VOL. LXXVIL. CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. REVIEW OFMAJOR AND NOR EVENTS, GENERAL Experiences of the Rank and V¥File—Aunre dotes and Observations, 7. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., Regiment, P. V. [To be Continued P. 145th | By We reached Baltimore toward eveu- | unfurled flags and fixed | through the | nion Soldiers Relief As-| the Was which ing, and with bayonets we marched city, to the **1 sociation Building,” near | ington passenger station, shel- | tered thee rimment for the night. Here it a fair soldier’s supper, of dry bi fat pork, coffee and slaw. | But ling was without heat and | we In the morning I] { to my mess-mate, I will go get a canteen of ‘fire water.” will try to warm up nt and got a canteen, legant brandy, took de cided the of cold weather medicine, it When we came back there | Ww What y he asked, I said the and sampled the me as he let it gutter, saying, I am this such Canteens were kept running for time. At six p Svashiugto: packeq a : vi ntire reg We gi end, the build nearly froze. Baie out i a we Ww @ d and | on three pints of in and we Later to prevent | nn confiscating our supply | and came ‘stimulation.’ out, and rome we | to walk b ys rd we with us have | Milk, dre suard si ine door. sf ti in that eanteen ? he my head | looked at out in the | to waste | my with this 1 Over Let us see strap of the canteet medicine, and smiled, sorry orders. goods but are #Oome | marched to the and were once freight traip, dirty as usual, and start- arrived m. we sintion ore & ed for Wushuington, where we AL 5 a.m. bexi day wut light, thirty men witl Pad hours, wilh outfits were ked in each car, all to come forty miles, frozen hardly There to Bight, nine We eramp yet th no fire were again pearly and so | could escape. to go to, or warm wid it or freeze, to the Capitol. d that we ere Was no Was | house gO into; it was, st We mare treat, most cheerless d Not un red with Boldier's This ad floor wie hed Re- | near the was the | we .h 1, the rampled army crackers ih and there ghout dirty a cattle shelter, fed here ard tack and « till Pp acks, gladly, cold, cheeriess n sel seen, stool or benel t and COVE pools meal ie thro and fa! and unfit for “Bull TAW and | of slop; auythi Ki ess held a on ng but We pork, b wore coffee, prisoner three m. when and mov- Dec ung Knasg ein- ep mud, and raio hed down ave OW Was gone Was the nol 48 We Pen mud, through the cit the mud was something ap- paliing and & 55W experier for We crossed the east branch of the tor While er Co. der scales,’ falling fast Mare middle of ile myivania nue, » Was so plenty y, but after we got out | | of the Cily ce is, | Po-1 crossing this riv- nac river. A got rid of their brass ‘*ashoul- we threw while i sr or 'epaulettes, them into the river ossing this greater punish the soldiers and lame shoulders was never by military brass ornamentation fool, We marched south on the east side of the Polomac, in the direction of “Port Tobacco,” about six miles, through mud deep and tough. It was necessary to have the shoes securely luced, so the foot would not pull from the shoe, which, in this event, the bottom and be lost, Hey & bridge. \ nuisance to their devised the | remain at Night Was upon us; “the rain had ceased, and it was rapidly getting colder. We went into bivouac for the night, no shelter, no fires, wet from the soles of the feet to the top of the head, Some would lie down, but they would vot lie long till they would have to jump up and stamp and dance, or freeze, for by midoight the mud was frozen hard as a rock, a cold high wind blowing. Many canteens in which water froze burst during the night, This was one of the long nights of our lives, and it was one that brought up the memory of home and its com- forts. From this ou long, long nights frequently came to each and all of ue, But on this particular night I fared better than many; I had a stump to #16 on, We had already discovered that eam- paigning was not guarding railroads, It mattered not how long the nights seemed to as at times, they passed, so here; morning came and with it the sin, which dried our clothes, and re- ¢tored the mud to its former state. At 9a, m,, Dee. 12th, we were aguin cn the road, which was deep with mud snd next to im ble. We had a few crackers each for breakfast, and no CENT RE Appropriating $5,000,000 ‘The in oceasioned crease in the certain appropriation decrease of the districts ;—The Remedy. Tax in evil In I Centre in county For Mouday this discussion will use a to year ending on the first June 1891 the actual tax levy for school pur- $70,878.59 for the year June 1901 the Rarme pur least, rtain facts. the in and of the an increase in taxable for This would indi. reduction the chool did not be- to the appropriation aud in some districts y & mill or was four or pose was ending first Monday tax levy for Dose the school was $68 820 with rd valuation cate a considerabl in actual amount of taxes levied for The gin with 1901, the une into effec WT poses reduction purj extends back 5.000. 