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THE PRESIDENTS SPELLING
The President’s letter explanatory of
his spelling order makes it perfectly
clear that he was precipitate ; that he
this comparatively unimportant mat-
ter as he has been in some concerns
vital importance to the nation,
He says truly that the
direct
changes
nothing iu the world but a very slight
extension of the
ment which has made our agricultural |
implement makers and farmers write |
‘ plow’ instead of * plough.” ”’ But if
this reform of spelling is proceeding
unconscious
by an unconscious movement, why on
earth should not the Presiient let it]
alone to take care of itself? He says :|
“ There is not the slightest intention |
to do anything revolutionary or]
initiate any far-reaching policy. The |
purpose is simply for the Government, |
instead of going behind public senti- |
ment, to advance abreast of it, ”’ |
But the matter is not one in
the Government has any business
go aLiead of public sentiment, and it is |
doing that under the President's order, |
It is foolish to talk of the Government
‘advancing abreast of public
ment ’ when public
hardly been touched by the Carnegie-
Matthews reform. There
serious objections Lo soe
posed spellings, and it is fantastic for
the official ducuments of the nation to
be printed in a style decidedly differ-
ent from its literature. If there is one |
¢ase more than the |
Government ought to follow and not |
attempt to lead public sentiment it
in the use of language. In the recent |
words of Justice Brewer, all powers
not expressly granted to the Federal |
(Government are reserved by the people |
to themselves, assuredly they
have not granted to the Federal Gov
ernment the right to determine the]
natrional spelling. There is nothing |
in our spelling this |
effort of the head of a to |
change the national spelling.
lp pt
THE J00-MILE KOAD
which |
to
senti- |
has |
sentiment
are very
of the pro- |
another where
is
and
so fantastic
As
Government
The road over the state frou Phila-
delphia to Pittshurg, of |
three hundred miles, ia being agitated |
a distance
by the milliousire automobile owners
and contractors wlio hope to line their
pockets from great profits. It i
mated the road, which is to be
five or seventy-five feet in width,
i
$40 000 a
futie,
uld make
for this
for |
the
cost approximately in-
cluding the bridges. iis we
a tota: outlay of $12 000 000
single public highway, and this
the beuefit, almost exclusively, of
wealthy.
A road such as proposed would
of great
wealthy people, and could easily
built by them and maintained by
collected from using it But
why should the Bppropriate
$12,000,000 for a road that would not
be of more general utility ?
Now, if the state wants to build |
roads, let it appropriate money to bui d
the main thoroughfares in each coun-
ty. Buch a system would be of im- |
mense benefit to the residents of the
entire state. Twelve dollars |
would be a nice nest egg to begin with.
Htate aid is the only of the
road question, but to be of any
benefit to rural districts, the state must
do the building, if it wishes to dictate |
the character of the road, let the job |
and have a general supervision of the
HAINEe,
The Bproul road law is a mockery !
Think of building the eighty or more
miles of road in Potter township at
the rate of six to eight thousand dol-
lars per mile, even though the town-
ship is asked to pay but one-eighth of
the cost, the county one-eighth and
the state the remainder,
i ——— — A A
The Pennsylvania BState Editorial
Association, at a recent meeting held
in Bradford, denounced the Grady-
Salus libel bill. The great ms jority of
newspapers throughout the state are
members of this I'he
resolution reads thus :
Whereas, A free press Is essential to
the maintenance of goed government,
good morals, and any attempt to ham-
per or abridge the full and free discus.
