VoL. LXXXIV. | Sell Liquor, The applicants for liquor license in Mifflin county, through their attor- | opinion setting forth the reason or| reasons why the licenses were refused, | the court filed the frllowing reasons | for refusing the licenses : Judge Woods in his opinion upon | the license cases, saya: ‘ The reasons of the court for the refusal of the sev-| eral licenses are embodied in the de-| gree as endorsed on each application | and the Court being satisfied from the petitioners and remonstrants that the necessity for a license had not been established, refused the licenses. At the argument the counsel for these applicants laid great stress upon the opinion of Judge Agnew, who was re- ferred to frequently as a temperance judge. Judge Agnew determined the cases which were before him in the light of the law as it then stood. The people, realizing and knowing the harmful effects of liquors, succeeded in having the Legislature pass the Act of 1887, known as the Brooks High License Law, which changed the law gs construed by Judge Agnew so as to separate and divorce the license from | the hotel aud throwing the burden of the necessity of the license and not the necessity of the hotel on the people ot the district and making it incumbent on the residents of the borough, ward or towopehip to inform the Court that a license was not necessary. The fact that the place is necessary either as a botel or as an eating house for the public accommodation does not neces- sarily and under all circumstances compel the conclusion that a license to the applicant to sell intoxicating liquors by retail is necessary. In other words not every place that may be necessary 8s a hotel or as an eating house or public accommodation is en- | titled as a matter of right to be li- censed to sell liquor if the other statu- tory requirements are complied with. “ The act of sssembly confines the patitioners and remoanstrants to the district in which the applicant resides. The Court shall hear petitions from residents of the ward, borough or township, in addition to that of the applicant, in favor of and remon-| strance against the application for] gaid license, and in all cases shall re- | fase the same, whenever in the opia-| ion of the court having due regard to | the number and character of the] petitioners for and against such ap-| plications, such license { not hotel but such license ) is not necessary. “The third section vestg the Court with discretionary power in the grant. ing or refusing of license. Bach li- censes may be granted, etc, says the | law. While all other provisions are mandatory, from these words we see that discretionary power to grant is lodged in the Court, of the necessity | and not on the traveling public, and | i we can very readily see the reason ;| because the locality is interested in the sale of intoxicating liquors and know the harmful effect of promiscuous | sales in each locality. It is to the| local people, the petitioners for and | remonstrants against that the Court must look to for information. There | is no co-ordinate branch of our govern- | ment which comes 80 close to the people aa the district court and it is for these courts to administer the laws affzcting the peoples in the localities over which they preside, in such a way as to bring about the best results for the people generally, gulded by certain rules acd regulations as we find them in the law regulating the conduct and sctious of the people and as laid down by the appeliate courts. We dare not stifle the will of the people, when we know what it is, jast because we are in a position to do so. As dean Kirchway of Columbia Law Behool in his address before the! American Bar Association in speaking | of the courts said : ‘They will receive | and they will deserve respect so long as the law which they lay down fa the expression of the public will, and no longer.’ This is ali we deem it neces. sary tosay on this motion.” i : } » Three hundred and teventy drink fog places, including sil the hotels, saloons and breweries in Lawrence county, were closed by Judge William E. Porter. It was a demonstration that under the present license law, with straight judicial interpretation, the people can have local option, JUDGE PORTER'S VIEW, ~ Judge Porter, after reviewing the pumber signing remonstrances, said ; “ In making application for retail license, it Is a general practice, ale though not absolutely necessary, to show that the hotel or restaurant, ss a place where food and lodgiogs may be it is necessary that the landlord be permitted to sell liquor for the accom- modation of the public and the enter- tainment of strangers or travelers, But it does not follow that because a hotel or restaurant as such Is neces- sary that a license to sell liquors is necessary.’’ NECESSITY NOT SHOWN. “ By some it is contended that if it appears to the court that a hotel or restaurant, as a place where food and | lodging may be obtained, is necessary, | then it follows, as 8 matter of course, | that a license is necessary ; but this | view of the law is not suatained by our | appellate courts, In other words, not | every place that may be necessary as a | hotel or as an eating house for public accommodation is entitled ss a matter of right to be licensed to sell liquor if | the other statutory requirements are complied with.” The judge continued : “The primary question the court must decide is whether a license is necessary for the accommodation of the public and the entertainment of travelers, “ Turniog to specific remonstrances, we must consider them as provided by law, It being the purpose of the acts of assembly to restrain and regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, this object should not be overlooked, * The legislature has, in considers. tion of certain fees, given certain classes of persons the exclusive privi. leges of selling intoxicating liquors ; or, in other words, it has given them a monopoly of the business—not as a matter of right, but for the pur- pose of restraining and regulating sales, * When a petition for a license to sell liquor is presented to court, the ap- plicant does not appear as a litigant demanding a right, but as one seeking a favor or a privilege.” DROUGHT HITS BEDFORD ALSO, All liquor license applicants in Bed- ford county were refused except the Bedford Bprings Hotel in an opinion filed by Judge Joseph M. Woods, There were twenty-five spplicants last year and but seven licenses granted. His action virtually makes the county ‘“ dry,” as the Spriogs Hotel will sell only to guests and is open only about four months. Tonis is the second county in Wood's judicial district to be “dry,” Mifflin baving had no license for past two years. . The Mooss Club, composed of four hundred and fifty members of the Batler Lodge, Loyal Order of the Moose, at Butler, many of them prominent citizens, was found guilty by a jury in quarter sessions court on the charge of selling liquor without a license and furnishing liquor on Sunday. R. J. Kleeman, a councilman, is president of the club, and Charles R. Watson, socretary of the Western Pennsylvania Oil Men's Association, is secretary -treasurer, The prosecution introduced evi dence aimed to show that the club was organiz-d to furnish lquor to its members and that liquor was sold to them at a profit. The club officers, in defense, declared the profits on liquor was in lien of membership fees and dues, The club owns a house worth $20,000. Having been refused a license last week, two hotels, the Park, of Butler, worth $40,000, and the Hotel Tredur, of Baxonburg, worth $50,000, were closed by the sheriff following action of creditors. The liabilities of each are near $5000. A — A A— Will Elect Judge in 1913, The following is reprinted from the Keystone Gazette, and is published because of the reference made to the Republican county chairmanship, the contestants being H. 0. Quigley, Esq, and Sheriff W. E. Hurley. It has finally been decided by opin. ions which must be sccepted as su- thority, that Centre county will elect a Judge of our courts, to sucoeed Judge Orvis, the present incumbent, in 1913. As there are only two years ahead the aspirants for the position are already laylog wires for the great event, and “ every little movement hes a meaning of its own. ”’ It Is une derstood that Judge Orvis will be a candidate to succeed himeelf, while so far as the Bepublicans are concerned they are all at sea—though some are eagerly scrutinizing thelr compass to fiud out which way the land lays; and the pending Republican chair manship contest, which may look in. nocent to a man up a tree, Is believed to have a very decided bearing on thie lssue, IAI ATA. obtained, is necessary, and then that Time to vow clover seed, and do not wpe it. : TWENTY THOUSAND DIOTION ARIES Distributed by the Plttsbarg Post in Twin. ty-five Days—Is a Wonderful Book The most gigantic enterprise ever known in the advertising and book world has taken place in the past five weeks in the presentation of Webster's new illustrated dictionary by the Pittsburg * Post.” More than twenty thousand have gone out and not one is unsatisfactory. 