148th Regiment, Pennsylvania |
Volunteers.
T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co, A
Regiment, P. V,
{To be Continued
CHAPTER
Hy “" 148th
i
Of the four Beirleys, two were broth- |
ers, and cousins to the other two.
I'here were three Boob brothers, two |
Corman brothers, three Fulmer broth- |
brothers, two Grim |
brothers,
ers, three Gilbert
brothers, Harper
Kreamer brothers, two
ers, two Miller brothers,
brothers ; the two Strayers were father |
and son: two Weight brothers, Of |
the five Wolfs two were brothers and |
cousins to the other three ;
were cousins ; the four Meyers were |
cousins. These were groups
less related to each other
Four Beirleys, two Harpers, Bec
Conser, two
Held, four Meyers, Mayes, five Wolfs, |
Woodling, Weirick, two Strayers, two |
Shaffers, twenty-nine in all, formed an |
endless circle of relatives, embracing |
father and son, brothers and of
two two
Lanich broth:
two Otto
two Longs |
more or|
k, |
Cormans, two Grimms, |
usin |
to each other, without a break in the |
circle
Wages
breaking out
wages of the common soldier was |
the
At
1861, the |
and allowances,
of the war, in
eleven dollars per month, beside cloth- |
ing and ration allowances, but
the end of the first
thirteen dollars
before |
YER WHEYS Wele |
raised to
month of full twenty-four hour days |
per calender |
for privates aud corporals, and seven- |
teen and twenty dollars for sergeants |
in the infantry service, but when gold
had gone up to ** 290,” and our nation-
al
we were paid, was down
money, areenbDacKs, Wi which
LO Lhirly-live
on a dollar, the common soldier's
doll
per mont
cents
pay
and fifty-five cent
therefore, was only four Ars
$155
in money, an act of C
passed June 224, 1564
wages as follows “That on
the day
dred aod sixty-four
eon f the
IUAance ol
the pay per month of no
“
und gress |
raised
wid after |
first of May, eighteen huun-|
stich thel
present rebellion,
during
ICOominission-
ed officers and privates in the military
service of the United Miates shall be as
follows : First sergeants of cavalry, ar- |
tiliery and infantry, twenty four
lars ; sergeants of
and infantry, twenty
als of
Cavairy, artilie
dollars ; cor
cavalry, artillery and iafa
eighteen dollars, '’ ele relating
ther toother branches of Lhe service
Ration allowance Ration allow-
ances during the latter part of the
war. were limited
a day and could not
ure. Judging by
us at times, led us to believe that they |
to twenty five cents |
go over that fig-
the quantity
given |
moved us along ou still
lower figures
This daily allows ce, on a money oft |
titanate, was the highest allowance dur- |
the war and was the sal |
fue paid to
dier in cash 10 addition to his regular |
pay, whilie prisoner or AWay on
of atmsence from the
amount of this ration
brought the bill
grub and dyspepsia was unknown in
the army. The ration
not so liberal during the first year of
the war, We will quote a few
fro Gieneral Orders, No. 91, issued
from the War Department, at Wash.
ington, D. C., October 26th, 1861, by
Hon Simon Cameron, at that
Secretary of War. It in
“If the rations can not
for
ivave
he
allowanes |
of fare down
Army.
to solid ]
snllowance was
lines
time
SRYyS part
De contracted
reasonable
will in bulk sud
the In should
the cost of a days ration, uncooked,
exceed
the points
at 8 rate. subsistence
be secured
Volunteers,
issued to
no case
and at
in the Western
should not exceed fourteen per
day, for When board and
lodging are required the price for each
should stated and
cost of both must not forty
cents per day." ( Hee Rebellion Ree.
ords, Heries ILI, Volume I, page 507.)
A soldier's ration for one day, limited
in variety, averaged three pounds in
weight,
Clothing allowance. The clothing
allowance was never limited in money ;
a solder received many shoes,
shirts, pants, ete, each year, regard.
less of price. If he managed to get
through with less he was paid the bal
ance in money, at the end of the year
If, however, he drew more than the
allowance the excess was taken off his
pay at the raliog price at the time,
which was the cost price to the gov.
ernment,
THE REGIMENTAL GUARD HOUSE,
The recollection of the Guard House
of the 148th P. V. will always linger
in the memory of the boys of the Regi-
ment, The Guard House was, in the
opinion of ‘the colonel, an indispensa-
ble adjunct of the regimental camp,
The colonel was the designing archi
tect. It was a rough building of logs
with the bark on ; about ten by twelve
feet in size, about seven feet high, The
roof consisted of a few poles thrown
uneross the level top logs; s thin cover.
