Republican News Item. VOL. VII. NO. 12 ) Worth the Price I / / YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELJ. S WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLE JEWELERY. V 112 It wears and gives * pleasure for years and always worth the price paid for it. Our many / years of business at the same stand with the same j C principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery / Qis a testimonial of what our goods stand for. y We intend that this store shall be first in yourC S thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- J C tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom v J scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the J } same grade of goods. \ (Always Ready for Repairwork. :> / Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J V hands. To get values come here after them. r Very respectfully, C > RETTENBURY, < y>DUSHORE,PA. THE JEWELER. C, C ° ' Special Low Prices Now Prevail Wire fencing for farm, garden, lawn and poultry netting. Lawn mowers, wheel barrows, tin ware, woodenware, garden and farm tools, dairy supplies washing machines, wringers etc, of the latest in ventions. Paints, oils and varnishes. Mill sup plies and tools of all descri^ Bicycle 'Fires, Lamps, Brakes and Sundries. Sporting goods, fishing tackle, guns, revolvers and j equipments. Rooting, spouting, plumbing, piping and fittings. Bicycle repairing and general job work. Samucf (Sols^iisftore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., •N 313 Pine Street, , if WILLIAMSPORT, PA. v White Goods More white is worn this season than ever before and nothing makes a handsomer dress than line Swiss or French Lawn. We have plain Swiss 40 inches wide at 25c, $0 in ches at 35c, 60 in. at 45c. French lawns 50 in. wide at soc, 69c, 75c, and 65c; also all the popular lace stripes and new Jacquard figures. Summer Underwear Laces. We are allowing 11 very coni|>lete line ot tIUHIB a gieat lace season in fact the men s lathes Misses ami chidren s light protllinellt trimming tor nil kin.l» of tl.ii weight and gauze underwear. Men s l.a - ; n!ll( . ri;lU w e hove a nnniher ofnoveltie. brigan shirts and drawers, .shirts with ■ { itu || um |redsol designs in all widtl either long or short sleeves. Ladies low Come am , Hee theui wllen voli neck and short sleeves gauze vest at 10, tt ,. e Poking lor dainty laces. 12h and 15c. Sw IHS rluued vest low neck long and short sleeves extra good value Doroonl for 25c; rihhed gauze drawer.- at 15c and I (XI doUl „.)C an I up, \\'e are showing some stylish new fancy ij 1 plain hlaok, and plain white parasols hosiery Children parasols at all prices, also sui umhrellas in black, garnet, brown, navj Ladies' fast black and fancy colored a|)| ] ,, ret M l- lace stripe or drop stitch hose at 25c i o*ii to 1.20. bailies'fast black silk hose at L/-kii|orH Vi|l/Q 1.00, 1.25 and ITO Men's fialf hose in < UUiai U Ol|l\D cotton lisle at I2J cents to 50e Men's We have some very handsome designi black silk hall hose at 1.00, Ihe last Foulards and Satin Liberties, all new Mack heavy riM»ed nose wd sell at —ic |, a(lernfl 11»in season which we are closing ♦or boys and girls are the vify best hose out at a great i„ lr gain. made lor the price. Try The News Item Job Office WHEN IN NEED OF FINE STATIONERY. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1902. COUNTY NEWS Happenings of Interest to Readers EAGLES MERE. The water works is si success in every way. There is lots of wat er all from deep wells, it is beau tifulfy pure au<l clear, it is delivered under such a pressure that at the test for tire purposes the stream was thrown high above the roof of Hotel Eagles Mere. The one thing need ed now is for all the hotels and cot ages to give it their patronage so, that the company can afford to make very reasonable rates. Clarence Dunham, the engineer has settled down to it as if he had never done anything else all his life. In a week the Electrictrical machin ery will be set up and the l'uinp House will be in apple pie order. Then Clarence will be very happy to have everybody call on him. The Roberts cottage is now occu pied by the brother of the owner and the family are here for the summer. Miss Covert has again opened her store of Art Needle Work in the Spencer store building. Miss Breen's variety store seems to have a crowd in it nearly all the time. Burchard's Soda Fountain is al most ready to fi/.x. I lev. l'r. lingers lsreal of Saint Luke's Parish, Scranton, is at the Lakeside and will have charge for a month of the services of (he Episco pal Church of St.John-in-the-\\ ild erness. The excursion under the auspice of Grace M. E. Church, William sport, on Tuesday of last week brought about four hundred and fifty people and although the day was not auspicious they seemed to enjoy the visit very well and went home with out getting wet. On Wednesday of last week the last rail was laid on the Chau tauqua extension of the railroad at noon and the same evening regular trains commenced running to the new station at that end of the Lake. <>n Friday evening No. 4 got off the track just south of Chautauqua station about 2 o'clock in the after noon and trains were not run until evening. The illuminated sign at Hotel Eagles Mere is much admired. The troops of farmers from I'nity ville, Lairdsville, and all that coun try would seem to indicate a great need for the proposed new road be tween Eagles Mere and Forksville so as to facilitate the trade from over in that part of Sullivan county. The market would take much larger sup plies of garden produce, eggs and poultry if brought here. Owing to the wet weather the at tendance at the meetings of the Post Office Club have been somewhat smaller than usual and the proceed ings have uot been quite so anima ted. The Committee on Sidewalks call