Republican News Item. VOL. XIII. NO 42 <524,000 $44,000 C Which Do You Prefer • ? \ The average man earns about si, 100 a year. / works 40 years and earns a total of $44,00 in a lile V \ time The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or ( / S6OO for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I \ life time The difference between $44,000 and $24-r JOOO is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a 7 V practical education in dollars and cents The in-C Jcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. S C Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when J ✓ the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton Pa., can give you an education that will make / 1 high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \ work you care to follow, this great educational x 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, r I He is i / c. H? 1 . BE/IDIiTXNr A ILT, 3 O. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. COLE S-wv/M/VW ' « HARDWARE NSTiaSeTfice this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OIR, WOOD HEATERS; OMB OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Fwnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition, B&Xgaias 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 MW 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. S«iMi4tSofe^»sftor^Pa. The SRopbell Dry Good Co., y . 3t3 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Rev ctnd Dress Goobs The n«w weaves Colors and designs are the hand somest we have shown for years. We will be pleased][to show them to you whether you are ready to purchase or not. We show a beautiful the new There is a fine assortment of plain an Satin Cloth ani self colored stripe—-just mixed suitings—All wool batiste in the ■what you want lorcont suits, new shades: also 42 inch all wool serge in 75c to sl.so]a yard. all colors, tor 50 cents. Today We Call Yonr Attention to a Splendid Line of Dress Silks and Foulards. It's the best collection we have ever shown, many of them are exclusive and a number of the designs here are only a dress pattern of a kind. Every new shade is represented in stripes or figures. Come and see them while the assortment .is complete. 75c to 1.00 a Yard. We show a handsome lot of 19 inch. We have most anything you could the newest shades that are wanted this want in the better qualities o( fsncy .season, tor tatleta for waistsjor dresses, prices from 50 cents. 75c to $1.35. Silk and Cotton Wash Goods. The range of this class of wash fabrics has never been equalled inj stvle, color or quality, in tact many of them look like all silk. PUtin colored silk all thefnew Fancy figured wash foulards in ill (be dark and evening shades, just the fabric ne w designs. They look as dressy a:, the for an expensive evening dress, l'rice a n silk foulards and cost only :53c ft yard. 39c a yard. Lace Nets. For waists in white cream, ecru and colors to match many shades of the new drees goods; also all kinds Of staple and fancy dress trimmings. ( Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY MARCH 11,1909. W2LL THERE BE A STRIKE ? j Miners and Operators to Cortfer This Week. Results Very Uncertain. ! Will there be another great strike in the anthracite coal district or will the miners and operators agree to an amicable adjustment? The answer is beyond the pen of any of the interested parties, but'the great pub lic of consumers, t lie party of chief! interest in any such strike, hopes! that a satisfactory settlement will be | reached and that the bitter warfare of three years ago may not be repeat ed. • Hundreds of anthracite mine workers made application Monday for membership in the union as the result of the meetings held in many places by the oiganizers and district officials sent out on Saturday by President T. L. L. Lewis before his | departure for the West. These of ficial report that there is a large at tendance at the meetings they hold, and that the workers are deeply in terested in what they say. The. ap proach of the conference with the operators, which starts on Thursday at Philadelphia, has made the men realize that they have but little time in which to become members of the union before the present agreement expires. The organizers are Impressing the men with the fact that they are not holding the meeting to incite them to strike, but that they are advocat ing peace. They are telling the men that the more thoroughly they are organized the better will be their chances of securing concessions. They report tint the great majority are union men at heart but, have through the past three years neglect ed to attend union meetings and to pay their dues. When not address ing mass meetings, the organizers are makii ga house-to-house canvass in the mining villages. The anthracite mine workers con tinue to express confidence in a satisfactory outcome of the negoti- with the operators. The optimism of President Lewis, is largely responsible for this, and it it is now being spread throughout the region by the district officials and the organizers. The mine work ers have been favorably impressed with the manner in which Lewis went to see the operators, arranged with them for the conference and was received by them, and this sec tion alone has created a confidence in him that did not exist before. They are now telling their district officers that they believe he will be able to secure concessions for them, and a new agreement without re course to either a strike or a suspen sion of work. This feeling is spreading through out the entire region, and business men are considerably cheered by the prospect. They are however going to hold back orners, and start no new work until they are assured by