Page 6. The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTE, Editor and Proprietor, A.C, DERR, Associate Editor and Business Manager. EARLE C. TUTEN, Local Editor, BWORN CIRCULATION OVER 5,600, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Subscription,..-..-..-..$1.50 Per Year Persons who send or bring the money to she office and pay in advance, §1 per year CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N. Y. thrice a-week World for. ...oov aves Pittsburg Stockman for... Px W. J. Bryan's Commoner’. .........i0... 81. Published weekly every Thursday smorning. Entered in the postofiice at Bellefonte, Pa. as second-olass matter. : ai date your subscription expires is pia Lk on the label bearing your Dame. R credits are given by a chaoge of label the first issue of each month. Watch that, after you remit. We send no receipts usless by special pest. Watch date on your label. ToS ubscribers shaping Dosittice a... and {tying us, are liable for same. hy tions will be continued, unless other wise directed, Both Telephones We employ no collector. You are expected 10 send or bring the money to thisofMoe. VA Democratic County Chairman A. B Kimport left Bellefonte on Tuesday, with his family, to make his future home on a farm located In Frederick township, Montgomery county, Pa. He thereby loses his residence in Centre county, position County Chairman port did ten resignation, made and his as becomes vacant. Mr. formally tender a various per- not writ- but to sons verbally the above state- ment, In case of a Chairman, our “the vacancy rules provide that Secretary or Secretaries” of the County Committee body for the positicn by giving notice of can purpose of filling the each committee- man five days’ At the request of seven the committee Can committee- also be as- men sembled in the f Same manner or BAMEe purpose In acc Primaries Act” rdance sioners have hat a "“meml miti2e” (now man), will September Esq. is ti retary local Demo On Wednes:« Committe far any members of the commit » degire the committee assembled to the vacancy, they are requested to effect, go inderstana- notify the secre to that that ing there will 1 no mi i tland, Ore, veek fined a $40 in his all- wool that doing, by a of the the satisfaction of only fifty is & course of pursued doubt honest prominent merchant of that false advertisement, for led to the city for making a statement ner 15 newspaper dresses $6.95." was the line merchant's un- woman who and Judge cent, one garments the that it This that should be and without a welcomed by merchant, It is the false or exaggerated statements of a few ad- vertisers that the of scep- ticism in the minds of public, causing a discount of the hon- est claims of the truthful advertiser. The day is coming when advertising will be subjected to the was per wool. action everywhere be would every BOW seed the same Bure as is now and drugs—-it adulterated. placed upon our foods will have to be un- Wills Wife $300 a Month. The will of the late R. 8. Seibert, president of the East Broad Top rall- road, has been probated in Hunting- don county and the paper is regarded as a marvelous document. He was married to Miss Gertrude a daughter of 8. M. Woodcock, of Al- toona, and a nleca of Mrs. J. A. Woodcock, of Bellefonte, She has of- tened visited here and is known to a number of our people. To his wife he bequeathed $25,000 outright and di- rects that she be paid from his es- tate, $300 per month during her life. To his sister he directs that $100 per month be pald so long as she shall live, and to his brother, Alexander, that the same sum shall be paid. To his brother, McCune, he bequeaths $5,000 In hand, and $100 per month ‘BUIIN0D OM] OJ, WII WY Nupinp paid so long as they shall live, and to the Methodist church of Mt. Union he gives $500 in cash and the church to be a residuary legatee eventually to recelv $1560 per month forever, the latter not to be effective until after the death of some of the above named legatoes, i proved to of. Jobn cen~ | iI} | Rev. Piper, Kim- | of County | {3 | made purchased | | ley buying | , {a native of Woodcock, | THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PENNA. rn RECENT DEATHS, (Continued from page 1) until he was compelled to take his bed about six weeks ago, Mr. Bath- urst was born in Curtin, June 22, 1830, thus had reached the age of 83 vears, I month and 6 days. He was the son of Henry and Margaret Bathurst, and was the last member of a family of twelve children. His entire life was practically spent in and about Curtin For fifty-eight vears deceased was a