Until February 1st, 1899.
Terms, 81.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 6. 1899.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebpiror.
Quay Tries to Dodge the Law.
The public was not unprepared for the
charges made in the pending QUAY trial,
inculpating the Republican boss and Sena-
tor in the criminal use of state funds for
which the law provides penitentiary punish-
ment. In his arraignment before a court
of justice the accused did not show the
eagerness of an innocent man to clear his
character by a speedy trial, but employed
such methods of delay as may retard legal
process and prevent a judicial determina-
tion of his guilt or innocence.
Two judges of the State’s highest tribunal
have been so misguided in their action as
to aid QUAY’s evasive purpose through the
agency of writs that may prevent his case
from being brought before a jury. To this
interference by the higher court, enforced
by a writ of certiorari, the State’s prosecut-
ing officer, who is no other than the Re-
publican district attorney of Philadelphia,
makes answer in terms that have torn to
shreds the flimsy plea upon which QUAY
seeks to avoid the trial of the criminal
charge against him before a court and jury.
His petition for the immunity he may gain
through a certiorari is answered by the
averment of district attorney GRAHAM
that he bas evidence supplied by QUAY’
own hand writing, and ready to be produced
in the trial pending against him, which
will prove that ‘‘the public funds of the
State have been used by him for his private
and unlawful gain;’ that he was allowed
interest on state money deposited in the
People’s bank, such interest having been
passed to his private account and checked
out as his own money, and that the books
of the bank show that ‘‘hundreds of dol-
lars of the public money deposited in the
people’s bank were set apart for M. S.
QUAY and were used by him,” the books
showing, moreover, ‘‘that hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars worth of stocks were bought
for the said M.S. QUAY with this money.’’
This is the kind of evidence, ready for
presentation to court and jury, which the
incriminated Republican hoss endeavors to
avoid by seeking refuge behind a friendly
certiorari while arranging for his re-election
to the United States Senate by servile sup-
porters in the State Legislature.
It was a well-known fact that the man-
agers of the Republican machine were
making improper use of the state funds by
deposits in favored banks, but without
such evidence as district attorney GRAHAM
is prepared to produce it could scarcely
have been believed that QUAY’S corrupt
disposition; to misapply public money,
would go so far as to use hundreds of
thousands of the State’s funds as if they
were his own.
Will this arraigned culprit escape the
punishment due him for what the law de-
clares to be a criminal offense? Will there
be such disregard for the law and miscar-
riage of justice that he will have the sena-
torial toga again fitted upon him instead
of standing & trial for an offense which,
upon conviction, would require him to be
apparelled in the striped habiliments of
the penitentiary ?
The Passing of Our Historian.
In the death of Hon. Joux BLAIR LINN
this community has lost a man who has
been of inestimable value to it. While
his passing will be deplored hy all who
realize the importance of the sphere he
filled so admirably, yet it was not as if he
had carried all the treasures of his rare
mind with him into eternity. He has
gone, but there remains a monument to
him 1n his history of Centre and Clinton
counties that will stand as long as time
lasts.
There are so few men gifted with the
patience and persistent care that are the
requisites of an historian that the passing
of one is a matter of considerable moment.
Even now, in the sincerest sorrow over Mr.
LINN’s death, this community does not
realize the enormity of the loss it has
suffered. Time, alone, will impress
that upon wus and in future years
we will have reason to rejoice that
though the dignified, learned gentle-
man is no longer here he has left behind
him a work such as had never been
attempted before and is not likely to be
improved upon in the future.
