VOL. IX. NO. 23. CTo Buy Your Jewelry C X Nothing in Town to Compare With X ( the Quality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage fof this section. Many years here in business, always } } with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment comm-nsurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ r our store a safe place to invest. C P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r \teed, by skilled workmen. Yourordersappreciated. X > RETTENBURY, > The Jeweler. COLE HARDWA^E^ —— T- THjfyK **' ' J T ~" K " r * ~~ m m No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB 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 second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Ease Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Blankets and Comforts Chilly nights suggest that Blanket season is near at hand. The assortment is now at its best. All our Blankets are carefully selected and may he strictly relied upon. We huy and sell only the best »lanke ts. We keep a full assortment of the celebrated Muncy Wool Blankets. Wool Blankets, White Blankets, Scarlet Blank -ts. Cotton Blankets, Colored Blankets, Kancv Blankets, Crib Blankets, Crey Blankets, Kobe Blankets. BED COMFORTS in a great variety of floral effect patterns either light or dark colorings. They are filled with pure white cotton, EIDERDOWN COMFORTS 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. Thp saleofwllite ( . OUOII Wniß , injpi ,,J Suit making has readied a high state lieen so satisfactory that we have largely of perfection. This perfection von will extended the assortment. You are in find fully emphasized in our stock. They vited to see these new designs in white are the representative styles from repre- mercerized Waistings. sentative makers. Tailored Suits Rain Coats, Dressy Golf Blouses. Gowns, Tourists Coats, Silk Winnie, . ...... ... . Children's Coats. Evening Wraps, Infant's . "" • St vll £ oa)8 • at styles to select from in navy, gray. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1904. ' i ' I THE GHAKQE Conducted by J. V/. DARROW, Chatham. K. V.. Press Carrespondrnt Xcw Yorlc Stale Grange 1 LEGISLATION FOR FARMERS. '♦Tlie Farmerit' Dotly" lit the Vermont Li'ftiNlaliire. I At the 1002 session of the Vermont legislature there was organized what is known as the Farmers' Legislative I hotly. There were that year 21t> mem bers of the legislature who were farm ers, and 100 of them were enrolled in this organization. The purpose is to guard the farmers' interests and black legislation that is undesirable. It his succeeded admirably thus far. Among t lie desirable reforms accomplished through the efforts of this legislative body is one whereby the amount al lowed by the slate t i farmers for cat tle killed on account of tuberculosis is increased from 50 to SO per cent of their value. Several bills that had f>r their object the securing of heavy sums from the stale treasury were practically killed by this body before j>eiuir introduced into the legislature. Kemtlar meetings are held every week during the legislative season, an l till bills of special interest to farmers are discussed and plans laid for united, in- ; telligent action. There is no partisan ship in this organization, and 110 un worthy motives iniluenee it. The or ganization is a permanent one and will meet at the forthcoming session of the j legislature and pursue its labors as usual. It is expected that many new farmer members will be enrolled this yea r. The committed on legislation has out lined certain measures its a basis of ! work the organization, among which are these: All mortgaged property to be ex- I eiupt from taxation to the extent that the mortgage is taxed within this state. : Nn exemption from taxation to be al- I .wed oil .'"-count of debts owed with- i out this staie. As to roads, SIOO,OOO per annum to to appropriated from ti estate treasury for permanent high- i ways in addition to the present high- | way lax. A libera! appropriation for a permit- j neat, well appointed dairy school. Noil- ! residents to pay annual license tax of j SI 1 ) to a stale futul for puyinu actual » dan:■ ge de.e by deer to cultiv t<'d crop.-. Ex. ess of Sl.ooo togo to state highway fund. All automobiles to be plainly num- j bercti and registered with the secreta ry of state and tla ir use restricted to certain roads With regard to incrcas cd revenues. Stloo.niHi per aunnni to be raised I•> increase of tax on rail roads, transportation, sleeping car and telephone companies. I v_ National firnnjrc li was linally dci ided some weeks ago that the II;I!I.niiil grange should unci sit Portland, Ovc. Tin* business men Hl' Hint city -aihscribed S'J.'on US iui enlortainmenl fund. Perhaps It wail ill he in iro accurate to say that the executive committee of the nation al grange r<-quired that the Oregon anil Washington granges should furnish ".