Sw - oo ed > Circulation Over 5,200—Largest in THOMAS M'CLURE SERIOULSY BURNED BY A CANNON FIRE CRACKER THROWN BY SOME WRETCH THE PICNIC A GRAND SUCCESS Picnic a Grand Success Held at Hecla Park on the Fifth of July—Plenty of Amusement and Good Humor Prevailed. afternoon crowd of boys were Keichline's green grocery they thought ‘‘the time of running after small were thrown among On the h of July ¢ Pete ring wha ives’ by hat ile the "WwW ve boys crackers some a large cannot! crowd of fifteer When it ex} the right twelve-year The r practically below and above also fri penetra done cracker twenty sm conte ail nts leg ¢ 14 Clu leg of hom “iu 1 Mi } DOY seiseke STUCK ight que cripple Pe) Ralnl} that xaipn ng means of sav Droner prope sented A Great Success The fifth of July celebration at Park under t company ant local Y. M. C,; roved to be a magnificent success. he attractions drew about 13500 people there from all the walks of life. an was one of the nicest picnics ever held on the ground. The first thing on the program was a game of base ball which was fought to a finish by Bellefonte and Jerse r Shore; with a second victory for Bellefonte by a close score of to 2. This was followed by the Marathon race by some members of the Y. M.C, A; the distance was six miles or eighteen times around the track, of a third of a mile. After goin number of times Altenderfer, Jo¢ Brown and Simon Shilling dropped out. The first prize was a $20 gold watch offered by tl railroad company which Thomas Mogan, the time | utes and 38 secon The was a signet ring offered ! & Co.—won by Elli third prize was and tie pin by C Donald Wallace a pair of $4.00 shoes, offered (line—won by Bruce Meese prize was a tennis Montgomery & Co labaugh. The sixth razor, offered by the ware Co.—won by A prize Was a pair ot by H. C. Yeager The tub race between Willis Struble was ter, The prize was pe by John Olewine The ing on the pavilion Christy Smith's orcl pleasing features of the beautiful disp evening beck es of the rails { 1 the ds. " Ht 0 racket won Dy Frit ’ won Way " n charge Linotype Starts. nT on Electric servic to of Mer as ¢ inte in enables u operate o genthaler Lim result Are the reading machine To keyboard is almost Ir new and 8 most of by ype machine able to put up matter this ® operate the itaelf 1 re- become skill machine's full do not the start turns in they make we issue trade year ure tt: " that reason i in to ani quires a ed 80 a8 to me capacity For pect too much from at the compositors are taking learning and later we predict will strike a speed that will hand composition a snail's pace Taking this into consideration, for the present, we must kindly ask the indulgence of the public in one mat. ter: The Mergenthaler Linotype Is a wonderful plece of mechanism that has revolutionized the printing busi- ness, and naturally is a curiosity, At this time we will have to close press rooms to visitors, as they annoy the operators, and that interferes with their progress Later, when we are in better shape, a general Invitation will extended to our patrons and the public to In spect the new method of setting type ex us be Encampment at Somerset. The sth Regiment N. G. P. will go into camp at Somerset, Pa., on Satur. day July 24th, The advance guard will leave on the aoth to stake out the camp and elect the officers ' quarters. The various organizations of the Regiment will leave their home stations on Thurs. day evening, July 22nd and procked to ohnstown over the Penn'a. R, R., and rom there to Somerset over the B, & 0, Dr. R. G. H, Hayes wiil have charge of the sanitary condition of the camp. Col Taylor anticipates that the Regiment will make a better showing than ever. Grange Festival, Logan Grange will hold a festival at Axemann on Saturday, July Sist. If you would have money avoid the dead sure thing. » | mar wh i ied around the track al arris Hartrantt, Jared | our | Centre County. A JOLLY CAMPING PARTY. One of the most picturesqne places in | this part of the state is the road leading | the narrows to Tylersville and Logan- ton. About three miles up the beauti- ful stream of Fishing Creek is a plateau which years ago was made famous by the awful annihilation of the Culvey family by the hand ot an assassin. On this spot, with Fishing Creek on one side and Cherry Run on the other, both filled with speckled beauties, the camp: ing party from Bellefonte, known as the +Has Beens,"is located, They have everything up there to make life worth living ; John Rockefeller, with all his wealth, not enjoy himself more than those who have been in this « for the last two weeks The Frank Davis, who gets up meals good enough for gods. The fishing is done in the morning and in the ever hat the day is put in at all kinds sports, They have a horse ‘and convey ance and afternoon eitl Marks or Harry Garberich dri sre they meet anybody Much of ice and does COOK 18 sot y cach ] Ake