GOVERNOR HASTINGS’ MESSAGE,
Continued from page 1.
tiles. The walls of the House of Repre-
sentatives are finished with burlap stained
garnet, and fastened to the rough brick
walls, also made of tile and brick. Al-
though the act of Assembly requires that
the building shall be ‘made as vearly fire-
proof as possible,’ the roof and most of the
interior fittings are as combustible as pos-
sible. Furthermore, I am advised by a
competent and trustworthy builder, who
has personally examined this building,
that a fair estimate of the cost of the pres-
ent structure would not exceed $225,000 as
it now is. and that it will cost to complete
the building according to the plans adopted
not less.than $2,500,000. This estimate, 1
am informed, is a conservative one and
may be relied upon. It is more than
probable that it will require twice that
sum to complete the building, and it has
been so deliberately planned as to require
continuing appropriations which, in my
judgment, will last during the present gen-
eration. In the condition that you find it
at this time no one would hazard an opin-
ion as to what the style of architecture
will be in the end, whether colonial or
otherwise.
‘“The only part of the structure to be
commended is the foundation, which is
ample to support any building, even the
Capitol of the United States. This founda-
tion has been se planned as to leave an ex-
Sena,
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{ inches for the brick wall. It can hardly
be supposed, however, that this elaboration
of the foundation was made with the in-
tention of inducing this or future Legisla-
tures to hide the shameful appearance of
the present brick walls by a veneering of
marble or granite, because the commission-
ers have sworn to the court that the struc-
ture would be a complete building and
within the limit of the present appropria-
tion.
The commissioners will not relieve them-
selves from just criticism by alleging that
the appropriation was too small. It was
not for them to say what the appropriation
should be. The judgment belonged to the
legislative branch of the government. It
was the duty of the commission to erect
the building in accordance with the pro-
visions of the act. One of the provisions
limited the expense to $550,000. They
distinctly averred before the courts that
every provision of the act would be com-
plied with and that a complete building
for the Legislature, its officers and em-
ployes, would be constructed within the
limit of the appropriation. The commis-
sioners had no right to determine that the
appropriation was too small. The Legis-
lature had already fixed the amount. They
bad no right or power to ignore any pro-
vision of the act. That is violation of
law.
BETTER TO TEAR IT DOWN.
They had no right to foist upon the tax-
payers of the Commonwealth an incomplete
structure, which will require an expendi-
ture of at least a million of dollars to make
it habitable under their present plan and
millions more to add the wings as set out
in their drawings. They had not the
right to expend the money appropri-
ated in such a way as to compel
the legislative branch of the government
either to tear down and render compara-
tively valueless all that has been done or to
add millions of dollars to carry out their
ultimate design. The commissioners were
created by the Legislature to fulfill, in good
faith, its solemn enactments, and it is in-
sulting to the Commonwealth for the com-
missioners to assume legislative power or
to so administer their trust as to compel
the taxpayers to take the hazard of expend-
ing large additional sums for the consum-
mation <f the unlawful purpose of com-
missioners appointed by them to execute
their sovereign will.
The further plan of the commissioners to
erect wings at the ends of the present
structure, so enlarging it as to provide
quarters for other departments of the
state government, under one roof, as part
and parcel of their general scheme, when
viewed in the light of the act, savors of an
usurpation of authority which is at once
illegal, unjust and burdensome to the peo-
ple of the Commonwealth.
| I respectfully submit to your honorable
bodies that it will be more economical and
more business like to tear down everything
above the foundation walls and sacrifice
the money already expended rather than to
continue the commission and accede to 1ts
demands for future appropriations, which
are certain to extend into millions of dol-
lars.
APPORTIONMENT.
The last senatorial apportionment was
made in 1874, twenty-four years ago, and
the last representative and congressional
apportionments in 1887. The mandate of
the constitution requiring these apportion-
ments to be made has been inexcusably
neglected, and has resulted, in many in-
stances, in denying to the people the repre-
sentation to which they are by law entitled,
and in others, by permitting a representa-
tion in both Houses of the General Assem-
bly to which, under the constitution, the
people are not entitled. The growth of
our population has been far from uniform,
many localities having doubled their popu-
lations in the past twenty years, while in
others there has heen but little increase.
The present senatorial apportionment is
directly in conflict with the theory of repre-
sentative government. It violates the ex-
press mandate of the constitution, which
requires that ‘‘the State shall be divided
into fifty senatorial districts of compact
and contiguons territory, as nearly equal
in population as may be, and each district
may be entitled to elect one Senator.”’
