Page 8. i albend THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday, July 22, 1909 CORRESPONDENTS DEPARTMENT Continued from 7th pag: HOWARD. On next Sabbath there will be preach. ing in the several churches in our town, and at the appointments which centre here as follows : St, Bernard's Catholic—At 10.30 a. m, Rev. A. O'Hanlon, pastor, will say Mass and preach a sermon, Church of Christ—Elder J. O. D.Tom~ son will preach at Howard at 10.30 a. m, and 7:3)» p.m. and Mt, Eagle at 2 30 p.m, United Evangelical—Rev. W. W, Rhoads will preach at Jacksonville at 10.30 a. m,, and at Howard at 7.30 p. m, Reformed —F'reaching at Howard 10.30 ; Marsh Creek at 2.30, and Jack sopville at 7.30,by Rev. H, 1. Crow. Christian Chapel —Pastor W, H. Pat- | terson, (Disciple) will preach at 7.30 in| the evening. Methodist Episcopal—Rev. R, H.,Tay lor will preach at Beech Creek at 10.30 | a. m, and at 7.30 p. m., with communion in the morning, and at Hunter's Run at | 2.30p. m. Members will be received at both places. A number of refresning showers have passed around us on all sides during the | week, carrying refreshment and profit to our neighbors in whose good fortune we rejoice, but in this immediate neigh- | borhood our crops are still thirsting and our soil is dry and hard. Nevertheless, we do not complain, The bright sun | and drying breezes, with cool nights for sleeping, have made harvesting cond | tions just the pest that could be wished | for, and our crops are practically all] housed and in the finest condition. On| Sunday last a steady, strong, almost fierce wind from the west blew almost all day 1g, bringing decidedly cool | weather with and continuing fresh and strong it Monday. sday) morning 1 48 degrees, Muffly, formerly Mary this town, and now widow of Capt. J. W. Muffly, of and former adjutant f Gen. Beaver's 148th laughter Mary, ar >. M. Muffly and ny ler ] B 0 } at | 1 lot long the ie N > also and regiment, e this week's fan his progress 1 tackle ) Walizer, m Smith and Mrs. James Mc Closkey filled big baskets with good lunches, gathered together about a score | of the little ones of their own and their! neighbors’ families and chaperoned | them all down to Butler's woods on the bank of the creek, | a few hours of touch with clean nature. Far, far better than so many hours of street educa tion. M. L. Beck, Frederick Schenck and C. | E. Yearick were a distinguished looking | trio of citizens who boarded No. si for Bellefonte last Saturday. Mrs. J. A Comerford spent Sunday last with her relatives here Why should a le neighborhood of Richard Roes be compelled to build ex peusive 1 ugly. and otherwise un pecessary wire screen fences about their property r work horse fiddles and shot guns all ng to keep and flower beds from unsightly and destroyed’ Be cause one, John Doe, insists upon turn ing loose a score or more of hungry and vigorous half grown sweratchers and a measly old cluck or two, each with a double-geared-moter-cycle-power driven potato digger concealed in each hind leg on their neighbors for their living Martha Kerin, of Moshannon, is a guest of her cousin, Aunie Kaoe The time of the weekly band concert has been changed wisely from Friday to Saturday even The one given last Saturday even: at the R. R. station, was a fine one much appreciated by the large audience, This is a happy thought upon the part of our baud boys and those who are backing them in the movement, and in many ways have a benefice t upon the community Mrs. | Mayes enjoyed a day's visit from her relative, Mrs. R. H. Ir win, of Bellefonte, on Friday last Al wl, a conductor ever the Al toona and Pittsburg division of the P.R R , spent a day or two with his mother here, Theophil 18 seriousiy ing. Sars ]. K. Johnson and children, of | Bellefonte, spent last Friday to Sunday | with her parents, George fohnson and wife Substitute Hayes Schenck 1s doing R F. D. No. 3, for regular William Quay, while he is getting his bay and grain cut and hauled. A large rhododendron, probably 6 or 8 years old, taken from its woody home last October and planted in a shady cor- ner of one of our town lots, is {now re- warding its captor and loving caretaker with more than thirty magnificent blooms, A fine example of successfully transplanting the wild beauties of the mountains into the gardens and the af- fections of our home lives. A few weeks ago we referred to the somewhat unusual number of our ven- erable citizens-~between the ages of So and gt—now living in our community, and now we record another interesting characteristic of our borough population in that it contains four households, each consisting of only two persons of mature age, one man and one woman, and in each case they are brother and sister, neither of them ever having been mar ried. They are Cordilla and S, Hunter Thomas, Martha and John T. Turner, Mary E. and David Thompson Allison, and Ela E, and