Republican News Item.
VOL. VIII. NO. 13.
c This Is the Place C
t To Buy Your Jewelery.s
N Nothing in Town to Compare
T the Quality that We are Giving /
/ You for the Low Price Asked. S
(T Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \
3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r
Cof this section. Many years here in business, always 3
} with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C
(with a care and judgment commensurate with its 5
S desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \
r our store a safe place to invest. C
r Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q
\ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X
> RETTENBURY, )
HARDWARE.>
Place
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
00-A-Xj OK- 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 and Hot Water Heating and
General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting.
Samuel
Commencing July 6th, this store will close Wednesday after
noon at 12:30, and every other day except Saturday at 5 p.m.
during July and August.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
{ y 313 Pine Street,
/ WILLI AMSPORT, PA.
Summer Comfort at Little Cost.
On the threshold of Summer now and a store teeming
with fresh, crisp merchandise suited to hot weather wear,
Summer outfitting is not a very costly business now-a
days. The ready-to-wear has reached such a high state
of perfection that one can buy all sorts of dainty garments
for less price than you can furnish the material and have
them made to your order.
SHIRT WAIST SUITS.
The-Shirt wiist Suit in an easy first as a
favorite sum in s costume. They are made
in two parts, a stylish waist and an equal
ly stylish skirt. The prices are astonish
ing low on these suits. We have them
from $2.00 ami between prices up to $lB.
SHIRT WAIST TIME NOW.
Here are quantities of cool sheer White
Lawn and Madras waists in stripe and
.lacquard figures, fresh from the best
makers. The prices are merely nominal
when you consider the qualities and style.
It will lie to your interest to make your
selections from this assortment.
SOME WASH QCODS.
Better try to get first choice from these.
They're cool dainty summer fabrics and
they cost only a trifle more than the or
dinary prints.
THE SHOPBELL DRYGOOD CO.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1903.
OPENWORK HOSE FOR LADIES.
They're much called for this season.
Here are to lots lor you to select from, the
price argument will impress you. Ladies'
fast black lace striped hose made with
high spliced heels and double soles, an
extra good quality for 25c.
Ladies' fast black lace lisle thread hose
at 43c; has been selling at 50c.
SUMMER KNIT UNDERWEAR.
If you have thin underwear to buy let
us show you our line. Ladies' low neck
and sleeveless ribbed vests at 10c, 12.} c,
15c, Swiss ribbed vests at 25c to $1 00.
Children's summer underwear in most
all qualities you could ask for.
Men's Balbriggan shirts and drawers
at 25c and 50c.
BATH TOWELS.
We are selling some bath towels at
lower prices than you generaly pay for
bath towels of like size and qualitv. They
come bleached and unbleached, hemmed
or fringed at sc, 10c, 12J, 10 and 25c.
> SONESTOWN.
Dr. C. D. Voorhces and wife have
left town for a short stay. They
will return in an automobile which
has been built this summer for them.
Mrs. Andrew Edgar and daughter
and Wm. Robbins and family on
Monday attended the funeral of a
little child of R. P. Laird at Nord
mont. The services were conducted
by Rev. Biggs of Sonestown.
Mrs. L. K. Freasand Mrs. R. W.
Simmons spent Sunday at Eagles
Mere.
Frank Magargle has taken posess
ion of the Swank Hotel, and the
Swank family are moving to Mun
ey Valley, where they have pur
chased the house formerly owned by
W. J. Moran.
Mrs. A. T. Armstrong was the
guest of her mother at Strawbridge
on Monday.
The P. O. S. of A. Convention
was quite largely attended, delegates
from all parts of the county being
present. The Sonestown camp treat
ed their guests to ice cream that had
been ordered from Williamsport by
the members of the E. V. church,
who held a supper and festival that
evening. A very enjoyable time
was spent and Sonestown extends a
very cordial invitation to the visi
tors to come again.
A festival will be hald Aug. 15,
!by the Ladies' Aid of the M. E.
church. All are invited.
Miss Hazel Parker of Hughesville
is visiting her parents here.
PIATT.
Miss Jennie McCarty met with a
serious accident one day last week
while picking cherries a limb broke
causing her to £fall to the ground,
breaking both arms above the wrists
and painfully bruising herself. Dr.
