Circulation Over 5,700 Both Phones t emo - vy - al. Best Advertising Medium In Centre County Everybody Reads It Circulation Over My, —Largest WORK TO BEA ON NEW DEATH HOUSE MUST BE ERECTED SOON TO COMPLY WITH ACT. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUILDING Will Be a Concrete Structure 32x228 Feet in Dimension, and Built Two Stories High—All Executions Will Take Place Therein. of the sight of as Rockview, this be located the first “death house” for the electrocution of condemned murderers ever in Pennsylvania. Passengers in the fu- ture can see from the trains on the Lewisburg branch, the building where those convicted of the high crime of murder must answer to their fellow- men for their misdeeds The site to the little hill the brow in known Just on the southwest and flag station county, will erected has already been staked out and work on its construction will QIWOWE IXPU SY] IM PIJUIWWIOD aq The last legislature passed an act abolishing the rope for capital pune ishment upon persons convicted of murder committed after the approval of the act, which occurred on July 19. An appropriation of $50,000 was made for the construction and equip- ment of the death house. The death house will what was the Dreese be built of reinforced tories in height. The ing will be about 228 313%, feet wide. On the be the apparatus for heating and lighting purposes and other machin- ery and offices for the officials in charge. In the centre will be a large hall leading the second floor To the right of this hal ond floor will be th i the condemned men awaiting tion wi confined. There SIX « Is and a bath room tion. execution room be on the second floor to the main hall In tt the condemned first execution will be and ph: the post also be visitors trocution be erected on farm and concrete, two main build- feet long and first floor wil up t uj to e cell hos execu will be : SOC inn t} electric « A man entering t} At witness Next n ro ‘here room jury He the ans. mortem rooms in The bids apparatus includis the Adams Ele t N. J its detail materia phia, Pa nd particular. The 1 SUL J40J DUR BULDTAOLE Ski ie dO MO Late § fitting up of the etrical ars .y are « bids for the Separate Spe fl R heating constru of materials On tative lege Penitent 80 far ac ing of the country its inf: seen show wealth pr fortunate a beautiful clear and ing suppl ideal place of ary omplis what pre greatest penal While hed institutio Y i ’ § Getting off station (formerly are within sight office, now located on what was the Crust This has and cosily fitted tne train at wk Peru station) of the main in the farm farm of Reuben been comfortably up the offices Warden John Franc and here tb administration of affairs is directed A short distance from the ation immense stone rusher w busily engaged in crua the roads now rapidly structed to all parts of tiary ground Opposite a freight house erected tentiary for receiving ana ing of freight A walk of about minutes er the brow of the to the west brings vou t what now the main prison and the of the principal activities the old stone farm Ishler farm the ell barred vindows h only sign prison is the main apartment dows are birds singing not a care or world The fitted up there are 14 jew as i TH } for being the peniten station the the by peni- send- five hill in ene the Ov 0 oT Here house on IH hot se The the in YW or that the gre bright and cherry nt } wine hanging Ar Ale indic inds On office, a and AgeR Ate are fle containir as If there all this the house in each room on which the prisoners sleep. Just t show how kind and thoughtful the officers the prisoners, whose duties require them to arise the earliest in morning, are placed down stairs as not to awaken the balance of sleeping men. There are 42 quartered In this building at pres ent. Down in the Lutz farm house near the College road, 22 men are domiciled, making 64 prisoners in all now at the penitentiary. Since the work began there have heen 132 men brought here from Pittsburg, many of whom have left, their time having expired. The termbk which the men now on the ground have to serve, range from eighteen months to three years. The last man brought here has over