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THE ISSUE AT THE PRIMARY.
Shall the Democra ic Party Go Forward Up-
holding the Haods of President Wilson, or
is it to Fall Back into i's Dishonorable and
Dishonored Place.
Every true Democrat in Pepusyl-
vania who belleves in the principles
of the party, who spproves what has
been done for the people of the United
States by Congress and President
Wilson during the last year, and who
wants this great > tate redeemed from
the blight of Penroseism and corrupt
bi-partisan machine control should
thoroughly understand what the issue
is, that is to be decided by the Demo-
cratic voters of Pennsylvania at the
primary on May 19 next.
There is no mystery as to what that
issue is. It has been framed and made
perfectly clear by those who are op-
posing the reorganized Democracy
and its leaders. Oa the one side are
the sincere, progressive Wilsoz Demo-
orats of the State, the rs juvinated, and
reinvigorated party in Pennsylvania,
who stood solidly for Woodrow Wil.
son from the time he waa first spoken
of for the Presidential nomination,
all through the preliminary campaign,
aud by their unswerving support at
Baltimore made his nomination pos-
sible and the triumph of the national
Democracy at the election in 1012
sure,
Oa the other side are the so called
Democrats who fought the reorganiza-
tion movement from beginning to end
and who if they had not been defeated
in the Democratic State Committee in
1911 and 1912, and at the primary spd
Btate Convention in 1912, would have
continued the Democratic party or-
ganization in Pennsylvania as an ad-
junct of the Penrosebi-partisan ma-
chine,
They made the issup when their
candidate for the npomination for
Governor was announced, accom-
pavied by a vicious attsek upon the
reorganized party and its leaders’ and
au expressed determination to defest
them and drive them out st the pri-
mary in May.
Their whole primary campaign has
been made slong the same lines and
with the express approval of their
candidate for the nomination for Gov-
ernor.
Compara the men who have been
active in the reorganization of the
party and what they have asccomplish-
ed, with those who propose to undo
the work of reorganization and defest
its leaders, and what they did with
the party organization when they con-
trolled it. Compare them aod their
work with Eagene C. Bonniwell, and
Charles P. Donnelly, of Philadelphis,
James M. Guffey and William J.
Breonen of Pittsbargh and James K.
P. Hall of Elk county, and their work.
There is no mistaking the Issue.
Bhall the party go forward in the way
it has gone during the last three years,
upholding the hands of President
Wilson and the Democratic Congress
or shall it fall back into its old dis-
honorable snd dishonored piace as an
anoex of the Penrose machive satisfied
to take such crumbs as the boss
chooeres Lo toss to {1 ?
That is the lssue, Csn there be any
doubt as to how the Democrsts of
Pevnsyivania will decide it ?
tio
Mast Qait Booze,
Every day it becomes more sod
more evident that the booze must go.
The legislature of the state has done
little toward making a sober man of
the bocza artist, but the large corpora.
tions, the railroads and the employers
of Isbor are taking a hand. The
Harbison-Walker Refractories Com-
pavy, which bas plants at Mill Hall,
Jlinton county, and Clearfield, Clear.
field spunty, through CO, H. Peters,
district mansger, has jssued ionstroe-
tions to the superintendents of plants
that hereafter any employe discovered
with intoxicating drink in hws pos
#cssion or under the ivflaence of ij.
or on the company’s property will
be promptly discharged. Employes
absenting themselves from work on
sccount of excessive drinking will be
dismissed.
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Uourt News,
The jury that heard the suit for
damages cls'med by Burdine Butler
sgaiost the Pennsylvania Rallrosd
Company, rendéred a verdict in his
favor in the sum of $10,168. When
the Bald Eagle raliroad was improved
a portion of the Bu'lar farm was ap-
propristed by the company under the
right of eminent domsin,
Not a» yandidate, ‘
Bpeaker George E. Alter Is not a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for governor. He sald so him.
sell, snd this gives Martin G. Brun-
baugh, the Philadelvhia Sehool
Buperintendent, a clear fiald for the
regular Republican nomination,
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, Have youn baby? Hee what the
THE HORSE INDISPENSABLE.
