Republican News Item. VOL. VII. NO. 35. Better Than £ lam better prepared \ ? than ever to supply your C \ wants in / X Z locks & £ C AND STAPLE JEWELERY, S j I invite your inspection s S at your earliest > i S convenience. \ > RETTENBURY, ) $ DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler. S >/Vv^Vv^^\/S^V v >/V lr H ' HARDWARE? No PlaceHpe'this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. Itoafubu&fcm Goods, Tools C. Every Oefccriptiofiy QuhS alflid ~ , I Bargains that bring the Buyer back. \ yCome and test the truth oj our talk. A lot of seoond hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced, but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel iSote^usjftore^a. The Shopbell Dry pood Co., ' -• "SIS Pine Stretet, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Sheets and Colored Pillow Cases. ? Corduroy. Made from the same cottons that you for Waists or Children's Coats has been buy over the counter and sewed as well very scarce this season. We have just re as you can doit. Ihe best part of all, ceived a new lot in navy blue, white,cast you pay but a trifle more than the goods OFj brown and myrtle green. Also navy cost by the bolt and all the sewing and blue and.black metallic printed V'fctyeteen thread are saved. We will sell you per- at 75c a yard, fectly finished, hemstitched sheets, large sizes, 65c and 75c; ones with plain hems 45CK. esc. Outer Garments Hemstitched Pillow Cases at 12Jc to 22 cents. You are invited to investigate the styles Others with plain hems at 8c to JBc. to note the materials the tit, the finish . _ _ . of this representative collection of Monte I PlfllOQ lln Inn Carlo ("oats, Iteglans, Tailored Suits, LidUlCv) V-U1IUI! Walking Skirts and a complete line of children's garments. We keep a full line of the celebrated Flannelette ON Err A SEAMLESS COMBINATION SUITS in white and natural color. They WPfIT are perfectly elastic, fitting like a glove, ■ Jieing open at the top makes them conven- T , ao ]itt]e an(J Rre go comfor . ient to put on and ofi. several qualities tn bi e and warm. Ladie's night gowns in at 50c up to $1.75. plain colors and fancy striped, some braid COMFORTABLES. Ed others with plain and fancy yokes at We have a good assortment of com- , , ~ .. . .. fortables. made full size, covered with Mioses Night Gowns at 40c and 60c. figured sateen or silkoline, some arc plain I.adies Snort Skirts, plain and on one side, filled generously with pure striped, at 50c and 75c. white cotton. Prices range from 95c to Men s Night Shirts, made extra full and long, at oOc and 75. The Shopbell DryQood Co. Snbscrihefor the News Item. LAPORTE,' SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903. COUNTY_NEWS I JTIiTSS;] Happenings of SSSKf*' Interest to Readers J EAGLES MERE. The harvesting of the ice crop is 011 in earnest and ice houses are be ing packed with cold for next sum mer. No place in Pennsylvania can equal ours for ice supply and facili ties for handling it. Mr. W. L. Laird came up on Monday and spent the night in town looking up his arrangements for next summer. His new edition is a wonderful improvement to the ex terior of the Raymond. On Friday night of last week about 12 o'clock a tree blew down on the Light Co.'s line, broke the Tele phone wires and short circuited the line so that light was cut off until Saturday when engineer Campbell, Raymond Kehiw and Flnyd Dun nam made temporary repairs. Elec trician Trappe with his core of line men completed the work in a sub stantial manner on Monday. By the way in such a case the best thing to do is to let it alone until the cur rent is shut off for fear of serious results from the high tension cur rent. On Sunday evening Rev. S. B. Bidlack held services iu the Baptist Church and was favored with the best congregation for a long time. It is proposed to revive the Christian Endeavor Society that formerly did much good. Landlord John S. Kirk is still very sick and grave fears are felt that he may not rally from the attack. Ev ery one feels that he can illy ba spar ed from Eagles Mere having «lwaya been one of Ma beat friends. There Is some talk of a toboggan the clear out on the surface of? the ice "on the Lake. The regular monthly council meet ing was held on Monday night. One of the important questions is how to (ill the position of Chief Burgess |os the term of Burgess Ingham is about to expire and he cannot legally suc ceed himself. If he could he would be unanimously elected. The. EaglesJMere R. R. trains have not missed a single trip this winter and thanks to the faithfulness of Engineer Converse and Conductor J. C. Starr they have been practically on tiroe every day. Possibly Thoughtlessness But Dan|erous. Sonje persons have been shooting at Insulators on the Eagles Mere Light Co.'s lines and we desire to say that it is dangerous to human life on account of the high tension current passing over the wires and a reward of Fifty Dollars will be paid for information that will secure the convection of any one who may wil fulljior recklessly do so hereafter. Notice is given that in case of a conviction no compromise will be made but that the mont extreme penalty of the law will be invoked regardless of who the offender may be. BKNJ. Q. WELCH, Treas. LOPEZ. Henry, Ernest and Jacob Bonning of Bella Sylva, were doing business in town Monday. Mrs. W. J. Carrington who visit ed her sister in Pittsburg, returned on Saturday. The first fire in several years at this place occured on Monday night