The Centre Democral, * 200--Largest in Centre County. Circulation Over CENTRE COUNTIANS IN PHILADELPHIA Hold Their the Rittenhouse. THE WABASH RAILROAD, laying out a railroad site for the Wabash Railroad company, which is plauning to pass through Morrison's Cove near Al- toona, from Pittsburg to Philadelphia. Beginning last week the surveyors | started at the extreme northern end of the valley, a short distance above Wil. — 3 | lamsburg, and have completed a survey | from that point to a point at the foot of OVER 100 GUESTS PRESENT | Tussey mountain, a short distance from | Fredericksburg, The line passes the ————— centre of the Cove and valuable farms in that section Surveyors, who are said to be in the employ of the Wabash Railroad com- pany during the past week have been engaged in a survey in the vicinity of Tyrone and the adjacent valley known as Tarkey valley. The survey made in that valley is said to connect with the survey made in Morrison's Cove later the week. As as was learned that the Wabash people had surveyors at work g of the state, a band of surveyors ent out from Altoona by the yvivania company to see that the other con pany did croach upon their Annnal Banquet at| Proved an Enjoyable Affair--Prom- inent Citizens Present--Those who Responded to Toasts Glowing Tributes Paid. 1 decorat- t room in Phila. | 100 Gathered about elaborately ed t#ibles in the banque of the Hotel ‘Rittenhouse delphia, Tuesday evening, nearly sons Centre county, now residents in Philadelphia and renewed old friendships, swapped : and iniscences of their boyhood days joined together in speech and the praises of that se which was aston was the 8 in ’ SO0n § in this section of Was met r met Penns Cf stories not : “ Whether the lines any point sound Pennsylvania, home. The o nual dinner Centre ( sociation of Philadelphia, ane served not only by such Cer as are living in that city, but | in once will be 11 iroug nl this section of the that 1tre counti 150 by a few men who sti id trict and have | 1 live Relief Needed. ANVASS mace powe . sneake Other Magee, W.S. F Ir th tribute cl inner fore Forrest N Max Liveri*ht and Hesman ” Prof rs were Dr Vv aiker, » | 9) ee A 4 them : ‘ ta aren, should Con Meyer, for further informa- ’ od Garman Haupt. Just at the close of the dinner | 4, Govaror James A. Beaver. now. a4... court, came 10 : the men's foreign missionary con n at Horticultural Hall and round by eloquent ad. : venti ed out dress Lincoln's Many Virtues 1.it . LAGCO og an Arrested for Stealing ' 1 F (Gor the offender 1 A in laced in placed i the were and cence a room Af gone at first but Deitz -Webner and lerth nized expert basket ball Some other boys in wr work about the AS an as tow? V M ¢ fe nony was performed by Rev the first Lutheran church, of Altoona, The bride is a cousin of Mrs Dolls and is the oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs. Wm, Webner, of Lamar. She \ , | has been an employe of the P. R, R A. Jenks, who was the | company at Altoona for the past three Democratic candidate fof govern or of | years. She is an accomplished youn Pennsylvania in 1898, died Monday at|lady and has won friends, and his home in Brookville, at the age of 72 | ig well fitted for the step she has taken years He was elected to congress from {in life Her many friends wish the Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district in | many happy and prosperous years 1874. and as chairman of the committee | groom is a highly respected young on invalid pensions, made a report which | jeweler of Scalp Level ‘hey will take brought about important reforms in the | a short trip to the bride's home at La pension bureau He was one of the | mar, after which they take up house managers for the house in the impeach | keeping in Scalp Level ment of Secretary Belknap, making the | Aeading argument. He served as assis Ri cord of the Donley Case 8C r th interior in 18956 . " tant secreta of i GUAFIOE Ip 1 A record of the trial or William 8. and during the latter year was appoint. | eal by P | Donley of Renovo, the convicted mur. ed solicitor general by President Cleve | " : / derer of his niece was sent to Govertor land. He was the democratic caucus | : Te rah Stuart at Harrisburg, After a careful nominee for United States senator in - " perusal of a document of this nature by 1899. Mr. Jenks is survived by his wid. | & > 24 Governor Stuart in order to ascertain ow and one daughter, the wife of former | - Congressman B. F. Shively, of Indiana whether or not the laws of the common. es Fe ¥ : ’ 5 " : y wealth have been justly enforced, the chief executive then sets the day for the Too Many Wild Horses ext®ution of a person who is to receive Here is an item which may lead our | capital punishment dealers in horses, Grove, the Gentzels, | and others, to aterritory where horses Pastor Installed. ae a piat aid can be hat Jot $he Sek Bunéay & 1 yious, at the A Luthevan ' i | church, the installation © ev, BK. Says a dispatch from Reno, Nevada | Morgan as pastor took place. Rev. R, . ag are racsive, frém the Bares. | L. Patterson, president of the Allegheny os the Toelyabe the Toquima a the | synoll, delivered the charge 3b Hie Rastot ’ ' 1 100 {at the morning service, and Rev.L. 1 Kouitor Teshrves Lancer county, 10} Aikens, D. D., president of Sugquehanna kill all