VOL. LXXXVI. LUTHERAN SYNOD, Central Pennsylvania Body in Session in Lewistown Hears Reports that are Fiattering, A few items from reports read before the Central Pennsylvania Bynod of the Lutheran chureh reprinted here Democrat are from the Lewistown and Sentinel ; The treasurer, ceived in round year $15 000 ; paid out for and bencvnie $13 700, of $2306 in the tre prov. as ths this is more W. T. Horton, vumbers during re- the eX penses nee leaviog 8 This for raiced spy balauea gsury churches are working than haa been year previous. The suditing com: of them mittee, after earefal the correct in every respect, examination tressurer’s fou: d books, I'reasurer Horton s#sid that thers in th a Pe 9 300 Ceutra members e tusyivania Bynod, Rev. Dr. Hartraan, secretary of the board of Home Missions, spoke very epcouragingly of the The board built bundred new churehs Many new members have to the mission work, eight 8. church throug! Duriug the past tw years, fifiy-one new mission churches d 3 3 ¥ % tt, iiss lON WOrKg, been adde have been built These have a 11 000 and ven $9 000 more to mem bership of these churches have gi benevolence during the two years than in pre dd Fifty thousand dollars hae been given to all benevo- lent work, Home Mission work pays not only financially, also mi re Rev, Hartman Good large in the ghteen ehurehes past aU) vious peri but in mt , Bald bag~teen done 1881 ¢i in work cities, Fince have been bu Baltimore New Yors, nineteen mit 3 ti - BOG 10 oluer thir in in hicagd i roy Ors Homes larger cities in tio Pennsylvania leads in Miesi n # Ihe board is dep for €8 &re supporting special Many Tbe Sunday -s Liarg - r ds rk. dent Mousey. upon the the Noms churches churci mis. giors more should do this tool gives much to mis- FiOS L.att has ethipgs are ir given since 1883 for people are educated, Mission shoud be made among the foreigners Mis. glon week is 16 01 X pec ¢ d SA { missions $40 000 been Sunday-schools by missions Jepides the A special Home campaign Home from November to 23 A meeling, with T. M. Grami#y presiding was of interest to men. A sudiepce greeted the speakers and listened te thie elcquent addresses for two hours, Rev. I. B. Wilf. D D , secretary of Foreign Mi:sions, informed of the proposed can- vass in the eo; All nt boars have united for Brotherhood Mr great Iarge ay nod ‘every member tire General synod. the benevol this work, The sim is to sccomplish three things : I. Toawsken epiritusl interest. Every man and every member to work. 8. Whole work of the church plac- ed before the church. Five hundred thousand dollars have been contiituted by the syuod for beoevilince year, Hpeaking of the Orphans Home at Losavil tution General the past ie, Dr. Bpangler said the ipsti- has done n work during the past year, There are 234 children fn this la ge family, twenty-three from this eynod The church paid $1 800 from this synod to theirsupport, A new building is being erected at the home, sizs three stories in heighit and a basement ; cost $8 000, John E. Rishel and C. H. Thomsen, were licensed to preach for one year, al tie close of which they will be or- dained to the holy cflice of the Gospel ministry, Licentiates IL. Btoy BSpapgler of Pineg ove; R. V. Derr of Burpham, and A. C. Harris of Hartleton, were ordained, The election of «Mcers resulied ss follows : Presideut, Rev, B. F. Bieber of West Milton ; wsecretsry, Rev. W. M. Rearick of M Mlinburg ; tressurer, Ww, T. dorton of Selinsgrove ; statistician, Prof. T, C. Hou'z, Selinsgrove, The pext meeting of Bynod will be heid io M fMinburg, the first Monaay of October, 1914, a os YI A HA 55. No Proof to the Contrary, ble 36x70, Huntingdon Monitor, Every newspsper in this state that received tae constitutional smenpd- ment advertisement ls advocating the fifty million bond iscue for roads. The amendment advertising is grist from the graft miil that is grinding exosed- ingly fine by power fromthe Highway Department, ———————— — A AR A———— “h Corn Show, The annual Corn Bhow of The Pennsylvania Livestock Breeders’ Association will be beld the third week In Japusry st York, Penneyl- vauia, in connection with the meets ings of the Pennsylvania Livestock Breeders’ Association, the Horticul- tural Association snd the Dairy Union, Ed NO- 41 - ove and of $50,000 000 i provements made through bond issues sh THE FIFTY MILL ON LOAN, Is there a person in Pennsylvania who for a moment supposes that any man or group of men of sound mind, having credit to the amount of $50. (00 000, would borrow $50 000,000 and hand it over to be expended in a great business enterprise by & man or os. number of men baviog very imperfect knowledge of the business and with no fixed, definite, exact ideas or plans if the work to be done. The question anewers itself, No man or group of men of round mind would Nevertheless, hat is exaclly what the interested noomers of the constitutional smend- ment to autborize a $50 000 000 loan to be expended by the Btate Highway