3 ¥ BTATE HIGHWAY REORUANIZATION, State Grange Would Rip Out Commission. er Higelow snd sSobstitute Highway Commission of Three Men, A complete reorganization of the Btate Highway department, which would rip out Commissioner Bigelow and bis appointees and substitute a Highway Commission of three men, is p'anped 'n drafts of a proposed bill submitted to Governor Brumbaugh by the Pennsylvania State Grange Fundamental! changes throughout the entire department including new organization in each county and town- ship in the state are proposed as well as 8 new method of appropristing sums for repair and construction works Contracting power is moved into the counties where the work is to be done and is to be supervised by county officers elected for the purpose, The members of the Commission are to be appointed by the Governor for three-year terms at a salary of $3 500 a year each. They will in turn select a superintendent at §5 000 and such State | cfficers a8 may nveded at head- | quarters, Meetings must be held at least once a month. Segregation of main highways from general road systema is abolished and a blanket appropriation for each coun- ty on a basis of road mileage ia substi- tuted. The fund given to each county is to be expended by a oard of county road One half, sec cording to road mileage, less the mile age of main highways, 18 to be appor- tioned to the townships for dirt roaus and the other half is to bs spent by | the county road com.aissioners on the | main highways A county superintendent of roads is to be elected by township supervisors be commissioners every four years who shall have super- vision of all highways in the ecunty. Hin salary ia to be $1,200 for the 500 miles of road in his county and firet $! for each additional wile with $2 400 a= the maximum A board of county road commission. control of main highways and shall consist of ers 18 also authorized to have the superintendent, three men elected the commissioners by the people, and one by su per- These are to have direct charge of all road building VIROTS in their districts, Is toon tracts, see that they are performed and look afier the general condition of the highways Provision for regular supervignrs snd commissioners is made ’ Of meetings as well as their dutivs Provigio also ia made whereby receive more raised for purposes township ecollec’'s a road tax mills « hie propert uo township shall than twice the smount rond unless the of five nt areereed valustion of The parpose of the proposed set is to by the state for highways is distributed even. ly it in conditions gee tha! moneys sppropristed Ins prefsce to the proposed ant pointed out that uoder present irt rosds have got virtual ly no aid from the state, From one to six cents on the do'lar is all the help such roads are receiving now EE Sb ADVLRTIISING FUR BIGUER (ROPS Ibe Canadian Government is adver. I is going in- to the newspapers with display sdver- and which it pats the regular rates, in an eff rt the of 4he Dominion increase sereage this year, intensely all the crops that sre planted Ic ie] the first tine that a government bas gougnt production through advertising, but it is believed that it will be ¢flective = The adver. tisements point to the fact that the ip. creased ara sud urge production from patriotic stand. point But they go further ; they Bp peal also to the pocke book. Years ago President Pattemson, of the National Register Company, stated that advertisivg was teaching, Since that the the statement has been accepted as a definition of adver tising. Ifthatis true, if advertising is teaching, why should not a govern ment, which 1s all of the people, tesch the farmers the advantages and the desirability of producing greater crops by advertising? ‘re believe tre Cavadian Government bas hit upon a valuable iden. Our own Gover ment mizht profiisbly spend in display ad. vertisements in the newspapers some of the money which it now burns up in bulletine which are pot read. And the statement is not made from selfish motives. There is not a newspaper in this econntry that depends for its exist. ence upon Government advertising, and very few indeed whose policies wonld be changed because of any sue revenue, ——— AA A ———— John M Erdle, , a