VOL. LXXX STAPLE CROP VALUES Compared from a Series of Yeunrs—1904 Banner Year for Farmers, : A comparative table of farm values has been prepared by the® * American Agriculturalist” showing acreage, pro- duction and selling prices of staple for a number of The three years taken for special compari- 1904, 1901 1885 : 1901 is takeu as an average year, 1806 us a low year and 1904 as the most prosper year that American agriculture hus ever known. The total the farm of the staple crops was $1,820, 000,000 iu 1896, $2,632,000,000 in 1801 and $3,278,000,000 in 1904. Counting live stock, the value products in 195 $6,477,000,000. The statement is made that the ir cresse in the value of not from crops years, 800 Are and Us value at total of far Was farm crops has come an increased produce- tion, but from increased demand and higher prices. Corn is selling for twice what it did third more, more, hay for in 1896, wheat {or one- rds The nud polatoes { LWo-1! one-third values at the farm of hogs, cattle wr more sheep have not incrense re to hogs, cattle This would argue that in lowering the price it Lin prope the values of crops. 71 al 1d sheep er for his live the price of wiildiminish nea thie I will be an equalization of prices to the farmer. a Mr. Talks The Haven EIVIDE an 800 gut of 8 1iLeeling « Clinton County Pomo Dale About Telephone Lock Da Demoer this statement : The second fit of a Farmers’ How to Cons This over and took up over two Land CU al ques AV H. Lhe rough Y cussion, Willard Dale, of Centre ¢ he principal speaker og be an effort msde Wo. Von farm, Centre weal Hal fine horses pu Grove. The widow aud daughters John Boal, of to Cen house on Church sireet Tusseyviile, will move tre Hall, sud wi occupy owned by Mrs Kate Handers, the be Ha! P pur- Among iuprovements to made of will be the erection of a barn vy J, ng in the viciuity Penn Grove, who 8 year or more chased the Evans home The Ladies’ Aid Boalsburg Lutheran church wil an oyster the Boalsturg, evealng, Ice cream will ceeds for benefit ment fund Society of the il Noi Hall, ward Fro- Huprove- supper io Town Saturday also be on of “mle, church Measures have been taken by (he Juniata borough councilmen wher: by East Tyrone will become a part of that boroughs population would borough. Ihe within the new approximately 6500, sand school ehildren. boundaries be with one thou. Beginning of the week Samuel Bur. ris, whose illness was previously noted in these columns, had slightly im- proved. He is over seventy-eight years of age, and although he does not appear to 8 ifler much pain he is un- able to regain strength. From the Millheim Journal : Thurs. day morning the county commission. ers, C. A. Weaver, John Duulap and J. G. Balley, accompanied by Boyd A. Musser, of the York bridge company, and John Knisely, coutractor of Belie fonte, were in this place examining the site for the new county bridge across Elk creek. ‘The commissioners have promised the town a substantial and handsome bridge, the floor of the bridge to be of concrete and a six-fool sidewalk on the vorthern side. The bridge will be, furnished complete by the county and placed in position, nut the abutments must be ballt by the borough, JAA in given space i Every read sented the Centre Reporter, but there is wholes I'he ery is going out that the publie SChoOls ure a great burden, snd yet {to they are cheap- no tate or commn abolish them, for all know that rand better than private schools former times, and many more children attend them. Yet again the ery goes out that thousands of children are not availing themselves of these schools and are being attracted from them workshops, storerooms, ete x pense if in any sirildren can be brought must not stand in the way auner these for with the trainmiy pl ia the school, and defects public r the best place of American citizens this land has & right and everything must iim the opportunity to shih, Y payiuyg cl the me WDo are y, by greed Cause, Lo have Lo 0 work, could thus have the Op- portunity to atiend school, for wid ther ACI money just as now by work oi Mouey is the main thing iu life sbout the child aud must be #8 % LHIeAlns Lo attract and sid find it B&Cojiection sh tore profits order to education RiVes intellige greal, tle $ good, only ial and eid WwW Are 3 lem per { in the y Lien if by paying those si “of vil to “Very where atiend schools Lh wine under inflaei,- thus Lhe tern plations can be ndud come to school and get this tet per BL0oe t thus will crime be great- vy Tr 1 i miuing, iesse ned and Lhereby taxes for oar- ig for erimiunls be greatly lowered If et hool much of the iiren were peid to attend ac burden incurred for idren now in Ww dependent chi with, for it would