VOL. LXXX.
NO ESCAPE POSSIBLE, | THAT DOLLAR ROAD TAX,
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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
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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<sles, where it
§
i
wonderful proportions was fi
the American continent
ideal. Our government was conceived
this equality of each before
fhe law was losoribed on its
being laid
freedom, the structure reared upon
arner-
stone, The foundation in
it
must match the foundation, or our
Déclaration true. But the
government was established, noble in-
deed, but with vne supreme blunder :
It was not all free
He then rapidly and noted
#ome signal events in our history, till
the great crisis of “ Sixty-one.” Then
was witnessed of the most im-
pressive scenes in all history. Men
rushed to the front, offering their all :
women their bravest and best. Then
did patriotism appear in the glory of
its power, iu the depth of ite pathos,
in the vastness of its scope and in the
sublimity of itesim. There was atruge
gle then. Not courage against cow-
ardice, strength sgainet weakness, but
foes worthy of each others steel. Noble
men we owe you much! Accept
what we try to express in words, what
we lay on the tomb, while we rejoice
with you in unusual peace throughout
our borders,
The Doctor concluded with a plea
for the integrity of the ballot and for
the support of competent and true
men for our offices of trust, and quoted
a stanza from the poem on the ballot
box
* A weapon that comes down ae still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod ;
But executes a freeman’s will
As lightning does the will of God ;
And from its foree, nor doors, nor locks
Can shield you : "Tis the ballot box.”
TAA A RY SONI.
To Balld New Charen,
The building eommities of the State
College Lutheran ¢ urch has awarded
was not
traced
one
Bullet Tumes Unif,
Farmer George H, Emerick had an
| Inst week that will do to relate. A
time sgo he turned several
{ calves from his barn to pasture, and
{ after being in the woods a few weeks
{the animals broke into a neighbor's
lot. They were discovered there by
| Mrs. Emerick and her daughter, Miss
| short
| Verua, who hastened to turn them
{ back into the woods, when one of the
| young critters got mad and rushed at
|
[1 he two ladies went ¢o the house and
| notified Mr. Emerick of what had
appened. Angered at the vicious lit-
& beast, he shouldered rifle and
animal. Upon
¢ ground he suggest-
to Neighbor Zsllers that
|b
{ his
went in pursuit of the
i
1
|
$
| reaching the batt
| ed he could
offered
| owner to recover his
i
to assist the
property. The
calf, however, was in no mood to be
| subdued made a lunge at Mr.
| Zellers, and about that time Mr. Eme-
rick drew a bead
, and
on the obstreperous
When the smoke clear-
cally ”’ was down and two-
it, the bullet having entered
é cheek, but did not strike a vital
| beast —fired
ed away
i thirds ot
spot.
Fhe now meek taken
nursing
animal was
| back to the barn, where with
{iL will no doubt recover, and become 8
Wiser orute,
Transfer of Hes! Estate
James G. Adams to Emma J. Stover,
May 17 land in Miles twp. $1
James G. Adams to May E. Stover,
May 17, 1907 Miles twp. £1.
John L. Wolf,
Miles twp. $1.
i A.
Miles
160 «
¢ ANY
; land in
ames GG, Adams to
J
Koo 3 Scares. 3
tay 17, 1907 ; land in
James G, Adams
May 17, 1907 :
» Florence
r land
vaver
in
p. $l
Chas, Bchreck-
James (3. Adams to
{ land
in Miles
irs to James (.
§ tracts in Miles
bar. to Wm. H.
1 M. Walk, et,
7; 50a in Taylor
K, Mar h 4), 1f
John L. Heckman to Mary Vonada,
1907 interest Walker
K a
ARY oo, 1H);
in
American
Lime &
ni,
$151
ssf om —————
2 in Potter twp,
Keith's Theatre,
i
i his week at Keith's Chestnut Street
fa-
Heury E. Dixey, pre-
g a great sketch of 17th century
ife. Bearl & Violet Allen Company
own original farce,
Fraveiing Man,” and the Thos.
turn to vaudeville of America's
it ¥ 4
ite comedian
sentil
* Been 10 thelr
i he
ug Will Cressy’s comedy, ** Mag Hag-
riy’s Reception.” A #prightly and
girl-act in vaudeville is the Six
Rockers, in
uggs and dances with a psy-turvy
Fhe great Zingari troupe is
presenting an operatic novelty * Gy psy
Life.” This is aleo the week of the re.
turn of the wit Jack Norworth, Es.
pecially pleasing and timely is Joseph
Hart's Futurity Winner. A thrilling
race of thoroughbreds over a
mimic course,
saucy soubrettes
#h
fini
Hn
real
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To Raise Teacher's Pay at Ones,
The Snyder bill provides that $40 a
mouth shall be the minimum salary to
be paid teachers holding provisional
certificates, and $50 the minimum
where a teacher holds a normal school
certificate and has had two years’ ex-
perience. This bill requires that dis.
tricis to share in the increase shall file
& report with the Department of Pub-
lic Instruction before October 1, 1907,
and annually thereafter, so that the
State can give the increased appro-
priation. The law became effective
June 1st,
A A AAAI.