The Prophecy that the Horseless Ags Was |
at Hand is Proved Fall cious |
There is in Pennsylvania no higher
professions! authority on horse-breed.
tng than Doctor Louis A. Klein, Dean
of the Veterinary Schon! of the Uni:
versity of Pennsylvania, His state.
ment at the anoual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Btate Veterinary Asso.
ciation on Wednesday, that the horse
is not being displaced by the automo.
bile and that there is greater demand
for good draft horses today than ever
before, is in line with the statistics of
animal husbandry issued from time to
time by the Federal Department of |
Agriculture,
It may be hard to sceount for, but
the prophecy we heard ten, twelve
and fifteen years ago, that the horse-
less age was at hand, and that those
animals were to be succeeded by auto
mobiles, has proved entirely fallacious
On the contrary the number of horses
bas increased remarkably and the
prices for some have doubled since the
automobile first came into use. The
prices obtained at the horse sales in
Penns Valley clearly demonstrate
this,
Dr. Klein was entirely right in say.
ing that at no time in this country’s
history hess horse breeding been more
flourishing than it is now. This is
especially true with regard to heavy!
draft horses, There is and has been!
right along, an excellent demand for!
such animals. They require
special training to ft them for the
market as is the case with horses in-|
tended for road service.
Although the sutomobile business
bas developed to a remarkable extent, |
employing hundreds of thousands of
men and millions of dollars of capital,
there is po sign that horse-breeding
will not continue to be the
most profitable enterprises in which
farmers can engage.
no |
ons of
ORATORICAL CONTEST,
the Millheolm
M_hool Byllding,
A Pleasant Day in High
From Miliheim Journal,
An event long looked for came to a
realization on last Friday, when the
district contest in oratory took place
in the high school room at Millheim,
The district is composed of the town-
ships of Penn, Haines, Miles, Potter,
Gregg and the borcughe of Centre Hall
and Milltheim,
J'o stimulate greater selivity in the
art of oratory, a recognized safeguard
to a republic, the Miillbheim Bankirg
Co, offered a prizs of ten dollars, in
gold, to the young man who would
show himself superior In a contest in
oratory before competent judges.
Four orators presented themselves to
contest for the honor and prize, Each
contestsnt came well supported by the
district which he represented,
The room was besutifally
decorated with flags, bunting and col-
ors of each class in the Millheim high
school,
F. P. Musser, Eiq , Dr. P, A. Bmith
and Prof. Robt. L. App constituted
the judges, A well arranged program
was carried out by the high school,
which added not a little to the interest
sod enthusissm of the ocoasion, After
several selections by the high school,
the National bymn was sung and the
contest was oun.
**Abrabam Lincoln "by Albert H.
Stover of Millheim was very well de-
livereds, The subject appealed to the
andience which showed its deepest in-
terest, The orator maintaived the
and received
hearty approval and great applause,
After a well recdered piano duet by
Miss Bhelton and Mr. Btover, Russell
A. Auman of Miles township high
delivered an excellent oration
We Owe to Abrshsm
Lineoln, ‘he large sudience gave
#gCchooi
H What
the greatest degree of attention to this
A ———
Meeting of | ©, 0. ¥. Grand Lodge
From 1200 to 1500 representatives
of the Grand Lodge of the Independ.-
ent Order of Odd Fellowes of Penn
sylvania will meet in annual
in Harrisburg early in May.
alone will probably be held in
Ms josatic Theatre, Preliminary plans
for the convention weie made Natur.
day night by the general committee
of arravgements,
young and rising orator, for he had al-
ready won the prize io oratory in his
own district against sl} competitors
He deliverad a faultless oration and
was well supported by his district.
I'he Ligh then rendered a
spirited selection or Hilly-Ho song,
which gave much encoursgement to
those who followed,
sesnion school
The pee.
the
Penn township wes represented by
J. Pearson Glasgow on * Anclent and
| Modern Oratory.” The growing ice
The subordinate lodge producing | terest in the contest lent moore enthusi-
the best degree teamn will te given ssm which showed itself io the ani.
prize of $390 in cash and a $100 bap- that into the
ner by Grand Lodge Pears | doiive ry of this excellent oration. The
within « radius of 125 miles of Harré | sneaker has the masking of 8 first-class
burg are practisiog snd are holding » orator aud po doubt will be heard
competitive drill in that city this again,
week, A voeal dast
mailed spirit entered
the
was well
sl fo
rendered by
the Misses Gutelius and Musser, after
which Henry Mingle of Haines town
spoke on ** Wolfs at Lasbec,
Fhe enthusisem wre now at ita high-
esl tension and the speaker entered in.
oration with sll his soul and
energy. . The patriotic subject and
deep energy and feeling displayed won
for the orator the highest spplause,
Bo grea was the enthusiasm at the
conclusion that the principal, Pro’. D
P. Stapleton, requested the sudienge to
arise and join in singing tte * Star
Spangled Banner.”
