VOL. LXXX. NO ESCAPE POSSIBLE, | THAT DOLLAR ROAD TAX, —— i ———— The Republiean Candidate for Treasurer | Can be Collected Only in the Township in Weighted With Both Capitol Scandal | Which the Owner Lives, aud Inlquity of His Sponsors, i What is slready known of the ex-| gq supervisors of each township to tent of the Btate Capitol plundering | geeeas the sum of one dollar against has proved so astounding that further [each taxable in addition to the mill exactitude of detail is uot likely to|tax, There has been a great deal of greatly increase popular disgust or in-| doubt as to whether or not this tax digoation. It would be a fatuous pro- | can be levied against one who owns ceeding on the part of Republican |g property in a township, but who leaders to try to put off further im-|does not live there. Some townships mediate public discovery or the stu-| have levied and collected this tax frown pendous rascality pending the election | non-residents and others have not. of the next State Treasurer. | Judge Walling, of Erie county, in a It has not been completely disclosed | cage held that the tax cannot be col- who all the rascals are that have prof-| jected from non-residents. This de- ited by the loot of the Treasury, but|cision is of great interest to persons the exten: of the plundering has been | who own farms in more than one closely ascertained and the direct re- township and if followed in this coun- sponsibility must rest with the party | ty will relieve them from the payment in complete control of the State govern- | of the one dollar tax under this de- ment. The Republican party is re-| gision. sponsible for its rascals. They were| While this case was brought and a only successful in getting away with | decision rendered on June 4, 1906, its their plunder because they were Re-| publication In the advance sheets of publicans, Further investigation may | the Districts Reports did not occur un- uncover participants in the looting | til May 7 whose names are now unknowu and unsuspected, but it will not alter or affect the issues of the coming cam- paign. The Republican party cannot afford to shield any of the Btate Capitol thieves. It must follow the lead of Governor Stuart and find them out, whoever they are and wherever they are, and punish them. Itis wholly unlikely that either par- ty will fly in the face ot public senti- ment by putting in nomination for the State Treasurersuip a man who does not measure up as nearly as pos- sible to the Berry pattern. The man, this time, will stand for much. But no matter how reputable the Repub- lican candidate may be, he will go be- fore the people weighted not only with the Capitol scandal but with the ini- quity of his spovsors, the desperate and disreputable political bosses in control of the Republican Organiza- tion, without whose maleficent control there would have been no Capitol plundering. The road law of 1905 requires the In the last issue in May of 1906, the Reporter argued the per capita road 1ax question, the subject having been raised by Prothonotary W, F. Bmith, of Penn township, who wrote to Com- missioner of Roads Joseph B. Hunter. Mr. Hunter in his letter to Mr. Bmith, and published at that time, stated : ** A taxpayer who pays a road tax in more than one township is liable to the $1.00 tax in each township.” The Reporter argued that the ad- ditional dollar was laid against the person and not the thing taxed, and contended further that if Mr. Hunter's opinion was correct, road supervisors could lay a tax against each tract of land held, as the word TAXABLE em- braces either a person or a thing subject to lax. The Erie county judge decided that the additional dollar was laid against the person and not the thing, and that tax could not be laid against the per- #0D in 8 township, borough or city io which he did not live, The Erie county judge and the Re- porter agree. With the Reporter it was a matter of argument based on facts, but the judge decided the point f law The Commissioners’ Fart, The killing of three persous—Kachie, Auman and Dale, within a very short time during the fall of last year, has been the cause of considerable expense to the county, and the end is not yet, | These three murders, coming in| close succession aroused the people, | who demanded that an «fort be made | and no money spared iu ferreting out Obe- OO A A ——— LOUALS, The * pilok label ” this week. . The began Monday, bew school year—1907-1908— the perpetrators of the crimes, dient Lo the will of f The second asppual reunion of 3 the : pape, the Mensch families wili be held near Mif- County Commissioners proceeded 0 ink I'ouiaday. Joned do sll in their power to discover the Rinburg, Thu : 8Y, ina criminals, and now that the mooey is | Prof. C. D. Koeh and John spent and no one convicted is no fault | Monday : a of theirs, and it would be unjust to in | ?77mal ecbool in Philipsburg. any way eriticize these county officials for baving made the good, honest ef- fort to do just what the taxpayers demanded. The safety of one’s life is worth in- finitely more than the