VOL. LXXYV SURFACE FACTS IN POLITICS, The Only Solution Is to Roate Both Repub Henn Factions, party in Pennsylvania, comprising the best intelligence of the party, its most thoughtful membership and those | most devoted to the welfare the | State and its people, are generally in a state of discontent, promising opin re-| volt against the continued domination | in the State aflairs of the Republican | machine or organization, divided at] this time into factions of more or less | power. The feeling is strong among Democrats and indepen lents, but among party wen of the straight- | est sect, that there is only one remedy, | and that is the lesson of a stinging re-| buke at the polls that will the party and put it on safe ground, It prevades all parts of the State. 1 js more demonstrative in the cities] nd great centers of population, but it | is fally as earncst and in | the rural conuties and among the farm- | ing population. All contidence of re-| medial measures by what is called re- form within the party bas disappeared, | and the unmistakable demand is for N thorough house-cleaniug by the defeat | of the party, and the renovation, so far as it is possible, of the legislatire]] and executive departments the | government and the great nicipalities. In the war is seen that the defeat and the overthrow of oce boss will work no permanet or reform in conditions, for the cessful faction or wiil business at the old stand and game corrupting and demoralizing | way. That the | past for the last ecsntury in State politics. ed by substituting Elkin and Stone for | Quay, Qiay, with a fresh installment of pledges, dicers’ oaths The temper of the people of Penu- sylvania at thissupreme crisis in the | of not alone | discipline | aggressive of Htate mu of faietions it of one fac it su boss continue | in the] is the quarter of a experience of i What is to be gain- or by continuiog “false as | history of the State is not to be pall in the tl Le ated or cured by a mere change ruling factions, They originate corruption and decadence of the partly One is as bad as the other. The i mating principle is the same, the sorption power patronage. | There will same legislative corruption an i deg dation—the ex wi hold the years, and the judiciary, demoralized, fail to con fidence of the people. It is an appreciation of facls by the people of all parties in Pennsyl- vania that is the fountain of the deep- | seated feeling and purpo<e that the | public safety demands such discipline of tha party in powar as can be met only by its thorough defeat | and home rule and decent administra | tion restored in this great State. It js not concerned in National issues They are the essential and vital questions in Pennsylvania to-day. It is the home question that para- mount. On its righteous solution de pends the future progress, the pros- perity and good name of the State, by its redemption from the blasting de gradation which has made the very name of ()mmonwealth a byword and reproach in every State of the American Union. That the work before the people. The wrangling, quarrels and intrigues of self-seeking snd corrupt factions only make the lesson and duty more manifest and unmistakable. There is but one way, and that is the defeat of the Republi: ean machine, root and branch. in 3 an ab- | of and be a continuance of the 1 | Orsnca Te ati 2CusiIve low level of tainted regain cent | and | the same wil! these not EY is na —————— A TY AAAI AGNES FELDING DROWNED, Fate of the Little Girl Who Was Frighten- ed by the Clintondale Fire, The little six-year-old daughter of Clement Felding was found in the ereek near Clintondale the afternoon following the disastrous fire at that place. A searching party discovered the arm of the little one projecting from the water, and hastily drew he from ber temporary watery grave, The interment took place Saturday afternoon. At the time the Reporter went te press last Thursday the fate of the child was not known, but just what sctually did happen was anticipated The little one was a niece of Johr Kline, near this place, and also a rela. tive of the Feldings at Lindon Hall, A INA Broke ills Arm While Wrestling. A sad aceldent occurred on the farm of Emuanuel Wirth, pear Loganton, the other Bunday, in which Heury Miller was injured painfully, He and William Rhine were wrestling in the barn yard. Inthe second round young Rhine fell heavily upon the Miller boy breaking his