¥ Puan “Jaavas entre ha Democrat, : The EE aan] {TI LAL BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST @, 1008, AL INTERESTING STORY DALE FAMILIES 5 | On Thursday afternoon a second | n HOLD A REUNION meeting for the completion of arrange | BY A REPORTER | { ments for the Centre-Clinton Business | - [ Men's picnic, to take place at Hecla - | Park on Tuesday, August 18th, was | held at the Irvin House, Lock Haven. { Notwithstanding the mercury was hov- | ering around the nineties the attendance | was large and much enthusiasm was | manifested in the coming big outing that promises to be one of the largest pic. nics ever held by the association. The Circulation Over 5,200-—Largest in Centre County. Vol. 81. No. 30 sleeping in a chair in one of the state- FACT, FUN AND FANCY" rooms. Mr, Bryan saw him and, calling w—————— the correspondents, he relieved sleeping sleuth of his watch ain, In the 1900 campaign the work on the | road was the tleast difficult that Mr, | Bryan had to perform. Profiting by his | experience of four years before, he se- | cured # private car early, and insisted - " | that all the short speeches should be | made from the platform of his car, there ‘WHAT GANDIDATES ENDURE | vy avoiding, in a great measure, the | necessity of battling with the crowds, ames Dahlman, who was afterward BUSINESS MEN'S PICNIC, AN INSTITUTION MERITS SUPPORT Annual Meeting of the Bellefonte Hospital Corporation the (S81 Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs ted and Original. --Selec anda cn bitten by a toothle Who Traveled With Bryan During A Large Gathering at Oak Hall B Two Presidential Campaigns. At the seashore Last Saturday. see tl} there is Ian Lhe shore, INTERESTING PAPERS READ GOT THE AK a class done to +h y fing t I ining wo ‘THE BUILDING IS UNFINISHED in the > Hrs damage fruit trees by worms, and | More Room i8 Needed to Care for £ J Early History of the Pioneer Fam- ilies Retold—Contributions sent from the West— Enjoyable Gath ering. amusement committee stated that they had made arrangements with W. A | Redding, president of the Centre-Clinton | Base Ball League, to have the six teams olay at the park on that day. The fie is composed of the Jollowing | teams: Beech Creek, Mill Hall, anc Woolrich from Clinton county, and Among the pioneer families in Cen- | Howard, Orvis and Snow Shoe of Cen- | tre county is the Dale family and each |, county. These teams have been | ; : year they come together to exchange | creating a stir during the summer and | Robt. F, Rose, the official shorthand re« greetings. and have a general good time, On Saturday the annual reunion was held at Oak Hall, a spot that will always be held sacred by the descendants ofthis noted family that has fi 14} { the base ball crank and enthusiasts can | porter who was employed by the Asso-| at night, dictating letters, or depend on it that they will witness some | exciting contests, | The closing committee, reported that | gured so conspic- | a11 business places would be closed in { to take down a full rej uously in the history of the county. | gajlefonte on that day, especially in the | made by Bryan The day was an ideal one for an occa- | afternoon. sion of that character, thus the atten- | ness places will also ¢ At State College, the busi- lose on picnic day | dance of relatives and friends was un- | 44 that arrangements had been made usually large. Promptly at 10 o'clock | with the Bellefonte Central Railroad to | country { bring their people to Bellefonte early | ny party George Dale, the chairman of the asso- ciation, called the meeting order, - ¥ ' The chaplain, Rev. W. W. Dale, to ot Pittsburg, then offered a fe rvent prayer | w illiamsport Repasz band has been se- | the jo selections | after which several choice were rendered by a large choir. The address of welcome was made by A, A. Dale, Esq., who, before he was through became quite eloquent. The response was made by Hon. Leonar I Centre Hall, who to the part the Da the coun An paper was read by Clemer f Bellefonte, the | ciation, He ing of Christian Dale, the fn America in 1749, 1 carefully traced the L pail a glow | family le family growth and developeme interesting of to cenuces conn schools and the cust a more modern d astically received. the guests were invited grove, near by, large towering oaks, was spread; and re friends sat aro which was replete w things necessary of the appetite. spent replenishing man and social intercourse. ing to Grange ball again Dade read Ww here to apg | Almost two hours was the inner On repa r- it » west which had been prepared and sent by Mrs, Maggie Clipfell of Wahpeton, S. Dakota, and Edward Dal f § Dakota, i on county. Earl Musser, a descen- +} ™ . aper the dant of : radu ate of the spoke on the ber and the formation The well selected by Norms Dale, and Lew Three They were Mrs Helen of Dales Sum: wife £ gan have 3 memory of t rec necess| little folks of Geo Was prepare ] ate which burg made on the life