£ ' -. • , ''• 1 [y Republican News lieii. VOL. VIII. NO. 8. \"VV v >/ w \/ v " / \A/V/^ ,^A// V/ n^ C To Buy Your Jewelery.S V Notingh in Town to Compare With the Quality that We are Giving 1 S You for the Low Price Asked. / \ Quality and moderate prices mnkes a force thatC C irresistibly draws into our store the best jof this section. Many years here in business, always I ( with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen p ; with a care and judgment commensurate with its 112 \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes J Q our store a safe place to invest. C r Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. $ RETTENBURY, ) <DUSHORE, PA^^The^Jewele^^ HARDWARE. ? NoFilceEiiriEfiis Place For Reliable* STOVES and RANGES, CO-A-X. OK/ 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. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., v 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Summer Comfort at Little Cost. On the threshold of Summer now and a store teaming wilh fresh, crisp merchandise suited to hot weatherwear, Summer outfitting is not a very costly business mw-a days. The ready-to-wear has reached such a high state of perfection that one can buy all sorts of dainty garnents for less price than you can furnish the material and have them made to your order. SHIRT WAIST SUITS. OPEKWOHKHOSE FOR LADIES. The Shirtwaist Suit is an easy first as a They're much called for this season, favorite summer costume. They are made Here are to lots for you to select fioio, the .i- i • , , , price argument will impress you. Ladies' in two parts, a stylish waist and an equal- blac s k , ace stripe d hose" ma.e with ly stylish skirt. I'lie prices are astonish- high spliced heels and double siles, an iiig low on these suits. We have them extra good quality for 2.0 c. from 82.00 and between prices up to SI<S. Indies' fast Mack lace lisle thrad hose SHIRT WAIST TIME NOW. at ' iaH ' ,ee " selling at 50c. Here are quantities of cool sheer White SUMMER KNIT DNDEBWIAR. 1 . . It vou nave thin underwear to buy let Lawn and Madras waists in stripe and UB B h ow vou our ]j ne . Ladies' lov neck Jacquard figures, fresh from the best and sleeveless ribbed vests at 10, 12Ac, makers. The prices are merely nominal 15c, Swiss ribbed vests at 25c to .112 00. when you consider the qualities and style. .. Chil< ' r l e . n ' B 8,1111 . und .f rw ear i, most • 1 J all qualities you could ask lor. It will be to your interest to make your Men's Kalbriggan shirts and -rawers selections from this assortment. at 25c and 50c. SOME WASH GOODS. BATH TOWELS. * Better try to get first choice from these. We are selling some bath to'els at They're cool dainty summer fabrics and Prices than you generaly pv tor , • . . . bath towels ol like size and (iualit\ They they cost only a tri lie more than the or- C0I1)e bleached and unbleached, linimed dinary prints. or fringed at sc, 10c, 12j, 10 and 3c. THE SHOPBELL DRYGOOD CO. Subscribe for the Newsltem LA PORTE COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1903., r COUNTYNEWS I Happenings of Interest to Readers Twk EAGLES MERE. The whole country is having about as much trouble with men striking for higher wages and shorty hours, as it does with floods and destructive, storms. We cannot at this time— between the regular meeting of the P. O. Club— prescribe a remedy for the storms and fiootls, but if the men who employ organized labor want to stop these strikes for higher wages, let them arrange ,to elect another That will fix the strikers and put them on soup diet pretty blooming quick. By the very latest. reports it is said that the railroad track .on Ea gles mere avenue Js n,qt disturbed. The blame for this shameful neglect of the League's orders, can no longer be laid at the Land Co.'s door; they have gran to I the railroad people what they asked for. So long as this track will not be removed, would it not be a wise plan for the Roat Co. to grease the track and ! some dark night slip their ice house on it and see how far they cquld get it from the 100 foot Reservation bei fore daylight. The P. (). Club, in regular session, passed the following resolutions: Resolved, that hereafter it shall not