* VOL. LXXXI. PROGRAM For the 35th Annual Grange Encampment aud Falr of the Patrons of Husbandry, tre Hall, By Friday evening, September 11th, everything will be in readiness for the opening of the great and Fair of the Patrons of Husbandry, day of the Encampment, when all parties, and Siturday evening, Monday, 14th, general the Fair, and placing of exhibits. p- m., entertainment by Lee Bros. | Tuesday, 15th, completion of placing | exhibits. At 130 p. m. it is probable that addresses on Prohibition and Local Option will be made. nouncement later. 7.30, ment by Lee Bros, Wednesday, 16th, 10 a. m. Address- es on agriculture and the organization | of farmers 130 p.m tre county bave been charge of the weeting will be announced later, i 730 p m Entertainment in sudi- torium by Lee Bros Thursday, 17th, 10 30 a. Ad- dresses on agriculture and the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. 130 p. m. The Democrats of Centre | county have peen invited to conduet | the meetings. Speakers will be duly | announced. An effort is being made | to secure Col. Bryan to speak at these | meetings. | Thursday evening. Entertainment | in auditorium by Lee Brothers. The program of the Lee Brothera enter. tainments will ba changed every eve- | ving, aod announcements made from | day to day. Friday, 18th, will be general bargain day, when exhibits will be sold at the | bargain counter. This will be the] time to buy, and generally attracts a | large number of buyers. i Friday afternoon will be devoted to | general parting entertaivments before | breaking camp Baturday morning. ! ———— oY so —— i New Mall Route, 7 30 The Republicans of Cen- | invited to take! The speakers | in A rural mail route inspector recom- mended to the department to establish a new rural route from Bellefonte! which will extend from that office | southwest over the road leading from | the Valentine furnace to Centre! furnace, past Frank Musser, Charles | Wetzel, William Fishburne, David | Rbinesmith and others, to the State | College pike, where it will pass over | Btate College Route No. 3 to Centre Furnace, from there to Rock Cream. | ery, and thence down Bpring Creek to | near the wooden bridge ; and from | thence east by way of David Rbine- | smith’s to the State Collgge pike past | John Rishel’s down to the Lewisburg pike and back by way of Axe Mann, This route practically embraces Route No. 3 of Btate College, which will be abandoned, except the upper portion which will be served by routes 1and 2 from the College. —————— Child Barned at Picale, Oage of the five hundred who attend- ed the Union Bunday School pienie near Milroy, a little four-year-old girl named Mary Russler, daughter of Walter Russler, was severely burned on various parts of her body. The child was standing by the fire where water was being beated to be used in making coffee, when her clothing ig- nited. A. W. Nale threw the child to the ground, and by rapidly rolling her over and over, succeeded in ex- tinguishing the flames. Mr. Nale, in performing his heroic act, also re- ceived a number of burns on his hands, A ———— A AAAS, Auto Line to Penns Oave, The Campbell Brothers, proprietors of Pencs Cave, have arranged to run an automobile line from Grange Park to Penns Cave during the Encamp- ment and Fair. As a special induce. mént a trip through the cave and one meal can be had for fifty cents. Note their advertisement in this issue, Penns Cave is a wonderful cavern, The pleasure of a boat ride under. ground, the viewing of beautiful lime- stone formations—the work of nature for centuries— in great profusion, many times over repay the time and money spent. By all means take a trip by automobile to Penns Cave, is A AI MO i Clover Seed Farmers are baviog a volunteer crop of considerable value in the shape of clover seed. The second growth of this legume was not ss rank as was anticipated, but the heads are loaded with plumpseeds. Clover is the most % THE RESERVOIR CcOMmPL 0, | The Basin’s Uapacity 9,612 Barrels—.aurel! i Spring, Ete, i | The reservoir is completed. The | | work was finished Thursday noon, | the appearance, at least to the un- | skilled, of being substantially built and | capable of withstanding the pressure | of the water from within and holding | up the embinkment on the exterior, I'ne dimensions of the basin are :| Pop, 44x81 fast ; bottom, 34x78 feet ; | depth, 13.25 feet, which according to | the Reporter's calculations will hold Laurel spring is a! low water mark, The intake of the pipe line is too small to permit even the smsail amount of water there now to enter the pipes, f thatshow on the surface, greatly re. Not than one-half the water the spring is carried to the mm re about visible at reservoir It is the intention of the eouncll to rebuild this pipe line, and in doing so larger pips will be used near the ue from Laurel Vthe rewrvoir is thirty-seven wd to reconstruct the entire live between the two poluts will distance hundred wr, able sum of