Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-19
Local Department.


Hall next Sunday.
The teachers for the public schools will
be elected next Tuesday.
DIR. Il. l.. Dartt has hauled the lum-
Der for his new residence.
The roses on the premises Of Mrs.
Lane are blooming luxuriantly.
Mr. W. +. Malin, of the telegraph
office, is visiting relatives in Chester county.
The Rev. William Mexican, of Milf
flinburg, preached last Sunday at Howard.
The owner of that glove advertised
two weeks ago in this paper has been found.
The residence of our military editor,
on Linn street, is receiving fresh coat of
paint.
The discourse given By Rev. w. A.
Biggart last Sabbath evening is said to
have been unusually able.
Gen. James A. Beaver will give the
inhabitants of Sunbury = taste of his pa
triotic eloquence on the Fourth of July.
AT the Episcopal church, last Sunday
morning, both the VeHtte and the 7e Deum
were chanted to new and very beautiful
tunes.
Mr.. Clarence johnson, proprietor of
the National Hotel at Shamokn, is writ
ing history giving his experience in
Brazil.
Vacation days will soon roll around -
Holliddysblrg Standard. Tell us which
way they are coming, please we would
like to have u few.
Judge John Irwin has been absent in
Philadelphia for week past He was
telegrsphed to return Immediately, on the
death Of Mrs. Thomas.
I'm consequence of the absence Of the
Rector, jew. John Hewitt, there win be no
services in the Episcopal church, this place,
on next Sunday morning.
All who wish meat will now be able
TO buy plenty Of it, as most of our butchers
have been absent from town during the
week laying in fresh supply.
e. w. Walker, Goshen, Indiana, IL
the name Of firm that have lately sold to
the Bush House an elegant conveyance for
transporting trunks to and fro from the
depot.
Mr.. Jefferson B. Way, an aged and
respected citizen Of Port Matilda, died at
that place on the sth instant He was for
fifty years a consistent member Of the VI.
+. church.
Tho Centre Hall Reporter informs Us
that Mr.. Shafer, the supervisor, has de-
voted his attention to the public road
leading through Madisonburg, and as
result it is much improved
Rev, ID. z. Kline says In tho last
weeks Mi!lheim journal that the corner
stone Of MiIlcr's Evangelical church, in
Sugar Valley, will be laid on June 90 to
which the public are invited.
This is the time of the year for picnic
excursions. 1t is always in season for gen.
tlemen to get up excursions to the clothing
stbre Of ]. Newman, Jr., who keeps on
hand a large stock of mems and boys
clothing.
-EK-Governor Curtin has consented 70
crate before the Citizens Park Association,
Of Clearfeld, at the Association grounds,
on the Fourth of July. The Governor
will deliver q fne address and attract q
large audience.
Notwithstanding tho long drought
which has visited this section this spring,
our subscription list has Aourished in an un-
precedented manner. II Is one Of those
crops which Is easily raised under all con-
ditions Of the weather.
james Harris, Esq., is laying q new
pavement before his Spring street resi-
dence. This is a move in the right direc-
tion, and II would not be in the least det-
rimental to that street II new pavements
were laid its entire length.
During the sudden thunder storm
which occurred on Sunday morning all the
windows in the Presbyterian church had
10 be tightly closed. This made II so dark
that the audience could not soc ono anoth-
er, 80 they paid close attention TO the SER
mon.
--Messrs. John $. Hoy, Of Marion town.
ship, and Thomas Z. Reyer, Of Miles town
ship, each paid Us agreeable calls this week
in our new sancsum, on tho frst floor of
the Bush House, just over our composing
room, where we can now be found.
Adam Rankin Eco, and lady, Of Mum
cy, arrived In town last Thursday 70 visit
for few days with The Doctors brother,
Joseph Alexander Rankin, Of this place,
DIR. Rankin i seventy-sIght years Of age
and an exceeding fine looking old gentle
man, and one Of tho most esteemed citizen.
Of Muncy.