Bellefonte, Pa., April 13, 1900.
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“The Real Thing” Still Dominates Cen-
tre County Republicans.
High Handed Rulings and One Man Power Again
Disgrace the Republicans of Centre — Hastings,
“the Real Thing,” to the Front and Centre. John
C. Miller, in a State of Total Catalepsy, Becomes
the Big Man’s Marionette. Dale, Gray and Cham-
bers Swindled out of an Apparent Victory and the
Convention Ajourned amid Harrahs for Quay.
The name of Schlitz is heralded, the
world over, as the one that has made the
city of Milwaukee famous, but in the his-
tory of Centre county Republican politics
Hastings will go down as the name that has
won for it the most notorious notoriety.
Prior to last Friday everything was mov-
ing serenely as possible in Centre county.
It was known that a Republican conven-
tion was to be held on the following Tues-
day and that two sets of delegates were as-
piring to the honor of being sent to the
State Convention, but as far as any serious
complications were concerned,such a condi-
tion was not thought of. Former Assembly-
man P. E. Womelsdorf, of Philipsburg, and
W. E. Gray, of Bellefonte, were the avow-
ed Quay men; while C. P. Long, the Spring
Mills merchant whose mysterious conver-
sion to Hastings in the midst of the fight
last year is still a mystery, and W. H. Mel-
lick, of Philipsburg, were announced as the
anti-candidates. The latter were marked
for winners, but as they moved about over
the county it became evident that the
ghost of the Quay propaganda had not been
buried deep enough last year and was ris-
ing up in ali sections—not to be downed
unless again overwhelmed with the ‘‘real
thing.’’ This brought the former Governor
hurrying home on Friday and then the
trouble began.
Chairman Reeder had the organization to
hand over to him and then Tommy Mitchell
was called in to tell them what to do. This
trio of statesmen were in constant consulta-
tion until after the primaries on Saturday
when the result of which seemed to crown
Tommy’s managerial perspicacity with a
wreath of skunk cabbage leaves. Noth-
ing daunted, however, by the narrowness,
if any, of their margin they set to work
again the frightful debauchery of last July’s
disgraceful scenes and the dragnet of cor-
ruption they threw out—praises to the
manhood of some of the delegates—didn’t
bring in more than a handful of corrupti-
bles, yet enough to accomplish its purpose.
Poor old Brouse,the last of the Mohicans
who rallied with Al Dale and Vie Gray
at the time of the first crusade, fell and
went as special emissary into the South
ward for the man who had cut a normal
majority of 100 in the North ward down to
38, for him when he was a candidate for
overseer only last February.
The town was rife with excitement up to
the hour of the convention’s call on Tues-
day, for it was so close that no man could
tell which way it would go. Even George
Knocker MoCain’s paper, the Philadelphia
Press, that morning admitted that the move
was up to the Governor and that the
‘‘handful of political nobodies’’ were stand-
ing pat. They stood, but Howard Holz-
worth, Lew Bullock, Jno. C. Miller, and
Jim Watt slipped Dan a few cards under
the table and he bluffed them out.
The primaries on Saturday had been bit-
terly contested and the result when summed
up was exceedingly close with the Quay
people claiming the lead. But that lead
was for a very short time. The other side
had the organization, and the ex-Governor
had the ‘‘real thing,”” and such influences
and temptations were more than the ordi-
nary Republican could withstand.
When the convention met the ex-Gov-
ernor appeared as one of the delegates, al-
though he had not been elected nor did he.
present any credentials. His late Attorney
General, as chairman of the county com-
mittee, had made up the roll and without
any explanation, or apology to the conven-
tion, had placed his name upon it. At the
roll call forty-two delegates answered to
their names whose credentials showed they
had been instructed to support Quay dele-
gates, and forty-one who had instructions
or were inclined to vote the other way.
There were eighty three delegates pres-
ent, but only one of them counted. That
was Dan. He had Tom Taylor’s seat in
the convention and while Tom is only a
poor colored man he can pass around to his
brethren now the boast that his proxy
was the main guy and kept the whole push
a movin.