The judges were now invited to re
tire to another room and deliberate up-
on the prizs winoer and second, which
Was reen Lo be no easy task,
Beveral duets, sod remarks by the
privcipal alisyed the snxious audience
uutil the jadges appeared, The first
honor was awarded to Henry Mingle
of Haines township, ana #« end honor
to Russell Auman of Miles township.
These two young men are expected
to content, with others, at Bellefoute
on March 27, for honor, and a county
priz: of $25,
It is pleasing to note the manner
and enthasissm with which the sever.
sl districts supported their chosen
leaders, It bine aroused, an almost
dormant art that is of grehtest value in
every Democratic country. Oratory
stands next to the press, and in legis
Iative halls and often in heated politi-
eal campaigne su, passes it,
Fire at Pleasant Gap
The dwelling house cccupied by
Fred Allen, in Plessant Gasp, was
totally destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day night of last week, the fire haviog
originated from a defective flue. The
property was owped by Noll Broth.
ers, and was discovered to be on
fire about twelve o'clock by nne of the
owners, and it was with difficulty that
the inmates were aroused. The escape
was made without irjury but nothing
was saved from the house. Both the
tenant and owners carried insurance,
but not nearly full value,
HI Hs A AAAS
Cinyton Wagner Farm Sold,
E. Clayton Wagner sold his farm
located three miles south of Centre
Hall to W, H, Knarr for the sum of
$5000., The farm dontaing fifty-eight
acres, almost all of it under eulti.
vation. It iethe John Runkle home-
stead. Mr. Koarr is manager of sev.
eral farms in Westmoreland esuoty
for a coal eompany, but it is his ine
tention to occupy his new possessions
and give his whole time 10 farming.
Special Church Services, 7
Beginning with Mopday, March
16th, Rev. Bamupel Moody of Holl
dayst ure, will preach in the Presby-
terian church each evening through.
out the week except Baturday, All
are cordislly invited. The aonual
congregational meeting will be held
ship
tothe
after the close of the service on Mone
day evening. Communion Babbath
morniog, March 220d.
TM A A ARAN.
Deaths of Centres Conntians,
Jacob Harpster, near Port Matilda,
sged seventy-five years. He was a
farmer by occupation,
Bamuel Murray, st Falls Creek,
He was born at Milesburg. Before
gving to Falls Creek he lived in
Philipsburg His age was sixty years,
Gilroy L. Neill, in Bellefonte hos.
pital, aged ten years, seven months,
He was a son of Robert Neill of
Matternville,
Mrs Daunlel Zeigler, at tate College,
sged forty years. A husband and a
baby eight weeks old survive,
Maurice J, Thompson, at Hacken-
He was formerly an
instractor in mathematios st the Penne
aylvania State College, J
Miles Harpeter, in Ferguson town.
i
ship, from Inflamation of the bowels,
The greatest credit ls due to those
who srrapged for the contest and the
donors who volunteered the prizes,
Jonas Bible Farm Sold,
The Bible homestead near Potters
Mille was sold by Mrs. Alice Bible and
Hurry I Bible, executors of Jonas
Bible, decensed, to Edward Longhner
of Jeannette. The farm contains fifty.
eight sores. The price has not been
given to the publio,
Supplement Boclosed,
This issue containg a supplement
the Centre county auditor's statement
of the fi ances of Centre county.
The ststemient should be carefully
rend by every taxpayer,
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Feellg Blue © Go to the minstrel
show, ‘end men’ in their glory ;
see the interlocutor get stung, snd
LETTER: FROM SUBSCRIBERS
A, N, Runkle Writes from the Land of Sur.
shine and Fiowoars,
FANTA BARBARA, Csl,
February 20, 1914,
Editor Reporter :
Enclosed find check for $1 50 for ore
year's subecription. 1 certainly er joy
getting the paper from home, yet it
brings sedpess with it when I read of
those with whom I went to school and
other sesocistens that pass out: bot
auch is life which we all have to meet,
I often wish that I knew where sll
the boys and girls were that used to
clique together, I often think of the
sleigh rides snd picnics we used to
bhsve, It Is now twenty-four yesrs
since I visited my folks. I suppose if
I were to come back they would all or
nearly all seem ss strangers to me.
