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"yOL. LXXIX.
SUBSTITUTES FOR FREE SEEDS,
Who is it that wants the Govern-
ment's free seeds? The farmers’ or-
ganizations and the agricultural journ-
ala of the country almost unanimously
declare against the distribution, What
do the consistents of Congressman do
with the seeds they seem unable to
dodge?
Congressman persist in the free seed
business in spite of the protests of
thore who are most interested. They
do this because they want something
to distribute gratuitously,
can be no other reason.
not take something useful ?
Government would use the
now expended on free seeds in the free
Then why
If the
money
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
News of a Semi-Looal Uharacter Gathered
from the Exchange Table,
Lock Haven Council has added $100
to the salary of the Mayor of that city.
The amended rate is $300 a year.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny is having 60,000 locust trees planted
on its grounds near Conewago,
A new powder mill will be built
near Clearfleld by Hon. James Kerr.
Work upon the plant will commence
Helle
Con.
Men fighting forest fires near
ville found a turkey’s nest
the had
wild
fire the
stroyed.
distribution of shoes, woolen socks,
babies’ cribs, clothes-wringers
similar necessities it would come much |
nearer to filling a long-felt want, Or,
if such things are regarded us too tri
vial, why not
with diamond pins to send around t. |
their districts? An agriculturslis |
who does not know what to do with
Government free seeds would kuow
what to do with a diamond pin.
The farmers do not want the seeds
they say so themselves. But they
want plows, harvesters, lawn mowers, |
hay rakes, gum boots and automobiles. |
The Government is generous with free |
secds, but why force them upon a|
weary people, who apparently have vo |
There are endless aud |
nid |
i
provide Congressiuen
do |
»
use for them ° |
valuable substitutes for Government |
seeds, about a million, that there |
would be no danger the agricultural |
organizations would pass resolutions |
against if they were handed around io |
congressional campaigos with the]
same liberality that the national seed |
package is. Congress ought to try |
gome of them for the sake of variety, if |
nothing more.
If Congressmuan must have
thing for free distribution it might as
well be something the people would
care to have and which they would
appreciate,
soe
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The Government report couceruiug
winter wheat made public last week
showed a slighitly larger perceutige of
abandoned area than had been expect-
ed in view of the generally favorable
conditions for the wintering of the
crop. The loss of area during the win-
ter of 1904-5 was 1,432,000 acres, snd
this season it was 1,718,000 acres, but
the area still under cultivation is 29.-
623,000 acres, or about 241,000 acres less
than that from which last year's crop
was harvested. ‘The condition of the
plant on the remsining sies is ul,
which is high, and the acreage aud
condition figures are interpreted as
indicatin ¢ a probable yield of 456,000,
000 bushels This would be a splendid
outturn, sud if uo fatality suasll reach
the newly-seeded spring wheal the
total yield for 1906 may essily be =
record one.
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Horses are surviviog automobiles as
they survived railroads. When rail
roads were introduced horse breeders
were as sure that they were ruined as
British ship owpers were when Lhe
navigation laws were repealed. Bul
the British ship owuer was never so
prosperous us after the removal of
medieval legisiatiou, and horses be-
cane mote numerous and veluable
after stage cosches were nbolislied than
they were before. The sutomobile aud
the electric car threw the horse breed-
ers into a panic. But the Department
of Agriculture reports that there are
now 18,718,578 in the United States,
against 14,364,667 nive years ago. In
the same time mules have increased
from 2.215654 to 3404061, snd the
value per head of both beasts is esli
mated much higher now than nine
years ago,
ns —————— AP AIR
The Philadelphia Press is appre-
hensive, and remarks editorially :
Unless the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania of all factions can unite upon =»
Htate ticket that will command the en-
thusiastic support of all we must look
for the loss of a considerable number
of congressional districts at the No-
vember election. Every sincere Re-
publican in the State undoubtedly ap-
preciates this fact.
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The more pleasing and pleasant the
government can make farm life the
better it is for the government. The
rural route is one of the things that
has been provided to make farm life
more desirable and attractive, and
nothing should be left undone that
could be done to make the farm in-
viting.
——————— SYA SS
Grover Cleveland and William Jen-
nings Bryan protest that they do not
want a Presidential nominstion, There
is equal unanimity among Leslie D,
Shaw, Charles W. Fairbanks, Rich-
mond Pearson Hobson and the perén-
nial Swallow, but in the opposite
sense,
Taft's recommendation for
the appropriation of another half mil-
ollars for the relief of the Reople
Rtrangers in Altoona need no longe
the
procured
of
Hoard
Public Works
ter
having
bear the names the
»
»
A} Veber, near Clarkstown,
that
field, and in plowing his team travels
is all in one
the other
and back
Lock Haven Council has appropri-
decided to do the work Itself. Bids
will be asked for the furnishing of the
materials required, It is expected the
cost will not exeeed $1 60 a yard.