Several of the present senatorial districts
do not contain more than one-third or one-
fourth the population of other districts,
each being represented by a single Sena-
tor. While the two Congressmen-at-Large
give Pennsylvania her full representation
in the Congress, yet the people of the State
who have the population are entitled to
their representatives in their own localities.
It is true, another census will be taken
two years hence, but it cannot be com-
pleted in time for the next session of the
General Assembly to have the data nec-
essary for making the apportionments. If
the apportionments are not made at your
present session, it will be impossible to
make them until 1903, if they are to be
made upon the basis of the next decennial
census. This affords no excuse for failure
to comply wish the plain mandate of the
constitution.
THE BALLOT LAW,
Experience with the present ballot law
has disclosed a number of imperfections.
It is incomplete, inperfect and incom-
petent in several particulars. The two
methods provided for securing the right to
an entire column rn the State ballot sheet
deserve this criticism. When a column on
the official sheet is given to each political
party which at the last preceding election
polled one-half of one per centum of the
total vote of the State, and additional
columns are given to those candidates who
file nomination papers, then the door is
opened for confusion and fraud. While
the columns necessary to represent the sev-
eral political parties voting at the last elec-
tion are limited, the columns peeded to
represent the tickets created hy nomination
papers may he prolonged to an indefinite
extent. Any body of citizens under the
present practice obtaining the requisite
number of signers can secure a separate
column for the State ticket and that column
is on the State ballot sheet. A party en-
titled to a column on the State sheet should
he a State party and not a fragment of a
local or county party. It would undoubt-
edly be better to collect in one separate
group in a single column the names of all
candidates for a partienlar office.
Convening of the Legislature.
Snyder of the Senate and Farr of the House to Pre
side over their Respective Bodies. A Straight Re-
publican Organization in Both Departments.
Nothing so Far but the Ordinary Preliminary
Business of completing the Organization.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 3.—The opening ses-
sion of the Senate was brief. Organization
was effected at 2 o'clock and Secretary of
the Commonwealth Martin appeared and
presented to the Senate the returns of the
recent election for Senators. These were
read and then Judge Simonton, of the local
court, administered the oath of office to the
new Senators. The next formality was the
election of a president pro tem. Senator
William P. Snyder, of Chester, the choice
of the Republicans was successful over H.
W. Haines, Democrat, of York, by 34 to 12.
Senator Snyder, upon assuming the chair
made a brief speech counseling moderation
and caution in the consideration of the
measures that will come before the Senate
for action. He favored economical appro-
priations and sessions of the Legislature as
brief as is consistent with the proper dis-
position of the public business.
These officers of the Senate were elected :
Chief clerk, E. W. Smiley, Venango; jour-
nal clerk, John M. Rhea, Cumberiand;
reading clerk, A. J. Leeds, Philadelphia;
sergeant-at-arms, S. B. Cochran. Arm-
strong.
A resolution providing for the details of
the inauguration of Governor Stone was
adopted and the chair appointed Senators
Flynn, John B. Mitchell, McCarrell, Os-
born and Haines as the inaugural commit-
tee.
IN THE HOUSE.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 3.—There were the
usual scenes and incidents at the opening
session to-day of the House of Representa-
tives. There was added interest owing to
the occupancy of the new capitol.
chamber occupied by the Legislators of the
lower branch of the Assembly was a sur-
prise for most of the Members. They expect
de to meet in a barn-like uncomfortable hall
without furnishings save those of the plain-
est description, but instead the spacious
hall is 11ot only attractive but comfortable.
The decorations are not costly but they
hide the bare walls and conceal the tem-
porary finish of the big room.
A liberal use of burlap, with temporary
panels and pilasters, and gilt decorations
with shields and flags, gave a cheerful, if
not magnificent aspect to all the surround-
ings. The desks of many Members were
hidden by beautiful floral pieces, the gifts
of admiring constituents. There were great
floral baskets and magnificent horse shoes
and all manner of flowers and the recipients
of these tokens of esteem sat behind them
out of sight. The galleries were crowded
throughout the proceedings and there was
a great interest in all that occurred.