That Shell,
The shell found near the Dale barn,
on Nittany Mountain, may or may
not have been the one that contained
the charge thet killed Josiah CO, Dale,
November 12th. At least it was an
innocent looking shell, and lay in the
Reporter office from within a few days
after it was found until a short time
before the May term of court. When
the authorities learn all there is known
about the finding of the shell, some of
the importance of the incident may
disappear,
Sports! Sports! Sports !
If you are interested in sports, no
matter of what nature, subscribe for
the Philadelphia Press. It contains
daily and Bunday all the latest news
and gossip of the sporting world and
4b, in the Grange Arcadia,
the contract for »oodwork of the new
church to T, F. Keun ;
is wn recognized suthority, Read the
35)
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NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
The * pink label appears this week,
Take a good, long look at it.
The first uniform primary election
was more than damp—it was wet,
The members of Trinity Lutheran
congregation in Juniata are planning
to dedicate their beautiful new church
on June 16
The state road to be built
jellefonte and Milesburg will cost
$10,429. The contract was let R.
B. Taylor & Co., Bellefonte,
between
to
The residents of Millheim are high-
ly pleased with the appearance of the
new bridge erected in the borough,
I'he structure is about completed.
On and after July first the name of
the postoffice at Roland will be changed
to Curtin, to correspond with the name
of the railroad station at that place.
E. L. Brown will in the near future
move his portable sawmill from
Asronsourg to the old Swartz sawmill
site, south of Millheim. The William
Kreamer timber, nearby, will be con-
verted into lumber.
Owing to some misunderstanding
Rev. B. F. Beiber, of Milton, failed to
fill the appointments last Bunday at
Georges Valley, Union and Bpring
Mille, much to the disappointment of
the members he various
gregations,
of con-
William Hess, of Philipsburg, but
who is well known throughout the en-
tire western end of the county, as he is
a native of Ferguson township, sufler-
the
Ida
ed a second stroke of paralysis, at
home Mrs.
Rothrock.
Ag Charles
of his
daughter,
A. Fisher and George
Stahl were driving a steam well-digger
il the vicinity of Kratzerville, Snyder
county, last Friday, both became
thirsty. They alighted to get & drink
from a spring, and had not gone forty
feet when the boiler exploded. Both
men escaped unharmed,
f
of B
Mrs. Crittenden, lellefonte, while
taking care of her sick daughter, Mrs,
surns Crider, fell from the top of a
slsirway to the floor below,
& severe laceration
receiving
the head and
{f her body.
Gi
to
on
Druises on. other
Seibert quickly responded
and dressed her wounds,
paris
the
call
Snyder county does not elect & sin
gle county officer this year, something
that has not happened before in forty
years, says lhe Belinsgrove Tribune.
Next year, however, there will be can-
didates galore, ( Ongressman, Benator,
Assemblyman, Commissioners, Sher-
iff, Treasurer, Auditors and County
Surveyor.
Dr. G. W. Bimpson, of Mill Creek,
Huntingdon county, while excavating
for a cellar underneath a part his
house, which occupies the site of an
old fort of the Indian days, discovered
a spring of pure water with a flow of
100 gallons per hour, which had been
carefully covered up with heavy stones
by the pioneer settlers,
of
Mrs. Eliza Stump, last week, went
to the whstern part of the state to visit
friends, and while there was most
kindly entertained by Mrs. Sussn
Koch and son 8. T. Koch, at Darragh ;
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Condo, and many
others formerly from this place. This
was Mrs. Stump’s first trip to that
section, and it was a most enjoyable
one,
‘ Better than ever,” was the 10
sponse of 8. L. Condo, of Spring Mills,
to the question, “how is the bugey
business with you ?"’ He had made a
trip up this way to deliver a buggy to
A. C. Ripka, at Centre Hill, and, of
course, called at the Reporter office to
make the pink label on his paper this
week correspond to the prosperity he
is enjoying.
Mrs. Esther Harris, the oldest wom.
an in Fayette county, celebrated her
one hundred and second birthday at
her home in Uniontown one day last
week. Bhe enjoys good health and a
remarkable memory, recalling scenes
of the War of 1812, when soldiers
marched past her father's house en
route to Pittsburg. She has one son
and eight grandchildren,
C. E. Zeigler aud R. A. Coldren, of
Spring Mills, were callers st the Re-
porter office Monday morning. The
former was on his way to the western
part of the county to deliver a piano,
and the latter was on his regular route
gathering up cream for the Bpring
Mills creamery. Both were in the
best of spirits and all becanse business
was good in their lines of trade,
When the pelt from the wolf killed
in Blair county, a short time ARO, Was
sent lo the Carnegie Institute it was
discovered that it bore the marks * W,
L. M." on the inside of the right fore
arm, The conclusion is that the wolf
was one of two male cubs that escaped
at the time the Main circus was wreck-
ed near Tyrone more than a dozen
years ago. The other cub was pre-