= VOL. FORESTERS IN SEVEN MOUNTAINS LXXXIII. Festoon Roadways With Soakes—The Un- suspecting Shiver sud (Questions How He Got There The state foresters, who are building road in the Syven Mountains, are giv. ing expression to their esthetic natures, This particular territory is very alive with snakes—the rattle snake pre- dominating in pumber, while the dreaded copper, black and various striped species, more or less vicious reptiles, also abound. The method of road building is to cut away the underbrush to the width of fifty or more feet, which permits the strip to be used as a driveway, but the main idea is to protect the state lands against forest fires. The brush, rub. bish, and leaves are removed from the roadway, and as a rule such a clean path checks the onward march oi * mountain fires.”” The foresters take delight in cutting the brush to the line of the surveyor, but not content with this, the hundreds of reptiles killed are festooned along the brush- edge of the roadway in such a manner as only a forester can conceive, The forester in charge permits the killing of snakes only when found within a fix- ed distance from the roadway, this regulation being necessary so that not too much time of the state's employes is devoted to crushing with the heel the serpent’s head. These trained woodsmen enjoy the experience of leading the uninitiated from Patay Garrity’s headquarters, in the Beven Mountains, through these festooned avenues, The unsuspecting hears the rattle of the bell.snake in the distance, but is told that the reptiles are hold- jong oarpivals and consequently desporting themselves on the bushes at that particular hour. Iovariable the city-bred shakes himself and asks whether it was Mifflin or Centre eounty he last passed through. New MM, E. Chareh, Work on the foundation for the new Methodist church at State College is progressing nicely. Contractor Flynn has a large force of men at work laying concrete in order to strengthen the foundation walls. In some places the concrete work will be from ten to fifteen feet thick. This bas been found necessary, owing to the nature of the soil. This will be completed in » few days and the ma- sons will begin laying the walls, Bo SCHOOL DIRECTORS SUSTAINED By Superior Cvurt—Ypring Township Board is Not Obliged to Arrange With Belle- fonte Borough tor School Frivileges. A number of citizens of Bpring township, residing near Bellefonte, petitioned the court of quarter sessions to grant a rule compelling the school directors of Spring township to enter into an agreement with the borough of Bellefonte, whereby children of school age in that township would have the privilege of attending the Bellefonte schools, and especially the Bellefonte High Behool, and the ex- pense thereof be borne by Bpring township ; the petition also asked that the tuition then due Bellefonte borough for the schooling of a number of Spring township pupils who attend- ed Bellefonte schools, without the consent of the Spring township school board, be paid. The answer filed by the school di- rectors of Spring township denied the right to pay for such schooling, as they had a High SBehool established at Pleasant Gap, and that the usefulness of their school would be destroyed. And “ That in establishing the High School at Pleasant Gap they took in- to conslderstion that the largest num- ber of pupils lived in and around Pleasant Gap, who were ready for High School training, and also that there was a suitable building at that place for the high school, and that the school directors exercised the wisest discretion possible, and that their conclusions are arrived at after mature deliberation, After hearing the testimony, ele, in the case, Judge Orvis made the rule absolute. From this order an appeal was taken to the Buperior Court. The Buperior Court, in coosidering the question whether the school directors were discreet in the matter of establishing the high school .at Pleasant Gap, contends that it is a re- viewable discretion and may be over- ruled, if unreasonably or arbitrarily exercised, but says that there is no statue pointed out to them sauthoriz- ing the court of quarter sessions to compel, by a direct proceeding, the directors to make a contract with the directors of another district, such se was decreed in this case, The opinion concludes as follows : “ But this power manifestly does not include the power here claimed and it is needless to say that it it ls not LETTERS FROM BUBSURIBERS, Reporter Subscribers’ Correspondent Col: asmn—-New Department, Your issue of July 14, page 2, con- tains an account of the lynching in Newark a week ago, but I should like the Centre Reporter, which ls always welcome at our home, to have Lhe facts of the case, heinous as they are, “ There is a reason for everythiog” and the tax payers of Newark and Licking county have been saloon burdened for many years. The licensed or unlicensed saloon is expensive to its patrons and all those directly or in- directly connected with it, which means every man, woman and child, and often the cat, has to suffer. I spent thirty-two years in a small town