THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 18, 1900, CHAS. R. KURTZ, FRED KURTZ, SR., | .. : CHAS, R. KURTZ. \ EDITORS. CIRCULATION OVER 2700. PROPRIETOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Regular Price $1.50 per year, If paid in ADVANCE i us ADVERTISING RATES. 1.1% Display Advertising 8 Mos, Or more (PER INCH BACH INSERTION) 10¢ 3 LO 6 INOS corrssns snnnstans suassnsnns ss os « 15¢ | to 3 mos... Me Less than one month YEARLY One Column 2 Inches caw. x 10 % ] 1 in0h.. conv No reduction fo matter Additional charges made for advertisements ehanged oftener than once a month, where com position is done In this office, Legal Advertising 10 cents per line for the first Insertion and 8 cents for each subsequent Insertion Transient Advertising Wants, Sales and like transient m in solid nonpariel, without being displayeq, cents per line each Four insertions 15 cents per line tisement less than 2 cents per week Circus and shows 30¢ per inch for firs tion and Xe per inch for each subse sertion of the same matter These prices are net EE aad - CONTRACTS r electrotyped or stereotyped l Circulation Over The Centre Democrat, A HALT ON LIBEL. | | of Charles F. Ettla against the German. town “Independent Gazette” will be a shock to those libel suit lovers who pro, claim from the housetops their purpose | to “make that fel low (meaning the editor) Mr, Ettla, who gives his busi. sweat." ness as ‘politician,’ was formerly secre- tary of the state Republican committee but the tive from his district. at the recent election he supported anti-Quay candidate for representa- forth a letter from the Quay candidate, pub- lished in the “Gazette,” in which amoug others things he referred to "Mr, Ettla's This called lying tools for perjury Counsel for the publisher claimed that Mr. Ettla was a man in public life and therefore, no matter how severe or un, truthful the article appeared to be, it could not, under many decisions he quot. ed, be termed a libel In this contention he was upheld by the court who decided that while the sen. tence given above was a harsh one it did not constitute a libel. In view of this ac tion by Judge Sulzberger there is likely the applicants for he medium of to be a falling off in { notoriety through t suits against reputable new remarks the Patriot papers The Democr wuld put in a reminder EDITORIAL. PLEASE RI That the end of the year hand and newspapermen mu bills just as promptly as any other busine man [For that reason we hope that all who have received notice from u WVEME] ’ 1 e ai 4 { meet their flhetr sndebledness will respond in proper form | is | before the end of December Ais smportant lo us PLEASE CONSIDER THIS. A carpenter working in 1866 should get $4 with the demands of the sugar trust A for day in ha 43 section hand should get #2 keep up with the working rR LOA f ! A steer weighing buy nearly four more oH] in 1896 than at A hog weighing 200 pounds wou seen! time d buy 150 pounds more than it A for Hu he uses J a wagon could than Thirty-four i would buy tod A less of A more he 50 . + hy buy as muc bushel of ba fe would It much in 1599 three d takes woodenware year as would buy in 18¢f this, and decide whether or Consider not you can afford to sustain the A GOOD SHOWING. 4 1 > 3 in spiie ol 4 lation a healthy When we that te consider aflected our industrie important fifteen or twenty 1 than hole This more our own ing would the growth table to Bellefonte, we cau show an crease in pppulation not far below 2000 Hence Bellefoute 15 a safe place to count on for business. The census points that f way. L=tour men of means keep this nirit pir 1 part in view and also keep their pu li " A determination on their Bel natural in play will keep strides around that seeks and outlet, all, alive iefonte's forward location, wealth all ur town for its centre are vastly in our favor OUR MILITARY BILL, Congressman McCall, setts, scored a good point in emphasiz. ing the fact that our standing army ap- proaches in cost, though not in size, very near to the colossal military establish ments of Europe, us an army costing $113,000,000 a year, This is $13,000,000 more than the British army, costs and only $12,000,000 than France pays for her huge military machine, Germany's costsonly $17,000,- ooo more. And when our $145,000,000 a year for pensions is added we are paying as much for military purposes as France and Germany put together, . bn - less POLITICAL DRIFT. Republican senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, says that if he is defeated for the senate the railroads will have the blame for it. That the railroads and trusts are fast ‘getting there’ to rule the elections and the country is simply the fault of the people themselves, and they will only begin to how! when it is too late. Warning has been given un. ceasingly of the danger, but the voting keeps going the opposite of the general of Massachu-| pails to show, besides a reduction The Hull bill will give | { here ‘hat when fitness of CHANG from Ow 4) PAYING FOR IMPERIALISM Hat lay, from Manila by way » ved Sar OCK Arn : Ald ass with th f IK h teen hundred sailors and soldiers, who either died in battle or succumbed