"VOL. LXXIX.
BELATED CONFESSION,
The frankness of the Machine made
Governor and Auditor General in fore
mally acknowledging that the new
Capitol at Harrisburg cost upward of
$13,000,000 is the frankness of convict
a crime the commission of which has
already been proven to the hilt,
It ix true that so
formmntion
far as present
goes pens! statule hiss
been violated by the unfaithful stew
ards who lavished the people’s money
on Capitol luxury without their know-
ledge or express consent. No erime in
the legal vense of the word was perpe-
trated when the Capitol Commission
boasted that the building had
‘* completed ’’ within the limit of the
$4,000,000 appropriation, knowing full
well that over twice as uch more had
been expended for ‘furni<hings’
which the taxpayers fatuously believed
to be included in the published cost of
the structure ns
hoodwinked. A
millions was practiced. After tf
skulduggery
Ho
been
But the public
decepliion
posure of Machine
rather late in the day to mske nn pre
tense of establishing confidential reln-
tions with the dear people, who
foot the bills.
The reader can well
Trelis!
thi of
bed ine
ficial statement made by |
and Auditor General ti
Public Grounds aud Buildings
have preferred to unt
obligations incurred had been paid
Vi
ev lavery
HOF
ut Lhe Hoard of
wold
wail Lin
ii ml
and until after the election —before dis-
seminating ‘accurate information”
among the
But State Treasurer Berry, elected es.
pecially that he might shied light
the dark by-ways
spoiled the game, and the clumsy
his
voters Pennsylvania
aon
of gag finance,
al.
to the
tempt to discount services
the truth of his charges will avail
nothing
The voters of Pennsylvania want
of-
fileials who will consult them
f
tin spending of their money
the money is spent I'hey want open-
handedness and squire dealing in the
Executive and accounting
ments, and the official admissions now |
depurt-
following upon the heels of exposure
will help materially toward the fulfill]
re Uhiere has been |
the |
Harris |
ment of their des
owning to
in the
in
skeleton
too much delay
presence of the
up
bury closet,
mises atl ma——
PRAISES DInruLiNG
Hpeakiong of Mr. Dimeling’s nomi
ation for state senator, the (
epublican remarks ;
The nomination of Mr,
will add strength to the entire
in Clearfield county and will Le gladly
welcomed not only by the
of this county but also by =
element of independent
Mr. Dimeling is a clear-beaded, nective,
representative the
lear field |
Dimeling |
ticket |
Democrats |
Inrge
epublicans,
progressive
younger Democracy and will
office with honor and credit 1
constituency and to himself, for
is no doubt of his election.
To Benator William C,
Democrats of Clearfield
again greatly indebted
surrender to the
this year should not be forgotten,
man represented this district
more honorably and fearlessly than
did William C. Heiule
a rock against all the
and bribes in the
ef
£1
i
iti the
0 his
there |
Heinle
county
ever
blsodishments |
famous boodle
before the attacks of the Mae .ine
bribers,
— ff o—
THE WORLD'S WHEAT CKOY
that
1906
The London Economist asserts
“the world’s cereal harvest of
cannot fail to prove one of the greatest
ever produced.” The wheat crop
above the average in the north of
France, but it has suffered from
drought in the south and west, France
will need to import very little if any
whent, Spain has reaped a good har-
vest generally, while Germany
good crops of barley and oats as well
as of wheat and rye. Austria-Hun-
gary will produce a much larger wheat
crop this year than last. Io Russia
the winter wheat crop has been offi-
cially reported to be a good one, while
the more Important spring wheat’ crop
is poor in all but a few provinces,
Roumania is now expected to produce
a record wheat crop, and Servis and
Bulgaria have good crops. The Cane
adian wheat harvest, will not prove
very abundant. India's wheat crop
harvested last spring was the greatest
but one ever known,
in
«BAN
AP ———
The papers of the large cities are all
right if you want them, but it is your
own home paper that advertises your
churches, your numerous societies,
sympathizes with you in your sfilic-
tions and rejoices with you In your
prosperity. In short it is the local pa-
per that mentions the thoussnd snd
one items in which you are interested
durivg the year, and do not find in
papers of large cities,
.
