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For Governor,
WEBSTER GRIM, of Bucks County.
For Lieutenant Governor,
THOMAS H. GREEVY, of Altoona.
For Secretary of Intemal Affairs,
JAMES I. BLAKESLEE, of Carbon County,
For State Treasurer,
SAMUEL B. PHILSON, of Somerset County.
Democratic Congressional Ticket.
For Congress,
WILLIAM C. HEINLE, of Bellefonte.
Democratic Senatorial Ticket.
For State Senator,
‘SAMUEL C. STEWART, of Clearfield.
Democratic County Ticket.
For the Legislature,
J. CALVIN MEYER. of Bellefonte.
The Charges Against Tener.
The charges against JOHN K. TENER
have assumed such an aspect as to de-
mand public attention. It is alleged, on
the authority of a Republican newspa-.
per, that he was for a time president of
a corporation which had been organized
for the purpose of swindling innocent in-
vestors by the sale of its shares. It has
been shown that this swindling corpora-
tion was formed by taking over the debts
and titles of four other bankrupt corpora-
tions and capitalizing their debts and
worthless franchises as assets of the
new corporation. It is asserted that Mr.
TENER invested no money in the bogus
corporation but was presented with $50,
000 worth of the stock and allowed a
salary of $5000 a year for the use of his
name and influence in duping the public.
Mr. TENER has not undertaken to de-
ny his connection with the corporation
in question or questioned the accuracy of
the statement of the manner in which
he got into it. He says he entered the
corporation and became its executive
head in “the ordinary course of business.”
Any intelligent man knows that is not
true. The ordinary method of getting
into corporations in Pennsylvania is to
purchase shares at the market price. He
did not purchase shares at any price for
they were presented to him and this cor-
poration was not organized in the ordina-
ry way for no money was paid into the
treasury by anybody for any purpose. It
had no assets, no capital and no property
other than a railroad franchise in Ore-
gon which cost less than $300 and was
listed at $2,000,000.
The only answer that can be made to
the charges is that Mr. TENER was either
a fool or a knave. If he associated him-
self with professional swindlers, and the
charge is that those connected with him
in the management of the enterprise
were such, for the purpose of swindling
the public he is a knave. If he connect-
ed himself with this bogus corporation
without understanding its character and
purpose he is a fool. In either event he
is unfit for the office of Governor of Penn-
sylvania, and no voter can support him
for that office without self-stultification.
The office of Governor of Pennsylvania
is an important trust the discharge of
which requires moral and mental equip-
ment. His connection with a swindling
corporation shows that JOHN K. TENER
has neither.
The corporation laws of Pennsylvania
are exacting so that every Pennsylvanian
who associates himself with a corpora-
tion understands that he is assuming ob-
ligations which must be met. Itis true
that the National Utilities Corporation
was not created under the laws of Penn-
sylvania, but Pennsylvanians who con-
nect themselves with foreign corporations
are under moral obligations to meet the
conditions prescribed by the Pennsylva-
nia laws. Therefore Mr. TENER is the
more culpable because understanding the
Pennsylvania laws he associated himself
with an enterprise which was obviously
incorporated in another State in order to
evade the obligations imposed by the
laws of this State and intended to prey
upon the unsuspecting people of this
State.
All in all this is a bad business. It re-
veals the Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor in a bad light and clearly proves
his unfitness for the office to which he
aspires. The truth is, as a prominent
and scrupulously careful citizen of West-
ern Pennsylvania puts it, “GRIM is real-
ly the only candidate for Governor that a
reputable business man can afford to
vote for."
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
~The old court house clock which
was purchased from the county by the
citizens of Philipsburg and presented to
that borough, will not be put up on the
public building of the town until some
time next spring.
