Sg equal propriely the county and lseal ; athotitier should insist on similar 7 epor NO. 50 VOL. LXXIV. MEEVING OF STATE GRANGE, The Urgan'zation Scores the Secretary of Agriculture, The most important feature of the | meeting of the State Grange at Johns | town was the report of the legislative | The committee consisted |! corumittee, of W. F. Hill, Hampton W. Rice, Leonard Rhone, Louis Piolett, Wm, | T. Creasy. The report favors the elec: | tion of United States senators by a| direct vote of the people, extending | the powers of the interstate commerce | commission, further extension of rural free mail delivery and such other | matters as are herein outlined. The tendency of the ship subsidy | measure if passed will be to lessen the | price of our agricultural products, yet | we are called upon to help foster this | industry while we are already being | plundered by unjust tax luws, and | robbed by trusts and combinations | which conspire arbitrarily to control | prices of what the farmer buys and | sells, The western irrigation scheme will cause the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars principally to en- | rich the private land speculation ; will} increase competition and depreciation | of eastern farms, In oleo legislation, the committee! says, they unfortunately were fronted with the bitter opposition of the secretary of agriculture, who stood not- con- with the oleo combination, and withstanding the testimony of an oleo dealer before a committee of the legis. Isture that he sold 4,000,000 pounds of red secretary fn. movable vent the passage notorious this mention was made of it in ridicule by ultural in col oleo, the was in his determination to of the bill opposition that! pre- No was and of the grid many of the leading ag daily papers. The pouring hundreds of petitions from granges and farmers of the state over whelmed the opposition and caused the powers that be to acquiesce in the passage of the law which is now upon our statute books. But with unwill- | ing and incompetent public cflicials the Lest law can not be enforced. The | agricultural department needs al thorotigh overhauling. The incom- petent and iocapable as well as those who ate not iu sympathy with the great agricultural interest of the state | should be dismissed [rom service, | The committee urges the passage of | the Groat bill taxing eolored oleo ten | cents per pound, and asks speaker] Henderson of the House to subsitute for | Mr. Wardsworth, the oleo advocate of | New York, aman favorable to the dairy interests, The committee placed itself unaltera- bly opposed to any road legislation | that would not tax all kinds of pro- perty for read purposes ; also « pposed placing the roads under a central zed | state comission or any scheme that | would fasten upon the farmers, eounty aud townships bonds that would be a burden upon the agricultural class, for the next century, In the coutest over the Taggart | Grange Tux bill in 1801 the Uirange se red an increase frown the state of | $4,500,000 for the public schools, mak- | log a total aouual appropriation of | $5,600,000. In the same year they secured a return from the state to the eounties of three-fourths of the pers sonal property tax, which amounts to §2500000, It also, the! sane year, secured from the state to the counties and townships the en. tire retail liquor licenses now swount. jng to $3.500,000, thus masking ap anuual saving to the local tax payers of $11,300,000, The committee urged Slate Grange to take & new departure in forclog & more cqaitable method of eollecting local and state revenues, We would urge the procedure by in- Junetion, through the courts, instruet. ing the county commissloners and boards of revision of (axes of cities to Assess Lhe roadbeds of transportation companies as real estate, taking Into consideration the value that the rails and rolling stock give to (he land occupied, taking the entire value of the property as reported to the state government for taxation and appor- tion it per mile in esch county and township as a basis for loeal taxation, thea deducting the amount taxed lo- cally before the (he state levy Is made. The Geange would have a precedent in this under the Acts of 1858 and 1850, under which the terminals