Republican News Item. VOL. iX. NO. 19. } This Is the Place £ j c To Buy Your Jewelry s \ Nothing in Town to Compare With X ( the Quality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. } % Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ \ irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r I of tins section. Many years here in business, always 3 j with a full line of goods above suspicion, chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ Q our store a sale place to invest. C / Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ t.et d, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. A S RETTENBURY, ) y DUSHORE, PA. Tlie^Je^len^ L ; No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OFo WOO D. 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 sacoiKi hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can cell you in ntcves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low A t'lccd sauisxactory cooh stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and Genera! Repairing. Rooting and Spouting. ■ fjf.fi -«fi <■%k O tf^Cß -■■■ emli c £ 4 k» i *+• i The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 3!3 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Blankets and Comforts ("hilly ij ii^lit- suggest that Blanket season is near at hand. The assortment is now at its host. All our Blankets are carefully selected and may he strictly relied upon. We buy and sell only the best Blank ets. We keep a full assortment of the celebrated Muncy Wool Blankets. Wool Blankets, V, hite Blankets, Scarlet Blankets. Cotton Blankets, Colored Blankets, Fancy Blankets, Crib Blankets, Grey Blankets, Robe Blankets. BET) COMFOBTS in a great variety of floral effect patterns wither light or dark colorings. They are filled with pure white cotton. FJDEBDOWN COMFORT* 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. rhe Bak . o( . w , |ite cotton Waisth.gs, has Suit making lir».- reached a high stair been wo satisfactory that we have largely of perfection. This |rvrftctiou von will extended the assortment. Von are in llml hilly emphasized in our stock. Tliev viteil to sec these new designs in while are the representative style* from repre mercerized W'aisiings. sentative makers. Tailored Suits Haiti Co-its. Bressy Golf Blouses. • towns. Tourists Coals Silk Wiiisls. V V OO I U„lf lilonses, sever .l'htldren s( oats, l-.venmg W raps, Intants slv , jn llHvy> ( , . cardinal, Mark. white. In every new style and shape shown | Vice , r;u fc!.so to lor la 1 or winter. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20,1904. ROOD ROADS hESSO.NSS SCHOOL ON WHEELS TO TEACH HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION. i Frhpu Special, With Si* Cur f.oatl* of Houd Uuildiiiji' Miicliiitery, \\ lil j Truvel Through 'IV a State* «od Stop at Nliirty-hvu Tuwnd. A good roads campaign will l>e wageil j throughout Missouri and I lit- south iliis;! fall and winter. A special "good roads j train" will make a two or threei months' tour of the states and terri tories touched by the Frisco railway system. It will be a strenuous crusadu; against bad highways, the incipleney ! of a movement destined to spread I throughout the I'niteil States, says the, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A do/en ottk-hils traveling in two spe- ; cial Pullmans, with six ear loads of i road building machinery and the nee- | essary force of workmen, c.institute (he j train. The visit will take in ninety- | two important trading centers in ten ' states and territories, and there will , be built sample macadam, telford, gravel or dirt roads ut some of them, j and good roads conventions will lie j held for the purpose of procuring good j roads legislation. Hack of this great | educational movement are the lulled i States government, the National lio.id Itoails association, the I-Vlsco Uailway company, a dozen manufacturers of j roadmakiiiK machinery and the people of the localities to be visited. The train is provided at the expense j of the Frisco Uailway company and Is fully equipped for the sleeplug and commissary accommodation of its crew and party for a trip of .VJIKI miles. The parly includes odicial representa tives of the government and of (he .Na tional liooil Koads association, with a changing list of speakers and organi zers. The Hat cars in the train are loaii eil with such roadinakiiiK machinery ; as graders, scrapers, horse and steam rollers, rock crushers, plows, ditching machines, elevator graders, traction