to the the Philippin of ravages of disease in es. China, Guam and Honolulu - IT is certainly hard on the Democrats to have nothing to show for all the hard work of the campaign except Webster Davis and Senator Wellington, — Repub. { lican Organ. | We have over seven million voters to {show and that's a big thing. Since the {election there are more empty dinner of | wages A SURE sign that McKinley's Philip | | pine war is over is evident from the fact { that thousands more soldiers are to be | sent to the islands. | over’ Really, the war "is "there - The great anthracite strike, which was brought to a close just before the election . will probably have cost the railroad and coal companies not less than $10,000,000 in gross earviugs, and will actually have cost them in profits in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 The losses of the roads in October alone. reports for which are just issued, accord. ing to the Financial Chronicle, aggregat. ed $6,812,118. - Superintendent of Public Instruction, N. C. Shae ffer, citing as authority several court decisions, announces First, that books cannot changed while the schools are in session. Second, that it is not allowable to purchase books not le. gaily adopted. Third, that books can. not be legally bought unless they have been legally adopted within the time set by law. ud be LIST OF JURORS. to serve as jurors at the coming January session of court, commencing Monday, | January 28th, 1901, and continuing for | two weeks: GRAND JURORS ~ FIRST WHEK | tested Boggs Philipsburg G, H. Lyman, farmer George Parker, blacksmith, H. L.. Morgan, painter cs Jacob Ripka, carpenter. .....Centre Hall Clark Herman, plasterer... State College David Korman, farmer Haines Lewis Mensch, farmer. .. “" Ira Mechtley, stone mason....... Walker Benjamin Stover, farmer. ......... Potter B. B. Wilson, creameryman.. ..Millheim James Bartley, farmer Marion Bliss Aikey, laborer... ........++. Spring Curtis Wagner, miller........Bellefonte David Chambers, laborer Snow Skoe | Jacob 8S. Herman, huckster,.....College 1. D. Miller, farmer............... Walker H. W. Pletcher, operator Howard | J, Wesley Miller, farmer Harris Paul Shipley, carpenter... ... Unionville Isaac R. Williams, carpenter... Liberty John Royer, farmer PRN | John C. Morris, teacher Miles James Ardell, laborer Rush H. A. Garoer, farmer veeens FETgUSON TRAVERSE JURORS — FIRST WEEK, Curtin Walker Worth John Knarr, farmer Henry Lesh, laborer Henry Melchor, farmer Wetzel, carpenter Howard Carr, laborer Asher Sankey, farmer Jacob Hoy, farmer F'homas Huey, farmer H. Mi Samuel er, farmer Thompson, ag atters K Pp in Glenn Holt Mur A. F throck, ! 0, farmer rat Aborer Char K es ray, coulractor rom, farmer het aborer Ro ea on Armer "a gent Potter Gregg ipsburg David ) ' D. W. Sweetwood A. J Ww (ye laborer hant merchant aborer Graham Carlin Derr, | | Tee > Rupg George Weaver Taylor, carpenter aborer r yin laborer farmer mbelibis, farmer Smith amuel Taslo { john A Daley, fart Henry GG. Wasson Henry Sam forgeman A < 1 aborer % 3€ Houser e, carpenter tenbauder, farn n Z pka, farmer 1 Dugan, labore: Hart M. Thompson, v. FF. Townsend, ohn Kelley, laborer Spring Ferguson hilipsburg her laborer wick, tea | P i mine boss ] Benner - ERECT THE MARKER Many parts of the state commend the proposed of our exchanges from other a marker over the graves of In township, during the planting of the massacred Stamford family, by dians, in Potter dark days of the early settlers, as now Bellefonte Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, proposed by the These women have received credit and praise for planting the marker that alone rescued the location of Potter's Fort from ! A history of the massacre of oblivion the Stamford family was printed in the Centre Democrat several weeks ago - Becomes Sole Owner, At a meeting of the surviving partners Hughes & Co., held on Mouday, December 3, in Philips. burg, for the purpose of pro rating some of the assets of the firm, W. V of Altoona, became the owner of the en. tire H, H. & Co.'s plant on North Front street, Philipsburg of the firm of Hoover, Hughes, The remaining as. sets of the firm, consisting of coal and | other lands, together with several dwel. | ling houses, will be advertised to be sold at public sale later on, This practically winds up one of the largest and most progressive business firms in the county, of which the late EK. C. Humes, of Bellefonte, was a member, Mr. Hughes for a number of years was a | contractor in Bellefonte, buildiog the | Presbyterian church and many other of | the older buildings in the town, combined at Nittany RURAL DELIVERY, Judge Sulzberger’s decision in the case | The following were drawn on Monday | Some time ago I saw an account in the | Centre Democrat stating that rural de- livery of mails is being established in some parts of Centre county, Throughout this part of this state the system of rural delivery has also been and satisfactory to the people, as well as to the postal depart. ment, proven The regular government post. offices are being abolished and the people are putting up mail boxes. Instead of the people in the country going to town