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_VOL. LXXXII.
Before the
St, Louis.
[ By Qul. 8. I Stiver, Bunker Hill,
PART 111.
Pennsylvania
1)
The exigencies of the Revolutionary
War were such that the armies for de-
fenae in any engagement or state were
drawn from local sources largely and
there was never much of a general eon.
tinental army drawn from the colonies
as 1» whole, The Germans of Pennsyl
vania did their share in recruiting the
continental army and in protecting
their own borders from invaders ano
from Indiave. No other colony did
more in those days. Ihe Pennsylva-
nia militia were notably well organized
and active in the revolutionary period
And supplies from Germans saved the
army of Washington from eold and
famine at Valley Forge.
In the War of 1812 the Germans of
Penpsylvania ws re as setive as others
under similar circumwsiances, and yet
there was not much for any siate to do
go far removed from the seat of war,
and especially on the high seas where
most of the military operations were
carried on by the seafaring portion of
the people of the country.
For the Mexican War the most of
the recruits for the army were from
the Bouth where the war was « popular
event on account of the prospect of ens
larging the area for siuvery
In the Civil War from the Germaos
of Penneylvanis case about 80 000 of
360,000,
whole
nearly
one-fourth of the On the
whole the Germais of Pennsylvanis
bave pever cared much publie of
fice or for political or sectional strife,
and they bave generally been more
inclined to do the home +org and
supply the sinews of war than go into
the field and do the fighting Yet
they have done their share as it came
to them, and have done it well
In the civil history of the state, the
Germans have had « large and honer-
able share In the early history of the
transportation sgencies of the state
they were superior. They owred and
operated over 10,000 large freight
wagons in Pennsylvania before the
Revolutionary War
John Fiteh had steambosts running
on the De'aware! conveying freight
and passengers, before Fulton success.
fully laanched the Clermont oa the
Hudson
The Germans established the first
paper mill in this country at German:
town. They owned and onerated
nearly all the flouring and sa v mille
fn Pennsylvania before the Revoiuo-
tionary War, and a mejority of them
since. They were the best farmers,
millers, mechanics, merchants, tan
ners, lumbermen, teamsteras, printers
and pablishers before the Revolation-
ary War ino their own state. They
owned snd published ten of the eigh-
teen newspapers in the state before
that war, and many since. They first
published the Bible in German in this
country, long before it was printed in
Eoglish here,
They had schools side by side with
their churches from the very firs? i
Pennsylvania They had scho'ars
who co 1ld teach not only German tut
Latin and other learned langusges
before they were taught in New Eog-
land. They kept records of births, of
baptisms, of confirmations, of mer.
riages and of deaths in a systematic
way from the first, such ss most of
the states have since provided for
tardily. by law.
They founded su'h colleges as
Franklin, Marshall, Pennsylvania and
others, at an early period in the state
They bad an educated ministry from
the first and prided themselves in sap-
porting their churches with liberal
and generous provisions,
They persecuted no one snd, though
they were the first proteatauts, they
never took down the cross from their
steeples and substituted a rooster, they
never burned witches, exiled Quakers,
or ceased to observe Christmas as was
done in New Eogland., They pro.
duced no religious fanatics or schise
matics or heretics or criminals. They
pent the first missionaries to the In-
diane in Pennsylvania. They treated
the aborigines with justice and civility
and had no Indian wars of ieir mak-
ing. They were quiet and peaceable
in all things and loved home, hospi
tality, generosity, justice, simplicity,
honesty and honor. They were frugal
and indastrious but very charitable
and kind to strangers of all kinds,
They practiced the simple life and
loved God and man, homely as they
were {n their manners and customs in
many respects, in their earlier history
in the state. Now no more urbane
and refined and polished gentleman
can be found anywhere than the edu:
cated and enlightened Pennsylvania
German. In the possession of school
property of all kinds and in education.
al affairs of the state they are now
leaders and preeminent.
But no account of the Pennsylvania |
( Continued ou next columu.)
