“vJUL. LXXIX. MUST THE OFFICE GO ? If the suit to annul Dairy and Food Commissioner Warren's office suceceed« Hiate Constitution uas yet received, It will be the same as a judgment tha this State has no power to enact a pure food law and enforee it through a State officer. The purity of food cannot be ascertained except by inspection, and when that is insufficient by chemical office which involves the inspection of food is unconstitutional, The Constitution forbids the appoint. ment of a State officer to inspect food The iuvasion of stores, warehouses and manufacturing establishments by a State officer commissioned to inspect had proved a disagreeable experience pure food law contemplates something very different. The store, warehouse and factory are not invaded, products are purchased in the course | of daily business, and after they are] the property of the purchaser these products are inspected to see whether | or not they are poisonous. This is the State police power, and the coustitu- | tional convention did not have in view apy limitation of such whole- some exercise of authority. But Constitutions are stift proposi- tions, and the framers of the Pennsyl- vania Constitution of 1874 in a good many respects builded worse than they knew. Possibly in hitting at one in- stitution which they disliked the, have struck down another whose ex- istence and desirability they did not at the time forsee. The Attorney General has very properly consented to have the suit brought in the name of the Commonwealth, for it is a question al- together for the Bupreme Court to decide, and it ought to be settled as soon as practicable. seit eesa— STATE GELS 115 MONEY BAUK This a great and fortunate Common- wealth, Governor Pennypacker was able to make the official ment that the whole amount money in the Eoterprise Bank at the tirne of it's fuilure has been recovered, with interest, and paid into the State Treasury. I'hough not stated, this money Las undoubtedly been paid by sureties on the bods given State at the time the money as required under the act of 1897, The Governor also recently the United ment paid over to the State $236 762 65 | on account of money time of the War of 1812 a loug whiie coming, sud there have | been many times in the niet four years when the Commmonw was much more in need of 11 Chun it is aSunouuce- of State over the the was deposited, announced that (Foverns Slaies loaned at he This bias been | past 3" Mill HOW, I'he have their fleet on the Duis liens conditions Fremsury it general | | INCIDENTS OF 1877. i | Local Items Taken from the Centre He | porter of Iuterest to 1000 Readers | [ Note: {3 i as found in the files The ¥j elling of pre th of the Repor PET NAME 18 handsome hotel at Coburn ( Forks). | Spring Mills are being erected, R. R. | Bridgens, of Lock Haven, has | contract, | Dr Stamm, wife and child i narrow escape while driving in Harrie [ township, I'he horse frightened, and | wheeling suddenly the Doctor was {thrown from the buggy irs. Stamm | | mmaneged to throw the child from | buggy, and then leaped out herself The buggy was completely wrecked, and the horse eame to 8 halt by get Io one duy 6000 bricks rou ld- ed iu the Zerby brick yard. The Reformed were church, at Rebe burg, is vp and under roof. JULY 26 Nmetzler, Will- near this place, MeCormick in accidentally fell from tue loaded wagon and the front forenoon, Monday of it hauling grain, physician could be secured, Mr. Smetz- ler died from the injuries received. Saturday night a barn and several belonging to Charles Warner, near Woodward, were entire ly destroyed by fire, AUG UST 2—There was quite a row Narrows, Thursday of last week, when au effort was made to eject Joseph Holloway, the toll gate keeper. Mr. Holloway had eighteen woodsmen around and ready for a fray, but J. C. Motz, who had a band of seventeen Milibeimn, among them John Stoner and William Moyer, did men from not make his attack until the woods. men had left early in the morning to prepare for work. During *(renebal the day's the early hours when Motz aud his band wade the attack on the fort it -Ho Revolvers, coutaiued only four occu pants way, his wile aud two sid clubs Mrs. Hollo- Way using axe hundle to euforce ber part wrgument. During the atfray, Wri. Moyer was shot in sccidental Olhers rifles were used on buth sides, an f ti Oi sue the back of the head Dy an he wound Besides ie of his Company. daugerous ous, heads, blue shins, loody faces ¢ ated, aud will carry his Hl Fhe turntable fo court AUGUST § Dosid a car iu Pittsburg, Ly wirike rs atid is gis UE number of I'he balances do vot materially decrease iu Utili=ual | prosperous Years spite of large psyments on account. | and have wen in tion whieh bus Lees though there is [ves thing of the Kiud i: yo very certain that the vex will considerably add to Lue mmounis now diverted to the local