be lawful to barrel the United States mail and leave it standing on any station, or shed or walk, while the train is speeding downward to its destination. And be it firmly re solved that this resolution shall hold whether we, the people, get a pass for a dance platform or not; and last ly resolved that, "we ain't afraid of nothin' and nobody." Injustice to the Pass-accepting-President, we wish to state that he worked hi 9 best to suppress the resolution, but as the members had mailed postal cards to friends in Sonestown, to send them minnows for bass fishing, they were in a •'frothy" state, and the President's efforts were futile. Monsieur Rogart certainly made a great big hit in cutting the hair of the members of the Post Office CJub. The Club is now trying to decide whether one hit makes a striker. If it does Rogart will be taken Into the Club and be permitted to wear the Club badge all diiy on Sundays after <> p. 111. on week days. It has been the hope of certain in dividuals, of mighty little impor tance in the make up of this great universe, that the Eagles Mere correspondence would be discontin ued during the summer season when "people of borne importance and worth a snap of the finger," might read the Items. However, we shall continue to give the news real inside news—of the town, and when excursions are on and people of "some importance" get to town, we believe that much will occur that will make interesting reading. The plan is now to have the Item on the news stands and a News agent will sell the papers on the street. We believe Mr. Editor, that your paying list of readers will be materially in creased during the summer months. There is a man so well known that it is not necessary to name him, who thinks that if he should over-sleep himself, or be disabled, that the Lake would dry up and Eagles Mere go down. In fact he thinks he is IT, in Italic capitals. He has taken the trouble to tell young boys jqst coming of age, that he is indeed the genuine "IT,"and if anyone was in his employ and did not understand that he was working for an "IT," and act accordingly, he would be out of a job very quick. The members of the P. O. Club have ahvays been quite jealous of this Great Rig IT, until the other day they read in the papers that "IT"was only a break fast food, and that any child could eat it with a little sugar and cream. How true it is, and yet how strange, that great big "ITS,' and little flies can be tamed with sugar and cream and a fair amount of "taffy." The President can tell you all about it. J. Judging by the boxes and cases taken up the hill the other day, the \JVat£r Company's tank could claim the distintion of being the on 'ly full tank in town that day. Theiy too, the smaller tanks had the dis tinction of not being exclusively Ail ed with insipid Lake water and could walk a little bit. ELLEHTOW Mr. Jessie Porter of Shunk, agent for the National Protective Society, was transacting business in this placie one day last week. Rert Coddington of Alpine N. Y. and Olin Williams of Shunk, agerit for the McCormick Machinery Co(," were in town Wednesday. Renj. Trippj of Canton, was in towp Friday looking after the inter est of the Diamond property at Wheelerville. S. T. Hoyt, Supt. of the S. & N. Y. R. R. made a flying trip through this place Friday. Mr. Frank Sullivan of Towanda, bookkeeper and pay master for Whalen Rros. made the employees a pleasant call at this place the lGtb inst. , Mr. Rritton of Ohio, chief engineek for the S. & N. Y-, and his assistants J. L. Mosser, N. J. Lawer of Corn ing, and Charles Shaddick of this place are at present engaged survey ing a branch or spur from Froyer Run to the Rig Forks on Pleasant Stream to connect with the highway from Hillsgrpve. The first passenger train in this section arrived in Wheelerville Mon day over the S. A N. Y. R. R. from Towanda. This train arrives in Wheelerville daily at 12:20 p.m. and leaves for Towanda at 1:15. Close connections with the W» & N. B. over the L. V. is made at Monroe ton. Rails are laid at present within one mile from EUeqtyn. Trains will run to this place by July 4th. Over four miles of track is laid on the Rqlston trains in a short time will be running through to Ralston making connections with the N. C. and the Grays Run branch. A large force of men are now en gaged in constructing two large trestles on the head waters of Pleas ant Stream. The one over Rovians Run .'IOO feet long and 44 feet high is nearly completed and the one over Avery's Run 120 feet long is under rapid progiess under the skillful directions of A. E. Tripp, foreman from Laporte. 