when one of Jennings Bros, houses, occupied by Ohas, Arey, was totally destroyed with nearly all the house hold goods. We understand there was a small insurance. Hon. A. L. Dyer is at Harrisburg taking his first degree in Legislative I business. Our school tnam's after a week's vacation have returned and are again at work. Mrs. J. Dyer of Rlckette, visited in town last week «■., vJ . Miss Donna Sturtf£vaht visiting at Wilkesbarre. Miss Minnie Behr left here on Monday to attend school at Philadel phia. John Cogßdlll Is taking In the sights at Buffalo this week". Mrs. F. G. Rice and aon Richard are visiting at Athens. SHUNK. Mrs. Ella Smith of Waverly, N, Y. is visiting relatives here. Forest D. Fuller formerly of this place, but now of Ithaca, N. Y. was shaking hands with old friends in town last week. Judson Brown of Laporte was a visitor in town last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lena Packard spent New Years witli Mr. and Mrs. Frank Packard. - Richard Swingle who h* 112 .s ® - on the sick list, is able to be | » § £ the house again. Quito a number attonr ij °'g -f s ( lie installation of officers„ £2« U j |of the P. O. 8. qT \. at on Saturday e *ng b$ ~?SI I President Harry t stj = There was aft , c g!8 I black eye on Wiu I J ? .nday. HILI.SGROVE. Two very bad accidents oeci"*M on thePesto log job 3«t-.; Jefferson Wyooff oi~ * § ~ = boss on the landing ~ - 5 5 J he long log slide, whil, ..wkiTig along the slide where there is a four foot tresleing, parting a trail of logs, one of them jumped from the slide and struck Wycoff, breaking both of his legs, on one the bone protrudibg through the flesh. He was taken to his hoaic in Williamsport on Satur day with very little hopes for his re covery. Mr. Wycoff is about 58 yrs. of age and a veteran of the civil war. He fought at one time under Gen. Custer, the great Indian fighter. Geo. Davis, while skidding logs for Jenkins and Campbell on the Pesto job, had the misfortune to be Tirght between a log to Wbicfe.Jug team was hitched and a stump, aud had his leg broken. The doctors have not yet been able to set the bone on account of the swelling of the leg. Milton Sheely of New York City, is visiting his mother, this week, as is also Mrs. James Tom pson of Limestone, N. Y. Frank Thall and family of Will ramsport, and Samuel Darby and family of Hoytville, visited at W. L. Huffman's over Sunday. Joseph Helsman, landlord of the Saddler House, transacted business at Dushore and Bernice last week. Tillman Myers of Glen Mawr, spent Sunday with Mr. McClintock. Frank Harrison has been on the sick list the past week. ' The Board of Health showed up last Saturday and there will be no more dead horses or cattle left lying on top of the ground to decay and cause disease and sickness here in Hillsgrove. Weldy Saddler Abbott was taken to the Williamsport Hospital last week, suffering from an injury by being thrown from a horse last sum mer. Ed. Mulneux brought the big load of bark to town last week, it weigh ed ninety-nine hundred. New Coal Mine Opened. The new coal mine being opened by Atty. F. W. Meylert and Dr. W. F. Randall, near Bernice is about oompleted, and these enter prising operators will be taking or ders for an out put of forty or fifty tons daily by another week. A night shift was was added to the working force the past week. Ex tra mules and cars will be putin service as soon as the breast of the mines permit of a larger force of miners. Mine run coal will be the utock in trade at this oolliery, this season. A breaker may be erected before next fall's trade begins. The land of this mine consists of forty acres owned by Mrs. Harriet Mylert, of Baltimore, an aunt of Attorney Meylert, to whom a roy alty is paid for the coal mined. The operators have a six foot vein of good coal, well covered witp sand rock. [Government Ownership of fcalP) (roads „ .OUAWELCH. / <A**MU3M. V EDITOR, ST*W* IRAN The most current objection to Gov ernment Ownership of Railroads is that it cannot make the buainen pay. The Post Office Department is. always quoted for proof. The ar gument is somewhat plausible bat there is just when a mistake is made. Very many transactions "pay" that do not in themselves di rectly return more money than is expended in them. No one antici pates that the newspaper publisher will hand back more money than the advertiser gives htm and yet "It pays to advertise" because it brings to the store or shop or other place of traffic the people who do have the money to exchange for goods or ser vices. This is what the Postal De : Mirtment does; it creates the busk L~£SS out of which must come, not simply the price of a two cent stamp, I but also the thousands of dollars that enable this United States to do bus iness. As well say advertising does not pay as to claim for a moment that the postal service does not pay, , If it did make a direct money re turn there would be a shout from , millions of people, for greater ser vice at less price. i Our government makes no direot profit out of the army or navy, the agricultural department or the cen sus bureau, but that does .not prove that it does not make a profit out of coining money. Anything that the government undertakes that is in tended to "pay" in the usual sense i of that term will be found to pay. < Its business is to run the whole : country and it does it so well that it would have large balances on the i right side of the ledger but as soon as that condition approaches a dei mand is made that it shall spend the .