VOL. LXX1V. RE HALL, Fa, Centre County’s Finances. 1 Her tatement of the receipts and expendi 1902 With this issue of the , as well as in the ot will be Reporter papers, found the annual 8 tures of Centre county for the most careful and explicit * the year ending January 1, It is one o financial statements published by any board of County Commussioners. This statemnent requires a very deal of time and labor on the part of the conmissioners’ elerk, who has ounts. bo 1 : 11a} ap careful and conscientious Doar charge of the compilation of these ac It is a source of greit sat- isfaction however, to a 1 of commission itive of taxable in ers, to know and feel that all fair minded tax payers are appreci a wise and careful expenditure of the public money. Every the county is earnestly requested to examine this statement, and com pare it with the receipts and expenditures of the former boards. Sines it 18 our pur : par 80 large a number of ficures are confusing to many people, di and expen pose to point out the more important features and direct attention ticularly to a comparison of the receipts ditures of the past year with that of 1509. We first desire to call attention to the matter On Jannary 1, 1900, there were 31 tax daplic resenting 13 townships and of the other 21 vancin ¢ £35 unset plieates. esent board was office, tow ys 3 ISNIPs an - of the county, the money to pay the i were actually payin penses of the eount This feature of the board 1 the present IX-payers in triets where prompt collection wis made, an y immediately ed of collectors that ] will be found that all gettled, two for 1897 ¥ 3 3 ¢ i 1an two years. conducted on business their taxes ¢ ing taxeson Jan, 1. 1 1, 1901. On the ations were unusually ers to have Jan. many very old duplic triennial assessment 1898. This ants who ASROESITIeN were regularly that district into anothe due. The total expendi 502.04 for 1900. by reference to +h Lit also a payment of ¥ ment of $3,977.44 the actual expendi outstanding bill the past year £5 office fnraiture, sessment, Examinations of 1, 1900 the total asset 047.36, making asset 8 1h CXC Pit fhies . : of liabilities will be found es £300, which was not a fair est nding taxes wer osomne fil outsta Jan, 1901; $1000, ). > Alo the item of Jan. 1, 1900, was 8112, which a have been over $1000, The est 8300. Yet taking thi HS comparis mM, the present assets, and liabilities t the present i samo item eatin af outstanding taxes, weording t Lieir wi Heures should J 1, 190] 1as = v i. aed ities of ali nost mated commis art making the assets in excess of liabilities $0,226.40, A I on in | £4000 824.2 in ti The total number of days served ie office by the present commissioners for the year 1001 is 812 that of for 189 , making tl than that of the latter, or Jat during 1809, istration books, and duplicates amounted to $328 52 the former boar 24 commissioners’ whil C 9 1900 was TS8 ie time of the former d AVS £34 in re expense on the year the expense of copying assessment books, reg. while in 1900 the commissioners did all this work withoat extra expense to the county, excepting £10. Now £84 gained on commissioner's time added for copying work, makes a total of 894, whieh subtracted from leaves a saving to the county in actual dollars and cents The above comparisons certainly make showing of the receipts and expenditures of or commissioners, tory of the county have the duties of ir Domoeratic board of the commissioners’ office more wisely and judicionsly administered. Carefully, conscientiously, and critically they serutinize every item of expense and every offic ll act. The Reporter most heartily congratulates Daniel Heckman, Phil. ip H. Meyer and Abram V. Miller, the present board of commissioners upon making such a satisfactory record, and the taxpayers deserve equal eredit for electing such men to official positions, A i —————— ll ll * Weare told now by the administration organs not only that the resolution of Congress recognizing the independence of Caba was a mis take, but that it is not binding anyway; it is not a formal treaty, hut only a promise to the world in general, which nobody ean enforce. This ms quite true, if a nation has no obligations except those it can be compelled to perform. We can annex Cuba and no power will interfere, any more than the rest of the world has interfered with Great Britain's annexation of the Transvaal, But is there no such thing as a national conscience to be considered? It is not only the wrong to Cuba, it is the wrong to the United States that makes this proposition so in. famous, A