MOL. LXXXI1. Ho frequently bas the attention of merits of the several candidates, that WAY. The Democratic ticket in worth, in integrity, character, morals, fill the several places for which they ahead of the Republican nominees. If the voters will, for instance, take the legislative candidates and for a moment make an honest effort to compare the one wih the other, they mun of ability, clean and pure in life, well educated, trained in the law, chaste in speech, with every qualifica tion which goes to fit a man to rep- resent an intelligent peocple in the legislature. On the other side and opposed to Mr. Meyer they will find a man whose principal qualification is the use of profanity and ability to call himself a g——of a b , and apply the same beautiful epithet (?) to almost every man he meets, or has occasion to speak about. In truth he prides himself on these sccomplishments, His educa- so because he refused to acquire that which was within easy reach. A trader in politics, without stability enough to adhere to any party longer than the opportunity lasts to make something for Taylor, or work revenge on some one he did not like. This is a fair comparison and state. ment of the qualifications of the re- spective legislative candidates. Voters, without any special reference to politics or party lines, which do you think you would like to have represent you, and care for your interests in the next legislature ? Itisup to you, or you are up against it. What will you do under the circumstances, vote for decency, or vulgarity and profanity ? The competency and efficiency of the candidates for commissioner and the reasons why they should be re- elected have been set out so fully in a couple of articles which recently ap- peared in the Reporter and other county papers, that it is not needful that more should now be said, further than to say in all things th y are the equal of their Republican competitors, and in experience and practice they sre greatly their superiors. As to the candidate for recorder, Mr. Brown is not, as compared to Mr, Musser, in any respect his equal Th: re is no candidate in the field for any office so well quelified as is Mr. Musser for that for which he has been pominated. He writes a good hand, is careful and methodical in all he does, and is genial and kindly in bis tact with him. He bas much ex- perience in the line of such work as he will have to do as recorder. There Is no office in the county in which the people are more deeply interested. In of the highest importance that these a man who has been careful in his life and well trained and securate in doing things is fit to be recorder. Mr. Mus ser is absolutely qualified for this position, and if the voters of Centre be takes a great interest in the progress being wade by the western farmers. Following is a report of how farming on a large scale is conducted in Kansas, his letter stating that he had just returned from Western Kansas, The report follows : On the western border of Kaneas, where the rettler turned his back on his farm, DOL #0 MANDY years ago, as arable or worth the effort, the newest thing in farm machinery is threaten. ing to retire the horse from the farm about as thoroughly as he has been driven from the city streets by the motor car. At lsat two farmers in Cheyenne county are using what is called the farm motor, s machine that may be described as tbe mule of the motor car family. It isa general farm drudge, plowing, diecing, harrowing, seeding, harvesting and even hauling the wheat to market. Horses will furnish the power for most of these things it is true, so that there le nothing remarkable about (he i But the farm motor by a very large majority. Then comes the office of register For this office G. F. Weaver is the Demo- cratic candidate, Mr. Weaver, by education and in every other way, is fully capable of discharging the duties of the office. Heretofore Mr. Weaver has taught school in the winter time and has been a capable and worthy teacher. There are many reasons why Some years ago a thresher. This unfits him for any manual labor, but in no way interferes work. He is in every way the equal of his opponent. Beside this Mr. Tuten, the Republican candidate, is term he now holds, he owns and pub- lishes the Bellefonte Republican to- gether with all the machinery ofa good printing office, and a fine home in Bellefonte, It is but right that the people should consider the maimed eondition, snd the limited means of Mr. Weaver when they come to vote, He is honest, worthy, upright, reliable and tru y needful, The next is the candidate