0000000000000000 FOR 20 CENTS The Centre Democrat will be sent at a special campaign rate, to any new address, for 20 cents until January 1st, 1900. QO00000000O00000 : FOR 20 CENTS ' Ign ( asm PAA CHAS. R. KURTZ Ed. and ve TOP BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1800. VOL. 21 NO, you will notice that £4 000 is th first two vear had no in FUS ASD FANCY INCREASED THE TAXES \ Few Points on the Republican County Commissioners ACTS ABOUT THE jan Ne Good Fi Levied More Taxes 1 Now Claim They are Some ey Their Statements Lor Others Completely Retuted "nt n county si he ia about t oO! me attention vell to examin titra attention : ppl from out week's Gazette, whigl a rien] WCC i IL Says *‘At the end of 18¢% board, the county had assets of $37,633.31 and liabilities of $14,161.15. county was $23,472.18 other to words, the county to-day 000 better off than when the present ook hold of its affairs blican board t ddition tomaking house ne that board wilh assets unty or a gain six ! tax rate was only 3 mills term they had numerous special e that were heavy About $1 1 ed tures to make county funds turns for condemn f : | b use, the taxes mill statement county is copied or purposes, in recent from the tatements From the ab t can easily be seen that a 1'4 mi tax produces $4.644 08 more revenue than the former year, on the regular assessment alone Then to s ad 11 be added mill increase this must the on the unseated $3, over former years. amounts together we have an increased income of over $5,000 on account of the increase of the millage, This board taxed the public unnecessarily 10 show a surpius, and on that ground ask for a re. election. The fact is that the increase of the millage last year was unwarranted, unnecessary, unjustifiable; and when they talk about increasing the county's assets they should tell the people that it was done by increasing the taxes over $5,000. That is the simple truth of the whole matter, In that same article from the Gazette lands whose total was X00, OF an increase here of about £428 Adding these two IAs Atthis time the good. If tha ig | Af they f the amount of various this board claims ha on expenditures for permanent impr ments to the court hou ment shows that only § Fx pe n SURPLUS 4 under a Republican 3 ieasily see where county come in 1 nest iad not ion, they nc was most a } Weve ola was ire mountain White De of the eptember, A ie daughter of George W., Buckhout and 1 sit1¢l ee » [ 1 erton, president of the State College .—— Typhoid Fever at Boalsburyg There are four cases of tyg The d and in Boalsburg Weaver rof. Hower alliicle are facob two Mrs. P an aren, and The attending phy. sic places the cause of the disease in the water these families use. as thes both use from the same wel pp Saw Mill Burned The portable steam saw mill of W. I. Harvey, at Eddy Lick Run, a tributary of get at the real Beech Creek, Clinton county, was burned The plant was valued at £2,000 and the loss is covered early Saturday morning by insurance. The mill will be rebuilt at once, .—— EX-SPrAKER RExD'S bope expressed in his valedictory to his constituents, that they ‘would always be true to the principles of liberty, self-government and the rights of man’ | preted by some as a slap at the adminis. | year, tration, hoid fever | cess of + paid Tast vear | V0G OWNERS They are Opposed to Paving Unfair Tax EXORBITANT cessive tax 0 put an end u« : ythis trouble i t of Commissioners to The law says if there § $200 he } the us t does nex eft over at » end of the YEAr in shee w iu ’ red over to that not mean the commissioners shall see to it that they scoop $1,000 each vear by an $2 sive dog tax in the last two years, and the $5,000 the the millage is taken from that $9.000 re- excessive tax Now 0 exces arising from increase of publican increase you will commence to facts of how well these commissioners have been conducting that office. Any board of commissioners can increase the assets of the county by un just and excessive taxation In reply to this dog tax, we expect to hear these gentlemen say that they are following exactly the same course as the former Democratic Board, But it mast be remembered that this law was passed is being inter. | 1m 18g and went into force the following At first it was unknown how large the sheep claims would be. Then the come from of it OW tacking the a Commissioners’ oth has fended those fendauts say they will subpoena a num ber of ex-State Senators and Repu! an State leaders to testify in the case when Both d it comes to tria elfendants gave bail for their appearance at court » -— - Lutheran Synod The Forty.sixth Annual Cons ention the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ce tral Pennsylvania is now in Pa. The Synod its territory partly the following countie Centre, Mifflin, and 42 ministers, go congregationg and nearly 10 SCSRION Belleview includes Juniata, 1 Perry, ni Snyder Clinton, numbers 000 communicants, It has 90 Sunday 1,402 officers and teachers and 11,054 scholars. Rev. H. C. Holloway and ex-Sheriff Wm. A. Ishler are present at the couvention schools, and the Lutheran congregation Bellefonte. Because of the absence of the pastor there will be no preaching services in the Lutheran church on Sunday, but on the Sth of October at the usual hours and communion ou the 15th represent of CORN CRO] The Sunflower Record in Cr virion 1 Kansas huckle Of an eastern strawberry fu eight persor at A freigh Cree wreck o kK ratiroad, Saturday night Shoe in which five « de. were The cause of the =» A Tot Aion over feck is pecu- of Italians were having a a keg of beer and after the contents of the keg had been drained one of the number picked it up and threw it under the wheels of a west freight trals bound which caused the cars to jump the track. No one was injured, but traffic was delayed several hours, ps Gov, RoosveLr scolded the Ohio democrats because they are seeking office and power. Colonel Teddy should re. member that warniog about glass houses, A WONDERFUL ) | is and fe we hand fet us take lo things pal. burglar his getting rattled honest 5.3 dodge a Even the ny creditor when they suddenly meet com ing around a corner The manufacturers of brass band in. struments Jo not always know, how to blow their own horus. “It's tree,” sald the dressmaker, as she sewed on the imitation silk, “that things are seidom what they seam.” They tell us the chicken crop is in danger of falling short this fall, but we don’t believe it. Why, every single chicken has a crop of its own,
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