"VOL. LXXXIV,
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
D. Paul Fortney Fills All Requirements of the
Law and the Demands of the Party.
It affords us pleasure to commend to
the voters of the county the candidate
for district attorney. There was quite
a spirited contest for the office but Mr.
Fortney has been nominated by such a
decisive vote that it must be concluded
that he was the choice of the party for
the office.
He is a young man, vigorous and
forceful, and by nature as well as by
education he is well qualified to perform
all the duties of the office as worthily as
any man who has ever held the position.
Since his arrival at full age he has in
different campaigns given his time and
energies to the success of his party and
its candidates. He meets all persons
cordially and gives all a kindly greeting.
In the campaign his manner of meeting
and greeting people was quite a factor
in the success be met with and no one
can doubt that all who may have busi-
ness with the attorney, should he be
elected, will be politely treated and their
business faithfully -and honorably at-
tended to. Being the party candidate
and having fairly won by hustling he
should, and no doubt will, receive the
full party vote, and if the Republicans
want a good district attorney they will
honor themselves by voting for him.
The act of April 26th, 1883, says,“ He
shall be admitted to practice, as an
attorney, in some county within this
commonwealth, for at least two years
preceding his election.” The candidate
very much more than meets these re-
quirements.
David R. Foreman, the candidate of
the Democratic party for prothonotary,
is a native of Penns Valley, and all his
family are now and always have been
Democrats. They could not well be
anything else as they were born on
Democratic soil. Mr. Foreman in early
youth, like so many of our very best
men, worked on the farm, attended the
public schools, and after a time taught
school very successfully.
During the term of L. A. Schaeffer as
prothonotary, he was chosen by Mr.
Schaeffer as his clerk and proved to be a
most faithful clerk. He at once made
himself master of all the details of the
office, kept a most excellent record. At
the expiration of Mr. Schaeffer's term he
returned to the farm and school room ;
and some time during his term of office
M. I. Gardner needed a clerk and se-
cured Mr. Foreman's service for the
place. Mr. Foreman was selected be-
cause he was the most fit and best pre-
pared man that could be obtained to
fill the place, and for the same reason he
was retained by Mr. Kimport. The of-
fice of prothonotary is one of great re-
sponsibility and a clerk who was careless
in making up the records, or in entering
judgments, could financially ruin his
principal. It was therefore a wise
thing for the chief officer of this office
to have a clerk who could safely be
trusted and implicity relied upon to do
the necessary clerical work of the office.
It may be, as charged, that Mr. Fore-
man, altogether, has been a clerk in the
prothonotary’s office fourteen years, It
should be remembered that he was only
a clerk, working under his chief at a
very moderate monthly salary paid him
by bis chief. He got nothing from the
county by way of fees or office.
Being a clerk therefore, and as such,
thoroughly mastered all the duties of
the office as well as acquired all the de-
tails, none is therefore better fitted to
assume and discharge its responsible
duties, than is the nominee of the Dem-
ocratic party.
Mr. Foreman during the term of his
clerkship, stands much in the position
of a hireling to A farmer who has cone
tinued to work on the same farm for
the same man for fourteen years at
moderate wages and then desired to
take up farming on bis own hook.
Would or could it be alleged that as he
had worked so long as a hireling he
should not farm on hig own responsibil-
ity, or rather, would not the fact that
he had worked so long under the super-
vision and directions of a competent
farmer, to be counted to his credit and
give the assurance that the hired man
was abundantly able to conduct and
manage a farm on his own responsibil-
ity. So it will be with Mr. Foreman, as
prothonotary. He is not only well
qualified for the office he seeks but he is
a clean, sober man, a member of the
Reformed church ; he has no bad habits
to contend with.
The most progressive voter these days
is the one who has cast away all party
prejudice and casts his ballot for what
be thinks is right and honorable, closing
his ears to the demands and dictations
of the party politician whose only am-
bition is to feather his own nest. In
other words, the man who recognizes du-
ty and does it is the best citizen. This
theory will apply to W. Francis Speer,
of Bellefonte, who received a highly
complimentary vote for the office of Re-
corder of deeds at the Democratic pri-
maries. His case therefore should ap-
peal to the honest voters of both par-
ties, and there should thus be no party
lines drawn when it comes to voting for
a worthy man. He is deserving from
the fact that for the last twenty-five
years he has been devoting his time and
talents to giving the people of Centre
county the news, he having been cone
nected with the various newspapers for
that length of time. He is the author
of the famous * That Column " that has
brought so much good cheer and merri-
ment to the homes of Centra county
each week for so many years. He has
done his part well and faithfully and is
now asking the voters of Centre county
for something that will increase his hap-
piness and help him over a difficult pe-
rjod in life.
