VOL. XC. COUNTY JAILS MAY BE ABOLISHED, 4 State to be Divided into Six Districts. Each to Have a Qorrectional Institution sad Farm, A bill to abolish county jails throughout the state and to establish six sectional farme, each eelf-sustain- ing, and providing compensation for the prisoners to be used in support of their dependente, will be introduced in the house of representatives at Har- risbuarg. ‘The bill was originally drafted by the special commission on the revision and amendment of penal laws, ap- pointed by Governor Tener. Since that time the wording of the bill has been ,somewhat revised. It will be placed before the legislature by Rep- resentative A, B. Hess, of Lancaster, Edwin M, Abbott is the chairman of the committee which drew up the bill. Itis bagked by the Prison so- ciety of Philadelphia. The bill provides for the establish- ment of six correctional institutions, These would be known as the Penn sylvania Btate Farm of the First, Becond, Third, Fourth, Fifth and the sixth district. The creation of a commission of five to be appointed by the governor to select suitable sites for the farms is provided for. Upon the selection of such sites, the bill provides that the governor appoint a board of trustees for each of tne institutione. For the purchaseof lsnd on which to erect the buildings the bill provides for the appropriation of $200,000, Of this $2,000 is to be available on June 1; balance on January lst, 1918, Anotber measure under way pro- vides that workhouses and factories be established in connection with every jail, with a view of obliging prisoners to support themselves, This measure is being prepared by Judge Isaac John- sop, of the Delaware county courte, whose idea is (0 pay wages for the work done and to give the money to thore dependent upon the prisoners for support, If there are no de- pendents, the money is to be used to pay the costs of ‘the prosecution agaioat the prisoner, the remainder, if any, to be paid to nim upon his re- lease from the jail. Italians Captaored at Potters Mills Wanted for Marder, Two [talians—Lodis Degli, aged 24, and Dan Alexandre, aged 25—were captured at Potters Mills on Bunday evening by a Mfllin county officer who was after them in connection with the murder of Fred Rose, anoth- er Itaiiap, which occurred four hours previous to their capture at Nagineny, They were lodged in the Mifflin county Jail, The murdered Italian with anoth- er bad been ‘ catling up ’’ about the home of Alexandro since Saturday night, after being refused admittance, The bad feeling engendered broke out in the flash of steel the next morning in a preliminary scrap but the real fight did not materialize until about three o'clock when Degli whipped out a revolver and fired several shots in the air. Ross thought the bullets were meant for him and pulling his stiletto took a hand in the fray but was soon worsted, being cut about the head and hands so that he died from loss of blood before reaching the Lew- istown hospital. A — A To Assist Farmers Secure Help, Becretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton will make a determined eftort to help the farmers of the State to se- cure farm help daring the coming sea son and would like to have requests for farm labor filed with him st the De- partment of Agriculture at Harrisburg at any time, Through the agency of the Btate Employment Bureau there is from time to time plenty of available help for the farms and during the coming summer an effort will be made to in- terest undergraduates of coileges and high schools in farm work as 8 means of earning vacation money. At the present wage that farm help is com- manding the college man could earn a considerable sum during the busy sea #on on the farm and there many § ropo- sitions that could be opened to such meén by progressive farmers that would make farm work quite attractive for the summer, On many farms much of the fiuit is now left to go to waste for want of help to harvest and pack it. With the proposed Bureau of Markets in service at the Department of Agriculture and the young collegéd snd school boys employed on the farms and given time to attend to the fruit or garden and on a commission, the farmer would have an opportunity tomarket much of the produce that has heretofore been almost a total loss, Becretary Patton would like to hear fiom all farmers desiring help and from college and high school boys who are willing to try farm work as a means of earning vacation money dar- ipg the coming summer, Good Prioting at the Reporter office, PROVIDING FOR ABSENT VOTERS, Mensure Introduced by Democrat Would Extend the Voting Privilege Without Appearing at the Pole in