VOL. LXXVI. CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. DEMOCRATS IN SOLID ARRAY. At the Jeffersonian Banquet in Des Moines, Iowa, Ex-Vice President Adlai E, Stevenson Declares Democrats are “CORN WHEAT” A MYrm Thousands of Farmers Misled by Glowing Reports of the Polish Wheat, The Department of Agriculture re- NO. 15. Auxiliary Soclety Organized to Ald Belle- fonte Hospital, TOWN AND COUNTY HEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST In response to a call a meeting was held in the Reformed church Monday evening to organize an auxiliary so- J48th Regiment, Pennsylvania | Volunteers. | FROM ALL PARTS. Advertise. Next Bunday is Easter, ports that thousands of letters are be- ing received at the Department from farmers in all parts of the country ask- United on the Vital Issues. At the Jeffersonian banquet held in | ment. Believing with Jefferson, in an GENERAL REVIEW OF MAJOR AND MI. NOR EVENTS, Experiences of the Rank and Fille—Anec- dotes and Observations. {To be Continued.] | CHAPTER II. | At break of day April 29th, 1863, | heavy details of men were sent out | with axes to build corduroy roads and | cut new roads for the General in com- | mand could not wait till the roads would dry up, so anxious was he to find and beat Lee and his army. ! By noon we hat! made miles of cor- duroy road and we again started out. | At sunset we halted and a heavy de-| tachment of sharpshooters and pickets were sent out. Every movement was | now cautiously and carefully made. | Night set in dark and gloomy, but! soon the hills were all ablaze with camp-fires; everywhere bright flames | went up dispersing the inky darkness | for a little space around. The scene | was brilliant but how dark the back. | ground. Bhivering, hollow coughs, and the | hum of tunes and whistlings meant to | close upon a joke or a laugh, yet good | spirits prevailed. By midnight all | was quiet as we lay on the ground, | dreaming of home and friends or peer- | fog wistfully into the future so full of | interest and thinking of our comrades | who so lately bivouacked with us, now | in soldiers giaves all around us. All during the night pontoon bridge | trains and bridge material wagons | were moving by us toward the river. | Long before the break of day we were called up; we got up, stiff and sore and | moved as if with the labored move- | ments of age and the feeling was | tough, but spirits soon revived and | elasticity of movement was restored, | There was no time for breakfast; we | were supplied with axes and spades | and immediately moved out upon the | miry path. The heavy tread of many | feet was heard and in a few minutes | the smouldering campfires only, re- | mained to tell of our late wretched | resting place. A few miles out we] stacked arms and made corduroy roads | toward the river to make the move-| ment of artillery and ammunition, for- | age and supplies possible. By noon we had cordaroyed the worst parts of | the road and the entire army was again in motion. During the forenoon of April 30th | we built corduroy roads through | swampy, low land and marched dur. | ing the afternoon. Toward evening | we reached United States Ford on the | Rappahannock and crossed said river | on pontoon bridges. All the troops of | the centre and right Grand Divisions | of the Army crossed at Ely's Ford, Kelly's Ford and United States Ford, on pontoon bridges. While the Left Grand Division, under Gen. Sedge- wick crossed below Fredericksburg, also on pontoon bridges. The entire army of 130,000bmen was now south of the river to meet Lee's army of about 70,000 men. As before stated, our part of the ar- my crossed at U, 8, Ford. The "John. nies’’ left their works and fled at our approach. They were pursued and two hundred of them captured. We moved steadily forward till pear mid- night when we bivouacked in the woods to the left of the road, about a mile from Chancellorsville, Morning of May 1st, 1868 dawned clear and beautiful. The gentle zeph- yrs played among the branches of the overhanging trees. The birds sang cheerfully and all nature smiled in the beauty of a lovely spring morning. The boys were more quiet than usual, We all knew that we were on the field of a great battle and there was no tell- fog what a single hour might bring forth. The men were held strictly in their places; every horse in the ambu- lance corps was hitched up and the stretcher bearers standing ready for their work. The surgeons with their boxes of bright, shining knives, saws and tongs, waiting for the gruesome work that was sure to come to them soon and in great abundance. The artillery, all hooked up, every man in place, and formed in battery, quietly awaiting orders to bring into action this dreadful death dealing ma. chinery, There was a quiet moving, shifting and changing of great masses of men, The topography of the