dollars spent in the effort to guard it, consequently it was the inuperative duty of the commis. sioners to follow the course pursued, and they should not hesitate to con- tinue antil the murderers are covered and senilence ex: cuted, athens Smith's Concrete Tie, Not satisfied with ordinary success in life, M. Luther Smith, of Johns town, known to the readers in Penns Valley, sssociated himself with 8, E Kimmel, also of Johnstown, sud pur- chased the patent for a concrete rail- road tie that promises to solve the tie question. The tie is very simple and easily constructed, and no doubt will be extensively used at least by trolley companies. The base of the tie is con- crete and has a top shell of steel with a novel contrivance to clamp the rail fast to it. Mr. Bmith exhibited a blue print of the tie in the Reporter office one day last week, and to say the least, he Is enthusiastic over being one of the two owners of the patent, This is a “concrete '’ age, and why should not concrete ties be substituted for wood shipped to the interior of Penn. sylvania from the Pacific Coast or the borders of the gulf of Mexico. —————— wo n———— Calif at Auction $10,200 T. B. Cooper's annual sale of ime ported Jerseys, held at Linden Grove farm, Coopersburg, this state, in point of prices obtained, was the most senss- tional sale ever held in the United Btates, if not in the world. One hundred head of cattle, includ- ing calves, sold for $93,050. Stockwell, an imported bull, was sold to A. B. Lewis, of Fredericksburg, Va., for $11, 500. This is the highest price ever paid for a bull in this country, if not in the world, at a public auction, A bull calf seven months old was sold to A.M. Bowman, of Salem, Va, for $10,200. This Is the largest sum ever paid for a calf in the world, Governor Hughes, of New York, ve- toed the blll providing equal pay for and women teschers in N York City schools for the same. work, the 8. Host. “I Inal opened summer After resisting ber daughter, Mra. Eliz«beth hisd broken both her wrista, to conduct her house, Milibvim, during the past six or weeks, Mrs Peter Rearick re- turned to her home in Altoors Brown, who i moe The uprising of revolutionists in the section of Chios in which Rev Mrs. CB. Keene are located gives enuse for alarm for the welfare of the missionary workers, Mrs, it will be remembered, is the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W, E. Fisch- er, of Shamokin, and was born and reared in Centre Hall, and dis. Keene, Vir. and Mra. George W, Barner, of nesr Salons, attended the memorial s-rvices at Centre Hall. The Reporter regrets to stale that their daughter, Miss Mary, has been in the Lock Ha- ven hospital during the past few weeks, and at times bas been in a very critical condition. She underwent an opera- tion for some internal derangement about two weeks ago, C. G. Furst, Esq, executor of the late Rev. Joseph Nesbit estate, sold the farm in Lamar township, Clinton county, known ss the Fleming-Me- Cormick homestead, containing 158 acres, lo Samuel H. Bhoemaker for $6050. This farm is one of the finest mountain side farms in Nittany Val- ley. Mr. Bhoemaker owns and occu. ples a farm adjoining. The members of the United Evan. gelical church of Millheim are making preparations to repair their church on An extensive scale, according to the Journal. A new steel ceiling will be put in and a pew heating plant in- stalled. The ceiling of the suditorium as it now Is, is too high to properly heat it and the new ceiling will be placed lower than the old one, In order to give his porkers the best possible quarters, W. B. Mingle, Heq., laid a concrete floor in his pig pen and constructed a trough of the same mae terial, Besides making a permanent pen, the use of concrete also brings the pig sty as nearly within sanitary regu- lations as Is possible. Unlike many people, hogs will keep themselves clean if given an opportunity to do 80, and Mr. Mingle has constructed a pen that will tempt the grunters to divide it by imaginary lines into parlor, sit ting room, dining room, chen and necessary outbuildings, the GIVE ANDY MOYER A SQUARE DEAT Intimations That He May Be Arrested for the Murder of Josiah UC, Dale, (ilve Andy Moyer a square deal, That is what the Reporter asks for a man of limited knowledge; a man who would rather be poor than gather wealth by the aid of a dark lantern, raiding of hen coops, corn cribs, ete, ; a man who will not venture to intimi- date witnesses by threats of violence and arson ; a man in poverty—with- out means to fee attorneys or pur- chase his liberty, even if offered him ut a bargain figure. I'he murderer of Mr. Dale shou.d There any be hunted down and punished. is no intention here to shield but, on the other there should be no accusations made against Andy Moyer in advance of official action One, hand, simply because he is incapable of de- fendivg himself, If he were a man of means or had the of possessing means and influence, news. support papers would not dare to print what has already appeared in cold type, when there is nothing to back