a year to serve. At pres. ent the men take thelr meals in what was formerly the Ishler barn which sweetly HOPTOW balance wns in big of nas cells and eight ots #0 the men (Coontinued on 4th page.) in Centre county. will | of Runville, Last Saturday easant gathering of the of Mr. Charles Runville Held A} neighbors his home last week, was the Mr. Lucas on birthday The and the er of them being Mrs. Evan Wagner, Mr Mr. and Mrs and Mrs Lucas, Erby Donald and Mrs | and lat of | {ed upon | eightieth delightful brought a num amaor L.ucgs, Mr ind Mrs A. O..] Himstead, vis, Mrs. T. G Mountain, Mrs tin Kenneth, Huffard, Mp Heaton, of Greenwood, dents, of Runville; Mr B. Lucas, of Fairview; J C Witmer of { neighbors of Mr preseht the Mrs Lucas, Saturday bestow « on honor reaching day morning train guests from Al one toons Hina Ira JUCAs Mr Mi Mrs A Lucas, and Ww. WwW. L Mra. C C. ‘Huffard, Mar- Lucas, Gerald George former resi- and Mrs, R Mr. and Mrs, Bellefonte. The Lucas who were following Mr Hancock, Mr and Mrs George Mrs, Cornelius Friel, H. F. Irvin, Chas Resides, Mrs. Lucy Hannah Miss Mr. an and reside in party and seated had was taken Iinging mus; Ww of were Elias John, Mr Mr. and Sommers Mrs. Addie Poormar ter Edward Gros ero vddition Heaton, sonvin Mr. Lucas The entire eighty-four group when repast which ifternoon Mrs and Lucas, Kunes, Mas- Lucy d Mrs, 1. J daughter of the numbered formed a 10 ) in law who home about {oy bountiful prepared Tt with con- renderir furnish - assisted by in we Mr took a nict group which when another asion the heen up versation, and r the Davis others in- strumental ed by Mrs a number lections entire iatter wal ire finish- fea Oe whom and the REACHED 80th BIRTHDAY. the Important Event. Thursda the 80th an | WAS 5] on- | pment} | sneak je prison | house | of | elon | y an | i In con- | is | | jury in | the | wl {standing inl | pursued | sireet are, r the | WwW. Shamp ial party Mingoville gerved and pleasant Frank 3 ! JON ner will | | Misses Mar Alters, 1 An ANAT | 34 county Samuel Sproul, Mrs Harr An : MALT |} Eyer - i Ady - Huntimgdon wore At B Ros Mian whe Mra sh A ra Harr Gertie and fam m Preacher After Chicken Thieves There parson loading his Dawson X ard and found ¢ outside vard Let all prowlers Rev. Keller's home that of neighbor's take warning. for he shoots to hit and not simply to scare afterw ens all th Ware es and missing night at ut his or Decapitated by Train. Reidle, of Orviston, construction train of railroad, was instantly pear that place Saturday about 5:30 o'clock, by being freight He was terribly his head and both feet having cut off From some of the ev adduced at the coroners Inquest, was thought that he deliberately on the track However the returned a verdict of Hans the ~ the N killed evening struck by mangled been dence coroner's accidental death The Years mains burial abou The Hianchard WINE mar aged and was unmarried vere taken to was re- One Way of Settling It. Friday evening's Altoona RAVE “Proprietor Thomas thy. the Fifth Ward Hotel ifter midnight this morning, two men Interfering with in front of the when he told them to quit, a vile remark about the daughter, and then ran him across the Seventeenth bridge, caught him and, affr administering a severe beating, to police station, reported the and left security for his at a hearing tonight’ Mirror Moar. shortly found auto, and, made proprietor's MceCarthy of his hotel one Postoffice Takes Stock. The postoffice at jellefonte and postofficen all over the United States began Monday taking Inventories to learn the value of all department prop erty and equipment. The work will go on until an inventory in minutest detall has been completed in every one of Uncle Bam's 58,000 postoffices and their branches throughout the United States and Insular possessions, ns well as in all the mall cars. The inventory is expected to take several months, weflee “Dear Uncle Billy” at the op- era house Monday night, friends | his | was a | Franklyn | Da- | Ww. | ind | Rev. | Smover, | and Ida | Smoy- | ous | Swisher BS or}! Others H 1 [at employed | it | nid | that | particular | show | count | time went | back affair | appearance