VOL. LXXIX. the road tax law passed a year ago. Kean county, declared the act uncon- stitutional on account of the option feature permitting a township worked out or paid in cash, Now Judge Criswell, of Venango county, uncertain provisions.” It looks as if there really must something the matter with the act. This is unfortunate, as its purposes are good. It has no relation to gels eral good roads law, but if its provi slong were properly applied it would be & valuable help in the matter of good roads, It provides fora pretty general reorganization of the govern- ment of townships of the second class, for the payment of the road tax in cash in any township where the people vote 80 Lo do, and for Stale aid in pro- portion to the amount of road tax paid. Many towuships have arranged to the vole at the coming election ou the question of paying their road (axes in cash and getting all the benefits possi- ble therefrom. The movement to that end was quite general until halted by Judge Bouton’s opinion, and it Dow gets another setback. It would be un- wise, however, for township which has prepared to vi the coming election pot to do su, Nothing any le al aud, if fabilug 8 Voir, the will be lost by the pressed ure linally npsed, much will be opinions of aw siready ex- gained. Whatever defects Lhe definitely ratood of 1 next law has should nde before Lae Lie that the necessary at be meeting Legislature, so daient can be wade, lis general purposes are entire- ly thrown save it. too good to have + wel —————— AS ———— THE VYOSTAUE sTEAL That the members of the Legisinture Lise Lied have found a way to re selves in some degree lor joss of their railrond passes is by passage, Thursday of Inst week, in the | appropriating $25,400 House of a Lill for postage. This is at the rate of $100 f the House for each Senate, and with the mileage aliowed them will fully reimburse them for the cash paid out for railroad fare to and shown the member o and £ from Harrisburg. Sous ti Ww iin ie nen bers objected LO declared was 8 steal, as iL Is wn that thie iis wotild be amply postage egisinlors provided jor by wai appropriation oue-third of he amount named, Perhaps if the Senate LAY pro- bill the governor Approves Lit [a vie velo it. w of their reform fessious it would seein ore bouest for the members Lo allowed then for mileage so as to cover their actual expens than to seek Lo get the money back iucCivase Lhe atpount & for railroad [are in the underhand way of 8 most excessive appropriatiou for poslage, eo ed ec—— NO SALAKY Ful sUPERVISORS If anything is plain, it is piain that the supervisors elected under the new road tion for their services tion whatever for U is no doubt bul that Lhe receive no No vir services, There law will compensa- COI pen sa. legitimate ex- penses of the supervisors incurred in the service may be charged up to the districts, but expenses and salaries sre different things. The 10ad supervisors NO COMPENSATION. will receive President Baer, of the Reading Com- pany, is not the most diplomatic of men ; but it is safer to find fault with his style than with his statements of fact. The people of Pennsylvania were too late in discovering the danger in- herent in the marriage of mining, manufacturing and carrying corpora tions, After they had adopted a Con- stitution forbidding the banns they failed to elect lawmakers to carry their will into effect. The interdict stands, but there is no penalty for ita violation and no competent authority for its enforcement, If there be any remaining remedy for resulting evils it is in the haouds of the people. Men must be elected who will not only swear " to support, obey and defend the Constitution,” but who will keep sacred their oaths, asss—— i Rl an The strongest argument for a twos cent-a-mile passenger rate on steam roads has been made by the managers of the roads themselves in the issue of two-centsa-mile milage vooks, Mp pM But for Representative [ Farmer | Creasy, what would the Democrats in the house of Representatives be for ? Creasy ls a thorn in the Republican political flesh. ———— fA BS, Ohio now has a Inw which provides that two cents a mile shall be the maximum rate charged for transport ing passengers ou all railroads within that state, i ARGUES FOR CASH TAX, | Taxpayer Proves That the Cash Tax Sys- | tem Qught Not to Increase the Ossh | Tax More Than One MIL, | The last Legislature passed a new | road law which will be put in force { this year. It is useless now to discuss | whether