A - VOL. XCVIII Y, JU A —————————— NO. 29 DEMOCRATS MAY ABOLISH BOTH UNIT AND TWO-THIRDS RULES Be Exchanging Views on Much- Discussed Problem. ON TOUR TO PACIFIC COAST The Crawford and Emerick Party Give Reporter Readers Excellent Des- eription of Trans-Continentay Trip by Auto, : “Bill’”’ Musser, in Limelight As | let Wounds in Head — Body 1 OF MOUNTAINS. Jootlegger, Found With Two Bul- yiscovered Sunday Afternoon by SPLIT WITH STATE COLLEGE, “State” and Centre Hall Divide 50-50 on Two Games During Week. Bdllefonte took two games from Mill. heim and Centre Hall TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST “FROM ALL PARTS. 204° Herbert Heaton, Farm Hand, in County Jail as Suspects—Trio and State : v . . ! a god wi - The Seen Together in Blackford Restaurant, Bellefonte, After 12|le¥¢ divided on the games played dur looking corn on in en” crop many farms Concerted action by members of the (Received too late for insertion lust promising. Its Democratic National Committee from a number of western and States in an endeavor to the unit rule and two-thirds . inoperative in future national conven tions has the of formal interchange of views the subject, of the revealed. A committee member from one west- southern both majority make advanced to stage on committee a member ern State had prepared a formal dec- laration the subject for submis. sion to meeting of national Clarksburg, Va. early in August. Under this resofution, would declare both Democratic to the plans for the convention on the committee the Ww. proposed at the commitiee to recommend that 1928 the nominations, rules contrary principles and marfous State bodies all of on and thereafter be calculated basis of majority rule on the and with every delegate far free, so as binding party rules are concerned, to vote his preference. More than of mittee members have given own the com- to one-fourth assent the proposition since the national con vention the have adjourned, leader In move said. Additional been sounded on the question, and have promised to the proposed resolution full committee. Thomas B. a members bringing the assist in before commit Love, national of week.) Ban Francisco, California, July 11th, 1924, To the Editor cf the Centre Hail Reporter: We promised drop you a line give you some data of our trip to Cai fornia. We have been so busy tak~ ing in the sights that we have had no time to write, Our party consists of Mr. and Mme, FF. M. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Emerick and son, Paul We left Bellefonte on Saturday, June 14th, i California on June 30. way of Nationa High- Kansas City, going through W. Va. Dayton, Ohio, In ind. St. Louls, Mo. then Fe Trail through Dodge City, LaJunita, Col We then to Springs after spending a day and struck followed Mex- We in five trees ali to in by and arrived We traveled way to Wheeling, dianapoiis, by Santa Kan. to side trip Peak: South again Trinklad, which latoon took a Colorado and Pikes we here Wert the we Pass New Albuqguesque, forest it the Santa trail over into and the consists 4 5 §00, Fee petrified ¥ through which went Arnizona thousand twenty acres petrified trees are one pnd rom four Lt, =X At Maine, Arizona to Grand Canyon and We did not CARYOon as we ving down. some dred feet f feet long in diameter we turned North stayed one day and night the EX er of mules down the ted; party ride had some after looking it over thought it too hard from 8 A.M to afraid that the the task to rile pack M. We P Ya ff iwlord s [eet i were a 4 Cr LIS would drag on donkey would have tide through with tds that Br 1d and that the len 2 ¥ no backbone We do know HYWeVer, teeman from Texas; W. W. Howes, South Dakota, Clyde Iowa. are understood the lead view of making situation which cent convention sible. and Herrng, of | to have taken i primary of the impos in the move, with a a recurrence the i developed in re. | unlikely, #¥ not —————— A AGP ATS, Community Plenle. The annual community picnic will be | held on Grange Park, Saturday, Aug ust 2. Posters and announcemnts will appear iater, m—— AA AAI Metal Paltes for Hunters This Instead of the cloth tags have been issued with hunters’ ever since the State license law became effective, hunters this year will be sued meta; tags resembiing miniature automobile license plates The tags are being made at Huntingdon reformatory, They four by six inches in size and sluminum. with the lettering and merals in enamel, which has baked The 500,000 licenses ordered for thi year are being made at a cost of $12, 000. The printed tags cost $16,000 last year, being made by a