farmer in Uunlon county, owns a sow that has plscatorial accomplishments, for one day last week the anim. fished a big slippery eel from the waters of Turtle creek and deposited it in the farmyard of its owner. The farmer claims this is no fish story, and vouches for the truth of the matter. . tising for bigger cro a, tisemnents treading notices, for to induce farmers to their sid to culiivate to stitntinte crops needed, a Cash LOCAL OPTION A NEOKsSSITY, Espeoially' In KHaral Digtriots, Eressman Miller, The wave of local option sentiment now sweeping over Pennsylvania is menacing the Penrose machine leaders with the irjury of their governor if not the destruction of their party, sc. cording to Congressman Miller of western Pennsylvania, a Republican, who shows his knowledge of politics by appealing directly to Penrose and McNichol to have the bill passed, rather than to the pitiful creatures they own in the Legislature. Congressman Miller, in his letters to the gang bosses, shows how narrowly he averted defeat because his party had repudiated local option by a vote of 85 to 5 This is particularly signif. iesnt in view of his statement that for many years he has been an outspoken temperance advoeoate. Hesaysfurther that while local option may not be an issue in the big cities and populous gaong-ridden counties, itis a vital t ing in the rural districts, which will not be indulged much longer That is an ubquenchable fact, The people demand local option ss a mat. ter of right, To deny them thst is not a shade different from that trouble brewing policy ‘‘taxsation without representation.” 8Stripp d of all the complications which the liquor inter- ests have piled upon it, local option ie essentially home rule. It means noth- ing else and a denial of that right to any given community is tantamount toa refusal to the people to govern themselves Says Con. Because the [sue la exclusively one of home rule, legislators from ** wet" communities cannot justify the fair. ness of their opposition to the bill now in the House If the constituencies of members favor saloons, local option cannot change the liquor ques tion in that community iota, that the ensctment of a local option messure is pot to be feared In such But for these socalled members to deny to such com- ’ these one 80 qusriers “" wet 1 munities their desire to be “dry in the very esseuce of unfairness and io. justice To stifle public desir a for this demo erati¢ legisation is only laying up trouble for the gar g leaders and their contractors, the booze ¢ owd, later on, Perhaps they prefer to delay their day of reckoning, but it will be only a de- Isy not su indefinite postponement, ps Boslsbarg to Give Piay, Hasturday eveuirg the members of the Buoday-school of the Lutheran church at Boalsburg will give an en- tertsinment entitied * A Home-made Choir.” The young people have been prepariog for this home-talent produc. tion for sometime snd will undoubted- ily please their audience wien they present their play in Boal hall. The proceens will be for the beneflt of the Lu hersn church. Eight musical numbers are on the program The charsciers and wusical num- bers follows ; CAST OF CHARACTERS Rosall de MoGimp Mrs. Jonathan Jupiter c=at of Mabel Meyer Hath Young Margaret Bingaman whe, Mervin Kuhn Miles Thomas Martha Houtz Ida Seguer Mary Segner Ina Roush Mary Kidder wee DREAMS Lee Quincy Adams Quiller Ralph Rockey MUSICAL NUMBERS The Land of Make Believe The Exasperating Choir wa — ve snsartosssens coronmsersenoses OBBlinds and Chorus I Have Nothing to Say . izser and Chorus Mister Qniller is the Mao Full Chorus My launch Upon the Sea. A psa verses ceinnsrnrnenis A BL jAR ANd Chorus The Old Church Organ. adios’ Quartette In the Garden of Biles...............S0l0, Juliet It's a Long Way to California JFuall Chorus Mm Lily Roselead.. John B Figzer Abijah Quick Arizona Smith Bella Daugles Venus Jupiter Opening Chorus Good Lecture by Rev, Hart, Rev. B. H. Hart of Harrisburg de- livered an elcquent address in the Grapge Hall on Friday evening, under the auspices of the local I O. O, F. lodge, His subject was *' The Magnet. ism of a Link’ Rev Hart, who ls a Methodin: minister, ia also a firm be. liever in the prine ples of Odd Fellow. ship, and