sion on the question of couuty fi- nances. The Republican organs of course do not desire to state the truth, at least they do vot. The auditors’ report for 1602, made in February, 1903, the year the last Republican board of commissioners went into office shows tha! they found a balance in the treasury of $25,000.00. At the settlement for the year 1905, which was filed in February, 1906, there was found to be an indebtednbss of $32577.72 There was, however, more indebtedness existing than the sum reported by the auditors. This amount wes at least $5200.00 The various items of indebtedness which are contained in the last item were well known to the outgoing board, but they failed to report them or leave any evidence of their exis- tance on record, and their claims were not known to the present board until after the county statement fr 1905 was made public. The real debt therefore at the end of 1905 was $38,277 72, possibly more. The Republican board therefore had gotten away with the balance of $25 - 000.00 on hand at the end or 1802, and left a debt of $38,277.72, they therefore expended during their term of three years $63 277.72 more than their in- come. The income for 1905 at 3 mills on » valuation of $11,936,912 00 is only $35,- 810.73. When commissions and ex- onerations are taken from this amount there is not over $30 000 00 remaining Other revenues of the county come from the return of state tax, on maneys at interest, tax on unseated lands, and a small sum from liquor licenses, and some from the tax duplicates of pre vious years, but all told the annual income fell far short ¢f meeting the great expenditure made eac:: year hy the last board of commissioners Ro that counting the surplus they found on baod and the debt they left going out of office, they had expended during their term of office, $683 277 72 more, at least, thao they took in. It certainly was not good manage ment to let the revenues run behind a reasonable and just expenditure, They had it absolut in their power to keep the county of debt. They knew, or ought to have koown, what and Of iy out PENROSE ANv THE FARMERS A special plea is made by The In- quirer to the farmers of the State to keep Penrose in the Senate by electing Penrose Benators to the Legislature. Penrose is needed, The Inquirer would have farmers believe, to keep the Canadians from invading the Pennsyl- vanis markets with their poultry, butter, eggs, wheat and oats. The in- telligent farmers of this State very well understand that they are obliged to sell their surplus of farm products in the same markets with Canadian farmers and to accept the same prices When we become heavy importers of farm products the farmers may have the opportunity to add tariff rates of duty to the price at which they sell; but pot till then. Protection doesn’t protect the farm- er; but it puts the tariff screw upon him every time he drives a protected nail into the protected lumber of his house or barn, or builds 8 rod of fence with pro'ected wire, or buys a pro- tected machine from the Harvester Trust, or a protected sewing machine for his wife, or wakeo up in the morn- ing to dress himself in protected shirt, coat, breeches and hat, eat his break- fast oft protected pottery, put in his winter wheat with a protected plow and harrow, and when he goes to sleep al night wrap himself in a protected blanket. Ob yes, the farmers are! beginning to find out how thoroughly | they are * protected.” Penrose has | heiped “protect’’ them, after the man- ner of his kind. They need him some | more, A mau of the type of Fred Bmith, of | Rush township, ought to receive the | support of the voters all over the county, no matter what their political | beliefs are, in preference to Mr. Hur. | ley, the candidate from Philipsburg, who just bicame a resident of this Probably he left Biair county becanse he was office hungry, and thought the chances better in Centre ( where he was little known ) to get on the Republican ticket. Fred Smith has long been a resident of this county, and has interests here that will keep him within the county. With Hurley it Is different. He might leave any day that he thinks there is no chance for an office, S—————— ee —————— The arbitrary man has nothing to commend him ss being fitted to fill a public office. Keep shy of him. No self-respecting Republican can vote the full Republican county ticket. on November 8rd. dently they did not. Heretofore, in the issue of September 24,1908, it appeared that the present board expended in 1007, $18,666.58 less than @id the other board in 1905, The present board, the msjority of whom are now before the people for re-election, have been as generous in building bridges, or more than the other board. They have paid $7500.00 to the building of a soldier's monu- ment, they paid $600.00 reward offered for the recapture of the prisoners, who, after having killed Jerry Condo, es- caped because there was no one about the jail to prevent their walking out, With all this the present board gets along with an expenditure of $18,666 56 less than did their predecessors, Much is made of the fact that millage was increased from three to tive mills. That this was necessary was clearly demonstrated by the last Republican board. They undertook to get niong on three anills, and left a Inrge debt for thelr successors to meet, The assessed valuation of the county taxable far county $12,227 { Bross ) the purposss is now 135 00, five mills on this yields $61,135 67. 