._VOL. XCVII
1993,
55,251,680 FOR SCHOOLS,
SAYS LEWIS,
Estimate of Auditor General
9584 More Than That In
ernor's
Based
The
propriated
$29,270,
the Gove.
Budget.—Says Figures Are
on District School Reports,
$55,251,680% must
the
for the public schools during the next
som of be ap-
by present legislature
Lewis de-
the
sadd,
biennium, Auditor General
clared in a statement on school
situation. are
to
The figures, he
based on district school
the present.
TT™he
$20,270,984 more
ernor’s budget
reports
up
auditor general's estimate is
that in the
and 310,670.984
of Dr,
commissioner
than gOV-
more
Thomas KE.
of
than the estimate
Finegan, state public
instruction.
Mr,
2.597
ed the
which "under the
be filed
said this legish
Lewis said 2.392 reports. from
school districts had been receiv-
On broustis f these reports,
Edmonds act must
hie
a de-
with the auditor general,
make
$3.185.652
ure must
appropriation | of
i
as provided
ficiency
The school
in the
amounts
In
statea that
to
commonwealth,
deficiency
deficiency ition
$2,871,911,
appropri
to
Mr
the inf
Jews
fssuing his statement
he had given Ina
tion Dr. Clyde L.
the
King, secretary of
while Dr King
was drafting the governor's budget
4
“On the basis of estimation ti
1823,
Lewis sald.
“
wilk be due August 1,
$9,058,551," Mr
amount will be due
Approx
mately
the sever
“This
school districts as of August 1, wh
er the Edmonds is modifie
the reas teachers
not, for
entered into t
If the
akfied there wil
$9,935 618
already nis year's
act
be due Febru
same
contracts Edmonds
and $10,849.69
due August 1, 1924,
f 1926, or
of February 1, in other
act
{io
$43,005,124 to ti
under the Edmonds
will be required
“And this Is not all aking
the budget bills thers
figures in
amounts for the adminis
the
struction, for
be added
tion of department of public
normal schools, and
+3
other public school Wdministra
the sum of $7.163.85¢ makin
$50,170.984. To
the budget
purposes,
0 696
retirement fund, making
all
rectly on directly nt
of approprd
of public at
Next Week is Poultry Week,
The 12-17 is
week for Dur
week of March
Centre county,
week the Ci
will hold a
different sections of
geVen
the
Monroe,
in
this time H
tension Specialist, will discuss
many poultry problems which
pouitrymen at this of
of the
this
time the
year.
(ne most sub)
important
of the year and that
are thinkhg about, Is
young
nt time one
all
how
Ppairymen
to raise ohicks most suc
interested in
at-
Fist
cesafully, Everyone
poultry should make an effort to
The
with
tend ‘one of these meetings,
next wlek,
follows:
8:00 P.
of meetings fox time
and place,
Monday. M., in Grange hail,
Stormstown.
Tuesday,
place, Centre fall
Tuesiay, 8:00 P.
Pine Milas,
Wednesday, 7:30 P, M., school Shouse,
Aaronsburg. :
Thursdny, 2.00 P. M., at
Unionville,
M.,
10:00 A. M., at P. H.
L.use
M., school house,
Grove
the A F
Showers place,
Thuraiay, 7:30 P
School, Spring Mills
Friday, 7:50 P.M. Furnace school,
Howard, f
Vocational
Lock HWaven's Fortane,
Tbk Haven is to be congratulated
upon the generosity of two of her pub-
He spivited citizens, Mr, and Mrs. Cal-
vin BR Armstrong, whose gift of a
handsome house to the homeless chil-
deeny of (Tinton county insures the
walls of that county care under the
most pleasant surroundings and whole
some influences.
Incidentally, the name of Armstrong
fs written indelibly into the history of
this in-
stitution will do the community ean
only as
one contemplates the difference in the
effect, upon sogdety of having a score
or more of boys and gifs Hving dur-
ing thelr most impressionable age under
proper influences and spending those
game years under circumstances that
do almost anything except make use-
ful ¢itizens. | =
Sunday was the warmest day since
early last foil, the thermometer reog-
fsté¥ing 67 above zero. The sun was
bright almost the entire day and the
THE DEATH RECORD,
SMITH. Wed-
nesday evening of last week announc-
ed the sudden death of Qa.
