4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BE LLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1897. The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, -~ EDITOR & PROP CIRCULATION, OVER 1800, Telephone Call 1183. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION tegular Price $1.50 per year. If pald fa Apvases : $1.00 OUR COLLECTOR. Next week our solicitor and collector, Mr. W. HH. Zeigler, will be in Harris Ferguson and College townships. Al per. sons im the delinquent list on subscription, will be duly notified of time he will call, It is hoped that our patrons will be pre. pared to grve him a substantial greeting when he comes EDITORIAL. THE coal miners strike in the Western coal fields has caused buyers of Clear- field coal to their but the price remains the same merease orders, Tug Dingly bill has one redeeming feature about it. Under the new tariff wealthy tourists who go abroad dare not bring back more than g100 worth of weaning apparel. Under the system prices. they orget that vou have things to bay as to sell Want to buy for $12 £16 for it. saved to you on one cli his year? 1 years ago There's $4 3, There's a bet. There's a dandy 1] I'd have asked r ter planter than the one I sold ten years ago for $60 better, Take it along for £40. Remember that binder you bought of me ten years ago for $18¢7 Must be el? I'll sell you a so per cent. better one to-day and throw off the £39. You farmers don’t know when you are well off.” - . The Peach Crop. Prom present indications the peach crop, now about to be marketed, will be the shortest crop produced in this coun. try for eight years. Reports from Mary. land and Delaware, which are usually two of the leading States, estimate that the crop there will not be more than oune- fourth the yield of last year. The fail ure is largely caused by the ravages of the curculio—an insect that infests nearly every orchard in that great peach.grow. ing country-and by the late frosts af- fecting the blossoms and causing them to drop off in June. More encouraging reports come from the peach growing districts of Pennsyl. vania and New Jersey, but, notwith. standing, there will be a scarcity of peaches in July and August, There will be a fair crop in September, because they then commence to come from the mountainous districts, - Smoker's Heart-Burn. Heart-burn from excessive smoking, or from any other cause, is relieved by the first dose of No. 10, Dr, Humphrey's Specific for Dyspepsia-25c- all druggists, you a whole lot worn out, Ts : il as things | | REPLY TO “TAXPAYER. DEMOCRAT In the Walch man of July 23, a “‘taxpayer’’ writing for the purpose of commending Mr, irachbill, a member of council, makes it his business, before he reaches the purpose of his communication, to be labor the borough council, the overseers of the poor and the school board. We know nothing about the number of mills of tax levied for borough pur- poses, but if the council has levied the amount alieged by “taxpayer,” and will then pay the $5.000 of floating debt, which he alleges exists, the council is doing exactly the right thing. The chances are, however, statements ‘taxpayer’ makes about the borough finances are erroneous. We are sure they are, unless he stuck close to the real facts, than he did in his state- ment concerning the finances of the schoo! board. If “taxpayer” had made inquiry he could easily have learned that the school board only levied a tax of six mills, in. stead of seven, as he alleges. An ex- amination of the published reports of the finances of the school board, would have shown him that the state appro- priation was only $4586.48, instead of $£6.000 or nearly so, as he alleges, and that instead of having over £5.000 of un- paid taxes, there was-only $4,377.49 re- ported ; and on inquiry he EDITOR that the » would have learned that when commissions and ex onerations were taken out the sum realized would not exceed $£3,5 We should like the ‘‘taxpayer” more specific and correct in his Pe f he ’i Wile ¢xtravagance In t mich Iga } he board i ' 4 s clearly only the adopted and applied to be hoped that ti rule fea I BO Fhe train wi tations rian § - Bids For Stands Fo Men's Hecla Park, on August 12th, 1897, bids will received for the following and separate privileges on the grounds, viz ice cream stands, fruit and confection ery stands, cigar and tobacco stands, soda water fountain, checking baggage, snooting galleries, swings, photograph gallery, lemonade, soft drinks and pea- nuts, and other special attractions not conflicting with above list. 11 bids must be received by noon on Friday, August 6th. Right is reserved to reject any and all bids. Business Picnic at be district J. W. Gephart, General Superintendent, Bellefonte, Penna, - —— What De the Children Drink ? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called Grain-O? It is délicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their sys- tems. OGrainO is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about i as much. All grocers sell it, 15¢. and asc. tf ~Straw hats at any price, at Lewis, The Chainless Birycle, Ten thousand chainless bicycles will be put on the market next year by a prominent manufacturer, It is said there will be at least half a dozen makes of these wheels for sale, and the will be $100, A manufacturer who has tested his chainless wheel over 800 miles of roads in all sorts of conditions says the wheels will be of a gear than the chain wheels, and records will be smash. ed with them galore, JIARRISBURG LETTER [IARRISD I Ll Fen Some Important Changes in the Ballot Law, GOVERNOR ENDS SESSION'S WORK His Veto Ax Waa Used on Numerous Lis tions Cut Down and Approved—FPenns Consclentiously = Approprin- sylvania Day at Tennessee's Cene tennlal, (Special Correspondence.) Some Important law Harrisburg, Aug. 2 the ballot by the late legislature, and Deputy Sec- retary of Barnett, in an interview, sets forth what thes« to the papers a changes in were made the Commonwealth troubls year ago, in the result changes are. Owing about nomination and the Dauphin thereof ins providing that all blank forms for nom- shall bi the secretary of mmonwealth in No other * such purpo numerous contests county court, as a an amendment was erted hereafter furnished the « inations by in the f $5,750 for the