Page 4. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday, August 19, 1909, FRED KURTZ, SR., Editor, CHAS. R. KURTZ Kditor and Proprietor, Assoclate Editor, —————— SWORN CIRCULATION OVER 5500 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION :; SUBSCRIPTION, ‘ $1.50 Per YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office and pay in advance, §1 per year CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N.Y. thrice-a-week World for 4 Pittsburg Stockman for... The date your subscription expires is plainly printed on the label bearing your name. All eredits are given by a change of label the first fssue of each month, Watch that, after you remit. We send no receipts unless by special request. Watch date on your label Subscribers changing postofMice address, and not notifying us, are liable for same Subscriptions will be continued, unless other- wise directed, . We employ no collector. You are expected to send or bring the money to this office. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Auditor General, J. WOOD CLARK, of Indiana county For State Treasurer, GEORGE W. KIPP, of Bradford county, For Justice of the Supreme Court, C. LARUE MUNSON, of Lycoming county. EDITORIAL. of this portant address ply them with the means of certain and if the same amount month now fails to secure the sam portion of comfort--of commodities when enacted, then sion system is violated ciary suffers accordi ment is not 5 bound to grant them any increase above that specified originally, putt 15 morally obligated to care for these, as our | ly. tl R vy . 11 ension system originally not a particle based throug! more poin a ) i 47% per cent, come al it not true that for the last forty or fifty years you have been that kept ports ata fair price, the capitalists to form combinations to voting for tariffs high verything from entering our and this enabled control common products like iron, steel 18, woolens, leather, meats, intl every necessary of life is manipulated by a trust, which wipes out all competition, and then advances the price, and we must pay it? Have you honestly a right to plain? How old have been doing this very thing? We believe 75 per cent, com many soldiers have persistently voted for what they now are suffering. We know they do not want to admit the fact, but are they not reaping what they have been sowing Are they not getting ex- actly what they voted for? We truly be- lieve it, It is not our purpose to chide the old soldier or make political capital of their | misfortunes, but we do want to empha- | size the vindication of a doctrine we | bave advocated these many years-—our tariffs make trusts and trusts rob the consumer--on which fact they now base a just claim for an increase of their pen- sion, If the tariffs and trusts have not raise | ed the cost from $1 to $1.47% will some | one please explain, The old soldier has | a right to know and should know who cut his pension in two and how it was done, abd is being done to-day. : Alabama has ratified the proposed | amendment to the federal constitution providing for an income tax, f105 $1.80 | DISSATISFIED REPUBLICANS | That Party Pledges on the Tar- iff Have Been Disregarded | Claim Progressive | elared war, no quarter asked given, and will fight for the the party at the Natfonal iin 1912. Senator Albert B {of lowa, that the issue ply this “Shall the men trol of the destinies of the Republic party be permitted further to plain declarations 7 [tariff and it the line between opposing ford The ed by Senator Cummins critical points to be pushed to the fore by the Progressives In short, Cummins he be willing surgent” forces the firm of and company nounced that Republicans with de or control of convention Cummins states is sim- now in con- an The furnishes gard party to emarcation how d revise of es big items em phasiz as are these sald “ine retire Payne as much to lead the battle to Aldrich, time He yuld be begun fowa this fall, and continued in state in the Union and in the national convention y 1912 1 Placing in control at organized Republicanism n stand by platform plsdge Struggle for this po ntion, local, cong between now gh P as would in a Cannon, for all the fight wi nn- in every ir the en » conve state, there where are enou Repub : general rev 1 for perhaps a decads it A to time ] NO