REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM.
CHAfiLEfrL WOffi, Editor.
Fubliahed E verylThurnday Afternoon
By The Sullivan Publishing Co.
At the County Beat of Sullivan County.
LAPOHTB. PA.
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.
Republican Standing
Committee Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the
Republican Standing Committee
men in the Court House at Laporte
Pa., on Saturday, April 4, 1903, at
1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
fixing the date for holding the
Republican Primaries and County
Convention. All members of the
above named committee are re
quested to be present.
WM, P. SHOEMAKEB,
Chairman.
WITHIN FIFTY YEARS
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PHENOMENAL PROGRESS MADE BM|
THE UNITED STATES. «>§
Tl)Ir» Country Now Leads the Worldi
la Domestic Exports, In Mannfac*,
tared, In Transportation and In
Internal Commerce.
In a recent report the statistician of
the department of commerce presents
some interesting facts relative to the
miraculous progress which has taken
place in the United States alike in In
ternal and external commerce in the
past forty-two years of protection to
American labor and industry. Giant
strides have been made during that
period under tbe economic policy of
having the republic do its own work
to the largest possible extent. In do
mestic exports, in manufactures, In
transportation and in Internal com
merce the United States Is at the head
of the world's list of great nations.
The internal commerce of the country
is now estimated at $20,000,000,000, or
eijual to the entire international com
merce of the world. This estimate is
based upon the figures of the census,
which put the total value of manufac
tures in I'JOO at $13,000,000,000, those
of agriculture at nearly $4,000,000,000
and those of minerals about $1,000,000,-
000. Adding to these the product of
the fisheries, the total value of the
products of the great industries In 1900
would be $18,000,000,000, and the rapid
growth in all lines of industry since
11)00, especially In manufacturing,
seems to justify the conclusion that
even a single transaction in all tbe
products of the country would produce
an aggregate for 1902 of fully $20,000,-
000,000.
Estimating the internal commerce of
the country at former census years by
the same method, It is found that the
total internal commerce has grown
from about $2,000,000,000 in 1850,
r.00,000,000 in 1800, $0,250,000,000 in
1870, $7,750,000,000 in 1880 and $12,-
000,000,000 in 1800. It will be seen
from this that the Internal commerce
seems to have increased 50 per cent in
the decade from 1890 to 1900 and is
ten times as
During the same period, from 1850
to 1!K)2, the population has increased
from 23,000,0 CX) to 79,000,000 and is
therefore only three and one-half times
as great as in 1850, while the Internal
commerce is ten times as great as at
that time. The relative gain of Inter
nal commerce over population is due,
in part, to the greatly Increased fa
cilities for transportation, the cheapen
ing of cost of articles utilized and the
increased earnings and increased
wealth of the people—in short, due in
great measure to the operation of the
policy of protection.
The railroads have increased from
0,021 miles in 1850 to 201,839 miles In
1902 and the estimated wealth of the
country from $7,135,730,000 In 1850 to
$94,300,000,000 in 1900—a per capita In
crease of from S3OB in 1850 to $1,23(>
In 1900. This increase in wealth has
been accompanied by an Increase In
deposits in banks, those in savings
banks alone increasing from $43,431,-
130 iu 1850 to $2,597,094,580 in 1901-
another extraordinary tribute to the
value of protection as a national eco
nomic system.
Meantime the foreign commerce has
made rapid Increase, though not at a
rate of speed proportionate to that of
internal commerce. The imports of
1850 were $173,509,526; those of 1902
$90.j,320,948. The exports in 1850 were
$114,375,726; in 1902 $1,381,719,401.
While It is not practicable to measure
the internal commerce of other coun
tries with the same accuracy as that
of the United States, It is known that
In agricultural products, manufactures
and minerals the United States now
outranks the other nations of the world
und that the transactions in these
products, which form the internal com
merce, may therefore be assumed to
surpass those of any other country.
The manufactures of the United States
are now about double those of the
United Kingdom and nearly equal to
those of France, Germany and Russia
combined, while the value of the agri
cultural products of the United States
far exceeds that of any other single
country.
No other country has the exhnustless
wealth of natural resources; no other
country has a population equal In en
ergy, enterprise and capability; no
other country has for the same length
of time had so high a wage scale or so
high a standard of living; no other
country has liud protection for forty
two years practically uninterrupted. j
PACTS NOT FICTION.
