Republican News Item.
VOL. VIII. NO. 24.
C To Buy Your Jewelery.^
N Nothing in Town to Compare WithN
( the Quality that We are Giving /
/ You for the Low Price Asked. S
v Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\
3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r
C of this section. Many years here in business, always J
S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C
(with a care and judgment commensurate with its .
S desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \
r our store a safe place to invest. C
112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q
\ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated.
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For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OB WOOB
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 (Jols^asftors^a.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
% 313 Pine Street,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
Ladies' Suits,
Cravanette Rain Coats,
Hosiery, Lace Curtains.
These are all very important selling features in this store just at this
time. Never were in better shape to meet your demands.
Winter Hosiery.
These items are all suited to the «ew
season. Just read'them over.
Children's fast Mack ribbed Stockings,
sizes G to 10, At 10c, 12Jc and 15c.
Try a few pairs of Black Cat or I'ony
Stockings for boys and girls. They are the
best hose made for 25c.
Ladies' last black seamless Hose with
double sole and high spliced heel, for 12£ c
Will you see the New Styles in Ladies' Suits ? The latest
in fabric and fashion, not out of the boxes a week, are
here for your approval.
Special qualities of Ladies' medium and
heavy weight fast black Howe with inaco
pole or Coot tor 25c.
One lot Ladies' (ant Mack Hose, extra
value, 3 pairs for sl.
Complete line of Ladies', Misses and
Infants' wool Hose.
Lace Curtains.
We've heeti liberal in our Curtain buy
ing. One reason is we had a chance to
buy Lace Curtains to advantage. You
will receive the benefit.
THE SHOPBELL DRYGOOD CO.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1903.
Nottingham Lace Curtains, special
qualities at 45c to $4.75.
Irish Point Curtains in new choice de
signs at $2.75 to sl2.
We have a new pair of I.aceJCurtains,
one or two of a kind, that will be closed
out at a very low price.
Cravanette Rain Coats.
We have just received an entire new
line of Ladies' Cravenette liain Coats.
These come in black, blue and mixture of
tan, gray, olive, brown, These are all
handsome and stylish garments, at all
prices, from $lO up to $25.
Umbrellas.
One lot of Ladies 26-inch Umbrellas
with steel rod. silk gloria vover, line as
sortment of handles, at $1.39.
All qualities ot Ladies' and Mens' Um
brellas.
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M W VOTERS
Pennsylvania Republican Leaders
Seek to Enroll Young Men.
ACTIVE AGENCIES AT WORK
Club League and League of College
Clubs Laboring With the Coming
Presidential Election In View.
[Special Correspondence.!
Harrisburg, Oct. 20. —A feature of
the present campaign in Pennsylvania
is the determined effort of the Republi
can committeemen throughout the state
to have all the young men who are
qualified to vote cast their ballot*
for the Republican state and local can
didates at the election to be held on
November 3.
Particular attention is being given
to this class of voters by direction of
Chairman Penrose, of the Republican
state committee, who is looking ahead
for the presidential election of next
year. Senator Penrose is a great be
liever in the policy of reaching out for
the first voters, no matter to what
party their fathers may belong, and
getting them to cast their first ballots
for the Republican candidates. He
argues that this is one of the best ways
to build up and strengthen an organi
zation and to increase the majorities
of any party. By continuing enrolling
the young voters there will always be
activity and vitality in the organiza
tion and there will be no danger of
the party suffering from dry rot and
failure to keep in touch with the
march of progress.
It is believed that the efforts made to
get the first voters out for the fun Re
publican ticket will mean an increase
of many thousands of votes for the Re
publican nominees next month.
There are two agencies upon which
Chairman Penrose is relying to assist
him and the regular party organiza
tion in this line of campaign work—the
State League of Republican Clubs and
the League of College Clubs. Much
effective work has already been done
through these agencies and more will
be done before election day.
QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.
This information bearing upon the
qualification of voters is being circu
lated by the Republican state commit
tee:
All persons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the juris
diction thereof are citizens of the
United States and of the state wherein
they reside.
Every male citizen 21 years of age
possessing the following qualifications
shall be entitled to vote at all elec
tions:
a. He shall have been a citizen of the
United States at least one month.
b. He shall have resided in the state
one year (or If having been a qualified
elector or native-born citizen of the
state he shall have removed therefrom
and returned, then six months) imme
diately preceding the election.
c. He shall have resided in the elec
tion district where he shall offer tc
vote at least two months immediately
preceding the election. A minor be
comes of age on the day prior to the
21st anniversary of his birth.
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE WORK.
J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia,
who is presfeent of the National
League of Republican Clubs, is co
operating with Chairman Penrose In
the campaign in this state.
"The Republican League," says
President Moore, "is looking hopefully
to Pennsylvania for Bplendid results at
the coming election. The young men
of Pennsylvania are being aroused to
the great opportunity which presents
itself to become enrolled in the Re
publican organization now so as to be
in line early for the presidential cam
paign.