11. H. Stepp, Harry Snyder and F. W. Eddy also of La porte are working with Mr. Tripp in the construction of these trestles. These structures are being built en tirely of timber hewed from the trees in the forest, no saw mill being avail able. Whalen Rros. of Towanda have finished their contract for grading on the main line of this railroad and are now working one gang of 125 men at Ralston on the Grays Run branch and another at Laquin in grading streets, building a. log pond and grad ing for the stave factory. SHUNK. . J » Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rattin of El mira have returned to their home after spending a week with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Campbell are attending the annual reunion of the Campbell family at HhnrOds, N. Y. Fred Letts had a very narrow es cape from being killed by a falling tree while at work last week in the bark woods, and is at present nurs ing a sprained knee, Fred says that ends bark peeling for him. Dr. A. J. Rattin of Elmira, visited his parents Mr. • and Mrs. Reuben Battin of South street, last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Campbell are attending the Hlasonlc Carnival in Elmira this wetk. Mrs. George Rrenchley visited her daughter Mrs. Emory Lillotson in Troy .last week. ,i Having built a switch into their mlllyard, Campbell and Letts are now shipping lumber and wood over the 8. & N. Y. R. R. from their mill near Wheelerville,at the rate of seven cars a week. They expect to ship about one million feet of hemlock and hardwood lumber this yean There will be a meeting Saturday June 27, for the purpose of organiz ing a company to build, a telephone line from oar town to Wheelerville ,to connect with the telephone line of the Railroad Co. at that, place, that ,is giving us transfer connection with the long distance 'phone at Towanda. Ezra Williams of East Canton, .spent Sunday with his son O. J. Williams at this place. ESTCLLA. Mrs. John Wheatley and family of Sayre, are visiting at C. B. and W. E. Wheatleys, and calling on other friends in Estella. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. More visited at S. S. Vromans, at Hillsgrove, on Sunday. ..... , J. M. Osier .and Hon. E G. Rog ers are in Laporte serving as jurors. Mrs. Merton Webster and family pf Jakersville, are visiting the lady*a father, J. E. Brown, this week. , The young people enjoyed a very sociable time at C. B. Wheatley's Monday evening in honor of Miss PearJ Wheatley. •, < : ,, M M. L. Randall who is sojourning at Oak Grove, made his family a fly ing visit last week. The Experimental farmer oo»nee down strong on the butter business, and when he talks about leeks, we have nothing more to say in advice, for it is plain to see that "he knows his onion." 'TCTXTTr-r- HILLSGROVE. Johi) Lucas who •is now bpsa on the stacks, will move his family here in the near future, i James Shaver and brother were transacting business in Dushore last week, i i ) . i > . < Edward Rogers of Lincoli Palls, was in town Friday last. , John Oliver, wife.and daughter of Lairdsville are the guests of Henry Darby. j, - , Miss Edna Ludy was a business caller at Elk Creek Saturday. Miss Lizzy Hoffman has rturned from an extended visit at Villiam sport, » i ... v,. J Jean Harrington was calng on friends in Proctor Sunday. In.the dead hour of night, "ednes day last, some one set fire tothe old dam in Mill Creek which casumed the old structure entirely. It is a good thing for a part of our:>wn, as the dam was liable to burst i times of flood, which would do grit dam age to property. Supt. White was transactig busi ness in. Laporte Saturday, i Did you notice that big (|ile on Albert's face. . No it's another big boy. s .. Ul , Mrs. Ed. fiester was coined to her bed,several days last w,k witli severe stomach trouble. Si is now able to be atouqd again. t •. • , H. H. Green is attencg court this week. Mr. Bleckley the new bokeepor, is having a new roof put oiis resi dence. Bert Green j and family Smith field are voting at Blaekiik farm. Miss JennieThall of Wilmsport, is visiting at W* B. Hoffir's , Railroad men are agalseen inj Uxwb . > •« , . Peter Vroman had 1] thumb severely'.smashed while wing the road machine last week. LOPEZ. • Here we are buck to Saust City. Mf, W, W>i Jennings heturned to-town for his vacation. « Miss Eliza Lunday reted from Corningv N. y.iast woeJ . 