1915. VOL. LXXXVI. The 50 Million Dollar Loan Would Mean an | Annual Interest of 82 000.000, and an Additional Millon for Sinking Fuand, A fact for every voter in Pennayl- | vania to bear in mind with reference to | the pending amendment to the State | constitution to authorize the creation | of a fifiy-million dollar loan for State road building, is that if the loan i. created, it will take at least three mil- lion dollars a year to pay. the interest on the loan and provide for a sinking fund to psy the loan at maturity. On a loan of $50 000 000 to mature in fifty years, one million dollars must be set aside every year as a sinking fund and the interest on: the loan at 4 per cent, would amount to two millions more Those $3,000,000 oust come out of cur- rent revenues—out of fhe pockets of the taxpayers, and every voter in Pennsylvania is a taxpayer, directly or indirectly. That is to say, if the loan is created, the Legislature every two years will have to appropriate $6 000,- 000 to pay i sinking fund, and more if the bonds bear interest at more than 4 per cent. which is declar- ed to be bighly 1 If the three million dollars required fo pay interest and sinking fund every year were appropriated for State road making, and added to the two millions that we have bean spending on an average every year during the last five years for State road making, it would make five million dollars a year which is ae much as conld be properly and economically spent and we should be spared burdening ourselves and who come after us with enormous debt with the there were no waste or graft, in experi- mental road making. The good roads movement hb now and pever had a more esrpest ad- veeate than the Reporter and it always held that permanent improve. ved by our as well as she through loans to be paid But dy Hig'a roads in Per terest and robable. those an proceeds spent, even if 88 Dot has posterity be made ff gradually the insyivania built bill was passed, kk: not per, manent impr They are eriments, temporary sflairs within ments, to be er j ourselves, old eversb familiar with since the first Sproul-Rabarts Oo ws that they are vements, merel that invariably waar y exp out two or three years, Are ig to $50,000 000 to continue and m=king short-lived they Enow that the to pay inilerest sud sinking tke loan, if sppropriated building, in addition to the been expending annus y for the money ' 1 the penple of Pei 1 naylvania gor ds Fit of ing when nad themselves with a experiment roads, AIount re quired fund roaa for SUMS 0 wi have purpose, would provide Wa al that enuld be provi lenlly ex pended, and children free from the burden of a great State debt ? leave us and our It will be time encugh to seriously consider the creation of a debt for rosd masking, when we have a Biate High. way Department that and build roads that will : roads that are permapent aud when we havea Biate sdministration that is for the people ; one that wants to know ard wants the people to know all that be learped sbout good. road making. The present sdminis- tration does not want the people to know, as Hon. A, Mitchell Palmer has pointed out, or it would have sccepted the offer of the United Biatea of $100. 000 to be expended in makiog rural delivery roads in Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Federal experts as object lessor s in road making, ——— A AP ————— W.0.7T.U, A county convention of the W. (. T. U. was held in Petrikin Hall, Belle- fonte, Thursday and Friday of Jast week. It was the twenty-sighth sn. nus! convention, and the members were eutbuesiseddc. Mis, A, M. Cleese of Philipsburg was again re-elected as were also sll the other offloere. Aside from the local nie stars, Mre B.C. Wilson, a state organ'zasr, was present and epoke, Her * Echoes from Dry Counties” delighted tre sudfence, Mrs, Cleese, who bas been president of the body for twelve years, and Mrs J. P. Hattie, who has been identified with the work since its lnc¢ipierey in Centre county, have been made life members, A tablet will be placed in Petrikin Hall in their honor, and it will also bear the names of memorial members, Philipsburg invited the eonvention to meet with them io 1914 and the offer wae accepted, A —— Barn Burned. A fire loss due to