[ As previously announced, '* Write-
Ups of men and women, natives of
Penns, Georges or Brush Valleys, who
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are making life « success in other sec
The le-
porter from week to week. COT
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These
by a number of
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tions, will appear [5]
tributions are meade
writers who have Lindly consented
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aid in conducting this
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cl partinent.
ADIDAS dindin drdndindl
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William G. Hertz, of Milton, owes |
his escape from a coroner's seance to |
the fact that a mad steer that attacked |
him and rolled him around on 8 road
like a gum was dehorned. Mr,
Hertz was driving the animal from
farm to Milton, when the
ball
a |
sleer de-|
Miss Ada Glatfelter, 17 years old,
she is the daughter
or the late A. H. Gladfelter, who was |
killed a short time ago. The only]
iuanle wnember of the family is a erip- |
pled sou sud the work of farming 150 |
weres was left to the young man and |
young womsn to perform.
I'he case of Samuel Richard, of Mait-
iaud, who was charged with writing a |
postal card reflecting on the character |
of the recipient, was disposed of in the
Uuited States District Court at Har- |
risburg. The grand jury returned a
true bill and Mr. Richard then pleaded |
guilty, He had a long petition
his neighbors attesting Ly the uprights |
from |
ness of his character, sod he was fined
$10 without costs.
The only one-ox rig in Montgomery |
county was run down by a Pennsyl- |
vania Railroad train, killing the
primitive beast of burden and wreck-
ing the cart, while the owner, John
homas, an Upper Merion farmer,
barely escaped alive. The fatality
was all due Ww the bystanders * but-
ting in’ and confusing the ox at a
crossing, so that be igoored his mas
gee' and ff haw.”
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During a quarrel Friday about a
bird's in Lock Haven, Clark
Dunherman, aged 17 years, stabbed
Fhomas Berry, aged 20 years, in the
heart. Berry died in an hour, but be-
fore death asserted that the wound
was inflicted accidentally and express.
ed a wish that vothing be done to
Dunhermsu, as the quarrel was most
his own fault. The boys had always
been close friends. Dunherman has
uot been arrested,
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Lost Her Watch,
Mis. Lee Brooks, of Linden
lost a gold watch, hunting case, be-
tween Axe Mann and Linden Hall,
Sunday. The watelr bears Mrs.
Brooks’ maiden pame— Catharine
Meyer—ou the inside. The finder
will be suitably rewarded.
nest,
Hall,
mom So ———
Transfer of Hes! Estate
Elie L. Eaton, et. baron, to =, 1,
Williams, April 15, 1903 ; premises in
South Philipsburg. $400,
Emma P. Grove, et. baron., to Wit-
mer B, Grove, April 2, 1906 ; 85 acres,
62 perches in Potter twp, $4000,
John Gowlaud, et, al., to Frank D.
Gowland, April 24, 1906 ; premises in
Philipsburg. $2500,
David Chambers, et. ux,, to John
Boyce, April 1, 1805 ; lot in Bnow Bhoe
twp. $8000
Wm FP. Humes, et, al, to John A.
Hoy, April 19, 1906 ; lot in State Col-
lege. $1,250
Elizabeth Patton to Margaret Pat
ton, Feb, 17, 1900; premises in Port
Matilda, $800.
UC. J. Fiokle, et. ux, to John H.
Rishel, March 1, 1906 ; land in Spring
Mills. $500.
Jans K. Moyer, et. ux, to Henry
Mowery, Deceruber 24, 1802; 15 acres,
164 perches in Miles twp. $50,
Henry Mowery, et, ux., to John J.
Shultz, May 1, 1906 ; two tracts of land
containing in all 57 acres, 281 perches
in Miles sod Penn twps., $400,
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The man who buys of an order house
and the merchant who has his pring
ing done out of town belong to the
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of Ban Francisco will doubtless
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S. E. WEBER, SCHENECTADY, N. VY.
A certain writer has sald that the
best education is to be had at a price,
as well as the broad-cloth, The
currency exchanged for it must have
the stamp of application deeply im-
bedded upon it ifa full return is ex-
pected for the years spent in its pursuit,
About four years ago a8 young man
from Harris township graduated in
Mechanical Engineering at Pennsyl-
beat
Today he is a
Schenectady, N. Y., being Professor of
The young
man referred to is Bamuel KE. Weber,
M.E, of Mr. Johu H. Weber,
now residing in Centre Hall.