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Read the details concerning this re markable book in the morning “ Post '’ or better still, write to the ** Post about it. —————— YS ———————— Why They Kick, The National Stockman has this to say on reciprocity : The great metropolitan journals which appeal to the public to support the reciprocity agreement base their arguments on the statement that ad- mission of Canadian products will tend to reduce the cost of living. Out in the country we are told that it will not affect prices of our products, Becretary Wilson, who continues to misrepresent the farmers of the coun- try in the President's cabinet, thinks farmers will even up by the round- about way of protecting the other fel lows so Lhey can get money to buy the farmer's products. The American farmer is getting weary of such twad- die as this, and he is going to to let somebody know it before many moons, He should rise up and swat this and any other proposition which deals un. fairly with bim a blow that will put it to sleep forever, Once more let us add that farmers are not opposed to tariff revision on the level. They are not opposed to reciprocity on the level, in fact they would weicome closer trade relations wilh Canada, But they are opposed to the decided slant in the present and other pro- posed tariff deals whereby the things they raise are hit and things they buy are not, They demand equitable tarif! revision whether by treaty, by agree- ment or by readjustment. EE —————— A ———————— Transfers of Heal Estate. Eliza H. Bpencer et al to J. T. Lucas, January 8, 1905, tract of land in Boow Bhos twp. $1580, Thomas Foster et al to Barah Meese ot al, April 11, 1908, tract of lsnd in State College, $400, Rebekah Lynn etal to W. T, Lynn et al, August 4, 1910, tractof land in Rush twp. $1800, Daniel Buck et al to W., A. Mor. rison et al, December 22, 1910, tract of land in Union twp. $2500. Howard Canning company to W. H. Thompson, December 17, 1010, tract of land in Howard twp, $150, Christine Fravel to J. R. Rauner, Beptember 21, 1905, tract of land in Esgleville. $20. G. R. Ohl, et ux to Walker town- ship School Board, February 1, 1011, tract of land in Walker twp, $200, Temple C. Bmith to Elmer Peters et al January 30, 1911, tract of land in Liberty twp. $1000. John C. Rossman et ux to B, H. Emerick, January 7, 1911, tract of land in Potter twp. $1000, 4 W. E. Hurley, Bheriff, to J. B. Kats, March 2, 1911, tract of land in Philipsburg. $115, Calvin C. Huss February 14, 1911, tract of land in Gregg twp. $1. W. E. Hurley, Bheriff, to Genser Manufacturing company, March @, 1911, tract of land in Rush twp. $450, W. E. Hurley, Sherifl, to Thomas J. Lee trustees, March 6, 1911, tract of Isnd io Philipsburg, $500, Israel Weaver's exrs to J. J. Fiedler, December 7, 1909, tract of land in Healoes twp, $196 Jeremiah Boavely ot ux to Amelia 's oxr, September 23, 1010, tract ava 9360, Patrick LETTERS FROM LUBWRIBERS, Reporter Sub:cribsrs Correspondent Col. umuo-—Now Depariment. BurrerrieLn, Minn, Dear Editor Reporter : We are having epring out here. The frost is all out of the ground, and farmers are plowing and dragging. It was real cold the beginning of Janu- ary, but since then we have had nice winter weather, not much snow and no rain. The first thunder storm went around this section, and if there is any thing io the old belief that all rains follow the first thunder storms, we will have another dry summer, Farms are changing hands every day. A good many farms sare bought by persons who are speculating in land. The farmers are not making much more than a living on a quarter section. There is much quack grass, and where this grows nothing else does. We always have plenty of wind and some to spare. Mrs JoHN GEARHART. March 17, 1911, The Horse. Because a first-class horse sells for 276 and a first-class cow for $65 some people would have us believe that these animals are selling too high, when the tru h is that for so long a time the horee and cow were euld at =» lose that now when remunerative prices are received the farmer even is punching himself to see whether or not he is dreamiog. The general pnb- lic only speaks of a horse when he passes at the highest price. No men. tion is made of the iarge per cent. of horses that pass for less than one. hundred and fifty doliare, sold at lees than cost of production, The farmer has so long been obliged to sell the products of the farm, his cattle, sheep and hogs at & figure representing cost and less, that every one now, that conditions are changed, aud sales bring a decent profit, every smarty in country, wants to make it appear that * prices are too high.” There is not a manufacturer, in any line, who would build a piece of machinery that sold for $275, on the meager margin the farmer sells the $275 horse. The horseman hae s lot of inferior animals todispose of, but with the manufacturer it is different—his product is uniform. To some degree the farmer can produce 8 more uniform type and quality of horses and cattle, but not at all to the extent the manufacturer can produce Wares, What margin has the horseman who aeils a four-year-old horse at $275, as- suming bis investment in the