wild horses found on the govern: | {7niversity, delivered the charge to the ment domaig | people in the evenin There are about 15,000 wild horses on | Pie X the reserves. They are doing much| Apout g month ago Jacob Houser, of damage to vegetation and attracting do Buffalo Kun, had an aching tooth ex- mestic animals to their herds tracted. Instead of the cavity healing up it became quite sore and had every indication of cocaine poisoning, cocaine haviog been used on his tooth at t time of its extraction. His conditios was such recently that he was taken Philadelphia eis that In report from gettiog along alright. also suspicion f e y 1 J Hon. Geo, Jenks Dead, Hon George wores of her The To Tell the Age of an Egg. Place the ok inaglass of watel. A fresh egg will remain resting at the bottom; a slightly passe egg will rest with the big end raised higher than the small one, and the higher the big end the older is the egy. t A number of surveyors are said to be | cuts up some | preseuce | rs from the Wabash peo- | BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908, 'A LOCAL OPTION i RECENT DEATHS | Mus. Jon F. HECKMAN | MASS MEETING home near Pennhall, on Saturday, | | Deceased was a daughter of Dan'l Smi f of near Woodward and Mr man's second wife, died Was | Opening of the Campaign in Cen | 3 i My Gro, tre County | on Wednes | AN ORGANIZATION COMPLETED | | Mrs, CLAYTON Plan is to Secure Local Option fr STOVER day of last week, ag | Her maiden name was K | eral survive: also a Thomas Motz, of Coburn WaLtes AxeMann on ons | 1 | Wednes home after at She and her dear noon Shiloh im Candidates-- at Harrisburg Denounced. m was not regarded as seri pneumonia developed cat 1, She is survived by the | and three children 1a will soon be call- One of the m mportant voters of Pennsylvan ed upon to con local option, The t liq ’ Tr interests {uot those wh a 1Ssues de the question of passed for the }) RUVINR |ance or local year astonishing inv ou Se ANCE ( another | League will hawe headq | Petrikin Hall, from where litterature | will besent to all parts of the counntw, | Ring It is their purpose to establish local | 7aete A leagues in every community thus nothing ny ft py ay krown his «well in Bells avy EL d suddenly at home King € tack of wi we ie ne Oy Cees Peansyivania Ras a member Knights of Weave! nosyivan As mtr , 3 \ nus - to th Lompany Red Men and the y | three pol tical ; : fore he nrivilege he . « wa ¥ Miss by whon Gregx iw of the Calandar iret to everything wre the naming the M he had Wit a Committee William, of ’ wh } towns ) . Pe. them must pass that comes bel legisia ture. This is where the State Liquo fe was Miss Linme League has been controlling everything ONE of th unty To to suit their interesé. Whenever the Were born a son and a daughter temperance people presented a bill for of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Mrs, Olie betterment of society and the up- Alles, of Williamsport His ghird wife lifting of the homes, it would die in the | Was A. K. Rilling. of Altoona, who sur committee room: on the other hand any vives with a young son, Harry, at home legislation the liqu people desired Mr. Weaver also leaves the following was placed on the calandar without brothers and sisters: S. T. Weaver, of bate. Dr. Chase thus continued for an | Lincoln, Kansas; J. L. Weaver, of Al hour, speaking of the many irregularities | toona; Mrs William Smiley, of Utah-| in the house of representatives at Harris vide Clearfield county ; Mrs. G. W. Stor | er, Mill Hall; Mrs. John Zeigler, of Ab-| burg. He attributed all the notorious : | wrongs that exist at Harrisburg to the dera; Mrs. Rose Winkleman, of Flem ington, and Mrs. William Fye, of Penns | fact that “party” is above public inter | 8 ests. Pennsylvania is afflicted with a| Valley | party to which too many people are | Maye. In plain words he told the | audience that Pepnsylvania suffered because the Gang the Penrose Machine |=was in control. Everything was | party, at the sacrifice of principle, Dr | Chase outlined how the local option cam His second w " r 3 1 ALSO is Irvin, de Samuel Brooks —d.ed at the Brooks homestead, at Gilltown, near Pleasant | Gap, on Sunday evening at § o'clock 1 He had been ill for about six months with a complication of diseases which kad | affected his mind, During his life he | Was a very active young man, For sev | | DAiED Yad SoMascaees in on ae States alld eral years he lived in Bellefonte and | | what they proposed to do here this fall. | ggocessfully conducted the livery bow | owned by Alfred Thompson, While | here he purchased the F. C. Richard property on East Linn street, After | selling the livery he started an automo. Number of State Delegates State Chairman George Dimeling, of | the Democratic Committe, has issued | the annual statement showing the rep-| bile livery which later was purchased by | resentation to which each county of the | John A. Lyon. About twgq years ago, | state is entitled 1n the Democratie state | while still a resident of Béflefonte, | his | convintion this year: The total number | wife died which was a bad stroke on | of dulegates will be 115, an increase of | him, and since that time he has been | twelve over last year's convention. The | gradually declining in health. He| representation is based upon the rules | bought the homestead at adopted in 1900 and 1906, Centre coun- | and, with his two children and mother, | ty will have 3 delegates in the conven: | has been making his home there. He) tion this vear, a loss of one over last| was born where he died about 43 years | yur | ago. Besides an aged mother he is sur. | " | vived by two sons, one about two years Farmers’ Institutes, lold and the other five. He is also wl be following farmers’ ifistitutes will | mourned by the following brothers and veld in this vicinity during February: | sisters: James R., Jasper N, and Lem. centre Hall, 17th and 18th Boalsburg, | nel, of Pleasant Gap; w, S., of Linden toth and 20th; Sormstown 21st and aan), Hall, Mrs. H. N. Twitmire and Mrs, The lecturers will be Dr. Thomas F.