M B rosenfield ' s IS HEAD-QUARTERS FOR CHEAP CLOTHING HATS, CAPS, NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, and a full line of GENTS* FURNISHING GOODS, which are offered EXCEEDINGLY LOW. Call and sec me, examine goods, loam prices, &c M. R. ROSENFIELD. ) 1831. THE CULTIVATOR* 1880. AND Country Gentleman. The Be.Ht of the AGRICULTURAL WEEKLIES. It is UNSURPABSBU, if not UNKQUALBU, for he Amount and Variety of the PRACTICAL INFORMA TION it contains, and for the Ability and Extent of ita OORRKBPONI>KNCK— in the Throe Chief Directions of Farm Crops and Processes, Horticulture and Fruit-Frowing, Live Stock and Dairying— while it also includes all minor depatments of rural interest, such as the Poultry Yard, Entomology, Bee-Keeping, Green house and Grapery, Veterinary Replies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside Reading, Domestic Economy, and a summary of the News of the Week. Its MARKET REPORTS are unusually complete, and more information can be gathered from its columns than from any other source with regard to the Prospects of the Crops, as throwing light upon one of the most important of all questions— When to Buy and When to Sell. It Is liberally illustrated, and constitutes to a greater degree than any of Its contemporaries A LIVE AGRICULTURAL NKWHP\PER Of never-failing interest both to Producers and Con sumers of every class. The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is published Weekly on thu following terms, when paid strictly in ad vance: One Copy, one year, $2.50; Four Copies, $lO, and an additional ropy for the year free to the sender of the Club' Ten Copies, S2O, and an additional topyfor t). year free to the sender of the Club. For the year 18S0, these prices include a copy of the ANNUAL RKOISTEROF RURAL AFFAIRS, to each uhsertber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ue graving*—a gift by the Publishers. All NEW Subscribers for 7880, paying in ad vance now, will receive the paper WEEKLY, from receipt of remittance, to January Ist, 1880, with out charge. OWHpecimen eopies of the paper free. Adddress, LUTIiER TUCKER & HON, Publishers, Albany, N V. DECLARED ! | ! j The flubacriber having leased the large and com modioli* barn, known an the i Hearts House no un , I Is now prepared to make war on ! I livery and Stabling i - > II Wc have room for all. Come along with your ! horses. Put them where they are safo. Food or j not, as you choose. j We Guarantee Satisfaction. | E. E. BUFFINGTON. p/f IjrSURJMJYCE Against | in oki, reliable, firmly established and honorabe crmpanies, witli MILLIONS OF CAPITAL! call upon C. JfE. MM*EEEJ, Attorney-at-I.aw, To- j wanda, Penn'a. Jan. 18. ! A farm of 150 acres near i I I Wyalusinj;. Pa, * Contains of improved lands 125 acres; good barn, i fine orchard, well watered, with four miles of Lc ! high valley railroad, is uner cest of cultivation. Will be sold at reasonable price, or EXCHANGED FOR TOWN PROPERTY. • Inquire of CIIAR. M. IIALL, Attorney at-Law, Towanda, Pa. Jan. 18. A T .To, 1, Reitileman's fflork, (Bridge Street, near the corner of Main.) . I Mrs. S. //. Sweet ! I I Offer* a constantly increasing dock of l IVf illinery and Fancy < roods, Consisting of Hats, Fancy Goods, Toweling, Collars, Comforters, Embroideries, Flowers, Ribbons, i ! Handkerchiefs, silk, linen and embroidered, Feuth- I ers and Tips, Slipper Patterns, Card-board, Zephyrs, ' I Combs, .let Ornaments. Hunching, Necklaces, Veil- J ; ing iu all colors, Java Canvas Patterns, Lace Capes, I i (.'rape Pellisses, Babies' Knit Stockings, Ladies' ! j Hose in all colors and styles, Dolls, Children's I I Sacks, Hoods and Mittens, Ladies' Nubias in all j j colors, Bracelets, Pocket Books, Mottoes, Birds and j j Feathers, Hhawls, Jewelry, Napkins, tee., He.., LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS' UNDERWEAR, All these tilings can he found at greatly reduced j prices; and some of them AT PRICKS THAT WILL ASTONISH ' THE PURCHASING PUBLIC. 