CRTIng uld be done away make wany who are now dependent upon the State or upon charity ble to Pay AR care for theinsel ves children tug would FOLIO Lo go Lo much the “sen ve ¥ eX pease for enforciug the in- deed in time there would be no ehild- laws io reference ww child<labor ; Isbor which wight need lo Ring after Very much, for those who might “m= ploy vuiidren would be compelied to make ciings as comfortable sod atirse- tive as Lhe scuool, i indeed they could At all attract the ehildren, Pertinps the greatest present gain would come to the State in the way of taking children out of competition with adults, thus giving more employ ment to wen snd better wages, and thus waking better homes, ln this way would the Stale Le greatly bene fited, for upon the home the State de- pends more thau Upon auy other one thing. It would add dignity to these homes, for with the children steadily bringiog in funds from a most honor. able source, and the parents being able to perform their part, charity would not be needed and thus true manhood would come juto many homes which are kept down now because of poverty. But the greatest good would come to the ehild himself, This appesrs in so many ways that only a few need to be given here, The reader can think of Lany more, If greed of parents is one great cause of child-lavor, then if the chiid ean earn mouey by golog to school, as much ss by working outside, the pa- rents will wan bins to iy A school, - The title defines the line of argument pre- he to many, may new -Ed. ] The child will learn in the school-room much that he edn earry hom wilh him to better the home, far, far more than he can obtain in any work he this way himself, can make a Algo the have power food engage in, and in better for school authorities will home see that he has proper care, ’ clothing, ete. Writers upon child-labor impress up- on us that some of the most deplorable things are that the child learns few if any good habits in his work, ls rather unlikely to learn a trade or business, is habits, the to unsteady in his in fact workshops ar him demoralizing inducing them to attend seh ing them would bring these under ivf] need snd would give them hab those ences which most There is another side to consider in thus matter of paying children to go school. They ought to be paid to go | school because it i= right to do RO, is really due them for servie FCHOOI Tin ihe I'he State demande certain things 1zens, wae is the bearing of an nalion is In danger. thought the preservation of the t Importance does not Ione DeCOILe for such, & with chilidren, State demands 1 educate pends the good of Lhe 8 child ought to BUCH BeTIVid repLGers apprentices out in thie country, no cause of the feeling that d for beyond As 1 sep it, just as much ent for bia dier, and the State is just as much une uld Le Ps Cents trade si) Lhe the tied to receive money dollars and were trade itself. child is services Lo Lhe Biate as the Og der obligation to pay him for his pub- lic services in Lhe school-room as the private party is to pay him for private Lhe should services rendered. apprentice in the schoolroom have dollars aud cents for his services beyoud the mere knowledge gauined, of the Lriug happh ens Lo Whalever else ia the business Shale, 31 pt ople Se bon at present; vor has there been one is io ile Perhaps there is uo other 1 In Lhe past, where the people consti- tutiog It are 8s happy as in our coun- try, ~~ mean all of people, 1 canuotl help but feel that the darkest blot upon our pages today is that of child-labor., The most unhappy creas tures song our people today are the helpless children condemned to work as they are. When one reads of these poor children, one can hardly believe that a great nation that spent millions of dollars to free a race of peo- ple who were really never as bad off in their slavery as are these childrens God's children, America’s children, at the very present time in many places, can refuse to spend any smount to free these children. What can dollars mean to us when these poor, little hu- man souls are perishing! What are taxes to us who are grown to manhood, able-bodied and blessed with health, compared with the woes of those poor children who are taxed a thousand tines worse? Of what better use is money if by paying them to go to #chool we can thus free them from the bondage | hey are now in? But (iis paper is not altogether written ‘a the interests of unhappy and tusceable children involved in labor, but also for the helping of all (Continued on next column, ) Classes poor, FLEFHONY yi NEW 1 18, Company, Tels Company No The Fairons tars) phone Organized Thursday Evening Line from Hall Yiitis Centers to Farmers A brapeh company