VOL, LXXXI. aooD ROAD CAMPAIGN, Policy of Construction Favored by Nation. al Urange ~The Government's Ald Is Wanted, with an aggregate membership of near- of legislation creating a n «tional high- ways coninisgion and making liberal appropriations for the improvement of the public roads. Daring the past conducting a widespread, systematic, educational campaign for the purpose of showing the urgent pecessity by the various township, county and state authorities and to induce the pational government to lend its assis. tions of the United States. the grange that the improvement of] federal appropriations as is the im-| provement of our waterways and that | the work of the proposed national] highways commission would greatly stimulate the construction of better! roads by the various states, counties and townships. The splendid road sys | tem of France, admitted to be the best | in the world, is declared to be due] chiefly to the road policy of the French national government, under which a | corps of highly trained engineers plauv | and direct the work of constructing | and maintaining the principal roads | of that country. The deplorable condition of most of | the roads in the United States, prob-| ably the worst in any civilized coun- | try, is generally recognized, avd it is] i urged by the grange that it is high | time that action should be taken by | the national government to bring or-| der out of the existing chaotic condi- | i tions and substitute a scientific policy of road construction snd improvement | for the haphazard methods which now prevail to so large an extent. Republican campaign managers are | naturally a little apprehensive thal the | remission of the fine on the Btlandard Oil Company may hav: undesired po | litical results, There are other issues s | good deal closer to the people than this, and it would be easy to exaggerate the effect of the spectacular penalty imposed by Judge Landi« snd the re. | versal of his action by the Appellate] tribunal. Bat, of course, if the im-| p ession became general that the big] lawbreakers« could not be puni hed under a Republican Administration and by Republican Judges it would | glimulate the popular desire for a Dem ocratic Administration aod the aj- pointment of a few Democrats to the! Bench. m———— A pn. It would be impossible to say any. thing worse of the judiciary than the President said when he expressed the | opinion that the fine imposed upon the Standard Oil Company would not have been reversed by the Circuit Court of Appenis had the appellant been insignificant. If the President is right, Judges Scaman, Grovscup and Baker should be innpeacho If he is not,—we have no comruent to make except that Mr. Roosevelt ought not to have said it. Professor Willis I. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau in Washington, who is also a member of the Typo. graphical Union, says Judge Taft is going to satisfactorily define his posi. tion on the labor question and com- pletely counteract the efforts of Samuel Gompers. There is no doubt that all Government employes in the labor unions who enjoy fat salaries are quite satisfied in advance with Judge Taft's position. With the thers it is dit ferent. Sl. ———————— Norman E, Mack is a man of char- acter and force, thoroughly familiar with politics, especially in New York, and entirely loyal to Mr. Bryan. His selection as chairman of the Democratic National Committee is an assurance of an energetic and judicious campaign. and it creates reasonable hops of carrying the Empire Btate. Old Centre remains true in Demo oratic politics. Its delegate to the National Convention, N. B. Bpangler, Esq., was a straight-out Bryan man at Denver and’ was also on hand to assert himself, snd County Chairman W, D. Zerby stood with the anti-Guffey ranks at the Democratic committee meeting held at Harrisburg recently, The formal notification meeting for Mr. Bryan will take place at his home, , on August 12. Mr. Kern will be notified at Indian. early in Beptomber. Mr. Bryan attend the Kern notification MRY AUMAN TAKES HER LIFE | At Peru, by Swallowing a Dose of Arsenic —~Family Trouble Supposed to hs the i Onase for the Hash Act, Another person by a rash act ends life, and domestic troubles are sald to | have led a young woman to commit | the deed Mra Annie Auman swallowed » | portion of arsenic Bunday before the i noon hour, and by evening was a | oorpse, the efforts of the physicians to | relieve her having been in vain, The unfortunate woman committed | the deed at the home of John Boal, at Peru, for whom she had been keeping i It appears days prior to Bunday the young other things purchased arsenic. Bun- day noon she prepared the dinner and Boal that Professional sid was secured, but the poison had too thoroughly been sb- sorbed to be checked from performiog the purpose intended by the now suf- fering woman. Death insued toward