Person, The proposition to enable voters, pecessarily absent from their voting districts on election day, to cast their ballote, nevertheless, will strike the average Pennsylvanian as somewhat revolutionary. But it hss common sense and even precedent in a few of the western Btates to recommend it, The bill has been introduced in the present legislature by a Democratic rep- resentative from Dauphin county, which may be considered a sufficient reason for the msjority of the mem- bers to vote against it because of its origin, No good reason for opposition otherwise readily suggests itself, There has been a general regret ex- pressed after every election over the ap- parent careless regard in which a large number of qualified voters hold their right to suffrage, The inference and the regret over it arises from their omission to cast a ballot, and the tend- ency is increasing rather than on the wane, except at times of unusual inter- est aroused in local contests. At the same time there is a tendency to mul- tiply elections for the purpose of test ing the popular will in accordance with the theory of the government. It may easily be seen that a measure such as that proposed, by which those who are unable to appear in person at the polle, may still cast a vote, will cor- rect this tendency. There are no in- superable obstscles in the way, nor is it apt to increase the expense of holding elections. With all the ma- chinery required by assessing register- ing sod voting io these latd daye, ressonable safeguards would insure the absent voter against fraud or mistake, and leave him no excuse short of abso- lute disregard of his rights of citizen- sbip to urge for his omission. The proposed measure was born of actual experience with difficulties observed in following a vocation that takes its suthor daily away from his home dis- triet, and it may ofler a solution for the elections being frequently carried by a minority of the qualified voters. I'he suggestion contains epough of prospective value to be worth experi- mentiog with and as an experiment it may recommend itself to a legislature that is prone to experiments aftir they have been carefully examined as to their effect on the * party vote, ”’ ————— A. N, Runkle Writes from Ualifornia Editor Reporter : Enclosed find money order for $1.50 for the paper for one year. I am al ways glad to receive the Reporter for it tells me all about home and the folks I used to know some sixty years ago. I just stepped over in my sixty- fourth year on the Sih, yet the people tell me I look and act like a man not ball so old, Well, to tell the truth, I never expect to get old even if I should live to see 100 years. You know the saying, as a man thinks in his heart so is he, I was glad to see the pictures of Prof. Krise and wife in your paper. It took me back to the time he and I had charge of the Centre Hall school. My, that is a long time ago, We had the coldest winter this year and more rain right through than we had for at least thirty years, Lots of enow up in the mountains. It made vusiness good, although the prices for everything are high. All our hotels are full all the time ; more houses have been built this year than for a long time; people are just beginning to realize that we have the best city and climate in the world but we can’t all live here, yet hundreds of people come here each year and a good per cent, of them finally stay, buy a country home and build all the way from a $10,000 to $60,000 home, and if you come out here I will be glad to take you out and show you some of the finest bomes you ever saw. Yours respectfully, A. N. RUNKLE, Santa Barbars, Calif, Feb, 14, 1017, S————— A YA AIA Hage Commer cial Urchard Flanged at State Uoliege, A sixty acre fruit farm with the complete equipment of a commercial orchard is planned for the department of horticulture at the Pennsylvania State College. The new orchard supe plementing the present experimental tract is to be established to enable students in the various horticultural courses to obtain practical instruction in modern methods of fruit growing. According to the plans of Dr. 8B. W, Flecther, head of the Horticultural department, the State College orchard will be planted to apple, peach, pear, plum and other tree fruits, Small fruite, strawberries, raspberries and grapes will also be planted, A large packing house is to be part of the equipment, ———— A —————— The Bellefonte Lodge, I. O. O, F,, Bellefonte, will become forty-three years old tomorrow ( Friday) night, and will celebrate the event by giviag # bauquaet. FROM NORTH DAKOTA, Mr, Zerby Tells of a Flerce Hlizzard He- pinning of Febroary..Some Nimble Man