The House was called to order shortly
after 12 o’clock by Chief Clerk Rex. Sec-
retary of the Commonwealth Martin was
introduced, after prayer by chaplain San-
gree, and presented the certificates of
election of the Members. The list was read
and the roll called, after which the Mem-
bers presented themselves at the har and
were sworn in by Judge Biddle, of Carlisle.
John R. Farr, of Lackawana. was nomi-
nated for speaker by William T. Marshall,
of Allegheny, and William T. Creasy, of
Columbia, by George R. Dixon, of Elk.
Mr. Farr was elected by the full Repub-
lican vote of 127. Mr. Farr made a brief
address of thanks, in which he promised to
be fair and courteous in his treatment of
the Members.
Jere. B. Rex, of Huntingdon, was re-
elected chief clerk, and A. D. Fetterolf, of
Montgomery, resident clerk. The other
officers and employes will not be announced
before next week.
Committees were appointed to notify the
Senate that the House is ready to proceed to
business, to wait on the Governor and to
formulate rules for the government of the
House. A resolution was also adopted pro-
viding for the concurrence by the House to
the arrangements for the inauguration of
the Governor-elect. The resolution pro-
viding for final adjournment on April 20th,
was adopted almost unanimously, after a
motion to refer the resolution to the com-
mittee on rules was voted down.
After a very. short session on Wednesday
at which the only business attempted was
a trick to advance the interests of Senator
Quay by naming the candidate for United
States Senate, to be voted for hereafter but
which failed to succeed, both Senate and
House adjourned to meet again on Thursday
Jan. 12th.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Lock Haven trolley cars are to be
furnished with vestibules by the furniture
factory in that place.
——James Gower, who was married to
Miss Ann Reynolds, of Buffalo Run, Nov.
26th, 1850, died at his home in Pittsburg
on Dec. 23rd.
——The extremely cold weather necessi-
tated the closing of the upper ax works at
Mill Hall on Monday and Tuesday.
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Thomas Mayes died at his home in
South Philipsburg on Wednesday, Dec.
28th. He had been ill for some time with
Bright’s disease.
— Mining journals are predicting a
general strike in the bituminous regions of
Pennsylvania for April 1st, the time when
the interstate agreement between miners
and operators expires.
Inf., will leave the barracks in Columbus,
O., for Manila, going via the Suez .canal.
John and Perry Simler, of Philipsburg, are
members of the company.
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——Claude Wysotzsky, a son of Daniel
Wysotzsky, formerly of Bellefonte, has
been given a scholarship on hoard the
school-ship ‘‘Saratoga.” The family are
residents of Clearfield now.
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——The store of George Raup and Son
at Lamar was burglarized on Tuesday
night and between seventy and eighty
pennies were taken from the money drawer.
The larger coin had been locked up. Noth-
ing else was disturbed.
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Miss Madge Krebs, daughter of for-
mer judge David L. Krebs, of Clearfield,
was married to A. M. Liveright Esq., a
promising young attorney of that place,
yesterday. The ceremony was performed
at the bride’s home.
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——James Noon, one of the popular bar
keepers at the Bush house, is telling bigger
tales than ever and getting more drinks
mixed these days, all because a tiny little
girl came to his home on Water street, on
Tuesday morning. Both mother and
daughter are doing well and Jim is sliding
along as if on roller skates.
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—DFred A. Rall, one of Clinton coun-
ty’s commissioners died at his home, in|
Lock Haven, on Wednesday morning. He
was 44 years old and died from the effects
of stomach trouble. His death will
necessitate the appointment of a commis-
sioner to serve the unexpired term. Former
mayor James Jeffries, of Lock Haven, is
mentioned as a possible successor.
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——Thirty-one new born babes in Clear-
field county have been given the name of
Dewey within the past six months.
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— Beginning next Monday night the
Wilson theatre company will open a week’s
engagement at Garman’s at popular prices.