evening. Mra. Auman is the daughter of Amos Bedlyon, deceased, for many years a resident of Potter township, and is well known by the Reporter readers on the South side of Penns Valley Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Rebtweea Bedliyop, lives at present at Potters Mills, and reached the be side parture of the last spark of life, She and ber husband did not live happily together, and consequently separated, their children—two in num- ber—baviog been given homes among friends in Potter township. Their marriage took place some twelve years ago, and it was this unfortunate yok- said to have caused Lhe ing thal is Interment of the remains will be Masseyille. a The Lucss Family vay, The family of Mr and Mes. William held a faruily reunion on 18th lostant, at which the six sons in the family were their wives and the grandehildren. Thesons are Joba D., Hall ; Edward J., Philadel Wilbur 8. and Charles H., Pot. ters Millis ; Boyd K , formerly of Pitts burg, bul now at home ; Wilbur M.,, at home. The day was most pleasant- ly spent, and it was the first time that present, siso Centre for rome years. I ——— tGireat Features ! The series of mystery stories now be- Press '’ are surely the most interesting, paper. ‘The stories are filled with thrilling experiences, baffling plots reader deeply inlerested from begin. ning to end. ** The Puiladelphia Press’' also pub. lishes the recoguized sporting page and is the known suthority among baseball fans. It is thoroughly accu: rate, relisble and is full of gloger and is written by men who know. * The Press" devotes more space to interest. ing sporting news than soy other Philadelphia newspaper. A A SAU AAT. A partial solution of the problem of what to do with worn-out farms and unprofitable hillsides from which the virgin forests have been cut away has certainly been forced upon general public attention in the pst ten years, What better can be done than to re- plant these waste spaces with trees hardy enough to grow upon their soils? Ounce planted, the trees will keep on growing whilst owners sleep. They need, once started, but the slightest attention. Wide-awake farmers in many paris of Pennsylvania are begin- ning to give serious attention to the raising of wood crops on lands that cannot be profitably used for the pro- duction of cereals or for pasturage. A worn-out farm oi an ares of denuded scres on the hilltops need not be aban. doned. Planted with trees these lands will not only meet the demand of the tax gatherer, but io a few years make profitable return on the money invest. ed in the planting. There is now an active demand for all kinds of timber. It is inevitable that the demand shall continue and grow more urgent in the future, EE ——— UG SAAN Get In Line, The Philadelphia Record, : Guffey ’'s great victory Is of no value whatever to him. This Btate will vote for Mr. Taft in any event, so that the Colonel's attitude to the national cane didate will do no real harm. Hat in the even! of Mr. Bryan's election Guffey and his followers will be political out- laws : there will be nothing at Wash- LOUAL OPTION FOES SUORED, Pastor, Speaker at Lutheran Convention, Denounces Them ss Hypocrites. “The man who oppises local option and pretends to be a sincere church- man is a hypoerite,’’ asserted the Rev. 8B. J. Taylor, of Belinsgrove, at the eighth annual convention of the Sus quehanna Lutheran Reunion Associa- tion at Island Park. The speaker took as his subject, “Christian Citizen. ship,” and his telling shots were eo- thusiastically cheered by the people present at the convention, The re union association iveludes Lutherans from Northumberland, Union, Colum- bis, Moutour, Luzerne, Lycoming, Dauphin, sod Bayder counties. “Local option disseuters,’” continued the speaker, “have not learned lesson of being their brother's keeper, By shamelessly casting their ballots according to political dictation they not only abuse the right of suflrage, but evidence by their act a willingness to allow our state to be overrun with crime, its jails filled, its asylums erowd.- ed, its tax rates increased by the rav- ages of the saloons.” A AY —————— the | Two Accldents In Halnes. Two mccidents of a rather serious nature occurred in Haines township recently. B. F. Btover was one of the victimes, and his grandson, George Stover, the other, The elder Mr. Btover was assisting his son Forrest in removing a pump stock, and to accomplish the work a rope and tackle and a team of horses were brought into use. The team easily lifted the burden, but when the stock was raised full length from the! well, the horses could not be checked soon enough, and the result was the frame work to which the tackle was attached collapsed. Mr. Blover was struck by the falling timbers, and was | injured to such an extent that he had to be earried to the house. Later it was discovered that his cuts and bruises were not