On Tom Taylor’s proxy’s motion John
C. Miller who, two years ago, was Centre
county’s delegate to the Bourse convention,
was made chairman,and Delaun Stewart, of
Burnside, and G. L. Potter, of Bellefonte,
secretaries. Then Tom Taylor’s proxy’s
chairman appointed J. Thos. Mitchell,
reading secretary. Up to this time the
gathering had more the appearance of a
Quaker funeral than a political convention,
and not until after Tom Taylor's proxy’s
side had secured the chairman and the sec-
retaries did the Quay people waken up.
From that time on they made things very
lively.
The next thing was the appointment of
a committee on resolutions and the follow-
ing were named : D. F. Stewart, of Snow
Show; S. H. Diehl, of Bellefonte; William
Allison, of Spring Mills; Joseph Hettinger,
of Boalsburg, and E. M. Lucas, of Union.
At this juncture it hecame evident to
Little Phil that some shady delegates were
on hand and he rose to interpose objection
to their being seated. But Tom Taylor's
proxy was loaded for ‘‘Fillup’ and J. I.
Yarnell, David Rhinesmith and J. E. Bit-
ner were appointed a committee on creden-
tials instanter. Then they retired to hear
the contests. That was easy.
The real business came up nextand Gray
and Womelsdorff and Long and Mellick
were placed in nomination. The vote was
being called when the Taylor proxy thought
it was time for the committee on contested
seats to report, so he went after it and
while out in the court library Johnny
Hurst, the Philipsburg plumber, passed him
up a compliment as smooth as if it were
a wipe joint make with the remnants of
that old bath towel Mark Hanna once talk-
ed about. The credentials committee re-
ported, however, that all of the Hastings
people should have their seats and then
there was trouble. The Philipsburgers got
up on their hint feet like they did the time
Col. Jim Coburn relegated Steele Crissman’s
famous resolution to a committee waste
basket. It was anybody’s trouble and
when the smoke had cleared away it was
discovered that Scott Lose and Charley
Morgan, two of the delegates from the
South ward whom Brouse didn’t have in-
structed for Tom Taylor’s proxy’s end of it,
had deliberately grown tired of represent-
ing their constituents and had gone out,
presumably to investigate the truth,or fals-
ity, of the rumor that Dan’s new brick sta-
ble had lately heen lined with nice long
green.
A bungling roll call in which names were
called and voters recorded twice; challenges
made and votes changed as suited the clerks;
and noise and confusion reigned to such an
extent that there was no certainty that the
votes cast were recorded as intended, the
result was announced as follows :
JUODZ ciiienriiviriniiserssentomnenibobeshiidestacisntyreissss 4834
Melek... cconmmseesiinniscsninninnrmsrnsss mise 45
Gray..coiseeie 37
WomMeISAOTE......coetssiansss ertesersdienisssenrnsssans 3314
During thie confusion and pretense at
balloting, a committee on resolutions were
agreeing on a platform which was presented
just as the chairman announced the result,
and was declared the only business before
the convention when a challenge of the
vote on delegates was made. So well was
the chairman coached in his duties that
when a Philipsburg delegate offered a sub-
stitute for the resolutions, he was imme-
diately declared out of order, and ordered
to take his seat. Neither the writer, nor
anyone else heard the resolutions. Such
were the charges and counter charges, the
threats and denunciations that were passing
between the delegates and whether they
were adopted or not is a questian for those
who are interested to decide.
So great was the trouble and so anxious
was Tom Taylov’s proxy to get away, after
his success that he moved to adjourn be-
fore the conferees to select district delegates
to the National Convention had been nam-
ed and Miller was putting the motion when
’Squire Haupt, from down at Milesburg,
remembered that he had heen told to do
something. He did it and then the end came.
Such a babel of sounds you never did hear.
Tom Taylor’s proxy had snapped his finger
and poor John C. Miller, he who had heam-
ed on the entire 192 girls who wanted
places in the shirt factory, came to to hear
things about himself that must have made
him think he was anything but a winner.
Little Phil, seeing that the big show was
over, jumped up on a high chair and an-
nounced a concert that was held around the
watering can over in the corner later, and
then some one in the back end of the court
house proposed three cheers for Quay and
the audience rose en masse and gave them
so lustily that Uncle Dan’] suffered visibly
with a temporary fit of suspended anima-
tion. It was great. There never has been
anything like it since the night our friend
Sam Miller talked poor old Charley Green
to death.
