8 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 30, 1903, THE RACKET We secured a lot of GRANITE- WARE from a factory at a price offer them to The large, so come early. that enables us to you at half price and less, lot is not Prices are as follows : 10-inch, Deep Pie Plates 10c., 2-qt. Pudding Pans 15c. -qt. ‘ " 19C. qt. Coffee Pots 20c. 4 3 4 & 5-qt. Coffee Pots 39c¢. 10 qt. Seamless Pail 39c. 12-qt. “ 49c¢. 8 qt. Cooking Pot, with lid, 50c. 12-qt. Preserving Kettle, soc, 14-qt. “ “" O5¢ Don't forget that you can do better at The Racket. They sell for cash, RACKET STORE CO. Correspondents’ Department Centinued, from page 7 Fillmore. Sunday school and League were poor- ly attended Sunday last; most all went to the campmeeting at Hunters Park. Katherine Crust, of Bellefonte, is visit. ing at her home near this place. Mrs. Lizzie Crum and Reese, of Port Matilda, in this place. sister Emma visited relatives Dora Kephart has returned from visit ing friends. in New Williams- port, York and Aaron and Gordon Wi Matild Suuday. ams, of Port town last Bessie Tressler, « home for a few days Last Monday ui ». was dr College, is at nner Way, of » from Belle. il A EYDSY ¢ KE . | an extended visit The campmeeting at Hunter 1g well attended by our own people and others from a dis tance. Linden Hall Mrs. Agnes Meyer and father spent Saturday in Oak Ha! Anna Corl, of Pleasant Gap, is visit. ing ber grandfather Al Fleck, Lee Brooks, Katie Mever, Daisy Brooks, Adam and Howard Zeig- ler spent Sanday at Farmers Mills Roy Raymond spent Sanday at Hous erville The Ev festival on Ang Katie J Saturday. A hot Grace Carper is Centre Hall Harry Miller and at Coburn church Sth is going to bold a SIg'Cr was a visitor in town on nnie Carper spent Sunday at ber spending the week at wife spent Sanday Frank Wieland and family were visit. ing at Rock Springs Harris Twp was bere foute | L.C. tevin | Unionville, A prominent reader of the Democrat came to me and complained that my correspondance in last week's edition was sy SB wished to know the cause there.of, As others may have had the same opinion, I will just remark, for general information, that I got caught in a heavy shower of rain and the ‘Items’ got soaked and in drying them I left them in the oyen too long. that Gatha Ammerman, of Tyrone, and her brother Carl and his wife, somewhere else, are at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Ammerman ; and that Mabel Garbrick, of Bellefonte, was the guest of Pauline Smith over Sun- day ; and that Wm. A. Alexander had a one night last week and he says knows who took it; and that “Bart” feet long on Muncy mountain a few days ego; and that Clyde Cadwallader, em. ploye of the Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock, was *‘laid up” for about three weeks with a crippled hand ; and that George Brugger left on Monday morning in company with Prof. 8. P. McWilllams, for Chatauqua, N. VY. where both will enter a business college which Prof. McWilliams will go to Can. onsburg and take charge of the schools {of that place, and George will go to | Pittsburg where a lucrative position is | awaiting him ; and that Bennie Frederics’ cousin, Maud Hoover, of West Elizabeth, is a pleasant visitor at the Fredericks home, also that John Holt spent Sunday with his other half at the same place ; and that a goodly number of people from this side attended the Free Metho. dist camp meeting at Hunter's Park on | Sunday , and that Mr, and Mrs. James | Watt, of Tyrone, were guests at the {home of T. E Griest on Monday ; and {that Charley Griest and his aunt, Mrs. | T. E. Griest, attended the funeral of the | former's grandmother at Huntingdon, on [last Saturday; and that our clever post | master, A. J. St. Clair, took suddenly ill [one day last week with plurisy or perito- nitis and for several days was in a criti. | cal condition but, we are glad to note, is | now convalscing. His daughter, Mrs. | Wm. Bullick, of Punxsutawney, was | sent for and she now has charge of the | postoffice ; and that a number of our boys {tented out along the B. E. creek a few | miles below town and on last Saturday {gave a fine chicken dinner to a number {of their parents and friends; and that Ralph Hoover broke a large pane of g'ass in Johunie Stere's store window : | and that Bessie Stere, who clerks in her | father’s store, walked seven and one-half | miles on last Saturday, in the store, as registered by a pedomiter she carried: {and that Miss Marie Griest