~ IRCULATION FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS OF 1907 190 COPIES per week he —Largest in Centre County. ~, culation Over 5,2 x _— - —————— wn —— Ri SECOND WEEK OF Mri Re Medi, [rustee of the rk DECEMBER COUR og Bands with himself ‘that he is still in | the land of the living, and thankful that | he has legs strong and quick enough to | | run even from the antics of a woman, | The other day he sent Jim Shorter, the | “*Goliath" of Bellefonte, to tear down an | old building in the rear of the Ammer- | man properties, on Bishop street, for the | purpose of erecting a new warehouse. ‘he Misses Mary and Nannie Ammer. man, on hearing the sound of the ham. GEORGE SKIDOOED very Few Cases Brought to Trial This week. SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY Lumberman gets a Verdict for Ninety- | mer, soon appeared on the scene and served notice on Mr. Shorter that he | | should stop, as he was infringing on | their right. Instead ot obeying their | mandates our giant of Gath, keept on hammering away until the strain of the music become so obnoxious to the ears | of the ladies that they finally decided to | make war on him; with waterand broom. | stick they charged on James and soon forced him to retreat. Naturally Mr, Shorter carried the news of his defeat to Mr. Meek, who, on hearing his lamen. table story, put on a helmet of brass and breastplate of steel, and forward he went, Arrivingl at the seat of war he found it fully entrenched and fortified by the ladies. George tried to explain that he was on the ground to assert his rights, but his words only added fuel to the Nine Cents--Number of Cases Con- tinued or Settled--Reported Spec- jally by 8S. D, Gettig Esq The following report takes up proceed- ings of last week from Thursday morn. ing: The next case taken up was that of W, F. Knopf, A, H. Knopt, and Adam L Blazer, trading as Knopf Brothers and Blazer vs. Charles Bilger, being an ap. peal from the Justice of the Peace. This case grows out of a dispute as to the measurement of lumber going over the mill operated by the defendant, the plaintiff s alleging that they had a con- tract to stock a saw mill near Unionville for the defendant and they were to re. : x housand mill "| flames. Finally Miss Nannie Ammer- ceive so much per thousand mill meas- | d allege th be i measure | DAD seized a broomstick and. '‘Pete" ure. ah id oe " ant bua ; eh or | took the hint and skidooed, beleiving was considerably more than He getencs | jp, it was more prudent to be a coward, ant allowed them. The defendant al-|,. 0° "a0 o hero leges that the plaintiffs were paid all that | The little flurry and commotion was Was due them, aad that ¥ there wae yi 4 caused by the M isses Ammerman ¢ laim- aietel : rel as 18s . ino tr fla . . ’ 3 . defendant’s favor. Verdict on Thurs. wily Shh land, eigtl 4B Hclieh wide. day afternoon in favor of the defendant | = built. ry indication now points fof mit yn (ry onl tothe tact that the difficulty will have to the tax payers of Half Mo be settled 1 gourt and somebody Ju) be presented their petition to tl adi Ing i the not no of a mn 1e Cot "LY v rev | : sriet more than SOFTLY Deck 54 Le more Laan 4 to tl the rep demn ) ages due the The Turnpike ( from the confirm by the Court finding of the jury of amount of damages Howard Tomlison, of Haines town- ship, & young man about seventeen years of age, prosecuted by F. S. Tomls- on fo e tak of some money, was ' " : finding of the grand jury and plead | he openly exp! dnge a went 10 his office and called up John Lyon who wii Sethu Shia go of JRskny, Mherenp. sent men to take the car to the | ot pr A ii CIP a@imprisonment in atory at Huntingdon. Jacob From, who plead guilty to the charge of larceny of some corn, was con victed on the charge of stealing chickens, was called for sentence, the Court sen tencing him to the payment of the costs of prose n, $1 fine, and in the penitentiary for year which suspen n the charge of stealing chickens T. Loy and batt Rimert of Dros tp 3 A 14 ana iron 0 sink 5 . gutt pavement W heel WAS the 841 : ad and assessed the ds r Turnpike Company at ‘ompany has thirty days at this re to take an appeal { Lo view as the curb t 1L0 % : : pletely Smashed the glass on The broken fen Tt badly but 5 lamp was broken bent and the was shaken came out of the scar We were going to say prayed for deliverance but the came too quick for anything! like that After looking at the machine a y mn nist of $ report : ’ r axle do up 1e pretty h withou rh wreckage Cras oo, . 