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,
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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,
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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