'ske from this the commission for collectors, exoner- ations errors, and there is not turned into the treasury of the county mare than $54,00000. Two mills on this valuation for ernvenience would net §24 000.00 a year, or $458 000 00 for two years. Out of this sum the pres, nt board has paid about $30.000 00 of the debt left by the old The voter will bear in mind that the tax levy for 1908 is not yet collected and is taken into consideration in this statement, and when the Gazette in- and board. not ints that $72,000 00 has been" realized, it is done for the sole purpose of mis. leadiog the people From the expenditure of the board which went out of office at the end of 1905, and from the fact that the expen diture for 1907 was $98 600.98 it is clear that the eounty cannot be run on a three mill tax » year. The expendi. ture for 1907, had there been no debt, would nbout $15.000 less above given. With this showing, which is absolutely trae, have heen than the amount the members of the present board now before t' « people should be re-elected by 8 very large msjority. Ambrose Bloteman, (he clerk for the Republican board of county commis #loners who left Centre county in debt for some $40 000, made osth that the millage for county tax would have to be raised at least two and one-half mills. His calculations were that it would require 5 mills to pay the ex- penses of the county. The present Democratic board followed, and they succeeded in conducting the business of the county on a less millage, and at the same time adopt and carry out a pay as you go policy, wiped out the debt created by a Republican board of commissioners and have a cash bal- ance on hand, Such management entitles Messrs. Dunlap and Weaver to a continuation in office. If every voter could see the financial needs of George F. Weaver ; if every voter could réalize hia ability from an educations! stand-poiot; if every voter could compare the two men— Mr Weaver and Mr. Taten—Mr. Weaver wonld receive nine-tenths of the votes cast on November 3rd. Mr. Weaver is a one-armed man ; has always been obliged to struggle to earn a livelihood, Mr, Tuten never did a day's manual labor in his life ; never knew want in his life ; has held office for three years, and duting that time was 80 much absorbed in the news- paper work that he bas not even learn- ed the routine duties pertaining to the office of Register. A vote for Mr. Weaver will be a vote to lift a poor, worthy man from want. And he will ——— A ——— If you vote for Fred Smith for sheriff you will be supporting a man who has paid taxes in this county for many years. He did not come to this county on an office hunting expedition, he is a fixture here. He is an honest, up right gentleman, with a spotless record. His neighbors speak of him of a man who is deserving of recog- nition, A A A AAA Taylor-Hurley-Brown — that Is a combination. Birds of a feather flock together. The voter who knows the character of Taylor will be able to Judge his associates. I — A ——— The present Democratic county com- missioners practiced economy when. ever possible, and in doing so acted fair to everyone. J. C. Meyer, Ee¢q., the Demcoratic candidate for assemblyman, Is not a vile man, You ean vote for him with 8 olear conscience, FASE In the last issue of the Keystone Ga- tended to do harm to F. F. Smith, of Rush township, the Democratic nomi- The item is reprinted in full, with the full knowledge that it is false from top to bottom. The voter ean judge for himself whether the Gazette was warranted to make the charge after reading the letter ap~ pended forwarded by Mr. Smith, The Gazette cannot claim that it was misinformed, because the figures given by Mr. Smith are on record and could easily have been obtained. When the truth does not serve the Gazette it does not hesitate an {ostant to use a falsehood, Here is the Gazette's statement : The Democratic papers have been making such a tremendous hullabaloo about Fred ¥. Bmith, the Democratic candidate for sheriff, baling such an extensive farmer, that we have been lead to make inquiry, and upon investigation find that his “ farm, " which is located in Rush township, contains nineteen acres and 20 perches, nest measure, This, however, is not his entre “farm " as that embraces the whole of Rush township, since he drew within the last two years over $700.00 from it as Hosd Master; apd when a * farmer * is able to draw more than ove dollar a day from his township for each working There is symethiog ust know where received to the tax-payers. wrong somewhere and we don't | it is He pcemas to be a Sova To quote a min correctly is to use bis own language. This was done in the case of the Gazette, and now Mr, Smith's letter is printed bere. There is a diserepency. How shall this te adjusted ? The Gazette simply mnkes a slatement without quoting authority, while Mr. Bnith quotes records. Tho records will Giszelte must be the falsifier Mr. Smith says : PHILIPERBURG, OCT