sion of men and measures is n menace
to popular institutions ; therefore be it
Resolved, We look upon the livel
law passed by the General Assembly at
the session of 1908, known the
Grady-Salus bill, as a dangerous mens-
ure that threatens to destroy this sefe-
guard of the people-—a law personal in
its conception, partisan in its ennct
ment and malicious and far reaching
in its application ; and be It further
Resolved, That we demand the re
peal of this law at the next session and
obligate ourselves not to support any
candidate for either branch of the
Legislature who does not pledge him-
self to vote for the repeal of the ob
Jectionable lnw and exert his influence
to that end, and to aid in securing the
passage of a law that will be fair and
De a
goOUree pleastire to many
er
tolls
those
stale
million
rolution
real |
association,
He
ENUVAMPMENT AMUSEMENTS
in
Aunditorinm-—~Every Play Different,
furnish
Auditorium,
Rlater’s Comedians will
entertainment in the
Fair. These comedians are not
home on
Hall
#1
This
new Bpe-
the stage. They come to Centre
after a fourteen weeks’ continuous
dancing ; illustrated songs
Slater's offer
the
name ;
Comedians the best
repertoire company on road
the
cheap but the price ;
nothing old but nothing
better than many.
The campers are offered an opportu-
nity to night,
play with singing
witness, each
and
The
specialties
between each act.
your atrangements so that you will
have the evenings for the greatest ene
pty
An Honest Contession
lndelphia Record makes an
one confession when it says the
Sproul road law with its $6,000,000 ap-
propriation * isa comparative failure.’
This is t} me any of the city
X pressed the witl
i That
aw was passed by Gang method sole-
daili truth
eference to the Spro
f
v for $
the benefit of the wealthy town-
1
about Philadelphia and
Rural
more financially able to build
ships other
large
cities districts are nol
$5 000)
mile roads than they are able to main- |
taln a college in
I'he editorial says :
The electic
the
ti-Machine
n olf
office of Governor, and of an
Wis i
an |
lalnttira will y i
Legislature, will afford |
an opportunity to apply a portion of
treasury surplus to es-|
the enormous
tablishing a liberal system of good
roads in Penpsylvania. Under the]
’
3
LEI
f
niggardly »y now in force
t districts
difficult
"ly expensive are required
of the |
they (
mountainous counties and
re
and extreme
in which ad building
b A
0 contribute for the good
whole Slate more than an |
bear. As a consequence the system |
is a comparative failure, In evidence |
of it is the fact that the small ap
propriation of the State is not
iy pends d.
pt
LOCALS
Call at the Centre Reporter head-|
quarters during the Encampment and
Fair.
Edward Sellers, 1
Oak Hall
having purchased the
he manufacturer at
Station, is credited with]
Kocher farm, on |
Sharer’s Creek.
Co
tire other Sunday, libe
dred Pigeons
Y
Howard,
two
station Agent Kk, al
rated hun-
carrier brought there
Reuben Etters, who since last spriog
B. D. Brisbin & ¢
and lumber, sold his team of horses
0. in hauling logs
to
Meeker, and is now working
at Burnham. His oldest son is work-
ing at the same pl=ce,
Mra, Elizabeth Chalk, Miss
Btover Snook, of
H.
Eliza-
Phila-
Peressa Stover,
of Mr. and
Mr. Snook is engaged in the Franklin
Bank, located in the busted Real Es.
Mrs, Jacob Walker, west of Centre
Hall, recently returned from Altoona
where she visited for six or eight weeks
among relatives. While in that city
Mre. Walker became ill, and for two
weeks was confined to bed. Shortly
after arriving home she received the
snd news of the death of her sister in
Perry county.
The charter recently issued by the
state department extending the charter
of the Lewisburg, Milton and Watson-
town
that the line may be extended to Lew-
record in the
at Bunbury. This is
the first step necessary to connect the
two towns by trolley
i'nesenger Railway Company so
jsburg, was vlaced on
register's office
E. P. Thompson, of Altoona, and
Bamuel H. Rhoads, of Unionville,
made a trip through Penns Valley in
in lumber-
ing, and suceeeded in finding one on
the
Messrs. Thompson and
(juest of horses to be ueed
Houth wide of Potter township,
Rhoads were
the owners of the large barn burned at
Unionville recently, and succeeded in
sending to the pen the scamp who
fired it,
A trust company was organized at
Lewistown recently, most of the di
rectors of which are known to Penns
Valley people. At a meeting of the
directors the following officers were
elected § President, Calvin Greene ; vice
president, J. M. Selheimer; tempor.
ary secretary, J. M, Goodhart ; tem-
porary treasurer, A. CU. Mayes. The
other directors are J. Murray Afriea,
William Hollis, L. ¥. Treaster, J, C,
ENCAMPMENT AND FAIR,
Program for the Week-—HRepublican State
CUnndidates to Speak Thursday.