for treas- urer, J. D Miller. He is a hustler, and if when the vote is polled and counted it is not found that he has hustled himself into the office for which he was nominated it willben great disappointment. The candidate possesses every needful qualification for this responsible office. He is hope est and efficient, writes a good hand, snd understands keeping accounts These things will make a good treas urer Iu every way the matter is con- sidered, Mr. Miller is the superior of ti:e Republican candidate and should receive not only his full party vote, but that of many Republicans, Then comes one of the most « ficients reliable, sturdy and substantial men who has ever been nominated for the office of sheriff, Fred F. Bmith. Mr, Smith is a very capable man in every way he is considered, His sterling worth is seen the minute you look at him. There is very apparent a strong, firm character, one which only ad- heres to the right and cannot be driven to do wrong to any man. There is no fawning or truckling about him. He is & man who believes in the right and is always ready, willing sud able to do the right. Then too Mr. Smith Is perfectly honest in the discharge of every duty. The beastly slurs which the Gazette cast him a couple of weeks ago, were uncalled for, because the truth could easily have been ascer- tained. Mr. Smith was road master of Rush twp., because he was the best road master to be had, and to this of- fice he wrs appointed by a Republican board of supervisors. Everybody, whether democrat or republican, pro hibitionist or socialist, who wants a F. Bmith. The list of candidates closes with J, W. Beck and John UL. Cole, for auditors, and Dr. P. 8B. Fisher for coroner. Each of these men are more than qualified to fill the positions for which they have been nominated and should be elected. This, in brief, is our county ticket, | In its personel it commends itself to the intelligent, sober, right thinking men of every party. { large areas are to be tilled it promises | to send the horse into total eclipse, | Think of plowing up about thirty | acres in a single leisurely day with one | machine, discing a swath twentysix | feet wide at the rate of three linear miles an hour, hauling 600 bushels of | wheat to market at one trip, and you ‘have an idea of the new motor and | what it will sccomplish under con. | ditions none too favorable. Then con leeive of doing this plowing in the | virgin prairie at about thirty cents an {acre and hauling that amount of wheat thirteen miles to market for $10, counting the return trip. Then you have even a clearer impression, The farm motor is just a big, heavy, awkward looking motor ear, bullt for hard, heavy work. Itis the embodi- ment of all the principles of the motor oar seen on the streets every day ex- cept that it produces strength where the other develops speed. In front is the big radiator cooling the four oylin. ders; the drive wheels are vig steel affairs with tires eighteen inches wide, studded with sharp conical spikes for taking hold of the ground. Gasoline furnishes the motive power and one wan can operate it with its plows, diecs or harrows, hitched behind, without the slightest trouble. In Cheyenne county, of which Bt. Francis is the county seat, away near the sot Ni | two big farmers are using the motor | | with satisfaction. They are Jerry! | Lyons, whose farm of 1,900 acres is seven miles from Bt. Francis, and G. W. Denny, whose 3500-acre farm Ie thirteen miles distant from the town, Recently both places were visited for the purpose of getting first hand io- formation about the farm motor and its accomplishments, On the Denney farm the motor was busy discing » big fleld which had been broken last spring. Hitched behind the big, lum- bering car were three sets of discs, two four-horse and one eight-horse aflalre, Moving slong at a steady pace of about three miles an hour, the machine dragged the discs over a lateral area of twenty six feet with as much ease as though puffing along a road, piling the ounce broken soil along in little furrows ready for harrowing and the seed, [he field was a mile long and about 800 feet wide, so that, | at the longest circuit of the field, the machine was discing about eight acres | « of ground. The circuit took about an hour. As geared up for work the motor weighs six tons. A steam en- give of~the same kind and power] would weigh three times as much “When we get done with this” sald "H. OC. Denny, son of the farm's owner, ‘we will cross dide it, but| when we do that we will hiteh thirty feet of harrows behind and do the har- | rowiog