where they have what Obloans call ** the Pennsylvania Model License Law,” and it does not take me long to tell my ** wet’ friends that the old hotel at Spring Mills has scores of drunkards to its credit, and pothing that I have ever heard can jastify the licensed or other liquor business. Our city voted wet’ about 1600 but the county vote overcame this and gave the entire county about 700 “dry” msjority. The law became effective January 1, 1809, and the saloons were to close up, but it ls no easy thing to quit violating Jaw when it has become second nature to you, Liquor, under license laws, cap not be sold to men of intemperate habits or within cer- tain hours, or on Bundays, ele, bul these license laws were violated even after the saloons were voled out, Men in office failed to support or en- fsrce these laws an® the violations were so flagrant that a Law aud Order League waa formed and evidence put into the bands of the Aupti-Baloon League which sent detectives to serve search warrants on some of these places. Detectives were sent from a Cleveland agency to serve the war. rants, but they were assaulted while reading them and barely escaped with their lives. They were stoned and threatened on every corner, and were given no protection by the city, ex- cept to be arrested snd locked in the city prison, and themselves charged with assault because 8 esloonist was handeufled. The other detectives, not put in prison, tried to get out of the mob ridden city. The sutject of the lynching was *‘spotled '’ as a "dry" detective and on being pounced upon fled for his life, but after being pushed in the plans for the exterior that it of the court of quarter sessions,’ and opportune sutomobile, the mob suc- worked out. The building, however, will be fashioned somewhat after the famous Pine Btreet church, Williams port, which is considered the hand- somest structure of ita kind in the state, From Jall to Pen, The superior court, sitting at Phils. delphis, through Judge Porter, handed down a decision in the Alva Force larceny case, which had been appealed from the Clinton county court affirm- ing the same. Force was convieted of stealing a reszor from the Clinton county jsil, while he was an inmate of that bastile on a charge of stealing cement bags from the Clinton Ice and Coal Comrany, and sentenced to the pamitentiary by Judge Harry Alvan Hall, where he is yet. Through C. 8. McCormick, E:q, Force's attorney, an appeal was taken from Judge Hall's decision, which the superior court sus- tains, Force will stay in the pen. rr —— Ap — MS —— To Test Nominations, An action in equity to test the legal. ity of nominations of the various par- ties for state treasurer this year was begun in Dauphin county court. It was brought by G., E. Etter, and ie planned to secure a judicial determ- ination of the question by restraining the certification of the nominations sud their printiog of ballots until the length of term is settled in the courts. Anu anawer is to be filed within a week, —— AAP AAA Telephone Plenic August Gin, Patrons Rural Telephone Company will hold their annual picaic at Rhoneymede, Saturday, August 6ib, This is an event looked forward to with pleasure by those interested in this particular teléphone line, as well as others in sympathy with the tele. phone movement as conducted under proceedings dismissed.’ In short, the decree of the Bapreme court means that Spring towuaship is not obliged to enter into an agree- ment with Bellefonte borough for school privileges of any kind, and that the indebtedness already incurred by the pupils alluded to need not be paid by Bpringz township. It is io- ferred that no township can be forced to enter into an agreement with an ad- joining district to school a portion of its pupils, provided the township has adequate school facilities of its own. Che opinion is quite lengthy, but the substance has been given above. S———————— A ———— Score a Tie, Rain interfered in the eighth inning of the base ball game between Mill heim and Centre Hall, at the former place Saturday, and when the con- testants left the field the score stood a tie—5to 5 It looked like a defeat fir Centre Hall up to the eighth Inoiog when thescore read 5 to 3, but by a determined effort the score was tied betore * old Jupe' took a hand in it and put a stop to the game. The rain was undoubtedly welcomed by Mill heim since none were out when the score was tied and the chances of scor- fog several more runs were good, Smith pitched a good game for the locals, but was handicapped by the absence of his ronning mate—Kerlin, An injury to this player necessitated the placing of a new man behind the bat, and this combination was not as strong as it might have been, K. G KE Omcors, Millheim Castle, K G, E, No. 353, installed tne following officers to serve duriog the present term : Past Chief, Charles Breon Noble Chief, Harry Haminger Vice Chief, B, 0. Musser High Priest, C. GG. Hassinger Venerable Hermit, G. BR. Boob #ir Herald, Bd. Garner him. Drawing his revolver the de. tective shot the saloon keeper, Mr. Howard, who held him. This saloon. jst was a policeman