Republican News Item. VOL. VII. NO. 25 ) Worth the PficeT / ) YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELL X WHEN YOU BUY JEWELERY.^ r It wears and gives pleasure for years and is 112 always worth the price paid for it, Our many 112 years of business at the same stand with the same 112 \ principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery| Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. } / We intend that this store shall be first in your C when that buying reliable jewelery ques- K tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the J i same grade of goods. \ ? Always Ready for Repairwork. S s Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J \ hands. To get values come here after them. r Very respectfully, c > RETTENBURY, ] Y> DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. 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. pry a . Bicycle 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. Sole^Msfiore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., i 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Autumn Dre We are showing for Fall our excellent line of new black and colored dress materials suitable for tailor made suits besides the plain fabric. There is a strong demand for mixed suiting of the Scotch effects of which we are showing a very fine line. Then we have the best light in the city to show them in. 3JLLg one side plain, filled with pure white cot , ton at 95c up to 3.75. We cannot describe the large variety ol lilack and colored silks we have selected w '" P R . V y ou '° look at our white or for fall. Among the fancies my be men- tfrev blankets before you purchase, as we tioned new plaids and changeable silks, have them at any price from 50c up to plain, colored tall'etas in all shades. Black also a full line of Muncy blankets in tafletas at 50c to 1.75 per yard. 20 inches white, grey and scarlet, to 45 inches wide. UNDERWEAR. Ready to Wear Department. For inpn> women aml chi , dren in medi . We have made extensive preparation in tun and heavy winter weights. Ladies' this department f:>r fall and winter. What full fleeced lined vents anil drawers at 25 we show you will be the very latest as to and 50 cents; better qualities up to 1 75. style and maserials used in first class tail- Men's full fleeced shirts and drawers at or made suits, costumes, walking skirts, 39 and 50c. Part wool and fine all wool and coats. The stock of fur we have is 75c to I 00, 125 and up. New lineofchil larger than you have ever seen in this dren and infants underwear at the right city before. Novelties in fur boas and prices. scarfs with muffs to match. Misses and Table Linens and Napkins, childrens Jackets and < oats. Mercerized r sateen petticoats at 1.00 to 4.50. IMack This has always been one of our strong taffeta petticoats at 7.00 to 12.50. departments, but we think it much better _ „ , j t->i i i. t' l ' B fa" t l ,a " usual. We are displaying Comforts and Blankets. new Ijinen table cloths, napkins, cen- Kxtra large size silkoline or sateen cov- t er pieces, lunch cloths, scarfs, fine den ered comforts; a large variety of dark and mark and huck towels, turkish bath light floral efl'ects. Patterns some with towels, etc. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1902. EAGLES MERE On Tuesday of last week Mr. John B. Fox and his sister Miss Carrie I were in Katies Merc for a day ac companied by Mr. Meyers of Atlan tic City taking it tin 1 beauties of the forest and an abundant supply of mountain air. Mr. W. Y. Warner is at the Crest mont giving personal supervision to the improvements now in progress. Mr. Warner should get naturalized and take part in the affairs of the Borough. Mr. Laird conies up occasionally ! to look after the additions being made to Hotel Raymond. The improvements to the 1.i1.v Pond indicate better things for next season. The agitation of this <|e»'s-: tion seems to have produced sonn | results at last. It is said that the i plans for a new station and orua-1 mental grounds have started parties in interest to trying .to do something better than has been contemplated. Electrician Trappe is expected back here shortly as he limls Eagles Mere suits him better than Ohio. Duck shooting on the Lake has been very successful for some days past. Mr. C. W. Sones, President of the Eagles Mere & Loyalsock Railroad came up last week with a number of Winchesters and a whole equipment of ammunition and the bears and rabbits got word ofit so they are hiding away very carefully. Miss Clark's school is uucomfort- I baly cro vded so In., it is becoming a serious question what is to be done in the near future. T'le school is unusually well equipped and gives the School Board good cause for reas onable pride. A new town house is the present subject for consideration and the question of location is so troublesome that it may be located on wheels af ter the fashion of a perambulating photograph gallery and so move it around to suit everybody's prefer ences. When a building is erected it will be a credit to the village. Politics is the most interesting sub ject just now and Eagles Mere may be depended onto vote for all the candidates in the field. A new road to the Loyalsock is just beginning to be urged again and it can hardly come too soon. As the miners are resuming work Mr. John B. Fox has not bought the Wooster Mine and removed it to llughesville. It will supply us for still another year. The ice harvest has been postpon ed until the day after the election. It may be snow instead. QEBNICE. Lewis Cowell met with a very painful accident while at work in the mine last Thursday, by having his leg broken. He is getting along nicely at this writing. The