Haturday, September 15th—Camp
opens when all tents will be in readi-
In
{the eveniog there will be a grand
festival by Progress Grange.
Sunday, Beptember 16th, 2.30
wry
Harvest
p. Im,
The anni-
versary sermon will be preached by
| Rev. Geo. W. Mclinay, of the M. E.
Home services
17th—Exhibi-
| tion will open when exhibits will be
Monday, September
| received and put in place.
7.50 p. m.—~Opening entertainment
by Blater’s Comedians, to which every-
body is invited,
15th—The
will
Tuesday, September ar-
rangement of exhibits be con-
«Pp. m,
Opening exercises by the
1m Entertainment in the
auditorium by Blater’'s Comedians.
Wednesday, September 19th, Ya. m,
Hr 1
i
Girand parade by the Knights of the
Followed by a meet-
auditorium, when addresses
(Golden Eagle,
ing in the
will be delivered by prominent officials
f Order.
Hon. W,.
candidate
others. Hon J.
secretary of the State
Hon. A. M, Cornell, lecturer
ste Girange, Hon, R. RB.
Conklin, Forestry Commissioner.
T.
for |
Addresses by
Democratic
general, and
lman,
(srange
¢
af t bt
and
Enteitainment by Sls
, Beptember 20th, 10 a. mi.
’. F. Hill, Mas-
Hon. N. B,
Agriculture :
[.. Martin, Deputy Becretary
Agricuit and Dr. B. H. Warren,
he Blate Grange ;
chfield, Becretary of
’
Oi 4 ure,
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
News of a Semi-Local Character Gathered
from the Exchange Table,
The Juniata Valley Electric Btreet
Railway Company purposes the ex-
tension of its lines to Mt. Union and
connect that busy town with Hunt-
ingdon,
The wires of the New Bugar Valley
Telephone Company
nected with Loganton and the people
of the entire valley can now have com
munication with that busy place,
W. W. Reading, a salesman for a
notion house, jumped from a vehicle
at Mill Hail and had
to break knee
made like
pistol.
are being «on-
misfortune
The break
crack of
the
his
report
Cap
7 the fu
State Health
has issued an order that
houses in there
cough must be placarded.
Dixon
hereafter all
™
Comuuissioner
which whooping
Special pre-
cautions must also be taken to prevent
the spread of the disease among school
children.
To save his life Miles Gray, of Bha-
mokin, lost both of his feet, His
foot had caught in the frog on the rail-
road and he threw his body as far as
order
one
possible to one side in to
his life. He succeeded in doing this
but a train crushed his feet.
After complaining
BRAVE
wr 8 week of
pains in his abdomen 4
Wertz was taken to
hospital, where an operation revealed
the
When removed
year-old Owen
the Harrisburg
muscles of the
the needle
It is be
several
a large needle in
abdomen.
measured over three inches “
lieved the child swallowed jt
months ago.
wr
{ .
Charles Kyle, of
Kyle, of
taken off by the big
Joseph
near Reedsville, had his hand
Joe
|
Lewistown, Mr. |
son
hammer in
Mann's axe shops, at
Dairy and Food Commissioner.
1.30 p Addresses by Hon. Ed- |
8. Republican candidate |
Hon. Robert 8B. Mur-
ienry Houck, Robert K. Young
in
I Stuart,
Wil
f ‘ Cir r
OF gover Lol
The chairman of the Re.
ers
county committee will have
the
meeting.