at ove time, and was relessed from the police force un- der strained relations. He is said to have been a school teacher of excellent qualities. Think of it—teacher, police- man and sslovnist! What a pity ! Atter a further brutal assault by the crowd, the pstrol wagon was summon- ed and the half-dead detective landed in the county jsil at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. About 7:38 p.m. a liquor inflamed apd factional crowd, composed of blacks and whites, as sembled at the jail. The silence of the curious crowd and the constant urging of the baser element of men and women spurred the leaders to pound on the jail doors. Hammers, sledges and railroad rails were used to batter down the doors, which took about one and one-half hour's work. The mayor addressed the frenzied leaders, admonishing them to go home, He was consistant enough to follow his own advice but was later routed from his bed and informed that the Iynohers had accomplished their end. The sheriff, all the while, remained belpless while others treated the matter lightly, The telephone was brought into use and the militia at Columbus sent for. Upon the advice of the captain of police—the chief being at home in bed—the mayor telephoned to the city prison acd told the turnkey to release the other detectives in his keeping lest they should sufler a similar fate, It is useless 10 rehearse the incidents after the jail doors gave way, except to hr 4 that the prisoner, failing in an effort to take his own life by setting fire to his coat and wrapping it about bis hesd, was found cowering iu his cell like a trapped rat. With a wild harapgue the crowd marched him PARAGON CHEYTAUTS. The Irish Valley { hestnut Farm, Owned by U.K, sober, a Great Soooess, The growth of the Paragon chestnut by C. K. Bober, the well known eiti- zen of Lewisburg, at his famous farm in Irish Valley, Northumberland county, is attainirg a world wide prominence in that not only Is the National goverr ment keeping In close touch with the developing of the fruit, but other countries have also taken notice of the experiment which has resulted so successfully. No one who has not visited the farm knows, nor has any iden, of the great scale on which the propogation of the | Bober Paragon chestnut has been carried. Over five bundred scres of land extending along the mountain side for fully a mile is one huge chest. put grove, The young burrs are jnet beginning to develop fur this year's crop, and the trees which are a beaut] ful green are well filled. tuch an interest in chestnut collure has been aroused all over the country spd tbe demand for young grafted trees has become so great that Mr. Bober has been compelled to start a nursery to supply Fully ten acres have been planted sod bere rows of young seedlings have been grsfied to the Bober Persgon nut and orders for them have been parts of the counlry sod Europ, There sre at lesst three bundred thousand young trees in growlh, and heavy shipments have been made ip car Joad lotsa, One feature of the Pars- gon put is the desire of the prominent nurserymen of the coruntry sprouts, but Mr Bober bas contrseted with the Glen Bros, of Rochester, N. Y., to handle all that he can supply. There are ore hundred thousand trees bearing vute st this time, and the yield this year will run into the thousands of bushels, Prof. Nelson F. Davis of Bucknpell University has just completed an in. epection of the entire grove and pur. ery stock and reporis them entirely free from the chestnut created such havoe in and sround New York City. There is no trece of the disesse in the Irish Valley farm, and Prof. Micklebo ough, an expert, reports that he could pot iad the dis ease in this part of the state, them received from all {lo secure v ! disease, which —————— A What the Local Newspaper Does, Did you ever stop to think of the good thst the newspaper aoc. complishes 7 Of Lhe good causes that it boosts, of the good deeds that it commends, of the encouragement it lends to individuals every day by cheerful and helpful polices? And then just think, too, of the many un- pleasant things that the local paper does not print becruse it might do some obe harm or make some one feel sad. These things sre not taken foto account by the city daily. But it ie the purpose of the local paper to do good and pot evil, and it often sacri. floes valuable news articles out of re- spect for the feelings of individuale, The locsl paper i= always anxious to print the good thiogs about people and reluctant to pript the bad, It's objet ls not to do ir jury but to belp everybody by a friendly boost just every chance it gels, local ————— SS — Excellent ficlion is provided for the greater part of the August number of The Ladie's World, which bas just reached The Reporter's exchange table. The place of honor is given to a novelette by Anuve Story Allen, who has written too seldom of late years. { Continued from Previous Colum. | law and allowing the lawless element to waylay the president of the Law aod Order League, and throw bricks and beer bottles through the windows of “dry” sdvocates is: the mayor, sheriff