Che Crater Demo (97:1 8 " THURSDAY, February 14, 1889, Published every Thursday by the CENTRE VDEMOORAT PUB. Co." CHAS. R KURTZ EDITOR LOCAL DEPARTMENT. A Suceessful Physician, Dr, H. 8. Clemens, M. D., from the Sanitarium, Allentown, Pa., who isa specialist in all chronic affections, will be at the Brockerhoff House, Bellefonte, Pa., Wednesday, February 27, for the purpose of examining all his numerous patients with chronic affections. Hun. dreds of testimonials from our best citi- zens certify to his great success with the oxygen combination treatment, Consul. tation free. MUSEINGS, 1 would like to be a Commissioner, And with the Commissioners stand, With a nickle in my pocket, And a “plate of soup’ at hand. —To-day is Valentine day. ~Next Sunday will be St. Patrick’s day. —Preston the barber, was on the sick list this week. ~]t is about time for another big fire in Bellefonte; what is wrong ? —Mr. Chas. Nan has returhed home after an absence of several months, —Rev. W. E. Fischer, of Centre Hall was a caller at this office Saturday, ~The revival in the African church is in full blast with a large number of seekers. —The sign over Sternberg’s fruit, cigar and tobacco store indicates where you can get a good cigar or choice fruit. ~If you want a sale bill printed and advertisement, this office will give you satisfaction at the mst reasonable terms, —A jolly sleighing party, the first of the season, from Howard, took posses Sion of Garman's Motel, on Monday evening. ~The Keystone orchestra, of Miles. burg, will give a hop in; Bogg's Hall, at that place, this evening. All are cor dially invited. —Mr. Henry J. Derr, died suddenly on Sunday morning. He was able to be around on Saturday and was seemingly in good health. ~Mr. Bartram Galbrath, for many years janitor of the Court House, has been quite ill this week. He is well ad- vanced in years and an old citizen of the town. =Mr. G. R. Spiglemeyer of the ** Racket 8tore” purchased remainder of the Perl. &tein stock on Monday and will remove it to his room in the Crider building where he will dispose of it in short order. ~The first snow that made any sleigh- ing fell on Monday evening and more has been falling every day since, but not very much inall. The roads were level and frozen hard and made elegant sleighing. ~Rev. J. Milton Akers, formerly a well known Methodist minister of the Central Pennsylvania conference, and a mative of Fulton county, died at St. Charles, Minn., on Saturday, where he was stationed as nestor, =On last Thursday evening, our young friend Mr, A, Lincoln McGinley, 8on of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McGinley Was united in marriage with Miss Ella, @aughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Wil Hams, the ceremony being performed by Rev. D. 8. Monroe. ~Montgomery & Co. now occupy their #econd room in the Crider building and have it chuck full of new goods. In this oom they will keep nothing but ready and suitings ~ Bellefonte will be well represented | Company SHALL POTATOES, HOW. THE COMMISSIONERS TRANSACT BUSINESS. Another Sample of how the Affa'rs of our County are Conducted Small men in Ofice, 4 It has been the custom of the Com- missioners of Centre county to have the auditor’s statement printed each year in circular form and distributed through- out the county by the papers. When the printing was to be done it always was the rule of the former board—Messrs. Wolf and Greist, an honorable sett of Coms.—to notify all the printing offices of the county by letter of the fact, and always enclosed fu!l specifications of the work to bedone. That was transact: ing business in a fair manner and upon business principles. But how was it done this year ? To commence, they were late, and when ready thisis the way the Republican Coms, notified the papers. They called up the Centre Reporter, at Centre Hall, by phone, and wanted to know how many printed statements were wanted : that was their notice to put in a bid. Next the DEMOCRAT was called at Gar- man’s hotel and wanted to know from Mr. Garman how many we wanted, which reached this office several days later. The Watchman was treated to a like dose, by phone. Their reason in do- ing this was to pretend to give the Demo- eratie papers of the countya fair chance and yét insult them to their face. The result of this kind of business was that none of the above offices replied The Reporter and DEMOCRAT were not notified and the Watchman refused to have anything to do with these men, as he considers them without honor or in- tegrity and would cheat a Democratic paper out of the job by any disreputable means. The bids were to be received until Thursday evening and then closed. A short time before Com. Decker ap- proached the editor of this paper and wanted to know why none of us put in a bid for this printing—the first time we knew anything of the affair. When asked as to where the specifications were, was referred to the Com. office, and after several visits was told to bid only on “10,000 supplements, to be printed in same style as last