Republican News item. VOL. XIII. NO. 3 i $24000 $44,000 <* C Which Do You Prefer • c \ The average man earns about si, ico a year. Htr / works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a life V l time The average day laborer gets $2,000 a aay or 112 J S6OO (or a year of mo da vs. Ile earns $24,000 in a I X life time The difference between §44. c00 and $24- r J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a 7 V practical education in dollars and cents. The in- C J creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J x Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when < / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make ✓ V high salaried man ot you ? No matter what line o( \ y work you care to follow, this great educational \ stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can V /^tripleyour earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 ) Hlis O. IF. A INT, i G. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. HARDWARE? No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; 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 atovea and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a flue Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Sans lie? The Shopbell Dry Good Co., . f313 Pine Street, ' ' WJLLIAMSPORT, PA. . . Price Redaction On 3tvUisb 3aits Most of tlie saving are greater than you would expect this early—in the season—You can't afford to miss sucli an opportunity as ill is one if you are inter esied in Suits. One lot Ladies' Spring Tailor, Made Kton aud •) acket Suits—made of new striped and lancy checked or plain colored materials—These Suits were cheap at SJtl.oo to S:!t).Oo Now sls. \nolher lot of Ladies' -Kton and .Tacket Tailored Suits made of light and dark striped and mixed materials. Spring Styles, regular SlS.oo to £22-50 Suits Now SIO.OO Siiii another lot of Ladies' Eton Tailored Suits—mostly mixed materials hut good i vies and as well made Suits as you could expect to purchase lor sl2 to *ls Now $6.50' Misses Suits Half Price We have a tew Misses' 12 and 14 year si/e Suits. Some are plain, others mixed material-. I inner price on these Suit- were from slO.oo to 51.i.00 Now $5.00 to $7.50 Ladies' Wrappers < >ne !>a Ladies lYrcale Wrappers, mostly small sizes, hut 51.0'.l and ¥1.25 ijuul ilies, to close them out we make ihe price 50 Cents. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY MAY 21, 1908. Phila., May 17.—As a prelude to annual session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania which formally opens in this city on Tuesday, special religious services were held in the Baptist Temple, Odd fellows home, Home of orphans of Odd Fellows and Itebekah Home of Pennsylvania here today. Tomorrow will be given over principally to the receiving of visit ors 1 >ut a restricted session of the Grand Lodge will be held. The lie becka Association wijl also bold a session. About 1,000 Lodge repre sentatives will attend the session which will continue until Friday. Consideration of plans to solve the financial tangle involving Odd Fel lows' Temple in this city will be one of the most important matters to be considered. The Temple is now in the hands of a receiver. The proper ty was erected in 180") by the Odd Fellows' Hall Association a corpor ation composed of the grand lodge encampment and subordinate lodges and encampments of this city. The total indebtedness is now $1,561,252. It is proposed to have the grand lodge take over the property, secur ing certain consessions reducing the total to $ 1,1 r,0,000 and levy a per capital tax on members of the fra ternity for fifteen years until the in debtedness is removed. After being totally deaf tor 20 years, the hearing of Mrs. Amelia Men/, Cincinnati was suddenly re stored by a thump on a bass drum. Mrs. Man/ is 05 years old and lost her hearing through sickness. She attended a eueher party, and while occupying a chair near the orchestra, the drummer gave the bass drum a resounding thump. As he did so something seemed to snap in Mrs. Men/.'s ears, alie says, and the noise in thi! room sounded so boisterous to her that it almost made her deaf a gain. She rushed from the room, but soon was accustomed to the now condition. She can now hear a whisper. We cut from an exchange the following written by Father Ma hony, a Catholic priest of Minne sota: "I know nothing that saddens me more than to return to our own country after having been a little while in Belgium of Tyrol. There the poor people seem so wonderfully to live in the presence of< Jod. "If you were togo through a Tyro lese village at six o'clock in the even ing you would hear from every eot tageahum like that of a hive of bees, every one, father and mother, and children and servants, saying their prayers. It is much the same at noon only then many of the people are out of doors in the fields, or in their gardens. The church bell rings at twelve, and the mowers put down their scythes and take off their caps and fold their hands in prayer for a bout a minute, and then goon with their work. < >rte market day at Inns bruck 1 was dining, and there was a party of larmers atjanother table hav ing their dinner. The church bell rang tlx; Angelus. Then they all rose up, and standing reverently, the oldest man in the party began the prayers and the rest responded. And the women shopping were standing still in the market, and those at the booths stood also with folded hands, and the men had their h its off, and instead of the buzz of ! bargaining rose.the murmur of the I prayer from all that great throng." The Statu of Pennsylvania will raise 0.M00,000 seeding trees on its nurseries this summer and a/1 of the young trees will be setout in the for est reserves of the commonwealth and given care. The state is sotting out ai loa-t 400,000 young trees this ;-|>ring, distributing them among the reservations at Mont Alto, Asaph and (ireenwood Furnace. These [young tiees are Scotch pine, white pine, Norway spruce ash and wal nut. The state has established tree nurseries at points in Bedford, Pot ter, Adams and Franklin counties, The latter tract being the old Cale donia furnace tract, once the proper ty of Thaddous Stevens and lying in both counties. Additions made to the reservation by gift and pur ehase this year raise the total to sr ( o, 000 acred. < ,o, )tain John C. Groome, in his j third annual report as chief of the ; State Constabulary, presents some I very impressive facts. Arrest* made during the year numbered 4. 