THE AFTERMATH.
Little Phil’s concert announcement
brought Wilson Fleming and George Chand-
ler under the shadow the water cooler.
There they organized a convention of their
own by electing George Chandler chairman
and W. I. Fleming, and John Hurst sec-
retaries. Of course they elected delegates
to the State Convention and they were Gray
and Womelsdorf; they did it unanimous-
ly and they will be seated in Harrisburg,
because the convention they go to will
recognize anything that wears the Quay col-
lar, whether the people will it or not, and
tell how Tom’s proxy hypnotized John C.
Miller and made a monkey of him,and how
they had been bull dozed, flim flammed
and gagged—the poor little fellows.
These are some of the stories that are go-
ing round about it now.
Scott Lose and Charley Morgan, two
delegates from the South ward who were
instructed to vote for the Quay men, got
tired sitting in the convention and went
out before doing the duty their constituents
confided to them. Whether they took
Hood’s or something else for that tired feel-
ing we can’t say, but the former Governor
was seen whispering in their ears after they
had taken seats in the convention. And
when Will Gray started to pour out his in-
dignation upon them about one o’clock he
found them gazing at Hastings’ stable. Up-
on his approach they bounded away like
frightened deer—how dear, no one knows—
and fled down through Hastings’ yard.
Now there was trouble about Isaiah
Woodle and Daniel Spittler, too. They
were the delegates from South Rush, where
the Quay post master Harry Stuart is chair-
man and didn’t hold any primaries. He
just appointed his delegates and told them
to vote for Gray and Womelsdorf. When
they got over here Christ Sharer nabbed
the one that is his nephew and soon had
Harry's nice little scheme busted and they
did just what their uncle told them to do
and that was two more votes for Tom’s
proxy.
Then there was Stine Walker from East
Ferguson. He was chosen and instructed
by the Quayites,but that Tyrone diplomat,
Jim Watt, is said to bave gotten his hooks
on Stine and the result was that he staid
in Ferguson all day and Quay was shy an-
other one.
Just whether he did or not we
are at loss to verify, but they say that
Howard Holzworth, of Unionville, tamper-
ed with William Woodring, the Worth
township delegate, who was instructed
for Quay. On Monday Howard is sup-
posed to have been out at the big house on
the hill, then suddenly departed for Port
Matilda from which place he was driven
down to Woodring’s. Then he took the
4:44 train to Tyrone where he reported to
Dan by telephone and came down on the
night train ; handing off a parcel to Wood-
ring as the train passed. If this is true,
that parcel contained the tamper and
whether it was like the shoes Jake Herman
gave Mrs. Hunter for Jacob Hicks last fall
or the ‘‘good lorg green’’ you’ll have tode-
pend on your own imaginations to settle.
Harry Miller, the delegate from Middle
Spring, who was instructed and elected by
the Quay people fell a victim to Lew Bul-
lock’s seductive wilesand went driving in-
stead of representing the people who had
chosen him. Lew knows what it means to
get home to Dan’s pocket book. He did it
nicely the time they were building the
Methodist church in Milesburg, for which
that congregation ought to be duly grate-
ful. But we haven’t heard whether Harry
is on the list of duly grateful etc., or not.
Another one was Frank Wallace, of West
Boggs, whose vote should have been for the
Quay delegates. But instead of being here
Frank was in Pittsburg at the bedside of
his two sick daughters. Of couse no one
could censure him for that, but the Quay
people are hot because Jno. C. Miller
talked him into going away without leav-
ing a substitution and when these same
people tried to work in James McMullen
this same Mr. Miller knocked him off
his seat by an arbitrary ruling to the effect
that no person was entitled to represent
another, unless bearing a written substitu-
tion from the absent delegate. Such a re-
quirement, they all swore, had never been
heard of before in a Republican county con-
vention.
Jack Mitchell, of Lemont, was declined
a seat on the same ruling and the Quay
people lost the vote they were entitled to
from College township; the same thing
having occurred in Curtin.