4 . and one cogsolation the Doctor bas is he can soon make up the amount of the Aamac nill iamage on pis thelRef« rm Another Murder at Altoona Domestic difficuiti over three months cult Tuesday n " one | 40 Assyrian was shot five al “= | times and instantly lled by a fellow hs on the charge ot n ana 1 y ei iol WY a gio a : womas Anthony Michaels The tragedy extended in murder Lreorge J Mit that inated ™ imprisonment d of eT Sentience YOK piace Ot lock aptured twent fined 18y 1s regarded by ¢ for Lhe Crime rom luring whicl | by several J iit 1 { assan arated f for ar a ntiompany s APPeal Was argue i Frat trad 40 Years In Ministry. K D. D , sonof Mills, on St ed the fortieth stry and the iiversary of his pastorate t Trinity Reformed church, Pottstown Rev. Dr. Evans was licensed to preach the gospel in 1867 and his first call was from mission congregation in Wil He remained mn Williams our years, when he was called to ‘ottstown, preaching hus first regular sermon 10, 1871. In the forty years of pastotate rounded out on Sun. day Dr. Evans has the {following numeri. cal record: Baptized 2,233 persons; con- firmed 1,319; received by letter, 508 married 818 couples; officiated at 1,657 | funerals. Durning the forty years of ; faithful and efficient service he lost only | two Sundays by sickness, The Manly Thing, Every publisher of a newspaper has | had experience with the people who take their paper for a few years or, at least, until they get a few years in arrears and | then refuse to lift it any longer, Of course the law provides a remedy for such cases, but the amount involved is usually so small that it doesn’t warrant recourses of such a method of making these scalawags pay. Scalawags, we call | them, because they are certainly nothing | better The action of any person who | takes the newspaper and echnes to pay for it is plain dishonesty. It is equiva. | lent to stealing that much money from | the pocket of the publisher. "Twere bet- | ter far for any one who feels that they | ANE allie Was M.* Tomlinson, uel v lellefonte Fur ase X Samuel and Silas ing as Frank Sam nace Company a dispute as to furnace cinder the to the defendant year 19ob, and the i 1 fendant Company plaintif was on trial until Tuesday a which time parties settled liamsport James Krebs, use of Burdine Butler | port f vs. 5. Kline Woodring, administrator ad { litem of William Heaton late of Boggs township, deceased, co-defendant with J. L.. Heaton, being a proceeding to re- vive a judgment Counsel for defen. | dant moveti to strike off the proceeding and after some argument the case was continued, Mary Kein vs. the Borough of Phil. ipsburg, an action in, tresspass, contin ued, A. W. Gardner Burdine Butler being an action in tresspass, and the case is from Howard; went to the jury Wednesday evening Verdict was rendered Thursday morning Evans f James s % Erows out « of dled "™ AS ¢ the amount Yasvinor quring A j the 1 ae- pany at ie by Case noon al Dec vs Temporarily Closed Down The Eyre, Shoemaker plant, one of the best paying industries in or near Tyrone closed down, temporarily on Friday evening, Thomas A. Shoemaker, of Bellefonte, is one of the firm. The works | had just got started nicely and expected to employ one huudred more men in a few weeks. Mr. Eyre made the statement on Friday that the shutting down of his works was only for a short time and he expected to have everything in good run ning order in a few weeks yublisher and at is the honest, manly “xX. up with the continued thing to do Sick Horses In South Potter township, considerable sickness among horses, as | D. 8 Glasgow informs us. All the horses i of Forest Frazer have a severe attack of distemper, and the horses on other farms are similarly afflicted, Charles Swartz has a valuable span of bays. one of which is suffering from lockjaw. Plainfield, Con,, has credit for first death by freezing, Westerly Boswell, of Eastford, 48 years old, was found froden to death by the roadside in Ash. ord, there Is Get a Raise in Hard Times Despite the money Pine Hill Coal Company, which opera a big colliery west of Pottaville, 8 urday evening notified its employes wh they quit work that they would receive an advance in wages, This came this week, when they got their pay for the month of November. It was a § per cent bonus, in appreciation of their ef. forts in turning out the splendid coal prodaction for month, cannot afford to pay for a paper to settle | ave it dis- | | | | thief, | knew Jake From as a thief. stringency the | the community knew he was a thief. BE "THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR A Pew Lessons to be Gathered From Jacob From's Career. FREQUENTLY IS IN THE TOILS The Life of a Thief in a Community is Unpleasant--In€ ustrious by Day and Night as Well--Lands in the Peni- tentiary at Last. Last Thursday afternoon Jacob From, the noted individual of Centre Hall, who