Davies was summoned to attend the
injured young lady.
The foundation for the new school
house near here is completed. Mr.
Rosbach of Estella has the contract
for building.
Mr. A. T. Shattuck has purchased
a new threshing outfit and expects
to start ont soon.
Louise C. Brackman is spending a
few days in Philadelphia.
BETTER BUSINESS METHODS
Saving the Wastes on the Farm aa
Important Matter.
Some one has said that If he could
have what was wasted on an aver
age American farm he could live In
comfort. This,l fear, is only too true
of the average farmer. lie does not
make a study of his business. While
hundreds of dollars' worth of the best
liquid fertilizer is running to waste iu
his barns, or under the eaves of it, he
is buying commercial fertilizer at S3O
to S4O per ton to enrich his land. While
nature has given him rich and fertile
land he too often sees an alluring bag
of gold in the bountiful yield of hay
and does not realize that he is robbing
his land of fertility when be sells hay.
These and a thousand other wastes
on the farm are brought to the farmer's
notice by the discussions In the grange,
and the farmer must be dull indeed
who does not reap some benefit from
them. A fair and just exchange of the
commodities of the farm for those of
the factory, the mine and tho profes
sional man must come about through
better business methods. The farmer
should act with others of his own pro
fession and at least devoto as muck
energy to marketing his crop as to pro
ducing it.
There are many causes to remove bo
fore agriculture will receive a fair and
Just return for the capital and labor
fnvested in the Industry, but the remov
al of these causes lies in the hands of
the farmer himself. lie must co-oper
ate with others in fmproving his busi
ness methods and must apply the same
thought, energy and business ability to
agriculture that are applied to any oth
er industry.—George A. Fuller.
Cold Feet.
Cold feet are a sign of disordered cir
culation. Continual warming with ar
tificial heat Is but temporizing With
the evil, and tho difficulty should be
overcomo by proper dressing when that
is In fault and by foot and ankle exer
cises. The luttcr can be tuken at fre
quent Intervals during the day, and
they will assist In stimulating the cir
culation of the blood. Point the toes
down to the extreme limit till you feel
the muscles strain over the ankles and
work the feet up and down eight or
ten times; devitalize them and
shake them from the ankle, as one
does the hand with a loose wrist Suf
ferers from cold feet in bed can quickly
warm them by this exercise, and It
will bring relief and comfort during
o long rids. .
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COUNTYNEWS
Happenings ol SSSKSr**
Interest to Readers VLuty Towns. J
EAGLES MERE.
Friends of Silas Henry have for
some time been trying to have ;him
made a member of the P. O. Club.
But his fate is sealed now! His re
marks to the News Item, endeavor
ing to injure the Club's credit, will
make the efforts of his friends iu his
behalf useless. It seems very un
kind of Mr. Henry too, when one
thinks of the hours he has spent in
warming his toes around tha Club's
stoves, to say nothing of the dis
cussions he has entered in and lis
tened to without costing him a cent.
Well, its all up with Silas now and
just as the Club is adding an old
maids auxiliary to play " Ring
around Rosa" with the old bachelor
members.
We can hardly credit the story
that one. of our citizens is raising
whiskers just to avoid a scrape with
Monsieur Bogart.
Country "Jakes" may sometimes
rubber neck the tall buildings in the
cities and even buy an occasional
Gold Brick, but they don't try to
pull the plug from the hydrants to
mail a letter, and then complain
about the poor letter mailing accom
odations. Some city chaps do.
The pernicious habit of picnic par
ties tying horses to the bushes near
the Lake, to destroy the shrubbery
and to be pestered by fins, was the
cause of the death of a fine horse last
Saturday afternoon. After fighting
flies several hours the horse broke
its fastenings and deliberately trot
ted into the Lake, carriage and all,
and was drownded. It was said to
be a young and valuable animal.
The accident—or possibly suicide,
took place near the ice house belong
ing to the Land Company. The ice
house belonging to the Land Com
gany. The ice house is situated
near the Lake on the one hundred
foot reserve deeded to the public,
has bulging sides, a leaky roof and
really looks like "thunder." It is
said that the horse came to the sur
face once and seeing the ice house
full in the face, deliberately held his
head under the water until life was
extinct. So its hard to say from the
evidence now at hand whether it was
accident or suicide.
