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.
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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 <o
located, perpetual
1
M
gl np Gp pp
“Yuion Colinty Fair
sy
Was
“.
a
ty
{
Brook Park,
wt {
The gi
held
¥
ent Union oun Fair will
al Lewisburg,
ning September 25, and will close
the The
offered larger purses thao
by
th management has
before in
Lie speed trials, and having the fastest
rack in the state, the races will be of
1
r Erounas,
Hpecial in Lhe
liberal premiums have been offered
inducements of
WHY
10
exhibitors, aud the buildings will be
i
INCIDENTS OF 1870,
Loon] Items Taken from the Centre
porter of Interest to 1000 Readers
He.
Note The spelling of prop
of the Reporte
aq ¢
ag found in the files
FEBRUARY 6—The Gregg township
independent school district
abandoned. It had been in existence
for many yesrs, and none but
teachers were employed in it.
Fifty-three car loads of wheat were
shipped from Bpring Mills during the
month of January, divided among the
shippers as follows : 1. J. Grenoble &
Co,, twenty-eight ; Krumrine & Bon,
twenty-three ; Michael Hettinger, one,
besides this, several car loads of barley,
Was
good
clover seed, ete., were shipped.
FEBRUARY 13—Pork selling
three and one-half cents per pound,
in at
Two accidents, caused by bad roads
in Gregg township, occurred the other
day. Mrs. John Weaver thrown
from a vehicle and broke her arm, and
Henry Bhafler met with an ”
FEERUARY
erect a new school house, near the toll
Was
HH ureset
uj
I —Ciregg township will
gate, three miles east of Old Fort,
Horace Zerby has
commenced work
on his new brick house at the lower
end of town,
Miss Lucy Musser, t ye
ter of D. J. Musser, of Per
{and broke her arm. Thi
i
ond time he
h
Me
ng daugh-
Hall,
{ i
in ie
FAT Was |
short time,
Logan Mills is to
WwW
i oui
It
Association,
David R. F«
Edwardsburg, Michigan
M. L
| father, John Ris
ill be
Irenan
| Rishel su
§ 6
i
and family,
by his mother, Mrs, Wil
Kansas
ene Mil
ar, went to
Fug ler was Kicked
tain saw mill
M A Ba
Ward, s
han Kresmer,
i"
yi ’
ship, has gone Kat
family.
J
two miles east of Centre
He nry Ke ii
Hall,
that will
in the
eflort and
crowded with articles
for the
amusements every
0
pete prizes, WHY
sources of Lhe sssociation will be
Ul mi
throngs that will attend. No Cle
Otis
ional shows be allowed
grounds.
form daily, free to all.
Wiis Oia
High class artists will per-
Entertainment
of all sorts will be provided.
trains and low excursion rates all
railroads. The fair this year will be
greater than any before, For exhibits,
fast and exciting races, great exhibits
of products aud manufacture. There is
no event that will compare with the
one 10 be held at Lewisburg always on
the last week in September. Don't
miss it.
Bpecial
on
PRR
Letter to M, J. Decker
Centre Hall, Pa.
Dear Bir: Our agent ought to sell
nine-tenths of the paint of his town
and region; no use to try for the
other tenth. The proportion of men,
who won't take good advice, and use
the least-galions paint, is about one in
ten among even owners of houses and
stores and shops and barns and fences,
One man in ten will buy a gold
brick or green goods, if he has the
money and gets a good chance
Devoe at $1.75 a gallon is better than
gold ; adulterated and short-measure
paints are green goods and gold bricks.
Devoe saves half, more or less, of the
labor and wages of painting ; it is all
paint ; full strength and full measure,
There is no other such paint within
ten per cent. Ten per cent. of labor
and paint is worth saving ; and ten is
the least, There are scores of paints
that throw away half of both gallons
and labor on whiting, china-clay,
ground, stone, barytes, benzine, water
—all they are good for is to make gal
lons of nothing and look like paint in
the can ; more gallons to buy and
more gallons to pay for putting-on-—
gold bricks and green goods, Here's
how they work.
Judge I. D, Fairchild owns two
houses exactly alike in Lufkin, Texas,
J. H, Torrence painted both houses ;
one Devoe, 15) gallons ; the other
with another paint sold at same price ;
2 gallons. That 25-gallon paint is
weak and 15} whiting ; that's why it
took 9} gallons more,
Yours truly,
F. W. Dryvor & Co.,
7 New York.
reading his mail,
Kreamer & Son sell our paint,
i
Gingerich, at $100 per acre.
Muarkels
Etlinger, one o
implicated in the Banyder ¢
was arrested and taken
der. i
for
Bellefonte stealing a gun
f Spring Mills,
There is a rush for Kansas
(George Breon, «
Among
others who have gone to that state are:
Jess Dunlap, Hud Love, M, Stover, P.
H. Bhires, Harry Hackenberg, Samuel
McClintic, B. F. Hennigh, of Potter
township ; J. K. Young, Jonathan
Kreamer, H. A. Wolf, George Raber,
of Miles township; Harvey Houck.