tariff revision fr r schedules om as to in parti onstrates same wad principle GETTING OUR MEDICINE. Our “Oldest inhabitant.” » Edward Brow age « he 18 still abie y De ' about ar $ hearing we find outdoor chores ; his h i ind i be fairly Rox xl and he has enjoyed health all bis litetime. He has and bids fair to = been rood « roun wu ilizen Williams Reunion he Wheat Average Low. the app wheat yield judging from the rep. are heard from those who have their grain The wheat spring presented quite a pearance, and a large ly expected However the grain did not head-up. The drought has had con- siderable to do with the low average, and should It continue and damage the corn as It has the oats and wheat, the farmers will suffer a loss from these products of thelr farms Despite crop ce of a untry, below the rts that threshed flelds last promising ap- yield was natur- rent appearar the much large there Average in will ® a Drouth Broken At last the dry spell Monday afternoon the sky was overcast by the clouds of an approaching thunder gust and the mutterings of thunder, fol lowed by a light rain, which increased to a heavy shower at night with heavy eals of thunder, lasting on to I'nesday morning. The amount of rain. tall was 1.90 inches, or within a frac tion of two inches. Spring creek, in| the morning was high and yellow and | and rampant with rage. has ceased On close Tuesday morn- | ing had every indication of further pre. cipitation, and during the day there was | .06 inches more rain | Beware Avenging Catfish, i While Dr. N. P. Duffy, of Altoona, | was returning froma fishing trip the other night, he was held up near Reser | voir Station by two masked men, who covered him with revolvers. “Throw | | up your hands!” they cried, and the doe. | tor obeyed, Then one man began rifling | his pos ets, “Look out; you'll be stung by a cat | fish!" cried the doctor, i Taking advantage of the confusion | that followed this statement, Dr. Duffy | sprang over a fence and dissappeared, | «You will find local news on every page of the Centre Democrat, disre- | good | Abram Fike on a | Bellefonte, RECENT DEATHS. Mus, MARGARET MEDLAR ith at her home in Allentown, had been an invalid for a number years and was 65 years of age Col, James P, Coburn, was a brother, She of of Grunp —died on Friday evening the eighteen-month’s old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Grubb, { Halfmoon Hill, Bellefonte. due to lung trouble, place Saturday afternoon in Union cemetery, Death was Interment the | LEONARD MESSMER ~~ at Green Grove, Gregg township, Wed nesday, August 4, of dropsy and heart | disease, aged 81 years, 10 months and He leaves to survive a widow and several children Funeral services were held Saturday. Interment made in the Green Grove cemetery, § Wu, Scuro of on August 11th at his His wife 18 Miss daughter of Mr, of lellefonte, nervous I been a sufferer for | 22 davs vas Philadelphia, died home in that city. Blanch Fi and Mrs. His death yrostration from whi sometime gentleman and at urg : YORIS, : : § married to 14. At | th nd Te 3 18 and O cays, OS September 1856, to . and who alone survive Mrs. Jacob Booth, who resides in iy su ving ¥ nediate 417 a rdale Ohio , of Bellef in the Schenck note family ment on Tuesday Union cemetery Rosert Mexk:—~a former well known resident of Altoona, died at his home Sunday night of paralysis, with which he was stricken on Tuesday, August 3 His condition since that time had been serious, his power of speech and the right side having been affected De ceased was the son of George Y. and Nancy Meek deceased, was born at Fairbrook, Centre county, June 14, 1834. | He was reared in that vicinity and had spent the greater part of his lite in | Centre county, following the occupation of a farmer He went to Altoona with | his family some eighteen years ago and engaged in the coal business, which he followed until last spring. when he re- tired, He was married in Centre coun ty on beptember 30, 1846, to Miss Susan Glenn, who survives with the following children: Mrs, C. H. Rodgers, of Mon mouth, 11l.; Edgar Meek, of Chickasha, Okla; Miss Blanche, Miss Anna and W. G. Meek, at home, One son, Walter E. Meek, preceded him to the grave some ten years ago. He is also surviv ed by one brother, George Y. Meek, of near Tyrone, He was an earnest