assertions except speculative con- clusions Give Andy Moyer a square deal, m—————————— Twp. School Board Meets. The Potter township school wet in the Penos Valley Banking building, Monday, settled up its old board business and reorganized, are: M.F. K. Keller, treasurer : president ; WwW. R. members Rossman, secretary ; the other being f W. W. McCormick. The personel of the board is the same as inst year, The | but it have tax rate was not decided upon, was agreed that the rate would to be raised materially over the here | tofore four mills. There are $273 40 in the treasury, against something over : hand the beginning of the last school Vear, one thousand dollars on 8B A question agitating both the school | A (trove all the schools shall be reopened, delegation from the School distriet, in which district the year attended hand to Locust scholars last school other districts, open the school. It is a difficult boards to fix the tax rate this year, Were on re matter for school as the amount of appropriation, aithough increased by two willions for is an unknown quantity. fie Sear, — iii, Centre Countians Will Hold Basket Picnic The Centre County Association of hold Picuoie Park, Saturday | daring the hours Philadelphia will their fourth aunusl Basket Mansion, Fairmount ’ He afternoon, June 220d, of 230 to 7 five 10 six o'clock. from | of Luncheon hie e Arraugemenis are patiing effort to make the o'clock amities forth every | this largest and viously held, Rev. L. K. Evans, D a former D., of town, hire counting, has Rindly consented to make an address on *' Centre County.” will also be made the President, | Dr. Roland O. Curtin, Rev, Harkinson | aud other prominent members of Association. Persons having relatives or friends living in Philadelphia will greatly aid the eommittes by i forme | ing their friends of the picnic or by | sending their names and addresses to the Secretary, Forrest N. Magee, Esq., i 1329 Land Title Building, Philadel | phis, who will mail invitations to all | such whose names are not already re | corded. It is desired that all be present as early in the afternoon as possible, as the addresses will ve given before luncheon hour. A A —————— Missionary Conference at Hartieton, Short addresses | by the The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Northern Conference of Central Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod convened in tue Lu- theran church at Hartleton Wednes. day evening and closes this ( Thurs. day ) evening. There are twenty-six missionary societies in the Conference, which embraces the counties of Union, Clinton and Centre. A A AAAI: Off to the Pen, John Ammerman Jr., George Walk, Hugh Carson and George Merriman were taken to the Western Peniten. tiary Friday morning to serve out the sentence imposed by Judge Orvis at the last term of court. They were es oorted to Allegheny by Sherif Henry Kline, William Royer and John Love, —— A e—— Adjcarned to Meet in Indians, The General Synod of the L itheran ohurch of America in session at Sun bury adjourned on the 30th ult, The Synod accepted the invitation of St, Paul's church, Richmond, Indiana, as the place for their next meeting. Mission Band Supper. The Mission Band connected with the United Evangelical church will give a chicken and waffle suppor July MEMORIAL DAY How the Day was Observed in Participate, Ln cid As though cut out to fit the sion, Memorial Day was the most pleasant day in the month of May, Hall were «¢ The (Giolden The exercises at Centre pecially interesting. the veterans the sixties, Eagles and the children formed a Hue of march at the Evangelical chureh and proceeded When the mounds were to the cemetery. of the dead nurber of selected flower girls, led by soldiers reached, veterans, decorated them, after & chorus of children, drilled by Prof. P. H. Meyer, songs. Frayer BADE several was offered by Daniel Gress hi James W. Boal, was introduced by « Sherif Bruogart, Dr. was largely historical, » speaker of the occasion, nd conse quen ly was interesting and instructive. children, boy the first that they and girle, 2 The “ | | pecially enjoyed BErVices { . | year, for it was the time e of any § { If of them partici- | pated in the exercises, | The exercises were brought to a ole | by Rev. J. R I'here was the usual good attendance this ments with prayer Nechrist, occasion, and i were paid the cemetery sud individuals fo dead such a tidy condition, Appended is a brief the | i Boal : I'bis Is Memorial Day and a uh | counslituies a signal landmark in I wil uatioual Jit WHY ABR Wise, History. that t of May who went forth to defend farsecing act apart the tielh any 8% A memorial those rinciples of our government ¥ hour of its peril. This day Lng expression Working in the tl jueatd ilies $ 8 $ HEL LDese il ming t {1 vO LE Tron Ww the preservation of « defense of a pi inet bad been struggling si hose it of Burope., Het as well ai: Lhe coutine: the advance { in the} the ciosing of that chisnsin ¥ of Hberty, from the Baxoos forests Gerinauy, through the | reached ts | But it ri Lo realize the Briijs I