Republican News Item B. M VANDYKE, Editor- PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co A.t the County Boat of Sullivan County. LA.PORTE, PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED'FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE |%\ >1 i jjiJ, > GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1 hereby announce n.vtelf as candidate tor the nomination lor the office of Slier it! of Sullivan County, subject to the l?e publican rules. W. H. lUDDLK, Keti. 24, 1911. Elkland Township. I hereby announce myself as candi date for tlie nomination for the office ol Sherill of Sullivan County, subject to the Rules of the Republican Party. FRED W. sell A Nil A cm; 1;, March, 1, 1911. Forksville, Pa. 1 hereby announce myself as candidate lor the nomination lor the office 0!' Com missioner of Sullivan County subject to the rules ot the Republican Party. FRANK STRICKLAND, March, 17, 1911. llillsgrovc, Pa. Diaz is a man of parts, foreign parts at present. The more worthless a man is the more fish lie can catch. We hate to miss the coronation, but our potatoes must be hoed. Rumor has it that there is to be a coal breaker erected at Ringdale befroe many moons. Governor Wilson thinks the Democrats in Congress are doing "pretty tolerable well." There is still a lot of 100111 at the the top of the strawberry boxes for the good berries this season. When it comes to prosecuting the Tack Trust we wonder if the Supreme Court will be brave enough to sit down tin it. Diaz promises to lie back as soon as his country needs him, If he feels that way about it presumably be did not purchase a return ticket. The Senate did not start out by boasting that this was to be a do nothing session but there seems to have been a sort of gum shoe understanding to that effect. Scientists are still photographing Halley's comet. If the comet is responsible for all tliat is attributed to it, its photo should lie in the rogues' gallery. The ways of the Almighty are mysterious : The same storm that recently burned several farm buildings with their contents, also kept many acres of corn and po tatoes from getting discouraged. Surface Reappointed Economic Zoologist. Governor Tener has reappointed Prof. 11. A. Surface as Economic Zoologist in the Department of Agriculture for the next four years. Upon this subject the Williamsport Sun has recently commented ed itorially as follows: "The reappointment of Prof. 11. A. Surface to be State Economic Zoologist, for four years more, is a matter of great satisfaction, as well as of extreme importance, to this section of the State, which is just coming into real appreciation of what Prof. Surface's magnificent work is doing, and what it is worth. The information disseminated by him for the benefit of fruit growers, the methods of tree treatment prescribed by him, and the care and intelligence given all queries submitted to his department, stand both for value and appreciation. No other one thing that has come to pass out of Harrisburg recently, so far as this section of Pennsyl vania is concerned, is of more im portance than the reappointment of State Zoologist Surface. I)r. Schaefter on The New School Code. The following are notes 011 the new Pennsylvania School Code which have been prepared l>y Dr. Nathan 0. Scliaeffer, State Super intendent of Public Instruction, as they appeared in the Towanda Review : ''Under the new School Code, all school boards which elected otlieers in June, 1910, will re organize 011 the first Monday of June, 1011, or as soon there after as possible, and will levy their tax and elect their teachers for one year as heretofore, except in the independent districts which will be abolished 011 the first Monday of July. Teachers can be elected for one year only. School boards that have heretofore levied the school taxes in June should do so at the same time and in the same man ner as heretofore. The duplicate should be placed in the -hands of the collector by the first Monday of July. All independent districts are abolished on the first Monday of July, and all districts that levy any taxes this year after the Code was signed, in which there is any territory that belongs to an independent district, will levy its taxes 011 all property in the district, including such territory as comes to it 011 the first Monday of July, 1011, when the independent districts go out of existence. To all school tuxes assessed and levied in all school districts of the second, third and fourth class wnicli are not paid on or before the first day of October, a penalty of five per cent will be added; 110 re bate allowed for prompt payment. School boards can proceed with the erection of school buildings as heretofore except, that after the State Board of Education is organ ized, the plans and specifications of new buildings and improvements must be submitted to that Board for suggestions. Every contract in excess of three hundred dollars made by any school district for the introduc tion of heating, ventilating or light systems or the construction, re construction or repair of any school building, or work upon any school property, shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, after due public; notice has been given upon proper terms, asking for competitive bids. The present members of the school boards in second, third and fourth class districts, except in in dependent districts, will serve un til the Monday of December, 1011, when they will be superseded by the school directors elected in No vember, 1011. In districts of the first class, (Philadelphia and Pitts-1 burg.) the present directors will be superseded on the second Mon day of November, 1011, by the directors appointed by the court. No school director can serve as tax collector. In school districts of the second class the secretary and treasurer shall not be members of the school board; in school districts of the third and fourth class, members of the school board may ser.