Kyle was a machinist, having learned
his trade at the Standard Stee] Works,
He #1 bee ue ntly worked the
Westinghouse Company and also in
f
i0T
the Altoons shops and at Philadelphia,
Spangler County Chalrman,
Democrati
Grand entertainment by
33
Hints nuedians,
Frid ay
exerci
Neptember <lat—Closing |
Aue
¢ :
{OT BRC
tion of stock that
may
tors should
to get
be prompt and
exhibits in on
fay and Tuesday, but the entries
ntil Wednesday
All premiums will be paid on
for
their
be closed u
articies are offered ex.
IN SCHEDULE,
trains at Grange Park Tues
inesday and Thursday, Sep
Al stop
tember 15, 19 and 20,
I'rains leave for Bellefoute
i Regular train
Regular train
Special train
Trains leave Bellefonte for Park —
Hegular train )
$ special train)
1:50 p. wma. (Regular train
6:30 p. m. (Special train)
Trains leave Grange Park for Coburn—
7:4 a, m. Regular train )
2:35 p. m. Regular train )
Wednesday and 'bhursday, only—
a0 RR. In,
5
1030)
A Im
Wp
Special Preminms
Pratt Food Company, Philadelphia,
ofter the following special premiums,
which will be on exhibition and de-
livered by the Committee at the time
of the Grange Encampment and Fair
to the drawers of the same :
One 50-cent package Pratts Animal
Food for the
Best display of wheat
Best display of corn
Best display of potatoes
Best display of cabbage
Best display of apples
Best display of grapes
One 60-cent package Prats Poultry
Food for the-
Jest display of canned fruit
jest display of jellies
jest loal wheat bread
Best layer cake
Best silk crazy quilt
Best hand-gmbroidered apron
One 50-cent package Pratts
Killer for the
Best trio of White Plymouth Rocks
Best trio of Spanish Andalusians
Best trio of Silver Gray Dorkings
Best trio of Dark Brahmas
Best trio of Partridge Cochins
Beat trio of White Leghorns,
For State Hondas.
Bids were opened this week for the
making of three State roads in Centre
county, and it wps found that the low-
est bidder for all of them was J. K,
Palmer & Co, of Clearfleld, The one
in Rush towrship, running from SBan-
dy Ridge towmd Osceola, is 8000.85
feet long, and the bid for making was
$4775 04. The road from Philipsburg
to Troy Bridge is 5,257 feet long and
the bid was $11,305.25. The road from
Boow Bhoe to Clarence is 9274 feet
Lice
just to all interests.
Houser,
long, and the bid was $14,700.04,
N. B. Faq.
succeed
Col
the fact
Spangler,
Col. H.
Faylor ss chairman, Taylor's
that he
wr
necessity
resignation i= due to
Democratic nominee fi
i=
this district, and of
much of hie time will be spent in
“2
oy
<1 ( .
ER 13. 1906.
Dates of Court Changed
The committee appointed by
court at January Argument Court
1905 to suggest a plan for adoption of
the following recommendations
the terms of court of Common Pleas
Oyer and Terminer, General Jail De
Orphans’ Court, be changed
begin on the 4th Monday of
3rd Monday of May, 4th
#0 as to
Monday
NO. 36.
i
| HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
| FROM ALL PARTS.
the
i
| Baturday is the day
Encamp-
{ ment and Fair begins
The Howard Creamery Corporation
and shipping potatoes.
Hanne.
town over
amuel Goodhart and John
in
December, each term continue
two weeks, and the Argument
be held on the 1st Tuesday of January,
2ud Tuesday of April,
June and the 3rd Tuesday in
ber,
to
court changed in accordance
with, to begin the fi
irst of
ary, 1907,
day
In accordance with these BUR eRe
tions, the court has ordered
ale
changes named. Licenses for
liquor will consequently be granted
the
a
ur
Argument court beginning
#t Tuesday in January.
