VOL, LXXX.
To Cut Graft and Jobs Out of
Must Do So to Redeem
Governor Stuart has eptered into
his legislative work upon the vast
heap of nearly six hundred Lills left
to him by the General Assembly at its
adjournment. Many of these meas-
ures, apart from the appropriations of
money, are what may be called ** casu-
istry '’ legislation to accomplish more
or less trivial objects that might well
be left to the reformatory influences of
society. The first task which the
Governor has set before him is to pass
are swollen beyond all former exam-
ple in every department and bureau of
administration. In some
these expenditures have been doubled,
in others trebled, and in many quad-
rupled within the last ten or twelve
years,
just accusation, it is necessary only to
make a brief comparison of the appro-
priations awaiting the action of the
Governor and
State administration within a compar-
atively recent period. A few examples
In 1894 the expenditures of the Audi-
tor General’s department amounted to
$32,045, and in the appropriation sent
to the Governor the amount for the |
next two years has been increased to |
$227,300 The new Auditor General |
has swept out some of the nooks and |
corners of the department, but there |
is still much use for the reformatory |
broom of the Governor. In 1894 the
expenses of the State Department were
$47,016, and the appropriation now
provides for $111,000. The sum of $19,-
surance in 1894, and for 1907 and 1908
champion of pure government, Com- |
missioner David Martin. Bo on and |
80 through all the ramifications of |
State administration.
Fhe cost of public
$241,807 in 1889 Its cost has swollen
to $689,000 in the appropriations for
1907 and 1908 for huge dropsicsl vol-|
umes that are never read and little dis-
tributed, if for no better reason than |
printing was
time in which they would have any
public interest.
For the Board of Public Grounds |
the year amount to $1,491,466, or more
thao fourfold the expenditures of any
ordinary year, the payments by Gov- |
ernor Pennypacker’s
nishings and decorations of the Palace
of Graft having been made without so
negligible a formality as a direct ap-
propriation.
Binte the Legislature has devolved
upon the Governor so large a share of
its own work, he cannot fail to lay his
reformatory hand upon the outrageous
appropriation of nearly a quarter mill-
lon dollars for increases of salaries and
for salaries and sinecures of new em-
ployes, which has no other object
than to provide places for Machine de-
pendents under full play of the spoils
system. There is no question that by
an energetic wielding of his pruning
knife as Executive and legislator he
can cut many a job and graft out of
these extravagant appropriations.
This, too, is made imperative by his
pledges of reform when before the
people.
EE ———— Aes PABBA.
Reduced Rates to Greensburg and Lan-
easter via Pennsylvania Hallroad.
For the Prohibition State Conven-
tion at Greensburg, June 6 and
round trip tickets to Greensburg will
be sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad
June 3 to 6, good returning until June
9, inclusive, from all ticket stations in
the State of Pennsylvania at reduced
rates,
Tickets will also be sold at reduced
rates from ticket stations in Penpsyl-
vania to Lancaster, June 8 to 13, good
to return until June 15, inclusive, on
account of the Great Council of Red
Men of Pennsylvania which will be
held st Lancaster, June 11 to 13.
For rate from your station consult
the Ticket Agent.
fy
Centre Countians' Reunion,
Ata well-attended meeting of the
Centre County Association of Philadel
phils, at the residence of Ira D. Far.
man, 216 Bouth Forty-fifth Street, Dr.
Roland G. Curtin, president of the as-
sociation, presided. William 8, Furst
acted as secretary. Arrangements
were made to hold the fourth annual
basket picnic at Belmont Mansion,
Fairmount Park, Saturday, June 22.
held
speakers will address the meeting.
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freckles on the daughter.
kd
Extrava
Pledges
ant Appropriations—
ade the People.
GOVERNOR APPROVES BILLS,
| Governor Ntaart Signed a Large Number
of Bills, which Are Now Laws.
The following bills of local in‘erest
| were approved by Governor Stuart :
Authorizing boroughs to pass
dinances to regulate or prevent the
j erection of frame buildings within
their limits
{ Providing for the recording in the
| office of Recorder of Deeds of proper
county of ordinances of municipalities
vacating a street, lane or alley on ap-
| plication of the owner of the land
| vacated,
Providing tuat pupils residing
| school districts in which there is
| publie high school may attend such a
| school in the nearest district and that
| the cost of tuition and books shall not
exceed that of the pupils living in the
{ district.
{
!
| Fixing a penalty of $500 or six
| months’ imprisonment for the dese-
cration of the United States or the
| State flag, by placing piletures, adver-
tisements or other marks upon
them.
