z 2 INK SLINGS. —Who is to get the other $28,000.00 of our money. —Centre county can't afford any more Commissioners who merely look wise. What it needs is Commissioners who act | wise. i —This is the time to elect JouN D.! MiLLER Treasurer of Centre county. Let us pull together and insure ourselves of having a prudent, careful man in charge of the strong box. —Of course they didn't welcome such | a snap but there is no denying the fact that last week's flood made corn husking much easier for farmers in the low lands | of the Bald Eagle. —~Clean cut, affable and intelligent is FRANK SMITH, our nominee for Register. i To know him is to like him and to realize ; that he is just the type of man to make | an ideal public official. —Have you met ARTHUR LEE, candidate | for Sheriff? He certainly is a fine speci- men of mental and physical vigor and a mere casual acquaintance would win your confidence in him as a man. —Scientists have doped it out that ten cents a day is the amount actually re- quired for food to sustain a human being. Anything spent above that sum is for flavoring. If this be true the poorest of us must be having highly flavored lives. —Ask the Commissioners of Centre county how many bridges they have built in the past three years. Then ask them how many public lettings they have had. Then ask them why they have built so many bridges without first having had a public letting. —The genealogist who has just an- nounced that Mr. ROCKEFELLER’S ancestry includes all the early Kings of Scotland, England, Ireland and France might have run a little further back and found more of them sucking the oil out of the cocoa- nuts in the jungles. i —Messrs. WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN | announced to the Auditors in March that | they would have to have $105,000 to run the county during 1911. Twenty years | ago $50,000 did it. And the county has | grown smaller in population and has less ' expensive courts than it did then. { —Surely the Democratic party in Cen-| tre county can point with pride to the | array of sober, intelligent, christian men | that it has presented as its nominees to | fill the county offices. There is not a man | i VOL. 56. BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 1 "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ol pe——e eee 3, 1911. NO. 40. Deserves Nothing of Democrats. Mr. GEORGE H. YARNELL is already | i traveling over the county asking Demo. | crats to give him a complimentary vote in | November. When Mr. YARNELL comes | round extending his hand to show his | friendship for and great interest in you, | meet him on his own grounds; give him | a cordial greeting. When he asks your vote, as he will the first pop, ask him | what favor he ever did for the party or for any individual Democrat that any of its members should support him? From the time he was old enough to know that there were such men as Dem- | ocrats, he has been their bitterest and | most abusive opponent. He never voted | for a Democrat in his life. He never had | a good word to say for one of its candi- | dates. He would no more think of help- ing to elect a Democrat to office than he would think of cutting his right hand off. He has lived among Democrats all his life; his best neighbors are Democrats; he knows they are honest and worthy and yet he would not vote or express a good word for one of them, no matter how small the office or how much better the man than the Republican who want- ed the same place. And yet he has the effrontery now, after all his abuse and denunciation of men, because they were Democrats, to go | round the county begging them to help him be elected Sheriff, over one’ of the whitest men, best citizens and truest | Democrats there is in the county. He may bea very worthy citizen in every i other respect, but no Democrat owes him | anything politically, and after the abuse he has heaped upon the party and the | opposition he made to every Deaocrat! who has been nominated for office since he was old enough to talk. | The Philadelphia Judges. { i Most of our esteemedjPhiladelphia con- ] » - * Financierin : o : . | temporaries, as well as a vast majority whose record in public or private Seve | the people of that machine managed critical Fe i . —Two clerks in the Commissioners | ticians as a Ay of Viewers. The office, where one used to have plenty of | Board of Judges is composed of all the leisure; two janitors in the place of one; | |awjudges of the city. The Board of ' electric light and heating bills that are | viewers is a body created by the recent five times as large as they were before, | [ egislature to assess damages in cases tell the tale of how WOODRING and ZIM- | where private property is taken for pub. | MERMAN have made it cost you more than | jic or municipal use. Heretofore that $100,000 to run your county for a single | service has been performed by men ap- - te: Shout: child oh pointed in each case and i estimated —Even the school children who have | that the city has been looted mercilessly gotten along as far as interest in their | in the operations. In order to stop that arithmetic would laugh if our County | source of graft the Legislature created Commissioners were to tell them of that | the Board of Viewers to consist of nine plan of paying off $100,000 worth of bonds | “representative” citizens, equipped with by paying $1100.00 semi-annually into a