right arm at the elbow, He suffered intensely until Dr. Wy- koft arrived and reduced the fracture, A AANA Our Bilt Well shoes for $250 are hand-made, Yeager & Davis, i TUESDAY'S CONVERTION { po — There will be No Niecotion to the | Term. The triennial election for first Tuesday in May, being the time directors for that purpose, tions are a matt in the er of great importance counties, The useful- ness of the school system depends in a considerable deg and efficiency This is practically true in the ec ountry districts, where there usu knowledge of school re daifenicot and direct siven by directors than is the centers of population, There but there are in the that the several sree upon the character of the superintendent. is v less less attention to school work is g case in are exceplions, of course, vo conditions anywhere Bate it desirable of county should be election considered as amo! most important dis duties imp sed In upon the the dis- Q harg J 10 other consideration than th ait uld be the inter in € Ol sails & schools fact) creep in, It me iry to common SDE y y { counties politieal and are glo this ans posi- the wile beginnin s should be crushed out, { ive and p rmanent in] 1 fler a careful “study pu b- ~ situs. school system ie of the ntre nd ming su pew man will fill the offie2 o # endent of school will be is not there is no di rram lov Fatniey will wrth term, PATTISON FPOFULAR WITH FARMERS The Press Thinks Pattison the Most Popa. lar Man in Interior of State, that tout : g the { rior of There is no doub ALO! the ots ¥ Hnocrat throug the state the ! is in ser Pattison Philadel Pine n nor says the hia Sirol celier wosra fl ‘ § AVOTaAoe LO Of poiilics ts} a ¥ v ¥ 1 r » i hia strong approval of Pattie farmers is pr elty well maintained, that by t tricts the ex-Governor would agai fre: eho ice of these NTRE HALL, CALL FOR CONVENTION, May 1} ~Apportionment of Delegates { i Primary Election, tion June 3 The Democratic volers county will meet at the re al elections, i n districts, y 10 12. to y convent of Centre rt * gentry 1 i £ i thelr respective electio Saturday, May 31 gates to the count Under the rules election will be © pened closeat 7 P. M. Th at the above stated the court house, Tuesday, June { o'clock, noon, to not one | date for register of ills and the Orphan's court, two ca ion. party i at 3 P. M. ov y Goiegales chosen of the and time will meet in in Belle fonte, oul Gly ped, 1002 on the al inate candi- 1 ndid ves Legislation, one candidate for Se one candidate for recorder date for county two ry twooent sheriff, commissions one candidate id dates for to the vention county felegutes next auditor, f Democeratio MIF « at ata os ginal { 1 = three congressional coud a chairman of the ¢ ou commitiee, from Jan! 1004. other business to serve } to Jan- uary lat, and "ne the convention i party. The each election district is poved snd commitiee | number of y ratified FIRE NEAR LINDEN HALL Trncment House on Lot Kimport Farm Horned The Kim tenement he ar Li } Foor § 2 DY § s Fr sport farm, ne Gesiroyes The Colyer, Sr, ny. house was wh himself, wife When i il was an innocent C the been his { olonel Gulley, party | § leader, has 2 at deal on this st aring s gre: fr Lhe nty ( 1h set J 3 ee in all ov | oh yi Yili ties and conventi have been quite gv erally indors stra aas : the most of | for in | § ne Pattison, sting their do him. The i delegation Philadelphia iI be unless there is an arrangement of sort, which pear likely, and the dele is pledged in adv to George Guthrie. Phila ha) delegations do not, however, p! large a part in Democratic as in publican conventions, not having t same proportion of rep: Ati the whole delegates. present situation indicates very pl ly that it will be very diflicalt for one but Mr. Pattison himself to vent his nomination The farmers of Centre county would undoubtedly favor ex-Governor Pat son ifthe matter were left to t v lA ssn og al BO woul against him SOTILE does not all HOW a; at Allegheny gation WW ‘ay AY 89 Re ge 31 to 1 AUC phia and Allegh rogant number of The ilk any pre- i hein. Clinton Connty Delegates, The Republican primary held in Clinton county Saturday even. ing, resuited in the election of H. 8 Satterlee, of Lock Haven, and N. P. Johnson, of Renovo, as delegates to the State convention, Ellas Deemer, for Congress, had no opposition. A. E. Patton, of Curwens- ville, was indorsed fur State Nen lor, The convention on Tuesday