Department, are ssking the voters of Pennsylvania to do, If apy man dcubts this let him study the public statements regarding the work of the tate Highway De- partment issued within the last few days by Auditor General Powell and State Highway Commissioner Bige- low, He will find it impossible to recon- cHe the two statements. He will find a wide disagreement between them as to the number of miles of Slate roads construcied duriog the administration of the departiueut by Mr. Bigelow, | aud a8 to the amount of money ex-: pended and available for difterent| classes of work. He will find that he cannot possibly | secertain fr m these statements the average cost per mile of the roads] that have been bullt, including con. tractors “extras” and engineering, supervision, and other work done by the department, Auditor General Powell [frankly says he does not know the total cost per mile and is unable to ascertain it from the returns made to his office by the Highway Department, Ap propriations are made so loosely and! accounts are so jumbled that he cane | not tell how much money is spent for! uDYy one purpose, @ This want of system snd plan is | characteristic of the whole mansge-| ment of the Stale Highway Depart-| mente, Mr. Bigelow’s figures show | that the average contract price per mile of 190 miles of road was $13 541.18, But this is not the whole cost by any means, and po one has yet been able to ascertain what the whole cost is, The statement has. been published aud never disputed, so fa: as we have heard that for a mile of State road in Charleroi borough, where Governor Tener lives, the contractor got $25,000 ; that tbe Mack-MeNichol firm of political contractors, got $21,000 per mile for a road in Bucke county, and that in Allegheny county the contract price reached $29 000 per mile, . Nobody knows what the State roads that have been built duriog the last ten years have cost per mile d¢ in the aggregate, but everybody knows that they did vot last ; that those building now will not last ; that they are mere temporary improvements, Everybody wantr good roads but everybody can see that we are not get. ting them, though since Re went into office Mr. Bigelow has had at his dis. posal $12 880 528 26—-more than one. fourth as much money ss the $50, be so foolish, RO A A tn nan ( Countinued at foot of ext nj) s ROAD MAP OF gnated by black lines. maintain these main roads a bond issue iss mitend that ime ue o yuld be permanent, and be in existence HOW CONGRESS 15 “COERCED.” Fabliec Opinion and Party Loyalty Sparring Lioubters in Congress The President has deemed it worth while to deny ome of the many as sertions that he is coercing Congress. If there is any coercion of Congress it does not proceed from the White House, Public opinion is still powerful, and Mr. Wilson interprets it with sccurs- cy. Parly loyalty is still a force to be reckoned with, and Mr. Wilson ap- preciates the fact. The time when platform pledges could be forgotten overnight bas passed, and Mr. Wilson knows it, The President has a-rayed very forcefully all the arguments in favor of political sand personal good faith ; he hss attempted to communicate to others his own high sense of responsi- bility, and be has properly used to these ends the great resources of pub- licity at his command. Such are the influences that are gpurring the doubters and trimmers in Congress. Ii is these influences that are causiog the disquiet now visible among men whose sincerity has been brought into question. The per.ua- sion complained of is not due to Executive terrorism, or to spoils, or to any other form of tyranny or corrup- tion. Bo far as it prevails at all, it is moral, with no rewards proffered save the people’s approval and no punish- ments even hinted at that do not pro- ceed from the people’s wrath, It is not coercion. It Is eternal vigi- lance, which now, ss always, is the price of liverty. The Yenuayivania Hoad Map. In this issue of the Reporter will be found a road map that will be of great interest to all readers, All roads in the state taken over, or pro- vided for to be taken over by the state, are shown here, All told there are something like on the msp. To help carry out this policy a bond Issue of $50,000,000 has been proposed. A bond lssue in Penop- sylvania requires an amendment to the constitution. The amendment authoriz'ng the legislature to issue toads for road improvement is now up to the people to be adopted or rejsroted at the November election, While this is not a political question but an economic one that may be differentiy viewed by members of every parity or faction, this paper is in- clined to think that even if a bond issue were ndvieable, the highway de. partment has shown such ipeapacity that it would be dangerous to entrust such a large fund to it, { Continued from previous column J 000 00 loan, which we do not believe the people of Pennsylvania are going to burden themselves with, in' the face of a certainty that