had plead guilty to stealing corn, and was convicted oo 4 stealing chickens, was called before the Court for sentence. At this juncture 8. D. Gettig, Esq., From’s attorney, addressed the Court in behalf of the prisoner and plead for leniency, concluding his remarks by presenting a petition of that nature, signed by about two dozen citizens of Centre Hall. The District Attorney met this by presenting another petition from the same place, with three times as many signatures, in- sisting that From's conduct had been so lagrant as to warrant no mercy before the Court. Judge Orvis reminded From of his past career, as a common thief in that community, and of having escaped an indictment for mut but recently ; that a prudent man would ve gone an 4 : ted himself differently. | i ne that believed of i" x LEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, Centre Democral, ECEMBER 12, 1907. pf A NOVEL CAR. One of the business men of el | BRIDGE COLLAPSES gto vith the SEVEN MEN DROWN | who always tries to keep pace with the | times is F. H. Thomas, superintendent | of the Bellefonte Central railroad. The - { other week he was up in New England | where he purchased 4 line car, some- thing that is entirely new in this vicin. | ity. It has the appearance of a pulman car, having in one end the steam boiler and engine which propel it. At the en- trance there is a small vestibule contain- ing a marble washstand and a finely be- | veled plate mirror and room enough for a Sofiple of chairs. You pass {rom there into the main part of the car. This is| fittes. up in most excellent style, the | furnishings being handsome. Then there is a smoking room, baggage de- partinent and the engine room. The car | is seventy feet long and it will haul | about fifty-five persons. On the test it | was tun seventy-five miles an hour, but it w 2a't be run that fast over the Belle. tonté Central. The engine is strong enofigh if necessary to haul another car attached to it, At one end of the car] there is a little observation platform aroind which is a peat railing. This Forty Men on the Structure and Many | Were [njured | Occurred Near Berwick, Pa, on Tues- | day «Caused by a Flood the | River--Span was Almost Finished-- | a Narrow Escape in BY the collapse of a traveler on a new | bridge being erected by the state over the Susquehanna river at Mifflinville, | eight miles north of Bloomsburg, Tues. | day evening, seven men were killed and | thirteen were injured, two of them prob- | ably fatally Forty men were at work | on the traveler and span when the struc- | ture collapsed and they were thrown in- | will be a pleasant place to sit in sum- | to the river swollen by the heavy rains | mer time. We haven't gone into all | and snow. Among the injured was New- | the little details of this new and movel | ton Dunlap, son of County Commission. | | car, but that will be done later. We |er, John Dunlap, who had the fingers on { have only given the patrons of the road | one hand mashed. He was compelled to Ia little birds-eye view of the effort that |go to the hospital, but his injuries are is being made by Supt. Thomas to make | not serious. | { his road attractive, and give the patrons The water rose during the day at ti {the best of service rate of almost one foot an hour and { that better time will be carried down | CAF is put on the road 1 struck the fals | several weeks caused its It is very likely a ¢ rd, nade when the bri which be In wi the stream D will work of the br | when th k ion their Has Falth in His Peach Orchard Une of the owners of extensive pes ' { of rennsv ly yield from Bw DO Sign {18 the case wit | apchards in the LIBR engaged i | {an unprofitable he ~ ) he juor he would not James Stahl's cornfield Clenath ch that there were other people stealing about Centre Hall and he got the credit, These declara- tions were interspersed with deep sobs 4 ¥ 0s wckens good actor. In this instance there was little sham, for he realized he was up against the real thing and had gottes his sedicine, which naturally he considered unjust and severe-while ” the siderably after all tl ntmen aithful em He pro which was a He was a » Pr kit 2) k. All ny " to rende vell for his home of neatness and order ydly man, took ire in pieas stering to the si credit, but over and above all was a besetting weak ness was a common thief. Everything tempted him. The moral instinct long was lost- property was simply a game of posses sion, and stealing by night had only in it the danger of detection or fear of per- sonal injury. From youth, From follow: ed this evil course and frequently was detected about cornbins, smokehouses, cellars or graineries. He could hardly s and min these were to 1 ly deed