(HIH candidates to lake the seventh degree which. at -V' each as the initia tion fee, would be S2,lHi(i. Should they furnish this number then probably the: amount advanced by the business men would lie returneil to them. The dele- Kates from the east to Portland will I meet at tie Si. I.mis exposition and ;;•» mi from there Nov. 11 in speehil ears. It is expected that the session of this national gringo will do much to inspire new zeal among members of the order on the Pacilic coast. A Wine I'tnis. Two youiiv men and one young wo man. members of the grange in New- York stale, will enjoy-the bene tits of the grange scholarships at Cornell lini versuy this year. The winners of these prizes are t\ li. Tiison of Maple drove, N. V.; Gilbert I'role of Batavia, N. V..and Kditii Wilson of .Moravia, N. Y. The value of the scholarships is SCii) each. The grange is doing a good work in offering these scholar ships. They are awarded to youug members of the grange on competitive! exaiain ii -w. held in each county : v. here applicants reside. The Order can do 110 letter limn to help deserving young it.en ami women to an agricul tural educate Sy»teji:atic IVorli Telln. I A photograph of the.olllcers of tiie Pennsj lvania slate grange was offered by the executive committee to each grange that added live or more new members during the 11 est ipiarter of the year. Ii had taken UP photos to g» around up to Oct. 1. Some granges added many times the required num ber. Well systematized work is bring ing splendid results in the Pennsyl vania state grange, as it will every where. The annual session of the Ohio stnt" grange will b( held a week later than usual this year i.e., Dee. 20-li-.' at Warren, Trumbull county, O. "11 - ' " V j iTcod Notes ! A in an ICrr.vlish automobile^ prtper <•! i!n:« t'nat ro uls could bo kept J ent!y camp by the application • 112 sir ng .■ I'.itic, s of <a.Jcium chloride, :.r nmvne.-itutit chloride itnd that this v ei'd l.e c! ":it'cr than oils and with out l! 'ir object tollable o^ors. ! Tile e is nothing conn,vied with the occupation of farming that costs the farmer si much actual cash from year I to year as a bad road. A s ic'cty for the prevention of dust i >n roads has been formed in (iermany. O"od ftonds Magazine says that in New Jersey. Mas; lrlm-et ts and oi'i r J good roads slates it is very ii'itii c,i!:le ■ ' how sc. teats are building up alot:g t| lines of improved r lads. _ Kmplo? Com*.:otexit Men. : Coin|K i .;i men should lie employed to survey and lay out roads and to j con .ruct aad la.iini iin them, for it is 112 >liy to «■«■'•!<-y an incoiupetent person to d > sti -li work and cuject satisfac tcry res,tits, n i-t no ttticommoa thing . to s;".' a novice in road construction ' make the ditch on the wrong side of | i the road, and if you asU such a man j why he d.da't ditch the road lie will j I very positively toil you he did. Vet it ! would seem that even the horsi sand j ; mules that travel the road would know | better. I'itches always be on : the high < >i* hill sale of a ro.ul, aad when the land is level botli sides should i be well ditched, for ample drainage is absolutely necessary In Ueep'ng tip a . dirt road liirt roads should be work 1 ed in the early summer, ami not In | late summer or fall, hut repairing should be in order, at all seasons.- A , Speaker til National Gooil Roads Con vent ion. iPiivor Yarrow Country Iti>:i«3.s. A movement is on foot in lliin.'s to ] reduce the width of country roads | from sixty to forty feet. The fa run i - i are especially in favor of this project lon the ground that under present on : d' ~112 )|„. roadway is cov .-eeds which scatter their Ijacent la i'is. Another ar ; gument in favor of the narrower roads ! 1 Is that the <ost of macadamizing and | maintenance is less. | I ' Cunluow I,o>it I»y liiipn-oiilile Komi*. I J#! 1 * ''p""- ;'••• »' immertinl • i iu!i if Pali- rfly. Noii'.j Riijmifffl re cently before tlic comity I 'i.n'd to sec j If something could not be done lo itu ! prove the bottom r > :<ls. T'ois net lon | Is said to be ilue t tic fnet that hun | droits of dollars' worth of business is | lost each j ear on account of the im passible condition of the road loading ; Into the city, the business golm: to (he | smaller tow nu , Hpkullm of Improving n I o 11 MikNonri County. I At a recent good roads eonvention held in MKsoiri Mrs. W L. Ueigor, a practical farmer, o.vni : and oj t rating u large place in Ito'uiaa comity, told how bad roads affected her business in terests. ••When I took hold of the farm." she said, "1 found large portions pi i tical ly useless fir cnltivatiou on account of lack of drain ige. Water gathered i there from all sides. Ail old < onfed erate soldier, a neighbor, explained to mo how to overcome the c'fc t. and now I have a well drained farm with four miles of drains. "When 1 ottered the place for sale an agent looked it over. He said. Tf there were a good road leading to West Plains, our trading town, the farm would be worth $75 an acre. 1 could i sell it for that.' And others told me the same. "The road to West Plains was nearly impassable, and their Interest ill the; • pan e decreased visibly after the drive from town. Many a time i . vehicle was mud bound for an hmr or uiore until some s. 