of transportation companies are taxed In he cities of Philadelphia and Pitte- burg. And a more recent precedent Inthe ease of the city of Beranton, levylug a license tax of from 2 to 5 per cent upon the gross esrnings of street railways, telephone and telegraph companies, steam, water and gas companies as well as transmission companies, If cities have the power to levy taxes on corporate and personal pro. perty, for loeal purposes, then with now | the | Work tor 1001 Finished Up Fridny After. tand B. F. Vonada; secretary and treas- tee, J. L. Neff, W. | xechbange will be open all night. { writes that the weather is very cold in | work. | present CENTRE HALL, PA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1901, TEACHERS INSTITUTE noon Interesting Sessions, Institute closed Friday afternoon. The sessions were enjoyed by teschers and spectators wine went there with proper motives. The instructors were of thie highest order, and if the teach. ers who sat under their instruction during the week were not vastly bene- fitted, it is no fault of the Iustructors, The evening eutertainments were entirely satisfactory to the large audis ences that listened to them, Ex-Gov- ernor Taylor's lecture was unique from start to finish, He is entirely origi- val, and borrows from no man. The misic was superb, The directors’ meeting in the Y. M. C. A. rooms was largely attended, Pa- pers were read by Hon, W, C. Heinle and Col, D. F. Fortney. Discussion was entered into by other directors. D. F. Fortuey, Esq. ( apt. C. T. Fryberger and A. C. Williams were appointed a committee to select officers for the ensuing year and also choose five delegates to the next State con vention and made the following report? Presider 1on Wm. K. Alexander: vice presidents, OU Ler Muthersbaugh urer, H. C. Quigley; executive commit. 8S. Glenn, F. D Hosterman, Cornelius Stover and Samuel Brugger; delegates to the State Convention, D. F. Fortney, 8B. W, W. C. Heinle, Wm. M. Alli son aud C. L. Uramley. Sith, RE LOCAL ITEMS George Rivestone, of Millheim, died | in that place Monday. Hereafter the Ue. 1 and 1. The borough reservoir has been chock-full of water for the past week, The Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company meets at Rubkle's hotel to- day, Thursday, Mrs. George Bradford, of Old Fort, was the guest of her brother, W. H. | Bobo, in Peun township, over Sunday. Philip Mersinger, of Jollet, Ill., [livols, murcury dropping 4 to 12] below zero. There is good sleighing about Joliet. L. W. Musser, of Walker township, sunounces his candidacy for superin. tendent of public schools of Centre Mr. Musser is a graduate of an Ohio State Normal and has had considerable experience in school degrees county. A — — Subscribe for the Reporter before 1901 expires. ———— pf — ———— Ladies Loog Jersey leggings Te. Yeager & Davis, Men's embroidered slippers, 49¢. Yeager & Davis, ip The most complete line of rub ber boots and shoes to be found in the city feat Mayer & Mimi's —— Good mixture candy—next grade to the cheapest—7e. pound, at Swartz's. Coatinued from first column, rights, The committee regretted that the secretary of agriculture is wholly Incompetent and too prejudice ed to give even the actual farmer a respectiul hearing of his grievance and burdened condition as shown in bis own language by a letter of trans. mittal to the governor in the very able bulletin prepared by ex-Auditor General MeCamant on the tax laws of Pennsylvania, in which the secre tary characterized as “ignorant dem- agogues” those who have been fore. most in bringing to public notice the facts as they exist, Asan organization the Grange in the future will iosist and demand from the political prwers that the de- partments of government created for the benefit of Lhe agricultural fnterests shall be filled by competent, practical farmers who are In sympathy and harmony with the Grange and other agricultural organizations of the state, to the end that the best interests of the ngricultural olass of our common. wealth may be served, The repoit of Beeretary Allman showed that 1,755 persons bave been initiated juto established granges dur. ing the year, 507 persons reinstated, and 504 charter members of new sub ordinate granges organized lato 15 