"VOL. LXXXIV. ROAD BUILDING TO BEGIN IN JUNE, With $4,000,000 of the Entire %6,000,000 Available, Needu't Walt to Borrow, Radically amended, the Sproul main highway bill, which was report ed to the Senate from the Roads Com- mittee with an affirmative recommen- dation, makes provision for seventy- three new routes in addition to the two hundred and three originally provided, with numerous changes in routes of highways enumerated in the bill when presented. The additional route under this amendment passing through Centre county is one from Holidaysburg to Bellefonte. The bill carries an appropriation of $6,000,000, of which $4 000000 is for construction and maintenance of State highways and $2,000,000 for con- tinuance of the present plan of State aid to boroughs and townships, but on a different basis, the State payiog on- ly 50 per cent. of cost instead of 75, as under existing laws. The bill is not contingent upon the approval of the constitutional amend- ment for issue of $50,000 000 of bonds for road construction, although should that measure be approved by the peo- ple the proceeds could be used. The appropriation carried in the bills Is to be made out of Btate funds, and suc- cessive appropriations may be made to carry out the program as outlined in the measure. GET TO WORK IN JUNE. Under the terms of the bill the State Highway Commissioner is to take over all routes mentioned in the bill by June 1, 1912, provided notice of the taking of such routes is given to the counties and districts. When the State assumes control of a road it is responeible for Lhe maintenance, whether reconstruction is begun or not. Some changes are made in the de partment force by the bill as reported out, the engineers being Increased from seven to fifteen and the office of department auditor created at $3000 per year. This auditor must be a cer- tified public accountant. The plan of the Administration is to start the construction of sections of road designed to be parts of the main bighway system as soon 8s possible after the bill is passed and ap- proved aud the appropriation becomes available. This would inaugurate the work in June of the present year, Utteriy Siily. The appended paragraph, a part of Taft's message to the sixty-second congress, urging that body lo pass favorably on the reciprocal sgreement with Cansde, proves that the presi- dent of the United States does not know what he is talking about. Whatever induced Mr. Taft to make the utterly silly expression that reci- procity with Csoada would * offer a broader outlet for the excess products of our farms, '’ is puzzling even those who at one time favored Lhe agree- ment. The paragraph referred to fol- lows : * I'he agreement in its intent and in its terms was purely economic and commercial. While the general sub- ject was under discussion by the com- missioners, I felt assured that the sentiment of the people of the United States was such that they would wel- come & measure which would result in the increase of trade on both sides of the boundary line ; would open up the reserve productive resources of Canada to the great mass of our own consum- ers on sdvantageous conditions, and at the same time offer a broader outlet Jor the excess products of our farms and many of our industries,’ After reading Mr. Taft's message, every farmer will be able to see that the president is not acquainted with his subject or else he is purposely per- verting the truth, ES ————I A AAAS. The New Primary Law, The one feature of the new primary law that most interests the voters in Centre county, whether Democrats, Keystoners or Republicans, is the clause which requires, if challenged, the voter to qualify that he voted at the last election for a msjority of the candidates on the ticket of the political complexion for which he calls. It is conceded that a voter bas a moral and legal right to call for and vote the ballot of his national party at the September primary. It is only when challenged that he will be forced to cast aside the ballot of his national party, provided he did not vote for a msjority of the candidates on that ticket last fall. In Centre county neither the leaders in the Democratic nor Republican parties—althpugh some of them would perhaps like to do so—~will advise chal lenging, for only a fool would seek to drive from the fold voters willing to participate in nominating candidates for county, township and borough officers simply because they could not and would not support the action of rotten state leaders in nominating oan. didates for governor of thelr respective The New Primary Election, The new primary election law hav- ing been approved by the governor, and becoming immediately effective, the former June primaries are there fore abolished. The primaries will now be held on the last Saturday of September, except for the election of delegates to state and national conven- tions, in which cases the primaries shall be held in April. Approximate ly, the primaries for municipal and county offices will now come but six weeks before