and char ! Jobin S. Dale was elec to take the place of Dr. J. ¥ ceased. The offi elected. After the the association ach one ing it the most successful reunion they had ever attended. It may not be amiss to say that the reunion was held on the seventy-seventh birthday of jthe presi. dent, George Dale The oldest person in attendance of the Dale decendants was Mrs. Susanna Mus- ser (formerly Dale) who is eighty one years old, nother aged person present | was Mrs, Margaret Keller, a relative of | the Dale family, who is eighty four | ears old. The next reunion will be fel on the first Saturday of August 1904), a CCAS § SECT Dale were a other cers all re. hort business session adjourned e vot. Pointer by a Speer One of Bellefonte's citizens, ex-count several years has been making h from spring to fall, upon a f at the foot of Nittany two miles to the west of and three miles from Bellefonte Speer finds great pleasure in esteemed for + home most treasurer Speer arm | mountain { Pleasant e owns about Crap, Mr busying himself at raising truck and such like for the benefit exer and pure mountain Air will be to his health, and he finds thereby a desired health invigor. | ator, Itis next to a semi-hermit's life, | by all a bachelor's hall—yet he comes to his Bellefonte home at the end of each week. The main part of the farming is worked by a tenant living on the | praises separate from Mr, Speer's cozy | ungalow, Nature thus serves our esteemed friend Speer better than artifi- cial nostrums, and he finds it both healthful and profitable—superior to summer resorts, and his eyes feast and soar a beautiful landscape o'er, with mountain fringes, the ine When a fellow is in the soup he nat. | i | Haven, declis and run their last train back, leaving | Bellefonte about 9.30 that night. The | 1 cured and that a good orchestra will yet | be arr H. C. Evans, of Lock further serve as a ” wel f anged for, member of in the after- | ing paper on the Dale families in the | urally feels like a noodle, son, of ths ed in hi has already Se pie toar at City, was unanim ] , yy Cer ure Nn ie 1 coms sent, laced lation of the bly attefid and followe a motion Abdou +) i ieavoring = J patients, This appeal se all and when the collecti amounted to $51. The em 0 was tal Busipess vance. Frank A. Wadsfield, representing | the Central raliredd; suggested that two | | boxes be placed ht the park, one tore | ceive contributions fr mn A wi +h receive amounts tha wrsons liviog ther was to » Clintonn county Mr. Warfield its Ni | an : IS like. } entre county, the % Happiness Marred, » ven re Lap A Says ation Mad- ather of P aren ghter to ng Ie t take | least officers arrested the « that they left home 1 o'clock mor , walking’ the entire di of about 25 miles only to have their happiness brought to such an abrupt ending ed In for t ! is own fireside, at When tl they he present a " oupie stated about ] stance rid ’ Fa . Harvesthome Service. On Sunday, Aug. oth, Rev, ]. Kensy | Stewart, D. D., pastor'of the Presby-| terian church at Menant Pleasant, West. | moreland county, will preach the annual | Harvest Home sermon, the W. B. church | at Centreline, 10,30 a. m, and in Friends | church, near Stormstown, at 3 p.m, | The public is cordially invited to attend | these services and return thanks to the Creator for a bountiful harvest, Grove Meeting Tusseyville annual grove meet held August 29 yo Preaching week eveniogs, and all day. | Sunday services, the Kev, B. F, Bohner, Presiding Elder, of Allentown, and Rev. y. Nillner, Shamokin, and other ministers, are expected to be present, be to Hurt by Angry Bull, Harry Dennis, who lives on the Nancy Smith farm, about a mile frem Clinton dale, was painfully injured on Saturday afternoon by being trampled and bumped )y a vicious two-year-old hornless bull, which he had led into the barn and was | tying. He was badly bruised and cut, | Will Rebuild. Since Lock Haven's splendid hospital building was des by fire, the citi~ rons that town have not become dis heartened, but now are seriously at work devising plans for rebuilding and soliciting funds to advance the work at once en it Rien's Association then comtributed $25 in ad- | | where other sg A Trying Experience That Would Unnerve the Average Man— Remarkable Resources and Great Endurance. In a recent issue of Colliers Weekly an ng interesting article appeared, written by ciated Press to accompany Mr, Bryan during the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 ort of every speech The article is original ¢ L in the line that it gives the public some idea what it means for a man to tour the of continually address. as a Presidential candidate and be ing all kinds of audiences, and end E uring 1 ’ } 84 HOE ) come- mon at every pol The following i Rose's article speak early Con ciuded b two the next morning. Ia the first campaign the correspondents, in common with others, were watching for signs of a breakbown, but all the time he was pro- ceeding; wit! visible