VOL. LXXIX. THE FARMER PAYS THE BILL The Philadelphia gangsters and the | puppy followers throughout the coun-| ty want to close the voters’ eyes by | saying that the Capitol was built with | money that did not come the farmers, Inborers, mechanics and wid- ows, The assertion untruth, The auditor general's statement shows that wore than ove-third of all the gtale’s revenues from sources | other than from collected corporations, Again, Governor Penuypacker cutting down the appropriation for] the agricultural building did »» on the | pretext that cash was scarce in the | state treasury. He cul down appro-| priations for a number of charitable | institutions on the same score, ond the same time be and his commission | were buying furniture by the cubic foot and chandeliers by the until $9,000,000 of the people’s money | was squandered. And in those nine millions, it is charged, a cent. was graft, The appropriations to the various school districts throughout the rural sections are dwindling away. Why? The eleven millions are aporopristed every two years, buc ini order to have money by the millions to pay out the gangsters and their friends, every item for educatioval charged up against the school appro priation, instead of being taken out of from Is Aan i came | texes from! in | nt | pound | lnrge per ‘ purposes “ moneys not otherwise appropriated as was the custom. But for the purchasing of chisirs by the cubie foot and chandeliers by the | pound all the boroughs and townships in Centre county might have received | from one to three hundred dollars | more for school purposes, Now who pays for fringes for trimmings 7 Answer : Treasurer Berry in his ad-| dress in the court truthfully asserted that Centre coun-| ty’s share of the Capitol deal $585,000. Centre county much, had the been squandered for excessive ture at an excessive price $55,000 returned to the county house last week | Was just joses that because not money furni. i Aid | have Leen treasury. Would not $55,000 be a add to the schivol sppropristion 7 for the Capit it might been done. Mr. Farmer, you paid for the Capitol, Mr. Farmer, it is your nice sum i eal have oush ths ' gangsters steal every time they their hands into the public treasury tise I'he Bellefonte hospital is well with patients at all times. Ti tution could well have used the sppr filled | & insti- priation cut oft by Governor Penuny- packer on ths pretense that the state treasury was not in a conditior rant the full amount Ihe the governor wanted a large in the treasury #0 that the §9 000 000 Huston frills and fringes could be paid without detection. As a of the governor's action the pockets of | Huston were lined to the tune of six | hundred thousand dollars and the con- tractors became rich on a single con | tract. Further the ladies auxiliary to the hospital were obliged to make an | extra amount of jellies, preserves; hem more papkins towels thao heretofore. LE WAT. fruit} AS i surplus | CONS fjuence | aud A Ap Pennypacker has suggested that the railroads run cheap excursions to Har- | risburg in order that see the four million dollar espitol and its nine million ‘dollar trimmiovgs. That would be fine, but how many of those who woul * seiz: the opportunity to view the grandeur of the capitol | would have even 8 proper conception | of thirteen millions of dollas, let alone to judge the value of a million dollar chandelier, the people may | ————— — A ———— Noll or Frybarger, which ? If you are against Penrose and the gangsters you will vote for John Noll. If you want to hide the capitol steal you must vote for Frybarger., A Penrose | legislature would not dare to expose | the crookedness of its waster and ss | sociates, | t Bo long as the state is under the con. trol of the rotten machines so long will the decent Repuolidan vo'e for reform, They voted for Berry Jast fall, and they wil vote for Emery ih November. Of course they will repeat their »etions of last fall onee more and again if veces BAry. Mi iss “The Conflict,” by Emma Whoif, which is the novelette opening the No- vember number of The Smart Set, jan story remarkaoly new in plot aol treatment. It concerns the two dis tinct personalities which the heroine, a young married woman, discovers that she possesses . Amin The frosts of last week were “ freezers.” Vegetation is very gener ally bowing its head to Jack, who was a bit late