CHAS. R. K”
BOROUGH AFFAIRS
AND POLITICS
A Few Important Offices to be
Filled
CAREFUL VOTING NEEDED
Selecting These Officials a Matter of Business
The Best Men Should Be Selected —Sug
gestions for Prudent People
How taxes
were Reduced in recent years
For spring elections, we believe, too
)
much political sentiment prevails. VYot
ing at this time should be a purely busi
Bellefonte pr
owners groan severely when the tax col-
ness transaction. perty
lector comes around, and there is cause
it.
money
for They must pay out large sums of
for local government,
would be more thoughtful about electin
men to important positiot
would be different, In
there is a substantial
cans. Republican
scheme around
pations, and thus
heelers on their
hand, the demo
of necessity,
| on the
the poor «
shame-—an outra
ford was elected
What
he redu
we
cient work.
mediately
mill, and the second year
reduction of a
if re-elected, he «
another mill.
mills for poor purposes
a 'g7 we paid six mil
five mills and it is
by bh
Here is economy, g
cou
ficiency —now
remain
taxridden
whether the
fonte want such «
Mr.
Shaffer, the
good m
your choi
The offi
mm portance.
. am
for the position
»m there lo make against
Mr
held this office for about fifteen ye
Kelly thinks that after Mr. Cook has
ars at
a yearly salary of §3o tota
$4500, that he had been
and
There is meril in ti
at the
public
tarn
lic offices do not bel ng tos
Boro Auditor we have
and W. H
This 1s considered a
For
tims, republican,
Fsq., democrat,
and re-
minor office, yet very important,
quires integrity and ability. Learned in
Walker has qualifications of
He has
thoroughly
the law, Mr
a higher order for this position
the energy to probe and in
vestigate, Elect him and you will haye
an official who not only can compile sums
its true
but asd! in sense,
and totals,
hat is what we need
What the voters of Bellefonte want, is
often far from what they need. Often
they vote directly against their pocket
sooks and their best They
should have exactly what they ask for
It is not our business to tell a single
interests
man how to vote, yet it is proper to point
ent the above matters to prudent people
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Want the News,
The editor of The Gibson (Ga.) Ban
ner makes the following pathetic appeal
for “"copy'' in a recent issue of his jour
nal: "We want the news, If your wife
whips you let us know it, and we will
put you right before the world, If you
have company tell us—il you are not
ashamed of your visitor. If you havea
party or gathering of any kind, bring
around the cake, seven or eight pies and
a side of ham not necessarially to eat,
but just to show your friendship and ap-
preciation. You needn't mind inviting
us, as it may be too cool for our ward.
robe. We want the news—that's all.”
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To Get Rid of Wars,
Warts can be easily and quickly re.
moved by applying castor oll to them
two or three times a day. This is the
simplest remedy known, and it ia scarcely
ever that it fails,
| waiting yet and will wait until
fools."
IZ, Ed. and Prop
LATEST FROM MANILA
Pi
Mood
Has Gone
Aguinaldo in a Humble
A « able
that the insur
The Army
Insurgent
returning to
+ white flag
Aguinaldo’s vluence is mbletely
* now asks for a cessation
1d that a conference
held,
No answer has been sent to his requ
Business is being resumed, and the
tives respectful and cheerful
Ful
arc
| account of the battle with Agu
rents on Saturday and
» found on page 2 of this is
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A GREAT FISH STORY
werman Carp Discovered at
randsville
NEARER THE GOAIl
ing merely r amusement
:
could be sadder than to see tl
eating a contributed poem for
bread or When a man has
bil verybody before he
mem owes the amiable
printer; he squares up with the butcher,
the baker, the horse blanket maker, and
by the time he is through he says to
to
A great many printers in
himself the Printer will have wait
this
com-
awhile
world of sorrow aud sin have been
pelled to wait a while; they have waited
until their whiskers
have turned gray,
and their bosoms become melancholy
and they
the
grows cold, and the stars are old,
and their hearts bard; are
and
the leaves of the judgement book unfold
And it is all very sad, at least
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Word to the Wise
An Arizona rancher has posted the
following on a cotton tree near his place
“My wife Sarah bas left my ranch when
I didn't Doo a Thing Too her and 1
want it distinctly understood that any
Man as takes her in an Keers for her on |
my account will get himself pumped so |
| Roan had only been sick two weeks
full of Led that some tenderfoot will lo.
cate him for a mineral claim. A word to
the wise is sufficient and orter work on
“The Post Leads as Usual,’
“The Pittsburg Post’’ added another
| star to its crown of newspaper glory last
Sunday in giving early and complete re.
ports of the attack of the Filipinos on
our soldiers, which they so gallantly and
effectively repulsed. If you don't get
“The Post'’ you don't get the news.