it is a proper law or not. It { is now the law of the Biate and must be accepted. The more important { question is to consider how this law of the taxpayers, so as to secure better roads for the amount of money expended, The voters of Potter township will have an opportunity, at the coming spring election, to express their views upon the question of the money tax. It is to be feared that many of the voters overlook the importance of this question or misconstrue the law in such a way that they will go to the polls and vole against a money tax, believing it to be tor their best interests to I'v new law directs that a minimum tax of oue dollar shall be laid upon every taxable ; the law also grants the right of the voters to say whether they tax or not, l'be one dollar minimum tax will be laid upon each taxable whether they vote for a mouey tax or not. do so, IRVOr a LuoLey some of the advantages of the mon- ey lax are: First, For every dollar spe.t by the towuship for road purposes the Slate will pay to the towuship fifteen per cant. rebale. I'he Las been payiog on sn average $400 Lo the super- Second, township visors for notifyiug bauds and super. under the the AW Tequires Lhe pathiiastiers Lo the them being 10 Keep the Lie of the la the work inid out by the supervisors, intending the work, which uew aw Is not required, a new work, additional of ouly requirement borers, sud Lo perform “a Slate Highway Comnuissioner Hunt. work tax sys wm for every $1.00 spent the lowuship er says that under the ouly receives fifty ceuts worth of isbor, f or two-thirds of the smuouul is spent tr get one-third of the value uo labor, Is to pay bis tax in wouey $ i ti 19 vis fair to the one that is compelled uder Lhe cash tux each person employed is ex- honest day's work, else be disinissed. Does any one doubt Commissioner Hunter's statement?” No, it is known to be true, To corroborate the above statement, the amount expended last year is given : The supervisors laid 8s labor tax of three and oue-hall mills, ymmounting to $2700 ; and & cash tax of yue sud vue-half mills, amounting to over $1000, or a total of $3700. There are eighty -two wiles of road in Potter figures itl there was expended over #5 00 for every With this smount of money expended in cash and labor is ane » failure, and ti atl Lhe taxpayers are Dol receiv. for the smount expended pected to do su township, and from these a 11 be seed Land 1 RUE AVerage mile of road. it pot sufficient lo Couviuce any thal Lhe piesenil sysieiu is ing value on the roads 7 I'here is nothing in the law to pre- vent the supervisors from employing the taxpayers of the township to work on the roads and thus give them an wpportunity to earu back the money paid iv rosd tax. It is safe to venture the nesertion that under a cash tax the millage will not need exceed one half the present millage, and if that be true the whole tax would only exceed the present cash tax by ONE MILL. There is not a doubt that one half of the present tax, placed in the hands of a judicious board of supervisors, will re- sult in having better roads at consider- able less cost than under the present system, The farmers are the heaviest taxpayers and the scarcity of farm la- bor compels many of them to pay the greater part of their road tax in money, and the preseut labor tax sys- tem works a great irjustice to them, by compelling them to pay a tax two- thirds of which represents no value to the taxable or the township, It is to be hoped that the voters will take advantage of the opportunity to rid themseives of the unsatisfactory and expensive system of road making before the State compels them to do so, as that ls what will follow, TAXPAYER, men— I A ———— LOCALS, The election, next Tuesday. It Is the duty of every voter to cast his ballot, The Benate confirmed the appoints ment of John W. Btuart as postmaster ai State College. The Bpring Mills congregation of the Lutheran charge presented their pastor, Rev. J. M. Rearick, with a handsome couch and rocking chair, Dr. Brumbaugh, former U, 8, Com. missioner of Education, is belog cone sid-red by the board of directors of Penney lvanis State College to be elect ed president of that institution, Dr, and Bunday delivered a lecture in the Schwab auditorium, IAA ALALL AL 2 oN gh ALLA Z i i lain : 8 pw ALAS IALLIL ALLS : 1 3 ¥ hatin. abyss apo wpa alsa afl ATTY T IT ToTITyTT fis { As previovsly announced, i of men and Ups" Fe ns, (fear 8 (3 are making life I fan ' will appear porter from week