Republican News Item. VOL. VII. NO. 49. 112 This Is the Place S Q To Buy Your Jewelery.S in Town to Compare With r / the Quality that We are Giving I y You for the Low Price Asked. / \ Quality and moderate prices makes a force thatC draws into our store the best Jof this section. Many years here in business, always! ( with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen 7 I with a care and judgment commensurate with its 112 \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes 1 Q out store a safe place to invest. ' C " r Repair work done on short notice and guaran- r \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. s rettenbury, > L DUSHORE, PA. The Jewelers S r HARDWARE this Place For Reliable STOVES"and RANGES, COAL OE. -WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF 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 arid Hot Water Heating and , General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel Gole^usftore^a. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., a 313 Pine Street, ' 7 :WILLIAMSPORT, PA. S Spring Dress Fabric^. Our stock of Black and Colored Dress Goods is very large and attractive at the present time, and our prices we believe the very lowest in the city for equal value. 38 inch all wool Albatross in all the In Black Wool Urepe de Chine we have new Spring Shades. This is a firm, fine twc specially good numbers at 75c —$1.00 fabric of extra good quality for 50c Glossy Black Mohairs that have the All wool (i ranitc in a good line of col- width, luster and weight, qualities range ore, including black, at 50c. from 400 to $1 50 f We are showing aonie good values in n , , : . , • « . black and white, and navy and white mistrals andetamines. some good small checks at 40c and 50c. values 10 show * ou at 50 cte U P t0 i 1 50 - 38-inch navy blue and black Snow Black mclrose, a desirable material Flake and Scotch Mixtures. These are ' or medium weight dresses. See our desirable fabrics at 50c. numbers at 75 cents to $1.25. Mohairs and Sicilians are the popular Black Cheviots for skirts and tailor materials for Shirtwaist Suits. We have made suits. We show qualities from 39c a good line of plain colors, also navy and up to $2 00 black with white dots and stripes at 50c 0 ~ , , . „ „. . and 75 gents. Navy blue Cheviot 30 to 54 Satin Sol .el of extra fine finish inches wide, ranging from 39c up to $1.50 and S ood values for ,5c an(i one dollar - Prunellas in all the staple shades. This Black Nun's Veiling and Albatross, is an excellent fabric lor medium weights some choice values at 50cts to $1 00. suits and an excellent value for one dollar. Black Batiste and thin materials with Mistrals, htatmnes. \ oiles and a vari- Silk and mohair stripes. No two pat ety of thin sheer materials in navy, tan te rns alike $12.50 and 14 00 a pattern. wool materials are very fashion- Bla< * Canv : aß . B anJ , !> no - v Wea . v | 9 . j" able this season for full dresses and waists a Nar,et y °* ( » e ®ig n ß at 1 5 cents and $1 oO We have some good qualities of white or Friestlev's Black and Navy Cravenette cream Mohairs, Albatross, Mistrals, Crepe Serge for Rain Coats, at $1 75 and $1 85. de Chine, Bedford Cord. Stripe Batiste,eto THE SHOPBELL DRY GOOD CO. Snbscribe lor the Newsltem LAPORTE, r SULLI VAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1903. ESTELLA. , Homer Benninger is moving his I family from Lopez back to Estella, I where he will do blacksmithing and wagon repairing. Miss Mary Mulnix is working for Mrs. John Heess. Mrs. Ernest Kay has gone to Idaho to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mclntire. Mrs. James Northrop of Long 'Valley, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. B. Wheatley. Last Saturday evening the lamps in.the chicken brooder belonging to John W. Brown, exploded and set fire to the brooder and totally de stroyed it. All the chickens were killed, numbering nearly one hun dred. The fire was Luckily diseov* ered in time to save the building. The Ladies' Sewing Circle will , meet at J. Ellis Crowns the second Thursday in May. All are invited. Lewis Rosbaek fe laying l the foun dation for a new dwelling. W. C- Weatly is doing the mason work. •: % There was a bee at C. B. Wh&rtlys k last Thursday for the purpose of tearing down the old barn in order •to use tha timbers in his new and commodkis structure. Some of our farmers have their oats sowed while others are.just pre paring the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. More Sun dayed at Thomas Tomkins. Mrs. T. Tom kins is in quite poor health. J. J. Webster has purchased a pair of fine horses from the late Weiss Heine's estate for the consideration of *4OO. ( Mr& James Brenchley and daugh- | ter Belle, visited at Mrs. Mores on , Friday last. SHUNK. Although the water has been pret ty high and very cold for trout fish- ' ing, some fine specimens have been caught. . Mr. and Mrs. Joe McKee of drover 1 spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. ' John Swingle. John Williams from the West is ' visiting relatives here. J. A. Boardman of Klraira, was a business man in town last week. William Faster lias moved into Sam Leonard's vacant house. Will Hosier and Miss Zoa Sargent were married Wednesday, April 15, at the home of the bride, by A. B. Kilmer Esq. Mr. James Bagle.Y and daughter, of Leroy, Pa., visited at Wm.Bagley Saturday last. MUNCY VALLEY. Rev. Ash preached a fine sermon to a large congregation on Sunday. Quite a number of our boys are going to the bark woods this week to work for jobber T. L. Johnson. Charles Green has moved into the Temple house on Muncy street. Wm. McFadden who was' burned with vitriol at the tannery two weeks ago, has entirely recovered, and not losing the sight of his eyes, as reported. Chas. E. Crawley was a business