Republican News Item.
VOL. VII. NO. 36.
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112 112 HARDWARE
No PlacS* Place
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OR "WOOD
HEATERS;
ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS.
House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every
Description, Guns and Ammunition.
Bargains that bring the buyer back.
Come and test the truth of our talk.
A lot of second 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.
Samuet Sole^usftore,fa.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
~-" h- 313 Pine Street,
-iIWILLIAMSPORT, PA.
The Sale of Muslin Underwear
IS AT ITS HEIGHT.
Don't let the best things go before you do your shop
ping. All the low prices previously advertised are still
current. Every garment fresh from the best manufactur
ers in the land. We urge you to examine them carefully.
Note materials, workmanship, style, trimmings and every
other detail.
At the Linen Counter.
Here are goods and prices that will
surely interest the "head of the house."
Real Irish Damasks, the perfection of
fineness and finish, new spring patterns.
If you are ready for a few new cloths or
a dozen of Napkins, never a better time
than now to purchase them.
At 50 Cents
We are showing a very superior quality
of bleached and unbleached Table Linen
in neat patterns that are worthy of con
sideration.
At 75 Cents
We sell 72-inch wide unbleached and
full bleeched Table Linen, very heavy
Scotch or Irish sort. They come in a
large variety of new, neat designs. We
own them cheap and you're going toj get
the benefit.
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LA PORTE, r SULLI VAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903.
Our SI.OO
Quality full bleached Table Damask is
a leader that has never been equaled.
Their white satiny surfaces show in strong
relief many new striking designs. Pro
nounced cheapness is unquestioned. Then
we have napkins to matoh all paterns.
At $1.25 to $2.50
Our assortment of pure Irish satin fin
ished Table Damask is complete. There
is a firmness and grace about these that
nothing but pure flax can give. Then the
designes you'll be fascinated with.
LINEN SETS
Damask Cloths and Napkins is a large
variety of designs and qualities that range
in price from f5.00 to $23.00 for the set.
We are showing some new Lnnch Cloths,
Centerpieces, Carving Cloths, Scarfs,
Doilies and Squares.
[ coumvjEws I STiiXS
Happenings of SSSEjr*
Interest to Readers T<nras -
EAGLES MERE.
Miss Berniee Burkholder recently
gave a party at her home when quite
a number of her friends gathered to
meet her brother, Curtis Burkholder,
who is in the regular army. He is
stationed in Arizona and is making
a short visit at his home having
been granted a furlough for that pur
l>ose. He will carry back with him
the memory of a delightful evening
full of social pleasures and material
good things.
Among the recent festivities was a
dance at Hotel Alleghany at which
Mrs. "W. H. Vanßuskirk entertain
ed a large circle of friends.
On Friday of last week Miss Ada
Chase returned home from an ex
tended visit with friends in Tren
ton, N. J. It is in order now to give
her a reception.
As she does every winter, Mrs.
Ingham entertained the young peo
ple of the village at Hotel Eagles
Mere on Tuesday evening of last
week. She holds a large place in
the hearts of the young people and
that of course makes for her the very
warmest friends of the fathers and
mothers.
Not to be behind the procession
Ulayton Dunham took possession of
lis father's house last Tuesday and
llled it full of his friends at which
le had the absolutely necessary as
sistance of the oldjpeople.
Mr. A. C. Little came up and
ipent part of the day on Friday tak- '
ng in the situation, and Frank Lit
;le has concluded to stay two or three
veeks with Mr. and Mrs. Hainan.
We r.grct to hear that on last
Friday Mr. John Converse, engineer
>n the Eagles Mere railroad, was in ]
>sme way jolted or thrown from the
■mining board of his engine near the
iplash dam above Sonestown and
suffered very severe injuries to one
>f his knees. The Doctor says the ,
endons are ruptured so that he wijl
irobably be lame for life.
Some doubts are expressed about
he Sones Mills being able to keep
•unning during the extremely cold
weather and our community is some
what fearful that if the mill shuts
iown it may result in the abandon
ment of the trains on the Eagles
Mere R. R. which would be much
to be deplored.
Dr. Voorhees is filling his ice
house at Sonestown with a supply
cut by Captain Chaso on the Lake
ind taking it down by railroad. He
mys it is better and cheaper than
anything else he can do.
Supt. W. H. Pletcher of the Chau
tauqua with the assistance of Geo.
W. Smith is gathering logs and load
ing them on cars to be taken to the
little mill down at the Falls and be
sawed into planks and lumber for
use in and about the Chautauqua
grounds. Nothing but fallen tim
ber is used and the growing trees
are carfully protected.
MVNCY VALLEY.
Mr. M. Donovan
were called to Laporte on Thursday
of las* week to attend the funeral of
the former's grandchild.
Masters James and Donald Miller,
and Bertie Slarr are on the siek list.
Miss Mable Hazen of Sonestown,
was the guest of Miss Myra Long
on Friday.