MR 8 W SMITH, Editor Oentre Reporter the the from sland, i slre i DEAR BIR in the last issue Keystone which Is made the Insinuation het | am po farmer because f land in Rosh township, and have received s salary of $700 00 as road master of same he facts are that! land and have, by hard knocks and great care made them (oto = little farm made sod am making a and family Pa. vindiy deny the alisck upon me of the Gazelle fownshij own thinty+lx acres of now living for mywlf The records show that for the year of 1906 | $255 00 for my services in that capacity. Yours respectfully, F. F. SMITH. mm —————— Exciting vongressions! Contest The Barnesboro Star, published by John C. Miller, formeriy of Bellefonte, says : We learn that there is a spirited contest for Congress in the 21st dis. trict, between the present incumbent, Charles F. Barclay, Republican, of Sinnamaboniog, and W. Harrison Walker, Esq., Democrat, of Bellefonte. Although the district is strongly Re- publican, the friends of Mr. Walker express strong hopes of his election. Mr. Walker is one of the prominent attorneys at the «entre County Bar, and immensely popular in that coune ty, and io fact has a large following wherever known, not only in his own party but on the other side as well, He is a mao of scholarly attain- ments, of strictest intergrity, and if elected will, without doubt, represen his constituents conscientiously and be a credit to the district. He is a wise and prudent politician and indefatig- able worker, two qualities that count in a political eampaign. His antagonist realizss the condi. sion of affairs and is making a heroic effort to keep his party voters in line po <a The present board of county com- missioners pay as they go, and pay in cash, not by giving notes. That is commendable. The last Republican board of county commissioners went out of office with the county in debt and obliged the sucereding Democratic board to lift their totes, There is not a voter in Centre coup- ty who will be obliged to compromise himself if he votes the full Democratic ticket, A SA ———— Millers in Conference, A committee of the Pennaylvania Millers Association held a meeting at Pennsylvania State College, Saturday, with a view of testing the quality of wheat in co-operation with the State's institation. The committer was com- posed of Landis Levan, Lancaster, chairman of the committee and presi dent of the association ; Col. Ascher Miner, Wilkesbarre; Ed. 8. Wertz, Reading, J. 8. Edge, Downingtown ; E. E. Reindollar, Taneytown, Md. ; A. P. Husband, Philadelphia, secre- tary of the association. A A A a. Penn township will nay Rhoads and Kinsely, of Bellefonte, $652.50 for con. structing concrete abutments for the bridge over Penns Creek at Green. briar, HA ASA APRI. It often requires more courage to do right than to follow the unco guid. FORESTER AT WORK, Establishing » System of Frotection for State Lands on Nittany Mountain, As is well known to most of the readers the state has been the pur- chaser of many hundred thousands of acres of mountain land in all por- tions of Pennsylvania, but it is not perhaps, generally known that the state is making an effort to cars for the young timber growing on these reservations, At the present time much of the land purchased by the state is valueless, but as time goes on sud generations pass away, the little twigs now visible will mature into the #turdy trees of their kind, and th: tracle despised by the present-day lumbvermen will be a source of revenue to the state, and in the mean time will greatly prote:t the hundreds of mountain streams and the lnnudierable mountain-side springs which afford the supply of water for, villages, sud nearby farms. In the townships of Potter, Gregg, HBpriog and Walker the state owns over five thousand acres of land, all located on Nittany Mountain, The portions in Potter and Gregg town- the south slope of that adjoining the tracts of George F. Emerick, Clyde E. Dutrow, Jacob Buarer, McNitt-Huyett & Com- pany, the Harper estate, the Bible sisters, Samuel Bruss, George H. Eme- rick, B. H. Arpey, B. D. Brisbin, and the writer. Adjoining this are large trucis lying lo the Greens Valley dis- trict, in Hpriog township, and this district now receiviog special at- from James E. McNeal, of who has been located at Centre Hall since the middle of Hep- Mr. McNeal is a forester, and Is working under the direction of the of Forestry, of maintain stitp« lie on Houuiain, in tention Lancaster, tember, state Department Forester McNeal Is at present de- voting his time to the establishment {asystem of protection against fire, of roads through the reservations. Aw enemy of reforestation, and conse- Under mi direction of Forester Me- Neal a fifteru food roadway is being jrers 3 cut through the Greens Valley district. Ibis road is a continuation of the road will forma a main avenue Park. The establishing of these roads are for two purposes —first, as stated above, to sid in combating forest fires, and second, to be used when the timie ar- rives that the state will begin opera- tious on these tracts. By operations is meant when thestate will make sale of timber from the present Apparently worthless territory. Iu establishing the