the general elections. This interval would have been con- siderably shorter had the question been left for settlement to the assem- blymen from Philadeiphia and Alle- gheny county, as these men attempted to have the primaries designated for October. With the primaries in Beptember, instead of June, as heretofore the rule, the great field of aspirants for nomina- more months of work and anxiety be- fore their fate is known at the hands of their respective parties. Hereafter, however, this will be obviated by the patural adjustment of affairs, in that candidates will not announce them- selves so early, thus eventually getting back to the former length of time taken for a canvass. Much of the winter season will be cut out of the canvasses under the time fixed by the new primary law, as the holding of the primaries in September instead of June will afford at least six good weather months in which to election- eer. This fact will probably be ap- preciated by those who bave canvass ed a county the sizs of Centre during the winter months. Ap an offset to this seeming advantage, however, it will likely be claimed that so far as the voters io the rural districts are concerned they may be too busy during the summer months to listen to ap- peals of the nominstion-seekers, —— MA New Haan'er's License Bill, The public is again reminded that another resident bunter’s license bill is before the Pennsylvania legislature, this time in the senate. The changed condition of this bill, however, as compared with the original and bhigh- ly unsatisfactory one, may not meet the public disapproval that was shown toward the first. The present bill provides for the payment of one dollar per year as a license fee, by all resident hunters, but land owners or bona fide tenants and their children on their own or rented lauds, are exempt. Fifty per cent, of the revenue so de rived will be used in payment of bounties for the destruction of weasels, mink, hawks aod vermin that destroy song and ipseciiverous birds and poultry, It is estimated that the amount thus to be distributed io boun- ties will be about §75 000 per year. This feature will profi: the country and wooded districts directly, in that boun- ties, for the most part, will be earned by the boys and the men of the rural communities. The remainiog fifty per cent. of the revenues raised will be ap- plied to the protection, propagation and distribution of game ander the supervision of the state game commis sion, At present the appropriation available to the game commission amounts to $20,000 per year. This amount must be applied to protect over 25 001,000 acres. P.ne Grove Mills £, ©, UO, F. The officers elect of the Penns Val ley lodge 276, I. O. O. F., at Pine Grove Mille, were installed by Dr. R M. Krebs, and are as follows : Noble grand, Demp 8B. Peterson; vice grand, C. L. Bunday ; secretary, H. N. Walker ; chaplain, Dr. R. M, Krebs ; warden, A, 8. Walker ; cone ductor, J. B. Miller; R. 8B, to N. G,, W.H.Goss; L.8, to N, G,, H. M. Walker ; R. 8. to V,G., C. H. Myers ; L.B.toV.G,E. T. Parsons; R. B. B.,Prof. C.L.. White ; LS. B,E. T, Barto ; guardians, H. Elderand J. W. Fry. LAM S—— Will Inspect All Farms, The state department of health has ordered its health officers to make an inspection of all farms from which milk is sold, either in large ur small quantities. This luspection is for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the cattle, stables and particularly the water from whioh the cattle are watered, In several seotions of the state milk is said to have been re sponsible for an outbreak of typhoid fever and the Health department de- sires to determine If the real cause was not the water supplied the cattle, The Last Oale of the Season, The last public sale of the season will be held Saturday, at Spring Mills, by W. O. Gramley. In addition to the driving mare, forty-two hogs, eleven cows, one heifer, eight sheep, and other articles advertised for sale on posters, Mr, Gramley has decided to sell a No, 10 De Laval cream sepe arator and a nine gallon Bentwood butter churn, The sale will begin at DEATHS, 1 i The death of Mrs. Sarah Foreman occurred Sunday afternoon at her home in Centre Hall, after an extend- ed illness of several months, The direct cause of her death was pneu- monia, although she had been a patient sufferer from other troubles also. Deceased was a widow of John Fore- man, who preceded her to the grave on the second day of April, 1904, and was aged seventy-seven years and ten months. Before her marriage to Mr, Foreman, which took place April 10, 1851, she was Barabh Raymond, deugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs, John Raymond, of Gregg township, being one of seven children, all of whom are now dead, After their marriage the couple moved to the Foster farm, east of Centre Hall, where they were engaged for one year with Mr. Foster. The next two years they began farming with Mr, Foster's farmed the Woods farm, near Spring Mills, and from there moved to the Wilson farm, east of Centre Hall, where