doffed the | crutches and has gone to New Castle for and that Master Har. ry Sickle sports a new bicycle as well as a dminutive Shetland pony which he drives about in great style; and that Edgar Cleaver, formerly of this place, but now of York, Pa., spent a week or more visiting friends bere, recently ; and that after removing several inches of soil with a shovel and with the aid of a crowbar, Harry Lindesmuth extracted from Mother Earth an enormous tuber, called by vuigar people a potato. It weighed less than 4 Ibs. Harry says he never could raise such large potatoes in his life before until be subscribed for the Centre Democrat and now be claims that everything he touches prospers ; and that Wm. Shirk, sawer on Hoover and Gray's saw mill, on last Tuesday bad three of his fingers on his left hand badly lacer- ated by coming in contact with the saw. He went 10 Bellefonte hospital and had the second finger amputated at the sec: ond joint ; and that the Ladies aid soci- ety of the M E. church will hold a festi. val in the Grange Hall on Saturday aftersoon and evening, which promises to be the most attractive and extensive that has yet been held in this place. Ice cream, cake and other things too numer ous to mention ; everybody invited. Come one and all, help the ladies along with their enterprise ; and that's all 3 Runville. Cora Bottorf of Flemington is visiting al G. W. Heator's Myra Lucas visited friends at Hunter's Park Sunday Messrs. Bond Rbue and Cland Lucas, of Altoona, spent Sunday at this place Myrtie Friel visited over Sunday at "1 Butt's Station Willis Heaton left for Tyrone where 4 ' | be has secured employment in the round spent {at ( ty in honor a nm and Mrs infirmities of | § ne able to be port and fami ing strength Oak Hall Jas. Kimpe gain. Art * ly are also regain ot 4 w aur Am Grace Dale, visitor in town, J. H. Weber entertained Rev, Robb, of Altoona Sunday. Clifford Close returned tended visit to Renovo Harry Burns and family entertained a number of friends Sunday. George Kline, of Altoona, is at home. Henry Homan and family, Frank Ho. man and family, went to Zion Saturday to attend a birthday sarprise given in honor of their sister, Mrs. Brungard. Andrew Hibly and family, of State College, spent Sunday at Oak Hall, M. W. Benner is suffering with a very pore ankle, of Pleasant Gap, was a from an ex Smullton Jos, Sault, of Stewart Sta. spent last week with his father. in-law Jacob Wall. rer, Jerome Hackenberg and wife, of Oak Grove, spent Sunday here, Mre. Pauline Walizer and daughter are in Penns valley. Mrs. Sam’l Wate, of Pleasant Gap, i» helping to nurse her mother-in-law, Jesse Wert and Hettle Small, of Aaronsburg, spent Sunday here, The M. BE. Sanday school of this place will bold a festival on Saturday Ager Aug. 8. Proceeds for the benefit of church. band will furnish the music; everybody invited, house at that place Irene Reese, of Bellefonte, is visiting B. Friel's Willis Poorman and family spent Sun. day with Uriah Housel at Milesburg Rev. C. C. Miller, a former minister at this place but now of Braddock, visit ed his many friends at this place over i Sunday and helped with the Bush meet ing which was in progress at Chesinut Grove Mrs. Heaton spent Sunday in Belle. foute, Rock Grove. Messrs. KE. C. Housman and Wm. Crader, of Penn Hall, were guests at the home of Jacob Royer over Sunday. Fred Rover, of Potters Mills, had the misfortune to fall from a load of hay but sustained no serious injury. Last week while George Bitner was en. gaged in hauling in hay, the field being quite steep, had an up set; noone was hurt but frightened, festival on Saturday eve. John Bitner spent Sunday with Frank Armagast, Jacob Rover and Mrs. Anna Kritzer $i Qaugtten spent Sunday at Potters Lizzie Burkholder is not Improving very fast, Wm. Royer and wife, of Altoona, spent a few days last week at the home of his mother, Mrs. W. W. Royer. Black Hawk. The farmers are about all done mak. ing bay, have their wheat away and waiting for the oats to come, TT There now. | This week I want to tell your readers | from | fine large Plymouth Rock rooster stolen | he | Stere saw a wild cat with a tail three | and will take a commercial course, after | - Jerry Brown and family attended the | Moshannon. | Ed. Mcidiney met with an accident | on Saturday last, a large rock having fallen as he was passing by and injured | his foot severely, The accident occured | in the mines. | Clyde Duck and Allen Burrel visited | friends