A. Plain Statement of a Bad
Condition and a Cure that
Never Fails.
Mrs. Edward John ot No. 336 Wash
ington St., Tittston, Pa., says:—"For !i
long time I had had trouble with mv
nerves and suffered so much from head
aches. I did not rest well and when I
did sleep I would have a smothering sen
sation. I saw I)r. A. W. Chase's Nerve
rills recommended and got a box and
used them with good results. 1 was feel
ing well aud looking so much better after
their use."
Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Tills are sold
at 50c a box at dealers or Dr. A.W.Chase
Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. See that
porir.iit and signature of A. W. Chase,
M- 1). are on every package.
Bargains
It is our business
It is our business to save
our customers as muchjis
possible on
Harnesses, Robes,
Blankets, Whips,
Platform Wagons,
BUGGIES AND
ROAD WAGONS.
Call and examine my stock
and see what you can save
on a pair of Blankets.
You can also get your
horses shod while you get
your grist ground at the mill.
W. E. MILLER,
FORKSVILLE, PA.
Soecial Special
Prices. Prices.
Busy Days at
VERNON HULL'S
The Mid-Season sale of
of seasonable goods is at
tracting many well pleased
buyers. More people than
ever are realizing and appre
ciating the efforts of this
store to give the people good
qualities at reasonable prices.
NEW Goods on
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
All answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
HiHogFOTOj Pa.
Cbippewa
Xime IRtlns.
Lime furnished in car
load lots, delivered at
Right Prices.
Your orders solicited.
Kilns near Hughesville
Penn'a.
M. E. Reeder,
HUGHESVILLE, VA,
ONE
MINUTE
One Mlnuta Couch Cure does not pan Immedi
ately into the stomach, but lineers In the throat, chert
and lungs, producing the following results:
(1) Relieves the cough.
(2) Makes the breathing easy.
(3) Cuts out the phlegm.
(4) Draws out the Inflammation.
(5) Kills the germs (microbes) of dlseaM.
(6) Strengthens the mucous membranes.
(7) Clears the head.
(B) Relieves the feverish conditions.
K9) Removes every cause of the cough and tha
•train on the lungs.
(10) Enables the lungs to contribute pure Hfa
glvlng and life-sustaining oxygen to the blood. Cures
Croup and all Cough, Lung and Bronchial Affections.
COUGH CURE
Praparad by C. a DeWITT * 00.. OHIOAQO
ohn D. Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa.John IX Reeser's Big Store Bank Block, Dushore, Pa
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(3D Announcement. QD
Our complete line of new spring goods will be on exhibition next week. The assortment will exceed
anything ever shown in Sullivan County.
You will be well repaid by examining the same. We are sure that the styles, quality, prices and assort
ment will compare more than favorable with those in the large city stores.
We now have in stock new lines in Wall Paper, Carpets, Rugs, Window Shades, Ginghams, Madras and
Shoes, Advanced styles in Millinery.
A N \
Oqr Grocery Department
is well stocked with provisions which will tempt the appetite of the most fastidious. Watch next week for
more complete description of Spring Goods in this space.
c John D. Reeser's Big
i.•% f r ; i ' •"* F *'£ 1% &■: DTTSHORB •
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. JB sn/ Z Oft every 1 th. most h«aiina Miv. in th. world.
Seven Million boxes sold In post 12 This dffliatlire, bO». 23c. IFQIXYSHONETHCAR
OHCM Ooldsi Prevent* Pneumonia
Barb and Smooth Twisted Wire
3.25 per 100 pounds,
We buy for cash and sell goods only on p
cash basis, hence can save you money. ; 3-
§ Poultry Netting all widths. 4'^
7; The very best recleaned Clover and Tim- p
othy seed. E. W. Conklin and Sons brands §
•r ffj Timothy recleaned s2. 3s (/)
Extra fancy timothy recleaned $2.6% j B
r ~ t Medium extra choice clover, 8.00. §
Salt 1.25 barrel. j gl
Bran, Shorts, Middlings, Chop all of our
§ . own make, constantly on hand, also dealers in Srain
S rain - IJs.
| We do custom grinding Tuesday and Fri-|t J®
12 j day of each week. j
JJ; Wieland k Kesslcr, A Wieland i Kessler, i| .
u ' General Merchants, |j/Nordmont Steam Mills, '
Jg NORDMONT, PA- PA.