ing of pine branches completed the
roof ;: so rain, snow and hail rattled
through upon the unfortunate inmates,
nineteen cents most of
States it
Cents
each,
be the aggrega e
ex oeed
wy
FHKREE WEEKS COURT
Jury for Kaguinr April Term and Special
Court,
The regular term of court opens
April 24th, continuing for
A special term of court
opens Monday, May 9th. Jurors for
LAND JUROR
FIRST WEEK
TRAVERSE LORS, SPECIAL COURT, MAY 8
Centre Hall ==
baugh, Huston
John E. Miles, Milesburg
M. J. Barger, Gregg
Harry H. Haag, Bellefonte
Jacob FP Hoy, Be
Harry Low Tas
James Soh sfiald, Bellefonte
Dr. 8. E Dorworth, Bellefonte
George Decker, Penn
Harry Brown, Be
Meeker, Burnside
Jonathan I. Tressier, College
John L Dunlap, Spring
John Hoy, Jr., Walker
Emanuel Shuey. State College
I. B. Cowher, State Col ege
Charles Johnsonbaugh, Spring
Eugene Krone, Snow Shoe
Claude Cook, Bellefonte
A. A. Blover, Halnes
Frank H. Robb, Walker
Frank M. Fisher, Gregg
David Rothrock, Benner
J. L. Shafter, Marion
Howard Strable, Walker
J. W. Lee, Walker
H. B Pontios, Bellefoute
I. J. Taylor, Gregg
Daniel Robb, Liberty
Clinton Markie, Benner
J. 6, Fehl, Haines
George Hart, Bellefonte
Emannel Garbrick, Walker
William Miser, Philipsburg
ames Hoover, Union
SS AMEE
Centre Reporter $1.00 a your,
w ov
lefonte
Maynard
LETTERS FROM COL, SPANGLER
Written from Venice, Italy, sud
to His Fathien
Munich,
Germany
The Reporter is again here permit
ted to reprint two letters from Col, J.
L. Spangler, the first
Italy, and the latter
Germany.
from Venice,
from Munich,
This is Venice in Italy. Iti
built 120 islands the
small. No horses, no street cars, only
boats to go about,
u city
on in sea, all
It has a population
of 160,000 ; very prosperous and pretty,
400 or more bridges and canals connect
the city. If you want to go auywhere
you take as small boat. Nothing like
’
t anywhere else in the world.
" I
Germany,
came to Munich,
from Rome via Florence
and Venice, both in Italy ; next went
ty Innsbruck in the Tyrol Ibis is in
Austria
ple live in the Alps Mountains.
of
and all German hese peo-
Home
}
HK fe I
the mountains are st hig
These people farm on the side of
mountain—an acre here
How they live |
they all
gels
“ul
fii
HOAT Ce]
seem happy.
from 20 to 30 cent
hh as nters, ete
Ar pe
hey are intensely
aud always build a chureh
lie
nore.
3 % 1 ti »
eir fields the
Ril
Heideliber
fr
Leal
Came
the [ress
country |
We
come
LIAS
havi
home, but
about April lst
Holland an
back to Paris
hers to
———
LOCALS
Mrs. B. H
fonte Monday evening to visit
A. Miles Arney,
18
Centre
Arney went to Belle
Her son,
tn’
ve
of Bellefonte,
He
Khoads
(Feiss,
Hall
engaged with H.
Was in
Monday.
K
has been
for
the
past five years
Samuel J. Wagoer writes from Ju-
niata that Juniata and Altoona will
experience a building boom next sum.
mer, and adds
need for men to be idle
that there will be no
Mra. Auna Hemphill, of Philadel-
phia, came to Centre Hall a short time
ago to visit ber father, John Lawyers
she will make sale of household goods,
Mareh 25, as announced
register and by posters
Charles D. Emerick to
Pittsburg beginning of last week to re
in the
returned
railroad I'he young man
received an injury to his fool a year or
more ago, and was unable
company.
to do any
work sinoe,
Next week Howard
Centre Hall, will une a resident of
Union county. He will a
splendid farm, recently purchased by
him, located a short distances east
Lewisburg,
taking farm r, giving particulsr at.
tention to the care of agricultural im-
plements and keeping in neat condi.
tion the surroundings of his premises,
Dhirat, of near
bey
move on
Mr. Durst isa very ping:
Among the passengers west the
L &T. Monday evening was Grover
Gentzell, on his way to Altoona after
a brief visit to his parents, Mr. and
Mra, George Gentzell, of Spring Mille,
Mr. Gentzell is aclerk in the store
room of the Pennaylvania railroad
shops in Altoona, and has been at that
point for the past two years He is
disposed to study, and {nu connection
with his daily work, he is taking a
course io mechanionl drawing in the
Aceranton Correspondence Hehool, and
| after be has finished his studies along
that line he expecia to enter the me
chanical drawing department of the
on
Pennsylvania shops,
TOWNKE WOULD TAX THE STATE
Ousint Heversal of Castomary Conditions
Winning Favor,
An odd bill, under whieh local tax-
ing powers would tax the State, was
favorably reported to the House and
put through first reading.