Baltimore firm, and had the contract been given to the State printer the cost would have been $40,000, it is declared The State printer, contending that under the law the contract belonged to him, is now suing to recover the profit which would have accrued to him had he been given the contract The new tags are not yet ready to deliver and hunters will be permitted to use their 1923 tags until the new ones are sent to the county treasurers for distribution. S———I AAA SN FIND TAXES EATING UP RENT FROM FARM LAND. Season, which licenses is the are | are of nu- been & Federal Survey Shows Levies Heavier Than om Urban Property. State and county real estate taxes since 1920 have absorbed a larger per centage of the income from farms in various parts of the try, a study announced recently the Department of Agriculture closed Basing thelr study on taxes for 1918, the experts found that the southern area, real estate taxes absorbed about 10 per cent. of the net cash rent: in north centra; states 12 to 25 per cent. and in western states 10 to 38 per cent. Since 1919, taxes generally have increased while rents have been re duced and there is reason to believe, the department sald, that taxes ' on many less favored farms have absorb ed all of the income from rent. Local rather than state taxes are held re- sponsible for the greater part of the burden. Present taxing methods which take land wvalumtions without considering farmn earnings as the basis for tax- ation are objectionable, the department sald, and pointed out that land values indflude anticipation of future earn- ings which may never be realized. As average cash rents are the best index of the earning power of farm real estate, the experts declared the truest measure of the tax burden the farmer is carrying is the ratio between average taxes and average cash rents, A recent survey of more than 100 Indiana farms, the department said, showed the ratio of taxes to rents in- creased almost threefold from to 1924. The 1919 study covered 26 States and Indicated that farm ceal estate heavier taxes than urban real estate in the counties cov: rent on coun- by dis- Emerick i the Grand Canyon will thir- it would not have made hale stand up on Crawford's head anyone it mie fs bevond description, as sany who has ever seen in miles across and one deep teen The are trip yin petrified forest and Grand Canyon well worth the whole post of an g the Can the over toe to the Coast Leavin aver game West Barstow, ( went South Maine to Ng a decided » Canyon it Neodles dy i we road to then desert and This conditi change in weatne Wie I; was ve comfort the wed at it was 123 We M the The places we Kingman snd Need and drink their i hile shade, ove miles this RA ¢ Some of in an aie 19 ie from unth o'clock a nignt roads were good il some poor only at hotels We an npn] were nt al Bernardino driving through through the We bought dozen. There lem nt the glad when We Riverside ind oranges for ie water were we reached 8S spent some Tine and Redlands orange fruit groves 5 cents a pre T0000 cnr in Cad they toads of lemons now In Sorage srl trees as nil as t Horna 3 can hang and shels on the ground to waste, Continuing ou rip going the coast we stopped al Th the hi Santa on toward ostrich farm $25 hats but We passed 1 nd continued Pasadena to ae the © ¥ ladies wanted ohjected o buy male side u fL.ox Angeles a Monica, ind d= one to live that Here we of Bnow meriy of State in the real estate business and is build- ing some the finest bungalows wr has ever seen it fairviand to go through Jullock #8 in the garage los Angeles and has a the center of the are doing fine. After spending three days in this vicinity decided we wanted to see a little of Old Mexico, so drove down through San Diego to TiaJuana We arrived there Sunday morning and every building on the main streets had a bar room and gamb- fing machines One bar was 160 feet in length and the quart bottles were lined againet the other the full tength of the bar. We did not sample the goods but saw lots of it being consumed. We agnin started North and stopped with a cousin of Mrs Emericks. This town 3s in the fruit belt: they also raise English walnuts here. land in this section is worth as high $5.000 acre. Leaving this place we continued North thru Los Angeles, stopping for lunch at Universal City. like all tourists we wanted to see all we could so Craw- ford and Emerick applied for admis gion to the Universal studios. They thought we wanted a job and asked us what we could do. We informed them we could do most anybody if they weren't looking. The guard sent us