in coming but made himself EDITORS DECLINE, Mesars, Ochs and Charlies Emory Smith Spoil Governor's Pet Pian. Two of Governor Pennypacker's committee of Philadelphia editors to investigate the new Capitol scandal have declined to serve, Joseph M. Huston, te favored Grounds and Buildings, who, Penny ine vestigation to “enlighten ”’ has also declined to have apything to do with the inquiry. be committee was to have held first sitting at Harrisburg Wednesday. The the Governor editors who vestigate the cost of the $4,000,000 worth of were Charles H. Heus- of the Ioquirer Charles Emory Smith, Philadelphia Lis, Philadelphia Press, and George W. Ochs, phia Ledg Heustis is al {) adelphina, u salary of $7100 a year, Smith the te Messrs ‘hs and Were editors who declined y Herve, Suys Mr # in his letter to the Gov roor; mvolived in pieding LOO iTES ure ¥ an inspection of uy minute books, plans and papers by ’ ’ ” t muinittee not clothed with authorit 1 to summon avd inlerrogats Les SPs td wi not authorized to administer oaths, disin- unsccompanied by experts apd terested architects and builders, train- ed accountants and competent legal counselors “Our examination would be HOOP Re no of wa ld wastituted He readily the duly « ac State’! Emory Smit fh Charles h said : ‘Such an und al committee as is tirely powerless, to would have no authority sumn- itd mon witnesses : it cot not employ is ¥ fies could experts niribute t remo $lie ippate tf slain Hh rests the On Capitol, I would esteem it a high privi- ty do so: but, or ther hand, @ wight to be bed, exposed and remedied a« far as : With these deel ' wel jrinn I'he marks i spoiled Philad a LOCAL~ rig Hay buyers are biddi timothy hay hint grade | Potatoes have now selling per titisiie f thy of th he Mateh Co in buying quite a lot of match timber in f Milroy. agent 0 ’ : Pennsylvani ¥ of Bellefoute succeeded the vicinity of Mrs. Mary M. Haines, a resident of Penn township, purchased the proper- owned West Vir. I'he consideration Aaronsburg Hosterman, formerly the For real down, enld, rough, disagree duriog Thursday night mercu- », onl able westher a few deve Inst degrees and Friday wenty-four degrees That's cold for early October, ¢ § Messrs Winkle- of Feidier, pur- Seymour, James blech and Elmer Boob, hay baler formerly oper: ted Emerick, Mr. Emerick went to Feidler the beginning of this week to nssist the purchasers to ope rate the mackine by George H John Bricker, who for the last few years has been in 86 Paul, Minnesota, has loesied at Tyrone where he will be etaployed in a candy factory. He is a ton of Mra, Laura Bricker who some time ago changed her residence from Boalsburg to Tyrone An operation performed at the Beile- fonte hospital on Miss Julia Curtin relieved her. She had been suflering from an abscess several weeks previous. Physicians had attempted Lo treat the abscess williant resorting tp rurgery but fabled, ~~ station Agent Jann« Wagner, of Mifllinburg, accompanied by his family, eame up to Tusseyville last week, Mr. Wagner returned Monday, bit the family remained at the home of Mra, Wagner's parents, Mr. and Mre. Thomas Fleisher, near Tussey- » SL nl Sa ri The district Bunday School Cone vention to be held at Spring Mills Fri- day afternoon and evening will une doubtedly be interesting to Bunday “¢ wool Workers The eonnvention is undenominational, and consequently will have representatives from all schools within the district whieh em- braces Gregg sud Potter townships greatly Poin’) very much felt when he did come, AMBROSE DOUTY KILLED, | Strack by a Lath on the Temple—Died in | Fourteen Hours, | Wednesday of last week Ambrose { Douty received an injury while work- {ing on his saw mill, at Grenobles Gap, | near Madisonburg, that terminated in | his death about fourteen hours later, {look after his interests, and while there he concluded to cut a few plaster- ing lath. While making a cut the saw threw back a lath striking Mr. Douty on the temple. He was knock- in that condltion | Everything | | | | i was taken to his home, man, but death eame the next morn- ing at aboul seven o'clock. | Mr. Douty was a man of about forty | years, and was one of several brothers | He was | five fsurvive ! ar- | children | | who follow lumbering wife and Interment was made Bunday morn- ing at Madisonburg, the funeral serv- | the I { lead chureh of which the deceased was | The | attended, due to the manper in which | of Mr. in that i # being conducted 1n Evange i + member, funeral was largely On account known { death came, and elng so well Wf ss em—— It Was Loos] Talent Robert Heundershot, of Bellefonte, a of | ed Friday afternoon, charged | with breaking into and robbing Frank | P jewelry store, an account which appeared in last week's issue of | t Reporter, The arrest was made | iy Officer William Beezer and the clue | was a simple | his | the | fOULE oan twenty-two years Bye, | Was arrest of | Blair's i } i which led to the arrest I'he thief lost a button from of Hendershot, it seems, was der suspi Officer wearing a One, coat while in the act robbing slore, ur- ion, and Beezer no- ¥ Lid al the buttons of which matched the but- ton fot ed him the fair, cont ind in Blair's store. There was | Hender- | i alzo nu button missing from al. Heodershot was charged | red erim- and it is alleg made onf | ot Hs CTV Ee sion, ii ! the wal ndershot’s i for stealing 0 i a ves y i i BR year fn urg jail a | . — m—— Keith's Theaters, anid varied are the Sireet Mauy attractions Keit ' ( 4 Theatre, H. lends them at i Philadelphia, Harn Bil Li fieaitl 1s week, in this but the i 1 i ong ally ¥ ily ts t . A £ iB 3 American en- and they spectacular electric ** The are giving their i's performance : of the a gagement company, 1 presenting Starlight Cems, "' vi} artistes last weed . week | i Hee- | 1i8 high-| and last Mau tt nd d pearing a Frank Bush, th Delphino ft ie ’ Bi ers i Viiie ale ei ¢ 5 $3 i f story-tellers i . i novelty ; | character com- | Emerson and Baldwin, com. and Delors, clown musical Lily edienne ; Seville, Eoglish edy jugglers, aud a host of athers, A ——— Horner Property Sold The Horner property, located west of Pine Stump school house in a sets tlement known “ Black-Hawk,"” was recently sold by Mrs. William Horner to J. W. Mowery, of Pittsburg, who already occupies the same. Mr. Mowery is rather a young man, but through some accident became injured #0 that | e is not able to perform much manual labor. The home contains forty-six mcres, twenty of which are under cultivation. The price paid was $1200 as —— A — A ——— Demented Man Returns, For several months Samuel Ruhl, eon of Jonathan Ruhl, of Tylersville, had been aw:y from home and his whereabouts unknown to his parents, The young man was weak-minded and couscquently added grief to grief, Last week he unceremonionsly walked up his brother who was on the streets in Lock Haven. The young man was taken home and when ques- tioned he stated that he had been in southern New York working on a farm, to tp > Who Faye the Bil ? When impudently telling the people of Pennsylvania that they had no share in paying the cost of the Capi- tol, the orgaus of the Machine have attempted to doubly deceive them as to the sources of the State revenues. The Auditor General's report for 1904 ( the latest ) shows that the taxes other than the taxation of corpora. tions amounted to nearly $9,500,000 that year, or more than one-third of the total State revenues, A Lar Load of Deer, Thirty-three live deer arrived in Cleatfield Wednesday evening of last week, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, {eonsigoed to William FF. Mosser, the well known tanner, at Westover, Clentfield county, who will place them in his besutiful park he owns at and Centre Hall borough, the latter place, The Road Question Argued, The case of the supervisors of Haines township against the County Commis- sloners relative to maintaining the! condemned turnpike through Penns Valley was argued before Judge Orvis, W. D. Zerby, representing the firm | of Gettig, Bower & Zerby, for the commissioners, appeared in be- | half of the county, and ex-Judge John | G. Love represented the petitioners. The contentions made by the com- attorneys that the | was unconstitutional in| was defective ; was a and solicitors missioners’ law of 1905 that the title special form of legislation, further that the law did funds for its execution, Attorney Love argued that were ew y aot provide the law regular and not special, resis The decision now with Judge | Orvis. The outcome is of great con- cern to the tax payers in Penns Val-| ley, and more especially the tax pay-| ers in Potter, Gregg, Penn and Haines | townships through which the con-| that the law is defective, a long stretch | i iy | if