-e as secretary and treasnrer. The accounts shall be audited 011 the first Monday of July, and the auditors should publish a summary of their report, either in a news paper, or by promptly posting six copies in as many different public places. If in any year before the first day of August the board of direc tors of any school district of the third class decide by a majority vote of the members thereof not to have medical inspection in any or all of the schools of such district, such medical insepetion shall not be made in such schools during the following school year. If the board of directors of any school district of the fourth class shall decide by a majority vote of the members thereof not to have medical inspection of the pupils in a part or all of the school of such 1 district and the Commissioner of Health at Harrisburg is officially notified thereof in writing before the first day of July, such medical inspection shall not bo made in such school during the following school year. Present independent districts will bo abolished after the first Monday in July, but the courts may upon petition, reconstitute them at any time after that date. Text books and school supplies will, until January 1. 1012, be selected and adopted under the old la WB. The present fiscal year will bo extended by one month and will expire on the first Monday of July litll, at which time the school ac counts should be audited iwul the annual report and affidavit and c'l tifioato made out and fowarded t > the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This year the ae c units will be audited by the same officers as heretofore. Teachers' Certificates. Provisional certificates may l>e issued to persons who pass satis factory examinations in spelling, reading, writing, physiology and hygiene, geography, English gram mar, arithmetic, elementary alge bra, history of the United States and of Pennsylvania, civil govern ment, including State and local government, school management and methods of teaching. Pro visional certificates are valid for one year in the district or districts under the supervision of the super intendent issuing them. No super intendent shall make valid by en dorsement a provisional certificate' issued by another superintendent. Applicants for professional cer tificates must pass a thorough ex amination in the branches required for a provisional certificate and in two additional branches which they may select from flic following subjects : Vocal music, drawing, English literature, plane geometry, general history, physical geography, elementary botany, elementary zoology, elementary physics. They must satisfy the superintendent by iral and written tests that they have carefully and intelligently read two books on pedagogy ap proved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. For this year the superintendents are requested to confine fliis oral or written test to two books which recently have been in the reading course adopted for the County or City Teachers' Reading Circle. No teacher's certificate shall be granted to any person who has not submitted, upon a blank furnished by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a certificate from a physician legally qualified to prac tice medicine in this commonwealth setting forth that said applicant is licit her mentally nor physically disqualified by reason of tubercu losis, or any other chronic or acute defect, from successful perfor mance of the duties of a teacher; nor to any person who has not a good moral character, or who is in the habit of using opium or other narcotic drugs in any form, or any intoxicating drink as a beverage. The law regulating the minimum salary of teachers remains un changed, since no appropriation was made to pay for any increase during the next two years. The new school code will IK I printed in full in the Pennsylvania School Journal for June, and later will be published and distributed in book form, with index. Lightning Rods and Insurance. All owners of buildings in the state of Ohio containing properly constructed lightning rods are in insured at a cheaper rate than structures not thus protected. A law in that state provides for an expert inspector of lightning rods and all of these conductors that bear out his inspection give to the building containing tlieni the ad vantage of cheaper insurance. It is just a liftle strange that Penn sylvaniaus have not investigated and adopted the Ohio plan. It would not only lie a great saving to property owners, but to in surance companies as well.— Tuukhannock Republican. Mrs. Win. Mourn is spending a few days with relatives at Muncy Valley. -royIM! STANDARD TYPEWRITER The Simple it, Strongest and Most Practical Typewriter Made PRICE, $65.00 ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO. Royal Typewriter Building, New York, N. Y. 904 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. New Milk Law Fixes State's Standard. In an interview, Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust, com mented upon the new milk law, know as Mouse Pill No. (>4O, which was approved by Governor Ten* r oil the eight day of June, A. I>. litll. This law, said the Com missioner, marks a great step forward in the interest of the householder and the honest dairy man. It puts the pump out of commission as a substitute for the good old brindle cow, and gives the town child a chance to get fair food. The law, the Commissioner adds, fixes