Republican News Item. VOL. xv. NO 1 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75.000. J DIRECTORS: Trans/icts n General ' Win. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking IW. C.FronK F,,,,W A J«b Per, I Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j j A s 8111l John Ball, uais and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. COLE'S Up-To-Date ~MMK HARDWARE ware you naturally ask yourself W thig question: "What kind of stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or whatever it may be—''shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to onr store and let lis solve the problem. We have a tine variety of standard goods to choose frtfm. When you think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. AVe give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. Season's Best Dress Goods There's nothing lacking in our Dress Goods Department, We can't imagine how you can fail to find what you want here at any paice from 50c to $2.00. Stocks are large and varied; fabrics are new, many of them are exclusive. The prices are down to the low est notch. Serges, Henriettas, Batistes, Wool Taffetas, Panamas, Diagonals, Striped effects, Tussah Royal and neat Fancy Suitings. Ladies' Kid Gloves. In all the wanted styles of Gloves and fashionable new shades for spring wear. Good glovds for SI,OO. The very best for sl.f>o Ladies' New Suits and Gowns. From scores of shoppers, ',buyers" would be more accurate, we hear expressions of delight at the attractive styles we are showing at the low prices they are marked. Dress Trimmings. In the new desirable styles for all sorts of gowns and waists are here in full force. Black, white and colored bands and appliques in rich designs. Gold and silver effects in bands and all-overs. Fancy yoking, etc. Fancy Dress Silks* And Foulards in all the newest colorings, neat designs iu light and dark shades. Cheyney's shower-proof Foulards are the most serviceable made. Beautiful patterns, 23 inches wide for 85e a yard. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE; STREET. WILLIAMSPORT - PENN'A. V * PRINTING TO PLEASE a®? Mf J IFlewe ITtem ©fftce. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1910. DETAILED REPORT OF DIRECTORS; MEETING Secretary's Account o! Direc tors' Sixth Annual Meet. The sixth Annual Convention of thoSulliviin County School Directors' Association was held in the Court House on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, 1910. The meeting was called to order at 9:3<> a. m., by F. \V. Mylert, President, and the organization re sulted in the election of the follow ing officers: President, Warren E. Gritman, Davidson; Vice Presidents, J. 1). Benjamin, Dushore, and J. Henry Donovan, Cherry; Secretary, Albert F. Heess, LnPorte; Treasurer \V. (!. Mason, LaPorte. The roll call showed .'i(i directors present. The minutes of tiie Fifth Annual Convention were read and approved. The delegates to the last Convention of the State Association then read well prepared reports, each taking up some particular address or impor tant work of the State Association. Retiring President, F. W. Mylert, Esq., addressed the Convention briefly reciting the history of the schools of Sullivan County and gave some very interesting comparisons showing the number of schools, the length ot term and percentage of at tendance in the early days as com pared with the present. On motion it was ordered that ten names he placed in nomination for Delegates and Alternates to the next State Convention, the live receiving the highest number of votes be elect ed as Delegates, the other live to be alternates. After receiving nominations and taking a ballot on same the Conven tion adjourned to 1:30 p. 111. AFTERNOON SESSIONS Joint Session of Teach»rs and Directors. Meeting called to order by Presi dent Warren E. (Jritman. Roll calf showed 50 Directors present; also seven Directors-elect. The Report of the Tellers appoint ed to compute the vote fur Delegates and Alternates to the State Conven tion showed the following: For Del egates: S. E. Worthington, Eagles mere; William Fullmer, Shrewsbury. Alvin Kightmire, Elkland; George T. Deegan, Dushore; George W. Meyers, Davidson. For Alternates: Anthony Middendorf, Cherry; Jo seph A. llelsman, Cherry John Yaw, Forks; H. irvin Woodliead, Forksville; Lyman J. Norton, Hills grove. The President named as a Committee on Resolutions: Wil liam Fullmer, John W. Frey, F. W. Meylert, Fred E. lloffa, and Charles A. Starr. The regular program was then I a ten up, and the fact that every person on the program was present was evidence