4 Temocrat, ED. & PROP The @ontee CHAS. R. KURTZ CIRCULATION, OVER 1800. Telephone Call 183. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price If paid In Apvanee $1.50 per year $1.00 EDITORIAL VOLUME EIGHTEEN. This.issue of Tur CENTRE DEMOCRAT | completes the year 1896, and rounds out | the 15th volume ed that in news features and other lines, the paper has made rapid strides for- | and to-day country weeklies. ward ranks among the best the liberal patronage of the public, who | seem to appreciate the efforts of the pub lisher to give one of the best papers for the least mouey. This fact from the large increase of our subscrip- | tion list—now larger then ever—and the | desire of business firms to reach the read- ing public through the agency of its ad- vertising columus, We are gratified with the of our year's work and during i hope to still do better, In conclusion, we hereby acknowledge the kindly the past, same friendly may Wishing all “A MERRY CHRISTMAS and Harry NEw YEAR," bid 1896 a final adieu mterest of our many patrons during and hope that the relations one and we IN this issue hungry office the county has ahead money seem more than « THE the people that won't monthly gr hopeful mood ; bu makes your Mon banks in ti ON should be the “Advan visit to that he must be should make note wont do WHEAT who had Crops ane benefit is no dem are u have not has the condition of the been improved since the at all. Pledges vance age he mus nt should soon - IT does not seem to be settle whom the republican board of C missioners will choose lerk Mitchell, Esq., time of being the prize as « felt confident fi winner been trying to catch on the ru: office. Mr. strong claim and thinks he port safely at the finish. said to although Joe. Barton others may surp Iks = Pontius has also be the leaders and Tig fate of Maceo, the Cuban general h coucern to the public. The details of his deatl ve been repe his ebrations published I'he been the signal for cel the Spanish population. Some declare that he was betrayed and poison ed by his physician, and the body then mutilated that he an The every day contains dispatches declaring tha: only to show was killed in engagement press, almost Maceo is not dead, but these seem to be for a seusation. To all ap- pearances Maceo certainly has been killed, or eise he is longer than usual in The death the placing himself in evidence. does pot conclude insur. There are plenty of patriotic of Maceo rection. lead left, among the Cubau forces Tus is growing fiercer as the time of the elec. tion grows near. Wanamaker friends aretrying to defeat Quay and his men, It $iber battle Quay must employ all his resources to truggle for the U, S. Senatorship and his an royal, and maintain bs supremancy as leader and | dictator 0 his party, If he can elect | Penrose, Be will do anything to defeat the wily Sutday hoo! teacher from Plliaditiphis. Mew is intimated that Senator Canicr d on Hing have reconsidered resignation i his mand at We jast moment may center € Cotte The te J 1h atest for re-election. republicans have all the offices. at Present and bave the » 8 » Np ort am t . selves in dividing the ¥ ong them maker is not a / in } some generous friend oust pr oui, for him. John always was o political boodler even if teacher, he is a Sunday school | Itis generally conced- This has been due to | is evident | spoils and if Wana- | due to population as to central location, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSECAY, DECEMBER .24 |CENTRE COUNTY | POST MASTERS (Continued from Ist page.) longed fight for the office atthat time, He thinks he is the best republican in the town, even if he was in favor of Bob Foster, as he pretended to be, Hehas a petition, D. W. Pletcher thinks he ought to have it because he and all his family and rela tives are republicans and always have been and always will be —with the ex- | ception of the Webers, He has no peti- tion: thinks it is not necessary to have Alfread lechtel, (Liberty township's main repub- any, as everybody knows him | lican) is trying to persuade him notto apply, as he is trying to get him ap | pointed Inspector of Measures Hays Schenck wants it. Everybody you meet on the street and talk to about He gets the office say he ought to have it. does all the dirty work and never any pay (unless some one donates a little for expenses). Republicans and demo- crats will be disappointed if he should not get it. Some of his {riends are trying to persuade him to get a better job—even } if it should be Don't Merchantile Appraiser know if he has a petition or not, as he says he thinks everybody ought McKinley is ir the offi wait until maugurates fore as claims are pretty 1 work to get something Holter don't ow about his § veral ahead SDONSI shortly after the new admin hold of affairs - Rebersbhurg Settled for standing firm for cant postmaster 18 W.S sound money; Mat ber Miller Ans wo pet of Gov Hastings, Quay, etc. Present occupation: bar Was was shoemaker the aud circulating petition until re