lightning was sustained by Henry Eisenbuth, fo High Valley, the other Bunday after. noon, when his barn was struck. by lightning and burned to the ground, No live stock was burned except one hog, but all this senson’s crops were consumed, making a total loss of net less than $1600, with but $600 insur. ance in the Aooville company, can does Inst improvements is to tonv¥ention RECORD WHEAT OxOP, Leading Cereals Worth $2,023,700,000 in Markeot-—Qorn In FPenusylvania, Though hot weather and drought have played havoe with the nation’s bushels between August 1 and Bep- tember 1, according to the govern. ment’s monthly grain report issued, the wheat crop beats all records. At the current Chicago prices, the value at the market of the three lead- ing grain crops is $2,923, 740,000, esti- mated value of the wheat raised this vear being $678 600,600; corn, $1,786 - 760,000, sud oats, $458,880,000., HBioce the first estimates of the pros- pects of corn this season were made, there has been a decline in condition amounting to 666 000,000 bushels, and from the prospests indicated by the condition of the crop on Beptember 1, the harvest will 2 351,000,000 bushels, An increase in the estimate of the Spring wheat crop places that at 243 ,- 000,000 bushels, making the combined crop of winter and spring wheat of the country 754,000 000 bushels, the great. est wheat crop ever produced, exceed- ing the record crop of 1901 by 6,000 000 bushels. This was due principally to the bumper crop of winter wheat. The condition of white potatoes deteriorated to such an extent that the August estimates of that crop were reduced by 14,000,000 bushels, to 000 000 bushels. Condition of corn in Pennsylvania on Beptember 1 was 81 per cent of normal compared with 80 per cent Ast year and a ten-year average of 53 per cent. Condition of oats at time of harvest in Pennsylvania was 53 compared with 87 ia 1912 and a ten- year average of 86 per cent, esi ——g ee ar——— Hattiesnake Farm be Gin dandy. Msny towns in Pennsylvania boast if fancy chicken farms, Bloomsburg bossts of an ostrich farm, but Mt Union is the only town along the line that can afford a rattlesnake farm Lawrence N. Crum, a local clothier, i» sole owner and proprietor, Mr. Crum started with twelve large rattlesnakes which were caught in the mountains Least week the number iacreased to seventeen, five baby rattlers making their appearance, Fo were on exhibition in the store win- dow but now a den has been made in the cellar, where they will be kept during the winter. The snakes’ will ba raised for their poison, which is extracted every few days by making them bite on a spoon. Mr. Crum Bay he thinks the proposition will be s paying one, a poison taken from rat. tiesnakes is very valuable, a LOUVALS Mra. Mary Rearick advertises her house and lot on Main street for sale Also an adjoining vacant lot, Miss Elizabeth Boozer left for Salix. Cambria county, the beginning of this week, where she will again teach s public school. This Is her secono year to teach in that town. Messrs. 8. A. Wakefield of Scranton and J. L. Ripka of Lock Haven are representing the International Cor respondence Bekool with head- quarters in Scraton on Grange Park, The Reformed congregation at State College took possession of the old Presbyterian church property, eorner of College and Miles, and all services will in the future be held there, The Presbytery of Huntingdon will hold its next meeting in the Hecond Presbyterian church, Altoona, the opening session to be held at 7:30 o'- clock on the evening of Monday, Oe. tober 6. A broken mule leg and wrecked drill was the result of a pair of mules hitched to & grain drill running away, The team was the property of M. 0. Stover of near Woodward, In their mad rush the team got fast in a fence which no doubt made the outcome 80 serious, Miss Barah Kessler, daughter of Merchant A. A. Kessler of Millheim, Is a student in the Indiana Normal Bohool, Indiana, and a fow days sgo returned to that institution to resume her studies. David Kessler, a son, will enter Pennsylvania State College this week. Commissioner William H. Noll wae in Centre Hall on Monday morning, his mission being to deliver primary election ballots through this portion of the county, He was