VOL. LXX VIII.
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers,
I. P. Meyer, Ne rgeant Co.
Regiment, P. V.
Io be Continuad |
CHAPTER X
A., 148th
Clothing allowance,
soldier received
a 80
shirts,
less of
many
ele. each year,
If he
pants,
price managed to get
ance in money, at the end of the year,
If, however, he drew more the |
allowance the excess was taken off his |
pay at the ruling price at
which was the cost
ernment.
than
the time,
price to the gov. |
Following is the allowance state. |
ment and table, “exhibiting the al- |
lowance of clothing to each soldier |
during his enlistment, and his propor- |
tion for each year, respectively, as os.
tablished by the secretary of war
LLILAOWANCE
THRE}
FOR
YEAR
CLOTHING
ILDIER FOR
¥ MN Y Total i
i
i
{
ihis table { with Lhe exception of
Lhe price column is the exact form |
furnished by the secretary of war and |
Was printed on the back of every * re-
biank to the
he price columu in
quisition "went YH pas
fies the above
is compiled from the best data at hand
atid Id
Ves
AL approximately correct
price of each single article or garment
of esh kind in 1864 65
All
wear, was strictly all woolen goods of
thie
and was ail
Wear
soldier's clothing, except under.
wal and most darable
quality
the same for summer and
Witiler
iothing allowance to each sol
He
dier at first cost to the gover: ment
Was abundant and cheap in view of
thie price of wool, which ranged from
one dollar
per
i
to one dollar aud a quarter
wind,
fANCE AND CAMP EQUIPAGH
I'he following articles of ordnance
aud equipage
charged to the
varied
price of
‘amp were issued snd
the
Limes, as
men at subjoined
the
the
fal
articles to
prices, which
contract thie
government varied
$
single
When these articles were hard worn
or badly scuffed they were, upon in-
spection, condemuoed and
in place. If a soldier lost any of them
through carelessness the of
the articles lost was deducted from his
next pay.
open to this
new issued
smount
We therefore kept our eyes
matter, and very
seldom that a soldier paid for an arti
cle lost. Whenever we
indiv duals or as a Company
it was
got behind as
had
I over and
we
the same articles condemne
over, until even with
Ugecle Ban. In 1864 the company fell
short toa large amount, aggregating
over two thousand dollars, for arms
snd camp equipsage in battle,
standing ageinst 4s by reason of care.
lesanesas to report the losses at the
proper time to get reduction. The of.
ficers of the company smiled and
walked away, which implied conour-
rence in my plan of getting even with
the government. We saved the outfit
of every man killed or wounded and
reported the same off as lost in battle,
and were so much ahead. 1 had some
old tents condemned and deducted
over aud over, On inspection Lhe in-
spector would mark them with stencil
and black paint “I OC," which sigui-
fied inspected and condemned, and
put them to ithe credit side of our go-
eonnt. After having secured this
eredit I would prepare them for next
inspection by erasing the “[(O " .
where the paint had gone through the
canvas | burned a hole into the tent
and the “1C"” was gone. The tent
cloth was changed and was again
ready for inspection, to be pl to
our credit, By spring of 1865 Co, A
wax even with the government and
had guns and other artigles to spare,
At the close of Lhe war many compas
officers owed the government
we were again
fost
at
HAI
FHE LEGISLATURE,
Introduced or Passed
by House
or Senate
Following is a brief account setting
{ forth the work of the legislature, with
| reference to the introduction and pass-
age, by one or the other of
i
| that body, of various bills
oranch
ENATE
the
PROCEEDINGS,
In
Neate
the following bills
Amending the act providing for the
tendance of children in public schools
age and ability to
the Knglish language
superintendents
ih cities und boroughs and
by the
Ly the secretary of the school board in
HOUSE PROCEEDING
The bill introduced by Mr. Ober, of
in, fixing the minimum salary
ie school teachers at $40 a month
House,
the
In House
passed finally
the following bills
Providing that county Commission.