000 3 0, + i but first year alf a mill te than is te ROe the levy is from h five in such lars higher and wchers wages dhe do not yet exceed Fars ago, districts are few than they were, but ou 00 per mount h. Niate tax levy first Mon X) to $150. Io id the amount In several townships the ap- for iay of propriation exceeds the ending the 1902, Year from $1 few others the re- bal- for tax levy ai ceived from the St A comy year 1591 ate very nearly ance wrison of the millag with the little difference he year 1902 shows at there is very wo - five distric to 4, 13 in all. he in districts levied 2 mills, CI , six districts 3 millage of nly two town di 5 to 12 mills These are the other 19 varied f districts levied and the en fo 1902 four other our more 31 oLher 5 to 10 nuded hh case, and ¥ it XA TEES, 5 RNownier jour and f to 4d mills, 141i he jis trict ge from All the borough are foe latter mills the in ges are from five not Ising High un. h rics, © of bly erm his r per month f thie superv of would ; i pal hiel make the average mue The exp »« in all dist or thre wages hizh with the inrger snag serhiond being extend to seven mouth increased by “ without iiinstrate=s the the cou hich I live, the peri } nto in w ihe ITVin w the situati Considering increase in value of property duri the | purposes is an iL was h the per instances reg in whie £30.00 WH Zen nth, wive m the state than A further a figures contained publie abundantly su i= raised by taxation arch the reports of the department of instruction would pport se conclusions We districts, should be fair to the rural se It is to say, that hool over reaching the however unpleasant it thi nos be, large appropriation schools by the legis. pur- in 1801 was made for the from the burden of heavy taxation for local purposes, This question was much discussed in the istorial campaign of 1860, The two great parties had in their re. spective platform declared for such re. lief. You will be able to determine “which which’ by the resolution guLHert | Seereiary Hamilton's Sacecessor B. Critehfield, has been appointed Secretary Agriculture in place of John Hamil. ton, by Governor Penny packer. N iy, of Bomerset coun- office that A. L. tained as deputy secretary; Dr. Martin would be re- J. ry, and Dr. Leonard Pearson ns State Veterinarian. Sepator Critehfield represented Some erset county in the Benate from 1861 to 1805. He was born in that county July 20, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and the Ohio Udiversi. ty. During the Rebellion he served as a volunteer in both the One Hundred and Beventy-first and Twenty-eighth Regiments, He has served in Bomer- set county as school director, county school superintendent, prothonotary and clerk of the courts He is close. ly identified with the order of Patrons of Husbandry, aud is an officer in the Hiate Grange. I A Rare Bargain, Our regular $4.50 Cablioets for » short time for $3.00. A discount of 83% per cent, This is not an sdver ising dodge but a straight tip. If you went iefures now is your Spportunity. Al ‘entre Hall every Fri ’ Ww. Ww. syMITH, Continued on fifth page. The one said ‘* But the depression lighten that, and as far equalize taxation. “To that as possible end we recommend taxation be used to lessen the t now laid upon real purposes, by applying it will, in leg the increase of the appropriation for the support of the common schools, local it estate for #0 far as care of the indigent insane, for the ex- ing the general election. “If thereby these should be a npe- cessity for enlarging our surplus reve- nue we favor a just and equitable crease in the taxation of the property of corporations. “We recommend that the tem of taxation be so reformed as to for local purposes to such as to emable the local aut duce the rate of taxation upon estate to a more equitable basis ‘That local tax in order that the county, nn real The other declared, reform is necessary taxation for municipal township purposes may be equalized, the upjust discrimination against land values and in favor of certain kinds of personal property under existing laws may be corrected and that the farmer may be relieved of double value of bis farm and th the mortgage which against it." By these declarations the relief of the farmer from the burden of taxation was made an issue before the peaple of the State. The ele resuited in a division of power one party had the chief executive and the other the legis lature. On the 