NO. 21. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. was a heavy frost Monday VOL. LXXIX. THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD MESS, | It is denied in behalf of President | i | News of a Seml-Local Character Gathered (assatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad | 8 from the Exchange Table, that he will resign merely because his | great corporation Is caught in system- | . . 2 : {ing at Bunbury atic lawbreaking and his subordinate | Y 2, 1906. THROUGHOUT THE STATE THE PER CAYITA ROAD TAX. INCIDENTS OF 1878 Loenl Items Taken from the Centre He. porter of Interest to 1000 Hewders { Note { } as found in the files or the Reporter, ) FEBRUARY 21—A post office IMPORTANT BALLOY DECISION Judge Holds That Under Amended Law a Cross In the Party ¥quare and Another Before Any Name Vitistes the Ballot The efforts of the Republicans of the Commissioner Hunter Transistes the Law to Mean that 4 Man May be Taxed the Extra Dollar in Every District In which He Owns Property, The spelling of proper names 15 he sams The fund for a new Masonic build-| is now $10,000, one- There officials in systematic grafting. 'I'o be sure, the Pennsylvania stock- holders have been defrauded of what { third of the amount needed. | The Bucktail Regimental | tion will hold its snoual reunion Associa ant cheated of its rights and the laws and correct be permitted tuous should person. or his assistants’ pleasant little way | of accepting valuable favors from ship- | pers who seek favors. | If anybody but Pennsylvania Rail. | road vice presidents and general super- | intendents had been exposed, vulgar | people would say they were * out for | the stufl.”” - The officers and directors of this great corporation are guarding | the great property interests of the] country, which, it seems, means their | They can honorably swear given i i i own first. that no rebates have been 1889, as Vice President J. B. Thayer did, although thousands of dollars in re bates have been paid in chrecks as late | as 1903. Business is business iu the Pennsylvania offices, althoagh it in- | HiLCe volves grafting on the side, method-| ical blackmail and modified robbery. | If President Cassatt does not like | this sort of thing, or at any does | not like to have it ko wn, and prepared to resigu after exposure, the | least he cau do is to clear out the whole | rate is not | unsavory nest of unscrupulous officials | over whom he commands. If he tojer- | ates it he classes himself voluntarily | with them. —————— A — SS ————— VACUCINATING SUHOOL CHILDREN ‘Phe Buptreme Court of Pennsylvania | having for the second time aflirmed | the validity of the compulsory public school vaccination act as 8 proper ex- | ercise of the police power of the State, | nothing remains for the opponen's of | comply with the | reunite vaccination but to terms of the law while it the statute book. They can give vent | to legitimate opposition by fighting | for repeal at the bands of the Legisin- | lure. i Foilowing the judicial decision, the] State officials charged with the execu-! tion of the law should give the widest | publicity to the dictum of the Court. | Every school director and school teach- er in the State should be made of the binding quality of the law and of the reasoning upon which the Nupreme Court has affirmed it after full argument on behalf of the s'ncere opponents of vaccination, on BWnale | i i a. . That the chuiches in nity exercise 8 most potent influence for good, is conceded by all except the] most rabid or blatant infidel whose ego- | tisra and self-conceit blind his miod to the inestimable value of Christianity But to what extent are the churches | valuable in this community ? If all His disciples are the light of the world and the salt of the earth, the] logical as well ue the scriptural conelu- | sion is that they wre the light of the | community in which they live These | declarations, Lowever, do not preclude the possibility of Lhe light going out— being bid under a bushel—or the salt losing its saltness. But certainly no reasonable or fair-minded persons would sccuse the churches of being wuolly composed of united bands of hypocrites. For it matters pot to what extent sin, in its wnny forms, may pervade the ranks of any church, you will find, within its membership, consecrated men snd women. And it should be borne in mind that it only requires a few of the above mentioned class to become the light of the com- munity. ————r ee —— The act of Assembly, which vides that the Btate shall pay three fourths of the of constructing new highways, the county one-eighth and the township in which the road is situated one-eighth applies only to townships, except in case a road is built on each side of a borough, in whieh, if the Btate would construct a road in the borough, a continuous highway would result. Under the Act of 1905, when a borough builds a section of State highway, the county does tot pay soy part of the cost, while the borough pays