YOL, LXXV. 1902. NO. 12, THE GAZETTE'S STORY PUNUTURED, John and Bill Discuss the Printing of the Baliots, John : story relative to the printing of the ballots for 1901? Is there any truth in the statement ? The article appa- rently is erooked, Bill! The article apparently crooked and the article is crooked, John: You know the truth in the matter; tell it J Bill ; ries of misstatements with a one-half truth in it and a whole truth, John : As bad as that ? Bill : That is doing the Gazette jus- | tice in the matter. The half truth inj the matter is that the Reporter oftered to do the work of printing the bal'ots for $150 00, and the only whole truth in the article is the statement that the Gazette did do the work for $150.00 at some loss. John : I notice the Gazette said it did the work at “ some loss!’ Bill: A judge, in remanding a eriminal called him a scoundrel, The prisoner replied, * Sir, I am not as big a scoundrel as your honor’ —here the culprit stopped, but finally added— ‘takes me to be.“ Put your words closer together, said the judge. This little anecdote serves to illustrate the case at hand If you connect the Ga- zette’s own language you will see that it did the work at a loss. John : You mean to say that the Gazeite took the printing of the ballots at $150.00 knowing that that figure represented less than the actual cost of the work, but did so in order that Democratic offices would not get the work. Bill : Exaetly. John: Ix the Gazette in the habit of doing work for the county at less than cost ? Bilt : No indeed : the Gazette took this particular work at less than its actual cost for the sole objet of mak- ing political capital of it, and then it Was unable to put up a story without falsely representing facts, John: How about the Centre porter agrevivg to furnisu the for $150 00? Bill : John, eall up the Centre Re- porter oflice by telephone, and ark for yourself, John: Hello! Central : Helio! John: Call the office, Reporter : Hello! John: Did you promise te the ballots for 1901 for $150 00 2 Reporter: No! John : Sure? Reporter: Absolutely! The ecom- missioners asked a bid for a ballot con- siderably smaller thau the one re quired, and for that size bsliot. snd wot the one used, a bid of $150.00 was made. is | Re- ballots Central. Centre Reporter } print QUAY “CALLED DOWN,” i His Plavdering Federal Office Holders Quay’s disregard for the law has sub- Jected him toa “call down” by the | president and attorney general of the | United States, Quay had made an at- | tem pt to force Federal office holders in [ this state to contribute to the Penny- packer campaign fund, by sending { them circular letters, asking for money, Roosevelt's attention was The latter official did so, und after giv- ing a review of the manner in which Quay sent out the circulars, says that the positively prohibits such practice, President Roosevelt then sent a warning to all office holders, to the eflect that officials must not be any way concerned in schemes to obtain money from employes of the govern- ment, law ns ff ——— Ballot Sheet Will Have Ten Columns Pevuvsylvavia will have a ten col- umn ballot of the largest ever Known in the state, at the November election. Nine of the ten columns will be cecupied by nomivatious and one will be left blank for insertion of names. The columns are headed Re- publican, Democratic, Prohibitionist, Socialist Labor, Socialist, Citizen, Auti-Machive, Ballot Reform, Union aud the blank column. According to an opinion of Secretary of Common- wenlth Greist be One the ballots need not numbered. ——————— Resigned His Pust rate Ou Bunday mornivg, October 12th, Rev. R. B. Wolf announced his resig- pation to his congregation at Eureka, Kansas, to tske effiet November 1st. Ihe resigoation fell like a shock upon has al- ways been very dear, and was very re- lucwantly accepted. Mr. Wolf will go to Kansas City, Kansas, where he will organize a pew church, which already has bright pros. He repeatedly urged by the people of Kau- sas City and by the in the cliureh to undertake this step and has that he his congregation to whom he wels for great success, has been i leaders tiunily decided that it is best should do so, Mr. Wolf has pastor at that piace for over eight years aud is the oldest pastor in point of service in Eg- reks. His labors at that place have been John: What wade the difference in the size of ballot ? Reporter : The commissioners con- tended that amendments to the const i- tution would be placed in a ecolumu parallel to that of the party columups, but when the specimen ballot arrived the amendments were placed uuder- Death the party columus snd msteria.