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_VOL. LXXXIIL
AID THE HOSPITAL.
Soclety at Centre Hall Collecting Funds to
Fuarnish Centre Hall Room,
Centre Hall, is making an effort to
secure funds with whieh to farnish
the room in the ‘Bellefonte hospital
bearing the nsme Centre Hall. If
any of the ladies belonging to the
society call on you after reading this
notice, you will know the purpose of
their visit, The citizens, with rare
exceptions, have responded to the ap-
peals of the solicitors, and there Is
now little doubt but that ample funds
will be secured to furnish the room
handsomely, and in a maaner suitable
to hospital needs.
The new Centre Hall room is in the
new wing of the hospital, snd is a
light and cheerful one, and yet it is to
be hoped that none of the members of
the society or residents of Centre Hall
will be obliged to occupy the quarters
as hospital patients.
Some people iu Centre Hall, and
other parts of the county, have an
erroneous impression concerning the
hospital. Those who have means, of
course, can pay for services at a
hospital, if they are unfortunate
eacugh to need treatment at such ap
institution, but suppose no one per-
mitted their charitable spirit to go out
to these and Kindred institutions !
where would even the wealthy go for
treatment ? Itisa great benefit to any
community to have a bospital close at
hand, and in order that those
with means may be treated promptly
it is necessary for the charitably
inclined to first provide the hospital.
How much of a hospital, for in-
stance, would there be in Bellefonte if
the hand of charity had not been ex.
tended ? who would have the privi-
lege, no matter how much wealth he
had, to enter a well equipped hospital
within a few hour's time at the most,
but for the hand of charity. This
thing of boasting of * paying your
own way and bills” is very good, but
it is never wholly done by any one—
cannot be done, . Every one, no mat-
ter what his condition, is indebted
largely to the charitably minded.
msm ms A ff A ————
From Norwood,
This comes from Norwood, Dela
ware county, a pretty suburban town
of Philadelphia, on the masio line of
the Penney, written by from Rev. 8, G.
Shannpon :
“ Dear O'd Friend:
check for $500, credit me with the
amount as far as it goes. The Re.
porter is a welcome weekly visitor at
our home ; it gives us sll the news
from Centre Hall and throughout the
county, where I was born and spent
my bsbybhood. While I have gotten
farther east and south, there is still a
homelike feeling for the old haunts,
and I sometimes long to take a walk
over the old stamping ground. More
* than sixty years ago I helped to baild
a fence around the old Pennington
cemetery, in the woods below Centre
Hall. There was nothing of Centre
Hall then but Felmalees hotel, at the
foot of Nittany mountain. Those
were the days when Robert Penning-
ton, David Mitchell, Samuel Huston,
George Harpster, Daved Felmalee and
a few others were the prominent
citizens in that community. They
have all passed into the beyond.
Bome time ago I read a very interest.
ing letter from Henry Dasher, of
Michigan. But I did not intend to
write so much ; I only want to wish
you success in your work. I am kept
quite busy ; preach twice on Bunday
and sell houses th.ough the week,
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Commencement at State.
The commencement exercises at the
Pennsylvania State College will begin
Friday, June 11, snd continue until
the following Wednesday. The more
serious events will be interspersed
with athletic games, musical concerts,
dances, receptions and amateur plays,
Tue Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor
of the Clinton Avenue Congregations]
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon. Bamuel E
Weber, Ph. D , assistant State super-
intendent of instruction, of Louisiana,
will give ‘he public address before the
honorary Bociety of Phi Kappa Phi,
The commencement address will be
given by John H. Jones, of Pittsburg,
A memorial service for Justin B
Morrill, father of the * land-grant”
colleges, will be held, the principal
speakers being 8. E. Ancona, of Read.
ing, member of Congress in 1860, and
James B. Morrill, a son of Senator
Morrill. About 165 students will be
granted degrees,
Sm —— A
From Ilinols,
There was a hard frost in Northern
Illinois according to a note from J, 8
Houtz, of Kirkland, that state. Mr,
Houtz says the frait js si} frozen. but
be is not certain whether the frost did
damage to the grain or not. Before
the heavy frost there were never
better prospects for all kinds of crops | ure
~Eoclosad find
Body Exhamed,
In a recent issue of this
in Georges Valley. From the
ley ( Illinois )
account ia taken: The
body o
G. H. Risbel,
week and brought to Hinckley,
whence it was
morning to Pennsylvania, where
plot at Rising Springs.
was in charge of J. A. Nash,
services the twentieth
the Maple Park cemetery.