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——-William McFarlane this week re-
signed his position as lineman for the
Bellefonte Electric company and with
Nevin Wetzel yesterday left Bellefonte
for Parksville, Tenn. where they have
accepted a more lucrative position with
the J. G. White Co., contractors of New
York. "oo r = Sia
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Senator Grim’s Visit
to Centre County |
Accompanied by Thos. H. Greevy, Demo-
cratic Nominee for Lieutenant Gover-,
nor, Our Candidate for Governor Tra-
versed the Entire County, Visited
Eight Towns and Made Five Speeches. '
No doubt remains in the minds of those
who saw or heard Senator Webster Grim
on Monday that he is the cultured, clean,
strong man that reports from other points | |
have heralded him as being. Accompa-
nied by Thomas H. Greevy,our nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, Dr. Samuel C. Stew-
art nominee for Senator, Mr. Praig, of the | |
Philadelphia Record staff, county chair-
man A. B. Kimport, Hon. John Noll, L J. | |
Dreese, Col. H. S. Taylor, S. D. Gettig, |
W. D. Zerby, John J. Bower, J. M. Cun- |
ningham and several others an automo-
bile visit to some of the towns of Centre |
county was begun at Coburn early Mon- |
day morning.
Most of the party assembled here and |
went to Coburn where Senator Grim join- '
ed them from the morning train from
Lewisburg.
At Coburn a nice crowd had gathered !
to greet the standard bearers of the Dem-
ocracy and an informal reception was
held before the party left for Millheim
where they had breakfast. Immediately
afterwards an open air meeting was held
and brief speeches made by the candi.
dates. There was a fine crowd present
at Millheim and the people were impress-
ed most favorably with Senator Grim.
At Rebersburg, the next stop, twenty
minutes were spent and there another
to see the party racing past.
At Spring Mills there was another large
turn out of citizens and school children
and the meeting in front of Wood's hotel
was enthusiastic as well as full of pleas-
ing feeling; for there school master Ti-
tus Gramley arose to heckle speaker
Greevy on some tariff questions and we
understand that the answers were entire-
ly satisfactory to the inquisitor.
At Centre Hall there was an undenia-
ble frost. Not a dozen of her citizens
availed themselves of the opportunity to
greet the visitors. Of course it is known
that there is considerable Berry senti-
ment in Centre Hall, but we have been
informed that there were other reasons
why so few turned out.
After leaving Centre Hall the party!
came to Bellefonte for dinner. at the
Brockerhoff house. But no attempt at a |
meeting or reception was made here for !
the reason that Senator Grim had been
apprised of the movement to have him |
and Mr. Berry withdraw and was almost
continuously in telephone connection with '
the state executive committe then in ses-
sion in Philadelphia. However, there was |
time for the hundred or more persons !
who had the time to wait, to meet him |
personally and every one of them was |
impressed with the open, frank, dignified
manner in which he greeted them and
MRS. ELIZABETH EVANS REESE.
REESE.—Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Reese,
Centre county's oldest woman and only
real Daughter of the American Revolu-
tion, died at her home on Muncy moun-
tain at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon
at the advanced age of 97 years, 7 months
and 13 days. See had enjoyed good health
all summer for a woman of her years
until the Monday prior to her death when
she had a nervous chill which was the
beginning of a decline that was gradual
until her death on Sunday, when she
calmly slept away. Her last illness and
death were without pain or suffering.
Mrs. Reese was a daughter of Eleazer
Evans who came to this country from
Wales and settled in Chester county. He
enlisted as a private in Capt. Hallman's
company in 1781 and served until the
close of the Revolutionary war. After
that he with his family came to Centre
county and located at Centre Furnace
where Mr. Evans followed his trade as a
Millright. Later he moved to Ferguson
township, near Pine Grove Mills, and it
was there the subject of this sketch was
born on March 3rd, 1803.
When Mrs. Reese was a girl not yet out
of her teensshe was married to Christian
Reese, of Worth township, and shortly
thereafter the latter purchased a tract of
land on Muncy mountain, in Patton town.
ship, originally one of the Gratz surveys,
and there he built a little home and clear-
ed off the farm which has been in posses-
sion of the family ever since and which
has been the home of Mrs. Reese for
over three quarters of a century. Though
living thus apparently isolated to a great
extent, she kept in close touch with the
outside world through her fondness for
reading the newspapers and naturally she
witnessed many changes in the valleys
contiguous to her home in the almost one
century of her existence. She was the
last surviving link between the Evans
and Reese families and while she has
seen generations come and go she had the
comfort and happiness of having around
her at one time or another seven of her
family of nine children, that number yet
living although the eldest is almost sev-
enty-eight years of age.
