VOL. VII. NO. 3 ) Worth the PriceT ) P YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELI. V WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLt/. JEWELERY. V r It wears and gives pleasure for years and always worth the price paid for it. Our /years of business at the same stand with the same ( I principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery/ r is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. j ? We intend that this store shall be first in yourC when that buying reliable jewelery ques- \ tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the J p same grade of goods. \ ? Always Ready for Repairwork. 6 S Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J \ hands. To get values come here after them. q Very respectfully, c > RETTENBURY, ' t DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. C, COLE S - x'\/v w \yw , y HARDWAR Special Low Prices Now Prevail Wire fencing for farm, garden, lawn and poultry netting. Lawn mowers, wheel barrows, tin ware, woodenware, garden and farm tools, dairy supplies washing machines, wringers etc, of the latest in ventions. Paints, oils and varnishes. Mill sup plies and tools of all descriptions. liicycle Tires, Lamps, Brakes and Sundries. Sporting goods, fishing tackle, guns, revolvers and equipments. Roofing, spouting, plumbing, piping and fittings. Bicycle repairing and general job work. Samuel (Jole^usfiore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Garments for Ladies AV« have made our suit department the lashion center by our tint display o the newest styles and latest ideas in exclusive costumes, Tailor made Suits, Coal» ; Skirts and Waists made from the very latest and choicest fabrics. \YT * 4> This waist department is growing more popular j X"llL0 W cllStS ever y day. There is good reason for it, as we j have a very large variety of tine white Lawn waists trimmed with single or cluster tucks all over embroidery, laces etc, ranging in prices from 75c to $3.75. WT 112 1 Our wash goods department oflers today a stock SLSTI V TOOCI S so com P' e,e as warrant the inspection of even buyer coming to the city. We know it will be to your interest to ace our assortment of I)imities batistes, Hotted Swiss muslins, Lawns, ect. in plain colors, fancy stripes and Foulard designs, madra*. zephyr ginghams, silk stripe ginghams, fast black mercerized Egyptian lawn*- j White Goods. That ofl'ers unlimited choice from a variety o( fine sheer and attractive de signs for (iraduating dresses or waists. Plain white .Swisses, at 16 to 40c I'ersian Lawns at 25c, 35c, and 45c. French Lawns at 50c, 69, 75, and 90c. French Organdies at 50c. and 75c 2yd wide. Dotted Swisses at 20c up to 50c. French Nainsook 50c to f>9c. Plain and dotted silk mulls, iancyjopen work lace stripes for shirt waists at 15c to 45c; mercerized madras in fancy stripes and figures at 18c to 45c. Fancy checks and plaids lor waists or aprons 7c, LSc The Shopbell Dry Good Co. WiHiamsport, Pa. Try The News Item Job Office WHEN IN NEED OF FINE STATIONERY. Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. (couNTYjrews < Happenings of I Correspondents m j I Interest to Readers Towns - EAGLES MERE. i As works of fiction of Art the Eagles Mere Annuals for l!N»_> have seldom been equalled and never sur passed by any that have preceeded them. Bearing the imprint of J. I lorace MeFarland, Mount Pleasant Printery, Harrisburg, Pa., the read er is no longer surprised at the ex eellenee of the lifw.ks, for Mr. Mc l iulaiul is more than a printer and a photographer. He is an artist in every sense of the word as is clearly evident In the peculiarly happy se lection of the views as well as the, remarkahle tone and finish that |*>r trays rugged nature with more than velvet softness, and gives us gems that are like poets dreams. The literary work indicates a vivid im agination with the ability to clothe it in words that Invest the locality j with an attraction more than mag-! I netic. The books are gems worthy j j of a place on any library table In the j j land. We regret to learn that Mr. Thos. | Miles will not be with lis this sum mer. We have been so accustomed • lo seeing his tall form In a leisurely ■ stroll on the Avenues or enjoying ai ride on the steamer that we can hardlv imagine the possibility of his j not being with lis. In more ways) than one he will be missed. His. quiet, almost unknown beneficence , was unfailing, lie was always ap