at 79, In a letter to the Reporter William Zerby, of Lisbon, Ransom county, North Dakota, refers to a real blizzard in thie fashion : “Let megive you a few facts con- cerning the most severe blizzard this section of country experienced in twenty five years—a blizzard an Irish- 1 b~! were able to proceed on their way. by the blizzard—one of freezing son went to the barn, which death, He was seventy years old, quite a dissimilar experience. clothing eaught fire, , She was burned | #0 badly that death resulted a few days later. Let me indulge a bit on the reader's | patience to say in nice weather I go to | town along the river to the Methodist church and back every Bunday, a trip | of a good six miles, without tiring, and can kick as high as my head (six feet six inches) because I am as nim- ble ss 8 school marm. How is that, Mr, Editor, for a boy of seventy-nine. | With these remsrgs I extend my sincere regards to my native people in | Old Pennsylvania. ”’ { En ——— — oP SS Dies at 100 Years of Age. Mrs. Elizabeth Detwiler Blair county's oldest woman and known far and wide as ‘‘Grand- mother’ Brown, died Wednesday of inst week, at her home in Hollidays- burg, aged 100 years, 2 months and 5 days, i Brown, due to diseases inoident to age. lin county. of J. Bterling Morton for professionally 1 trained teachers still ringiog in our ears it fa a good time to consider the! views of a prominent man who saw | this question in a different light. This man served his State and coun- | try in maay posts of honor, a man of meane, above reproach. of the Blate normalate, that Biate, God Almighty makes shop ; we have too much education of the head already ; educate the heels, This is so utterly absurd as to merit pity rather than censure of him who was the author of this declaration, God Almighty no more makes teachers than he makes lawyers or dootors. Training and experience makes the teachers. And so thought the people of the State ino which this good mistaken man lived, The normal school idea has made such a growth in that State since this good man’s declaration agsinst it until now there are four great State normal schools there with splendid faculties ana liberally supported by the Btate, Probably the most advanced opin- on yet advocated by any man of prom= inence to-day in favor of professionally trained teachers and State normal schools is that of the United Blates Commissioner of Education, Dr. P. P. Claxton, Briefly stated it is thie : A six months’ term of school with a professionally trained teacher at a sal ary of $100 per month ls a longer term and a better and cheaper rchool than a twelve months’ term with a teacher of poor scholarelrip and no profession. Uentre County ¥. W, C, A, Notes. The Bellefonte High Behool Club had a Valentine Post Office at the High Bchool Building on Valentine's Day. Two cents postage required on all articles mailed or received from the mall, and the clerks were kept busy distributing messages. At the same time candy and punch were sold, and the Club cleared over $10.00, Mothers’ Night le the next thiog on the State College High School Club program, The Howard council has planned | soe interesting meetings for the next A new feature i | have charge of arranging a variety When you are sewing or walking or what do you think Some people fill their minds Don’t you like this sec- Work ! Thank God for the pride of it, For the beautiful, conquering tide of it, Bweepliog the life in its furious flood, Thrilling the arteries, cleansing blood, Mastering stupor and dull despair, Moving the dreamer to do and aare, Ob, what isso good ae the urge of it, And what is 80 strong as the sum- mons deep, Rousing the torpid soul from sleep ? Ex-commissioner Philip H., Meyer suffered a paralytic stroke, Wednes- day of laet week, which aflected his entire left and rendered him practically helpless. At the present time his condition is very little ime proved, His son, Robert Meyer, was wide Mr. Meyer's many friends trust that Bureau of Education, Depart- We need enough State normal schools to provide professionally trained teach- ers for every rural school in Americas, I'he people of the entire State are tax- ed to support the State normal school or schools and are, therefore, entitle And yet a very small pume- under We there The work of the normal schools and professionally trained teachers is so lm- portant, so valuable, so necessary that we should establish a sufficient wuwm- ber of State normal schools to provide every rural school with a professions ally trained teacher, even if we have to take the necessary money to do this from the State common school fund. In the end this would besa better pole