VOL. XI. KO 28 ('This Is the Place CTo Buy Your jewelry \ C Nothing in Town to Compare Withes 112 the Quality that We are Giving / / You for the Low Price Asked. L Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage C of this section. Many years here i t business, always 3 S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C [ with a care and jiulurru nt comm nsurate with its « \ desirability and adaptability to refine iast*\ ma'ts \ ( our store a safe place to invest. C r Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X ( RETTENBURY, > i DUSHORK, PA. The Jeweler COL HARDWARK^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D HE A TERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishing Goods, Toois of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and, General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. SiitHnsl , i»sfiGre,jF'a. : The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORTY PA. Good Austin Underwear. None but the best I'nderwear can find a place in this store —not necessarily the most expensive garments, for we have plenty of Fnderwareat low prices, hut those which are well made of good material, properly shaped, carefully finished and generously cut—our prices are riglu t, another feature sure to please you. Corsets for all Figures Knit Underwear Kvery figure has its appropriate corsets How about y. ur knit underwear sup here. We use the'greatest care in gi\ing plies? Have you everything you need? the customer the right model. If not let us furnish what you want. Women's Coats, Suits, Skirt and Furs "Closing out all goods in season," that's the rule. To accomplish that some times requires t-weeping reductions and losses, nevertheless the rule is lived up to. For the next lew days we will give some wonderful values in women's fashionable apparel. They w ill he ottered regardless of the former selling price. Every gar ment is marked nt what in our judgment it will bring. It is difficult to get a cor rcct idea of these splendid <|ualitie* until von spp the garment and get the prices. New White Goods. We are showing some new Novelties in fine cotton and mercerized fabrics lor shirtwaists, neal designs in stripes, figures and cheeks, also a complete line of plain materials tor drew*, including India. Liuon. Persian Lawns, French Lawns, Mulls. Swisses, etc. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1907. COAL MEN i APPEAL FBOM Assessments. ! _ Valuation Will Now Be Fixed By the Court. I Last Saturday was Hit- d.iy fixed ity the County < 'ommissioncrs to hoar appeals from revised assessments fi.\ - ed by County Commissioner.-, on cowl lands throughout the county. The appeals brought a large number of parties interested to the county sent. Among them were lion. William Connell, of Scranton, Manager of ; the Conneli anthracite mining'com j patty, and also one of the 'anthracite j j strike Commissioner* appointed by I i President ltoosevelt, with J. S. Me. j Aulty, A. 11. Hale and Thos. V. | I McLaughlin, all connected with said Icompany. Seth T. McCormick l\sq. i {of Willianisport. their attorney was j also present. The Jackson Kstate interests were | j represented bp \V. \V. Jackson and i iv .1. Mullen, Ks.|. [ The <)' Boyle-Foy anthracite coal i ! company also had representatives here. A. Walsh Es<|. appearing as j their attorney. '1 he County Commissioners an-! nouueed that they were ready to hear j any statements <>r testimony in re gard to the valuations they have fix- | ed upon these properties. Much to j their surprise the companies repre- ! suited,declined to offer any testi- j loony or request any reduction in j the assessments, but stated that they i had decided to appeal to higher court, i and withdrew from the office. The matter will therefore now go to the court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county for adjustment. "i In Bernice district there are at I present four coal companies < perat • ing. They are the Connell Anthracite i Mining Company, the lesseess and j successors of the <>ld State Line and | Sullivan K. It. Co.; the Northern | Anthracite Coal company, lesseess of | the lands of the estate of George 1). \ Jackson, the<>'Boyle FoyAnthiueite ; Coal company and the firm of Han- j dall and Sehaad Hrot hers. The Connell Anthracite Company lesscess_covers about five thousand j acres of land of which about one thousand acres are eoal land. The ' Jackson Kstate litis about four hund red acres of coal land leased to the Northern Anthracite coa 1 company, and the <)'Hoyle-Foy company about two hundred acres. The acreage of j the Kandall and Sehaad Brothers is : very limited. These lands have never been as- ' sessed at any thing like their value i until this year. Previous, to the year of ISMI-l they were permitted togo j upon the assessment books at the ; paltry valuation of #2 per acre. In Unit the Commissioners raised them j to Sis; per acre. The present board i of Commissioners after a very full ! and complete investigation in which the acreage, tonnage and values were j carefully ascertained by mining en | gineers, fixed an average valuation lof about *'{')() per acre. It is from , Ibis assessment that the various : companies propose to appeal. That the County Commissioners have done nothing more than their j plain duty in raising the valuation j oil these valuable eoal properties I will be apparent to everybody who j will consider the matter. Farm property and village and | town properties have for years been i assessed at a fair valuation. Why I not the coal companies? It is bouht I ful if an acre of coal land in Bernice i district could be bought for less than ' #l,llOO. The owners of the lands are getting from #LjtM> to #2OOO per year in royalties. If the valuations that the County Commissioners have [placed upon timber lands and coal lands in Sulli van county are not disturbed it is I calculated that the county debt can Ibe wiped out.in about eight years, ! after that time the county tax rate ean be much reduced The Commissioners Imve done | their duty in these matters "and the | people and tax payers throughout I the county will hold up their hands J in tln-ir efiorts to have the most val j liable products of the county proper : Iv ussc-sed. t The Filfy.ninth Annval Deport ol the | Pcnn Mutual Lite Insurance Combany. The fifty-ninth annual report of the I'enn Mutual exhibit company, J just published, is a remarkable ex ! hibit, in view of the adverse eondit ions obtaining the history of the I company, showing that the public | has confidence in proper methods ( 112 j life insurance administration. ] The annual report may tie eonden ! sed and summarized as follows: | Totulassets, Dec. 31. 