of the interest in the Association. Hon. M. E. Herrmann, read a well prepared paper on "Medical in spection of schools-Its scope and purpose." While some of the legis lation 011 our statute books is unwise, it is not best to assume a hostile at titude towards all laws pretaining to the public health. More than 100- 000 children are annually carried away by diphtheria, scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Children are frequent ly pronounced dull, stupid or incor rigible, when it is a physical defect of sight or hearing. "Business Methods in the admin istration of School Affairs" was brief ly discussed by Albert F. Heess. Proper business methods will be ap plied only when proper men are elected to the positions:—Men com petent enough to make a success of their own business; honest enough to serve their district with out financial reward; interested enough to devote some time to this important work. Fleet competent Auditors. The rem edy lies in the hands of the voters of every district. Prof. J. H. liallentine, Principal of the Duuhore High Schools, in his discussion of "What Attitude of the Hoard is most helpful to the Teacher" presented a question of importance to every school Board in Sullivan County. The 'one-man Hoard' good o nly if his efforts are properly direct (Contiuued on last page. ) MB APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT He Will Succeed Justice Brewer in the Country's Highest Tribunal IS TO RESIGN ON OCTOBER IST Horace White to Take His Place as Governor of New York for Three Months—Salary of Supreme Court Justice to Be $17,500. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOODODO y O P President Very Much Delighted. C P Washington, May 3. —After Q O President Taft had sent the c £5 nomination of Gov. Hughes to £ O the Senate he said: O w "I am very much delighted to O secure Gov. Hughes for the Su- O Q preipe Court Bench. He is a Oman of wide experience, and it O Q is a mighty valuable thing to Q have on that bench a man of af- O P fairs. Gov. Hughes is forty- O eight years old—l think that is p Q the age he once told me—and O if he retires from service on the (i $ bench at seventy he will have fj §had twenty-two years of solid (' usefulness." O (' UCOCCOOOOOOOOOOOCCCCCCCCCC) Albany, N. Y., May 3. Gov. Charles E. Hughes has decided to ac cept President Taft's appointment as Associate Justice cf the United States Supreme Court in preference tore turning to the practice of law in New York city on January 1 next. Gov. Hughes Is 011 record not only in favor of President Taft succeeding himself but against the Governor himself ac cepting a third nomination, 011 the ground that his personal fortune will not stand any further drain of public office. The salary of Governor Is SIO,OOO and that of a United States Supreme Court Justice $12,500. The latter sal ary is to be increased shortly to $17,- 500. Gov. Hughes feels that in ac cepting this life appointment from President Taft he will be able to live within his income and save some money, as the position will not entail any material social obligations or ex penditures. As Gov. Hlights will ascend the Su preme Court bench in Washington at the beginning of the second week in October he will not be a factor in next fall's campaign in New York State, nor will he participate in it in any way. When Gov. Hughes resigns In October he will be succeeded as Governor by Lleut.-Gov. Horace White of Syracuse, who will act as Governor until January 1 next. DESPERATE PRISON MUTINY. Two Convicts Killed, One Mortally Wounded and Another Shot. Canon City, Col., May 2. —A des perate attempt at a penitentiary de livery was made, but after two con victs had been killed, one mortally and one seriously wounded the out break was controlled. Every man in the city was called upon to arm himself and hurry to the prison. When the mutineers were told that the prison was surrounded by hundreds of armed men and they would all be shot down if necessary they surrendered and were locked In their cells. COOL DAYLIGHT THEFT IN BANK. Man with Stolen $1,200 Asked Presi dent About Rates of Interest. Syracuse, N. Y., May 2. —A sneak thief robbed the First National Bank of this city of $1,200. While the presi dent of the bank, Charles W. Snow, was in another department, a man without hat or coat appearing to be a clerk from some neighboring office, entered the president's room and grabbed packages of $5 bills aggre gating $1,200. Meeting the president at his door, the thief asked what rate of interest the bank paid in deposits, and upon receiving an answer left the bank. BLA3H IN BUTTER PRICES. Chicago Men Win and Harmony Pre vails at Elgin. Elgin, 111., May 2.