Mr. Phillips is anxious to take a
photograph of the P. O. Club, hop
ing thereby to become the official
Eagles Mere photographer.
In former years to get a caddy for
the day on the golf links one had
to pay al>out as much as the ex
press charges amount toon a ten
pound package from Hughesville.
However, this year the management
has changed the rate and one can get
a caddy at the same rate per hour as
an ordinary day laborer gets, and
caddy is not allowed to keep the
balls he finds. This is a decided
improvement.
RICKETTS. X
Mr. and Mrs. George Whipple a 0
happy over the arrival of a daughter
on July 26.
Mr. Turrell has gone on an exten
sive trip to the West.
Mr. Ray Zaner was in town this
week looking after the interests of
the News Item.
Be sure and join the A. D. K.
Mrs. Sage of Rummertield has been
visiting her sister Mrs. Reinhart.
Mr. Chas. Carpenter was visiting
friends at Jamison City last week.
Miss Emma Stouch is visiting at
Place's.
Don't forget to become an A.D.K.
The Lumber Company is using
only one engine now.
Mr. C. M. A. Boyd spent Sunday
at Alderson.
Ask Manley Hoyt if he saw a
rattle snake.
Don't forget the A. D. K. meeting
Wednesday evening.
Rev. Hower preached to a large
congregation Sunday evening. Tha
second of his series on "Stop, Ijook
and Listen."
DUSHORE.
Mrs. Harry Biggar of Ricketts,
spent Sunday at this place.
Sam Cole and family and B. Kline
and family spent Sunday with Col
ley friends.
Miss Francis MacAsee of Phila
delphia, is visiting Miss Etta Bahl.
John Gibbs lost one of his team
horses a few days ago.
Mrs. Nellie Newland of Sayre is
visiting relatives at this place.
Ray McCarty has accepted a posi
tion as salesman at Pealers drug
store.
Harry Patton and family of Sayre
are visiting at Geo. Streby's.
Miss Mayme Cunningham of
Scranton, is visiting her parents at
this place.
Miss Cora Lilly of Elmira, is visi
ting her parents here.
Jacob Hoffa who has been in poor
health for some time, died on Thurs
day last, aged 75 years. Interment at
Thrasher's cemetery on Sunday.
Mrs. Alice P. Scherff and children
of Philadelphia, are visiting Miss
Amanda Zaner at this place.
Mr. Geo. C. Coolbaugh of Bernice
visited his parents here over Sunday.
SHVNK.
Mrs. W. H. Fanning and son
Herold are spending a week with
! relatives in Elmira.
Mrs. T. W. Hartraft and Miss Ed
na Pitcher of Canton, were guests
last week of Mrs. John Swingle.
A young son came to gladden the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Morgan
Wednesday, July 29.
Fred Letts and sister Miss Jessie
who are working at Laquin, spent
Sunday with their parents.
M. T. Shattuck and daughters are
visiting relatives at Medix Run, Pa.
John Kennedy of Elmira, spent
Sunday with his family here.
Miss Anna Porter who has been
spending her vacation with her par
ents here left Monday to resume her
work iu Elmira.
Reubin Henry of Towanda has
rented the blacksmith shop of J. P.
Kilmer, and began work last week.
Ezra and John Williams of East
Canton, are visiting relatives here.
The Misses Watts of East Canton,
wheeled to town one day last week
to visit friends.
A. E. Campbell was on a business
trip to Waverly last week.
A. E. Tripp who has been spend
ing a few days in town left Monday
for Laquin where he has a fine job
of carpenter work.
Mr. and Mrs. S.U. Morgan attend
ed the birthday anniversary of the
latter's mother at Lake Run Sunday.
Mrs. James Stull occupies the
tenant house of Chas. Brown on
Water street.
w HILLSGROVE.
Owing to being lost in the woods
on Pleasant stream and camping out
in an old shanty inhabited by 2000
mosquitoes and living on half ripen
ed blackberries, we were unable to
dash off the Hillsgrove items last
week.
Mrs. Lucy Hoffman and Mrs.
Fiester visited at Estella last week.
Mr. Frank Darby of Piatt, spent
several days in town this week.