0nr
for
HALL, PA.
| Itisbut just to the County Grange
that an annual review should be made
of the growth and achievements of the
County Grange, so that the members of
the order generally may comprehend
the scope of work the Grange is doing
and join it in celebrating its achieve
ments,
We, as members of the order, should
intelligently understand the work the
County Grange is doing for the benefit
of the members of the order. It wasa
great achievement of the Grange when
it succeeded in bringing the farmers
together and uniting them into local
Granges, so as to enable them to act
together for their common good. Then
again to bring these local organizations
together into the County Grange as one
organization, through which the several
local Granges are enabled to act together
in a larger capacity to promote the best
interests of the agricultural class of the
entire county.
Through the instrumentality of the
Grange many farmers have been brought
forward and educated to fill useful po-
sitions in life, so that the County Grange
has qualified men and women to intel-
ligently fill any position to which they
may be called in the Grange or before
the public.
It must be said to the credit of the
Grange that in pursuit of its work it has
never been compelled to go outside of
its membership for qualified persons to
prepare the plans of the many business
enterprises organized to promote the
welfare of the farmers and the business
interests of its membership. Indeed
many of its members have become good
writers, speakers and readers before the
public. No school ever established in a
rural community has done so much to
intelligently educate the farmer and his
family for the daily duties of life.
Itis to be regretted that there are
still some farmers who deprive them-
selves and their families of the educa~
tional advantages that the Grange
affords to its members,
The County Pomona Grange was
organized in Sept. 1875, and has con-
tinued in successful operation for nearly
thirty-four years, and has established
numerous business enterprises in the in-
terest of the farmer. The Grange Fire Ins.
Company was organized in the spring of
1876, with an insurance of $206,000, and
was incorporated by the state under the
laws governing insurance companies.
The plans for its government were drawn
by its own membership, so that there is
not a rule or law that has not been de-
vised and perfected by the County
Grange.
Its sole purpose is to insure the most
humble as well as the most affluent
member that has a home that the order
has pledged itself to protect. The com-
pany has now been in active operation
for thirty-three years and carries an in-
surance of $6,270,94200, at an average
cost of 21 cents per hundred dollars of
actual insurance for thirty-three years,
which is twelve cents less per hundred
dollars than the average cost in all mu-
tual companies doing business in Penne
sylvania for the same period, and from
two to seven cents less per hundred than
Transfer of Heal Estate,
W._ OC. Meyer to Marion Meyer, Dec.
Rose I. Bickle et al, to T. E. Greist,
Oct. 9, 1908; lot in Unionville. $250
State Deposit & Trust Co, of Pail-
ipsburg, to George W. Beamer, Aug
12, 1902 81 wcres, 35 perchés in Taylor
twp. $162 44
‘hrist Decker et
Rockey, May 28, 1008;
twp. $100.
George Rockey et ux, to Christ
Decker, May 28, 1908; lot in Walker
township. $100
Continued from Previous Column, ]
Germans would bs complete without
reference to thelr services and emi
nence in the political affairs of the
state,
Delaware was the first state to ratify
the Constitution of the United States
A few dayes after came Pennsylvania,
Of the sixty-two members of that Con
vention, thirteen were Germans. All
these Germans voted for the adoption
of the Constitution while nineteen of
other nationalities voted against
adoption,
After the adoption of the first state
constitution in 1790, down to 1808,
Thomas Mifflin and Thomas MoKean,
each serving three terms of three years
each as governors, bring the service of
the English and Scotoh-Irish in that
office through the first eighteen years.
Then, with the exception of thiee
years and that due to the death of one
of the governors, there was a succes
sion of German governors for thirty
ux, to George
lot in Walker
tion was adopted.
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The worst about the long_green in
the average cost in all other companies
doing business in Centre county for the
same length of time. The average cost
in all mutual companies doing business
in Pennsylvania for the last year was
forty-nine cents per hundred dollars of
insurance.