ves to La who de } Camp. were on account e trou Near by } rge R. Meek, John Curti gert and Dr. David Dale. excellent shape, w and every convenience for an ing of that kind, The tents are which give it a very neat and clean ap pearance. They are all expert fisher men and caught their share of trout Visitors are always welcomed within their gates. One evening Dr. Dale reached camp about 4 o'clock in the af. ternoon and by 9 o'clock he hooked 17 nice sized trout, which was doing some, Near the road was the camp of Dr. H, M. Hiller, of Chester, who is a great sport. He had two touts Conveniently | arranged. Acolored cook with two wil ing attendauts complefed the outfit, thus he was very comfortably fixed as to naving his wants supplied. He was juite successful in his angling for the On Friday afternoon s. Mrs, Margar hey 114 is reo hey have th a ir i . supper ti . Hillet on Sunday ft for »w present Dr broke camp y and Philadelphia to t From opers ’ hester “al went rative there De 10 alu nas HOSPITAL NOTES llowing at the of Stormstown; recently hospital Ww operation Parsons, MileshH Mrs, E Dillen, Millbeim The following Edward Hepbur J wob Rapp's 0 rom a roof while sawing ustammed fractures of the 155100 f a vee while working ouse. on ] ily 6th three ribs 141 the brair wes On is thought he s slowly improvin Oscar Gill, of Gilitown July gth, fell 30 feet r | Spring from tree sustaining a frac tows ship, on the limb of a cherr ture of the right thigh Mrs. Emma Miller, of Clarence, who was in the institution twelve weeks. re turned to her home at Clarence on Sat. urday, much improved Mrs. Dr. Schuyler, of Centre Hall, has been very ill, is a trifle improved Mrs. Goodhart, of Centre Hall, able to return home on Wednesday Mrs. Fred Bussler, of Boston, Mass, ; Geo, Harm, of Curtin; W. M. Morris, of Snow Shoe; and Sylvester Atkinson, of State College, were recently discharged, Was | from Lamar, Clinton county, up through | | Reasons for Tearing Down the Stone #xist ! i : { i | midable complaint : i | Miss Clara Anderson, of Bellefunte, | died Sunday evening. Some of the large trees in the front | of the pew building were cut down this | week so as to be in readiness for work, | which will soon be commenced on the extension, Miss Lois V. Calderwood, the super. intendent, left on Wednesday, for her vacation, at her home. Dennisoa Ohio Margaret Ligget, nurse, returned from a two-weeks' vacation at Dennison, Ohio, Miss Lida Musser, of Millheim, has entered the training school for nurses, A meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Monday evening at which | among other important matters taken up was the completion of the new building. Contractor Lowry was present; as soon as the specifications and plans, are com- sleted and the contract closed, work will started looking to the early com. pletion of this needed extension, Miss Beltz, head nurse, is acting as superintendent while Miss Calderwood is hom e on her vacation, Look al it Now who sent money to this urning the past month of Jun will find cred Ld it | 3 i ! | | ¢ Lemocral. THE SCHOOL BOARD ISSUE AN ADDRESS WHY T DEBT NECESSARY Was of School Unfit New Building—Claim it for the Purpose—Cost Building the t BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1909. ™ | won'd be a vy | ! | | anderstandi THEY WILL HOLD AN ELECTION ki. HEY DEEM AN INCREASED | *¢hovl district from « onth of office which of the directors has taken ution ea) A WRONG IMPRESKION Many of « that the ur cltizens are under the lmpression tebt of the borought will prevent tracing a debi su the hoard | or his Is asking ¢ 7 The hore nnd 0K ugh, as dint and separate islog the ontract A Xer tn n the } ens to such | #xter ght ye 1 made bul sopul wr pon stior sy aascssod val the boro as make the Hing 88.000 x beating snd silat some new farnit mish ad ng ngs. WALKS, an sired an pavement street fron : that when done, we w with good surroundings : led Perhaps some further statement is Dex i x order that you may fully understand the action and purpose of the board. The patrons of schools as stated "have been dewanding school facilities. To provide this, was the duty of the board. In doing this they must of course act on 3 of such . » There ling with ng ort and ther or, and or ore was a draft e Ww possibl The ph pred that it Wl work The x38. the afler pro ye n, 2 IMLanees rea ling was er ie El SLIOCLS ArT remodeled risky Cast very time the suggest f the f the b which the heaviest taspayers ge] oin board it down sdgment of the ¢ided with the best was balieved best to take building and I The rem was dom jarters of i nly other CHR * sone : ing The » ng are there hoc ause Lore was | inher of the ~ buildings, snd better room, and sccommodat ions could not be obtained anywhere lee The po ple of the borough are fully aware of the very for the hoard made to against continu ing school in this balldieg The High has entirely