to another gate but we there informed they were not admitting visitors, We, however, saw them filming pictures in soversd other places. We then pro ceeded North via the inland road thru Bakersfield. Some of the party had covered the coast road five years ago #0 decided to take the other road, but never again— Bakersfield ds just about as hot as the desert. We then turned East to the Sesquiiia National Park: to reach this we hind 26 miles of one way roads through the Sierra Nevada mountains contrdlled by three ranger stations. The altitude at the place we turned off to go to the park was less than 300 feet above sea level, and when we redched the park it was 6.900 feet, 5, you see how we climbed for those 26 miles. Some of the party did not weem to enjoy this ride but we will not mention any names After reach ing the Park we were well rewarded by seeing the big trees: some 300 feet tall and 26 feet in clroumference and from five to six thousand years old This seems like a fairy tale but when one sees these trees we must believe, The are numerous groves of these large Red wood trees in California and “Or which is located the beach od on the most beautiful places the party Bob Buddinger and Bob Sullock, f« College Buddinger has ever seen met formerly Shoe, We is of the seems like houses, in iter these business large garage Both men near city we we one as per ered. To LL ns um (Continued on inside page) - ® O'clock Sunday Night. Murder will likely prove to have heen the eulmniation of a drunken spree ens gaged In by “BUI” Musser, hix nephew, Harry Musser, and the latter's farm hand, Harry Heaton. The trio started out from the Harry Mussor farm home, below Penns Cave, Saturday towards evening, and from the Information at hand the mst seen of the three was in the Blackford restaurant, Bellefonte, some time after twelve o'clock Satur- day night. Thelr movements after that untill some thme on Sunday ap- pears known only to the suspects Bow In Centre county jail The dead body of Musser at a rather secluded place the highway leading from Washington Furnace, In Nittany Valley. over the Nittany Mountain Madisonhurg, Brush Valley, The location was found close fo to is PF. 0, offices S, of A. Oflicers, New in the local Past Pros President Vv LF Muster Spring Mills, irs ——— A AAI Letter from North Dakota. Antle x. 12, J i The Reporter Pardon fe prompt in pay mve been ih #0 ae to be neds I will CRITe [ome P hope that I $1.50 and enclose paper for another paper so much whil i a that ft touch with a great home don't continue through mia in the east that otherw) er hear from Well ful the this has been In whe a far of May nothing hasn't summer the month fy dry that truth, #t time yet the have could grow been We 4th of had hard Very had our first sping Hut gince of and of warm any rain June, thet sme very or we plenty rain the 21st hail The cut The small, and hurt much. The gardens were al most entirely destroyed, time we had hard but not much hail, #0 crops look gond but is lute account of having been to, cold The June berrfes ought to ripe but 1 doubt whether they will get ripe in this month, so this year they ought to be called August berries Everybody has thelr share of trou ble in this world, On the 30th of May my little granddaughter fell and frac- tured a bone in her left arm, but she has got along real well. The rest all quite well and very busy. inlaw has been very busy aly spring and summer. He me charge of the Norte lumber yard and implement house: alan cond yards; and it keeps him busy all the time, Today ie a very bright sunshiny’ day but not yery warm for this time of year, i With best wishes, 1 nm, Yours very truly, MRE. MARY H. PRICE. - —————— AI MBA im ham vicinity of Maxbass, ones June they had a very wim in the rye and early wheat wore badly up to much rest of the grain wine quite not and wont amount a very rain here, about here, everyihing on be The Qentre Reporter, $1.50 a year Is known as LHtle Sugar Valley, He Iny In a path leading from the main road to an eabin, a distance of about 200 feet. The body was covered hix overcont and his slouch hat was used to protect the face. By his side wins a hottle of gin, Forest Ranger D, 0. Dorman stumbled onto the dead man's hody acecldentally, He passed by without disturbing It, but soon an sequalntanes of Dorman’s eame along the main road, and then the two made sufficient examination to discover lden- tity and that the man had two bul- let wounds In the head, one bullet en- fering hack of the ear. The men at once notified Sheriff BR. E. Taylor, who immediately took measures to