Republican News Item. VOL. iX. NO. 17. CTo Buy Your Je\.^ NNothing- in 1 own to Compare ( the Quality that We are Giving / / Yon for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage I of this section. Many vears here in business, always 3 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 \ / our store a sate place to invest. C P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. ( RETTENBURY, > $ DUSHORE, No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB 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. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. j 9 Blankets and Comforts Chilly nights suggest that Blanket season is near at hand. The assortment is now at its best. All our lilankcts are carefully selected and may l>fi strictly relied upon. We l>uy and sell only the Itest lilank ets. We kee]i a full assortment of the celebrated Muncy Wool Blankets. Wool Blankets. White Blankets, Scarlet Blankets. Cotton Blankets, Colored Blankets, Fancy Blankets, ( rib Blankets, Grey Blankets, Kobe Blankets. RKI) COMFORTS in a great variety floral effect patterns either light or dark colorings. They are filled with pure white cotton, EIDERDOWN COM FORTS when you are looking for Eiderdown Comforts, don't forget to see the nice sateen covered ones we are sell ing at very reasonable prices. The New Tailored White Goods for Waists. Suits and Gowns. The snle of white cotton Waist ings, has Sail MAKING has reached a high state heen HO satisfactory that we have largely of perfection. I his perfection von will extended tlie assortment. You are in tinil tully emphasized in our stock. They viteil to see'theae new designs in white are the representative styles from repre- mercerized Waistinjrs. mutative makers. Tailored Suits liain ('oils. I>retssy Golf Blouses. fiowns, Tourists Coats. Silk Waists. . i i .. u...... i. ... , • Ladies Knit Woo <lO .louses, sever- I lnldren s < oats. I.veiling Wraps, intants . . , , "I style-, to select Irom in navy, gray. In everv new stv!e an t shape shown ' k. white. for fall or winter. ' 1 r,ce " rH,, - e ,rom ,0 Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1904. SOME STARTLING FIGURES. What l!ud Hurnla Cost Ike Farmers wf This Couutrf. Isaac U. Potter has assumed iu round numbers that tlie draft animals lu use tu the United Gluten are worth Sii,OUO. WOO,OOO. He sa.vs: ' Busy or idle, these animals must lie fed and cared for every day. They ure boarders that you can't get rid of when the busy season Is over, audit •lauds you iu need to keep them at work. Two billion dollars makes a large sum Invested at 5 per cent in terest. It would produce nearly $2,000,000 per week. Then you throw away more than 1ti.000.000 homes aud mules alone, aud lo feed aud care for these It costs the mo.lest sum of $4,000,000 per day. A little while ago a very clever and intelligent citizen of The Poor Farmer—l h*<] to lighten this load, though It wax only li.ttou pounds, and 1 am afraid I must get another team to help pull out of this mudhoie. 1 will soon h&<r« to borrow the money to buy a new team. These skates won't last an other season. Kls Horses -We would rather die In our tracks than try to get this load to market. No mutter how inucfc w« «at. we are thin. Indiana estimated that bad roads coat the farmer sls per year for each horse uud mule in bid service. This meuus a loss in the aggregate of ueurl.v $-50.- 000,000 per year; add wear aud tear of wagons aud harness. $100,000,000; depreciated value of farm lauds, $-.- 000,000,000; total, $li.:W0,000.000. "Making the utmost allowauce iu fa vor of the farmer and grauting tbe necessity of the liberal use of horse power iu the maintenance of agricul- j tural traffic, it is easily certain that the farmers of this country are keeping at least '.',000.000 horses more than would be ueeettsary to do all tbe hauling be tween farm aud market If only the principal roads were brought to a good condition." MOTOR# FOR FARMERS, Predicted They WU| tw Then. 1» Market Prodaee. Judge Spluk*. a leading jurist of British Columbia, while in New Or leans recently had the following to say regarding road improvement: "hi British Columbia we have good roads, but th«*r are narrow. The farm ers, 1 think, would adopt the motor to market their products there if tbe roads would permit it, but being nar row it would be difficult to handle the machine. But the good roads move ment, from what 1 can learn, has takeu hold of Americans in earnest. "I urn glad to see the people of this country taking an interest in good roads, for It is a commercial necessity aud means much to the farmer. It Is, in uiy opinion, only a question of time till the farmer will market his product by motor instead of the railway for a radius of thirty miles of a city. Aud if he is not able to owu a molar himself there will be a lueaus for him to trans port his stuff by motor Just the same. The activity of tbe prouiotora of good roads Is a good sign of the future de velopment of this feature of American commerce, and when tbe motor is per fected it will be adapted to many pur poses for which we now see liatle use. "Good roads are an essential to the farmer, as it cheapens the cost of mar keting his produce. aud tiie day Is uot far distant w hen the commuulty with good roads will be the most prosper ous." The Highways Seat levied. I.ess tliau $10,000,000 is spent every year in trying to remedy the evil con ditions of the country roads. Over these same highways last year was transported to the markets $5,250,tw0,- 000 worth of products. The cost of keeping the roads in condition to trans port these supplies is small Indeed iu comparison with the amount of money spent upon railroad improvements. Every line of railroad Iu the United States has thousands of section bauds working daily repairing the tracks. But one might travel over a country road for mouths at a time and never en counter a gang of men tilling the rut*, etc.