Frank T. Butler. The five bigjleathers brothers were all at home over Sunday, Edmund Pletcher, the only son and child of the late Emanuel Pletcher, now of Toledo, and connected with the Na. tional Cash Register Company, is Spanding his vacation among his 8. Mrs. Lionel Walker, of Mill Hall, was a visitor at her old home between trains on Saturday. Alva Weirick spent last Sabbath with his ts, Mrs, R. C. Leathers is entertai ay |i er g r gardens | being torn into masses worm one to forage ng Bech us Pletcher, of the township, ill, though slowly improv | mains of the dear departed ;” and a | making goat pastures of them | no more a believer in ‘‘dreams coming | | his garde | ing youn : crowding hb oa $ r ont husy | ately got busy, Ber step granddaughter, Jennie Hart: . zog, and her frinnd, Caroline Apgar,both of Easton, Pa. Our handsome town is growing from year to year in its well deserved reputa- | tion for tidiness, neatness and cleanli- | ness, because there is an increasingly large proportion of our privaie citizens and property holders who have personal pride and public spirit enough to see to it that their own premises and the streets and alleys adioining them are kept clear of all ash piles, ston2 piles, wood piles, dirt piles, tin cans, broken trockery and the like, and are neatly | mowed, “swept and garnished,” from | time to time, Perhaps it is also because | the general public maintains, as a back: | round, and to make a sharp contrast, a arge school ground which is literally covered, from corner to corner with a well developed crop of *‘reedbloom™ now | in full bloom, severalichurches adorned on all sides with the tall, brown stems of | { cone docks going to seed, and milk weed { and all sorts of other weeds in | uriance ; a cemetery more than half of rank lux whicn is overgrown with every conceiv | { able kind of foul growth from thistles to | poison ivy as high as the fence, feeding upon the fertility provided by ‘‘the re. certain proportion of public streets and alleys which would be improved by “What's everybody's business busi ness, Mrs. Irvin G. Lucas was visitor on Saturday. Mrs. George Long has returned from an extended visit with relatives in Belle fonte and Spring tovsaship, S. W. Mulhollen, of Altoona, hrough town on Monday. Frank Naginey, of Bellefonte his auto down here last week and upon his friend Capt. Bennison. Although ‘Squire Hayes Schenck stil carries his arm in a sling, he says he is is nobody's Mill a Hall assed drove called 1 | true"than he was before his house really did catch fire the other day. Luckily it was easily extinguished by the n hose, because of the fine we have on our water works, The wireless brings news little daughter at the he don, of Harry Robb and wif formerly Evel now ure me in Robb was Howard, and Hi: he Refor experient : i W.H. G Sabb ith Mitchell I ve aown Butler woods at t i$ visiting at home this week On Saturday afternoon ; z man who prov Hendricks, f bought a ing to s Kline & Wolf, what purported to be a cheque of W Shaffer, of Mill Hall, for $36.70, Kline promptly cashed it, givin young fellow the change, a few more than $50. He seemed to be | i hurry, saying he wanted to take train | No. ss at 4.17. Later in the afternoon | goods than six dollar 1 in payment ol ¥ | Mr. Wolf took the cheque to bank for deposit, when the trained eye of cashier Rogers noted that it had been raise from $6 70, : before the y 3 3 DIY Dla Piy pa » enough for by Mr. Sha se Dg a warran t the train had pass. it town for their Sunday morning they ith wer LeRoy After follos his Bellefonte where driokiog ided the ou looked "Squire Schenck, ed and the man LOOK u : Ww Leather trail through spent money in where be had atte festiv a couple of girls ; and Milesburg, where 1 about kinthe n 1g at Kohlibes about goclock S ving leizurely along hired the the hill abo [A 3 1a nd a ae anaes one Oo Cock gh MN i » 11 ra id slep til morn rey canght him afternoon, dr livery ni i ’ ker's, unday in a before about near Howard Tipton's, Officer Leathers brought him to Howard, keeping him all night at the Howard hotel. On Monday morning he was arraigned before ‘Squire bcehenck, plead guilty and in default of bail, mitted to jail for trial Corporal Clyde Z Long and pr C. L. McKinley, James Bathurst, L.. ( Butler, R. L.. Shay, Asbury Pletcher, J. H. Shay and Vioton R. Schenck stitute Howard's quota of soldier 1 in Co. B, which will leave for camp ight i“ oom ivates at | Somerset this afternoon A new, many-jointed, leather-uphol- stered and oil-supported chair in Billy Shay’s barber shop is an improgement which is only the forerunner of others which will add to the comfort of his cus- | tomers. | The annual fishing picnic of the Weber family was held Wednesday ‘““down on the farm" which has beautiful shady | | nooks on the north bank of the creek, | and was greatly enjoyed by all, includ. ing guests from