ed attention to the fact that under all circumstances Eagles Mere is es pecially favored no matter which station is used. Arriving at the lower depot passangers could have the opportunity to use the earth sidewalk as heretofore and if arriv ing at the Chautauqua station the same advantage was to be obtained along by the Athletic Field. The Secretary stated to the Club that he was much embarrassed when calling at the Post Office for the Club Mail from the fact that all the hand some women and pretty girls gath ered in front of the boxes so as to get each letter as it was putin their personal boxes during all the time that the mail was being distributed. Your correspondent wonders what else lie could expect us to do. He evidently does not appreciate his op portunities. The Chairman of the Committee on Borough Affairs reported that the Hotel men were complaining be cause the Council did not immedi ately incur a lot of expense for fire | hose for fear that a tire might occui Columns of Interesting Items Gathered by Ovr Special Corps of Hustling Correspondents i& Many Towns. J and tli? water works would be of 110 ! use wlhout hose. A resolution was offeree and passed that the hotel men should postpone any tires until thecoincil had a reasonable time to get luse. Tin Railroad Committee reported that he railroad company with its unfaling public spirit had estab lisliel a new practical railroad school on tie extension and were ready to takescholars and educate them Jon howto get trains off the track and on :gain in the short»*st possible tiiiu. The Committee was directed to s<e that our young men should be urgd to enroll for the full course all simmer. SHVNK. Was Ida Kightmire of Canton, is spetding a two weeks vacation with heiparents Mr. and Mrs. Abalino Ri^itmire. la rue Foster of Watklns, N. Y., is Making hands with old friends in torn. Ir. and Mrs. L. 11. Diekerson are rejicing over the arrival of a daugh teito their home last week. Irs. C. H. Brown who has been I'rically ill for the past two weeks reiains about the the same at this vviting. \ F. Reedy left on Tuesday last foWilliamuport, where he will tind siployment in a meat market. Mrs. Itedy expects to join him soon. Hiss Bessie Whipple of KUenton, am visiting her sister Mrs. E. M. Williams last week. Paddy Jackson was in Forksviile Inday. Mrs. John Packard and daughter South Mountain, called on rela tes here Thursday. During the heavy electric shower lursday evening, lightning struck e barn of J. R. Biddle, two mile low town, about 11 o'clock, and gether with contents consisting of t loads of hay was burned to the ound. There was a small insur ce. During this same shower hail Mies fell one and one half inches ick in the vicinity of E. M. Letts, •st of town. Friday morning at o'clock he gathered up enough to ike ice cream, (ireat damage was lie to crops in Bradford county. Mrs. Will Avery is visiting her ither C. P. Tinkham at Piatt, loe Packard spent Sunday with ti brother Frank, at this place, diss Viola Brown returned last v»'k to her work at Canton. •Ir. and Mrs. Chandler Brown ■sjiit Sunday with their daughter Benjamin Little 011 Bear Moun la. Ir. and Mrs. Wirt Lindley of Ivamla, were visiting the latter's pents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Shat tK last waek. r HiLLSGRovE. upt. Buckley of Athens, was in ten Thursday last. Miley Plotts of Williamsport was a isiness caller in town last week. 'ell, the medicine show has come in gone. There was quite a rivalry fothe prize—a pewter water set. Itas won by Miss Maine Ilelsman slbeing voted the most popular yog lady in town. They are show init proctor this week. iss Mittie and Florence Darby of Iltville, are visiting at \V. L. Himan's. . B. E. Gamble of Forksviile win town last Saturday. In (Jalough drove up to Forks vi last Sunday. <e of the most severe storms of thseason struck this place last Tlwlay. It made good driving wsr and the McEwen drive almost reied the boom at Montoursville. kel Mcßride has gone to Estella to rk for Mrs. Cal Jennings. 1 Brombeck has gone to Medix Rito boss for the Cileason Bros. Tacrs. Bill Morean accompanied bund will be boss batk piler. )k Dugan t>f Otterville was in toMast week. Harry Grt*m left for Dushore Hun day to attend summer school. Ham Oalougli, (lias. Peck, W. L. Hoffman left on Tuesday for Millers lake where they will cast lines for fish. They were accompanied by a party from Forksville. Look out for some big hauls. Hilly Johnson won the hip marble heart. Ho he says. Hut that did not stop him from working, just the same. Some More Eagles Mere Prob lems. $ The forest and the lake are by no means the only things of interest in our peculiarly interesting communi ty. Possibly few of our summer visitors know that one of our color ed porters is a University of Penna. student and will shortly graduate in the Department of Law, while another is studying for the ministry doing practical work in his chosen profession while pursuing studies to promote his fitness for it. In both cases the way to the goal has led up from poverty and by the road of con stant effort. Both cases prove that it is not circumstances that make the man but the man makes the circum stances. One railroad agent is almost ready to graduate as a doctor and another as a professional chemist. College doors have opened themselves to these young men because of their industry and persistence and not be cause of means provided by some one else. A divinity student does duty as a night watchman and every hotel clerk is supplementing limited re source to continue educational work. A whole class of young ladies in train ing for missionary and deaconess work serves in the dining room, am bitious teachers are in the kitchen that the wages there may open the way to still higher education. That all this staff till