#ONn
Many a young man owes his success
in life and the eflorts he put forth in
formative period, largely, to the
foresight and tact of his parents. Into
of
His family in-
in the direction
than classical
of his grandfathers
Kinds.
of
education,
were nie
His father
too iondul-
wished him to grow up so as to multi
ply the family schievements, he must
direct his youthful and everaccumu-
lating energies into lines of work hav.
ing an end in view,
While Mr, A carriage
shop io Boalsburg he taught his boy
the use of tools and even helped him
Weber had
build a shop which be might consider
his castle, and thereby develop a desire
for mechanical knowledge which he
Later, when he
mercantile business
he didu't allow the boy to keep com-
pany with the daily loafers and cont.
er mongers, but he Rept him busy fill
ing and cleaning lamps, sweeping the
store at an early morning hour, keep-
ing up the fires ; and, besides, keeping
his mother's wood-box filled ; and in
general a lad of all-work., The eve.
nings were devoted to preparing his
lessons.
did not then possess,
embarked in the
About a year before he entered col-
lege his father related an incident to
him that a certain minister in Boals-
burg had told his son that he could
have the choice of going to work or
going to college. The boy chose the
Intter. Mr. Weber gave the
same option | aud an experivuce that
helped him to decide gollege- ward was
nard work on a fara, which gave him
a vision of the future, and Lie saw that
energy expended along Luvs educa
tionally mapped out would bring the
greatest and quickest returns, He
now began to analyze hhsell and felt
how little he knew ; snd now, while
many books have been studied and
many things are clear that then were
vague and meaningless, he continually
sees other mysteries looming up before
him which be desires to unfold. Pro
fessor Weber is » student; he is not
pufled up ; but he feels that * each ex-
cellent thing once well learned, serves
for a measure of all otter knowledge.’
The first year after graduation be
spent in North Carolina College of
Agriculture and Mechanical Arte as
Professor of Drawing sand Machine
Design. From that position he re-
signed to accept & position as special
apprentice with the P. RB. R. Co,, be
ing among four or five selected from
a list of about seventy-five applicants,
by tie superintendent of motive
power, in Altoona, W. W. Atterbury,
who ls now General Manager of the
whole Pennsylvania system. After
having had experience in the most
important departments of Lhe Altoona
machine shops he resigned, to become
assistant to the master mechanic of
the Republic Iron & Btesl Co., of
Youngstown, Ohio, having charge of
Lis son
same lodge—same degree,
uew coustruction principally, But he
Lodge Bays Home,
The Millheim Lodge, I. O. O. F,,
purchased the old Journal office, on
Penn street, from the Reifsnyder es-
tate, and will remodel the same for =
permanent home.
A
Grange Meeting
There will be a regular meeting of
Progress Grange Baturday afternoon,
2 o'clock,
Hereafter the Grange Library will
be open every RBaturday evening.
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50 Brollers Smother
Mr«. J. 8 Dale, of Dale Mummit, is
giving chickens considerable attention
this spring,
ly rewarded
wid her eflorts were great.
she had developed sixty
broilers to the weight of two pounds,
night fifty of them
theic night quarters,
The person who had been fopstructed
in the evening to open the ventilator,
when the other
smothered in
for some reason failed to do so, which
caused the loss,
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HKelth's Theatre,
A most interesting feature at Keith's
Chestout Btreet Theatre, Philadelphia,
this week is James T. Powers & Co.,
presenting a charming sketch entitled,
“ Dreaming.” There is an extra added
attraction, this being the great Be-
douin Arab who entertain
with smezing feats of skill and daring.
Others who will delight Keith's pa-
trons are : Jules and Ella Garrison, in
‘““ An Ancient Roman’ ; Raymond
and Caverly, in * It Happened in
Happyland '’ ; Melville and Stetson,
high-class comediennes ; Werden and
Gliaddish, ballads with semi-oil paint.
ings ; Edgar Bixley, monologuist and
parodist ; Les Auberts, whirlwind
dancers ; Kenny and Hollis, Prelle's
dogs will interest the children.
troupe,
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LOCALS
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i
Mra Samuel Bruss, west of Centre
Hall, has been ill for several weeks,
Judge Orvis Is holding in
Clinton county for Judge Mayer who
is nick.
The order of Odd
ticipate
court
Fellows will par-
Memorial services st
Bpriog Mille. The hour set is 5:30 p. m.