Smith, of IMtinois, having
taken place at eleven o'clock of that
day. ,
The
man
Hall, brother
of Mra.
fufieral.
Dr. Smith
12,
Mills
Academy,
A tdlegram received
Domer®
Freeport,
following day, John A. Heck-
D. K. Keller, of
sister, respectively,
here to attend the
and Mrs, Centre
and
Smith, left
was born
in Madisonburg,
August 1564, the
Hall
in
wis educated in
Spring schools and Penn
taught terms
and Mui
with Dr
several
school in Gregg township
helm borough, read medicine
Van
Jefferson
Valzah, and after
Medical £
1850,
years in
Phiadel-
the
Slege,
He
in
graduated in began
of his profession Freoburg,
and was married to Miss Em-
Heckumnn that
1804,
Democratic
Wn Veal,
Fr av iT,
him
livin
paris
ind placed him in
while at
on-
nowpination
gress in the 18th Pennsyvivania district.
18 In 1898 that he left this state
Elizabeth, Lat-
ae TOK 1
several gt -graduate cou
medical
York. The
hm by
in
mncdis professicn
making him a del-
American Medical Asso
‘ortiand, egon,
Massachusetts
rariony fraternal
that or
Fr
ited in
der
some vi
Freeport,
other places
residence, he
ce professional -
siness
skeich was =
Hall.
named a-
Penn
wile,
Qeorge 8. Smith,
Wo Sis
Margaret Hazel
PHILLIPS
Harr
rom pneur
ebhiary
ghin-
wns
Philips
mother, Mra
and
those
Alvin
irg. Blanche
Mrs
Margaret, at
home: Wiliam,
Potters Mila
At
Altoona and Frank,
Her age was thirty-nine
wm
the
years the tf beean®e
whe
sik
me
she wag employed in a mill in
capital
BURNS
Wagner),
Mrs. Barah FB
widow of the
1 at the
John W. Burns, at
years,
Her husband
Bung (nee
Willian
of her
ate
Burns, home
Shamokin,
son,
aged 77
was Killed
mill boller explosion in the vicinity of
Ingleby in the early eighties
Mra continued her
at Colbrrn until = number
ago when she went {o
live with her son.
in a sow
Burns residence
of yenrs
Shamokin to
The remadng were shipped to Coburn
and taken to Mi#llheim to the home of
Mra. Rebecca Schieiffer, where funeral
services were held, conddoted by Rev,
C. F. Oatherman.
made Fairview
Interment wns
in cemetery
WERTS Philip
oldest residents of
Werte, one of the
of College township,
at His home at Houserville, of
exhaustion. He was born in College
township on April 8th, 1831, hence was
almost ninety-two years old. When the
call came for soldiers to enlist for ser-
vice In the Civil war he was prompt to
respond and was faithful to every
trust Tmposed in him. As a youth he
enrolled ns a member of the Lutheran
church and for dighty years has wen
a faithful servant in the Master's
cause, |
Sixty-five years ago he married Miss
Catharine Dale, a daughter of Mr. and
Mm, Felix Dale, and they had two
daughters and one son,
On the day set for the burial of
Mr. Wertz, his wife passed away, aged
eighty-elgit years. The funeral was
then postponed untll Baturday at
which time both bodies were fait to
rest in the Shiloh cemw. oy.
HARMON ~~Miss Mary Alice Har
mon, daughter of Mller and Belle
Fletk Harmon, died at the home of her
parents at Kruinrine station, above
State College, Thursday evening, of
pneumonia, aged 17 years, 11 months
and 18 days. Funeral services were
held Monday afternoon and interment
made at Pleasant Gap.
Hed
snow Ghmppenired fast unter ite mays.
PICTURES OF 8500 YEARS AGO.
Reproductions of Photographs Taken
In the Tomb of King Tut-Ankh-
Amen, In This Issue,
Have you ever tried to pleture to
vourself the civilization that
before the time of David, second king
of Israel? Have you tried to
the kind of clothes people wore
ago, the kind of furniture
existed
imagine
3,500
YOurs they
used?
