- VOL. LXXXVI. CENTRE HALL. PA. THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1913. NO. 30
REFORMATION OF PENN DEMOCRATS, J TWO BARNS BURWED, \ LETTER) FROM SUBSORIBERS, made. Their baros aba rule are not TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
a4 large ae the acreage would seem to
D. G Iss Wagner Barn South of Centre Hall A. PP. Wisland Writer from the Big Wheat warrant, due of course to the fact of
Philadelphia Public Ledger, Under This Title, Asserts Reor-| ant ons ye oy Bogia- | Hels of Onoada While on Business Tp. {early threshing and the stacking of
i. El : Publi Life i S burg Strack by Lightuing and Consumed, Editor Reporter ; bay and alfalfa, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
ganizers are Elevating Public Life in tate, The elements played havoc with § T ir i F
£ hii I have been coming into Manitoba Ihe fair just closed here for the ROM ALL PARTS
personal property in Penns Valley on Once a year on a business trip (this is | western provinces, The people are| Three inches of rain fell during
From FUBLIC LEDGER. of their recreancy, Were parties to all Wednesday of last week, the loss being the third year) and my home folks | great on publicity or getting together, Wednesday and Thursday of Isst week,
At the annual meeting of the Demo- the crooked work in the legislature. | two barns, well filled with this sea- keep forwarding mail. Among the|capturing the other fellow’s idea and | The Grange exhibition and fair will
cratic State Committee last week Ro- They were always to be counted upon | son’s erope, horses and cattle, buuch to night were four back num. | boosting. There are no knockers—|gnen on Gran o Bark, Contry Hall
land 8. Morris of iiladelphi as | A servile tools to betray their party,| The one barn destroyed was that of bers of the Reporter which I have just | everybody pushes or gets out of the Re ptember ri 2 :
chosen chairr n succession rge | the State and the people. They knifed | D Gelss Wagner located south of finished reading, sitting out in the other fellow’s way. The city province : A
W. Guthrie of Pittsburgh who is the decent men at the polls at the behest of | Centre Hall on the cross road leading open on the veranda of the hotel, and |join in maintaining 8 permanent ex
ew Ambassador pan. | Morris | the Republican machine leaders : they | to Tussey Bink. It was a large strue- by the way, itis 9 p. m. and I am | position building in which books are
is an able mano h character, as is ordered their bands of mercenaries to ture, 50x45 feet, and was erected by still able to read without the aid of | maintained promoting education,
Mr. Guthrie; the mers men of their | cast votes when needed for the gang's | the late Jacob Wagner, father of the artificial light ; that seems a bit etrange | exploration, navigation, conservation,
worst candidates ; they wrecked their present owner. to me as no doubt it will to you tho aris, science, manufacturing, good
own party by their venal treachery ; The bolt of lightning struck on the perfectly plain when you RO to reckon- | roads, sgriculture, resources, fruit
they caused honest Di rats and in- | west side of the building, and in a very ing latitude from Washington, D. C |growing, ¢ mmerce, in fact every de- August 5h the Lewisburg Journal
I lents to lose hope of any means of | few minutes the whole interior was La reading your paper, which by the|psrtmeut that makes for uplift and | Will issue a souvenir edition to com-
y were the jackals who al-|sfire. From reports received at this way I have had regularly sent me since | building Up a country, The realestate | emorate the one-hundredth soni.
the Republican party | office there wus some great hustling | roo wm. Wolf's employ, in March, | men are thick as hops, and think you | Vereary of the erection of Union county,
aing the worst elements in | done by Miss Edna Wagner, daughter ;
encouraging their excesses, of the proprietor, and George F,
ria done in Pennsylvania Potter, Jr.,, a neighbor. It was
valiant labors of the re-|thre ugh their efforts that much of the
who wrought even when |stock and eight horses were taken
a glimmer of hope. from the burning structure, the young
3 it matter though the Don- lady entering for the last time when
[ the party and its spokes-|fire was dropping from overhead and
il at the reformers ? That {the litter at her feet aflame. It was to
ge of honor What [rescue an animal that had previously
1 though a newspaper which | been taken to safety, but with animal
The date for the Reformed reunion
of the Asronsburg charge has been
changed from August 2 to August 23,
Millheim will hold its snnual picnie
in Dr. G, B. Frank's wo sds, west of
that town, on Thureday, August 14
names«n the cou
1559, and always read with interest, it | queer if you at once do not agree that If you chance to see a large Packard
threw me iuto a quite refl ective mood, | these provicces are sbout all that | truck dashing over the country, it will
by its rather breezy ¢sllection of news | happened : like the people of Cali-|likely be a Bigelow car erecting sign
matier, particularly when digesting | fornia, ready to cut your =zquaintance | posts on the roads taken over by the
four issues all at one sitting. In this] if you don't agree Lo buy their climate | state.