placed in nomioation the following ucket: Congress, ling Deemer, of Willianus port; State Senator, A. KE. Patton, Cur. wensville; Assembly, OU. HB, Kelsey, Flemington; Prothouotary, J. HB. Lest er, Lock Haven; Bhecitl, Torrence Shearer, Lock Haven; County Treas urer, John B. Thompson, Salona; Commissioners, H. . Bwner, and Willism Gumuuo; Auditors, W. D. Kiotziog and UG. HM. Hickotl, A Permanent Certificate, Profs. Etters, H. W. Morrison and Miss Rowen, appointees of Htate Supers intendent Bhuefler to examine candi- dates for permanent certificates, had before them Friday and Baturday of Inst week J. Nevin Meyer, Miss Alice K. Dorworth, Miss'May Taylor and Miss Ward, and John H. Hurrison and H. M, Markle. The last two hold per- anent certificates under the old law, but the pew law embraces two new branches, namely, algebra and civil government, in the common school cirriculum, and it was io these branches that they stood for examina. tion, 1 eleciion, ssn— roof uld { by some nim and i HENCe Mr. and Mrs, i and the flame 11 i possess I's it Yar: farm, | woe Newlon ell, who ln Meyer earl ths with his hirelin wg The [i out of t i gs uslhied furniture, mer went u the ec, and todo this h ¥ window ail e e risked his life, because he continued at the work un- til the roof began falli ie. % also resetsd the eflorts of the it was The stable nearby from the fl smes through Mr. Yarnell, whe when every climbed i walter ’ a af one eice 2a id B less, and by dashis carried fo him by others dued, There the property, moved ato the nell, Mr. Kimport haa one at the Branch, and the one Here me the flames were insurances on of The house with Was no any ily er Mr. Ya - { had fire one at iree : DBoalsburg, | ntioned. icles Boalsburg. Miss Nannie Leech, spent Sunday with her sunt, cobs, John Bathgate and sister visited at Dr. Kidder's on Sunday. Win, Gobeen and Thomas Riley spent several days last week at Spruce Creek fishing; they report having caught seventy fish, Miss Priscilla Stuart spent Bundasy with her friend Janet McFarlane, Miss Mame Woods, of Pine Grove Mills, and Miss Ella Musser, of Belle fon'e, spent Baturday with their friend Margaretta Goheen, a Rev. Isanc Héckman, several years ago pastor of the M. KE. church st this place, but now stationed at Tyrone, Weduesday was the guest of W. I. Bartholomew. Rev, Heckman had driven from MiMlinbourg, and from here went to see his son Edgar, who is stationed at State College, and from there will drive to b's home in Ty- rone, of Baileyville, ——— A Rev. Baldwin was appointed presid- ing elder of the Methodist Juniata district, Mrs. Theodore Boal and little son little more than a week ago sailed for France, The Boals have a country home near Boalsburg, but spend most I, | STATE TO LUILD BRIDGE, Wrecked Spring Mills Bridge to Bailt nt State's Expense, the | The During the recent flood, { part of February, } ont d at Spring Mills, its abultments | Under the act of 1895 the Common- wealth is required to rebuild eounty bridges that wus have been destroyed by flood or fire, | were made public highways by The Spring Mills was built over Sinking Creek 1878, which creek clared a publie highway in 1826, petition | to the Court of Common Pleas of Dau- | Assembly by the! 8 fcounly in ' Upon the presentation of a | sioners of Centre county, the following i viewers were appointed for the pur of viewing the make recommendation: | Penn Hail; 8. A. Bell, Jerre erhames { Harrisburg. On Frid untly i. B Herring Bell Allentown; J. John H. efonte; B. Wick- Boyder, , Bteelton: the st pring the ymend that a bridge uy of last week, Commissioners m at © with the Mills, aforesaid viewers 5 | where it was determined by $ Lo recon 61 1 ong a HMinking 1d i ia UO Ti bridge r Creek, at the point where the ridge stood. of the the bridge ana ye repairs and eost new «* estimated for the as by will about $1400 nasoury. hat this , and 2. 1 s3 il & Gre will ue built Sia Le Fed of v the sh nmendation that ed with speed tlie lewers the work uld be i is emphatic { HI if The County Migiratiorneys, . 