COMMENCEMENT AT STATE COLLEGE One of the Most Successfal Events| Known in Its History. INAUGURAL OF DR. SPARKS { Centre | addressing Large Attendance of Alumni— | Great Throng of Visitors— Prin. cipal Events of the Week— Large | Class Graduated. mm imnmual C ate College took the fAVOr stances. The the attend. The Forty-eigl Ce. ment of Pennsyl place this week able and aus weather was favorable ance far surpasse in the hist personell nost iy of the va the celebrities of the st distiaguishe timate present i that is © among which were fou of the prettiest | Pennsylvania make room for ye H these in tents on the these young ladies ds the fraternities so tl ing but attendance greater than ever bef coming in lived while : The com ANCES were | it at there one re, many Pullman cars in whi t the Co liege. exer me of ball urday atternoon between State Western University It was excitit to the finish succeeded in to o, Sunday an Pennsylvanis from of ye the fir P a 1 5 3 State led off and by a score of 1 morning at laureate sermon was deli John Knox McClurkin the Presbyterian church, of Pittsburg, his excellent disc he reviewed the progress of civilization in the past] seventy years and then said: “God is calling America higher. This call is heard in the great movements for politi- cal righteousness, for le per- sonal integrity of our political servant for the cleansing of our muugicipal and tor the reformafion of our c and commercial life.” _ He made a strong plea for the graduates to live christian and manly hives. Monday the program of the day was marred by a heavy main. It finally | cleared when the id and track meet “was hela with tne Western University of Pennsylvania. As usual, State carried off many of The |] oratorical evening aiso an i Tuesday parade togk place in men + as 1 back il change th: a dream to State only in Wednesday to State Colle transpired duri was the inaugur Sparks as president was heartily welcon body, alumni, faculty an trustees, the last spee i eral James A. Beaver; sponded to by Dr wards de mencen ject, Public marked abil for point but | tive ably openhe When there ot 1ITSe S. ile orporate the hogors contest nteresting feature afternd Do went to of the parks livered the inaugural an . ress. tal . ] tha the O1 I Di tha en up has + Si a Wentz degre ¢ the were re by Dr preside nolgy, of Shorey, heaa partment Greek, niversity of Chicago, in | which Dr, Sparks was a member of the | faculty, réception took place at the President's | home which proved to be a brilliant | affair. At 8 o'clock the farewell recep- | tion and dance to the Seniors took place | in the armory ! "nt in the { An Indian Relic. | i Baggagemaster Tom Haupt at the! Pennsylvania station, says the Sunbury | Item, is the possessor of a valuable | Indian relic which was dug up by the | men excavating for the Sunbury and Selinsgrove trolley tracks on Market street, While standing with a number | of people watching the men at work, Mr Haupt spied an which attracted his attention and when he picked it up he found it to be a strange shaped | earthen cup. When the dirt had been cleaned from it paint stains were found | on theinside, Several parties versed in | the knowledge ot Indidn relics pronounce. | ed ghe relic an Indian paint which | sothe Indian or Indians had used in mak- | ing their war paint to decorate their | faces, History tells us that over 140 | ears ago the great Chief Shickalemy | ad his wigwam located near the spot | where the relic was found and it is more than likely that the cup was the proper. ty of the old chief, + object cup The Daddy of Rattlesnakes John, James and Hugh McLaughlin of Osceola were out in the woods the fore” Batof theweek and killed the daddy of all rattlesnake, It was six feet long, thick asa man's leg, and carried twenty two rattles anda button, indicating that it | meeting { address, i Spangler and Hon, | called { America. 1] ships { tion in the | driving Centre County, SHAEFFER-HAZLE REUNION, June 11th, 1908, according to previous arrangements, the families of the above named met at Grange Park, Centre Hall, | | and on account of the rain in the The ing, causing many to be late. to order with an ap Prayer was then offered b; Rev, Mr, Beiber, Lutheran minister at Hall. While Rev. Beiber the meeting Col. J]. lL. Ellis Orvis made 1 their appearance, and made a splendid Judge Orvis was then called and gave us a very fine address only too short, The meeting then adjourned for lunch, and the tables fairly groaned u welg had address nder the rhit of th Dre the aston. Col, expressed himself by s: OK on had beet there Pennsy to all re Hall, was called meet again meet a year 18 Again, { the hi pangler's uch time and u f the Pennsvivania German Le ennsyivania German of ti He storical address, research $ ry ancest sketch of the ¢ rate by ! herland gave lead them to from th homes “a vO h thousands and seek new The early tr and hard endured, and their final loca- eastern portion of this state was followed out, and gave those presen