Our company has paid to distressed
patrons who lost their homes by fire
since its organization, in 1876, $159,-
445.23. It is doubtful whether any
other fraternal organization has con-
tributed a larger amount for relief of its
distressed membership during the same
period of time.
Then again, the County Grange has
organized its own Encampment and
Fair Association, which was started as a
one day picnic in 1874, and enlarged in-
to a three day encampment in 1887, and
was still further enlarged, in 1891, into
not only an encampment, but into -the
Grange fair, the County Grange purchas-
ing twenty-eight acres of land at Centre
Hall which has been converted into a
park. In starting this enterprise the
County Grange had but $250 to back it
up but by economic management and
the united effort and loyal support of
the membership throughout the county,
the County Grange has been enabled to
build up one of the finest fair grounds
in the central part of Pennsylvania,
with convenient and attractive build-
ings, equipped with a complete outfit of
over one hundred tents, without a single
dollar of debt resting upon its property,
and for the last two years » 1s paid cash
premiums for every meritorious article
placed on exhibition. The County
Grange has also helped to organize and
capitalize other business enterprises in
the interest of the order, besides hold-
ing stock in National Banks that are
worth in the market $140 per share, and
ten shares in Building and Loan Asso-
ciations that are now worth $77 per
share ; it also holds shares of stock in
fourteen branch telephone companies,
The County Grange organized the
Patrons’ Rural Telephone Compusy | in
the fall of 1905, which has now under its
management fourteen branch companies,
with an estimated paid up capital of
$6,000, under an incorporated company
with an authorized capital of $10,000,
and has upwards of 250 pho in
on its lines, giving service to its members
at from $5 to $7 lees per instrument
than that given by id line eompa-
nies, all brought about in the short
period of three years by the united and
loyal support of the membership of the
order.
Besides the business enterprises enu-
merated, there has been under consider-
ation by the Grange the feasibility of
organizing a co-operative Grange Bank,
with other needed organizations, to helg
the farmer market his crops in a mo re
economic and profitable way through
associated effort and capitalization.
The foregoing are only of the
successful achievements of the County
Grange which, with all their prosperity
and success, are not to be compared
with the great fraternity it has built up
among the farmers of Centre county
establishing confidence and good fellow-
ship among the people of the rural com-
munities,
nes use
the «
a few
Agricultare In Fablle schools.
In Illinois agriculture is taught in
the public schools, in all grades. Prof.
Cyrus Grove, superintendent of the
Stephenson county public schools,
forwarded the Reporter a copy of the
semi-annual examination questions on
all topics. Those referring to agri
culture are especially interesting, and
one can infer that the pupils uoder
Prof. Grove’s jurisdiction are acquaint.
ed with topics in agriculture with
which many farmers are strangers,
but ought to have an intimate ac-
quaintance. There is much to learn
in agriculture, there are secrets beyond
the comprehension of Lhe average
farmer and pupil in the public school,
but there is also much that can be
learned by the boy or girl who studies
agriculture from the first to the last
years of school life. Much of the
knowledge that may be acquired by
children prior to sixteen years of age,
made five or six hundred farmers
from all parte of Peonsylvania
assembled at Pennsylvania State Col.
lege, just a short time ago, gape in
wonslerment that such knowledge ex-
fisted, Many bits of the most valuable
faformation concerning sgriculture
could be learned by the pupil in the
publie schools more easily than to ac-
quire them after attaining an sage when
everything new-—( to them )--is re
garded with suspicion, Pennsylvania
should teach agriculture in the public
schools as well as Illinols, snd Prof,
Grove’s pamphlet is proof that the
subject oan be taught and the pupils
comprehend it in the first year of
school as well as io ihe last.
Talk is cheap until you go to buy
® box at the opera.
¥ to fiy back and sting you.
NEW 'CHOUL LAW,
Muoch of the Legislation in Existing Laws
Will bs Re-Enncted,
The bill drafted by the State Educa-
tional Commission to take the place of
the existing school laws was presented
by Benator Miller, of Bedford, and
Representative Lydick, of Allegheny.