When the casket was opened Mon-
in such perfect condition that several
friends viewed the remains as they lay
in state in the local undertaking par
lors, and Tuesday morning the par-
ents were here to see all that is re
maining of the once ambitious boy,
From a professional standpoint the
case of the exhumation of Bruce Earl
Rishel is one unsurpassed in the
unique and singular features which
surround it, and as such it is deserv-
ing of more than passing publicity.
When the young boy passed away his
death was caused by endocarditis, or
dropsy, which to the profession of
embalming is Known to be one of the
most difficult forms of {llneas to treat
permanently by enbalming. When
interviewd on the matter Mr. J. A
Nash, the undertaker, somewhat ret-
icently told of the methods pursued
in thiscase, the same 8s in other cases,
the enbalming being done entirely uy
arterial ivjection. No eavity injec:
tions were made in the case. The in-
terment was made in an ordinary
cloth covered casket, deposited in a
rough box, and when asked by the
father in what condition he might ex.
pect to find the body Mr, Nash frank-
ly stated he did not know, fearing the
nature of the disease might have un-
done the work the best undertaker
eould do. It was no small cause for
satisfaction, then, that when the ia-
vestigation was made, the coloring
and the condition of the flesh, the
nails, ete, were found as perfect as
on the day of burial. Even the thin
membrane of the lips retained the
naturaloess of life, and it was a great
comfort to the parents as well as a
moment of professional elation for the
embalmer to have this practical dem
onstration of the permaoey of modern
and thorough methods as applied to
embalming.
AP ——
The Comet,
The Centre Reporter ia indebted to
the American Book Company for an
interesting little book, giving details
as to Halley's Comet, compiled by
David Todd, M. A. Ph.D, of Amberst
College, author of Todd's New As
tronomy. From the book we learn
that thecomet is now visible in the
esat beforesunrise, being west of the
sun. The comet now rises about two
hours before the sun. About May 14
it wili probably dissppear In the
eastern dawn and on May 19 it will
perhaps be visible in strong twilight
in the northwest immediately after
sunset. From May 20 to 28 it will
be visible in the northwest after
sunset and probably at its brightest,
though a tail of great lengtn is not
probable. It will set two hours after
the sun May 21 ; 3 hours May 23; 4
hours May 27. Oa May 24 it will be-
gin to fade from the naked eye view.
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Census Taking Closes,
By the 15th the census enumerators
must close up their work. Many of
the enumerators finished their labors
before this, and others will require the
whole of the time to complete it. It is
estimated that during the latter half
of May one hundred and twenty-five
tons of schedules will reach Washing:
ton. Much of the tabulating by the
thirty-five hundred clerks in the Cen-
sus Department will be done on elec
trically operated machines, designed
eapecially for the work. It will be
several months before population
schedules will reveal the number of Ir-
habitsnts in the larger cities, and two
years before the whole of the tabula
tions will be completed,
HA ————
The Delineator for June makes a
broad sppeal, for its special article
deal with a great variety of subjects
and its fiction interprets many phases
of life. The high cost of living re
ceives attention in" A Brief for the
Housewife,’ by Mabel Potter Dag
gett, who presents facts that every
woman should know, in a concrete
manner that is most convinelog.
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Never hesitate about giving Cham-
berlain’s Cough Remedy to children
It contains no oplom or other ner
cotics and can be given with implicit
confidence, As a
in that section,
it is
a unsurpassed
*
Leonard Rhone.