connection I might say time takes me | 8t a fancy price, Nevertheiess the tide Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hefoer, and
back when as a clerk in Wolf's store I|frow the states has been strong and | two little children of Altoona ares at
knew to speak to or by sight about] in less than five years, eighteen and athe home of Mrs. Hefner's mother,
everybody in the valley from Penns! bhsif million of our people have crossed | Mrs Rebecea Emerick, Mr, Hefaer
Cave and west to Lemont, knowing to | over and became Britains Almost | is employed in the yards of the Penn-
: . a : : 8 reasonable certainty the bounded | every nation keems represented here. | sylvania Railroad,
stand for Democrat- | instinet, in its excitement rushed tn district of your circulation, felt news at { I observed a large book concarn offer-
spleen upon the | its burning qua: ters for safety. There first hand from this big north west | ing bibles in a choice of 4s iangusges,
rgans of that sort do was real bravery and heroism in the country might add some interest tol|sod the waiting line at the general
politics in the hands of {deeds of these two ou an occasion your readers who are more or less in. | del very window was the greatest I
. terested in agriculture, EVEr saw, not excepting the N. Y. and
le irading ma-| would have been comparatively belp- While
ricky men who | leas.
badg
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
William B. Bressler of near HBpring
Mills on Tuesday night of last week.
The Bressler family, previous to mov-
ing to Gregg township, lived on the
Luse farm near Centre Hall,
shit leaders ; they want] when many young women and men
lisreputa
we all recognizs the north | Boston postoffices, and exceeded only
west part of our own country and that perhaps by Oklahoma, when I was
of Manitoba, Baskatchewan, Alberta there three years ago. All this
aud British Columbia as the ° bread | Proves nothiog except that travel is
basket’ of the western continent, in inrge, and the population more mixed
fact, the world, and while perfectly | than elsewhere,
marvelous in its fertility and summer A farmer's boy by birth, prompts
climate, the winters are long, cold and me to have nothing ia mind but the
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Rev. E. E. Henney was substituted
by the presiding elder to hold quarter.
ily conference meetings on the Sugar
Valley and Penns Valley charges. He
is now located at Benton, and on this
mission was accompanied by Mrs,
Henney.
their own secret While the effort to save the stock
was going on in the basement of the
lering valiant barn, Mrs. Wagner, woman like, was
both parties | endeavoring to procure the supply of
have brought a | meat stored in the grannery, aud stay.
* politics of the |ed at her work until it became necess-
extremely severe when compared with | eepousal of truth and ¢ mmon sense
will win the [ary for her to make escape by jamping
{ " r averal 1 i ag eis ied $ 4
and com- | from the overshoot to a ground floor, tome, when I say home I mean Penn- | and I would #ay (0 the boy of the east,
tion. By |sa distance of from ten to twelve feet. i
sylvania which is not lame on much | work well Where you are ; be sure there
intelli- THE INSURANCE by way of comparison except bandiiog | is something better somewhere else be-
Elmer Bollinger and bis sister, Mrs
0. H. Bilence, of Bridgewater, 8, D,
after a visit of several months with
relative: and friends in Miliheim and
' wr tine ie . : vicinity, left for Altoon her k
compauies, the local Grange Company | vice, | has been flirting with Jou, come out whiny od Fn . nm w 4 e they
will visit friends for a week before re-
sud-the Lykens Valley Company, This section belongs to the dasin or | look it ali over, you will be better Sti
NO MORE CONVENTIONS FLYNN ENROLLMENT BIL", [he barn was insured in the former | watershed drained by the Red River of | satisfied. Bee Winnipeg, and some | WTBIing to their far western home,
— EI Se LE ESE ea — company and the remainder in the the North and filods its way into the | of the beautiful scenery io the Rockies Rev. R. R. Jones will leave for Mt,
State Wide Primary 2/1! a Law —Poils Open | Votsrs Mast Enroll to Enter Primaries Now | latter, The items insured are : Winnipeg and Manitoba Lakes and i snd through to the const, After you Giretns, Baturday, where he will at-
From 7 A M.t07 #, WM. —Now Measare Becomes Effective This Barn .... — $100 fiaslly Hudson Byy. Its area begins i fiave looked it over Centre county will | tend the Missionary Conference of the
passed Year, “tallion . + 0 lreally about Fargo, N. D , and extends | look more permanently good than | Reformed church, which will be in
in the! Tbe Governor recently signed the | Wheat “| northward about 600 miles snd to the|ever. Bo in this connection I might [session from August 2 to 9. Before
; the | Fiyun party enroliment bill, the last Ova it % loorthwest about 1000. About 75 per | Say to the person really iutent on go. |returniog home he will visit at Allen-
of the progressivs election messares | pies ent she 1 —— ‘ cent. of this total ares is as level ss a ing west, do wot overlook the possi. | town and vicinity, the home of rela.