at this place and explored the mines, Mrs. Long and children, of Louisville, | visited at the home of Luther Bickett, Mrs, Brady Beightol has been very ill. Chas. Fleming and Levi Quick have started on an excursion down the river | | | | | | | township, Clearfield county, a few days | in a boat, expecting to reach Williams: | port. | day with bis sister, Mrs. Ged, Ritter and two children {| Howard anc’ fadaline, of Harrisburg, visited at’ the jroxd residence. | Rosellan M¥%0wn, of Snow Shoe, is | spending a few days visiting her cousins, | Eva and Helen McGown, Clementine Carner, of | spent Sunday in Pine Glenn, Thos. Fleming and sister Elizabeth, { left for Niagara and Michigan, Mrs. Hazzard made a flying visit to relatives in Unionvilla, Mrs. Funk, of Lock Haven, is visiting ber sister Mrs, Austin Kerin, Mrs. Johnnie O'Conners, of Philadel phia, is here for the summer at the resi: dence of Thos. Gleason, Huckleberries for 8 cts per quart. Mrs. J. A. Shangran and mother Mrs. Freuch, left for Erie. Louisa M'Gown home in Peale, Chas. Lucas lost some very fine chickens the other night; we under stand they did not go of their own good will. this place, | has returned to her Mrs. Mosebarger, of Cross Flat, visit ed her daughter, Mrs. J. McGown. | Mrs. Lyman, of Austin, who has been | visiting her father, Ed. Shannon, has a | very sick child at the present writing, Rush Quick has placed a fine new piano based organ in their home, Lucy Lucas spent with her father, J. A. Shaogran and Chas. Williams made a business trip to Jersey Shore Sunday Snow Shoe. Dr. Wetsel are visiting a Laura Faus and sister the home from the west t f thelr 4 cousin Maria Confer returned from a visit tc Milesburg The M. E. Sunday school picnic last Thursday, was held near the “Diamond Spring An excellent dinner was serv. ed to about three hundred—all of whom seemed to enjoy it. Foot-bali and base. ball were among the interesting features of the afternoon. Among the recent visitors to our town were: Mae Waltz, of Renovo; Mrs. Reed and niece, of Tyrone; J. M. Deck- er, wife and son, of Bellefonte ; Messrs Joe Butler and Charles Shires, of New Jersey ; Alta and Mabel Gillilaad, of Karthaus. We wonder how Roy enjoyed his drive to Mosbannon the other night ? We are glad to note that people from Philadelphia and other places enjoy the picturesque mountain scenery of our It. tie town. Mrs. D. R. Lebkicher went to Tyrone to be present at the Rebecca 1.0.0. F picnic at Tipton Grove Mrs. H P. Kelley and Mrs. 0. J. Harm spent last Tuesday in Bellefonte. W. A. Sickie’s father from Philadel phia is spendiog the summer with him The Svow Shoe ball team had better get “in trim” for the coming game be- tween Karthaus and Snow Shoe Kellerville, James Keller visited at W. H. Swartz's Tuesday. Verna and Nellie Ishler spent Sanday at Earlystown ‘| Annie Stover, of Earlystown Friday with ber sister at this place, Elmer Ishler gud wife spent Sanday in Boalshurg spent The Kellerville scribe is not sleeping but the persons that looked for the itmes must have been as they didat happen to see them in last week's issue Items aren't very plenty at present as people are all busy. Lemont The Ladies Ald Society will hold a social at the home of Charles Mays on Thursday evening, August 6th. All are cordially invited to attend, Wm. Houser and family, of Brisbin, spent a few days at Mr. Lenker's Wm. Sortment, who for a long time has been on the retired list,is working for Samuel Wasson at present, | federate officer Glenn and Kerns have purchased a | picked up the sword when Captain | steam thresher out fit, and will be ready | for threshing in a few days, — Brushvalley. | Hay making and harvesting are al. | most over, | Where does the Madisonburg scribe get all that news from ? he must have | ao assistant; but the West Brushvalley | and Brushvalley scribes don’t wast any | assistants. Harvey Wert ought to be patronized the threshing line. Allen Burrel from Penn Hall, and C. C. Duck, of this place, made a flying trip to Snow Shoe on their wheels. Centre Hall, The Catharine Boozer | In property at Cen. | that it pleases everybody, Get a ADJOINING COUNTIES. A field cut by J. A. Gummo, near Mackeyville, will average 23 bushels wheat to the acre. There is a proposition to buy the Evan gelical college building at New Berlin and turning it Into a silkmill. A gray eagle measuring 10 feet from tip to tip of the wings was shot in Boggs ago. The eagle was seen in that section, the