granges, while five dormant granges reorganized-—a total of 2 820 new mem- bers. The number of subordinate granges Is about 500, . Dr. Watson, profess sr of agriculture at State College, spoke of the equ.p- ment of that institution and showed the great lack of necessary buildings and apparatus. J. A. Herr of Clint yn county also spoke on the subject, Past Master Leonard hone was in- vested with the jewel and badge of the TELEYBONE PATRONS KICK, Teliphione Renters are Displonsed Beotngo the Lines ure Limited to Their Use Un. less Extra Toll is Pald, “The line is busy,” The U. Tl, and T, patrons hear the sweet words “the line is busy” with new ruling has been put Into opera tion. The new ruling debars all per sons not patrons of the U. T, and T. company from using its phones, un- less a stipulated sum is paid. That sum is ten cents to talk from Centre heim, ete, The telephone renters are indignant, and they have a right to be. The tel ephone renter does not rent a "phone because he simply wants to talk to others who are paging the rental, but because he wunts himself in with all persons at by the U. T. and T, lives, the conditions that made the Commer cial telephone company popular, and it was under that Penns, Brush, Nittany Valleys, ani the whole of Centre county were wir- {to communication put possible points connected Those were those conditions business with a U, T. and 1. bad the privilege to cail him up and transact busivess that caused the hun. dreds of "phones to be in the various parts of Lhe county, There are thirty Centre Hall. Thirty persons can use them to transact business with Belle daced BOM ‘phones in | ante. There are several hundred ‘phone renters in Bellefonte, Do you suppose those several hundred tele phone rent. ers have no business in Centre Hall ex- cept with the thirty renters here, or the reverse? No. The fact is that business transacted by telephone reut- ers is transacted with non-renters, and if the order to collect toll from the nou-renlers is enforced the number of ‘phonies will be materially reduced ninetenths of the in a business way, maintains many econvenlences for his the telephone is one of these conveniences, customers: aud once the telephone censes to be a | convenience for his customers, and his customers are not permitted to even call him up to ask him deliver goeds, give the price of produce, grain or poultry, arrange meetings for con- sulting with reference to a Jaw sult, engage him to perform a marriage cer- emony, call him to the bed side of a sick wife or child, order a loaf of bre ad, publish a legal advertisement, there will be less need for telephones. The fact of the case is unless the order is ty that will be usfless unless used for clothes lines, There Is one class of telephone users that should be taxed, and they sre the non-retters who talk to non-rentera. Neither of these have privileges that belong to them, and should be taxed. The vew order to collect a toll was brought about by a general demand by patrons for better service. At least one-third the calls are answered by “the lines are busy,” and It was tional taxation, the use of the lines could be lessened. In other words the U.T. and T. company concluded that rather than give I's patrons sufficient lines to properly handle the “talk-traf- fie,” it would reduce the “traffie;"” a bright idea on the part of the coms pany, l— W. ¥ Shoop Very Ii, W. P. Bhoop, of Scranton, accord- lng to message received by his brother Samuel Bhoop, in this place, is very Hl with bright's disease. Mr. Bhoop for many years was a resident of this place, and was connected with the Centre Hall foundry, Boalsburg. Mrs. T. Mothersbaugh spent several days last week among friends in Lee mount, Charles Shirk and Sadie Meyer spent last Thursday with friends in Bellefonte, Messrs, Elder Ishler and Wm, Mey- er spent Tuesday at the county seat. Mrs. Wm. Gobeen spent Inst Wed. nesday with friends in Pie Grove Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Moyer, of Roopsburg, Sunday were the guests of Mr. Meyer's invalid mother, who Liss been confined to the house with rhou- mutism for the past twenty years, Arthur Kimport, of Bellefoute, oir culated among bis friends In (his place Friday. Rev, D. E. Hepler, of Lemont, vis