'od neighbor helped me out. l.ast year St.SUO was raised by subscription an I work begin on the , worst part of the highway. It isn't a j good road yet. of course, hit it's far Letter than ever before. There is liet ter demand for farms. So:ae 1 know of that were offered for ¥l"' an acre last year have been sold for $-0 an ; acre." "Why shouldn't the women help in the good roads work':" she said. "There is a good opportunity and purpose for' women's clubs. Thcj could do great I work." Would InfrriiHC I'arm Vuturx, A well known i .vi 1 emit: or. Profess- j or Thomas Me' lan hat) c. Illinois, an i expert rou.ijnaker. eaiinai' ■ that thor j en;:!) tliiil ; ii - :■' ■ 11* <>:' ; rntrle roads I would make enoi'a'a ili:"ci in then; j to add slo an acre lo the ''est farm in j central Illinois, and Professor .lore ! inlah \\ .lenks. I'll. I)., in "Wo i Leu islation I >r the American Slate." oh 1 serves: "Jud.ing from the inere.iseil j value of all farm lands sltnati il near J cities or la'ue towns, if the road t > the town is a good one it is hardly ex travagant to say that two thirds of the farms lu the Mississippi valley, of which the present value is from $-10 to S3O tin acre, wou'd tie increased in value to the extent of SlO an acre if Bood roads were made by them." i $i,5C0.000 Raised to Build New Railroad. Contract Let. < Jiicf Ktigineer ilurvoy and J. D. Stone of tin- New York Pennsyl vania A- South Western U- R. ( for merly liiiighainton ami Southern 1:* It. ) were in town on Tuesday and I filed with Recorder Kennedy a niort tfajre of >M,500,000 to secure bonds to i that aniount and naming th.i Knick erboeher Trust Co. of New York a> I trustee. The jjentlenieri above nam ed said the road would lie built but ; declined to state the exact location, however that may he here is success to the X. V. 1\ S. May it soon he j built and long; prosper. We are in ! funned that the Could lines nor any ! other trunk lines have a dollar in j vested iu the proposed road. It is ;an independent company so far as I other railroads are concerned. The i road will run direct between Will ! iamsport and iSinghaiiiton making' i 110 miles of track. The contract- for | constructing' the road lias been let to Rogers 1 !ros., ;t I'liiltuh-lphia firm. Work of constructing has been coin ! menced near W'yaKi-ing. Judfjc Eicct Charles E. T<:rry. As our readers well know this pap ier did its utmost, in an honorable manner to secure the re-election of 'Judge I*'.. M. Dunham, we -till re j grot that lie suffered defeat a t the j polls. Our readers also noticed that the Xi.ws 1 TKM did not attack i I tttlge Duulnim's opponent—not a i ittgle word was puhlisheil attacking I !ii> cliaracter its a man or as a lawyer. We left to the "Herald" and its: poor echo, the "Gazelle ' the des. t picahlo work of maligning' character j by mud slinging and cowardly lies. Mr. Terry, who for ten years will he our next .ludge, is unknown t>> ! the editor of 11»i- paper, but tve are | reliably informed that he is a man of •hnracter and independi nee, well ; (Ualiiieil, both by hi- legal attain -1 i i' iits and his reputation as :i genth - ! man, to ftfllill with honor to him -eif and the people, the highly re sponsible position of President Judge. II this true as we sincerely hope it is, a great fear will hen moved from themindsof many people. If Mr. Terry proves to be as his friends -ay he will, a Judge who will be his own ma-ter, independent of sinister influence.*, and above being govern t«I in local matters, by Pot House politicians and would he Czars, he will meet and receive the good will and hearty support of all decent people. We are assured by those in w lioni we have great confidence, ami who have known him during his w hole life, thtit Mr. Terry wiil be a t'eir, impartial and nun political .Judge. We are content to place confidence in their statements, and iI his acts bear out this high praise, he will hav • no firm i ••upportiv than the NIAVS ITKM; for we believe that fair minded, impartial and nnn par tisan judges are the highest type ol manhood and as ,-uch entitled to til! tin people can give them. Barns Bvrned at Lciirtlsville. The large barn on the farm of Frank Phillips, near l.:iirtlsville,wa ; burned bet weed 1- and 1 o'clock Saturday night. 