——
Kelth's Theatre,
There are many delightful surprises
in store for the patrons of Keith's
The
son has opened with amazin
Theatre, Philadelphia, ring the
week of Beptember fall
ROE
Ig sUCCe
largely on account of the sple
Vow
ndid fea-
tures w hich have Deen ollered, pr
ik
bly greater than any
tory of
Year in
vaudeville
features in
which might rig
liners, so that
designated
The }
tacular
} nH
Hack Husss
feature,
won
derfully rained
men offer a musi
surpassed in t}
George Evans, the
face comedian, who
America, if not the
entertainer
His audienoes
t
il
deared him
.
lengthy period,
- - pny
The Falr Bookie!
he Centre (x
hit
inty Agricultural Ej
ing
ompanpy issued their t
other
Demoeratic
The
ROO ii
counties in district
the
party remsins i
hands,
AA on
Centre County Veterans
reunion of
Clul
Saturday.
I'he
Centre County Veterans’
held at Hunters Park
attendance quite
thirty-second the
Was
The |
Was large. The of.
ficers elected were
General Jas. A. Beaver.
Vice president—Capt. W. C,
son and Capt. W, H. Fry.
Hecretary-—-W., H. Musser,
Assistant Secretary —8. B. Miller,
Treasurer—Capt, George M. Boal,
The speakers on the occasion were
Capt. Charles A. Barclay, of Binema-
honing ; Rev, J. B. Btein, Rev. J.
Allison Platts, Capt. Green, Capt,
Michaels and Senator Heinle,
(feneral Beaver announced that the
whole of the $35,000 for the soldiers’
and sailors’ monument had been paid,
The meeting of the association next
year will be at Centge Hall,
President
Patter-
wi eet rccmmasn
LOCALS,
Saturday evening Progress Grange
will hold a festival on the camp
grounds,
William Keller is having his resi-
dence at the station repainted. This
completed his home will be in first
class repair.
Rev. J. M. Rearick has improved
materially during the past two weeks,
He is now able to walk about on
crutches, and made his first trip down
town Monday forenoon,
W. Gross Mingle shipped the first
consignment of potatoes from the Cen-
tre Hall station this season. The po-
tato crop is not large, but the tubers
seem to be sound and free from rot,
Rev. W. A. and Mre. McClellan, of
Pleasant Unity, are guests of friends
in Penns Valley. Rev. McClellan is
serving a Reformed charge at Pleasant
Unity. He and Mrs. McClellan are
both natives of Potter township,
J. B. Ream, one of the good citizens
of Gregg township, was a caller at the
Reporter office Monday, and ordered
posters printed for the sale of the per.
sonnl property of his sister, Mrs, Re-
becen Homan, widow of Daniel Ho-
man. Sale will be held Baturday,
September 29,
While Willie Moore was helping his
father, W. 8. Moore, of Pine Grove
Mills, drive some cattle, a hook which
was on the end of a long chain being
dragged by a vicious bull caught the
boy around the ankle, dragging him
over the rocks at a break neck speed,
Fortunately some men chanced to be
on hand, and rescued the boy just in
time to save him a mangled body and
Bellefonte, October 9th 1
I'he t
informatic
wkiet cont
Hl COL
proaching fair, and a full
minum winners ai last vear's fai:
¢
Dus. ness men of fonts
Bellefo
pages
ipied :
nw
well represented, many
EIU being Oo0Oe
he pr wpecis {i
“ EB
Car are very promising.