of The Rural Telephone Company Fhursday ganized evening, f Hear Homan, east ffieers of the © Bitoer : Magia Joseph iartges ; Keller ; Treasurer, Jie Agent, iy will be No, 15, and extends Lpaily Hall to Fk . is Known as the Keller of armers Mills, w hint wiovg whicli live Boe Most prosperous farmers to be anywhere in Centre county. for telephones and cash for the lines are Messrs atid Joseph Bitper, Farmers Mills D. W, Hon the Philip Durst, y i Cie I Fy, Jullien David L Baiel, K Oman, pro seCcuri WEI DIOL #1 op i i lustruments at flat Year, o« L Farmers Mills line is come fourth wilh the Centre ake Lie pair ive f inl of about Lo Heep the al ail times the eat ph rae sevice lias ’ MIR OsL evel nt mfnla——— Two-Uent BK, K, Fares The house, without a particle of op. Dunsmore bill. The Axiom yoRitinn mee: Lhe LW } ' Cell ratirond fare measure rate of fare shall be two ceu's per mile on all provides thst Lhe steam railroads, ibn iegf mais —— Life is a constant change, but we cannot always find it in our books, pocket. { Contioued from previous column.) children who go out to work, because money means more to them and to their parents than schooling. It is not cl imed that paying children will get them all in school, nor keep them there, nor relieve all burdens about them. But itis elai ued sod believed in by the writer, that by paying chil dren in dollars and ceuls to attend school will brivg tn and keep in a very Inrge body of children not in school now, and (hat it will pay this nation to do it in the suppression of crime, in the makiog of more tutelligent voters, in the building up of homes, and above all in waking hondreds of children now miserable to be happy in the future, 2 , 1907. NAWMILL NEWS What the Saou Lamberman is Doing Along the Bh Slope of Nittany Mounutale Fhe fabulous prices obtainable and the ready sale for lumber of all grades d kinds induess the lumberman to every available able to i weh to the market y i piece of tim hie has been vd from the owner, half dozen or more tills, of great. i ortance, have been man- Nittany of lumber. weeks two new the south one on a timber on iil Kinds Withiu i past few weal e 1 on Ope of { nounisin, the Wher tract of about fifteen acres pur- by the firm of MeNitt-Huyett Lumber Company. north of Mr. Brook's Hall, and I'he mill doing of lumber is owned Walker chased from Will Brooks t lies wesl of Centre is wood, (REF 4 William iRrieR Bilg K. mii referred to is owned of {it to John ngerich Williamu Baum rarduer, Joals- 3 lens Giong- taken the the R. which timber was re well-known This Benner has Like timber on oi by the firm of Orwig & Kryder, Le sLOC Ke by —— ihe volorado Horse, Lhe western horse is Lhe leader us Valley horse market, a Lhe Pueblo, who 8 from an article sent Fi eslale, Insurance 88, Are reprinted ; aldwell, western manager for us Hartman stock i i sR farm, at * Lhis remark ius Lhe best eye, lung and the horse to be found Lhere is of the here in and * Carth, the raising le than right Pueblo,’ ¥ rare that you see a Colo- wilh Dad eyes or poor ‘ald as for endurance, equal to them.” 10 Lhe east. Were, Bs 8 retired 12 to 20 years, "rougu-and- * MEPL ia aclive fon Wenly-live Wo twenty- ver so high ied Mr. Cald- «Hliog from $300 to an i Cal ge, they are Le RD y cheaper, if, indeed, » higher, for some years, 6 hiss been increasing the ny opinion it four or five years demand. Aud ut in reo; |i Lt least 0 the real the aulomobile, Lhat thought was goiug to put commission.” $ be pleased Lo answer Aucerniog Lol ses la ——— siwighing Trip to Old Fort, wing appeared in Friday's own Daily Sentinel] ; of L folks Olle oi Loe A PAriy Coin posed and Milroy n Wednesday Wislowun, i enjoyed Lhe sleighiog trips of the season, the left sieighs, perhaps Lgest forenoon a in the parly in dgoubie a Ud F siLigie fot i Hil, Lealre county, uova sod eg y of the uial landlord, Edward Ho) er, at Oid pouniiful dig. the guests, ie eve. forty-four Fhe sivighing ving excelent weather moderate, the trip was one of extreme pleasure. The party of James White and wife, John Clinger, I. M. Etters, Geo, MeCorwick and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Parks Murti, sua Mra. Wm. Zeigler, of Lewistown ; Mrs. 8. H. Bnyder and Mrs. Fred Un- ger, of Baltimore, Md. ; 8. 