Grace Hoffman is visiting at Glen
Marw.
Miss Pearl Benlield.of Forksville,
visited at Elk Creek Sunday and
Monday.
A mad dog came through here
Monday. He bit several dogs and
scared the inhabitants quite badly.
He was chased several miles but not
captured at this writing.
A surveyor is in town .surveying
a new route for part of the new mill
creek road. The first survey made
the road too steep for heavy hauling.
The Elk Creek bridge abutments
are completed.
Harry Green took in the P. (). 8.
of A. Convention at Sonestown last
week.
75 TSi PER YEAR
OBITUARY.
John T. Brewster.
John T. Brewster was bote in
Montrpse, SnsquehannaCo., Penn'a.,
September 2, 1837. In his youth he
removed to Laporte with his uncle,
Henry Shipmen. He entered the
office of the Sullivan Democrat as an '
apprentice and learned the art of
printing. In 1860 he married Miss
Virginia T. Green, daughter of the
late John S. Green. On the break
ing out of the war of the Rebellion
Mr. Brewster entered as a private in
Co. K. 141st Regt. P. V. He served
with his regiment until May 3, 1863
when when he was shot through
the thigh at the battle of Chancellors
viile, a battle which was so disastrous
to many of the soldiers who had en
listed from this neighborhood. Ben'f
M. Dunham was killed within a few
feet of where Mr. Brewster fell and
a little farther on* Oliver King and
James Speary lay where they had
fallen. Mr. Brewster laid on the
battle field for three days and nights
without any care whatever and for
fourteen days more was huddled
with hundreds of other wounded
men in an old barn. Being then ex
changed he was removed to the hos
pital at Washington and as soon as
possible thereafter was brought to
Laporte where he had the care of his
devoted wife. The wound Mr.Brew
ster received remained an open one
to the day of his death.
After he had sufficiently recovered
to engage in business he published a
newspaper called the Sullivan Free
Press which was first established ut
Laporte and afterwards removed to
Dushore.
In 1874 he obtained a position in
the Interior branch Government
Printing office at Washington, D. C.,
which he retained, with vaiious pro
motions for efficiency, until 0ct.1901
when his continued ill health com
pelled him to resign, and he return
ed to Laporte where he continued to
reside until his death. In the year
1899 a special act of Congress was
passed giving him a pension of SSO
per month in recognition of his ser
vices and the character of his wound.
Mr. Brewster was distinguished not
only for his bravery in the service of
his country, but for his fine talent,
for his loveable disposition and for
his sterling integrity and loyalty.
Ilis patience under suffering was re
markable. Although every day of
the last ten years of his life he
v\ as a martyr to excruciating pain,
he never complained; but on the
contrary, his cheerfulness and humor
were such as to deceive all except
those nearest to him as to the nature
of the disease which was steadily
wearing away his life. He entered
into rest on Thursday morning, July
30, at 9:20, attended by his wife and
daughter Miss Alice Brewster. The
only other surviving child, Mrs. Es
ther M. Gregory arrived from Wash
ington to attend the funeral services.
The funeral, which was largely at.
tended, was held on Sunday, August
2, at the Episcopal church in this
place, the services being conducted
by the Rev. Eugine Heim. He was
born to his resting place by his com
rades in arms and his coffin was en
veloped in the old flag which he had
so devotedly loved and to which he
had given his life. The guards of
honor were Messrs Isaac Lowe, D.M.
Speary and D.J.Phillips. Pall bear
ers—John V. Finkle, Wm.W. Loeb,
Chas. It. Funston, Henry Stahl, Jos.
C. Pennington, A. J. Hackley.
The particulars of a tragedy that
was enacted in Albany township,
Bradford county, but a few miles
from Dushore, on Saturday, are be
ing widely by the city
press. A seven-year-old boy was
shot and killed by his ten-year-old
brother.^
A woman named Tubbs and her
three boys live west of Stevenson
station. Saturday morning the
mother ami oldest boy went to Hatch
mountain after huckleberries, leav
ing the two younger boys at home
alone. In the house was a shotgun
with which the hoys began playing.
I n a struggle for its possession the
weapon was discharged, the load of
shot tearing away one side of the
youngest boy's face and the back of
his head.