traveling with his brotuer, John T. Noll of Pleasant Gap, who owns the oar in which the trip was made, Mr, and Mrs, Jerre Miller and son John Miller of Da Boiss are in Centre Hall, baviog come here on Monday morning. Mr, Miller was formerly the barber in Cenrre Hall, and now both he and his son conduct tonsorial parlors, For a part of the time they some time these rattlesnakes are in Centre Hall they will be guests of Mra. Lizzie Jacoba, : THE GRANGE ENUAMPMENT AND FAIR Greatest Gathering in a Series of Years Now in Fall Swing, The Grange Encampment and Fair, a8 the Reporter goes to press on Wed- nesday noon is in full swing. It isthe greatest fair ever held here. More than one hundred seventy tents have been erected, every one of which is tenanted by from six to ten persons, making an aggregate of not less than one thousand to fifteen hun- dred persons living under the white canvases, From the top of Nittany Mountain or any prominence Grange Park presents a most delightful scene both by day and night, Fully ninety per cent, of the tenters were in camp on Baturday evening, although some of them did not reach the grounds until after dark, but be- fore Bunday broke in, every tent was up, furniture and other equipments in position. The line of exhibits is better than heretofore. A number of new lines of machinery not heretofore exhibited are attracting considerable attention. Exhibitors, local and those from a distance, are becoming more fully con- vinced that their representation at this fair is to their advantage. The dis- play of products from the farm, or- chard and garden is exceptionally fine. Both in quality and numbers the exhibits exceed those of other years Sunday the attendance at the Har- vest Home services was unusually large. There was the best of order on the Park throughout the entire day, and in the evening the large auditorium was crowded to the doors with those anxious to see the * Life of Moses’ on canvas, Monday morning there was the general scurrying among the campers, exhibitors and sutlerse—each one was preparing for the big days to come. Tuesday the auditorium was given over to the old soldiers, who held their ani ual reunion, THE The nsmes of those who engaged tents are taken from the official let, and are as follows : CENTRE HALL. Leonard Rhone CAMPERS Geo. L. Goodhart Andrew Zettle H. B. | rankenberger Hayes Zettle Harvey Mark Philip Meyer Wm. Ode Dr. J. V. Foster Geo. Emerick Wm, Colyer Perry Luse Milford Luse J. C. Brooks Wm. Brooks Jacob Sharer Mrs. Kate Conley Cyrus Brungart Samuel Durst Ellen Frazier D. K. Keller John Eckley Mrs. W. B, Mingle William Meyer I. M. Arney John Heckman Thomas Moore W.CT.0. Alvin Stump B. D, Brisbin Grace Smith Geo. Heckman Frank Bradford Abner Alexander Mrs. B. H. Arney John Delaney Geo. Gingerich "biel DEITK Thomas Delaney Lee Brooks Vietor Auman Richard Brooks C.F. Emery M. M. Keller James Stahl David Bartges Mrs. Flora Bairfoot Grange Fire Ins. Co. S. W. Smith Charles Neff Chas Bartholomew John Kennedy Geo. Nearhood D. A. Boozer Heary Homan James Goudhart John Knarr Wm. Tate State Grange Chas. Arney John Moore Wm. Smith Wm. Keller Robert Foreman E. R. Hunter, Altoona Ephraim Meckiey, Juniata BELLEFONTE. Mrs. Calvin Grove Thomas 8. Hazel Jacob Hoy Isaac Miller Henry Kline J. T. Zeigler Mrs. E. W. Kane Harry Garbrick Barry Gentzel Albert Thompson D. H. Shivery 8. I. Poorman James Sommers Adam Hoover J. F. Herman Thomas Weaver Frank Musser John Benner Mrs. John Spearly Willard Dale J. F. Garthoff Harry Alters Charles Hazel Frank Bartley Mr. Hunsinger MILLHEIM, I. A. Shawver Ward Gramley Robert Smith Mr. Colyer LEMONT, Dale Shuey Mrs. Agnes Grove Mrs. Alfred Shank, Curtin, R. D, Edward Moore, Tyrone BOALSBURG, Mrs. Cal. Wieland P. 8. Ishler Howard Bricker Annie Dale Lillie Dale Austin Dale W. L. Musser, Liyswen, Altoona Mr. Bloom, Williamsport STATE COLLEGE. John Glenn ¢ J. 8, Brungardner Mrs. Harriet Pennington Huston Shuey Andrew Lyfle John Dale MADISONBURG, Jacob Harter J. H . Roush 37 NO. SDAY. SEPTEMBER 18 A THE AUTO ON THE FARM, (WAT A PLAY arousp. Ji, — Borough Bchool Board Considering the | Matter of Purchasing Play Ground Adjoloing the Present S:hool Lot, The Centre Hall school board is seriously considering the