- ly enlarged the ballot. Johu : You mean that when the form of the ballot wus changed, mste rially eulnrged, your eontract wilh Johnsou & Co , at Harrisburg, for bal- lot« at a stipulated price would not hold. Reporter : Correct. zelle only guessed in the matter of Johnson & Co. That house was no consulted about ballots or anything else. This statement is made 10 show that the Gazette 1s willing to misrepre- sent anythiug ard anybody. John : Did the commissioners offer you the priutiog of the ballots befor you discovered that the form of the bullot would ueed to be enlarged. Reporter : No, sir. My bid withdrawn immediately upon votifica- tion that the size of ballot specified by the commissioners was too small This votitication was wade without my house quoting me a price on a bai- lot of sufficient size, John: Thuis left you in the dark, did it, in reference to quoting the cow- missioners a new figure ? Reporter : Itdid. The only thing 10 go by was the rate charged by others. The same commissioners previous paid for a ballot a trifle smaller $240.00, aud there was po reasou why I could not furnish the same work at the same figure, aud the proposition was made Jobu : Then the truth is, you never agreed to print the size ballot used last fall for $150.00 Reporter: No, sir ; and besides that the work was not offered rue at that or any other piice previous to the with. drawal of my bid. The bopor of the Centre Reporter is staked for the truth in these stateen s ; there is no evad- ing, no misrepresentation, no half truth, but the plain truth is given. Jobn: What's your opinion of the editor of the Gazette ? . Reporter : [It is against the rules of the telephone company to be too per- sonal over the wires Besides, I have great respect for the young lady opers- tors in the exchange, Anything else ? John : No. Good bye. Bill: How about it? Jobu: O, I guess Harter's failirg got away with him again, Bill : What do you mean ? John: His failure of falsifying. Bome claim be isn’t accountable, bes Shiiue this spirit has gotten away with bh . Bill : state to be in. ever recover ? John: No; he's too far gone, Bill : Buch work is an indication that the Republicans are pretty hard up for campaign thunder, John: Yes, I can't see why Harter But the Ga Vv as Poor man! It's an awful Don’t you think he'll bren successful and he occupies a prom- affections of his inent place in the people, Rev. Wolf is a native of this town, and agraduate of Gettysburg college He to Kansas to accept his first charge eigh a and seminary. sent L years ago, New Bishops, Al a session of the United Evangel. ieal Conference bLield in W Hlmmsport H. B. Hurtzler and W, F elveted suceved Dubbs aud Stanford. Bishop Hartzel was born in York county March, 1840. He received much of his education in the common schools, entering the ministry in 1866, Siuce 1875 much of his time bas been devoted to editorial work. Daring eight years he has edited the Evangel- ieal. He has been a Bible iostructor in Moody's schools at Mt. Hermon and Northfield. Bishop Heil was born May 1, 1857, at Berlinsville, Northampton county, He attended common schools and the Millersville Normal School and taught 8ix terms, entering the ministry in 1879. He was once a presiding elder, re~igning after five years of service, When he became pastor of the First Church of Reading the enngregation worshiped in a ball. In four years a ehurch costing $57,000 was erected. He was then travsferred to Trinity Church, Allentown, where he has been for four years, during which time he has been secretary of the Gen eral Missionary Society, Bishops R. Dubbs and W, M. Stan- ford, the Rev. W. E Detwiler, J. G, Mohn, M.D. Templin and M. I. Cuft were elected officers” of the Church Extension Society, and Bishop Dubbs as treasurer. Following are the mem- bers of the Keystone League Christian Evdeavor board of managers: W. H, Hendel, U, F. Bwengle, J. Q. A. Curry, 8. G. Domer, W. H., Foulke, T. M, Evans, H. Burchardt, F, M, Young