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But let us talk to you about our war ag: ainst high pr ices.
ling News Indeed.
Just see
What "Uncle Samuel's” Cash Will Dol
Avbuekle's
4 Ibs. Best Rice,
10 Ibs. Navy Beans,
7 Ibs. Lima Be: ns,
15 Ibs. White Hominy,
rakes Coke Soap,
5 cakes Waterlily Soap,
9 lbs Good Raisins,
29¢.
IC.
29¢.
3c.
2¢C.
29¢.
29¢.
18 Ibs. Granulated S
Good Calico,
Best Calico,
Sugar,
Lancaster Ginghams, dc.
Good Cashmeres from 123
Very best Cotton Bats,
4 cents per yard.
0 cents per yard.
and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents.
1.00.
per yard.
cts. up.
10Gc¢.
Good 7-ct. Muslin reduced to 5 cts.
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A fine line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to $1.00.
Also a fine line of Men’s Dress Shirts, direct from the manufacturers,
from 39 cents up.
“nishing Goods.
up.
Overalls, ete., at prices away down.
(HAT BARGAINS
We carry an immense line of Shoes and buy direct from the celebra
Walker and Douglas—thereby saving fully 25 per cent.
part. We are also agents for the famous Carlisle and
rifice to make room for our immense spring aid summer stock.
CES |
Call carly and save money.
Children’s
Tov
of jobbers’ prices.
Evitt Ladies’ Shoes.
REMEMBER, THE?
All the latest novelties in Neckwear and Gents’ Fur-
Men's Suits from $4 up.
Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up.
Suits from 75 cts.
Men's W ofking Pants, Coats,
=O FO
Foy i 4 be y
ted manufacturers—Rice & Hutchins,
We warrant these shoes in every
We are selling Shoes
SE ARE
at a
CASH
Sac-
PRI-
Barchus & Livengood, Salisbury, Pa.
1-3 OF YOUR LIFE
SPT
Then, Why Not
Make [f Comfortable?
NOTHIN (5 can induce good, healthful sleep quicker
than one of our Enameled Steel Brass Trimmed Beds.
We have a good one for
h 6
en S3¢ 2 aS.
Place on it a good Japanned Steel Spring, at
~aililm— © 2D HO),
$3.5
and on this use one of our EUREKA FELT MAT-
TRESSES, at
pr 10.00),
samc as aavertisead by OsterIooT Of NCW YOr'k for $isuo, ana you hyo
bed on which no healthy person with a clear conscience can pass the night
without a good refreshing sleep.
DON'T THINK
because the prices asked for these goods are small that they are “cheap
: Tr.”
GIV E THEM A TRIAL,
and if they are not satisfactory in every respect, return them to us.
Johnson & MccCulloh,
SALISBURY. PENNA.
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8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas-
ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the
wants of our customers in
ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES,
Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Ite.
In short anything to feed man or beast.
OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car-
load lots. We are also
Headquarters For Maple Sweets.
We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Eggs.
what advantages we offer.
S. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa.
Come and see
alin Hlour and Heed!
Fuarthermore, we are JOBBERS |
A TABLE SHOWING A
REDUGTION OF TRIES.
They Are Now Less Than
Ten Years Ago.
RE WILL BE NO
INCREASE THIS YEAR.
TH
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The Law Compelled an Increase of |
Valuation, but the Millage
will be Reduced.
{ To the Taxables of Somerset County: —
W hereas a loud
been made through
county press under the
l old Quay-Scull faction against the ad-
outery has
that part of the
[ed into permanent retirement and a
litage to
remain a her-
This is the
public obliquy that shall
their children.
| Seull theory upon which the hypothesis
{of eternal Scull supremacy
is based;
* lof which the great nebular hypothesis
| is but a feeble imitation; and compar-
ed with whieh the theory of Coperni-
cus becomes
ed unintelligible absurdity. O yes! the
Scull theory ds very plain.
that the wayfaring man, though a fool,
(especialy a fool), can understand—and
scuil of the Seullions afloat ;—necessary
{to keep the Scullpaper, in fact, alive.