man who begins to rob and cheat ie likely to go trom bad to worse, unless brought up by a sharp tarn, and the loss of national character is even more rapid. It is not three years since wae went to war in behalf of Ouban independence, and already we are trying to find u'mtute de KOSpAvE in 10s wil Yo, COURT NEWS, NN of Court Adjourned Wednes day Afternoon, i Second Week i As stated in the Inst jssue of the Re Bible vs, | of Centre Hall, went to trial on {day morning. T Thurs his action was an ap peal from the decision of a Justice on brought by the Misses [ against the Borough of Centre H | | recover rent due and | suit Bibl all te damages on {contract enter: | In the fall of Hall leased the | the plaiatifls, | tain pipes, I into by 1807 1 suid borough boro’ of Centre the lands of put in cer He walter on agreeing Lo 4 reservoir and an 14 said pay an { nual rental of $50.00 per year for a tern {ol UO years, after which time the | boro! was to | petually, WO years rent ithe Rpriog pay ei 1) Alter nl they per year per had the boro’ they dise were using of ised to pay t Wha i he lands the p he ence ref After femal the ev on ti wed 1 to prove that atlemenis of the i $ 3 i plaintifls, The gin their ofler favor $140 25, grgument ia order that d might wind week Hon iat of tt John & I ACH the jar is were delayed £ Was (aken up in : y . motions and petitions and « he mer trial list following gett le noted f Lose "wr it and conti NSternberg Lyon Lyon. T Kate A, (owl res pass { M ier, aud, John Stor “clment Flora O, shaver, ¢t Win. i. 1 onting Robert Kinkead Rosa 1, Assumpsit., Continued N it Valle Railroad Co Empire Steel and Iron Co je] Potts va, wed, Iressler Discont ry Wahilf ie tany ¥ i Assumpsit in A. D Jadgment ope D. J. Divorces, Va Jahn Reese, Jectment, Nettied Heunehh & Drumgald Hough. Judgment op Fhe Mosh Co Haunsdale's ¢ Mon the jury Tu § 4a of fie John «d on wnnon Banking va X etd Le day alternoot PRAY Loo £5 500, iononas note In ense claim that tl NN: was occupied W. Wound, expert from Pittsburg ie Dole uo quest Md Moun the Ariy Bii « by ies a handwriting Th exceedingly *lestimony of this expert was ititers urt The Cot nse] for juite a littie attention, ably argued The jury attracted « CASE® Was oy A). David Robb ve, J. I. Wagner et. al. afternoon iis visor of Liberty township for damages exteandiag the width of public road to the legal width of thirty Verdict for the defendants, In the case of the Courtland Wagon Vs. L. C. Bulloek, Jr., the defend- ant confessed judgment in open court for $325.00 and record costs, The only case remaining open foi Jascunat of the absence of several portant witnesses, ime noon at 3 o'clock. sii isin Fire at Snow Shoe, of T. B. Buddinger at Hnow Shoe was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The loss on stock and building is estimated at $75,000 ; insurance, $25,000, Io the same building was the Com. mercial telephone exchange. Loss, $500 ; no insurance, The fixtures of the Snow Bhoe posts office were also destroyed, The entire loss foots up $100,000, During the day the furnace in the cellar set the building ou fire, but the flames were quickly extinguished, It is supposed that a spark of fire escaped notice, and that during the night it was fanped into flames, . No Piotares This Week, Photographer Smith will not be at Mes. Exnma Yarnell, Yarnell, recently Mrs, E Heola, LOL ins formerly of made her in lied at the Lock Haven hospital where had Her We was 8ixty-t The deceas her hush but who with her daughter, Baloua <he gone for Llreatment, ' iree idowed Hyg heen killed Years, lady, several wl was a iL years Hecla Zion: #10080 5 ra train strikiog him at Mrs aud Delmont, He Ogden, Clearfi-ld monhurg, Another fda, i its also SIAN aed Fees) survived : is f ederiek Mantel, ® {ope, of i a Of fowa, - anroline Islands Legena., yo a Change. And There He Was, Rarity of a Dread of Denth, nt it a of these ex niamin Brodie, who The other hristison, who had of a girl of bau bad a sudden accident ions, a One ir Be ! wil ODE Case tobert ase, that who - Health The Discovery of fron, gammy, can you tell where and hb iron was firet discos Teacher«§ Je OW nmy-1 can’t tell you just where, it 1 think 1 koow how it was dis covered Teacher Well, Bammy, information on that point? Sammy 1 heard pa say the other day that they smelt it. The Bishop Knew Him, A story current about the bishop of London represents him as a bored lis tener to a windy speech. Turning to a fellow sufferer, he sald, “Do you know that speaker?’ “No! was the answer, “1 22” sald the bishop. “He speaks under many aliases, but his name is Thomas Rot.” — London News. ————————————— Sunday night two loches of snow fell whieh patehed up the sledding at ita weak points, Many of the roads are drifted, which makes traveling less rapl | than is often desired Ly both sai what Is your driver and steed, {4 1901. WILLIAM ROSS, A Son of J, Hale Hose, of Linden Hall, I buts Brief Time, Lind fl Hall, ied, The fi William Ross, Of | tifteen in func: {¢ Vers, took place Tuesday morning at vVelock, interment being at Boalsburg This youth was in excellent heal and spi rit than eldes 1 of Mr, and Mrs iden Hall, and wud home iesday prior to hi thie nooy JALKSON iis Lx Mudisoubuarg A Man PVromineut ia cality Died at Ti ursday, nry Jackson passed fron Biter; st flered i : Ug impact bis suflering maufuily ollowing is nreel Heory Jacks iy ranked as nire ox Fromsasn bumble posit ¥ OF one of thie He i¥% more than Bry mmunity, was b four mi west of MeKes! s i What then 1 it is now Savder ( was sty Lo tk 3 t 1 1, marking his sge months John «ven children. and OF 5 ang J3 and © days, atherige oldest of broth tert, IR and sisters A. Bull, urg ; Pa. ; amin, I's are John Frederick, Dauphin 0. , of Aasronsburg farmer of Gregg Town. Frank, Madisonburg, Lock Haven. received until was He | aud } the wid $48 third and $30 the fourthi, He then trade! Wi 4 Catherine and Samuel Li Cur mbert, subjec’. had a liberal vdacation he , when ut for Li for clothes was 13 4 : old he obliged to peel, WEARnD by board the reevived § Sy learning the lis futher Muadisonbury, i¢ he Shufler, carpenter Carp titer with whom he came when had bow work for served to aud he in B aud Bs BD under «iflerent to ana | “OVE uo in business for bimself, ir | ful sdertaking Was Very succes: in his 4: until the fall of 1856, as many as fourteen often employs £ | and in the summer of 1865 paying as much as $2500 for wages. | Iu 1877 he began farming, which he | continued until 1802, when he turned his attention to me reantile pursuits as | partoer of Ber jamin Roush, but four | years later returned to Lis farm, where he remained until last spring, when he moved to the place where he died, Tho following children survive him; J. Albert, of Seneca Co, Ohio; Harvey, of Kreamerville ; J. Danlel, of Madi- sonburg ; Geo. K., Reformed tuinister of Danville, Pa. ; William H., of Re bersburg, and Anna, at home, He was a nian of the striotest nteg- rity and honor, was able to look the world iuto the face With a clear cone science, was a devoul christian and a consistent member of the Reformed church, : men, en —— dowel Barner, Joel Barner, died at bis home near Jacksonville, from the eflects of apo- plexy. war and was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. A wite and family of six ous aud Iwo daughters warvive. ‘TOWN AND COUNTY NE) HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INT FROM ALL int Hoover, * (Ire iit iales Ad irg, begim i. Ail th aking sdvants fini wmaemiic 1 bers wi who wi lis DY ortunity should make al an « arly date. Aj Fhursday, arty from Centre are iuvited t home of Miss stughiter of Mr. to 1 he izabelh AM: Joh i Fhe Stewarts have a replita ‘ and tertainiog, and those iavited to home tonight are looking forward to a feast of pleasure, J.J. and Mervin I. father and son, Messrs Arney, er i their [ their ire togetl wives, entertained about fort intimate friends in sud about Cen Hall. The spread was unusual, and in aauny on this occasion wel ved will be hard to ex ways, Ivery oue eni themselves hugely aud will loug member the Friday night the Arneys ree spent with the new lendiord Juines W, Runkle, at the Centre Hall h I, Is now ready to give the traveling public the best of Last week Mr. Ruukle was 3d service, ties (hat made application to him for , but any one Centre Hall hotel after this, will ind 1s new landlord equal to all emergencies, and the table up to and above the standard. Ex-landlord of the Centre Hall ho- tel, W. H. Runkle ¥r., together with his wife, and d«ughter, Mrs. Harry Condo, and Mr. Cohido, Tuesday went to their new home, the Molter House, at York, Pa. Tue, Motter House is quite a large hole] and does a splendid business. Under Mr. Ruukle's charge thergoed reputation of the bostelry will surely be maintained. Hoh John PT. McCormick, saperin- tendent of he Lihumerolul telegione cot pany, Stopped in Centre Mall sev eral days while the telephone exenange was boing plassddn more comfortable quarters: Meo sMeCormick is Tully alive to the Intéredts of the commer yaw does all iu bis poser who eotes to the
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