and Daniel A, Poling, A SY AANA The Pennsylvania railroad company will make extensive repairs on the Lock Haven dam. Heil were bishops to Bishops in O eT — Contipued from flist column, neknowledged that he did the print ing of the ballots at a loss, If he had not said that his article might have hind some force, If he would have said that $150 00 left him a neat t he would only have added one more lie, Bill : The Gazette did not even say that $240 00 was too much for the work, did it? John : No. The Gazette don't like to lle about its own business, but it Continued at foot of next column, was only » matter of chance that it did not. i 4 i { PAYNE'S WARNING, i Head of the Government Sets un Bad Example. Postmoster General Payne addressed a circular to all employes of the post- office department, including masters. The circular, in part, follows : ‘*As to political activity, a sharp line is drawn between those in the classified and those in the unclassified service. Postmasters or others holding unclassified positions are merely pro- hibited from using their officers to post glecting their duties, or from causing public scandal by political activity. “A person in the classified service has an entire right to vote as he pleases, and to express privately his opinions on all political subjects, but he should take no active part in politi cal management or in political cam- paigns.” masters peed this warning asters, asa class are entirely too ac- tively engaged in political affairs, if not to the neglect of their duty to the disgust of the citizens in general, The thousands of post masters through the country are little alarmed over such an edict from their chief s» ernment continues periodically “swinging around the circle” with the chief aim of infusing Republican doe- trine. If it is becoming a postmaster, and it truly is, to attend to his busi- ness, it would surely be creditable to the chief executive of a great nation to quit the position as chief of the Republican party, blatherskite | | sr e—r———— A Hard Worker for His District During both sessicns of the legisla. | ture Benator Heinle was a member « fi the Committee on Education, and st | all times heartily rupported every | measure introduced for the sdvance | ment of education or the bettern educational facilities. Ope which he was especially was Lhe Nenate bill establishment of township high | schools. The passage of the Township | High School bill, which was ¢{Tect em mainly through Senator Heinle's of. : forts, is the first step toward higher | education in the country districts, ai- though this Act but it ean be put io operation to suit! the convenience of the school district. | Equal with his support of the Town. ship High Benool bill Senator Heinle was just as earnest in his work for i every hovest measure. After years of futile effort on the part of the people of Centre county to secure an sppropria wnt of Act concerned | in| providiug for the! i# not compulsory, tion for soldier's monument snd Cur. | tin memorial, Senator Heinle, at the last session of the legislature, succeed. ed in baviog a bill passed appropris- | ting $10,000 for such a monument It | was also through Senator Heinle's un. tiring efforts, in conjunction with the representatives in the three counties, that the sppropriations for hospitals aud charitable institutions in this Dis trict were largely increased His eflorts were of such a pronounced i character, his ability so marked, that! during the last session of the legislature he stood shoulder to shoulder with the leaders of the Senate. edged no man as boss : he bowed not to the dictates of any clique or machipe, but with “‘Honesty’’ and Patriotism’ as his watchwords, he most faithfully served and represented the people who elected him and the State at Inrge. —————— oss LOCALS Anoa Mowery, daughter of George Mowery, is engaged with the Smith printing company, Reedsville. § i : i i i He acknowl. The following dispatch was sent cut from York: Potatoes have risen in price from 25 to 50 centan bushel, and 80 cents is predicted as a figure for December, Ex-Governor Hastings is doing ex- tensive repairing and building on the old Valentine farm below Pleasant Gap—the farm for years was designat- ed as the one with the “black barn.'’ Mrs. C. H. Meyer, Wed nesday morn- ing went to Millersburg to prepare for moving to Reedsville in the near fut. ure, her husband having secured a po- sition in the office of the Burnham steel works pear by. Thomas Kerstetter, son of Joel Ker- stetter, who had been seriously ill at Corning, New York, with rheuma- tism for several weeks, returned home Friday. Hels able to be around by the use of a crutch, but it will be some time before he will be strong enough to resume work. George Gentzel, of Bpring Mills, was a caller Tuesday. Mr. Gentzel announces in the Reporter and by poster his intention of having sale Wednesday, November 12, at 10 a. m. He bas a fine stock of cattle, mostly thoroughbred Holsteins, and they are in fine condition. His implements are also in good condition, many of them being new. Mr. Gentzel pur. chased the “lower” brick house, at Spring Mills, recently built by C. P. Long, snd in the spring will become Its ocoupant, ARTRAMGER'< IMPRESSIONS, i ——————— Altvons Gentleman Passes Favorable Judgment on Centre Hall { W. A. McCormick, an Elder of Ty- [rone who attended Presbytery in this { place, in a recent issue of the Altoona | Tribune, says : “The Presbytery of Huntingdon, one of the best in the synod of Peun- {sylvania, met at Centre Hall, Pa. We { found It one of the prettiest, neatest [ little towns in the state, stantial, modern and | dences, | i i Good, sub home-like wide and well-kept streets, a | good plaut, plenty of good, | wholesome water, and the streets well {lighted at night and as good and hos- | pitable folks as one can find anywhere, [ The Presbyterian church in which the resi- | water DEATHS, | C. P. STONERODE C. P. Stonerode, a prominent citizen i { | ment was made in the cemetery Bellefonte Tuesday morning, and was under the direction of Gregg Post, of { which be was a member, WINFIELD SCOTT TAT} p, died at his home in that place Friday of last week of cancer of the liver, He was aged fifty-seven years and was a veteran of the civil war having served iu the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is sur- vived by a wife and ten children. presbytery met, is a small but very | pretty one, everythiog about it neat, | the parsonage ditto. The Reformed, | Lutheran and Methodist Episcopal all modern and good, Centre Hall is in Penn's Valley, one of the prettiest in the state, and as pre-| ductive pretty. | Baw many apples as I did in this valley, The orchards are all loaded to break- ing down i churches are nx never 0s At one place I saw at least with into cars. that is immense business loaded wailing to be loaded Wagons them, | There doing in the €vaporatiog line, surrounded with im- A is here au evaporator simply an creamery | it can do. Hall is a Fhe most of Faking it all in all Centre right busy little place, BAMUEL WOLF. Samuel Wolf died Monday at hie humble home near Bober station, from the eflects of old age, he having reach- ed the age of seventy-eight years, He Interment had been ill for almost took Heckman's Wednesday morning Deceased a daughter, Sarah F Frank, at Reedsville. 8 Year place in leaves widow and § wile of Alli Mrs. Sarah Irvin Ler home of her son, Ug Bellefonte, Frid week, “1 The burial to alternoon in the Uni the people are retired farmers and wll i LOCALS Reformed church at Boalsburg will ] be rededicated Bunday, Nov. 2 ! | | wr The susfuebanna foot ball team | i An adjourned meeting of the joint | Hall charge was held Saturday, Miller Httle the guests of Mrs Joseph | council of the Centre Lutheran | M re. Mae Andrew wers I and son | t i dminston, at ~tate allege, Mins “rian Charlotte | church, Lo the D wt fail Huw hear Pres in f : J. Ww Mitterliong, 0 a caller Monday lookout for enough time oceasionly to call on the printer, Fussey ville, was He is always on the | but finds stock R. M. Magee, ex-Superintendent of | public sehools in this county, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs er.ck {56 Mr insurance wge H, Em- | Magee js Philadel- over Bunday. life in phia. | Mrs. H. J. Boon aud little daughter | Alice, of Hartford, Conun., this { Thurs- | } morning returned to their home, i after baviog visited the former's pat - Mr.and Mrs. D.B Brisbio, in this place, for several months. ents, When cleaaiug up your yard haul the leaves, dead Krass, elc., (0 