A political machine is necessary to ab-
i
lately
| wreck—wrecked by “Timotheus”,
control of the |
lawkward stoker.
the Republican organ- |
ministration of the public business in!
the County Commissioners’ oflice,
whereas the undersigned have been |
solute monarchy—absolute as far as it
feounty taxes?
| been systematically coming down ever |
since the =cull
[ of the Commissioners’ office.
| the sense in crying out against increas-
| These
{ erset, Pa.
an abstruse conglomerat- |
So plain |
| fute all they have said in the past five |
| years.
obey. It ismotonlyaplain,but also n nec- |
essary theory ;—necessary to keep the!
M. ARCH 04, 1898.
NUMBER 9
penses of the county has continued up
to the present day, and was the univer-
sal practice prior to 1891, with the ex-
ception of the issuing of bonds th 1888
to raise money for the construction of
the new county jail. Here is where the
great luminaries of the Scull ring based
one of their criticisms. They do not
allege that these temporary loans are
fraudulent, but with the gravity of
owls, and with red-headed obstinacy,
they howl and scribble “It is, it is—
illegal!” The Scull board of County
Auditors has surcharged all the inter-
est that has been paid on the money
borrowed in the years 1896 and 1897.
The County Commissioners appealed
from the surcharge of 1896, and they
have made every exertion to bring the
case before court for trial, but Mr.
Biesecker, attorney for the County Aud-
itors, has thus far defeated their every
effort. A. L. G. Hay, Esq. attorney
for the present board of County Com-
missioners, whose duty it is to press
the surcharges for trial before tht court,
said that Mr. Biesecker has so far ob-
structed every move made by the pres-
ent board of Commissioners to get the
case to trial.
TAXATION REDUCED.
Now let us turn to the senseless howl
of these newspaporial scandal mongers
about raised valuation and increased
taxation. In this work the Ring news- |
| papers are ably “supplemented” by a |
large reinforcement of Ring tools all
{over the county. The impression has |
| been made that taxes have been raised
and that the “swelling valuations”
means great extravagance in county
nisbursements for the future. We refer
{ again to the record. We will give the
| total amounts of county taxes levied
[for the past thirteen years, commenc-
ing with the year 1895, so that there |
{ cannot be the least suspicion of unfair-
| Ness:
Mills.
| Year. Levied.
{ 1885. ...
{ 1886. ...6
11837...
1 1888....
FIS8Y..
{ 1890...
F189]... .
L1892. 8
1893. ik
11894....5
1895... i .
1596 47,072.10
1897 48,567.28
Pray, where is He great increase in
County taxation
Total (lo. Total Co.
Valuation. Tax.
$6,665,543. . . . .. $53,308.23 |
9,051,867 54,311.27 |
8,035,041 53,615.70
8,997,813 62,984.78 |
Si 471 60,952.31
H525138.15 |
52,886.75
45,355.56 |
45.419.70 |
45,716.66
48,438.13
9,071, He
9.083.010
pe
has |
Ringsters lost control
Where is
taxation and swelled valuation?
figures ‘are easily accessible. |
Any tax-payer can verify them by call-
ing at the Commissioners’ office, Som-
The cry of swelled valuation
is an equally monstrous lie—monstrous |
because the slightest investigation by
the editors of the Ring organ would re-
ed
The present Board of County
Commissioners will not require more |
taxes for 1898 than were levied for 1897.
{ Why should they? The County’s
| sets are $10,000 in excess of all its lia-
| bilities. The bonded indebtedness has
been reduced to $4,500.
as-
goes, for all it is worth—but the old!