{
tax commission
Mr. Rhone's argument,
farmer in the state, follows :
Mr.
Committee :
Mr. Chairman :
The appraised value of the
stock of corporations,
capital
the Report of the Auditor General of
the Commonwealth, and there should
be no question as to the
the statement along that line,
being computed by the
because,
they should be undoubtedly correct.
computed the mill rate. This is not the
method of the state in collecting
tax, because, take in the case of
poration, the tax is five mills upon
assessed, so that the mill rate,
the
a8 com~
of capital stock and tax paid. We
this so as to be able to make an
gent comparison with the methods by
which real estate is appraised and
Some of this property, such
railroads and other great corporations,
As
sessed. As
we have taken the
in these great industries they are
ported by Volume 4 of of the Report o
the Secretary. of Inte
Therefore, they are
rect. The taxes,
taken from the
Auditor General, and
computed.
national banks,
statement from
Comptroller of Currency.
amount of tax paid in
Pennsylvania, we
statement from the Report of
General and computed the mill rate ;
the same with banks, stat:
banks, and other private
As to insurance companics
taken the capital stock from the
of the Insurance Commi
amount of tax paid from
Gener and
our
fi
i
rnational
presumed
I bave
Report
the
be
said
to
0 as
were
mill
taken
Report of
As to
the state
we have
the
of
have taken
r
savings
$
a
we AVE
report
ssioner, and the
the Auditor
al’s Report, sempuied th
$s pone
these
they
mill rate ; so, in tatement,
mere b
are confirmed by these reports.
The value of the personal anc
porate property, as you will
from the report, read,
over seven billions of dollars.
not the condition in seventy-four at
are 118
not ut
assertions,
i}
wii
i
as aggregates |
the
tution. Prior to that time
estate was assessable for state
all
purposes,
state, and exempting personal property
taxation for local government,
that time the conditions were
equal, and there was no hardship.
is where the argument comes in ;
nearly
what |
apply today, no more than changes |
industries. Therefore, the policy
the real estate owners. Where is there |
any reason if a man has a thousand dol.
lars invested in a house, that he should
pay twenty, thirty or forty dollars tax,
and another man in the same town who
has his thousand dollars invested in
bonds and mortgages, and only has to
pay a tax of four dollars ? The person
who invests his money in a home, helps
to build up the town, making it habit
able, supports ‘the schools, the streets
and the poor, is more important to that
community than the man who loans his
money. [know of persons who draw
salaries of five thousand dollars a year
who are assessed at five hundred by the
county commissioners~put in that
clas . Attorneys who possible have an
earning capacity of from five to ten
thousand a year are assessed in the class
of two hundred and fifty dollars. Then,
other attorneys who are just starting in
business, they are nssessed in the same
way. There is no justice in that con-
dition. Itisa discrimination in favor
of the strong against the weak. And at
all events, it is the business of the Com.
monwealth to. see that justice is done
between its oi tizens and industries, Itis
important t, the prosperity of our state
that we should have prosperous farms,
prosperous. manufacturing plants, and
prosperous, enterprises of other kinds, as
it is that we have these great moneyed
institutioras that are making an average
of seven per cent. on their capitalwhen
the farm er cannot ern on an average,
down or. his farm. more than three per
cent. ‘This is the condition that con-
fronts them. It occurs to us to urge
the Government to so change these con-
ditions as to snable us to keep our
sold
Or-
The estate is
| to strangers and the widow and
cannot hold
not sufl-
they
| ness themselves
tion should be
This side of the ques-
looked into as well as
hope that your
{ Honorable Committee will inquire into
{this etateqent provided us by the
State Department showing that we have
| made no misrepresentations.
We are here as business men, not as
We do pot claim the world
We are here simply as
business men to ask you to correct
what is wrong sand make it possible for
to
continue to their descendants from gen-
most prosperous and happy com-
{ monwealth of any state of this great
‘nion
| Take the state of New York take
{ the railroads of Pennsylvania that run
When they cross the line they are
{sessed at $15,000 per mile and three
taxes levied upon the same roads that
pay anything to the local govern-
in the state of Pennsylvania.