ministrator | gan, | Rush Lg] w————— " — SEPTEMBER COU | LIST OF CIVIL CASES THAT WE DISPOSED OF | ‘ALL JURORS WERE DISCHARGES URSDAY. OCTOBER 2nd, 1913, STATE COLLEGE'S NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WILL BE FORMALLY DEDICATED ON SUNDAY, ERECTED AT COST OF $50,000. | Foreigner Who Assaulted John Rous Identified as Man whe Held Two Ladies in Rush Township Prisoners Not Yet Sentenced. Court convened o ten n Monday morn The list of jur alled XCuse allowed fo sufficient reasons, umber motions and pe presented by the Severs of the WALT heard ¢ Of on B tuder Biuaqer ing ors was good and which a 1» titions at ao of AS { members were ang disposed ] Spangler, Ivag nt at law for the past years In Mr. Spanglers office and who passed 1 satisfactory “Xe amination before State Bar Ex< amining Hoard, was admitted to Prac « t the veral courts of Centre on mot Walker, a three the in ounty Hi Il cases heretofors Aan on last week's list and reported were follows : Clement Dale estate executo Austin 8 Gray, Pearl appen Ww terms of iment ‘onfer and John G 1 f (i. Antis NE cs IY kenge Sen ing IEent ued being pending Ants « an ns « selt Cone Chester L. settled be an second 3 over nd the f David week's Aan trial Monday cases disposed William Hq Rebecca Welsh, list was wing sey oli of f Elsie Mot SN. Falls Pp Med "loskes Emma Friends of Mingoville Man Celebrate | | va, Thomas and BAITS ti Same Cause Dh William #Cthm In tres. sufered a vol request of his ‘aul Rusno ndersor i enice Fie wing an ASS And. Lhe. peda til mary hon-sdit nt the " 2:1 E. Gm) #. Thomas R tr r et Ja Filler Weber, 3 P men on i i from them bread and meat en, alias Kappl convicted bers in brought venport sworn Black Moshannon September Kornias- v Inst week ne of the highway rob. the Millhelm Narrows was into con Mrs. Maude Da. being stated she lived and the 13th to Philipsburg company with Mary Miller and on ir return home had been held three men ne Bilger's Hill. The man t! and demanded whistled and two more ed and demanded thelr Davy port positively prisoner in as the man who had caught the lines and stopped their and did the whistling. She told all three of the men wore dark clothes Misa Miller, Mra ympanion corroborated of Mrs. Davenport in every and further stated that she vas positive the man in court was the man held the horse, and that he was the man who had taken the Bread and meat out of the buggy. and that she would never forget face This testimony was brought in. to court for the purpose of further identification of the prisoner and to that the robbers In the Millheim Narrows were the same who had rob- bed these women near Philipsburg just an few days before. of which an ac. was given in this paper at the The prisoner was remanded to jall John Nolan of was one irt mn ’ i had been ar Run one had stopped "Mon" men he horse Appear money Mrs identified the on court horse port's estimony that who ve. Martin Nolan, ad. eto of Patrick Flana« deconred This case Is from Township and Is an action brought to recover for six years board ing with the plaintiff at the rate of $20 per month, $5 per month to be credited on accoant of an indebted. ness, and $156 per month to be pald In cash. $156 per month was paid by the decedent for six months of each year, There was no defense by the adminis. trator and verdict was rendered In favor of the plaintiff for $900, Mrs. Kate E. Hastings, as an indi. vidual, va, Kate BE. Hastings, admin- istratrix of ete, of Enoch H., Hastings, deceased. This action Is brought te recover for moneys loaned by Mrs, h A Handsome and Imposing Edifice of afte dispos- | mtiin- |} Con- | ap- ! morning | over, | Johnston, | up | on Forge | He | Daven | the | his | Gothic Architecture—Commodiously Planned to Accommodate Students Attending Penna. State College. caslon of Importance and In- to the congregation State as well throughout m of § An E Le, ont i Colley: 81 eral the dedi ¢huret | Slate | Sth, program, appropriate to { dy and event, hag been prepared, and | the services will no doubt be attend- { #l by people from all over the state { The sermon be preached by Rey { Joseph W. Cochran, D. D, tary { of ti Board of Education