388. and 454 prisoners or about 10 per cent were discharged. The fees and cost collected amounted to $21,015,85 and $44, 353 .70 from unexpected appropri ations and other sources was paid into the state Treasury. The con stabulary patroled 332,094 miles, 880 towns or boroughs in 51 counties. The morals and dicipline of the force, Captain Groome says, are excellent. "Its members have shown good judgment, coolness, and absolute fearlessness. A re capitulation of the most important duties performed will show that during the. year the menders not only maintained law and order through the various counties of the commonwealth in which they oper ated, but assisted the game and lish wardens in the suppression of illegal hunting and fishing [one il legal fisherman having been found guilty took his ease to the Court of Appeals, and then to the Superior Court, and in both courts the de cision of the alderman was confirm ed and in default of SloYn) fine he was committed to the Luzerne county jail to serve 1300 days Also the Department of Forestry in fight ing forest fires and the Department of Health in maintaining quaran tine during the epidemic of con tageous diseases and in enforcing the sanitary laws of the Common wealth." Washington, May (Special) liep nsentative Charles 15. Landis of Indiana, in a recent speech ut Pitts burg spoke in the highest terms of Senator P. C. Knox, Pennsyl vania's candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Landis declares his loyalty to Vice President Fairbanks, the favor ite son of his own state, and said: "Other states have their favorite sons. Hut I want to say to you here and now that the republicans in Indiana have no quarrel with you Republicans in Pennsylvania, be cause you are loyal and enthusiastic for the nomination of Philander O. Knox. We know as well as you that he is of presidential size. We know as well as you that no man in public life in the same length of time has made greater in public es teem and confidence. He was in troduced to the country by William McKiniey, an I i do not believe that any man has to a greater degree the warm admiration of Presi-; dent Roosevelt. He served with rare distinction in the cabinets of two presidents. He twice refused a nomination to the highest tribunal in the world. No man in the nation is better acquainted with its tra ditions. His legal aim is unerriug. He has |>erforated the swinging tar of complex and troublesome con ditions and problems more times with the projectiles of judgment and logic and common sense than any man who sits under th,» dome of the capitol. He knows what is right as between man and man, as between capital and labor, as between the pro ducer aud consumer, as between the combination and the public, and I would be willing to trust him in any place at any time. 1 regard his ac quaintance and friendship as one of the chief est treasures of my brief car eer." Probably frightened by the grow ing sentiment for local option, (.'oud ersport liquor dealers, in an open letter, announced that they are going to enforce the law against selling in toxicants to well known intemperate habits, or those visibly intoxicated, an beg the public to inform them of cases of its violation, as a second of fense will not be permitted. Salvatora Blondi, indicted for the muruer of his cousin, Luigi Blondi, at Laquin on the evening of April 8, Wednesday morning pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. Judge Fanning immediately impos ed sentence of 12 years' imprison ment in the Eastern penitentury at hard labor. The Rev. Thnrlow W. Null at tended the annual convention of the Diocese of Harrisburg Protest ant Episcopal church, at Lock Haven last week. The convention was quite an event for Lock Ha ven, especially the procession from the parish house to the church, consisting of the vested choir, the candidates for holy orders, and the clergy, followed by the lay dep uties. This was the [opening ser vice Tuesday evening, and after the Bishop's address, roll call and appointment of committees, a re ception was given to the clergy and layman at the Armory, by the club of St. Paul's church. On Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock there was a celebri»'"on of the sac rament of holy 00. union, and another session of tth, convention until noon when a luncheon was served in the parish house by St. Paul's club. After the afternoon and closing session the Ohutub man's club gave a dinner at the Fallon House. The convention will meet next year at. Shamokin. On Thursday morning Rev. T. W. Null with three other 'young men were ordained to the deacon ate at Christ's church, William sport, at 10:30 A. M., after which dinner was served at the Windsor cafe by the vestrymen of Christ's church to as many as attended the consecration service. In the after noon many of the clergy, vested, marched with the vested choir and a number «112 Free Masons from Christ's church to South William sport, where the corner stone of St. John's Church was laid with im pie-sive ceremony by Bishop Dar lington and the Free Masons. A Special train is working from Oklahoma is working east bent on advertising the city of Tulsa. Over one hundred citizens of that city a< - companying the exhibit for the pur l«>se of making known the claims of their city and State. Oklahoma wants settlers and she wants new in dustries; She knows that the modern way to get them is to advertise 'for them. Even a nation may be ad vertised. Several western common wealths have demonstrated the value of this sort of propoganda to a State. So likewise a cause or movement may he promoted by publicity. A correspondence course in church methods that is being conducted for e'ergymeu by Charles Stezle, the church and labor specialist, undcr takesj to instruct the minister how to advertise his church. Jf there is anything under the sun that depends in any wise upon the knowledge, in terest or,fav(,r of any portion of the public that may not be bettered by a judicious use of advertising, we have never heard of it. Danville, May 18.