ited at the home of 8. H. Bailey on Monday. The Christoas entertainment In the Reformed church will be held Wed: wvesday evening, 25th, Order your stove If you want a good from UP Le 3 graoge by ihe cores In recognition of greater disgust than ever since the! Hall to Bellefonte, State College, Mill- | nn nual | ed; it was because any body who had | renter Fhe business man, in a business place, | rescinded, there will be a lot of wires! stretched over portions of Centre coun- | thought by taking this plan of addi UBATHN, MUS, MARY GOODIIARTY, Mra, Mary Goadliart, widow of Fam. {uel Goodhart, died at the home of her [daughter, Mrs, Harvey Murk, at Salo. | ua, Tuesday night, of consumption, | Mrs. Goodhiart had been ailing for [over a year, having had several bein. | orrhiages and aslight paralytic stroke {during the past six months, but was { not erusidered ssriously i] until the! was seized with! at the time mentioned, | last week, when she ehills, and died {er of Mes, John | place, Nha, Daubserman, of this ed from Hublershure = to this about ten years ago, where they resid. place when she her [Bhe is survived by two children, Mil ed until two years ag ), | moved to Salona with [ler Goodhart, of this place, and Mrs, | Harvey Mork, of Suons, her husband She and a Ia. { having died many years ago { was a faithful lady vilormed chureh. {terient was wade at FH abl raburg. | member SAH KATHEEMAN HA {of Laurelton, died at th | aged forty-seven Years, She had un- critical operation more than aud peeTLed suddenly took a relapse Calne Cli I taken to Hains were home at Laurelton, funeral services held « Heckman, ming Rev, vd by Rev. Breunecman, bn Wedoesday morving. of Lock Have 10, fee inl of the Method. { 188 ciurcly, of which the diceased was A Nemier, om BEIVIOOE: iI lerment was made io the cemetery Lincoln Chapel. dhe deceased was a daughter of Jo- {slahh Showalter, deceased, of Glen { Tron, aud is survived by ber hust and, near {one son, Clarence, of Leurelton, aud one daughter, Laura, at home, and the following brothers and sisters: Wesley, of Hartletor an; William snd Mrs : Samuel, of Cow. Jauies Pp. The with | Mwgs and carualions, mirg, and Mrs Farmers Grove, casket was al. beautiful white Mills most covered i JOHN N John M. Parker, well known FARKER citizen « that place . | . | FATHER AND SON INJURED, | | Mra, Goodharts maiden name was | | Mary Miller; her husband was a broth. | with her children, remov- | re- | daughter, | Hannah, wife of Hiram Ksatherman, | @ Willlams- | at | David Zoller, of | Glen Iron; Mrs, Cyrus Darst, of Boals- | , | of | a prominent and | { Roland, Centre | county, passed away at his home in | Friday evening at twelve | | Andrew Jordon Hroke His Leg by n Fall | His Son's Leg Crashed In Ship Yard, The Reporter's Colyer co, respondent | | gives an account of the | Andrew Jordon, of near that place, {ond his son William, of Camden, both [of whom sie at present nureing seri- {ou ly injured lower limbs, ! | Wm. Jordon, the son of Andrew tim? ago met with an accident which j erushed un portion of his Jower limb. He was taken to the bospiial and covered sufficiently that be could walk about on erutehes. His longing for ed him to return to Colyer at the Hest opportunity, and Baturday he reached Lis destination. Sunday met Andrew a similar accident, pt if wing his chores al the Jordon While barn he {recidentslly fell and broke the bone lo the The | fracture was reduced by Dr. ¢ morning with ove of his legs near thigh, 5 erick, and the patient is getting along 4s well as can he expected, Reed A Alexander The Alexander and George Miss Grace K. Reed took [place at 8 acrumento, California, « 1 the ‘a i On marriage of losinnt, Lime set by the reaching Deuver P encountered a wicked threatened to inter ere wilh the arrangements previously but her train reach the Pacific cos The ceremony was performed by a Prost minister, and was wit. essed Wm. Buekhout, wate of th groom. The day following the ceremony, Mr. and wed proceeded to Ke swick, | where a new ly furuished cottage await- planned wus Lhe first to Asi. iylelian by “ bx bride and Mrs, ed them, As ew ployed | fot previously stated, by Mr. Mountain Reed the Company, sloth the assajiog department jn i which five others are