HE BALDWIN WORKS,
Are Kite for
Selinsgrove
hey Looking for Plant at
The following dispatch was recently
sent out from Lewistown :
Rumor, emanating from
thority, says the land in the vicinity
good
of Reliusgrove upon which J. Murray
| Africa has been securing options for
the past four months, is to be utilized
by the Burnham, Willinmus Company
for a Baldwin
of this the
greater
works, In speakiog in.
formant says;
This compuny hus been handicapped
of
eliminate
retarded the development the
dustry, In order to
tresd on
Bu:
Ww ©
nham, three miles from
EDs City, re are established what
works,
1s Known as the Standard Mies]
‘ A Ch Ale WwW ein ed in be
te Thousand wen,
that the
iit edd i t
ince
Wold Blig py
Was ne if
point
Lives [or the move It is elnimed
thal sufficient water power ean be
ished 1 RUnerate electrical intive
POW-r J ef re plant which
would he reduction in eX pense
to know
Africas w ne
w+ who ¢lal
hat J
’
liver 1 charge tf
ny
Murray
work at the Standard Stee] w
several vears and comes to the
quentiy to consult with the
the company,
Mr. Africa was in town recently
did not ¢
but sti
wiafirm or deny the
report, |
| adheres to his former site |
ment to the newsp per fraternity t
3 ¢¢
the location is to be user y establish a |
large manufacturing plant Even |
this tallies with the de scription «
| Baldwin locomotive works
LAMA LS
residences from
downe,
Miss Murgaretl Stuart,
. )
lege, has enrolled as
Philadelphia musie scl
Pyrone is making an «flort to have |
the Second Brigade,
of Pennsylvania, hold their next sume |
mer's encampment at that place
Oa reaching her te hundredth!
Hinkle, |
Allentown,
Hallie
Woman
Dot
RT i
Following this rule it
the old
century.
ad
i
Vises : * 't hurry don’t
worry."
must have taken |
long time to live |
indy a a
Hob, of Coleville, ia £11 } i
in
(feorge
short because he sewed the cash
¢
ICR Isis vd of “1 siting i
{1
fl Ig
Ww
in aj
band hile the family was abser
J ’
from the House, some one entered, and
stro ¥
box ' and ritled it.
Ouve of the name plates on the Rol
diers’ monument, Bellefonte, fell from
its position one day recently, striking
Margaret Finnegan in the face, and
Two of her
her
A peculiar accident,
to the jaw bone, and
cut and bruised,
face badly
MecClure's for October is full of keen,
vigorous articles and delightful fiction.
First of all Bteflens’
Juvenile Court
| of Denver, with ita picturesque stories
tof * bad kids," and vivid, humsn
| portraiture of Judge Lindsey, the man |
| who has created a new method of deal-
ing with juvenile offenders,
Mr. and Mrs
toona are about to
comes Lincoln
its
A. B. Myers,
take a trip west.
Chirago and Kt
Louis ure on the route contemplated,
In Ohio they will stop for a while
with D. Olie Stover, a brother of Mrs,
Myers. Mr, Myers a lumber in-
spector, and stands well with the
Pennsylvania railroad company who
employ him,
of Al-
ward-—Cleveland,
in
Thursday of next week two well
known school teachers will be married
at Blanchard. The prospective groom
is Shuman Sylvester Williams, prin.
cipal of the Pleasant Gap schools, and
Miss Bertha Elizaleth Johnston, of
Blanchard, will be the bride. Miss
Johnston is teaching school in Benner
township, and is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs, N. H. Johnston,
The farmers who dig the money out
of the surface of the ground to pay the
cont of State Capitola, the miners who
dig their share out of the bowels of the
earth, and all the rest of us who dig
for daily bread and contribute our dole
will keep in mind for the next sixty
days the free-and-easy way with which
their hard earnings are dissipated, It
is too late to get the money back, but
it in pot too late to have a settlement
with the spollemen who have had a
free swing in dipping their hands into
the public treasury,
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
News of a Semi-Loeal Character Gathered
from the Exchange Table,
The October term of Bnyder county
court will convene on Monday with
but one civil case on the list.
While James W. Fleming had his
horse tied near the residence of Joseph
Wilson in Belleville one of its arteries
bursted causing the animal to die
Now a rumor prevails that a com-
pany of capitalists propose to locate a
large power plant in Lewistown Nar-
utilized for the purpose,
What is believed be
gas well in the has just been
drilled pear Kane, Its capacity
estimated at 100,000,000 feet of gas a
escaping
to
world
the largest
is
day and the roar of the aa
an be heard for miles,
Johu Walls, an employe in the office
of the Adams Express Co., at Altoona,
sbsconded with $1,300 entrusted to the
+ iif
care Of
and, although he
nll of the
ountry, he is still at large.