advisability of purchasing a play ground for the school children, Under the new Behool Code school boards are em- powered to purchase as much ground as they wish for a play ground, snd if the school authorities decide to en- large the present school ground the purchase will be made under the pro- vielons of the Bchool Code, which code gives school boards power not en- Jjoyed under the old school lawe, The finances of the school board are such at present that the purchase of additional play ground could be made without increasing the tax rate—a very happy condition, indeed, The Reporter has not sounded the sentiment of the taxpayers on this question, but it believes they will be in sympathy with the movement, In enumerating the needs of Centre Hall the Reporter included a play ground in the list, because it thinks the children are entitled to some con- More Machines Now Owned the Country than in the Ulity, Two important facts sbout sute. mobiles and farmers should not be missed by anyone who is interested in either, Ope is that more machines are now owned in the country than in the city, even in states with a big city population, More automobiles are being sold to farmers this year than to all other classes combined, These statements are not merely opinions or rough estimates but truths that may be learned by any careful investigator, Every assembly of farmers will supply sufficient evidenzo to satisfy most persons. The sutomobile itself has furnished all the argument farmers need to convince them of its useful- ness in the country. Today an sutomoblle on the farm excites no more comment than a horse does, The other important fact is that sutomobiles owned by farmers are paid for, and the butcher, the baker and the grocer are suffering because the farmer is spending money u joy rides, The greatest market for automobiles in the future lies in the sideration in their play as well as in country, where it is most needed, is their education. We are not living in | most useful and most enjoyable, It the past, but in the present, and we | is purely a iuxury to most city people, must act in view of the future, who must pay for housing it and can ——— es o— uot use it in their It le Transler of Heal Estate, more than a luxury tos farmer” who Michael Kerstetter to A, M. Ker- houses it free of cost and uses it in his sletter, tract of land in Bpring ' t The cost of living must $1600 vways limit investment In such Thomas Foster et al luxuries in the city. The farmer is Cornwell, tract of land pul io better position to buy through twp. $400. the same influence that increases the Anne I. Blanchard et al to John MM. cost of living and limits the city man’s Sbhugert, premises in Bellefonte ability to afford a luxury. Automo- $4650. biles or anyihing else will be sold In C. H. Weaver et ux to Harry Fye, | largest where usefulness tract of land in Barnside twp. $120, | justifies in them ; and Milton Kanes to Henry C. Kunes, | farme, where house and lot in Liberty twp. $700 reasons fer Ann F. McHugh to Martin Buyuiask tract of Jand in Rush twp, §175, M. R. Johnston et ux to Margaret G. Coxey, tract of land in Bellefonte $275. Harry E Cox et al to Marthe E. Cox, tract of land in Liberty twp. $300 Charles Lucas to Mary tract of land in Boggs twp. not business, business, to Lena CC. in College Dumbers invesiment that the there are owning them. fn pe place is on good business Exchange of Lands, Al a recent meeting of the Reformed and Lutheran cemelery associstion, were instructed to enter iGlo. su agreement with the Centre Hall school board whereby the drive way from the cemetery to the public road will pass into the hands of the #chool board, and a strip of land of the rods on the thie school ground will become Lhe property of the cemetery association, This arrangement is of mutual benefit, and while it will give each organization no more ground iban they owned heretofore, it will be better located and can be better utilized. The cemetery trustees will be able to lay out a few nice lots for burial purposes on the acquired ground which will aid in bridging them over until more ground can be secured. The Cemetery Association trustees owe il to the coagregstions they rep- resent to exhaust every effort to se- cure