they will not get anywhere near the worth of their the past, they will get no permanent good roads at all. There lsn’t much hope for the people who would rather tell their troubles than be popular. Badger Dairy Feed—Weber \ e——— { value to the gener: PENNSYLVANIA, and o and further that the nd more annually for road pur suing bonds, DEATHS % S———— Mise Mary A. Rearick, a well koown and highly esteemed maiden ady, died st the home o Mre. Dorsey Hunter, in from heart failure, sged sixty-nine years, Mise Rearick was a dsuchter of Daniel and Pollie Rearick and was born in dower Penns Valley Hhe Was a de of quiet, reserved and cultured manners, s&s consistent mem- ber of the Lutheran church and of the Indies’ aid society, Bhe leaves sister, Mrs. William Thompson of Reynoldsville. Interment was made at Zion, and Bellefonte, nt aT. one Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gelette, wife of Zstiie Gelette of Bellefonte, died in the state hospital at Danville after an Hliness of nearly two years. Her sge was“fifty-iwo years, six months and twenty-four days. Deceased daughter of George and Grossman, both decessed, born near Tusseyville She Is vived by het husband and the lowing brothers and sisters: Mrs. El mira Bhowers, of Centre Hall: IL.a { Grossman, of Potters Mills, Jiseph { Grossman, of Bellefonte: William Grossman, of Ceotre Hall. One sis. | ter, Mrs. Jane Neece, formerly of Wil | miogton, Illinois, preceded her to the grave. Mrs. Gelelte was a member of the Lutheran church of Bellefonte, and was a woman of kindly heart, { Her remaine were brought to Miles- | burg for burial, Was HB Elizabeth and was sur- fol- { Mr. Anoa C. Beck, widow of the | Iate Henry Beck, died at her home in | Wilkinsburg from brone ial pneu- monia, Mrs. Beck, who was former. | Centre county, had been in an invalid condition for" five years past. She | was born Jan. 16, 1838, the daughter {of Dr. and Mrs. A. Loinbach, and | formerly lived at Sayertown. She [was a kindly, consistent christian [woman sod her death i+ deeply | mourned by a wide circle of friends, | Her husband, the late Henry Beck, a | former commissioners’ clerk of this county, preceded her in death fifteen years ago. Bhe leaves the following children: Lyman, Joseph and Harry, of Wilkinsburg; Charles, of Philadel. | | phi, Mrs, Rose Magee, of Altoona, | land Mrs, Maggie k, of Lock | Haven, are sisters, i The body was brought to Bellefonte | and funeral services were conducted | burial being made by the side of her busband in the Union cemetery, AA A AA AA. Non «Partisan Aot Constitutional, In ita apewer to the suits to test the constitutionality of the noun-psrtiean ballot act and the Potladelp hia mu- nicipsl court the state declares that the laws imposed no restrictions upon constitutional freedom of electors, © state aleo declares that the sec retary of the commonwealth wae right in refusing to accept 40 nomin. ations for the Philadelphia municipal court sud in decliniog to certify the the names of candidates for judges whose rivals secured over 50 per cent of the vote cast, become due ate $7,000,000 f We May All Be Boosters (Ginod citizens eannpot always be ip 8} humor, There are mo- ments all when they ping than to lsugh- That is part of one’s experience inhabitant of the world, Bat even amid sdvegge surroundings one does well to imitate the fortitude Job and rather than koock. When one forms the habit of looking for thedark side of things it soon becomes difficult detect the brigatness Some persons find it easy to be bright and I. This disposition is an inheritance from an optimistic ances try. from as dark and sullen race. Yel they may overcome the patural bent toward melancholy — many of them have done so—and they deserve all the more credit when they stcoeed. The cheerful citizen, the hopeful citizen, the enthusiastic cit izen, the resourceful citizen, these are all valuable assets to any community aod there no resson why we shouldn't be in the ranks. We are only going to stay heres little while; why vot leave pleasant mem- ories behind rather thao sombre ones 7 ennant in the lives of are nearer Lo wee ing. RE an of to boost to cheerfu Oihers come in all Transfers of Real Estate, Abram V, Miller to Wm. H. Noll et al, tract of land in Spring tw £3,000, J. B, Holter et ux to Henry 8. Wili- isms, premises in Howard boro, §1,- 200, Isaac M. Orndorf, trustee, to Arthur C. Bilvius tract of land in Haicss twp. $297.90, Kate Horper to Samuel Kreamer, premises in Centre Hall, $1,000, Auntionio De Angelo et ux to George Hilipks, tract of land in Rush twp. $490, Annie Cunningham et bar to John A. Finkbinder, tract of land in Belle- fonte. $1,500, Frank B. Stover Exr. to Elmer’ E. twp. $65 Olive Stein et al to Harry Craft, tract of land in Philipsburg. $80. H. P. Bock et ux to Catherine Switzer, tract of land in Philipsburg. Bl. Frank B, Stover Aduwr. to Eimer E, Vaugn, tract of land in Philipsburg. $365, Isnnc M. Ocndorf, trustee, to Harvey C. Brungard, tract