coun- try was considered and battle lines were being located. About 10a m, we left our bivouso in the woods, moved out futo the U, 8B. Ford road, marched toward Chancellorsville into the first clearing which was separated from the Chaocellorsville clearing by "a wide strip of woods, Ip this clearing and extending be Wn ————— wi gave his views asto the proper He said in part : “We are almost upon the threshold | of another presidential contest. The | ean be clearly defined. The party in enormous tariff taxation. It will stand for the trusts, “Controlling all departments of the made to make good the pledges of their last Natiopal platform. With large surplus in the treasury, drawn from the chanpels of trade by unnecessary taxation, no reduction of the tariff will be permitted. It will stand for! t i foreign conquest, ! “In unrelenting hostility to all this, | Demoeratie party, true to the will favor the teachings of Jefferson, abolition of all vuoecessary and une the minimum of the cost of every will well as in its plat- of there is a is i needed article of ¢ stand in reality, as form, the lieving that wherever there must nsumption. fH I~ wrong favor antagonist irusis be a rene guch legislation as irh ual check upon the u wtions giti- busi eat. male The enormous sccumulation of gold in the United States Treasury, amount- ing to §632,75 is 8 wonderf of the eountry, nly that sucl led up in the ¢ 5,826 at the end of M arch, il indication of the weglth it | vas] ot wonderful, no h Treasury vaults, weall has been but of pro- i that withdrawa ti, mn has not duced even cinbarrassiment than it has Setting bundred mil Basie Hs redemption Ntales currency, ti gold” in the Treasury, certificates in $119.651,782, 'y Creu represented t is give at ali in- 7.000 5) daring the month. This is money received from cgstoms the paid er. duties, which i dire Trearury and thers is pai iy into untii rein nis out upon warrants, As the most lil al appropriations of Congress Lave Ue Fe Lhe the and Veuyes, idie hoard It drawn from the uses of business, aecuimulales, is wi the laws make no provision for the is sue of apy form of its place, currency in In consequence of the large pay- ments of gold into the Treasury, the against coin—gold snd silver certificates—decreased some §6, 000,000 during March, white the na tional bank eirculation about $300,000, and thisat & time of great demand for money, There has been a material Increase of national notes issued decreased- Governor Pennypacker has vetoed a number of bills granting pensions to individual soldiers said to have been disabled in the service of the State, upon the just ground that all such pen. sions should be regulated by general law, establishing a system by which the facts can be ascertained and the proper amount fixed. The absence of any such system hitherto is easily ex-! plained by the fact that there have been very few cases calling for a pen- sion from. the State and these few have been treated as exceptional and as subjects for special acts The num: | ber of applications has so greatly in- creased of late, and private pension bills have come to occupy so much space upon the ealendar of the Legis | lature, that the necessity for some gen- | eral regulation is apparent, If the | State is to give pensions at all, its! bounty should be distributed equally | and justly, according to ascertained | desert, snd not according to ehance or the influence which the applicant may be able to bring to bear to secure con sideration for his claim, tp isis If the Administration really has un- dertaken to probe’ the Postotfice De partment, it has started upon a very wide and fruitfal eld of inquiry. The Postoffice business is so varied and so complicated and touches upon go mnny different jnterests, that the opportuni ties of corrupt collusion are very great, if once the service Lins been allowed to Continued on Fourta Page. ing for definite information concern- ing a so-called new grain ealled “corn wheat,” requesting samples for trial, The grain which caused the news- paper publications, the Department says, is known correctly ‘Polish wheat,” though the grain is not native to Poland, tut its original home prob- ably is in the Mediterra- perience of a century has demons!rated us plications and entangling alliances,’ it will oppose imperialism, ‘the spirit of empire.’ In a word, it will be the high aim of the party of Jefferson and Jack- | Boniewhere nean region, The newspaper reports, the Depart- ment says, are correct in saying that the heads and grains of this wheat are reckless extravagance and corruption, economical and constitutional very large, the grains being in many cases actually twice as large as those of “Is it too much to believe that with | ordinary wheat. The statement that these issues in the forefront there w it yields sixty to one hundred bushels be no dividend counsels in the Demo- | 18, however, probably conside rably ex- Whatever differences | there may ine may exist upon questions of Idaho and Washington, ment there can be none upon the politic- | Ww Liete ther al issues indicated. | 1arge yields “In the approaching struggle political supremacy, appeal will be made more earnestly than ever before | 11 iil aggerated, though be stances in PES Mo are always proportionately of wheat, in which the read ®IXLy to seveuty-five for { yield is iY fee ; | bushels per ser The experiments made by the Agri- Department and by experi- places show ield is rather disappointing. to Democrats to present an front, bs past party affiliations, who condemn | that the favoritism in legislation ; that favorit-| The wheat has been grown only ex per- ism which enriches the few at the ex- | imentally in this country, except in a ho b { Ver From experiments legislation, would curb the power 8o f the inference would be the trusts, that at the grain would be very good as a honest business enterprise and popular | hi government ; to all ex- | travagant and wasteful expenditures of | adaptat] the public money ; | could no | w y few places, Vv Wise" of | f¢% Lid » il made, constant menace to | we food, Polish wheat ia much restricted in its n, and the Departmen be who condemn FAYE to ali who condemn successfully grown any- the latter day policy of foreign con- |’ quest, in a word, to L of the Mississippi, but only al plains region in Washing- lal Montana and other wintain and Pacifie | tates, where grain is usually grown. all who would re- | store the safe and economical meth in government, hed by aEG OY founders of the Republie,” establis paris of the m the Wp wor—— LOCALS, appropriation of $5000 the both he for bank circulation during the past three | : : jiaty i ¥ pa Hefonte H spital has passed 1 2 2 i He years, especially stoall banks, | but as the limit of United States bonds available as the basis of suet fron $ g irom branches of the Legislature. Carter Harrison, Democrat, for the gircuia- ciety to aid the Bellefonte Hospital. The organization was formed by the election of Mrs. W. H. Schuyler, presi- dent, and Mrs. G. W, Hosterman, Mrs, J. F.Bhultz, Mrs. H. W. Kreamer and Mrs, 8B. W. Smith vice presidents, Miss Elsie Krise, secretary, and Mrs, Helen Grenoble, treasurer. An effort w made by these ladies to induce as many persons as possible to become active members of the society. The Bellefonte Hospital is an insti- tution that is deserving of unstinted support by residents in all portions of the county. This is true because of the fact that patients will be admitted from all localities within the confines of the county, and because every phy- sician in the same territory is accord- ed the use of the appliances of the institution, ill be Whatever support is given the hos- pital through the auxiliary, or other- wise, will aid in carrying charitable work of the character, Give your support. on a noblest a ———r—— LOCALS Miss Emma Bunday. She is al present. Luse was home over staying in Bellefonte A girl is seldom thinks she is, nor as homely girls think her. The young man the sun should sit up later ten o'clock with the daughter. ns she other preily as as who gets up with Bot than Mason John Btrong put up the wall | for a porch in front of the dwelling of Assistant Postmaster C. W. Slack. The free delivery of mails was estab- lished in Lewisburg Wednesday of last week. Two daily distributions are made The Rev. C. Miller, pastor of the Freeburg Lutheran congregation, has tendered his resignation, and has sc- . f four me, was elected il tion, or as security for Goverment de- posits, has been practi the banks are without power to sup-| ply the deficit caused | y the Treasury 4 | #4 from the east where she purchased her spring and summer stock of mil- th ti mayor of | ” | cally reached hiicago by a njority of six thousand. | ail RCL, i alre. Lucy Henney Tuesday return- hoarding poliey, | linery goods Two radical faults of legislation are here apparent, the refusal of a ration- The peo tre county ean be reached in no other jie on the scuth side of Cen- cepted a call to Bath, Pa. A new Lutheran church was dedi- of which was $25.000. Rev. Fahe is the pastor in charge. Mr. and Mrs. John residents of Of W. H.