largest ever The Grange picnic for Clearfield coun. "i Id at Luthersburg on Tues. Chas, Lohr, of Philipsburg, spent Sun. [ty will be held at Luthersburg o . | day, August 11. Hon. W. T. Creasy, of the State Grange, will be present to ad- dress the people on timely topics. Jere C, Bowersox, of Centre township, | Snyder county, was gored by a mad | bull, Mr. Bowersox was severely injur. | ed at the right shoulder and hip. It is feared that the shoulder has received a permanent injury. The annual and tourna. ! ment of the Central Pennsylvania Yolun. | teer Firemen's association will be beld | at Clearfield, August 6 and 7. More than $800 in prizes will be awarded the winners of the races. convention The annual reunion of the survivors of the Infantry was held at Williamsport on 24 Only of the gallant regiment answered to the roll Forty-fifth Pennsylyania Volunteer sixteen members call, al. though it was recruited in Lycoming and Tioga counties. | Wealthy Westmoreland county sports. | men have purchased a tract of mountain land containing acres Havice valley, near Milroy, on which they con. template makiog a game preserve, Per. haps they might profit by taking lessons from the Hecla Club, 1500 in Theodore Yaruell, of Mill Hall, was badly injured at Hecla by being thrown from a horse. He was thrown against a telephone pole and was rendered un » ’ conscious for a while When be regain. ed consciousness it was found that be was badly bruised on his right si his tongue badly cut ke Reformed charge, cousistis Kregats town, The members Beaver Springs g of the con ns at Beaver Black Oak Ridge and 3 ava Troxeiville, $ will hoid a A.M Springs on Saturday, Sept Damue reunion Cn ’ in Hon Smith's grove at Beaver to which everybody is cordially invited, W. P. Williams, aged 14, a fireman on the Penna. and Northwestern railroad, residing at Bellwood, got off his engine to throw a switch and in doing so his right foot got caught in a frog. Before he could extricate it the engine ran for ward and crushed his leg. Amputation was necessary and it was taken off at the knee. Harry G. Woods a former resident of Altoona, was killed in the Pitcairn yard While coupling cars be was caught be. tween the deadwoods and crushed and dropping ou the rails was run over by a draft of cars before the accident was dis. covered. A brother, William, was kill. ed in a similar manner in Altoona in 1593. He was aged 27 vears. He is survived by his wife and three children in Pittsburg Cyrus Boros, 31 years old, and un married, at Sammerhill on the approach of a light engine ron to the track and lay down in front of it, but was pulled He broke away and again got in front of the approach. ing locomotive and was again pulled away. He made the third attempt and The kvocked bim down and the wheels passed over him, crushing out hs life. His was crushed, the right arm and away by a bystander, was successful engine skull right leg ground off P. |. Hodge, of Swissvale, Pa., home from Manassas, Va. which he had lost on the famous battlefield when shot Capt returned with a sword taken The Was pre. of the Volunteers and prisoner by the Confederate forces which sented to the members Fifty-ifth Pennsylvania opening camp recovery of the sword, him by in igv of the civil war, came about through a visit of a member of his company to the bome of a former Cun. at Manassas. He had Hodge was shot down, and had kept it asa relic. One of the boldest burglars that ever | walked in Williamsport visited the home of Register and Recorder G, W. Harder, | at 3 o'clock in the morning. He remov- | ed Mr. Harder's trousers from a clothes tree not two feet from the sleeping off. | cial's pillow, took off the suspenders, | extracted $20 and a gold watch, then bung the trousers back. In an adjoining | room the burglar stroked the Salpaied face of Mrs, Harder's mother, and then | awakened the whole household by fall: | lng over a chair. He made his escape | through a window, ] i LU] v2 is the New and Better Breakfast Food, so different from all others pacange to-day st your grocers. Tu axes Puss Foon Oo, Ls Row, X & | . {a double ox roast. | men and plenty of amusement for all. | management announces excursion rates Judge Auten handed down a decision | last week refusing a new trial to farm. er Hood, of Suyder cownty, convicted of offering for sale rabbits out of season in the Sunbury market. Hood will now have to pay a fine of $10 for every rab. bit, nineteen of them, or undergo a day's