engaged, ———— LOCALS, Pittsburg. Broken stiok candy, 8s. per pound {al Swariz's, | Spiosters’ Reunion In Grasge Arcs. | dia Baturday night. Don’t wiss it Mrs. Maggie Raudenbush, Pleasant | Gap, Is the guest of Mrs. Lizzie Jacobs, Messles are schools in Aaroosburg sud Rebeis- minutes past ten of pneumonis, afier]V sb loess of only a few days, Dicessed was born in Jersey Bhors and was fifty years of age last October. { He was the son of A. T. Jersey Shore. After marriage he loca! « {ed at Roland where he became quite {successful as a Lusivess man. For a [long time he was station agent for the | Pennsylvania Railroad company af { Roland. He was also in the mercan- [tile business, was Postmaster and [ Justice of the Peace at the same place. | He was prominently identified with | the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Surviviog him, says the Daily News, (are his wife and the following |ebildren : Mrs { Howard ; Kate, Trude and Paul, st [home. His father and mother and five sisters and one brother also survive, namely: Mrs. H. M. Bid well, of Bellefonte; Mrs. Oliver Glosser, of Linden : Mrs. Eva Buyder, Kate, Martha and William, of Jersey Shore, The funeral took place Monday aft- ernoon. loterment at Jersey Shore, MRE, JOHN HOUSMAN One of the most aged ladies of Gregg township died Saturday, after an ill. ness of some weeks superinduced by old age. She had been ill more or less for the past year, haviog reached the advanced age of eighty-three years. Her maiden name was Willowman, She was the mother of the following children who survive ber: Samuel Housman, Esq., Tusseyville ; Charles Housman, at home; John W. Hous man, Millbeim ; Mrs, Jane Haney, of Howard, Deceased was a member of the United Evangelical Association for up wards of sixty years. The funeral which tock place Tuesday was con. ducted by the pastor of that organization, RICHARD THOMPSON, Richart Thompeon, a young man Just beginuing an active career, was ae oldentally Killed by falling off a beam into cog-wheels, while working for the Westinghouse electric company, Pitsburg. The neeldont occurred last week, nud Thursday his remaing were sent to his home st Jacksouville, where interment took pl flowing, Friday. Toe Sheesh Creat, sd I tlre years of Parker, of | W. Galer Morrison, | of Bellefonte ; Mrs. Robecea Glenn, of | John Spicher, of this place, killed a Pretty | hog that dresses 422 pounds. | good for a “town” hog, Mrs. Charles Ramsey, of Pleasant | Gap, Is seriously ill with rheumatism | Mrs. Ramsey, nee Kemp, was formerly [of Ceutre Hill Meyer & Musser come before the Re- porter readers with an advertisement inviting customers to examine their Christmas goods before baying. James 8. Swabb, the youngest son of Mrs. James Swabb, of Aaronsbu rg, has enlisted in the navy. He is now oti the training ship, Franklin, at Norfolk, Va. Nora Thomas, daughter of Mr and Mrs, George P, Thomas, of near this place, is suffering from a second attack of appendicitis, and is receiving attention from Dr. Park. O. T, Corman, of Spring Mills, is one of the new advertisers this week, and the Reporter readers will do well by carefully looking over his adv. and following the suggestions made in it, Jacob Ripka, who is one of the old. est residents of Centre Hall, came around last week to pay his subscrip- tion in advance, Mr. Ripka saw the greater part of Centre Hall spricg into existence during his residence here. Lyman L. Smith, who had been 1) with pneumonia for the past week, Is greatly improved, and will soon be able to eall on you in the interest of one of the best nurseries in the U, 8 Keep back your orders until be gets weil, ‘ The following, n mystery to some and plain to others, appeared In the Miflinburg Times : Mr. Clyde Boyer was up to Linden Hall Wednesday night. Tt Is somewhat early for Christmas gifts, but can't get a day just when they want it, so Maude will not have to walt until Christmas to tell the time of day, Prof. ©. E. Zelgler, of Pena Hall, wold a fine Century Grand piano to Perry Breon, west of Centre Hall, for the use of his daughter, Bessie, The “musie box", was a complete surprise to Bessie, who was at school when the instrument was Lrought to her home, Good old Santa was a little | estow ing his gift, but that