Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-08-05
THURSDAY, AUGUST S, 1853.

time, every step of progress imparts knowl
edge and affords delight.
When may these benefits-tbese bIess;nr,
be enjoyed? Not soon, fellow citizens Wt
are compelled to say, unless YOU VOLUNTARILY
subscribe at least S25, 900 in aid of the Instf
| tuition, the payment of which will secure an
| appropriation of the like amount from the
State.
We bave received, in cash, as follows.
From the Pennsylvania State Agri-
cultural Society, $4,000
From the citizens of Centre county
to secure location, 10 00O
From State by absolute appropriation, $4,000
Making S45, COO
which sum has been economically expended
IN the equipment of the farm, the erection of
buildings, &c., not one cent having been paid
to any Trustee, either as a remuneration for
time, or reimbursement of travelling expen-
ses A legacy of $1,000, by the late Elliot
Cresson, not yet realized, is shortly expected.
AT least fifty thousand dollars, in addition. is
absolutely necessary to complete and equip
this Institution, the government of achich-
through the agency of the County Agricultu-
raj Societies to which any of you may belong
is IN your hands,
To secure the advantages enumerated. and
many others, to yourselves and your children.
Will you subscribe the sum required one half
payable on the lst November, 1853, and the
residue on the lst May 1859? Your pecuni-
airy interests require it. The good of the
community requires it. Benevolence to your
fellow men requires it. The honor of Penn
sylvania requires it. She was among the first
to incorporate an Agricultural High School.
and she is now liable to be distanced by many
much younger and less wealthy States.
That you can, not only raise S25, 900 to
complete and equip the Institution, but $780,
0OO to endow it, if but a few among you, in
different sections of the State, will first SET an
example Of Gberaluy, and then say: Come,
neighbors, help in the completion Of this great
enterprise ;" is fully and satisfactorily dem
onstrated by subscriptions, for this very pur-
pose, recorded upon the books of the 1nstitu-
ton, with the name and post office address of
every subscriber, summing up as follows
By citizens Of Centre county, $7l66
Clinton county, 1900
Huntingdon county, 5S5
Miffiin county, 6l0
Agricultural Society of Allegheny county, 500
Erie county, and
Girard Union, 200
BY citizens of Delaware county, 900
The counties of Centre, Clinton, Hunting
don and Miffiin suffered perhaps more severe
ly last year from the ravages of the wheat
midge than any district of similar extent in
the State, and therefore their delegates, atthe
annual meeting in September, promised little
Yet, while suffering from the destruction Of
their principal crop, they have felt rich enough
to subscribe 50, ,SGl, as above stated of which
$3.50 have been actually paid into the treas
ury, in addition to 500 by the Erie Agricul-
tural Society, 500 by the Girard Union Ag-
ricultural Society of Erie county, and 1920
by citizens Of Delaware county, making
$1,000, emitting the Institution to like sum
from the State.
In view of great undertaking, designed
for tire common benefit of man-designed to
ameiOrate, improve, a7d elevate his condition,
it is a DUTY to feel rich-to feel as the widow
felt when she did that act which has come
down to US with the commentator of Him
who stood over against the temple, as an er.
ample lc0Hhy Of ottr imitation.
We wholly mistake your character, fellow
citizens, if you allow the Farmers High
School of Pennsylvania. thus situated, to Ian
guish for the want of the SIS, 900 required to
complete the buildings. Nay, we mistake
your impulses, fellow citizens, if you do not
promptly supply a sum sufficient to Fl it with
all necessary appliances and means of instruc-
ton, and to give full assurance that speedy
success must and will attend it.