of a serious nature, and now he is about again ss usual, In the second accident the son and the grandson played a part, sod re. sulted in the severing of the great toe of the lad. Mr. Bltover was culling grain, when unobserved to the father his little son George climbed on the rear of the platform. The binder was | started, when the cries of the youth | quickly caused the father to stop the! machine snd hasten to discover the! cause of the shrieks. The boy's right foot had caught in the cog wheels, and | as stated above the great severed. foe was I ——— id Men on the Rolls, The Pennsylvania Raliroad payrolls | show thst 316 men have been in the company’s service more fifty | years, more than have worked so long | for the Federal governm nt. Teun of these bave worked over sixty yeirs and ope sixty-nine years. The man who has been on the payroll for the longest period is Wililam Darham, who, as mule driver, entered the service of the Delaware & Raritan | canal in June, 1839, even before the Penosylvania Railroad was chartered, He is one of the 1 013 men who have been pensioned by the company for completing forty years of active service. At the time of his retirement he was pilot on the floating equipment at Jersey City. Of the employes of the Pennsyl- vanla Railroad in sctive service 115 are sixty-one years of age, 118 are sixty-four years old, 114 are sixty. seven and 105 are sixty-nine. Rixty- seven of the eighty-five principal officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company started as beginners and, with few exceptions, have been with it ever since. Their average age is fifty-one years and the average length of service is twenty-six years, than second Crop of Alfalfa The second crop of alfalfa was cut onthe 20th inet. from a plat of four acres superintended by the writer, The yield was three two-horee loads, and the time between the first and second cuttings, forty-oue days. On the deep soil the length attained was over three feet, while where the rock lay high the growth was scant, The severe drought cut the yield fully one- third. The two cuttings for this ses son yielded ten two-horse loads, or fully eleven tons of mow-cured hay, There yet remain seventy-one days to grow the third crop, which under fa- vorable conditions can easily equal the yield of the first crop, cut June Oth. The Fish Laws Soctalned, The Buperior Court has sustained the Fish Law as it stands today, and the Department of Fisheries has re ceived an letter showing that Justice Rice upheld Judge Ehrgood, of Lebanon, in a celebrated case, Kx. Mayor Weimer and some of bis police officers had taken flah from the water when a dam was drawn off to preserve them, The court held that this was a LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Paragraphs Picked from Exchanges of Interest to Reporter Readers, Miltheim Journal— Miss Mabel Hoy, of Philadelphia, Is visiting friends in (his place snd vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colyer and two daughters spent Sunday with fiiends in Nittany Valley Miss Gertrude Musser, of Altoons, spent several days the past week with relatives in this place, Mrs. John Hardenberger accompan- ied her mother, Mrs. Hurry Foster, to Philadelphia on Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kuhn, of Bosalsburg, were the guests of John F. Myers ou Tuesday and We lnesday. Mrs. W. G. Ulrich and daughter, Mies Bessie, of Wilkinsburg, are visit- ing relatives and friends in this place. Mr. and Mrs, John Wert and three children, of Tussey ville, were guests of John W. Reifsnyder on Baturday afternoon, W. J. Throssell and Frank Hartman, who have been employed at Harter, in this place Baturday. Miss Cora SBecrist, accompanied her grandfather, Darius Secrist, to Lock Haven last week, where they spent several days visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Reifsnyder and daughter Ireme, and Mrs. W. H. Reifsnyder, spent Saturday and Bun- day with relatives at Centre Hill. Randall Masser, a civil and mining engineer in the employ of the Vesta Coal Company, at Californias, Wash- ington county, is spending his vaca- tion with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, F. P. Musser, Democratic Watchman — Joseph Bellers, of Milesburg, who inst week amauited district attorney W. G. Kunkle and was arrested and put to jl, was discharged the same it is hardly likely the the court, J. C. Corl and D. C. Krebs last week bought by mutual agreement of all the heirs the Levi Krebs farm at $60 per acre. This is one of the floest locs- the county ands beautiful home and the yougg men can feel LOUA LS will hold their Hunters Park on The rust family Prof. C. RB. Nef! is at Woodward do- ing surveying ob the Jacob Neidig The thirtysixth aoousl meeting of the Newton Hamilton Camp Meeting Association will be held August 13 25 J. W. Kelley, of Ewt Liverpool, O., has bought the Dr. Brown