lowa. Mrs, Daniel M. Schenck, of Hagers- town, Md , died there last Saturday, and was buried at Howard in Schenck's cem- etery on Tuesday , funeral services hav in n conducted tn the United Evaon- elical church by her former tor, ev, J. R, Sechnst. Mrs, Schenck was formerly Maria Elizabeth Wetzler, born in Northhampton Dec. 25, 1840, and married to D. M. Schenck in Howard Dec. 28, 1865, and they were prominent citizens of this place for many years, moving to Hagerstown about 11 years ago. lL. F, Wetzler, of Milesburg, and rs, Carpenter Miller, of Howard, are| brother and sister of Mrs, Schenck, and | the following named children survive | her : Mrs, Charles Engle, Portsmouth, | Ohio ; Wm. W., Howard ; Eleanor ]J., Boalsburg ; Glenn S,, Bellwood ; Mrs, Thomas B. Gray, Waynesboro ; Mrs, Bertha Berry and Effie L,, Hagers. town, Mrs, Jackson Kline enjoyed a week end visit with Marion township friends Secretary R, ,W. Matthews, of the Lock Haven Y. M. C. A. and a dozen or so members of jthe Boys’ Department age camping in the woods back of the time ot x M. Butler, and baving]a week or so of sane, rational and devel ng recreation, w Mrs, William Weber and Miss Heusy! spent Tuesday in i.ock Haven, The ball {| at home { sickles which the far | appeared. | county, not far from t scriptural prediction that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, and in a condition to play nothing but “mum- ble de peg" hereafter, REBERSBURG. During the thunderstorm of Thursday a bolt of lightning descended into the | haymow of James Corman and fired it, | For an hour the whole town was excite- ment. Snyder Miller led the attack to save the barn, and the hose companies, | which were womanfully supported by a bucket brigade, led by Mrs, Evans, soon extinguished the fire, It was, however, necessary to tear off the side of the barn to get at the hay, Mr. Corman was not at the time. The barn and contents were fully insured. Many supposed that the mountains were on fire in the East End where they saw the pillar of smoke arise, before the refreshing shower. It was only a clear ing fire, Rev, Frank Wetzel, of the Reformed church, is a grandson of the famous Henry Wetzel, whose name was a house hold word in Pennsylvania among the last generation of reapers—for, on the mers used as late as 1860, his name was engraved as the maker, Like all the artizans of that Mr. Wetzel, *‘grand pere,” worked by hand he process of making a sickle with its fine, sharp teeth like a saw, was simple, though tedious. Instead of day (using a file, as some now suppose, he | used a very fine punch and a hammer, which latter instrument was last in tl possession of the grandson, but has Mr. Wetzel is accumuls all the sickles he can get with the of his ancestor upon them—for his fam ily. The ancestor lived and did his work in a shop on Middle Creek, in be present of Kramer, on the Lewistowst was a descendant of the fam family of the early French and wars, one of whom, tradition Lewi It is related ti Indian tells was named t Lewis Wetzel and a ¢ ympanion were i an out hunting JUL BUR 4 in 1 they discovered a sin ; now-but t s several Indians, the forest would m 1 {rack in there mu they at their mo D fF shipped twelve bu irtis Bierley, Dent ring ten cents Sholl is mother at Rebersbu Columbus, not * who discovered An plain Columbus the old iron and gu shoe merchant, was in the valley other day gathering relics. 4 There was here recently a curio dealer from Lancaster, Pa., and he gathered in the rare old plates of the old folks. | Among the plates, he secured one from George Weaver, the patriarch, which he valued at thirty dollars when i He paid ! But Mr never in a lumbo.* 1 he oo ¥ . ie got it safe brandy and stored wholesome dr the | they use mos odd it In 1 smart to counted grace even g har, and } DOSCIS Now that the Dem: | with Loganton ot Saturday thaler, it ought to chew up the woody | correspondence and spit it out like light- ning on a summer's night Hooray for the fishers of Fishing Creek !| When they get through we will go over to Dan Ruhl and get some trout | 20 to 25 inches long. Dan, don't let them out to grass when those Bellefonte soar ers are down in Culvey's Gap. George Haines and wife and Prof} C. L. Gramley and wife have been spend ing some weeks at that wicked place called Atlantic City, sniffing the saline | breezes and watching the summer fash. ions glide by, like the ghosts of Gomor- rah! ‘They returned Saturday and have some sea.serpent tales to tell, | The wheat is nearly harvested, It is about half a crop and the weevil has again Sppedrod. This little insect, which destroyed all the wheat from to 1860, is about as bad as the Republican Trust cormorants. It consumes every thing ahead of the producer, while trusts rob both the producer and sumer, as long as they can eyes shut on election day, It has been discovered that Canada thistles h are the thi