They are taxed for the support of the
3d for the
1
Ak
don't
ment
town -
and the these
rin-
boroughs.
i
the state of New
should be able
Pennsylvania Take
the line between
York. 1
Pennsyly
greater than
If you can cross to
the same condition
York,
io it
G0
they certainly to
here in
who live on
Pez
be
New have
wsylvania and
in told that the tax on anin
ity per cent.
§
i
of Ohio,
prevails,
Then as to
thie
capital stock
manufacturing
constitutionality
of =a
again
: Where is
the
Yu os $a
piantis
clearly
uniform
subjects ?
of Peunsyi-
of the most
and one of the
[Ggent and Lge atest enterprises that
the tax shall be
same class of
under the laws
states that
pon
dy
u the
| An et,
exempt one
us euterprises,
we
| have in our state from taxation on its
ack, If they can pay this tax
York- manufacturing com-
can pay this tax New York,
prosperous in New
true we have not any of
they have
in New «if
in
why are they @
It is
the small manufactories that
New York of agricultural imple.
ments, but the great iron and steel in-
dustries are all nearly centralized in
that
conditions
is the
wk 7
{
guch prosperous
But,
where
for
They are simply
they have
“"
It is the busi-
| ness of the Commonwealth to see that
When we buy a reaping machine that
that it takes one hundred per cent. of
the amount to put this machine on the
market. This is altogether unncessary,
because the manufacturers could adopt
a more liberal, more business-like meth-
od of reaching their consumers, and
this applies to the whole matter
throughout. It is these wrongs we ask
you to correct. There is a great deal
we could add to this subject, but 1
stand here as a farmer to insist Upon a
correction of those outrageous imposi-
tions upon the agricultural people for
the last thirty years. Ihave never en-
gaged in any other enterprise and 1
wou'd not be here today if it were not
to plead the cause of these people. If
they are not accomplished students in
the art of public speaking and public
reading, they are good citizens, and
necessary to the commonwealth. Weed
out the farmer, and whit would the
great state of Pennsylvania be ? Con-
sequently, we ask you to look carefully
into the welfare of these people and try
to retain them on their farms. People
of the rural districts, it is said, are gen-
erally driven to the city because of the
higher salaries they get there ; but the
one great cause is, as I have said, that
the parents of these same young men
and young women have not been able to
earn enough to start them up in busi-
ness ; and when the head of the family
dies, the homestead goes into the hands
of strangers, and thus good citizens
those useful people to the several com-
munities—are driven out. Who take
their places ? Capitalists buy these
farms at fifty per cent. of ly value
and they put on these farms mostly
baaple from Germany, or from Holland,
industrious and enterprising
¥
{ Suntiuned va an aye)
1910.
COUNTY GRANGE PROGRAM,
Mooting at Wa hilogton Grange Hall,
Hail, Thareday, May 26:h,
The Centre County Pomons Grange
will bold its second quarterly meeting
at the hall of Washington Grange, st
Pine Hally Thursday, May 26th.
There will be two sessions—forenoon
snd afternoon,
THE
Opening ceremonies, 9.30 o'clock.
Address of Welcome—Wash!ngtlon Grange,
Appointment of commitiees,
Receiving of credentials
Recltation--Anna Dale, Victor Grange
Introduction of resolutions for reference.
Pioe
PROGRAM ~FORENOON,
Report of Fire los. Company by the Secretary, D.,
K. Keller,
Report of Grange Eoca
Becoss for Luncheon
AFTERNOON.
Paper on state and losal taxation, including a
classification of subjects—Gieo. 1. Goodhart
Recliation—Miss Carrie Dale, Flora State Grange
Our Farmer's Week, June 6th to 11th, inclusive,
Report of Patrons Rural Telephone Company, by
the secretary.