as we disc. We can pull the three discs and the harrows at the! same time. Then we will hiteh on! three drills and drill it to wheat, W are working slong the Campbell] system of farming—dry farming they | sometimes call it." i G. W. Denny, the owner, came to Kaupsas from Nebraska, where he had tried the same kind of farmiug. “I believe the motor is proving a great success,” he said. “I always have been looking for the time when we could farm with less expense. To break the prairie with hired teams costs $2 an acre. With the motor car! we use about two gallons ef gasoline to that amount of ground at a cost of six- | teen cents a gallon, I expect even to! cut and thresh by gasoline power and | I know wecan haul the wheat to! market with this motor. I shall get two 300-bushel tanks and mount them on wheels. These I can pull over the level road out here to town and back for $0 or §10. I believe ina few years these motors will be very common The fact that they will save from one- | balf to three fourths means a great deal in dollars and cents | when the magnitude of these Western | farms is considered.” i plowing with eight moldboard plows | bitehed to the back of the motor. i “What we have always wanted,” he sald, in discussing his farm motor, ‘ia more crop at less expense. The motor is going to help us gain that end. They have been used in Dakota a little snd I am told they broke ground for sixty-five cent« an gre which cost $2.85 on an average when broken by horses. I expect to harvest with my motor, but I'll do my fall plowing at the same time, hitching my binder far enough behind my eight plows to drop the bundles on the plowed ground. “My experience is that with the gasoline farm motor I can carry on al- most all farm operations at about one- fourth the cost of horses. Perhaps I am a little enthusiastic about this, but I believe not. I measured my land aod I measured my gasoline, and I broke the heavy river bottom sod with with one and one-half gallons of gaso- line to the acre. My neighbors, break- ing the same kind of sod with horses, used four good animals to the plow and it cost §3 a day to hire them. An acre is a day's work for such teams in this ground, which agrees with my figures that it costs §3 an acre to break ground with teams. * I ean buy gasoline here at sixteen or seventeen cents a gallon, so that you can figure my expense yourself twenty-five or thirty cents an acre, In that heavy ground I broke fifteen or twenty acres every day. One man runs the motor snd one manages the eight plows. In this way I did as much work daily as fifteen or twenty men and sixty or eighty horses, aided only by my motor and one msn.” John D. Miller, the Democratic can- didate for treasurer, Is 8» well known throughout Centre county that no one attempted to put out false stories against him, knowing that such tao tics would be resented by voters in both That Is one advantage in ng well acquainted over the county. a —— A sn. There was never a better Democratic ticket presented to the voters in Cen tre county. The majorities, conserva tively estimated, will be from four hundred to one thousand, VEFIUVUIENT IN EDUVATION, In speaking of Mr. Brown, the Re. Democratic Watchman concludes an argument in this wise : ‘* Republicans know as well as Dem- ocrats that it takes more than respect~ ability and good character to make a Recorder. They know that Mr. Brown has not had even a good common tirely unfitted for such a responsible position as Recorder of Deeds, ‘“* Why be hss not that education has nothing to do with the question, Either he did not secure it because of In either case he was jualified in charge of their deeds and The slightest flaw in a before cast The above statements are no doubt Republican candidate for Re- If the candidate is unqualified an educational standpoint, he fp Ap th here is the same amount of truth there is in the tale that paper told As stated Inst week, the truth is Mr. Smith re. But the Ga- will pot be honest enough to AAS A. This from the Democratic Watch- man ; All through the campaign cer- iain sections of Centre county have Hurley.” If Centre county voters sp- Give Weaver a vole for Register, He needs the revenue of the office a hun- Mr. Tuten has held the office for al- most three years, and in that time has not given it enough attention to learn the routine work connected with it. Vote for Weaver, the man with one —————— I'he educational qualifications of the Republican candidate for Recorder are bave a personal soquasintance with wim, The Democratic candidate for that office is not only generally