for thirty-seven years they oon- ducted that large farm. One year they lived in Centre Hall, and then moved to the Royer farm, south of Centre Hill, which was purchased by Mr. Foreman, and where he died at the above mentioned time, Mrs. Foreman moved to Centre Hall in the spring of 1905 and lived here until her death. The deceased is survived by the fol- lowing children : Frank A., of near Spring Mills; Catherine, at home ; David R , of Bellefonte ; Robert D., otf Centre Hall; J. Weasley, of Curtin ; Edward F., of Youngstown, Ohio; Edith, wife of Lyman Smith, of Cen- tre Hall, and Jennie, at home, Two children—3usan, who was married to John Homan, of Btate College, and Alice, who was the wife of Robert Ramer—are dead. Funeral services were conducted at the house, and in the Reformed church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, in- terment being made in the cemetery at Centre Hall. Rev, 8B. C, Btover, of Boalsburg, was the officiating minister, Conrad Lingle, aged ninety-one years, three months and four days, died Wednesday night of last week, at his home at Colyer, death belug due to cancer of the mouth. The « eceased leaves to survive his wife, nee Barah Immel, and the following brothers and sisters : Michael, Heary, Johu, Solomon and David, of Poe Valley ; Basan, Elizabeth, Sarah sad Deanaa. The folio sing children also survive : sophia, of Manda, Missouri ; Lydia, of Joliet, Illinois ; Margaret, of Mn roy ; Howard, of Colyer ; John, of Georges Valley; Heury, on the Brockerhoft farm, below Old Fort, I'wo children —~Michael and Matilda are dead. Iatermoent wis made in the Zion cemetery, Friday morning at ten o'clock, Rav, Martin, pastor of the Evangelical church, of Spriog Mills, officiating. Mrs. Viola Baney, wife of Albon Bauvey, of Port Matilda, died at the Bellefonte hospital. She had been a suflsrer for some weeks with tubercu- losis of the bowels, and two weeks or more ago was brought to the hospital for treatment but her condition was such that her recovery was impossible. Ste was born in College township for. ty-seven years ago and was a daugliter of U. D, and Catharine Houlz, Bar. viving her are her husband and ss ver- al children. [I'he remains were taken to her old home near Lemont from where the funeral was held on Wed: nesday afternoon of last week, burial being made at Shiloh. Berjamin Btem, sged about sixty years, died at his hom?, one mile east of Boalsburg, Tuesday morniog of last week. Death was due to dropsy, and although not confiued to bed Mr, Stem had been alllng for several monthe, A half-brother, Calvin Stem, and hisetep mother, who before her marriage to the deceased's father, was Mrs. Long, survive, Funeral services were conducted at the house, the following Thursday morning, and the officiating minister was Rev, 8B. O. Stover of the Reform- ed church at Doalsburg, a — Mrs, Anns Waite, widow of Henry Waite, died in Bellefonte, Monday of last week, aged seventy-nine years, She was a native of Huntingdon county, and one of her eleven children who survive Is Darius Waite, of Belle fonte. The Flak Label, The Piok Label appears this issue, This indicates that ull those who paid subsoription between March 14 and April 10 will for the first time see the oredit on the label, Please examine your label carefully, aod see whether have received proper oredit, and one o'clock, error has been made report at LETTERS FROM LUBSCRIBERY, Reporter SBabieribsrs’ Uorrespondeut Col. umn-—New Departinsot. The appended letter is from a form- er Potter township young man, who during the winter months was a visit. or to his parents in Centre Hall, He has charge of the local U. HB. Weather Bureau office at Lander, Wyoming. The letter follows : Dear Editor Reporter ; Noting, with more or less interest, many letters from subscribers of your paper as published in the column de- voted to such publications and think. ing that home people might be pleased to know some of the existing condi tions in the central part of this Rocky Mountain State, I take the liberty to submit the following. A little over a year ago it was my fortune or misfortune to be ordered from our Denver office to take charge of the loc office of the Bureau, at this point. It ia just three years since the railroad bas made Lander ite terminus, Up to that time the stage was the only means of reaching here. The little city sits in the center of a great amphitheater several miles wid and almost entirely enclosed by the Wind River range of the Rooky Mountains. The citizens have scenery as well as good soll. The mountains are a wonderland full of freaks of na- ture and minerals of all kinds. There are twenty-five lakes within twenty- five miles of Lander. No city has better or more abundant water, eitber for drink, power or irrigation, The population of Lander is com- posed largely of rich ranch owners, who have sheep and ocoallle grazing upon the ranges se fur as 150 miles from their comfortable homes. There are maoy thousand ecres in the neighborhood under irrigation and producing lsrge crops