engines, etc. The officers of the National tJood Koads association and the officials of the road department of the govern ment, who have given years of study to the subject and know every phase of engineering anil road const ruction, will be <ui hand at each convention. There will also be prominent speakers, Including governors, members of con gress, presidents of universities mid colleges, railroad officials, engineers and the leading oHD-isls. including the mayors and councils of cities, invited to attend and address the conventions. This campaign in which all classes are taking part sweeps through the great breadstuff, cotton, coal, iron, timber and live stock sections of the republic. Good roads can double the beneficial results already attained by the de velopment of natural resources, for good roads create markets. The states and territories through which the good roads train will pass are Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas, Indian Territory Oklahoma, Texas. Mississippi. Ala liauia. Tennessee and Illinois. Some of these have a very heavy rainfall, which, with the heavy gumbo and clay soils and bad public roads, makes primary travel almost impossible during late fall, winter and spring months. In the different places where the government Is co-operating with the localities In building object lesson roads all kinds of road construction and drainage are exemplified. Special attention is given to the common earth, which is the basis of all other road construction. The earth road is properly graded or erowueil anil drain ed with ditches on the sides and drain tile and thoroughly rolled with horse and steam rollers. Macadam, telford. gravel., sand, gumbo and oil roads are also con structed. In many localities where stone or gravel is not available the substitution of gumbo or burnt clay will be thoroughly demonstrated. Oil applied to surface of roads is a mod ern device, but has proved to be a cheap and splendid substance lu con ncctlon with road improvement. At each of the ninety-two points to be visited lu as many days a date will have been set, the event advertised as a sort of autumn picnic, and the town and country people will assemble by thousands. F.ach locality will be ex pected to contribute siiO to $-J<Hi to ward the expense of the undertaking, and after the proper enthusiasm has been aroused the good roads associa tion will he formed, and every mem ber will lie asked to sign a petition to his representative in the state's gen eral assembly in behalf of good roail legislation. Kvery effort will be made by practical demonstration or by or ganization to cause the masses and the politicians to demand that candi dates pledge themselves for a good roads appropriation, of the project | President Moore of Hie National Good i Koads association speaks as follows: l "These special good roads campaigns | will help to accomplish two things, j First, in ih»> near future laws will be : passed providing that all tramps, va ' grants and misdemeanor prisoners 1 shall be worked in (he preparation of | roads or road material; second, sue ; cess will reward the efforts of the la bor unions in their demands that all penitentiary labor now competing with free labor shall be diverted to road work instead, FRANK W. Answers John G. Scouten's Newspaper At tack, and Mr. McMahon Furnishes Affidavit To the people of Sullivan county I desire to ia.it- that the story pub lished in tlie Sullivan Herald and the Sullivan Ca/.cite, in which I am charged with making an tin-J provoked assault on Koberl Me- ; Mahon, is entirely false and un true. To substantiate what 1 say I have procured from Mr. McMa- , lion a sworn statement which shows that I have been falsely and vindictively maligned. I do not know how nianj more lies Mr. Scon ten will circulate about me, j bul I do ask my friends and the' voters in general, to weigh me by my piist, record and not by what j the Scon ten paper says about me. : 1 am unable to see all the voters of Sullivan county and have only this way to say that this story about me is a false, malicious and i political lie. Fit.VNK \\ . Bt'l'lC. State of Pennsylvania i County of Sullivan » SS. Personally appeared before tliei undersigned, a Notary I'ublic in | and for the County and State above ' named, Robert- McMahon. a resi-1 dent of Dushore. Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, who, upon being duly sworn, doth depose and say: That the articles published in the j Sullivan Herald and the Sullivan Gazette, in the issues of said news-1 papers dated October 12. 