to Lutions are wince cried Eprron | iL f f cngiugs of Plow tateise feclings wid boy hood project what Lhe msn will be Fhe subject of this sketch, Rev. Max Augustus Kennelley, from earliest youth had great anticipations of some day preschiug the gospel. The sight of evil greatly distressed him ; he full of sympsthy for the fallen, and de was termined to help raise the moral sian. dard aud to preach vot only a full gos pel, but also a fall and complete salva- tion. The enthusiasm and earnest Dess which he manifests in his chosen cali. ing is the measure of his love. He who has great sympathy has great love, and though be may ofttimes suf fer intensely he is fully compensated in the higher ecstasies of joy and ador- ation into which he is lifted. The family to which Rev. Keonelley belongs, his parents being Thomas and Mary Kenvelley, of Spring Mills, are devout and reverential. He greatly loved his parents, had a particular fondness for his home, was never out of iis native county till he became of age, and would have entered Lhe min. istry in suotber denomination but for love of bis mother who desired him to remain iu her church (the United Evangelical.) fill the age schooling was neglected, bul having s precocious mind he then laid the foun- dation of his intellectual training at the Penn Hall Academy under Profs. Nefl, Writes, Smith, Hosterman aod Wolf. When seventeen years of age he began teaching and taught eight terms very successfully. He showed sympathy for bis pupils, won their confidence, aud had tue quiet tact to draw out and impart knowledge. In 1889 he entered Central Peun'a College, at New Berlin, but for lsck of funds was unable to complete his course, To assist flaancially he worked on saw mills, railroads, etc. Fourteen years ago he was licensed to preach. He was Junior Pastor at Milesburg and Middleburg for two yenrs ; pastor at Liberly two years ; Woodlawn Station, Baltimore, Md., two years ; St. Paul's, York, two years, and at present is pastor of the Grace United Evangelical church, Baltimore, which he has served for nearly four years, He believes in going after the one sheep that is lost, engaging io charity work in jail and * Pen,” and in other similar institutions, to which he gives all his spare time sud where he has seen some of the best results of bis work, To earnest preaching he lends the melody of his voice in gospel song. This he regards as his forte, for be has seen large congregations melted to tears by the beauty and pathos of bis voloe. He has sung solos in many of the Baltimore churches. Mr. Kennelley is not beyond his call- ing and proclaims the gospel on high- way and street corner. This Is his on- ly ambition, to measure up to the dig- nity of his calling, so that with Nehe- mish hecan say! “I am doing » good work, so that I can not come down, why should the work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you, n He ls married to Miss Havilla Mil ler, of Clinton county, Pa. He has three children, a son and two daugh- ters, His eldest, the son, Is now travel ing in England, Bootland and Leland of iweive years his for his own benefit, YT YY i BALTIMORE ts 8 1 “ry Y YT a Ys i ¥ din dition dois Sudo Lol nap E, 8 GARVER., GRANT CITY. MO Ei ow nship, an LIarve lsiRE in vitvuiueul, ue davided Gis Laue be ween axelrlilig Lie paleuls as occasion td 3 aut hBoeuvuss ib) Geinauded, roaming fhiroug lu Lhe fulenis salud over the mountains Juitug Limes of district leisure, and allebdiug Lue CLO Ju Lue It was Lhiese Lures boy tial was Lo Le Willer, faciors iu thie file uf the ths tusde Lhe wan His litsl years schooling were spent iu the old stone building, in Stamp that he higher inler there be- gan to be lwpressed upon the mind of the yout tbe advantages of a good education, desire for gremter the laudable am- bition to make the most of himself, Beiug impressed with the possibili- ties of the growing wesl for a young man of the proper metal, he left the parental roof iu 1569 and located in Missouri. lu 1872 he returned and taught the Mauor school for two suce cessive terms, iu the muean time further equipping bimsell educatioumly by attendiog select summer schools suc ceasively ai Poeun Hall, Millbeim and Centre Hall, Ketursiog tw Missourd, hie finally lvested at Grant Clty, io 1874. At tls Use be purchased the Worth County Limes, which paper he still owns, His successful management of that | paper, ns well as Lis ability sod popu- larity as sn editor is evideuced by the fact that he was elected, in 