A change of bill will be made nightly.
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——At the annual meeting of the Logan
engine company, Tuesday evening, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing
year: John Knisely, president; Harry
Jackson, recording secretary; Geo. Knisely,
financial secretary; James Seibert, treas-
urer; Geo. Cunningham, chief; John T.
Laurie, 1st assistant; Wm. Hogarth, 2nd
assistant; R. A. Beck, 3rd assistant; Geo.
Knisely, 4th assistant. Trustees—Thomas
Shaughensey, James Harris and George
Eberhart.
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——Dr. George Thompson, a well known
retired physician, died at his home at Mt.
Union, at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. He
was a son of John and Lydia Blake Thomp-
son, and was born in Half Moon township,
Centre county, May 16th, 1826, and hence
was aged 72 years, 7 months and 19 days.
The deceased’s education was begun in an
old log school house on his father’s farm in
Half Moon township, and later he studied
for two years at Allegheny college, in
Westmoreland county. During the civil
war Dr. Thompson was assistant surgeon in
the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers.
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Mgrs. TONNER.—Mrs. Lydia Kreamer
Tonner, widow of John Tonner, who was
register and recorder of this county from
1839 to ’51 and widely known in Metho-
dist circles, and mother of Mrs. H. P.
Harris, died at her home in Canton, Ohio,
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She was
86 years old and for months her health had
been failing.
Of her family of six daughters and one
son, Mrs. Henry P. Harris, Mrs. McClain,
Mis. Underhill, Mrs. Charles Daugherty,
Mrs. Brisben and Clark, survive her.
I". H. Cora HAs RESIGNED.—The resig-
nation of F. H. Cota, general secretary of
the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. for years, hav-
ing been accepted at a recent meeting of
the association, took effect on New Years
day. Early in the fall Mr. Cota asked to
be released from further service, hut the
board of directors was so loath to part with
him that action was deferred from time to
time with the hope that probably some-
thing would intervene to detain him in the
work in Bellefonte.
While the severance of his relations with
the local organization by no means implies
that the work is to be discontinued, yet it
is a serious loss to Bellefonte that such a
man as Mr. Cota has proven himself to be
must go out of the town and out of the
field where such work as he is capable of
doing is so sorely needed. Bellefonte has
herself to blame for the misfortune—it can”
be viewed in no other light——for the in
different support given the Y. M. C. A. in
this place has been enough to paralyze the
work of any man, however courageous or
hopeful.
As head of our Association Mr. Cota has
probably accomplished more lasting, praise
worthy results than had ever been done
through those rooms before. We need not
cite cases. You know them well enough.
The memory of the pure life of the late
Emanuel Markel, after his connection with
the Association, would be laurels enough,
but there are many more. In his departure
every parent of Bellefonte will lose a
friend who labored zealously for the eleva-
tion of morals among the young people of
the town.
Charley Case has been placed temporarily
in charge of the rooms and will keep them
in a hospitable condition until such a time
as a permanent selection can be made.
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NECROLOGY OF CENTRE COUNTY FOR
1898.—The record of the births and deaths
that occurred in Centre county during the
past year is a matter in which we are all
more or less interested. From the returns
of the assessors in the various precinets it
will be seen that the population of the
county is slowly increasing. The table
below covers the returns by precincts from
Dec. 1st, 1897 to Dec. 1st, 1898. It will
be interesting to look over the widely
divergent rates of mortality in the various
precincts.
North ward
Bellefonte, - South ward
West ward.
Centre Hall borough
Milesburg borough
Millheim borough.
Howard borough.......
(First ward ..
Second ward.
Third ward...... £
South Philipsburg boro............... i 5
State College Berough i 6
Unionville borough oo
ny : township L Northern precinet..|
senner township ¢ go, thern precinct. | 16
1 Northern precinct...
Boggs township, - Eastern precinet.. ...|
) Western precinct.
Burnside township
College township
Curtin township.
