GRANGE OPPOSES BOND ISSUR,
Legislative Committee Urges Pebllo to Vote
Against Fifuy Million Doltar Boud Tssus
for Hoads,
A campaign against the proposed
constitution amendment to author.
ize the issue of §50000000 for road
building was instituted recantly by
the Btate Grange. The legislative
committee of the Grange went on rec-
ord as opposed to the issue, for the
reagon it is unnecessary sand against
the best policy cf the state,
Former Representative
Creasy, Master of the
XTi
viliiam
Grange,
TT
and
out an ‘* address to the public”, said:
“We do not realizs the need for
such a loan and we are opposed to
giving any more power or money to
the State Highway Department. The
farmers are aroused snd they mean
business, They do not mean to
the Republican organization get away
with any such gigantic graft if it can
be helped. There are a whole lot of
things going to be told about the
Highway Department which will sur-
prise the people.
let
The statement is signed by Creasy,
Allen D. Miller, Susquehanna ; F. N.
Moore, Rome ; W. F, Espy.
ville; John A. McSparran, Furniss,
and J. T. Ailman, Thowmpsontown,
secretary of the State Grange,
Throop,
Among the reasons given why
farmers o
to the bound issus
f Pennsylvania are opposed
it the
address that ** there is thing
as a permanent road. ’
Lewis R. SBpeare, president of
American Automobile
quoted as saying
adam roads which for practically
is stated in
no 8 1
the
Association is
: “Water bound mac
i
century have been adequate for traf-
fic, have now, under new conditions,
d their Ii
& serious
irther con
public
The committee believes it
policy to epend large
smounts on experimental operations,
The Highway Department, it is re-
called report
1909 finda fault
sdministration
become obsolete ar
struction waste of
funds’
a disastrous
is
t issged a since
hss po
and the committee
with the pres
for not
ve spent
nt Slate
specifying how the mon ry will
‘This continues
the report, “if it
honest,
is not busigess,”
not actually dis-
All of the money that can be
legitimately used for road purposes can
be obtained in the ordinary methods of
taxation.
bonds for buildiog road
built twice
roadsas New York au
New York ia cited as uring
, bat OLio has
8% many miles of improved
1 has not jsrued
bonds.”
Pennsvivani will hav
FeRO8YVIVALDIA Will have
$3 000 000
lo expend
a year to float §50 000 000
continues the address, while one mill
on personal and corporate
a
anpusliy. The committes thioks that
striking from the original Bproul bill
of for
distribution of funds among the
property
for roads would yieid ab $7 000 000
the provision & proportionate
coun
boulevards
the
ties means the building of
and not roads in connection with
whole system.
Dirt roads, if properly cared for the
grangers say, will be better than
present type of roads. The present
system, they add, provides poor roads
aud robs the farmers of farm labor
al a sesson when it is most needed,
A general denial is made that the
money for roads will come from the
corporations, Such an
says the address, ‘is an
the
argument,
ingenicus
misrepresentation.” The present tax
Inws are in: quitable, and the grangers
call attention to the anthracite coal
tax #8 an example of how corpora-
tions ahift the burden to the consume
ers, Ia conclusion the address calls
upon the people to discuss the ques-
tion earnestly and not vote to go
into debt when the ordinary fands
of the Biate could be utilized for road
building.
The comamittee also opposed the re-
peal of that section of the parcel post
law which gives to the Postmaster
Ganeral the right to make whatever
administrative rules he soos fit, Let.
ters were sent to President Wilson and
Postmaster General Burlewon, declar-
ing the Grange's opposition the
proposed pian,
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Election Officer's Pay,
Legal lights are endeavoring to ane
tangle the quastion of how much pay
election offl sera will get at the primar-
ies in Beptember sud the general elec
tion in November, A law waa passed
by the recent legislature fucreasing the’
salary of those officers and clerks to
$5 00 per day, but the constitution pro-
vides Lhat an oMeer’s salary cannot be
decreased or increased during hie term,
It is therefore held by many that elec-
tion officers—tne judges and lospretors
~=will receive only the salary allowed
under the old law, which is $1.76 for
the primary and $3 50 for the general
election in November, Because clerks
are appointed ab each eleciion by the
laspectors, it is held tual they will be
enlitled to the salary named ia the
new law, which 1s §6 00 per day for sll
elections.