Chris. | tian gentleman and early in life became connected with the Methodist Episcopal | church, - Sm — The Grange Encampment. The prospagls for the Grange En- campment and Fair, Centre Hall, during the week of September 13th are un- usually bright. A number of improve. ments on the grounds have been goin on for the past three months which wi tend to better serve the public, Met at Eagleville, The Christian Endeavor convention will be held at Eagleville, September 1st and 2nd, instead of Philipsburg, as was stated in our last issue. We received this correction from James A, Pratt, president, of Fleming. died August | The late lellefonte, whom three daughters ! One | IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ROADS. Ep. Democrat { | { The Next Federal The reports I have heard from the week make me regre men, and autoists, lam more particularly interested in | them as a prominent factor in improving | the conditions of rural life, than simply died at his home “as a source of 1 class of “good to the movement, now rapidly spr | throughout the count conditions This “centralized sc will make these cent sible in four-fifths of of our State This o t alone makes **y try born, can h ] ? people | of the more than the} nd ’ “ua common mmon factors pleasure hools."” 1 ne BV ni Was sans that we together tor to the and users, ry. The ed 1 " unaer which they be and vgood roa alized schools the rural view iy oads’ whole Thistles Blooming \ X Cagers, Will offer this week : 1000 yds. Shining Prints, 4 1.2¢. | R00 vds, St Hi | WMNAAl 500) vd 1 £1.00 Be Hefonte, Pa. Aug. 19, 1909. . 3 3 1d Colored Bed Spread GILLIAM, Prop the co were am ( 3 : | good roads meeting in your town last :t that I vented from being present, { of general approval m | all—farmers pleasure drivers, business whether for | or pleasure—ge or who resides on | pies getting pre The spirit unre business “good roads,” and that means that we are going \ | to have then The funeral took | : h i autoists, though I am in no wise inimical to that roads” heartily in sympathy with them in all the work the y are doing to give impetus eading cation of country children for world-wide use. fulness must be carried to a far greater degree than heretofore, into best 1 done only in ads” D0 8- po “THE BAZAAR CENSUS ENUMERATORS Jobs to be Given Out iis fall, direct the supervisor of the coun at charge in nted taking i 1 ns Ly he may districts aeratorne to the not Centre order map ou the en appol to in Lr and to be assigned Word Washington Is effect that Director Durand vet fixed the exact date the appointments of the supervise but that they named in to get every for work before who nre ] Lo from haw ns for will be thing arranged ther Hed to gather man field LO ifacturers JACKSONVILLE. Kling I family. of INFORMATION FOR VOTERS. Voters ist not permit ion of coming themselves indifference election in it is “oft to sink In condit yeoncerning Penney In what vans gin y ) AavunG termed the rtance attaches to filled, and this being if voting age should ves the several ary to validate his to be assessed, in election on Tues~ will be day Beptember pay tax is twenty-two upwards who has within the past two to voter Basket Picnic. B Su naay Manufactory of Ligh t and Heavy Harness ¥ ALY DECOR IDTI ARE F ALL Di HIV TION Complete line Horse goods JAMES SCHOFIELD, SOOT NAIIITIRITRRNTITIIR RORY + S80 000000000000000000080006 00 Reduction in every department at Claster’s A ———— UNDERSELLING STORE Big reduction Big reduction Big reduction Big reduction in Men's Suits, in Boys’ Suits, in Furnishings, in Shoes. Claster’s Underselling Store, CRIDER'S EXCHANC sE, ALLEGHENY ST. BELLEFONTE, PA. ATLANTIC ANGLESEA OCEAN CITY Tickets Good Returning Within Ten Days COVERS LABOR DAY AT THE SEASHORE Pennsylvania Railroad SPECIAL EXCURSION City, CAPE May WILDWOOD SEA ISLE CITY NEW JERSEY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909 $6.00 Round Trip. Via Delaware River Bridge From Bellefonte HOLLY BEACH AVALON $5.75 Round Trip. Via Market Street Wael Stop-over Allowed at Philadelphia BEST BATHING IN THE SEASON For nll ioformation concerning leaving time of trains, consult small hand bills, or nearest Ticket Agent J. R. WOOD Passenger Traffic Manager GEO. W. BOYD General Passeoger Agent
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