proceed legally in the matter, (Continued on inside page.) Encampment and Falr Notes, bay, July 2 omm the will WERKE 6, Encampment again meet, thereafter until fle two August will be done this year ulflding program is plan- This i» demanded Hy the spice Aor collective highly lHmited facilities must ire desirable resent wovements for 1924. rather simost 300 the needed it in planting surrounding entire a much new tents been play ground onal have ah more the children R. CC. Blaney, material for the for printer August § in in ine Agent and nave the reddy ast the shout ommire With last year an in and fourth prize paid, with ¥ the 4 Arrangement ex- in dropping the paying 10 cents owing to the decided oa there has been phe Of Classes the al table department “ f the amoun of this ¥ of ad committees dwpense with fo (continue othin © Ar the 03 the an- the nee- conducted as in Vocation - Extension ban iriment Fa and Tie ONOMaCs, State repreantad for successful series wesented by various subordi- entertain is very plenty of 2d of the week. in being wor Faun 3 W WY EVeTIINE torium e nw sud prom will be music done to insure gathering and al the fact that, ves it will 8, prove cessful pesint to Lithie arm An Prohibition Favored. of the United ty One opposed either of according to chairman of committee of the Am- association, who addressed of the proprietors ire Liwes repeal or modification the prodfibition vo Fes aw, ane Howie educationa inn Hotel convention Organ. a ———— Hazel-Schaeffer Reunlon, ual Schaeffer and Hazel re Hoes Ha il held at the Grange park, Thursday, August 21, st wives and their friends are to attend. The this year will be in the form of picnic and is expected to be the largest f entre which rel cordiaily invited re. gnion a basket # One Of in years, A I MAH Cars Kill a Motorman, 21 years old. of dived at the Lewistown hos internal Ruse] Calvin, Burnham, pital from injuries. He was the electric train which from the Miller sand mines to the siding of the Pennsylva: nia Rallroad and was knocked from the motorcar by the trolley pole, trail- ing passing over him, LLL AS Sn Amendments N. @, state supreme court has unani- declared unconstitutional the $35,000,000 soldier bonus amendment {to the Pennsylvania state constitution. {The court based ita opinion on the iground that the constitution cannot amended ofteper than once in five Under this ruling 1928 would he {the next date at which an amendment leould legally be offered. i The court also declared the absent {voters amendment t, the constitution unconstitutional, aw violating the se Grecy of the ballot and the place of voting prescribed by the constitution. The court pointed out that the spec ific wording of the oconstitution--"no amendment of amendments shall be sibmiitiod oftener than once in five yeare'—cnnnot be ignored, A A PS ADGA. A Brimner alr compressor was in: statied by DD. A. Boomer for the conven: motorman on haatle sand CAR The mously be iyears, need greater inflation of tire The compressor will also be utilised pump gas so that the crank may discarded. a —- the past week. Home Run Wins at State College. In the fast-gathering darkness eighth of the New ing in the Centre Hall-State Field, Bpicer, inning Beaver Ode Eame on last Thursday evening, Grows’ fast football bleachers In it to the fleld, ones and sent deep center Very few people could see the little sphere aw it sped through space. but they did observe two outfielders giving with all the speed Bplicer the head of the returned ball, and "State chase they pos- a orowened rubber a- put a game in the “won” column after of bark severa all the with extended hit it a series reverses which weeks. Bpicer's big wis more sensational, for came two down in an extra in ning, made necessary when Centre Hall tied the score in the Tth with four runs, when they went after Tomco and pounded out five hits, the first hits the second State Hoth driving the former from the box in made wince inning. bombarded Crawford and Gross the third Among State's eleven hits were three and home run The three-bHaggers a box score: CENTRE HALL 3b 1h Fetierolf, Durst, Frank, Tf Gross, ss Pp A Emery Foust, Keller, 1 Spyker, & f if H Emery, A N cf Crawford, of Crawford, p, ss Totals 7 STATE COLI R JGE Lonberger, of (Ode. ns a ir Hartawick, =e x 4 Fa] pe +) Bpicers ib Hpicer, Giiland, Williams Kellerman Hallobaugh J Tomoo, Gilliland, P Totals 5 11 24 11 Defeat Crippled State College Team. With three of her best ing in the Mne-up, State College down to defeat Saturday or Grange Park. before the focals Score, Lonberger, Spicer Rn (Hiand. a trio