icy of public economy than our present shortsighted policy which is expensive and which sorely neglects the rural schools in the matter of properly train. ed teachers, This is evident from the fact that there are over 150,000 juvenile teachers teaching in the rural schools of our country at this time with less than high school education snd no professional training. The only way to have better rural schools is to have better rural teachers. For as la the teacher, so is the scuool, The only way to have better teachers is to provide better opportunities for thelc preparation, require by law all who aepire to teach to make due prep- aration, and then pay the teacher a sal« hary commensurate with the service ndered, “If we reduce the wages 22. 1917. HBARTGES DEAD, THOMAS CU. Passes Away Thursday Morning After Great Buffering, Aged 40 Yeurs Other Deaths, After two weeks’ intense suffering from catarrh of the stomach and bowels, Thomas Clayton Bartges passed into the last sleep at ten o'clock Thursday morning of last week at his home about a mile west of Centre Hall, on the Bartges farm, For more than two years Mr, Bartges had been a sufferer from this ailment and per- formed the laborious duties of the farm when he was scarcely physically able to do wo, This coming spring would have been three years ince he moved on his parents’ farm, Thomas Clayton Bartges was a son of Mr. and Mre, David L. Bartges, who live retired in Centre Hall, He wae born in Madisonburg and at the time of his death was aged forty years, six month and two days. Besides his parents he is eurvived by his who was a Miss Miller, two children by a former marriage—Mrs, J. E. Thornton, of Los Angeles, California ; and Mies Ruth Bartges, of Centre Hall—as well a8 one sleter, Mrs. W. A, Reiber, of Johnstown, He was a member of Trinity Reformed Church, of Centre Hall; 8 member of Ceutre Hall Lodge, No, 885, 1. O. O. F., and also Progress Grange, P. of H, He was well known throughout the coun ty and was sa popular young man whose untimely death is mourned by many. The funeral, which Mondsy morning, wife, held on was very large, Brief services were held at the house and continued in the Reformed church the edifice being filled to ite capacity, ev. BR. R. Jones, pastor of the de- ceased, Was charge, cemetery the last rites were performed by the Odd Fellows, who attended the funeral in a body. Was in and at the Mrs. Pearl Larke Brooke, a dsugh- ter of Commissioner Willimm H. Noll, She was born at Pleasant Gap and on October 17, 1807, was wedded to Paul P, Brooks, who is msnpager of the Brooks & Co. music store in Alloops, and survives with her father and these brothers and Ralph and Bay Noll, both of Pleasant Gap; Lee, of Perkin, Ii; Mre. Paul Keller, Alloons, Emeline, Helen, Beatrice, June and Bthel, all Pleasant Gap. An infant éon, Donald Paul, died two weeks ago. Mrs. Brooks was a member of the Bellefonte Reformed church. Private funeral services were held 1ucsday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at her late home, followed by burial in Rose Hill cemetery. plication of diseases, who elaters of ——— Mre. William Bitling died in the Willismeport hospital Wednesday of last week after a short illness from preumonisa. The corpse was shipped to Centre Hall on Friday and burial was made in the local cemetery on Saturday, Rev. W, H. Williams officiating. The decensed was Carrie Taylor, a daughter of Mr, and Mrs, John Taylor, both deceased, and was born near Tusseyville twenty years ago. Her husband survives but no children. A number of brothers and giaters also survive, Samuel Fisher Snyder, a machinist in the Beyer company mille, died sud- denly at his home in Tyrone. He was the busband of Mise Agnes Mo- Cormick, daughter of the late James McCormick, their marriage having taken place at Centre Hall in 1874, while the McUormicks lived on the Van Valsah farm, now owned by C. D. Bartholomew. His sage was seventy-three years, Mrs, Snyder and two children survive, Mre. Ellen Woods, wife of Scott Woode, died in Philipsburg. Her maiden name was Miss Ellen Btine and was born in Half Moon Valley. Her age was sixty-eight years, Dr. Thomas Tobin, well known in the western portion of Centre county, died at his home in J) yrone, while preparing a prescription for a patient, He wae aged sixty-iwo years. ——————— A ————— Glee Club To Make Reourd, The male quartet of the Pennsyl- vania State College glee club has ar- ranged with the Edison Phonograph Company to sing selections for sever al records. C. OC, Robinson, Peun State's mousieal director, will have the club sing for record while they are in New York City for the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest, March 