of land in Haines twp. $635.68, LMI MA ————— A Novel Damage Fault, What lawyers at Bunbury say is the most novel damage suit they ever heard of was brought in the North umberland county court by Norman D, Massteller of Point township, He wails Brewing Co. of Danville, which he alleges sold him » guaran teed non-alcoholic drink, when, in truth, it was an intoxicating, He sold it and as a result served six Bally. vity Pays Damages, Williamsport paid $1750 damages and about $250 cost on account of a loose board in a walk. A woman tripped and fell, was injured’; sued, and recovered, This ls a lesson in a few words, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS Even the washwoman feels that she has to draw the line somewhere. Mre F. M. Ackerman of near Bpring Mills was a pleasant caller at this office on Baturday. F. A. Foreman hss purchased the W. F. Ertly property, South Frazier street, State College. on The wheat plante are growing fi nely Most wheat fields are now wesring a decidedly green shade of covering. The fact that a private car in which were a of Pennsylvania Rallroed ran over the Broad Pop Railroad, renews the rumor that the Penney is about to buy that line. number officials Mrs. I. W.B. Person will be at the residence of Mes, Margaret SBtrohm, in Centre Hall, from the 17th to the 2ist of October, with a cowplete showing of the Intest Now York styles in Fall and Winter millinery. Prof. U, A. Moye: of Bpring Mills was 8 business visitor to Centre Hall last week. Bince retiring from the #chool room he has been giving his attention to insurance, apd is rep- resenting a full line of fire, accident and life, Merchant 8. B. Kreamer, sccom- panied by his daughter, Miss Rebeccs, last week, attended the State Bunday- school convention at Williamsport Mr, Kreamer was delighted to march with the Bundsy-echool workers and tear Billy Bunday speak Arthur Blullerbeck is reported as belog the farmer who will succeed A, F. Heckman on the Hosterman farm st Tusseyville, recently purchased by John Hosterman of Penn Hall, Mr. Hosterman at present lives on the James B. Spangler farm, near Tuseey- ville, While Mre. Adaline Fye was eitting in front of her dresser on the second floor of her residence, in State College, makiog her toilet, a bullet whizzed past her head and embedded itself in the wall. Had she been standing, the bullet would have struck her, As it was the margin was a close one. Among the Reporters callers the other evening were Harry MeClellan and Orvis Horoer of Tuseeyville. The former is feeling fine over a crop of five or six hundred bushels of apples hie is harvesting at present. The crop is being stored, and as occasion de- mands it will be marketed in the Lewistown district, Miss Della Heckman, daughter of Commissioner Daniel Heckman, wae remembered by her uncle, Elias Heck- man of Ocangsville, Illinois, de- ceased, in bis will to the extent of $500, While in Centre county, Mr. Heck- man became very ill, and it was on sccount of her grest kindness shown him that the niece was named as a beneficiary. Considerable surprise was manifest- ed when the patrons of the J. C. Markle meat market at State College found the place closed one day last week. It was at first thought to be only temporary, but subsequent ewnls proved otherwise. His in- ability to collect outstanding bills— which run into thousands of dollars— left him no other recourse, so he de- cided to close his shop. W. L. Walker, who formerly liv in Centre Hall, but now lives in Wil iameport, has been unable to do work of any kind for a year or more, owing to an accident that befell him about that long ago. He was employed in a radiator works in Williamsport, and in some manner got his hand into cog wheels, and had it very badly crushed, and since has had no use of the hand of arm. H. W. Weaver of near Bpring Mille, accompanied by Mrs, Weaver, was in Centre Hall on Saturday. Mr, Weaver fe 8 Jumberman, and at present has charge of the Thompson lumber opera~ tions in the gap north of Penns Cave, He also expects to cut the timber re- cently purchased by Mr. Thompeon from W. H. Homan, the same being a portion of the F. A. Foreman farm, Mr. Weaver thinks these ten acres have the finest timber on them that oan be found in Penns Valley. Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Musser, who re- side near the Pine creek roller flour mill, drove to the home of their son, Willlam F. Musser, in Penn town- ship, where the fall threshing was be- ing done. Iu the evening the father, wishing to do his son a good turn by doing some of the night work on the farm, proceeded to take the horses out of the stable to take them to water. While doing this work one of the horses kicked him on the right leg, Incerating the flesh and breaking the leg abo?® the knee. He was oarried into the house and Dr. ©. 8. Musser, of Asronsburg, was su who reduced the fracture and took him to his home,
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