1 ' The late fire has left on hand A QUANTITY OF GOODS that must be disposed of at ALMOST ANY FIG Uli E S and at all hazards, for Fresh Invoices. ; CALL ANI) EXAMINE AND DETER MINE FOR YOURSELF. • ||j M RS. SW EET'S Fancy Goods Bazar, No. 1. BRIDGE STREET, i I ! lowanda January 21, 1880. c°ai- ! ♦ NATHAN TIDD, DRALKH IX PITTSTON, WILKES - BARRK, AND LOYAL SOCK COAL. I i Invitee the patronage of hie old friends and the pub lic generally. I shall keep a full assortment of all sired, AXD SHALT, SELL AT LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. Yard and office, foot of line street, just south 01 1 Court House. Aug. SO K. TIDD. V ertical Feed J As usual, the Vertical Feed Sewing Machine took First Pre mium, at the late county Fair. T FIGHT MIT SIGEL and ail HONORABLY DISCHAROF.It SOLDIKRH | will (sonsslt rtie.ir <>wr> interests oy calling at J A C O B S' I long established and well known ONE PRICK CLOTHING! HOUSE, PATTON'S BLOCK, and buy their coat*, pants, vests, overcoats, shirts, overalls, Gloves, Hose, Uata arid Caps, and every tiling in the line of fine and stylish GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. Don't lie deceived by persons falsely representing themselves to he JACOBB, but corao directly to my store in Batten Block, Msln street, near Bridge st* . augW ill. JACOBS. I Text Booh Uniformity. RESULT WHERE HOOKS HAVE TO STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT. At a Convention of School Directors, of Centre County, held a Bellefonte, Decem ber 26, 1878, pursuant to the call of H. Meyer, Esq., County Superintendent, for the purpose of considering the propriety of taking measures to secure a uniformity of the text-books used in the schools of said county, the following 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 resolutions were adopted: Whkkhas: Great expense and waste aro 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 , By 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 county. Upon motion of ,J. C. P. Jones, the follow ing plan was adopted with but one dissenting vote, to carry into effect the following pre amble and resolutions: First. The various publishing houses to send samples of their books to each sehol board in me county tor examination and to submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr - ductory and wholesale prices, and t hi- length of time th *y will guarantee to furnish tliem 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 books 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 i 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 which he prefers to have adopted in the county, and send it to Henry Meyer, Esq., County Superindent, at | Rebersburg, Pa., prior to* the tirst day of June, 1879, who shall ma.:: i e several statements so sent, and the books up on the various branches having tin ighest number of votes or preference shall be the j series recommended for county uniformity. The County Superintendent, after having J made the above canvaos as above, to send the : result of the same to each of the papers in the J county for publication. W. C. llkinle, Chairman. J. C. P. Jones, 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 eucsh New Graded 74 Independent 20 Appleton's 17 New American 12 SPELLERS. Swinton's 83 New American 6 Independent 23 Appleton's 1 Patterson's Sander's Union llaub's 1 GEOGRAPHIES. Swinton's 100 Cotton's 14 Mitchell's 10 Independent 1 | Monteith's ft HISTORIES. Swinton's t'3 Redpath's 5 Barnes' Brief 7 Butler's Ouackenbos' 1 Watson's .... fl V KITTEN ARITHMETIC. Robinson's Shorter Course 67 Green leaf's 14 Brook's mX _ Gilne's 22 Boflf's 12 N rook's Union Mew American MENTAL ARITHMETIC. Milne's Greenleafs ALGEBRA. Robinson's Greenleafs COPY BOOKS. Spencerian 09 Appleton's 30 Ellsworth's 10 GRAMMARS. Kerl's 72 Swinton's 1? Clark's Brief Ift Bullion's 1 j Harvey's 20 Ouackenbos' 3 1 Fewsmith's 1 LANGUAGE LESSONS. Kerl's 0 Clark's 1 Harvey's ft Morton's...., 5 BOOK-KEEPING. I Bryant & Stratton's 44 Folsom's 0 ! Smith's ! CIVIL GOVERNMENT. ! Townsend's
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