As to the truth of these assertions, they
are all made by responsible Republican
leaders and you can judge of them for
yourselves.
While the fight was far closer than any-
one had an idea it would be there is little
doubt that the Hastings people would have
been able to win out fairly without resort-
ing to the unfair methods they are charged
with having resorted to.
Altogether the relative standing. of those
about the court house on Tuesday was
about as follows :
BIG DAN.
COL. REEDER.
TOMMY MITCHELL.
JOHN C. MILLER.
THE DELEGATES.
Beckham Is Governor of Kentucky.
Kentucky Court of Appeals Hands Down its Decision.
Four Democratic and Ten Republican Judges find
that Beckham was Legally Chosen as Governor.
One Republican Judge Dissents.
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 7.—The court
of appeals has handed down its decision in
the gubernatorial contest in favor of Beck-
bam, Judge Durell dissenting. The other
two Republican judges; Burnam and Guffy,
handed down a separate opinion, which
differed in its reasons from the opinion of
the Democratic judges, but agreed with
them in its conclusion. Judge Hobwon,
one of thefour Democratic judges, wrote
the opinion of the majority of the court,
affirming the decision of Judge Field of
Louisville.
It recites the work of the state canvass-
ing board and of the contest proceedings
in the Legislature and all subsequent pro-
ceedings and continues :
‘‘We have no more right to supervise the
decision of the general assembly in deter-
mining the result of this election than we
have to supervise the action of the Gov-
ernor in calling a special session of the
Legislature or in pardoning a criminal, or
the action of the Legislature in contracting
debts or determining upon the election of
its members or doing any other act author-
ized by the constitution. There is no con-
flict between the action of the state can-
vassing board and that of the Legislature
in these cases. The state canvassing board
was without power to go behind the re-
turns. They were not authorized to hear
evidence and determine who was in truth
elected, but were required to give a cer-
tificate of election to those who on the face
of the returns had received the highest
number of votes.
*‘For the state board to have received
evidence to impeach the returns before
them would have heen for them, in effect,
to act as a board for contesting the election,
and if they had done this they would have
usurped the power vested in the general
assembly by the constitution, for by its
express terms only the general assembly
can determine a contested election for Gov-
ernor and Lieutenant Governor.
‘*“We are, therefore, unable to see how
this case can be distinguished from any
other legislative action, taken in a matter
over which the constitution has given the
Legislature exclusive jurisdiction, and we
are, therefore, of the opinion that the court
is without jurisdiction to go behind the
record made by the Legislature under the
constitution. Such a record seems to us
entitled to every presumption in its favor
which the records of this court, kept under
its supervision, would be entitled to receive
at the bands of the Legislature in a matter
before it.”
Ex-Governor W. O. Bradley, chiet coun-
sel for Governor Taylor, has authorized the
statement that an appeal on behalf of Gov-
ernor Taylor and Lieutenant Governor
Marshall will be carried to the supreme
court of the United States. Mr. Bradley
and Judge W. H. Yost, counsel for the Re-
publican state officers, were in consultation
with Governor Taylor for several hours
last night, and the above statement was at
the close of the conference.
Democratic State Convention.
Continued from Page 1.
IMPERIALISM A WRONG.
We are unalterably opposed to the imperial-
ism of the present Administration and the
Republican party. No commercial advantage
can justify our holding the Filipinos as a sub-
ject people, and’ the Philippine Islands as an
imperial colony. We favor granting at once
to the people thereof home rule and the right
to govern themselves under the protection of
the United States.
We demand that the solemn pledge made
by Congress to the people of Cuba be faith-
fully observed and their independence grant-
ed them in compliance therewith, and that
the army of the United States be withdrawn,
as recommended by General Leonard Wood.
JUSTICE FOR PORTO RICO.
We demand for the people of Porto Rico
the right of freely importing and exporting
toand from any part of the United States,
and we denounce the sinster influences that
have caused the President to depart from
that which he termed was a ‘‘plain duty.”
In our intercourse, political, financial and
commercial, with foreign nations we demand
a vigorous American policy. We deplore the
subserviency of the present Administration
to the behests of England and English states-
men, whether the same be intentional or
caused by the ignorance of our officials in the
State Department. We denounce the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty as a complete abandon-
ment of the claims of our statesmen of our
right to construct and control an interoceanic
canal and as un-American and a base surren-
der of our inherent right of self-defense.
