NOL. LXXXIV. GANG AFTER LICENSE GRIP, Bill for ¥xclse Commissions Controlled by Machine Ready. A bill to establish an XExcise Com- mission to supplant the Judge in act- ing on liquor license applications was introduced in the legislature. It would completely wipe out the judicial system of the Brooks high license law and place liceusing in the hands of three Commissioners, to be appointed annually in each connty by the Judge from the list supplied by the Auditor General. Effort will be made to get the legis- lation through on the plea that some of the judges want to be relieved of the handlicg of the liquor licenses. It is understood that, so far, Senator Penrose has not agreed to use his in. fluence for the bill and there is no as. surance that he will do so, The men who stood for local option in the House will naturally oppose Excise Commission plan. The same is true of a number of men who would not vote for local option. They think that the handling of the liquor ques- tion should not be taken out of the hands of courts. Others are of the opinion that it would be a political blunder to authorizes such commis- sions, because of the tendency to play politics through them. The whole liquor question would be an annual is gue in most counties in the State, The names which the Auditor Gen- eral is to submit to each Quarter Bee- sions Court in the State shall include seven attorneys. From the number the Court is to appoint three Com- missioners, one of whom shall be a lawyer. To addition to all other fees now paid by liquor license applicants, each must psy an additional $5 to the clerk of Courts, to be equally divided among the three Commissioners at the end of the year. ‘The more applicants the greater will be the compensation. When the license list has been com. pleted, the Commissioners are to ad- journ and cannot be called together for the purpose of hearing applicants until the following year, unless for special and extraordinary cause mov- ing the Court to do #0. There is a provision that a transfer of license made necessary by the death of the li- censve may be heard by the Commis- gioners in chambers ‘at apy time and the rules of the Court,” All testi. mony taken at the beariogs to be filed with the clerk of the courts, The number of licenses to be granted in one year must be limited to one for each 1000 of population, * provided, bowever, 1 hat no application for a re- newal of license to eell liquors at re- tail, existing at the time this act takes effect, shall be affected by the above limitation.” When cause is shown the Court can remove the commissioners and judg- ment of the Court shall not be sutject to review. All associations, clubs or other or- ganizations desiring to sell liquor must file an application the same as a regular dealer. The license fee is to be $250 and a bond for $2000 must be given. The sale of liquor must be confined to bona fide members, All licenses granted by the commis sion are to be recognized as the person- al property of the licensee and can be transferred to an executor or adminis- trator in the case of death of the licen. pee. The licenses can be attached as other personal property for debt, —————I A A— Bills In the Legisiatare, Baldwin, Potter—Regulating the saleof lime and ground limestone for agricultural purposes, Hays, Butler— Requiring hospitals receiving state aid to treat free of charges all veterans of the civil war now resideuts of the state, To establish an excise commission to supplant the jadges in acting on li- quor licenses. Taxing school bonds the same as municipal bonds, A bill was introduced by Represen- tative Alter, Allegheny, to require all private banks to take out a license from the state department of banking. Representative Haggerty, Lacka- wanaos, presented a bill to create a system of licensing barbers, Mr, Fahey, Philadelphia, intro- duced a bill requiring sll food contain. ers to be marked with net capacity, under penalty of a floe from $200 to $500 or six months in prison, Three of the revenue-ralsing bills were reported out, Including the bill to tax surplus of banks, stocks and bonds of gas companies and traction engines, - On The Huntingdon county commis sloners have awarded to J. C. Hall the contract to work over the jail, under plans of Herbert Hall, srobitect, at » cost of $15,867.88. It will maken new building of it, practically, and will also change the appearance of it by porches and dormer windows, * Rev. MoDowell's