Republican News Item. VOL. VIII. NO. 45. f'Thls Is the Place £ < To Buy Yota JeweleryA in Town to Compare With S { the Quality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. \ 112 Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ 3 irresistiblv draws into our store the best patronage r 1 ofthi tion. Many years here in business, always 3 Si with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C j with a aire and judgment commensurate with its • \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ / our store a sale place to invest. C ? Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r X teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. \ RETTENBURY, S <) DUSHORE, I'A. The Jeweler^^ CO Lb* hardw J^sll No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing 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. Wo can cell 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 Genera! Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. ££>3iituef '-ik j The Shopbel! Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. CVFRYWHERE IN THE STORE YOU FIND CON- I2 elusive evidence that the iuw season is at hand. This store with its fresh, bright stock of rew mer chandise 1 stands ready to be helpful to you in your buying. SPRING GOWNS AND SUITS. 1 Here's a fine collect ion of the newest styles and the latest materials. i Some of the best of the season's (> nviw ami Suits. The painstaking work : put into these Suits tells its own story. 1 he styles are perfect and thej tailoring the best. (iowns we cannot dcsctibe, better come and see them. ; Every kind and lyle of Walking Skirts. .New Jackets and Silk Waists, new Walking Skirts of all kinds. SPRING DRESS GOODS. The Foft,clinging fabrics that will be used for the season's gowns are now being shown. Here you may .-ee Voiles, Crepes and all beautiful Wool and Silk and Wool material that will be wanted this season. Plain and Scotch effects for tailored suits, A New Line of Hosiery to Select From. We start the Spring season with a large stock of Hosiery for men, women and children. You may buy Hosiery here and feel perfectly easy. You have the best obtainable for the price. OUR CORSET STOCK. "We haven't every kind of corsets that's made,dut the department is stocked with a number of makes, each the best of its kind. Drop in the store when you need a corset and consult without' Corset sales-people. Tell them your corset trouble and we will guarantee the one you will get will lit perfectly and wear well. THE SHOPBELL DRYGOOD CO. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1904. THE GRANGE I Conducted by J. W. DARROW. Chatham. N. Y.. Press Coirespondent New York State Orange A GRANGE OF 800 MEMBERS. Largeit Organisation -of Thi» Kind In the World. Wolcott (N. Y.) grunge enjoys the rare distinction of having 800 member* on its roll. Wolcott is ft village of only about 1,300 imputation, but the sur rounding country has been worked over and over, and nearly every farmer and farmer's wife is numbered as a member. F. H. I'lersou has recently been elected for his second term aa its master, and its t present secre elected for her twenty-third suc cessive term. wus organized two of them are now living, and eighteen are r. it. i'iekso.v. still members of (Master of Wolcott Wolcott gruiige. grange.] From its very beginning Wolcott grange has had a substantial growth, owing largely to the activity of a few of Its members and its central location, having four townships of Wayne county to draw from. Although It hus granted demits to forty-six members and death and suspensions have claimed many more, nevertheless it has attained the proud distinction of being the largest grange in the United States. It does not change Its officers very frequently. It bus bad only eleven masters and three secretaries. Wolcott grange makes a special fea turo of Its literary work uud has an annual printed programme containing also a list of the officers and of the en tire membership. It also gives special attention to the social features of the grange. It holds an occasional grange fair, and once a year a farmers' Insti tute is held under its auspices. The Gr»f« In Polities. There needs to be a word of warning passed along the line that the grange must keep its hands off partisan poli tics and keep politics out of ttoe grange or its influence Is gone. Those who are not its friends would be only too glad to see the Order Interested In partisan political feuds and contests. We have a very strong notion that an official of a state or the national grange should never become a candidate for any im portant office so long as he holds such official position. We commend the fol lowing resolution adopted by the Con necticut state grange recently to every other state organization: Resolved. That the state grange of Con lectleut, loyal to Its past record, will ever .lold Itself uloof from ull partisan politics and will strenuously oppose any action that will tend to array any one class of our citizens against any other. The hon or, good name and prosperity of the good old state of Connecticut aro of more Im portance than any Individual or class In terests, and wo hereby pledge our ad herence to It. That resolution has the right ring! It is worthy of ratification by every state grunge iu the Union. Columbia county (X. Y.) Pomona grange voted to hold a "school of in struction" once a year for the exempll tlcatlon of the degrees and imparting the unwritten work. The Dutches* and Columbia Patrons' Fire Itellef association carries over $-1,130,000 insurance on farmers' prop erty in those two counties nf NewYom state. West Newbury grange. No. lit;, of New York has a membership of IS4, two-thirds of whom are women. A ladies' degree team has been organized. National Master Jones will visit Kan ! sas in July to liven up tilings a little, lie is a stirring speaker on gran.ee topics. Creator accuracy in the ritualistic i and esoteric work of the Order is the 1 crying need of the hour in grunge cir j cles. I The largest grange county iu the ' United States is Jefferson county, N. Y.. with 0,000 members. Connecticut state grange has $lO.