VOL. VII. NO. 26. )Worth the PficeT / / YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELL \ WHEN YOU BUY JEWELERY.\ r It wears and gives pleasure for years and is£ X always worth the price paid for it. Our many N 112 years of business at the same stand with the same 112 I principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery / (* is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. j 112 We intend that this store shall be first in yourC thoughts 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 i 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. \ r Very respectfully, r > RETTENBURY, ] PA. THE JEWELER. COLE 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. 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. Samuel (Jofe^iisfeore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 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. GTT TO one side plain, filled with pure white cot ton at 95c up to 3.75. We cannot describe tlie large variety ol . lilack and colored silks we have selected It will pay you to look at our white or lor tall. Among the fancies my be men- grey blankets before you purchase, as we tioned new plaids and changeable silks, have them at any price from 50c up to plain, colored taffetas in all shades. Black 9.50; also a full line ol Muncy blankels in taffetas at 50c to 1.75 per yard. 20 inches white, grey and scarlet, to 45 inches wide. UNDERWEAR. Ready to Wear Department. ¥m mm womcn anJ chjKlren jn We have made extensive preparation in utn and heavy winter weights. Ladies' this department fjr fall and winter. What full fleeced lined vests and drawers at 25 we show you will be the very latest as to and 50 cents; better i|tialities 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, 30 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 L ine ns and Napkins, childrens .Jackets and ( oats. Mercerized r sateen petticoats at 1.00 to 4.50. lilack This has always been one of our strong taffeta petticoats at 7.00 to 12.50. departments, but we think it much better „ , j r»i i a this fall than usual. We are displaying Comforts and Blankets. new i <incn table cloths, napkins, cen- Kxtra large size silkoline or sateen cov- ' er pieces, lunch cloths, scarls, fine den er«d comforts; a large variety of dark and mark and huck towels, turkish bath light floral effects. Patterns some with towels, etc. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1902. EAGLES MERE The additions to Hotel Raymond arc being rushed ahead and will he under roof in a very short time. So much of the frame work is now up that it is evident that a very great improvement will he made in tin exterior appearance. Of the interior it will he possible to write more in telligently in the future. Mr* Laird was in town looking up the work on Friday. He intends to lie ready in good time for the rush of the sum mer. A ear load of plumbing materials arriving on the Eagles Mere railroad is a very substantial evidence that the Crestmont is getting ready now for an increased patronage next sum mer. Mr. J. It. T. Ryan and Mr. \V. V. Warner were in town last week making a general tour of inspection. On Friday Manager K. It. Kiess came up with his usual body guard of handsome young ladies to take in the crisp air and the beautiful color ing of the autumn foliage. Of course the inevitable Will Kitchen was one of the party. ('apt. Chase made a trip to Will iamsport on Thursday. Probably sent for by the Mayor of the city. Prof. ('. 0. Sheets of the Harris burg High School left on Monday morning for his home in order to vote on election day and make ar rangements for a still longer stay here. The Professor came up in search of some of the strength that he lost in a serious attack of pneumo nia and has not been disppointed. As recovered health has come to him he has been one of the most enter taining visitors we have had in a long time. He is an especial suc cess in the tahleaus and other enter tainments that make the time pass so pleasantly at Hotel Eagles Mere. It was reported on Tuesday of last week that Preacher Bid hick had been held up and he and his team captur ed and driven off, preacher and all. Upon Inquiries being made it was learned that a tall young man, good looking, black hair and mustache, well dressed, had entered into con versation with the preacher and act ually got into his buggy and gone off with the whole outfit. Things look ed seriously for a time but later on it was discovered that one of our young men had conceived with an impression that he ought to get mar ried and had taken this method of putting his purpose into effect. In other words, as already stated in the Item, Clarence E. Dunham, son of our townspeople Mr. and Mrs. Al vice Dunham, had secured the ser vices of Mr. Hidlack for his marriage to Miss Euza Lawrenson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (Seo. Lawrenson of Strawbridge. Matrimony seems to have become almost epidemic here. On Oct. 14, Mr. Arthur Lisson was married to Miss Masy Seit/. of Fairfield Centre. As this is Mr. Lisson's second matri monial venture it might be conclud ed that he believes "marriage is not a failure." The Post Office Club was called together in great haste on two very seru us matters. One of them had taken on a very phase between the time of the call for the •neeting and its actual gathering. The