uensury. ra is now more than eighteon hue dred years sinee Pliny the Eld r was stifled in the ecatustrophe in which Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried beneath tbe inva and ashes of Mt. Vesuvius. Of the fearful devastation and despair that have vow overtaken the surviviug cities the telegraph is daily sending forth more vivid descriptions than the acenunt of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus, Yet in all this lapse of time, in which humanity has been wrestling with the hostile forces of Nature with more or less success, no provision has been made, if it could be made, against the long menaced destruction, Just lately the sun shone down on the pleasant Campagna and its villages as it did the day before Pompeii and Herculaneum were imbedded beneath the vomitings of Vesuvius, As before, men and women went about their pursuits and their pleasures with the apparent disregard of the impending danger, and when the calumity came upon them with resistiess might they made the same despairing tniplors tions to the divine powers for help. Thus it goes through the centuries. When the voleano shall have spent its force and the lava shall cesse to flow the landscape will smile anew, and the peasant will again plant his vine along the mountain slope, Visitors will once more climb to the summit of ihe peak, and from the observatory erected in the juterest of science curiously gaze Loto the open mouth of the flery crater autil warned of a new eruption and a new catastrophe to the careless bese Dalatioes are Loo args, | the past well unoderstood danger a lewpla- | of any- future, It i=! Legislature A cons VESUVIUS, Coming: Two cent fare. 13:1 1st a Mitls, J. O eCied on his io —_— Dettinger bad » small build. LY * On Main street, Deiuiager as a millinery store, -~ “oral excuigion of Peons AUGUST 0 Lewisburg 250 Was vii Ihe Major Evaus, As train joyed by abou! jrersous, J. B. Fisher, Rearick, Penier aud Jamison The second train wa of William Wolf, with Messrs, Jacob Harpster, Audrow Gregy aud B. D. Brisbin, as train ageuis, Mtrobim's store, in Lhe Loop, was robbed Mouday vight. The door was bored and $25 worth of gouwd= stolen. Murried—July 17, George M. Bower and Mise Martha J Condo, all of Halves township June 21, Daniel D. Royer, of Rebersvurg, aud Miss Mary A. Roush, of Madisonburg . with Messrs agents, inder the control ca Meyer, both of Boalsburg . phy, of Mifflin county. . . June 22, Harry Li Zsliers, of Logan Mills, and Miss Beckie Frantz, of Tyleraville . July 20, Willi«, Musser, of Milihein, and Mise Josnna Anrousburg , der and Miss Catharine Orundorf, both of Haines township . August Weaver, 0 "y both of Linden Hall ship . Weaver, of Rebersburg. I —————— os A Fur the Hospi Thespinn« on be a happy addition, the Bellefonte Chapter the Aiuerioan Revolution, HALL, PA. [ As previously announced, ** Write- Ups’ of men and wome n, natives of Penns, Georges or Brush Valleys, who are making life a success in other sec The Centre Re- porte r from week to wee k. These con. | tions, will appear in tributions cre writers who have Kindly consented to aid in conducting this department ,— Eprror 5 nine lind in dinlindls didi Spine J Bn BD 1 eh Sd 1 2 5 1:2 & 3 a a 0, N t 2 } ~¥§ i | TTT TTY rrr ro WOLF, KANSAS CITY, KAS. Serre REV. ROB. B [fin every section of this country States would turn out as many minis- ters of the gospel, in proportion to its population, as Poiter township has, — and good ones, too,—there would ocer- tainly need for the present urgent eall, comivg from all denomi- nations, for more preachers. It js a matter of considerable note that a township with no educational or liter- ary opportunities higher than that af- forded by public school and seademic tnstruction should send out ss many young men into the ministry aud the various professions of higher learning as Potter town«hip has done. Having in or near, with the superior literary advantages of lectures, free libraries, the advantage of hearing and seeing the productions of the greatest minds as they are re produced and represented on the stage; iscking, indeed, many intellectual op- portunities so amply provided for many be no Do cities or large towns in Potter {low nship measures up to, and even be. in the places elsewhere, yet youd the average, in its igher furnishing | quota of men so-called | | walks of life. Rev, Wolf was born in the borough His parents Carrie EE. Wolf, {| His father having died while Robert the of ten | years, was seut to the Soldier's Orphan Loysville Elrim sith | uf Centre Hall in 1870 1 were Simon =, and | was yet a child, he, at ye j #ChOOl, » Alter spending nie nt Wil he entered the prin y ddepariinent of Creliynburg eg Having completed the © Fie of ihe Lutheran cliureh Urse, hie etilered Lhe ogionl the institution he Clioo ul sine place, froun which graduated at the sg His