Representative Howard, of Cameron
county, introduced it
take from the State asa local
from its reservations
cents
it, and would
income
forestry three
an acre for the schools and two
cents for ronde,
A quaint reversal of customary con-
ditions, the stale
it
but why should not
pay & logal tax in which holds
properiLy ;
py
Hard Words, and Partially Trae,
I'he
HAY "2
Altoona Tribune
I'he
# Purchase Exposition
the
unexpended balance, is
editorially
fact that the Pennsyls
Louisian
mission turned over to
slate Lreas
urer $538
ENR)
Gg the credit of the commissioners
{singe they might easi
y
y
i I
the entire appropriation of $3
oe pt sren—
Hrepublican Candidates
lates for ox
tile Vassnd Finally
| amending the
as Lo permit §
InArriage
FEFRONIA COD.
§
tem pial marriage to Appear Delnre
notaries public and make affidavit as
ity of their contemplated
Marriage
f
of the of
before
Requi burial
sleep ki dogs
may bw
The following bi
the House
Hed by
received
lls passed finally in
Providing that one-half the cost of
county bridges destroyed ahall be paid
the State,
Requiring reports to be made to the
[State Live Stock Sanitary Board of
{ tious diseases among domestic animals
tand citations
Defining and declaring the giving of
short weights and measurements
misdemeanor, and fixing a penalty of
$300, or 90 days’ imprisonment, for
violating the at,
Providing that proceedings to
tain possession of land sald on exeen-
| tion shall take place before a justice of
{jury of six men
supervisors of the territory
the meetings,
Providing that no county shall be
required to pay for the extinction of
forest fires in any one year an amount
exoseding one-fourth of the amount of
the county taxes on unseated land re.
eelved by the county for the last pre
ceding year, unless Lhe amount so re
ceived be less than $500,
Sm
Home men are gluttons for every.
thing except work,
A GILONSLY EXTRAVAUANT CONGRESS
ithoritative statements issued by
M1
mut of the House
as Chair-
Ap
Livingston,
Hemenway, who served
Committee
and Mr
ranking minority miember of the com-
total ap
sessions
of the Fifty-eighth Congress at $5815.-
year, as
current
Oh
propriations,
mittee, agree in placing the
propriations made at the last
478,914 for the coming fiscal
swgainst $781,172.57 for the
Year,
According to Becretary Bhaw, the
for the twelve
mouths beginning July 1, 1905, will be
690.615. It Mr Hemen-
way's embarrassing duty to explain
how a threatened deficit of $02, 588 3f
estimated revenues
only §
120 is
0.
by Republican magic, will be convert.
f $25,642,410.
Livingston's argument is direct
t* Big-Btick "’
G1
ed into a surplus
Mr,
vd sgein extravagance
total appropriations of
),845 for the army, and
ons during the four years of
d's second term, he
ss has given Presi
for the equivalent
$
~
an
DAVY
sale
veisn
Ny Lr res
Ere
-ri
{90
6, a grand total of
purpose, in-
cent,
the Impressive
actual def
the
he current fiscal year
0.000 for first
sorized a net increase
of $37 308.530 for
Sd AN 5 i next
—— a—
sintement Of
1845
Lin iD and
ail other pm
iT primes
er decreased over
Mintle
varied a character
1
educational
The observance
ves Them an pportun-
ahiy pro
num
that
and
happiness,
every sort,
be forsaken
for state offices and
uggs
iidates
~ io
out
county,
are coming
resent il is given
Plumber, of Blair
ir slale
oppo-
the nesigation fi
iotmidable
macine,
Superior Judges,
Rice
B.
A.
Oriady are
James
to be re
if ———
{f the state’s appropriation of
$300 000 for the 8t. Louis Exposition,
£53,000 is to be returned into the slate
Ibis saving is due largely
general up by the
throughout the state,
mind what a miserable
the agricultural exhibit really
ffemgsury
to ti
114 howl sel
NEWE PS pers
his calis to
affair
Was,
1 me——— ————
April 18th has been set as the time
for the adjournment of the state leg-
| ixlnture,
er—————————
Many a fellow marry for
| money if the girl wasn't such an ep-
would
| cumbrance,
——— sn —
uy the Wood Lots, Farmers
a farm and is
ale enough to own a wood
to secure The
is purchasing every available
he market, and within ten
years will own tracts of timber
and that heretofore were owned by in-
dividuals and always purchasable. In
years gone by it was the custom of the
| farmers to buy the woodlands after
the valuable timber had been cut from
it by the lnmberman, but the state's
method has made a change in this
the partially denuded timber tracts no
longer become the nroperty of loeal
real estate owners, but the state's and
| the time i» coming when it will be re.