"The experience of the last decade
and a half demonstrated the advan
tages and demerits of the two great DO-
littcai parties, we bad two Democratic
administrations, each of them depress
ing the business and laboring interests
of the country, and we had two Re
publican administrations, each estab
lishing confidence and restoring com
mercial and Industrial activity. We
are going to vote in another year for
one or the other of these conditions.
"As we view the situation today it is
hard to imagine how any sane man—
familiar with the progress the country
has made under Republican doctrine
could want to vote to restore the de
moralising influences of Democracy.
"The National Republican league
utands for Republican principles. It
believes the Republican party to be
better In policy and performance than
the Democratic party; better for com
merce, better for manufactures, better
for mining, better for the working
men. It stands with its face bravely
sot against the conditions which de
stroyed the industries of the country
under Democratic management. It
Jtands against the return of aoup
houses and idleness.
"Believing In Republican policy and
the wisdom of Republican legislation,
the National League sounds the tocsin
of 1904. It calls upon the farmer, the
miner and the mechanic to compare the
performances of the past decade and
say whether Republicanism or Democ
racy has beat served the plain people;
it calls upon the manufacturer and
employer to aay whether confidence is
best maintained under Democratic or
Republican rule. The league callH upon
thinking people to lay aside their local
differences ana lend their energies in
the contest of 1904 to the continuance
of the general conditions which dis
tinguished the administration of Mc-
Klnley anil I\oosevelt.
"It wants the young men of Penu
lyivania to vote right this year."
* SONESTOWN.
Charles Watts who was kicked by
a horse one day last week is able to
be around again.
Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor of Tivola,
is visiting Mrs. A. T, Armstrong.
A. Edgar and Will Laird caught
a monster wildcat in their bear trap
last Saturday.
11. C. Boatman was at Picture
Rocks Tuesday.
J. W. Buck is counting lumber for
Woddrop and Welsh at Xordmont,
driving to and from that place daily-
Mrs. Maggie Bogart and children
of Lopez are visiting friends and
relatives here.
Dr. Derr of Lairdsville was shak
ing hands with old friends in town
last week.
Miss Jane Gritman of Nordmont,
was the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Mencer, part of last week.
Mrs. Frank Warburton of Ilughes
ville, was the guest of Mrs. Harvey
Buck last week.
It. W. Simmons and wife and
Lloyd Freasand wife returned home
on Sunday after several days visit
with to Benton, Greenwood and the
Bloomsburg fair.
John Converse made twenty- six
loads of cider on Saturday last.
Protracted meetings in the M. E.
church all this week. Presiding
Elder Wilcox preached an excellent
sermon last Sunday evening.
John Craig and wife of Johnson
burg, and and M. M. Armstrong of
Philadelphia, are visiting their
brother A. T. Armstrong.
Ernest Boatman and wife of Vir
ginia, Mrs. Dan Davis and and lit
tle son, and Miss Lottie Wilson of
Newberry, are visiting at H. P.
Hall's and other relatives.
Gus Mencer has a badly sprained
ankle caused by a mis-step in getting
off the engine.
Mrs. Ida Lorah is having a porch
built onto her store which is a big
improvement.
ELKLAND GRANGE.
Address by Lyman B. Speaker, of Hills
grove. Knowledge That Comes From
Years of Experience.
To our worthy officers, members
and visiting patrons, greeting.—
I have the pleasure ol' speaking to
you to-day in behalf of Elkland
Grange. This pleasant duty of ex
tending a welcome to you brothers
and sisters who have left your quiet
farms and peaceful homes to come
over these rough and rugged hills to
meet us here to-day, to gladden our
hearts and lead us to higher privi
leges in the benefit of the Grange—
this high privilege should have been
delegated to more able and compe
tent minds. Hut as a resident of
Sullivan county 1 will be free to say
that you as members of Pomona
Grange No. 2:5, we trust will receive
a cordial welcome from the members
of Elkland Grange and citizens of
Western Sullivan. The Sullivan
county members of the Grange who
are identified with agriculture and
rural life, that were I to renumerate
the trials and hardships of the early
settlers of the western part of the
county or indeed • the major part of
it, many would join me in speaking
words of welcome to our friends
from a distance.
To-day we are enjoying the bene
fits and pleasures they had intended
for their children, after these pleas
ures the result of their labors, we
offer to you this sociality, arising
from education and knowledge gain
ed by our own experience from the
results of crops raised on the farm.
As you are aware agriculture is de
fined as the art of cultivating the
ground and obtaining from it the
products necessary for the support
of animal life.
It is not my purpose to give you
instructions as to the modes or
methods of farming even were I
capable of the task. We read in the
early history of the science and art
of farming that Cain was a tiller of
the soil and Abel a feeder of sheep,
thus finding that in its infancy these
lwo grand denizons of agriculture.
The tilling of the soil requiring the
labor of the head and hand, and the
rearing of animals constituting the
life of a shepard.
Improvements in the modes of liv
ing is gained by experience and ob
servation and come by slow degrees.