much that was intensely interesting a actually new, the fat ais they by the the de sur rdy Pennsylvania Germans in ent of state and the 81 velopm # hi wis the solicitation of many Spangler bas consented to prepare pul ion, a later issue of the Centre Democrat, a more comprehensive article bearing upon tne in his address on this occasion The reunion brought to light another Hazel 1a the direct line of descent, of whom ‘there was wo previous koowi- edge his was H. C. Hazel, of New- ville, Cumberland Pa.. a grand. prese Col for in LH Hn topics hat t} B of Haze) relative yi SERIOUSLY BURNED ursday Holderman, of afternoon tw Buffalo Rur powder to the extent in Tite! Ile sons of John . were burn- that the Bellefonte hospital, hopes of récovery. From we were able to gather the painful tressing accid took place at kil as Mor- en vantity ) ed wilh oldest or the with bu ie 1s : wha and d th . gy # 4 ent € iiimne Kins An It iD SOT : fou istown Years ne way, secur thea th 341) ocated magazine the powder olde t DOV fire flaming 1%¢ ruty and saving him n Some of win nil, took and mediately He | jump into the from a workmen ran finally succeeded flames, but not ng. ’ 4) i me a livi torch gh self the i and extinguishing the wiore young man horrible assistance 14] the morn- | or- | ganization was not completed until about | { 11 o'clock when the chairman called the | propriate ] oy | was | Col. Spangler was | tables the good women | rief i 8 He also dwelt with much | emphasis upon the important part played | nit L] BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUN NEW POSTAL RULING |= | IS EXPLAINED Why the Government Objects to] Handling Unpaid Papers. IS AFTER ADVERTISING FAKES | The Law is General and Applies to All Papers lard or Beats and Dishonest Men Points of the New Law, - r 00d 190, t pub- became Post Offi On the 1stof January lishers for the first mos aware De necessary for then Of new rt Ig partment which m } v he e ¢ 1 for ] ! wh nt } " ’ tall ’ it has to establish fOr new Many ta at persons the governt radical youl Can 14 Ta 0 0 OL > 3 j the Say N pers, end paper r cong reasons for su t. Asa matter tH paren FeNeral } start has th ublic © : pursue pu 1 » A special Tale for In even there is a Special side the count papers Malis « Wher ul exces pt Delivery office ust pay a second class ratg. two 3 per pound. This bas the fet of making cheaper news- papers, ind of putting them in the homes { of people of ordinary means who other. wise would not feel justified in jsuch an ex News Ti0es yenditure i the homes rn a decided educationa f , 48 i } the ct de readily and hildren will soon le ; re mal many ways gain g papers at this low there is po charge ry ¥ 141 1 ik making pers in us ion in In han rate there is no j but that the postal servigg is at more j expense than is derived from the pub. {lishers—there is a loss—but the publie : | Seats Gout in general is benefitted therelrom By! cheaper papers. This pelicy is followed in other countries well, mistaken in th x the t e the t ‘ s +} wen the ’ TYrENE Pe ar ar busine ds a day tion ¥ Ts “On manner materially Twenty years ago few knew thi VR has mail order hat h and are from ng as the cities ons great ve 1astity retail trade | country. Their business advertising, In order to reach with a circular ordinarily have same to send it th 4 per Ons roods, they then "Sd en rey aen ey Ale ] cent {or two our Thess © gotten onto larg men ar irked we vert ie that 84 1 or rvals, and to mate monthly and at stated inte 1 iS A leg ’ min pubica- al rate of subs rip- Fro every postoffice country they secure more names of families and to these they mail their publications is never demanded m m t : hity or 1 the i adle Misrnnad ay Me Tar 1ael as so badly burned that the flesh pealed regularly year after year and never From 5 to 6 o'clock an informal | from his body, when his clothes were | think of askin loosened. He was taken to the Belle- fonte hospital where he is receiving the best ‘possible attention, but there’ are grave doubts of his recovery. The flesh is burned from his head, face, arms and part of his body from his head to his waist, He is in u stupor most of the time, and he breathes heavily. The other boy, who is about twelve years of age, was more fortunate, although his injuries are of a painful nature, He | was burned mostly about the arms, but it was not necessary to take him to the hospital. He is getting along as well as can be expected Kicked By A Horse Willard Shaeffer, who resides on the Benner farm, in Benner township, was kicked by a horse on Tuesday after noon, the result of which he is suffering from a fractured skull. The boy was the to water when he struck him with a switch to urge the beast along. Instead of hastening its ait the animal kicked the boy on the sead. He was brought to the Bospital where the wonnd received the proper care and attention, He is gettin along as well as can be expected, and will recover if'no complications set in. horse Soaked $160.00. Charley Andrews, a well known resi- dent of Johnstown, went fishing the other day and caught sixteen trout, The warden came inspected his et, found the trout under size, and when hauled up before a magistrate was twenty-three years old. he was fined $160.00, £ for the subscription price—all they desire is to have them delivered to the parties addressed Why? They are advertising circulars pure and simple, with some reading, parading under the guise of legitimate publica tion to get the cheap postal rate. The big stores and geron advertisers pay | for the prioting and the mailing. Up! in Maine there is a hostof such publica- tions, prominent among them is !