Up to this time Mr. Speer has made a
brave fight in the battle of life against
tremendous odds, Those who are ac-
quainted with him know that he is inca-
pacitated for doing hard, manual labor
but his long service as a newspaper man
has fully demonstrated to the people of
Centre county that he is capable of per-
forming the duties of the office to which
he is aspiring. Therefore one of the
wisest and best things the voters could
do would be to give him what he is ask-
ing of them, and what we believe is just.
ly due him.
Those who vote for Francis Speer will
in years alter look back upon their action
with the satisfaction that they did their
duty, and that the office went to a man
who was deserving and who thoroughly
appreciated what had been done for
him. He is a first class business man
and would make a good conservative
officer. This is the time to elect Mr.
Speer recorder, as the probabilities are
he will never come before the people
again. Let us pull together and insure
ourselves of having done a wise and
noble thing.
Daniel A. Grove, the farmer candi-
date for county commissioner on the
Democratic ticket, was born in Benner
township, (now College), in 1856, and is
therefore a man of mature years. His
father, Michael Grove, was one of the
noted Grove brothers, farmers along
the Boalsburg pike a mile or so east of
Lemont. On the farm he grew to man-
hood and all his days has been a sober,
upright citizen. He hasbeen a success
as a tiller of the soil, for no man regu-
larly raises better crops than those
found on the farm tilled by him.
Having made a success of his private
business by industry, hard work, careful
and economical management, he can
with confidence in his ability to do
right, be entrusted with public daties,
which in there management for the good
of the people, require sound judgment
and the exercise of broad and well
grounded common sense.
Mr. Grove is in every way a clean,
sober man, a member of the Lu heran
church by inheritance as well as by pro-
fession and practice. He has every
qualification necessary to make him a
most useful, worthy and honorable
member of the board of county com-
missioners, Mir. Grove, like every other
man on the Democratic ticket, was fair-
ly and honestly nominated. True he
wop over several other worthy men, but
he did so by hard work and continuous
hustling, his highstanding in the com-
munity in which he lives also greatly
aiding him. Mr, Grove as well as the
other ¢indidate for county commissioner
on the Democratic ticket is worthy of
the support and vote, not only of Demo-
crate, but of all men who desire that
honesty and economy shall be practiced
in administering the affairs of the coun-
ty. Vote for Grove and Noll,
John D. Miller, the candidate for
county treasurer, is a native of Walker
township, this county, and is now about
fifty-four years of age. His whole life
has been spent on the farm, first work-
There may be a division of opinion
on the question of remodeling the
court house. Many deemed the remod-
eling necessary, and are not galled over
the large expense that must be met in
the shape of taxes, while others think
the old court house, or at least a less
pretentious than the present one,
would have served the purpose. Yes,
opinions on this question may vary,
but no one who gives serious thought
to the method employed to pay $100,
000 in bonds issued can come to any
other than the conclusion that fore-
sight on the part of the commis
sioners was lacking.
The “Reporter hss never made a
statement of the financial
bad never been an occasion to do so.
tax payers permitted to purchase the
bonds.
Here is the plan briefly stated :
By the sale of bonds $100,000 was
raised to pay the court house bills,
The bonds bear interest at four per
centum.
The bonds run for a period of thir-
ty years. None of them can be paid
before that time.
The payment is to be made In this
wise :
$1100 is paid on the principal every
six months, or $2200 each year.
The interest on $100,000 at four per
centum for one year is $4000.