3 Commissioners Messrs, Orvis, Bower & Orvis, sre in- ounty, always alert to cases of be tax- { prompt t 3 terest Lo! payers of the ¢ and by and proper procee ds the case the i ian xpenditure of about $1.700 ings in cited, county wil LO BR VE EE Testing The $ Ys Lier than he Compulsory School Law, Easton man who went to jail re ia compel his ehild to x Kthat he is a r Lhit JO i TAY and 1 bat bie is doing « publie He feels that it ersonal te go rn wishes, Hoe dpe « {the Cas hi Bi * is missle Kon, Wf his chitid {to school the sols and holds 0 ial the law is Do right to interfere it rights and respousi- ke very well until it isex quite (rue i to make nelr jilure of i 4 Hans young arian ¢ achieved aud has formed | ide pendent upon © Coy. ys being rules of government tha’ must be i wd or vlse ail reverts to chaos, has as much right to dren shall vot be Lrought ap in iguo- as it has tosay that thethief shall jail, Boeiety does pot allow to put up buildings that area menace to the life or property of him- ot permit him lo do many things that seemingly are nn bis patural right. Compulsory education is not to meke the rising generation cul- but to provide it with the 1% of self support, so that noone ishail become a charge on the com- munity. Back of this is the right of society to demand the best of individ. {uals at all times, and it is as proper to {see every one educated as it is to com- | pel men to rise to the support of the | community in time of danger. The ISaston man has only empha- i france ber se ot Le @inan «if or others, does n wilh enforced, tured, tes sized once more the necessity for the | execution of the coinpuisory education one so important that no one need have the slightest fear of his power to overturn it. Potters Mills. Tie surprise party given in honor of Mrs. Wm. McKinney last Monday {evening was a grand success, about { fifty-four persons being present. She received many useful presents; all re port having bad a fine time, and there was plenty of ice cream and cake left. Luther Bmith and son Rossman, of Johnstown, after spending several days with his mother, brother and sis- ter, returned home Monday, taking with him his nephew, Lloyd Smith, who will be missed by many, as he is a jolly, good natured boy. Jotun Diauser, while working is the motuutain last week had bis hand bad. ly lacerated with a cant hook, but is g iting along nicely, Mrs, H. 8B Alexander and Miss May Smith, of Spring Mills, attended sere vices at Tusseyville Bunday. Jolin Royer moved to Hecla last week, Wim. Smith and wife, John BSBmith and daughter May, all of Spring Mills, visited friends at this place. Boys, get your nickles and dimes ready, Saturday evening the ice cream parlor will open above Emanuel fguitia we. 1902 DEATHS, MRS, JAMES A McCLI Mrs. James A, McClintie died at her home near Farmers Mills Monda) morning at three o'clock, from lung | trouble. Her age was sixty-one years | three months aud twe nty-eight days, | [Interment took place Wednesday aft- {ernoon, in the Union cemetery, Rev |G. W. Kershner and Dr. W. H { Behuyler, ofliciating. The deceased had been a partial in- | valid for ten years, during which time | at intervals she suffered greatly. Her | maiden pame was Elizabeth Grove, | being u daughter of James Grove, de | ceased, of near Farmers Mills. But ope child was born to the unio: lof Mr. and Mrs. MeClintie, in ber iufancy. Besides her husband, deceased leaves following A. Larned Thomas Grove, Hall Mrs, sister, NTIC. | | | who died the the | brothers: Jacob (rove, Kuneas; Centre | Jumes P. Grove W. Rearick, {and Jeremiah, Mills, deceased, a who died twenty years | ago at Biglerville, was a brother of the +, Farmers was Mrs. Me member of Clintie the Was a Reformed el consistent surch. ¥ i AYILOR died atthe ut Josiah Taylor William, Colyer, at the { o'clock, The place Tuesday forenoon, ver cfficiat Ing. The deceased for in the age « funers! Rev. sevently-oue years. 3 : me Hive vicinity of Colyer, aud followed buckstering, and Thursday ny years performed previou wr V #® io ; for New. | Hall, work was He was {i g shicep Linden in ton Yarnell, while near engaged that stricken with paralysis, in the bern in a but was tenderly | ¥ aroell aud und belp-less condition cared for by Mrs, removed the v later to children both of whom Colyer, daughter, Alice and his wife, preceded him in i ath. The deceased leaves two William, One Ws MES. J.C KANAVE] beloved wile died pear Mt. 1 to d year Mrs. Harriet Kanavel, of J. C. Kanavel, Death was in the forty- 10d Tog of | was due 33 she sixth eT rvived by a husband and She had been a great Paul BEmeltzer, infant son of Kline sud Sallie Miller, died at Madison. | lay afternoon at four o'clock, | lung affection, sged months and sixteen Interment PAUL SMELTZER MILLE A. Sun {from three | days, the