1900 &83,710.9 a! train in premium income, !.205,30i ! 'lain in interest, rents, etc 555,713 i Death claims paid, 3,049,409 j ICndowmeats anil annuities p'd 1.57T,51>7 | Dividends lo policyholders 'Oil. 1f.101,717 1 (lain in dividends >21,217 | Total deferred dividend fund 5. VI t.«> 7 v Miain in dWeired " 590,442 Total general surplus tuml ."i,942.350 ] (lain in general surplus fund s<>s,2l New business written in 1900. *7.000.000 i When one considers the gains re 1 corded above, and adds to it the fur ther facts that a larger business than was ever written or cared for by the Company in its history was produc ed and protected in 190(5 at a reduct ion in the expense ratio ( exclusive of the exactions by way of taxations i to the very moderate and conserva tive figure of 15 p >r cent, it must he borne in upon any fair-minded pol icy-holder or contemplating insurer that the I'enn Mutual, of all the Com I»anies, comes the neatest to comply : ing with the apostolic injunction of j doing the things that should be done and leaving undone the things that should not be done. The Company is earnestly desirous that every economy consistent with the proper conduct of its business -hall lie exercised, and its underly ing purpose is that the interests of i a; ii polieyholdei shall be in.partial ly and fairly considered. It means that every policyholder in rhe I'enn Mutual is entitled to ahd actually gets a square deal. The I'enn Mutual has behind it a history of honorable dealing and steady growth for sixty years, and this is due to the high character ol not only the management but to those who come into direct personal contact with the policyholders,—the agency force. Mesers Bourne A Dur ham, of Philadelphia, have general supervision over Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, and in this section the Company's interests are efficiently cared for by Mr. M. A.Scuremin, District Agent, Welles Bldg. , Wil kes-b.trre, and Ch h. M. Ii Mider, special agent, New Albany, Pa. Trading stamps will be negotiable if the bill introduced in the lions- at llarrisburg by Representative <>' -hell, of Alleghany, becomes a law. It provides that firms or individuals issuing trading stamps or any singu lar device shall have the value of each stamp printed on its face, and that it shall not be necessary f>r the holder to obtain any specified number of stamps before his collection can be redeemed. The Lycoming County Medical s > ciety has selected Ellenton as the lo cation for the proposed hospital for indigent persons, who are sufferers from tuberculous. Kllenton is located on theSusquehanne and New York railroad near the junction of Lycom ing and Sullivan counties and is said to be an ideal location for such an institution. About 300 acres of land will be donated by the railroad com pany, of which 100 acres is cleared land and the remaining 200 acres j heavily"wooded. State aid will "be I enlisted in carrying the project to I success. [ To have his hair turn gray Jat the J early age of six years is [something j remarkable, but such is the .case 'of ; Boyd, the young son of John Ertwine jof Eleventh street, Bloomsburg. I About a year ngojliis parents noticed i that the boy's hair, which was dark, i was beginning to turn gray in sever ial places. What caused the hair to ! turn color is not known, as the child is healthy and has never had ,\ ' ous illni ss. Dodging Taxes xJ Is Said io Ike uic '\Snakc" in Two Bills Before the Legis lature. For Benefit of Lum ber Trust. To exempt the Tunning Trust from ! tuxes on more than half u million i acres of forests, and Co npel t he fann ers uihl other people of many coun ties additionally l>ur<li*n<'<l in order to gorge tin* poeketsbook of monop oly, is a scheme discovered in a brace of hills introduced hy Repre sentative James Branu, of Warren county who was in the last legisla ture also. William D.Shields, of Forest coun ty; Creasy, of Columbia, and Flynn. of Klk, propose to make the hall of the house ring with a denunciatory exposure of this. "serpent," which ihey regard as being about as mon strous as any that has ever appeared here for the purpose of swallowing up the savingsof the "country" peo ple and enabling a trust to fatten at the expense by escaping payment of .1 fair share of contributions to the revenue of the loud treasuries. One Hranu bill would "define and establish auxiliary forest reserves." I he other is to "provide for the tax ation of auxiliary forest reserves." i'heevident aim is to make the legis lature think that the object is public spirited and philanthropic, as pre 'ended provision is made for poster ity through fostering what would lie misrepresented as taking care of the "growing trees" covering 'extensive regions comprising the mountains and hills. But, in Mr. Shields' view, the real purpose is to procure enormous aluite mentof taxes for the Central Penn sylvania Lumber company, known is the "tanning trust." When the details of the various rates of taxa tion of forest land for local purposes neat hand here they are expected to -how that SIOO,OOO h year would be a low estimate of what certain coun