Mission Talk, Rev. E. W, McDowell, a missionary on the border land between Turkey and Persia, gave a very interesting ac- count of his work last Thursday eve- ning in the Presbyterian church, His field of labor was the cradle of the human race and includes Turks, Kurds, and Nestorian Christians ; hence he has a great variety of ex- periences. He is in the habit of mak- ing itineraries among these people, lasting sometimes as much as six months, His description of traveling over the steep, bare, roadless moun- tains, sleeping out in the open, or in a Nestorian hut which sheltered not on- ly the owner's family but also his do- mestic animals whose friendly touch would sometimes awaken him in the night, his recepticn at a Kurdish chiel’s castle among a people ready to rob him should the chief not be will- ing to admit him, the tact that must be used in presenting the gospel and the foundations being laid for greater things ip the future—all made an interesting story. After the lecture he set forth the circumstances under which young Baskerville lost his life, making it ¢lear that his act was not rash, as re- ported in some papers, but one of great bravery and unselfish devotion to the welfare of his fellow citizens, Only words of praise for the lecture have been heard. Se fA SS. Mrs. U GCG, Acman Entertains, Mrs, U. G. Auman, of Bober, on Friday evening, gave a supper to sixty of the members of the Bpriog Mille Ladies Temple, K. G. E. A souvenir bill of fair, like those used at the ten- dollar dinners at the Bellevue-Strat- ford, were found at each plate. Great mer. iment was occasioned by the orders given by some of the guests, be- cause of their unscquaintapnce with French in which language the bill o’ fare was printed. Mrs. Warren Wood and Mrs. Braucht's orders brought to them enough food to feed a barn- raising crew, while others more timid than they were obliged to supple ment their first orders, Impromptu speeches followed the supper, Mrs. Warren Wood talking on « Lost in Bellefonte.” She held the attention of the guests until the joke was scented, and then she was taken to the head of tha table and crowned “ queen. '’ Windom ‘Gramley, " My trip to Belleville.” Mrs. Braucht, “ [ntemperance in society '’; Miss Mabel Brown, “ My late Male "’ The hobble skirt dance was participat- ed in by Mrs. Daniel Mec Cool and Mrs, John Osman, and they were roundly applauded. The occasion was one long’ to be remembered by the participants If can be truly said that the Ladies Temle of Spring Mills is doing » grand work. . —— YP —————— Big Lambar Deal. Messrs. J M. Gilliland and John W. and Elmer Tressler, of New Bloomfield ; W. O. Rearick, of Mil. roy ; L G. Rearick, of Centre Hall, and William Harter, of Coburn, re. cently closed one of the largest deals in timberiasnd that bas been consume. mated for some time. They purchas- ed 2,515 acres of timberland in Powell and Menifee counties, Kentucky, paying therefor the sum of $175,000 It is estimated that there are 36 000, 000 feet of lumber on the tract, mostly poplar, oak and hemlock. The land lies in the great basin, surrounded by a rocky rim of clifls and in order to get the lumber out a tunnel, seven bundred feet long, is being cut through for a railroad. The price paid for the timberland includes the completion of this tuonel, and the erection sod squipment of a huge saw- mill and electric light plant, The parties interested have been on the tract of timber and also inspected the incomplete saw mill and other im- provements, and are satisfied the in- vestment to be an exceptionally good one, ——————— A A —————— A New Pou. A bill passed by the legislature pro- vides for a new penitentiary and the sbandonment of the Pittsburg pen. No location has been desigosted, but it is understood that one of the many state forestry reservations will be tak. en for that purpose, and a site well to the east is preferred, the object being to ultimately do away with the Phila. delphia pen, The first work coontem- plated is to erect a wall about the pro- penitentiary site and this work 8 to be done by convict labor, —— A A AINA increase For Osrriers, The R. F. D. News for March con talos this information which will be appreciated by the local postmen and their patroos : “After July 1, 1911, rural carriers will receive $1000 per year for routes of 24 miles or more and a proportion. ate increase for routes of less length, Furthermore, there will be no danger of