and chief of polices, after being suspended by the goveruor, later re. signed, thus avoiding public trial ; other police officers suspended, and the placing in jail about twenty sue- pects, who will receive a fair trial acd justice meeted out to them in the near fature, A widow and family mourn the loss of a husband and father, and parents weep over the death of a favorite son. Chey may alleviata their sorrow some- what by taking sdvantage of an Ohio law which allows $5000 damages. Oar city, county and state, in disgrace and NEW STEEL FOUNDRY At Barvhsm Now tn Operation The Bulld. ing 185x700 Feet The new steel foundry st the Stand. ard Bteel Works at Burnham is cer- tainly an active proposition—one that should add materially to the profits of the plant and the financial interests of the commuuity. The building is one hundred and eighty-five feet by seven bundred feet, built of structural iron with the wampum tile roof, It ie built io three spsos. The first will be used for shaking out and dry floor, the second for wet sand chipping, and the third will be devoted exclusively to moulding of ste«] casting. The cquipment consists of four oper. hearth farnaces wilh an aggregate capacity ot 200 tons of molten metal that can be forced to exceed 240 tons If necessary. The ladles are sixty ton capacity and the lifting sod pouring of metal and handling of flasks will ail be accomplished by electricity. The crane tracks are twenty-two and one half feet from the floor and the chains all 80 arranged thst they float clear of the ordinary man’s head, which will eliminate the danger of sccidents from reckless crane boys snd swiogiog blocks and chains, The advent of the new shop will doub'e the capreity of the p'sut and scoommodate one hundred and fifty moulders, their helpers and the neces sary laborers, The first full hest of fifty tong was poured les! week and proved a complete success, B————— — Liberty Township Teachers. directors of jucluding the town of elected the following beginning ir The school Liberty township, Blauchard, $ wv cachers for the term September ; Blanchard High school, Prof. Bhu- man Williams ; grammer, M 5. Rebec- ca F. Glossner | intermediate, Bamuel Smith ; primary, Mrs. Leura F. Dech- fel ;: Monument, William Batschlet Mountain school, Miss Olive Gardaer ; Hunter Run, Miss Mary Johnston Bowes schoo!, Beott Holter ; Clark school, Melvin Winslow ; Big Run, { Pole Cat) school, Charles Bolapue. —— wrt { Buasivest Mon » PVienie Privileges, The Passenger Department of the C.R.R of Pa, will up to Tuesday, August 9h, receive bide for the various stand and other privileges, on socount of the Centre-Clinlon county Business Men's Picnle, at Hecla Park, Tursday, August 23-4, These include, restaurant, ice cream, fruit, confections, nuts, soft drinks, tobecoo and cigar stands, and other privileges proper to the occasion, a ——— Parris Towash'p School Teachers, The bard of directors in Harrie township elected the following tesch- ers for the 1910-1911 school term of seven months ; H. C. Rothrock H. Williams Primary, Mary M. Grove Bock Hill, H. NM. Hosterman Walnut Grove, Blanche Rowe Boatsburg, High School Grammar, K “hingletown, Charles Horner ————— a A—— > Aaronsburg, Miss Cortner, of Salons, was welcome guest at the home uncle, George E. Blover, the home of her son-in-law, Dr. J. Bowersox, over Bunday. flinburg, and Merchant James Lenker week. Clarence Musser, over Bunday. Prof. Leathers, of Curtin, Wasson, one day last week, over Bunday. Orwig, and family. panied by Charles Mensch snd family of Lewis Memoch, girl. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The Williams family reunion will be held at Martha, August 27th, Dr. ¥F. K Centre county, represents this district on the Democratic stats mitlee, White, former Lrewuarer of caniral com Prof White, a graduate of the Edin boro Normal, hiss been elected prinel- pal of the Fergusou township high school, The Glen Iron correspondent to the Lewisburg Baturday News says that Mise Mazie Frtel is visiting her sunt, Mrs. Irvin Shirk. Miss Lydis A. Masser, of Millhelm, ool teacher bul now a tal, Is in West Union, lows, ou a vacation, The Reporier will be real Riad on r from interest The columns of ths f paper are always open for new news fil to print, f i ' Letters « estate of the inte administration John Wolf La township, sre advertised Jennie E Wolf, the widow of the deceased. the of Pit. Mrs, fix ¥ i by t iminisirs jellefnte will have ils new sco bulldiog ready for oce by the time the 1910.1911 day, Joseph Shullz was elected assistant principal. 