the standard for milk-fat 3.25 per cent and that for total milk solids at 12 per cent, these being the percentages below which milk sold for household use, and to lie served iu hotels, restaurants and boarding houses, may not go. This is the first law enacted in Pennsylvania in which a milk standard for the entire State has been fixed. It is worthy of note also, said the Commissioner, that the standard thus set is identical with the National milk standard governing the milk trade between the States. This standard was proclaimed by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under authority of Congress, upon the recommendation of an expert commission who had studied the milk la WB of the various cities and commonwealths of the Union, as well as the composition of milk of known purity from thousands of dairy cows of all breeds and from all parts of the country. It interferes, however, with no fair trade in any wholesome milk or milk product. Skim milk when clean and wholesome, may still be sold if sold as such, for household use, and milk yielded by cows of low fat strains may easily be brought to standard by the use in the herd of cows producing fat rich milk, or may be sold to 112 lic creamery at its actual analysis. The Commissioner further states that this law also improves the standard for cream, bringing up the requirement to IS per cent as iu the National standard, and pro hibits the sale as 'cream' of a mix ture of cream with evaporated or condensed milk, or with any other substance having the effect of in creasing its thickness or consistency. The analyses of creams recently on sale in the State show clearly the fairness of this standard. The engineering class from the University of Pennsylvania, is spending a few days at the Hotel Essiek at Highland Lake, They came up from Philadelphia in two cars on Monday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murray of Mildred spent Sunday at the home of Win. Moran in this place. "The Liver Pills act So Naturally and Easily." Such a statement, coming from the cashier of a bank, shows what confidence responsible people have in these pills. Mr. A. L. Wilson after trying them wrote: "I have used Dr. Miles' Nerve an<l Liver Pills and also your Anti-Pain Pills, on myself, with good results. The Liver Pills act so naturally and so easily that I scarcely know that I have taken a pill. Frequently being troubled with headache I take an Anti-Pain Pill and get immediate relief in every case." A. L. Wilson, Sparta, 111. Mr. Wilson was for a number of years cashier of the First National Bank of Sparta. Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills are different from others. Many kinds of liver pills are "impossible" after one trial on account of their harshness. Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills do not act by sheer force but in an easy, natural way, with out griping or undue irritation. They are not habit forming. If the first bottle falls to benefit, your druggist will return the price. Ask him. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. ▼WwVwvP WvWWV | QUALITY I 2 Whcn'people realize that it 2 2 is not the quantity for the 2 2 money, so much as the quality 2 x that counts, then they will i ♦ patronize the store which does T ♦ business in good pure goods. ♦ 2 Cut prices often mean cut * 2 qualities. Our prices art! as X X low as good goods wil allow. 2 * Our not of the cheap J • mail-order variety. When • • comparing prices do not for- ♦ 2 get to compare qualities. If # 2 you find the prices lower than 2 £ ours, then you will find the J 1 qualities inferior—generally 2 "bargain house" job lots. * Ask us to show you why 2 our stock is superior. 2 Buschhausen's. J WANTED At once. Men to represent us either locally or traveling. Now is the time to start. Money in the work for the right men. Apply at once and secure territory. ALLEN NURSEBY CO., Rochester, N Y. Intuitive-PsycHic Medical Examination Tree. Are yon suffering from any physical disorder? If so, write for a 112 ree examin ation. We successfully treat all forma of chronic disease. Enclose lock of hair with name, age and stamp and receive a clear and pointed cause for your present con dltion. Address Dr. B. P. Butterfield Co. Syracuse, W. V. Commissioner Clark to Wed. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Edward E. Clark will bo married on June 28 to Miss Agnes Barnes, of Set ma, Ala., a census bureau employe. M. BRINK'S PRICES For This Week. ton 100 II) Corn Meal 25.00 1.25 Cracked Corn 25.00 1.25 Corn 25.00 1.25 Sacks each <lo with privilege of returning without, expense to me. Schumacher Chop 2(1.00 1.155 Wheat ]>ran 25.50 1.50 Fancy White Mitlris. ({O.OO 1.00 Oil Meal 30.00 I.SIO Gluten 20.00 1.:>5 Alfalfa Meal 25.0 i 1.30 Oyster Shells 10.00 00 Choice Cottonseed Meal 31.00 1.00 Beef Scrap 3.00 Oats per bu. .45 Charcoal 50 lb sack .00 Oyster Shells " .'ls 140 lb hag Salt coarse or fine .50 50 lb bag Salt 25 Buckwheat Flour 2.20 Slhumaeher Flour sack 1.50 Muncy " "1.15 " " per bbl. 4.40 Spring Wheat " " 1.00 Potatoes per 1m .50 Veal Calves wanted on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Live fowls and chickens on Wednesday. SI. BRINK, New Albany, l'a. Subscribe for the News Item. The Best place to buy goods Is olten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages arealways being searched lor Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on j^moNj ??????*??? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AJI answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HILLSGROVE, PA. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS R FFWCOPYRIGHTS AC. 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