11(04, al leging that Frank W. Buck had made an unprovoked assault upon me and that we engaged in a fight, are absolutely false, and that said articles are untrue and incorrect. ( Signed") Bom, HI MCMAHON. Sworn and subscribed before me this eighteenth day of October. 1904. Ai.m ut F. HF.KSS, Notary Public. Frank Buck, candidate for the office of Sheriff of Sullivan County, is gaining in popularity every day and we predict that when the votes are counted on the night of election there will he many surprises at the immense vote he will receive. His qualifications for the office are ad mitted by all who know him. In serving legal papers and in execu ting }he orders of the court he stands perhaps without an epual in this county. The false and malicious attack contained in Mr. Scouten's paper last week, lias resulted in rallying his friends to a more determined and united support and will win him many votes in in the section of the ounty where lie is known best and appreciated most. Mr. Buck is too well known and too well liked by his neighbors and friends in this county to be injured by attack against his character ami business qualifications by Mr. Scouten's news paper. The oftener these false ac- j cusations and campaign stories re- i ficcting upon the integrity and abil ity of Frank Buck are printed, the greater is the resentment felt by his friends everywhere and the warmer and strnngcr will be the support given to him. Mr. Buck is a man of strong personality and the people who know him best will light for him to flic last ditch, lie may ap pear to strangers as somewhat short in his way of speaking or perhaps brusque in his manner but a better uqiiaintanee reveals a man of ster ling integrity, whose word is never | doubted, true to his friends as steel, j generous to a fault, kind-hem-ted land sincere, lie is no hypocrite, be walks upright and never crawls; he says what he means and means what he says and the peopie generally like such a man. lie is not the pol ished, slippery, fawning style of pol itician that one often meet-, and his plain, frank majiuer is both refresh ing and inspiring. Heap on your abuscNeighhor Her ald. Misstate, misrepresent, and villiTy to the limit. Vou can per" haps tool part-of the people all the I time and all of the people part of the time but you can't fool all of the people forever. The mask is wear ing off. The people are "onto you" in almost every district and by the time you get the returns, you, too, j will be convinced that when you I tried to work the destruction of Frank W.Buck by willful misrep resentations and cruel and malicious attacks upon his character and stand ing, that you made a serious politi-j eal blunder. DD. HERB MANN A POPULAR CANDI- j DATE FOP MEMBLR. As election draws near it becomes! more evident that l>r. Herrmann i will win by a handsome majority, j That hew ill make a popular and ef-■ flcient Member <-f Assembly, th**re can be no doubt. The Doctor's long residence in | Sullivan county and his extended j practice here have brought him into nearly all the homes of her people. By day and by night, through snow j drifts and storms, he has traveled over the hills and through the val leys of this country to bring relief to the suffering and by his cheerful, genial disposition to infuse good cheer and strength to all in distress. He has been the poor man's friend in trial and adversity and has never i refused togo where help was need I'd. lu homes where* there was pov- '■ ertyas well as suffering, the line tor's big, kind heart has taken him, j well knowing that his ministrations | were never to receive financial re muneration. Not content to merely I visit the sufferer and prescribe, he has furnished the medicine anil re- ( maineil at the bedside until by his skill and care, dispair lias changed into hope and hope into recovery. Many are the homes in this county j that will attest the truth of these assertions and from those homes j to-day go out feelings of gratitude that only wait to tind expression at the | M >tls. I n the neighborhood of the 1 ten- I tor's home political lines are well nigh obliterated and his old time friends and neighbors are glad of the opportunity to show the appre ciation they feel for his worth ami the good that he has done among them by giving him a rousing vote. - 50NEST0WN. llarvey Buck ami sou Harry at tended the laying of the corner stone at Buck's church on Sunday. Tom