- 118.42 in invested fundi. .vew Hampshire grangers are very nearly equally divided as to sex. The total membership iu the state is 20.H00 —13,031 men and 13.009 women. The gains for the year ane: By Initiation, 3,108; by demit, 339; reinstatement, 378; charter At the recent Illinois state grange meeting lion. Oliver Wilson of Mag nolia was re-elected master for the en ; suing term. Mr. Thomas Kelle.v of ; l>uulap was renominated for secretary, j but, having served in that capacity l'or | twenty-five years, declined re election. COUNTYNEWS Happenings ol Interest to Readers Man y Towm - RICKETTS. ~v Mrs. C. A. Bamhart dieil Friday morning, March is. She is surviv ed by her husband, two sons and two daughters. She was il devoted wife and mother, and a kind neighbor, always ready to help the sick and needy. Mrs. Bamhart will be great ly missed in this community. Mr. George Thrasher returned from the Say re Hospital the first of the week and is now under the care of Dr. Bradford. Smallpox is reported about ten miles away and the people here are rather uneasy. Miss Minnie Get/, went to the hospital Friday evening. Her many friends here hope that she may ho greatly improved in health by the good treatment received at Say re. Bobbin red breast was heard here Sunday morning, but it looks tis though he will have to use a shovel to clear away the snow before he can find his usual allowance of worms. SOUTH BSOOK. Harry and lona Adams attend ed the dance at Ed, Donegans last Thursday night. Mildred Kunkle made a flying trip to Lopez Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Herd and son Wi 11- tam attended the intertainment at Lopez last week. Margaret and Lizzie Kingsley of Lopez visited at Mary I)on°gan last week. Alice and John Cahill of Lopez were Saturday visitors of this place. Tressa Welsh and Lillie Bonning of Lopez were callers at M. Gil foyles Saturday. Arthiu- Fori is made Ja business trip to Lopez east Saturday. Miss Myrtle Foster of Kasson Brook is visiting her friend Miss Rachel Herd of this place. Stella Welsh of Lopez was stay ing with her Amu Mrs. M. Gilfoyle several days last week. A large crowd from Kicketts at tended the dance at this place last week and all reported a good time. Raymond Kunkle who has been sick for the past week is better, Geo. Brown the Agent spent Sunday at this place. Mr. Dougless of Ricketts the pho tographer was taking a few Photoes j at this place last week. . j Ed. Donegon had the misfortune of loosing a valuable cow last week. BERNICE. Robert Mathews of Sayre was call ing on friends at this place Friday. Melville E. Chubbuck, D. C. War- j tlen of Towanda was visiting Bernice Lodge No. 90- I. <>.(). F. on Wed- J nesday. Mrs. F. Meyer accompanied bv j Mrs. C. T. Lilley of Dushore is visit-; ing friends at Bernice. Thos. Pyne of Pittston was visit-; ing his mother, Mrs. John Pyne on ; Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Miller of j Towanda were visiting Mr. and Mrs i John C. Sehaad last week. Harry Basley was at Sonestown on Saturday. Miss Christina Ramsey, the young est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Ramsey, was married on Wednes day to Mr. Barclay Duggan. Mrs. S. A. DieJTenbach, Mrs. Delia Brown, her daughter and two sons were at* New Albanv attending the funeral of their aunt Mrs. Lewis The Randall & Meylert mine was shutdown on Monday-untill further notice to resume. | TheC'onnells mines nr.' only work- I ing about half time. ' SONESTOWN. "there are a great many people suf fering with severe colds around here; Miss Mary Buck and Mr. B. G. Welsh among them. Both of the churches have been wired for electric lights, anil utmost all of the houses that will have elec tric lights are finished. A. J. Bradley of Philadelphia was in town Tuesday. Mrs. 11. P. Hall and Mrs. Alex Hess were shopping in William sport last week. Miss Ella Mcgranihnn of Eagles Mere, is visiting Miss Jennie llazen and other friends. Miss Mazie Danley of Hazel ton, is visiting Mrs. H. C. and Mrs. Will Boatman. \V. B. and Harry llazen were at Williamsport Saturday. Billy Donovan has moved into the new house of John Watson, on Main street, and Hugh Parker has moved into the Byron Campbell cot tage on the clifis above the station. Mrs. G. I. Woodside entertained her brother Wilbur Campbelle of Glen Mawr. Mrs. William Bobbins on Tuesday cut and pared a mammoth pumpkin which she had kept in the sitting room all winter, and contained no blemish. The pieces weighed fifty pounds and there was nearly a pint of seeds in it. She called it a granger pumpkin. Miss Rita Armstrong spent Satur day at Strawbridge. Mrs. Ben Taylor returned home Sunday after a weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Armstrong, tffld her sister Mrs. G. Phillips. jL * « Mrs. Harvey SimmonsWilfc" iamsport, is visiting her cousin Mrs. John Converse. H!LLSGROVE. Alfred Strickland has purchased a saw mill in Fox Twp and will oper- j ate the same this summer. C. W. Sadler lias completed his j bark job and