while his sutject dwelt principally slong those lines, there was much else in his talk that was in. spiring to the large number in the hall who were pot identified with the order Prof. P. H. Meyer directed the sing- ing for the occassion, a —— Ap ———— Will Fay Uhildren’s Expenses, The directors of the Odd Fellows’ or- phanage at Bunbury received word from Bloomsburg in the form of an announcement by the Bloomsburg 00d Fellows that they had arranged to pay the entire xpense of transpors tation, meals, ete, for the 142 chil. dren, ae well ax all of the help at the orphansge, when they viit the ane niversary celebration in the Columbia county town on April 23, It was at first decided to hold the aflsir on the 26h, but it has been changed to the rd, REV, AURAND DIES UNDER BUSPIVIOUS CIROUMSTANOES, Retired Lutheran Minister of Selinsgrove Alleged to Have Forged Notes Aggre- gnljog 816.000, Rev. Dr. Charles M. Aurand, a widely known retired Lutheran mine ister, died at his home in Belinsgrove on Friday night after he had been con- fronted with his wrong doing, which, it is alleged, was to forge notes to the amount of $16,000 or more, At the coroner's inquest a verdict was render- ed that Aurand came to his death by gastro enteritis, superindoced by un- known causes, There is » strong opinion that suicide is the real cause, He leaves a practically worthless es- tate, Two weeks ago, Aurand took title toa store in Beavertown, owned by Charles I Mattern. The price was $6000. This, it is understood, was paid for by a series of notes, little, if any, cash baviog passed between them, although Aurand took charge These notes, it is sald, were indorsed with the nsme of the Rev. Dr. Charles T. Alkens, president of Buequebhannos University. No one in the county outside of Mat- tern end Aurand knew anythiog sbout this Isst venture until the form- er heard of the alleged forgeries and made gome inquiries into the matter, it wae said. All of the store's advertising was done under the rame of the Beaver. town Store Company, Aurand not let- ting his pame appear as ite owner. No reason why he conducted the busi. ness in this manper could be learned I'he Mattern store is one of the largest in Snyder county, sud $6000 was con: sidered a ascrifice price, as Mattern wanied to get out of business. nA — More Vegetables and Less Mea’, you would improve your health, was te suggestion of BL. Watts, dean of the school of agriculture at the Penn. sylvania State College, in a recent dis- cussion of the essentials of vegetable gardening. As a country incresses in population, Mr, Wattle explained, the production of vegetebles becomes more and more important. Densely popu. Iated countries consume a much larger quantity of vegetables per capita than the people of the United States. According to Mr. Walls, there is no doubt sbout the economy of substitut- ing legumes, such ss beans snd peas, for the more expensive meats, He thought the consumption of a larger proportion of vegetables by people who have difficulty in making ends meet was particularly important, “Considering the unlimited variety of vegetables which may be grown throughout the United ~tates,” sald Mr. Watts,” there is LO resson why every family should not have a full ae- sortment at a cost within the reach of most pocketbooks. Too much cannot be said in favor of vegetable growiog by those who need exercise and recrea- tion, Vegetable gardening as an avo- cation fe ideal, because it provides ex- ercise in the open air and sflords a complets change of thought for taose who are absorbed all day long by busi. ness or professional carcs.”’ —— —— New Arts gliding completed at Siate ” Penpeylvania State ( ollege’s $70 000 liberal arts building bas been complet ed. [It will be put into sctive use for class work and recitations this week. Toe new structure is the most impos. ing of the group of educational build. ings on the campus, and is the igitial anit for the series of arts buildiogs to be erected in the fulure, There are three stories, the ground flor being of Iodiaua limestone aud the two upper floors of Homan light bufl brick, with limestone trimmings, Just below the cornice are eighteen panels bearing the names of men who have exemplified the goal of liberal arte students, Among them are Ble. phen Girard, the fioancier, George Sharswcod, tue jurist, and 8B, Weir Mitchell, author and physician, The joterior finish is olive green, and all the rooms are light and spaci- ous. Toe building is of ficeproof con struction throughout. SAH AA AABN Asa himney Cleaner, Don’t throw potato peelings in the garbage pail but into the stove and thereby save yourself tue annoyance of having to eall to the fire depart. ment to put out a chimpey flie. The burning potato peelings prevent the gathering of soot. A man who is keeping up a strong coal fire in his ravge every day during the winter, says you can never find a trace of soot on the lid, the botton of kettles or any part of the stove If potato peelings are burned dally. —————————— AA A SATAY Mrs. (Dr) J. B Hillis, of Juniata, Inn guest of Mr. and Mme. J. Q A Kennedy. Bhe came to State College to attend the missionary convention of the Presbytery, and then came on down through the valley to visit th relatives named ove” ’ . LETTER FROY NEBRASKA Poor Year for Stock Feeders, Fays J. W, Erhart Fat Usattle Uylog Is Mad, Editor Reporter : Enclosed find cheek for three dollars for which give me credit on the Re- porter for 1914 and 1915, Nebraska is still quarantined against Kansas cattie on account of the foot snd mouth disease, I bought forty head of two-year-old steers in the Kansas City market and got them in the state just three dads before the state war quarantined, This was bad year for the feeder ; cattle were high last fall. i and eorn was not very good, ped my cattle ard hoge the first February ; got $7 50 per cwt for cattl aud $6 50 per ewt. forthe hogs Catt were 76 cents per ewt. lower sand hogs 200 lower than as year ago lose as much as some of the feede. ns, for I bought my cattle early last spring snd grassed them all but I lost sixteen bead out of fifty-five. The thirty-nine and Bummer, cattle know of feeders that will lose $500 00 because cattle and hogs did not enough in February and March ; gain ole #ix weeks 1 have known stock cattle to get down in mud and die but this is the first time that I ever saw fat cattle to die In the mud. This is a late spring for young pigs: po sun shine and the ground covered with Have preity good luc with my pige—ninety eight pigs from twelve sows, but if this snow goes off on’t know if snow, k with a rain d I can save them or not. Youre truly, J. N. ERHAR] 1915 i#it Rebekah Lodge at *iate College (ix 3 OCR: Friday evening suto loads of members of the Rebekah I. O 0. F,, attended a meeting More than ord} attached to the meeting owing to the fact that several distinguished visilors were present, among whom were Mra. E E, Chab buck, matron of the Odd Fellows, or- phansge st Hanbury; Mr Virgie Mull of Milton, Btste president ; Mrs Thomse Hazel, district deputy, of Bellefonte Mra. Chobbuck’s talk was probably the most interesting, be- cause it dwelt on 8 work in every member of the fraternity vitally concerned. Her reports « various mailers home were gratifying to all present Boalsburg snd Bellefonte lodges were also represented. Those present Centre Hall were, Mr. aad Mrs. E. WW, Crawford, Mra. Milford Luse, Mr John Luse, Mrs L. L. Smith, Mrs. Li. Moore, Mrs. T. L.. Bmith, Mrs E SS. Ripka, Mr, and Mee. Joseph Luiz, Mre. Clyde Dutrow, Mrs. Willism Homan, Mr. snd Mrs. W. E Tate, Mrs. Robert Bloom, Mrs. Lucy Hen ney, Mra. J. H. Puff, B D. Brisbin, Messen Tillie Keller and Elsie Mre. George Heckma: |, Mrs. Mowery, ————— A odge, of the siante College lodge. interest nary wae and which is © pertaining to $ from #®. I Moore, Aantos for Kara! Carriers Three of Spring Mills rural mail car. riers are delivering mail io new sulo mobiles sive Inst week, They are W, F. McUlellsn, George N, Wolfe, and Jd. A. Wagner, The other carrier, Boies Brown, will also adopt the more modern method of delivery in a short time. Toe cars employed sre Baxons and were purchased from J. C. Lee, station agent at Hpriog Mills, who has the agency for these care, MA HORSE sALE ON MONDAY, W—— BK. © Yoder Wil Sell i xpress Lond of Kaosas Horses at Centre Hall, R. C. Yoder will sell an express load of acclimated Kansas horses al the Centre Hall botel on Monday, April 5th, commencing