salary ef of bureau of mines for two Iso $2.6%4 for chief of bureau for and $575 for mes senger of bureau, and 35.000 contingent thereof, This Is the bureau created the last legislature, and Governor Hastings will have the appointment of the chief. It ig sald that Robert Brownlee super intendedy of the Red Run coal mines, located "near Ralston, in Lycoming county, a personal friend of Attorney General MeCormick, is his selection No name has yet been announced In connection with the office of assistant. Attorney General McCormick has handed down an opinion in the matter of publishing mercantile appraisers’ lists. In York county some of the newspaper owners held that selecting newspapers for printing the list was a subject for the auditor general to de- termine, rather than the county com- missioners, and some of the newspapers printed the list without authority to do so and sent in bills accordingly. The attorney general held that the matter was one for the commissioners only to decide No Bird Day in the Public Schools. The late legislature passed a bill to establish “Bird day’ in the public schools and providing for a proclama- tion of the same by the superintendent of public instruction. This bill has set apart one day in each school year on which the schools would have exercises in the form of lectures upon birds, read- ings from bird literature and essays containing results of the observations of birds by the pupils, the singing of gongs about birds and the recounting of personal experiences with them. Governor Hastings vetoed the bin on the ground that the school children could find more profitable employment fn adhering to the established curricu- lum of studies as is now required than they would if they were occupied In the way provided by the act. He sald further that the significance of such assistant two the eXDENBeN YOAre, new by school holidays as Christmas, Wash i ints ington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birth. day, Fourth of Juiy and Memorial Day, would be detracted from by adding “Bird Day." Two years preved the bill senatorial county, aggregating the bills year other bills Ago for contest the governor disap the Heller-Laubach from Northampton about $32,000, be- not itemized. This sent to him with the total reduced to about $18,000, and he approved them. In cutting down the expense accounts of the various investi- gating committees the governor makes this suggestion “Inasmuch there appears to be no legislation fixing the fees of stenographers for services to legislative the fees and mileage of witnesses, and the fees and mileage of the sergeant-at-arms, in performing service for the committees, [ earnestly recommend that an act of assembly be passed governing all these subjects." Portraits of State OMcoials, At every session of the legislature there i8 a bill or two making appro- priations for the painting of portraits of state offic or the portraits of distinguished Pennsylvani- This year there was an item in the appropriation bill for $300 to portrait of Thaddeus Bte- Matthew Wilson, for department cause wert were ns committees, nls purchase of ans general purchas yens, the « ernor ernor there wh were of being appointed to the mercantile appraiser under this act.” Several prominent Democrats, among them former Lieutenant Governor Chanucey F. Black of York and James Kerr of Clearfield, were here the other day to arrange for a meeting of the executive committee of the State league of Democratic societies on Aug 12, in this city. This meeting has been called to make arrangements for the annual convention of the societies, which will be held at Wilkesbarre shortly after the Democratic state con vention at Reading, when the nomina- tions will be ratified and plans adopted for the campaign Owing to the late day the state com- mission authorized by the late legis- lature to arrange for Pennsylvania's exhibit at the Tennessee centennial has decided to eect no bullding, but to recommend to the manufacturers of the state that they make such exhibits as they think best. The Tennessee man- agers have agreed to reserve for Penne sylvania such space as may be neces- sary for the state exhibitors. An ap- propriation having been made by the legislature for the dedication of state monuments at Chicamaugua, and also for the transportation of survivors of that battle to the battlefield on the occasion of the dedication of the mon- uments, it is proposed to have Penne sylvania day at the Tennessee cen- tenial about the ist of October, so that the old soldiers and others who go south about that time may be able to participate In both events, The Army of the Potomac will have a reunion at Columbus, O, a few days previous, and the general idea is to have the veterans of the war go first to Columbus, thence to the Chattanooga ceremonies and on to Nashville for the Pennsylvania day exercises at the centennial. Governor Hastings and his staff, with other state officials, will go south at this time, An elaborate program has been promised for this occasion. rested pers Jorir ’ positions 4 First Prizes, each of $100 Cash, - 20 Second “ “ *' $100 Pierce Special Bioysles. ‘REE ™ A The." ! 5 Bold Walche EACH MONTH (During 1897 Sunlight sox WRAPPERS For particulars send your name and full address to Lever Dros, Lid. Hudson & Harrison Sts, New York. NDY CATHARTIC 104 ALL DRUGGISTS to cure amy case of constipation, Cascarets are the Jdeal Laxs ABSOLUTELY GUARARTEED Yyve mever aris. or stipe. put come sary nstural recsitss suo ple and booklet free, Ad. STERLING KEMEDY O0., Chicago, Montreal, Can, , or New York, 219 BTACKPOLE. EG S00 9%509%000e . 8 see : rh se FOR ~~. THE PICNIC! 00000000000000050000000000083 TITTY IRR TTT Ye AAEM A A Yl MR A i i id SKCHLER & C0.. I'SH HOUSE B ) BELLEFONTE GREATEST CUT SALE CF SUMMER CLOTHING== TOWN, “lk f of £15.00 Suits go at 11 of 12.00 11.00 10.00 BO O000 0000 ih. RERRR RR RRR * \® evs 9 or hen y() > ¥ LS M MPR » 4 ks 5 Hed 7 be . 3 | —__ > of 0.00 - » of 3.50 lot of Then we have a limited odd sizes of £10.00 Jand R12 Suite which at this sale go at 85 TROUSERS... £5. N) 4.00 3.00 2.50 1.50 Ee i of ol, se A 78 A “od - 7) agi kind cut down to 3 “ £4.00 3.00) 9 9 i) ~~ “ “ (43 EY MONTGOMERY & CO. ALLEGHENY STREET, BELLEFONTE, PENNA,
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