$2200 paid on the priocipal plus
$4000 interest, or $6200 represents Lhe
sum paid each year,
The interest on $10.00 at four
or $4,000 each yomr
for thirty years is $
per cent
Every six months the county pays
on the principal $1,100, or in ev-
ery year $2,500 for thirty yearn
The principal is $100,000, and why
do the taxpayers only
Republicans would have you
pay but $6.00 Be.
cause the $1100 paid every six
months for thirty years, at four
compound (nlerest, is
worth not only the principal
which bs $100.00, but £55000
in addition ; in other words if
the taxpayers would put $110
every six months for a period of
thirty years at four
on compound interest, it
a8 Lhe
believe
per cent
per cent
would
sum up lo a grand total of
The total «
the funds needed to cancel
$10.00 bonded
sccording to
board of commissioners method
calculating is $120,000 inter
est plus $96,000, or
ost of the court house, or
the
indebtedness,
the Republican
of
The actual result of this financial
deal is that the county will pay
in interest, $120,000, and the
principal, if interest were aliow
ed at the same mate the county
pars, would equal $135.00, or a
grand total of
From this total of $255 000 there must
be deducted the difference be
$100,000 and $66 000, or
matters relating to business.
financially
died over the county three years ago
that Mr. Miller was rich in this world’s
foundation in fact.
Mr. Miller is moreover a man of the
most kindly and benevolent disposition.
No one is allowed to suffer or want
when within the knowledge of him.
While Mr, Miller's education is only
that of the public schools of the town-
ship in which he lived, he is in every
possible way amply qualified to dis
charge the duties of the office for which
he has been nominated. He writes a
plain, clear hand, he understands the
manner in which books should be
kept, and his records and accounts will
be models of correctness and neatness,
« Mr, Miller always has been honest in
his dealings with all men, and consider-
ing that he was in the wreck three years
ago, and as the party is now on the
highway to success he should have, as
he is entitled to have, the united sup-
port, not only cf his party, but of all
good citizens who desire that the office
of county treasurer shall be conducted
in the interest of and for the benefit
of the people. Vote for John D.
Miller.
Arthur Lee is built all right for a
sheriff, and has not only the physical
qualifications but the mental capacity.
His muscles were developed dolog
farm work and later hardened swing.
jog & hammer over an anvil. That
good disposition he carried with tim
during the preliminary campaign,
and that will be retained when he be
comes sheriff, he cultivated while
wrestling with the fore and hiod
— and mules—young and ae
heralded everywhere that irs'ead of
the taxpayers being obliged to pay the
fall $100,000, representing the prinei-
pal, they will only peed to pay $2200
for thirty years or $66 000, That ise
true, but it is not a full statement of
the facts in the case,
The truth of the matter js this:
The party who furnished the funds
for the $100,000 bonds will get their
full $100,000 back in thirty years, and
interest at over FIVE PER CENTUM
Some who have figured on this prop-
to the conclusion that
the county is paying as much as six to
eight per centum Iloterest, while the
This is the de-
The
parties who transacted this deal fig-
Back to the $66,000 !
instead of allowing an Interest
rate, the idea was concelved that the
principal should be paid with $66,000
which in effect
means that $34 000 Is for intersst. The
ordinary business man, had he made
such a deal, would have asked the
same rate of interest on the payments
of a note that he was obliged to pay
on the principal, or else ask that the
payments be deducted from the prin-
cipal, and in that case the principsl
should have paid by a much
smaller sum than $66 000
been
The calculations below will aid the
reader to understand the bond payiog
proposition, snd it js a fair statement
of all the facts in the case:
221 O00
A Well Merited Tribute.
Once ina While, a man comes by his own
while he lives. We observe with pleasure thet
the Board of Trustees and Facuity of Pennayl-
onel John A. Woodward. No man in Pennsyi-
vania has done more than Farmer Woodward in
prestige of the great agricultural school in Centre
county. He has worked both as an outsider and
a trudee. He was especially heipffi while a
member of tae Legislature in procuring larger
State aid and fuller State recognition for State
College. He has more than earned all the dis
tinction aud diane that his feliow-workers are
glad 0 accord to him,
The above is from the Philadelphia
Record, It is buta fitting tribute to a
most worthy sand honorable public
servant, Ia what ever position Mr,
Woodward uss been placed, whether
as representative in the legislature,
trustee of the State Uollege, director of
the Farmers Institutes he has filled
the position to the satisfaction of
those he setved,
He was a faithfal representative, and
the State College never had, nor will
it ever have a better trustee. We en-
dorse all the Racord has said concern.
ing him. '
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Wouldn't the Republican county
organization like to do something to
Reuben T. Comly, of Unlon township!
Think of it ! He has the nerve to be-
come an independent eandidaste for
the office of county treasurer. By the
Republican organization Mr, Comly
is a “nearly’’ man ; he nearly, but not
quite, beat George G. Flok for tressur-
er at the primaries three years ago ;
this year he nearly, but not quite,
(short just 208 votes) beat Prichard for
the nomination. Mr. Comly thinks
he will turn the table, and on election
night the tally sheets will show that
Prichard was nearly, bul not quite,
elected over Mr, Miller for treasurer.