first ministry if Lwenty-four, after entering the Kureks, Chinrge was at Kansas, yesrs sod lu November, 1902, he where he remsined eght three mouths, {organized a new congregation in Kau sas City, Kas, tics LION, Fhis mission cougregs- of beginning, bia, slice its organization, under the sincere spiritual, and prudent business though bumble mastsgement of its pustor, proved re- iaarkably successful. AL present it hisd 8 Iueubership of over sixty zealous church church twelve WOrKers, aiid owls property valued at more thau thousand doliars, As a winister Rev, Wolf has uot ouly met with much success in his cougregational work, but is looked up vou by the Synod of which he is a member as a most active and zealous church worker, of high wworal and spiritual ideals, and a young msn of great promise. He has twice repre sulted the state of his adoption «8s a delegnie to the General Synod, and is at the present time president of the Synod of Kansas, one of the largest district Synods of the General Synod, Mr. Wolf was warried in June of 1900 to Miss Alwee Wakefield, of Eu. eka, Kansas, They have one child, a boy four years old. Hobert Wolf is oue of the younger of the men who have gone out from Potter township, a ciedit to the place of his nativity. Heing yet a young man he has before him the prospect of many yeurs of usefulness, which, if he Continues Yo employ as he has the past years, the world will be better by his havin; lived in it. A A A SA STUART M. LEITZELL, WASHINGTON, D. C. There is searcely an occupation, in- dustry or employment 1 which Potter township Is not represented by one or more of the young men who have gove hence. Farmers, clerks, me- chanics, machinists, engineers, law- yer, doctors, ministers of the gospel, BRUAD STREET THEATRE, VHILA. Charles Richman in the Famous Hunting Flay © Gallops, ” Mr. Charles Richman is at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this and next week, in his new comedy called '' Gallops,” by David Gray, which has been most successfully pre- sented in New York City at che Gar- rick Theatre for a three months’ enp- gagement. In the role of ‘Jack Heminway, ’ Mr. Richman is said to have a part that fits him well, The ROSNER Brook Hunt Club, Long Island sud the story comedy is in four sets with the Inid in and about the Meadow deals with the racing of the stables of folk. The dialogue of * Gal- wit An outline of the story is as “Jack” Heminway, gentle- man good fellow, finde himself mas. querading under fulse colors in the midst of a rabid hunting colony op Long Island. Everybody him to be the great ** Jack way of steeplechase fame, Bocivty lope’! is said to sparkle with and epigram follows : BU Dp poses Hemin- In point of fact, he is only a cousin of the great rider, and has himself lost his nerve through a terrible accident in Califor- nia. Of course there is the inevitable girl who * loves a reckless rider,’ and to whom the masquerader must in hopor bound unmask. But to prove his courage in the face of the insults of the “other '’ man, Heminway insists upon riding race just at He #0, and saves his rival's life at a nasty jump only to be accused by the latter of fouling. The girl bas her moment of doubt. But 8 trusty groom who happened to be near the fatal fence sets everything right, and the ungrateful villian takes himself and his broken collarbone in- to the night, while the hunt ball goes happily on. The sudience sees the race itself through the eyes of an ex- cited group on top of a drag. Mati- nees will be given on Wednesday and Saturday during the engagement. the great hand. does A A pe Hepubiicans Who Waat Office Up to date the following Republicans bave publicly announced that they want an office ; For Cougress Bellefonte, For foute ; “ John (3. Love, Seunte—H. Phil. E Belle. Phil. Quigley, Wowelsdorf, ipstiurg For Jury Commissioner “ Clement H. Grawley, Rebersburg ; Theophilus Pletcher, Howard township. For delegate to State ( ‘onvention—8, H. Wegton, J. W. Danwiddie, Phil. ipsburyg iii —— Sowe toen go al their pleasures us though they wean business, of this sketch belonging to the last in the iis given Mr. Leitzel Creek Mills 1857. Was Dorn at siuking stone Mill ) in December, After finishing his school work iu various public schools of the town- ship he attended school two successive terms at Selinsgrove Missionary [usti. tute and Peun Hall Academy, Having determined upon a course of higher education, he entered the pre- paratory department of the State Cole lege in the fall of 1574. The following fall be entered the college, from which institution he graduated in 1879 He did not take up immediately after graduation the work for which his college course especially qualified tim, but for two years engaged in the botel business at Reedsville, MifMin county. Cousidering himself qualified to pursue a vocation of a more literary cast, he