proachable and ready. One evening j last summer he looked in at the fes- ! tival of the Itaptist Church, and as a ! result the cashier had an accession to her funds greater than all the rest of the receipts. This is only one char- j aeteristic incident. Though years j are plainly tolling on our ukl friend, i we sincerely hope that he may IK- | with us again. ! JFor more than fifteen years the j 1 visitors to Ilotel Eagles Mere have' been accustomed to a sweet motherly j face, always pleasant to look upon, with a never failing kindly greeting that attracted every one coming within its influence, and its absence will be felt as one after another will ask for Mrs. Kennedy, of Washing ton, who has simply gone to enter into the heaven of her faith and a part of which she seemed to carry wUiT'lier by anticipation. We shall j never know the extent of kindness; that added to the number of loveable old ladies that were always there as j ] her guests. It will be a long time | before she can be forgotten, j In spite of ourselves we And that we are drifting into a saddened mood as we rememberjthat since last sea-1 son we have lost another of the long I ] time lovers of Eagles Mere, in Mrs. j Louis S. Smith of Muncv, of whom ! it is said that she has been a summer • visitor for about forty years. Your | correspondent hestitates to attempt jto portray the beauty of a life that I has left behind it a precious memory ; that makes Paradise more real to us than can any earthly teaching. Chautauqua has not escaped the I call. Among all the pioneers none j met the difficulties of the early days | more patiently and cheerfully, none ! were more devoted to its pleasures, i its rest, its worship and its success i than Mrs. J. W. Woddrop of Cier • mantown, Philadelphia, who so I quietly went to sleep one evening last winter, surrounded by her fam ily, and then woke up on the. other ' side by .the great Sea of Life. Jt will 1 1 require but little of a stretch of im agination to see her sitting on the j steamer drinking in the beauty of j the sky and probably thinking that | if earth could l>e so transcendently beautiful, how must it la* beyond.the clouds where people never grow old. Yo i may think us a little blue as we write this letter but the thought will suggest itself that j>erliaps we young |>eople who nrc so full of golf, - tennis, euchre, the german ami all ! tin- rest of it, might perhaps do well j to catch a little of the spirit of the ; people who have made our village i * - what it is. ft hsis not all bwn the the laur.-ls, the rambles, the bathing! and th • I oating tlinl luis spread the; rcput • of" our home clear :-roun I the ! worM. Wonder if there is any <h»n- 1 ■ ger of these dear old frieuds carry j in-away the kindly repute oft e place to their new homes so that we may lose it here. Rather let us i have hack again some of the sweet looking faces under plain bonnets, dignified men of pleasant social con- j verse, sympathetic interest in each, other that drew hundreds who came; jto us for now life in nature's health j home. Miss Ada Chase igul Frank Little enjoyed a drive to Laporte, Sunday, j Win. Emery of WiHiamsport, was' a visitor in town one day last week, j Robert Brink and Mr. Shearer of Jersey Shore, have been visiting thej j formers parents here this week. William Beeber and wife, and' ; Miss Martha Gamble of William-1 ! sport, and Mr. Voorhees of Pldladel- j' I phla, returned to their homes Tues-j' \ day after spending several days here. ! Aaron Bennet of Towanda spent ; j Sunday with his son at this place. ! Mr. Corson of Glen Maw r is visit-; j Ing at W. 11. Yanltnskirk's a few! ; day#. \' j Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Miller and 11 'daughter of Muitey Valley, spent!' Sunday at the home of s. Burk-j' i holder. A. A. Dunham spent a few days 1 | in New York, last week. * Thomas Booth and wife of Will- ' j iams|H)rt are here for the season, and i' are now occupying Wm. Emery's ' j Cottage. !' I Mr. A. 11. Mawr and family are j j with us again alter being away for i the winter. Mr. Smith ltandman wears a very ; I broad smile these days, its a Iwiy. ; There will IK- a festival at the Ea j i gles Mere school house on Saturdav i | ( evening, May 24. F. W. Peale is the i>o.