expert knowledge, to be appointed by the sinking fund for thirty years. At only | Board of Judges, so as to be free from | 4% compound interest $2200 a year would political influences. : amount to $128,000. | The Act of Assembly was approved | —Don't tell me about the little plan of | remodelling the court house for $150, | 000.00,—that is what you will find out it | has cost when the bills are all in and audited—can be carried through without | raising your taxes. They would have been | raised this year but WOGDRING and ZIM- | MERMAN were afraid to do it because they | were candidates for re-election. : —Talking of heroes. What more of courageous, consistent plugging along against odds that can never be overcome can be found than is to be seen in the | life of FRANCIS SPEER. Do you think you | could have kept at it like he has done under the same conditions? Could you have been as happy and brave with it all as he has been? He is asking you now for an office that he can fill properly and at the same time provide against the day when, fight as he will, he will no longer be able to provide for himself. —Figure out how much $2200.00 | would be worth at 4% compound interest at the end of thirty years. Then figure out how much there would be in the bank if you deposited $2200.00 more each one of the twenty-nine remaining years and got compound interest on it all at 4%. If you haven't time to do the problem we will tell you the answer: It is some- thing over $128,000.00. WOODRING and ZiM- MERMAN have started to pay off the $100,- 000.00 bonds for the new court house by depositing $2200.00 a year for thirty years. They are crowing because they say thirty times $2200,00 is only $66,000.00 and that is all the court house will have cost you when the thirty years are up. Back to' their farms with such financiers. If they have to pay 4% for the money they had to borrow to remodel their court house why couldn't they get 49% for the money they are saving up to pay back their loun? At compound interest at 4% the annual payments they are laying up would amount to $128000.00 in thirty | years. So instead of paying the $100,000.- 00 debt with $66,000.00 they are actually money, Mr. Taxpayers. ‘ | to draw any comparison between DAVID about five months ago but the Board of Judges failed to exercise the authority vested in them until a week ago. The salary of the office is $5000 a year and it was surprising that such rich and ripe | “plums” were permitted to dangle in full | view of covetous foxes so long. They would have proved persuasive prizes dur- ing the primary fight but the Board of Judges paid no heed to that fact. These judges and eminent (?) jurists are justi- | fying the confidence that has been re- posed in them, the smug citizens imagin- ed, and were happy in the delusion. As’ a matter of fact, however, the reason of the delay was that the patronage wasn't needed by PENROSE. After the primaries | they could be used to better purpose as reconcilers and the judges have prosti- | tuted themselves to give the machine this potent force. ! The VARe influence is necessary to elect the PENROSE candidate for Mayor | and the VARE influence can be obtained | only with cash or its equivalent. The: VARES don’t need the cash though it is | useful to them in keeping up their gen-, erous contributions toward charities. But | they need offices badly in order to main- tain a substantial political establishment and PENROSE has used the Board of 3 ! Judges to bestow upon them four of these $5000 a year jobs and in pursuance of the bargain, within a week of the inci- dent, the VARES publicly announced that they would heartily support the PENROSE | candidate, the echo of whose denuncia- | tion of them was still in the atmosphere. | This is plainly buying votes with public | patronage and using the judges as pur- | chasing agents. Public confidence in the | integrity of the judiciary cannot endure! under such condi —As to preparedness for the duties of Prothonotary surely you wouldn't attempt FOREMAN and HARRY DIEHL. It is an office in which a peculiar fitness is re- quired and for that reason and many a ————————— —— —" MAN should be elected. Le Sm a going to give up $128,000.00 of your good others that could be mentioned Mr. Fore- ——For high class Job Work come to | the WATCHMAN Office. _ Waiving for the present the question as to whether an expensively re- modeled court house was needed in Centre county as well as the extrava- gant and reckless manner the people's money was used in making the changes in the court house, the WATCHMAN invites the attention of those who have the taxes to pay to an editorial statement published in the Gazette last week. Under the caption “Cost of the New Court House” our con- temporary undertakes to make you believe that the financing of the re- modeling is a brilliant feature in the service of Messrs. WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN. It says: “Instead of a financial blunder, as has been broadly advertised, it must be accepted as one of the shrewdest and most economical deals ever accomplished by any board of County Commissioners in this or any other State.” The county statement published last March shows that up to January 1st, 1911, there had been paid out on account of this remodeled building $122,052.56. To meet part of this expenditure the County Commissioners sold $100,000 worth of bonds bearing 