8. Brown wife, of Milroy ; Harry Albright Mis Maup, qf Reed-ville. Ley alilived a joyed Lhe generous Dospiisi on slpper si | howe ia Lhe ting a trip of miles Cotimisivg and aud © Prevent Mistrinis, In vrder to guard against mistrials growing out of the illuess or other in- eapaciint lon ul jurors Lhe suggestion is made of su smendment of the jury law #8 would permit the selection (in cases likely to be long continued ) of two supplementary jurors who could be sworn like the twelve, and like them could listen to the testimony. Iu case of need one of them could be substituted for oue of the original Jurors, and the rial go on without prejudice to either the prosecution or defense. The frequency of wistiials growing out of default iu the jury-box miskes Lois suggestion well worth con. Wy BOL wivuriige Lu the Reporte? TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Benner Walker has his recent illness recovered from and is able to be about again, H. H. Kohler, of Bucksville, and Mrs. Ella J. Bumiller, of Millheim, were married recently. March, the month of public sales, is close at hand. There are few sales in this immediate vicinity, Cornelius Bland will receive $20 monthly as a pension under the new law. He is past seventy-five years, A trip to New York resulted in the sale of the entire outfit of the Yeager Manufacturing Company for the com- ing year, John W. Btrunk and daughter Nan- nie drove from their home at Meo- Alevy’s Fort to Oak Hall Station last week, to visit friends, Last week George Rede, in the mountains below Coburn, saw a snake crawling over the snow. His ship was dispatched. snake- George Breon is buying up stock with the view of engaging in farming next April. He has leased the Bar- tholomew farm, west of Centre Hall, Messrs, W. A. Tobias, Jesse Kream- er and Michael Lamey are three sol- diers living in Millheim who will profit immediately through the service pension bill, J. Harris Hoy, proprietor of the tock farm, near Bellefonte, has con- cluded to discontinue the dairy busj- aess and consequently will sell off the cows kept at the Rock farm barns. While attending church at Tussey- ville one evening last week, Bamuel Durst was taken ill. He experienced a severe pain his right side, and later was obliged to consult a phy- BiCian, ig Mrs. Jacob Bhuey, of was seriously ill last near Lemont, week, A Lime ago she enntracted short & cold which developed into pneumonia, and as she 8 8 Woman about seventy-six years of age, ber recovery is doubtful Near Unionville 8 hand car on th Bald Eagle railroad operated by section men struck s de g that Ube car was de- rallied, sud Willism Ee Eenroth, one of the seclion men, received on his head and body, the Was track, Crossing tie severe cuts Rev, 8. C. Stover, pastor of St. Psul's Reformed church, Meyersdale, a short Lue ago paid a John Stover, at seriously Visit, ww his Unionville, ime did bis trip home in Gregg township. brother, who is permis old iii. not him to continue to iis Master Gregg Wensel, of Howard, while playiug with Companions had the misfortune to fall and sufler from AD injury sustained by a long needle peveirating his kKoee cap. The needle broke off and it required the service of Dr. O. W. McEntire to reinove it. From the Walchuan: A sleigh- Ig party composed of Mr. and Mrs, William Derstine, Mrs, Jesse Cox, Mr. Mrs. Morton Smith, Miss Ida Kiinger, Mr, and Mrs. Best and Mrs. Edw. Klioger sud two children drove to Centre Hali Monday morning to enjoy a day of pleasure ai the bospit- able howe of Mrs, Simon Harper, I. J. Decker, of Spring Mills, one of members of the firm of Decker Brothers, lumber dealers, was in town Friday to transact business st the Peauvs Valley Bank and elsewhere, Tne Decker Brothers are just about cows pleting their lumber job at Muadi- souburg. Iloey sclive young business men, and the kind of men one likes to associate with. aud the nie Eimer Garverick, aged twenty-three years, died ail the Williamsport hose pital after eight years of suffering from arthiritis deformans, commonly known ss ossification. For uearly eight years he had been unable to move a joint in his body and was like a wan of stone for that period. The Case atiracied Lhe attention of physi- cians from all over the country, Messrs. L. H. Duck, A. J. Graden sud Elmer Philips were brief callers at the Reporter office Monday morning. The former two are engaged at the Standard Steel Works at Burnham, where they have been employed for some time, but not long enough to forget the good old homes at Madison burg and Spring Mills, respectively, Mr. Philips, who is a farmer, trans ported the young men as far as Milroy. Two ten-cent magazines are free with every copy of “ The Philadephia Sunday Press.” lo ove are short stories, good drawings, clever descrip. tive articles, verse, good fun and a strong serial. The woman's magazine section Lu enlors is far superior to any- thiug wwe 10 Lis line, It has hints sud advice as Wo fashions, articles On practionl physical culture, art | needle-work patterns, and a new series of millinery patterns by one of the furemiont wuskviitice,
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