llouseknecht anil daughters, Peurl and Blanche visited at M. J. I'hilligs Sunday. Saiues Laird of N'ord rout was a business caller at this place. Monday. Frank lla/./.cn and family of Ilarrisburg are visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Win. Ila/./.en. j (Jeo. W. Simmons who is tit! , Georgetown being treated for a can- i ccr on his face, was home to spend Sunday. He expects to stay two more weeks rnd then return home cured. Andrew Edgar was transacting business at Williamsport Saturday. A. T. Armstrong has bought the F.venson house at Hughesville. Miss Mable Bennington of Xord mont spent Friday night anil Satur day with her cousin, Mrs. John Con verse. ltobert Meyers of Strawbridge spent Sunday with Waller lla/./.en. 1 Miss Clara Keeler of Williamsport ' js visiting her sister and brother Mr. : l.ew Keeler and Mi-. B. \V. Sim j nionsof this place. I Tlios. Starr and wife attended the 1 Barto—Harding wedding at Hughes ; ville last week. j Frank Warberton and family of ; Hughesville spent Saturday and Sun day with his parents Mr. and Mrs. 1 Sadler Warberton. 75 TS. PER YEAR .kiiues Shoveling, who was taken from Bernice, several months ago, to the Danville insane Asylum, es caped from that institution last Thursday evening and walked to his home in Bernice, arriving there Saturday aflernoon. The authori ties here were notified and James H. Oansel was sent to bring him to La porte where he was kept in the county jail until Mouday morning when Mr. Oanse! and Harry Landon took him hack to Danville. State Sunday School Convention. The state Sunday School Conven tion held at Pittsburg was the great est meeting of its kind ever held in the Keystone State. Nine hundred delegates were in attendance. Twen ty-one thousand dollars w*re given for work for the coming year. Of this, John Wanamaker, that prince of merchants, and 11. J. Heinz, the great pickle manufacturer gave five thousand each. A rather unexpect ed, if not unique feature of the con vention was the introduction of and a short address hy Itahhi Levy, the Rabbi of the Pittsburg Jewish Syna gogue. lie made a permanent con tribution of one hundred dollars a year to the State S. S. work. Other prominent speakers were Wood row Wilson, President of Princeton l'niver«ity; Pastor Charles Wagner of Paris, France, author of "The Simple Life," the hook lauded by President Roosevelt; Dr. Darby of Wales; John Clark D. D. of the Ohio Association. The large and line display of point ings from the private galleries of John Wanamaker and H. J Heinz were a constant source of delight to all who visited the exhibit. It is estimated that l.Vn people attended the diflerent meetings. Mrs. William Barry ( nee Anna Oanhn) of Satterfield, died ai the Say re Hospital 011 Friday, Oct. 14, after a long illness. Last April she underwent an operation for ap pendicitis and later was compelled to have a second operation /or ab j cesses which formed, and in her | weakened condition she failed to rally the second time. The funer al was held Monday. Mrs. Barry was married less than a year, and before her marriage spent several I years in Laporte. Hector Prichard Dead. ()n Monday last Hector Prichard one of Colley'smost respectd <iti zeus passed to his final reward at the age of sixty years. He was a veteran of the civil war. The Closing Game. The junor base ball teams of the two wards in Laporte. hotly con | tested for the championship and a purse of 82.00. Saturday afternoon of last week. 'l'he "up town"' hoys captured the prize in the closing game of the season, of which the following official score is given in full: • Laporte, 1 - • 4 •"> •> 7 s V) S. Breiger 1 100 10 jK. Carpenter I I I 0 0 I 11. Keeler 1 1I o I IR. Minnier u ! I 11 ! 11. Carpenter o I 0 I lustin Hunter ■' o I 0 o N. barison no 0 j Stack house 0 1 0 c. Coti 00 0 o Total I" I Uatterv—E. Carpenter, ''. backhouse. | Tannery I'J 45ti7 > I J ;K. Wrede 11 Jo o .1. M. McC'or 0 0 On o T. Kennedy 1 I I 1 I j .1. I lominic „ o 0 o j 11. Sehrader 0 0 0 O o ' 1., brieger 0 0 1 0 O 11. Uitter 0 I I ! .1. I'lvnn W 0 o j I!. Kennedy 0 0 0 0 Total. II ! battery—ll. Hitler, K. Wrede. Katonka Tribe No. 88ti, Improved < irder of Red Men of Bernice held a very successful and profitable meet ing in their lodge room at Mildred on Monday evenintr, October loth. ! Past Great Sachem Willets of •' Harrishurir «as present and ad dressed the meeting. After the j meeting a sumptuous banquet was given.
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