one-fourth. A ————— Roosevelt Branded Line, Senator Batley in the Scuate, “ But po man ever charged that | dealt double, and no man shall ever do #0 and escape wy denunciation, When a man shall accuse me, no matter where I may be, I'll brand across his forehead the word ‘ Liar’ so that iu aft.r yore all men may know him and all men shun him,” RLY ocominu-} pro- cont The New York Central Railroad Company is advertising two-cenl-a- mile-mi s or ' While a large bass was being pre- Inture and signed by the governor April 12, 1905, ** a taxpayer who pays road tax in more than one township is liable to the $1 00 tax in each town- Haven, a small devil fish was found Fhe “ find" being preserved in alcohol. is A large rat crept stealthily behind a in Jersey Shore, caught the bird's neck in its mouth and, despite the struggle of the bird, got it safely into its hole in the ground. robin on a street Au eagle was shot while it was in a Id chasing sheep by Robert Donald. The bird, that Beven fie near Washington, “ix feet and inches from tip to tip of wings, was making the pursuit running along the ground, A doing citizen who has been figuring on the matter least $1,000 - 000 of Clearfield money that has put into gold mines in the west in the years, and he does Cleartield BOE been past twenty-tive Chief Burgess Joseph M. Kerr, of accused of Nhook was | and water, | Burgess Kerr, who has started a cru- Bert Shook, who is swearing on Main street, up given five days on bread sade against public swearing, will use chain if the offense is The finding by the Philipsburg hos. the incision made by | a great deal of talk at! Mr. McPherson's citis, caused Clearfield, home, | sidering the question whether they | ought uot to take action in the matter. | Oliver Morris, of Hagerstown, Md. | Valley railroad, was found dead in bis | The train was | running at its usual speed when Mor- death was discovered. The con- | cab pear Carlisle, Pa. ductor of the train noticed the col- lapsed condition of the engineer and | investigation found him dead, | Morris was 60 years old aud leaves nl Apoplexy is thought to have in Lock Haveu which indicate that the lime I'wo deeds were recorded ration, Ooe deed conveys from the rity ; consideration $12,000, The other » 8 deed and lease from Mr. Taylor, couveying to the Nittany Lime and stone Company all the above named of limestone land situate A big biack Lesr sitting in ones yard unusual occurrence and a most is just what happened in Larry's Creek. Shortly before noon the other day the family of Charles B. Riddle, who resides on the public road only a short distance from the railroad station, were startled to see the biggest sort of a black bear sitting on its haunches out in the yard seeming to know that the law protect. ed it from harm. Some of the family started out toward the big animal which beat a retreat upon their ad- vance and shambled over the hill and into the woods. i an Miss Bertha Fagley, who sued W, H. Goodfellow for breaking his prom. ise to marry her, was awarded the sum of $4,000 by The arbitrators at Altoona, The sum which her counsel, H., Price Graffius, claimed that she was entitled to under the agreement of Goodfellow to pay her $25 a month for the balance of her life was $11,100. His plea was that her expectancy of life was 37 years and under the $25 a month agreement that is the sum she would have reach. ed had she consented to accept the of- fer. The pinintifl will take an appeal from the decision of the arbitrators, —————— A —> Kelth's Thentre, The first appearance of the actor. author, Claude Gillingwater, in his own comedy, * A Btrenuous Proposal,” in drawing large sudiences at Keith's Chestuut Bireet Theatre, Philndelphis, dalerno, the famous European juggler, is another great attraction there this week, as are Wills & Huwan in their scrobatic set, Other features are Sony. der and Buckley, musical comedians ; the four Fords, greatest dancers in vaudeville ; Brockman, Mack and Be's mont, in great musical comedy ; Mlle. Latina, the beautiful poseuse ; Ethel Clifton and compsny, Smith and Baker, Willie and Edith Hart, singlog and dancing, There is also a new series of moving pletures of the Ban ship.” Commis<ioner of Roads Joseph B. Hunter has expressed him-elf on the subject to ex-Prothonotary Ww F. Smith, of Penn township. Mr, Bmith (iregg town. ship a8 well ns in Penn, and being in- vir. Hunter for in- sal ject, Comimis- to Mr. Bmith is a property owner in terested, wrote to fortuation on the sioner Huuter’s letter reads us follows : “In reply to your inquiry of the 2d, I would sny that the law explicitly re quires a l- vy of §1 00 tax every person assessed rosd tax in the A lax payer who pays road tax in more than one township is lisble to the $1.00 tax town- ship.” Hpan for township, in each I'he act of Assembly on the subject is quoted below : "oe . » and shall proceed pot exceed ten mills on each dollar of valuation ; last adjusted valuation for county pur. poses, and which shall be