year.” To be sure, the question was asked a second and third time and received the same reply. Thursday afternoon this office putina bid and that evening the work was to be awarded. Nothing was done until the end of the week when the Job was awarded to the Republican office. This delay indicated that some under. hand and dishonest scheme was being played. And this is what they did, and is from Coms. Decker and Henderson, When the bids were opened, the DEMOCRAT was the lowest bidder and should have had the job. Oh no! no Demoeratic paper was to have it, they tried to prevent it all along. Then the Republican office was notif. ed to put in a lower bid, and got the work. Wasthisan honorable transac. tion and is it nota disgrace to the county that men of such small principles should occupy such an important office, We have said heretofore that they were ir. competent and will add that their methods in this case were dishonorable and disreputable as public officers an! a disgrace to any man. We have since learned another reason why we did not silent minority, They expect to silence the DEMocrAT, by refusing to give it a job to which it was fairly entitled, but Say mercenary, Wwe mean stingy, miserly and small prin- cipled. And that is what we think of any man drawing three dollars per day and too stingy to geta square meal at the hotel, until exposed by the press, but lives on two plates of soup per day and inthe commissioners office dn OAS KILLED AT HUNTINGDON, The Desth of M. M Ray, of Bellefonte wtthat Place Wednesdny Night, M. M. Ray, a brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad company and a resident of that city, was killed at Huntingdon Monday evening. He was a member of Conductor Wise's crew and the run being between Altoona and Mifflin. The accident happened about twenty-five minutes after 7 o'clock. The east-bound trip was being made when the aceident ocgurred while some cars Huntingdon. Just how the aceident happened is not positively known, but it is supposed that he fell from his train. The body was not mutilated, Mr. Ray was about 25 years of age and single and had been in the employ of the company since June 18, 1887. He was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Ray, of Bellefonte. He is highly spoken of by his employ- ers and had many friends, being a young man of excellent qualities. The body was properly cared for at Huntingdon and then takento Mr. Cox's residence at Altoona, his uncle, with whom he boarded. The body arrived at Bellefonte on Tuesday evening and the funeral will take place Thursday morning at 9.30 from the Methodist church. Locate at Bellefonte, The proprietors of the Baldwin loco motive works, Philadelphia, have come to the conclusion that It will Kobn be necéssary for then 16 locate somewhere else. They do not have sufficient room for their extensive works and want to build new shops at some other point. A number of the directors of the establish. ment visited different sections of the state for the purpose of selecting a new location, If the Baldwin locomotive works leave Philadelphia they will givea great boom to the town they select for their new shops. This would be an elegant opportunity for the wide awake business men of Bellefonte to unite in an effort to have this industry come here. The claims of the town, when properly pre. sented would surpass any location in the state. Bellefonte, with its many and di versified industries, with its large and improved furnaces and rolling mills would be the place for these works and a desirable community for the homes of the many workingmen of that establish. ment. Let our influential men and wide awake citizens take an active step in this direction. Moore-McKee, Quietly and with scarcely a word of warning our young hard ware merchant, Mr. James D. McKee, took the Tuesday morning train and hied himself to Le mont, and there consumated a contract which he considers the most important event of his life. At the residence of Mr. John P, Mogre a number of relatives and near friends assembled to witness the marriage ceremony of Miss Maggie Moore, their daughter to Mr. J. D. Me. Kee. The ceremony took place at about noon. and after partaking of an elaborate dinner they took the 3 p. m. train at Le- mont for a trip to Philadelphia and other points, “All Guess Work, Congressman John Patton, and some if the other wiseacres who have been giving their opinion as to how the ‘Ounties in thisand other congressional districts will vote on prohibition, merely Kuess at it. They don’t really know any- thing more about it than anybody else, They look wise and make oraculor ut~ terances that may or may not be verified, [3 like guessing about a pig in a poke, The Clinton Democrat is about right on that point. sick list for several weeks. A painful bealing in the left ear is the cause of his sickness, ~Messrs John Noll and G. Brandon, of the Brockerhoff house left on Satur. day for Erle, Pa., as delegates to the G. A. R. encampment at that place. adop of prohibition in this state and then were being