The bill repeals all of the 2000 odd
existing school laws, and re-enacts
many of them. The bill is divided in-
to 29 articles. In addition to masking
radical changes in the laws it groups
all school statutes under the one head.
ne chinirman of the commission is
<uperintendent of Public Instruction
Schaefer,
I'he bill provides for a Stats board of
education advisory to the Superin-
tendent of Public lostraection, and
changes the educational system
generally.
It miso provides that the Btlate
fores! ry reservations shall be consider
ed the basis of a State school fund, all
income from them to be applied to
asdueational purposes in order to safe
gusrd the schools of the future,
The bill creates threes classes of
gchool districts, First, eities of over
400,000 which includes only
Philadelphia and Pittsburg ; second,
all cities, boroughs and townships of
over 5000 ; third, all having less,
The eommission recommends that
the school directors be elected as non-
partisan, advocating a change of the
slsotion laws so that election of direc
tore is taken out of polities,
sss —————
people,
Grove Family Organizes
A pumber of Groves,
the branches of the
representing
various Grove
families in Centre county, met at the
Hoose, Baturday afternoon
and perfected a county organization.
D CO. Grove, of Zion, was elected pres
ident, and William M. Grove, of
Spring Mills, secretary. Among other
business transacted was to decide to
hold & reapion on Grange Park, Cen-
tre Hall, June 10th,
fitment.
Keolth's Theatre,
Arturo Berpardi, the wonderful pro-
tean plas er, is makiog his first appear.
ance in Philadelphia at Keith's Thes-
tre, this week. He is presenting a
one-man drama io which he plays nine
distinetl parts. Clsude Gillingwater &
Company are playiog a welcome re-
turn sn “* A BStrenuous Rehearsal.”
Ls Petite Revue is 8 povel presents
tion of imperscnations of stage celeb-
Howard's musical ponies and
comedy dogs are a special delight to
the children. Franco Piper, the banjo
king, i= on the bill, as is Sadie Jansell
imitator of stage celebrities, Carroll
Johnson, * The Besu Brummell of
¢ llinatelag appears with new songs,
stories and parodies,
Garman
rities,
—— A MAAS.
Milibhetm Noes Its Error,
The following item taken from
the Jourosl indicates that Millhelm
i= beginning to see ils error in per
mittiog a private company to erect a
water plant and cede to it privileges
that should have been retained. The
Journal says :
“An «flort is being made by promi-
nent citizens of the borough to raise a
company to put in another water plant
in Millbelm., The poor facilities the
borough has in the present water plant
for fire protection is the reason for the
move. The borough granted the fran.
chise to the Millheim Water company
in good faith with the anderstanding
that the company would furnish a
good and sufficient supply of water for
fire protection, and as everybody
knows, it has not done so. As a sul
ficient supply of water is necessary in
case of fire, as shown at the recent fire,
this move is projected for the safety of
our homes.”
J. D, Marray Successful,
After a great deal of effort and corre-
spondence J. D. Murray, the- popular
druggist, has succeeded in getting the
Dr. Howard Company in making a
special half price introductory offer on
the regular fifty-cent size of their cele
brated specific for the cure of consti-
pation sod dyspepsia.
Dr. Howard's specific has been so
remarkably wecessful in curing con-
stipation, dyspepsia and all liver
troubles, that Mr. Murray is willing to
return the price paid in every osse
where it does not give relief.
Headaches, coated tongue, dizziness,
gas on stomach, specks before Lhe eyes,
constipation, and all forms of liver and
stomach trouble are soon cured by this
scientific medicine.