of rare medicinal virtue for such diseases as rheumatism, palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration and automobiliana, a new form of lunacy, Thi is due to a Dutch scientist make wand Canada roots so great that the pest will effaced. You dig up the souse then genuine 1857 the con. plaster their roots of bloom now rools—are discovery and it should thistle 5000 be MLS ’ the den for intl ¢ Oia Ty N © ree times a day. ranted to cure chronic cases. Charlie Woodling and wife ville, Spangler and wife the famous Kentu Wg minelled dave compelled about a gil are iting with Mr. Woodling Ky the Republican rice for the best weed Ky., 1 » lel might trust to pay th 35 nat grows in Mr. and Mrs ell 1 nt a few days at the home of their parents in Rebersbut The Rebersburg ball team will engage at Logan ton, on the gory field, FERGUSON TwP Baileyville McWill rons | 18 LOGANTON. John HH. Fidler on Friday The Sugar Valley to be held at 7, 1009, and the ments is p make It the of the kind are invited Chas. E visit from holds a hospital Jennie Boone, wife of merchant G Boone, died on Saturday night after to peritonitis She was on the pick list Teachers’ reunion Greenburr August committee on arrange forth every effort to most on ting successful All old and new teachers ittend is home on a 10-days’ Station, where he position in large to Wine Hoyoe Juerative fi 3 a prolonged sicknes due aged 25 years survived by her } ents, John Brown ff friends her demise months band and her and wife and a host will regret to hear of knew her but to kind ghbor, friend. Funer- forenoon, Rev officiating Ser- ¥ : is par- who None Bhe was a true Tuesday Rosenberger the cal ne wife and a ] ices on house and burial in the cemeter caughter reunion 4, F. M noon sat sulting rhe her 1’ Tuesday tuth | : ited spending a short of Jacob Myers in Greene Ralnh over 8B Lives Mrs from Held Gramley’s ( umatism ed bs grandparents Baturday after- {f 1 years, death re- protracted siege of heart She Is pur- parents, two sisters and Interment In the Evangelical cemetery, on afternoor Hubler, of Rebersburg, Is vacation at the home township. was in town the age of from of the her Berry, of Vilas, day greeting friends and rela- returned H M Williams Karstetter has sit with United Ev. En- the 1, spent Klech- i a eens a A Ed REDUCTION SALE OF OXFORDS AT KLINE'S SHOE STORE In order to make room for our Fall Winter Shoes I am compelled to reduce my stock and am therefore offering all oxfords at a greatly reduced price. The oxford season is now fairly on and if you wish a bargain call and ex- amine our styles before going elsewhere. and Eee ss asa a a AAAs AALS Aa Anas ad a AA Anaad a HENRY KLINE. BELLEEONTE, PA. Aaa AE aa A AAAs saad SPREE IED PPP EP Ebb b rb bbb bP ERP ERR RPR ER RRR RRR RRR EERE R Re ROUND-TRI?P RATE PICTURESQUE SJSQU hE MOS w= PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PERSONALLY - CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS NIAGARA FALLS July 28, Asgust 11, 235, Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 1909. $7.10 from Bellefonte I» 1 aLIowe at ) tained from Ticket A EMANNA 7) FIFTEEN EY ROUTE DAYS ad late of Buffalo returning gents. GEO. W. BOYD ral Passenger Agent REDUCTIONS that are true and honest reductions All this season's newest styles End of the Season at oraer 10 BRR RRR RRR rR RNR ts N NR Re star teats esse sees e nie na ssieeeeeees eerie esseeesesseeeeeseeeee GOODS have not been marked high mark down CLEARANCE SALE $10.00 Suits, 12.00 Suits, 15.00 Suits, 18.00 Suits, 20.00 Suits, NNER RNNNNNRNNNNNNNRNNNNRNNRRRNNRRNNRRNNNRNIRRNNRRRRRRRRRRES These prices go in force at once and last until August Ist. | You'll find this sale means much to the thrifty man. To those who have waited for this (and there're many who know our sales so be as much over other highly inllated sales as this store is day in and day out over others.) MEN'S SUITS AND TROUSERS reduced to $ 6.66 reduced to reduced to reduced to reduced to 7.90 9.85 11.90 13.50 $25.00 Suits, Boys’ Suits, We say ready, with the greatest money-saving opportunities we have as yet ever offered. SIM, THE CLOTHIER BELLEFONTE, PA. CULL ALAA ALAA LLL LLL LLL LLL LEE] CORRECT DRESS T HAS been our custom each season, towards the close of the season to make big reduc- tions in the piece of all clothes on hand, so as to have nothing but new styles ever to offer, and make room for incoming stock. For this season our reductions will ger than usual-but we are determined to clear our racks and tables. You'll find good se- lections of the newest season's styles, and all reductions positively as advertised. reduced to $18.51 Men's Trousers, one-third off one-third off Boys’ Wash Suits, one-half pr. All Straw Hats, No goods charged at these prices. one-half pr. season be big- CAA LL rr nt a ee ee RR LR EER RR RRR RR RR RR
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