regular, the tax payers in these townships ; the decision is that the law is the burden lifted townships mentioned and the county. Argument is made in some that the law is unjust. The be advanced by the | will be from pli the | Oh quarters | Eline ar-l gument would not 3 i same people if the road passed through | The ( porter was the first to call att it to has already been entre ive} ention to | has this this law, and what aie subject ; If the law is regular the Penns Valley are entitled t people in| to its bene-| its claims regard. I otl i 3 i ess of the opinions ventured in er | $ 1i¢ waiilios, rests | If the law is faulty it with the county to show it, — Niate 8. 8B Convention i } i 3 { relly last week. The meetings were rhurg to be held under a canvas tent, but after holding the first session there the Col- an ch The for the ensuing year Honorary president, H. J. burg ; first vice president, Cormick, Harrisburg ; president, M. 1 president, urches were resorted to. 4 i elected ollowing officers were Wana. 11! Me- Vice John Heintz, v Vance second Lowe, Columbia; third W. D W, Pittsburg ; recordiog secretary, D Pomeroy, Troy k Pittsburg riontown was chosen the place fi Vice ¥ {ressurer, 8 (iil, y i Be ir holding the next i i vention. tes i from Me- Delega to the Centre county were Rev, , convention Ww. Miss McBride, of near Lemont. LOCALS The Reformed church at Zion has been renovated and artistically fres- coed. The Pennsylvania Telephone Com- pany is rebuilding its Old Fort and Millheim, Dentist W. A. Alexander and sister, Miss Rhoda Alexander, were callers at the Reporter office Monday, At the real sale of John Stoner, at Madisonburg, the house and lot was bid up to §1100, and the twenty acre tract west of town to $80 an acre. Clarence Musser snd Miss Viola Tressler, of Penns Cave, were in Cen- tre Hall Baturday, and called at the Reporter office. Mr, Musser is one of the Gregg township school teachers, Dr. and Mrs, G. W. Hosterman went to Philipsburg last week returning Tuesday. They were there to visit their son, Prof. John B. Hosterman, principal of the Philipsburg schools, Resigning as pastor of the Preshyter- ian congregation at Somerset, Rev. Ralph Illingeworth, well known in Penns Valley, accepted the pastorate of a Presbyterian congregation in Bal- timore, Tiring of being employed by others, George W. Condo opened a meat mar. ket at Jeannette in his own name, and is doing a splendid business. Be. sides handling fresh meats, he also sells all kinds of canned and prepared meats, It was with a view of exercising and seeing the grandest valley in Central Pennsylvania that J. Dorsey Hunter, of the Index Book Btore, Bellefonte, walked to Centre Hall and back Bun day. ‘'I just feel fine,” is the way Mr. Hunter put it on coming from the dining hall of the Centre Hall hotel. A Bellefonte resident in his eighty- second year Mr, Wetzel was no ticed, by one of the Reporter's corre spondents, picking apples in the or chard on his farm near Bellefonte. By his side was his son, Rev, Frank Wet. zel, pastor of the Reformed church at Rebersburg, and it is said the father picked all ‘round his son, lines between estate 18, 1906. THE REFORM RALLY Was the Greatest Political Meeting Held in Bellefonte Ever Those who attended the Reform attest that it was the greatest political in Bellefonte. It influence a sel of 3 gangsters and give the second #tate in the union decent nd honest n The court house was u at that building campaign Cc ked any i ) ot Hancock in which Democrats took a part, 1 W anyinn ¥ ted ier WAH like the same interest ani the audience. The speaking con 3 listened ALLY c as attentively and by as ms the brief of Spangler, the chairman, a ’ i BH address IR 4 The voters went to the Refo , tl and received it, The follows { Heform C Vice-Presidents 8. Brouse, W, Ji Munson, Jo DRITIAn R A. iii 1 ' Bellefo Hoflmas Willi Fa 1. hn All Toner Lucas, t Howard V 1 i Ii A Wim hi, Potters M irg : Wm t Yeu ", Bmitd Salomon Peck, Walker KH “iris, twp WM. Fosler, © H. Mari ter Lwy Pleasant (is tw] Rudoly h B delphian, a reformer and pi Hearers iblican, in ! » to supp ling for State Senat it, that Mr sentative of that a desperat eject ee thwart Pen rose ther hand, ] : if aii ri 15d fio iL 0 supg alr a support ar) i > ' TOL giving u trimmers of t} The speaker also John Noll as a suf the lower had looked into Mr saw the representative