Philipsburg borough,
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T —
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TTR XT
Ferguson township } Western hii
Northern precinct...
Eastern precinct....... | 2
Western precinat..
Toi : Jastern precinct.
Haines township ) (ion Det
Halfmoon township......
Harris township.....
Howard township..
Huston township..
Liberty township ..
Marion township...
Gregg tow siph
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nstern precing
Miles township ~Middle precinct
| Western precin
Patton township. i
Penn township...
rtownhiin LC
Potter township © oo thorn precinet
I Northern precinct...
J Southern precinct
1 Eastern precinct...
) Western precinct.
Northern precinct.
Southern precinet... :
Western pfecinct.....| 3
Taylor township... ;
Union township...
Walker Twp. LM. P..
NV. P
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S =I =F Tr Tray
Rush township
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Snow Shoe Twp.
Spring township (
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Worth township..
Total omniniain,
veers] 100g] 456
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——Henry McCloskey, aged abont 80
years, died at Potter’s Mills last Friday
and his remains were buried at Sprucetown
on Monday.
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Mrs. Richard Gunsallus died at her
home at Mackeyville on Wednesday morn-
ing. She was 70 years old and is survived
by a husband and five children.
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——Frank Wallace, of Milesburg, the
member of Co. B, who was so seriously
hurt by falling from the regimental train
while coming home from camp at Lexing-
ton, wasin this place yesterday for the first
time since he was brought home. It was at
first thought his injury would prove fatal.
K. G. E. OFFICERS ELECT.—The follow-
ing officers have been elected to serve
Bellefonte castle, No. 357, K. G. E. for the
ensuing six months: Past chief, H. D.
Gehret; noble chief, Jos. Garbrick J r.; vice
chief, B. D. Gates; high priest, William Ott;
venerable hermit, Jas. Schofield; master of
records, E. E. Ardery; clerk of exchequer,
W. H. Taylor; keeper of exchequer, L. H.
Wian; sir herald, W. Harrison Walker;
worthy bard, A Lnkenbach; worthy cham-
berlain, Wm: Fishburn; ensign, Geo. Hol-
lobaugh; esquire, Roy Johuson; first
guardsman, Ed. Gehret;second guardsman,
A. V. Hamilton; trustee, John Noll; repre-
sentative to the grand castle, James I. Mec-
Clure.
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A BEAUTIFUL SERVICE. —It is seldom
that such a difficult undertaking is made
by any of the Bellefonte church choirs as
was that of the choir in St. John’s Re-
formed church to render the beautiful
cantata ‘ “The Coming of the King’’ for the
Christmas service. And a more pronounced
success has never before been made of such
a musical effort. From an artistic stand-
point the cantata is a splendid work and
displays, magnificently, the master-hand
of the composer, Dudiey Buck.
The choir at St. John’s had been trained
by Mr. Charles M. Guthrie, organist at
Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster,
and though handicapped by the illness of
Mr. J. E. Lawrence, the leading tenor,
the service was inspiring and delightful.
Rev. Thomas LeVan Bickel, the pastor,
sang the tenor numbers so effectively that
none knew a change had been necessary.
“The Coming of the King’’ is the story of
Christ’s birth and discovery in the lowly
manger told in chorus, solos and duetts set
to music that is peculiarly sweet.
The service was repeated on New Year's
night, when the church was crowded and
the choir made a repetition of their Christ-
mas day success.
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THE COUNCIL IN SESSION.—All of the
members but two, Messers Keller and
Madisonburg.
J. E. Smith spent last week in our neigh-
borhood.
Harry Miller and wife spent Monday with
her parents.
K. A. Miller has returned home from his
visiting tour to Lewisburg and other places.
Warden and Thomas Ruhl, of Mill Hall,
spent the last few weeks in and about town.
An oyster supper was held in the hall by
the United Evangelical church recently with
success.
While returning from an entertainment at
Rebersburg on Christmas night the axle on
Herbert Swartz’s buggy broke, emptying the
occupants, consisting of two ladies besides
himself, onto the walk. The gentleman and
the horse were not injured but the ladies re-
ceived several deep cuts in the faces and
bruises which required medical attention.