We denounce as at variance with ourrights
of citizenship and destructive of the rights of
a freeman the use of the army of the United
States and the writ of habeas corpus and dec-
larations of martial law in times of peace, in
order that labor may be intimidated and or-
ganizations broken up.
FOR THE COUNTRY’S WELFARE.
We declare in favor of :
An interoceanic canal controlled and pro-
tected by this country.
No further surrender of Alaskan territory.
: Fortidcation of strategic points on the Pa-
cifle.
No entangling alliances with England or
other countries, secret or open.
Free Trade with Porto Rico.
Independence of Cuba.
Home rule for Philippine Islands.
No subject people.
No colonial dependencies.
Eternal opposition to Trusts.
A vigorous foreign policy.
And an income tax.
We favor the adoption of an amendment to
the Constitution providing for the election of
Vnied States Senators by a vote of the peo-
ple.
FAITH IN BIMETALLISM.
We reiterate our faith in the beneficent ef-
fects of bimetallism, gold and silver, the
money of the Constitution, and believe its
recognition and adoption would tend to steady
and make permanent the prosperity of our
country, and free us from the power of the
Money Trust to precipitate panics at will and
make money dear. labor poor and all other
things cheap.
We earnestly extend to the brave people in
South Africa, now struggling for their liber-
ties and existence, our profound sympathy,
and declare that the war of conquest and ex-
termination now being carried on by the
British Empire,in its greed for gold and pow-
er,is a menace to advancing civilization. We
favor united action on the part of all the
Republics of the world to maintain the in-
dependent existence of the two Republics in
South Africa.
We are opposed to the increase of our stand-
ing army, as proposed by the Republican
party, as a menace to free government, and
we insist upon the supremacy of the civil over
the military authorities.
STEPS TOWARD BALLOT REFORM.
In matters affecting ns as citizens of the State
of Pennsylvania, we demand the passage,and
pledge ourselves to enact, such legislation as
will secure ballot reform, personal registra-
tion, pure elections, honest counts and correct
returns. And we denounce the Republican
party of this State as being responsible for the
present laws, which make elections by the
people a mockery by making the ballot box
stuffers’ infamy and personated officers’
fraudulent return the result by which our
highest officers are elected.
We favor legislation to curb the power and
punish the oppressive and criminal acts of the
Trusts and monopolies that have fastened
themselves upon our industries in this Com-
monwealth. To restrain discrimination by
common carriers, telegraph and telphone
companies. To prevent the combination of
corporations by purchasing the stock of other
corporations. To prevent the issue of full-paid
stock except for cash or property at its actual
cost value. And to prohibit foreign corpora-
tions from doing businessin this State except
npon an exact equality with those organized
under the laws of our Commonwealth.
We favor municipal ownership of all munic-
ipal franchises and’ public utilities and the
passage of legislation to accompish this pur.
pose.
GOVERNOR TAKEN TO TASK.
We call the attention of the voters of the
State to, and condemn as a flagrant violation
of, the Constitution of this Commonwealth. the
unwarranted appointment by the Chiet Exe-
cutive of Hon. M. 8. Quay as Senator of the
United States.
We call attention to and condemn his usur-
pation of the legislative functions in approv-
ing parts and disapproving other parts of Ap-
propriation bills duly passed by the Legisla-
ture, whereby the public schools and chari-
ties of our State have suffered.
We call attention to and condemn the ex-
travagance that has characterized the admin-
istration of our State under Republican Ad-
ministrations. We demand that the tax laws
of this Commonwealth be revised so that all
legitimate subjects of taxation shall bear
their fair share of its burdens.
We condemn the so-called labor legislation
of the Republican party of this State as being
ineffective and a failure, as always contain-
ing an unconstitutional provision intended
to make it void if effective. We favor legis-
lation that will put the honest toiler upon an
equality before the law with corporate greed
and monopoly. We favor legislation tending
to reduce the hours of labor in proportion to
the progressive increase of the production,
UNITED SUPPORT FOR BRYAN.
