" M* ROBENFIELD'B
18 HEA.D-QUARTKRB EOS
CHEAP
WINTER
CLOTHING
HATB, CAPS,
HECK WEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY,
mm 2 a fall hoe sf
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
widsto art offered
EXCEEDINGLY LOW.
QU mm! so* Dae, ex Main v goods, learn price*, &c
M. E. ROSENFIKLD.
IB3L THE CULTIVATOR 1880.
AND
Country Gentleman.
The Best of the
AGRICULTURAL WKEKLIRvj.
It is Unpuiu>a.ski>, If not for he
Amount and Variety of the Piuctkul Informa
tion it contains, and for the Ability and Extent of
HSOORJUTSRONDKNCX— in the Throe Chief Direction*
of
Farm Crop* and Processes,
Horticulture and Fruit-Fro wing.
Live Stock and Dairying—
while It also iMludm all minor, jdepatmente of rural
internet, such a* the Poultry Yard, Entomology,
Bee-Koepjng, Green bouse and Grapery, Veterinary
Replies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside
Roadlng, Domestic Economy, and a nummary of
the News of the Week. It* Mahkkt Rkpokth are
mnusually complete, and more Information can be
fathered from It* column* than from any other
too roe with regard to the Prospects of the Crops, as
throwing light upon one of the moat important of all
questions— lFAea to Buy and When to Bell. It is
liberally illustrated, and constitute* to a greater
degree than any of its contemporaries A LIVE
' AGRICULTURAL NKWHP APKR
Of never-falling Interest both to Producer* and Con
sumers of every class.
The OOTTWTKY Gkntliman la published Weekly
on the following tonne, when paid xtrietly in ad
vance: One Cepy, one year, $2.60; Four Copies,
$lO, and an additional copy for the year fret to
the tender of the Club • Ten Copies, S2O, and an
additional eojry for U year free to the tender of
the Club.
For the year 1880, theee prices include a copy of
the Annual Rxqistkbof Rural Affairs, to each
übscriber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ne
fravlnga—a gift by the Publishers.
AU Nxw Bubtcribert for 1880, paying in ad
eanoe now, will reoeive the paper WEEKLY,/row
receipt of remittance to January let, 1880, with
out charge.
Specimen eopiee of the paper free. Adddrees,
LUTHER TUCKER Jt BON, Publishers,
Albany, N Y.
| DECLARED I
The subscriber having leased the large and com
modious barn, known as the
Means Iloizse
Is now prepared to make war on
I livery and Stabl i ng
We have room for all. Come aiong with your
horeee. Put them where they are safe. Feed or
not, as you choose.
We Guarantee Satisfaction.
E. E. BUFFI NGTON.
roit ursvßjajYt E
Against Fire I
in old, reliable, firmly established and bonorabe
crmpanlss, with
MILLIONS OF CAPITAL I
call upon r. ff. MMdf>l>, Attorney-at-Law, To
wanda, Penn'a. Jan. 18.
TTbfJMIFOR MJLBe
A farm of 160 acres near
Wyalusing. Pa.,
Contains of improved lands 126 acres; good barn,
fine orchard, well watered, with four miles of Le
high valley railroad, is uner cest of cultivation.
Will be sold at reasonable price, or
EXCHANGED NOR TOWN PROPERTY.
Inquire of CHAB. M. HALL, Attorney-at-Law,
Towanda, Pa. )sm. 18.
A T ~~
•Vo. 1, Beidleman's Block,
(Bridge Street, near the corner of Main.)
Mrs. S. H. Sweet
Offers a constantly increasing rtock of
JVXilliiiei*y and Fancy
Cjtoocljs,
Consisting of Huts, Fancy Goods, Towi ling, Collars,
Comforters, Embroideries, Flowers, Ribbons,
Handkerchiefs, silk, linen and embroidered, Feath
ers and Tips, Blipper Patterns, Card-board, Zephyrs,
Combs, Jet Ornament*. Hunching, Necklaces, Veil
ing in all colors, Java Canvas Patterns, Laoc Capes,
Crape Pellisses, Babies' Knit Htockings, Ladles'
Hose hi all colors and styles, ]>olls, Children's
Backs, Hoods and Mittens, Ladies' Nubias In all
colors, Bracelets, Pocket Books, Mottoes, Birds and
Feathers, Bhawls, Jewelry, Napkins, Btc., Btc.,
LADIES' ANI) GKNTLEMENS'
UNDERWEAR,
All these things can be found at greatly reduced
prices; and some of them
AT PRICES THAT WILL ASTONISH
THE PURCHASING PUBLIC.
, *m\
The late fire has left on hand
A QUANTITY OF GOODS
that must be disposed of at
ALMOST ANY FIGURES
and at all hazards, for Freeh Invoices.
CALL AND EXAMINE ANI) DETER
MINE FOR YOURSELF.
MRS. SWEET'S
Fancy Goods Bazar,
No. 1. BRIDGE STREET. I
I
Towanda January 21, lhhO.
i
NATHAN TIDD,
DBALXH IK
1 PITTBTON, WILKKS - BARRK, AND
LOYAL SOCK COAL.