main artery men- tioned all the under brush is eut out, but trees of valuable species—provided they will not interfere with wagoning at a future date—are not disturbed. By dolog this preliminary work now, future generations will have little trouble in building a road for wagon or steam when occasion demands, In addition to these main roads other roads will be cut along the boundaries of the state's possessions, but these wiil be maiuly for fire protection. Mr. McNeal is a graduate of the State Forest Academy, at Mt. Alto, and is well equipped to fill the posi- tion he hioids. While be is not cer tain whether the State Forestry De. partment will keep him here for a considerable length of time, he is an- ticipating such an action, and in time expeots to establish a nursery in Greens Valley on several barren slopes. In case this work goes on, the work of reforestation «ill be watched with in- nursery easily, and the Reporter will do ite part by giving to its readers the progress made io the successive steps taken, Saturday Miss Myra L. Dock, of Fayettville, who is » member of the Forest:y Commission, accompanied by Miss Biakiston, of Philadelphia, arrived in Centre Hall from State College, where they attended the dedicatory services of the Woman's Bullding On reaching this place they were met by Mr. McNeal and Mise Florence Rhone and together the party drove to Greens Valley to look over the work already done by the state's forester, Ise MSA IIIA. The Thrice-a- Week World, The Thrice-a-Week World will be sent to Reporter subscribers at the rate of sixty-five cents per year, paid in advance. The regular subscription price is $1 00 When a man is osught in a business Injustice there are just two things to do—acknowledge it; or get mad ; but he udually gets mad, From Mi lhelm Journsl. Rev, end Mrs. M. I. Jamison, of York, were visiting relatives and friends in this community last week, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Foster, of Phila- delphia, were guests several days duar- ing the week of their daughter, Mrs. John Hardenbergh. Mrs. Margaret Speidel, of East Ger- mantown, Ind, and Mre. Maggie Teeble and son, Ray, of Decatur, Ind., are guests of Mr, and Mrs. William Kreamer, Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Frankenberger and two children and Mrs. David Bhall returned on Friday morning from their vigit to Illinois. They were much pleased with their trip. Mr, and Mrs, W. W, Smith and Edi. tor C. M. Hood and wife, of State Col- lege, drove to Millbeim on Bunday, where they enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. A. Walter, Mrs. H. E. Boob, accompanied by Mts. Daniel Engel, of Loganton, drove to Millhelm on Bunday to be guests of friends and relatives in this communi- ty for a week or ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Me- Alisterville, Juniata county, are visit- ing friends and relatives in this section. Sunday and Monday they were guests of Mrs. Bmith's brother, Nathaniel Boob, ——————— State 8, 8 Officers. + The Btate Bunday School convention af'8Bhamokin adjourned after electing the following officers : Honorary president, John Wana- maker, Philadelphia ; president, H. J Heinz, Pittsburg ; first vice president, M.J. Low, Columbia county ; second vice president, Judge Joseph Buffing- ton, Alegheny ; third vice president, Harry Paisley, Philadelphia; fourth vice president, I. M. Kirby, Luzerne : fifth vice president, Charles Kunkel, Dauphin ; directors for term ending 1911, Rev. Alexander Henry, Philadel phia; Bamuel Young, Pittsburg ; Thomas Murray, Clearfield. Resolutions were adopted indorsiog local option and recommending a " Bunday School Day "40 be held at a given date throughout the world. The next annual meeting will be held in Harrisburg a ————— I — ————— Mountain Fire Extinguilshed. About eleven o'clock Suaday fore- noon a fire was observed oun Nittany Mountain on a line between the point where the pike strikes the top of the mountain and the farm buildings of John Q. A. Kennedy. The telephone on the Pine Stump-Linden Hall rural line was brought into use, and in a short time a number of men were on the scene, who kept battling with the flames until after the middle of the afternoon, at which time the advance column of fire had reached the pike, and the sides were extinguished. The fire for the most part burned over territory belonging to Mr. Kennedy. It is unknown how the fire origi- nated, and had it gotten under head way the damage would have been very great. I A A ABTA. A Well .aken Polut, In one of the closing paragraphs of the sermon delivered in Grange Park auditorium, on the occasion of the Harvest Home services at the opening of the Grange Encampment and Fair, Dr. W. H. Behuyler, as reported by the Farmer's Friend, in speaking of the liquor traffic, said : It is ever plac- ing a whisky barrel between the church and those who most need re- ligion's tender ministries and helpful services. It makes the world scofl at the church and turn away, because some of her members, mislead by love of gain, or thréugh Ignorance, or through lwek of moral courage, will persist in aiding the damnable trafic by their signatures and their bond. I SA SABI Keith's Theatre. This week