—Horseman. j 4 I ' « » Rural Delivery Notes i v " : Postmaster General Payne recently | said: "Few people know how great a ; sueeess the rural free delivery is. We • have uow more than -3.000 rural | routes, glviug a daily delivery to 2.300, ; 000 families, reaching about oue-sev | eutb of our eutlre population." i Postmaster General Payne says tlia 1 service Is net self supporting and prob ably never will be. but the increased amount of business throughout tbe country more than makes up any defi cit. lu districts where the system has beeu introduced the postal receipts are Increasing about 10 per ceut an nually. - Jr, y SBL ■ < ; DR. M. E. HERRMANN. Perhaps never in the history of Sullivan County Conventions has ii man named for public office been so near the unanimous choice of every section as was Dr. M. F. Herrmann of the Convention which placed him in nomination for the office of Mem ber of Assembly. Dr. Herrmann is not a practical politician and has never asked for office, ami with the exception of School Director of Dushore Borough, in which capacity he is now serving his eighth term, has never held au elective office. He litis for many years, however, been a member of thrt Board of Pension Examiners for Sullivan County, where his services have been so valuable that he has without regard to which party was dominant at Washington. Dr. Herrmann is a native of <J»r many, but after receiving a medical education in the universities of that country, he early sought tin land of opportunity and in IST I settled at Dushore, where he has always en joyed an extensive practice and for many years has conducted a farm in Cherry Township. To parties who have sought an ex pression of his views on questions which will come before the next. Legislature affecting the people of Sullivan County, the Dr. replied that while he may not be as ready to pro mise all things to all men as is the custom of some candidates, he feels that after having spent more than 3JI years visiting the homes of the peo ple of Sullivan County, he is acquain ted with them and with their needs. He further stated that he has been nominated without solicitation on his part and without a pledge to any party, or |>erson, or corporation, and that if he shall prove to be the choice of the people of Sullivan County for Representative iu the next Legisla ture, he pledges himself thai without regard to party, he will by his work and voice and vote support all legis lation that shall be for the welfare of the farmer, the miner, the lunibei -' man and the laboring people who make up the population of our coun ty. j finiTor ok tiik. "Xkws Itkm": Through your courtesy, I would like to mention a matter of consider able relative importance which, 1 hope, may produce material benefit. Our annual County Teacher's In stitute is not of the same standard of excellence as those of the larger coun ties; which condition is solely due to lack of funds. When one considers the very small amount of money, heretofore at the disposal of the Superintendant and the high price of lecturers and entertainers, it would be seen that the proceeds have been very econom ically used. A much needed addition might he made to this fund by rasing the teacher's enrollment Aw from SI.OO to $2.00, this increasing the total re source by about *IOO.OO. This amount would be further increased by a larger attendance of others than the teachers at the evening enter tainments; also possibly by u raise !in the price of the ticket, which would be just considering the higher grade of platform talent. The proper source of action on this increase of enrollment tVc, is the j teachers themselves. Therefore 1 ! would suggest that they dissents this I matter at their various local Insti i tutes; then provided that they favor this, enabling this desirable change 1 to tie nude this ciming Institute. "lU< KF.TTs" A Self Abused Man. Seouten complains that he has not been re-instated to the practice of law. This complaint from him is preposterous. He has made no move for re-instatement; lias never asked the Court to reinstate him, although the Judge, at the time of making the rule for disbarment, as is shown hy the records, said that, "when he has shown that he can govern his j temper and tongue, we shall cheer fully hear his application for re-in j tatesment and act favorably there on." 180 Pen lift. Heport, page 277. After this, instead of taking the course which any person with a well balanced mind would have taken he started a newspaper, and made the remark, to Samuel Bovie, "that lie would ruin the s—of a b— if it took half he was worth" (meaning Judge Conrad Kraus) and in paper after paper printed unreasonable and insulting articles about Judge Kraus. Seouten in his disbarment case admitted that he is easily irritated anil at times unreasonable." In his apology he "admits In* did wrong, and said to Judge Kraus what he ought not to have said." lie admits that he began the conversation, and i fur this reason was to blame for all that was said and done. Hi- states in his answer that "lie has no recol lection of many things lie is charged with saying, but lie was excited, angry and in a condition not likely to remember, lie says further in his answer, "he has no recollection of being in the Judge's chamber that afternoon, and if asked the question would haw to say he has no recol lection of being in there." He does not question the fact only says he does not remember. Further on he answers as follows: "lie begs to be allowed to state further that since this Court