««sesser of a pair of line twin calves. Philip Ilouseknecht and Miss Cora Peale enjoyed a drive to Muncy Valley, on Sunday. Mrs. Maria Peale is s|>ending a few days with her son, F. W. Peale. Bennet and Peule are very busy j looking after their lumber interests j near Shanersburg. ESTELLA. i How do you like the New Item , ; in its new dress? Well, we are like the fly when it comes in contact I j with a sheet of tanglefoot—got stuck on the first paper. Sheriff was over from the seat of justice on business last Saturday, and made a visit to his home in . Elkland. ('has. Yargason and hit bride from New Era, visited at his sister's Mrs. Chu*. Vargason at Estella. The town commissioners met at Estella last Saturday and let the , temporary bridges on Kings creek to the following gentlemen: W. E. j Wheatly, the creamery bridge aud : the Lick run bridge; A. T. Mulnix, | the bridge at the buekhorn corner; j S. P. Shoemaker and A. T. Mul- j, nix are repairing a barn for Theo. j lless. Wesley Mulnix litis gone to Hills- , grove to work in the bark woods for Shaffer and Williams. Mrs. J. E. Brown who still con-, tinues in very poor health, spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. W. T. j ! More. Sunday E. T. Jennings and fami ly visited at Grant Little's, 1>» F.' , McCarty and family at J. P. Rogers, W. K. Wheatly and wife at W. T. More'«. Rev. Bowen preached to a large i! congregation in the new church at | Lincoln Falls' Sunday evening. ' Rev, Bowen has the esteem of the ' people at large. Wanted, rain badly, almost as • badly as we wanted it to stop rain ; ing six weeks ago. Cold nights and j i dry weather are detrimental to farm er's business. landlady Campbelle aud Mrs. Wood head of Forksvllle, were sliop • ping at this place on Saturday. ' DUSHORE. Chas. E. 3'ealer Is building a hand some new poreh and otherwise beau tifying his residence on lleadly Avenue. Street Commissioner Miner with , his crew of men have been out with ' the road" machine and put our streets in fairly good condition again. Geo. Fawcett, one of Elkland's j prosperous farmers was in town i Monday. 'A number of shade trees h ve ' been planted along our streets this spring. By reference to the published re port of the Dushore bank from time to time, we note that that institution is continually gaining in volume of business and now tak«>s its place i along with many other banks in , much larger towns. Rev. W. J. Campbelle, of the Evangelical church of this place, will preach the annual Memorial sermon this year at Colley. All i members of the G. A. It. will attend In uniform. The program for Me morial Day provides for a visit to St. Basil's, Bahr's and Thrasher's cemeteries at this place and the cem otcry at Colley. The graves of the departed comrades at Seaman's and Bella Sylva will be decorated by a detui! on May 2<>. Appropriate ad dresses by able speakers and a mu sical program have been arranged to take place in Kline's < >j»era House at about 2:30 p. m. Copper ore to the value of over twenty dollars jier ton has |>een dis covered on the farm of S. D. Mur phy, of Cherry, and an effort is be ing made to interest capitalists to develop it. The large number of stun pie copies of the News Item which have gone out the last two weeks have caused much comment as to its newsy con tents, low price and sjx-cial club offers, and we predict a largely in creased circulation. G.W.Snyder of Forksvllle, was In town Monday. Atty. E. J. Mullen of Lajiorte, was looking alter legal business in Dushore Monday. A Imunclng baby I ><>y was horn to Mr. aud Mrs. Lewis E. Newland, on Saturday last. Mrs. W. W. Jackson and daugh ter Donna, are visiting relatives in Philadelphia. Mr. Jackson and daughter Bernlce were also there a few days last week but have return* Presiding Elder Young, of the I'nited Evangelical church, was among his congregation at Dushore, Wilmot and Colley, the |«ist few days. LOPEZ Samuel Messcrsmith i> taking a short vacation. J. S. Cooper of Elk Lake is visit ing friends in town. C. H. Jennings was seen in town last week. (.'has. E. Arey is on the sick last. A. Me.