with big profits, The government is expending millions of dollars to recialiu the arid lands, while private gapital Is juvestiog even larger amounts ia irrigation plants The big thing st Lander now, ss well as subsequently, 1s the oil. Od wells are numerous aud the district has been pretty well tested for a dis tance of thirty miles with every iudi- cation of vast deposits, The valley proper is small but very rich. Crop yields are big and every thing but corn Is grown successfully. Orchards and gardeus arg thrifty and during the growing season remind one of some particulatly favored portion of the rain belt country. There are many other rich valleys tributary to Lander and sll give the town assur ances of ample agricultural support. Much rich land on the reservalion gide of the river is being sold by the government at very reasonable prices, inciudiog water apd dilches. Bids will be opened on May second for some of this iand. In the way of public buildings Lauo- der has a Csroegle Library, Court House, Federal Land office, Forest Service, and U. B circuit and district courts. A new Federal building is be ing erected at a cost of $100,000 to be ready for use January 1, 1912 All io all Lander has the making of a good, big city. Since the railroad bas reached the town a spirit of opli- mis spd gutlerprige has laken posses sion of Lhe people sud the push neces. sary to the building of a great metrop- olis Is now apparent on all sides, It is quite likely that Lander will be Lhe capital of the state in the near future as 8 more central location is desired. There are good hopes that the North. western will extend ite raliroad to the Park and thenos to the eosst. The Denver Laramie, and N, W. will also pass through Lander in a few years. No better trout fishing is to be found in the United States. The season is not restricted to time but no more than Snly pounds may be caught in one day. hey even catch them from the side walks in Lander. Three branches of the stream flow through the town, Hunting is also very good for large as well as small game. Io the fall all who can erry the sport of a fortnight for elk ana deer and seldom does a $ dnter come back without a good supply of game, The climate is all that could be de sired, haviog a weather office here rhaps helps some, At any rate ander and vicinity is noted for its light wind and generally even climate. Beiug about the altitude of Denver sod somewhat similarly located with to the mountains it is s place to be desired ss a sumer resort. Doubtless when it has better raliroad facilities it will become a noted resort. Should anyone desire » al infor. mation in regard to this pert of the state I should be pleased Lo answer any inquiries, Very trul ARL This place, Hershey, is about eight years old, Daring the last two years three large four-story additions of solid conorete have bsen balls to the Hersh ey chooolate plant. Twelve hundred and fifty persons are now on the pay roll, exclusive of the one hundred and fifty employed at the Lebanon branch. The company ls usiog daily 90,000 pounds of milk in the manufacture of the various kinds of chocolate, and the output is from seven to ten oar loads daily, This week forty-six ad- ditional new longitudinal mixing machines arrived and are being placed in one of the new rooms. When these are installed there will be one hundred and fortywsix of them In operation. Esch machine consists of four oomis partments in which the chocolate Is rolled by a huge granite roller, which is In motion for four days and pights until the chocolate becomes perfectly smooth. It (the msohine ) contains (Continued on foot of next column, ) 191 1. Pomology in Penns Valley, awakening among Penns Valley, the farmers Heretofore not fruit growing in this section Centre County Fruit Growers’ sociation, has done much farmer concerning pomology Through the efforts of the agricultura tion. in Grange Arcadia on fruit growing, attention the apple grown here may equal that of the west in beauty and excel it in flavor, Many of the meth- closely followed by a number of the farmers who comprised that spprecia- tive audience. The interest awakened will, no doubt, result in the removal of dead and decaying limbs, and the cultivation and fertilization of the soil beneath, I! is up to the farmers of Penns Val- ley to take advantage of these oppor- tunities—such as attending the public demonstrations given by prominent pomologiste—and keep up with the orchard forward movement. ———— A AAA Will the Horse bs Supplanted * To some extent at least the horse will be supplanted by the oxen, and largely on account of the high prices horses are commanding. Just a short time ago mention was made in these columns that Nelson Marshall had a well broken ox team, and now word has reached the Reporter that two youug teams are being broken by sons of Clyde Dutrow and Jacob Bharer, enst of Centre Hall. The Datrow boys have their ‘Buck’ and “Berry well under hand, and by their sssist- anne the Bharer boys are training = pair of young oxen, and they too