Over in Egypt, in the valley of the
Nile, there was recently the
tomb of Pharoh—Tut-Ankh-Amen-the
ruler of Egypt 3,600
there
opened
years
was found
ago,
fneide this tomb ust
quantities of things that
the
It is a mre privilege
to to
sories of plctures
taken
many
the
picture
civilization of world.
The
readers
ancient
Hew
tis
for
porter present our
week au made from
photographs inside this
the
contained.
tomh,
interesting
In
of the
showing
which it those
will
ancient
mctures
you see much story of
civilization which pessed
more than a
the
thousand years
birth of Christ, a civilisation
ante-dates the pyramids by several
hundred
y Oars
In these pictures you will find much
that @s of intense inter
add to your
by
friends
will own
mierest
subject talking about them
your and neighbors,
——————
“Judgment.”
It Is the judgment of
that “The
leporter
the R
al
Judgment" | discussion
the me to
must «x
In fect, there was never any In
space
,
of
the
ready the discussion
given to
Not to
why wish to be
subject. oper the columns
49
all heard, is
and would Indicate, in a manner,
what is given preference
dorsed, which is not the
In making remittance
Walters
Mab? CO
onirtbutes
i x
* - - if. os
porter, Mrs Anna
her daughter,
Fork, «
houn
meriys
the subject that no doubt
Bias
dorsed
many
study
rg det *
subject
the re
of their 1
f Burkholder Dog ...
Considerable 1 al
regardless
interast 8
fested In the Burkholder
Burkholder was
vment Ly
admitting
belonging him had
death a fawn
to
be heard
Thursday
without a
to
before
inst On the charge
dog was license no
fine
tolal
auiboritios
mide The
$5.08 and
$10.60,
was hapte
costs, making a of
The
important
the
chasing case, 80 It was postpones conti
March 160. N. B
senting Mr. Burkholder,
Host #late
§
claim an witness could not
be gotten to hearing on the deer
Spangler is repro-
Fooled Reynard,
A fox Is some smart animal, the
most cunning the
onsionally a hunter gets the
Hm at his own ticks Guy
fooled a sly old grey fox the
night. The skilled hunter watched
Reynard's manouvers and found
passed a given point. and not
scented he scaled a tree and
It was a real “watchful waiting,”
the reward came when Brooks was
able to draw a bead on him. He has
killed a number of foxes this senson,
outwitting seveind of them,
bai oc.
best of
Brooks
other
in woods,
he
to ix
waited,
but
61 Inches of Snow Fall
Up to March Ist there was a total
fall of sixty-one inches of snow, The
fall for the various months in inches
was as follows: November, 2; De.
cember, 11%; January, 34%; February,
13-<total, 61. Bince repe are made
by this office to the U. Weather
Burea, the measurements of the
snow falls have been very earefully
made. The snow fall during the win
ter Just closing is considerable in ex.
ces of the normal fall for this secs
tion.
—————
Literary Program Friday Evening.
The Centre Hall High school will
hold their postponed Hterary program
on Friday evening of this week in the
Grange hall, when they will meet the
Millheim teams in debating and spells
ing contests. Everybody invited.
BS ————
NOTICE, FARMERS,
We have purchased a jomd of Iy-
drated Lime for agricultural purposes;
also ean be used for sanitation, white
washing, plastering, ote. :
* Place your order at once and take
advantage of the price off the car
The mame will arrive about April 1st.
BRADFORD AND CO.
{Other deaths on inside page)
Ten FORE SERA a a -
3 3 i i 2
LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS,
“Dan” Mitterling Writes Inter.
estingly fron State of Texas.
Texas, Feb, 21, '23.
| Rev.
Corpus Christi,
ditor:
I read with
Dear
the
the
this
considerable interest
3
i letters of
contributed by readers
| Reporter. A communication from
far-away section may bé of value as
ireauling matter while the winter storms
yet sing
I feft
Dakota, January
thelr moaning songs.