Upon the application of some of her
| est, able and with a character thatiscon-
briefly discussed the questions propound- | ; .4 )
ci Whe re be calc hor of S.-J
the Centre Democrat, the Berry organ of : ary 5th, 1910, voted upon by the gov
the county, and a moment later found ' erning board of the National Chapter,
himself the center of a quartet composed D. ny and passed as a real Daughter of
of W. Miles Walker, the Berry leader ;,, American Revolutionand given a gold
here; F. Potts Green, permanent Prohi-, oon and a pension of eight dollars a
bitionist and Hon. JouN NoLL. Personal- =. At that time she was the twenty-
ly it was an engaging little party and | ¢, 4p, req) daughter living in the United
passed off most pleasantly, but we shud | gia00s and the second real daughter be.
der at the thought of what the conse-|o,0ing to the Bellefonte Chapter.
quences might have been had anyone | nfry Reese's husband has been dead
started an argument. | many years and of late she has been
At3 o'clock the party left here for| .,rq for by her two daughters, Mrs.
State College, where Senator Grim ad- | x01. Burket, a widow, and Mrs. Alice
dressed the Civic Club of that institution
Hoover, whose husband has of the
from the steps of the auditorium. Many | 11 Reese homestead Tuas charge other
of the residents of State College, profes { chiidren living are Dr. O. P. Reese, of
sors, students and country-folk had as- | go iortown; Aaron W., of Port Matilda;
sembled. In fact the crowd was estimat- | joie "EE Sn YL orge W,
ed at fifteen hundred and the speaker | poitmire, of Wilmington, Del., and Miss
charmed everyone with his able address. | pa at home. An interesting fact in
In truth the impression he made at State | "0 ion with the children is that they
College was akin to a sensation. His ad- | yore a) in their early life school teach
dress, as compared with that of Mr. Ten- | and were considered the
| ers, among most
er who had been there before him, was a | o\, cessful in Centre county. For a num-
classic and his manner, his engaging pres- |
wh uss ftself of the claim | 2.0] Y2ATS past it has been the custom
9 : _ | of the children to celebrate their mother’s
EE ew NE oorw
. to
The touring party broke up at the Col- | a sn enjoyed these
lege and only the candidates and I a herself.
county chairman where whirled away ; 1
across tio Barrens to Stormetown, whore Lo. TC haeclopsd Rerayes 10 @ ast find]
! and others
Mr. Grim took advantage of the stop to d= i ere oy
light the lamps, to make a call on that’, jie well spent.
old war horse of Democracy J. Hile Grif-| The funeral was held from her late
fin. From there they hurried over the ' ome at eleven o'clock on Wednesday
mountains to Philipsburg where a band ' morning, and was very largely attended.
and the famous boy's brigade met and The Bellefonte Chapter D. A. R. contrib-
conducted them along streets crowded uted some beautiful flowers and a delega-
with cheering people to a stand in front tion was present at the funeral. Burial
of the Passmore house, where more; made in Meyer's cemetery.
speeches were made and the most re | i : 0
markable political tour Centre county
ha ever known was concluded. yan. 38
Altogether it was a most successful
visitation. There was nothing of the evening after several month's illness with
brass band, redfire shouting to it. It tuberculosis. He was born near Cumber-
was just a pleasant short visit here and | land, Md, December 20th, 1865. When
there over the county and it carried con- | he Was a boy his parents moved to Get-
viction to many minds that Senator Grim
is the right man; that he is earnest, hon-
trolled by no one.
~The new A. M. E. church was
dedicated last Sunday with very fitting
services. The total collections during
the day aggregated a little over two hun-
dred dollars, leaving a balance of about
eight hundred dollars yet to be liquidated. '
sisted at the funeral services which were
held at his late home at ten o'clock on
Tuesday morning, burial being made in
the Centre Hall cemetery.