quali writing all kinds of legal documents for a number of years, A a You can say what you like, but the truth remains that Farmer Fred born and raised in Centre in ¢ entre county than Mr. Hurley, who has been in the county but a few 0 ———— Of the thirty-nine counties in Ohio that voted on the liquor question, thirty-four voted dry and five wet. More than one-half the counties in the being Coshockton, IAA IRAN Vote for W. Harrison Walker for represented in congress since Curtin will warrant you to vote for Mr, Walker. AAAI MY HAAG RATAN The laboriog man, the farmer, the mechanic bas sn opportunity next luesday to vote for his personal ine terests and the interests of the whole Vote 40 the Democratic The, south side of Centre csunty Democratic candidates from Bryan down to Fisher for coroner. Ba HI WAN. The sight of a dinner pail almost gives the Republican stump-speaker the hysterics. * Birds of « feather flock together,” All tarred with the ssme stick, —— A ——— _ There remains but one thi BEFORMED SYNOD, Met at Lock Haven Last Week 4 Brief Report of the Work Performed, {By Rev. D, Gress, | { Concluded from last week. ) Friday morning Rev. W. F. More, superintendent of Bethany Orphans’ Home, addressed the synod on the workings of the Home. He now has a family of 150 orphans. Dr. Stahr gave en interesting talk on Franklin and Marshall College, saying it now had the largest enroliment in its his- tory. Dr. Bowman spoke on the ex- cellent condition of the seminary, Rev. W. F. Curtis spoke encoursging- ly of the work at Allentown. Rev. I. N. Peightel, Friday after- noon, addressed synod on the work- ings of Mercersburg Academy. He sald 460 young men are in attendance and some thirty students were turned away at the opening of the fall term for lack of accommodation, Reports of home and foreign mission boards showed much active work and good results. About $50,000 of the $70,000 debt has been raised by the $10 pledge method. - During the noon re cess Friday synod was conducted through the State Normal School, and during the evening recess synod was given an automobile ride of eight or ten miles, which was arranged for by Mayor Stevenson, mayor of the city. Friday evening was given over to the subject of education. Rev. Curtis spoke on the nobility of women train- ed in a christian college. Dr. G. W. Richards, professor of church history in the Lancaster seminary, gave a scholarly address on the subject, * Do we still need ministers 77 We have about one hundred vacant charges, Students for the ministry are decreas ing in numbers. Various ressons are given—new and old theology, low salaries, industrislism snd material ism, ete. Baturday morning Dr. Rufus W, Miller, secretary of the Sunday school board, gave a splendid report of the work done by the board. He said the new building erected has proved itself to be a paying investment, The commitlee of overtures gave a report of items that came under its notice. An item that produced quite an interesting discussion was the one referring to the anti-saloon league, Synod heartily indorsed the move ment and passed resolutions to that eflect, Saturday afternoon preparatory services for the holy communion were beld. Bynod partook with the congre- gation of the holy communion Bunday morning. The president of synod, Dr. Theodore Herman, preached the ser mon, which was an able discourse. Sunday afternoon s mass meeting of men was held in the main suditorium of the church. Addresses were made by Rev. Rufus W, Miller, D. D., and Rev. Cyrus J. Musser, D. D., editor of the Reformed Church Messenger. Both of these men are of exceptional ability and talent and drew a large sudience. Bpecial music was furnish- ed by a double male quartet. Bunday evening a foreign mission service was held. Rev. Wm. Sampe, of Japan, who is home on a furlough and will return to Japan in a few weeks, spoke on the subject, ** A meses age from the field.” Dr. A. R. Bar- tholomew, secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, spoke on "' A mess age to the field.” His plea for more workers was earnest and his plea for the payment of the $70,000 was elo- quent. Many $10 pledges were given at the close of the service. Monday morning Dr. Musser gave an encouraging report of the Reformed Chirch Messenger, and urged pastors to secure new subscriptions for the Messenger, for it Is the pastor's assis tant. Dr. Richards reported on the Reformed Church Review, and said it wpe meeting expenses, but more min- isters and elders should subscribe for it and read it. Dr K. Otis Bpessard gave encour. aging reports of the