Barb and Smooth Twisted Wire
$3.25 per 100 pounds.
Side Boards. Side Boards.
We have the greatest line of Side Boards yon ever
had the pleasure of looking at, and the price will astonish
you. Come in convinced that the goods are
away up and the prices are away down.
Bedroom Suits.
No matter what kind of a suit you want, we can save
you money; we defy competition on the line we carry
either as to price or quality. We have every thing in Oak
Maple or Mahogany and sell them either in eight or four
pieces. Also a large line of odd and combination dressers.
Molcorabecf Lauer,
Furniture cf Undertaking
DUSHORE, PA.
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v ADVANCE: >
I A RE YOU GOING TO BUILD
K* A NEW HOUSE
j OR LAY NEW FLOORS IN TWE OLD ONE 9
If so, it will pay you to get some of our
Ibar>> Moofc jfloortng j
Kiln dried, matched sides and ends, hollow backed
and bored, MAPLE and BEECH.
It will out-wear two ordinary floors and is very
much smoother, nicer and easier to put down than
soft wood flooring. All kinds kept in stock by
Jennings Brothers, Lopez, Penn a.
ALSO ALL SIZES IN HEMLOCK WE HAVE IN STOCK NO. 1 AND 2
LUMBER, SIDING, PINE SHINGLES.
CEILING, LATH, ETC. AT LOWEST PRICES.
BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED
Hand Painted Chinaware.
Absolutely Free.
We will give with each purchase, coupons which entitles
the holder to a set of High Grade China Dishes, irrespec
tive of the extremely low prices prevailing here.
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Oh! No Trouble at all to Show Goods. ;
The Quality, p "ice and style of our spring and sum
mer SHOES which are marked down for closing out are
the main attractions. Call and see them.
Our Complete Line of Groceries.
Our new Grocery Department is growing popular.
You save yourself if you let us save your money. When
you think of true economy this is the place to come.
J. S. HARRINGTON, ]
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK j
DUSHORE, PA. i
Williamsport & North Branch Railroad
TABLE.
In effect Monday. Nov. 17, 1902.
Rend down Read up
| Flag stations where time is marked "I" I
p. M. P.M'P.M. PMJPM AM A. M.JAM! STATIONS, AM'AM AM A. M. PM PM PM AM
10 15 12 50 6 2o' 420 10 22 710 Halls... 8559 50 11 S6 4004 50 t4<
10 20 12 55 f5 25 f4 23 flo 25 f7lB Pennsdale ... 6509 45 11 30 3 55(4 45 #36
10 30 105 585 4329 10 10 34 722 . HughesTille... 640936 10 55 11 20 845 4356 00 »26
113 543 4399 20 10 42 729 Picture Rocks 92510 46 11 10 3 Bfi ...... 6489 1«
fl 17 |f4 43| 17 S3 ...Lvons Mtlto ...... ...... fll 04 881 ...... ...... f# JO
il 19: 445 17 35 ....Cliamounl „... 11 01 8 28;...... ...... f9 07
126 152 17 42 ...Glen Mawr... ...... ...... _... 10 54 8 22'.. 901
fl 34! fSOO if7so ..Strawbridge.. ...... ...... 10 47 <8 13 ...... ...... fBM
fl 40 112) 05 17 55 ...HeechGlen flO 13 8 09 _... f8 H
1 43' 15 07 7 67!..Muncy Valley ...... 1040 8 07i».... ...... 848
150 I5 13 803 ...Sonestown ...... 10 32 800 ...... 840
A. M. P. M.:PM I'M. AM A.M.AM. AM AM AM A. M.jP M P.M P.M P,M,
till I I I i I
EAQL.ES MERE BRANCH.
A. M. P. M.
8 10 Sonestown 2 40
(8 25 Geyelin Park f2 20
9 00 Eagles Mere 1 50
9 10 Loyalsock Jc. 1 00
Supplement In Effect Moflday, March 23, 1903.
Traill No 2 will leave Hughesville at 7.40 a. m.and ran one hour late.
Train No. 525 will leave Halls at 8:11 a. m.and run one hour late.
B. HARVEY WELOT, S. D. TOWNSEND,
President, Hughesville. Gen. Manager,Hughesville.