farm, in the vicinity of Baileyville, Purchas- ing price, $7,000. The Rev Samuel Martin, of Wind- ber, has acoepted a call from the Riate College Presbyterian church snd will in September, Claude K Stahl nas been at home during the past week, and Monday he and his mother, Mre. James RB, Stahl, started on a Uip to Phila delphia and Atlaatie City Mr. aod Mrs. W. B. Krape, of Asronsburg, were in Centre Hall last week, Mr. Krape believes in adver. tising, and consequently inserted an advertisement in the Centre Reporter, Dr. James W. Boal fitled the appoint. ment at Toseyville Sunday morning for Rev. Bieber, the latter having con. ducted the funeral services for John F. Emerick, at Farmers Mills, at that hour. Several days ago during a thunder storm the flue on George Turner's house, near Munson, was struck by lightning. The electricity continning its course, entered a room down stairs and discharged a shot gun that was standing against the wall, The house was otherwise damaged, but fortunate. ly no one was hurt, A tannery at Mount Union, Hunt. ingdon county, i: experimenting with a new tanning material. It is brought from far Bombay, Iadia. It is the nut of a tree that is grown largely in that part of Asia. The nuts are brought to Moant Union by the car. load and are ground at the extract works and used in the tannery just as ground bark is used. The nuts are stroug in tanning qualities, Messrs. B. F. Spayd and Oliver C. Hoy, both of Bellevue, Ohio, were east for ten days, and visited among rela- tives in Centre county. Mr. Bpayd is a brother of Mra, Perry H. Luse, west of Centre Hall, where he spe ta part of his time. Mr. Hoy is a son of Elias Hoy, who went west from Nittany Valley many years ago, and in farming. He Is a cousin of Mra, I The 8. 8. Pieule, The picoic held Thursday of last week by the various Bunday schools of the Centre Ha'l Lutheran charge was variously estimated to have been at tended by from five to eight hundred persons. The day was a most delight- ful one for pienicking, the afternoon shower not being on the program. Brief exercises were held in the spacious auditorium just before the noon hour. Addresses were made by Dr. W. E. Fischer, a former pastor of the charge, and by the present pastor, Rev. B. F. Bieber, and Dr. J, D. Mit- terling, of Madison, Bouth Dakota, a native of the valley, lead in prayer. Then there was the singing of several hymns, well known to Lutheran con- gregations. While this portion of the day’s program was being enacted the auditorium was filled to the doors, und those who could not gain admit. tance stood near the door to hear and see, The Coburn band was present throughout the day, and rendered numerous selections. That band is one of the best in the county, and when out for the day is not afraid to toot—hot or cold though the weather may be. It has been hinted that the picnic might be made a permanent affair, held either annually or bi-ennially, EE ——— A — a ———— Fine Grove Mills the Victors, Pine Grove Mills came out victor ious in a game oLbaseball Thursday of lest week, on Grange Park, over a team picked from among the picuickers of the Centre Hall Lutheran charge. The visitors are a bunch of ball players well organized and have a good con- ception of how the national game should be played, and although not past erring, played a clean game, True to their home talent, Pine Grove Mills sent a delegation of ro sters to encourage their young men, and hoot the opposition. They took a con- spicuous position, snd made the b of use of their lungs when occasion de manded. The ladies in the Pine Grove Mills section of the bleachers, were in showing their likes and dislikes for plays made on the field. The score : PINE GROVE RB Markle, © Krets, 3b . Heberling, 2b (0m. =8 . FE. Marte, of Oollins, rf suyder, 16 Cramer, if PF. Martz, p Omg © 00 © 16 wot 45 wot all a i ' 0 1 nh 0 ht at he rn 3] Totals > ~ Mcinss CENTRE HALL R 0 we B 0 wb SOTO EawRl Mitterling, of ..... Frank, cf Hassinger, 3b, ¢ Gramley, c, i Stahl ss 3h, . Win. Gramley, 20 Jacobs, 16 . Koarr, if, = Shute, rf Baliey, p Totals Pine Grove 0131 32 ~9 Centre Hall 1 0061 0 0 1-3 Two base hits, Stahl, Heberilng. Hit by pitch er, Mitlerling. Bases on balls, off Bailey, 4 Strack out, by Martz, 7; by Baliey, 14. Umpire, 4. F. Smith, ssavsmieild 1] Old Uirder Causes Acvident, The jury impaoeled to fix the blame for the accident that occurred at S:hrader Station, Mifllin county, in which two men lost their lives, rendered a verdict that the accident was due to a defect in the bridge, as there was a rotlen girder in the structure when it gave away. Charles Close, thirty-three years old, sud his nephew, Ellis Alexander, fourteen years old, were moving a traction engine along the road, near Schrader Btation, when the wooden structure spanning Honey creek gave away and the heavy machine dropped eighteen feet, to the creek bed