——— _VOL. LX THE REFORMED SYNOD, ORATORIUVAL CONTEST, | Kecom- | Prof, R U, Wasson Is Arranglog for Such Pastors a Contest—Banks Offer Prizes, ; | Through the efforts of Prof. R. U. Cure-alls, fake patent medicine and | Wasson, principal of the Penn town- fiasncial, drink, cigar ; [ship school, an oratorieal contest for and cigarette advertising will be pro- { male pupils of the publie schools of hibited in all publications of the Re- | pentre county is being arranged. The formed Church within the jarisdiction | boy who is declared the winner will re- Mersurcs Adopted by that Fixed Salary-—-Next Mecting at Allentown, | Body mand a Minimam questionable e¢ording to a resolution adopted at 167th annual er Banbury. 8t. John's chureh meeling A $25,000 dormitory will College for Women at town, the churches of the synod te contribute to its cost. at the stead of every three and asking that body to fix a minimum p at a living were Thess favored and meeting of general Lavcast r next year. The standing committe reported thst dents for the eighty u den astors’ salary Wage resolutions adopted. were unaniuwsously the synod few stu- try. At present are d there are too mini men Y J , and Vr there are seventy-five va- eaucies in the synod’s pulpits. The De. N. Kremer Harris urged that church aid R Vv. Ellia ur Es upon as {e said the yeu at West accept g siud the of th The Rev. ’ of na peuperiziog, gr seeking an educati au ents cught to be proud to accept aid of their ehurch. Dr. UC. B synod, catichiumen ino the syood a fund for the erection of tablet to U Heidelber Germany, The following elections were made Ti Rev. Dr. N. CC. t uperintendent J. B members Hehreder, presi. unced Aare den ant raising a8 memorial writer of the E Beha fler, Lhe Rey to be trustees, Franklin Wash. Dr J Ame H Dr. of ege, Lapcaster : Heiater, Pail Allen r, Uentre Hall, trustes Lancs (0) Boyle Lancaster ; . re antes, vdelphiia ¥. Hucsiogker, snd H. F. Bit: Theological Bemioary, iy own, 8 roe $3 ale Hobert Hanbury The 8 member of board of visitors, Latecanter : 1 gical sy, R:v. John 8B. Btabr. Lar caster, ard the Rev. C. B i trustee of Allent Women ; the Rey, Eigar V Biue Bell, a of All for Women ; George M town, att roey in { Rev. Calvin M, DeLong, ville, member advisiry Ei board ras © Behreder, Shamoxis ’ for iW {al ege L : Ue u 511 ifown Lutz, Allen- ’ act © By nou ; E ast mmm Transfers of Heal Estate Margaret Reese to Minnie Walk, 51 acres of land ia Taylor twp. John 8, Mys McClure, acres of land twp. $1100, Johu M Weaver et ux to Z. A. Weaver, tract of land in Penn twp. $500 Philipsturg Coal & Land Co. to James F. Dunlap, 15 acres of land in Rush wp, § Dorothy M. Eisenhauer et Geo. W. Ricketts, tract of Rush twp. $500 Joseph Griffin et ux to James Daws, tract of land in Philipsburg. $1. Kiiga G, Irvin te J. Howard Turo- er, tract of land in Huson twp $1000 Mary A. Walker to E, N. Kelley, premises in Bpriog twp, $1200, Alfred L. Auman, assignée to Cy- yas H. Meyer et al, two tracts of land in Haines twp. $80 Thomas Foster et al to Birouse, 128 acres of land College, $300, Arthur B. Lee, sheriff, to Andrew J. Cook, hcuse and lot in Bellefonte. $500 J. Frank Smith, C. 0. C. to John M, Kachik, house snd lot in Clarence, $9926 89 pp Af ol New Magoz ng With The Record, Beginning with its iseue of Sunday, November ad, and continuing regularly thereafter, The Philadelphia Record will publish a splendid weekly magszine in conneglion with ite Fan. day paper. The mags sine will consist of twenty pages. I: will have a hand- some c:lored cover and will contain short and continued stories by the best modern writers, This magazine will be high-class and dignified and entirely consistent with the character of the Bunday Record, and it shomid appeal to all lovers of good reading matter, Even with such asplendid addition to this already excellent newspaper, the p-ice uf the Bunday Record will remain the same, three cents, sw Is i in Rash 7 ¥ {i} SUN bar