Euplarging the rights and remedies
or-
in
no
any
Imposidg a license tax of $2 on
keepers of all shooting galleries, shuf-
fleboard rooms, billiard or pool rooms,
and bowling alleys.
Requiring the thorough cleaning of
the inside of cans used to carry milk or
cream, under a penalty of $50
To provide for the appointment of
| *en meat inspection sgents, at $1800
| per annum, Lo inspect meat and meat
| food products, under the direction of
the State Live Stock sanitary Board
Fixing the demurrage to be charged
by railroads at one dollar per day per
Car,
Providing that all State officers re-
pay into the
State Treasury daily.
Authorizing the employment of
male prisoners in jails and workhouses
on the public highways.
Fixing the compensation of assessors
at $2 50 per day.
For the appointment of a Deputy
| State Veterinarian, at $2100, a clerk at
them
Fixing 50 cents per day as the com-
| pevsation for sheriffs for bosrding
prisoners,
Authorizing townships of the second
waler comps-
nies for the placing of fire hydrants in
any village in such township.
Extending to all counties the law
providing for the appointment of
viewers for a bridge after two years
shall elapse from the time of the re-
jection of a report of previous viewers.
class to contract with
Keith's Theatre.
Htella Mayhew, leading star of mu-
sical comedy, is making a great hit in
her first vaudeville appearance in
Philadelphia, at Keith's Chestnut
Htreet Theatre, this week. Grigoletti’s
Flying Ballet, the most skillful and
daring aerial dancing act on the mo-
dern stage, is another number appear-
iog for the first time on any vaude-
ville stage. The Four Huntings are
giving singing, dancing and acrobatic
comedy. Vernon, America's greatest
ventriloquist ; Dora Ronea, gypsy
violinist ; Elsie Faye and her two
dancing boys, are also on the program.
| Lalla Belbini, the Parisian bathing
beauty, is another headliner, while an
extra added attraction is Sir Hassan
Ben Ali's Bedouin Arab troupe of six-
teen dashing hurricane acrobats,
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State College Student Body,
I'he total State College student body
this year numbers just 895, Bixty-five
of the sixty-seven counties in the State
| are represented. Allegheny county
leads with a total of seventy-one
students, Centre comes next with
seventy ; Philadelphia has forty-one,
Eleven counties range from twenty to
| thirty-eight each. Bixteen counties
| have from ten to twenty each, while
| thirty-four range from nine down to
| one each, only three counties having
| the latter number. The two counties
not represen’ed are Pike and Snyder,
The attendance from States and terri.
tories numbers forty-six,
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Note from Ohlo,
D. G Bmetzler, of Republic, Ohio,
writes the Reporter, date of May 20th,
In this way : We Lave had a very
backward epring; weather very
changeable. Wheat and hay are look-
log well and indicate a good crop;
oats has just been sown, and but little
corn is planted. We could not keep
house without the Reporter,
“The Reporter contains so much
home news that we would be lost with-
out it ; all well and heey
the way Edward F. Foreman,
Youngstown, Ohio, puts it,
POMONA GRANGE
At Hublersbarg— Walker Grange Henrtily
Welcomes the vounty Organization
The second quarterly meeting of the
Centre County Pomona Grange was
held in Walker Grange Hall, Hublers-
burg, Friday, There were two ses-
sions—forenoon and afternoon,
is not the strongest
grange
the individual members makes
other regular officers—Chaplain G.
Keepers George W. Gingerich and |
8. Dale, Mrs. Bradford, Mrs
Goodhart and Miss Marshall to fill}
the vacancies, |
Walker Grange welcomed the coun-|
ty organization to its home in a most
cordial manner through well-chosen |
and clearly spoken sentences by Miss |
Miller, of Hublersburg.
Che first business transacted was the |
appointment of three delegates from
the County Grange to represent
Order at a meeting of representatives |
from other agricultural
throughout the state to elect trustees
to Pennsylvania State College. This
is the first recognition of the Order by
that institution. The delegates ap-
pointed were Capt, A, J. Huuter,|
John 8. Dale and Nathan Grove.
Messrs. W. W. Rupert, Wm. Rook.
ey aud Mrs. Rumberger were appoint.
the
ROCIelien |
Bn
ed a Commitee on credentials,
The report of the Insurance Compa-
ny, in the absence of the secretary who
i# now in the south, was resd
Christ Keller.
“The benefits derived from the
der of Patrons of Husbandry
8. Frain,
Daley.