South
to
home in Madison,
sth,
winte? ghivers
my
bidding adieu
the prospective for a
i few monthd to enjoy a milder climats
From the reports of weather condi-
tions the northwest, I am escaping
oI
a very severe and changeable winter,
capedally so when the thermometer
plays its frisky pranks from zero to
lving
we had
thirty or more below. Before
OTe Dvoemiber
morming in
degrees below
2500
I spent a month at the noted Eure
Spr in » Ozark Mountains of
North
westorn Arkansas It
country
mouniai
mar MOP
$Y J
farms,
won ited
nornlly
and
town.
ge
deliver
Eure
$000 to
Fairy TR
proteetogd
Fifty
ration Mmits
most
are noted for
Tourists from
remedions or cures
Ee numbers
business
pm ber
under arcuriate
were
the other
long sentences in the penRentia
woney was recovered, an effective
1p of robles secured and not
citizen injured
After on
ka
GLO
sojourn of a month at Eure
short oar ride
Indeed af
Springs 1 took a
Corpus Chris
of Texas
of 15.000 population and
The
place 48 noted for its fine climate and
mide and
ii in sOnth west corny
This is a ity
Mexico
feated on Guill of const.
from nostheérn
withthe here,
of
interior
thoustusde of tourists
the and in
sates spond
oof imate 16060 people
STneT an
the heated
the sea breeses,
{rom plains enjoy
a fine fishing point and oys-
These
ge os those shipped from
Thin =
ters abound in large quantities
are not so |
Baltimore,
On Beptember 14, 19185, an unexpect-
ed and huge struck
city, destroying many hundreds
homes and drowning several thousand
people. The business houses were
floodded to the JloWer ceflings. It is a
difficult matter to secure any fair idea
of the number drowned or the amount
of damage done, as cRizena are boowt-
ora upward, and not downward
It i= interesting to see the vast num-
bess of ducks thint come here from the
northern states and Canada to winter,
and will return north In the spring
Not aft that start theie fight south.
wird will ever land, especially when
passing South Dakota, where many
thousands are halted by the aports-
man’s gun. Our house gets its prop
er portion, either hy shot or gift,
Expecting to leave March 24 for
South Dakota, 1 wit migrate a little
aghemd of the ducks Will have the
satisfaction of seeing them puss, as
they are protected in spring season, ns
ould be the ose,
Many Mexicans are focated In this
section of Texas which is a0 vast In
extent that the population per square
mile is very small indeed,
The industries of Texns are practi-
cally in infancy, pr on small propor.
tions when compared with the unde
veloped resources, so vast that we
must admit that this surely §s an op-
portunity for any crowded portion of
Uncle Sam's domains,
Having written at some length, 1
dose with best wishes to the many
tidal wave this
of
Counecll Meets,
meeting of the town
evening, the first
build a hose
Penns Valley Bank lot,
shop.
Al a
Friday
taken
council,
steps were
Lis
the
lock-
finally
standing
10 house on
next to
The
and
Rowe plumbing old
up. will be torn down the
Birger “public” dlding
The material will be
near
by. used in con-
house,
the
previous will be of interest,
10
state could be
structing a hose
Another
minutes of a
The
ascertain
item on
BOC»
rotary wig instructed
induced to
Water
4%
Hmits on the
built the
whether the
the
to
stretch of road from
the
same conditions
bulid
borough
that ft
of Pennsylvania
sireet
othor
portion Avenue,
A number of bills were paid One
held for some time presented by C. M
Smith for Nght rope at sixty
off a
wus being
Coens
poind, used to dose
rod
ile the
under discussion,
Engine OF Track.
passenger
wins
The
suet sd _
Lowisbhurg
momiing tradn
sd Tyrone
oranch
raldroad fig
Pennsyivania ured
3 Bellefonte
Urday morning
The
ver tl ridge when
of the
locomotive NE
» tracks
passenger oaches had
at
t leave the tracks
over the bridge but they
The
were domaged
for
in charge of
did
pony trucks
and
distance
the engine
torn
up BOE
Conduction
ioiels and Engineer MeColium.,
Crew This mishap caused
to be several hours late
fie east
—— my
Michael Paid One Claim.