had f, man of legi re. Hel ¥ i Noll's re Yo house rd sted every the ple’s good, and against every law had the gang imprint upon Possibly the highest tribute any individual by Mr, was when reference was record of Benator W, OC, a member in the senate for 51 1 i ¥ that measure that was HO paid to Blankenburg to the made Heinle Willie gp Fenslon for School Teachers made to secure the passage of a pension bill for The bill the And soon 8 cam A desperate effort iz being 3 i gchool teachers 1 5 il course of formulation paigo in interest legislative candidate will commit himself this subject, es- pecially since the pension dollars will be taken from the school appropris- tlon and consequently the school tax will need to be raised just that much, Just on what ground the pedagogue will make his plea for peosion is nst plain to the average tax payer. Why this class should be preferred over all others can not easily be stated, The Reporter's columns are open to any one v ho favors or opposes pen- sioning school teachers. The only condition is that the name will be printed with the communication, ——— A si High School Taltion ald According to an act passed March 16, 19056, school children in a district where no high school is maintained have the privilege of attending any convenient high school outside of the district in which the pupils may live, The only condition imposed upon the pupils is that before entering such high school they submit to and successfully pass an examination held for that purpose, This law has been taken little or uo advantage of by school children, yet it affords all pupils qualified to take high school work an opportunity to gain ad. mission to any convenient hiuh school its will open I'he io hesitate on NO. 41. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. asants and wild turkeys are be- hunted since Monday, Milr ng opened since has eight schools now, one the beginning of kle and daughter, of Hall A ow ere in Centre [| M 3 | irive through the country will re- fine flocks of turkeys—but high in price, be hig f vaer of Hev.B. R. M, isburg, died at Bheed- Gettysburg, funeral H ' Mrs. M Bell in iler and r Mar i $ r dargaret, of ie, fare $ and will al until { next mgonth. Lo ni tod week, # slable ais feed. last Edward d ning Millheim, f iON in the stall, past 3r wt ay iat i 8 poout shambled had sl bsian- s WER ID and Mr. jixir ing townshij the making latest Pwo Mrs. Mrs, and ries (). M1 Wetz r and Pe | i: hE al : Mr. samuel Weaver, This the ClOO- nian bird did within a week, Mrs. Morris B. Hafer, burg, are visiting friends in ns Valley. Mrs. Hafer is a niece onas Royer, of Centre Hill. Part of their time was spent with Mr. and I Lather Royer, Mr. and Mrs. ‘rank Gflrerer, of near Centre Hall and and Mrs, John SBpavely, at pring y da of i Chamber Pe: ii i — drawer station money 3 i of the Lamar was rifled the other the only things secured were valueless papers and a counter feit dollar bill. Entrance to the station was the use of a key. The drawer was carried some distance be- fore broken open. The agent at that place is Jere Alters who made the dis- covery in the morning. raliroal } night, but gained by Centre Hall is in need of a number dwelling houses. There is not a vacant house or part of a house in town, yel several would be rented right vow if they could be had. Lots are cheap, and a modest dwelling could be built without a great outlay of money and rented to return a inter est on investment. Who will build dwelling houses ? of Are your children attending school regularly? Perhaps it will require some persuasion on the part of the parents to obtain regular attendance, but the parent who neglects this duty will be cursed by his children when they grow older for this neglect. Send the boys and girls to school and en- courage them to do their best. An education is the best inheritance. Among the improvements being made to farm houses near Contre Hall in the placing of a new roof and gable on the dwelling of George H. Emerick, It was intimated that Mr. Emerick contemplated getting of! the farm, but from present indications farm life, ina comfortable home, is good enough for Lim, The carpenters doing the work for Mr. Emerick are Aaron Thomas at the expense of the district of which they are residents. Samuel Shoop and Clayton Wagner,
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