Mifllin Ce un'y
tee elected M.,
the company,
is being hunted in parts
Republican Commit-
Merle Garrett chairman,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
ation of H. H. JY.
thie trouble was experienced in getting
Laub, Consider-
wily fe
to serve, owing to the general
Mio that the fusion ticket will
the county
Prospectors 1n the Blate Run (Ly-
region confident
ss must exist there, and that
waler pre-
are
Oli and
he strong pressure of salt
its both from finding their way to
Every effort to obtain
of Nature been
surfece,
hese products Lins
¥ this water,
w Huil,
a farmer residing near
hy, io the spring planted three
“tl pumpkin seeds from which have
ig a large number of vines, five of
hy # in length,
several vines conlain nine pump-
weighing to
, besides a large number
from sixty
Harder, of Lock Haven, a
sporting goods man, was
of a accident the
was handling a gun
ie
brought in to be re-
serious
walking around the
« store, ou which the gun
weapon was discharged by
to the floor, the load entering
fool. The member was later
Hitting on her
Port
around her left
porch at
felt
Ebensburg
something
Reach.
to find a
about her
of terror she fled in-
tryiog to kick the snake
Ihe reptile
Charles
ankle,
ing down, she was horrified
grake three feet long coiled
With a cry
SU CCERS,
only tightened its hold Miles Davis,
wed in a near-by store, heard the
ran to her as
snake with =a
woman's shrieks and
sistance, killing the
shovel
The rural telephove line up Stone
Valley, extending from Huntingdon
into Henderson and Miller
townships in two direcdons, has been
completed, and Bell telephones will be
placed in service in some twenty farm-
ers’ residences, connecting up the set-
of Center Union, Church,
Dunation, Cornpropst
Mills and Wesleyan chapel. R., G.
Miller, cashier of the First National
Bank, is agent for the lipe and he has
been instrumental in bringing about
this much needed service throughout
the above territory. The line will con.
nect with the Huntingdon exchange.
A returned in court
against the borough of Huntingdon
allowing Dr. A. KE. Tussey his fall
claim of $1,310; with interest, for at
tending to the smallpox patients in
that borough in 1908. The case had
been pending for some time and final-
ly came up for trial. Dr. Tussey is
from McConnellstown and was em-
ployed by the borough authorities to
look after the smallpox patients at
the rate of $10 a day. His services
lasted one hundred and thirty-one
days, and the full claim with interest
amounted to $1,673. The bill was con-
tested on the ground that the county
should pay this expense,
Oneida,
tiements
Sugar Grove,
verdict was
Special Trains for the Fair,
For points along the Lewisburg and
Tyrone railroad from Bellefonte to Co-
burn, special excursion rates will be
given, The regular trains will carry
passengers to Bellefonte and special
trains will leave Bellefonte for Coburn
on Wednesday night at 10 o'clock and
Thursday and Friday evenings at 7
o'clock,
————— — ———————
Arbor Duy,
According to a proclamation issued
hy State Buperintendent of Behools
Nathan C. Schafler, Friday, October
19, has been designated sas Arbor Day.
The day should be observed not only
ceremonially, but by the planting of
trees,
EXalBIT OF FRUIT, ETC
At the Encampment sand Falr the Prettiest
snd Most Elnborate,
- The exhibit in the Agricultural and
Horticultural Department at the Kn-
campment and Fair was the prettiest
and most elaborate yet shown, Fully
one thousand distinet exhibits were on
the show tables, embracing about
every known variety of fruit, vegeta-
bles, grains, grown
county.
ete., in Centre
also a letter from the executive com-
mittee of the Btate Grange awarding
the Master Hill prize for the best ex-
hibit by any Grange in Centre county.
The prize was carried trivm-
phantly by Logan Grange.
HE EXHIBITORS
Earl]
nw ny
Committee of the
(irange having
as judges of the
several Subordinate
Graoges at this the 33rd Annual Pies
nic beg leave to repori that we have
attended to that duty snd wish to say :
I'he Executive
Pennsylvavia State
been requested to act
exhibits of the
That the exhibits are all good and are
a credit to the Granges, as well as to
the individual exhibitors.
After a examination
comparison we are of the
opinion that Logan Grange, No
has the best display of varied exhibits,
and in our judgment said Grange
entitled to the special prize of a $10
Grange National Bank note, offered
by Worthy Master Hill.
We also desire to make special men-
tion of the elegant displays made by
Victor and Progress dranges.