NO. 41.
GLENN ON SATURDAY NIGHT,
North Carclina’s Fo~msr Governor Will
tp oo Centre Hail Lecture Course.
Baturday evening, in Grange Arca.
dia, former Governor Robert B. Glenn
will open the Centre Hall Lecture
Course, belug the first of the five num-
bers msking up the course,
tiavernor Gileun is a North Carolio-
ian by birth, having been born io
Buckingham county, in August, 1854
Io 1851 he became a member of the
Leglelature, and then held several
minor political positions uatil 1883,
when be was appointed U. 8. District
Attorney ; in 1898 he was elected to
the state senate, and governor in 1904
The Central Lyceum Bureau, Kan-
sas City, Missouri, eays this of Gov-
ernor Glenn ;
‘ He ie coneidered the leading orator
of the day. He isa man of msjestic
mould, brilliant ia speech, lofty in
elcquence, sweeping and convincing
in his discussions of great questions.”
The Chicago Herald-Leader makes
this reference to the lecturer:
“He is a big man mentally
physically. His personality is euch
that from the momeil be sppears,
even before he has spoken, one realizes
that here is one who Las 8 message
and the courage to deliver it, Nor is
the opinion incorrect.”
and
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13 Apples For 20 Cents,
“ Where does the difference go'’, is
a question frequently sek by the city
consumer. He means the difference
between the price paid by him and
price received by the farmer for the
products of the sci’, Here Is an ex-
plapation :
Some time ago Dr. George P. Bible,
the lecturer, who lives in Polisdel-
ed a half-peck of apples for which he
paid twen'y cents, or at the rate of
$160 per bushel. He counted the
spples and found there were just thir.
teen in the ssck. Then the lecturer
put a question squarely to his grocer,
who replied that it was none of his
business, but that he paid $4 00 per
barrel for the apples. Dr. Bible sud-
denly left the grocer standing by the
barrel, went to his home and from the
reading table picked up a copy of The
Centre Reporter, and back to the ap-
ple man he went. Much to the aston-
lishment of the grocer he read the item
which appeared in these columns
several weeks ago in which it stated
that the Centre Hall Evaporating Com-
pany was obliged to evaporate hand-
picked apples becsue no market for
the fruit could be found,
The grocer then became frank sand
made this statement. It is jast like
thie. I am in business here, and am
obliged to tuy from the commission
men ; if I did pot they would ruin my
business ; I am obliged to demand a
price so that I have a profit.
Ho there it is. Where does the dif-
ference go is not nearly so much of a
perplexing question as it was one day.
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etwiler Farm Sold.
The Detwiler farm, near Farmers
Mills, was sold by Mre, Jacob Detwiler
to Harvey Rote, tenant on the Plerce
Voosda farm, near Penns Cave, for
$3000 The farm contains one hun-
dred and twenty-five acres, sixty-five
acres of which are under cultivation.
Mr. Rote will taka possession of the
property next spring.
Transfers of Real Estate.
Thomss Foster et al to Busan Com-
fort, September 20, 1909, tract of land
in Btate Collega, $450.
William Bush et ux to Daniel Hall,
Saptember 19, 1911, tract of land in
Unionville, $206
First National Baok, Btate College,
to Ray D. Gilliland, Beptember 22,
1911, lot in State College. $5000.
Lorenzo Gi. Runk et ux to Beott W.
Shirey, September 22, 1911, tract of
land in Philipsburg. $1100,
A.J. Long et ux to P. G. Marry,
September 9, 1911, tract of land in
Boggs twp. $200
Mary Wertz to Harvey Emenheizer,
September 2, 1911, tract of land in
Spring twp. $350.
Rosetts Runkle et bar to COC. C.
Bartges, April 14, 1902, tract of land in
Gregg twp. $11250
John 8. Schafer et al to Mary
Schafler et al, October 5, 1911, tract of
land in Harris twp. $1
Mary K. Gray to Mary K. Gray,
September 33, 1911, tract of land in
Philipsburg. $l
W. E Hurley, sheriff, to Mary
Cook, October 2, 1911, tract of land in
Bellefonte. $325.
W. E. Harley, sheriff, to Terressa
Frank, October 2, 1911, tract of land in
Rush twp, $100.