dam to be $275 and the service fee of the stal- lion to be §25 7 Tals question is put to the farmer and horseman, sod if a de- tailed statement is made and publish- ed, a year's subscription to the Report- er will be allowed. Communications must bear the suthor's name, and will be published with the statement, AN AE i ———— Dramatic KEatertainment, The Pleasant Gap Social Cldib will present the play ** Jayville Junction,” Saturday evening, Masich 25th, in Noll’'s Hall. The admission is ten and twenty cents, and the proceeds will be added to the funds for the building of & new Lutheran church. The cast of characters follow : Charley Grab, Ticket Agent, Roy Coldron Will Bawl, Train Caller, Harry Bilger Smash A. Trunk, Baggageman, Edward Wolf Rastus, Darkey Character, George Wise Tommy, the Boy That Wishes, Roy Uhl Samp. L. Case, the Drummer, Prol. Samael Wilson Booth N. Barrett, the Actor, Roy Keller Gus Hamburg, the Gorman, John Herman Dooriock Bones, the Detective, Joe L. Gehret Willie Ra-ha, College Sport, Ward Showers Reuben Hay, Farmer from Away Back, Rollen ghuey Happy Happen, the Tramp, Freemont Hile Mr. Spoon A. While, George Wise Georgle, Mamma’'s Boy, Fred Lose Mm, P, Runa, Georgie's Mamma, Mrs, Mary Ishler Mis, Ocalliban, Irish Scrub Woman, Ms. Jolin T. Noll Tillie Tung, Village Gossip, Mrs. Nora Ecken- roth Samanthy Hay, Reuben's wife Houser Lima Light, the Actress, Freeda Weaver Catrie Bunn, the Lunch Counter Girl, Helen Brooks Sophie, Lacy, Good-bye Girls, Emma J. Eoken- roth, Twila Hile Bessie, Tessie, Gigglers, Bertha Rimmey, Edna Wolt Mm. Bpoon A. While, Mme, John T, Noll Muizy, Daisy, Ella, Bells, Flom, Dor, College Girls, Madge Noll, Anna Rimmey, Emeline Noll, Mrs, Lorena Bliger, Sallie Johnston, Alta Zim. merman Stage Managers, Otls Hile and Levi Miller. Prompter, Mrs. Otis Hile, Organist, Mm. Clara Garbrick, # AIA —————. The reversible riding plow can only be fully appreciated when in actual use. To plow with the Byracuse or Oliver for one day will convince any one that the reversible riding plow plows different—because it plows bet. ter—from the hand plow. You can plow stony ground with these plows all day long without worrying yourself or your horses nearly Mm. Alice and 8. KE. Weber, 1911. Sowing Seed, Clover seed sowing is now on the farmer's program. Bowing seed early generally gives good results, By ear- ly is meant while freezing and thaw- fog are in progress, so that by this pro- cess Lhe seed way become well embed. ed in the soil. Another good practice is to pow twice—early and late. The amount of seed that should be sown is a matter of judgment. The poorer the #0il and the less favorable the condi- tions the more syed should be sown. Too often the poorer solls receive the least quantity of seed, Following is a table giving the pounds of the common clovers and grasses in a bushel, and the aproxi. mate number of seeds in one ounce, and by a bit of calculating one can eas- ily find the number of seeds a given quantity of seed sown per acre will al- low to each equare foot of soil : WEIGHT OF Lis, to the 23, * SEED, seads to tushel the ounee Allalis Alsike, 60 Red Clover.. «0 White Clover ) Red Top, ‘ i Timothy ‘ i Bowing six quarts of timothy per acre, will give each tquare foot about two hundred and thirty seeds ; ten pounds of red clover will give to each square foot sixty seeds. This, of course, is much more than is needed if every seed produced a strong plant. Allow. ances must be made for seeds that will not germinate ; seeds that do not be- come imbeded deep enough in the soil to develop a root that will not be kill by the first sunshine ; injury to plants after development, ete., etc. There ie no danger of sowing too much grass or clover seed, but there is much danger in sowing too little, Sf ——— LOCALS. Mrs. A. P. Luse has been quite ill during the past week, and her condi- tion is not improved st present, A booklet received on Tuesday from Florida indicates that Btation Agent W. F. Bradford is enjoying the * Land of Bunshine.” / During the time the Misses Gelss will be in Philadelphia, their father, D. K. Geiss, will make his home in Beliefonte with his son, D. Wagner heise. It Is too early to plow, but not too early to engage a reversible riding plow from Weber, so that when plowing begins you will bs ready to do the work io the best possible way. The proper spring stmosphere is met in the April number of The Ladies World with the cover of a pret- ty girl and orchids, fiction that is redolent of the season and fashions that show the very Iatest ideas, J. Henry Meyer, of Bowling Green, Virginia, acbompanied by his brother, P. H. Meyer, of Centre Hall, was a caller at the Reporter office last week. He reports the family in Virginia well and prospering. Mr. Meyer re- turned to his