sun |
| Sept. 7th,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
MANY DEATHS
FOR A WEEK
Caused
Weather
Much Sickness
[he
Variable
MORTALITY WAS INCREASED
From
They
ith
Who
r Points of Interest
A Briet Sketch Given of Each De
All
Were and Othe
with
Sections of the County
There
Deceased was
unty and was
served during
caves «
He
wife
weph Way, of Phils
Jane Gale of Curwensvy
nsiown
uneral took pla
noon and was in charge of Post
A}
of which the deceased was at
Jotermen
LAS R
MERY
HARNISH
Harnish died
bome in Tyrone at 1 lock Thursday
Feb of
about two weeks from grip and malaria
Silas E at the family
norning and, after an illness
fever Deceased was the son of John
M. and Elizabeth Harnish,
to Tyrone with their family from Snow
who moved
Shoe Intersection on the gth of January
last. lle was 23 years, 1, months and
21 days old
the the
brothers and sisterssurvive
Jesides parents following
Mrs, Joseph
Iddings, of Centre county, Mrs. William
Becker, of Harrisburg ; John T. Harnish,
of Cincinnati, Ohio; Martha, Martin,
Elizabeth, Minerva, Myra, Marcella and
Charles, at the family home
Interment took place at Unionville on
Saturday
JAMES PF. ROAN
Death entered the Roan home at Cole.
ville, and took away their father, Mr,
At
first it was only a bad cold, it then de.
veloped inte the grip and settled on his :
lungs.
He was born in Cumberland county,
1826. He was therefore 72
years, 4 months and 28 days old. He
leaves 10 mourn his loss a wife, Mrs,
Catharine Roan and seven children
Mrs. Orrie Atwood, of Bellefonte; Mrs,
Ida Long, of Coleyille; Miss Mary Roan,
Mrs. Joseph Norris, of Altoona; Robert,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY o,
| sown with wheat
| persons
1500)
al too
Int
25 cent lax
n ; mption notes the
Centre | rat has a new form of note,
embodying all the essential features of
the old style note,
necessary "Power of Attorney’ clause,
drawn ap and same was approved by
the three banks of Bellefonte, and has
been adopted by them
Every time you issue a judgment
exemption note, and use the old form,
you are required to pay 25 cents tax, or
liable to a severe penalty If
you use
the note prepared by us, it cost only
Harties
this office receive this new note
2 cents securing their sale
bills at
free. Others can have them for 10 cents
per dozen, or 40 cents per hundred
in all cases such a promissory note re
quires a 2 cent stamp for every 100 or
fraction thereof
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Tun special weekly letter from Har.
risburg, written from a non-partisan
standpoint, on this page, should be read
carefully this week.
the treasury looting bills presented to the
legislature, this session,
It shows some of
Look out for
more bad work by that body this year
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Some one has estimated that twenty.
two acres of land is needed 10 sustain
man on flesh, while that amount of land |
will feed fortytwo |
sowed to oats, eighty.eight;
potatoes, Indian corn or rice, 176 per.
sons, and planted with the bread fruit
tree, over 6,000 people could be fed,
| and a veteran of the Ci
CONCLUSION
OF COURT
An Fen
Settled
Important
A LONG WEEK OF COURI
of ren
A vaca:
sk having
met after the fire
me
nt was had and an award mg
pot accepted by the plain
uit On Saturday mo
tl iff amende
the plaint | his declarat
defendants plead surprise. A jur
withdrawn and the cause continne
the costs of the plaintiff
All jurors
day forenoon,
A.A
County
were di
scharged on Satur
Leiser, a aember of the Union
Bar, was concerned in the M¢
Cafferty insurance case
Court adjourned, on Saturdey forenoon,
at eleven o'clock
|
bad more
Monday morning further argument
was had in the Jackson equity case
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Centenariane Wed
John DD. Clews 102 years old and Mrs
Sarah Jennings 100 years old were mar.
ried at Monday
The bridegroom is a wealthy oil producer
Franklin, Pa., last
and Mexican
wars, while the bride is a cousin of
Abraham Lincoln, and resides in Fox.
burg. She was married io 1524 to James |
Jennings, and uas four daughters, seven
sons and twenty. five grandchildren, all
living
Notwithstanding their advanced age
these old sports are said to be as lively |
as young people of 40. There is hope |
and consolation im this item for those |
| maidenly maidens of thirty summers
and more, who are hopeless and forlorn,
as well as for the selfish, crusty old
bachelors.
| father,
and your bi
BH
business,
Matthews
Whereupon
fed 10 has father's once
sent in his account to Charlies
somewhat ahead of
time
Matthews, with virtuous rage, wrote him
the following note You must be a
[4
mr b
Your
have
Berry, to send me ¥
Berry
would
ROOSe
Berry, before it is due
the eld Berry,
\
sense You may look very
black — Berry, and feel very biune—Berry,
but 1 doa't care a straw Berry, for yom
Berry
Apswers Wanted
Why should well water ever be an
healthful
Why doesn’t a
han a short one !
Why isn't a combioation of whisky and
water a mixed evil ?
Why does ol age tear down circms
bills stuck up by youth?
Why does a prohibitionist kick when
be finds water in the milk ?
Why is silence golden when silver will
shut a man’s mouth just as effectively?
Why isn’t the patient is danger as long
as the doctor continues 10 visit him ?
Why does the average man prefer to
win a dollar on a horse race to earning
five by bhovest labor Chicago Dally
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