As the Democracy of Pennsylvania have
since 1896 regarded Wm. J. Bryan as the
ideal Democrat, intelligent, honest, able, sin-
cere and loyal in his devotion to Democratic
principles and Democratic policies, whose
public and private life is without reproach,
and whose patriotic, wise and statesmanlike
acts and utterances upon all public questions
have stamped him as a man of the people,
and to whom the great heart of the Demo-
cratic and common people of our country
looks for its redemption from the spoilsman.
its regeneration from the imperialist and its
enthrallment from Trusts and unlawful com-
binations, we hereby, in convention as-
sembled, invite him to become a candidate
for the Presidency upon the Democratic
ticket, and pledge the united support of the
delegation from the State of Pennsylvania to
vote and labor for his nomination and elec-
tion.
$30,000 Fire Destroys Several Build-
ings at Lewisburg.
At Lewisburg, Thursday afternoon, fire
broke out in the plant of the Central Elec-
tric and Foundry company and in a short
time had spread over an entire square. A
number of frame buildings and the foundry
were completely destroyed. A high wind
fanned the flames and carried burning em-
bers to a number of business blocks which
took fire. The situation was so threaten-
ing that the authorities telephoned to Mil-
ton, four miles distant, and to Sunbury
ten miles away, forassistance. The former
arrived on a special train, but just as
the Sunbury company was about to leave
that place the order to them was revoked.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS,
“What Happened to Jones” is a
lively farce comedy that has had marvelous
success this season. It comes to Garman’s
next Friday night.
a pet
——The wagon bridge that. spans Mosh-
annon creek at Munson station gave way on
Tuesday precipitating Thos. White and his
team of horses into the stream 12ft below.
Singularly enough neither driver nor
horses were hurt.
——A series of entertainments are being
arranged by the women of the Methodist
church for the benefit of their Aid Society.
An Old Folks concert will be given in the
lecture room of the church, the first week
in May, and some time after that the Old
Maids Convention.
—— Political aspirations and hardships
seem part of the birthright of Centre coun-
ty boys these days. Cyrus Woods, formerly
of Boalsburg, was nominated for Senator by
the Republicans ont in Westmoreland coun-
ty Tuesday, and Lawrence Thomas, a Pine
Grove boy, only missed the nomination for
Assemblyman on the same ticket by a few
votes. The first is a Quayite and the latter
an Anti.
Pe
A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION EFFECT-
ED.—Last Saturday morning there was a
meeting of all interested in the monument
fund, held in the arbitration room in the
court house at which a permanent organi-
zation was effected. It will be known as
the Centre County Soldiers Monument and
Curtin Memorial Association and elected
the following officers : President, James A.
Beaver; vice presidents, S. H. Williams
and D. F. Fortney ; treasurer, James Har-
ris; secretary, John C. Miller.
Executive Committee—W. C. Patterson,
State College; Dr. J. A. Thompson, Half
Moon; W. M. Allison, Spring Mills; Dr.
Thomas Royer, Rebershurg; Capt. W. H.
Fry, Pine Grove Mills: George W. Ather-
ton, State College; W. A. Tobias, Millheim;
Col. W. F. Reynolds, Bellefonte; Col. Aus-
tin Curtin, of Roland.
Committees on Finance, Design, Loca-
tion ete, are to be appointed by the presi-
dent with the advice of the executive com-
mittee. The finance committee is to be
appointed at once, consisting of three in
each election precinct and the work of
raising the money is to be pushed with
vigor. It is hoped that they will be able
to lay the cornerstone of the monument
duringithe celebration of the Centre County
Centennial, July 25th, and 26th.
Everyone who contributes a dollar or
over to the fund will become members of
the Monument Association and will receive
a neat certificate of membership which
will be a valuable souvenir in after years.
The purpose of the association is to erect a
soldiers’ monument to cost $15,000 and a
memorial to the late Governor Curtin, to
cost $10,000. They now have $13,000 in
sight. :
Resolutions of Respect.
The undersigned committee was appointed at a
regular meeting of the Bellefonte Preceptory on
Friday April 6th, 1900, to draft the following reso-
ions.