Ly
Or.
Was =»
question discussed by I. (i.
L. Goodhart, John A.
phase of this question was unanimous.
ly agreed upon, aud that was that the
benefits of the Order were
soufined to its members, but that
One |
pot total y
{he
good accomplished was participated in
largely by persons doors, |
and that no effort would to
hinder the Order's good influence from
liftiog up individuals and building up
every community where the Order
alive,
‘* Bearcity of farm labor
outside its
be made
in
was a sub-
ject that elicited considerable discus
A wmolution was by
Willard Dale in dividiog up the farm
Mr. Frain advocated following the
plans of localities in the west, which ™
sion. suggested
to send a representative to Castle Gar- |
den, New York, and secure good types |
of foreigners ;
ably ; use them well, and
wages to them.
very successful where tried, only =
small per cent. of laborers thus :
tained proving to be unsuited to the!
employment. Hon. LL. Rhone a |
that importation of labor
was Lhe only remedy, and suggested |
them womfort- |
pay living |
This plan has proven
house
Ob |
«0
contended
that subordinate granges should take |
up the matter. Col. Daley incidental-
ly placed the blame of scarcity of farm |
labor on the tariff, which enables the!
protected iron manufacturer to
higher wages than the unprotected |
farmer who must compete with the |
India farmer who obtains laborers at |
ten cents per day.
Mise Marshall and Mrs. Bradford re- |
cited poems well selected for the ocos- |
sion, and received due applause.
The report of the Encampment and
Fair Association committee was pre
sented by Mr. Goodhart The report
was very encoursging. Among im-
provements to be made ia the erection
of a large building for the display of
exhibits from the farm, garden and
orchard.
The Banking committee was con-
tinued.
The Becretary of the Patrons Rural
Telephone Company reported that
twenty Branch Companies bad been
organized under the plans originated
and adopted by the County Grange.
The secretary aleo read a letter from
M. O. Reagle, of Northampton county,
stating that their County Grange was
also building telephone lines under
a similar plan.
“The effect of the increase of the
minimum salaty for school teachers as
to efficiency” was the last question
discussed,
The next meeting of the count
grange will be held in Vietor Grange
Hall, at Oak Hall,
I ————— SSA AA.
Finkle Snack,
The Belleville Times contained this
notice : William Finkle, a very high
ly respected young man of this place,
was married to Miss Nellie Bnack, of
Huntingdon county. The ceremony
took place at the residence of Rev.
Folmer, in Huntingdon, Saturday,
Ma} 18, at high noon.
e groom is the son of Bamuel
Finkle, formerly of near Spring Mille,
pay |
2%
0.1907.
J)
HURSDAY., MAY
THE LUTHERAN SYNOD, CUMMENCUEMENT AT NTATE,
Begins June 9th
Program
Large Increnne in Receipts over Previous
| Blennium
and Closes 12th-The
The general synod of the Evangelic- The commencement exercises at
Pennsylvania State College begin Bun-
day, June 9th, and close Wednesday
{ the 12th
al Lutheran church of America organ-
{ized at Bunbury by the
of
ev,
election Of
Owen, Hagerstown, The program is as follows :
as president, Owen wae BUNDAY, JUNE 9.
{ 10:30 a. m.— Baccalaureate sermon, by
Rev. Griffin W. Bull, D.
D., Beranton,
Open air Y. M. C. A. meet-
ing on the front campus,
~Cadet band sacred concert
on the front campus,
Sacred
The new president is a graduate
of |
Of |
.m,
Buequehanna University and is presi-
dent of the board of directors of that |
institution,
has been pastor of Bt. John's Lutheran |
. Im,
For thirty-seven years he |
concert in the
church, Hagerstown.
Rev, H. Fenner, of
Ky., was elected secretary
G. HR.
Ind, was chosen treasurer,
auditorium,
Louis JUNE 10.
aud
{ ville, | MONDAY.
wv,
I.
Senior class exercises on
Knollenberg, of Richmond, |
the front Campus,
Field and track meet with
the Western University of
Pennsylvania
Field.
Annual
The report of foreign missions says |
that during the last biennium 6,956 } I
Y 1] on enve
persons in India were added to the! “aver
church by baptism and that there are |
now nearly 43,000 persons under the |
the
meeting of the
i
board of trustees.
influence of church's mission in|
Junior oratorical contest.
Prof. Fred Lewis Pattee,
presiding,
India
I
The financial statement
port shows receipts from
JUNE 11.
Annual! business meeling
of the Phi Kappa Phi
Fraternity.