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FLOW OF WEALTH,
in the Form of Revenue by ths U, §
During the past fiecal year the
| United States treasury received al
{most a million dollars a day from
| internal revenue taxes, It is expected
[that for the present year it will ex
{ceed that sum. A million dollars a
{day is a substantial sum, and means
|moch in meeting the necessities of
{the Government, The source of this
| revenus ia disclosed in a report by the
| commissioner of internal revenue to
the secretary of the treasury. He
points out that the total collections
| were $344 424458. Of this grand
{total $157 542 000 was derived from
the aale 145 220,000 gallons of
apiritous $65,246,000 repre-
sents an equal number of barrels of
beer, ale and porter; cigarets pro-
duced $1 754600; cigars, $23 087,000,
{and other forms of tobacco, §
000 ; as an iocidental
netted $655 283,
It is proper that the Government
should tax these things that the people
demand and must have. The goods
on which these taxes are levied are
necessaries of life. Those who
persist in using them conuot com-
plain, for, as a rule, they insist that
revenue should be raised by taxing
luxuries, and that those articles that
are necessary to comfort and suste-
nance go free,
The consumer pays almost a million
dollars a day to the United Btates
treasury, and there is but one way
by which the taxation can be avoided.
bat is by stoppivg the use of the
articles that are taxed, But there is
likelihood that this remedy will
ever be applied. The people will con-
tinue to pay, and they can find no
excuse for grumbling.
of
liquors ;
Ds
playing cards
not
no
The Le ture Cour. e,
Notices have been mailed to former
ticket holders for the Centre
Hall Lecture Course that by the pay-
ment of one dollar prior to six o'clock
p. m, of Thursday, 25th iostant, the
same seats may be retained, After
the ex iration of that time former
course ticket holders will be given no
special privileges, and no requests for
seats will be honored under any cir-
the cash
Course
cumstances unless ACCOIN-
panies it,
On Baturday, August at 7:30
o'clock, the chart will be open to the
Attention is called to the fact
umber of choice seats have
been vacated, owing to the removal of
formar course ticket holders from this
locality anu other reasons, Two rows
of seats have been add d on the north
side of the hall, from stage to rear, and
all these are open to the public.
Parties requesting tickets to be mail.
ed, must forward two cent alamps,
The attractions for the course are of
a high order, and the committees be-
lizves they are the best yet selected
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LOCAL’,
30,
publie.
that a 1
Daniel Shlegal fiaished plastering
the Bartholomew house beginning of
this week,
The fifth annual reunion of the
Asronsburg Reformed charge will be
held in Elias Zatby's woods at Coburn,
Saturday.
The Bell Telephone Company, at
pBellefonte, now usea Krit auto de-
livery truck in its repair and construe-
tion work.
The fifth annual reunion of the
Tressler family will be held at the
fair grounds, just below Bellefonte,
on Saturday,
Misa Laura Mitterling, a typo in
this office, is taking a vacation, Her
place is being filled by Oto Balley
who came here from New York City
to visit his brothers and sister,
Mr. Mowery, tenant in the John A.
Slack house in Centre Hall, is erecting
A new porch to the front of the house,
which will greatly improve the prop-
erty.
Miss Mary Delinda Potter, a grada-
ate of Bucknell University, will teach
a public school at Richfield, New
York, The term will begin Beptem-
ber 20d.
Mr, and Mra, W. 8B, Musser of Mill-
heim in the near future will move to
Oberlin, Ohio, in which city their
daughter, Miss Margaret, is attending
the Oberlin Conservatory of music,
Miss Jodie Rearick, a graduate of
the Central State Normal School at
Lock Haven, and daughter of Rev. J.