to land in Charles ia Btate } fceive a priza of twenty-five dollars in k in Bellefonte, The Millheim Banking Company, of | Millbelm, offers a prizs of ten dollars in gold to the winner in District No, 1 The following tentative plan for the | ers for their approval at the annual | county institute ; | Iu order to encourage publie speak- {ing among the male pupils of the public | semols of Centre county the First Na- | tional Bank of Bellefonte offers a prz torical or declamatory contest, The county shall be divided into four districis snd each district shall be en- titled to two contestants, who shall be upils in the several district contests No pupil who is a member of the year class of a first. nter the contest, r #lisil © e judges of the county contest of the judge of the dis tL court and the professor of English of the Pennsylvania State College, or ersons nsmed by them, and one ereon named by the county superin. insist tel The time and place of holding the of the county of schools, The prin. of the town It eld shall preside y OF BOme named routest shall be named by the ju ‘ga distritt court and werint ' » ie rial haens thools f the which the contest is } al the coutest person by him, Fhe time should be about ope month alter Lhe istrict Contest, Tue pases of the ¢ onlestants shall 1 toni ilsiriet The ¢ td by the following conditions : KE nign contests shall be govern. 0h loweshlp and each bore ugh eu it'el to at lesst district fast. A maintai a high entitied iter the contest, district contests neist of one person to be named ge of the district court, and # to ba BChool shia’l be t Lip 1101 one pupil in @ eo fy 8 » = nit + 5 WO 3 wil ghiall be BRVE OL Le jude of J the i aid by the jit two perso: nswed by the 1perinten of uperintendent shall name the nd place « Coun. ty lent choos, The ounty f holding Lhe contest, pergon to preside st I'he should tLe ui the latter part of February. ) The directors aud listhe a the ¢onteast, tine f teachers of Lhe determine in what manper pupi's Lie district contest The county superintendent should appoint one person in each distriet, and oue for the county, scl sa secretary ; such person to arrange pro- gram of contest and keep a record of BRIG, District No. 1 shall consist of the following townships and all boroughs #liuated within them : Miles, Haines, Peon, Gregg, Potter and Harris. No. 2 —Ferguson, College, Benuer, Spring, Marion, Walker, Patton and Half Moon, No. § ~»Liberty, Curtin, Howard, Boggs, Union, Huston, Worth and Taylor, No 4 —Rush, Jurnsides, It Is expected to have a local prize for each district. Lt ER ——— fy <sot son—— Pennsylvania Day at State, Friday, November 7th, has been set aside ss the date for the celebration this year. The exercises of the day will consist of an inspection of ee- pecially interesting class and practice work ; an address by His Excellency, Mirza Ali Kuli Kahn, Persian Minister to the United States, who will be in. troduced by Governor Tener ; a Coun. ty Fair organizad and conducted by the students; a review of the regi- ment of 1500 college cadets; a mille tary band concert; a glee club core cert ; and s game of football between Penn Bate aud Notre Dame. By this varied program it is hoped to glve visitors a glimpse of the life of the twenty-one bundred students now o1 joying the benefits of an education provided largely by the munificence of the state, A A ASA PF, 0, Department Misrep orented The fact thet the postoffice depart- meant seked postmasters throughout the country to co-operate with county and state officials to improve the con. ditions of the roade, does not mean that the department has indorsed the proposed $50,000,000 loan in Pennayi- varia, To put such a construction fo Boow Bhoe and Twelve Reasons Why the Pennsylvania State Grange Opposes the Proposed Loan for Roads. The Grange has been the Pioneer of Good Roads and Favors Taxing Corporations for Road Purposes and the “Pay as You Go” Plan. FIRST—It is not a