at twelve o'- clock. Twenty-two head of the best weel- ern animale, including the real draft ty pes and blooke—all kind, sound, and clean — will be offered for sale. Lovers of fine horse fl ssh are invited to call at the stables and inepect this lot before the sale, For the past several weeks these horses have been kept on an eastern farm and consequently are thoroughly scelimated, Positively one of the best lots of horses ever offered for ssle in Penns Valley. Do pot fail to be on hand, Mr. Farmer ; the horse you need will be there. HORSE SALE AT REBERSBURG, A carload of Kausas horses, conaist- ing of mated teams, brood mares and all-purpoeghorses, ranging from three to xix years old, will be sold at the Rebersburg hotel on Friday, April 8rd, Hale will begin at 12:30 o'clock sharp, RC. Yoven, ES ol — Millinery Opening. Miss Mary M. Farner of Colyer will bave het millinery opening on Satur. day, April 8rd. . adv, i i i § i i 1 i | i | ! & J NO. 1 DEATHS Dr. Ella G. Bmiley died at the howe of her mother, Mrs, Alfretta Goss, at Pine Grove Mills, Tuesday morning of last week, following a week's {linese of pneumonia, Twoaveeks ago Dr. Bmiley left Al- toons to nuree her mother, who was ill, and remained at the bedside of her parent uutil was stricken Dr. Bmiley was born in Pine Grove Grove Mills and resided there until eight years ago, when she went to Al toona and opened an office in the Cen. tral Trust building, Bhe was united in marriage twelve years ago to War- ghe also, Mra { (Grove Kepler, of Piue , of Houlzdale : Mills ; and H rbert, ain George, of Pine Grove Joseph, all of Pittsburgh : Ro of Pine Grove Mills ; and FRIViCes v 4 of Chatles, Harrisburg, Funeral held on Thursday afternoon sud buria made at Pine Grove Mills, Mrs. Barabh Lutz Condo died at bome of her daughter, Mire. J. Housh, in Asropsburg, Friday, of diseases incident to old sge, having reschied her eighty-ninth only four days prior to her Funeral services were held morning and interment at at Asrones- surg, Rev, W. D. Donat of the formed church officiating. All life Mre. Condo wae 8 member of church. Deceased was born in Haines township sand eleven children, six of vamely, Mrs, Harriet W. Roush, Asrousburg : do, Penn Hall; J. P. Uo Lott Condo, Potters Mills do, Howard her {0 the grave forty.f One Mra, J spring Mills, aleo survives, the W of 3 birthday death, ie it Tuesday ie her his was the molher of Woon survive s Mrs. J, James Conp- da, York : td. FP. 4 Her husband Koch On. preceded Ur years ago. sep Condo of kialer, Lyman Klivefelter of his brother, above Caolyer, on week, following an died at the isn Kilo Wednesday operall We 3 a few daye illness with ioflammation the bowels. Mr. Klinefelter slope since the legal sepsrstiion from sg. H Burial was Maturdss ber of his wife a number f years WR a ing, Hefoimed survived Bie made riy-six I'usseyvilie on R R. J pes of officiating. He oy IDR ODrothers: Albert, Linden Hall ; Samuel, Colyer ; CORTE mor WY, { Lie Church ie the foliow {(3¢ 0 ge, Je sey © hore, J. Cortney Carner, a of W. Cook Hubler of Hall, died at his in Hublersburg on sunday morning, afters short il with pneamonia, about sixty years, Fu: eral ERIVICHS Were held Wedneadsy morving and buris at Hublersburg., Mr, Carner was married to Miss Heariettas Hubler brother-in-law Centre home inees eyed three ras who preceded him to the beyond years ago. Five chi to thelr all of whom have two aren wete wa gon, pass od away. M.M. Negitey died in the German hoepital at Philadelpbin last Thureday mornivg blood fo iog an operation five weeks sgo ! kidoey trouble. Mr. Naginey was one of Mifflin county's most prominent citizens snd only recently was sppoints ed postiuaeter in his home town, Mil roy. He leaves a wife and four daugh- tere. Frank Naginey of Bellefonte is & brother of the decased, of soning, How. Q —— Extending Yelephone Line, The branch of the Patrons Roral Telephone Company's line leading from Centre Hall to Linden Hall will be extended for the distance of almost two miles, snd will scoommodate William Houser, Henry Houser, and Frank MeUlintick, on the Tressler farm, Howard Calliban on the Daniel Callahan farm, and Jacob Zong on the Hess farm. This extension will re quire s new pole line of two miles