IVES AY,
during the biennium of $146.3
cresae of §9.383 over the previous
: (
he cash balance stan
(
$16,936, an increase of $0.2
Among the resolutions
he
-Annual address before the
Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity
in the Chapel, by Edwin
Erle Bparks, Ph. D., of the
University of Chicago.
Meeting of delegates and
the synod by board
the apportionment
fix the apporti
missions twenty-five
Was one
i
I
COm-
§
to
4
yutnen
foreign at cents |
per commuuicant member for each .
year of the coming biennium. Alumni to elect trustees. :
-Annual concert by Cadet
The report of the presi
t i BHO Wed
r
It
-Dress parade by the Cadet
ariel f :
igtical secretars band on | ntl campus,
MULALION on east
Campus,
“The
by
$16 S00 000,
» raised durir
Burglary,’
. hesplans,
Bip
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Rossmau-uinges JUNE 14
of
Com-
by
D.,
D., Washington, D. C.
the
raduating exercises
1907,
address
ihe
Willi
f
contained the {
smsport sun
f
CihBs 0
ilowin
mencement
Merrill E,
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- Basel
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Jolin Calvin Rossman. «
Fenn |
(entra
Tus
Site's bhi
nt Grates, Ph.
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Halli, b
Ril game with
Ind
sday evening
i
Kriisie
High #lrect Farewell
fi
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ined 1 Lior
The
Mary
(GET by class O
daughter
Onn Nashville
weeks ago, not having beet
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503
favorably known to ma
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bride is the
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fall,
Dingess, o
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groom return Mill nent of Cen-
: 4 } 1 i 3
died in the Bellefonte Hose
number of years i Fhureday morning, rd inst.
i
of
the
Mr,
is home was in Centre
the Watchman, of concussion
porter readers, { the brain, the result of a blow on
i —— a | head, received one day last week.
| ALi11 } } t
Miller, though | ‘
Time Limit Strack Ont
jen
signed
amendment to the Primary
Hall, bad been working in Lewistown | ¢
{and last week with a number of other
(rovernor Btuart the Creasy
f
fi
(
| men became engaged in a free-for-all
He several men
I'he Democratic state committee will | Was arrested it is pot definitely
in Jui own whether the fatal re
id place dealt
He
was a brother-in-law of Sheriff Henry
Kline and as soon as the latter heard
aflair he went to Lewistown
her set in Maturday eve od brought Mr, Miller to Bellefonte
> i took him to the hospital, but the
law, which strikes out the time limit
for holdivg the state conventions, with other
and
mie et Harrisburg, TI blow he
KB he
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1 time { ceived was during t fight o
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a Lime al
ing the state convention by the officer making the arrest,
fected,
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LOCALS iM Lhe
Rainy Wes
ning, which prov
ussion of the brain was so bad that
A farther
and
all crops. Oats and barley especially | CONG
Gealh resulted. investi
effort
made to bring to punishment the par-
needed moisture his
tion wi in ade
\ {ior time with her | 88tion iH 1 mad an
Fle ah
"Aagner, se-
spending a short
vir. and Mrs. Thomas
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responsible for His death.
:
Ihe b the
hospital to Sherifl Kline's residence at
the jail from where the funeral was
held Saturday, interment being made
at Pleasant Gap. Miller forty-
two years of age, and leaves a wife and
e child,
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er, at Colyer, Mrs. James '
her children, returned Wy was removed from
5 ity RUT Ie
0 her bome in Miflinburg,
Mes. J
ville, who has been ili
companied by
$
Ww. of
Mersinger,
for the past few
Her sick-
a dropsical nature, and at
Tussey-
was
K
months, is not
ness is of
HGPpros
in
. (
present she suffers consids rably. :
United
gelical church, at Farmers
contemplating
July 4th. They
Cave as the place
freshments
#
Evan- Andy Moyer 111,
Mille, are
holding a festival on
have Penns
the re.
The members of the
For two weeks or more Andy Moyer,
living at the foot of Nittany M« Gotain,
has been suffering from a light attack
of typhoid fever,
There is an opportunity here for
work of charity. The Moyer family,
composed of Mr. and Mrs. Moyer and
five or six children, are in actual need,
although they have not asked for
help. With nothing to depend on ex-
cept daily labor, Mr. Moyer has been
barely able to maintain the family st
any time, and now that the earning
power Lins been stricken with sickness,
help will be needed,
This notice calling attention to the
distress of the family will doubtless be
all that is necessary to enlist the aid
of the charitable minded,
A A A RAAT
Clemens. Maple, .