| Rebecca Bilger, of Pleasant Gap, Mrs, Huot, Profs, Alva Ages, H, E_Van| Lillie Showers, of Tyrone, and Mrs. Norman and W. H. Tombave and Miss | Coke Bell, of Altoona. The funeral took . the Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, S STATUE ABOUT COMPLETED tainty a Will Much [J neer MUCH OPPOSITION IS SHOWN be Erected Over hi Al 1Dey wi alle 4 24 0. ey could have charged m did, for the trimmings.” under the Ta It = . completed inside of the next week On 1 \ testimony wa Vv more than they Con - thought eill el bd v as iA Ue most damagin " het Centre warning angoal eves lake Loganton, Clinton coun mail over the White Deer and Loganton railroad The service will be permanent, and a great conven jence to that thriving little towe, Ti will hereafter have two 1 n stead of one lay eive t ty re a Fret vi ey mails a d — Outclassed at all points by Lock Haven basketball team, the Dic inson Seminary team lost on the Normal floor Saturday evening by a score of 43 to 16 t no stage of the game wese the visitors in the running. the locals, put. ting up one of the fastest articles of basketball ever seen on a local floor, Mrs. Charles Beury, of Philadelphia, nee Miss Ella Fischer, daughter of Rev W. E. Fischer, D, D., of Shamokin, for- merly ot Centre Hall, with her husband are on 1 pleasure trip to South America They will also stop at Cuba, Colon on the Panama Canal sone, and other points. On their wedding tour the young couple encircled the globe, stop- ping for some time with Mrs, Beury's sister, in China Ten Italians are in jail at Suabury charged with conspiracy and murder The men are alleged to be members of a high degree of the Black Hand Society, and are charged by a member of the ang, who has turned informer, with aving instigated many of the crimes which have been committed in the lower end of Northumberland county within the past year. Much excitement has Ke hearing which followed. Four Brothers Died of Violence. Judge James Hargis, the Breathitt county, Kya feud leader, who was slain by his son a short time ago, was burned in the little family burial plot on a knoll around which flows themorth fork of the Kentucky river. Nearby are the graves of Judge Hargis's vie Je) all of whom died of bullet inflicted by political enemies, Sara C, Lovejoy, of ace State College. Prof, W. F. Massey, R.|Interment in the Union cemetery at P. Keisterand R. 8. Seeds, Pleasant Gap. makes the mare go, but to Where it is i : : { : ] ! ] Pleasant Gap | been caused by their arrest and by the | : | : Nol, 30. No.7. FACT, FUN AND FANCY Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs -Selec ted and Original. AN APPEAL wilh The tr PY uners that they are so oft e they are ripe Tt picking &inr en picked befor ere most expen. ner feel a me 9 Na I8¢ A wy young min in Lebanon has Deen ng a girl for nine years. ** jennie e said, one evening | read the other day that in 50.000 years Niagara Falls would dry Jennie clu “Why, what's the 5 his arm excitedly : matter he'asked, “Why, you promised to take me there on our bridal trip. Don't you think you had better be a little careful that it de not dry up before we get there Want Sober Men It is said that the bead officials of the Pennsylvan’s Railroad company are etting ready for a movement which will finally result in ridding the company of all its intemperate employes, not only those who get intoxicated once in a while but also those who confine their drinking to just an occasional glass. In the suspensibn and discharge, prefer ence will be given to teetotalers and the fact that a man drinks will weigh heav- {ly agaist him. It is also said that the superintendent of the Conemaugh divi- sion has started a plan by which he will obtain personal knowledge of the habits of every man on the job. Private de tectives have been at work for a number of weeks for ghe purpose of spotting the Dasiness to learn what men. [tis their they cap in regard to membership in drinking clubs; the frequency with which they visit club rooms, saloons and speakeasies; whether they drink om or duty and to what extent A Large List 10 our sale Register on page 3, of this issue, will be found a complete list of all the leading farm sales in Centre county this season. Some choice lines of live stock are listed as well as a complete outfit of farm implements, wfProf. P. H. Meyér, now of Centre Hall, was in town on Wednstiap and called around to us. He is put ting in his time this winter at his favor ite occupation, of holding musical con-
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