furnished to said road supervisors by the commis- sioners of the proper county: Provided, been established at Coburn, Mr, Grenninger has been appointed post- master. The following persons left from Mrs. Stine, J. P. Bwa~iz and family, W. M. Zattle and family, T. B. Bigler, Frank Armstrong and G. L. Horner. The name of the bank has been changed from J. C. Motz & Co. to Mill. heim Banking Company, the stock holders being J. C. Motz, J. H. Reif- snyder, A. Walter, D. Krape, John Keen, H. W. Kreamer, Dr. P. D. Nefl. FEBRUARY 28 —Jerome Bpigelmyer, of the Btone Mill store, purchased the Bailey store, at Rebersburg, and will remove his stock to the latter place, The Means farm, near this place, was sold to Harper brothers for $9,500 Colonel Coburn intends erecting a new brick residence at Asronsburg. Marcu 7—-Will T. Richard left for Kansas last Tuesday. P. F. Keller and Mra. Carrie Osman expect to go to i that state soon Rev. J. K. Miilersold his store build- ngto J. D. Murray for $1700. Mr. W. B. Bhatler opened a shoemaker Marcu 21-John Runkle and wife {of Philip Leswing for school director, | were dismissed from court by Judge {A HB. Bwartz, who declares that voters who mark crosses in party squares snd on another ticket vitiate their entire ballot, This is the first decision of a court, siree the ballot law was amended 1903 At the election last February, the Election Board certified that Al- fred C, Heritage who received 107 bal- lots was defeated by Leswing, who had poled 108 Heritage's porters contended that three rejected ballots should have counted for Heritage for director, as all three bal- the Republican in voles, 8U p- been for bh his ir had marks ticket aud also marks fo than thst Lic Lickel, to ota on whi name appeared, a few candidates of director Judge Bwarlz says: the right of used only when the voter desires to cast ballot for every candidate of that party. To put gpquare when for all the candidates under the party name is in direct conflict with the directing when such sguare may be used other on the Democr * The party names is to be Bguare the his the cross mark in such he does not desire to vote law methods the combination “* He has the choice of two of voting, but he cannot combine two methods when such results in making additional cross 8. D. Musser has been appointed | county, upon the petition of the board of supervisors, with their unanimous shown : And provided further, 7hat 5 4 id axalie the road uperyi enaship shall assess the sum 1 r, in addition to the rinillengge above wntioned,"”’ far There & variance of opinion the subject; there usually is when a new Lawyers of high standing say that the $1.00 tax is A per capita tax strictly, and can be in the district in which the taxable has his residence. Fhe Standard i= on iaid but once dictionary defines I'his question can not be settled argument in these columns, but to the conclu- sion set forth in his letter is pot clear when the wording of the law and the expression * every taxable '’ are prop- by how come erly cousidered, "Every taxable” must either be itself or the persou who owns it. Hunter takes the ground that pression tueatis Lhe taxable thing, he saying a tax-—a millage tax-—ou the * thing' is dis- posed of in the law separately, and provides that » tax not greater than ten mills { except by an order of court) can be levied, Ihe law next provides to tax the person, every taxable, and says ** every taxable the road supervisors shall as sess Lhe sum of one dollar, in addition to the millage tax above men tioned.” But the Reporter claims that the tax- able (the person ) is not to be taxed one dollar additional for each niece of property he may own ; he is to pay an additional one dollar, and that is all. If Commissioner Hunter's reasoning is true he must come to a logical con® clusion, and that conclusion is this: Hw taxable” refer« to the “thing taxed, one dollar additional must be laid on every * taxaile thing" the assessor returns. To iliustrate the result secording to Mr, Hunter's rea. soning assume a taxable owniog a tract of land in four townships ; and question of i every in the fifth township, where he resides, four more tracts, and aiso personal property. Then each tract of land ia a taxable, and #0 is Lhe personal prop. erty a taxable. The man in this illus. tration would, according to Mr. Hunt- er's version of the law, be taxed one dollar additional for each of the eight tracts of land and one dollar addition al for the personal property, or nine dollars, Mr. Hunter must be mistaken, in. Not a Urlme to Kiss, The Allentown pastor who kissed one of his female members was judged by Justice of the Peace O. J. Koauss not guilty of a erime, Justice Knauss dismissed the prose. cution, but it is announced that Pastor Hawk will be rearrested. He has ale ready been tried by. a committee of members of the church, and, although acquitted, he resigned the pastorate, The congregation ia divided in its opinion of the case, and its disruption in