eulisted in January, 1882, in the U. 8. Bigoal Corps ( Weather Service ). During the six months fol- lowing be wus assigned to Fort Meyer, Va., tor special justructiofi in the work of the department, For the three years following this he was assigned for duty in the Signal Hervice succesvively st Colorado springs and on the summit of Pikes Peak, Colorado ; Cinciunasti, Ohio; Montgomery, Ala. ; Memphis, Tenn, ; Little Rock, Ark, In 1885 he was amigoed to duty in the office of the Chief Rignal Service at Washington, D, C. Here he re mained until 15888 when he was dis. charged from the Signal Corps, by act of Congress, and employed as clerk, under Civil Bervice rules, iu the same office, When, in 1801, Congress instituted the Weather Buresu and assigned it to the Department of Agriculture, he was transferred to the Weather Bureau, in which service he remained until August 15, 1807. At this time he was transferred to the Civil Service commission where he ls still employed. In April of 1886 he was married to Miss Cora Biganess, of Chicago. They have two children, the older of whom, Frank O, is at present a junior st Pennsylvania State College. That Mr. Leitzel ts well qualified for the work in which he is » and that his services are highly satis factory is shown by the fact of his long and continuous employment in the 19, 1906. A CABBAGE STORY. A Pennsylvanian in Ohlo Ralsing Cabbage for Kraat in Large Quantities, One of the most important industries in Greenspring, Ohio, is a Kraut fac tory erected by some of the moneyed men of that community, and among the stockholders and cabbage growers is Albert Hessick, formerly of Potter township. Mr. Hessick owns and conducts a fine farm near Greenspring, and being convinced as to the ad- vantages of a Kraut factory in his neighborhood took a good block of stock and began raising cabbage on an extensive scale, Last season he raised one hundred and sixty tons of cabbage, which he sold at the rate of $13 00 per ton, or $2080.00, The total amount purchased at this factory was 5,156 tons, or 10 312.000 pounds. Of this amount there was cut into kraut 5,825 500 pounds, mak- tog 225 car loads. Aside from this 148 car loads of cabbage were loaded di- rect from farmers’ wagons shipped to various markets. the and The price received during last sea son was very good, the lowest being $4 00 per ton, and the highest $13.00. S————— — What The Watchman makes the above inquiry and says : Residents along Bald Eagle valley are busy these days wondering what a large of engineers are so busy running lines eastward through the valley for. They are in charge of a veteran civil en- gineer who has never a word to say about what they are doing or who it is being done for, But the work is going on nevertheless and all manner of speculation is rife. Bome think it is a plan to double track and secure a new grade for the Bald Eagle valley, others say it is part of a Wabash plan, a few have connected it with the scheme for Philadelphia and Western that was spoken of so much in the Philadel- phis papers not long ago. Does it Mean Corps Whatever it may be for the engi neers are working on an old survey made many years ago. They started in about the old Baird tannery in Milesburg and are running east slong the old tow path to the vicinity of Curtine Works where they have crossed over to the north side of the valley and are working on towards Lock Haven. The New Sheep Law The attention of justices of the peace has been called to a law passed during the last session of the legislature and providing how sheep claims shall be presented to the commissioners aud paid. Up to this time the claims sal- ready filed under the act will be paid, but in the future no claims will be ac cepled the unless prepared sccording which among things provides that no person shall receive an order for any claim until he to latter jaw other or she has been qualified, secording to law, before said justice of the peace, magistrate or alderman before whom claimn was made, that due diligence was made lo ascertain whose dog or dogs did such damage, and that the carcasses of the sheep killed and for which damages have been assessed, were buried within twenty-four hours after the assessment of damages by the auditors aforesaid ; provided farther, that owners of sheep killed by dogs shall be paid fifty cents each for burial of sheep killed and add amount for burials as provided. Naming the Baby, It is reported to this office that local registrars cf vital statistics insist that the baby must be named immediately upon its birth. This is an error. The rules of the heslith commissioner, who is the head of the health department under which the registrars work, have made special provision for naming the baby. The birth must be reported, regardiess as to whether the infant has been named, and according to the commissioner's rule the name may be given to the registrar at a later date, The parents have the privilege of naming the baby at their leisure, Is Hf 50 AABN LOCALS, Easter Day was a mixture of sun shine and “shadow”. The air was cool. The telephone line between Centre Hall and Linden Hall is almost ready for erection, G. W. Oster, of Osterburg, was nom- foated for assembly by the Republi cans of Bedford county. He is prom. inent in Grange circles, George Boozer, son of D. A. Boozer ‘who md been ill for the past two ‘Weeks or more is improving. His ail ment was akin to rheumatism, ale though he is but a 1ad of about eight years of age. NO. 16. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. After Easter this: now fine westher, look for FA. L. Bartholomew, of Montgom- ery, was home over Sunday. Abraham H, King, of Millheim, has had his pension increased from $10 to $12 per month. lev. J. Allison Platts will be in- stalled pastor of the Bellefonte Presby- terian church, Tuesday, May Sth. Beveral changes were made in the unseated land sales advertisement in the townships of Walker and Potter. Burnham is to have a new Luther. an church. Fifty Lutheran families are said to live in or near that place. And now the old rake is hunted up. It application has 8 wonderful effect —for the good—on the appearance of the house yard and lawn. The grain and grass fields look un- usually promising. While the April rains have retarded farm work, they have been very beneficial to crops. these From the Mifflinburg Telegraph : Mrs. Bamuel Condo, of Bpring Mills, was this week the pleasing guest of her #ls’er and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. 0. Heiter, on Chestnut street. Of a $50,000 dollar endowment fund for the Dickinson Seminary, at Will- immeport, $22.000 hse been obtained, and friends of the institution think they can make the amount $100,000. The first snake story of this season comes from Joseph Lutz, who with his brother Aaron and the latter's son, Earl, Baturday killed a black snake measuring four and one-half feel. William B. Fischer, son of Dr. Ww. E. Fischer, Shamokin, is home from Bouthern Pines, North Carolina, where he gpent the winter. His con- dition has improved very little in the south. of Mrs. George Henney, of Butler, is visiting relatives and friends in Penns Valley, her former home. While in Centre Hall she was the guest of Mis. Lucy Henney and Mrs. J. Frank Smith. While George Miller, of Rebersbu rg, was engaged in edging lumber on Noah Brungart’s sawmill in Brush Valley, bis thumb accidentally came in contact with the saw which almost severed it from the hand. A lady's black hat was found on the pike, below Dale's farm on Nittany Mountain, Monday morning, by E M. Huyett. The same can be had by calling at this office. The head gear is in good condition ; just sk it left the owner, Bev, James W,. Boal, D. day and Wed D., Ture eaday, attended the ses sions of the Lehigh Presbytery, ut Pottevilie. Dr. Boal holds the posi- tion of chairman of the committee of Home Missions and Synodical Bos. tentation. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Swartz, of Pleasant Gap, are mourning the death of their young son, Andrew, who died Thursday morning of last week. In- flammatory rheumatism superinduced by an attack of the measles was the cause of death, order of Odd Fellows cut down the trees on the lots recently purchased by them and hauled the timber to the eaw mill of Brisbin & Co. * Witmer's Woods,” an old landmark, will now appear only in history. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H, Goodhart, of Altoona, visited the former's moth- er, Mrs. Mary J. Goodhart, in this place, returning to their home Mon- day. Mr. Goodhart is a railroad en- gineer, his run being on the Cambria and Clearfield division of the Penunsyl- vania system. A central station for wireless tel- egraphy will be established in Pitts. burgh and there will be ten stations, one of which will be in Altoona, with- in radius of two hundred miles of that city, from which messages in the course of time will be flashed to any part of the country. Alfred P. Krape, of Centre Hall, re- cently received notice of tiie death of Heury M. Bmith, of Rochester, In. diana, at the age of seventy years, Mr. Smith was a native of Laurelton, but was well known throughout Penns Valley by the older inhabitants, or more years ago, he and Alfred Diehl traveled this valley with threshers and cliver hallers, Later he went to Savannah, Missouri, engaged in farming, and like many Pennsylvanians, in the west, accumu. Iated considerable wealth, He was a brother of Samuel Bmith, who died on the Stump farm, east of Centre Hall, Jerry D.8mith, of Rochester, Indians, survives, as do also two sisters—Mrs, Albert Heighway, also of Rochester ; and Mrs. Joseph Welcher, of M
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