member of Curtin Evangelical church, and for all but a few years of that time was a class leader In the church, He was a man of strong convictions, kindly character, and enjoved the re. spect and confidence of a large cir- cle of friends. He was twice mar- ried, his first wife having been Miss Eliza Hines, to whom he was wedded Jan. 25, 185656 To this union nine children were born, six of whom survive, namely Jacob 8., of Brad- dock; John, of Elizabeth Furnace; Mrs. Annie Tierney, of Lyontown; Mrs. Cora Durkee, of Philipsburg; Mrs. Amanda Wheatley, of Chicago, Iil., and Mrs Nora Henderson, of Bellwood, His second marriage was with Miss Ellen Rothrock, October 9, 1877. To this union these children survive Mrs. Minnie Packer, of Lock Haven; Harry M.,, Willlam H. James B., Earle, Lawrence, Mrs. Lida Varner and Queen V., all of Altoona: Bert and Mrs Armona Gehret, of Bellefonte, Deceased leaves 16 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchil- dren. Funeral services were held at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. D W. Varner, 220 Chestnut Ave. Al- toona, on Tuesday evening at 8 o'- clock Wednesday morning the re mains were shipped to Curtin, his late home, where further services werd the M. E. church, conducted b Interment made in cemetery also held at Was the Curtin FINK mother Mrs, of Mrs Mars Abby Fink. Joseph L tunkle, of the family home } clock Wed- of heart ever convene that|x the meeting. |! ; bods Frida taken tn r. Mrs er ren ineral. Interment cemetery KELLEY : Mrs. Mary Kelley, of Valley on Monday morning at extended illness. Deceased at Howard, her maiden name having been May Hinton. Had she lived un- til to-day she would have been 58 years of age. Surviving are her hus- band and the following children Marcel, wife of George Robb, of Cole ville, and Robert and James, of Val. View. She also leaves one brother and two sisters, all of Howard, namely Samuel Hinton, Mrs, Wash Daughen- baugh, and Mrs. John Butler. Mrs Kelley was a woman of kindly christian character and her passing away will be mourned by a large cir- cle of friends. Funeral service was held from her late home on Wednes- day morning at 10 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Yocum and Shuey, of Belle fonte Interment was made in My- Ora cemetery WHITE Jacob A, White died at his home In Tyrone last week of ap- oplexy, followed by complications, af- ter an illness of four weeks, He was Huntingdon county and was aged about 656 years. He was married at Huntingdon In 1877 to Miss Ella Snyder, and shortly after- ward moved to Bellefonte where he resided for two years. He leaves one son, Allen, of Tyrone, and two sis- ters, PLETCHER :~Arthur Milfred Plet- cher, the twenty-two-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pletcher, form- erly of Milesburg, now residing at Cantnor, Somerset county, died on Sunday last and the body was brought to Milesburg for Interment in the Tr- cziyulny cemetery, on Tuesday after. noon. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock from the residence of Howard Heaton, and service was conducted by Rev, H. K. Ash. Kelley, View, 6.320 wife died after an was born «Read Katz & Co's advertisement this week. It's of special news to all purchasers, WATCHMAN PUBLISHED MALICIOUS LIES. (Continued from page 1.) vice at Philadelphia which are excepted from examination, save, of course, positions appointment to which is made by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, In compliance with your request for Information as to the pro- cedure required in filling vacancies in your office, you are advised that if such vacancies can not be satisfactorily filled by promotion or transfer of competent and available persons In the service, a request should be made upon this office for a certification of the names of persons who have passed the required civil service examination and are eligible for appointment Very respectfully, EDWARD © Acting TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES CUSTOM SERVICE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, PA, Charles R. Kurtz, June 30th, Surveyor of Customs, Philadelphia, Pa Dear Sir My attention has been called to the public press relating to appointments made by you at your taking the oath of office hefore me, which are iance with the truth that I feel it my duty to and tol all con- cerned to give a correct version of the facts, It has been stated that on assuming the duties of your office, your first act was to appoint two Republicans, Richard B. Williams and Will R. Carson, as your deputies, which alleged action