threatened, ————— A ———— Omitted this Week. The * write-up” is omitted this week, but next week or week after a . The Peunsy will do Francisco disaster. subject will appear again, { i { i i i furnishing their lodge rooms in the bank building. Churchville has been granted a post =. M. Bwartz is the postmaster Rev. J. A Bright, late of the Hub. lersburg Lutheran charge, has become pastor at Jersey Rhore, John H. Harter, of Nevada, Ohio, formerly of Rebersburg ) has ed a hay fork that has many merits. APRIL round invent. H—Jacob Dinges has broken for a new two-story brick building io which he intends starting Krocery. Colonel Reuben Keller, formerly of Potter township, is landlord of the Montour house, Lock Haven. APRIL 18 —~Isanc Miller, of Lemont, met with a fatal sccident Saturday morning. He was thrown from a ve- hicle and died, io evening, the injuries received. Isanc Grenoble moved into his large store room at spring Mills. -March 15, R the from Married B. Treaster February 23, Ellis L. Madisonbuirg, and Miss Jennie Frank, of Rebersburg . . Jan- uary 13, Elias Heckman, I'win Grove, Wisconsin, ( formerly of Cen- tre county ) and Miss Kate Ritzman, of Orangeville, Illinois February 12, D. C. Gingerich, of Linden Hall, and Miss Alice G. Btamm, of Mill. heim . February 5, James Durst and Miss Elmira Blabig, both &f near Centre Hall . February 21, Harvey D. Van Pelt and Miss Annie Spangler, both of Centre Hall . February 21, John Wolf, of Potters Mills, and Miss Jennie E. Kohler, of Milroy . . , Feb- ruary 28, Jonas Bible, of Sprucetown, and Miss Alice C. Lee, of Centre Hill. . March 7, George H. Homan and Miss Emma L. Neese, both of Gregg township . . March 5, Samuel I. Ulrich, of Millheim, and Miss Harriet J. Burrell, of Haines township . March 10, B. W, Bhafler and E. J. Hosterman, both of Miles township. . Maret 7, Henry W, Behultz and Miss Emumie P. Dubbs, both of Centre county . . March 28, Henry Booger and Miss Anna M. Derstine, both of Centre Hall . . , April 4, J. W. Heat on, of Milesburg, and Malinda Wal ters, of Potters Mills. . * April 9, James B. Lee, of Centre Hill, and Sallie BR. Wolf, of Bprucetown. A A ————s. Look After the Boy, It is often wondered why so many young men can be seen loafilug upon our streets until a late hour of night, Many of them are from the best homes. The fathers of these young men, many of them at least, are num- bered among our best citizens, If their cow or their horse or even their favorite dog was away from home after dark they would be out on a search, but their own children can roam the town all night with apparently no ef- fort being made to find them. The buy seems to be turned loose at a tender age to wander at will, It is ® regretable fact that too many specimens of worthless humanity come from seed germinated in good homes and then sown In a careless manner upon streets and back alleys. It is not intimated that this evil exists to a greater extent lu this community than in neighboring towns, but the evil seOms ULV ren! nid increases in nage of 5 nitude as the years roll by, marks after his right to vote ex- hausted.”’ is Bis A Good Example. it. W. Lesher, Buyder county form commissioner, investigated aim of Edward J. Dav rille, f is. of r whose expert Mic $55 OOK tate above idieburg He ** work. bridge ¥ county was charged ed" one day atl the d not take the word of Davis, who testified before the Fi that his want your money Commissioner Lesher d X insuratce probe comimillese moilo always was “ If you 0 do you good, you must earn IL honestly,” for his bill was cut down $50 for his rudeness, but 14 Lesher apologized explained it ound that the Fox on the g investigation committees, speaking about the money the In- “ Edward Davis ** earned honestly ”’ in BUranoOe i, said J. Davis was carrie Departinen i upon the rolls and paid at Lhe expense of Lhe the aggregate sum of $2250, he rendered po service departoeent for which Emil swensen, of Pittsburg, engin- bill for iin issiopers eer for the inspectors, saw his 20 cut in half. The ¢ are now considering the claim of $2599 presented by Chief Engineer Thomp- Lesher says the bill » exorbi- od. i a Farmn Talk BO tant sud must be reduc: Corn is beginniug to come up. Al- though there has been little rain fall vince planting time, there was suf- ficient moisture in well prepared soil {to cause germination, Whiie there is generally 8 good set grass, the drought has hindered growih, and the grass—both timothy clover—at this writing are very of and short, Oates and barley are beginning to cover the fields, but ordinarily the plants should be more than twice their present length. There is yet time, with favorable weather to develop all kinds of crops into a bountiful harvest, s———— ————— Grand Lodge OfMocers, eonditious, The annual convention of the Peun- sylvania Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Feliows, closed at Pitts. burg Thursday of last week with the instaiiation of the following officers : George H. Banes, grand