Republican News Item. VOL. VII. NO. 22 ) Worth the PficeT / ? YOUR SAVINGS ARE WEL7- S WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLE JEWELERY. V r It wears and gives pleasure for years and always worth the price paid for it. Our many N / years of business at the same stand with the same 112 c principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery/ Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. j ? We intend that this store shall be first in yourC S thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- C tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the J S same grade of goods. \ Always Ready for Repairwork. S / Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J \ hands. To get values come here after them. 112 Very respectfully, c > RETTENBURY, t y> DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. C, HARDWARE^ 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. t a'" * NECESSITY? lhe This wheel is as near Bicycle Tires, Lamps, Brakes and Sundries. Sporting goods, fishing tackle, guns, revolvers and I equipments. Roofing, spouting, plumbing, piping and fittings. Bicycle repairing and general job work. Samuel The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, .» WILLIAMSPORT, PA. W House Keeping Linens. <£ If you want honest linens that will wash and wear well come and select from these. Bleached and unbleached Table Linen 64 to 72 inches wide, extra heavy, good assortment of medium and small patterns at , 45 and 50 Cents a Yard. 72 inch wide unbleached and full bleached Table Linen in a large variety of neat designs. These qualities will inter est you if you are looking for the best qualities you ever bought for -2 SIOO K- Fine double damask satin finished linen in the best and newest patterns you have ever seen, ranging in prices from 1.25 U P TO 2.50. NAPKINS. TOWELS We have a full assortment of breakfast, of all ami. prices, fine damask '.unci, or dinner napkins to muck all the »»fl« ° «' d the Nor mal National University of Lebanon, Ohio, where he t<. >k a special course in surveying and book-keeping, graduating with high honors in the class of 1885. Our subject has a permanent certificate from the state for teaching and in his younger days taught twelve terms with marked ability. He has since devoted his time to farming and survey ing in Sullivan and Bradford county, being highly successful. In 1885 he purchased lifty-six acres of the old homestead farm, on which he has erected a handsome dwelling and convenient farm buildings. He later purchased an adjoining timber tract and engaged in lumbering. He is a mar. of exceptional business ability, honest and energetic, and he occupies a high place in the estimation of his fellow citizens. If elected to the important possition of trust he is now asking of Sullivan county voters, he will bring to the ollicea ripe ar«l cultured experience, which will give to all the assurance that the accf. Nts will be accurate ly kept and honestly adjusted. (Jive him your sup, >rt. Lopez, September 15, 1902. MK. WINO, Editor of News Item. I am glad you are calling attention to our county debt, for the people ought to understand it, and take some .steps to reduce the debt. I don't understand what right the c< mittissioners had to make such a big debt. One of my friends sent me Smull's I laud ltook and 1 llml in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, on page 2:12, "The debt of any noun- j ty shall never exceed seven per cer.- tum upon the assessed valuation of; the taxable property therein, nor! such municipality incur any new j debt, or increase its indebtedness to an amonut exceeding two per cen-1 turn upon such assessed valuation of property, without the assent of the j electors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by law." ; Now I don't know the assessd val uation of Sullivan county in 1890, but a friend who knows about it says it did not then exceed if 1.800.- 000. It appears that in 1891 a bond ed debt of |:!:{.000 was incurred, which was close up to two per cent on the then assessed valuation. In ' 185)0 a new series of bonds were issu ed amounting to $4.">00, increasing the bonded debt to £17.500, which was fully two per cent on the assess ed valuation of the county, and up to the Constitutional limit. It is a startling fact that during that same year in ad dition to the bonds, interest bearing, orders were issued for borrowed money amounting to $19,232 99. Was this constitu tional ? if not constitutional are not these interest Iwwing orders worthless? If illegal must we be taxed to pay t hem ? I ask these questions for information. H. W. Farmer. The re-union of the survivors of the 58th Kcgiment I'eun. Vet. Vol. will behild at Laporte. on Sept. 2t», 11)02, afternoon and evening. All old soldiers of the rebellion, and sol diers of the late war, and citizens of Lajmrte and vicinity are cordially invited to meet with us and partic ipate in the exercises. Joseph (». Heated. Pres. of Association The Act That E. G. Rogers Aided m Killing. Many of Sullivan county voters are inquiring into the merits of the bill establishing a law prohibiting the pollution of streams, which came before the last legislature and was [there killed. We here present the act as it appears in the Legislative Record, the substance of which reads as follows: iTo Pit EVENT I'llE POLLUTION Ol' THE WATERS OF TiIESTATE. An act to prevent the pollution of the waters of the State, being a further Hupplemcnt to an act entitled "An act lo eslabli&h a State Hoard of Health tor { the better protection ot lite and health | and lo prevent the spread of contagious and infections diseases in this I 'oinmon wealth." Section 1. be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and hereby enacted by the authority of (lie same. That the State board ol Health shall hereatter be entrust ed with the general care and oversight of die purity of the waters of the State and shall provide such general supervision examinations and recommendations :i --shall be necessary to protect the waters ot the Sta'e trom further pollutions and to secur. the improvement ol the purity of such waters as may be already polluted, j Section 2. The term "waters of the State" wherever used in this act shall in clude all streams or bodies of snrtace water ami of ground water, whether nat ural or artilicial, within the boundaries of the State, the term pollution of the . water wherein used in this act shall be ' understood to apply only to pollution of human excreta and animal matter liable to decomposition. Sections to 8 deal with the man ner in which the law is to be enforc-1 ed which is suttieiently binding to insure suitable punishment for its , violation. I K. t». Roger's constituents want to know bow lie voted on this bill. He 1 , voted against it. With his assistance 'it was killed. Had this bill been ' passed, the Union Tanning Company I could no longer have polluted the ; pure streams of Sullivan county with i the tilth of their tanneries. If you 112 do not feel like rewarding Mr.Rogers , this injustice to his constituents,vote , i for Albert L. P"' ~. I ! In discussing this subject with >• ■ prominent Granger of Sullivan 112: county we were informed that this M lodge in various parts of the state, - including Kstella Orange, passed ! resolutions condeming the slaughter lof this bill and those voting to de feat it. Hon. Fred. A. Godcharles to Editor John G. Scovtcn. The following letter wns forward ed t<> John <«. Scout en in time for' publication in the Herald this week, j anil the same has been offered to the, other .Sullivan county papers: Milton, I'M., Sej»t. lit, 15102. | Mr. J. my father was allotcd the Milton j mill, when with S. A. < Jodcharles j and t'. I). (Jodcharles the tirm of the I C. A. < ioilcharles Company was or-j ganized aial from that date he had no interest whatever in the mills at Towanda and Northumberland. In the year IKDB my father failed in business, a failure caused directly , by the failure of Fuller Rros. A Co., New York, and Ilarrisburg Rolling Mill Company of Harrisburg. After father's failure my brother, William 8., and myself worke