shall erect markers on soldiers’
xed charge on lands ae
the
Providing a
by
serves and t
wl for
Senate bill to reorganize the board of
Sia e for forestry re-
distribution of revenue
gob
1001 and road purposes,
uslees nusyivanias State
College,
teachers’
Regulating the granting of
sic the of
employment
teachers in the publ schools with re-
pect
Providing
tes thie Are 0
i t leachiers
tor the relief of poor per-
Ons, regi their settlement in
means of
wreement val of a
poor
of his settlement,
the furnished t
him and the
Pay Inent 0
f or
ta thereto,
aarler Nes
“THE MAID AND MUMMY,
Long Wainut Strait
Phlladelphin,
Engagement at
Thestre
One of the most popular writers of
lyrics and librettos
whose * The Tenderfoot” and other
musical comedies have already been
passed upon by theatregoers and scored
hits, Mr. Carle's latest,
Maid and the Mummy," is
the best and brightest of them all.
big
ly
and complications,
The by tabert
Hood Bowers, a young musici
the light,
order, extremely whistleable,
bright
mirth
music
Hines, laughable situations
provoking
was composed
an, and
is of tinkling and
#0)
in demand at pres lovers of en-
this kind. The
elaborate one,
tertainments of
duction is a most both
scenically and from the st
“ The Maid and the Mum-
comes to Philadelphia with
costumes,
my "
identical cast and company, |
ing in all one hundred and
which
early in
made
the seg
I'he present engagement
and
ed as to time
ran until the hot we
opens Mond
nut Street
ather
April rel
'heatre, and
iay,
there
the ustial Weeilly died
matinees,
-
a
sid the Harrooin
introduess
hibiting
tering =»
penalty
onment
to ninety
second offen
{
i
i
§
Mi
ing Lhiat
By isjuehanon, pr
inciudiog ¢
ion thereof required
PR Where
now alle
rae,
noting in
Lhe |
HOW ig
his measure
Lie iii
Wa
Own
Rie IDiNors ab
matter whether
i
vid authorizing
I meetings
‘ouneil f
ion of officers and to cast
we when Cot ne Ls are equaliy divided,
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ALS
’
f.oe
who
isn deserving
“i by Repre- |
3
alive ress y iniieage books sold
railroads | Ha must be
irom FWLHO presents it,
Hum ese
$ } 5
Rf
pital last week le k
distric was
one of the party
stay. They are carpenters by
trade, and
plentiful
The West
terian churches at
Kishacoquillas Presby-
Belleville aud Al-
George Mcleod, of New York City.
The salary is $850
M. I. Gardoer has opened an office
in Masonic Bellefonte, as
headquarters for the Nittany Valley
railroad, of which he is
He also
Temple,
general super.
intendent. line of
insurance,
CAITies a
Pennsylvania, by a passage in the
House of the mea-ure appropriating
$400,000 for the care of consumptives
in State sanstoria on the State forest
reservations, provides the largest ap-
propriation yet sei apart by any State
for this purpose
Burveyor Wm. M. Grove was in
town Friday and did some work for A.
P. Luse & Bon. In the afternoon he
surveyed a timber tract for J, Q. A.
Kennedy, Mr Grove is using a high
class surveying instrument that he
fHods aids him greatly in making dif
ficult surveys
John B. White, beginniog of {his
week, went to Altoona where he will
be engaged at his trade, that of car pen.
tering, during the coming summer,
The prospects for the bullding boom at
Altoons and suburbs Is juducement
for the mechanics to go to that busy
railroad centre,
The commissisners of Union county
and the owners of the Lewisburg and
MifMinburg turnpike came to an agree.
ment whereby the turnpike company
Ia to receive $4000 for the rosd. Ata
recent term of court a jury had award-
ed damages in the sum of $2000, whieh
verdict was sot aside by (he court as
insufficient, The company wanted
$5000, but rather than have a retrial
n
thousands of dollars through neglect.