Mr. O. P. Johnson, an aged and
respected citizen of this place, and
father-in-law of J. P. Miller, died
last Saturday night at ten o'clock,
at the age of 81 years, 6 months and
28 days, and was buried on Tuesday
of this week at Sonestown. Mr,
Johnson was a resident of this coun
ty all his life. He is survived by a
widow, two sons and one daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Taylor en
jbyed a sleigh ride to Eagles Mere
on Sunday. ,
Miss Blanch Miller has returned
to the Normal School at Blooms
burg.
X SONESTOWN.
Harry Sharp, the thirteen year old
son of Mrs. Rose Fairman, was bur
ied last week. The boy had been
unable to walk for many years being
a sufferer of curvature of the spine.
Mr. M. P. Gavitt who has been
seriously ill, is able to be out again.
Chas. Weed of Williamsport is vis
iting his sister, Mrs. Geo. Hazen.
Mrs. Alonza Converse is visiting
relatives at Wilkesbarre.
Walter Lorah last week returned
to State College where he is taking
a course in Civil Engineering.
Mrs. Elmer Lowe of Muncy has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Sarah
Robbins, and assisting her in the
care of her mother, Mrs. Anna Lit
tle who has been sick.
A delightful party was tendered
Orville Hall last Wednesday even
ing, it being the occasion of his 19th
birthday. A large crowd was present
and thoroughly enjoyed themselves
until 2 a. m.
John Converse was seriously hurt on
Friday. His knee is broken and head
cut. On coming from Eagles Mere,
he rode outside on the engine with a
board as snow plow and when hav
ing no further use for it where the
road was blasted among the rocks,
he placed it as he supposed securely,
and himself continued near the bell,
on th« running board. The board
jarred from its position and threw
Mr. Converse between the engine
and rock with the above mentioned
result.
Miss Myrtle Ellison of North
Mountain is visiting here.
"smmic.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kilmer have
begun housekeeping in part of the
house occupied by Frank Packard on
Water street-
Abalines Rightmire had the mis
fortund to mash his hand in a feed
cutter last week, consequently a
large number of friends and neigh
bors were invited to a wood bee on
Thursday.
H. H. Green spent Saturday at
Hillsgrove.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mingle of Sen
eca Lake, N. Y. are visiting the lat
ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reubin
Wilbur.
Miss Lottie Fanning of this place
was married on Christmas to Mr.
Calvin Fleming of Crooked Creek,
Pa. The happy couple are at pres
ent visiting the lady's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elisha Fanning.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Rightmire
and family of Eagles Mere, visited
relatives here last week.
Mrs. Fred Manley is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Herbert Foster.
Miss Julia Brown is visiting her
aunt, Mrs.JChas. Hines at Lake Run.
Lew Wheeler and family of Owe
go, N. Y. is visiting at W. H. Fan
nings.
E. G. Salisbury, who is teaching
school at Newellton, was home over
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rightmire of
Caldwell, Clinton Co. are visiting
relatives here.
Miss Josephine M. Strong died at
Boulder, Colorada, on Dec. 6, aged
17 years and 5 days, the daughtei
of George H. and Delia Strong.
Ten years ago the then little girl's
mother died in McCook, Nebraska.
The child was cared for there by rel
atives for a year, after which she in
company with her grandmother
came east to reside with her uncle,
Smith Strong, at Muncy Valley, and
where she lived four years. She
then went to Judge Taylor's, at
Strawbridge, where she remained
until last June, when symtoms rap
. idly developed which indicated quick
t consumption. Miss Strong,s father
had her come to Nebraska hoping
that the climate might prove bene
■ ficial to her health. After remain
) ing there for a few months and de
riving no benefit from the change,
. she was placed in the Boulder Sani
-1 tarium in Colorado, but without
- avail, the dread disease baffling all
medical science that could be obtain
ed for her.
Government Ownership of fiail-^
rOadS By BEHJ.6.WELCH.
One of the popular fallacies ia ref
erence to railroads is that as they are
consolidated it results in higher rates
and poorer service to the public. No
greater mistake was ever made than
this. We do not undertake to say
that there are no local instances in
which these things may not have re
sulted but they are so out of propor
tion to the reverse conditions that
they are scarcely worth considering.
Except in cases of railroad wars,
rates are lower to-day than ever be
fore and with every consolidation
the same result follows. If the W.
& N. B. R. R. was a part of the
Reading or the Lehigh system pas
senger rates would be three cents
per mile instead of four and yet as
an independent road it cannot afford
to make rates less than they are.
In through freight rates the exist
ing system gives almost the same
consolidation for while
the roads are separate the through
rates are made up 011 a consolidated
basis that gives us the advantage of
the greater earnings on the Trunk
lines. Bituminous coal is now haul
ed at less than a quarter of a cent
per ton per mile in some cases. It
seems hardly possible that this could
ever be reduced. It can only be
done with heavy tracks, engines and
cars and so reduced tranportation ex
penses.
Passenger facilties on the large
railroads are not equaled in any
country in the world either for com
fort, luxury or moderate cost. It
seems as if nothing more could be
done in these directions or speed and
yet a year does not go by without
some improvement not heretofore
thought of. Largely those things
are the fruits of centralization and
centralization has only just begun.