1884, to a | sent in the state legislature. That he fulfilled the duties pertaining to that (office to the eutire satisfaction of his | gonetituents is further proveu by the | fact that he was re-clected to the same | office for two successive terms, —he be | ing the only man elected representa | tive for three successive terms from | Worth county, | Io 1886 he became postmaster of | Graut City, which office he held for | four years. An 1508 he was appointed | statistical ugent for Missouri, by Presi dent Cleveland, and served for two years, ln 1901 he was appointed by Goveruor Dockery ss u member of the Missouri commission to the Pan. | American Exposition at Buflalo, New York, and also of the West Ludian and lt AAA A BAN HAAS ai AL Ae (Continued ob Rex! olumn.) whal is Kuowu HA it foundation the Vive schoo] district laid Was Lcvie the sChievVenenis ihe for nonors sud of ears. Here, too, doubtless > ' ’ the achievewsenl, snd — lo NO. .. BAVED COUNTIES 84,000,000, Cressy Treasury Hills Passed Finsily by the House, The Creasy bille allowing counties to retain ninc-tenths of the personal property tax and the bill authorizing counties to mon les retain sll license pussed finally io the House, Nearly $4,000,000 is thus cut from thie Htate Treasury income and given to the If the $4,000,000 is i wplit up smong the counties, it will go {a long way toward cutting down their | £X penases, counties, It will also tend to decrease the tremendous surplus that has been rolling thst t up in the State Treasury so faut he lawmakers almost at a with it all. One of the Creasy bills provides that i Bil by HBtate, were license taxes now collected counties and turned over to the returned to the c This it COM pels unties, to nearly $3 000 000, bill in The other Creasy the Lilie perso f Lhiee FetUrn unties of the of tend of Lo nite i Nai property tax hires urths«, as the law now provides, his mnkes a difference wel oc cn —— Louder-Kiine A A wedding was celebrated at the Lemont, week, and Hall, of parsonage, at ednesday Inst Mr Oak daughter evening of La we Daniel B uder, of . 173 vl iss Floren Kline, id Mre Joh nuarrisg iy 1 Kline, of Linden , Were he pastor, Hey, ong Harnisls, iF couple { atharine ax hirides. wu bees! Fhurs- noneymoon & i RO rise nd A ——————— Vrogress Grange Program gram for the ge, Saitrdsy ’ vetpents oar fartners stuirroundings of their f Liay of movey? Music. chicks poul- profit. Recitation, shafler Roy A i a whe 1 wie At what tin uld young tarted in the spriog to make farm Ie Fergus Potter. raising on the most Al what and how 1 Harry Dinges time 0 prune oh, Coutinustion of papers on the ym { Lhe Urder. mili ( aestion LOX. tinged from Previous Column, [uter-3 ate Exposition at Charleston, sotith Usrelios, of which president, president COninission in of Lhe Lie was ude 1903 he Missouri poard of wediation aod arbitration, re- wae tuade signing io 1904 wo become, by appoint- ment of the governor ol his adopted slate, a temporary weber of the Mis the and Clark Exposition at Portiaud, Oregon. gOUri commission to Lewis fu 1905 Governor Folk appointed Lim permanently ou the latter board aod Waa its secretary. Besides these he has served in many minor po gitions, and has been a delegate to all ne made couventious of his party, from town- ship to uational. In politics he has always beeu an uoscompromising Dewocrat, Mr. Garver is indeed one of the men of whom Potter township can be proud. Boru sod brought up in a family of moderate flnaucial circumstances, and io the midst of environmeuls more conducive to physical hardibood than intellectual aspirations, he has demon. strated the fact that it is possible fora poor boy to become a uselul and promi- pent man. * Contentment is a great gain '’ may be a very useful maxim, but it is pos sible to carry contentment too far, Dissatisfaction with present ‘tondi- tions and a desire to improve them is very often worth a young man’s heed- ing. The habit of mind that seeks to excell is called ambition, This desire to excell, when directed to improve the circumstances of one's life, to do well whatever one does, to strive to be manly, to be kind and generous to friends, to get on in the world one's self and to help others get on in it, to be an honorable and useful citizen, is a laudable desire ~if it is called am. bition, then a worthy ambition, The subject of this sketch while yet a young man and a citizen of this com- munity, showed himsell such a owe, and his successful life has proven the