the case was adjusted as stated above,
Souls Oa Fire
? grealest serial story of
iis Tracy, famous
Wings of
he Pillar of Ligh
a)
sive to the
the Mornis §
will
resders of
ine
Philadelphia reas
March
willbe the o
given free with esac
he Sa
iy publi 110 Ameri
may is
A
where this great stor
sussia and Aweriea
England, }
uish the principal chars
ters in this re-
Love and
i
ure is Lhe Lthetne, as in
all of Mr
Worse
thrown
racy # most successful
I'he action begius with a b stb
in London, Auarchist
meeting in Tottenham Court Road,
some sensational disclosures in the
Russian colony in England, and then
shifts to the castle of
an
a Russian provin-
cial governor, or ** Little Czar,
subjects are in revolt at his intrigues
a
The Edwards Case
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court
having decided to send the case of
Samuel Greason, the negro under sen-
tence of death in Reading for the mur-
der of John Edwards in 1801, back to
the Berks County Court, the Board of
Pardons granted a continuance in his
ease and also in that of Mrs, Kate Ed-
wards, who is condemned for the same
crime
An effort will be made, and more
than likely accomplished, to have
Greason released without a new trial.
Mrs. Edwards will scarcely be hang-
ed, if at all, before next winter. The
Board of Pardons does not meet
the summer,
that Mrs, Edwards will escape with
life imprisonment
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Sproal Road Bill Approved
The Beuate Pablic Roads Committee
has accepted the House amendments
to the $6,000,000 Sproul road lmprove-
ment bill, ineressing the proportion of
cost to be paid by the State. As
amended, the State is to pay five-sixths
of the amount and the county and
township one-twelfth each,
The above was one of the amend.
ments contended for by Hon, I.
Rhone and sssociate members of the
Centre County Grange, at a recent
hearing before the legislative commit.
tee. While the Sproul road law, even
With its smendments, 1s not an ideal
road messure, the changes made are
entirely to the advantage of the rural
tax. payer, and were the best exten
slous that could be obtained,
LAW AGAINST CIGARETTEY
Ware
flons
fils, Hestrie
in
Iucreasing smoking
PFonusylvanin, Becomes us Law
Hereafter, it will not only be unlaw-
to sell cigarettes to minors in Penn-
ania, but even to give them ciga-
i
i
The Ware bill, providing for this new
irohibitive, was signed by the Govern-
or, after passing the Legislature,
The present law prohibits s imply the
selling of cigarettes, but the new sot
provides that “ if any person: or per
sons shail furnish cigaretts or cigarette
ft, sale or otherwise, loany
person or persons under twenty-one
Veurs of : OF she 80 offending,
be gulily of a misdemeanor and.
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to
a fine not more than $300 or not less
than $100
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tepublican candidates
ity of-
Republican candidates for cour
i
§
ces are on the increase. The follow
willings'’ have announced since
remarikalils
Pen
Weel,
Da ie]
er added two horses
re Hall. The
purchased at Jersey Shore,
to
ent Ble
Keller, of his place,
Mmwyer, came home Saturds
Huntingdon inty, where
¢ Beeblehimer
feman, deputy proihono-
ire county, wes in Penps
Sunday, and Saturday,
Writer's
orter office.
sbsence, called at
of the
d sales held in this part
to the
atten.
sale was ope
Easy access
3
the
¢ snow has disappeared there
Rain,
sunshine and a bit of effort on the part
will hideous.
mankind bring the
Mr. and Mrs, James P. Herring, of
Altoona, attended the fiftieth marriage
auniversary of "Squire and Mra. M. B
Herring, of Bpring Mills, and before
returning to their home visited broth.
ers and sisters in Centre Hall
William H. Noll and Jasper Brooks,
the former a merchant and the latter a
U. B. store-keeper and gauger, both of
Pleasant Gap, ealled on the Reporter
last week, Mr. Noll advertises the
American fence elsewhere in this issue.