has been the subject of unfavorable comments and unjust criticism. The fact is that you made no appointments whatever for the rea- son that there were no vacancies in the force of your office, and that all of vour subordinates protected by Civil Service and not subject to removal upon charges of misconduct or inef- ficiency Mr Street COLSON, District Secretary Hon 1013 certain statements appearing In the time of #0 entirely at var. you are the law, except in charge of your Second position Is In the duties falthfully and ef- ount and needed no re. vour administration Willams has been a deputy surveyor office for a number of years. His service, and he always performed his ficiently He retains his pesition on this appointment te continue In the Captain Carson is a clerk in led service, and not a deputy surveyor, He designated, however, as a deputy by one of your prede and when 1 called yo att lon to t} act that It would be under the nate one in vour office avoldably absent, you simply continue his ignation, f« ha pose, this action of VOurs not nanging Respectful C. WW. HILI claseified has nee service under the class was special CRBOTSE Necessary mmed BOM pur manner whatever .ollector, (NOTE—William R. Carson's position, or official designation, in the Surveyor of Customs department is, and for 16 years has been, that of “CHIEF CLERK." He is a Republican, and was originally promoted to the best clerkship in that department, in preference to other deserving Democrats, by Surveyor P. Gray Meek, in July 1897, Then a few days later the same Surveyor Meek designated him as “SPECIAL Deputy”—that was an assignment only to perform cer- tain duties in that office as a clerk when the Surveyor is absent. It did not constitute an appointment nor did it increase his salary. Mr, Carson is the only one in that office who had performed the duties of “Special Deputy” from 1897 to this date~C. R. K.) TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 24th, 1913 RK} veat there tore he hardly could plead ignorance, or charge his mistake to a similar mistake made by a reporter of the “Evening ame confused in his account of my i Nation Bulletin,” Sir are the foun Demo Watchman is devoid of . 1S a SI sheet that voice the disgruntled feeling of 1s publ he gruntled feeling i 1s publisher, ; } repeated a wn in Democratic Party organization in Centre county, in Pennsylvania, and even upon most members of Congress and President Wilson and his cabinet. I glory, and so does every true Democrat, in the enmity of any such man who was disloyal to this Union, and now is a traitor to the party that nourished him all these years. Meek Guilty of his own Malicious Charge : In conclusion, let me briefly show the inborn dishonesty of P. Gray Meek. What was his record when Surveyor of Cus- toms of Philadelphia? The record he made stands there and can not be effaced: aults upon FIRST—In a letter addressed to the Treasury Department, at Washington, D. C,, dated July 29, 1897, P. Gray Meek, then the Surveyor of Customs at Philadelphia “recommend for ap- pomtment as Chief Clerk in this office W. R. Carson at * * * annual salary $1800.” Mr. Carson was then, as now, of the same political stripe, a Penrose-Republican ; and Meek then, as now, trained with the Donnelly-Penrose Democratic combina- tion in Philadelphia, and in this act no doubt carried out Pen- rose’s orders, by promoting W. R. Carson. SECOND-—In another letter addressed to the Treasury De- partment, Washington, D. C., dated, August sth, 1897, the same P. Gray Meek, then Surveyor of Customs, at Philadelphia, made a request upon the department “to recommend the appointment of W. R. Carson, Clerk No. 1, Class 4, as Special Deputy Surveyor” stating that it was his “desire to have Mr. Carson qualify as Special Deputy” and Mr. Carson, was forthwith ori- ginally made Special Deputy Surveyor upon the recommendation of the same P. Gray Meek; thereby again conferred a favor up- on the Penrose-Guffey-Donnelly bi-partizan, Democratic-Repub- ilcan machine of Philadelphia. I challenge P. Gray Meek to deny these two acts. I defy him to make a satisfactory explanation of this treachery to the Democratic Party in 1897 as Surveyor of Customs, Further I am prepared to furnish copies of Meeks two let- ters, referred to, if he or anyone questions their existence. With this record of his official conduct before him, and now rally known to all in the Philadelphia Customs House, his gue duplicity and malicious falsehoods, directed by spite and | | Centre {after | the | exceptions to envy upon me, justly return to to there