the provisions made for It in IT which were Intend. od, at the time, to be but a temporary loeation The students in this schoul are seated In threes different rooms, In whieh recitations are conduct se hood onlgrown od all the time, and It is absolutely necessary to provide more room for this school On December 3rd 1904, the Ministeriom of the wown addressed to the board a communiostion praying the school board “To bhalld a new soho! bullding in the North ward, stating that thay be Heved the present batiding to be wholly nade quate to the present needs of the pupiie from the standpoint of comfort, convenience and health, The physicians and of the town have been much more vigorous and per.istent la thelr condemnation of the evils which they sald came from these buildings eitineons From all this 11 Is clear that there was hut one thing to do, and that was to build anew, And pow fellow cltisens we are sure you would not have us ereel a poor, weak, unsafe bullding, or one that would soon become so, We are getting one hundred cents for every dollar put inte this buliding. The Act of Assembly of April Sad, 1008, re quires that the board shall provide a system of in, direct heating and ventilating by means of whieh snch class room shall be supplied with fresh alr at the rate of not less than 30 ouble feel per min’ ule for sacl pupil, asd to maintain an average temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit In the cold est weather, These requirements which are made (n the interests, comfort and health of the pupils while in sehool, make the heating for the bullding quite costly, but to fall to oarry out the provisions of this Act of ars past | dings | fron : : : 3 ] : | passed through : : : fio nl ha and sin ed to appre- the report (¢ since A Dirty Trick. trot great fitter The n spring Lore Hefont for vis! in the attract of Iarge Aare and n aon and ost n pride Alr mirat Bellefonte Hikers attr CeCcretary A. to 0 gether w started o a hiking being Jersey Shore . Simon IDR Harris Hartranoft and B Meese week prior to leaving the boys the open air, so they could get Ac to the privat Jat might on the way he largest amount of money any of them took with them was one dollar. If they need any more they will go into the har vest fields and work. Most of the travel ing will be d early in the morning and from in the evening up un ti 10 night, were In Jersey Shore 1 Wednesday gessed a game o'clock | oS Hollaba Altenderfer Harol Jared For slept out oe a gl in ws t | | A istomed belal me ) o'clock al on o'clock They ARG wil of ball between Belle fonte and the team at that place. They went down the Bald Eagle and expect to return by Nittany valley Little Girl Shot. On Saturday Emina, the eight.years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Miller, of east High street, was injured by being shot in the leg. A shot gun was standing in the kitchen which her brother took up and arriving at the door he pulled the trigger, not knowing it was loaded. The load of bird shot the screen door and struck the leg of the young lady who was sitting on the porch, er screams brought to ber aid her uncle Edward Miller, who carried her into the house, The physician abstracted from her leg about forty shot from the foot. The wounds have been thoroughly cleansed #0 that there is little danger ot blood. poison Had the shot been larger the Jouns lady would have been crippled or lite. Suicide at Flemington Nelson Faulkner, an aged resident of Flemington, was found early Tuesda morning lying in a stu from whic he could not Be aro by members of the family, An empty bottle on the stand, which was labeled *‘laudanum,” was evidence that he had swollowed the deadly contents with the intention, no dab, of ending ha oy existence, as he was 70 years , and no longer able to earn a Tvelihood, when even younger men were without work, Ar ‘MANY DEATHS THE PAST TWO WEEKS [CITIZENS OF OUR TOWN AND OVER THE COUNTY BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Gathered in by The Grim Reaper— Who They Were And Where They Lived--Friends Who Mourne Their Last Ailmeant Hira JACK 1 l poon. He was born was aged 706 years s of year age he settled ducted the hotel ti to MJdlheim and , afterwards moved nd kept th nion hotel three years, then went farming Dear Salona, then moved to Lock Saves {and went into the dairying business. At | Lock Haven he became a member of the | Lutheran church by his widow, two lohn B.. of Howard of Deceased is survived sons, Howard M., and one d Millbheir | Lae Der: 1906; aged She was a ¢ United Evangel L11r vived | \ . on “" 1% noest UBRES band WO « being one month She mourned by her aged parents Bax » her 1 hildren, tl} 1 oid ~ 5 Ais0 esday ’ SAN died on 1 home in Gatesburg, o She was the wife been sick one week death claimed Was born of OU M disease Susan Barr when Gatesburg where she was i riage to O. P. Barr, who with one daugh ter, Miss