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JosepH.—Emil Joseph, senior member
of the firm of Joseph Bros. & Co., died
at his home on the corner of Howard and
Spring streets at 7.35 o'clock on Sunday
cvening. Just one week before almost
to the hour he had a severe attack of
acute indigestion. Through prompt and
effective measures the physicians suc-
ceeded in saving his life at that time but |
the shock to his nervous system was so
great that a physical collapse followed
and from the middle of the week it was
necessary to use oxygen continually to
stimulate the heart action. Notwith-
standing this fact he was conscious most
of the time and talked rationally even up
to within three hours of his death when
he fell asleep and calmly slept away.
Deceased was born in Bechtein, near
Worms, Germany, on May 26th, 1844,
hence was past sixty-six years old. His
parents were Mr. and Mrs. Gottschall
Joseph. They were in fair circumstances
and gave their children a good education
and when Emil was less than twenty
years old he left his home and came to
Bellefonte and making his headquarters
here started out with a pack on his
shoulders and peddled through Centre and
adjoining counties. He peddled some
four or five years and about forty-two
years ago he with his brother Sigismund
opened a small notion and jewelry store
in the building on the corner where
Brandman'’s store is now located. Sever-
al years later they moved into a room
located where Miller's stove store is now
and there they were until the spring of
1877 when the present firm of Joseph
Bros. & Co. was organized, and buying
the old building on the corner from the
David Wagner estate erected the present
commodious store building they now oc-
cupy. The present firm is the strongest
financially in the mercantile business in
Centre county and while of late years Mr.
Joseph did not devote his entire atten-
tion to the business yet it is the monu-
ment of his energy and business ability
when a younger man.
Mr. Joseph was a man who read a
great deal and kept in touch with all
the leading questions of the day. He
was a unique character, always affable
and pleasant and was perhaps as well
known as any man in Centre county. He
enjoyed life to the very fullest, even up
until the hour of his last illness, and
his familiar figure will be missed as much
as any man in Bellefonte.
On February 22nd, 1891, he was united
in marriage to Miss Birdie Gutman, of
New York, who survives with two sons,
Edmund G. and Emanuel. He also leaves
one brother, und, and a sister,Mrs.
Herman Holz. Rabbi Schulman,of Altoona,
officiated at the funeral which was
at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,
burial being made in the Jewish ceme-
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WOODWARD. — Mrs. Annie Packer
Woodward, wife of Col. John A. Wood
ward, of Howard, died at five o'clock last
Thursday evening. She had been a suf-
ferer with a complication of diseases for
months but her condition did not become
critical until a day or two before her
death.
Deceased was the youngest daughter of
ex-Governor and Mrs. William F. Packer
and was born in Williamsport March
16th, 1847. She was given a liberal edu-
cation and on June 8th, 1868, she was
united in marriage to John A. Woodward.
The first few years of her married life
were spent in Williamsport but in the
early seventies she with her husband
and family moved onto the old Packer
homestead farm in Howard township
where they lived until a few years ago
when they retired from the farm and
moved into a comfortable home in How-
ard.
Mrs. Woodward was a woman who
stood very high in the estimation of all
erty has since followed
and He is survived
by his wife, three and one sister.
was made at Springs on
Saturday
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MAITLAND. —Allie A. Maitland, young-
est son of Mr. W. B. Maitland, one time
residents of Bellefonte but now of Wil.
liamsport, died quite suddenly in that
place on Monday. For a number of years
past he had been connected with the E.