iis walk through a store without appropriats | ing something, no matter whether he peeded it or not, Asa result of these pilferings it is claimed that most of the stuff be sold as a huckster, he obtained from his neighbors ; while his home con tained a secret room always under lock. and key where there was an assortment of novelties, glassware, harness, robes, whips, leather, dry goods, fancy goods, etc, in endless variety, He was an | adept, clever as an expert; while he was | the trial. industrious by day, his activity at night possibly was the more renumerative HIS REWARD, ) Encourgged by years of thievery it became 4 second nature with the man, and the 16 moths in the penitentiary may make him more cautious, but will never change the disposition, What has been his reward ? In a measure Jacob From has made a success of stealing it largely aided him in accumulating real estate and persona property ; but what has it profited him ? In all these years in that community he wore the brand of being a common Neighbors, friends and foe alike, He knew Those restless eyes hiding under a deep recess of the forehead always shirked a square look-a confession of crooked: ness, He could not enter any room without a noticeable ““tiptoeing” and twisting the door knob to prevent screeching, His every motion was cat like and cautious. He has no friends or associates—he was spurned and despised Continued at bottom of next column had | them for coasting pu 1SEems not suited fort {Mr. Boob has given 1} trees every Quired attention ep and thinks owners of orchards, in this regard main cause of the fatlure th them th ”m negn smashed. While this crippled condition he had to} | swim a long distance before he reached shore, Wednesday afternoon, although on crutches, he was placed in charge of A. gang.of men who wes “gz thromg the wreckage in search of other victim of the awful accident Wednesday evening arrived in Bellefonte here for 3 ¥ : ia rior is Ng Not a Place for Coasting Now that winter weather has come the insters, and some older ones tno, have | he side walks, asiMy rposes The side. i e tor coasting. Coun cil has provided an ordinance governing the matter, which is as follows : It shall not be lawful for any person or persons oo rfGe u ¥ { walk isnot the the i anda after wl fw will sveral das several days : " expect t bicycles, to coast upon sleds, : Ales over aay nereotr with Company : 2 OF 10 Use S35 ers whi ly of Bellef Bryan a Sure Candidate t Washingt er stand t lea of a men expre RT, : ; his man, Ramsde ¢(lared emphatically it of Gov Johuson, of Minnesota At the same time a canvass on the can side revealed a prot sentiment against President Roosevelt for a third term ps ISlana Our "1 ot ‘At The Ferry.” f titie of Is the nent that will © a home talent entertain ) w presented Petrikir Hall next Tuesday evening, for the ben. efit of the Y. M.C. A. Miss Lulu Mae Wilcox. of the Central Entertainment Bureau, of Harrisburg, will direct the play, and there will be from forty to fifty local young people in the cast. The scene is laid in a ferry station, and shows the stern ticket agent, the stutter ing ticket taker; Mrs. Troublesome and her boy, Willie; the English dude; julia | Morgan and pug dog; Mr. and Mrs. Lov er; news boys, blindman, peddler, uncle Rube and Aunt Maria etc, ete. It is cer tainly well wwarth attending to hear Uncle | Rube sing “Way Back,” Many other The second trial of Harry K. Thaw good specialties during the evening No | one should ’ y 1 | for the slaying of Stanford White will} iw Vou og Jin pO a oH i {begin on Jan. 6, 1908 in New York. | served seats are on sale at P, D, Sheffers’ | Another order of Judge Dowling was | gore that a special panel of 300 talesmen : { should be in court at the beginning of | Election of Officers. udge Dowling intimated | + The jocal tent of the Maccabees is | that he me t be obliged to hold night | Siting to be one of the _- ry lodges | rr of court during the time of |{, peljefonte. Bach week a large num- selecting a jury. {ber of new members are admitted, | They have fitted up neat and cosy quar. by old and young who only knew Jake | ters in the McClain block, where they From as a thief have a pleasant and profitable time eac Such a life was anything but an ideal | week, The following are the recently one. Once before he served a term in | elected officers: Commander—H. Laud the county jail for stealing turkeys. A |Curtin; . Lieut. Commander]. . few years ago he was riddled with shot | Mitchell; Record Keeper—Geo. T. Bush; for fooling about a neighbors’ cornshed | Chaplain—Charles oran; Sergent. Now he goes to the penitentiary for a | Samuel Ray; Master at Arms—Curtis C, long term, with several hundred