at Keith's Theatre, Phila- delphia, marks the first vaudeville appearance of Leo Ditrichstein, play- wright and comedian. The vehicle is his own comedy entitled, * Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?" The Kellinos, acrobats, are retained from last week, while among the new. comers are the Kyssyas, who lint weights by means of their teeth and hair. The five musical Avolos are the premier xylophonists of the worid, and have just returned from a tour of the Continent. Quinn and Mitchell have 8 paricunlarly amusing sketeh, It is oalled “ The Land Agent,” and is a burlesque on Iand-booming. A strong play, votitled * Weaving the Net,” is being presented hy Lisle Leigh and Co. Ruby Raymond and her boys are giving songs and dances, The auditors’ t, prepared by 8 Republican board of auditors, is a vindioation of Messrs, and Weaver. All debts have paid, and no faplt with any could be found A A AP ANAS, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTERES FROM ALL PARTS. State College wants free delivery of mails within the borough, Mise Nannie Coxey has bought th Alexander home in Boalsburg. Con- sideration $1,200. Miss Leila Huyett, a student at Sus quehanna University, at Selinsgrove, wae at her home in Centre Hall over Bunday. The way for local mechants to dis- courage their customers from patron- izlog the mail order houses is to use printer's ink liberally themselves. At a meeting of the trustees, Miss Mary N. Baird, of Reedsville, was elected superintendent of the Lewis- town Hospital, to succeed Miss Anns Lentz, The church of the Evangelical Asso- ciation st Woodward is undergoing extensive repairs. A new spire is being erected and the inside newly papered and painted. Earl Lutz and family dined on wild turkey Bunday, having killed a ten pound bird while on a little hunting expedition, a number of which he takes over Nittany Mountain every fall, The Pennsylvania State Educational Commission, appointed for the re- vieion and codification of the school laws of Pennsylvania, will hold a pub- lic meeting in the High Behool Aundi- torium at Williamsport, today (Thursday. ) W. J. Harter, of Coburn, visited the Sober chestnut farm, near Shamokin, and became imbued with the ides of chestnut growing. If his present plans are carried out he will begin grafting chestnut sprouts on a tract of woodland near Coburn. Mrs. W. K. Bhuiltz and baby, of Mexico, Juniata county, arrived in Centre Hall Friday, and were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Keller, Mrs. Bhultz and Rev, W. EK. Shultz attended a reunion of the fami- ly of Rev. J. F. Bhultz, at Bellwood. W. C. Lauck, tenant on the Brocker- boff farm, east of Old Fort, advertises sale of farm stock and machinery for Thursday, November 25, Mr. Lauck moved onto the farm mentioned last spring, and the unfavorable season bas made his lot very unprofitable, but be is making the best of it, The large barn owned by Mr, Bowers and tensnted by Ammon Gramley, near Mt. Eagle, was destroyed by fire with all its contents, including ms- chinery, and a bull. Mr. Gramley carried only $500 ipsurance, but his loss will run over $2000. The barn is supposed to have been set on fire by incendiaries, Arthur McCoy, the thirteen-year-old son of James McCoy, of Osceola, while bandling a rifle at his home accident- sily discharged the weapon and re- ceived the load in his abdomen. He was taken to the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, and his condition is such that the physicians have hopes of his recovery. Messrs. John R. Strong and 8. G. Long, both of Potters Mills, were in town the latter part of last week on business. Mr. Btrong, who has lived at Potters Mills for about thirty years, has in contemplation locating in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. He is a mason by trade, but if he goes to Boston he will in all probability engage in the restaurant business. Boston is the home of his present wife. Friday; Elmer Houtz and hired man, of Linden Hall, went in quest of the pony that got to the mountain for Al Knopf. They tracked it to the big rock east of Peru, and there threw a rope and entangled its legs, throwing it. They succeeded in getting a bridle on it and took it home where Knopf got it, and Mr. Reitz, the game warden, purchased it to use on his trips to the Beven Mountains, | Farmers in this section who were in- terested in the statements published sbout Alaska wheat pro and con, will be pleased to know that Coleman K. Sober, of Lewisburg, has decided to make an experiment with the wheat himself, and has socordingly set aside five acres on his fine Irish Valley farm and seeded it with the celebrated Alas ks wheat, His experiment will be watched with much interest, for those who know Mr. Sober realize that he will give it a square test, The twelfth child—a daughter—was born to Mr. and Mrs. McClellan Ross- man, near Pine Hall, above State Col- lege. It was a case of sadness turning into joy. While the husband snd other members of the family were lay- ing to final rest a daughter and sister— Mrs. Charles Cronmiller—the infant family to the Rossman home, mother, although anvounced that the family
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