4% interest which cannot be lifted or paid off until the expiration of 30 years. Now the shrewd financing that the Gazette alludes to is the provision that the Commissioners made for lift- ing these bonds when they mature. Their plan is to pay into a sinking fund each year the sum of $6200.00. This annual payment will take care of the interest on the bonds and, in addition, accumulate a sum large enough to pay the bonds off at maturity. Take your pencil and paper for a few moments and figure out what would have happened had the Commissioners issued their bonds in a series, so many maturing each year. Using the same annual payment of $6200.00 that they are now making and paying the same interest you will find that the bonds could have been paid off in two months more than 26 years. According to their plan the Gazette thinks it the quintessence of splendid financiering, when the county must pay $6200 a year for thirty years or four years longer, or $24,800.00 more of your money than ought to have been necessary. THUS YOU SEE THAT "THE SHREWDEST AND MOST ECONOMICAL DEAL" EVER HEARD OF COSTS YOU $24,800.00 MORE THAN IT OUGHT TO HAVE COST. The Gazette and its “shrewd” Commissioners will probably undertake to tell you that the money could not have been secured under any other con- ditions. If they do, they will be telling you what is not true. The bonds of Centre county are a safer investment than any other securi- ty outside of State or Federal bonds. There are something more than $2,500,000.00 in the various banks of Centre county today drawing only 3% interest. This amount does not include the open accounts in the banks. It is merely the time deposits drawing interest and can be regard- ed as the investment money of the tax payers of Centre county. This being the case why didn’t Commissioners WOODRING and ZIMMER- MAN give the people who are paying the taxes and getting only 3% on their money in the banks a chance to make even a safer investment at 4% by buying county bonds. The very fact that most of the short time loans that the county has made have been at 5% would indicate that tax payers who have $2,500, 000.00 in the banks at 3% would have been only too glad to have bought their own county bonds at 4%. This would not only have been patronizing home industries and home people but it would have saved the county $24,800.00, or about one quarter of the entire bond issue. If Commissioners WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN put this transaction up to you as an excuse for having bound you to a debt that you cannot pay for thirty years, even though you may have plenty of funds to do it with be- fore that time, they certainly must take you for a half-wit without ideas of facts or figures. Take vour pencil and paper again for a few moments and try working a little problem in compound interest. According to this wonderfully eco- nomical plan of the Commissioners they are to pay intq the Bellefonte Trust Co. annually, $6200.00. Of this amount $4000.00 is for the interest at 4% on the $100,000.00 bond issue. The balance of $2200.00, or $1100.00 paid semi-annually, is to establish a sinking fund. Now for the figures: Compounding $2,200.00 at 4% for a period of thirty years, not counting the cents which were not calculated, gives $128,496.00. Isn't it wonderful. The scheme was so shrewd that it is a wonder that it didn't affect the brains of these modern financiering prodigies. To pay off $100,000 worth of your bonds they are going to take $128,496 of your money, and yet they have the nerve to confront you as a voter and ask for your endorsement of such a plundering scheme. If the county had to make its bonds run such a long term to get such a low interest rate as 49% —if you call that low—then surely the county's money in this sinking fund would not have been demanding too much in- terest had it demanded 4%. If the Commissioners had to go outside of the county to borrow their money why didn’t they go outside of the county and invest it where it would have paid these bonds off in 26 years and saved the taxpayers the enormous sum of $28,496. There are plenty of good banks in Pennsylvania that are paying 4% on time deposits and we fancy that the Commissioners could have gotten even a higher rate. Costly Financing. All of the banks in Bellefonte pay 3 per cent. in- terest on certificates of deposit. Now suppose you got a certificate of deposit for $2,200.00 today. On the 13th of October, 1912, you call at the bank, get your interest and add it and $2,200.00 more to that certificate. If you keep on doing this for thirty years you will have a little over $108,000.00. Com- missioners WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN have en- tered into an agreement to pay off the bonds on the court house by paying $2,200.00 to a Bellefonte bank every year for thirty years. The bonds amount to only $100,000.00 yet the same bank would pay you $108,000.00 if you took its certificates of de- posit. Back to their farms for such blundering Com- come to the WATCHMAN office. g that Looks Like Robbery? —[f you want high class job work ® Taft’s Poor Defense. rom the Springfield R | fense of the wool tariff bill veto is the un- meme | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Berks county farmers are short of help, and women are again seen in the fields husking com | at $1.25 to $1.50 « day. ! | —Another big flow