M. Rearick of Willinmsburg, will
teach a public school in Bloux City,
Tows. Mies Busan Rearick, a sister,
alao a graduats of the same iostitution,
will teach in Tyrone,
Architect Cole, of Bellefonte, hae
prepared new plans for the theater and
combination store and apartment
building for Robert M. Foster, which
is now under way at Htate College,
The theater will have a seating capsce
ity of four hundred avd can be util
izsd for either motion pletures or
vaudeville,
CENTRE HALL LOSES AT MILLHMEIM,
Beore, 6 to 5, ln a Game Fall of Exoltemsnt
for Players and Spectators —Miliheim
Flayer ©» Roughs " It.
The chief sporting event on the pro-
gram of the Millheim town picnic
Thursday of last week was the base.
ball game scheduled with Centre Hall,
That it was replete with excitement
from start to finish the large crowd
present can better testify than it is
possible to pen,
A 6 to 5 score means that the win-
ners had only the smallest margin by
which they might lay claim to the
victory. Well, Millheim had that
margin,
Outhit 8 to 6, Millheim won chiefly
on overthrows to bases by the Centre
Hall team. Incidentally it maybe
sald that improvised baseball dia-
monds have proved the undoing of
the local club on several occasions
Playing at home on a well laid out
and short-grass field, they have not
learned the art of separating wheat
stubbles and second crop clover from a
baseball when the latter is batted to-
ward a fielder. Consequently bad
throws are the natural result,
The sixth ioning was the most in-
teresting of the entire game, Foot:
ball tactics on the kase lines by a
Millheim player brought the game to
an abrapt but only temporary end,
and for a time it appeared as though
pugiiism would be added to the other
two gports which were already occupy-
ing the spectator’s attention, The
player in question is of powerful
physique, and a guard on a college
football team. He evidently forgot,
when he got on the bases, that the
baseball season was still in its prime
and that all ** centre rushes '" and in-
terference with the fielders in band-
ling thrown balla were, beside being
ancalled for, better adapted to the
gridiron than the baseball field.
Phree iofielders felt his mighty shoul.
ders in his attack, all of which wss
pulled off in one inning and which
waa the cause of an uprising from the
visiting club, An amicable understand-
ing was fioally reached through the
efforts of the umpires and captains of
both nines and play resumed when
the offending player was sent back
to the initial sack after being ad-
monished by the umpire that further
playiog of his sort would mean evie-
tion from the game,
The following box score gives the
details of the game :
STRE HALL
THE SCORE BY
Centre Hal!—<0 1000201 1-5
Mililheim ~01012020 x8
Two-base hits, Smith, Bradford, B., Musser,
Struck out by Hartewick, 8; by Musser, 8, Um
pires, Mitteriing and Komenarsky
INNINGS,
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Qualified Petitioners,
Persona filing petitions to have their
names printed on the primary ballot,
must keep in mind that all petitioners
must belong to the same political party
designated on the petition. For in-
stance, the signatures of Republicans
on a Democratic petition will not be
recognized,
Another feature to be kept in mind
is that a voter can sign legally only as
many petitions as there are candidates
to be voted for. For instance, a peti-
tioner ean sign but one petition for tax
collector, because there is but one tax
collector to be elected in each district ;
he may sign for one, two, three or four
school directors, provided there are
that many directors to be elected.
As A SA AAA
Tencher Training Olas,
The Madizonburg Teacher Training
Class, organized last Beptember, is
about to complete the course of study
for the initial diploma, This class,
composed of members 6f the Refor med
and United Evsngelical churches has
done excellent work and deserves the
hearty commendation of those inter
ested in Bunday Schools.
The members of the class are : Mra,
Annie Kern, Mrs. Mollie Kern, Mrs,
Teresta Wise, Mrs. Bertha Royer, Mra.
Mary D. Hazel, Miss Alma Dietrich,
Miss Mable Vonada, Miss Mary Hazel,
Miss Rebecoa Hazel, Miss Mable
Fiedler, Misa Mary Ziegler, W. H.
Limbert, Boyd Hazel, Robert M,
Ziegler, .