The announcement of the marriage
of Guy B. Clemens and Miss Etta
Maple, May 21st, was received by the
Reporter, the event having taken
place at Vernon, Kansas,
The groom ls formerly from Centre
Hall, and went west with his uncle,
bitter dose and haughtily resented, 3, A Serene: bores A a ago. ie
The sessions of the Centre Coun] making a success of it. By October
Pomona Grange, held at Huvlersburg | Mr. and Mrs, Clemens have planned
Friday of last week were attended by | to take their honeymoon trip to Penn.
Hon. L. Rhone, Ex-Commissioner (i. |sylvania, the press of work not per-
L. Goodbart, Christ Keller, J. J. |mitting absence from the farm at this
Arvey, Mra. Mary Goodhart, Mrs [season of the year. Success to the
Samuel Durst, Mra. D, W. Bradford | young couple,
and the writer, all representing Pro. er et ems
i
selected
ff
:
Ww
serving
Pp ? . I
I'be Harrisburg Patriot says carrent
gossip reports that Judge Beaver may
retire from the Buperior Court bench
in order that he may devote his entire
time to his duties as president of State
College. Judge Beaver has filled the
position since the death of President
Atherton.
Saturday the voter may, if he wish-
es, go to the polls, record his vote for
candidates for the various county of
fices, without being punched in the
ribs with a folded ballot. This year
the voter will have his own way of it,
He has been wanting it, now let him
to the polis.
ithin the next six months the
ood people of Centre Hall may be
asked to disbelieve that Mr. Dale was
murdered ; that he was killed at all,
but living and happy ! Buch a story
purchased with cash from the sale of
their own pilfered goods would be a
Saturday is the beginning of June,
gress Grange, Centre Reporter, $1.00 per year,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
Last week Rev. J. M. Rearick at
tended the sessions of the Lutheran
Bynod at Bunbury,
Every one hopes June will bring
June weather, May has been EX Cee
tionally cold and disagreeable,
Mrs. D. P. Breon and children, of
Jeannette, spent a week or more with
friends in Millheim and other p
in Penns Valley,
ints
Clinton county men are
making an effort to have the next
business men’s picnic held at Mill Hall
instead of at Hecla Park.
DUsliness
f
i
Mrs. Maria Wagner, of "I usseyville,
init~
iam A,
Branch Company No.
wral Telephone Company,
regan stringing wires Monday.
They are now about ready for the
hones,
The
20,
its
ie
Mrs. Busan Burrell, widow of David
f Bpring Mills, was
pension of eight
lollars per month, through the agency
f Prof. W. A. Krise. :
Nothing talks like money. Even in
eing gobbled up
noney hunger being t
for dishonesty,
he cause for the
¢
Andrew J. Harter, of Rockford, Illi-
10is, was a delegate to the General
of the Lutheran church, at
While in Pennsylvania he
Valley.
In addition to building a new walk,
improve
ce by building a large porch
0 the front of his house.
¥
1
The porch
10w there will be moved ot
he north
ru entrance of the dwelling.
After a pleasure and business trip
Mexico, John
to
Pelt
part
Van
t tier
{ last week He was very f
last “. Hie was very favorably
The
a great
mpressed with
Lhe
the southwest
of country was
urprise,
Alvin B. Meyer, of Altoona, haviz g
een temporarily located at Morehead.
Aentucky, where he is inspecting
umber for the Pennsylvania Railroad
‘ompany, obtained quarters there for
iis wife and family, who are now ako
njoying life in the south.
The poor man, with scarcely enough
0 keep body and soul united, is
unate if he keeps from under the
lutches of the law. He without
unds to either secure attorneys to de-
end him or bribe the representatives
f the commonwealth—if need be.
fore
Iw
It will be 8 hard matter for some
Jemocrats and Republicans to vote
traight Baturday afternoon, but the
aw will make them do it. This is not
ntended to reflect upon the indepen-
lent voter, but the shister, who uses
he ballot only to eke out s bit of spite,
R. R. Rickard, the young man who
Io two days last week
gathered almost seven hundred
wounds of the product. This, of course,
8 only a small portion of the butter
urned out on Mr. Rockey's route, ss
bere are a dozen other outlets for the
ame goods,
ie
Any one of these four things in the
nade the number a good one: Edwin
-
a“
‘ Wetter New York in 1013"
of
Ray
“The
and’s great fight of 1887,
A circular letter has veen issued
that trans-
The following is from the Millheim
He and his wife and