ties, towns and townshipsjwould lose in taxes through these bills, under pretense that "auxiliary forest re serves" were being established and promoted for the public good. The Seranton Republican summar izes some of the most impoitant of the uniform primary law defects which the press has been suggesting to the Legislature for consideration in the proposed amendment of the law. The changes advocated are as fol lows: Requiring election officers to post the result of the vote immediately it'ter it is counted on primary night. I'nder present regulations elect ion otl'u ers are not compelled to make 'he vote public, and it may be kept i secret until the official count by the commissioners. There isopportunity for any amount of juggling with Un vote between the time it is cast and the time when it must be 111 tln luinds of the commissioners. The date of the primaries should !» ' changed so that they w ill not con flict with personal registration. In cities of the first and second class the registration day falls on the same day as the primaries, but in cities of the third class it falls after the prim aries for the spring election. A per son who ha- changed his residence since the February primaries, and a person who has changed his resi dence since the February registrat ion day cannot vote at the June prim aries. In Pennsylvania the moving day is April Ist. Citizens changing their residence at that time have no opportunity to register in their new districts before the time of the June primaries. Another change proposed is that some other day than Saturday be se lected for the primaries, as that is the busiest day of the week. The title should he so amended as to include thesaloon closing features. The primaries should be made to apply compulsorily instead of op tionally to all boroughs and town | shids. Means should be provided for the I withdrawal of candidates and these . lect of substitutes a certain time be ' fore the primaries. These proposed changes embrace about all of the sensible ones so far suggested, and all of them are of vital importance. 73C PER YL; P HR ir *'• 11 i Dr. J. (j Hr. mi mot Mil' l ! \ s visiting ttfs ji uis it's v. i)r .t : o i Thursday. i Sli< rirr Buck of La porte, wis !i j business C ille r at this plate Friday, j Squire Low l ie, aiuLF. MeOee were ! Dushore visitors Sunday. Kffie Oansel returned to her hoirie ! at La porte, ufler spending some ! ime with iter brother Ernest (iansel of Mildred. Miss Ada Lovelace of Laporte is visiting friends at this place. The following young people of Mildred enjoyed a sleigh ride to Cherry Mills on Friday evening; Lucy Haunou, Eflle Gansel, Marga ret Watson, Winnie Deffenback, Carrie Green, Mabel Colleus, George Spencer, Robert Watson,!''rank Ram say, Allen Ande and Thou. Wallers. Thus. V. McLaughlin was a busi ness man at Laporte tin Saturday. One of our popular young men has not got over his sleigh ride to I.a porte after he had been to all the trouble of getting up a good time for them all another young man took his best girl from him. II 1 were in his place, I would get up another party and then (put. Dear Editor it seems as you have stired up a hornet nest wlien you wrote them articles on valuation of coal laud not being a>sess<dat full value. It looks as it' all the papers is hot after the assessor* for not doing their duty, why not get after the parties w ho take tin oath to do their duty as far as "they know. It would be foolishness for a company or for one man to appeal to the county Commissioners to raise their valu ation, it does not look any too good for a man to expose one ot his own party for not doing his duty and of fer three tiint> the amount of the assessed valuation. That is one thing as far as Cherry township is concern ed thai no one can blame the r< pub lican party, as there was never a republican assessor, llow is this for the party that i- howling clean poli tics? The consolidated annual returns to the State Department of Mines for the year 191 Hi, show that 507 miue workers were killed in the an thracite region and h>l in the bitum inous regions of Pennsylvania dur ing that period. Of of»7 killed in the anthracite region, i!(M> deaths result ed from falls of coal and 77 from ex plosions. Of the fatal accidents in the bituminous regions last year, were the result of falls of coal and S7 from mine cars. Joshua Savage, of Jamison City, had a narfow escape from serious in jury Thursday, w hen his team ran away, and the sleigh was badly dam aged. Savage had driven to the lime kiln for a load of lime. As he was drivingover the D. L.and W. tracks at Lime ltidge, a train approached, and the ingineer see ing the team on the track, bl w his whistle. This star'led the horses, and with a leap both sprang forward and dashed down the road. Savage was neariy hurled out of the sleigh by the jolt, but grasped the dash board clung on and tried to stop the horses. This was futile, and after a short distance one of the runners went down into a ditch and the sleigh was dragged a lotig in this position until tic run net was caught by some obstruction and almost entirely wrenched from the vehicle. Savage was thrown out but not seriously hurt. At the l'ine Stre 't Methodist church at William-port, Sunday the annual missionary collodion (was taken and the total amount subscrib ed netted over i?l,~00. In the face of j the heavy subscriptions made this year toward the iiew building fund this was the most remarkable miss ! ionary collection .ever taken from a I Fine Street Methooi.st congregation. j One of the interesting jokes at the Episcopal churchm banquet was sprung upon a prominent member in attendance after he had put sugar • in his consomme and condemned it as being "the worst coffee he had ever tasted." Funniest of all lie fail ed to appr.viat • the occurence when it was called to Ills attention.
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