WHEeReas It has pleased almighty God, the su-
preme ruler of the universe, to remove from our
midst a faithful brother and beloved friend, and
from his wife a beloved husband, in the person
of brother James E. Conroy.
Resolved, That we the members of the Belle-
fonte Preceptory L.A. 300, K. of L. do hereby
tender to the wifeand family of the deceased the
assurance of our profound sympathy and condo-
lence, and be it further.
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on
the minutes of this Preceptory and printed in
the Bellefonte papers and the Commoner and
Glassworker, and a copy of each be sent to the
wife of our deceased brother.
Gro. KN1sELY,
S. P. SMrrH,
DanIErL Scurr.
Committee.
Centre Hall.
Dr. Radcliffe, of Phila., was in town a few
days.
Usually the lying and fishing season open
at the same time, but when fishermen get old
it appears the season to lie ahout their own
greatness is always in.
The second car load of horses was shipped
to the eastern markets Thursday. None but
good, sound animals were bought and a very
fair price was paid for them.
The Reformed and Lutheran churches will
observe Easter by holding services Sunday
evening. A sun rise prayer meeting in the
Lutheran church conducted by the various
religious societies of the town is expected to
be largely attended.
Mrs. D. W. Bradford returned from Phila-
delphia Monday where she had been assist-
ing in caring for her sisters Mrs. Hemphill,
who had been seriously ill. On her way
home Mrs. Bradford stopped with friends in
Harrisburg for a few days.
The Bellefonte pike is in fine condition for
April. A little force of men are seen every
few miles between Pleasant Gap and Belle-
fonte making repairs. Pikemaster Taylor
knows how to make road. The township
supervisors ought to go to school to him.
A little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Homan died Tuesday and was buried Thurs-
day. She was the only daughter and was
aged about three years. Much as she was
loved by her parents, death came and used as
its agent brain fever. The Homan family
moved from Boalsburg to the Arney farm
north of town last spring. Interment was
made in the cemetery at this place,
F. A. Foreman and Mrs. Sallie Kline were
married Wednesday evening atthe home of
the latter’s sister, Mrs. L. Lingle, near this
this place. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. J. M. Rearick, and but a few of the
nearest relatives of the principals were pres-
ent. Both bride and groom are from this
place and need no introduction. The groom
will at once take his bride to his home on
Main street and omit the formal wedding
tour. The writer, together with the many
friends of both bride and groom, join in
hearty congratulations.
S. W. Smith is selling high grade flour for
the Phoenix Milling Co. The ‘Superlative’
is a straight spring wheat flour; “Fancy
Patent’’ is a blended spring and winter
wheat flour, and ‘‘The Finest,” a straight
winter wheat flour. The prices are right.
Many of the Penns valley farmers go to the
Phoenix mill to exchange for flour and now
the iownsneople have an opportunity to get
the same first class goods.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Ray Morgan, of State Col-
lege, accompanied Lewis Benjamin Morgan
to town Saturday and remained over Sunday.
W. W. Boob, the wheel and general hard-
ware man, has his machinery in operation
with which he tires with rubber. He has a
complete outfit, aud can take your old iron
tires off your wheels and replace them with
rubber and make a first class job of it right
in Centre Hall.
The entertainment given by the Reformed
Sunday school Saturday evening was one full
of interest to those who filled both the main
auditorium and Sunday school room. Among
the features of special interest was the dumb
bell exercise given by a class of small boys
and the doll drill by little girls. Dr. Glosser
manipulated that feature of the program in
the best of shape. The singing, speaking
and all other parts were well performed and
was an entertainment of such a character
that should be gotten up more frequently by
the various organizations.
The writer with a party of friends inspect-
ed the Penna. Match Co’s works Monday
afternoon. The favor was obtained through
J. L. Montgomery, the superintendent, who
is an ideal chaperon, and made a special ef-
fort to show up every operation. From ap-
pearances there are few who are granted an
opportunity to see the common, everyday
match manufactured, but the gate swung
open before this little coterie and the bold
sign ‘‘no admittance” fairly quivered for
wrath because its order was disobeyed. The
factory is complete in every respect and is an
industry that no doubt will have a long and
prosperous life under Mr. Montgomery.