{wold at a handeome return on the ine
| vestment.
——————
Novelties,
Novelties in Japanese napkins, crepe
paper rolls, pebbled passe-partout ple.
ture frame binding will be found at
the Reporter office.
Also, the latest novelties in ladies’
stationery--very pretty, and very
cheap. :
I'he man who owns
nnt forta
lot should hasten one,
[mints
ntre on
vast
NO 11.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTE,
Bt. Patrick's Day, Friday, 17th
Rev. R. M.
from Beotland,
Ilingeworth |
®
back
The Buperior court is in session in
Harrisburg, having convened Monday
Mre. W. C. Patterson, of Col
lege, during last week wes very ill of
pneumonia
William Bradford, the Pine
Miller, is due copgratulations—it
boy, big and plump.
Btate
(rove
HE
“a
Mre, William Beholl will make her
home with her daughter, Mre B
Kreamer, in Centre Hall
Jacob Jordan and Jol
Colyer, were 11
called to see the
1 town
Re
Jerome 1. Lingle, of nes
Mills, has changed
now be found at Monroe
Pp rier
IOCKRLIONS,
Mr. and ‘Mrs. James
f
of fo
Cresson, Wr
famil
were
y
or 314
» fs
uests of John
mer’'s father.
Bale dinners are repor
Al
fed into the bu
Lhe average.
be ver
tents of Lhe proverbial
Hay
market
and potatoes
Hay especially
all money crop, sai
iRGL detsaud Are uo
wwerage farmer
Jolt
irs,
Lo LUels
Mr.
MILI,
aud
Calle
ped uni
ail remus
ire farm stock sud
~choll, deceased,
Weduesday.
LOWs and bo
rics
al Lhe
whet Lhe si
ition I OULKR
the contrary, are I
off much below their
Among the beginner
Clyde Stam, of Linder
level-headed young
ti
move on the farm of
located on the Boalsbur
fn Hall
DD. W. Gel
Encouraged by
velow Linde
stocked by
farming last season
gat
Willi ©
Lhe
gin
woven
the growing
Because su woluan
fingers, to
be grafted
for
or $600, she
al acliress,
f being
pif my 3
0
BY assed
here are f 4 i fi
ed
price
Lid
unger
'set who could command
for the
in
a good
wig digits |
g digit f put
in which
extra Mi
the communities
on sale
their dexter
Mm. W. W
will make sale
ty, Saturday,
sractice,
Royer, of Centre Hill,
of ORS proper-
April 1st. It
intention
ity Lins been put to §
her pers
is the
home
Royer, at
Junisis. Mr. Royer has been employ-
ed in the car Alloona
about ten years, and will be
bave his mother with
home,
J. J. Bower, E«q., of the law firm of
Gettig, Bower & Zerby, was in
¢
lady's make het
with Ler
to
son, William L
shops at for
glad to
him in his own
town
Friday on his way home from Penns
Cave, where he allended the post.
poned sale of the Cave property and
Long farm. Mr. Bower and his law
partners are gaining business before
the court, all of which their many
friends throughout the county will be
pleased to Know,
During the latter part of the week,
F. W. Bweetwood will go to Symerton,
[1l., where he has had employment on
a farm for several cousecutive years,
He had been home on a visit to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs, RD. Sweet-
wood, of Potters Mills, for several
months, but goes back to the west to
take up his work with his former em-
ployer, which speaks well for both,
The Brockerhoff House, Bellefonte,
has dispensed with its "bus, and has
substituted a Cadalsc sutomobile to
transport ite patrons to and from the
railroad station. The present land.
lord, H. 8. Ray, has done much to add
to the popularity of the well-known
hotel in the county seat. The autos
mobile will not only be a drawing
card for the hotel, but a saviag in
expense,
The indications are that Prof, 8,
Ward Gramley will have the largest
select school held in Centre Hall fora
number of years. He will give pros
pective teachers special attention. The
need of education can not be empha-
sized too much these day«. Many a
young man today is regretting that he
did not make better use of his school
days. This can not be remedied, bat
the young people who are now of
school age should *~ “are ful mot to com-
mit the same er!