Nine car loads of people were expected
to gather at Tyrone.
The old brick church st Tussey ville
is to be entirely remodeled and sur
mounted with a dome and bell.
Married January Samuel K.
Emerick, of Centre Hall, and Miss
Julia A. Alexander, of Unionville
February 6, John H. Runkle and Miss
Aggie Btover, both of Potter township
February 11, Andrew Zettle, of
Spring Mills, and Maggie R. Bolt, of
Potters Mills February 13, James
Schoch, of New Berlin, and Maggie,
daughter of Jacob Gephart, of Mill
heim February Berrien
Bprings, Michigan, F. D. Nichols, and
Miss Mary E., daughter of Wm. F,
Reiber, formerly of Pine Grove Mills
January 13, Charles E. Hoy and
Miss Lizzie M. Bangree, both of Tus-
sey ville . January 23, F. M. Gram-
ley, of Logansville,
oy
“Sy
ut
ye
wd y
and Miss Lizzie
Henuigh, of Potters Mills. . . Febru.
ary 2, Aaron H. Harter and Miss
Clara Charles, both of Hartleton .
March 4, Cook Lose and Miss Ellen
Harter, both of Brush Valley.
-
Two Accidents
Two socidents occurred in the vi-
cinity of Howard, both resulting in
broken collar bones, One of the un-
fortunates was Henry Pletcher, aged
about sixty-five years, who fell from
an apple tree, sustaining a broken cols
lar bone and wrist and other injuries,
His condition is serious,
The other gentleman injured was
Christian Holter; who, while descend.
ing a ladder at the barn of Henry
Thompson, fell to the floor, breaking
his collar bone, The accident was due
to the breaking of the ladder,
———————— I
Advertise,
NO. J7.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
Mrs, Mary Bhoop, last week, attend-
the her Joseph
Cantner, in Millheim,
ed funeral of uncle,
Samuel J. Rowe, who has been in
New York state during the pust few
months, is home at present,
G. W. Ocker and daughter,
Miss Estie, of Lewisburg, are guests
this week o
Mrs.
f friends and relatives in
Centre Hall.
Ralph Noll, of Pleasant Gap, =a
former Bpring township school teach-
er, is a student in the Valparaiso Uni-
versity, Valparaiso, Indiana,
i
The grand
the
itanf
encampment and session
Mil-
Fel-
+
i
of Depar Patriarches
Independent Order of Odd
tment,
! FP 1
lows of Penns Fill be held a
foo} 11 1
ober 15 10 15
kK, Oc
Kerr advertises
his i
HMaturday,
Mr,
fie of persot-
wome in Potter
¢
October 6, Bee
»
Kerr will move to his
€ in Centre Hall shortly after the
Edwin Robert
are
M irk,
While in Penns Val-
voyer, son
vitoona,
i Harry C. }
I Hh
of the
+
, at Belle-
Holler,
pastor
requested a
LE
i
i
experiment
SOWDH 10
gives much
rong
the
al farm, the
al and sO
or
nests of the
ex-Bherifl
Mrs. Bach-
Miss Kate
remembered by
4
WORE
vders,
al
are
{ newspaper life th have
ting impression few.
certain to
{
DE remem-
wetober number of
William R Lighton
iit
has the
the
cl
10860
sidies of
the repeal of
law will
Hotel,
next
The
the aus-
League
ination
ontinental
three days
October
held
1
$.
under
ti-Vaccination
¥ £3 »
meeling will
% u £2} 4
pices of the Al
of Pennsylvania
the $5000
Aside from appropriated
by the grand jury the use of the
monument commitiee there is yet a
fo
deficiency of $450 to be collected from
some source. This statement is made
to correct a previous announcement in
the local papers that the
monument debt would be wiped out
with the $5000 to taken from the
county treasury.
¢
sone Ol
he
Cement is each year becoming more
and more prominent as a factor in
building and construction work. The
United Btates Geological Burvey an-
nounces that the production of Port-
land cement in 1905 amounted to "
246.812 barrels, valued at $33,245,867.
This is a gain of 5,740,931 barrels in
quantity and $9,800,748 in value over
the output of 1904, which amounted to
26,506,551 barrels, valued at $23,355,118,
ha.
The result of a quarrel between two
boys-—Joseph Mull, Jr., and Olney
Ulrich, aged respectively thirteen and
nineteen years, of Watsontown, may
end the life of the former, Ulrich
threw s stone at the younger lad, hit-
ting him on the head, causing s deep
wound. A physician dressed the ine
scious and remained so
hours, and it is feared
for several
death will
The man who makes money in a
community has a duty to perform to
that community. It may be that he
has made his money by his superior
business ability, and that he would
have done as well anywhere, That
does not alter the case. If his gifts are
great his responsibility is equally as
great. No man was placed on earth
for the sole purpose of making money,
and the man who has this as his ideal
had better never been born. It
is not an act of charity, but the per.
formance of a simple duty for the man
who has made money to pass a little
of it on for the benefit of the commun-
ity, even though he never expecis to
see dollar of his contribution back,