1 The lire was of inn tidiary origian. In addition t<> the barn, two liar jvi sters, a new thrasher and all of ithe other farm machinery of Mr. ; Phillips were destroy -d, and one j horse, a cow and a mule were burn ed to death. The farm of Mr. Phillips adjoins I that of James 1 Larding, w hose barn was destroyed by an incendiary lire ! Tue-day night of last w< ek. It is needless to say that the com i uiunity is very much inflamed, and if the firebug is caught it will go ex | tretnely hard with him. R»:ccpliun to Dr. Samvsls. A jollitication and reception to 1 I ir. Samuel, the newly elected inem-; j ber of (.'(ingress from this district is | being arranged by Rloontsburg Re ! publicans,to be held Friday evening, i Tin'reception to the sticce-sful can-! didate will be held at the exchange ! hotel in Bloomshurg. There will be a parade, tireworks and jubilation in various form- I 75 TS. PER YEAR The Lale Judge Game I. Joseph Hansel was born in Main villo, Columbia county, Pa., 011 the , fourth day of January 1818, and died j October 30, 1904, aped 86 years, 9 j months, and 2<> days. lie moved into Sullivan county at an early day, : and was elected sheriff, and later in life was elected Associate Judge, both of which ofHce he tilled with acceptability. He was a member of ♦ lit* M. K. church for sixty one years; until ago and extreme feebleness prevented he was a constant atten dant at public worship and other means of grace. lie was class leader twenty-six years, superintendent-of the Sunday School thirty years, one of the stew ards and a trustee at the time of his death. When he could no longer attend the public religious services he inquired diligently, and was in teresied in the church until his death. I lis pastor, Itev. if. M. Ash, de livered an appropriate funeral ad dress, based on the words "And if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is there strenght, labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away," after which his remains were laid to rest in the Sonostown cemetery by those of his wife, who preceded him about t'trce years ago. Published by Request. ! Charles II Dickcrman vs. J. Wes- J ley Yankirk* Yerdict. And now Ito wit: October lltli I '.ml, we the j Jurors empaneled in the above en titled case, tind by direction of the court a verdict in favor of the I'iaiuliff and against the Defendant for the sum of tfl!">.00 I'. C. The above official copy of the rec ord of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northumberland, of December term 1902, No. 180, is the termination of the suit for slander 1 was compelled to bring, for my own juststication, against J. Wesley Yan kirk, for a gi'o-s libel, circulated by my opponent, the notorious Uod charles, during the Congressional campaign of 1902. The defendant acknowledged he had no defense, and threw himself upon my mercy. It appearing that he had been mere ly ai|, instrument in the hands ot a bold and unscrupulous politician, who had availed himself of a tem porary pique, for his own purposes, and as Yankirk had been at one time a faithful employee of the com • pany of which 1 was Treasurer, had been a gallant soldier in the War of the Rebellion, was practically with out means, aged and intirni, I con sented to acci pt nominal damages. In addition, there was a question whether any considerable number of the voters of the district had been deceived or influenced by its circula tion. I was elected by a satisfaatory ma jority, and as the character for truth and veracity of the person who act ually circulated the slander is such that no reasonable jury was likely to believe that any statement made or circulated by him, or through his in strumentality, could influence any great number of our citizens, it was deemed by counsel and myself un necessary to insist upon a larger ver dict. C. H. Dickerman. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 11. Buy enter tained a party of many young friends on Monday evening in honor of their oldest daughter, Edna, fif teenth birthday, at their homo near Money Yalley. The evening was spent in playing many beautiful and interesting games, Mr. Kmory shires making the center of enjoy ment and amusements. Those that were bresent were the follow ing: Misses Anna (juinn, Kdna l'a> lor, Maggie Phillips. Bessie Kul nier, liuth Phillips, Kdna Bay, Hel en Phillips, May Warburton, Caro line Bay, Jessie Phillips, Orpha Armi s.Mina Pay and Clara Phillips. Messrs. Krnest Temple, Harvey Warburton, Howard Bay, Leon Schug, William and Kmory Shires, Karl Philips, Lester and Jasper Bay, llusli and Howard Amies, Paul Schug and C. O. and Win. C, Taylor. Prof. B. 1.. Meyrs, Albert Bay and Mr and Mrs. Win. H. Bay.
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