— The Elgin Board of Trade agreed to-day upon a quotation of 29 cents a pound for but ter, a drop of three cents from last week. Perfect harmony prevailed at the meeting. One butter company offered 29 cents on the call board, and there were no offerings. The quotation com mittee, after a short session, reported this figure as the price. YpHe Divorces Strong. Portland, Ore., May 2.—Mrs. Mar> Augusta Strong (May Yohe) was granted an absolute divorce at Oregon City to-day from Oapt Putnam Brad 199 Strong on the ground of desertion LONG DEATH LIST IN X-SGIENCE CIRCLE Nearly a Dozen Gone in the Last Few Months, Including Three Suicides IT SET SCIENTISTS TALKING Of Malefic Influences and "Death Thought," Such as Miss Stephens Believed to Be Directed Against Her—Fatalities in Ranks. New York, N. Y. May 3.—The in ner circle of Christian Scientists of which Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, the ex-comnuinicated leader of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, was the centre, has been greatly depleted by death in the last few months. The suicide on Saturday of Miss Marion Stephens, who, according to her friends, was firm in the belief that she was a victim of the so-called "death thought" exerted by some ene my, has set Christian Scientists talk ing about nearly a dozen members of the inner circle, who have died since last Summer, when the machinery of the Mother Church in Boston was se! in motion to break the growing influ ence of Mrs. Stetson here. The roll of death in the ranks of Mrs. Stetson's former students in cludes three suicides, and 'in each in stance, it is said, the victims of self destruction have been obsessed with the belief that some powerful mental Influence urged them to end their lives. The first of the inner circle to die by his own act was Henry Pennington Toler, who committed suicide during the Winter by plunging into the East River, after having escaped from the asylum on Ward's Island. Next came the death of Mrs. Lotta Phillips, who, according to the abula tion of the anti-Stetson Scientists, ended her life in an asylum not far from New York about a month ago. She was at one time close to Mrs. Stetson, but is said to have broken away a short time before her death. She used to live in West Ninety-sixth street, not far from Mrs. Stetson's home. The third suicide was that, of Miss Stephens, recorded yesterday.. Deaths within the ranks of Mrs. Stetson's former students and Inti mates of her household began in the Summer when Miss Laura Lyman died at Rye N. Y. She studied under Mrs. Stetson and absorbed much of the teachings which were condemned by the Board of Directors of the Mother Church when Mrs. Stetson was tried on charges of mental mal practice. Soon after Mrs. Stetson returned from Boston where she was put through a grilling investigation by the Mother Church Directors another member of her inner circle died. He was Robert Van Arsdale, owner of the American Engineering and Railroad Journal. He had been one of Mrs. Stetson's closest friends and advisers. Miss Sarah Drumm, at one time proprietress of the Druinm School in West Seventy-second street, died early this year. She, too, was close to Mrs. Stetson and studied Christian Science under her. Miss Drumm had closed her school several months before she died. One of her teachers Miss Far ine, who for many years taught French, and was also a follower of Mrs. Stetson, died shortly afterward at Paterson N. J. Carol Norton was killed by a street car in Chicago. Regarding his death, Mrs. Maude Kissam Babcock, a Chris tian Science healer, once a member of the Stetson inner circle, who later turned against the ex-communicated leader had this to say yesterday: "Mr. Norton went to Chicago to es cape the torture of the conflict be tween Mrs. Stetson's influence and that of the true faith. Wandering around, distracted, he was killed in a street accident. Never Will I forget how Mrs. Stetson received that news. She turned as white as a sheet and cried: " 'God grant that Carol does not haunt me for that.' " Mrs. Babcock also told of the ex perience of Mrs. Linda Dietz, at one time a student of Mrs. Stetson. "Mrs. Dietz went to Albany and started a Christian Science Church," said Mrs. Babcock. "Mrs. Stetson as sumed that the church was to be un der her influence. She thought she could do anything with those of us who were devoted to her. Mrs. Dietz had separated from her husband. She went mad in Albany after a quarrel with Mrs. Stetson, and was for months In a sanitarium before she recovered." 