Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-02-22

DldSJ anu rs quite we'll dC(CliI'Cu' NGui'N
a number Of strangers are Ill attend
auce and the committee is doing al
they can for their accommodation and
comfort. The concerts tins evening
and Friday evening promise to he very
good and will no doubt be well atten-
ded. Tickets for reserved seats can be
had at p. II. Musser's Jewelry Store.
Better get yours i'll time.
SETTLED AT LAsT.-The Turkey
Run School House Debating Club in
Union county has at last finally settled
the much mooted question, "Resolved
that married life is preferable to single
lifen bv dicSion in the Affirmative.
| No wonder at all that the Affirmative
| gained the day, for we see 10y the Tee
graph that two "SolOmons' argued on
that side. The judges however ought
to have given OualiRed decision, to
the effect that any girl worth having rs
| a wife had better die an old maid than
marry a lazy, good nothing, shift
less and thriftlesS BOBBY who can not
or will not support family. What do
Vox think o: it, girls
All the bands Of Snyder county
will meet at Middleburg, on the anni'
versary Of Washington's birthday.
Plenty of brass aud some big blowing
is expected. We suggest that the cele
brated Millheim band go down there
and knock the spots off them all. What
say you, Tom d?
The Uatchman acts real ugly In
handling poor Fritzy 50 roughly for
the manner in which the Reporter Off &c
printed the county statement supple
ments. We are no printer, and Of
course no Judge of such matters, and
besides that too kind and cOnsiderate
! for Fritzy TO repeat the Wutchmdn'S s
nasty language. Fritzy has but one
trade siu: he is played out rs StIteS-
man, and if the Wutchmm from sheer
malice and general cusSedness ruins
that, then what ? Well, we will have
no lot OF part in the heartleSs business.
-BelIefOnte presents striking ex-
ample of the serious results Of the i'm
prOVement craZs that swept over the
state ten to fifteen years ago, during
the times when the inflated prices of
labor ruled perhaps higher than ever
before or since. Tie building of a
new school house, the new reservoir,
the opening and grading of new streets,
are the principal factors that saddled
the enormous debt Of $l2l ,O0O on our
beautiful and otherwise prosperous
county town. 1t requires tax levy of
ten mills to pay the interest on the
boroagh debt alone, which with the
other taxes necessary for current eX-
pences run up to the fearful aggregate
Of thirty-three mills, without raising
one dollar as a sinking fund to decrease
tine burdensOme debt.
Perhaps the worst feature of the
matter is that there Sc ems to be no
way to raise additional revenue for i'm
provementS that are imperative, as for ex'
ample the rebuilding Of The High street
bridge recently swept away by the ice
flood, as the borough las already eX
ceeded its constitutional limit of debt
making by about one hundred per
cent.
In this dilemma the citizens of Belle
fonte strongly appeal to the Board of
County Commissioners 10 take the job
off their hands and build a county
bridge entire. Their pl ca gains much
force from the fact tn at the bridge was
and again will be largely used by many
citizens of the county outside Of Belle
fonte. The Commissioners propose to
erect an iron bridge if Bellefonte builds
the abutments, but the citizens of
Bellefonte say they are utterly unable
to do even this.
In matters of pdblic Improvement s
absolutely necessary the JOURNAL has
always favored liberal policy, and we
hope the commissioners will give our
distressed neighbors all the aid they can,
consistent with their duties az ward
ems of the peoples money.