An interesting program is being
prepared for, graduating exercises
in which the members of the class
will take leading parte. W. H, Lime
bert is the teacher of the class,
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HUNTINGDON NOW WET.
Petty Jadges Hold Liquor Licsnse Court
and Grant Licouses to Seven Applicants.
The danger of the petty judges in
judicial districts made up of more
than one county is again forcibly
brought before the public by the action
of the Huntingdon county associate
judges, who held court and granted
liquor licenses to seven applicants,
To fill a vacancy, Governor Tener
appointed Andrew LL. Couch an as
sociate judge in Huntingdon county,
and as soon as he was inducted into
office arrangements were made to re-
open the liquor licenss question. At
a session of court held by the new pet.
ty judge and Associate Judge Richard:
son the Huntingdon county license
situation was reversed and six appli
cations granted, those of the Leister
House, Brunswick Hotel, National
House, Standing Stone Hotel, Wash-
ington House, Martin L. Grube, dis
tiller and wholesaler, and H. D. Rein-
ers, to bottle and wholesale,
There was a three hours debate be-
tween the attorneys for the wets and
drys. The former were represented by
W. W. Chisolm and 8B, I. Bpycher,
Esq , snd the latter by R. A, Orbison,
Esq.
Judge Woods was not present at the
court at any time. He holds that the
whole procedure is illegal, and he is
supported by the best legal talent io
Huntingdon county. The case will be
appealed to the higher eourts,
As the climax to a drunken spree,
John H, Langer, a local shoemaker,
became violently insane at his home,
the would probably have
murdered his aged mother, As it was
she was badly choked, and when a
physician arrived at the Langer home
blood was streaming from ber nose and
ears. Bhe is suffering terribly from
the shock, while her assallant is in the
county jail,
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police,
hunter's License
Justices of the peace may represent
the county treasurer, in the mstter of
granting a hunter's license, if that
official sees fit to give any justice of
the peace such authority. The justice
must make report snd return all stubs
and unused license blanks to the treas
urer, who is respensible to the com-
monwealth. The jostices will receive
a fee of fifteen ceats for issuing the
permit, making record of same, and
reporting tothe county treasurer. The
applicant is required to pay his fee of
fifteen cents in addition the §1 Ii
cense, unless he secures the same from
the county treasurer, when the charge
will be limited to one doliar. The
game commission gives assurance that
the license blanks will be In the hands
of all county treasurer's in the state by
Seplember lat,
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Two Farms Sold,
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The Journal makes mention of these
real estate deals in which Penn town.
ship farmers were the principals :
W. W. Vonada of Bober last Satur-
day purchased the Miller farm, con-
taining 107 acres, three miles north of
Miffiinburg ; consideration, $5 700,
The land is ssid to be very productive,
and the buildings are all in good re.
pair. Mr, Voosda for many years
tilled the soil on the Eby farm, where
he now resides,
On Monday eveniog a deal was con-
summated by which Harry G. Gil-
more became the owner of the farm,
in Penn township, which he has ten-
anted for several years, The farm
contains 109 acres, and the price Dr.
G. B. Fraok realizad for the same, in-
cluding all of this year's crops, was
$7,000, Mr. Gilmore got possession of
the premises on Tuesuay.
A A A AIAN
Transfer of Real Estate.
Elizabeth M. Mingle to Philip A.
Lelater, a tract of land in Centre
all. $1400,
Thos. King et al, to Laura B. ning
tract of land in State College, $400,
Jane W. Tate to Lloyd Bampsel,
tract of land in Spring twp. $150,
8. F. Ishler, admr., to Daniel W.
Myers et al, a tract of land in Harris
twp. $500.
Wm. H. Thompson et ux, to Joo.
Mifehell, tract of land in College twp.