every position with tact that does much to make it .de lightfully pleasant for the summer visitor goes without saying. The most efficient, the most attractive service comes from the intelligent young men and women who have in their eyes an ambitious look that indicates a high grade of service in the world's widest fields. The most remarkable feature is that our own people are conspicuous by their absence from among these competitors for honors scholastic, scientific, humane and religious. Just why our own young people do not take part in the harvest that helps to higher education and higher placeson the world's rolls is hard to understand. With practical schools of domestic and culinary science, photography, pharmaceutics, steam and gas engi neering, hydraulics,, electrics and a host of other tilings right at home for three or four months, with one exception, none of our own young people are availing themselves of the open doors. With several thousands of people visiting us who would leave behind them substantial financial evidences of their interest in our church, Hun day School and library work we are not in evidence. Our older men are not seen as the pillars of the efforts that must build up the moral char actcr of our community, our young men are not in their places to wel come our visitors to attractive ser vices in our churches, instead of en tertaining the people who come to us and bring the money that sus tains us we expect them to enter tain themselves. With measureless intellectual wealth coming to our doors we let it get away from us without receiving its contributions that would be pour ed out for us without stint if we would but open our hearts and minds to bid it welcome. With a priceless crown held above us we are like Hunyan's man with his muck rake. Of a possible sum of a thousand dollars a week paid out for service our own people fail to secure but the ' most insignificant stipend. Instead of ourselves furnishing the clerks, stenographers, all parts of the train -led hotel start's, engineers and the i whole hast we are content to waste 75 CTS. PER YEAR. | the opportunities to qualify ourselves for the positions that would open to us advantageous doors for business away from home and let all such things pass us by. It is probably not extravagant to suppose that fully an average of two thousand dollars a day is expended ■ in Eagles Mere for forty-five days i but there is not near so large a pro ■ portion of it that stays here as there might be under different conditions. Eagles Mere is the one place Jin . Sullivan county that sends away none of its natural wealth as do the lumber and tanning interest. On the contrary it always brings perma nent and current investment but our people do not yet rise to the occasion , and make the most of their opportu nities to add to the attractiveness of the place and to their own advanta ges growing out of its business. Principally the responsibility for this condition of things rests with the fathers of the families because they do not realize that it should be theirs to inspire their children with an ambition to reach the very high est attainments that are possible. If the fathers will not sustain the church and the public school it will not be strange if the sons follow suit except so far as never failing mother love may do what paternal indiffer ence leaves undone. Another generation is coming on the stage it is true and from that may come the results now denied. The black haired, black eyed, rosy cheeked little flower girl, her auburn haired sister, the chubby little boy that to-day sells us flowers with s4ch attractive grace that you wish you could buy them all will take care of things directly and then it will be better. B. G. W. BERNICE. John Simons, a Polander, was arrested Tuesday night of last week by Coal and Iron Police Anthony Stelp, for breaking into Hynman's store and taking several hams and a quantity of cheese. He was taken before 'Squire Lawrence at Dushore, and given a hearing and bound over to court and in default of bail was committed to jail. Anthony Szle, age about :W years was instantly killed in the mines Wednesday of last week by a fall of coal and rock, lie was a single man and had no relatives in this country. He has a sister and one brother in Poland. Interment was made in cemetery at Mildred Friday. Misses Molly Commoski,Josephine Swarts and Maud Jordan of Dushore , were the guests of Miss Laura Ilat ( ton Friday. High Grunge spent the fore part of last week visiting friends at Towan da. j Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. \V. Crawford I visited friends at Rochester, N. Y. , from Saturday to Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Morter of . Green Wood are visiting relatives at , this place. i James 11. Crawford who has been , dangerously ill for some time is now I convalescing. A large DUIIIIKT from here rusti cated at Harvey's Lake Sunday. James McGeever spent Monday , at Dushore. . Mr. Gordon Saxon of Washington 1). C., who is spending the summer , at Eagles Mere, enjoyed Saturday [ and Sunday with his parents Mr.and Mrs. Joel Saxon at this place. MUHCY VALLEY. Mr David Temple of LaPorte spent a few hours in town Sunday I Misses Mattel Hazzen, and Mae t Donovan, of Sonestown spent a few hours in town Sunday. [ T. J. Moran spent Sunday at Du , shore. j Miss Gertrude Whitinoyer has J gone to LaPorte where she expect J to remain for some time. ' James Magargle called on friends I at Dushore one day last week. I A son of JE. Gallagher is quite ( ill at this writing also his mother-in law Mrs Kennedy. I Quite a number attended the ex cursion to Shawnese Lake Saturday ' and all reports a good time. e Raymond Starr of Hughville is a visiting relatives is town. B i
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