money, bat it is thought replacing bursted sections along the live, and remodeliog the walls at the will serve to carry all the water available at that point during severe droughts. -— Editor Kills Himself. James B. Biackpole, editor of the Lewistown Gazette, the Republican political organ of Mifflin county, com- mitted suicide Wednesday evening of last week by shooting himself through the heart. His body was found at the side of » country road. Fear of certain disclosures, whith would reduce his chances for election 'o a county office this fall, is believed to have unbalanced the newgpaper man’s miod. He was #bout forty- seven years old and one of the leading politicians of the county. His edi torials have received general comment, and have figured prominently in all campaigns, The day previous to the committing of his rash act he bought a revolver, and that night entered the home of John Wagner and demolished the in- terior. He also threatened Wagner's wife and I18-yearold daughter, A warrant was sworn out for his arrest and Btackpole left the town, He fol lowed the Juniata river for some dis tance, and then, while standing against a tree, he fired the fatal shots, A widow and five children survive. a A ess —— Stories of Famous Hymuas, From week to week the Reporter will publish the stories of a few of the (a0at popular hymuos. These stories are based on facts, and will be inter esting to the aversge reascer, “"BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS) The circamstances surrounding the origin of this hymn are not less un- usual than those of the foregoing ones. Its author, Rev. John Fawcett, was a Baptist minister in Eogland, who after preaching for almost sixty years, died in 1817. For several years after he began preaching h- filled small charges, but in 1771 he was called to a large church in London. Everything was ready for his removal to his new home, All of his people, however, were de- voted to him, and the greater number of the members of his charge were gathered around Dr, Fawcett and his family with sad and tearful faces, “Finally” says a writer in telling the story, “overwhelmed with the sor- row of those whom they were leaving, the preacher and his wife sat down on one of the packing cases and gave way to grief.” “0 John" exclaimed his wife at last, ‘“$ cannot bear this ! I know not how to go.” “Nor I, either,”” was the in. stant reply. “And we will not go. Ihe wagons shall be unloaded and everything put in its old place.” We can picture to ourselves the intense Joy aud gratitude of his people at this declaration, which was at once carried out, a letter being dispatched to Lon. don explaining the facts of the case, And it was with the memory of this Incident still fragrant in his heart and with his people's word of joy and love still sounding in his ears that Mr. Fawgelt wrote this hymn, *‘Blest be the Tie That Binds,” ——————— The First National bank of Howard recently purchased from the B. Weber estate, the old Bamuel Brickley prop. erty on Main street in that town, for $1,200. The necessary changes will be made to convert the store room into a bank as soon as possible, The bank 2pects to be for business by FROM DEMOCRATIC HEAD_ — QUARTERS, CHICAGO, ILL. DEAR SIR : There are no secrets in this Campaign. Strictly practicing what he preaches, Mr, Bryan would not win victory with tainted money paying the election expenses. Not a dollar is to be accepted which requires any promise, either express or implied, other than for honest, impartial government. Mr, Bryan will enter the White House absolutely free from entangling alliances, free to serve all classes of honest citizens alike, or he will not enter it at all, Hence the course is plain. The campaign of Bryan and Kern must be conducted by the people. The people must pay the necessary campaign ex- penses if they want public servants who will serve their interests. Special in- purchasing favors in the past with millions contributed to control elections, stand ready to give millions more for continued favors, unless it buys a pledge. Mr. Bryan says, from March 4th, 1909, ** Let the People Rule,’' This can come only if the people pay their own bills, and control their own elections, ‘ Beware of the Trusts bearing gifts," That policy of the favored few buying a mortgage on the Government meant that the candidate for President knew a Bryan says, ‘* We will take the cause of People’s Rule home to the people of every county,” terests and favored classes, having secured ** swollen fortunes by But that class never gives a dollar few people only in an entire State. You can serve the grand cause of popular government through the It reaches the fireside of the patriot who loves his country for his country’s good ; as distinguished from the greedy possessor of swollen fortunes who loves his country only for his country’s goods, 1 type columns of your paper, Please carry this letter in bol at the masthead of your paper, ask- ing every