¥
interest centers in racing
assured that
iy the public is
ture of the Centre County Fair will
fully up to the standard
IE
The Rebekahs at State College
Miss Roxanna Brisbin, District
Deputy President, and her assistants,
B. D. Brisbin, Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Pufl, of Centre Hall, met in State Col.
lege 1. O. O. F, room and instituted
Lady State Rebekah Lodge No.
conferring the degree fifty-eight
members,
Sad,
on
The meeting opened in the after
noon with Miss Brisbin in the Deputy
Grand Master's chair, Mr. Puff in the
Grand Warden's chair, Mrs. Puf! act.
ing as Grand Marshall, C. H. Evey as
Grand Secretary, and Mrs. 8. BE
Baisor as Grand Guardian.
p——————
The Cigaretts
In many sections the anti-cigarethe
law is being inforced. The law in
brief asgassed in 1903 and amended in
1905 is as follows :
“That any person or persons who
shall furnish cigarettes or cigarette pa-
pers to persons under the age of 21
years, he or she shall be sentenced to
pay a fine of not more than $300 nor
less than $100."
Notice the law says * furnish,”
“ gell.”
not
I A AAT:
K. GE Convention,
Milton has been selected as the place
for holding the next annual reunion of
the Busquehanna District Association,
Knights of the Golden Eagle, The
officers selected are: President, Past
Grand Chief George OC. Stahl, of Mil-
ton ; vice-president, Past Chief Frank
Lape, of Watsontown ; treasurer, Past
Chief F. P. Musser, of Millheim ; sec-
retary, Past Chief W. W. Musser, of
Lewisburg.
AIM a
The 80 Per Cent. Rebate,
A Tioga county judge has declared
unconstitutional the law allowing a
rebate of eighty per cent. on timber
tracts of a particular growth. The case
no doubt will be carried to the higher
courts, ;
This law is not the one under which
owners of particular timber tracts have
been allowed a rebate for some years,
The law of 1905 refers to tracts that
have been sel to timber or where
perhaps from a horrible death,
sprouts are propetly cared for,
Encampment and Fair
then the Centre Fair
County
All aboard
The borougl } is will be
closed
on the Grange
vinpment and Fair,
¥ hite-winged ants in great numbers
Mill Hall
pestered eve
were vigioie in and about
AL
Week. hey
r a day and then disappeared.
nis ripening and
fore
re the majority
ieared the calen
eplermner
fIrtriay if
finan, of Lot
g wheels
» :
ana
PR
PRCETALIONS,
Har-
: iE
“8 .
Mrs, 8B, R.
hy
Mrs
and Mrs
Mil-
John
George
Centre Hall
Heckman, of
stenographer
{ the Master Steam and
Association,
almost
a8 sister
Centre
©
Aa
i's a po-
two
of
Hall,
has held for
fins Heckman i
hn Luc
as, in
guest she is while in town.
» Millheim water company hopes
y increase
lowering the pipes ten feel where it
North street. The
Journal correctly argues that little or
no benefit will be obtained from this
action, vut that the proper thing to do
is to enlarge the intake. For fire pro-
tection power both pressure and vol
ume of water are necessary. The pres-
Millheim proper can not be
CroOBsSes 8 rise on
al
perceptibly increased by the lowering
of mains over hills
sure
Dr. George P. Bible, of Philadelphis,
was a passenger east last Thursday.
Dr. Bible recently returned from a
European tour, since has been
through Ohio, Indiana and several
other western estates delivering lec
tures. Arrangements were perfected
whereby Dr. Bible will appear in
Grange Arcadia about the middle of
November. He is one of the best en-
tertainers our the road, and will not
fail to please his hearers at Centre
Hall at the time mentioned,
The Pennsylvania Institute for the
instruction of the blind at Overbrook,
near Philadelphia, was represented in
Centre Hall Friday of last week by
Liborino Delfino. The institution is
free to all unfortunates who are with
out funds, and is doing a vast deal of
good. Mr, Delfino, an instractor in
the boys’ department of the institu.
tion, although blind himself, is travel
ing over the state to discover any blind
children who are not being educated.
While at the Reporter office, he called
up Gertrude Ishler, daughter of George
Ishler, of Tusseyville, who Is one of
the two hundred pupils at the Penne
aylvania Institute. Personally Mr,
Delfino is an interesting character, is
well posted on current affairs, and an
altogether pleasant companion,
nd