*Com- fort” which almost everybody has had | thrust in his mail box without ever ask: | {ing for it, or being solicited to pay the supposed subscription price. Others in| St. Louis and elsewhere have sprung up recently and are doing the same find of business in which you see whole ages | taken by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Mont { gomery Ward & Co., and similar firms, | who pay all the bills tions regularly dump in the mails enor. | These publica- | | mous editions, in some cases as large as | from one to two million copies, asd have | {enough to fill & whole train of mail coaches, and are addressed to every part | of the United States thus burdening the | service and requiring an unlimited | amount of labor to handle~all at a loss to the postal department, because they are masquerading as legitimate publica tions Simply to get the second-class pos. tal rate, This has been a great drain on the postal service, and in order to stop the abuse the postal department adopted the rule: that there must be a legitimate subscription list to secure the rate; nor can papers be gratul distributed ; and still further that where papers were n | notice to { and e Pre f week 1 Dead | pus MDeTs In ac 1 * At firs { eemed | ° for after one year hid would a be a cent postage for each copy / i E 18, 1908. mail e ruling must be general in plication, therefore it affects the regular country newspapers as well as the fake publications issued for adve ing purposes only 3 this ruling has gone % been a whole list of fake put of wuld nopafford to pay the While the government has been following of papers in the past few months, have giver publishers all papers, ially those known as the country , that they must the ap riis ig 4 inc into pub out business because spect postal rate, 1 Of readjus 1 1 ¥ all it ana ai same ( 8 they possibly where ti © CRUIAr Country 1 last generation aterially the governme Opt new rue made a than attachy reme court il eld it ana larceny £1 oO CACDH sm « All but six gave bond while six wen to jail. The new law makes 1 larceny to take pay for it . Dosis posal a paper Powers a Free man onv tion Kentu pard med Satur Wilson, T They Ky ust were mime released — Powers from the Scott coun-! 5 jsll at Georgetown and Howard {rom | would destroy all hope of contribulions | of the Daughters of SE wate’s prison at Fraokfnt In a statement giving his reasons for us action Governof Wi oy ” HSO0 Lg says pels WETS Three Uries out sentet ] =a 5 prisonment he was life 1m- $14 yep : AMsagreen standing ten for acquittal totwo for con ction The parde James B with evident joy by exsgovernor, who gee in Indiana for of 14 Caleb Powers and Was received William § has been a eight years Howard I res A Little Boy Killed, sad accident t Creek on H "1 wk place up Tuesday moo be death Harry the 8 vear old son of Luther Mr L.aast Wy 1 i KO the ol along afte n resulted of re erry v1 as I Still ng down & a steep hill rilefonte falling it fell on rushing out his life Boyton Lansberry, njured but by 5 o'clock was able to be around again as usual The father was present and did all he 1 in go direction the ani mal stu and Harry Lansberry, almost instantly was also slightly i mbled, Nr ns could to save his child but his efforts | proved of no avail. The deceased was a bright boy, and the sad accident is deeply lamented by the community in general, The Beezer boys were unin. jared, Academy Athletics. Before the close of the Academy Fri. day the athletic association adopted a | new constitution and elected officers as | | follows { Oberlin, of Johnson City, Tenn., for the ear: Clyde 3 presi dent; John South, of Bridgeport, Ohio, secretary, and J. R. Hughes, treasurer, They also elected Arthur Abrams, of Butler, foot bhll manager: ensuing | Crooks, of Williamsport, base ball man. | ager; Merril Walz, of Williamsport, bas | ket ball mansger; and Harold Stevens, { of Reading, manager of the track team, { The athletic advisory committee consists {of Prof. J. R. Hughes, ex-efficio, Prof. Arthur Sloop, coach, Prof. Charles Hall, Warren Elsey, of Pittsburg, and Thoms Thomas, of Scranton, A Dam Nuisance. Shad were so plentiful in the Susque- hanna river below McCall's Ferry , et recently, that they sold for fifteen cents apiece, and hundreds spoiled because there were no puichasers at any price. Thé big dam at that place prevents the