one who favors Government by the people to pay you, at once, as many dollars as he can spare to aid the campaign for Bryan, Kern and People’s forward these gifts of honest hearts and homes every week to the name of each con- rward you a certificate like Rule. You Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee with the The Treasurer will {¢ the copy enclosed for each one, asking you to deliver these certificates. tributor and amounts given. Once more, you should be a part of the great organization bearing the Lamp of Light to every nook and corner of Free America, Our Country is for the People ; its Government must be by the People. Sihcerely, NORMAN E. MACK, Chairman Dem M. C. WETMORE, C. N. HASKELL, Treasurer Democratic Chicago, Sept. ocratic National Committes, Finance Committee National Committee, Chairman National 10S, RECORD OF CULPABLE EXTRAVAGANCE. More eloquent yet than the burning words of Mr. Bryan is the speaking record of Republican extravagance in national administration. As a matter of course in the rapid growth of this great country expenditures of the Gov- eroment must steadily increase in vol ume. But the offisial figures too plain. ly show.that in the last decade the public expenditures have swollen beyond all proportion with the capacity of the masses of the people who in the long ron most pay the heavy burdens of taxes wasted in reck- less prodigality. Under Cleveland's second Adminis tration the total expenditures of the national Government amounted in round figures to §1,758,000,000, or $434,5600,000 a year, and under MeKin- ley’s term they rose at a bound to 2, 430,000,000 In this the increase caused by the war with Spain must be reckoned. Making sllowances for army and pavy expeditures under McKinley's term they do not sccount Government comes out of taxes, but that their share of payment is in. finitesimally small if it can be discov. ered at all. Yet the vast sums lavished in waste- ful expenditure by Republican rule and the far greater sums diverted to the coflers of the predatory Trusts are drawn from the masses of the people from the earnings of the farmers, me- chanics, store-keepers and men in every business pursuit and profession. Of this enormous taxation the child- less man of wealth pays much less than the industrious mechanic with a large family ; the larger the family the greater the burden of tax upon their necessaries and comforts of living, If the money thus levied upon each citizen were put in a tax collector's duplicate the revolution hurling from power the authors of a ruthless com- bination of extravagance in govern. ment and spoilation of the people could not be stayed. Republicans (everywhere would unite with the for the increase in Roosevelt's first | Democrats in this generous political term to $2.641,000,000, or upward of | movement. But what is not seen in $660,000,000 & year. Under the present the blindness of party spirit has no Administration the prodigality of ex. existence. penditare is such that it has risen by | [0 its last analysis the policy of the leaps and bounds to the enormous ap. | ¢lemente in control of the Republican propriation of more than §1,000,000,000 | Party has degenerated into an odious for the fiscal year beginning on July | | #ystem of class rule. As long as these last. | elements that dominated the party in The official figures are startling in | the Chiesgo convention continue in their contrast of extravagant Repab- power reform in legislation and Gov- lican administration with the wise ®f0Ment is wholly out of the question. economy of Democratic rule. There | Restoration of the rule of the people, are many people, too many, who treat | 20d with it extinetion of the favor- the wasteful expenditures of the Gov. '!18™ for the fow at the expense of the ernment with frivolous indifference in | *0¥, Obviously can come only the vague notion that it is of small con- | oy el A of Ss Bational cern to them. They dimly conceive | of the principle of “equal rights re that all the money expended by the | ail nnd special privileges for none." J. uv. Marray's New Deptrture. After two month's of remarkable His sales, J. D. Murray, the enterprising grin, no matter what the subject un- der discussion. Mr, Weaver, 1f there is any such thing ** as deserving "' sn office, has a right to the place. He was unfortuoate when a youth to lose ne of his arms, but by applying him- self, and making the best of all the opportunities presented to him, he managed to obtain a good education. From his wages as a school teacher he greatly aided his parents in retaining an humble home, which also shelters Mr, Weaver, | at half price the regular 50 cent size of | Dr. Howard's specific for the cure of | constipation and dyspepsia, and guar. anteeing to refund the money if it does not cure, has been the greatest success he has ever known, He has sold hundreds of bottles of | the specific; and as yet has not had (one returned, although he stands ready