S. L. & S. R. R. Co. are erecting a very large mule barn n<?ar the No. (5 draft uiouth, they will also erect a number of other buildings there before snow Hies. C. Denmark will move his fami ly here from Elmira, this week. Mrs. H. W. Taylor did shopping at Dushore Monday. Mrs. U. G. Wank of Towanda, was the guest of Mrs. L. J. Nelson, Thursday. Allen Post spent Sunday with family at Towanda. Doniel Morter spent Sunday with his family at Greenwood. Hon. Joseph Gansel of Muncy Valley, has been visiting his son. Wm. Gansel of this place, and oth er relatives in this vicinity for the past ten days. Mr. Clarence Pardoe, a former attache of Penn'a. Grit at William sport, but lately of the Gazette & Bulletin force, who has been spend ing a two week's vacation with nu merous relatives in this county, was the guest of Wm. Gansel of place a few days the past week. The Herald has a way of slander ing Dr. J. L. Christian which indi cates that the editor thinks the Doc tor's friends are all dead. The Her ald will find out that pounding Dr. ■ Christian will not elect Rogers. MINERS SUCCESSFUL IN OUTCOMEOF THE STRIKE. Peace Hath Its Victories No Less Than War. A Suffering People Grateful to the Presi dent tor His Timely Interference in the bitter Struggle Between the Coal ()perators and the Miners. A NEW ERA IN THE LABOR PROBLEM. The Miners Have Accomplished the Purpose of Their Strike, and Are At Work Again. There Can Be No Doubt That They Have Gained Substantially All They Claimed. j The MJCCI-SS uf President Itoose i veil in the settlement of this strike '■ lias r.ti -i v aching • fleets beyond what mosfpfcwfrte imagine. For the pres ent it ensures the coal miners a prop, er compensation for their labor; it relieves the coal famine; it keeps the j wheels of manufacturing establish | ments humming; it spreads the sails of commerce, and brings prosperity to the farmers and business men. For the future it means an equitable law to adjust the oft recurring strifes between capital and labor, and to hold in check the grasping chartered corporations and the monster trusts. The manner in which President Roosevelt took hold of this great question, after his learned Attorney General advised t him that he had no legal authority to act, showed the same grit that took him from his snug office in Washington to fight under his country's Hag at Santiago. He ki.ew that as President of the United States he bail undefined pow ers of great potency which lie could exert when the welfare of the peo ple demanded it. When his first courteous invitation brought the President of the P. & It. Railroad and other magnates to the White House he found them obdurate. With a weaker man this would have been the end of it, —not so with President Roosevelt, it spurred him on, he invited them to come again, and they came. J. Pierpont Mor gan, king of trusts, and llaer, head of corporations, yielded, and Mitch ell, chief of labor consented. The principle of arbitration in the settle ment of contentions between capital and labor is recognized and will now be established by law. A great per il has bcenaverted; a great prece dent for the future has been estab lished. This has been done on the verge of an election. Will the people of Pennsylvania rise to the occasion and sustain the President's action? It is well known that Pennypaeker repre sents the' National Administration. Chas. Emory Smith, fresh from the Cabinet of the President, spoke last week at Williamsport as follows: "On the other hand I would ask Mr- Puttison: Would any harm come from your election which would not come from Judge Pennypaeker? And I would an swer. yes, a thousand times, yes, for your election would show that the people of the great State oi Pennsylvania were faltering in their allegianie to the splendid work and uolde administration inaugurated by the great martyr President. William Me- Kinlev and so successfully and gloriously carried forward by his patriotic, strenuous and high minded successor,that true man of the people, Theodore Roosevelt. It would instantly overcast the sky with a cloud of distrust and would go far to par alize the great prosperity which we now enjoy." If the President's ticket should be defeated in Pennsylvania, in the face of the great service he has iust rend ered to the people, it would tie his hands, it would paralyze his strength. It would elate the corporations and send joy to the king of trusts. We feel that this is a time when we may call upon our fellow citizens, irrespective of party, to rise to the occasion and sustain the President with a majority, in Pennsylvania, of two hundred thousand. W. L. HOFFMAN WITHDRAWS. Mr. Hoffman is a highly compe tent man for the ofiice of Commiss ioner, and his many friends great . ly regret his withdrawal which is I caused entirely by business con ! siderations. Nail Trust Lie Their Only Issue The Forlorn Situation Demands That They Do Something. Watsontown, PH., Oct. Is, 11)02. Editor of I.aporte Newspaper. We cannot blame a partisan sheet bought up and paid especially for the dissemination of inaccuracies for which all democratic sheets are so prompt in service, when it assails republican doctrines or republican candidates. And so when we read the thrilling najrative of the "Nail Trust," in the opposition sheets from Watsontown to the South and East borders of the Congressional district, we determined to see how much truth it contained and the cause of the journalistic spasm which led every paper of that pnrsuasion to throw the same kind of a lit. We apprehended from the stagy manner of its production that the mailed hand of the Trust had every now producer of nails by the throat and was demanding gold and gore from the