additional burying ground, and at once. They had appointed a com- mittee to ascertain whether or not ground could be purchased, and they have reported adversely. One course lies open, and that is to petition the court to condemn. It appears there is oo law by which cemetery associations can condemn lands for burial purposes, but conditions locally are such that it appears the court would have jurisdic. tion if the matter was properly brought before it. Longer delay might com- plicate matters very much, It is action at an opportune time that brings results, ——— AM SA A Cory Newspaper Home, Under the above caption the Lewis. town Democrat and Sentinel has thie Lo say : » One of the coziest newspaper plants iu Central Pennsylvania is that of the Centre Hall Reporter. Editor Smith hiss erected a new building for his pur poses and is deservedly proud of his comforiable, clean, and well arranged snd equipped establishment. Mr, Smith several years ago helped to make a success of the Lewistown Democrat and Sentinel, and is now makiog a very live and readable local newspaper of the Reporter. He also directs a good farm over there and Js equaliy successful ss an sgriculturist, His expert job printer turns out work that is not surpassed by the more im- posing and bigger printing establish. ments, and The Sentinel Is glad to congratulate Mr. Bmith on being able to enjoy that comfortable feeling that always comes from doing things well, That's why he always has & warm hearted smile for his visitors, the trustees Heaton, $1 Lemuel © in Boow Aanple E, Btoneroad Ziodel, tract of land boro. $1200 W.B Mileset ux to LL, T Eddy, tract of land in Milesburg, £1000, Catharine A Hoy to Busan MeClin. tie, tract of land in Marion $600 Jobn Hamilton GillilAnd, tract of lege, $600 John Hamilton et ux to Ray D. Gilliland, tinct of land in Biate Col. lege. $500 Henry F. Kessinger to Penns. R R Co, tract of land in Liberty $300 J. K. Johnston, admr y lo James L. Bailey, tract of land in Boggs twp. $150 James L. Bailey et ux to John Lup pert, tract of land in Boggs twp. $450, Sif. Walker -Dutrow, Rev. F. H. Foss on Wednesday ev nivug of last week, at the United Evan- gelical parsonage, united in marriage Raymond Walker and Miss Harah Erma Dutrow. The groom is a son of Mr. snd Mrs. William Walker, west of Centre Hall, and is an industrious young man of good habits, and the bride is the eldest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Clyde E. Dutrow, east of Centre Hall. The Reporter « xtends its hearty congratulations, A ——— Literary Society, #4 $0Q Shoe same nuwber of square st} f SOUL Bide of twp el ex laud to Ray D in State Col twp. The Penn Literary Society of Gregg township high school, Bpring Mills, met for organization Friday night at the school building. The following officers were elected : President, Cora M. Corman; vice president, Grace Musser ; secretary, Russell Condo : treasurer, John Corman ; librarian, Dean Braucht; eritie, Prof, Ww. R. Jones, A pleasant and beneficial year is anticipated by all and all friends and patrons of the school are invited to at. tend its meetings, A AAA Rossman.De saw, The announcement of the marriage of William 8. Rossman and Miss Rebs De Baw has been formally made. The bride, who is very popular among her many friends, is » daoghter of Nelson W, De Baw, of Philadelphia, a bridge builder for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. The groom is a son of MH: F, Rossman, the Bpriog Mills general merchant, and is also employed by the Reading Com- pany as station agent at Neshaminy Falls, a Philadelphia suburb ralirosd station. The marriage took place Tuesday evening of this week, Rev, Garrett, a personal friend of the groow, being the oMoiating minister, The “at home” oards indicate thai after October lst, the couple will re. Large Kurc llment at Penn State. From information received from Dr, A. Howry Espenshade, registrar of the Putipeylvania Btate College, the total enrollment this year will exceed 8,000, At the present time the number of students enrolled exceeds that of last year, that is, students in fall stand Iossmuch as all new students must enter college without condition marks the freshmen clase will be about the celve their many friends at