vOL. LXXIX. NEW CAPITOL SCANDAL j It was suspected all along in some | quarters that the much-boasted feat of | the erection of the new eapitol within | the appropriation of some four or five | million dollars would not stand the | test of a critical examination. It now appears that this suspicion was well founded. It is alleged that the build- ing really cost at least $8,000,000 snd | that in addition to the specific appro- priations for the purpose, much other | money was used. The opportunities thus opened for favored contractors (0 | make large profits will be evident. The people of the State would prob- | ably not have objected to a larger direct appropriation being made for | the capitol, but this did not suit the machine leaders. They wanted the amount used for the purpose kept | secret so that they could spend much | of it to the advantage of their own henchmen. And so now the people] are suddenly confronted with the fact | that the building has cost double the amount which they have all along | been told it would. The discovery is not a surprise to those who know so | well the history of the machine for the | last forty years. To it have been surprising if there had not such would | been such a revelation. now made render it vitally that the next auditor general shall a man who will get at the the facts in this matter. of Pennsylvania will just how and who got electing William important | be | bottom want to know b the the I". information money. Oaly v Creasy can yi secure this And while speaking it is pertinent to while the machine candidate ernor, Mr. Stuart, has been ir the ceremony of Lhe such invitation has beer ponent, Mr. Emery. lo other the idea is to make the aflair an it which the whole people o However, Emery will not be of the capitol | fact for thie that | Fils ited dedication, {ol Ho 1 ¥ merit Beil is a partis in| i= matter t one, although a i he Slate | while Mr, | ded of the eapitol, he will, beginning with | are interested, at the ieation | the building, and will to it the building is regarded as the proper | ple, the | fn! Ri Ly of the whole jn snd not of Penrose machine A cop BREYANS GOVERNMENT pe 5 OWNERS, The Republican ers have been i policy has lost to him si of bein ville, Keutucky, speech Colonel Bryan | answers hiscritios in a way that ought A sentence in his address complete! It i= this “ After (quoting from the Democratic platform of 1900, that nopoly is indefensible and V 5 1 busy saying that wuership thie CLHARLOCES g elected in 1908. [a his Louis- | to silence Lhe entire output, single y €Xx- plaius his position. Ta private mao i i alojernbie, and after layiug it down as a priveiple that public ownership where competition ends, and that people should have the benefit of monopoly that might be found sary, I stated that I had reached the] conclusion ** that railroads partake so much of the nature of that they must ultimately public property and be mavaged by | public offi vials in the iuterests of the | whole community.” I addeti: “1 do not know hat the country is ready | for this legislation. I do not know | that the majority of my own party | favors it, but I believe that an increas- | ing number of the members of alll parties see in public ownership a sure remedy for discrimination between persons and places and for the extor- tionate rates for the carrying of freight | and passengers. * * I expect | that those Democrats who oppose gov- | ernment ownership will accompany | their declaration against it with the! assertion that they will favor govern- | ment ownership whenever they are] convinced that the country must choose between government owner | ship of the roads and railroad owner- | ship of the government, "' Rather than the railroads own the! government, who would object to the government owning the railroads? i Lhe any | should beg HeCes- a monopoly | become | | i * mm A } Ex-Senator B. K. Foeht, of Lewis | burg, was nominated for congress in| the seventeenth district comprised of | the counties of Union, Snyder, Mifflin, | Huntingdon, Perry, Fulton and! Franklin, formerly represented by | opposition aroused by his effort to block the railroad rate bill. Foeht's election Is altogether uncertain, Mp —- If the machine collar Castle is wear. ing is made of celluloid it's liable to strike a flume any time ; he's plenty hot at the neck to ignite ii. —————————— A —————— As