19 his bands Tals bill requires al 1, plements 4% floor, has a heavy blsek lop soll vary- | bilities of Wisconsin and Minnesots, | Lives of Rev. Jones.
voler, when registering, to state his | Binders mowers ef “9% ling in depth of one and a half to five|in and about Duluth, south of Est. Mr. and Mrs, Harry E Bible of Al
pirty sfliliation. He must accopt the | Other goods — | fet, thus sasuriog a fertility almost | Wood from Lake Superior— a frost | toona are spending their vacation at
ticket of this party when he votes st Tota —— eo unequaled anywhere, but similar to! proof section of country with proven |the home of Mr. Bible's parents, Mr,
uld the primaries Fhe bill ja aimed to The ivsurance figures are actual, the black soil in the celery growing | results in fruit raising, that pales iuto {and Mrs. Jonas Bible near Centre Hill.
heir | Préveut pariy raidiog by restricticg|and settlement was made by both district about Kalamszso, Mich., and | insignificance the ably edited booklets Mr. Bible is assistant manager of the
is a the primary vote strictly within the companies on the day following the Canastota, N. Y., except it is referred | in some of the irrigated lands about | men’s farnishiog department in Gable
but | Parties. fire. t0 as gumbo, and when wet during or | Which we all k ow and in which I|& Company's store, in whose employ-
BDO Refusal to designate his party pre- BARNS CONTENTS after heavy rains makes travel nearly prefer not mentioning names or being | ment he has been for four years,
tisan | YOUl8 & voter from participating in| The barn was well filled with this | impossible. It sticks to oues shoes ae | Pereonal, since I am in neither the The Lutheran congregation at Lew-
id the 80Y primary except a non-partisan |sesson’s crop, the storiag of the grain tenaciously ss chewing gum. If you | western real estate business nor have isburg has selected as its psstor
iges | 098 Aun elector not registered 8&8 10 | having been completed the day previ have had that sort of an experience | Il avy land to sell, Rev. H. C. Rose of Johnstown, and he
ut Party can vole at the primarics for ous. Ang estimate of the contenteis you can judgeits consistency, It how- But I sure bave written a lot and
law jadges and for mau ticipal officers | noted :
in second and third class cities. In 17 loads of
Wiha ent, they! Mr. Wagner held insurance in two | the Hquor question, labor laws and | fore you make a change. If the west
slic life of the State.
will assume his duties on September
EVer coniains every eletient, wo soil ex- | 8till have not said somethings I meant Ist. The congregation hss also de-
: grain, esti 1300 bu "0 | perts claim, to grow abundant crops of | to, space forbidding. cided to build a new parsonage to cost
rst, s*cond and third class cities 70 tons of hay t 150 | wheat, oats, barley and rye tho hardly Bincerely Yours, about $6000, which will take the place
éaroiiment is made a part of personal oh Aceh warm enough for good corn. In ap- A. P, Wisraxp of the one destroyed by fire some
r:gistratior. Ia boroughs aud towd-1 ion old 3 ne 0 pearance it is much like Illinois and Winnipeg, Canada, time ago.
ips Lhe register assessor does the! seaiiion . 0 oil, but i pu x : illhei
Ww . mn plements, gasoline engine, harness of all luditua J4, but T Incks y warmth, Oda Fellows in Large Gathering F L. Stover of Millbeim bad the
Geologists claim at an early age thi, misfortune to sever an artery in one of
Within £5 days from the signing of kinds, tools WAROLSE, s
be | the bill register assessors outside the It will be seen from the above that his lower limbs, and lo siop the fiw of
be blood the surgical aid of Dr. OC. 8.
sad | Citiea of the first, second or third | Mr. Wagner had but light insurance, «
of 2 to . M., as formerly. The clase, must make eurollment of all]as the items estimated foot up over JM usyer, De. B 5 B ujw aud Di.
, ird Tuesday | thereafter on annual nssessments, If] vslue of the barn, which was over aon Dow gelling re 8 ely. .