Secretary stated that it was reported to him that one of the mem bers had been seriously involved in a scheme for carryiug off the Meth odist minister and holding him for a ransom, but that it had since been learned that it was a different mat ter entirely and that it was simply that Mr. Clarence Dunham had "gone off and got married" without any previous consultation with the Club or giving the Club an opportu nity to appoint a committee to at tend and see that everything went as it should. The Secretary said that reports were conflicting. One statement was that he was married to Miss Lawrenson at Strawbridge, at "high noon" and it was difficult to understand how they could have had any "high noon" down in the valley. If it had been at Eagles Mere then it would be clear. A statement was made that the cere mony was followed by a wedding breakfast which was probably the case as Clarence did not leave home CONTINUED ON PAOE KOCH. DICKERMAN'S APOL OGY AN EMPTY BUBBLE. He Has Not Retired From the Car Trust ! ! Slminnkin |>ailv News i Charles Hcber Dickerman, the Democratic candidate for congress, | is sending letters to all the voters ; of the county, but it will not have i an iota of effect in changing the vote of the miners who know he is « trust magnate and an oppressor of labor. He says it is impossible for him to I call upon all the voters of the district i yet he has managed to see all the ; heeler- and wire pullers and conduct led a j• \ station for their benefit in ! this city. He is conducting a beer | and boodle campaign and the chris- I tain people will t i n him down on election day. ] Mr. Dickerman in the second par j agrapli of his letter says he has re tired from business and will devote all his time to his constituents. He has not retired from the car trust firm and is receiving a large share of the profits of the firm that makes its men work for 89 cents a day. He is against labor organizations and would not protect the interests of the miners as long as he is a trust, magnate. Mr. Dickerman claims lie is not a wealthy man, yet he acknowledg es he has retired from business. This is inconsistent. It is is known that while his men were working for the paltry sum of 89 cents a day, he was erecting the costliest home in Milton. He promises a clean and ,holiest term of service without scandal. What does he mean? Has he been implicated in scandals heretofore, or does this signify that he will pose in society at Washington withuux an effort to legislate in anylwxly's fa vor? This point is not clear to us as Chas. Ileber will understand all things when the friends of poor ltu fus Polk, whom he bitterly .fought' will wake up and vote for him, (nit.) Time makes all things even, will be the chorus chanted by the friends of Hon. E. 11. Davis, of Sunbury, whom Dickerman stilettoed as they marched up to the polls to vote. And then the friends of A. L. Fritz, of Columbia, who Charles was so loyal to (?) will get even by voting for him. What about the admirers of A. Walsh, of Sullivan county. Will they remember the cold deal Dick erman gave them and even all things up. Put worse than all these, ,how about that great army of voters who followed the fortunes of the Hon. Wm. J. Bryan. Time has flown; true they make all things even? Can they or will they forget that Dick erman has too much gold to follow the Apostle of Free Silver and that he cast his fortunes with thePalmer and Buckner wing of the party in that memorial conflict. Will they march up to the polls and make all things even. Oh yes! Time makes all things even but it will be more than even in November. Just a little more to the Uodeharles side. Lord for Congress. .Sliainokin News- W. K. Lord, candidate for con gress, spent last evening with the Sunbury committee and their friends. Sunbury is a prolific field for Repub lican candidates this year. All the shop and railroad men are pledged to support Lord, Godcharles, Bram hall and Culton. They are distinctive labor dates and all the men in shops any where in the county, except the car shops at Milton, where the hands I are coerced into a desultory advoca cy of one Democratic candidate, are for the men who were placed on the Republican ticket by the votes of workingmen. Whoop it up for these men and they will land the offices as certain as the sun rises and sets each day. j They will be elected because they I richly deserve to be and the people j know it. WHO TOLD THE LIE. Voters Read the Affidavits] Below. SWORN TESTIMONY OF HONORABLE MEN. Rogers Absent On 255 Votes. 180 Bills on Final Passage Had No Vote From Sullivan County. Believing that Mr. Scouten will probably over look our *IOO propo sition, the News Item, invited dis interested citizens to carefully ex amine the Legislative Record and make an affidavit as to the result of their labor. The citizens whose names are subscribed are well known for honesty and intelligence in the neighborhood in which they reside, but arc not active in politics. It will be found on reading their affi davit that Mr. Rogers was "absent and not voting" on 255 votes of the House and that 180 of these votes were bills on final passage. Scouten got an affidavit from two members of the Legislature that Rogers was not recorded absent and not voting ox FIX AI. PASSAGE of 255 bills. This shows that Scouten and the two members of the Legislature have