D. Meyer, J.
Mre. Jolin
of Belle
iti Lhe
superiutendent John
Will Conley and Mr. and
8. Hosterman and baby, all
fonte, were in town Bunday.
Wm. Klinefelter, near Colyer,
has been seriously ill during the past
few weeks. His sickness began with
grip, or some similar disease,
of
Dr. J. Frank Meyer is recovering
from his recent illness, and withio =
short time expects to leave the
hospital and come to his home at Peaun
Hall
A test well wiil be sunk ou DD.
F. Poorman farm, in Boggs township,
thie
he machinery is ou the ground now,
but drilling will not begin until later
in the summer.
Dr. su: Mrs. George P. Bible, of
Philadelphia, and the latter's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bradley, in
June, expect to make a tour to Eng-
land, the home of the Bradleys,
Some magnitude of the growth of
the Christian Endeavor society can be
seen from the statement thst in this
country alone there hias been a gain in
membership of 60,000 during the last
six months.
“The Hesitation of Gisella,’’ by
Edith Macvane, is the title of the
novelette which opens the June num-
ber of The Smart Set. It is a charm-
ing story, the scenes of which are laid
in France; the period, however, is
modern and the story is of an appeal-
ing character which will win for it
many admirers,
Miss Mary Bradley, wlio has been in
Philadelphia ail winter taking an ad*
vanced course in the Conservatory of
Music, is expeclted to arrive home
next week. If she does so she will re-
sume her position ss organist in St,
Johu's Episcopal church, says the
Watchman, wich place has been #0
soceplably filled during her absence by
Miss Doras Meyer, daughter of Mr.
aud Mrs, Philip H, Meyer,
always had his eye open for a fleld of
inrger possibilities. A few months
later the position at Union College
was held up to him, and he acoepted
because he saw a fleld of greater use-
fuluess and more in the line of persou-
al development,
A college professor must have hie
wits nbout him, so to speak, and be
very familiar with the subject taught
and have an answer for all possible
questions, besides having a lot of ques
tious on hand so as to list the know-
ledge of the student. If he lacks these
fundamentals he would better get
down and out. Prof. Weber is work-
er.
his students,
October 1, 1 he was
SE oT
origin
who gl ry of ge
brought up in the church.
warcied to
of Altoona,
lt
fs
1906.
LINE FENCE LAW.
An Old Law Renovated which Divides
Line Fetice Equally Between Land
Owners,
During the last session of the Legis-
lature an old fence law, passed March
11, 184%, was revived and renovated.
The new law, signed by Governor Pen-
nypacker April 14, 1905, embodies the
following points :
Where a party interested in a line
fence, has his own fence in good re-
palr, and his neighbor refuses to build
or repair his share of fence, he goes to
the suditors and makes complaint to
them, The auditors are required to
examine the fence and the need of it,
If they find the complaint well found.
ed, they report the same to a justice of
the peace, who is required to give the
failing parties notice to repair or build
the fence within 40 days. If he does
not do it the other party may build it
snd collect the cost of it,
If the auditors find that the fence is
in good repair, or that no fence is need-
ed, then no action is taken, In either
case the auditors are to receive two
dollars each, to be paid by the party
whom they find at fault,
nia —
Monument Dedication Program.
The following program of exercises
has been arranged for the dedication
of the statue of Hon. Andrew GG. Cur-
Fri-
on
Lhe Heartiess Gossip,
Did you ever notice that
doesn’t hurt a man much 7 Perfection
isn't looked for in man, aud when
some one tries Lo jpjure a mau by rant-
ing about a few faults he has, the
absent oue, who is probably attending
to his own aflaire, is elevated in the
hearers estimation, while the informn-
ant is lowered sccordiogly. If a man
knocks along, doing fairly well, people
realize that while he has some faults,
be bas more virtues, aud they are
charitable egough to overlook these
faults,
But it is different with a girl or
woman, No matter how good and
pure a» woman may be, lel someone
start an infamous lie about her and
everyone is willing to pass it slong,
and there is slways someone to believe
it. That lie can never be lived down.
It may burn low but gossip-loving are
ready with new fuel. Did you ever
think how damupably mean some
goody-good people are are in this
respect 7
“alk
A Word to * Sonny.”
A word to you sonny-—you little
twelve or thirteen-year-old boy who is
smoking cigarettes on the sly. What
do you waut to be when you grow up
—a stalwart, Bealthy, vigorous, broad-
shouldered man, or a little puny,
measly, weakminded being. If you
want to bea man, strong like a man,
with hair on your face, brains in your
head and muscles in your limbs, you
just let those cigarettes alone. If you
want to be a thing, pitied by your
folks, despised by young ladies, and
held in contempt by the fellows, keep
right on smoking and end your days
in the insane asylum.