9100,000 a Day for Autos. Chicago, May 2. Secretary 01 State Rose at Springfield Is issuing 125 automobile licences a day, of which more than 100 are for now cars. Chicago dealers say the auto mobiles sold In this State average sl, 000 a piece, so that the people of Illi nois are now spending SIOO,OOO a day or more than 930,000,000 a year (01 motor cars. Shite Library 75C PER YEAR WHITE SAYS BROWNE HELPEDSPENDBRIBE Illinois Legislator, Who Makes Corruption Charges, Tells of Extravagant Like Trips LORIMER GOT JOB FOR HIM Senator Denies All the Allegations Against Him, as Does Representa tive Wilson —Gov. Deneen May Call Legislature to Make Investigation. Chicago, 111., May 3. —In a newspa per confession purporting to have been written by himself, Charles A. White, member of the Legislature from Ofallon, 111., tells with much de tail a story that he had accepted a bribe of SI,OOO to vote for William Lorimer for United States Senator, and that ho delivered his vote In con sideration of the money paid to him. Mr. White also declares he shared to the 'extent of S'JOO In a "legislative Jackpot" distributed after the session was over. This "jackpot," he says, went to legislators who supported cer tain bills. Mr. White says he received from Lee O'Neill Browne, demot ratio leader in the House, certain loans during the session, and that his dividend In the "jackpot" was handed over by a Rep resentative. White declares he accepted the bribes in order that he might be in a position to make an expose of legisla tive corruption. He does not say that he returned the money or that he kept any of it as evidence of the truth of his remarkable story. The disclosures came on the eve of the opening of the Senator Loriiner's two financial institutions —the La Salle Street National Bank and the La Salle Street Trust Company. Further details to substantiate his story of corruption in the Illinois Leg islature were added by State Repre sentative Charles A. White. In u for mal statement he gives alleged de tails of the expenditure of the $lK>O, which he says he got in St. Louis from Representative Robert Wilson of Chi cago. as his share of the "jackpot," or general legislative corruption fund. He says this money went In a trip he took with Lee O'Neill Browne, the Democratic leader in the lower house, whom he has accused of giving him SI,OOO for his vote to elect William Lorimer to the United States Senate. He goes onto show that Browne, who now calls him a "scroundrel," wrote him calling htm "friend White," and used influence with Senator Lori iner's private secretary and James Monaghan, Loriiner's right-hand man, to get for him the proffer of a place in the Chicago City Government. Browne also declared that after Lorimer got to Washington he would get While a better place. Representative White's previous story of bribery took him past the al leged receipt of the S9OO from the "Jackpot" in St. Louis on July 15 to a vacation visit to Chicago shortly after ward. B. & O. RAISES WAGES. Between 50,000 and 60,000 Get 6 Per Cent. Increase from April 1. Baltimore, May 2. —An announce ment from the executive offices of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company issued to-day states that an Increase of 6 per cent, in the rate of pay has been granted to all employees receiv ing S2OO or less per month, excepting those affected by the agreements re cently arrived at with the engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, yard men and telegraphers. Between 50,000 and 60,000 persons will be benefited by the Increase, which was made effective from April 1. WORLD'S BIGGEST MAN DEAD. Locust Valley Hotel Proprietor Weighed 568 Pounds. Locust Valley N. Y., May 3. —Wil- liam H. Burnet, who is supposed to have been one of the biggest and heaviest men In the world, died to-day. He weighed 568 pounds. He was of or dinary height, but measured six feet and eight inches around the waist. He wore a 22 1-2-lnch collar. Mr. Burnet kept a hotel at Locust Valley and, despite his great weight, was an active fireman. He was born here on May 16, 1862. He leaves a wife. GOLD TICKET FOR ROOSEVELT. Will Be Good for Admission to the Jeffries-Johnson Fight. Denver, May 2.—The first ticket for the fight between "Jim" Jeffries and "Jack" Johnson at San Francisco on July 4 will be presented to Theo dore Roosevelt on his arrival In New York. This statement was made by "Jack" Gloason to-day while in Denver on his way to the Coast. The ticket, It la said, 'will be made of solid gold..
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