Keeler Co., of that city, incharge of their
automobile department. He leaves a
was
held | collapsed. Dr. Bright, of Rebersburg, |
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OPENING OF HUNTING SEASON.~The! SPECIAL TO PHILADELPHIA FOR THE
opening of the hunting season for squir- | STATE-PENN GAME.—The Pennsylvania
rel, quail, pheasant and wild turkey last | R. R. Co. has decided not to start the
Saturday was characterized with the ! special train that will carry the State Col-
| poorest luck for Bellefonte and Centre | lege rooters to Philadelphia today from
{ county hunters that they have had in | Bellefonte. Upon semi-official authority
years. But this is not evidence that game | we announced in our last issue that it
is unusually scarce as the conditions on | would. The orders yesterday were to the
Saturday, and ever since for that matter, effect that the train will start from Le-
have been very unfavorable for good | mont at 12:150'clock today and run right
hunting. The woods are very dry and | through to Philadelphia. Returning it
with the heavy covering of leaves it is | will leave Philadelphia at midnight Sun-
almost impossible to get within gunshot | day. The round trip fare will be $6.75.
distance of any kind of game. Wild | Parties from here desiring to take ad-
turkeys and pheasants are reported fairly | vantage of the excursion will have to
plentiful but so far squirrel are scarce. | drive to Lemont to take the train. The
The fortunate Bellefonterson Saturday | Cadet band is going with the students.
| were Alfred H. Klepfer, with the Lauder- | Te
| bach—Barber company, who got a wild | ——The wedding of Charles Thompson,
! turkey and two squirrels; David Wash. | son of John I. Thompson, of Lemont, and
| burne, chemist at the Bellefonte furnace, | Miss Martha Goodhart, daughter of Mr.
has for several years been seen on the | inG, October 27th. John Curtin, of this
mountain near McCoy's works. It was a | Place, will go over and officiate as best
monster and weighed thirty-two pounds. | Man
A number of turkeys were killed on
the mountains enclosing the Bald new state road are now arriving in Belle-
Eagle valley, but so far as the | fonte every day and a good supply will
writer is informed very few pheasants | be on hand by the time the contractors
were bagged. Quite a number of birds | expect to have the street all graded and
were seen but on account of the dryness ready to begin laying the brick, which
in the woods hunters could not get with- | will be about the first of November.
in shooting distance of them. . When this work is once begun it will not
Between Howard and Jacksonville, on | take over ten daysor two weeks to put
the first day of the hunting season, six- [the brick down. ===
teen wild turkeys were killed. Someone | ~The Curtis Publishing company, of
residing in that vicinity counted slightly | philadelphia, is offering a Shetland pony
over one hundred and eighty shots that | and cart or one hundred dollars in cash
were fired within the hearing of one | to the boy who makes the greatest gain
location. {in selling the Saturday Eveming Post up
until November 26th, in their tenth divis-
ion, which includes Bellefonte, and the
boy in the division who stands at the
head of the list is Cecil Walker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. Mlies Walker, of this
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——Brick for the paved portion of the
Two HUNTING ACCIDENTS.—Two hunt- '
ing accidents occurred in Brush valley on |
the opening day of the hunting season
and one man is in a serious condition |
from the wounds he received. It was |
quite early on Saturday morning when | $68 mmmmreane
Harry H. Miller, of Tylersville, went out | ~The WATCHMAN and the writer
to the foot of the mountain to hunt came in for considerable ridicule last
squirrel. He saw a gray one and suc- Week overour report and comments on
ceeded in shooting it but the carcass | the meeting of the Centre county medical
{ landed in a forked limb and Miller climb- | Society, notably the paper of Dr. P. Hof-
| ed the tree to get it. While up in the | fer Dale, of State College, on auto-intoxi-
tree some man, presumably another hunt- | cation. The report was voluntarily giv-
er, happened along and perceiving amov- | €0 US over the telephone by Dr. Feidt
ing object in the tree, and without ascer- | and When he mentioned the paper of Dr.
taining it was Miller, took aim and fired. Dale we remarked that it was a peculiar
Miller received the full load of shot in ' Subject for a doctor to discuss and asked
his head, neck and back but fortunately | if it had reference to machines and auto-
was not rendered unconscious and was (iSts: and received an affirmative reply.
able to retain his hold on the tree and | Lhe Writer was credible enough to take
crawl to the ground. In the meantime | the matter without any further inquiry,
his cries apprised the man who fired the | Which accounts for our report and com-
shot that he had hit a man and, without | ments thereon, but the next time Dr.
stopping to ascertain how badly Miller | Feidt or any person else tries to spring
was wounded, he made his escape. Miller | an old disease on the writer for a new
managed to reach the home of Jerry Shafi. | fangled craze he will have to present the
er a quarter of a mile distant where he documents to prove it.