your stable and spread it on the compost | heap. Don't try burn it, because | the ball-burned lvaves will find their | Way Wo your veighbor's lot and he will be obliged to remove it. | to i The tustailation of Rev. B. R. M. Sheeder as pasior of the Lutheran charge of Asrousburg will take place in Miiibelm the first Sunday morning | in November. The charge will be de- livered by Dr. H. C. Holloway, of] Bellefonte, and Rev. J. M. Re this place, J Altoona has eight cases of small pox and the board of health of that city has called upon the residents to get vaccinated and to clean up all filth in order to prevent an epidemic. The suggestion is one which will apply to all communities and should be acted Spon without delay. Miss Emilie Alexander Buoday morning sang a solo in the Reformed church that elicited many compli- mentary remarks. She has a beauti- ful voice and has perfect control of it. Miss Alexander is devoting her time to teachings vocal and instrumental music in Tyrone, where her efforts are uch appreciated, Mrs. Joel Kerstetter and her daugh- ter, Mrs. Milford Luse, attended the funeral of Merill Cooney, a relative, which took place at Jersey Shore on Monday. The young man was a brakeman on the Northern Central and while attempting to adjust a brok- en coupler was almost instantly killed by the cars striking together. The ac- cident occurred near Corning, New York. John and Bill talk over the Gazette's ballot story. They give an absolutely correct version of the affair. There is not a sentence in the colloquy that is not exactly truthful and no pretention is made to word the matter to deceive, In the Gazette's article there sre a doz. en downright falsehoods, and a score of les implied. The only truth in the whole matter is the statement that the Gazette delivered ‘he ballots “with some loss," gar = : Mrs. Potter is the guished family, all of het brotives before was a native of Centre cour ty died biog been born August 19, 1820. or about one mile west of Her fathér, John Irvin, = us and generation one of the Valley en in inrgest land Her moth- Ann Wats ft the er's maiden name w Her early life r aw fi. Was spent a fiome In February, 1844, she «4 to Wilson W everal years &t Centre Fur. her bir Potter and I: MH. 1884, sine i864 they removed to Belle. | i died which time her ¢ . i iOnte r husband in July, howe has L. Potter, | Potter was a wo- been wit (George her son, 2 Mrs man of remarkable « nergy, on Lion street, aud had passed her eighty-second birthday. { onsidering her age, she had been | in very good health. During the first week in this month she had the mis fortune to fall while descending a stair- While apparently not seriously injured, the shock proved too much for her, resulting, as stated above, in SAMUEL STRONG Samuel Strong, of Potters Mills, died at the home of his son. J. R Friday of last week, an Strong, | i] i after illness | ev, | Haven officiating, interment | The funeral took place Sunday, | w. T being made at Sprucetown. The de ceased was a sufferer from paralysis, | and his life hung in the balance for! weeks. His age was sixty-nine years, | seven months, 1 Mr. Btrong was a veteran of the civil war, being a private under Captain | William A. Nelson, Thirty-sixth Regi. ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He! was enrolled June 29, 1863, and served | until honorably discharged. i The deceased, on February 7, 1854, was married to Mary Reed, and for | some years lived at Biglerville, Mifflin | county, but about twenty-four years ago he became a resident of Potters Mills. He was a stone mason by trade, and the father of nine children—Sarah E., Margaret E. and Albert 8. having died in infancy. The sury ing chil- dren are J. R. Strong, Rebecca J., wife of W, H. Working, and Susanna C., wife of W. H. Fultz, Potters Mills; W. F. Strong, Colyer ; Mary M,, wife of Oscar Walters, Milroy ; Emma F., wife of William Walters, Centre Hill. The death of Samuel Btrong leaves Mrs. Mary M. Stump, widow of Wm. Btump, deceased, the only survivor of the Strong family. - A LOCALS, The Central Pennsylvania fairs are all over. Fair weather is the program now, Read the advertisement of C. Pp. Loug, of Spring Mills. He is having & special sale. Read his adv., and call at his store, Rev. James W. Boal, of Port