In this connection we would suggest
and recommend that in the future it
would add greatly to the appearance
and attractiveness of the exhibits if
Graoges were allotted larger space for
their exhibits and have each Grange
exhibit designated by a suitable pls,
card, giving name and number of the
Grange. Much of the success of a dis-
play depends on the neat and proper
arrangement of the exhibits,
Fraternally submitted,
Geo. W. OsTER,
C. H. DiLpINg,
J. FRANK CHANDLER,
Executive Committee,
A — —— i
LOCALS,
the squirrel
careful snd
Unanimous
100,
is
Pop !
the tree,
Mrs. P. B. Jordan, Friday returned
from Liverpool, Perry county, where
she visited Lloyd Kerlin and family.
Mrs. Mary Bhoop is in Harrisburg
among friends and relatives, and, of
course, will witness the Capitol dedi-
cation today (Thursday. )
J. J. Arney and granddaughter, Miss
Pearl Arney, are attending the dedi-
cation of the state capitol, While in
Harrisburg they will be the guests of
Dr. and Mrs, G. H. Widder,
Lock Haven is having a repetition
of ity Isst years experience-—-the resig-
nation of principals. KE. 8. Ling,
principal of the High Behiool, has re-
signed, but the board is unwilling to
accept his resignation unless he can
show good reason,
A scoundrel representing himself to
be selling lenses and spectacles from
the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia,
soaked a number of Mifflin county un-
suspecting people. From Mrs. Will-
ism Wharton, at McoVeytown, the
scam p is credited with having taken
$8.00 for a pair of glasses of little or no
runs higher up
value,
——————————esn dls
4 1906.
Wanted, 8 Good Hoad
Measures should be taken have
the old pike across the Heven Moun-
At
Keven
to
tains put into passable condition,
present it the most horrid
{ miles of public road in Central Penn-
sylvania, and surround-
ing country affords a splendid market
for all kinds of produce and products
in
Lewistown
{ of the farm, and it is only the almost
impassable road between the grower
{in Penns Valley and that market that
| is responsible for much of the
With a return of the
the sixties the
| Heven Mountains many dollars worth
| of produce, ete. ,
waste
{on the farm. “
| good roads of BOT ORR
would find its way di-
j rect to the consumer at a profitable
i figure,
If the historic Lewistown pike were
again revived, there would
Ee RIBO
Old Faust
the
te t
| need of the revival of the
and the
South
a
notlel, hostelries oli
i North
mountains w
a
and entrances
ouid be ¢ liged to
i stabling accommodations and add
tra boards to the dini Wit
fa did
tabie,
{| good roads connecti the
fmart in Central Pennsylvania
i
| Penns Valley muany of the incidents
| reinted to have happened when
vere boys’ by the men of
would recur.
| A good road across the
| tains would do much to
dition oi every farmer i
EE. —
Ask Commissioners to Build Hoasd
Haines township has finally
will
linhla 1
8 liane |
i action which
is inoperative be
propriste funds
county commission
to lay tax for road purpos
1:8)
prov
I'he case
act says Lhe rosd Tis
ed under any existing laws
at the
will De heard
ber argument court
_-— > —
Accidents
Two Peculiar
Miss Bessie Wels Fy
y fr
h 4A
caused by a hat pin
is sufferin Mn an inj
mh
act of pinning on her hat, al
sarue time was holding two
Jf
ai
pins in her hand, one whicl
f
trated the ball of the right eye,
While assisting to renovate the
pet in
& tack which
the Reedsville Lutheran church,
been accidentall
I. G. Hea
township, ia the
had y
le It in the carpet, struck i-
ings, of Brown eye
wilh
the arb.
congiderable force, penetrating
a ——
A Car Load of Cabbage
John G. Taylor, of West
Union county, shipped a car load of
cabbage to Baltimore. The car
tained something over fourteen
and the eulire crop was grown
little more than an acre of ground.
Buflalo,
eOn-
tons
On a
————
LOCALS
Thureday, October 4
Farmers are not through making
“ second crop” hay.
in Belle-
doctors
The Hayes-Dale sanitarium,
fonte, will Joth
will devole their entire time to
be closed.
outside
practice,
President Aikeus, of Susquehanna
University, has purchased the Ulrich
farm just outside the borough limits
of Belinsgrove. The consideration was
$12,000,
I'be man who gets mad at what the
newspaper says about him should re-
turn thanks three times a day for
what the newspaper knew about him
and suppressed,
The first ship load of immigrants
sent to the south were recently landed
at Charleston. The new comers are
Belgians, South Carolina is actively
engaged in inducing immigrants to
locate in that state, and hopes thereby
to secure mill hands, and develop agri-
culture more fully.