When I read about the ¢old, snow and
ice I am glad that I live in a country
of sunshine and fl iwers, where the
song of the birds ie heard all the year
round and children run barefooted,
I suppose that if I tell you that on
New Year's day I picked raspbarries
from our vices some ove will FRY,
“Ou! what a story,’ but such is the
casa, I could tell you lots about this
country but do not have the time now,
but will some time later. I remain,
A. N. RUNKLE
{ Mr, Runkle snd son Ralph com-
pose the Ruukle Bhoe Company. The
elder Runkle is a son of the late As
sociate Judge John Rankle, snd when
& young msn attended school in Cen
tre Hall, and later taught the greme-
mar grade, He is one of the many
young mes who went from here to
east his lot in the west, and succeeded
in building up a profitable business —
Ed ]
nt Ap
tUenernl Taylor Selects Collin,
General John P. Taylor, the well
known M flo county soldier and
gentleman, had the Burean Brothers,
Philsdelphin, cast for him a solid
brocze casket, the material being that
of old esnnons captured during the war
with the south With this coffin, tLe
General completes every detsll of bie
funeral acd burial SIrangemrntes,
During the past few years the private
burying ground on the Taylor home
slead hss been masterially improved
snd beautified. A vault has been
sunk with foucdations strong enough
to support a big granite block which
aitimately will cover it and be sur
mounted by a brouze statue of General
Taylor,
The brorzs casket is now at Lewis
tywn in the undertaking establish.
ment of J. H. Frelz, with whom
General Taylor contracted for
burial,
General Taylor je now in his eighty.
sixth year, but fs quite hale and
healthy, and without doubt will live
loog enough (0 see the bronzs casket
tarnish before it is used.
bie
The Millhelm Minstrels, March 19,
Those who took a good lsugh on
the appearance of the Millheim
Minstrel Clab Isst year, will sgain
have an opportunity to witness this
troupe of talented young men in a
series of funny coon sote, dialogues,
singing, and an unlimited nomber of
side-splitting jokes, ete. They will be
here, in Grange Arcadia, Thursdey
evening, March 19, with an entire new
program, and as good ss last year's
performance was, this one promises to
greatly surpass it by reason of the fact
that better material has been sucplicd
where needed, and on account of the
experience gained by last year's per.
formanes. The singing is a feature
which calls for special mention. Mr,
Gephart’s fine bass solo 1s claimed to
be well worth the price of admission.
The local Grange will share in the
receipls at the door so your patronage
will bencfit's home institution,
Hee large posters for details, price of
admission, ete.
NEW DEFARIUMRE
Selling Medicines at Half Prios Under
Guarantee of Care,
After two months of remarkable
sales, Murray & Bitoer, the enter |
prising druggist, sav that their plan
of selling at balf price the regular 50
cent sigs of Dr. Howard's specific for
the cure of constipation and dyspepsia,
and guaranteeing to refund the money
if it does not cure, has been the ; reat.
eat success they have ever known
Avyone suffering with dyspepsia,
constipation, liver troubles, headaches,
dizziness, costed tongue, or the gen.
eral tired feeling, caused by inactive
liver and bowels or disordered diges-
tion, should tske advantage of Murray
& Bitnet's new departure aud buy »
bottle of Dr. Howard's apeciilo at half
price, with their personal guarantee to
defand the money If it does not cure,
Fok
HON, WI, 7, CREASY.
Democratic Candidate For Lieutenant Govern
or—A Frominent Granger,
Mr, Creasy is a well-known D
erat, of Columbia county.
term in the
and the most
in Pennsylvania,
a long
Iature,
Granger
Htate
ju
He
man of urquestioned character a;
ability.
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Sees Faliure la Probl bition.
National Prohibition is the |
temperance people of various de grees
of slpcerity. In
views of Cardinal Gibbone,
news dispatch, are quoted ;
len)
this connection the
given in al
'* Prohibition never will be enfore
ins Christian country,’
Cardinal Gibbons, in a statem
public in the The
is payiog his annual visit to bi
er, John T. Gibbons, of ©
** While I am sn ardent advo
temperance, I sm int
stuasded that prohibition cannot be
forced in this country,” conti
Cardinal Gibbons.