22ad 1861, Mr. Taggart, a Montgomery county, “An Act to provide purposes,’ hy taxation of real estate, personal property and corporate prop- erty.” This bill was bill No. 210 and passed the house final ly March 24th, 1881. I do the merits of the bill but it ported very largely by the agriculture interests of the Biate. They believed it would furnish the relief promised. and tax ou the of stand e principal may ction of January, tative from read in place, revenue for “local represen known ss house not discuss was up From the house, went to the in regular course, it Benate and was buried fn committee. But relief had been pron:- ised and if not given in the msnner desired by the farmer, it must be grant- ed in some other Aceordingly Inte in the session a bill designated as Benate bill No. 683, entitled “An n¢ to provide revenue for the purpose of relieving the burd- ns of loeal taxation being supplementary to , en- titled “An net to provide revenue by taxation” approved the day of June, 1879, aud providing for greater uniformity of taxation by taxing all property of the corporations, limited partnerships and joint-stock associa- tions having capitol stock, at the rate of five mills on each dollar of its actual value, The first clause «7 1! amble of this is as | way. an act ith 1e pres aot Hows : mand for the enactment of such measures as will bring about the equal- ization of taxation cal taxation upen real estate.” aot was approved June Sth, 1891, This LOCALS, day, March 4 Miss Elsie Krise returned Johnstown Tuesday. from Austin Krape is improving slowly of some weeks, Miss Jennie Thomas Tuesday re turned from Bellefonte where she spent the past five weeks. Miss Angeline Tobias, whose illness | was mentioned last week, has recover- (ed sufficiently to be about again, | Mrs. Jackson Btover, of Coburn, Tuesday came to Centre Hall to visit her sister, Mrs. M. L.. Emeriok. Mrs, Rebeooa Kloray and daughter, Gertrude, returued from Linden Hall Tuesday where they visited friends, Mrs. Bimon Hpangler, of Kansas, will accompany Mrs, Carrie Osman ¢.wl on ber proposed trip next spring. . Piokeyels on the rampage in the Lvieinity of Penn Hall, The disense is quite fashionable, and if you want to be some body you must have pink-eye. Rev. Ward K. Bhultz, assistant seo- retary of the Railroad Y. M,C. A, in Altoona, Is expected home over Sun- day by his paren, Bay . and Mrs, J. F. Bhultz, { | TOGIVESCHOOILSSTATE S SURPLUS Approprintion Me Incressed. Local Taxation Helloving The advance wheets of the annual re- port of James . Latta, secretary of { internal affairs, w the year 1902 have | just The report shows that the sylvania is 2,022,273 and that the ap- praised value of all real estate is §3,- | 258 827,169. The total amount of money -) been issued. fut interest, including mortgages, judg- stoek, ete, 20, shank ments, bonds, Dotes, | ported to be $514.2 The | taxable is re- nggregate amount of property for State purposes, including { money at interest, is $814 890,316, The aggregate amount of Btate tax assessed 3,200.684.71. The total amount of { all county debts of the State is $59 087 - il. The tax collected and appro- priated for the support of the poor in { the State amounts to $3,127,310, is § a wv R The school out the State | by the report { In addition the { 500.000 making taxes collected through- during the year covered Mtate contributed $6,- $21.- support of the common third of the and appropriated in wn total of about {O00 000 for Lhe Ab ainount collected | schools wit one total 1903. | | MEMOULIAL TO 'H¥ LEGISLATURE | Pomona G nnge Asks the Legislatures to Takes Action, We, citizens of Centre county, o1gan- lized into Grapges, assembled under the auspices of our County Organiza- tion in special sessions at Millhelm, Feidler and Rebersburg, this 18th and 19th days of February, 1003, respect- fully petition your Honorable body to pass the following bills lst. Bill to enlarge the powers of the Behool Boards to divide the seven months school term into two or more terms and unite two schools when it will serve better educational advantages to the people of the rural districts, 2nd. or more Bill providing for the pay- ment of Jurors of the Courts of Quar- ter Mession and Common Pleas. “rd. Bill to appropriate $1,000,000 for public roads to be distributed op the basis of the number of miles of road in each township and expended visors, 4th. Bill for the State to relinquish all the fees of County offices for the use of the county where located. Sth. NO. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTE FROM ALL PARTS. If You are vertise in the EST bunting a purchase; 3 4 te porter, Mrs. Mary Bhoop, of become nu permanent place, rarity Fanion resident Oscar CC, elsewhere for sale. east of Centre Homan, advertises a colt and Mises Florence has a class in Kiine + i { instrumental twenty-four schol Mrs. B. W. guest of her Centre Hall, J. W. Mersinger, of Tus a caller Monday was what brought him to tow Klgard G. Dearmett, of Fort, moved to Mingovill where he is working for M 37 Barr, brother, ® of I's W. H Pp Gram A. Miss Bidney Prof : Yi Btate College, sp ey, ror fy bu and Mi place, latter's Arney, parents in this Bill for the State to relinquish all the | for that purpose in Philadelphia, On this subject the report says :- ‘Just at this time there is much dis cussion about hie monwenlth, the salaries paid to teach- | ers in the several counties of the Com- | the figures that : indicate the percentage of taxes collect- | therefore ed for the support of taxes collected for an interesting study. of schools to the to- | all For Adams county the percent. of the 100 purposes, atpount purposes are insianuce, in is 32; that is, per cent. | 32 per cent, is | In Allegheny county the amount is 16 per per cent; in| in Juniata, 20 per Lackawanna, 41 per cent 4 Dauphin, 43 ape woilected for all collected for the support of schools. wht; = Armstrong, Fulton, Z5 per cent. ; cent. in 10 per cent, io Westmore- | and, 40 per all the gher and so on, Fanging | in Alle. Dauphin : from 16 43 way to per cent, per cent, in the county, To reimburse the thus diverted to the ¢ Miatle the taxes properiy, inition, increase on and wel corporate iniliex, 8, gas wells, manufacturing com- panies, ele, as these classesaof ty pay less on their actual va than three mills, uation while real estate is sixteen mills, | as shown by the Oficial Reports of the Commonwealth, as follows: Appraised value of real estat Report 1 0, RIX Lax Aggregate taxes paid, Average rate of taxetic P rate and Aggregais persons taxes paid { taxation, three mill Resolved, That the Master Secretary of the County Grange property 8102 8 i avd | be di transmit the above | of the BSenate wpresentatives of inlly the wombers Pennsyl- greater uniformity | ion in the coun- | commonwealth. So long as | much for edu- | il seetus proper that | exercise some should Le in facilities for we OU ‘There CouCat ties of tl the Slate is paying so cational purposes, iid the the State she over su per- | of the | IMOneys appropriated for school pur- | vision expenditure #0 that a child in one county or | {0p Pom ., one township ot a county should de-| rive benefit from the appro- | priation made from the State Treasury s child other township, O any other « of the State, i as much nw in any unty hes tis Lime seems Uo have | a surplus of money in its Treasury and i 8 aie nl many schemes have been devised by of this money may be | burdens of w hich portions used to relieve local tax- | ation, such as the improvement of pub ¢ highways =nd the construction of | These are commendable sug- gestions, but probably the improve- | ment of public highways by the State will found be somewhat im-| practicable at “Looking at these problems that are | presented for local lLiprovemes nis or for the relieving of 1oecal burdens of taxa- Ix it not better that the Biate de volte whatever rnoney it can spare from {the Stute Treasury to the maintensnce of State and charitable institutions and { let thie balance go for educational pur- | poses ? The State is now expending $5, 500,000 a year for this purpose. Let this | amount be increased so far as may be | consistent with the financial condition of the State Treasury and then such supervision be given the school depart- ment of the State and such regulations established, either by law or otherwise, las will insure equal facilities for edu- cation, at least so far as may be pos- | sible, for every child in the common | schiools throughout the State. “If there is a desire to relieve local burdens of taxation, or burdens of tax- ation locally, this would certainly be sccomplished by increasing the amount of appropriation for the sup- port of the common schools, and then those who are paying taxes in the ru- ral districts will have more money to devote to other purposes, such as the construction, repairs and improvement of public highways.” A Daring Hold Up, Monday morning about half past two o'clock Cloyd Herbster, operator at the MY tower near Lewistown had occasion to leave his office to perform some outside work and just as he was crossing the railroad opposite, two men walked off the 8. & L.. track and or dered him to hold up his hands and not to move or speak. One of the ras- cals held a revolver close to his face while the other rifled his pockets of thirty dollars and forty-five cents and a bank receipt of forty dollars, a AL MA Ifyou have any paioting in view, you must have lead, oll and colors, wee bridges be to