natural gas well has been ' struck in the vicinity of Indiana. giving that | region still more assurance of abundant supply | this winter. | —While the family of William Kepler. of Cook's | Run, near Lock Haven. were out chestnutting a | few days ago, their home with all its contents was destroyed by fire. They had no insurance. . | —William Hecker, the Allentown Fagan, who | got his children Millie and Ella, aged 12 and 4, | to rob twenty houses, pleaded guilty and was | sentenced to serve six years in the Allentown jail, | with fines aggregating $5,000. | —Four Cresson hotels were visited by burglars | on Sunday night. The offices and barooms were the scene of operations and the booty was small, ‘ amounting to only $15 in all, ordered a recount of epublican. : ; |" The trouble with President Taft's de- the ballots cast besides afew bottles of whiskey. : —Washington county has had a regular scare due emphasis he places on the work of | over hvdrophobia recently and 24 resuit no less | his tariff board and the possibility of than 300 dogs have been killed. It is said that fif. what is called a scientific revision of the | teen horses and cows have died from hydrophobia tariff. He says in referring to the tariff | and a quarantine has been established over ani- commission policy: If the principle to which I am commit- | ted, and to which the party is committed | in the strong terms of the resolutions, which I have quoted above, was to be ob- mals. —A novel sight on a farm, near Milltown, not far from Philadelphia, is that of a colored woman who wields a husking-peg in a corn field, husking corn at five cents a shock and earning daily as | served as a policy at all, here was the oc- | much as some women receive for an entire week's casion for following it. If I had allowed ! the wool bill to become a law, the pro- labor at housework. ~Clymer, Indiana county, has closed its gress made in Jublic opinion toward a | hools on account of scarlet fever and diphthe- better method of revising the tariff would | have been entirely lost and the policy cast to the winds. Well, this could have been no t | loss, as past experience has pi and | as future experience is likely to prove. ria. One of the Indiana ward schools was re, cently closed for several days for the same reason. Hastings and Bakerton, Cambria county, are still wrestling with the epidemic. —The traditional hardness of the African skull | “Scientific” tariff revision is a dream im- was illustrated in Philadelphia, when four bullets | possible of realization; and to lean upon fired at close range from a revolver in the hands | a tariff commission for in ta jon i shaking in the wind. But let this pass. The President's mis- sertion that he had to begin with regard i political de, Hie rong Canaan and free by way mistake, and there was reciprocity. Nevertheless the President Drougnt up reciprocity and | esteem of Calvin Walters glanced from the head of riff revision is to lean Oy Henry Lewis, inflicting only slight flesh wounds. Both the participants in the affray are colored. —Sensational developments are expected in take in the above defense lies in the as- | Somerset county. Turkey foot township has only 104 registered voters and returns show 140 the wool bill in applying the tariff board | ballots. The effect on the judgeship contest is policy of revision, if there was ever to be | sufficient to cause considerable excitement, This can al k Racdly be aceapt Nobody ventures a prediction as to the outcome. even as a matter o or * | —Miss Lizzie Thomas, who for many years has thereto. If there was to be nO | heen Lock Haven's expert cake baker. leaves that revision at all, following the Payne- | city this week to spend the winter at Clintondale Aldrich tariff board | pefore entering the home for aged women at Teported, then there should have been to Williamsport. She had cared for an invalid moth- er for thirty-two years and is held in universal —Ground was broken recently at Titusville for the first building of the Drake memorial museum reasons are well known. The and library, which is designed to perpetuate the memory of the man who drilled the first oil well. goided a0 a Of the ras Joud Mayor, Councils, school board, school superin- him- tendent and a large number of Titusville's promi- | self came to accept that view in part nent citizens participated in the exercises. un- —The judges of Schuylkill county are by no means harmonious. Judge Brumm has just of it | handed down an opinion in a divorce case in no waiting upon | which he dissents from the opinion of Judge H. do this. But if | O. Bechtel granting the application, declaring that the record is reeking with evidence pointing Pa; ae to fraud, collusion and conspiracy between the hasten to correct | libellant, the master and others. —C. V. Sponsler, aclerk in the employ of the York Cab company, Centre Square, York, has been notified that he will receive 250 shares of | why should there have been any more stock in the Singer Sewing Machine company as | haste in advance of tariff board reports | a result of a provision made in the will of John A. thro Singer, who died in New York City recently. The bl bequest is worth between h i} ough same such 5 wool 1 revision bill | john A. Singer was a first presented to him last summer? Vater rad ze recently This is the troubles fact about the after only a few days’ illness at his home in Clear- . .. field. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Mc- Quown and was associated with his father in the . should have acted on the wool bill accord- r ing to its ns. or demerits, | Winagement and editing of the Raflsman's Jos. T nal, one of our best weekly exchanges. He was , and not acconfing to A future tori beard also republican borough chairman. The sym- ; gl A the wool industry or its ini- | pathy of the newspaper fraternity will go out to 'quitous tariff. It had repeatedly been | the father in his grief. inquired into and the enormities and in-| ~The twenty-eighth annual reunion of the | equalities of its tariff exposed. The 110th Regiment, Pennsylvania infantry, will be | vetoed bill was framed in a clearer light heldat Tyrone Thursday, Oct. 19, at 10 o'clock, at | of fact than the President's reciprocity which time the business meeting will be held. At | agreement, and he himself had itted | 7.30 o'clock in the evening the camp fire of the the need of rectifying action. He should Twenty-second Pennsylvania cavalry will be held have chosen a less aggravating part of joining with the 110th Pennsylvania infantry. Re- ' the tariff upon which to make stand | duced rates may be secured from W. H. Speer for revision by tariff board report. The Philadelphia Reform. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. Philadelphia has secured, as the result | of its unique election, two candidates for : mayor, either of whom will give it good jjerviee. The dom nation of 3 contfac- ing may to have . ed away, and its munici HgbA - | tion will cease to be a werd in the which sudden tion is a great congratulation on the ; part of the e of the whole State, ; which 's political rottenness | has so often offended. The deliverence has come to pass in | an unlooked for way, and as a vindica- tion of the old adage that when thieves ' fall out honest men will get their dues. | Philadelphia has so long been in the hands of thieves that it came to Hit they fall ok; the comtiol he . dom t ng struggled for ii i Tg Bc were drunk with the 8 | and G. W. Buck, of Altoona. | -——Amonga large collection of curios owned by | Robert S. Magee, of Maytswn, is a brass candle- | stick that was used by George Washington when | he spent a night where the Unicn hotel in Wrightsville now stands. Mr, Magee is a native of that place and he inherited it. Healso hasa | musket that was carried by his great-grandfather | in the War of 1812, and a sword inthe Revolution- ‘ary war by Colonel Robert Smith. They arein | excellent condition. i; —State Fish Commissioner Baller isnot ina | hurry to place the fish dams in the McCall's dam | until he has studied the situation and decided just | what kind will best meet the requirements. | When the dam was first built fishways were put | in, but they were not worth the mugeriai ‘hey | were built of, and ao fish had a chance to get up ! the river. This was the cause of much complaint and Commissioner Buller will endeavor to get a fishway that will let the fish up the stream. —Mrs. Despinto, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., who ' was robbed of $100 Sept. 17, at that place, traced the robbers to Pittston, where she received her money, also $30 for her expenses. Chief Traber, . of the West Side, arrested the men, who are Henry Mannelli and Gustave Solemo. Mrs. Des- set sought to | pinto recognized them as soon as she saw them. They agreed to pay her back the money and her whereupon the other took advantage of | expenses if she would withdraw the charge of and that he will be chosen to the may- oralty A———— An Underground Mississippi. Prof the Christian Hefala ak the Geologists are claim t river in the Ao on from Rocky mountains underneath New Mexico and Texas, itself into the Gulf of Mexico. robbery, and both men settled and were given their liberty. —~Wilmer Crow, who for a number of years has been business manager of the Harrisburg Star Independent, becomes general manager of the Reading Printing company. This company prints The Telegraph. an evening newspaper, and the Reading Times, a morning paper, Mr. Crow is president of the Retail Merchants’ Association and vice president of the Harrisburg Merchants’ association. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Crow was the general secretary of the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A., and is still well remembered by many friends here. —Harvey M. Keller, of Hickory Kingdom, Clearfield county, has been a victim of quite a series of misfortunes. Less than a year ago his entire family underwent a siege of typhoid fever, which was followed, in his case, by inflammatory rheumatism. Some time ago a little daughter was almost fatally burned by the explosion of a lantern, and the home had a narrow escape from destruction by the fire that followed. Within the past month Mrs. Keller was killed by lightning and a short time later the barn was also struck by lightning and almost destroyed. ~The extension line of the Stroudsburg and Water Gap trolley from Water Gap to Port'and is nearing completion and if the work is not hinder ed cars will be running into Portland in about a week. The cars will then connect with the Ban- gor and Portland road and Stroudsburg and Philadelphia will be connected by a series of ‘lines. During the summer the Liberty Bell com" SSAA AAA
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