Edgar G. Toner, recently defeated by
a msjority of one vote for the office of
Chief Burgess of Tyrone, was made
defendant in & $25,000 breach of prom.
ise suit in the Blair County court. The
institution of the suit has created quite
a sensation in the county, due to the
social prominence of the parties,
In the early days of railroading in
this pountry no restraint was laid on
any employe from drinking sud many
of them were intemperate. Now rail
roads are virtually temperance socle-
ties, Many companies will not per
mit any employe to be seen entering
a saloon, nor under any circumstances
to drink intoxicating liquors,
NO. 39.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
(iame js
wiid,
It’s cool enough to order coal,
Chestnuts and hickory nuts are said
to be plentiful,
With October comes corn husking.
And the laborer! Well,
out of sight.
The last
beautiful.
he's almost
days of Heptemuber were
The month throughout was
wv y i;
a very piessant one,
Farmer George H. Emerick is mak-
ing preparations to build a lime stack
this fall, the product to be used for
agricultural purposes
Three ch in course of
irchies are Ere.
tion at Juniaws—the Trinity
y 1. itheran,
i & parsonage, the United Evan.
i
the Reformed.
I'he dedication of the ti irteen mil-
apit
ilefs may dis
1 dollar ol takes place
WIVEr
today,
a skele-
new building.
ently are said to have
Wortie Ramsey “
Air line
Penns
ider, a Chambers.
Democratic nomi-
ion. B. K.
congression-
* held ju
Hall,
trail
ww Valley
engaged in
IV, and his
£4 bros 1%
iif Riiil~
Penusylva-
church,
south
Ir. M.
Ross,
ne (rove
B. W. Shafler, Madisont urg.
I'he Presbytery of Huntingdon holds
ils autumn meeting in Clearfleld. The
The
the ministers
sixty, and
pastoral charge.
Elder
in attendance,
sessions opened Tuesday evening,
Presbytery consists of all
nnecied wilh about
and
y will
Ly the
ber 16
INassacre
occurred Oct
1
Vang t : vied 3
Seen Gecideg
hold
Wl lelwoy's Spring, where the
urred, midway between
Dr.
has
4
nsented (oo make the address
¢
Christ D. K the
'alch it
wer, so
slory
next winter,
ROes,
He will
he Hus-
Hall, owned
David K. Keller. His
will enough to
house a regiment, and should a bevy
of the gentler sex endeavor to Kidnap
him he could easily retreat to the at-
tic and defy all threats or
He is invulnerable.
will *
ave charge
SLOCK on |
tre
i Lhe
¢
on farm, east of Cer
bi
$4
DY Lis Drother
apartments be large
overiures,
Messrs. W. E. Tate, of near Centre
Hall, and Potter Tate, of Yeagertown,
were among the Reporter friends who
paid their respects to its editor Friday,
aud spent a short time pleasantly at
this office. Sixteen years ago the Iat-
ter Mr. Tale was a resident of Potter
township, living on the Wilson farm,
now owned by Henry Stoner, He has
been in Centre county during the past
two weeks, shaking hands with old
time friends and especially cronies of
the war of the rebellion,
The Ladies’ Home Missionary So-
ciety of the Presbytery of Huntingdon
held its annual meeting in Lewistown,
September 26th and 27th, Mrs. W.
Heury Schuyler, who is the recording
secretary, represented the local society
of Centre Hall. Rev. Schuyler ac
companied her, they driving over the
mountains Tuesday afternoon, return.
ing Friday morning. They formerly
spent six years in Lewistown, as prin-
cipals of the Academy, and always re
ceive a hearty welcome from their
many pupils living in Mifflin county.
This makes a visit to that section a
great pleasure to them,
Its a bit early to mention changes
of farm tenants next spring, but since
definite arrangements have already
been made they are not premature :
Harry Fye will vacate the Samuel
Bruss farm, east of Centre Hall, to
move to A. P. Luse & Son's farm, east
of the Old Fort, new tenanted by
Jerome Auman. Sydoey Poorman,
who last spring quit the farm to bee
come the general utility man at Weber
Brother's mill, will go to the James A,
Keller farm, east of Centre Hall, Mr.
Keller will continue to occupy a part
of the house and board with the Poor
mans. David K. Keller will move to
his own farm, the Huston place.