at any time to refund the money should any customer be dissatisfied. This is the strongest testimony that oan be furnished to the great merit of this medicine, Anyone suffering with dyspepsia, constipation, liver troubles, dizziness, coated tongue, or the general tired feeling, caused by inastive liver and bowels or disorded digestion, should take advantage of Mr, Murray's new departure abd buy a bottle of Dr, Howard's specific at half price, with his personal guarantee to refun the money if it does not cure, Under Mr. Murray's special half price offer, this means a month's tre at ment for 25 cents, with the best medi. cine known for the cure of constipa- tion and stomach troubles, a —— — —— Tarkey Dinner ou Camp, A tar din will be Gin Ford er 30,98 Although a one-armed man, George F. Weaver, the Gregg township Democratic candidate for the office of register, performed more manual labor in any one season than his opponent did in all bis life time, The laborers and farmers think they have a right to a share of the public offices, and so they have. Now let them support Mr, Weaver. If there is such a thing as an unpar- donable political sin, the vdting for Bert Taylor by any self-respecting Re- publican is it. He has about the same qualifications for a legislator as he has for first assistant chamber maid in The Pallace of Graft, A MI A AIRS ¥ LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Paragraphs Picked from Exchanges of Interest to Reporter Readers, Democratic Watchman— Mr, Johnston has been awarded the contract for putting down a concrete pavement in front and at the sides of the court house yard and he is already getting his material on the ground. While engaged in a practice game of ball last Saturday Hugh L. Fye and George Woods, of Pine Grove Mills, collided with such force that the for- mer received an ugly cut on his fore- head and the latter a badly wrenched Jawbone, While trying to hold a dog from running after an automobile yesterday morning Mary, the six year old daugter of Mr. and Mrs, Andrew Thal, was thrown against an iron post and sustained a cut on the forehead which required four stitches to close. Twenty-two members of the Allison clap enjoyed rather an unique outing on Tuesday in the shape of a peach gathering party. There isa good sized peach orchard on the old Allison homestead at Potters Mills, now occu- pled by Edward Allison, and the trees this year were all laden with fruit. Word was sent to the Allison relatives to assemble there on Tuesday and pick peaches and each person could have free just what they picked. Twenty- two persons were there for the picking and an idea of how many peaches they picked can be gotten from the fact that Archie Allison and family, of this place, brought home with them about ten buehels of the delicious fruit, Millheim Jowrnal— Miss Nellie Bmith, of Centre Hall, spent Bunday with Mr. and Mrs, I. A. Bhawver, Miss Bertie Huey and sister, Marian, of Vintondale, visited relatives in this place last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. Walter and Mgs. 8. M. Campbell are spending the week at Asbury Park N. J. Mrs. Catherine Winters, of Lock Haven, is visiting at the home of her brother, Christ Woodling. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weaver, and children, of Clintondale, spent Bug- day visiting re.stives in this place. W. J. Trossell. who is employed at Sunbury, spent several days the past week with his family in this place. The Misses Bess and Eva Rhyme stine, of Belinagrove, wers guests at the home of C, F. Miller over Bunday. Mrs. H. C. Rishel and children, of Altoona, were visiting at the home of ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Keen, Inst week. Wilmer Stover, of Aaronsburg, has sold his autom >bile to C. H. Breon, of this place. Mr. Breon expects to desl extensively in autos. Darius BSechrist, formerly of Lock Haven, but who now makes his home with his son George W. Bechrist, of Mill Street, is seriously ill. E. I. Musser on Tuesday vacated the house he occupied on Penn street and moved into the residence he lately pur- chased from Mrs, Mary A. Miller on West Main street. Thomas R. Buck, of Berwick, spent Sunday with his father-in-law, D. L. Zerby, He returned home Monday morning io company with Mrs. Buck, who Lad been visiting here the past week, Mrs. Mary A. Miller and daughters, Misses Olive and Eva, left Tuesday morning for State College to make that their future home. Their many friends in this place are sorry to see them leave. Mr. and Mra. Nelson Robb and fam- ily, of Harrisburg, who had been visit. ing relatives and friends at Zion for some time, spent last Thursday after noon with Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Stover, in this place. Some one raised two rows of potatoes oue night last week for A. J. Gephart without his consent. No doubt the person who did the pilfering needed the potatoes, but Mr. Gephart would prefer they would ask for them before