Ho great isthe demand for this
specific that Mr. Murray has been able
to secure only a limited supply, sod
everyone who is troubled with dyspep-
sia, oonstipstion or liver trouble
should oall upon him st once, or send
25 cents, and get sixty doses of the
best medicine ever made, on this
special half price offer with his person-
al guarantee to refund Sho wvstey #10
FARMERS UPLIFT,
“he Commission Finds the Farmer of To-
day Unilke the Farmer of a veosde
Ago,
The farmers’ uplift commission, now
at work in Washington, already finds
that the real farmers—those who grow
the cattle and raise the crops which
city people must have to live—have
undoubtedly been, on the whole, the
most prosperous element in the coun-
try during the past year, Their staples
have brought almost uniformly good
prices. The mortgages which burden-
ed so many farms have generally been
paid off. This i= notably the case in the
Middle West, where the possession of
fast horses, pianos, and even sutomo-
biles is common among men who were
ready to listen to Populistic preach-
ments a dozen years ago. As for the
isolation of farm life, this also bas been
signally modified,
More than forty thousand rural free
delivery routes now serve nearly
twenty millions of people. Thanks to
Hon. Leonard Rhone, who was the
first to plead with Postmaster General
Wanamaker for an appropriation for
experimental rural mail service.
Over fifteen thousand miles of trolley
lines run through country districts
where they were unknown a geners-
tion back, connecting villages and
neighborhoods, and affording means
for quick and cheap transit from one
place to another,
The country telephone—often owned
sud operated by mutual associations of
farmers for their own local use as is
the case with the Patrons Rural Tele
phone Company in Centre county—
link literally hundreds of thousands of
homesteads into chains over which in-
stantaneous communication is possible
at all seasons, day or night.
MA
Lecture for Farmers.
The Howard Creamery Corporation,
of which W. Gross Mingle is general
manager, has issued two hundred or
more invitations to farmers in Penns
Valley to attend a lecture to be given
in Grange Arcadia, Friday evening of
this week, by Prof. H. E. Van Nor.
man, professor of Dairy Husbandry at
Pennsylvania State College, dtock
feeding and milk production will be
two of the subjects which will be dis
cussed. Prof. Van Norman is a pleas
ing speaker and is well scquainted
with the subjects on which he will
talk. The farmer who receives a card
may consider bimeell fortunate to be
able to hear such an able discussion at
the expense of the Howard Creamery
Corporation.
After the lecture is over a light
lunch will be served to the invited
guests,
Fire at Valley View,
Early Thursday morning of last
week fire broke out in the building
occupied by A. I. Garbrick st Valley
View, in Buffalo Run Valley, as a
store and not having any fire proteo-
tion the building and entire contents,
together with an adjoining stable were
entirely destroyed. The second story
of the store building was occupied by
the families of Edward Im» and Ed-
ward Walker and ail their household
goods were burned. The loss to Mr.
Garbrick was quite heavy, although
he had hig stock and buildings partial
ly insured. Mr. Walker had a little
insurance on his furniture but Mr.
Imel had none.
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Auditor General Suggests,
State Auditor General Robert K,
Young, in his annual report, suggested
legislation along the lines contended
for by the State Grange and the local
Granges throughout the state. He
thinks real estate is bearing a too large
proportion of the taxes, and suggests
that a larger share be placed on per-
sonal property, and that deposits with
trust companies and in banks be taxed.
He also favors the returning to the
counties the whole of the county taxes
collected on personal property, instead
of three-fourths of them, as is the case
now. As a whole the Auditor Gen-
eral’s recommendations are com-
mendable,
Slight Fire.
A fire occurred at the residencs of
Mrs, Elizabeth Glenn, mother of Dr,
W. 8. Glenn, in State College, and but
for ite timely discovery might have
proven a serious conflagration. Mrs.
Glenn sttempted to blow out Lhe flame
in a Rochester lamp when it exploded
and the burning flaid splashed
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LO LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS, "
A Farmer's Iostitute will be Held at
Pine Grove Mills on 24th and 25th
inst.
Mrs. Ezra Harter, of near Bpring’
Mills, is seriously ill from an attack of
pneumonia,
The liquor license of the Centre Hall
hotel was held up until Wednesday of
last week when it was granted.