Lizzie Catherman to Catherine M
Ostherman, September 28, 1906, tract
of land in Taylor twp. $300.
Thomas Royer to J. B. Heb riing,
July 17, 1911, tract of land in Biate
College. $186.
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Progress (3 Meets Hato af.
ternoon, that beivg the time for the
regular weetlng. b
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Hear Governor Glenn on Besturday
night,
Daniel Martz has leased the Leech
farm, nbove Boalsburg. Mrs. Leech
expects to make her home in Boals-
burg,
There is a report current that J. W,
Foreman, of Curtin, purchased the
Jacob Neese farm, in Gregg township,
near Farmers Mills, The farm had
been advertised for sale.
The dedication of the Knights of
Malta Hsll, in Boalsburg, will take
place Friday evening, October 27th.
After these ceremonies the four degrees
will be conferred on a class of twenty.
William Bones is one of the men of
Spring Mille who is permanently em-
ployed elsewhere, and ls now located
in the vicinity of Renovo, on a lumber
job. He came bome last week, the
first visit to his family in five months.
The installation of Rev. George
Hawes, as pastor of the Bellefonte
Presbyterian church, will take plsce
Tuesday evening, the last day of this
month, The mipister held his first
services on his pews charge last
Sunday,
Messrs. BR. D. Masser, of Bpring
Mills, Prof. H, C. Rothrock, of
Bosleburg, were business callers at the
Reporter office on Tuesday morning.
The latter was here in the interest of
the Kolghts of Masits order, which
will dedicate its hall Friday of next
week,
Miriam Huyett, the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Huyett, of Cen-
tre Hall, fell from sn express wagon
and irjured the liga nents surrounding
one of her shoulders, causing much
pain. Bhe was cossting with other
children io front of her home, when
she fell from the wagon.
and
The committee having io charge the
Farmer's Institute to be held in Cen-
tre Hzii, Wednesday and Thursday,
December 6.h and 7th, met Col. John
A. Wood ward at the Reporter office on
Monday evening, and selected topics
for discussion. The chairman of the
local committee is Prof. C. R. Neff,
who appointed George L. Goodhart
as presiding officer during the sessions
of the institute,
While pickiog apples in the orchard
of L. R. Lingle, on Friday, Asron
Thomas fell a distance of eighteen feet,
receiving several cuts and bruises
about bis head. The ordinary man
would have sought a hospital for the
pext six weeks, but not so with Mr.
Thomss. The remainder of the day
was devoted to apple picking. He
was in the act of stepping from a limb
onto the ladder, when the latter
broke.
The rainy day work on the farm of
Charles F. Btover, in Penn township,
proved detrimental to one of the
digits on the foot of Harry R. Aumesn,
8 helper on the farm. The young
man was chopping wood, when he
made a false stroke, the axe striking
his foot, and splitting the second toe,
the gash being four inches in length.
Dr. 8B, C. Musser examined the wound,
and found amputation of the toe neo-
essary, and this was done.
Dairying in Penus Valley is grado-
ally becoming more and more accepted
as the correct solution of making
farming profitable. Among the few
farmers who have a fair sizsd herd of
cows and give them first attention is
John Bnavely, of Spring Mills, who is
now milkiog sixteen cows and ex-
pects to add five more before winter
gets in. He had the miefortune to
jose a cow from milk fever, one day
Isat week, but such losses must be ex-
pected.
Several weeks ago in a letter in the
Subscribers’ Column, Harry W. Pot-
ter wrote from Washioglon giving an
secount of a record-br: aking oatecrop,
the yield of whinh was one hundred
and seventy bushels per scre. In a
letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs, J.
T. Potter, he enclosed a clipping from
Stanwood, Washiogton, which gives
the information that the phenomenal
yield noted above was exceeded on the
T. K. Logan farm, on the Stanwood
flats, where a haif-acre yielded 2,920
pounds of oats, or ope hundred and
eighty bushels per acre. The seed had
been imported from Sweden.
The absence of a three-year-old child
trom his little bed the other Sunday
morning, gave much concern to Mr.
and Mre, A. C. Auman, who liveon a
farm near Coburn. The boy, while
his parents were at the barn, arose
from hie bed and with no other cloth.
sod limbs were blae with cold,
was ploked up by W, H. Harter, w
hisd joined the searching party,
suffered no ill «fects from his
perience.