good business proposition for any business to borrow when it is not The Btate has abundant resources to construct roads without borrowing a dollar. We can now raise from current revenues from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 annually. SECON D-S8hould more money be needed, the State many years ago providing for a tax of one mill on corporate Tax Commission reported to the last Legislature to the effect bonds of corporations were taxed in the hands of corporations in place « hands of the holder, $10,000,000 more could be added. Ex-Auditor Young and Sisson said that even under present laws, with several millions could be added, money NECeEsary. Grange proposed a plan The ii the f property. that h Lhe General the necessary help, THIRD — Every cent of the tax on anthracite coal should go on tl as the understanding. The Legis 1913-14, $3,385,000 per year. Add have $4 500,000 for roads ann ally. 1¢ roads--that w lature appropriated for road purposes for 1 ¢ L 0 this the automobile licenses rs the arg gumen ariel adil 1 iis answe of our mobile friends who say $5,000,000 is all any Highway Ix partment can intelligently and economically. Why borrow ? FOURTH ~The interest and sinking fund charge tire from $3,000,000 to $3,500,000 a 8 and principal would cost mn & $50,000,000 loan Un 50,000,000 i working for a dead hor an 50 year bonds the us §1 until paid. Why a8 you go inst ad « FIFTH 2 Years ago the State borrowed at + 50,000,000 for our public works, can charges plus the cost of repairi the people that they I'H—The Highway Depart bey { the l N i pro SEVEN Ith : 3 Gl ROY « EIGHTH Fire Cridln lhe & TR 134 10 8 DOW ADOUL 129 +, 000 scattered ELFTH and in the course of 10 to 12 years, so that legis over the State. I'he Grange believes that by def ating the bor i 3 will § "as . sacl 1 chaos in our road affairs will be systematized and St roads lation can be passed to prot ail { roads and keep them in repair at the lowest possible cost. ———————— Letters from Subseribars THREATESAED 10 SHOOT THE JUDGE, New York, Oct. Dear Mr, Smith ; I have been trying to get together a | Ge “ly 1913. John Maguire, Convicted of Robbery, uot Five Years for 1 hreat, John Maguire, a wrestler known in five years in the penitentiary after he WANTED —Pennsylvania panther hide : | had threatened to shoot Judge Albert Pennsylvania woll hide, set Pennsylvania elk | W. Johnson of Union county who was Appiy to H. W. SHOEMAKER, 71 Broad. | sittibg on the Clinton county bench | last week in place of Judge Harry There ia a possibility that relics of | Alvan Hall, who had previously given this kind may still exist in some of the | him two yeara for larceny, old attics and cubby-holes in old farm | BSandow had robbed several com pan- houses in the Seven Mountains, I ions, while sleeping with them in a have already gotten together quite an | rooming house, He acted as his own interesting collection, but it is far from i attorney at his trial several days sgo complete. In the future, when I am {and was convicted on two counts, no more, these things may form a | Lawyers and friends appealed for him museum collection of inestimable | when ealled for sentence, and value to the people of Lhis part of the | Judge Johnson at first sentenced him State. I hope that this finds you en- | on only one count. I remain, As Lhe wrestler was being taken Very sincerely yours, back to jail, he declared he would HENRY W. FHOEMAKER shoot the judge upon his release. This 31 Broadway. Was communicated to the court, who s——————— directed that the man he brought be fore him again. He Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. 