sociely for the relief of ministers and widows of min- isters ; also of the Phoebe Deaconess and Oid Folks home, at Allentown, Bynod closed at noon Monday ; will meet in its next annual session Octo. ber 20, 1909, in Easton, in general body instead of delegated body as heretofore, The Eastern Bynod covers the Eastern half of the state ; is composed of 13 slasses, 354 ministers, 568 co tions, 120,000 members, 97,000 Sunday school scholars. During the past year $165,000 were given for benevolence; $719,000 were given for congregational purposes. : The sessions of synod were held in Bt. Luke's Reformed church, a beau tiful edifice. About 250 ministers and elders were present, besides visitors All enjoyed the brief stay in the beau- tiful eity of Lock Haven, having been shown the kindest hospitality. The Nauta] wires wether added to the L and delight of the del. gates. LC AIM SAA I. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. It will be Bryan—of course it will. The next issue of the Reporter will be after the election. The Clinton county teachers insti- tute will be held at Lock Haven dur. Ing the week of December 14-158. Charles, a son of Chester A. MeCor- mick, of Btate College, was last week taken to Bellefonte hospital to have an operation performed on account of a rupture. Wilbur Burkholder, assistant ticket agent at the Pennsylvania Railroad station, in Bellefonte, recently took a pleasure trip to Philadelphia, New York and other points. While playing with matches chil- dren set fire to the residence of Harry Bhawley, at State College, and before the flames could be extinguished near- ly all the furnishings in the room were burned. W. Gross Mingle had his residence repainted, the work being done by D. C. Rossman, of Centre Hill. A porch was also erected recently by Mr. Min- gle. These improvements make his home look decidedly up-to-date. Rev, C. W. Rishel and W. D, Strunk advertise sale of firm stock and im- plements for Friday, November 20th, on the Rishel farm, near Stone Mill. This move is owing to the sale of the Rishel farm to H. C. Bhirk, of Centre Hall. A national bank for Loganton seems to be an assured thing, ss papers were filed with the comptroller of the cur rency at Washington for permission to go ahead with the organization. T, R. Harter, John Brown and W. A. Morris are behind the movement, A short time ago it was announced in these columups that Bpring township had purchased the Christian Dale farm with the view of turning it into a poor farm. The report is in-correct, but there was some talk of purchssing the farm of William Dale, but no sale was made, In another column will be found the professional card of Dr. P. C. Frank, of Centre Hill. He holds 8 license to practice general veterinary surgery and a recognized diploma for wveteri- nary dentistry. Dr. Frank bids fora share of the patronage of the people in Penns Valley. Charles D. Bartholomew, who is de- voting considerable time to the poul- try business, has secured the services of John Kreamer for a period of a year. Mr. Bartholomew has in view the pur- chasing of a horse and wagon, and in that event will engage in the poultry business more extensively. The increase in the price of paper has been a factor in forcing another one of our magszines to increase in price. The Woman's Home Compan. ion, prepariog to give ils readers a bigger and better magszine will raise its price from ten cents to fifteen cents a copy, and from §1.00 to $1.25 a year in a few weeks. Andrew W. Gregg came from Wilkes-Barre Friday evening! and Saturday made sale of his surplus per- sonal property. Tuesday he moved his family to Wilkes-Barre, where they will make their future home. Mr. Gregg holds a position with the Bell telephone company, Wilkes-Barre being his headquarters, Beveral needed street crossings have been erected by order of the borough council. One crossing lesds over Main street at Weber's ; a second across a sidestrest at A. P. Luse’'s; a third across the road — Conley’s lane—at Bhirk’s ; a fourth across Main street at Jacobs’. Concrete was the material used in all except the latter, which was built of brick. Since the destruction by fire of the Dale-Bennett saw mill, at Glenn Har- ris, Messrs. A. A. and Clement Dale sold their interests to Mr. Bennett. The latter, who interested Fiyte & Co., of Lock Haven, will rebuild the mill, and continue manufacturing lamber at Glenn Mills. The Dales, it is said, retained all the sawed lumber, amount- ing to over 400,000 feet, Nine thousand little sunfish have
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