the days grow cooler, the cam- paign warms up, By November it will be ninety in the shade, . " 13 INNINGY-0.5 \¢ Hnll Wins Over Yeagertown in a Well Played Game Centre Hall best game of base ball played on Grange Park this and from possibly the best that slid over the plate on that fleld. The game was one of thirteen innings, and was fairly fought out from start to finish, yet quibbling was kept down to the mini- mum. ; Piteher Moore is the regular pitcher the Burnhmmn which has Centra won the nine ever home team, to make Burnham ex- Austin, the catcher, player, and has the distances to the various bases so little methodical well oppor. traordinary effort, The home team put up a good, both the yet ot costly errors The stiff ERIE, diamond and at the several On bat, t without making ‘“ rattle well, due 10 battery worked as The geore is suflicient elaboration I'he scorns PUBLIC SCHOOLS, There are 1,200,988 Paplls In the School With an Average Dally Attendance of 920.110--The Teachers Wages Amount to 814,142,470, ‘he great host of school children in Pennsylvania are now resuming their studies. The state stands high in the provision made for its youth in the common schools. We have advanced an immeasurable distance along educa- tional lines from the day when it was necessary for Thaddeus Btevens to argue eloquently in the legislature for votes '' to carry home the poorest child of the poorest inhabitant of the meanest hut of your mountains the blessings of education.” Familiarity with the free school has perhaps dulled the sense of appreciation, yet the semblage of 1,250,000 boys and girls iu the of the state is a fact which the far-sighted men who founded the system here as great public The value common As- fre ¢ schools stamps educational not if re- total of ex- penditures made on behalf of the sys- benefactors, of the ascertained by any census, but schools is sults respond to the sum tem in Pennsylvania our state should the in stand among most enlightened communities the average gence of its people, of the , but the common the he Pennsylvania tax payers of ir share education school the { educational rit J support Of In yu ie school i 142 47 this im- the | ing to the tit tution 7 I i in 19335 wages paid the to 0 SMounte Over $5,000 - | The i vi f f LU or school-houses. g w WaE | aid tho t ks cost 03,771; supplies, $700 - | Other expenses amounted to § tal outlay for the year | jE 4 i This was sufficient to | ‘ 319 schools and pay tl 6 Se teachers, U55 pupils, with an of Xi 11 attendance f teachers § 4. male WHE teachers, 24 32 ’ The | % lp pl heap Food Likely The advance in the price of food dur i vv y narrowed income of two CRIs tu the free share of the family istinl industrial uld But for the ur * " ie ii tosoy activity, al suflering wi have come from dear food i 1 I'he Government crog r } repor gives Ming f i Year the great but - NR). x i to #ee a fall io the his price be great, of staples will not The corn crop O00 0060 is the largest bushels What ever RIOWnH Is jus fan important iis has iocreased the nume- for not sl ber bath of thi fallen with catile and hogs, ready Meats grain, p fifth below year = markets have WW i0One rice is ready nearly a last year ; is likely. ir lwo years past reduction in meat ff fi Home consumption the Inrgest which Wheat wheat crop, is also the on record world's crop points to a lower price for flour, though the fall will not be enough to aflect the price of the tmker’s loaf, AAA ——— Dentistry I will be located for a time at Pot- ters Mills, in the office of Dr. H. Alexander. All work pertaining to dentistry iu all its branches will the most scientific and manner. Hpecial atten tion given to crown, bridge work and artificial plates. Absolutely painless extraction of teeth by our new method of anas vitalized air, by of which we can remove any number of teeth at one sitting without pain or slightest danger to the patient, even to these in advanced years no matter how 1ervous. There are no disagree of any Rind, Ad- ministration of vitalized air, extrac a le be thesia, the use vifects male leschers ; of i per female teachers, | ib tion of Pennsylvania that of other states in school expenditures a laries is shown i In Pennsylvania New York figures are : in the ral commissioner of | JOM in expendi. New York, Pennsylvania, $26,073,565, creditable to Pennsylvania : i ould stand so far below