at Presbyterians the state, will the handsome ne that congregation Sunday (8 ns in be Ww at tober ati built by College, next the Be re and th Kel- | Amanda | the § Huntin % o Chon GLI Provent i 101} nd mot 1 the Pres gdon f wi h looking forward low af this new edid on Friday evening Pre HA seImon pr first mmunion : Hinte i, Wiki De October arator } 4 eid 8 A beaut ore s of mstructed caver As street, ter commanding a view below It was pl ) ned elaborateness dious for the w he new ho of » ge i= the : ifter the Ae had al Tars the ted at | in Hh enue i far direct sireet the manxiy J sirateq AKO i hur country began to UNE men e universities ontact with their irch, and that e¢ at their # graduntes train in the hes r be nroughout aware that the r stat becoming Incked denomination however good the college they came having a four years with a subsequent great mental outlook, and in meantime had grown from hurch life. It was determined by denominational churches that ndition must be remedied by ling a church relationship for the nt during his four years’ course it his church life might grow with his mental development reached Pennsylvania some years ago, and developing Presbyterians began matter about eight weir plans are now e mpietion of this chur State College terian church which porting and thriving, benevolences, and students at bos out mer hange the thelr away gover Bion; The the ‘ bear TT and t +h len sl has lowly to consid YOArs Ago, achieved In beautiful new had a Presby- was self-sup- a good glver to not in any sense an organization needing ald, but its bullding was too small to permit taking up this new idea, and the con gregution was numerisally too small to undertake the erection of a suit able hullding. The scheme was there- fore evolved of having the local church supply what funds it would need to build for itself a bullding ade- quate for local needs, and to have the Presbyterians throughout the state, organized as the Synod of Pennsylva« nia, supply sufficient funds to make the building large enough to give church advantages to their sons and daughters attending State College. The agent collecting these funds was to be the Board of Education of the Presbyterian church, which has su- pervision over the student life within this denomination, throughout the United States. A little more than a years ago sufficient financial support had been given to the scheme to jus- tify the building committee In pro. ceeding with the work. It was prac- tically finished by the first day of September, Even In the small bulld- ing A considerable number of stu- dents attended the Sunday school and (Continued on 4th page.) (Continued at bottom of next col.) | James | Fred tand dazed | Maxwell from | its | FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT. cours Near Philipsburg Last day Afternoon. fatal automobile Maxwell, g¢ Sommervi the un- cident cl neral tr James the Carnworth near Phillpsburg on noon. The Journal s The car, a five passenger owned and drive Mr. Maxwell was going with a party to Morris- his mother's Besides him- cupant of the car were brother, Joseph, Fred Willlams J. Lloyd and Andrew Draid were running at a high rate and in some un ountable control of car, and in trying to get control car ran off the road and turned turtle, falling Maxwell and pinning him earth, face down Mr. David his right shoulder broken and ed other painful | had several cont face badl bruised Wi man Coal Co. a irred after ager of Was OC ave Ford, wa n oy he of speed, way lost ac the the on the had were merels The tty in attention ut crit mt addit} The deceased taken f IY su perintend a i Mo = in } exe i nt hi tie sg uart var ’ wl vision with nig Silo Building Attracts Many e Pennsyivar Rtate Colic ¢ ARAVANLaAges { lage nited 3] in Department ire a4 reganizatio ve ar hem Regardless ¢ iT ve head CR | investmen Renewed atte 4 wunty interest Lining While in taken in Centre numerous ounty, hundreds of farms vd vith them, though their ne wity an convenience is read agriculturists at State «( cess of the concrete struct college stimulate 1} the being Ving Are and dair there lege Su { out “Fine Feathery inst Monday | splendid by alr