unfortunate vietin But it seems that the price of nails has never been so low in the history of the trade as they are to-day, when pig iron and steel were selling at the present price—excepting the time, eighteen months—when the "Parks Combine" had its short lived exper ience some seven years ago. Never since that time has there been a nail trust nor any manner of combina tion in the manufacturing of nails. This is an open fact that cannot be denied. And thus the "exorbitant price" charge falls a victim to the javelin of truth. Nails sold for ex port at $1.90, if manufactured from foreign material and exported, net the manufacturers a small profit be cause the duty of $0.72 is remitted when theretur *»Ments are made. Nails at present „ price in ihe market for domestic consumption pay scarcely any profit at all, as is witnessed by the fact that live of the larges and best equipped nail factor ies, with ample capacity to carry on trade, have not made a nail for many months and are idle to-day. If forty one cents a keg profit could be made, smoke from the stack of each of these would ascend to heaven every hour of time from Monday morn to .Sat urday eve. To further prove how far from the truth the the "inspired article" mentioned is, it is only nec essary to state that ten years ago there were thirty-eight cut nail man ufactories, with about <WtO nail ma chines in operation where now there are thirteen active factories with 1800 machines—anil these running to half their capacity—the balance hav ing been broken up and put upon the scrap heap. The F. A. Godcharles Co. is back ed by no nail trust; they are stand ing on their own resources and the fact is they are dipping into their own pockets to keep their men em ployed and their neighbors are get ting the benefit of a low price for their product. A more complete ex posure of the ignorance of the writer of the situation never appeared in print than is shown in the article on the "Nail Trust and Mr. Fred. A. Codcharles." While we feel like excusing the ignorance and wilful . desire to hurt Mr. (Jodcharles, such j palpable "inaccuracies" injure only those who perpetrate them, and if the author will thoroughly investi 75 CTS. PER YEAR. gate the nail situation as it is, he will find that Mr. Godcharles is working the foreign trade and pro tecting his neighbors. Hut our friends, the enemy, are on the run, and the forlorn situation demands that something be done. The clean character of the Republican candi date for Congress is known of all men and the slander shafts cannot pierce the armor of a perfect life. So they are put to the extremes to find something that they hope will injure the man, and the "Nail Trust Lie" is the latest hatched from their political incubator. Vote for God charles, an honest, upright, honor able man, capable and competent, and one who will befriend the low liest toiler with the same alacrity that he would exercise toward kid gloves and broadcloth. A Believer in Honesty. HILLSGROVE. I'lysses for treasur er came down to Hillsgrove last Friday, shook hands all around and left town with a smile. Steve Vroman killed the first bear of the season. It weighed 135 lbs. Clias. Jackson has gone to Noxen to work and will soon move his fam ily to (hat place. That trip to California so Charley says has been put off until after the strike is settled. Sam Galough was a business man in Dushore last Wednesday- Miss Bessie Peck has gone to Lo pez to visit her sister, Mrs. J. L. Christian. Reno Green is the captain hunter so far. Last Thursday he bagged twenty big squirrels, two pheasants and two quail. Ex-Chief of Police Stryker of Wiliiamsport and Speaker Hughesville came in with the hunt ing season and left towd with a good string of game. Albert Dyer was shaking hands with the voters in town last Satur day and by the way things look, Al bert will come out fit* the Grove with the biggest majority any man ever had here. \V. L. Hoffman was a business man to Wiliiamsport, English Cen ter and Muncy Valley last week. Miss Mittie Darby was a visitor to Wiliiamsport last week. John MeEwen and Ed. Planken horn of Wiliiamsport, were up try ing to bead on some of the squirrels last week. Where there were sixteen Ameri can buuus hands at work here a year ago, there are at present three Amer icans and thirteen Polanders. Moutrill Letts of Shuiik wasa vis itor in town Saturday. A fat sawed-otf politician from Fox was in town last Friday trying to start the froth of several of our voters here hut he did not even get an audience to listen to him. MUNCY VALLEY. Miss Mable Jarret of Eagles Mere spent Sunday with her sister. Mrs. 11. 11. Bennett. Mrs. John liaus visited her daughter, Mrs. C. S. Pewterbaugh, a few days last week. Mrs. Farrel and daughter Julia, of Dushore. visited Miss Marcella Farrel here one day last week. Miss Melissa Whitmoyer who has been at Eagles Mere for some time, returned home Monday. Mr. Will Kennedy spent a few hours in town last Thursday. Miss Maud Miller visited Miss Maine Ryan at Mapleton Sunday. Misses Oeie Collins and Edith Sellars of Picture Kocks visited friends here a few days last week. Mrs. Norman Stackhouse of Ea gles Mere, is visiting her sister Mrs. J. E. Gallagher. Miss Bernice Burkholder of Ka les Mere, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. A. Miller. Alvin Miller was a caller at the county seat on Saturday. Misses Emma Biddle, Marcella Farrel and Mable Shaw visited at Dushore Saturday and Sunday. ENDORCED BY LABOB. Hon. Fml A. Godcharles has been | endorsed by every labor organization |in this district. For further infor i mation confer with the district ottt | cers of your order.
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