official announcement that there will be neither a strike nor suspension of work. The result will soon be known however, and if it be war, the pub lic may expect to see the price of coal soar to prohibitive figures and and never get down again to its present burdensome price. A Good Investment. The Pittsburg Press calls timely attention to an important argument in favor of the proposed Stewart road across the State. "In view the enormous sum which would be atlded to the value of farm property in the country ad jacent to the highway along its en tire coarse, the cost of construction seems slight," says our contempor ary. In the opinion of the Harrisburg Telegraph the force of this argu ment is found in the results that have followed street and highway improvements all over the state, whether m cities and towns or in the country. Proximity to a highway adds vastly more to the value of the property affected than the cost of the improvement. In no way could the state spend its money to more practical advant age than in the building of a system of great main hignways, such as this Stuart road is intended to in augurate. New Business Industry for LaPorte's Mid Winter Season. Town Will Not Lapse Into Slumber During ; Future Winters. ' ( The County Capitol Known in Winter as a Town as Quiet as 1 and Ten Times Colder Th in the Proverbial Sepuleher, J 1 Now TaKes On New Li e Beneath the Iron Heel i of King Frost Who Rules With an Icy Vengenee. < C "It's an ill wind that blows no one any good" is no more truthfully applicable or in keeping with tliedis agreeable, chilling blasts from tht Northwest, in conjunction with the freezing elements spending its furv during the winter months at Laporte where sull'ering mortals become con tent to remain cold and make but little effort to overcome it. With these existing conditions which ade nothing to the comforts of winter life here, are to be found the potent factors of nature,in all its severity, diligently rendering it possible for added comforts to thousands when the heat of Summer makeH de mands upon humanity, lender thest trying ordeals of arctic life, Lake Makoma seeks to protect itself by securely wrapping her surface with t solid sheet which in former years inly served to amuse merry parties jf skaters and replenish the annual uipply of local ice houses. This solidified, sparkling spring water surpasses anything of its kind for clearness and purity, and its su jeriority was little known outside if Laporte until the past few weeks. The Lake Mokoma Company, re- 1 sent owners of the lake, realizing lie splendid opportunity open to hem erected an icehouse, having a 1 rapacity of 18,000 tons, near the • m ast of the lake and equipped it j .villi a modern ice elevator at con-1 siderable expense in order to handle he weighty substance more eco- i lomically. A solicitation for orders j kvas made. Not many car loads had ! reached the marketing centers j K'fore orders of 50 and 100 car loads i jegan to command the attention of | lie superintendent, and he stated to the editor last week that his re iourecs were over taxed and that it liad become necessary for him to j turn down orders of 100 carload lots | using to the inadequate equipment tnd faulty method of gelling the ice floated to the elevatar. Kvcy available man and boy in , this section is pressed into service and ! worked from 12 to If) hours daily. ! Locol Option is Defeated. ! The Fair local option bill was de , feated after a sharp fight in the j house March 9th. The vote was l>(> j for the bill and and 137 against. Tin ! bill needed 101 votes to pass. The tight came on the bill on tin ! second reading calendar and a vote ! was reached after several hours' de- ■ bate. The Fair bill proposed local op tion in Pennsylvania, with a voting , unit of boroughs townships and i wards in cities and the right to vot<> 1 in a district every three years. The vote followed a vigorous de bate in which Representatives, Fair of Westmorland; Ammeruian, of Montour; Simpson of Hunting don; McDowell of Chester; Reynolds . of Lawrence, and Dearden, of Phila delphia, made the chief argument for the bill, while those to speak against it included Representative j Shern of Philadelphia; Flynn, of j Elk" Nichols of Luzern, and Seine I j of Allegheny, chairman of the Law J and Order Committee. Two years ago the Cravern local ( option bill went down to defeat by i S lacking just eight votes. Death of Mrs. Lodeska Pealer. 1 j Mrs. Lodeska J. Pealer, widow of ' the late Jacob Pealer, died at her 1 home in Dushoreon Thursday raorn- ing, March 4th, after a very shori : illness. The funeral was held on Sat ! urdav March fith., being her 63n' j birthday. She is survived by two j daughters, Mrs. Winifred M. Wag ] ner anil Mrs. (ieorge T. Deegen, both of Dusbore. without a few Sundays excepted, sr pressing are the demands made foi Mokom'a ice. A usual day's work fills ten ear loads, yet tliis number could he easily doubled were it pos sible to float ice more advantageous ly from the island to the elevator. At the time ice was being cut neai the elevator, a car was filled with :}0 tons of ice in 28 minutes It is worth the while to make a trip to Mokoma when cutting and load ing cars is under full headway. There is much to be seen and if the day is cold their is more to be felt. The elevator extends a short distance into the lake where a man is stationed who shoves cakes of ice into a slip where the moving parts of the elevator pick it up and conveys it to an elevation of; 5() feet where it is released and started on its rapid decent down a long slide over lOli feet in length to the railroad where a car stands with yawning mouth to swallow cakes of ice as rapidly as one can follow