least, tion Joux I. OLEWINE, Bellefonte, Pa. | GEO. DALE, Master, D.M. CAMPBELL rss ——— a. s— , Becretary. From an Illinois Man. While in Centre county my ter and | were treated so I feel like returning thanks through the columns of the Reporter, While at Potters Mi kindly that | Thomas Pal admirably by haviug the orchestra meet at his home It associate | LEN #0 delight to old comrades and | make new friends. i After visiting my brother John Roy- | went on to Altoo- we stopp d with brother Ed- From here we will go to | Krider, at Win- | i ber, and from there to and | home, in McConnell, Ii | W. L. Royer i we na where Chicago Feb. 1 A tsi a. Last Florida Tour The last Pennsylvania Railroad tour | almost three months in Florida, leave New York, Philadelphia, Washington March 8. Exercusion tickets, way transportation, Pullman accom- | modations (one berth), and meals en | route while going on the special train, will be sold at the following rates : New York, $60.00 : Buflalo, $54 Rochester, $5400; Elmira, $51.45; Erie, $485; Williamsport, $50.00 ; Wilkesbarre, $50.35; and at propor- tionate rates from other points. Re- turning, passengers will use regular trains until May 31, 1908 For tickets, itineraries, and full in- formation apply to ticket agents, or address Geo. W, Boyd, Assistant Gen- eral Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. i AA SS ie, UNITING SCHOOL DISTRIOTS will and including rail- 0s wierd o A Mensure Advooated in Grange Ulrele is Eatirely Commendable, The measure advocated by the Cen- tre County Pomona Grange whereby two or more school districts may be united is one that should receive the hearty support of all interested in school work. This uniting of districts would be centralization on a small scale, and in a way entirely practicable, and could be done without disorgan- izing the system where centralization would be next to impossible, The measure should be brought to the attention of all patrons of rural schools iu all parts of the state, with a view of enlisting the aid of the repre- sentatives who have the interests of the rural districts at heart. The Grange was iostrumental in bringing about the magnificent ap- propriation of $5,000,000 fo: school pur- poses, and by concerted action the present school system can be im- proved ina way that will be of infinite Demet 10 Shildren on the farm. License court for session on M« nday. grant licenses were ed: wnses in Lewistow: license at Yeagertow: Mrs. Mary Ding Dinges home Dinges Osman has been | in ast few years H. Moyer, Mrs. BR. A married J of Hiawa Sheare: were was » bride. Ths Centre county. riage solemn her the crop of ’ iatter 1 IRE § ¢ careful tean ling cakes of I he i its stock of gre & Co., Central who s § URiness in 18 Mar Ht nuns Home Compani REF npler # vf the hor i the moors § Lo be as slrong sod a Doone Mm, H.E West Virginia, n Harold Rhadle, BCCOT Pe fo is among ey, and spent some 1 W. F. Bradford, in 1 Shadle is engaged in 17: vi operations in West The dwelling house oecuj H. Emery, of Lock Hay early Th week Vers was saved. vd on insurance of $100 Migs Mi school teacher, I ur tively 8 consi ey in the flames, as she the house fi was obliged 1 leave before the treasure Frank Vogel, of Tartle Lake, N was married to Miss Ida M. Herr, Beech Creek, Clinton eounty, in Bells fonte Sunday Rev Wilford P. past Methodist church Vogel an bride met for the first time on the eve of their wedding, he having isurnes fifteen hundred miles across the cor nent to meet Miss Herr in an advertisement inserted matrimonial paper, evening 1 Vv Shriner, of Ww ti answer {o by her in a Charles Wiser, who about eighteen months ago went to Cincinnati with W. W. Boob, and has been in his em- ployment since that time, «as upfors tunate in having one of his arms in- jured, which has rendered the member entirely helpless. The arm was injured by coming in contact with some ma- chivery. It is thought the bove is affected, and serious doubts are outers taived whether or not the will ever be restored to its full use. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mingle, of Rolle. fonte; Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Hoffer and son Earl, of Philadelphia, drove from Bellefonte to Centre Hall Thursday. Mr, Hoffer is a son of George Hoffer, deceased, and spent his boyhood cays on the farm now owned by J, J. Ars ney west of town. It is twenty four years since he left this place, and for the past seventeen years has been in Philadelphia where he is conducting a merchant tailoring establishment, on Walnut Street, ia one of the most fashionable quarters. The Reporter fs pleased tosay that the work Mr, Hoffer well, and that ing a very extensive and arm
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