no opposition Fhe subject of this skeich is a fine man The fact that he has no opposition everybody would be to the perfectly sa have him next postmaster, Rebersburg Present Small ; postmaster is J. C Thos, Zeigler Term of 1897 This, I think, will voice the sentiment of the people here assistant, p.m four years expires in September - All Solid at Roland, Regarding federal offices in this place, | would say, locally considered, they are | The highest grade of local office is 4th class postuiaster, This posi. tion seems to attach itself like the rail road agency and the Adams Express agency to the individual who runs the It is like the ‘‘corners’ or the “oross roads’’ of the South, not so much limited, store. position and occupation, all of which | means fixity as it were, requiring all these perquisites to fix the individual in ‘the possession of the Federal office. | John M. Parker unites all these attri. | butes in his corporate business charac. ter, as general storekeeper and Agt. of the P. R, R, Co., as deputy for H. R, Curtin, late assemblyman, as well as be. ing politically heeled for the dignity of a national office-holder, being chairman of the Rep. district convention and a thor. No, John M. If the stand ough partizan in politics, Parker is in it for good and all. Cleveland administration could hin, there is no doubt about his chances now, It is thought, however, that one of the big plums from the tree on State Capitol grounds, will drop into this ro- mote district the Hon, As an old. 0. K. “all and Harry will take it on the fly. they say timer ‘‘back-stop’’ Harry was Of course Dan will shake the tree right," > Woll's Store J. S. Emerick is the present post master here at Wol(’s Store and has been they tell me, for the last eighteen or more You « party he supports until after the election, years, an never find out which Of course he is now a “McKinley man.” If Bryan had been elected, then he would now be a “Bryan man'’, Could not find out when his term expires - Milesburg Hustlers. town is filled with ambitions who would like to have a nib. only thing availbale is » postofhce | } Martin, an old and oblis ituation at State Colleg: id Mt Vesu view Dut every grand en Atherton’s 1 matters State ( main aud his wish in « are ten regarded because is quite a pol To succeed the pr esent proprietor of Univer sity Inn an chairman of that distri 1 Arnol went on record 1 locked Phil as an Arnold man, in He con horus for congress preference to that his leg yiders merchant, and who has , thinks he ne jor promotion sid nerchant, soldier whe John Stewart, an time boss, coal dealer and never had a son, who is a great ill shove pen friend of Gov, Hastings —nit-—w his ¢ldim real hard James Stevenson, soldier and pensioner the his ’ retired, thinks job will suit him would destroy present monotonous occupation local Frank Weaver, an old soldier and office holder, also wants the plum. Mr. Hermans Stockman, an active re. publican, is also in the race. The above are the active aspirants, but all are laying low and doing quiet work Look out for an explosion later BE eLPREPSPSVS-PH TL To Prohibit Foot Ball Playing. The members of the Kansas Legisla. ture are about to declare war on the | foot ball players by the introduction of a | bill to send to jail any person who may participate in a game, The fact that three persons were killed and foot ball | one hundred and twenty-five others were seriously injured in the United States this season while playing foot ball prompted the Legislators to conclude that the game is barbarous. They go so far as to assert that foot ball is even more brutal than prize-tighting was in the days when men who professed to be pugilists had to fight or shut up. . HOOD'S PILLS cure Liver Is, Bllousness, Indigestion, Headache, 1806, Reduced Rates to Washington. For the benefit of those who desire to attend the ceremonies incident to the in- auguration of President-elect McKinley, the Pennsylvama Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets to Washington March 1, 2, 3 and 4, valid to return from March 4to 8, at the From New York, $5.00; $5.40; Baltimore, $1.60; $506 ; Williamsport, $8 $11.20; Rochester, $10.48; following rates Philadelphia, Harrisburg, 79 + Buffalo, Altoona and Pittsburg, $10.00; and from al! other stations on the Pennsylvania system at reduced rates The inauguration will be a most inter. esting event, and will undoubtedly at- tract a large number of people from every section of the country, The magnificent facilities of the Penn. this line the at sylvania Railroad make favorite route to the national ca all times, and its enormous equipment and splendid terminal advantages at Washington make it especially popular on such occasions. tf -~ Another Prophecy for Winter Prophet Hicks gives the following di mal prediction for the wint The win- ter of be cold now 18g6—"g7 nuch will long an with lox a litie wher rds will Ww kaded, i hicl iP Biya water ) haste GIFTN..... 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