effects US Work first cat “as ng and nall.past Aas hve lay's work at no strem ’ paign was impossible rest Work ver help it Mr. sd 10 taking asion of thy od wou on an Ox wut wondering Ww if he have made a great mn so ioclined. He is A physical giant, and has stitution never ravaged by alcohol stimulants But neo how many speeches were made, or how many crowds it was necessary to ‘fight’ in order to gain the speakers stand, or how flimsy the struc. ture from which he had to speak (and we had tweuty-eight of them fall with us during the first campaign), Mr. Bryan's good humor never left him. And the! i he | wrestler had bh a oon matter | speaking was but a small portion of the | work, for in nearly every city, in mak- | ing arrangements, the great crowds were underestimated, and the police were | powariess in the way of keeping friends rom jostling against their candidate, | squeezing his hand until it was swollen to nearly twice its normal size, and, by a concentrated rush, carrying him away from his point of destination It was! found necessary for the correspondents to form a sort of ‘flying we’ge' to fight the crowds and protect Mr, Bryan, RORNING THE DETRCTIVES In one day, in the state of Michigan, | Mr. Bryan addressed twenty-two assem. blages before Lansing was reached, peeches were to be made There the crowds were of such magni tude that, after the first two speeches, the correspondents found it impossible to keep up with the candidate, and, be. coming separated, repaired to the train, It was after midnight when Mr, Bryan came into the car, his clothes drippin wet from perspiration. He was asked bow many speeches he had made that night, and laughingly replied ‘Six,’ and then added ‘and | really feel fit for as many more,’ After he had discarded his wet ments and J into dry clothes, he came out in the dining room of the car tor a lunch. The detective who was with us, to rid us of the pickpocket pest, was | play. Mapy times have | hidden of his] {| Now you shut up Jame as Omaha's cowboy Mayor, and who at that time was a member | National Committee of Nebraska, ac | companied Mf Bryan a great portion of the time and insisted on the candidate | receiving the care which his work en- | titled him to, His hardest | which told more on him than did the ac- | tive campaigning-—was at his home, | where, seated at his desk in his library, | he labored from early morning until late | preparing | | his most important speeches. His phys- |ique demanded exercise, and the sed. | entary life at home did not give that | exercise. This was really hard work for {him ; the other he regarded as part 1s work while be stepped out of the library, | | and, seconded by Mrs. Bryan, {on ‘him to ride his horse, Governor, or drve out his country place, now the site of his beau- tiful resddence, Fairview.’ On such occasions he would complain ‘ought not to take the tir work,’ and then would uss the best breed o farm, of some at all to things pol ful ability to throw t} mind when seckir tor in keeping him paigns. prevailed th ighbred on LOorot to AWAY proceed f chicker thar ae I have frequently did Mr. Bryan fir peeches? W important cation spec others on sg , he did not n he desire ople on a 1 wished h lelivere papers could | apparently thought. H were always t! WAS crowd for tw it was pet until i which he 1 which contained hi | fect nation, that enthusiasm, His 18f in Square Cit arefully fro script, and was a disappoint mek to those who heard pot com- paring with the extemporaneous address made a half bour later from Bartholdi Hotel hir I to o Lion. aq there mn spec w York Garden e i in, the bal 1 | When : with 1 ted He t vas the or him gi ng. Hesawt ven a place i n ve each VANOUS wavs MAPS an edits brought XN ne me when they ney of oming mor anical, one it Im he in order to ‘wake him up in southern Illinois an o« joe of this kind happened which might have ended disastrously on the part of the corre spondent. [t was early in the morning and Mr. Bryan spoke from the court house steps. This correspondent was Iate in getting to the place of the meet. ing, and Mr, Bryan Rad spoken some time when the newspaper man arnved upon the scene ‘here was a great deal of criticism at the time regardiog the election laws of North Carolina, which, it was claimed, practically dis franchised a large portion of the colored | populaiion, This Sorrespondent mixed with the crowd, and, with the best in- tentions, when Mr. Bryan stopped for a | moment, shouted ‘How about North | Carolina 7 Hardly had the words escap ed from his mouth when a horny-handed | son of toil grabbed him by the back of the neck and shook him vigorously while he said ‘Look here, young fellow, just answered that a few minutes ago. | he nie some little town No man in public life inspires his ad. | herents with such devotion as does Mr Bryan. Those in his Congressional dis- | trict who have known him for years hold him in such esteem that it can only be! described as