1 F. B. Cftmp Qf Wilkese, spent Sunday with his parrtitse. Since our last trip, hefie town has grown I)r. J. L. Christian noccupies his new office eta Main}!. We think it is the finest o building 112 in this part of the counttid Lnr-P ; rie looks happy in his place. " 75 CTS. PER YEAR [ je bahd gave an open air con con Friday evening. It 'was a awe and -the town should feel jpi of its band. Come out and I ghs j uses Emma Hileman and Celia €*iisky spent Sunday with their pets at Dushore. J. Fi Hower is visiting ftls at Williamsport. • J. W&tkins of Monroeton, is vfog Mrsj i\ G. Rice. Henry Obert and family of D»re, were in town Sunday. , limber of boys under 14 years of, who worked at the breaker, watnt home onjaccount of their - J. F. Hower and Fred Hev er>e at Laporte this week as jU! I DVSHOML |i 3 Len« Roily of Towanda, is vifg friends in town. >■ I Hattie Newell who has been atfcng school at Williamsport, retid home Monday, J Scouten Jr. who'has been vis} relatives at Tunkhannock antflkesbarre, returned home on Mor* , „ , , Wm. Reeser of Lopez is in towsiting old friends, i RJ. W. Klirlger has resigned his orate of the Luthern church. T4da will cross bats, with the Dua base ball team on the local grOf Friday.' > • ....... Ttk mill will be in running ordea few da vs. ... Tlollowing named ladies of Towi were entertained at dinner by IVD. J. Coolbaugh on Satur day: it u. M. Fell, JMra. E. F. Key.< Mrs. (iqo. Ri<igeway, Mrs. M. Cfelles, Mrs. S. Braund, Mrs. O. Fith and Mrs. John CaHfl. MrJ Mi£. Elmer Pel-sun |and son \of Williamsport, visited at J. ;S. fa's one day laatjweek. Mrias. Fulmei of Say re, visit ed feleß hew last. week. MHldted Molyneux is spend ing tweek with relatives at Savre - • ... <■ ... Hailoover who is visiting rel ative£hester Co., is ill with in flama of the bowels. Wribbsof Berwick is transact ing bess here. r, , , Guiker of Terrytown, was in townnday. >" ». J. fcouten is repairing and re inodc his house on Water'street. Miattie Scouten and Walter Hunier are home from College. Durned Covrt in scssioa, Thrtifled case* aro beftjg heard at Aimed Court this week before Hon. W. Hart of. Williamsport, and is. Ji D., Reeser and Jacob Mey Associates. Three of the caseftving been settled out of couithe chief interest settles in the sof W. W„ Jackson et. al. Trus et. al. vs Walter B. Ounton. Tdaintifts are represented by I Setl McCorhiick of Williamsport, E. Jullenof Laporte and A.Walsh of liore, while the attorneys on thet of the defendant are Rodney A. feur of Towanda' and Thom sons Ileess of Dushore. le are both actions of trespass, thefst being an action claiming dafes for coal alleged to have mi by Walter R. Gunton by crag tho boundry between the traupon which he is operating an-he adjoining tract claimed by Jelants. The second case is a siur action for trees alleged to liabeen taken by the defendant frrthe land claimed by plaintiffs. e coal case has occupied the at teon of the court up to Thursday mas been very hard fought, per fn more expert witnesses having called than in.any case in lour ;<ts for many years. ..Among the :i and mining' engineers called iA* W. D. Smith, Mr. Reets and [5. Smith of Willkesbarre, P. M. ©n of Towanda, and P. M.. Boyle te Inspector of Mines,of Kingston. ? of the most interesting points in put© is the question of mmutain * barrier wall or pillar of coal on boundry line of adjoining prap ies as provided by an actofassem passed in 1891, this question ring been raised in connection h the Bern ice coal fields. -,i ■■ udge-Hart charged the jnry at : opening of court Thursday morn-
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