master: B. tH. Hart, deputy grand master ; Chris- tian W, Myers, grand warden ; R, H. Muckle, grand treasurer ; J. 8, Mack. ey, grand secretary, In the Rebekah Assembly Mrs, sarah KE. Coble, of Tamaqua, was in. stalled as president, and Mrs. Mary A, Engleman, of Philadelphia, was ad- vanced from warden to vice-president, Mrs. Inez Hall, of Meadville, assumed the duties of warden. A If A ————— Lost His Purse, A purse containing about sixty dol lars, only about sixty cents of which was in coin, was lost last week by Arber J. Cumiongs, of near Linden Hall. Mr. Comings is not able to designate positively where tie wad was lost, but he is conscious of the fact that it is gone. While the purse con- tains the ready cash and might be ap- propriated by the finder, it is hoped that the person who fluds it will be honest enough to return it to the owner, Mr. Cumings is not sure that the purse coutains anything bearing his name, but thinks there is a receipt in it from John Runkle. AI MA. morning. talph C. Pecht and Miss Anna M, Bwartzell, both of Milroy, were mar- ried recently. Perry Krise and daughter Bessie, of Potters Mills, were in town Haturday and called at the Reporter office. The the Lutheran congregation are making preparations to repair their chureh in Centre Hall. of members Mise Jénnie Reifsnyder, of Millheim, is in Williamsport, the guest of the Misses Evans, formerly of Mills After an absence of Miss Annie re Philadelphia, and will remais the Potters several months, Dinges turned from during sumrner. James Hull, a carpenter of burg, while employed at the residence of C. H. Btover, fell from the scaflold- it ng and fractured several ribs, AArons- ti Linn, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer, of Coburn, broke one of the bones in his right The child which " fore-arm. ful and fell was playing caused the mishap. While assisting in remodeling the house of Joseph Bitper, at Farmers Mills, William Hagen, one of the car- penters, fell from the scaflolding snd sustained a serious injury. A. B. Cole, of Busquehanna, had the by Na- but misfortune to lose all his property Mre, Cole is a daughter 3oob, now of Millheim, of f near thi 1g eo i Dear Lhis place, fire, thaniel formerly a resident « Rev. W. E. Fischer, D. mokin, was elected a D., director of Sha- the Gettysburg, synod of the Fischer 101. mn Lo Iheological Beminary, from the Busquehanns Lutheran church. Dr. ' itut ix A graduate of that inst J. C. Condo, the Penn Hall manufacturer, sustained 8 serious Saturday. He driving horse, when the ro CArTisge Jomege Was in tethering hi pe becan - entangled, the animal iu #uch a way hind legs. throwing to as break one of his Joseph Reifsnyder, of Millheim. req. resented the Millheim Castle, K. G E., at the Btate gathering of that or- der Reading. Mr. Reifenyder the work of pleased in “ the wilh much interestes in order, and was highly hie trip. I'he Millheim Journal remarks : Ap- other wild cat speculating institution has gone to the wall. Last week the American Reserve Bond company was 3 : in the hands of a receiver with A nBume- wr of persons in this community were placed no assels worth mentioning. Nilen by the concern. F'bomas Wolf, known through Peuus Valley on secount of having represented the Osborne com- pany in Lhis section for several years, is seriously ill st his home at Madison burg. Mr. Woll is suflering from an aflection of the lymphatic glands. The disease dates back 10 several years ago, but it is only recently that it has be- come most serious, kK well Everyone is pleased to note a deter- mination on the part of the citizens in general, and the ladies in particular, to plant flowers and beautify the cemetery. This is certainly most commendable but there is a sequel to the story. Occasionly people visit the cemetery and pluck these flowers. Let no one pluck a flower 'n the cemetery. To steal from the living is bad enough but to steal from the dead multiplies the enormity of the erime. General John P. Taylor, of Reeds- ville, accompanied by G. W. Bradford, spent a half hour with the Reporter Saturday afternoon. Genersl Taylor just returned from a tour to the Bible lands, and it is not unnatural that the drift of his conversation should run in that direction. Bome of the works of the ancients are marvelous, the Gener al thinks; notably among these the pyramids and the ruins in the old cities. A tour through foreign. coun tries, in General Taylor's opinion, seems to demonstrate more clearly that this is God's country. ** Keep it out of the paper ” is the cry which the local newspaper pub- lisher frequently hears. To oblige often costs considerable, though the party who makes the request thinks the granting scarcely worth saying “thank you'’ for. A newspaper is a peculiar thing in the public's eye. The news gatherer is stormed at beosuse he gels hold of one item and is abused becsuse he does not get another. Young men, Centre Reporter §1.00 a your.
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