Yardley, hme as last year, or six hundred, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS IVs after the primaries, Penn Btate opened yesterday ( Wed- nesday ). No school this week in Centre Hall borough, Two million trees will be planted on the national forests in Utah, Nevada, and southern Idaho during 1914, Prot. Harry Dodson has leased the Geiss property from John C. Rossman from October lst until April 1st of 1915, The Beptember term of court opens on Monday. The list of jurors—grand and traverse—is reprinted in this issue, Mrs. James W. Boal, who during the past few years lived in Bellefonte, i#8 now making her home with her gon, Rev, J, Hamill Boal. If Bellefonte wants to do something for its benefit, let it induce the trans. portation company to come this way. The motor bus would make us much nearer neighbors, Mrs Bamuel Gingerich is recovering from effects of iodine used to reduce = goiter. The upper portion of her body on oue side, including the arm, be- came partially paralyzed. Mrs. W, B. Blick, sccompanied by ber daughter Elsie and son William, are on a visit to relatives and friends in Altoons, Johnstown sand other points. They will return within the next two weeks, The United Evangelical parsonage Was very much improved on the interior, and now the pastor and family have decidedly better quarters in which to live, One of the improve. ments was (0 install a bath room. The latter part of last week H. G. Strohmeier placed a handsome monu- ment in the Tusseyville cemetery over the grave of the late Bamuel J. House- man. The material is Missouri granite, the workmanship fine, and the design pleasing, Coleman K, Hober, the owner and proprietor of the large Paragon chest. nut farm in Irish Valley, is preparing to harvest the large crop of chestnats, There wiil probably be three thousand bushels to be harvested this year sud Dearly all of them have been sold, An Oxweld acetylene lighting pliant ie being installed in the Barthol- omew building. Every room, both in the private and business portions, will be equipped with lights having electric ignition. The plant was pur- chased from *' Dick? Powell, of Laurelton, who is installing it. A short time ago Milton H. Boyder Wrote to his mother, Mrs. Mary Boyder at Centre Hall, that on Friday previous to the Grange Encampment heand his family would come here to visit her, The mother looked forward to this time with pleasure, but when the ape pointed day came her son was brought to her door a corpse instead of one in middle life, hale and hearty. The Keystone Gazette devotes over & column in its last issue in an argu. ment against the loose manner in which some of the Bellefonte hotels are conducted with respect to the sale of intoxicant liquors. The Gazette clsims that unless landlords are more careful to whom they sell, and how heavy they load their customers, popular opinion against the trafic will become so strong that licenses will be refased by the court. Rev. Bromer, pastor of the Jean nettle Reformed church, accompanied Mrs. Milton H. Boyder and her daughters to Centre Halli on Friday, and here sssisted in conducting the services at the burial of Mrs, Bayder's husband. James I. Boyder, of Free. port, Illinois, a brother of the deceased, also came east and accompanied the remains to their last resting piace. Mrs. Snyder has not decided whether she will make Jeannette her future home, or remain at Centre Hall, The fallacy of giving away valuable franchises is forcibly illustrated by what happened a few days ago in Chicago. Twenty years ago Chicago gave absolutely free to a bunch of Jolitisiuns un electric light franchise. The pany did a very small bust: ness, but it bad branching power to every portion of the great western metropolis, aud the owners who nothing to the city for it, sold it for $5,000,000, A meeting of the executive commit- tee of the Centre County Banday School Association was held in Belle fonte on Friday. The work in the county was carefully gone over, and it was found that there is danger of the county losing its front line which it has held for two years, The one weak point is the number of teach. strong co operation an the part of workers in the ‘will save Centre coun. ty. Miss Robison, a state field worker,