consolidation of rural delivery and star route service during the next fis cal year." Williamsport Comm sr oinl College, Spring term begins April 17th, The coll will be all summer. Over one hundred calls have been re- celved this year for bookkeepers, stenogrephers and office help. Stu. dents entering this spring will be ready for positions in the fall. Write for catalogue and free trial lessons. . F. HEALEY, Proprietor, RR MIA CS —, The Grand View Poultry Farm and the Centre Hall Poultry Farm, cone ducted by A. E Kerlin & Bon and CO. D. Bartholomew, respectively, are picking the first crop of day chicks. The incubators at both plants are being run at fall capacit fil a booked early in ny aor, LL MAA If you have trouble in getting rid of your cold you may know that you are pot treating it properly. There Ia no reason why a cold should hang on for weeks it will not if you Chamberlain’ bh Remedy. ne IB Suniety. I REQIPROUVIIY WITH CANADA, With Apologies to Thomas Farmer Trausintes Reciprocity With Canada. We, the people of the United States, who are living beyond our incomes, realize that in order to maintain our present standard of high liviog it Ie necessary to demand a reduction io the price of foodstuffs. For, after careful examination, we have found that the farmer is actually makioga small profit upon the pro- duce we consume, which is inhuman snd unjust, We hold that our superiority over the farmer is true and self-evident, as agriculture was the original occupa tion of man, and we declare that who- ever pursues this work in the golden age of the twentieth century has not advanced with the other classes of human ity. Therefore, it Is the duty of the farmer to furnish ue with his produce without a fair profit or compensation, #0 that ourselves and posterity may live in royal style. Ae Canadian reciprocity is the reme- dy for our distressing situation, we heartily support this bill, And with a firm reliance on the pro- tection of political schemes, we mu- tually pledge to each other our lives, our ill-gotten fortunes and our unsa- ered honor, The Lecture Qourse Balance. The Centre Hall Lecture Course Committee met on Monday afternoon and settled ita accounts for the year The balance in the treasury is $1557 Generally speaking the course was well patronized. The committee's aim was simply be able to pay expenses, there belong no incentive to have a bal- ance. The financial statement fol- lows : EXPENSES, ny §: Five attractions . Rental for Grange Arcadia Haok hire and draying Express and postage wonsin Printing and advertising, £85.55 less $9.55 donated to fuwd.., RECEIPTS, Balance from last year Interest from bank : 160 course tickets at 81 0... BOOT, y (10 a 140 ol, 1 The $28 60 $ mw 12 160 0 78 88 $277 $1 County 8 85 Work, The following schedule has been sgreed upon by the executive commit- tee of the Centre County Sabbath Behool Association for a week's tour of the county to hold one meeting in each of the twelve districts to be ad- dressed by Miss Robison, one of the state field workers, and others under the supervision of the sub-committee of six. The meetings will begin the week of April 17th and continue as follows. Monday alt Mond Taesday al Tuesday » tw Wednesday afternoon Wad ned fi noon, Storms a Port , Howard, Dist. 5 Hublerburg, D The spuual county convention will be held at Aaronsburg, July 17th snd iSth. ——— MAU AAAI Millinery Opening, April 11th and 121h, The ladies throughout Penns aod Nittany Valleys will be interested in this item because it announces the spring openiog at the millinery store of Mrs. Lucy Henney, in Centre Hall, which will take pisce Tuesday and Wednesday, April lith and 12th, Mrs. Henney has been in Philadel phia since Thursday of last week and is making her selections of goods from the largest and most (ashionable stores. Mre Henney has been in the milll- nery business for so long a time that she Is thoroughly sequainted with the business and the needs of her large number of customers. Her se- lections this year will embrace all the latest fashions in head gear, and these sre exceptionally pretty and becoming to the youthful and the more aged. The children snd girls in their first teens will also be provided for, for there are many frames and hats excep- tionally becoming to the preity faces of these youngsters, While everything glee has advanced in price, Mre. Henney will continue to sell millinery goods st the former low margins over cost, and this