imprisonment for every dollar. ws ————— —. A ————— Geo. B, Yeager, of Loganton, died of dropsy, aged 72 years. Mr. Yeager leaves a wife, one son and four daugh- ters, He served as a private during the civil war in the 23rd regiment Penna volunteers, Out of forty-one samples of milk in Al. toona on analyzation but one was found to be adulterated and impure. At Johns. town there were sixteen cases in all, and two dealers each paid a fine and costs amounting to $60, The attendance at the ox roast to be wiven;at Agar's park on Labor day un. der the auspices of the Lock Haven Good Will hose company promises to be an af- fair of such magnitnda that there will be A For twenty.four hours negroes many strange passing through on their way they will peek them came from and points on the Hlinots Central Railway. Two coaches filled with negroes passed through at { one time. A number of the negroes who { left Evansville during the recest | have not returned. The feeling against the negroes in the southern | towns has grown more intense sinc | trouble in Evansville, be two exhibitions of the process of roasting an ox on the big steel roaster of the fire There will have been Evansyille, the Indiana, where Many of to south homes, A granger picnic will be held at Dell Dauville Delight park, Hollidaysburg, Wednes- day, August 12, Addresses will be de. livered by Hou. W. T. Creasy, Prof. H. A. Surface, Prof. A. E. Morse and Hon. A. L. Martin. There will be good music The Illinois, nots Indiana ¢ the on the railroad. During the past week the Steckle family, of Milroy, was invaded by death. Frank Steckle Philadelphia with and Mrs. Fenton were called upon to give up their only child. On the friends of Miss Kate Thompson fol. lowed the mortal part to the Presbyteri. an cemetery, At present Wm, down with typhoid fever, and rumor has Chester Schwenk, of while out huckleberrying, near sugar valley, White Saturday, suddenly came mother died in the hospital typhoid in|, : LJECET Creck on fever. Mr. | 2 A across an oid bear and three cubs. Having a desire to become the of this capture them Tuesday p possessor of the junior members at pf Py family he set about to which angered mother bruin to such an extent fer jailey is an that she set up sucessful de- as if she not only recapture her offspring a ‘ A ise and for a time it looked it that the Royer family is afflicted with would diphtheria but would also capture her babe's antag. f John Behe, of Wilkesharre, there Saturday night, aged 54 died | onist but after some agile movements on Mr a to the child: He was There n his whole body . Schwenk's part be released all claim known as the “hairless man.’ en of the forest and got away was not a single bair to leave bruin and In early youth be bad a spell of sickness mer of better Mr ver tt ventlut y some P of the 1 not restore his and all bis bair came out .minent phy. Schwenk is some sicians in different parts country for hi injured. - the worse 5 1s not seri. treated his case bair The scalp became very but cou! ously Clinton Democrat Nature came partly to his rescue. A tragedy, almost a double e in on | | - bard and was X ’ : Altoona last night David impervious to the coid. Behee worked shot asic Walt aw, Mr; pe of McKeesport, Be rv. ir ang serious v $ without head. ti at the home Kate Walton rashing through 1 death a short DECIDE remove. patrol wagon TT , she will likely recov. Dempsey is the horse which of Bayonne, N a stricken with the Mr eo Dempsey The couple became owner of valuat was in McKeesport about ago. Mrs. Walton, John Walton to support herself in that town, acqu a Year liscase last Thursday. Dempsey was about to send for the po- lice to shoot the horse, when Jacob Van- Name, an oid Island paid him a visit, He advised to try the hammer treatment, third and it was apparently as well as ever who is the wife of of Altoona, was working as she Mc. follow. Staten farmer, | was living apart from her husband Main became infatuated with her ed ber from McKeesport to Pittsburg and then to Altoona. She discouraged the suit and the tragedy resulted. Dempsey After the blow the animal's jaws relaxed VESLSSSSSIRSSSSSISSSS880Q w, We are Going to have a ¢ Sacrifice Sale of all our Summer SHOES. STARTING ol [URDAY, AUGUST ih. Watch for our Prices in the Next Issue of this Paper. IIIT IIIS IIIT ISIE IIID WITT TTT INEGI NTNTNININININS, YEAGER & DAVIS, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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