below, turning turtle in the descent. Both men were pinned under the debris. Alexander's neck was broken and Close was practically parbolled from escaping steam. The accident occurred iu pisin sight of the Close home, and his family witnessed the socident. ———— I SN ————————. Rush “owaship Schoo! Teachers, At a meeting of the Rush township school board the following teachers were elected to serve the ensuing term: Sandy Ridge grammar, dH. A. Detweil- er; intermediate, Henrietta Kirk ; primary, Bertha Hessong ; Edendale grammar, Madge Shugert ; primary, John Biddle ; Tower grammar, Chass, Koapper ; primary Anna Rowers | Klondyke, Anna McMahon ; Reese, Cyrus Hutton ; Park. Lizzie R. Cram; Point Lookout grammar, May Cono way ; primary, Mame Flegal ; North Philipsburg grammar, H. E. Stover ; primary, Hilda Thomas; Munson grammar, Netta Gunther ; primary, Margaret Allen ; Moshannon, Bessie McCord, . Mguer Law Vielator . Fined, a : NO. 39. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Today ( Thursday ) is Methodist day at Lakemont Park. The automobile is furnishing an un- usually large percentage of news items, The Dale family will hold their re- union on the old homestead at Oa Hall Station, Saturday, August lat A dwelling house and the public school building in Miflinburg, were recently struck by lightning. No great damage was done, The eighth annual reunion of ihe Reformed people of Lock Haven, Belle. fonte and Nittany Valley will be held at Hecla Park today (Thursday). Prof. J. B. Bower, who for several years was principle of the Mill Hall schools, was elected to fill a similar position at Bnow Shoe at $90 per month, Tomorrow ( Friday ) the members of Old Fort Lodge, F.and A. M., will assemble at Penns Cave for an all day outing. They will take dinner at the Penns Cave house. A large ferris wheel will be one of the attractions at the Grange Encamp- ment. A contract has siready been made with a party who hss a large wheel. The merry-go'round privileges has also been Jet. Charles Detwiler, the little son of W. E. Detwiler, of Harrisburg, is at the home of his grandfather, Jacob Detwiler, near Penns Cave. He also spent some time with relatives on the Bouth side of Potter township. The four horses of Loven Wright, a farmer in the upper end of Dauphin County, were killed by a bolt of light- niog as he was driving Thursday of last week. The bolt wrecked the wagon and rendered Wright uncon- scious, The man lost most of his hair, 8. M. Campbell, the progressive funeral director in Millheim. has pur- chased a fine casket wagon from the O. Armleder Wagon company, of Cin- choatti, O., which he contemplates using at funerals, while his hearse is being remodeled into a more modern one. Mr.and Mrs. A. 8B, Gilmore, of Wil- linmeport, were guests of Mr and Mrs. D. L. Kerr, in Centre Hall. Mrs Gil- more is a daughter of Rev. G. W. Cur rin, of Willinmsport, formerly of this plsce. Mr, Gilmore is one of the in- structors in the Williamsport High school. James A. Decker, of Pine Grove Mills, will conduct the boarding house at the Grange Ea ampment and Fair, September 12 to 18:h. Mr. Decker was formerly proprietor of the Pine Grove Mills hotel, sand hes had con- siderable experience in the line of boarding house keeping. Charles Weaver, of near Linden Hall, returned home Wednesday after- noon of last week from Philadelphia, to which city he had gone several weeks previous to undergo an opers- tion for appendicitis. On his return, Mr. Weaver was sable to walk about, and it is thought that within a short time he will have fully recovered. Dr. W. E. Fischer, for eighteen years pastor of the Cenire Hall Lutheran charge, came up from Shamokin, upon invitation, to attend a picnic of the Sunday schools of the charge held Thursday of Isst week. The Doctor saw many of his former parishioners, and possibly no one on the ground enjoyed the occasion more thoroughly than he. Miss Abbie Cooke, daughter of Charles F. Cooke, while walking slong Bald Eagle creek, slipped and fell inls the water. She was unable to reach the shore, and but for the timely as sistance of Frank Rowe, clerk to Cen- tre county recorder, the lady would bave met an untimely death. When taken from the water Miss Cooke was unconscious, but was soon resuscitated. Rev. and Mrs, B. F. Bieber, Mon- day morning began their vacation, which time will be spent at their re- spective former homes-—Milton and Watsontown. They went overland, via the Brush Valley Narrows. Mr. Charles Meyer, of Lewisburg, astadent in his second year at the theologioal seminary at delinsgrove, will fill the appointments in the Centre Hall Lau- theran charge during the pastor's ab- sence. . The Lock Haven Blate Normal School closed the most successful school year in ite history last June. Its student body represented three fourths of the counties of Penna. and
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