Republican News Item.
VOL. VII. NO. 35.
Better Than
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C AND STAPLE JEWELERY, S
j I invite your inspection s
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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.
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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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