1pancy term ops h. us, Mon K ti yi Heplem ber to Chamberlsin’s Btomach and Liver Tablets gently stimulate the liver and bowels to expel 4 poigonou atts ¢ceanse the syslem, eure constipation and sick hraiache, BRo'd by Murny and Bittner, The Belleville Mra N sod Times printed this persons! , of Pless- ant Mrs. Mame Wasson, of State College, visit Mrs, (ap, her dsughter, ed the former's Weidman, st Be = tar Adsm Colyer evilie Bell telephones wore installed in t farm residences: «ff William Roy Busffr snd Edward Wiser, east of Od Fort, aod they are vinced that the telephone op the farm is all that it is cracked up to be. si Con The August issue of Woman's Home Compagion the mach “ Good Time Nuauber, ” mid+summer enisymant, out. The regulsr departmsat's and the fiction are all fall of the good time is heralded devoted to indoors and idess Master Wm. Baker, of York, the guest of sons of Rev. J. Max Lantz, st Bpriog Mills. The youth is the son of J. E Baker, who is connected with the lime stone sand lime plant st York and who ertertaived Rev. Laut i Z is dur- ing conference. James Wiser, the nige years old son of Mr Mrs, Elward Wiser, of near O.d Fort, met with 5s misfortune a few days ago. The boy was ing the horess eal their grain, when one of the animals snapped snd bit off the middle fioger of the left hand. and walich- Postmaster J. Bpigelmyer contem- pilates moviog the postoffice from its old location on Penn street to a room ad} sining his store building on Main street, says the Millhelm Journal, The change will bs made as soon as the new quarters are pul in shape. During these busy times the farme, few country people find their way bere. The rural mail service, the telephone, the automobile, ail contrib ute to the farmers being sable to trans- sct business speedily, which gives them more time to devoie to the aci- ual labors on the farm, (Ginseng is being successfully grown in Centre Hall by Dr. J. R. G. Allison, who hss several beds three or four years old. The plant grows in shady places on the mountsive in Pennsyi- varia, but is difficult to develop noder cultivation, The ginseng roots are very valuable, and sent from the states to China in large quantities. The beds referred to ate probably the only ones in Central Pennsylvania. The city dailies ricently mae reference to the death of Dr, Elizibeth Blsckwell, who died in Eogland, al though she was an American by birth. She stodied medicine in the Universi. ty of Geneva, New York, and was the first woman who ever became a fully qualified medical practitioner. The writer often heard his father, the laste 0a ' the system of which this branch om | worny Bard, C. H. Breon about the public square with a noosé | with bowed heads, will try to out-live| Miss Leah Bweigart snd Messrs. pany 1s 8 part. Ostrich Farm in State, Africa, the nugleus of an ostrich farm Worthy Chamberlain, Harry Confer Easign, Sumner Stover Esquire, E. D, Keen ist Guardsman, Fred Colyer 20d Guardsman, Ray Auman Trustee, F. P, Moser Et ———————— dexter, the standard bearer of ine around his neck. While attempting to leave a parting message he received a fatal blow on the head with a ham- mer in the hands of one of the in. furisted mob, This was followed by a pull on the rope and the frightful affair wos over. A halfshour later an officer (7) cut the rope from the body what has been brought upon us by the laxity of law and intensity of feeling. Knowing that your readers are not concerned about Newark and Ohio as I am, this letter writing will not soon be repeated. Nevertheless this is a common cause and an unequal contest, Jesse Kreible and John Fisher, of Philadelphia, have come to spend their vacation at the home of William Guisewite, which place is kvown for the best entertainment. Warren Winkleblech spent the Bab. bath at the home of John Detwiler, pear Centre Hall, Dr. Peter Bmith, speak ol Miss Black. well, who was a classmate. The two graduated in 1848 Time brings changes in priocipals of high schools as well as in everything else, Here are a few noted : Milford Pletcher, who for eight years was the head of the Blanchard schools, was establish in Columbia county. The ostriches have already been placed on a farm and this will be fol. lowed by the establishmant of an os- trich feather factory, ———— AIA, The Business Men's picnic will be held at Heola Park, Thursday, August 28d, of the man which lay in the gutter, An undertaker removed it to the morgue where it remained until the following Bunday when It was ship ped to the home of the young man's father io Kentucky. The ierult of this winkiog at the ( Continued on foot of Dex columy, | helping your brother, without a fight- ing fund, sgaiost the allied liquor interests, which have an almost end- less fund at hand, but the cause ie just and will triumph Goally, Yours truly, GH. Loxn. Nuwark, Oblo, Miss Martha aod Beatrice Coll, of State College, are spending their vaca. tion with their parente here. Thomas Hull, who is employed at Btate College, spent a few days with hie family at this piace, A AIM OAS, Centre Reporter, $1 » year, elected principal st Howard, succeed ing Joseph Weirick, who goes to Bnow Bhos, Prof. Shuman Williams, for a pumber of years ptincipal sl Pleasant Gap, follows Mr. Pietoher, at Blanch. ard. The Spring township directors bave not yet elected a principal to follow Mr, Williams, surgency from the Far West who has become a national figure in his first term in Congress, is one of the leading : articles in Homan Life for August, At the advanced age of eighty-nine years and four months, Mr. Rebecca Curray died at Port Matilda. July 16, 1910. » *
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