will soon move into summer quarters at Piatt. Edward Molyneu.x recently deliv-; eietl from the job of Mr. Sadler a j load of bark weighing lsG,4u lbs. <>r about 7 lbs. of weight to every lb. of j horse flesh. The family of Paul Galough narr owly escaped death by asphixiation from "as escaped from a coal stove Sunday night at this writing all have j recovered. Four newly married couple have made their apperance in town with lin the past two weeks Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wager, Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Itosten, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Benn ett. On Tuesday last girl babies were born to M..and Mrs. It. F.. Jackson, to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Folchrod, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter llufsmith a son. No Liquor in Potter County. j Potter county, famous for 15 years ! as a Prohibition county, but in which (licenses were recently granted, is ! once more to become a "dry county. I This situation is a result t.f a su. j perior court det ision, just handed i down, which declares that all lic.ui granted in the country are illegal. A few years ago a bill was passed i by 'the legislature repealing the pro hibition law which bad been in force lin the county for !;"> years. Asa re- I suit of this action licenses were grant- I ed and the sale of liquor has been go I ing on since. The temperance people | have been lighting the matter, claim ing that the licenses as issued were i illegal owing to some technicality. The case went to the superior court \ which now decliks, as stated that all licenses issue I in that county are 111- i egal. Au appeal will be taken by the li quor interests to the supreme court ; In the meantime the Pi places in the ■ county in which liquor are sold will ■ be closed. 75 TS. PER YEAR Laportc to Share in Better Mail Service. A united effort is being made by the postmaster of Towanda and the towns between there and William sport to secure a better mail Service on the Williamsport and North Branch railroad. With that end in view a meeting has been held in the office of Postmaster Turner at Tow anda at which were present B. S. Fellows, of Williamsport chief clerk of railway mail service; Postmaster P. M. Newman, of Hugheflvill{Post master John Scher,Jr.,of Dushore, and Postmaster Keeler, of New Albany. It is the intention of these gentle men to secure, if posible, the eatab • li-hmentofa railway mail clerk on the Williamsport and North Branch through from Williamsport to To wanda and return every day. At pres ent no clerk is carried each postoffice pouching on the train. A record of matter properly mailed over this route will be kept and the figures presented to Superintendent Bradley Such an improvement in the mail service would be of great benefit to Towanda business men. All south ern and many western points could be reached quicker than at present. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburg mail would be deliv ered direct to the Pennsylvania lines at Williamsport. Strange Antics o! the Flood. One of the queerest floods antics happened at Espy, when it was dis covered after the water had subsided that more than two acres ot land on the McCollum truck farm had been raised up and turned completely a round. This farm lies between Kspy and the D- L. &W. railroad,the soil of which is Mack and moist,anb during the severe winter it became frozen hard on top, between the ditches, which drains the water off, and it was between these dityhes that the iKhrtTaoved. Wh»n the flood and high water came, it is supposed that the water found a place to soak through and i.s the soil on top was i frozen to almost rock form, it was j softer in under and water washed I down through, turning the land a ! round in the manner described. Tht I dstches and drains which ran East land West now run North and South. ; The different strawberry beds and I vegetable plots which w«*re near the I house are now a couple hundred of yards away and a like change exists with all parts of the land. The two acres or more of land which made ■ this complete cluing reached a depth lof a foot or more land it has settled down again in aluiostthesame place ! as it formerly occupied. Will Sell Its Own Coal. i The Philadelphia <S- Heading Coal and Iron Company, will 011 April 1 become its own fiscal agent, reliev ing tin' Furnace Company of Penn sylvania, which has acted in that capacity since Jan. 15t,1903. The company will also pay at that time the £1,000,000 Coal Trust five per ■ cent gold loan due on that date. At ; the same time the company will take j up and convert into general tuorl ; gage 1 per-cent,bonds of tha Head- Company, the John 11. Krause loan IKS4-HHM of $20(5,000, the last of the divisional coal land mortgage bonds of which #12,000,000 were outstand ing at the time of the reorganization of the Heading companies. Fined For Running Deer With ®o§. Fourteen prominent Pittsburg and Philadelphia politicians on Thursday J plead guilty before Justice of the Peace Barclay, of Clearlield, to the charge of running deer with doga 011 the border line between Blair and Clearfield counties and were each fined SIOO and cost. The commanwoalth wasrepreent by Joseph Kalbfus secretary of the state game commission. The game commission profits to the extent of one-half of the fines, S7OO and a heal thful lesson is taught not only tha | culprits who were punished, but no j tiee is served on all hunters that the • j law must.be observed,
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