““ It is calculated to make hy
Bouth
iis 0
JIVE
and lead to the manufacture
whiskey, replacing the good
with the bad, while at
robbing the government
male lax
Cardinal Gibbons mus
the multitude who believe in
licenses in the districts in
the sam
live—in other words, oppose
whenever an opportunity
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Transfers of Ken! Estate
C. OC. Bierly tn J. ©
land io Rebersburg. §56 87,
Wm. C. Blerly et ux to Milfred
Garrett, tract of land in Rabersbure.
$225 00
James E. Zeigler ot ux
H. Bierly, houses and lot in
burg. $1125 00,
C. L. Gramley et ux to
Noll, premises in Rebersburg.
C. C. Loose et ux to John C.
ris, timber land in Miles twp. $100
Chas. H. Bilerly to Calvin J. Wea
ver, house and lot in
$1850 00
Bisine L. Noll ef al admrs, to
John E. Noll, tract of land in Miles
twp. $1776 00
G. P. Garrett et ux to Milford
Garrett, tract of lsnd in Rebersburg
$100 00
Catherine Bwilzer to Geo. Harte.
horn, lot of ground in Philipsburg,
$175.00
Ellsworth E. Ardy, exr. to Geo,
E. Ardy, tract of land in Worth twp,
$2000 00
Amanda Gobble et bar to Beward
C. Decker, tract of land in Gregg twp,
$1405 00
Oscar E. Miles ot ux to Mary A.
Bennett, tract of land in Boggs twp.
$5 00,
Mary A. Bennett et bar to Charles
W. Myers, tract of land in Boggs twp.
$35 00
Coaldale Mining Co. to James F,
Stott, tract of land in Rush twpg $1.
John Y. Glasgow et al to William
G. Runkle, tract of land in Potter twp,
$500,
H. H. Miller exr. to H. H., Miller,
tract of land in Miles twp, §1.
Florence Lengle et bar to Wm. IL.
Kipks et al, tract of land in Potter
twp. $300,
Chas. D. Bartholomew et ux, fo
David Haines et ux, tract of land in
Centre Hall, $200,
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A Renal President,
Altoona Tribune,
For a democrat, President Wilson
has made a remarkably fine record,
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“Out Io the Streets,” “How a
Woman keeps a Becret,’ ** Rurglars,
and many specinities between acts
Thursday evening, in Grange Arcadia,
Price of admission reduced to 10 and
16 cents, Everybody is invited to
come and bring their friends along
and erjoy a clean entertainment,
Repeated by request of many people,
A AI AHA SAA
President Garfield said : The men
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Morr i#, tract « [1
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to Charles
Rebers.
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Aor
Rebersburg
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FROM ALI
PARTS
Holiness
(3
3
total
| piorablie
i.
condition y Lo ram.
Hummel, siding back of
and Wm. T., Bpackman,
purchased the timber
r 2000 acres of land belonging
to the Bates heirs near Karthsus,
The timber is in Centre and Clearfield
counties. They will market the tim-
ber this year.3
On sccount of many requests, the
young people of the M, E church will
repest their entertainment in Grange
Arcadia on Thursday evening, Msreh
12th. They have reduced the price
of admission to 10 snd 15 cents, and
should bave a full house ss the origin.
al entertainment seemed to please
everybody.
The supper given in Grange Ars
dia by the ladies ofthe W, ©. T. U.
was well patronized. The ladies are
entitied to special mention for the
very tidy appearances of the tables, the
prompt serving, and the elegance of
every dish brought onto the table,
Tbe net profits, of course, were not
large, and this wae due to the fact that
the greater part of the refreshments
were purchased, .
Mr. Harry Bowser gave his first
lecture in Centre Halla year ago on
the * Philosophy of Fun” or * Heart
Smiles, ”’ and on Saturday night on
“ Brain Sells.” He told us st the con
clugion of his first lecture that we
were all erszy, but it was pot because
we are all crazy that we wont to
heat him the second time, but because
no one but & crszy man who had
heard him ones would pot want to
hear him again and again.
The Reporter was pleased to have a
call from A, G. Gougler, onevof the
editors and proprietors of the Sayder
County News, published in Middle.
burg. Heiss new man in the busi
ness, bat ie thoroughly capable of con.
ducting a enuntry weekly in & manner
to win the patronage dues live news.
paper. Mr, Gougler is also, a repre
Jacob
Morrisdale,
of Bigler, have
on GV
best fn public life are
those who take the risk of
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