Reliance on the spontaneous growth
of the earth furnishes only a meager
subsistance. In the early tilling of
the soil by a race doomed to toil,
necessity soon sharpened the power
of invention. As time passed and
the race multiplied their progress
sought out the fertile valleys and en
gaged in tilling the ground.
We also read that with their in
struments of husbandry Noah plant
ed a vineyard while others became
theowi. —s of herds of iattle. Abra
ham was 'chin them, while Lot
had Hocks and herds and tents.
Elishu when sought by Elija to re
ceive the mantle of a prophet was
found plowing with 12 yoke of oxen,
a team that would astonish us even
in these modern days.
We know that Egypt from the re
motest recorded times was noted as
the land of corn. < >ur Sullivan
county farmers will no doubt be
amazed at a recital of their methods
of farming. The exceeding fertility
of the valley of the Nile, a strip of
land a few miles in width and grad
ually sloping to the river for sever
al hundred miles in lenghth, is well
known. During a portion of the
year this valley is submerged with
water and when it subsides the top
is of the richest possible character.
The cultivator had only to cast tin
seed then turn on a herd of swine to
tramp it in and await the harvest.
The ancients probably suffered more
fro:n want of proper agriculture ma
chinery than from any other cause.
Can we form any idea of the number
of persons engaged in grinding corn
by their primitive methods, for the
wants of a vast empire? The me
chanical arts languished and nature
awaited a master hand to bring
them into subjection and make them
useful for the wants of man. The
wat'jr wheel was not known until
the 2nd century of the Christian era,
| an<l the 11th century was ushered in
75 TS. PER YEAR
before the wind was brought into
subjection for the purposes of man.
The mighty power of steam lay hid
den for ages until genius came forth
to lighten the toils of man and ac
complish the work of a thousand
hands by a single stroke of its pow
erful arm.
1 will not tire your patience with
a further recital of the progress of
agriculture and the mechanical arts
and their early history, nor by con
trasting them with their history of
the present day.
Allow me to express the gratifi
cation that your assemblage here
has brought to the members of Elk
land Grange. Your visit will give
us all more noble aspirations for the
future.
'1 he county in which you are now
assembled is noted for its varied in
dustries and its good markets, and
the tillers of the soil possessers of a
general intelligence equal if not su
perior to any to be found. To en
able them to cultivate their lands to
the best advantage may not be ma
terially advanced by our meeting,
but 1 trust that the aggregate of
knowledge in that resect may be
increased by reason of your assem
blage in our midst.
It only remains for me to hid you
welcome, thrice welcome to Elkland
Grange in whose behalf I act, and
trust that your sojourn with us may
be pleasant and agreeable and re
dound to the interest of the cause
we represent.
ESTELLA. 4
Mr. 1 lyssess Bird has finished the
work of surveying all the public
roads in Elkland township.
The Ladies' Hewing Circle will
hold a Halloween Social on Oct. :il,
with a good supper and a Jack-o
lantern display.
S. C. Vargason made a trip to
j Forksvill, Monday and says the rail
road up the Loyal Sock as a sure
thing. Good things generally come
slow and perhaps what has long
been only imagination will at last
come to be a reality.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. T. More visi
ted at I). L. Millers at Eldredsville,
on Sunday.
J. M. Osier was a Dushore visitor
on Monday.
Gordcn Warburton who has been
in the state of Washington for the
past three years has returned, and
his old friends are welcoming him
back to his old home at Lincoln
Falls.
Mr. Fred Shaffer has taken unto
himself a wife, and thehappy couple
immediately went to housekeeping
in the home purchased of A. B. Mc-
Intire, and known as the Thoirtas
King farm. We extend hearty con
gratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer.
J. P. Rogers who has been em
ployed at carpenter work at the La
porte tannery is at home with his
family at present, fie has purchas
ed a fine organ and now wants a
pretty music teacher to give him
music lessons.
Miss Helen Norton of Jersey, vis
ited at her cousin's, Mrs. J. J. Web
ster on Sunday.
Apples are quite plentiful in some
localities. A. T. Mulnix seems to
be doing a thriving business making
cider at his mill.
SHVNK.
Mrs. A. V. Shattuck is home for a
short stay, she will soon return to
New Brighton where her husband
will have employment in the elec
tric plant.
A new barber and jeweler shop in
town. Proprietor, E. E. Tinkle
paugh.
I'. F. Reedy and wife have moved
to Shunk for the winter. They will
return to Elmira in the spring.
Mr. and Mrs. L.l. Campbell took
dinner with John Itauh and wife, at
Wheelerville on Sunday last.
Mrs. Jesse Kilmer is keeping
house for her parents while they are
on a visit to Columbia county.
Goto Mrs. L. I. Campbell, Shunk
Pa. for fine millinery.
W. E. Porter is on the sick list.
Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell are
keeping house in part of his father's
house.
Dr. B. E. Gamble of Wheelerville
spent Sunday evening with A. B.
Kilmer.