are learning the whoa, gee and haw, and expressions that are peculiar to the pariapce of the ox drivers, Many of the inhabitants in this community never saw an ox team, but they may become familiar with their sight and their low, EE The large nu nber of deeds recorded by Recorder B own indicates t hat real estate is on the move—a condition that should always exist. When real estate is nol an allraclive investment all other business suffers to a greater or less extent, { Continued from Previous Column, } about twelve buadred pounds of choco Iate, the one hundred and “forty-six machines contaioiog about 175200 pounds, After the chocolate has passed through this process it is taken into the moulding room and moulded into different forms. R. F. VoxNEiDA, Hershey, Pa. —— ean, We have been having beautiful weather in Washingt n daring the last two months, and this is one reason why so many people like the Puget Sound ocountry—for its mild winters and cool summers. The Brown Bay Logging Company that employs me operate three * don. key '' engines and one steam skidder, also two locomotives. The three donkeys’ output last month were four different Sound mills, Yours, W. H, PorTERn, Meadowdale, Wash., April 6. Dear Mr. Smith : been dry and windy, NO. 15, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Mis. C. H. Meyer and daughter Miriam, of Reedsville, were in Centre Hall over Bunday. When we get a state road through . Centre Hall, what will happen ? Will | | pomebody answer ? J. Bhannon Boal, one of the oldest residents in Centre Hall, has been quite ill during the psst week, Mre. W. E. Park, of New Miiford, has been st the home of her father, Capt. G. M. Boal, in Centre Hall, dur- ing the past week, Mrs. W. W, Bible and Mrs. Milton Kern, of Bellefonte, were in Centre Hall Tuesday, visiting friends and also called at the Reporter office. The pink label sppears this week, Bubscribers whose subscriptions expire in April should see that the figures on their label is advanced to 1911, or if possible to 1912, If you are in need of sny kind of farm machinery call on R, D. Fore- man, at Centre Hall, who has s full line of implements on band at ail times. During the time that Charles Gren- oble, of Yeagertown, will stiend =a school of horology in Philadelphia, Mrs. Grenoble will be at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs, 1. J. Zabler, at Spring Mills, Both Mr. and Mrs. Heury Bwabb have been ill during the past week or more, the latler having been quite ill, Mrs. Catharine Reed, of Reedsville, Mrs. Bwablb's sister, is assisting in tak- ing care of them. W. G. Rossman, west of Centre Hall, recently purchased the Rimey stallion, and is handling him ths season. He is a gray, and belongs to the heavy draft type, weighing al- most sixteen hundred pounds. At a depth of filty-nine feet F. A, Carson, Exq , found a fine stream of water on his farm, in Georges Valley. The Krape drilling machinery was moved to the Samuel Durst farm, sat Esrlystown, where Arbor Cumioge snd Constable Charles Frazier are drilling a well, The Reporter’s suggestion that one of the roads proposed to be built with state funds saould lead from Huunting- don to Old Fort by way of Btate Coi- lege, is well thought of by many. It the road were built through the south gide of the county, it would not add mileage nor deprive any section from a road now proposed. A letter from Mrs. George Boal, at Potters Mills, states that Jonas Foust, her nephew, is at her home, and has been there almost continuously since having been taken from the Auman home. The iad has been sick snd ie now under the doctor's care. The story printed that Jonas had gone to Phoenixville proved untrue. The Masonic lodge held a regular meeting Monday evening. Members from out of town who sttended the session were Messrs, Frank E., John M. sand Clyde Wieland and Frank Ishler, Linden Hall ; W. 8. Rossman and W, A, Ferree, Oak Hall ; Dr. P. H. Dale, State College ; H, F. Ross- man, Rev, J. M. Laatz, A. N, Finkle, Spring Mills ; J. C. Condo, Penn Hall, and M. L. Rishel, Farmers Mills, Mr, and Mrs. H. A. Stover, of Yeagertown, were in Centre Hall for several days, guests of Mr, and Mrs. James W. Runkle, and Mr, and Mrs. Irvin Barris, Mrs. Burris and Mr, Stover is a tinner and plumber, and is doing a brisk business in his line. He thinks the Burnham plants will be enlarged during the coming summer, and that the apparent slack times are more largely doe to the installation of modern machinery rather than lack of orders. Mr. Stover says the Centre county people in Mifflin county are prospering, notably Contractor George Tate, who is getting the lion's share of the large contracts being let in that section. In settling up the majority of the public sales in this community, it was found that the cash received was not pearly ss large a per cent. of the whole as during the preceding years, Last spring, ss well ss during the springs of 1909 and 1908, it was not une common that the cash paid was equal
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