— After a des perate struggle on a gloomy road that leads through pine swamp hol low three miles south of Danville, Mrs. Jeremiah Altwaters slew single handed, a large wild cat that has been terrifying the neighborhood. Mrs. Altwater was returning from the bedside of a sick friend, when suddenly the cat spring on her back. She grasped the beast just behind the ears and tore its claws from her dress and dashed it to the ground with all her strength she possessed. The big uat was up again in a twinkling and clawed Mrs. Altwater severely before she secured a grasp on its neck, and with the writhing animal tearing her flesh into ribbons, she dashed its head against a tree, killing it. Mrs. Altwaters hands, arms and face were terribly lacerated and her clothing was almost stripped from her body by the cat's claws. Although he has lived within a short distance of theßloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad ever since it was built, Thomas Hess, of Jackson township, felt the thrill of his tirst ride on steam cars on Tuesday morn ing when he came to Bloomsburg to attend the court, says the Blooim burg daily. He is seventy years old and has never ridden in any kind of a conveyance except those which have the horses as their motive power. 75C PLR YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. Daviil Herat wet with a fatal accident in tlie mines on Tuesday. He had just fired a blast and was returning to see if all was right when he was caught between the coal and a car. lie was removed to his home but died shortly after reaching the house. He leaves a wife and a family of small child ren to mourn his loss Rev. Rufes K. Bent of Scranton is visiting liis family at this place- William A Davis and Barclay Du gan were Monroeton visitors last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Fits gerald and T. V. McLaughlin were at Scranton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Bartlow of Overton were calling on friends at this place Thursday. Mrs. Delia Brown of New Albany was calling on friends at Mildred Friday. Mr. and Mrs. !.(«. Weaver was a Towanda visitor Friday. Daniel Schoonover was visiting Wilkes Barre friends Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry McLaughlin are visiting Scranton friends. The following are on jury duty at the county seat. Burclay Duggan, John Fitzgerald, Win. Allen, Elmer Champion, David Spence, ami Rex Fuller, Squiro Lowryand Constable McMa hon were attending court this week. Barclay l»uggan is attending the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Philadelphia as representative of Bcrniee Lodge No 902, the com mittee of Kantonka Tribe no :S3'i Improved Order of Red Men are making arrangments to have all the members of said tribe to attend the Great Council of Ited Men to ho held at Scranton Pa. June s !> and 10. All those who have not sent in their names to the committee are requested to do so. lion. Edgar Rogers of Lincoln falls, and Mrs. Sadie Mathues of Forksville, were married at the home of the bride's father, F. ('. Schanabacher, Friday evening. May 10, in the presence of the im mediate relatives. Rev. Yerden of the M. E. church of Forksville per formed the ceremony. After a brief tour Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have taken up their residence Mr. Roger's farm at Lincoln FaHs. We join with their friends in ex tending best wishes. Hermau A. Knipe, general manag er of the Eagles Mere Railroad, and manager of the Williamsport and North Branch was in the city Tues day. It is understood that his mis sion had to do with the arranging of a summer shcedule for the Eagles Mere trains. It is thought proba ble that by June 1"> orders will have been issued for Peiladelphia and Reading and Williamsport and North Branch connections for Eagles Mere the same as last summer. What is believed to be a concerted movement on the part of the rail road corporations to have the two cent rate law declared unconsti tutional is the action of the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central Railroad companies in deciding not to sell re turn tickets in the future between points iu Pennsylvania. This order has all ready gone into effect on the Lehigh Valley ami it is understood will be introduced on the Jersey Cen tral this week. There is'one exception to the order. Return trip tickets may be sold be tween points where the round trip fare is less than the single fare both Just the reason for the order is not known and cannot be understood. It is easier for the agents to sell round trip tickets, for then only one agent's time is taken up for each ticket sold. Under the new ruling it will be necessary to use the time of the agent at the point from which the passenger starts and also the time of the agent in order to purchase tho ticket for the return. Naval surgeons at the hospital havo been closely observing the thirty cases subjected to this treat ment, and the progress, it is said, has been such as to add to the con fidence that they have made an im portant discovery.
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