home on Friday, making his stay in the north very brief, John W. Bickelsmith, Greensboro, Pa., has three children, and like most children they frequently take cold. “ We have tried several kinds of cough medicine, "’ he says, ** but have never found any yet that did them ss much good ss Chamberisin’s Cough Remedy. For sale by all dealers. Misses Bertha Bieber, of Milton, Erma Bieber, of Miflinbarg, and May Swope, of Turbotville, were guests at the Lutheran parsonage for several days. On Monday the ladies, accom. panied by Mrs. B. F. Bieber went to State College where they were guests of Roy Bwope, a brother of Miss Swope. The Millheim Journal states that petty thieving is being practiced to its limit in that section. Chickens are the hardest hit. That was the condi. tion in Centre Hall and vicinity for a period of thirly years. The removal of a single offender has relieved the situation, and now thefts are rarely reported. Although Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer are retiring from the farm and will make Boalsburg their fatute home, they anticipate a busy season during at least the first half of the summer. They expect to greatly ime prove their property, and that will re. quire work sod close attention. Mr, 4 NO. 12. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS, Bee what Judge Porter did in Law- rence county ! Plowing was belng done in Union and Northumberland counties during the week of the 6th, March up to date did not fail to bave a bit of unusual weather, Wed- nesday night of last week it was pretty well down to zero—four degrees on the summer side. Miss Sallie J. Keller, who for some time has been at Terminal, Californias, will leave that section about the close of March, and some time during the summer will return to Boalsburg, her old home, The appropriations committee, head- ed by Chairman Woodward, and Speaker Cox, numbering in all about twenty-five, will visit Pennsylvania to inspect the college. The committee Mre, Laura Tressler Hafer Is proviog in health home of her sister- im- since being at the n-law, Mie, Heime, at Osceola Mills. Mrs, Hafer had been at Colorado Bprings, Colorado, for several years, but returned to Lin- den Hall some time ago in ill health, At the annual election of officers of the National Dairy Bhow association in Chicago, Prof. H. E. Vaz Norman, head of the department of dairy hus- bandry, at Penn. State College, was elected president for the ensuing year. He was secretary and manager for the last two years, John Corl, of State Colleg:, pur- chased the flour and feed mill at Biruble’s station, near State College, and will conduct the same. Some improvements will be made to the plant that will increase its capacity and product, Mr. Corl is a good man and will make a success of it. One bundred doliarsfor a year's keeping, is the net result of a gpecu- lation made in a colt deal by one of the sons of Mrs, Elmira Smith. The young man tought a yearling colt st Milton Kline's sale, last spring, and ilsst week Mr. Kline bought it back at public sale, the difference in the price being just $100, Mrs. Philip Baul, who some time ago underwent an operation in the Bellefonte hospital, is in very poor health, and was removed to her pew home in the vicinity of Pennsylvania Furnace on a cot. She hss been une able to do work of any kind for some months. Duriag the past few years the family lived near Bellefonte. A bell telephone will be installed in the Frankenberger farm house, east of Centre Hall, which will soon be occu- pied by H. B. Frankenberger, of pear Millbeim. Toe telephone service will be furnished by the Centre Hall Penns Cave rural line, one of the several companies comprising the Patrons Rural telephone company. The Centre Reporter has no apology to offer for the space devoted in quot ing judges on the license question, be- cause it is one being very much con- sidered just at this particular time. The reader is referred to these decis- ions, because it gives a better insight to the true intent of the Brooks bigh license law, although somewhat con- trary to decisions printed in these columns in times past. Friday of last week, Marshall, aged nine years, a son of J. Frank Van. burskirk, was frozen to death near Lewistown. The iad was left to guard a wagon, while his father went to Alfarsta to borrow a wagon to take the place of the one he was using, the spring of which was broken. On the father’s return the boy was uncon scious, death following shortly after he had been taken to Alfarata. At an snuual meeting of the patrons of the State College creamery, Prof. H. E. Van Norman made an effort to impress farmers of the importance of disposing of the poor cows. The tests taken during the year showed conclu.
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