I
j Invitee tb patronage of his old friend* and the pnb
generally. J shall keep a full aeaortment
. ' of all Maes,
AKD SHALL BKLL AT
LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH.
Yard and office, fool of Pine rtreet. jnn south of
Court Houfw-.
Aug. SO . TIDD.
I
V ertical
Feed.
As usual, the Vertical Feed
Sewing Machine took First Pre
mium, at the late county Fair.
J FIGHT MIT SIGKL
and ail
HOIfOfcAHLY L>I6OUAIiORI> POLMKR*
will uourt.fl tbelr own in tercet* ny eaJltng m
J A C O B S'
tag wrUWUAed u4 weU known
ONK PRICK
CLOTHING
HOUSE,
PATTON'S BLOCK,
and buy their ooatt, pant#, vonte, overcoat*, abirtH,
overtdla, Glove*, Hoae, Hat* and Cap# and every
thing in the line of fine and atyliab
GENTS' FURNISHING GOO INS.
Oon't be deceived by pereon# falaely reprtwentlrg
theutaeivoa to b* JAOOUS, but mime directly to my
•tore In Pattoo Bloch, Main etroet, near Bridge *t-
I
' t H. JACOBS
Text Book Uniformity.
RESULT WHERE ROOKS HAVE TO
STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT.
i At a Convention of School Directors, of
j Centre County, held a Bellefonte, Decern
! bcr 2G, 1878, pursuant to the call of H.
Meyer, Esq., County Superintendent, for
the purpose of considering the propriety
i of taking measures to secure a uniformity
i of the text-books used in the schools of
J said county, the lollowing action was
taken, over fifty directors being present
and nearly all the district in the county
being represented:
COPY OF MINUTES.
Upon motion of C. P. Stonerod, of Snow
Shoe township, the following preamble and
i resolutions were adopted:
WHKHKAS: Ore at expense and waste are
frequently incurred by the present and eon
nstatly changing variety of text-books used in
the common schools of Centre county, there
fore, be it
Resolved, Rv the representative directors
here in session, that a system of text-books,
suitable, complete and uniform, be adopted in
accordance with the laws of the State,
throughout the count v.
Upon motion of J. C. P. Jones, the follow
ing plan was adopted with but one dissenting
vote, to carry into effect the following pro
amble and resolutions:
First. The various publishing houses to
send samples of their books to etch sehoi
board in tne county lor examination and to
submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr -
ductory and wholesale prices, and the length
of time they will guarantee to furnish them
at said price.
Second. No agent of any publishing house
to be permitted to do any work in the county,
to be either general or local agent, beyond
sending his bookß and terms as above stated.
Any house or agent violating this under
standing, their books to be counted ou of the
contest.
Third. The several school boards of the
county, after examination of the various
books which may have been submitted, to
hold a meeting at which each director shall
make out a list of the hooks winch he prefers
to have adopted in the county, and send it to
Henry Meyer, Esq., County Superindent, at
Rebersburg, Pa., prior to the iirst dav of
June, 1879, who shall ma . / e
several statements so sent, and the books up
on the various branches having tin ighest
number of votes or preference shall be the
series recommended for county uniformity.
The County Superintendent, after having
made the above canvaos as above, to send the
result of the same to each of the papers in the
county for publication.
W. C. IIKINLR, Chairman.
J. C. P. JONKS, Secretary.
The following is the result of the votes
of the Directors of Centre county, Pa., on
the uniformity of Text-books in said
county, with the number of votes cast fro
each book, under the foregoing plan and
resolutions:
READERS. No. vote.
, , , for eacsh
New Graded 74
Independent 20
Appleton's 17
New American 12
SPELLERS.
Swinton's g3
New American g
Independent 23
Appleton's 1
Patterson's
Sander's Union
Raub's 1
GEOGRAPHIES.
Swinton's ... 100
Colton's 14
Mitchell's 10
Independent 1
Monteith's 5
HISTORIES.
Swinton's <>B
Iledpath's 5
Barnes' Brief 7
Butler's
Ouaekenbos' j
Watson's 0
V RITTKN ARITHMETIC.
Robinson's Shorter Course 67
Greenleaf's u
Brook's
Gilne's ** 00
Boff's To
Nrook's Union g
Mew American 4
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
Milne's. 7
Greenleaf's 4
ALGEBRA.
Robinson's Op
Green leafs *
COPY BOOKS.
Spenccrian gg
Appleton's 80
Ellsworth's 10
GRAMMARS.
Kerl's 72
Swinton's I 1?
Clark's Brief | li
Bullion's 1
Harvey's 20
Ouaekenbos' g
hewsmith's ] 1
LANGUAGE LESSONS.
Kerl's K
Clark's j
Harvey's g
Morton's " 5
BOOK-KEEPING.
Bryant A Stratum's 44
Folsom's 4
Smith's
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Townaend's.. t