Some of the committees for the Farmer's
Institute to be held at this place are holding
meetings.
Centre Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Mader have the sympathy of
the people of this community in the loss by
death of their little daughter, aged about one
year. Death claimed the little one on Mon-
day last. Interment took place Thursday at
Mifflinburg.
C. H. Meyer, wife and little daughter
Meriam, have been the guests of D. J. Meyer
and G. M. Boal. Mr. Meyer has been engaged
in the livery business at Millerstown since
last fall, and this is the family’s first visit to
the old folks at home.
Mrs. Cordelia Benner died on Monday
morning and was buried Thursday in Lock
Haven, her old home. An infant son a few
days old and several sisters, who came on to
the funeral from Baltimore and Salona, sur-
vive her, Her maiden name was Chatham.
A fire department was organized last week
with J. C. Shaffer as chief and D. A. Boozer
assistant. Some twenty-eight others have
volunteered their services—fourteen at the
north and fourteen at the south end of town.
Each have a hose cart and hose, and in a
short time the town will, no doubt, have an
efficient department to battle with the flames
when their services are needed. Monday
night the south division experimented with
the hose and the pressure the new plant fur-
nished. Two of the volunteers tightly grip-
ped the nozzle end of the hose and the plug
was opened half way, which was sufficient to
upset the boys and caused the hose, with
its one and one-quarter nozzle, to do the snake
dance until the force was turned off. A later
effort, however, proved successful, and the
water was forced from an inch nozzle the dis-
tance of near two hundred feet. Properly
managed the fire appliances at hand should
prove effective should the town be so un-
fortunate as to have occasion to use them.
Later, a test was made of the force on the
Diamond, and the exhibition of the pressure
was far beyond expectations, and this with:
out the use of the reservoir, the water merely
flowing from the springs directly into the
Tripple, were present at Monday night's !
session of council. The business taken up
was disposed of as follows:
Upon inquiry of Wm. Runkle Esq., it
was learned that no action has been taken
on the claim for damages presented by Miss
Maggie Miles, daughter of former county
treasurer John Q. Miles. About a year |
ago she fell on the ice on the pavement in
front of the home of Daniel Garman, on
High street, breaking her arm. Her de-
mand was simply for a sum sufficient to
cover the physician’s expenses.
The committee reports were of compara-
tively no interest except one matter pre-
sented by the Street committee. It was an
offer made by A. G. Morris, owner of the
Pike quarries, to fill the pike from the
borough line to Frank MecCoy’s residence
on east Linn street to a given grade. The
committee recommended the acceptance of
the offer and council acted favorably. The
cow ordinance was presented as advertised,
but was referred to the solicitor for inves-
tigation and report at the next meeting.
The question of borough lighting was
again taken up and a very argumentative
session was the result. It appeared that
those in favor of a borough plant had been
fortifying themselves for a controversy and
produced a list of 28 towns in Pennsylva-
nia, using about the same light as Belle-
fonte, that pay from $35 to $75 a light.
The average of the whole is $64 per light
per year, whereas the price paid in Belle-
fonte is $105. This uaded Mr. Shaffer i
that it would be the fight thing to intro- |
duce a motion, offering the Edison company |
$75 a light per year for 50are lights, which |
he did. The motion was carried unani-
mously and it was announced as council’s
ultimatum.
Some of the councilmen who voted for
this motion had in mind the doing away
with all the small lamps and using nothing
but ares. At present there are 27 ares and
53 incandescent lights in use at an annual
cost of $3,895. Under the new proposition
there would be only 50 arcs in use at an
annual cost of $3,750. There are only fifty-
seven street intersections in Bellefonte,
where lights could be used at all, so it will
be seen that the fifty ares would come very
near covering the town.