Misa Gertrude Bartholomew, who
M. Ostrander, the real estate man with
Brothers, coal
also of Philadelphia,
merchants,
Photographer Bmith took a view of
the George Durst farm buildings Fri
day morning. The farm was in the
hands of the Durats for msny years,
the buildings and all the improve.
ments having been made by them,
and itis natural that Howard Durst
would want a picture of the same bes
fore leaving the homestead,
John 0, Seholl, of Altoona, returned
to that place Satarday afternoon hav.
ing been here to attend the sale of the
personal property of his} deceased fa-
ther. Mrs, Scholl and aon were
detained on account off slight illness
that overtook the fgfmer. Mr. and
Mrs. Scholl now Ile in their own
home which they bu\t Inst summer,
and are very well contéuted,
23. 1905,
NO 12.
INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION
The enormous increase in immigra-
tion is credited in part to the effect of
The men
ay be forced into such conflicts want
thir war in the East who
to establish themselves in a country
where there is small probability of
war. Arrivals in New York alone
were 41,406 in January and 48,600 in
February ; a total of $0,065, as com-
pared with 62,541 for the
entire coun-
try in the «
rresponding months last
January February have
the year
should tis increase keep
record of 1903, which was U30 ~
Year and
been the lightest months in
in the
up,
“3, will be exceeded
past,
the
{ nfortunately, the increased immi-
gration comes from parts of Europe
where the least desirable emigrants re.
draw-
more
niche Iiliteracy is a common
Congress should make it
it for undesirable immigrants to
the United States.
i jails and asylums and crowd
dis of
i to
tricts cities, and
* for the more de-
beneflled by the
e numbers of illit-
disqualified
from
tussin
4,000 came
162 000 from
The
Hn any other
iIRrgest
CO ti-
art
Lo
0 go Bot
Epi
pres.
easily
that much in
which
praia
Nn sugars in 1903,
i
der
Was
ail
nog
in rates, as the
cl unti
But J
th
{i ige
ne 12 CA Was
Praisers
trust is en-
It charged
h it paid
the de not
sion is
i make $5,000
one iransaction.
-
Nearly every Senator and Congress.
"il 0
I'he Naval C
he Northern
© eX pense mit
navy yards:
Southern navy yards never require in-
tion in hot : The Military
Committees have Western posts to lonk
Yell th
Was the | feig
ene WOR
Park on
PW alone
Affaire Committees
must needs inspect boundary monu.
ments | Alaska has to be visited every
summer ; aud now Senator Taft is go-
ing to take about forty Sauators aud
study t
ati are
for the man who sacrifices himself for
the public good in Congress.
AM rt ss snot
nevolent assimilation in oper
yi here some consolstions
General Liveviteh has a happy
uck al epigram and a touch of hu-
He was wounded in the leg in
the Pekin campaign, and when ap-
pointed to the command of one of the
armies in the field Inst fall he said in a
#pecch to his troops that his lameness
made it impossible for him to get
around as actively as some persons,
and in fact he could only move in one
direction, and that was forward, And
yet an evil fate placed him where he
had to move backward, and now that
he succeeds Kuropatkin, he seems
doomed to continae his movement in
that direction,
- Bo seis
Startling is the revelation of the
methods of the ever-rapacious * Hyws-
tem '’ made by Mr. Lawson in the in-
stalment of his Frenzied Finance
published in Everybody's for April.
Mr. Lawson describes the getting to-
gether of the properties that Com poke
Amalgamated ; and in doing so, tells
how the owners of Utah Consolidated
found themselves obliged to ask assis.
tance from the * Hystem '’ : how they
ROL it, and the price they had to pay
for it,
Rt
The result of the primary election
and organization of the Union county
Republican committes indicate clearly
that ex-Senator Focht is boss of the
situation in the county, The effort to
unhorse him has proven fatile. The
opposition to the ex-senator, in the
Republiean ranks, is largely due to
Jealousy.