Two and one half miles south of town on
the Rev. Boal faim several large sinks fell in
this spring. Tenant D. W. Bradford relates
that the occurrence is not an unusual one to
take place this season of the year. The farm
referred to is flint and comparatively level,
yet the surface keeps on dropping here and
there every year. This spring three new
sinks were added, right in the centre of a
large wheat field. In some cases the top soil
just seems to be lowered without breaking,
and down ten to fifteen feet may be seen the
wheat plants striving to grow. Surrounding
this oasis are perpendicular walls of earth de-
void of stones, which seem to say that they
are guarding the five to six hundred square
feet of below. There is considerable danger
in tilling such territory to say nothing of the
inconvenience Bradford will have of raising
his crop to the natural level. Bradford is
apprehensive lest some time a little item simi-
lar to this will be printed in the papers:
“D. W. Bradford, a life long and respected
citizen of Potter township, while plowing,
was swallowed up by the earth together with
his team. There was apparently not a note
of warning ; the earth just yawned and the
whole outfit disappeared like a fly in an ali-
gator’s jaw. There was a rumbling and all
was over.
An investigation showed that many hun-
dred feet below is the mouth of a subterane-
ous passage that leads to a beautiful cave, a
description of which can scarce be penned.
Stalactites and stalagmites are everywhere
visible ; rocks when touched give out sounds
resembling those of musical instruments;
myriads of gems light up the entire cavern if
but a single ray of light is thrown upon them;
a beautiful stream of water lazily plays among
the rocks and hundreds of unheard of plants
and flowers grow on tiny islands where the
stream widens,but every effort to pluck these
new beauties is thwarted by the monster
upon whose back the island has formed by
simply diving into the crystal water and tak-
ing the flower garden with him. When the
phenomenon again appears every plant and
flower has changed in color, size and shape.’ ’
Pine Grove Mention.
Some of our forenoon farmers have their
oats sowed.
Mrs. Jacob Meyers is visiting her old home
in Rebersburg.
Mrs. Maggie Meek and Mrs. W. K. Goss
enjoyed a drive out into the country on
Wednesday.
W. H. Roush, who is engaged in the buggy
business over at Alexandria, spent Sunday
with his family.
The arrival of a little daughter at the
home of Harry Frantz makes that gentleman
smile all over his face.
Recent reports from Mr. Levi Krebs, who
is now in the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia,
indicate that his condition is most discourag-
ing.
Mrs. H. C. Campbell, of State College, and
daughter, Mrs. J. H. Musser, of Pennsylva-
nia Furnace, are visiting ‘the former’s son,
John B. Campbell, in Tyrone.
The many friends of Mrs. Mary Bottorf
will be glad to hear of her recovery from a
severe bronchial trouble which for several
days has caused them considerable alarm.
Uriah Gates, one of Huntingdon county’s
staunch Democrats as well as successful
farmers, was here recently noting the im-
provements since he was alittle barefooted
boy of the town.
James Burns, an employe of the Linden
Hall Lumber company, had his right hand
so badly mutilated, lately, in a cut off saw
that he will be a cripple for life. The acci-
dent happened while he was relieving John
Collier, the regular sawyer.
Jonathan Hess, formerly a merchant in
this place but now of Williamsport, is here
in quest of health, and, as soon as the law
allows him, will try his hand angling for
the finny tribe over along the mountain
streams, where he is acquainted with every
turn. .
Dr. Laurie, of Bellefonte, Rev. Hepler, of
Lemont, and elders Lowder and Goheen en-
joyed the drive over the Seven mountains
and across the beautiful Kishocoquillas valley
into Lewistown, where they are attending
the annual meeting of the Huntingdon
Presbytery, this week.
The Republican primaries held at the St.
Elmo hotel,Saturday,to elect delegates to the
county convention was most spirited and
hot. When the smoke cleared it was found
that the stalwarts had won. It was a Quay
meeting from start to finish but one of the
happenings was the election of two insur-
gents instructed to vote for Gray and Womels-
dorf. One of the delegates, for reasons best
known by himself, failed to show up in the
convention on Tuesday. The vote stood 15
to 21. Their chairman declares that every-
thing is going to h— this fall and all the
Democrats have to do is to vote straight.