Recitation Mrs. Carrie Bradford, Progress Grange
Advantages of Co-operative buying snd selling.
Conferring of degree of Pomona
Miscellaneous busines,
Closis If cere
mpment and Falr,
nonies
Members should bring their luoeh
with them.
WirLLarp Dans, Master,
D M. CAMPBELL, Bocretary.
pn op Mp
Berry, of Course,
The friends of former State Tressur-
er William H. Berry and OC. Larue
Munson, the deleated candidate for
supreme court judge, are measuriog
strength. The rural districts are
strongly supporting Mr. Berry because
he Is 8 man who does things He
was able to carry the state when »
candidate for state treasurer, snd after
assuming office could not be econtroil-
ed by the rotten element in the Demo:
cratic party, but at once began lifting
the lid—the stench was the worst ever
smelled in Penosylvanis. Mr. Berry
is honest and honorable in office and
out of office, and if he is not nominated
for Governor at the Allentown Demo-
cratic convention it will be because
the crooked element lo the Demo
cratic party has no use for an honest,
upright man at the head of the Demo-
cratic state ticket,
Mr. Berry is the only Democrat in
Penusylvania who can be elected
governor next fall. He is the man of
the hour, but the only way to secure
bis nomination will be to vote instruc.
tions Me. Berry will not secure
a squars dea! unless the delegates to
the stale convention are instructed
for him at the June primary.
nm AES SS El
Transfers of Hea! Estate.
A. Willisms exr to R. E,
1910, Liberty
C.
isos April 21,
$1000,
W. H. Williams atly in-fact A. B,
Willisme, March 26 1910, Worth twp
$30,
Margaret Hulchison etal to C, W,
Carson, December 50, 1910, Potter twp
$300,
Elizabeth Franklin to F. . D. Gow-
land, December 6, 1910 Philipsburg
$2100,
Minnie Adams et bar tv E Izy Al
Earon April 20, 1010, State College
$2000,
A.C. Weaveretal to B. F. Frank.
March 16, 1910, Gregg twp.
Wiil-
twp.
$3500,
R. F. Yesrick to C. B. Bowemox,
March 24, 1910, Haines twp. $500,
B.J. Wolf to F. T. Batler, Decem-
ber 7, 1908, Howard borough. $1725.
George H. Ripka ot ux to Masala
Nevel, March 31, 1910, Potter twp.
$300.
W. G. Runkle to W. R. Bhope,
March 14, 1910, Bellefonte, $550,
B. E. Alexander to J. W. Reif
snyder, March 350, 1910, Millheim.
$287.50,
T. A. Cronover et ux toRobert Ship-
ley, April 7, 1910, Philipsburg. $1400.
Thomas Foster et al to Adam Reiah,
March 25, 1910, Ferguson twp, $400.
A. E. Barger admr to J. W. Reif
snyder, Decemebr 15, Millbelm
John I. Olwine st ux to W. G Bax-
on, April 7, 1910, Beainer twp. $115.
Phoebe Emerick et bar to George
H. Emerick, April 23, 1910, Centre
Hall, $85.
Henry Mowery et ux to George M.
Stover, March 24, 1900, Haines twp.
$i
George M. Stover to M., L. Mowery,
March 25, 1900, Haloes twp. $1.
Alfred T. Corman et ux to 0. W.
Weaver, Mareh 31, 1909, Miles twp.
$l.
John W. Harter ot ux to C. E
Long and O. W. Weaver, March 57,
1010, Miles twp. $150,
Jane Weaver to 8, E. Gobble, March
5, 1910, Gregg twp. $300.
F. A. Auman et ux to John OC.
NO. 19.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
There was frost Thursday morning
of Inst week, Mercury stood at thirty.
five during the night.
Mrs. Rebecca Bcholl returned to
Centre Hall, after having spent several
months with her son, John O, Beholl,
in Altoona.