the other. Vigorous activity is required or the part of those stationed within the car to make proper adjustment of the cakes as they end their journey with a thud that is immediately followed! by the clicking sound of the ice tongues which securelv fastens into it and the motion i < stop! (1 until the ' $ > £ Activity is ... hand and the sight of~a chain of ice coasting down the shoot is entransing and fascinating. The cutting of the ice is accom plished by modern ice plows drawn by horses and assisted l>y men with ice saws. All the modern appliances known to modern ic>' gathering is here employed. Mr. David Madden of Philadel phia, in the interest if the Reading Dairy Company, was at Laporte Saturday and contract* d for 200 car loads of ite. A large porsion of t'lis shipment will goto Philadelphia, and the balance distributed to various sections of the State. Bernice Man Met With Serious Accident. Back BroKcn in Mines. Patrick Collins, a brother of M. A. Collins of this plaee, met with ;< serious accident win! -at work in the mines at Bernie:*. hist Friday morning which will, if he survives, leave him a helpless cripple for life. A fall of rock came down upon the unfortunate man and not only broke his b.iek but seri ously bruised his entire body, lie was taken to the Say re hospital where an operation was performed, and the physicians have some hopes that he may survive, yet lie can never recover the use of his lower limbs to any great extent. Mr. Collins is still a young man being only 35 years of age, and married. The unfortunate man has the heartfelt sympathy of his fellowmen. Pioneer Residents of Elkland Township Answers Final Summons. Mr Mortica Schoonover, a pion eer settler of Bear Mountain, died at liis home at Estella, on Satur day, March 6. The funeral was held on Monday. Mr. Thomas Whoatlev died at his home near Estella, Sunday March 7, aged 74 years. He was; one of Elkland's most thrifty farm ers, and was highly respected, the funeral services were held at Estella ou Tuesday. 75C PLR YEAR PRESIDENT TAFT Nation's New Executive Pitches Into Is Duties With Eflflcrneis. It is now President Taft. On thursday last, Theodore Rot - velt left Washington after see William Howard Taft sworn in i his successor. Washington was alive with spit - dor and the new head of the govei ment recieved a magnificent trit> ■ ! when he assumed the honored p * held from Washington to 1 loose*' by a long line of distinguished i i of superior ability, notable sirer i of character and passionately < - voted to their country. President Taft lias settled to wo . lie is starting his new nduiinis!: tion under a full head of steam, a i everything makes for speed. Mr. Taft is especially in ten*-: I in the revision of the tariff, lit s anxious that congress take qu ; action. To that end he is consults with Senators and Representati* s whenever he can spare time to do >, setting forth his id: i as and listen i> ; to suggestions. At an early hour he is found t his office, and as soon as his cali. >s are disposed of he gets down to h 1 routine work. So far as strenuo; - ness is concerned, IMr. Taft is not far behind his predecessor. The President sent to the Sen •<«. the new members of the cabinet vi 1 other men chosen for official I a under the new udministration. r X ii ; Senate quickly confirmed the cai net officers A caucus of the Republican com mittee of the house has been call I for March 13, at 8 p. m., fort • purpose of nominating candidal-* for speaker and othei elective office •. In William H. Taft the nuti. i has reposed its entire confidence a>:d good will. We believe as men of all political parties believe, that !i » will give a wise strong and - ful administration, that the com. '•will develope wouderful prosperi >' and continue its progress rs i • n'odern tin;- . We look for an era of good will, i period of steady upward movenn .'.t toward those high ideals of moraii >' and justice inspired by the man \\ ;■ > is now our only ex-President. It is fitting and all together griu - fying that William Howard T VI should succeed Theodoreßposevelr • s President of the United States. Another Fieid for Wireless, A test of sending wireless ti' - graph messages from a moving i il way train was successfully made on the Lake Shore Road on Saturday. Several messages were received t Cleveland Ohio, the first being set from the train as it was passing North Girard, I'a.. eighty miles (112 - tant and running at a speed 112 seventy miles an hour. Further a I more complete tests will be m;>t' >, and if the idea proves practical ■, all through trains on the road \ I be equipped with apparatus. Succt s of wireless telegraphy should m ti the elimination of a large perc. - ige of accidents in railroading, s the train dispatcher would be in r staiil communication with his tr. The careless telegraph operator \ ) sends two trains together wi 1 then be a personage of history • Will Not Marry Young Iv i Who Do Mot Read Ho*, a Nev/spapers. A score or more young jj;irls it Beavervilie, lnd., have fe.rne* a league to promote refinement am g young men, and among other tin -, have resolved to marry no man 11 o drinks, smokes or chews and v.io does not take the home pap r. Drinking is considered the chief e, i, smoking comes next, while ie young women assert that whe: a t man does not take the home p; r it is evidence of a want of intelligence and that he < ! i prove to stingy to provide for a family, educate his ehildem and I courage institutions of learning iu the community. LaPorte Store Enlarging. A. H. Buschhausen has altned ' the interior of his store and low li is considerable more space in wh'ch to vlisplsy merchandise.
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