visitor at Nordmont last Monday. Suptv Miller purchased a fine horse of Dr. Voorhees, last week. The Misses Cunningham and O' Brian of Dushore, spent Saturday with Miss Marcella Farrel. Born, to Mr. and Mr& Harvey Taylor, a daughter. Jacob Herr, the Laporte clothier was in in town Sunday. Floyd Dunham and Miss Bernice Burkholder of Eagles Mere spent a few hours in town last Friday. Mrs. Maggie Fries of Laporte, vis ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Donovan, last Monday. Everybody is wondering why Pete feels so bad. Jas. P. Magargle attended the Easter Ball at Dnshore. As a sequel to the refusal of the 1 men to work nine hour? OH Satur ' day lost, a lockout was inaugurated ' at the collieries of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and iron company, ip the anthracite regions, on Mon day morning, and 30,000 men and ' boys are idta No explanation ac companied the action ot the' «om pany. The men were simply told There's no work^ COUNTY NEWS Happenings oi Interest to Readers EAGLES MERE. Wr.'Walter Trappe, the Plumber, who has purchased the Brush cottage is here and ready for any business in his line. At the last regular meeting of the Borough Council it was decided to erect an entirely new bridge across the Outlet on Lakewood Drive, and the Engineer was instructed- to im mediately draw plan for same. The bridge will be well built and will be an ornament to the town. It is said that the authorities will open-'Mifflin avenue;' <*> as to eon - nee* with the Sones railroad, back of the Chatauqua. The opening of this street will make it possible to get lumber hauled from the Sones Works at a reasonable figure; as It is now the lumber has to come to town via the Chautauqua extension of the railroad, which adds greatly to the cost. We are to have a new school house and a graded school, the Directors have so decided at their last meet | ing. Let us see, who was it said that, ladies would not make progres sive school directors ? Street Commissioner Moyer, starts in well. Every property owner (in cluding a Councilman on two) having board walks out of repair, has been notified to fix same at once or costs will be made. This is as it should be, for really, we cannot afford S2O - damage suits every year and ex pect to build new school houses, too. Work'has been commenced on one of the one hundred thousaad gallon stand pipes for the Water Company. It is expected that this tank will be ready to hold water by the first of June, possibly before. In spite of that peculiar, mysterious, unusual croak of the frogs this spring, Capt. Chase has turned the water in the mains. The Capt. was warned by oae of the oldest members of the Post Office club, not to do so, as the member neve* knew of its failing to freeze up tight, when this peculiar croak was heard. But the Capt. went right on. Many new faces are seen on our streets, and it seems safe to declare that Eagles Mare's winter sleep is over and that from now until fall those who want to work can find it. Everybody seems to be glad to see Mr. B. G. Welch at Eagles Mere again last Wednesday. He has re turned from a six weeks visit to Philadelphia. Everything around'the Mere indi cate* an early -spring. The grass is covering the ground with a coat of green, trees are budding and it needs but a few warm days to make every body forget that there was any win ter. E vary body is figuring on what will be done in the way of a house warming when Clarence Dunham's new cottage is r ady for a move-in. Butcher Albertson has purchased the Dr. Randall cottage and is occu pying it. He is evidently hero to stay and make money. George Montgomery is occupying thp dwelling part of the Spencer store and Miss Covert will be in the store room again next summer. Mr. Montgomery will rent sleeping rooms to summer guests. With the improvements promised at the railroad station the Lily Pond will also go in service but without the Lillies. Some one has suggested a Victoria Regia as the leading at traction. There is a rumor current that the Auditorium at Chautauqua is to be moved farther to the rear of the grounds and will cease to be an Eagles Mere attraction and cater only for the guests in the Chautauqua grounds. Repairs to sidewalks are very much in evidence and the door will be locked now before any more horses get .out and- inaugurate dam age suits for defective walks. Columns el Interesting Items Gathered by Ovr Special Corps ol Hustling Correspondents in Many Towns. Landlord Laird of The Raymond has formed a partnership with Mrs. Laird's brother, Mr. Chas. W. Boed er of Hughesville, and it will very much strengthen the staff fcr the greatly increased business of the coming season. Chief Burgess I'eale has the log train at work on the Eagles Mere 11. R. and is doing a rushing business. He will have a full stock for this season. The new wing added to John Hay men's cottage is completed and is a decided improvement. Contractor A. C. Little lias great ly added to the looks of Mrs. C. C. McCormick's cottage by placing an addition to the eastern end and by putting the entire inside in thorough repair. Frank Little is in charge of the work. The improvement committee of the Eagles Mere Land Company, has not yet been up to lay out the work for removing their old ice house from the hundred foot reserve to a more convenient and lessconspicious place. Truth is, those fellows "down country" don't think that we have yet thawed out. This is to notify them that we have, and that we are willing to stand around and watch them make improvements on the boat and bath houses, or on any other "old thing" they may feel able to. A number of the head men of the Eagles Mere railroad were in town the other day, planning what to do in the way of fixing up things apout the railroad station etc. We have it