$2,000,
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Willlamagrove Plenie,
The 40th year of the Great Grangers'
Pienie Exbibition, Williams Grove,
August 25 30, promises to exceed any
of these great meetings. 130 carloads
of Farm Implements will be on dis-
play. The Btock Exuibit and Autos
moblle Bhow will be unusually large,
Prominent Grangers, Agriculturiste
and Politicians will talk in the Andi
torfum. Afternoon, Concerts by the
Colonial Band. Evening, Travelogues
by Frank R. Roberson, the most
traveled lecturer on the American
platform, Everything first-class and
high grade. Reduced rates on all
railroads. Consult your station agent,
ments, ,
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FROM JOHNSTOWN,
Prof, Kriss Tells of Improvements aod
Modern Charches In That City,
To describe the many, many changes
and improvements that have taken
place gince my visit here two years ago
would require too much of your space,
but I shall mention a few.
The postoffice building which Uncle
Ham if erecting for Johnstown is near-
ing completion. It is only one story
high, and H. H. Btrause, the new
Democratic postmaster, will soon take
possession of it,
I visited the new First Presbyterian
church which was dedicated last May.
This structure, which cost nesrly a
quarter million dollars, is one of the
finest in the city. The audience room
has a large gallery in rear, and a ro.
tanda ino the center, surrounded with
beautiful windows that shed a mellow
light. The rear portion of the build-
ing is three stories high, and contains
& Bunday-school room, class rooms,
reading room, and several other apart
ments. The basement contains a
kitchen and dining On the
third story is a nursery, where mothers
their children too young to
either leave at home or to be taken in-
to the sudience room. The nursery is
supplied with hobbyhorses, Teddy
and many other playthings,
and a nuree is in charge. There is al-
60 a ladies’ and gentlemen's parlor,
and when banqueis are held smoking
is allowed in the latter, The organiet
#its at the big $7500 pipe organ in the
choir loft and manipulates the keys
and slope, but not a sound is heard
from there, but from back of the
gallery comes the clear, sweet tones
They call this an echo,
The members of the Becond Presby-
yagregation are building a very
burch, There are several other |
Presbyterian churches but of |
etyle with
room.
leave
Dears,
terian ©
costly ¢
none
them can compare in the
two mentioned,
The First Methodist church cost
$50 000 when built forty years ago. A
three-story addition was built to this
ediflice last year, which addition con-
taing about the same conveniences as
other churches described. They
firet planped to have a skating rink on
the roof, but this was otjected to by
some, and then the idea was abandon-
ed, and lostead the roof was arranged
for a place of outdoor preaching on
summer evenings.
The P. R. R., which passes through
five miles of the city, raising its
tracks so that stieet traffic will pass
under them. The city had a big fight
to briog the railroad to time, but final
iy won,
The Carnegie Steel Company built a
large wire mill that would reach in
length from Church street to Ridge
street in Centre Hall. This is a big
boom for the city,
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr, H.
8. Isenberg, who last Sunday preach-
ed in the Firet Presbyterian church,
W. A. Knisg,
Johnstown, August 18, 1913,
ET RAS.
Mining Fxperiment Station
A bill was passed by the legislature
aud signed by Governor Tener for the
establishment of a mining experiment
station at Pittaburg. The bill carries
with it an initial appropriation of
$25,000,
The work of the experiment station
is to be under the supervision of three
commissioners, Dz, W. Crane, dean
of the school of mines of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, chiel of the de
partment of mines of Penneylvania,
and a practical miner.
The object of the mining experiment
station is to conduct investigations and
make tests looking toward the safe.
guarding of the lives of miners and to
bring about a greater degree of effi.
ciency in the mining industry.
The school of mines and the college
ag a whole are to be congratulated on
having the opportunity of participat-
ing in a work of such vital interest to
the welfare of the state;
the
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Incrented Twenty Fold,
W. 5. Meyer's twin boys, Dean and
Charles aged twelve years, of Lamar,
Porter township, last year found in
their crop of White mountain potatoes
ons which they thought unusually
large and upon weighing it, it wae
found to tip the scales at three pounds
and nine ounces, This potato the
boys preserved throughout the winter
and last spring out it into one eye
pieces and planted it. When the crop
was ralsed it was weighed, and tipped
the scales to sixty-six pounds,
97 Degrees in the Shade.
Sunday was the hotest day in thir
teen yours at Centre Hall, when the
U. B. Government thermometer regis.
tered 97 de This temperature is
known as air temperature, the
thermometer belug surrounded by a
slatted shelter and double roof,
Leslie and Walter Sunday, who are
at the Boottland Soldiers’ Orphan
Home, are spending a few
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Why not an suto line to Beliefonte ?