is a remnant left in him. I care not a whit for what may charge against me, | sough extended article. The purpose crooked public and political caree reliability and untruthfulne which he and others edit. In Conc For withholding my answer man” of cowardice: when it and then wilfully supresses the as the work of a cowardly, malic This 1s the man ha Pennsylvania and all connected Secretary of State Bryan, Secre National Committeeman A. Japan Geo. W. Guthrie, James 1. Blake Morris of Philadelphia and othe he 1 Ha Or f i W ho sled Democratic year and only last fall parti pated in ocratic county ticket; he fought of the Mitche Il i A 4th As openly fought the Democratic Thursday, July 31st, 1913, re ————————————————— rture his conscience if, forsooth, P. Gray Meek, or his retainers, t no personal vindication in this only is to again illustrate the r of P. Gray Meek, and the un- “Democratic Watchman” lusion : [ brand the “Democratic enyone else utters an untruth cts, the act can only be clas ious har, Wate h d ed the He I.abor denounced with it, tary ot Democracy of has denounced Wm. B. Wilson, Palmer, Embassal 1stant Post Master General State Chairman Hew. Roland citizens: t« or to r eminent everal county organization, the defeat of part oc! Hon. Wm. A. W; Mackey, the late Gov. Curtin. and other party nomi violently opposed, through petty cess of any Democratic citizen « a Meek might be dimmed. For years thi Guffy, Jim Hall, Donnelly and their ki the Democracy Oo! the nan br (;arma i and made respectable citizenship of the D1 f this county ali j€ai0ousy, azenly dignified n, Billy trennen past bartered and sold Penn { HAS N. B.—~For a good description of the type of Democracy represent- ed by P. Gray Meek and the “Democratic Watchman,” issue Ledger” which is known as Philacelphia's most to read in another part of this you are urged from the “Public reliable paper. an editorial UNIONVILLE. Wing: James R yell's. old re off duty a co f a sprained The ple of back most distant reader of Democrat is Roy Hazel, who is in the regular army on the Phipo- pines In writing to his parents he sald it was a most enjovable weeks visitor though he gels it several weeks its i ue If the pesimist correspondent of Bellefonte lepublican, who took the few harmless, inno- questions | ask the Town Coun- cil, relative to the conditions of our! streets and allies, in our Unionville | items two weeks ago had taken pains and read the article carefully he could have found do cause for kicking. 11 did not say nor intimate that the Boro Dads misaplied any of the funds of the Boro. Our Law making body is composed of men of the highest standard of honesty and character What the questions refered to was simply accusing them of apparent | negligence It can be successfully gain-said that | our streets are in a bad condition on | account of the heavy rains, washing | soll off the streets and pavements, Mrs Hogan's pavement was one of the best | state walks in town but those heavy rains washed great guillies in it where as If the water had been kept in the main road the pavement would not have suffered. Same can be sald of the | Barton corner. Besides some of the streets and allies are covered with a luxuripus groth of weeds, where one Juxurious growth of weeds, where one he was after you, This ought not to be so, If it had not been for the abundance of muscle with which I am happily possessed, backed by plenty of sand, I believe some of them would have attemped to do me bodily harm, but I suppose they thought “prudence” the better part of valor,” so the de- sisted and thus saved themselves a heavy Doctor's bill. (te! he' he!) Lot's kiss and burry the hatchet. The annual reunion of the Holt- Stere families was “plled off” at the residence of 8 W. Holt, In Unionville on Saturday, July 26. Those from a distance that were in attendance were as follows: Mrs, Mary Kinters, of the cent { ized {in the treatment | for | waste matters from ¥ Eckley, Emeric n the first Monday the purpose of auditors omp! of settling with The settle. short while, which pt their eted Ir directors we look forward expectation to the future at f the schools Colored Folks to Hold Bush Meeting. A great bush meeting has been an- nounced to take place in Thompson's Grove at Port Matilda on Sunday. August 10th, under direction of "hilipsburg A. M. E. church. Rev. Hawkins and the pastor, Rev. Hayes, will be present to preach the singing will be under Prof. Chase's direction. Ten cents be the admission to the grove the |A GUARANTEED LIVER REMEDY. 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