25, 1918, a a 8 Hen alsed. the Editor Reporter Leaving the court house th You will find draft inclosed for one |, Mopoire attacked an rd dollar due on the Reporter, 1 saw in knocked him t ite columupe this evening that you lost ® he; proved, bus did not escape, some good old folks by death, last week pe and this week,—Mr, Murray, Aunt 2 Mary Breoo, and Adam Krumrine, Sue eo i) ine Traveilug Expenses, The time ia getting shorter, the older Will get just a faint ides of hat is meant by ' overhead ” char Il who will be|" y SRTHes a guts We cannot tell who will In connection with road building when you recall that the Legiala'ure appropriated $125,000 for the traveling expenses of the commissioner and his Assistants for two fiscal years, or 600 workiog days, which is at the rate of $200 per day, and which Is extrava- gant, to sey the least, AA A ————— The scandal monger is all ears, bot the egotist is all 1's, The aviator would probably rather. me twice il might bring results, pe Very t uly, Joux F, MULLEN. Sa ——— A A ATO Heporter Reglator Mrs. Wm. Bitner and son Samuel, Tumey ville Harry Harshbarger, Potters Mills R. DD. Musser, Spring Mills Mm. H. J. Mehafloy, Altoona Mrs Clyde E. Dutrow, Centre Hall Mm. C, R. Neft and daughter, King, Centre Hall George Gingerich, Tumeyville A. 1. Weaver, Colyer on the department's uest digs ulous, pars ™ " 2 oJ) NO. 43 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS ADVERTISE | GRADUATING EXERCISES, ——— Teachers Trainlog Ulass st Madisonburg Holds Exercises on Sa'urday Evening, On Baturday evening the Madison. burg Teachers Training Class was graduated with exerciees held in the Reformed church, in that village, The class was orgacized more than il you're laggiog in Advertise thie race, 8 year sgo with twenty-five members, fourteen of whom received diplomae, The four Bunday-schools of the town had representatives in the class at its organization, at the graduation the Reformed apd: United Evangelical #chools composed the class, The tescher of the class for the larger part of the time was W. H Limbert. The program was as fol lows : THE VPROGEBAM ines soon will Advertise Nigar lake a brace ¢ and (ar Thanksgiving November 27.5. Day, Thursday, A stubborn man is simply one who doesn’t think as we do. Mrs. Eliza Smith of Centre Hill is in Emporium, Kansas, where she will remain until spring. Mr. and Mre. P. C. Bradford of [mont announce the engagement of their daughter, Berths, to Forest L. Evey, sleo of Lemont. Willism Confer will move onto the Perry Krise farm, in the Beven Mountaips, after it is vacated by Mr, Krise, The place is now owned by Frank Royer. Mm, D. W. Bweetwood of near Spring Mills was in Centre Hall for several days last week. Her husband ie regularly employed st the EVAD- orator, in this place, Miss Lena Emerick, the night op- erator in the Bell telephone exchange at Centre Hall, purchased as Weaver Prof. P. H. Meyer and laced in her home, pisno from had it § H. ( eseful Q ligley, E¢q, was mighty BUC a8 an saltorney before the aduntes Pe. wh ’ {ook ya Bretaarks was laid No one may expect | cli good, nor to | or worth or honor itbout a siroog ioberent ambition to hold of aud develop the natural is wilh everyone lowed, ise FRG len which is en- Opportunities for one’s suo cess in Ife are almost wh lly of one's own creation. 1 Whe ails Wh gel : Ker The clesss presented Mr. Limbert | With a copy of a comment«ry on the! Bible as an appreciation of his worth. The E i Af m——— ie tion Ballot The auolhier 1} election ballot this year will atnketl rflair about as iarge as the ones lest November, I'hose of you who voted last year and remember the #ize of the sheet can get some idea how large the oMcial sheel will be this year. The largeneis of the ballot thie November is due to the fact that the proposed amendments to the consti- tution have to be printed upon the ballot. The Democratic party equare will head the list this year, followed by the Washington. The Republican party square will be third on the ballot. Other party squares will fol- low according to the vole that each party received at the last election. _——.s “Dry” Vote Cone nitrated, Joseph W, Kyle, a Democrdtic no- license-non-partisan candidate for associate judge of Mifflin county, with- drew his candidacy in