shad from ascending the river any farther and the stream below that obstruction tairly swarms with the fish. Unless an effective fishway is provided itis evident that Susquehanna shad will soon be among the extinct varieties of fish, Don't to see the the Electric this w at t their | and refuse to | Tay- | TAFT NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT The “Re. Actionary Ele the Administration. effect | (p- pose (THE OTHER BOOMS COLLAPSE Considerable Difficulty in Shaping the Platform—Much Opposition to Revision of the Taritf — Labor Organizat Slighted 10116 Taran tor Doll Lummings the most of Iowa, w omiment been a big wrangle over Taft plank tand-patters corpora- nent ed ina Natform, hican for this campaign vrors treats, . So this sentiment that a “straddle il readily realize that sion of congress ‘‘re-actiond | a $a was able to Ee mn erippl popular measure atory wealth—the other gignatic 3% the 1 fey represent the secure tal erment and th . § corporat r on ghts wealthy favors from wt "na Ines (¢ m UAV ¢ feature a was the marked The name of Vv apathy menton stithusiast wsevelt's incto the divis growing marked. vital contest is the adoption of the plat. form, the adminisiration had prepared { and is strongly urging planks on anti | injunction, antitrust, postal savings | banks, and railroad rate regulation-—all of which are bitterly opposed by Speak er Cannon leading the “eajtianary, forces known as the ‘‘stand Jasons n There are fifty three members of the res- olution commmittee and a majority are yeported with the “standpatters.” nore Ashburner Ellmore. John Ellmore, the patentee and manu- facturer of the Elimore Fuel Compound, who resides in Altoona and of whom the newspapers had a great deal to say | & year ago last winter about his wonder. | and save a great deal of coal and money | tdevery consumer of cdal, was in Lock | Haven this week and gave a demonstra | tion of his discovery at the Lock Haven | steam laundry of P. P. Ritteman & Son, on Bellefonte avenue, on Monday. The late Dr. Hoy, it will be remembered, was associated with Ellmore in this ashburn- | ing scheme. | Bat Slipped, Boys Skull Fractured Charley, a young son of James White, of Philipsburg, is at the Cottage hospital of that place, with a fractured skull and is in a very serious condition, the result of being hit with a base ball bat, which accidentally slipped out of the hand of ames Nixon during an exhibition game ween the C, & C. Street Ry. and Ches- ter Hill teams at Athletic park, Friday afternoon will be held at the Romo, Vol. 81. No. 24 A B——— FACT, FUN AND FANCY" ht, Sparkling Paragraphs Selec ted and Original, Brig p he class song and the wedding march The graduate, the bride The trained sthiets The jumps The plend The stroll both far: nthe s bt 1 wih the So many t dis Lhe poet Are t If You olhers The le it does pon hi what b nat we we doff't e Children’s Day potted not permit unt of these ex Space will " ¢ 2 held atlead ary in giving a Hea ack ercises, were all recitations in a pleasing mat \ In the Presbyterian church a little in- cident took pl » whict 31 able amusemen As of Mr. and Mrs SAY i Gr illed, 1 other tform, moroing Dr. Platts preach and timely sermon to the local chapter the American Rev- Coletion, «II aks ~in SYRTET eratioa-oi- | what the Daughters have termed Flag Day lar services were conducted n Methodist | Reformed Mist 9 Ysows ie Rev Schmidt Simi } ne ar ut ou Oe AR inidren were at their 1, and were happy over the eve ap io aL, After 64 Years *Allen § Citizen a ieaning of 1 long Eagle township to Lock Haven belly of or 0 years ago t hillside of his hy ich r ground 1 with ithe t ag irtle was of death. Thus 64 years as a boy, had carved his name on tortise, he was rewarded by finding yat which he prizes very highly Saw Two Fine Deer. John Moore, the Nittany valley dairy {| man, on his way to the city, saw two deer early Friday morning in Barrel's { corn field, in the cast end of Ritiany: a | short distance from the road over which he was driving. One of the deer was a large buck and the other was a doe. | On the approach of the milk wagon the | fleet footed deer made for the Sugar val. | ley mountains. Deerare frequently seen | in the mountains between Nittany and Sagar valleys, which leads to the coa- | clusion that they will be plentiful in that William | ful composition that would burn ashes, | section during the hunting season next fall, Tried To Burn 5000 Cars Incendiaries Sunday at midnight at. | tempted to burn over sooo freight cars belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad | Company and stoped in the abandoned [yards at Hollidaysburg. Several fires | were started at various places, but they |'were all extinguished, Two of the cars were entirely destroyed and ae amaged, he firebugs took the oily mee of the journal boxes, and plac. ing it under the cars, close to the wood - work, set fire to it. The Hollidaysburg Fire Department saved the cars.
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