who traced its origin to a po'nted cistern. Sunday night burglars entered the store of George Boak at Pine Glenn and attempted to blow open the safe, but fail. ed. They carried off a lot of watches, jewelery, etc., and escaped. On Monday Mrs. Elizabeth Freids, an aged lady of over 78 years, fell from a barn floor, at her home near Zion, and fractured her shoulder blade. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. WORT PROCLAMATION «Whereas, the Honorable J. G. Love, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 19th Judicial District, consisting of the county of Centre, having issued his precept, bearing date the ZIth day of Mar. 101 to me directed, for hold. ing a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans’ Court ier Sessions of the Peace, ( and erminer and General Jail Delivery, in Belle fonte, for the eounty of Centre and to com mence on the ITH MONDAY OF APRIL, being the 27th day of April, Yes, and to continues two week, noties 1s hareb ‘oroner, Justices of the Peace. vie nt county, be them fa LA HB. TAYLOR, a cents a ton higher thas the price charged | ———— An epidemic of typhoid fever still pre- | stine, Frank and Wm. Clevenstine, all | Harry and John Clevenstine, of near Congregation Objects. Rev. W. A. Houck, the newly opp ed pastor of street chs Williamsport, the Board objected because he is preached his initial sermon morning, though the offic Board Sat. urday night determined that the church should not They directed that be built in the furnaces and that the church be opened this morning. Some members of the church, however, at 11 o'clock Saturday night crawled through a cellar int. Mulberry ch, to whom official juite old, Sunday fal be opened to him uo fires should not unfastened the Sunday morning, window, built fires and doors from the inside beaded by President Gray, 200 Dickinson Seminary marched the flanking the Dr. Houck preached a touching The official Board that it outwitted, students to chorch and sat in the pews pulpit, sermon on charity. acknowledges Rev. Houck, a few years ag Bellefonte. was Was local. ed in - To decide between caused hours of worry to men as well as to women. love and duty has “| sufered terribly and was ex- tremely wesk for 12 years. The doctors said my blood was all turning to water. At last | tried Aver's Sarsaparilla, and was soon feeling all right again.” Mrs. J. VW. Fiala Hadlvn Ct. e » No matter how long you have been ill, nor how poorly you may be today, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine vou can take for purifying and en- riching the biood. Don’t doubt it, put your whole trust in it, throw away evervthing else. $1 éruggisty, Us #® bate AY Eh ( Lowe CR PENNY A WORD ADV than 2 words, from Additional issues peany-a-word for Advertisements less subscribers, one lssue free 2 cents. Rate to others each issue MONEY TO LOAN on approved seeunty. J A.B. Miller, Atty. Bellefonte, Pa (14 MONKEY TO LOAN On Approved real estate security. N. B. Spangler, lefonte ou | POSITION An ambitious boy, who resides in or near Bellefonte, about 16 years of age can secure & position to learns the printing trade by applying at this office POR RENT Blacksmith shop with or with. out tools. Jonn Ward, Stormstown, I'a WANTED Man to canvass in Nittany and Bald Eagie Valley, al once: pod Wages Address “Manufacturer” care Oentre Demo. erat, Bellefonte, Fa CR ————————— WANTED-SEVERAL PERSONS OF CHAR. seter and good reputation in each state (one in this county wired) to represent and ad. vertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21.00 week: iy with ex ses additional, all paysbie in cash each Wednesday direct from head office. Horse and carriage furnished when NOOPSSAry. References. Enclose self addressed envelope, Colonial Oo, 34 Dearborn St. Chicago MARKET QUOTATIONS. Bellefonte Produce, The following prices prevailed Thurs. day morning : The following prices are padd by SRCHLER & Co. for produce Eggs, per dozen per PORRMcereenseteeseemssnns —— "0 X ny Bellefonte Grain, The following prices are paid by CO, ¥. Wao: R a Lock Haven Curb Market, Prices at the carb market Lock Haven, y morning : Butter, per Ib, per CR ——— se ———— to 32¢; . 65 70
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