Delegates to Grande Lodge,
The representatives to the Grande
Lodge, at Pittsburg, from the various
local lodges in Penns Valley, are as
follows :
Centre Hall, J. Frank Smith.
Rebersburg, C. D. Weaver,
Millheim, C. W. Hartman,
Boalsburg, M. J. Rishel.
Pine Grove Mills,
HState College, Peroil Rudy.
Snow and Sanshive,
Friday morning there was a br
little snow storm, not, amply a
now and then, but the real thing
and lay on the ground for a
time. The close of the snow fall
smiled upon by the sun which
4
Thay mie both members of the Re-
formed church, ‘
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NO. 20.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
By falling from the lounge the little
daughter of A. A. Btover, of Haines
township, broke her collar bone,
Mies Lola Strohm is in Easton, this
season, in a large millinery establish-
ment. Last season
York.
Millheim in of a eobbler,
according to the Journal, It is strange
that a town of that size without a
cobbler.
she was in New
in need
in
A mile of road, between Lewisburg
and Brook Park is being constructed
under the Bproul road law. The
tract price is §10050
The Methodists in Reedesville
gathering money for a new
which they contemplate
within a few years
COT
Are
church
erecting
Mise Tillie Keller is acting as assint-
ant to Postmaster George M. Boal.
She has the qualifications to make a
first-class postimistress.
The Bamuel Musser farm, near Penn
Hall, was purchased by Messrs,
Bamuel and John Musser, two of the
heirs, for $61.55 per acre.
Theodore F. Brown, of Bpring Mills,
is holding down a good clerkship in a
railroad office at Elizabethville. He
learned the railroad work at
Hpring Mills.
office
The postoffice at Mazeppsa, Union
county, discontinued owing
to a rural mail route from Mifflinburg.
The citizens are much dissatisfied
cause of the action of the department,
has been
bare
Exchanges sre publishing etiquette
rules for The Reporter
suggests this If you happen to
hear something over the ‘phone that
to
phone use,
one :
1
i
is not mean
to
for you, forget tell it
anyone,
The Golden Eagles had s large turn-
out at their meeting Friday night,
The order, just recently instituted at
Centre Hall, has acquired many new
members. There were quite a number
of visitors present frou nearby lodges
at their last meeting.
beater the
to regretted
Next to the wife
horse beater and it is
that there are guilty persone in this
community. A horse is the most
noble and faithful of animals and the
man who would abuse his horse has
something lacking in his manhood,
Manager W. F. Mallalien snd Caol-
lector Charles Donschy, of Bellefonte,
passed through Centre Hall on their
way to Lewistown, taking sccount of
the Bell telephone poles between Belle-
fonte and that point, They also went
over the lines from Old Fort Mill
heim and Reoersburg.
Merchant J. Frank Smith is in
Pittsburg where he is represénting the
Centre Hall Lodge of Odd Fellows at
the meeting of the Grand Lodge.
Besides attending the sessions of the
lodge, Mr. Bmith will be found occupy-
ing a seat, occasionally, on the grand
stand overlooking the diamond.
The only person from Centre county
who was in the wreck on the Pelers-
burg cut off, last week, was Harry
Yearick, of Hublersburg. He was
somewhat bruised by the splintered
car, but in extricating himself! from -
the ruins inflicted a more serious in-
jury by stepping on a nail which pene-
trated his foot.
Samuel N. Brown, one of the station
hands at Spring Mills, was a caller at
this office Friday evening. It is eleven
years since Mr. Brown entered the
railroad company's employ in that
capacity. Previous to that he was en-
gaged in building tram ways and
during his younger days he construct.
ed a good mules of railroad road for
lumbermen.
John R. Lawyers is home again
from his fourth trip to St. Louis. Mr, -
Lawyers is well advanced in years,
but is as chipper as a lark. The last
day he was in St, Louis he attended a
large circus. During the performance
a storm arose which caused great ex-
citement among the fivé thousand
spectators, and in the mix-up Mr,
Lawyers was relieved of his purse con-
taining less than ten dollars,
* A local newspaper is absolutely
necessary to any community, It is the
home paper that keeps the people of
the community in touch with each
other by giving them all the news of
their own neighborhood and county,
For that alone they are of value and
worth far more than the small sub.
scription price. They keep the local
Cones
be
toy
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