dollars | Taylor; First Master of the Guard—Al. costs a pay in addition, and other con- | fred Thompson; Second Master of the vietions hanging over him, | Guard—~John M. Sourbeck; Sentinel Jake From, the thief | lay in jail on a | Arthur ghintiie l murder while his wife was on | her bed, and only as a criminal un. der guard could he io’ Awe the last sad rites, Jacob From, the thief | what was there in} us far for hum to enjoy? De spised, bated, disowned by his own kin, tedly imprisoned and now a *' Peni. tentiary Bird"--has not his life been a failure, and misspent ? Is it not a warn. ng to all evil doers that “The Way of the Transgressor is Hard,” in in The Masons Elect Offiers On Friday night the Masonic Lodge of Bellefonte, No. 241, elected the fol lowing officers for the ensuing year Master Excellent High Priest—Wm R. Jenkins; Master Excellent King-—Mil- ton 8. McDowell, Master Excellent | Scribe W, Homer Crissman; Treasurer | == John P, Harris; Secretary-—Charles T Noll; Trustees—Dr, J. L. Seibert, Wil liam L. Steele and Hammond Sechler Reptessutative to Grand Chapter John | Lo Knisely. After the election the mem- | bers sat down to an oyster supper i Thaw Trial Delayed. rown, Picket-—Harry Grubb; Trustee for yyrs—Harry Gehret. ‘More State Road. Haines township is on the list for four miles of state . The application to be made will be from the milestone at west end of Aaronsburg, through that Ah and hollow the to Fiedler. minaries have been arranged to carry the through. It is hoped that work shall nest spring soon } Hall ordered that she as weather permit, CIRCULATION YOR THE PAST NIX MONTHS OF 7 £190 COPIES per week - amni— Vol. 20, No. 49 ——— FACT, FUN AND FANCY" Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs— Selec- ted and Original. SIMPLE REMEDY If men would wash the dishes And cook and bake and sweep And keep the fires replenished And put the kids to sleep And st the family washtab Would labor like s horse There wouldn't be so many Sad cases of divores If men would hand thelr honeys Throughout Their pay without extracting The price of ong small beer Would come homéjn Lhe evening And by the fireside sit For want of paying business Divoree courts all the livelong year might quit If women never scolded 1 wid you so Or asked their darling husbands To take them 10 a show And smiled till only sunshine Could live about the plac The separation lawyers ight hunt some other cas Or said putting it more mildly “ f en and wom weal Both being largely human N Most earnestly would seek rhicl t a mendicant, The i and feel that Le is not long for thi There ve for a girl unless she knows sh other girl miserable If it is lying to tell the children about Santa Claus we are going to be a liar- just as long as there are children who will listen and believe. a — lv healthy nerfs S Wor. 0 1Boen t ADJOINING COUNTIES “ nal 1s The Raftsman's Jour for the statement that killed Season 1 authority deer were ne the ing the rty ty "mm : > 3 in Clearbeid 1st closed Sarre v} james, whe been ret wilh a lives at Eagleville ally ill for a week cle on the back of LAs oO came effective lied £1. MIDKS Ruth the animals In were as follows : Wildcats 84: weasels, 554 a young girl whose home near Rauchtown, was brought before the court in Lock Haven on Fni- day charged with being incorrigible. A number of witnesses testified regarding the girl's character after which Judge be sent to the House of Correction near Philadelphia. The curb market at Lock Haven will likely be discontinued because the huck- sters formed a combive and all put up prices to unreasonable figures. The curb market gave them a chance to get together. When farmers get togetier and form a trust the balance of us will have to hustle rea! smartto make ends meet The money stringency scarce evident. ly had not reached the Clark Grasier Overdorf oy | farm at Huntingdon Furnace last week when it required but four hours for auc- tioneer George Waite to hammer down $1.300 worth of steck and farm imple ments at Charles Stahl's sale. Horses brought as high as $508) a team, and sold single for $250. Cows brought $50 a head, three mouths old calves 961, and most everything offered brought top notch prices Negotiations have been com whereby Mr. Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra have been secured for an appearance in the Mishler Theatre Altoona Monday even. ing Dec. soth, The famous organisation So eminent soloists, and its distingu- ished leader are to be brought to Altoona and it is safe to say that the engagement will rank among the most important sonson will offer, Cars are now being run on the new electric line between Sunbu and Sel
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