love, And no public man | regards his followers with more devotion than does Mr. Bryan On leaving ' Lincoln on the trip of the 1896 campaign, the tran trav. | ersed a large portion of his old Congres. | sional district, It was in the evening and we were frequently stopped at coun- try crossroads by farmers, bearing home-made torches, each anxious to shake hands with Mr, Bryan and wish him Godspeed. At one of these places the members of the small crowd were y fervent, and, as each shook he jot ot dias of the | work-—that | wepared and read | © | day of pleasant recreation, he's | , Patients~-Quarters are Cramped ” . : I Financial Support Needed trom this Community. lay evening the Bellefonte Hos. corporation had their annual meet. at Court House, met directors were unanimously re- elected, after which the following official were chosen: president, C. C, Si \ R. Meek; treas I'he report the { of 108 5 1 Doard 1AIS RECTEL] (Geo, y u Luckenbact LUCKEN DAC, treasurer, W mitted of the former Harrison Walker. wi Arrison Yywalixer, wa ind approved VEear have 1 other On tl ed that after | five years he portant mM Poss b LS year, aretol A tlees ASS0S of the town, not alone of businessmen, but gverybody, in this way greater interest would be enlisted and more substantial support would heerfully accorded by Make a special effort to were LO make « Iso anv nal Foe Citizens " 3 “ry v oY a subs MIS Ana o To Double Its Capacity ne AY We were re nanny, 3 wil De a con diting the comy narket the near futu a match that is destined to be in great demand The prospective improvements, will cost thousands of dollars, is the sult of good management and persever ance fhe company, from the first, iaced an article on the market that soon found a ready sale. The demand kept increasing until it has become impera asd a is the irpose to place on the that re | ive'for stockholders to make provisions | for a larger output, Poorman Reunion, The Poormans and relatives will hold their annual reunion in Kohibecker's park, at Milesburg, Pa., on August 22, 1908, It will be in the form of a - nic. Everybody is invited to attend and ring their baskets with them to spend a Three ex llent speakers have been engaged and a full and complete program has been : made for the occasion, Picnic at Balleywille The big picnic at Baileyville will take place next Saturday, August 3, instead of 27th, as was stated during the week, This picnic generally Graws thousands of people who travel there from all over this part of the state. The game of ball to be played between the P. R. R. team of Tyrone and Pine Grove Mills promises to be a pleasing feature of the occasion, With a Bent Pin, Raymond Wolf landed a 17 inch trout on Friday with a bent pin, The lad holds the championship medal in Blair county, as this is the trout caught during the season. He dud the with a bent pin. Many a girl would rather be a rich man's widow than his wife, basket | at the sparrows t! IHNICTCAS in become as bad bovs 0 i i i We nundreds that as the worms tha were not very attentis of them: “Tommy, sh are the worse, thi rows?” “1 don't know “I never had the sparrows t the je worn WO CF The teacher children can jy orout WALLACE BROTHERS INJURED fri me Delige at the k irawing him to the window and by his heroic act saved the carrier from falling The three went with the at stro 16 Wallace boys, however, i in their de- juantity of slate. Ross Several ari scaffold and cet Ww Ww A : allace broken, | & TeOe ve Wat The Masonic Camp e $356.000 For a Horse Barton f Lock rvin Gleason, of Gleasonton hased the famous stallion, ** McKinney" rom V. L. Shuler, of Detroit, Mich The price paid for this horse was $35,000 and the sale has been the main topic of conversation in racing circles. The former owner of the stallion proudly displayed the check to his friends, mark- ing as it does, the greatest epoch in his turf career. Shuler bought the stallion | for $700. Immediately after the sale Shuler wired his wife at Indianapolis, { acquainting ber with the news. It makes him independent just like making | & strike in a mining camp Boy Burned to Death About 4 o'clock Saturday the house of Albert Winkler at Osceola caught fire | and before it could be got under control the roof was burned off and otherwise badly damaged. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been caused by | matches which a three-year-old boy of the family had been playing with, set ting fire to a curtain on the second floor, when it ran to the attic, The flames gained such a rapid headway that it was impossible to reach the child in order to | save it, and when found was burned to a crisp, both arms being burned entirely off. About 2000 people wefe on the | scene, Haven, have pu Pardee, 0 ] * " Lizard 60 Feet Long. A specimen of lizard that was sixty feet long and thirty.three feet high when it used to crawl up and down the moun- tains of Colorado, has beens put up by
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