Car- bon, stopped in Centre Hai on his way home from Presbyterian Synod which was in session at Pittsburg this week. The farmers will find a friend in J. H. Wetzel, who during the term he served in the legislature voted in the interests of the farmer on every oleo bill that came before the house, Mr, Wetzel’s record is clear on that subject, and why should be not be supporfed by every farmer without regard to iv iy ——— — -— Ar————— TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, | HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS, I Coon, ’eoon, ’'coon, wish you | would come back. the worst kind of a -the Gazette's ballot story. Mrs, Oscar Lonberger and Mrs. Fred { Helsley, of nes: Pleasant Gap, were | callers Baturday. A great many out of town people | were in Centre Hall Saturday after | noon and evening. Mill Hall re- om England axes of second works at j cently received an order fr | Mann's axe { for five hundred dozen | quality, i | Messrs. Foreman & Smith purchased { thE grain house they bh ling under a lease of | Ocker, of Lowi | The | Oot ve been operat. tained from G, W. sburg. wheat flelds look very y ve ain beautiful, favorable notwith- frosts, Ler has been an {month for growis or standing Het 3 i Mma agent on has glven up l a place in Williams- Pp the Houser, of mourn- Veé-vear old Housers are wel were former) James Se ‘armers Mill f and ar this place lew 181s 1i¢ ’ ~aturday drove tu wn, where be rE nof Mrs i. bof Tix 2a i iis W. R .. refx UTIL Y ¥ Nd eq § bn § Ne 4 ng in i Oman. iy entire « Ses wou mon- fair One horse, i# owned by Mr, and the other, property of i the 2:18 class, rite, the Irvin Gray, Both were is §¥ I'he ei vi wrneys Reeder and Gray board set fav al id we i ’ favorabl Adward Irvin A BETVIDE sen | Miss (frove Mills. 7 sireet, by arbitra. fi wus Davy B. Byer, « Per neyivania The Tit Creek, was destroy ri § tors selected kK Haven: 8. W. Archey ds f Aare Ise OW ei] hy He fire I'bured ay Wi Lyn pr. J]. E. ks, al Beech bens and Georg night. Dr 0 forty tons of hay, a load ‘1 a hay press, Hews Car vered by all about £400 The lost a iil load of coal & Be surance J F George 1 Hill, chaneed 14 office Saturday drecn, ng Mills, and near Centre fie Reporter ardent Deme- versation it + learn that ying Demo- iti roodh I B ocrats, snd fr Was nt mn a diflicu they expect to read { ews aiter 1} G. WW. Tressler reaping the A year ago his come up near £ f Farmers Mills, is “praviog fruit. did not feetion, and he per thiog to do which he did be result was en- ¥ satisfactory, and operation resiiiin oof apple per crop in i! woncluded that i was to spray the I rev . twice last spring tire the will be repeated hereafter, H. A. Surface, professor of zoology at State College, makes a plea for the common hornet because it destroys in- sects that are harmful to mankind and plant life. Bear this in mind, hunters avd all others, and do not fire loads of shot into or other wise destroy the cone-shaped nests of the useful “white faced wasps,” James M. Rose, of near Linden Hall, is entertaining his brother-in-law, Henry Meyer, of Hiawatha, Kansas, that ge ntieman having come east to atterd the National Euveampment at Washinton. Mr, Meyer enlisted in the army from Boalsburg in Company U, 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- unteers. He has for many years been a resident of the west, where he is en- gaged in farming and reared a large family. He is the son of Samuel Mey- er, deceased, of Harris township. E. M. Huyett and family Tuesday moved to Bellefonte, where they will reside for the present. Mr. Huyett is a born lumberman, and eut out many tracts of timber on Nittany and the Seven Mountains. About a year ago he me associated with Messrs, D, Sterret and Andrew RR. MeNitt; and under the firm name of MeNitt Bros. & Co. the gentlemen are doing a large business in the manufacture of staves and lumber, with mills in various parts of Nittany Valley, the principal one being at Miogoville (Hecla Park.) The business of (he firm being princi. pally on that side of the mountain in- duced Mr. Huyelt to leave his home in Centre Hall, and bis fine farm on the outskirts of the town, Mr. Huyett and family take with them the kind. liest feeling of every citizen of the bor
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