an open letter to the public, in which he requests Lis friends and supporters to cast their votes for George W. Bheary, who won a nomination with him on the same platform against seven other candidates, either admittedly * wet" or unpledged. This will give the drys but one condidate, and will in- sure his election, Bill to Incronse Free Delivery, Congressinan Warren Worth Bailey introduced a bill in congress to inaugurate free delivery of mail in all towns of $1000 population and over. The congressman claims that there are 6000 cities with an average of 2000 population that do not have free de- livery, while the larger cities and country districts do enjoy this privi lege. De used SH SA fA AALS. New Laws for the Grocer, According to the law which went into effect April 25, any merchant, who sells cold storage eggs as freeh eggs must, on complaint of customer, replace them with fresh eggs, or be liable to prosecution, It also provides that the merchant must replace spoil. ed eggs. Another ruling provides that anyone buying a box of straw. berries or other fruits is entitled to a full quart and the merchant who sells lean in subject to penalty, a YA ST ATI, The campeign iu favor of the bond Win, M, Geary, Colyer be hard up than down and out, Issue Is full of inaccuracies, the and untruth, federal court at Beranton. He had @ yt for “ 103 W.H.' victoriou his clients. Rev raub installed as Was tion on Buoday. The . ceremonies A 8. Crees- 2 1. Mies Helen Weidenssu! of Reeds. ville has been the guest of Miss Hszel Emery in Centre Hall since the Istter part of last week. The girls were schoolmates when both their parents lived near Reedaville. The Ladies’ Aid Bociety of the M. E. church of Pleassnt Gap will bold a zyar and supper in Noll's ball on the Hallowe'en. There will be ecrved a regular supper, includiog ices aud ice cream. r of Jacob Royer, who for some time had at the Centre Mills fl suring mills by J. A, Kline Rebecca Emerick and daughter Besse alro went to that pisce sud are keeping house for Mr. Royer, While out bunting for phessants Rudolph Nieman of Ramey was ac- cidentally shot in the leg by his com- panion, receiving a very painfal wound. He wae taken to the Cottage hospital, Philipsburg, where he is receiviog treatment. Mr, and Mrs. H. J. Mehafley of Al- toona were guests of Mr. and Mrs, Clyde E. Dutrow, east of Centre Hall, Mrs, Mehaffey is Mr. Dutrow’s moth- er, and the couple's visits here are not at all infrequent. Mr. Mehaffey is a hunter, and spent most of his time during his visit here in the woods, and was successful in bagging a nice lot of gray squirrels, The Lock Haven Democrat printed thie personal: W. D. McClintock and wife, Earl MeClintock and wife, John Campbell and wife and son, Clifford, of Lock Haven and Al Cur vin and wife of Flemington, have re- turned from Aaronsburg, where they attended the funeral ot Mrs. Crouse. William Marr and wife of Renovo, W, 8. McClintic and wife, Harry Weber and wife and Mrs. William Eberhart of Lock Haven, have also returned from attending the same funeral, George W. Potter is raising good crops on the Brockerhofl farm, near Old Fort, and on completing thrash- ing thegrain found he had a yield of eight hundred bushels. Lime has been the secret of the success on this fapdh, that some years ago was in such bad repute that it was difficult to get a tenant to sign up =» lease, Solomon Liogle, who preceded Mr. Potter as farmer on this place, was the first tenant on the place for some years who raised anything like a fair crop. He began the use of lime, Kill every fly in sight. This Is the slogan uttered by the Department of Health, Now is the time to hunt down the impudent enemy and re- duce his miserable business ot ing poison germs. Abou } season of the year the fly gets chilly and slow. He bates the breath of frost and seeks comfort indoors, By and by be will creep into any warm crack BE SATE
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