: A Of ——Tomorrow afternoon at three
was summoned and dressed the man's o'clock sharp the Indiana State Normal
wounds after which he was taken home. | football team will lock horns with the
The same morning Lynn Miller, a cous- | Bellefonte Academy eleven on Hughes
in of the above unfortunate man, was | field, and while the contest may not ex-
also shot in the legs but his injuries were | cite the world-wide interest that the
only slight. On Monday Titus Gingery, | world's series of baseball games is doing,
of Tylersville, aged fifteen years, was ar- | jt will be a game the people of Bellefonte
rested on suspicion of having shot Harry | ought to witness. The Academy team has
Miller. played two games so far and won both by
THE PANTHERS ORGANIZE.—The Pan-
ther hunting club held their first meeting
this year at the Haag house on Tuesday
evening and organized for the deer hunt-
ing season by electing J. M. Cunningham
president, W. C. Cassidy secretary, and
Harry Gerberich treasurer. There was
considerable discussion as to where they
would go into camp this year but a set-
tlement of the matter was left over for a
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ASSESSOR'S MEETING.—The assessors
throughout Centre county held a meet-
that they could call a meeting of the as-
sessors, have them all come to Bellefonte
and get their supplies and pay them for
the day and that the cost thereof would
not be over half what it was under
old way. Consequently yesterday
the day set for them to come here
when they were all together a meeting
was held and the commissioner's attorney
made an address to the assessors explain-
ing their duty under the law, etc.
——Last Friday evening Wallace Ker-
stetter and George Reed hired a horse
and buggy from Albert Thompson, livery-
man, to drive to State College for the
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their fast, snappy playing. The Indiana
| Normal team last Saturday defeated the
DuBois High school eleven by a decisive
| score. They are reported as being un-
| usually strong this year and well coach-
! ed in the new style of play. From all re-
| ports the teams are about of equal
strength and tomorrow’s game will un-
doubtedly be an exciting one. At all
| events go out and see it and encourage
jthe Academy with your presence and
patronage. a
—Tuesday was an ill-fated day for
the Cenrral Railroad of Pennsylvania.
On the trip to Mill Hall in the morning,
in the vicinity of Lamar a bolt came
loose and dropped out of one of the driv-
ing shafts of the engine with the result
that the cylinder heads were knocked out
and the engine otherwise damaged.
Word was telegraphed to the head office
in this place of the accident and it just
' happened that one of the company’s
other engines was in the roundhouse
without any fire in it and the other two
: were out on the road somewhere between
Bellefonte and Hecla, and it was almost
a half hour before they reached the lat
ter place and one of them could b® sent
to the relief of the passenger train. But
this was not all. When local freight was
one its way to Bellefonte, about six or
eight miles out of Mill Hall, the draw
purpose of attending a party at Mr. Ker- |
stetter’s home. For some reason they
never reached there and just where they | thirty-four freight cars until another
didgo has not yet been divulged but engine wassent to the rescue.
when they returned home late at night TE,
last week.
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——Fred B. Smith, of New York, will |
The Ladies’ Auxiliary will serve a ban- Houserville U. B. congregation, Sunday evening.
| quet at 630 o'clock in the gymnasium. | The following officers of Lemont
i Mr. Smith has just completed a tour of . O.F., wereinstalled by P. G., J. C.
the world, addressing vast audiences in | {Prune tern vie: N. Go
all the large cities. In Japan he spoke to |, acu .
fifteen thousand people. Mr. Smith is
one of the greatest American orators and
it is to be hoped that no man will fail to
hear him in the churches and at Petri-
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‘W. E. Grove;