38. ————— A ———— Sunday was a delightful day, » balmy air belong suggestive of real spring weather, The (thermometer rose to 46 degrees and made us nearly forget that only a week ago the 0 mark | Coutinued on inside page. | NO. 8 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS Arthur Fortney, of near Btate Cole lege, will tenant the D, J, Meyer farm, pear Linden Hall, in the spring. The Bpring Mille lodge of Odd Fellows will hold their annual bane quet tonight, in Grange hall, at Spring Mills. Frank Walker will torn farmer April 1st, having leased the farm of his father-in-law, Alfred Keen, south of Millheim, It is just a few days until the March smles begin, Judging from the sales slready held, everything put on the block will go at top prices. Corn at the Yarnell sale, at Linden Hall, brought $1.20 for seventy pounds, Bome price that for the gold- en ears. Who wouldn't be a farmer, anyway ? Mies Ruth Ruble spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ruble, and on Friday left for Cleveland, Ohio, where she will stay with her grandmother, Mrs, L. W. Rable. A large ncmber of the poles for the extension of the electric light line from Centre Hall to Millheim sare be- ing furnished by IL. IL. Weaver, of Woodward, who is now delivering them. A new liquor restriction bill has been introduced in the state legisla ture trapeferring the duty of passing on license applications from the courts to the county commissioners. Suoch a step would be no nearer the solution of the liquor question. President Wilson's plan to put oN masters of all classes under civil ser- vice does not appeal very strongly to members of the house of representa tives. When the question came be fore the house a few days ago it was voted down by the very decisive ma- jority of 284 to 43, The fear of war with a foreign foe may result in the passage of the Webb- Sheppard National Prohibition bill by tbe present congress, Profiting by the errore of foreign countries, the Nation al Government is aiming to dispose of this important question before war is declared rather than after hostilities begin. The Government ie in need of a pumber of medical men, between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-two years, to become assistant surgeons in the U. 8B. Public Health Service. [ve salary is $2000 per year, with op- portunities for advancement. For furtber information write to the U, B, Public Health Bervice, Washington, D. C. The youngster in one of the Miles burg schools who defines * natural ” as meaning ‘ what we look like when we are dead,” no doubt got the ine gpiration from the expression of the colored man who when chided for running from a scrap, said he would sooner be called a coward than have his friends gather around him and say, ‘‘ don’t he look natural ! The Boal Machine Gun | Troop, under the leadership of Lieutenant Theodore Davis Bosal, went through their first drill since their return from the Mexican border, on Baturday after poon and Bunday, on Lieut. Boal's estate at Boalsburg. The goverment has issued a general order, for stated drills for the lately returned troops sud every two weeks Lieut. Boal's boys will be required to meet at Boals- burg for dnil. The first dri'l was per- formed under great difficulties owing to much mud and water, In making a remittance to the Ree porter, A. B. Fleck, of Niagara Falls, N. Y,, writes that they are experienc. ing a very severe winter in that portion of New York, the thermometer have ing registered as low as twelve degrees below zero, and quite frequently at the zero mark. Mr. Fleck is interest- ed in the sale of the Hurd whiffletree, which is constructed with a view to remedy the damage done by the ordinary whiflietree while cultivating orchards, etc. Any one who might be willing to give a bit of his time to the sale of such 2a important item on the farm would do well to write Mr. Fleck, 1867 Whitney Avenue, Niagara Falls, Rev. J. H. Keller, pastor of Mt, Zion and St. Psul's Reformed churches, China Grove, North Caro line, in wriling the Reporter says among other things: “ The past year has been a plessant and profitable one, Have purchased a farm of 180 acres of land near my home town and hope to entertain some of my northern friends, A short time ago I attended th: meet- ing of the Graud Lodge of Masons of North Oarolins and while in Raleigh assisted as Chaplain io closing in due form Hiram Lodge, No. 40, which duty should have been done on Mone day night following the assassination of President Lincoln. Will explain when 1 see you." waa belug courted rather strenuously,
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