put onto the canal siding at | MACKEY, DEATH OF HON, L. A. Bick on the Street in Lock Haven nnd Expires, His death oceurred suddenly and un. | expectedly and was a great shock to { his relatives, He was taken ill on the Take noon was placed in a cab and taken to his residence on Water street When taken from the cab his Bpirit had flown and I. A. Mackey was dead, i «Li. A. Mackey was born in White township, Union county, Pa., ovember 25th 1819, and was conse. quently 60 years old last November, In 1837 he graduated from the Univer. sity College at Schenectady, N. Y., with the highest honors of a class of one hundred and eight, of which he was the Youngest member, He studied law to the bar at Carlisle in 1840, ruary 1841 he removed to this city where he practiced law until 1855, when he was elected President of the Lock Haven Bank, When the city of Lock Haven was incorporated in 1570 he was elected its first Mayor and held the office three years, In 1874 he was elected to repre sent the 20th Congressional District in Congress. -For many years Mr. Mackey has been President of the Rald Eagle Valley Railroad Company, and has always been closely identified with the leading interests of the community in I : : which he lived. He was widely known throughout " the State and formed many warm friend. ships with prominent men from all parts | of the country during his congressional Career, having served two terms at Washington as the Representative of the 20th Penn'a District. He leaves a wife and two married daughters, Mrs, J. H. Hayes, and Mrs. F. P. Ball, both residents of that eity, and the whole community extend their warmest sympathy to the bereaved fam. lly. ~Ezpress, Deathof John H Morrison, After a severe sickness, the venerable John H. Morrison, who lived on Spring street in this place, died on Tuesday morning at ten minutes past 11 o'clock. Had be lived until the 20th of March he would have finished his 81st year, He was born in Huntingdon county, near Shavers Creek. His wife. who is now an aged lady still survives him. Four children ave living—three daugh. ters and one son. The daughters are Miss Lizzie, Miss Jennie and Mrs. Rhen, the latter living in Williamsport. An- drew, his son, also resides in William- sport, Mr. Morrison was, several years ago, prominently connected with the politics of the connty, being a Democra » . The funeral service will be heid on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Episcopal church.— News. ~The recent snow was a great boon t the lumbermen In Clearfield county , and they are making good use of it in getting their timberto the streams for the spring rafting. ~Services in the Christian Chapel every evening of this week: Rev. W. Ryan, of Williamsport will officate. He i% an able minister and his sermons ev. ince much care and study. ~The last entertainment of the Star Lecture course will be the Sweedish Ladies Concert company next Friday evening. The company consists of eight young Sweedish girls who comprise a double quartette and apoear in their na- tive costumes. Their entertainment is highly recommended by all who have heard them and is a rate tuiscal treat. ~A passenger coach wad badly wrecked on Monday on the branch road between Milroy and Lewistown. The train was running at full speed when a broken rail caused the car to jump the tiack and it rollad dowd a steep em. bankment. The contents of the stove ~The Lutheran Sociable given at the residence of Mr, and Mrs. H. Y, Stitzer on last Thursday evening was largely attended and was a pleasant affair. The OUR BOROUGH ELECTION, | —_ { Streets with heart disease, on Friday | with ex-Gov. Pollock and was adinitted In Feb. | A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES FOR STUDY. How the Borough has been Conducted, | Bad Management in the Fast, Want Good Men to Hold the Offices, The Daily News und the sheet of slum and filth have of late been greatly exercised over the borough election. For the information of those who have become citizens of our borough within | the last few years and a reminder to our | life long citizens we wish to say a word | about our borough elections. ! That the borough is enormously in | debt everybody knows, They know | | equally well that this debt is entirely { due to the Republicans in the borough. | AN ENORMOUS DEBT, | We are to-day paying seven per cent | | Interest on #80.000 or 890.000 of our | bonded debt, The bonds bearing this | sum for 20 vears. get all the money it may want for four fifteen years past, enormous amount of bonds were issued, council, Business exverience «~~ hs ’ ed. LU TT sensé, sovind judgment, seems to have been of no use to the men, in this trans. action, It is astonishing to think that three men of s0 much capacity, and ability could do so vast and important a business transaction and show so little { sembling an “8 and the “ie : per cent, and have done so for at least | ‘ | coffer explained the whole Strange as may seem, in 1871 when this | E. C. Humes, Daniel Rhoads and Robt- | y : | s bi Valentine were members of the