misfortunes of | { Jordon, was employed in a ship yard | at Camden, New Jersey, and a short | re- | the old home and family eirele indue. CAr- Em- | . | Citing | is | Copper | aud has under his supervi-| C. F. Deininger last week went to | interfering with the | early inf TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, | HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. | Christmas next Wednesday. { Noone can afford to spell “ingrate’” | with a capital, | Cold weather for December, cury well knows thie way to zero, Mer- That telenhone order is being met by hot opposition and may be hotter | by the firet of January. Miss Blanche Heckman js up from {Bunbury stopping with her brother in. (law, Landlord J, 8 Relsh, of Potters Miils, Mrs, PF. Florence Love the Philadelphia, Fd. Nearhood firm of Potter & Hoy and is in the shoe slore | of Yeager & Davis, 0. Bairfont, Misses and Anna Luiz will spend Christmas in MCRsOn quit the If you want to see Nearbood, that's where you will find | im, | Mr. and M Luse in | Bellefonte Although Mr, Lure was a school te acher his going to on other business than attending ir stitute, were Mm. D. F. ihureday, the county seat was Samuel Guisewhite, of Lellefonte, 18 been granted a pension of $5 00 per Bathurst, Ja month and of Waddle’s £5.00 per month, The of Dr. J. E hii 1k Helonte, is anMicte [oP month ; Bimo of Holand, ois 0 George WV, Baisor, family Ward, of d the second time The younger son mn the disease, and wer, Arthur, is ill. I B | With scarlet fever Jast now the elder birot! recovered fi Dr. Samuel Woods, whose in B wisburg, | loca. tion the Warren Hospital to Sharon, Pa., where he will begin to | practice his profession on his own i hook, home fs a8 changed his from Mr. and Mrs. James B. Strohm, of Centre Hill, will celebrate the =Zth an- lage Thureday evening, December 265:iL. A number {of invitations have been sent out for | the octanion. | { niversary of their marr Mrs. Cyrus Durst, of Boalsburg, and | Mrs, James P, Grove, east of Centre | Hall, attended the funeral of Mrs, Catherman, at Laurelton, last week The decessed was the mother of the ladies mentioned, D. Earl Fleming, of this place, who is tesching a public school st Wingate, will spend Christmas week with his brother Maloolm Fleming, in Balti- | more, whete the latter is engaged in { the tailoring Lusiness, | Rev. Isase Book, of Warble, Juniata ty, bis horse was {attacked by the animal, thrown down (and trampled upon. His left leg was | broken near the knee joint, the skin {torn ofl from the koee to the ankle and the other leg badly bruised, Cards of invitation are out AnNOGLEe- ing the marriage of Miss Anna Estella Sipith, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ww. E. Buiith, of Millmout, and Rev. Dor- sey Newton Miller, of Mill Hall, at the home of the bride's parents, Wed- vesday, December 2th, al twelve o'clock noon, Walter M. Kerlin Saturday of last week went to Poiladelphia where he hopes to secure permanent employ- ment. Mr, Kerlin i a young man who can be trusted by any one who has a position to fill requiring his qual- ifications, which by theway, are above those of the ordinary young man, A Bunbury preacher's wife, who is suing for divorce, paralyzed the gen teman of the cloth when, through her altorneys, she presented a snap-shot picture showing her husband at a camp meeting in company with three young ladies who were “stroking his whiskers”! What a hairrowing tale ! The funeral of W. L. Baker, of Miff- linburg, an account of whose death was given last week, was attended a delegation of the Soring Mills Oss te, K. G. E, Supervisor Stoughton aud the track foremen from Lemont, Linden Hall, Centre Hall, Rising Spriogs, Coburn, Paddy Mountain, A man and wife in Derry township, Mifllin county, circulated » report that a trap who had small pox had been entertained by them. The Lew. Istown Democrat and Sentinel, upon Investigation, found that the pervonsl property of the party had been levied on, and that the scare was circulated with a view of keeplog away buyers, A conspicuous figure at the county Institute was Superintendent Luse, of Williamsport, formerly of Phi Buperintendent Luse bas the cout while feeding
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