Dr. C. A. Roshen of Johnstown is
8 guest of John Q. A. Kennedy, west
of Centre Hall,
W. C. Boozer is building a concrete |
walk to the front of John H, Puft’s |
residence, in Centre Hall, /
Dr. McCluny Radcliffe of Philadel-
phisa is spending a week on his farm
near Lewistown. He came to the
country last week,
Hiram Lee of Chester Springs, and
Frank D. Lee of Bellefonte, executors
of the late Dr. George L. Lee, publish
letters testamentary on his estate,
Mr, and Mrs. A. N. Fiokle and
daughter and Mr. and Mra. Robert
Finkle of Bpring Mills attended the
Centre county folke’ picnic, nesr
Hartleton,
Robert Foster, a brother of Dr. J.
V. Foster of Centre Hall, while engag-
ed in the steel works at Lewistown,
hind his foot crushed. The doctor vis-
ited him one day last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Charlee Duck, dsugh-
ter Kathryn and son Lyrian of Bratton
avenue, Lewistown, returned from =a
five days’ visit at the home of Mr.
Duck’s sister, Miss Flo Duck, in New
York City.
Minor improvements sre being made
at the public school building in Centre
Hall. One of the changes made to
conform with present day laws was to
make the entrance doers swing out.
From information being disseminst-
ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany it is learned that high heels and
hobble skirts are causing more injury
to women than banana, orange and
walermellon peels combined.
Thomas Hynes of Boalsburg was a
caller on Mondsy morning. He
preparing for a public sale, on Septem -
ber 13th, at which time there will be
sold a large variety of personal prop-
erty, also the Bamuel Bell home in
Boalsburg.
is
Dr. J. V. Foster purchased the resi-
dence in which he lives from the es-
tate of the late Miss Emily Alex-
ander. The sum paid is not known.
The property is well located and is a
desirable one. In time Dr. Foster ex-
pects to do considerable remodeling in
the interior.
The Gregg township High School
will bave for its principal for the 1913.
1814 term, William Jones, son of Rev.
R. kK Jones of Centre Hall. The
school board wes disappointed in its
first selection but were fortunste in
finding a young man of the ability
sud soap of Mr. Jones,
Charles D. Bartholomew expects to
have the residential section of his new
building completed and ready for oe-
cupancy by the first week in Septem-
ber, and on vacating the Geiss proper-
ty, he will be followed as tenant there
by Prof. H. A. Dodson, of Orbisonia,
the principal elect of the public
schools,
Frank R. King, a conductor on the
Penney, in an empty horse car found
a wallet containing over twenty-one
thousand dollars. The puree proved
to be the property of E. Z. Handy, a
Milton horse desler, who had just un-
loaded horses at Sunbury. Mr. Handy
offered the conductor $500 as as reward
but it was refused.
Last week was the ouly week since
the middle of May that we were not
favored with one or more rains. This
immediate vicinity, up to the present,
has had a greater rainfall since April
than either Lhe eastern or western por.
tions of the valley, yet there have been
no destructive rains. And yet with
all these rains in the past, corn to
make a good crop, must have at least
one shower that will moisten the earth
to the depth of several inches,
Archie E. Homan of Cleveland,
Ohio, was at the home of his mother,
Mrs. Emma Homan, in Centre Hall,
from Thursday until Wednesday.
Mr. Homan is in the employ of the
Perfection Spring Company in the
“Sixth City ', and since hie last visit
& year ago bas not lost an hour's work.
He is a buyer for the cencern, which
has one of the largest factories in
Cleveland, and consequently finds
little time for recreation, NN
The town of Millbeim closed shop
on Thursday of last week and every.
body went to the picnic—an annual
affair which evidently is proving a»
sucoess, judging from the large crowd
which was in attendance and the io