cemetery at Rebersburg, Rev, tovk place Tuoesday in formed Wetzel, A> LOCALS, James Sandoe, who recently return ed to his post of duty at Pit been iil. Miss Lizzie Bible, of Centre Hill spent Bunday with Mr, and Mra. T. I, Moore, at this place. A regular meeting of Progress Grange will be held Baturday noon in Grange Arcadia. tsburg, has alter | George Meyer, of Coburn, father of | Merchant W. H. Meyer of this place, | spent several days in Centre Hall last | week, | Bruce Mitchel, who came to his| home at Lemont from Pittsburg | threatened with typhoid fever, has fully recovered. Mr. and Mrs. John L. King are con - fortably quartered in the McCauley | property on Main street, which was reroofed, repainted and generally re-| paired within the past month. There is no truth in the repcrt of | the marriage of Frank Fisher, of| Boalsburg, who at present is located at Norristown, but indications point to a ceremony to take place in which Fi er will be interested, A large number of shade trees were planted in Centre Hall during the past mouth, The town is often spokep of by strangers in a very eom- plimentary way on sceount of the abundance of shade trees, but there is room for more. — Communion services will be held next Bundayin the Reformed church ut Centre Hall in the forenoon snd at Tusseyville in the afternoon. Pre paratory services will be held at Tusseyville in the afternoon and Centre Hall in the evening, Saturday previous. A flock of wild geese passed over Centre Hall about eight o'clock Tues day evening. From the peculiar calls of the geese, those who are acquainted with goose parlance declare the web- feet were lost. There was either a flock of a thousand or else the geese hovered over the town, being attract ir AN He. S————— NO. 18. A I ———————— UNTY NEWS. TOWN AND CO HAPPENINGS OF L FROM ALL There Isa mue! in the fact that Corporatio f smment vard Creamery plant at y 1 ! 4 1 § i Vi It entre k Mon. to visit been ill drove 1 } former's ti I BOome Comn ta 4 3 » T 5 1 4 x REESE, : W513 Wolf, ebersburg, 1" of Or KOIDE e iuto ths ? v I time, if wu ountry w Fifth Church lie edi 3 iaid 8 1 e will cos Christophe J ilian, i rolls at strong, of aced has been pl 4 a month ar meid- tism for 1 is yIOL there I bead or aif an bow, i, which tation, and intone. i, even re ports papers, und. the res. naicate + before oted to ris are flowers, "an Val. Mon- and appoint. f the let. the take Nprit ire Sprin UE afternoon Fi 13 « sfternoon. amley Hiram Darst i} Dur i » Hiram #1 iL “ae AGU nis i AS 0 o bad « X inonths wil h Bail ! 5 / 5 irned to i day of been in er home it inst weed poor health. Limes, unly, i im- aur it 2 net od N. paid Fonte, a when entre with , and Aas a a adusle of (quite a youi uite freqgue SUCCess 10 - v x JEW York EW % 3i 8 Much of the have 3 of corn high winds of the soil of aud those who plo ied the in pre- hie ex- unsatisfac- become rinniog 1 plow- OF i ey agrye jue wrt ground is tarned. week relieved top jor} gi ay and have a very s0d i oo wet are sullering del paration of the san bed. The bw ’" » ef 8 Dr. W. H. unday will officially declare vacant the Presbyteri- ian pulpit at Jacksonville, where Rev, was pastor pricr to his Frankfort Springs, Beaver Dr. Schuyler will preseh for I. Crow the Relormed Schuy going lo county. Rev, H. in ternoon. He and Mrs. Schuyler will spend the night with Rev. and Mps, Crow, who «nee were pupils of their's at New Bloomfield. James A. Keller, «I near this place, has returned from a month's trip to Virginia, North and Sosth Carolina. His impression« have been favorable and unfavorable. Tue people he ade mires—they are or, hospitable, kind: their meth ds of farming are entirely antiquated, snd suggest the farmer to be dilatory, sloven. Mr. Keller has been sshed to give his im pressions of the South through the Reporter, aud it is likely that he will do so, Cleve John H. Glasgow, of Philadelphia, who was formerly of Poller township, and who has gone through many of the chairs In Philadelphia politics, conpliments the Reporter on the boost it coniiouslly gives Centre Hall and surrounding country, and expresses a hope that the people in turn will show an appreciation of the Reporter's efforts, Ly giving it their support. Mr. Glasgow has just re turned from a trip to Florida to gain strength lost by a severe attack of flammatory rheumatism, which from January to March.
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