Scull
its
engineer, and “Fred”
Their last fatal act
new chief
wus to declare
I. . . - . - |
and | ization a bankrupt institution, with the
pretending County Chairman a mere
| pointed out as a special object of their | | receiver, appointed by Judge Barker. |
vociferous calumnies; we,
| feel called upon to publicly answer the | from
orion of those new-fledged reform-
This answer may seem tardy in its
l appearance, but its tardiness must be
justified in the flimsiness and down-
I right foolishness of the charges prefer-
‘red by the silly authors of the afore-
{said eriticism. For an answer to all
their allegations we steadfastly relied
upon the record we have made as pub-
lic officers. A public officer must in:
| evitably stand or fall by the record he
‘makes while he occupies the oflice.
| Truly, “a pubiic office is a public trust.”
' But we must not dwell on generalities.
eral—all general. There is not one
! specific wrong or fraud that these scrib-
bling scorpions allege. There sole aim
and object seems to be one of general
denunciation and vituperation. The
| great end and purpose of all their froth-
ing and frantic vaporing is transparent
enough. Men who will not de their
every bidding must be erushed. Public
officers who will not administer the
; public business in the sole interest of
‘the Scull ring must be broken down.
| County Commissioners who refuse to
make the Herald office the sole middle- |
‘man for the- furnishing of the public
supplies—at the most exorbitant prices
{ —must be maligned, ridiculed and per- |
|
|
The charges against us are indeed gen- |
therefore, But the Republican party will recover
this untoward circumstance in
due time; the Scull ring never.
TEMPORAY LOANS.
of the
before
It
As for our administration
Commissioners’ office, as we
stated, we.appeal to the record.
would be impossible to speak otherwise |
of our own oflicial acts.
upon our duties on the first Monday of |
empty |
treasury and a bonded indebtedness of
January, 1891. We found an
$13,500 upon . the county. The jail
built the year before required a new
roof immediately, owing to the bad
architecture in its construction. Money
was indispensable to meet the current
demands upon the treasury, and we
! borrowed money in the same way that
other corporations borrow money for
temporary use. Our predecessors had
just a few days before the expiration of
their term of office, called in and paid
$5,600 in bonds that did not fall due |
before the next year. In the English
language of the late lamented County
Auditors, we thought it would be *far-
‘eial” to go through the legal prelimin-
aries and extra expense required forthe
issue of new bonds, and our attorney,
H. 8. Eadsley, Esq., advised us that
such a temporary loan without the for-
! ality of issuing bonds was not illegal.
| This method of borrowing money, for
| secuted into meek submission, or rele- temporary use, to meet the current ex-
political machine is now a total |
the |
We entered |
ITEMIZING,
| The Scull printers seem to be adepts
at one-side itemizing, and a little con-
| tinuation thereof may interest taxpay-
'ers. :
When we entered the Commissioners’
| office the ruling prices (established by
| the Sculls who had their hand on the
public throat) for the most important
public supplies and advertising were as
| follows: Assessment books and blot- |
ters, per set; $150 {present price 385);
| tax duplicates, per set, $70, (present
| price $15); registration books, per set,
| $120 (present price $20); election blanks, |
| per set, $98 (present price $30); mili-
tary rolls, per set, $53 (present price
$13); advertising anpual statement,
| $170 (present price $75). Other sup-
plies and printing in nearly the same
proportion compared with the old
| Ilerald prices.
“POLITICAL REBATES.”
The mendacity of these new-born |
“Reformers” seems to have reached its |
climax in allegation that we have issa-
ed tax rebates by way of political fa-
vors. No greater falsehood was ever
uttered. We issued tax rebates just as
our predecessors issued them, in cases |
only of the most glaring hardships and |
inequalities, and never without the |
| knowledge and advice of the proper |
| tow nship or borough assessors. These |
rebates are also matters of record and
we challenge the “Reformers” to prove |
|
BRIDGE CONTRACTS.