and a double wire line of about seven miles, The Centre Hall-Linden Hall branch of the rural systems has been extend. ing ite lines in all directions and endeavors to sccommodate all who wish the service. D. W. Bradfor!, the local agent for the Patrons Rural Telephone Company, met the Linden Hall parties at the Iatter place on Friday evening and bad them sign the proper contracts and agreements. o_O A I Attempted to Kill Haosbacd, A pear tragedy was perpetrated in the quiet village of Milesburg, Sstur- day 8 week sgo, when Mra. Charles Scheckier fired a bullet from a 352 calibre revolver at her husband, with a motive to kill. Conjugal relations between the two had not been of the most pleasant for some time, the cul mination of which resulted in a pare row escspe the husband, Poor aim on the pait of his wife is the only thing that averted a tragedy. It le said that Mra, Boheckler was ineavely TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, FROM ALL PARTS This is All Fool’a day. John Moser of Wilkes Barre was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Jacobs, over Sunday. The new high school building st Lock Haven will be dedicated Thurs. day of next week, Henry Mitterling is home from Franklin and Marshall Academy to spend hie Easter vacation, April 16 and April 23 have been set | 88 the annual arbor days in Penusyl- { vania, by Governor Brumbaugh, According to the report of the eight { registrars in Centre county there oc- | curred 1085 births and 475 deaths in the gounty during 1914 Piof D. P. telma's echiools, is a Stapleton, principal of candidate for the office of hegister sud Recorder, on Republican ticket, in Union county. Paul cher of big league size, left Iows, week, where s for that club, the Western League, or the $ Des he pl for . Molpes inst aiid nits will pit Samuel Myers, formerly of Centre Hall, but now of Reedsville, passed through Cent Hall on Monday on hie way to Bellefonte. He was mak- trip on foot, re E the Mrs, mother of in Albert Foster of Lewistown, Dr. J. V. Foster, spent the istler part of last week with her cous. at the AA fag Yi 188 ins Presbyterian Manse, pd with “mma McCoy. re. Harry L H ¥ Barris Cusegeeplin E on at Osk noe nis werrisge Sharer, sheisted his 1 the farm, mobile agency, Id two care last week aul al H. Royer of Rebersburg bought a Reo ring car, sud Frank Stover of near urg purchased a Ford. Farmers began plowing last week they will be 80 busy that they will have no time for anything Se than putliog oul the spring crops and reading the farmet’s best friend, The ($ntre } Ibis : ald s00n llow the Key- just ch they are id how big a check ey can draw without getting the balance the wrong side. 30 ¥ how y I ti r fy Lester Fiedler, who begins jarming this spring on the M, 8. Fiedler farm, pear Milibelmo, purchased a horse sat the Guisewile sale last week for $259 and the night following the sale the horee was seized with colic snd died. Messrs, Harper snd Durst, who heve opened a pew garage and suto re- pair shop on Hofler street, are busily engaged on a sumber of care sand the prospects for a rush of work with the coming of warm weather, are bright. twufus Rearick, son of Mr, and Mrs, W. O Rearick, aad who for a yesr or more has lived in Milroy, was recently taken to a private bospital in Harris turg whete be is undergoing treat- 8 nervous breakdown. is reporied to be improving. ment x Mr sud Mrs. A. 8. Krebs and four chiidren—Helen, Luther, Robert, and George—:pent Sunday at the home of Mr. Krebs’ father, Samuel Krebs, at sSwengle, Union county. Two oilher Krebs children are logsted at that pisce, one of whom, Asher Krebs, gradusted from the local high school, inst week, Last week deputy sheriff C. A. Weaver of Coburn received a federal sppointment under the United States Bureau of Industria! Census. His ter. ritory will be the counties of Clinton, Cameron and Elk, with hesdquarters in Lock Haven. His work requires him to vieit all indastrial plants do- ing business in excess of five hundred dollars per year and procure an soe curate stalement of the details ocon- nected with operating the plant, If the statements made by parties who attended public sales in both Cen- tre and Union counties are well found. ed, farm stock-