B. D. Brisbin, of the lumber firm of
Brisbin and Company, made a busi.
ness trip to Union county last week,
stopviog at Lewisburg.
Merchant A. A. Frank, of Millheimw,
purchased a new automobile in Harris.
burg. The mschine was driven home
from the capitol city by his sons, H,
F.and T. K., and C. M. Gramley,
A concrete walk was constructed
from the main street walk to the
stable on the Boozer property, occu.
pled by Barber Geary, Tue concret-
ing was done by Mingle and Boozer,
The state agricultural department
gives out that the crop prospects
throughout the state are very good.
I'be rains throughout the latter part of
April counteracted the March drought.
Peter N. Gioter, of Lewi
special agent for the census bureau,
was in Centre Hall, Baturday and
Monday. Mr. Ginter plys questions
only to those engaged in manufsctur.
ing.
W. Gross Mingle, sccompanied by
Mrs. Mingle and son Philip, drove to
Mifflin county Friday afternoon, re.
turpiog Bunday. They were guests of
Mr. and Mre. Charles H. Meyer, at
Reedsaville.
With one steam shovel fifty cars a
day are loaded with slag at the Belle.
fonte furnsce. The slag is shipped to
Northumberland where it i¢ used as
filling material in the new
cation yards,
sburg,
cliassifi-
H. L. Baunzhoff, pure food inspector
for this district, was in Centre Hall,
Friday of last week, He came here
from his home Alloona on so
orunt of the pendiog oleo suit against
Groceryman Brouse, in Bellefonte,
The latter part of this week W. A,
Odenkirk, station agent at Glen Iron,
will finish Bis week's vacation gréot-
ed by the Peansylvania Railroad
Company. A pari of the time was
spent at Niagara Falls, Mra, O lenkirk
sccompanying him oa this excursion,
id
Keep away from a wire fence dar-
ing an electrical storm, for ear Port
Royal the top wire of a fence was al-
most totally burned up for a distance
of one bundred and fifty yards,
Lightning struck a tree to which the
wire war attached, and was led from
the tree tof.
Hon. Leonard
Halli, Enoch E.
Rhone, of Centre
Bweeney, of Boal
burg, and L. E Stover, of Aarons
burg, have been namsd local chsir-
men of farmer's institutes by Dezputy
Secretary of Agriculture A. IL. Mar-
tin. This indicates that institutes
will be held next winter at the points
named above,
John R. Lee, accompanied by his
grandson, John Moyer Lee, were call-
ers at the Reporter office Thursday of
inst week. Mr. Lee made his first trip
to Centre Hall since last fall, baviog
beeh housed up the greater part of the
winter on scoount of indigestion. He
is now feeling himself sgain, and for
two weeks was able to work on the
roads.
Upon receiving a telegram notify-
ing ber of the death of her Uncle,
Judge Robert A. Bankey, at Wichita,
Kansas, Miss Fiorenco Rhone left for
that city Friday morning, to be pres
ent at the funeral services which were
held Tuesaday following. Miss Rhone
will remain in Kansas for six or eight
weeks. Bhe was a member of the
Bankey family for several years, when
she attended school in Wichita.
That morphine, oplum, chloroform,
chloral, cocaine, deadly ** hasheesh,
codeine and other dangerous drugs are
being administered wholesale to chile
dren and adults through the medium
of soft drinks and patent medicines is
shown by an official bulletin of the
United States Department of Agricul.
ture. Parents who permit { in fact
some of them encourage) their chil
dren to loaf about places where these
slops are the chief attraction, are hav.
ing the primary lessons in drinking
well taught to them,
The withdrawel of Congressman
Charles F. Barclay from the con
gressional race in this district will to
some extent simplify the contest
among Republioavs, snd sdvance to
a Mr. Emery, who repre
setite the | or Roosevelt
element in the Republionn party. A.
E. Patton is also 8 candidate, and is
backed by the machine Republicans.
Throughout the distriet it sppears
that Mr. Emery has been gaining such
hesdway in that there
ed for the nomination. His