many sles with respect to teachers’ salaries, the Division, Pennsylva- Ow, Compared with certain North Ausntic 1 Ke per month for male teachers; Island, $122 slates in nia rat Lon Massachusetts 1 ' Rhode sid $145 Connecticut, $107 ; Pennsyl- The average salary paid teachers $106, and New Jersey, vanuia, $852 fort lee $s > sera $ i female in Pennsylvania was $50.14, compared with Massachusetts, $55; Rhode Island, $2; Connecticut, $46 ; New Jersey, § The average salary of male teachers in the United Hiates is $51 ; of females, $41.54. With to female teachers’ salaries, Pennsylvania ranks considerably be- low the average, 0, t . respec ———— LOCALS You will see more for twenty-five cents atl the Great Centre County Fair on October 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th than you would get elsewhere for a dollar, ’ \ . Anse Smith is having his dwelling improved by placing on it 8a new roof and extending the cornice. This is one of the oldest dwelling houses in Centre Hall having been erected by Mre. Smith's father, Henry Witmer, “rhe-Bekver Springs Weekly Herald gives a glowing account of the * Old Home Week '’ observed in Beaver Hprings. Also numerous half-tone il- lustrations showing prominent eiti- zens and residents of the prosperous town, Why not settle that little controver- tion of any number of teeth and re covery iu less than five minutes. Also extraction. Examination and estimates free, Dr. WiLLis A, ALEXANDER, Registered dentist. pM tl at small Ronde Merge Papers were filed in the State De- itailroad Companies under the name of the Pittsburg, Binghamton E wtern Railroad Company, to con struct and operate a line in Clearfield, Clinton, Centre, Lycoming, Elk, Ti- ogs and Bradford counties, starting at Hyuner, Clearfield county, and running to Bipghamton, N, Y. The capital stock will be $20,000,000, The sunual meeting will be held on the thivd Tuesday in January. Cane ton, Bradford county, is to be the place of the executive offices. F. A, ‘ Visiting cards printed at this office, Bawyer, of Canton, is president, sy concerning school privileges by petitioning the court to become a part f Centre Hall. Buch a movement | would end in economy to all concern ed, and the dads would gracefully sub- [mit to the extension of the borough | lines, | It is only because mechanics and | laborers could not be had that Centre { Hall is not in even better trim than it i 0) prove that his home town is as neat and trim from the border line to | center, Every man talks in an important way about his mail. He has to go (down town every dey for his mall ; hates to leave town because he misses his mail, and all there is in it laa bill or two and circulars advertising a mining scheme, If he chances to be at home when he opens it, ** hush, the mother will tell her children ; don't disturb your father while he is AIR LINE GETS ENTRY TO PITTSBURG Charter Issued for Hallrosnd ss Link In New York-Chicago Route. The New York-Chicago electric air line which is to traverse Penns Valley, according to a ispateh from Pittsburg, has secured an entry to that eity. The dispatch in full is as follows : Joseph Ramsey, Jr., who recently announced a plan for an air line eiec- tric railway from New York to Pitts burg and Chicago, obtained an tramce into Pittsburg through the je suing of a charter to the Pittsburg and Fairhaven Railroad at Pittsburg. The capital stock is nominally $40,000, Directors are William Lindsay, I, P. Patterson and J. R, Huston, clerks for A. M. Neeper, attorney for Ram- sey. Patterson is related to Ramsey, The location of the line is such that it can be connected with the Pittsburg and Northwestern, Ramsey's New York The Pittsburg and Fairhaven was originally surveyed by the Wabash Rallroad while Ramsey was in charge of the work. It was abandoned by the Wabash after compromise had been effected the Vanderbilt system, en- extension. a with A pA ——— Work for Next Legislature A parent cannot be compelled to vac } hools a pupil { who has not been vaccinated, and chil- {dren so excluded are not trusnts with- There the cation law. in EL) Bly $ § ein] ’ ’ v of ve inten COM puisory ap Al At It Again of } The sueak thief has been bt I ik] i uring the past lwo weeks. YArious juarters of kinds of poultry being stolen, posed to have been sent ute, i i ef} fl # he iri : At the An organize i $ : shot f- This with a loaded gun