4 | 8ny voter is not at home the assessor | $1500, hog pen and sheds, He esti Stover was in the act of cutting a
large belt, when the knife he was us-
oh May In even numbered years ate fixad is to | tif i mates his entire loss at $5000, and the
} iin ary hia vans he | 13 fAVE BA Oa ficat RN 5 b )
as the primary This year th } Tony riificate to be filled ing slipped and penetrated the limb
with the above result.
waa all under water or as a big lake A large assembly of Odd Fellows
district, thus his black heavy sedi. [Came together Saturday evening in
ment finally settled to the Red river | the ball of the Centre Hall lodge to
lines the only drainsge outlet, witness the work of conferring the
Winnipeg, the chief city of Mani-| third degree by Bpriog, Mills lodge.
toba, has a population of about 160,000, | The work was most commendable
tho it nad but a 1000 thirty-five years | 80d evinced faithful preparation on
ago. I am sure its rapid growth was | part of the visiting order. The candi-
i § ; due, first to soil fertility, secondly the | dates who took the highest degree a
The registration days this year fall on |!78 bis party, The assessors are re-| that sum, ralirond companies and British Gov. | subordinate lodge has power to confer K tio ds of
August 28 and September 2 and 13t) 8 hired to sit at the polling places on KLINGER BARN BURNED ernment are wonderfully active in| Were these: Mcssrs. Richard Brooks, : Last wee t al Api _ so
An important provision of the act Ve 62 and 63-d days before the pri The second barn destroyed in a simi | their ideas of development, and the|W. F. Colyer, Thomas DeLaney, the Jucpeas & . a: Ci SS - 8 .
is that requiring every candidat y | MATY to complete his roll. lar way was that of Charles Klinger, | homestead laws governiog and regu-|John W. Delaney, and Charles T,|Benera manager e 3 supply store u
ake affidavit that he is a bot le {challenged as to his enrollment located about one-half mile south of | lating the parcelin out of these land- | Crust. Frugality, Mr. Smith has decided to
is be teon Li rot : 8 P & ! hange positions and become a sales
candidate before his name can go on |® Voter must swear that at the last ( Con inned on page 4 ) ed areas After the ceremonies an hour wae |® Ee pos bolus des ns d
the ticket. In the past, men were preceding November election at]. . Twenty-two railway tracks radiat- | devoted to social intercourse and the | aD for the » Cn ho : a amt
put up as candidates without their! Whiclt he voted, he cast his ballot for Bills Bigned by the Governor, ing from this city eastward to the | partaking of a lunch prepared "by the motion hea ner, ne is
knowledge and confusion resulted from | '0® mejirity of the candidates of the Roeser bill, making bounties on weatern provinces are the correct] local order. It was an evening of real Qempany Sealed u im DRL, an
their withdrawl later, | party he designates. Ia euch compu- [noxious animals and birds se follows : [ floures, while the transcontinental |erjoyment and profit for the eighty or | "OW at Fru ality a AE he goods
An elector ean sign but one nomina- | $Aton the 38 presidential electors are | Wildcat, $4 ; gray fox, weasel, $2 each: line of the Canadian Pacific alone has | more brothers present. Breparsiony lo os Sheu a
tion petition for the same office and | 0 be counted as two candidates. goshawk, great horned owl and sharp- 120 miles of sidings, in all its system 2 Oy Sunbury, where he y ea 0 .
must declare that hy is of the party | Tu edp—— skinned hawk, 50 ceuts, measuras 16000 miles, That's some 4 to 1 Baseball Victory, han a SSyuiques 18 Wiis ng °
named in the petition, also that he is a | Pena Han Approp: ination, Validating ordinances not signed in railroad, n't it? . Centre Hall added another victory | WO! k, and has pd
qualified elector of the county or dis-| Pennsylvania State College will get | ordinance book by Bargess. [ This bill Their coaches invariably seat 54] to ite string by defeating Pleasant Gap| Bellefonte is very much pleased
trict in which the nomination is to be from the state in the form of appropri- applica eapocially to Centre Hall, as passengers, the P, R. R. at home seat Saturday afternoon, on the latter's with the Chautauqua, and intimates
made. The last day for filing petitions | *t1o0 $1,226 000. This is a reduction many ordinances enforced for years 64, some few 72, yet gain by way of|grounds. The score was 4 to 1. The/|that next season the experiment will
for State officers this year is August | from the original sppropristion of | had not been signed by the burgess. ¢'mparison. For safely or speed they | game was a battle principally between be repeated. The sessions were very
10th, and for local officers August 26th. | *PoUt a quarter million. Ia 1911 The books show the name of the bur- have pothing on the east, but it is a pitchers, aud Bradford for the locals liberally attended by residents of Cen
Some one must make affidavit that all | Siate got $805,000, goss appended, but the signatures are big country doing big things. Thepand Lose for Pleasant Gap both twirl [tre Hall, and it is the unsuimous opin.