taking them. The residences of John H. Breon, on North street, and E. B. McMullen, on East Main street, have been newly painted, which greatly improves their appearance. UCU. F. Miller, and his gang of painters did the work and they are now engaged painting the residence of George Ulrich, on East Main street. a > The Ohle Steam Cooker, Messrs. R. 8. aod A. 8B. Fleck, of Bellefonte and Plessant Gap, Uvely, will have an exhibit of Ohio Steam Cookers, and other household specialties at the Grange Encampment and Fair, The ocoker is a novel affair, and bids fair to find favor with the Indies who do the cooking. You acre invited to call and inspect their goods, and be convinced that the Ohio cooker is the best on the market. If you will not be at the mentioned, call on or write them, NO. 36. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Centre Hall is ready for the Grange Encampment and Fair, An elaborate turkey dinner will be served by Mr, Decker on Grange Park, Bunday. J. B. McCarger, the Bellefonte insure ance agent, while walking in front of the Centre County bank in that town, fell and broke his ankle, Dr. P. H. Dale is having his stable remodeled ou the interior and exterior, and will be made to aftord comfort to his horses and be more convenient for his stable boy. College township is trying toget a piece of Btate road built, ssme to start at Felix Bhuey’s and follow the old pike for four miles, or to a point be- tween Lemont and State College, The Reporter is glad to n that William Keller is gradually improv- ing. It will be remembered that he had one of his great toes amputated at the Bellefonte hospital, and the wound refused to heal. The Centre Reporter will be pleased to have all its correspondents to call at the Reporter headquarters during the Grange Encampment and Fair, Call and make yourself known a= a Reporter correspondent. Mrs. Roland E. Hoekman, of Phila- delphia, and Mrs. Victor A. Auman, of Centre Hall, were callers Saturday at this office. Mr. Hockman is expect- ed here within a few days, and will attend the Hockman reunion at Hecla Park. County chairman W. D., Zerby has openad up Democratic headquarters in the room in Criders Exchange for- merly occupied as a broker's office. The room will be kept open during the day and evenings and the leading papers will be received daily. At a recent meeting of the stock- holders of the White Rock quarries Edward Richard resigned his position ae secretary and treasurer of the com- pany to take effect the first of the month. To take his place J. A. Behaefler was elected secretary and George R. Meek treasurer. J. J. Carpenter aged seventy-five years, a farmer living at Maple Hill, Lycoming county, was instantly killed by a fall under peculiar circumstances. He was booming a load of straw on a wagon, when the long pole used in the operation broke and he was catapu- lated over the wagon and alighted up- on his head many feet away. His neck was broken. Mrs. R. Duncan Runkle, of Bhamo- kin, made a brief visit to the home of her sister, Mrs. John Runkle, east of Old Fort, and other relatives. Her little daughter, Edith, was at the home of her sunt during the greater part of the summer, and it was on account of the opening of the public schools that the stay in the country had to terminate Monday. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Gonder, of Wall, during the past week have been guests at the Colyer home, near the station. Mr. Gonder passed the necessary examinations last fall, and was daily expecting a promotion from fireman to: engineer on the Pennsy when the panic broke in. He is how- ever very thankful that he has had continuous paydays as a fireman, aod is living in hopes for times to brightes, This from the Philipsburg Journal : We are informed that a great many bushels of cranberries have been gath- ered already the present season on the top of the mountain a few miles south- east of Philipsburg. The berries were Just beginning to color, but will ripen after being picked. It is not generally known that cranberries grow in this vicinity, out they do, nevertheless, and some of them very near to Philips- burg. Beveral Bellefonte capitalists have been figuring on buying the Ward House, in Tyrone, from the Wainright estate, and if the deal is made, one of the finest hotels in this partof the state will be built on the site. The frame pert will be torn down and a handsome five story brick will grace ita piace. This is no fairy tale as the news comes straight from one of the gentlemen interested in the deal, re- Rev. John B, t, D. D,, after supplylog a Congregational church for six months in Pleasantville, Connec- tiout, was elected its pastor. Dr, Foohit Is well known in Central Penne aylvania Lathersn Synod, having held several them Lewistown—within its borders. He has not forsaken his Lutheran doo trine, and acoepted the pastorate only on condition that he would be privi le
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