on good authority that tt'ie station improvements promised the Business Men's League last fall will be carried out. A member of the Post Office Club came back from wutihing the railroad gentlemen walking around the station while planning the im provements, shaking his head and looking very glum. When asked the trouble, he said: "Well, if I ran this dinged town I would have that depot chained down and keep or couple of fellers with loaded shot guns around that air depot night and day. That's what I would. Just mark my words I believe we will lose that air buildin'. If it wasn't a little sad, it would realy be amusing. We mean the position many country newspapers are taking on the Salus Libel bill. The big dailies of the city are print ing right out in big letters the names of the country newspapers which will say something mean about the bill, and in return they say something nice about the country editor aud tell what a great influence his paper has. In ordinary times this quoted below is what the city editor teaches his readers about the kind of news the country newspaper furnishes its readers. We quote: "The following items recently ap peared in the weekly—"Jane - has purchased a new red parasol with red silk tassels which look very pretty when she walks '.along the street and the wind is blowing hard enough to make them wave. Jake B— is building a new pig pen. Bet his nice white Chester pigs like Jake better than ever. Who wus that fellow sitting on the church steps Sunday night with a bundle of calico in his arms. The yearly donation party to Rev. P.— who is so well beloved by all christians here amounted to four dollars & something. Little Willie dead and gone, And poor poor papa is all alone, Oh all wick ed things is wrong, And we must all atone." This is a good example of the way the country newspaper is quoted when its influence is not wanted. Then again the daily helps (?) the country newspaper is another way. It selects from its pages throughout the week all articles likely to be of interest to the country man, and sells him a lectable country news- 75 CTS. PER YEAR paper, which never caricatures its neighbors or public men—unless one might call the photographs of the persons cured by some advertisers' remedies, caricatures—can object to stoping yellow journals of the cities ridiculing by pictures and false state ments the brightest and best men of our land, beats your correspondent As it is now any pipe-dreaming re porter can accuse you or any one of any crime and insert pictures at head of column and goon and claim to prove that the right man is at last in the toils. When necessary to take back what they have published, two or three lines inserted in the column devoted to advertising "The mor phine habit cured, Pennyroyal Pills, Disease of men, Pure Malt Whiskies Ect., is all that is necessary. R'dicule and laugh as you will, but the country newspaper is an ed ucator and goes to the family circle with good clean respectable reading, and it is in no way injured by this new libel bill, as it only hits the yellow fellows who seek to ruin and destroy any person not agreeing with them or their policy. DUSHORE. C. P. Lilley was called to Elmira on Saturday by the serious illness of his s6n-in-law Jesse Mathews. Wash Randall spent Sunday with friends in town. Miss Mollie Rogers of Estella, visited at C. E. Molyneux's last week. Miss Maud Bleiler spent Sum'., y with friends at Millview. Prof. Roselle's street entertain ment on Friday and Saturday was decidedly novel. His evening ex hibitions were good. While sonso doubt his ability as a mind reader we have heard none question it who saw the evening performance. As a hypnotist none can doubt hint whatever. Miss Jennie Vaughn was called to Wilkes Barre on Monday to see a relative who is very ill. Jesse Mathews a former resident of this place died at Elmira on Sun day last of consumption. The fun eral was held at this place. D*J. Moore has accepted the pos sition as cook with Mr. Paulhamus in West Virginia. The tree planter in hard luck again. A few days ago while leis urely strolling a back street hi- espied an article of value which he thought would come handy in his I usiness. After a thorough examination he concluded it would be easy to pro cure it after sundown and continued his stroll. Unfortunately for him the owner saw the performance and decided that there might be some thing doing later; and as the shades of night were drawn he and a neigh bor hid themselves behind a conven ient board pile. Soon cautious steps 1 were heard approaching; a stop; a look; a listen; everything quiet. Quietly lifting it to his shoulder— Hit!'! A rock; a thud; a leap; some thing dropped; and a black streak was seen disappearing down the alley. Again all was quiet. Noting the line of flight the watchers sepa rated and conducted a still hunt and succeedeed in locating him hid ing in some weeds and logs. Swish} A curl of the legs like a porcupine on the defense; Biff! a yell. He crawled out, threw up his hands and gracefully surrendered. Messrs Oh as. Funston and Atty. W. P. Shoemaker, of Laporte, were transacting business in town one day last week. Prothonotary T. E. Kennedy was in town last week. Saylor Lawrence, who is employed in Punxautawuey, visited his'■par ents in this place over Sunday. Editor Taylor of the Albany Mir ror was seen in town last week. Hon. E. G. Rogers of Lincoln Falls, was in town Monday. Mrs. Geo. Hayman and daughter of New Albany visited friends in this place last week. A tire company is being organiaed. The epidemic of small pox at Slate Bun and in the lumber camps in the j Black forest is becoming extremely alarming to the health autlrorities of Lycoming county, who are taking every possible precaution to keep the disease from entering other districts.