signatures to the petitions comply with | Sm en etsup— simply transcribed by the clerk. —Ed. ] smal! farmer has no business mixiog | @d in excellent fashion, Toe former ion that every number was good. The
the requirements of the act. No person $4.00 Day tor duro, Carter bill incressiog salaries of |, except asa truck farmer near allowed five hits and the latter only |entertainers and lecturers, however,
can be nominated for delegate, State| Governor Tener has signed a bill | members of General Assembly to $3000 4ity, Traction engines of the Frick | four; neither pitoher banded a base on | were not of a higher class than those
Committeeman, or other party office un- which increases. the compensation of {and allowing full salary to be paid inloe Case type, propelled iavariably | balls to a butter, #0 porfeclt was their who appear in Centre Hall under the
less he is a qualified elector of the party. | 1% serving on juries in the county [ease of death, to estate of deceased | 1, pasoline, for power to which are|control. ’ lecture course, and since stiending the
Nomination petitions for state of-| COUT from $2 50 to $4 00 a day. The | member and to sucoessor in unexpired attached a gang or battery of 6, 8, 10] Dr, George Hosterman was induced Chautsuqua our people conclude that
fices must be filed with the Secretary pressnt rate of mileage is'also allowed. term, the Governor saying the, some times 12 plows, turn over sso act as arbiter of the game, and al-| the lecture course is not as highly ap-
of the Commonwealth four weeks prior rr ur rv —— Fevenues do not justify the increace much as 25 acres in a day. They also though twenty baseball seasons have | preciated as it should be,
to the primaries. All other petitions |, Aigun ogi tomorrow and with [and that it would pay salaries twice, farnish power to pull 3 or 4 binders | rolled around since he performed in Mr. and Mrs, Frank MoClellan sod
are to be filed with the County Com-| ._ ." —— : Gramley bil) equalizing educational |, hooked up in a string, each having | that capacity, no reference to the book little son of Oshanter, Clearfield coun
missioners three weeks before the pri- [ Continued from Previous Column, | advantages, insufficient revenue. its Individual operator to a binder, but [Of rules was required in making his ty, and Frank Long of Washington,
mary. Incase a candidate dies after! . Aseistanice to voters shall be given he ~ Wil, oarcying Sse one service power outfit. Immediate Qotiatom. — D. C.,, the other night made a trip to
the time for filing nomination petitions, only by a sworn statement that the’. d Dol d the G ly following this fs our thrashing out. Electric Uarrent Kills Boy. Mrs. MoClellan’s old home near Cen-
the original signers may suggest a new | voter cannot read or has physical dis- ED ry is, aud | y Dy fit, which I have seen operate at night| current of 2000 volts passed | tre Hall. Mr. McClellan is a railroad
candidate. Vacancies after the pri- ability, which would prevent him mark. $510,000, were both vetoed with a portable electric light outfit as through the body of Leverett Bingi.|™8n and this scoounts for his making
mary are to be filed according to party ing the ballot. This provision is a se- pt ’ ® part of the rquipment, of such a wan, aged fourteen yiars, at Lewis | the trip in an auto car at the odd
rules. Each candidate may have two | vere blow at the corruption of electorate large capaoity that two men stand at town, when he picked up the end of [ours On their return on Sanday,
Watchers at the primary, 80 long practised by the machine, and | Next to the joys of the first baby in [the feed board cutting sheaves open. broken electric light wire. His body | Mrs. Charles E. Flink and son Harvey
New penalties . provided by the - act increase the difficulty of carrying elec |the family comes those following the |l Dotice large steel dome-like tanks | was badly burned and death was |sccompanied them to their Clearfield
are: a fine of $100 for signing more tions through bribery of the voting | possession © of An automobile, or out over these large farms where the instantaneous, home, while Mr, Long remained at
than one nomination petition for any booth, and marking bis ballot for him |20urse, this opinion of the writer Is one grain is stored In bulk and then saoked | ———— the D. Geiss Wagner home where his
one office, i to make sure of the delivery of the |DO™™ Of observation snd not of ex-{ ad hipped during the winter or st aj The Dale family reunion will be wife and three children had previous
third Tuesday
numbered years and the
: out by the voter and returned, show- | insurance was just about one-half of
primary will be held on September 16th