value of it. Mr. Garver has not passed far be yond the half century mark, so that there may be yet before him many years of honor and usefulness. At present he is so cocupled with various political respoosibilities that he has placed the management of his paper (The Worth County Times) in the hands of his son, H. H, Garver, who appears to be a worthy successor lo his father, ———— —————— Visiting cards printed at this office, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The Legislature has fixed { Thursday ) for adjournment W. H. Housel has hotel at Btate College, today leased the new D. A. Boozer housed a fine lot of jee Thursday and Friday of last week. Mrs. W. O. Rearick and sen, of Mil- roy, were in Penne Valley recently. Two hundred cases of tebacco shipped from Lock Haven last week, Were one day P. R. Auman, of Bprisg Mille, paiut- er and paper hanger, is finishing the second story of Murray's drug store, A lady's new shoe was Church street by Joseph found oun Late, Frid The same can be ny of last week, tind by calling, Miss Girace Bmith, of Hall, Thursday morning, went to Ardmore, where she Mrs, Anna Wolf. D. 1. Hall, killed the largest hog that was brought to market at this point. The weight, dressed was five hundred and pounds. Cetitre will visit her aunt, jartges, south of ( elilre ninety The American Lime Bloue Ceompa- ny is building six new kilns at Armor their Gap quarries, which menns the employment regularly of a8 nuw- ber of J. Wells Bmith has purchased a 1 of timberland from A. J. Lytle in men ris township and expecits to «1 portable saw mill thereon lu spring and convert the timber lumber, WwW. M Lhe Brox Bioom, east of Old F kerhofl farm, will wk and ~ IRry 5 liske le of farm SIP. Friday, Feb Mr. Ble pects to go to Orsugevil Wi fis sl imp MIE eX le, Iii tk ona farm James PP Grove, east of ( recalled his sale ads th. were sold at erl wed M The stock and far Private sais (o | pon, Garduoer, who wi begin in the spring. H. C. house from the Benwers, spring will move from Robinson leased the Odenkirk ana {he Pleasant Gap to this place. Mr. Robinson is a lom- berman, and st present is operali Mousmin, Hg = saw mill on Nittany Phil. D. business of John Fokter bought W. Stuart, Foster wanted the very, very bad, thal and bought Mr. and Mrs toona, arrived io Narure Mr. Homan returned to his home, leaviog his wife with his mother in this place, where she will remain for two or mere weeks, the aut coal Kiale postoffice but Stuart didn’t wy College. offer for sale, he took second Lest the © mi business, Al. Homan, of Centre Hall i i= day. Tuesday Mrs. Barah Derstine, who, early last fall, fell and injured her left limb, is yet unable walk. Her health is very good, but she is confined to the easy chair except when supported by her daughter, lisse and another person. Edward Bellers, the foundryman sud manufacturer of Oak Hall Station, was in town Monday. He is doing a booming business, and among his most recent orders were two car loads of fifty each of land rollers—one for Philadelphia and one for Baltimore. The wedding of Miss Bertha Louise Mingle, daughter of Mrs. 8. O. Mingle, formerly of Lock Haven, and cousin of W. B. Mingle, Esq , of this piace, is announced to occur at the family resi. dence, 315 West Eighty-sixth street, New York, on Tuesday, February 27, at noon. The state school directors convene tion in session in Harrisburg last week passed a resolution in opposition to the vaccination law, and favored sn additional appropriation of $50 a year to each district where the maximum tax rate is insufficient to support the schools. Rev. George Israel Browne, regard. ed one of the ablest ministers in the Episcopal Diocese of Harrisburg, has resigned the pastorate of Bt. John's church, Bellefonte, to accept the pas torate of St. Paul's church, in Harris burg, where he will assume his duties on Ash Wednesday, February 25, The supervisors of Union township, Soyder county, bave brought suit against KE. A. Cooper, a lumber merchant, claiming that their roads were badly damaged by the narrow tires on his big prop wagons, The case is a peculiar one and will be watched with great interest by the tax payers, The members of Lieutenant W. W. Bierly Post, No. 208, G. A. R., of Re bersburg, will take their annual post dinner at the Musser House, Millheim, Thursday, February 28nd. To this dinner All old soldiers and their families are invited. J.T. Corman, of io Rebecea,
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