< balance or reduce its price for run- : ning the country, that is reduce the i axes.- There is '; no government official that is over paid for his services from the down to the : Fourth Clafcs Postmaster and for the character of the service the govern ment paysiess than private corpora tions and individuals. Let its em ployes be protected from political slaughter and it can command the best brains, the best skill and the highest physical and mental acquire ments always at compensations as moderate as can be desired or Ex pected. There is a sense of security about it that will always secure this condition. Then as we have article, the ownership of Ihe greatest railroad system may change-in Wall Street in a day but the personnel of the executive and operating force re mains and goes right on as if no staph change had oceured. What is to prevent the same modus operandi if the government were the . purchaser and why could not jhe ! same staff produce the same results? It is not the President of a Railroad that makes the profits or the loss, nor is it the ftjock and bond The fact is that the government could borrow thecapitnl needed for railroad purchase JIKI construction at lower rates of interest than any individual or any corporation. Un der the proteotion of honestly ad ministered civil servive rules and with proper provision for worn-out and disabled servants its staff would Cost less than for any other employ ed, wasteful and unnecessary competi tion" would be eliminated, unjust dis crimlnation abolished and facilities for_ fiic aecttrded where they are now dfettiefrr ' Continued in next issue. Codnty Coßpiissioners Sworn into Office* Messrs Peter J. Yonkin, Q. W. Bjjjgers attd Thos. W. Gahan the reZmtly elected County Commission- their official seats in the GoptinispidDers' office on Monday. Ally. ]S. #. Mullen was appointed legal advfsor and £. L. Sweeney as elerk, both succeeding themselves. Jacob Cfirles was appointed janitor to fill thf position held by Judson Brown. I **" 75 CTB. PEH YEAR. If you have not closed your col umns on the Port. Office question won't youiet one of the back coun try offices say awonL Editor New all is not abit nicelnwhatbe writes about your correspondent "being ■shamed of tfce name bis parents gave him." How does he It is a "he" at *ll, Then again there is a great dlffqpeipe between that "Fourth Class Postmaster" and ed itor Newell. The Postmaster don't know it all end, editor Newell—— does; the P. M. is a little modest and backward end editor Newell — would not dare face the editorial shot gun myself because I hare beard a lawyer say that when you don't have any case the thing to do is to abuse the lawyer on the other side or call tbe witness ugly name*. Is It possible that editor Newell has learned that trick? Don't be so bard on us Mr. Newell. Be nice as yod know bow to be. Let as be a little shy wad bide our lack qf information behind an dame. If we my anything bad the editor of the Item baa pur address. "Nothing $o discuss"—by the way did not another great man say some thing nearly like that or was it "nothing to arbitrate" and ain't they arbitrating it after all. Didn't editor Newell forget that when he discussed "Free Rural in*" Delivery" in a few words in the ad joining column? How about the second class mail question? How about the effort to find some conve nient way of sending small sums of money through the mails? How about the movement for a uniform Postage Stamp, good in all countries and in either direction? Bow about one cent postage? How about mail insurance? How about a package service? How about letting the peo ple vote on the appointment of post masters? A w aboht civil service for postmasters? How about postal savings banks? How about postal telephones? & lam abouC.qut of breath. "Noth ing to discuss" Oh! Mr. Newell. FOURTI* CLASS POSTHISTBB9S. E9TELLA. -* A. T. Mulnfc and W. T. More were at Dushffre on Tuesday. Mr. Ilarry fHlson died at his home pear on Saturday, Jan. 6 He was afhonored war veteran. He leaves a vnfe and a large family of children his loss. Miss Fannie Vargason is on the stck'iist. M. M. Waster and family spent New Years ' tyith J. E. Browns. Mert got the gjpose side tracked, and it was necessity to call in tho neigh ,bors "kids" fdf help him out. ' Rev. John Bryan, formerly of of Leroy, expects to hold a~short>eries of meetings at Es tella this week. W. E. is working at Bernl'6e. C. B. Wheatley took a trip to Le roy bp Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stryker of Hartley HA came up to attend the fiigeipl of )K Qilson. ElkUtnd Garage installed the offl cers for thee'qpuing year on Tuesday evening after Vhich they partook of an oyster supper. Arthur Mtftadden, who has been visiting bis wter, Mrs. U. Bird, has returned to tip home in Brooklyn, N. Y. MUICY VALLEY. I. B. Reedjof Jamison City was shaking hands with old Mends here on Sundfey. Miss Blanch Miller did shopping at Hughes vilje on Thursday. H, D. Biggkr of Danville, yiaited hie. parents at this place last week. Mr. and Mts. David Marks and aon James oCjLaporte, passed through town on Sunday. Charley Glpen of Laporte, is clerk tngtor Hayman Herr. Mrs. W. F. Donovan of Jones town spent Wednesday jyith her hus band's parents at this place. Mrs. M. Dtonovan is visiting her daughter, Jms. J. Frio at Cnporte. Mrs. A. Minnier and daughter, Mrs. Samu4r Magargle visited rela tives at Newberry over Sunday. *
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