It would not be safe to say that ten
years will go by withouta practical
consolidation of all the roads in this
country. As a result traveling fa
cilities would be improved at prob
ably reduced cost and transportation
would be less expensive than it is
now.
The danger to be apprehended is
the autocracy that would be estab
lished as£a natural sequence. Not
every man is fitted to be trusted with
such a sway. Not long since Wall
Street hud down the law to the
Treasury Department jibout certain
bond issues and the Department sub
mitted, but when another issue was
to be made the "people" asked for
the privelige of subscribing with the
result that some men of very limited
means made small fortunes out of
their subscriptions. It was an ob
ject lesson not to be forgotten. That
was financing by the people and the
government business was done at
the government offices, and"it
paid."
We suppose the most complete
monopoly in the world is the Oil
Trust and the writer is of opinion
that the cost of oil to consumer has
been reduced because of the concern
tration of interests that has been
brought about, but we believe its
powers are abused. It ought not to
be posssble for any such combination
arbitrarily to increase the cost of one
of the necessaries of life to working
people and at the same time realize
enormous fortunes every year out of
it, we might almost say thas fortunes
are reaped every day. No one has
yet been inspired to formulate a law
to meet the case, but if the Socialists
will keep on with their revolution
ary appeals it will come some day
like a flash of Light just as "contra
band of war" came to General Benj.
Butler in New Orleans. Probably
the day is not far distant. When
the Oil Trust can buy up the Texas
Oil Fields over night and put out
the fires in thousands of homes, fac
tories and locomotives with a few
hours notice it is time for a "John
the Baptist" to be heard in the wild
ernes. We have been accustomed to
believe that "a man can do as he
pleases with his own" but it has
, come to pass that College Chairs are
. being endowed to find out whether
we have not been mistaken, or at
least whether a new light has not
; shone on the subject, and they call
[ these new teachers " Professors of
. Sociology." It is only a different
way of spelling "Socialism" that's
11.
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EDITOR, NEWS ITEM:
What's the matter with Editor
Newell anyway? When you and
yours readers are discussing the ad
visability of Government Owner
ship he undertakes to settle the
whole matter by declaring that it
wont pay and that is all there is to
it. The only argument he has is
that the Post Office Department
don't pay and when somebody tries
to answer that argument he snarls,
says mean things, and replies that
the question is not Post Office but
Railroads and Coal Mines, when all
the time he is the fellow who start
ed the Post Office discussion. Let
him gi% r e us a reason why the Gov
ernment cannot operate the Rail
roads or Mines to pay and let him
leave out his mean flings. They
are not argument.
Answering his assertion that the
Post Office Department don't pay
let us make a comparison and ask a
question. A man has an ice pond
and cuts a hundred tons of ice from
it—his expenses are twenty-five dol
lars and he sells eighty tons of it to
his neighbors for twenty-four dollars
and keeps the other twenty for him
self at a cost of one dollar—does his
ice business pay or is he losing
money?
That's just what the government
does—it sells post office serviee to
the people and gets a little less than
the money it pays out but the result
of it is that its own service for which
it charges itself nothing costs it the
trifling difference like the man with
the ice.
Let Editor Newell give us another
reason why the Government can't
make mines and railroads pay and
then perhaps some of your corres
pondents can answer him intelligent
ly and it is hoped he will keep his
temper, and write in a gentlemanly
fashion as he knows so well how to
do, if he wants to.
RUSTICUS.
***** LOPEZ.
Last Wednesday night two men
thinking that they were at the
Jackson House made a slight mis
take and entered the house of E. VV.
Woodward and in striking a match
set the curtains on fire. Mr. Wood
ward hearing the noise quickly arose
and rushed down stairs and extin
guished the fire which the men made
no attempt to put out when they
saw their mistake but ran from the
house. The parties are known but
as yet nothing has been done with
them. The loss was about $25.
Harry Messersmith while riding
down hill last Monday had the mis
fortune to break his leg. He is now
at the Sayre Hospital.
Miss Annie Gardner who had been
sick for several months, died last
Thursday. The funeral was held
on Saturday.
Mrs. J. O. Young who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Heverly,
returned to her home on Saturday
last.
Joseph Heverly of New Albany,
was calling on friends here last Sat
urday.
Mrs. W. L. Jennings who has
been sick with pneumonia is some
better at this writing.
Rev. Klingerof Dushore was call
ing on friends here on Saturday.
Come again.
A. L. Dyer is hauling coal at the
rate of fifty tons per day from the
Murray mines.
A young daughter arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lynott, at
Murray mines, recently.
Miss Benjamen of Dushore, visited
friends here last week.
Mr. James Kelly of Leroy, was in
town on Monday.
Mr. C. A. Lewis, of Syracuse,
spent Sunday with his son Homer.
Mr. Chas. McKibbins of New
York City, is visiting his brother
Henry at this place.
They say that some of onr boys
can't tell corn from oats.
For sale. —A six horse power
traction engine, will be sold cheap.
Inquire at this offiee.