Aan at home, and a son, Al, in South Carolina, mourn her death She also leaves the following brothers nd Miles Harpster, Stewart Harpster, John Harpster, all of Pean sylvania Furnace; Wm. Harpster, Mrs T. F. Grazier, of Tyrone; Mrs. T. R Dubbs, Philipsburg Interment in Gatesburg cemetery, Mas sisters Sana Hess: widow of the late | William Hess, deceased, a half-brother {of Michael Hess, late of Bellefonte, dec'd, who has been ill for three months | with a complication of diseases, died | Hedusedsy afternoon at the home of | her daughter, Mrs, 13a Rothrock, in Philipsbarg. The deceased, whose maiden name was Miss Sarah Eisen. | haver, was born February 28, 1832, near | Middleburg. She was married at her | home in arch, 1854, to William Hess, a | native of Centre county, who died about [two years ago. She was the mother of {three children, all of whom survive, viz: Charles C., remading near that city; | Frank W., of Sandy Ridge, and Mrs Ida Rothrock, also of Philipsburg, to ther with one sister, Mrs. Lucinda owen, of Snyder county, last C, | received the sad news of the death of {his daughter, Mrs. Wm, Hunsi Y | For more than two years Mr, and Mrs, Hunsinger have been living in the city |of Denver, Col,, where her death occur: July 1st the husband, brother and sister of the deceased left Denver with the remains arriving at the home of their parents at Woodward on Monday fore- uly 5. Funeral services took . Mrs, Wu, Hunsinger: On June 30 W. Hosterman, of Woodward, | Vol, 32. Neo. 27 (In our obituary notice last Mrs. Wm. Zerby. error was made, have read sons-—-En.) | Rev. J]. Lysy Mion captain for forty years of the Western Penitentiary, Allegheny city, died at the residence of n-law J New- ) / He VanTries, week of of Gregg Twp., an Chas, C. Zerby should Elias C. Zerby" as one of her AN his brother Pa.. broti port, was of a Bellef recognized birt ng ce Of a large wor nara] * eral Lake nterment nlern 1 At Lancaster J. Ams a well yiertown, died at place on Tuesday, Jul ceased, who was aged came {rom Maine before with the Blanchards bermen, | i He | ring life, and owned much « Winburne now st who was a with one now located uel Nor , of Kylertown. Joux Newmax:—a well known citi- zen, of Philipsburg, died very suddealy Sanday wight the result of heart failure.’ a well an near nearly oll JW EL i 1¢ land His aged ves, logetlher Charles D. Ames, and Mrs. f+) N hiladelphia, | He had gotten out of bed and gone down stairs to get a drink of water, almost i cross a table, t hand, the over onto members stair and was January Years, He was a soldie % ico : a : Qeceased JACe age on \:=died in the Sunday evening. health some was able to be about of the serious natur June 3oth, she sub- a serious operation that re} large fybroid tumor that was The operation proved a great shock to ber system and later poeumonia developed, from which she died. She was a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John Anderson, of Bellefonte, both of whom are deceased. Early in life she chose her occupation and has offices of her places, in which ient. For some regularly em- She 18 sur and sis Mrs Her age Ices were ter, Mrs. luter Poor : ae for } Were aware ment On Varmous rh : vr r brothers ng { Cassidy, John J Decker, Carrie and Charles was 38 years. The funeral sers held at the home of her Decker, on Wednesday morn ment in the Union cemetery % mn in £ Cuaxres Convrx Brrr: died very sud. denly at his home in Huntingdon, on Monday morning, July sth, of apoplexy. He had been in the best of health and went out to the fair grounds with his wife and daughter to see the sports. LAbout 3 o'clock in the afternoon he took A severe pain in the stomach, and leav- ing the fair grounds he boarded a street {car and started home. A physician bap- { pened 10 be on the car who took charge {of him as he gradually became worse, About § o'clock he went into a comatose state, and at 10 o'clock the vital spark fled. The deceased was born at Aarons | burg where he resided until he was 20 | years of age when he came to Bellefonte | where he took contracts for laying brick {and stone. In March, 1872, he was | married to Miss Catherine Weaver, of | Anronsburg. He remained here until January, 1898, when he went to Hunting: don where he secured a position in the Huntingdon Reformatory as instructor in plastering, brick laying and stone | maton where he Prose a valuable ( man, fe is survi by his wife and the following children = John, of Wil kinsburg; Harry, Andrew, Earl and Mrs, Frank Patton, of Huntingdon. He is also mourned by two sisters and one brother, Mrs, Thomas Hull, of Aaronsburg: Mrs udge Webb, of Huston, Texas; and coke, of Reading. Interment was made in the Riverview cemetery at that place Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust on Monday directed prosecution to be entered in several counties, among these
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