When seen relative to what that com- |
pany would probably do one of the heaviest
stock-holders in the Edison Co., stated that
the proposition would be rejected. |
The report of the Finance committee was |
made as follows:
Bal. due Treasurer Dec., 93 81,366.51
Boro orders paid...... we $590.85
Water t¢ « we 030.75
Interest. .r..lin. i 225.00 1,346,60
2,713,11
Rec'd acct.line fence (Cur-
HOEY ernie rsiiienneiin 3.00
Ree’d acet, Water Com....... 9.73 12.73
Bal. due Treasurer Jan. 2, "09 $2,700.38
Bilis were approved as follows and or-
dered paid:
Water Works Pay Roll..........c.ooeeunuaa, 216s) 63.65
James Harris & Co., Hardware supplies. 32.47
Jas. Harris & Co.. supplies Water Works 67.12
Police pay rol 35.00
Street pay rol 44 19
Isaac Mitchell, 1 mo. as clerk... 12,50
Abe Baum, hauling Undine engine.. 2.00
$266.93
main.
Rebersburg.
Sleighing is excellent at present.
The thermometer registered twenty degrees
below zero on Monday morning.
Miss Belle Webner, of this place, left, Mon-
day morning, for Birmingham, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. James Markle, of Wall, Pa.,
who were here attending the funeral of their
brother, Emanuel, have returned home.
J. H. McAuley and wife are off on a visit-
ing tour. They are at present at Danville,
Pa., taking in the sights, and expect to re-
turn home this week.
Ellis Gramley, son of James J. Gramley, is
in from the West visiting his relatives and
friends. The West seems to agree with him
with the exception of the cyclones. He says
fhey have blown nearly all the hair off his
read.
The members of song service in the Re-
formed church elected their officers for the
ensuing term, on Sunday evening as follows:
Rev. J. M. Runkle, president; J. A. Miller,
vice president; Harry Clevenstine, secretary;
Miss Sophia McEwen, treasurer; Miss Regina
Hubler, organist; and Miss Ida Fisher, as-
sistant organist. The subject for their next
meeting is “The personal call of Christ.” J.
F. Best will lead the meeting, Mrs. J. Ww.
Lee is speaker. Everybody should take an
interest in these meetings.
The entertainment on Christmas evening
in the Reformed church was a grand success.
The church was filled to overflowing. The
attendance has been estimated at about five
hundred people. The children and others
who participated under the instruction of
Mrs. J. M. Runkle performed their parts in
a most excellent manner. An entertainment
of this rank and character should surely be
an incentive to parents to send their children
to Sunday school, and have them take part
in such entertainments. The program con-
sisted of recitations, exercises, male qu artetts,
solos, ete.
Pine Grove Mention.
On Monday morning the thermometer
| registered 30 degrees below zero.
Miss Lizzie Rosecrans, of Loveville, is visit
ing Tnez Krebs.
Misses Nancy and Mary Bailey are in Phil-
adelphia for a month’s visit.
Cyrus Woods, one of Greensburg's legal
lights, is visiting his brother Dr. Woods.
Wm. H. Sausserman, one of Altoona’s tall
men, visited his aged mother this week.
Newt. Hess and his little son Samuel spent
the holiday season in Altoona sight seeing.
Boalsburg has a new butcher as Peter Ish-
ler has decided to take that little son into
partnership.
Brakeman Frank Kaup is laid up with a
broken arm and anincomplete fracture which
| is causing him much trouble.
Edward Rider, who was taken to Danville
some time ago, is not improving and his
friends will bring him home soon.
Mrs. Catharine Woods, mother of Dr.
Woods is seriously ill from a partial stroke of
paralysis which affected her entire left side.
J. B. Ard has been confined to his room for
several weeks with a sprained foot from
! which he has suffered greatly and at this
writing it is not much improved.
Prof. Rothrock, of Millheim, and J. C. Wil-
liams were in town last Saturday interview-
ing our school directors as to the former's
chance for the county superintendency next
June.
The genial superintendent of public in-
struction of Clearfield county, G. W. Weav-
er, was here during the holidays. His
friends are always glad to see his smiling
face here.
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