at evening attraction and appre the opera house proved a most and was greeted lative audience other services of within a few pletion of the attendance in {plan is about | Presbyterian dents being {may bring such letters to | Colle ge as will admit them | members, thus giving them home without severing their tion with thelr home church Many prominent Presbyterians Pennsylvania are interested in new move and have contributed erally to It Mr. Alba B president works, and elder §n the Presbyterian church at Bryn Mawr, is a member of the bullding commitiee. He has pre- sented the church with a splendid bronze bell, weighing 2,000 pounds, Mrs Dr. Turner, of Philadelphia, whose husband was a former member of the Board of Education, gave the church a Haskell pipe organ. Pro- fessor John Hamilton, one of the founders of the church and an Elder since its organization, has presented a beautiful art window With the In- scription, “To the Memory of the Founders of This Church” Other donors have gives gifts of furniture and money. he pastor is the Rev, Samuel Martin, a graduate of La. fayette College and Princeton Theo- logical Seminary, the weeks church after buliding, the greatly Increased introduced in by whi members and the now com A the rive home Siate to church church 1m h nt the a church Hb Johnson, to | receiv- || a fractured in| studenis | gaociate | connec | | of this | of the Baldwin Locomotive | Vol. 36. No. MANY APPLICANTS FOR OFFICE OF SEALER NEW COUNTY OFFICE WILL NOT GO BEGGING. POSITION WORTH $1,000 A YEAR res—— County Commissioners Have Privilege of Joining With Another County in | Appointing Sealer—~Names of Those | Who Have Filed Application. Whether or not, Centre ounty needs | the services of an officer known as the | sealer of eights and measures is not up argument, but the fact re« ma nevertheless, that the last leg- WwW requiring every mayors 10 ap~- spective dis- far has not rements of the for any fact, how arcity in ths filed for the 1% list of names w in and A Millheim; James E. ), Orndorf, Wood - Larimer, Bellefonte; A. ‘oburn; C Weaver, Co- } urg, John (line Woodring, Rathmell, Hu- ! (s Auman, ( i: T | $4 Herd ur lest Deemer I. Miller, Axema'n; C. M. Hoy, { blersburg; J. M. Cunningham, { fonte Ww F. leathers Hau Benore H fonte; A. W P i J Wagner Miles Hu- jelle~ Curti John Garma rt Mati ; Ss Matilda: nite Homer ugh, Ber lef Carr, | Herbert The P minimum A $1 ne and pays and ex- 1 posi- O00 signed to rigid and and wing ring at more | viRliant inspection | alex, month red res LIT “ CHILD'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. aged the er between 1Ww ef harm. They gathered { under the car home 1 mm cised 8 and she } mother. Do p 1 found three head w | sion of Lemont Couple in Accident. and buggy to y College on Tuesday and Mrs. John 1. Thomp- victims of an Pros on more bruises and from which a h ree Mr Lemont that might 1} than the few | pumps thrust upon them | they are now overing. It is stated {that Mr. Thompson was passing an- | other buggy when Calvin Meyers, who | was coming towards them from State | College in an automobile, attempted pass between the two vehicles. result was th Mr. Thompson's was struck and himself and | wife were thrown oul Fortunately both occupants of the DUgRY suffered | but few and slight Injuries, although | the shock pretty severe to Mrs Thompson horse was knocked down and ag considerably damaged were AVE cident re The | DURRY | was The the Munters’ Licenses in Demand. Up to Wednesday evening about eleven hundred Centre county hunters had taken out license at County Trea- surer's Miller's office. Of this num- per two applications came from wom- en. one from Orviston and the other from Howard, Wednesday ushered In bear season, but no reports have reached us of any killings in this vi- cinity Church Rally. A church rally will be held in the M. E church next Sunday at le. mont, at 10:30, a. m; also at Rock Forge M. B. church at fp m A team of speakers, (laymen) from the college, will be present and address the meetings. Matters of vital im- portance will be prentoicd by Cheat i © a us make this a “red
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