ex amined the records and that when that affidavit was made they knew he was absent on 255 votes of the House, and of these 180 were bills on final passage. You can easily see Scouten's pettyfogging method in this, lie tried to deceive the peo ple, but we believe that no voter who reads the affidavit given below DicKerman's Present Day Ideal Christian Civilization. EIGHTY-NINE CENTS A DAY Enough For A Laborer to Pay His Living Ex penses and Educate His Family. HAD EMPLOYEES OF HIS FIRM DOWN TO THAT SCALE. His Efforts at Denial Pall Heavily Beneath Proofs That Can not Be Refuted. Oaths of Reputable Citizens Recorded. Published statements that Dickerman has said, in denial to the above reports are these:—"l never paid as low wages as 89e cents a day." And in reference to saying 89 cents was enough for a laborer:—"l may have made such an expression but if I did I am not too old to change my opin ion of things." Following are affidavits given by honorable men which are offered in contradiction to Mr. Dickerman's denials. Hundreds of similar affidavits could be produced without question but these art! con sidered sufficient. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, ) STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, ) NOUTIII*MITKITLANIL Cor NTV, )' " ' NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, ] 88 ' Personally appeared More me a .J us- Personally appeared before me, a Jus tice ol the Peace in and for said state.this t ice of the Peace in and lor said county, 4th day of October, 1902, J. W. Vankirk. John O. Koch, who. being duly sworn who being duly sworn, declares that he according to law, deposes and says:— was in the employ of the firm of Murray, ' hat lie was an employee of the firm of Dougal Ac Co. sometime before 1X94 and Murray, I>ougal & Co., Limited, at the continued under the same employment time when Charles Ileber Dickermau was until a lew months ago, and further Secretary and Treasurer of said firm of swears that Mr.Charles lleber Dickernian Murray & Dougal A Co., Limited, that he who was then Treasurer a;,d Financial worked tor said Company for eighty nine Manager of said firm did make this re- (89) cents per day at Milton, Pa. mark to him:—"That eighty nine (89) JOHN O. KOCU. cents was enough tor a laboring man anil Sworn to and subscribed betore me was more than what the laborer earned." this 18th day of October. 1902. and further swears that, (eighty-nine D £_ AUNKST cents)was the wages paid the laborer by Justice oi the Peace. Murray, Dougal A Co. ai that time. J. VV. VANKIRK, Sworn to and subscribed betore me State of Pennsylvania, I this 4th day of October, 1902. Northumberland County, | * WM. C. MILLER, Personally appeared before me a Jus- Justice of the Peace, tice of the Peace in and for said county, . Chas. G. Montague, who being duiy State ol 1 ennsylvania, I sj( sworn according to law, deposes and says: Northumberland ( ounty, ) —That he was an emplovee of the firm of ersonallv appeared before me, a Jus- Murray, Dougal A Co./ Limited at the lice ol the Peace in anil (or said county, time when Charles Heber Dickermau was <». (i. Stevenson, who, being duly sworn Treasurer and Financial Manager of said according to law, deposes and says: firm of Murray, Dougal A'Co., Limited, 1 hat hew-as an employee ot the firm of tliat he worked tor said Company for Murray, Dougal A < 0., Limited, at the eiglitv nine [B9] cents per dav at Viiltoa. lime when Charles Heber Dickerman was " CHAS G. MONT4UCK. Secretary and I reasurer ol said firm ot Sworn to and subscribed betore me Murray, Dougal A Co., Limited, that he t|,j s j ßt |, ,| av o fOctober, 1902. worked for said Company lor eighty-nine ' ... . M (89) cents per dav at Milton, l'a. r ■" i O ({.STEVENSON. Justice of the Peace. Sworn to and subscribed betore me thin 18th day of October, 1902. WM. C. MILLER, Justice of the Peace. By a typographical error tlio tiuie for Seouten's acceptance of our 8100 proposition in our last is sue was extended to Nov. 21. We are, however, willing to stand by this and Scouten may have until Nov. 27, to put up his SIOO. The money will he as useful then to the Williamsport Hospital as now. 75 CTS. PER YEAR. will doubt that as a member of the House Mr. Rogers grossly neglected his duty and has shown in the clear est manner that he ought not to be our Representative. We the undersigned being duly sworn do depose and say that we have carefully exam ined the Legislative Record for the session of 1901 and that we therein find that Edward G. Rogers, member for Sulli van County, is recorded "Ab sent and Not Voting" on 266 votes of the House; that 180 of these votes were upon bills on final passage, 20 were upon concuring in Senate amend ments, 5 were upon passing bills over the Governors veto, and 60 upon miscellaneous votes. H. W. MESSERSMTTH, LEW. R. GUMBLE, H. H. RING. Sworn and subscribed, Oct. 25th, 1902, before me a Jus tice of the Peace, of Sullivan County, Pa. A. 11. BUSCIIHA USEN, Jmtice of the Peace. If Rogers is not recorded absent and not voting on 253 votes of theHouse 179 of which are hills on final pas sage, Scouten may have our $100; if he is so recorded Scouten's SIOO togo to the Hospital. The terms of the proposition as published in our last issue. Now Johnny cash up or stop calling us names.
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