-sersmith and family have moved to Elk Lake, where they will conduct a private hoarding house for Jennings Bros. 11. \V. Messcrsmith occupies the house vacated by Grin Erounfclter. Mr. Lewis of Elmira has accepted a position in Jennings Bros, store. J. W. Dotilou and family have re moved to Foot of the Plane; Mr. Flynn of Laporte, taking his place here. F. L. Ross has also moved to Foot of the Plane. W. W. Jennings of Pennsylvania Military College, is visiting his par ents, Hon. and Mrs. B. \V. Jennings. S. Brown of the Scranton Corres pondence School, is exhibiting some work of the student*. John Glson has accepted a position in Maryland with Jennings Bros, j Dr. J. L. Christian, A. L. Dyer, It- W. White, J. P. McGee, H. W. : McKibbens aud John Yonkin at tended the funeral of Adam Baum gartner, last Tuesday. Rev. Young, Presiding Elder of the I'iiltcd Evangelical church, occu pied the pulpit of the U. E. church Sunday evening and conducted the communion services. tin Sunday morning, Mav Is, Rev. ! Hower preached the annual sermon tiefore the graduating class of the 1 Lopez High School. The pulpit was tast fully decorated with potted 75 CTS. PER YEAR. piling in full bloom and presented |- a very beautiful appearuiHv. Hev. i- Hower took as his text, Kings. «: y» tJ. His address was one bf the most eloquent delivered in the com i j nuinity, and was enjoyed l»y an un i i usually large congregation, s! The Commencement exercises have been postponed until Wedues s day evening, May -S, at s o'clock. RICKETTS. * e Fires arc again raging through the s old slashings and causing some apprehension owing to the close - proximity to the town. :> Mr. John Krahmer leaves for i Germany, this week, on a visit to 112 ids parents. A very pleasant sur -1 prise party for Mr. Krahmer, 011 the 1 eve of his departure, was hold in the opera house .Saturday evening. One > of the young men supplied himself , with ammunition in the shape of I beans and rice for throwing purposes. [ but others found his hiding place I and confiscated the aforesaid ammu . nltion, therefore, he like Mother i liubhard, found the cupboard bare. ( Mrs. (I. J. lieintzleman has been . on the sick list for the past week. , Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Emery I Shock, 011 Thursday 1 ~»th,a daughter. t The Rutlcdgc Brothers who have . recently purchased an Edison pho . negraph and kinetescope, gave an 1 exhibition in the opera house Fri . day evening last, to a large audience. The Lutherans are expecting their ■ new Pastor on or about June Ist. The present plan is to nave the Pastor live in Hieketts. The Union Sunday School will , have their excursion this year to Shnwanese Lake on Tuesday July, 2'2, Line's Cainp was threatened by forest fires on Friday and Saturday, but the crews succeeded insurround ind and quenching them before they reached the camp. At the present writing quite a few of men of the 1 town are lighting the tires which have threatened the village all Sun day and Sunday night; the line of nre extending over mm miles. The stave mill is running again after three or four weeks close down for putting in a new sy.-teni of steam ing the wood QF2NICE. Mrs. 11. Arnot moved her house holdettiects from Long Valley to the White House at this place,last week, where she duly installed as matron of the house. Mrs. Arnot was a res ident of this place forty years ago when it was a howling wilderness. L. A. Kline of Towanda, was a business caller in town Tuesday. Prof. Meylert and wife of Laporte, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Saxon, Thursday. I Paymaster 11. («. Lewis was again lin town Saturday and made every ! body happy by handing out the j "yellow dross and green backs." I ToniiiiyiStelph anil wife are xpend ,l ing a few days at Wilkes liar re. I Mr. ami Mrs. 11. W. Taylor were I called to Dushore Thursday by the , illness of Mrs. Taylor's mother, j Joel Saxon left here Monday for a I visit with his son, Cordon, who holds a lucrative position in one of the schools at Washington 1). C. lie saia he woul roniember us to Teddy. Miss Dortha Donston Accompanied her father to this place Friday. I I Mrs. J. 11. W. Crawford nnd Miss | Julia MeCeever were among the . many callers at Dushore Saturday. I This place is threatened with a water fainiu if rain is not t'erth cotu !}>"£• Ceorge Powers and wife >peHt Sat j urday at Dushore. ( ! W. E. Kandall was «ailing on '! triendsout of town, Sunday. Forest tlre> was raging l.eiv §at ' urday aiul Sunday. At one time it goi pretty close to the breaker and j a number of men weiv called out | to fight it and soon had it under con f I tro '* I Atty. J. 11. Croniu of Dushore | was transacting business her* last pjweek. Mrs. Frank Allen was shopping at Dushore Saturday. James McGeever is visiting friends nnd relatives at Corning, X. Y. Frank Lowry was taking in the j sights at-Philadelphia lust week.
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