| Durst are again county, having Iron to the farm f “utre moved from Glen al system of banking currency and the | insistence upon customs needed for the public use way except through the Reporter. The | taxes Dot! Reporter goes into almost every home. | The ma- | | Miss Vira Lonberger, of near this! dant opportunity to enact a law that i pis would have made possible a sound | PAPET " currency, responsive (o aetual needs, [Satie ; but it would do nothing. Meanwhile | 5 all suggestions of a reduction of the tariff were discarded, and the Govern. | al tonths has been with her daughter, i ment goeson taking y that it [ Mrs. J. W. Btuart, in New Bloomfield, does not need from the people who do! Tuesday returned to hier home in this need it, and locking it up where it can. | Place. not be used. | Joel Kerstetter, of Centre Hall, offers for sale a bay horse, three years old, ssund and well-broken; also eight or ten shoats, weighing eighty to one hundred pounds. abun- " ‘ €, oalled Tuesday to have the news. of 0. M. Lanberger om Pleasant Gap to Centre address Mrs. J. O Delninger, who for sever- Thus the county is actually smbar- rassed by its own weslth, which is prevented from using to the best ad- vantage by a narrow and obsolete eco- nomic and financial system, which in- creases the most of everyihiog and taxes the many who have little for the #ain ofthe few who have much. There is no more splendid evidence of the productive prosperity of the United Btates than in the power to surmount such blunders as would make 2 weaker nation stagger. it is Abner W. Alexander who is preserv- ing to the Alexanders the old stead near Old Fort was a other evening. home- caller the He is one of the pro- greesive young farmers in his section, and has probably more spring work done on the farm than most farmers. W. J. Finkle, formerly of near Spring Mills, has changed his place of residence from Patterson fo Pottsgrove, From erasures made on the letter heads of the Pottsgrove Milling Com- pany, It may be inferred that Mr. Finkle purchased the milling plant and is now its proprietor. At the close of March, 1903, the law in relation to the organization of banks with minimum capital of $25,000 has been in operation three years and sev- euteen days, During that period there has been added to the national banking system 1442 associations, with aggre- gate capital stock of $86,135,500, West Moshannon bas been suffering from an epidemic of an eruptive dis- ease which all the doctors but one pro- nounced chickenpox, and that one claimed it was a mild form of small- pox. A visit from the state board of health supports the smallpox theory, and a general quarantine is to be estab. lished on all roads leading throagh the infected place. T. ¥, Townsend, Ksq., connected With the U. B. Weather Bureau, Penn- sylvania Department with his oMoe in the post office building, Philadelphia, was in Centre Hall to iospeot the vol untary service under Master Ted Bailey. The appliances were found in good eondition, and the reports o, k. Mr. Towngend is the oldest man in polut of service and age in this par tioular department of the U, 8 Weather Bureau, and he is but sixty. five. This is his first tour of inspection through Central Pennsylvania, and he expressed himsell as very favorably chine. Unfortunately, this is precisely the character which the Postoftice De- partment usually has borne, and when the politician's code of official morality has been agoepied in the distribution of patronage, it is reasonably certain to be accepted also in the evjoyment of money making opportunities. Some of the craokedness now darkly hinted at has been more or less notorious for many years, and a Postmaster General who makes hunting delegates his chief business Is not the one whose influence is likely to cheok it. isi ——e—— Approved by the Governor, Governor Pennypacker has sigued the following bills;— That if any person or persons shall sell cigarettes or cigarette paper to any person or persons under the age of twenty-one years, he or she so offend: ing shall be guilty of & misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 nor less than $100. : Making it a duty of gounty commis- sioners to provide a separate room or building for the accommodation of el.ildren under sixteen years of age or hearing, Meeting of Preshytery, A regular session of the Hunting. don Presbytery will be held in Reeds. ville next week, beginning Monday. acquire the character of a political ma- Rev. D. E. Hepler, of Lemont, is mod- erator. : * formerly owned by Hiram Durst, east of Centre Hall, : Dr. W. 8. Harter gate to represent the Woodmen of Centre county at a meeting of the State Camp to be held at Beaver Falls Wednesday, May 6th. was chosen dele- Mrs. Joseph Luiz, of Centre Hall, a former resident of this place, says the Lewisburg News, has been visiting among her many friends in town for the past several days, Postmaster G. M. Boal had the walls of the post office whitened, not that the office needed the proverbial “whitewashing,” but because he want- ed the surroundings to be more cheerful, Peter D. Philips, of Colyer, Monday made a trip to Coburn, and while there was engaged by Harter Brothers, lumbermen, to go to West Virginia. The Haters have extensive lumber operations in that state. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harper were tendered a reception by Mrs. Maggie Harper, mother of the groom, Satur- day evening, the young couple having arrived from the east the forenoon of that day. About twenty-five guests were present, all of whom enjoyed themselves in many ways. How we can bring parents and teachers into closer relations with each other, and the beneficial results of such alliance, are the points ina pa- per on Childhood, by Mrs. Theodore W. Birney in the May Delineator. It is certain that until parents and teach- ers become better acquainted an im- provement in the condition of home and school will not result. Charles McCullough, principal of the Beenery Hill school, in Washing- ton county, is lying at his home se- riously hurt as the result of a fight with two unruly pupils, While the teach- er was in the act of correcting Earl Kinder and Will Miller, aged about seventeen years, the boys attacked the teacher and fractured one of his jaws, gouged out both eyes and beat him without mercy. The Reporter will be glad to have mailed to it marked copies of local papers containing items of interest to the Reporter readers. Personal pub- lished in foreign papers, reprinted in the Reporter, make good, wholesome reading. Do not fail to mark the notice to which attention is called. The postal laws permit the name and address of the sender to be written on newspapers, whieh ean be mailed for Advertise in the Reporter. April tenth is Good Friday. For sale— Ladies Continental bicycle, Inquire at this office, Sunrise prayer meeting day in the Lutheran church. on Faster is 4 piant If you did not p spring, do so before it is 8 Lree to this ) iate, Public Behool for sale at the Prof, and Mrs. A. week began College, David Wolf, a tondale, had fifty his desk by a snes nis Financial Stateme weporter office, Afi A Ya lIE8 AY Figs wf housekeeping at ate Clin. from blacksmith in dollars taken k thief. The Pennsylvania railroad company § has issued orders prohibiting the tura- ing of seats in day coaches, A. the Centre County Mutual Fire Insurance C Huntingdon eounty in the interes James Keller, secretary of ompany, last week made of that company. Veteran George Koch, east re Hall, had his rom $10.00 per month to $12 pre of tre pension ner ¢ ! claim for increase BEI Prof. W. A. Krise, Sunday nineteen degrees was morning mercury above zero, fifty-eight degrees from Frids Gs stood , when the column ty-seven above zero, “Harmony ! fy Srevet ,,| says Bryan, y g ot mest fry {ERE 18 NOL secured by £ it comes as the reward H tt armony is a thing to 1 yop ¢ i ing Mr. and Mrs. J. dren, of Milroy, were Prof. and Mrs. W. A. Krise { days last week. While in Brown gave the Reporter to be talked abo “nr VY. ti Miss Lulu Walters, burg, daughter of Mr Walters, died Thursday m the | § Bellefonte eof & ied « RIMS passed final examinat the High Sehe previous to her death. The new gift of Mr. Ali to 5 PR TP » the Penusy 154% { Sid i i: y : iavania slate being pushed rapidly The concrete floors are Wm. H. Kuhn; o varal BOVETARS f far . f J¢ £5 days Mrs wa daughter, N Kuhn is formerly fre in the Shore for the past four or fiv The condition of Jerry M bad both legs amputated of injuries received ou th Miil Hall, continues most and his chances for sidered good by the Lock Haven he pital physicians. has been & ve recovery al The Bigma Alpha Epsilon fraterni- ty is to have a new hi at Pennsylvania State College. The building will be located on the corner of Beaver avenue and Allen street and will be one of the best fraternity houses in town. It is to about $5,000, J. O. Deininger, one of the oldest citizens of the borough, is one of the kind hearted citizens with whom the Reporter has to deal. When he read the call for back numbers of the Re- porter he gathered several on his street and escorted them to this office. Thanks, Read the new advertisement of C. P. Long, Spring Mills, who is adding new lines of goods to his already com- pleted store. Furniture, hardware, clothing and shoes are the new lines. He is at present in the city. Goods will be ready for inspection and sale Baturday, next. Robert Van Valzah, a member of the graduating class at Princeton, is spending his Easter vacation at the home of Hon, Wm. M, Allison, at Spring Mills. Mr. Van Valzah is a son of Robert Van Valzah, deceased, After graduating he will take up the study of medicine. Thursday morning of last week the body of Ward Meyer, of Julian, was found lying slong the Bald Eagle Val- ley railroad tracks a half mile west of Unionville. His head was crushed and he had evidently been killed by the cars. He was aged about eighteen years and had been employed at the brick works at Retort. The lecture on “Missions in Came berland Mountains’ by Rev. L, ©, Ed- munds in the Reformed church Thure. day night revealed conditions in Ken. tucky little dreamed of by any mem- chapter Re Cost -
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