has been composed of its present members he has never felt any just cause for complaining of the treatment he has received be fore it." Never felt that he was treated unfairly by Judge Dunham in his business before court. If Judge Dunham has felt there has been a lack of reciprocal conduct upon the part of this respondent (Seouten), he now humbly asks par don, and an opportunity to tender amends. Respondent admits that lie has wronged Judge Kraus, and is sorry indeed that such is the fact. What he did,.he did when hot under self control. It was an error of the head. It was without provocation. If he has caused a shadow of sus picion to gather over ur hover around this honorable court lie regrets it." Iu spite of all this humble talk, and immediately after it, lie starts a newspaper and begins such vile at tacks tin Judge Krans, that in order to stop him Judge Kraus had to bring criminal prosecution against him to compel him to stop. littler these circumstances we cannot see how Seouten has any occasion fori saying he is abused until after lie, has made an application for re-ad-i mission, and is refused. MILDRED AND BERNICE. I (juite a few from here took iu the [excursion to Niagra Falls Sunday, j ! S. A. Dieffenbaeh and son Lewis' | have returned from Seranton where j I they have been doing carpenter j work for the last two months. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Raumgardner| spent Thursday in Sayre. Miss Jennie Cunimisky visited j friends at Dushore one day last J week. Mrs. Josiah Smith and Miss Cora Lilly were the guests of Mrs. Win. Allen Wednesday. Mrs. Thos. Schell, Mrs. Frank Meyer and Mrs. John Harney spent Wednesday with Mrs. Jacob Yon kin at Dushore. Mr. and Mrs. Webber have return ed from a weeks visit with relatives in Scranton. Miss Rose Cuminings of Monro*- i ton was the guest of Mrs. Port Mer j rithew several days last week. Mrs. David Cook and children of i Dushore, visited friends here last j week. Miss Lola Brown of Stroudshurg, is visiting her parents here, j John S. Line and daughter Mrs. Walter Wheat ley are visiting rehi j lives at Towanda and Sayre j Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson of ! Wilmot. were the guests of Mrs. John Walters Thur.-day. 75 TS. PER YEAR SONESTOWN. The infant son of William Dono van is very sick, George Edwtjrds and family are staying a few days witJi the ln"dy,s parents before their departure for Jersey Shore, whore Mr. Edwards will open a meat market. Miss (igden of the Crestiuent Inn, is stopping a few days with Win. Hazen and family. On Tuesday Win. and Walter Hazen, Miss < >g don and Clyde Sheets went to the top of the North Mountain to see the sight from that point. Miss Og den is on her way home to Philadel phia. A great many of our young people attended the revival meeting* at Muney Valley. The two lady ev angelists who conducted the camp meeting at llughesville, are holding the<e meetings. A. L. Converse and wife spent Saturday at Beaver Lake, bringing hack the fishing party well loaded with fish. On Wednesday of last week A. Edgar and I'enn Laird went to their traps set for hear and found them gone. They followed the trail for a mile when they came up to bruin, and Penn soon dispatched his bear ship with a well directed shot in the head. 11 was not very fat but the meat was fine. On Monday John Wilson went to the mountain for chestnuts and hid his shot gun with him, hearing a noise behind him in the bushes be brought his gun into position to shoot when at that moment a bear came into view. The first shot tired knocked th ■ bear down and blew out its eyes, another shot in the brain ended its existence. John went after a team to fake it home as it weighed when dressed 2(10 pounds. The little son of Clinton Starr is somewhat better. HILLSGROVE. Miss Hose Darby is seriously ill at her home here. When taken ill she bad just returned from a visit to her sis erin ltichwood, W. Va. Dr. Da vies i- in attendance. Dr. H. K. Gamble and wife of Ilarrisburg, are visiting at W. L. 1 [otfmans. ('ivil Engineer lteeder of William sport, with a large crew of bridge builders are building the railroad bridge across the Lovalsock at this place, and when completed it will lie one of the largest railroad bridges in this county. Rev. Hoover of Dushore, preach ed in the M. E. chinch Sunday ev ening. The M. E. Sunday School took an I excursion to Eagles Mere, over the !So lies railroad last Saturday. On the morning trip a tr,>e fell directly | across the train, but by a miraeN no I one was injured, and only crushed Doc Hoffman's derby hat. | This Wednesday and Thursday will decide whether Bernice, Du } shore or Hiilsgrove lias the best base , ball team, as they will play for the | championship at the fair. Charles Sullivan made n Hying ' trip to Kalston last week. | The band was out last last Satur day serenading Charles Hawley and ! wife. Charley set up the treat for ; the boys. The finishing department of the tannery has shut down for a few days for repairs, and not for politi cal reasons as some of our Democrat ic friends wouldjhave us believe. Sam Mcßride lias purchased a ] new piano of Ferguson and McCol | lom of Williamiport. Jack CI egg of Emporium has re turned to this place and I* always a | welcome yuest. Jvdgc Dunham Seldom Reversed. Scouten seems to take great delight in telling about Judge Dunham be ing reversed by the Higher courts, j He has said so much about it that it may be a surprise to the people of ! Sullivan county t<> know that during ! the last ten years Judge Dunham i has only had two cases from Sullivan county reversed. While Judge Sit ser during the same length of time i had three times as many.
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