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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