On the matter of awarding contraets
for building iron bridges our practice
has also been criticised. We have con-
tracted for iron bridges privately when-
ever we found private lettings the most
| you will assess and value
i the rate or price which you shall, after
| due examination and consideration, be-
| The Act of
| rately bona fide
i carefully
| shall be lawful for said conimissioners
a single “political rebate.” E
*
profitable to the county. Public let-
tings have not proved so advantageous
as private lettings, because oridge men
always pool their interests at a public
letting, just like some newspaper edi-
tors “pool” on county printing, and the
successful bidder must divide profits
with his competitors. A bill intro-
duced at the last session of the Penn-
sylvania legislature, providing that all
contracts for bridge work should -be
awarded to the lowest public bidders,
was condemned by nearly all the boards
of County Commissioners in the State,
and the bill was subsequently with-
drawn by its author. In contracting
for iron bridge work we have succeeded
in buying bridges more than one-third
cheaper than iron bridges have ever
been contracted for in the history of
Somerset county. This reflects no dis-
credit upon our predecessors, because
the decline in the price of steel and
iron has made iron bridge ‘work corre-
spondingly cheaper now than ever be-
fore.
THAT FIVE-YEAR “INVESTIGATION.”
The new “Reformers” have freely
suggested an investigation of the bus-
iness transactions of the Commission-
ers’ office covering a period of the last
five years. We cheerfully invite this
investigation—not for a period of the
| past five "years only, but for the full
seven years covering our combined
terms of service in the County Com-
missioners’ office, and we hereby waive
all legal registrations that might limit
the investigation to five years only.
Let the investigation proceed at once,
and for seven years! Keep Biesecker
and all the other Scull crew off the
“brakes” and turn on the steam! All
we shall ask is permission ta ride on
the “cow-eatcher,” that the “headlight
may not he neglected.
S
=U,
Geo. If.
SHoprg,
Kivyer,
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NO INCREASE OF TAXES.
Commissioners Give all Necessary
Assurance on this Poin..
To the Taxables of Somerset County :—
»> x *
The form of oath required toe be ad-
ministered to assessors (see Aet of 27th
July 1842 Pamphlet Laws, 441 §9) is as
“You do swear * % that
at
follows:
Roe
lieve the same would sell for, if sold
singly and separately at a bona fide
sale, after due public notice; * #3
15th May 1841, P. L. 395 §4.
provides that “it shall be the duty of
| assessors to assess, rate, and value all
objects of taxation according to the act-
tual value thereof, and at such rates and
prices for which the same would sepa-
sell. And on the re-
or valuation
turn of such assessment
| into the office of the County Commis-
after the same shall have been
examined and corrected, it
sioners,
if they believe any property made tax-
able has been assessed below its actual
value to raise the same to the actual
value thereof, or if the same has been
assessed above its actual value, to re-
duce tho same thereto.”
To which duties the eounty commis-
| sioners are especially sworn as a board
oT
-
of revision by oath under the act ot
July, 1804, P. 1. 441 (10.
If after the appe:l: have been all
heard it is found that the total valua-
tion is higher than last year, the mil-
| Inge will be correspondingly reduced.
| The total county tax for the .year 1897
| was $48,567.28, and there
is no neces
ty for more in 1898, and more will not
be levied. Under the law, as quoted
above, the assessors were bound to
ssi
| raise valuations in many instances, but
we purpose to adjust this increase, il
any, by a reduction of the millage, si
thy the taxes levied will not be higher
"than last year.
Where valuations were advaneed by
the Commissioners in any distriet, and
taxables who attended the appeals were
allowed a reduction after showing the
valuations to be generally too high, a
like reduction will be allowed all taxa-
bles in that district, whether they at-
tended the appeals or not.
The impression created, by certain
| persons with an unworthy motive, that
{ the county taxes are to be increased is
false. There is no necessity for an in-
crease of taxes and there will be no in-
crease, and it was never intended there
should be.
GABRIEL GGOD,
Geo. KF. KinxeL,
Co. Commissioners.
$
We are anxions to do a little good in this
world and can think of no pleasanter or
better way to do it than by recommending
One Minute Congh Cure as a preventive of
pheumoaia, consumption and other serious
lung troubles that follow neglected colds.
P. 8. Hay, Elk Lick. C. A. Bender & Bro,
Grantsville.