for their mail it is carried direct to their homes every day. The only places where free rural de- livery has proven unsatisfactory is in vicinities where the route established by carriers was too lengthy to cover prop- erly in a day's drive. The service throughout the country is | to be extended and improved, and in. | creased appropriations are to be made THE GLOBE ASN DRY GOODS, MILLINERY & CARPETS. OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF: WOMEN’S and MISSES’ LEI LEE Coats and Wraps by the government in further establish. | ing the service. H. PF. YEARICK East Akron, Ohio, Nov - 28, 1900 Boy and Dynamite Cap. Monday the Brown, of lock Haven, found a box con- his The boy cracked the cap with The young son of taining a dynamite cap near home, a slone, 1 when it ex) | (leq tle plod itle EXCLUSIVE AGENCY. . , P I'he } i ne i Ve : Va w » f iS { 1a : xs Fen N BEAMILEAS WANRM A Mons nd State KY KR? re Colle ge, — P! BLIC SALF Personal property and real estate of the JER EMIAH HOY ESTATE In NP. Gre 2 miles north of Penn Hall, will be o puliec sale THURSDAY IE iwp . fe red al 1 on DECEMBER 77th Atl 12 o'clock noon, the following. to wit HOY HOMESTEAD Consisting of about 2 ACRES of god thereon erected a good dwelling barn bugry shod 5 shed and all neo bulldings mountain water in § ped to the door. a gon] young orchard of eh Apples Five acres of this tract is well timbered and the balance Is under a high state of cultivation This property is conveniently near and schools and is a very desirable home, TERME if purchase money to be pald on confirmation of sale and the balance in de ferred payments to suit the purchaser PERSONAL PROPERTY At the same time and place the following Top buggy, spring and truck wagon, 2 sleds, sleigh, corn sheller, straw cutter, lot of hay, straw and corn fodder, stove, harpoon hay fork, farm nglimplements, cooking utensils and many ether articles Loo numerous to mention, Terms will be announced on day of sale JOHN ©, ORNDORF, Exr Fenn Hall, Pa and word SSSAry out Good Hes FARM FOR SALE Known as the Crawford Mil Site and Farm Pa containing 109 sores bank barn, two goad houses good orehard, alee a peach orehard aiff rent aid Bye vgiivi ios of grapes from CR 1) along pik. leading to Brushvalley, Sehool bulidings adjoining premises, Offer combined property for $200, $40 on confirma tion of sale lanes in Afteen annual pay ments, A very good chanoe for any one to pur ehase a home, The water power globe is worth wl, nhvasit, for manifetuting PUL poses, all and sew the place and be cons luceo of the bangin offered to Ang poe looking for a home, A.A PLETCHER, Nittany, Pa. i, kinds Located one mile land, | house and | of choles varieties; | of cherries | Has been divided into three lots. Too many in stock is our reason for cutting the prices so unmerci- fully. LOT 1. Containing all goods that formerly sold from $5 to $7. Are now priced at $3.98. LOT 2. Containing all goods that formerly sold from $7 to $10. Are now priced at $5.50. LOT 3. Containing all goods that formerly sold from $10 up- wards. Are now priced at $8.50. A CHANCE FOR COAT BUYERS. DON'T MISS IT KATZ COMPANY Allegheny Street BELLEFONTE, PA Proven a PEFe6t SUC66SS The New Treatment for Gatrrh and Deainess. List of People Recommending the Dr. Grows Larger The C Has | Weather 1isease gorm I danger d Lung hich the re “ whi rersthought w Against med) It 1s the cold wealth or antidote. What | has done Is a proof of what it will dolor you-—if you'll let nit Dr. J. K. STITES, No. 21 North Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, Pa. Ear, Nose, Throat & Lung Scientist. NEW TESTIMONIALS, Was so Short of Breath That he Could Searcely Walk the Hilly Streets of Bellefonte, Iam ever so much better My onse is one that gives credit wo Dr, Stites and his New Treat.went Every one speaks of my rapid Improvement, and | myself feo) liken differ ont man now All the horrible suffe ing 1 have endured from Oatarrh whose » mptome ATE LOO numerous to mention, except that | Was short of biwa'h, that 1 eonld se Arcely olimb over hilly streets, are Mmpidly disap pearing now. Tam ever so gratefol and sm | sure | shall soon oe & well an seals | Thanks to the New Treatment of Dr. Stites And his untiring skill in my case Respeetfuily MILTON NYMAN, Roland churches | { Treatment Pralsed by Mrs. Anns Dietz of Win gate Who Had Given up Hope of Ever Being Cured, I have been a great sofferer with lung trouble for some time and was prononnoed incurable by other physicians. | was so weak and short of breath and the pains in my chest was terrible | went to Dr Stites with {Out hops of being cured hut | am 2nd 1o say {throongh Da Stites and his New Treatment 1 { fen! Hike 8 new person fam. oh ' so much better nll ar oh | I do not hetitate to recom mend Dr, Stites and his New Treatment Ranged tally ™. ANKA DIETER : ! Wingate, Ms If you cannot come to the office write tor information regard 1 Spec Treatment ing Special Home All Chronic and Nervons Diseases succesfully treated, Consultation and Preliminary Examination Free. No Inourable Canes Taken, Hours: 9a. m,t0 12, ItoBp.m., 7 to 8 p. m.
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