$300 3
against FPF. P
of
Salim of made by
Michael
money received
CasKel Sock
hens
Campbell, together
uit for
‘Squire
that sum
Brungart
defendant Called to
ng procesdings were
recover
Druid
on the bond In the
Michael
Cums
Stoner
in 815
*
arnishod
inst
vee ofalm
art
————————
“Tom Thumb Wedding”
Marriage of the Midgets
Wediling
hall
Thumb will
Gimange
4a and § vears amd
a director who will
rill the oldidren and urn
ture,
An
such
evening of clean, wholesome
furnish,
Committee
as only children can
waits all who come
Snow Drops—True to Name.
Pretty Yitthe
called snow drops, making their
APPearance, having been brought
to this office on Saturday by John H
Weber, of Centre Hal, The bed of
drops has been covered by a
of Joe and snow all winter,
flowers, commonly
are
one
EDOW
thick coat
but on Saturday they began to appear,
penetrating through not less than
and one-half inches of The snow
drop is a decidedly pretty little flower,
highly scented
one
joe,
More Foxes Killed.
William Hoy and Bruce
nude a shor fox chase on Nittany
Mountain, Friday morning, and
ceeded In killing a fine grey fox,
in the fourth fox this winter for
Hoy.
Archey Moyer also succeeded in kills
ing a fox on Nittany Mountain, a few
days ago, making the fifth for the
seamon for him,
Arney
BUC.
This
Mr.
Postal Service at Low Ebb,
The United States postal scrvice
has reached a low ebb in many ports
of the country, partiouiarly In the
south, where «the Republicans of any
NO. 10
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
James Reed nun wdl known Harris
township citizen, was in town on Fri-
day on business,
Mra M. A.
on Baturday,
shopping
Burkholder and children,
were in Bellefonte on a
mission
Kenneth Swartz, the JNtile
Mr, and Mis
Fort, was ill
Bwartz
iatter
Orvis
the
week,
Miss
Pittsburgh
Flizabéth
arrived
home in Centre Hall
week,
have only
to make
sri th
BE
Bakertown
and Frank
own, bot juniors
State,
Mr
Penn
partment at
over Bunday of
town, formerly
erect a
the early
nkenherger
¥ go 1
MINDEBIOW OF
summer
eo
H Leigh B
First
ight, cashier
National bank,
id Biudy of
the income tax
onsidembie exXperien
ror t lor cyl
preparation of
income
wor ices and vice will
without any charges
William F
township's successful
a business caller
Saturday He
monet
wns nt
has a
high -ci
terest in
ural
Lewistown
fetter
body was Lavwthst
view
offered by
recently formed
Commonweal
hold
Williamsport
the
will
sociation
Pennsylvania its fir
nus meeting
im
August. The convention will atir
it fest one hundred persons, Includ-
ing sheriffs, deputies and their wives
office of
will be
All persons holding the high
sheriff or ex-sheriffs
for membership,
ae
eligible
C. F. Delninger, who is employed as
statistician the Employment Bu-
reau of the Department of Lalor and
Industry, was home
On March
to the UI. 8B
special agent, with
Horrieburg. It carries with it
creaned salary and Is a
in
over the week-
end it he was promoted
cmployment Sesvice as
headquarters at
an in~-
recognition of
the value of his services in the past
on
souri,
her return from St Loals Mis
the stler part of Jast ww.
Miss Ethel Symbb spent a
with Miss Sara Frantz,
Hall, Miss Swabb recently learned
that two of her sisters were In the
Westorn ofty and # was to see them
that she made the trip. Miss Swalh
went from hore to State College, where
for the presont she will be at the home
of Dr. L. E Kidder.
The bright sunshine of Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday got away ith a
large percentage of the deep snow
ek
few dove
near Contre
val-
leva. Travel is now on wheels, many
of the roads being well cleaned of
snow, Over Nittany Mountain the
auto travels with considerable ease,
ag it does also between Old Fort and
Mithetm. On Monday the conditions
between Centre Hall and Potters Mills
were reported not so good, but that
the road over the Seven Mountains
Centre Hall, Pa.
9
DboJa