Bamuel D. Gettig, E+q., and J. Ken-
nedy Johnston, Eeq., of Bellefonte,
have returned from a business trip to
New Mexico.
William Randolph purchased the
Bubb farm adjoining Pine Grove
Mills, and expects to make it his
home in the future.
John Grove, of near Rockview, was
taken to a Philadelphia bospital by
Dr. P. B. Fisher with a view of having
a growth on his neck removed.
R. D. Killian, who is now located sat
Lewisburg, but formerly a resident of
Centre Hall, is most of the time at
Strawberry Ridge, Montour county,
where be has lumber interests,
The Methodist church, at Pleasant
Gap, has been remodeled, and will be
re-opened Bunday next. Rev. Thomas
A. Elliot and Rev. James B,
will mselet the pastor in conducting
the services.
Tuesday, February 9, st 10a. m., is
the hour set for a continued hearing
before the auditor, 8. D. Gettig, Eeq.,
at his office in Bellefonte, in the
of Lydia Ann Faust, late of
township, deceased.
The number of horses in the
Siates is given sat 20 640 000,
crease over last year of 643 000
value has been placed at $1.9
What was that prophecy regarding
the ** passing of the horse 77’
Several familes living in Centre
Hall who desire to remain here will be
obliged to move elsewhere after April
Ist unless some unforseen conditions
arise between now and that time. Too
bad that such conditions exist,
Editor Wagounseller, of the Middie-
burg Post, who has labored to pols
ott the uselessness of associate judg:
will use his influence to have a bill |
troduced in the Pennsylvania legis
ture doing away with that office.
Alvin McCool, who last year farmed
for James H. McCool, near Tussey-
ville, moved to Spring Mills and will
be employed by Elmer Ripka on a
lumber job, He moved into the house
recently purchased by W,
from Daniel Kennelly.
Samuel Everbart had a run awsy on
the way to Colyer. Going down a
steep hill the neck yoke broke and the
team got the better of the driver.
Fortunately he jomped in time snd
landed on top of a load of pork. After
a half mile run matters were righted
and the journey continued,
Miss Edith Bummy, of Philadelphia,
has accepted a position ss clerk under
Prof, Van Norman, in the Agricaltural
Department st Peonuvsylvania State
College. Her parents, Mr. and Mre,
D. C. SBummy, expect to move from
Philadelphia to State College some-
time during the present year,
At the annual meeting of the White
rock Quarries, at Pleasant Gap, it was
decided to incresse the board of
directors from nine to eleven and the
following were elected: Noah H.
Swayne II, Thomas A. Shoemaker,
T. Larry Eyre, Dr. George F. Harris,
Col. W. F, Reynolds, John M. Shagert,
George R. Meek, William H. Noll, E,
H. Richard and Henry C. Quigley.
W. M. Grove went to Harrisburg
Monday with the view of looking up
data to ald him in makiog extensive
surveys in Clinton county for several
prominent lumber firms. Mr. Grove
has had considerable experience in
tracing old markings in wooded
couptry, and his knowledge of survey.
ing coupled with this developed trait
has furnished him profitable employ-
ment in more than one instant.
Messrs. John 8. and Willard Dale,
of State College, Wallace White, of
Pleasant Gap, and the writer, met at
the home of Hon. Leonard Rhone, in
Centre Hall, as a committee of the
Patrons Rural Telephone Company to
transact & bit of business looking
toward the interests of the branch tele
phone companies comprising the
corporation just named,
. W. Ulrich, who lives in Penn
near Greenbriar, has in his
posession a meat vessel that is one
hundred years old, according to an
ftem in the Millheim Journal. The
vessel was made By Xistias Bressler,
of Clayton
the great-grandfather
Brossler. Mr. Ulrioh’s grandfather,
Mr. Yakely, moved to Milthelm from
Dauphin county in 1808, and that year
the vessel was made. Ii is still in
Htein
case
Potter
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