town | on the bill, good sense. They ought, and no doubt did know, that fanancial revulsion must | | come, yet they issue bonds to bear seven per cent. interest for twenty years with. | out providing any fund to meet them when due, or making any provision to | call them in and refund them when | rates of interest would be lower. So we are paying seven per cent. interest on $50,000 or $90,000 of bonds. Is it any wonder we are burdened with taxation” and industry and labor are driven from our town by our high taxes? The bonds now bearing seven per cent. interest will be due in 1801. The councilmen elected this Spring will be in council when these bonds become due and must be refunded. They cannot be paid. We have nothing to pay with, With good men in the council these bonds can be refunded at 3% per cent. in- terest. This will be some relief 10 our taxed people. We should look well to our council men. Itis little différence about their politics, so they are able, sensible, con. scientious men, who will legislate in the interest of our people instead of the money power. If it is possible, the re. publican party always nominates some one for councilmen and school directors who have just come into the borough and who, in consequence, know nothing of our boroughs real wants and needs and care less. INEFFICIENCY COSTS MONEY. Take for instance Curtin street, when it was first opened and the water pipes put down at great cost to the borough. Last fall when grading Curtin street, the water pipes were entirely uncovered and a new ditch had to be made and the Water pipes relaid, costing the borough as much as when first laid. Councilmen who knew anything would have ob. tained the proper grade of the street in the first place and then laid the water pipes 50 that the grading of the street would not have interfered, That is what business men would have done. GIVE US GOOD COUNCILMEN. A Baoly Seared Womun, A little incident ocenrred in town the | other day that cume to our notice and is quite rich, Of course. with iv came & warning never to write a word of it, but a newspaper man, like a woman, is not selfish, and ’ca keep anything to himself but will Zive it dead away. The incident we relate was an actual 0CCurs rence on Monday last, and have the os ry from an eye witness of the affair. One day, recently, Sheriff Cook put up a number of small bills about town | announcing the sale of a horse and har. ness belonging to a Mr, Walker. commit. ed to jail recently on charge of stealing a sleigh, The bill was the usual form. and read “a writ of Fieri Facias ete,’ Fieri was in hand writing, the “JF re. ana’ sg as to read, to one not ac juainted with the term, “Sari Facia.” On Monday Wm. Undercoffer notiesd two ladies greatly interested in reading one of these bills, and at last in their excite. i . rate of interest were issued in 1871 to | Ment one called to him and wa nted The meanest and | poorest municipality in the country can | ; anything about a horse and harness, to know what this meant. She said she heard of Walker, but did not know and Mr. Under. affair to ber, and pointing to “Sari Fassia” they put that name He at once explained that it Wasa common In" sad Vln when he ox: claimed “it is ali Meht then’ und walk. ed away with much satisfaction: name was Sara Fasia, asked what meant, but she was not satisfled what she thought was asked him why Prohib#ion Amendment County Convention The following call for a County Con. vention, to be held in the Court House at Bellefonte on Feb. 21st, has been sent throughout the election district of the county : At a meeting of citizens favorable to the adoption of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the Common- wealth prohibiting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating Liquor as a bever. age, a committee was appointed to ar. range for a County Comvention. In accordance with the above action the committee send youblank calls for a meeting to be held in your election precinet to select three delegates to a County Convention to be held in Belle- fonte on Thursday, February 21st, 1889 at 10.30 o'clock a. m. Will you please see that the announce- ment be made in each School House and Charch and the posters put up in post- office, stores and other public places within the bounds of your election pre- cinet, and make ali arrangements for the meeting. Each temperance organiza. tion is authorized, in addition to the three delegates above named. to send not exceeding three delegates from each society. Will you please see the officers of such societies within your precinet and in behalf of the Committee request their co-operation ¥ In order to success it is necessary that immediate attention be given to the matter and the meeting be called at as early dae as possible, Please send names of elected to A. J. Cook. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction in this section since the location of the decided livery ere long and wont have to run down there after our mail. fi “9 4
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