of State's dependables, were sbsentees on Baturday, and Cen- tre Hall had little difficulty with State although the game was no Walk « by any means Gross was hit hard, but showed flashes of good work in the fourth he struck out the =ide, and in the # innings caused 14 of Siate men to fan. Foust caught a clever game, held the base runners to the bags and threw out al; who attempted to steal. It was the best catcher's work seen this season. Eddie is there with the stick, too. He set the pace mn hitting for his teammates collecting three to one for any of his co-work- ers Crawford's work at shory was noteworthy. The box score: STATE COLLEGE players miss went afternoon and [fe eT Laytie, 2b Spicer, 1b Hartswick. Wiliams, of Buck, of J Galland, 3b Hollobaugh, ss Minnikch, of Kellerman, p a = o NBO obweow Te »t | TE ale Totals © Frank, 1b Durst, 3b ... Sfyker, as, 2b Foust. ¢ H Emery, of Knarr, of .. Keller, if ....... Fetterolf, vf ... N Crawford, ss A Emery, 2h.es, of. 1 Gross, p .. —- | emacs cobomn — 2 lucuoccstcummes » wl essed eomwmel ranma Totals —————— I AS — “Able's Irish Rose” You will want to see “Abie’s Irish Rose” the comedy with a beautiful fove story, that will appear in Moose Temple theatre, Bellefonte, Monday and Tuesday, July 28 and 28. One screemingly hilarious complication fol- lows another so quickiy as to give no pause to the roars of inughter. The play ran in Pittsburgh for months, and was witnessed by a num- ber of persons from Centre Hall, who had gone to the Smoky City to witness a ball game between the Glants and 3 greatest “my now weeds, are The new home being bullt by J. El- plastered Mills. mey D Royer wa H. A concrete # recently by Slegle, of Boring witlk wae fadd to the front Kerlin Fit Grand of the property occupied the by Hamue«l one of View ner, employees at the Poultry Farm Mrs W f Altoona, tel Bell i - * ephone operat of system of Miss operator that ofty, was ¥ a Bell guest Verna Howe, While every automobile driver al- ready kno in worthwhile repeat- Ing that dropped ome cent in price The “ gelling for 24 now CENLE Troop headquarters com- y -seconid machine gun rs 1 soal troop, of Boals- t Mt Wee K Gretna. They another Ei merick children, by and Bt week. went train where they were vie of Mrs Grace are sisters 3 Belleville on Wed with the srnal call Mr. Allison, equipment, 1s A Newsy Weex- Centra: Last York New improving unemployed 4 e The Woe time, wer ams been in the past Carpenter * at Potters team = position nnsylvania, ind 1d and annual Mw of the Bus the 150 College on Bat take phils countians mote nd Boing farms. Cen from or ex ry yd orld Texas essional tes se to the Wichita Mr. Musser be st league smdeavored 10 transferred y that league z p ’ season, principally because the of ficial major league rules appiying to use of the spit-ball, ball, do ne the emory ele. i apply down there in whited Farmers his section who hed ideal quantities homed unusually both all hay weather last week. Large of the choicest were The hay timothy thick the ground There were very few barnes in all this that had hay of any quantity in them when the haying season open- ed. so there was an abundance of room carpenter orew, ~~ the finishing touches on the Sunset club house and will have their part of the work com- pleted in the near future. The exter- jor and interior are being painted by John M. Coldron, and helpers. The oolors outside trimming are Mack amd cream, making a striking and pleasing contrat with shell stucco work. The dluby house will be ready for occupancy in about three weeks Misses Anna Morgan, Teresa Cassi dy and Esther Lenton, of Williams port, passed through town Friday noon. They were on a hike, having {eft thelr home Wednesday morning previous, The akirt was by way of Altoona, Huntingdon, Lewistown, Cen: tre Hall and Lock Haven. To test the generosity of the country folks they took but Httle money with them. They were delighted with the layouts, es pecially that on the table of Mrs. Bruce Ripka, at Centre Hill Mise Catharine Gleixner, sn of Mr. and Mra Edward Gleixner, is at the Dr. Weaver private hospital in Lewistown undergoing treatment and a serier of operations for tuberculosis of the bone in one of her lower limbs. She has been a sufferer for a number of years and although numerous treat. ments had been resorted to her condi- tion appeared 1, be growing worse, It grafting will now be resorted to. Her hay as a result crop is heavy. the being and on section for storage. The Houseman Millhedim, are putting on the and complete recovery.
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