means much to the customers. The spring meeting of the Presby- tery of DE ton will be held in the New Presbyterian church of Lewis. town, Rev. W, L. Mudge pastor, Mon- day evening, April 10th, snd coantinue in session during the next day. This body consists of 88 churches, scattered over seven counties of Uentral Penn- sylvania, 64 ministers, 356 elders, 13,416 church members, 11,600 sunday-scuvol members, For the year ending March 81, 1010, it raised for various benevo- lences $39,128 and $122,190 for church support. The commissioners from the Minking Oreek or Centre Hall charge are the pastor, Rev, W. Heory Schuyler, and Gh. L. Goodhart, tsi AI A — a tan tut pif iran fell on Jn. evening uring the nig which relieved the earth from freshened up the wheat plants, t a green tinge ou the lawns, Mon- afternoon an eleotrioal storm ed over the valley, accom by rain and a half inch of . During Monday night it grew cold, and Tues- day morning the ground was frozen day ii was very stormy, and there 5 John W, Bicklesmith, Greensboro, Pa., has three children, and like most children they frequently take cold. “We have tried several cough medicine, ”’ he says, ' but have never found any yet that did them as much good as Chamberlain's Cough LETTERS FROM LUBSRIBERS, umo--New Department. In a letter from J. Newton Erhard, of Inavale, Nebraska, a few figures are given that will be of interest to those of the Reporter readers who are stock feeders. Mr. Earhard is a son of the late William Earhard, of Potter town. ship, and a brother of George Earhard, of Old Fort. His letter follows, and bears the date of March 24 : Inclosed find money order which should bave been forwarded earlier, but I have been exceedingly busy. When one man husks one hundred acres of corn, feeds two cars of cattle and hogs, and does his own cooking, he can realize what the word busy means, I marketed thirty beifers, coming two years old, weighing 858 pounds each, some selling at $5.65 per bun. dred weight. Taree cows, weighing over eleven hundred, sold for $6.00 per ewt ; abull welghiog 1890 lbs. for $6.15 per ewt. Also thirty-one hogs, the lot weighing 8280 lbs., for $6.75 per ewt, The cattle and hogs sold for $2265 88. The expenses on these are as follows : Amount of sales Freight to Kausas City. Grading .... One bu, corn... 1ospection., Corn wa ission Total ex potises Net rdcelpts from lot, $2065 $§ 6061 10 60 ne 90 1 Za 00 17 16 2168 72 I'hesa cattle snd hogs were fed one hundred aod fifty days, and consumed the following feeds, Twenty tons of alfalfa hay at Cost of « attic and hogs Bhipping and expenses Total expotiscs i By a bit of figuring you can see what I got for my corn. Prices are not nearly as good as a year ago. Cat. tie are fifty cents and hogs almost #4 00 per ewt. lower than on March 17, | 1910 Corn was then worth sixty cents snd alfsifs bay $6 00 per ton This has been a floes winter fur ing. Wheat is looking fine, Yours, J. ERHARD. fp LOCALS, Mrs. Lucy Henney went to Phila delphia Inst week on business, The law permittiog the use of bear traps has been repealed. That is a good move, fred N The Williamsport Commercial Col. lege announces its opening of the spring term on April 17th. J. G. Heberling, of State Coliege, just recovered from an illoess of some duration. He was for many years a resident of Pine Grove Mills, sand is a civil war veteran, Duriag the drat few days of Bpring the thermometer was busy Ilo the vicinity of the zero mstk. One night on the summer side. Considerable concrete work will be done in Centre Hall during the com ing summer, A number of farmers will also make permanent improve ments by the use of concrete, Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Moore, of Phil asdeliplia, are expected in Centre Hall this week, and will occupy the Mur. ray home purchased some months ago by them. Mr. Moore expects to im- prove the property to a considerable extent, H. E. Frankenberger is having a large manure shed erected at his barn on the Weaver farm, east of Centre Hall. The work is being done by H. E. Bhreckengost, of Farmers Mills, who also expects to do work on the Arthur Grove farm, Harry M. Black, the Lewistown postoffice clerk, who got away with $200 taken from letters, plead guilty in the U. 8. District Court, at Seranton. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $300, undergo Imprisonment for four months, and make restitution for the money stolen. James B. Spangler and W. R. Nefl, of Tusseyville ; Newton Yaroell, of Linden Hall ; H. F. Musser, of Cen- tre Hill ; John E. Rishel and John H. Rankle, of Centre Hall, were callers duriog the past week, but all too busy to prolong their visits after the busi- ness that brought them here had been transacted. Henry E. Homan and family mov. ed from their farm, east of Centre Hall, to Biate College, where Mr. Homan purchased a property some months sgo. Mr. Homan bought the George Durst farm, and in the spring of 1901 moved onto it ‘and has since lived there, He will be succeeded on the farm by his son, John Homan, who purchased the farm stock and implements, Miss Margaret Goodhart, Mrs. Le- roy Rearick and Mrs, G. O. Benner represented the missionary and C. E. societies of the Presbyterian church at the annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Boclety of the Presbytery in Huntingdon, in Wednesday and Thursday last week, They report the meeting to be of unusual interest, were entertained at Bamuel Barr's and made a visit to Altoona before returning home Saturday afternocn, There was a rather stormy session of court in Union Sounty when liquor licenses were Judge 0 fused to a license to W , Holshue, at Vicksburg, and W, GQ. wick, at New Berlin, because re- Wioustiuncsy were presen and they ted, were Sharged with violations of the liquor laws, associate judges overruled Judge McClure in these two cages. On the strength of the charges : Judge MoClure he district attorney to hold Holshue under $1000 for his ap- noe at court, Lewisburg ournal thinks “ this action of the little se 1s another good resson for the t of these orpsments on the " 30, 1911. ——— $ DEATHS, mornlog of last week, after an illness of many weeks of catarrh of the stom- ach. Daceased was the daughter of Henry Stoner, of Centre Hall, Besides her husband, there being no children, the following brothers and sister, survive : Charles Btoner, Tus- seyville ; William Stoner, Centre Hall ; Nora, wife of Arber J. Cum- miogs, Linden Hall. The funeral services were conduct. ed Bundsy morning, 10 a. m., st the United Evangelical church, at Zion, Rev. B. A. Boyder, of Centre Hall of- ficiating. Mrs. Magdalene Wasson, aged eigh- ty-nine years, died at Lemont. Inter. ment wes made at the Branch, Her maiden name was Magdalene Bhuey and she was born in College township. Burviving her are four children, name- ly: Mrs. Mary Payne, of Lemont ; Joseph, of New York State; Alfred, of Huntingdon, sand William, of Nit. tany. Daniel Bhuey, a brother, also survives, Samuel E, Bhowers, born in Spring township fifty-nine years ago, died in Bellefonte Wednesday evening of last week, He was one of Bellefonte's Death was due he suffered for a year or more, but per- formed his duties just prior to his death. He is survived by a wife, nee Mires Tamszine Eckley, and six chil- dren. Ros Langham died at the home of John D. Dreibilbls, west of Blate Col- lege, after a ten days’ illness of poen- monis, aged eighteen years. The de censed Was AD exemplary young man and his death is mourned by s large circle of friends. He is survived by his father, a sister and two brothers, all of Duncansville, to which place the remains were taken for interment. Elmer Oliver died st his home at Alamont, Illinois. He was a son of Mr.and Mrs. John Oliver, and was born iu this county and was aged for- ty-six years, five months. The family moved to Illinols when the deceased was bul four years of age. His moth- er’s name was Guisewite, a sister of the late John Guisewite, of Haines township. Frederick Hartman died at Wolfe Hiore, Bunday night of lsst weak, of parsiysis, aged seventy -four years and three months, He leaves to survive a widow and four children. Funeral services were held Wednesday after- noon, conducted by Rev, N. A. Whit- man, and interment was made in the Union cemetery at Rebersburg. Mrs. Inutha Thomas, wife of Will- iam Thomas, of Greene township, Ba- gar Valley, died at her home, of can- oer, after a long iliness. Decensed was aged fifty years, and leaves her hus- band, two sons and three daughters, Walter M. Brugger, son of the late Samuel Brugger, of Unionville, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he conducted an employment bureau, His sage was fifty-five years. Ioter- ment was made at Unionville, Mrs. Melinda Houser, wife of Will- iam Houser, died at her home in Al to oa, from Bright's disease. She was born at Houserville, this county, and was aged fifty-six