A A A AN A
From the financial statement of Cen
tre county one must come to the con-
clusion that the County commission
ers enjoyed the best of health during
the past year and took no vacations.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL IN TEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
WwW. A. Odenkirk, of
Centre Hall over
Station
(ilen
Agent
Iron, was in
Bunday
Grass and grain, where protected by
snow during the look
green and healthy,
Miss Margaret
burg, is visiting her glster,
wife of Rev. Daniel Gress
winter, now
ack, of Adams
Mre
(ress,
srisbin & Company, the lunmber-
men, have a large number of first-class
railroad ties lying at the on ready
for shipment.
lal)
Before buying new or old
get prices from D. A. Boozer
formation will be worth the t
eessary to inform yourself
MAarness,
The
nec
ih~
fie
Oliver B. Brumgard, of
Mies Alice Gertrude Bhiv
lo Run, this nit
marriage at the Lutheran parsonage at
B.
county,
Balona by Rev. B
Noll Brothers. o
£ received
field and poultry
the
the large amount
Frank J. Met |
Hockdale, West Virginia he
Pittsburg
hie point
| the Wabash
West Virginia
7 Lie
Cieins
give you Dotiom
al
LA
ry B~
PFerminal Company,
Ww
bash
tis RionDg Lhe Ls iipe
the
y
#
in norther: part
nandied Misses
Hall
elsewhere
ROGOs
Centre ard is
found
te, and
réfs.
# Japanese silk
walking skirts, Prices
j onable considering style and
| Wf Phila eipni
Hall, Saturday
§
me fro
| waist its, Whi
are very
sae 15% 2
JURIILY.
wv
nailer fu
Frank B
{ ed through Centre
Pass.
aft.
jernoon on his way hb
through
thd
ig %
i his regular tours
Lhe stale in Lhe interest
ling establishment the Shaffers
| conducting in Philadelphia
Mre
their
and Ward
for
f
of
Rev,
| started
| Friday
| appointment in
xy
OK
ew
inst week. sat
is Plainfield,
y
RKuown as VOCE,
ut the postof address
{ Cumberland county. lie traveled
{| overland to their new home
WwW. WwW
will make
Photographer
| State College,
graphs of each
I'he exposu
Lhools,
{ Fri
Fale
oo
day morning befor
ol. Wher
| will be sold at
A farm of two hundred and
{ thirty
| mores,
r Springs,
by
forty-
located near Ceda
| Clinton county, irchased
Frank B. Long,
dollars per
as the
Was p
al lhe rate
Ii
Lae
Bro
| and is one of the largest farms
acre farm is
two
farm,
Nit
| known Wallace Wi
{tany Valley.
Nicodemus Luse last week moved
{ from near Woodward to
Merchant W. H. Meyer, located near
Centre Hill. Mr. Luse takes great in-
in horse and himself
owns several teams call not be
| more than matched in juality in
| Penns Valley.
| Rev. Albert O. Mullen, {
| tor of the Watsontown
| church, and later of a church of the
same denomination at Ardmore. has
been appointed chaplain of the Mary-
land state prison in Baltimore. The
salary is §1200. Rev. and Mrs. Mullen
now live in Baltimore.
if
ithe farm of
| tarest flesh,
{hat
wmerly pas
Lutheran
The Bugar Valley Journal of recent
date contained the following Isanc
Smith, who kepl a general store in
this borough during the seventies, now
living retired at Centre Hall, is regis.
tered at the Logan House and will re-
main a week renew his asoquain-
tance with old-time friends.
Messrs. W. W. Rachau and H. 8.
Limbert, of Spring Mills, were passen-
gers on the west-bound local train
Monday morning, their objective
point being Bellevue, Ohio. The
former for the past few summers has
been employed in the section of Ohjo
named, and finds the locality a most
desirable one,
to
Mies Lizzie Boozer will attend the
commencement exercises at the Wil
lismson Free School of Mechanical
Arts, near Philadelphia, the Iatter
part of this month, to witness the
graduation of her brother Ralph
Boozer who took a full course in the
electrial engineoring department of the
institution,
Variety and value mark the contents
of the April number of The Bookloy-
ers Magazine. There are a dozen or
more contributions, and each one is
strong in descriptive and eritical fea-
tures. Mr. Burris Gahan devotes his
third article on “ The Real Australia
to the labor leaders and their politioal
policies, and graphically describes the
rise and fall of the Watson labor cabi-
net--‘‘seven horny-handed
men set in authority aver a tig
a big'as Burope.