years. Mrs, Catharine Hoffman, mother of Mrs. John Stine, of Buffalo Run, died Wednesday morning at Philipsburg, aged eighty-two years. Bhe is sur- vived by six children. Sarah Melinda, daughter of Benja- mio Etters, on Nittany Mountain, aged one year and four months, died from pneumonias. Interment at Pleas ant Gap. The infant son of Mr, and Mrs. Adam Cramer, of State College, died from the effects of peritonitis Monday night of last week. Interment was made at Pine Hall, Mifflin County Industry Barned, The Jarge ax manufacturing plant of the James H. Mann estate, at Yeagertown, near Lewistown, wae totally destroyed Friday by fire, loss, estimated at $176,100, ls partly covered by insurance. The capacity was 200 axes per day, and 110 men were employed running full time. The plant will be rebulit at onoe. AI MP. Any April Mr, makes sod 5 - Gig you TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The Bush House rates have again been reduced to $2.00 per day, which is simply golog back to the old rates on which it built up ite large trade. J. D. Gingery and J. Q. Miles were callers in Centre Hall on business of a political nature, Baturday morning. From here they went to the Herman sale, at Lemont, Mrs. Coldron fs contemplating the erection of an addition to her dwelling house, in Centre Hall, with- in the next year. Part of the lumber is now on the ground, Mrs. Lucy Henny expects to erect an addition to her dwelling house dur- ing the coming summer, and install a beating plant, bath room and make other improvements on the interior. David Rearick, wife and two chil dred, of Potters Mills, I.. G. Rearick, Mrs. Mary Rearick, Miss Savills Rearick and Miss Leils Huyett, of Centre Hall, were guests at the W. 0, Rearick home in Milroy, last week. Miss Margaret Mulfinger, of Belle fonte, daughter of John Maulfinger, of Pleasant Gap, will soon be married to Harry Bhowers, of Chicago,’ who'ils also a native of Pleasant Gap. The wedding is to take place in Chicago. Cleveland Brungart ‘and Roy Shaf- fer, near Tusseyville, arranged to have Bell telephones installed in their homes. The service will be secured through the Tusseyville Branch Com- pany of the Patrons Rural Telephone Company. Thureday of last week, the neligh- bors of Mrs. Jacob Sharerlassembled at her home and spsnt the day in quilt. ing. At poon the party, thirty-seven in number, sat down to an elegant dinner, which had been prepared for the occasion. Mrs. Busan Schnoars, of Clearfield, who spent the winter with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Btrunk, in Centre Hall, is al the home of her nephew, William Grossman, south of Earlystown. Mrs. Jacob Bhowers, of Youngdale, was also a guest there recently, While painting the grandstand at Pennsylvania Btate College, David Falton fell a distance, of twenty-five feet, breaking and splintering the bone in his leg. The fojury is of such a character that amputation may be necessary. He was taken to the Bellefonte hospital. W. M. Grove, of Bpring Mills, who last year spent considerable time in surveying state lands for the Forestry Department, on Monday went to Pen- field, Clearfield county, where work of the same class is being resumed. He took with him Orris McCormick, who will do chaining, and later on wi'l be allowed to do work with the compass. The experiment station of the Penn- sylvania Bilate College has issued a comprehensive bulletin on the apple in Pennsylvania, compiled by Prof. John P. Btewart. The bulletin covers twenty pages and treats of the varie- ties, planting and general care of orchards. The investigations cover a period of three years in nive counties of the state. William Sweeney, of Centre Hill, who had contemplated moving to the Pittsburg district this spring and en- gage in farming on one of the coal company’s farms, has secured employ- ment with Peter Smith, at Centre Hill, on afarm. He will move from the Strobm farm to the house vacated by Bruce Ripka. And, by the way, an additional heir made its appearance in the Bweeney home within the past two weeks Last week mention was made of the freezing to death of a boy, nine years old, while sitting on a wagon which had broken down. Mrs. M, J. F. Van Boskirk, the mother of the child, insists that the child was doped with whiskey and was poisoned, and she asked District Attorney Houser, of MifMin county, to have the father ar- rested for the murder. Atthe funeral
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