VOL. iX. NO. 49. > This Is the Place c < To Buy Your Jewelry \ x Nothing in Town to Compare With \ { the Quality that We are Giving / y You for the Low Price Asked. S C, Qualitv and moderate prices makes a force that\ V irrt sist bl> draws into our store the best patronage r (of this section. Many years here in business, always ) with .if ill line of goods above suspicion; chosen C (with a care and judgment commensurate with its . rabilit> and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ / 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. A r; RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler. HARDWARE No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, OOAL OB WOO 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 socoiid hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low pricod but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and' General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. ; SxitMueT Spring Opening You are all invited to see our stock of Hart, Sell a liner & Mark Hand Made Suits at sls. $lB and S2O. There is no merchant tail rin tlie country who can' make suits, even if you paid sjo, that would equal the | Hurt, Schaffner & Mark suits. We also have thousands; of suits from svso to 10 00. Our entire stock is brand new and we buy such large quantities that enables us to; f.eil at least 2 ? per cent cheaper than any other store. See our stock of SHOES, and Gents Furnishing Goods. .1 will positively pay you to come an see our large' stock. Yoj can not loose anything i! you purchase] amounts 1o $lO or over, as you v ill be paid \our car fare both wa> s. Jacob Per, I HUGHE SVILLE, PENN'A. Notice: Rubber Boots and Shoes at manufacturers' prices. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1905. i KIT.LSGRGVfL | Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Braumheck i gave a farewell parly to Miss ltuth i Kerrick at their home on Rural Ave. : Monday evening among those pres lentwere: Mioses Anna Dewan, Jos ephine and Frankford Lewis; Freda Mcßride, Ora Steck, Tessie and Mil j lie Hoffman, Bessie Biddle, Ethyl ] Norten, Nellie Darby, Fofela Lucas, Ida and Elsie Bunker, Messrs. 11. W. i Darby, VV. M.and M. 11. Harrison, ! Frank and Henry Bachle, F.d. and j Lee Lucas, Fred Bunker 11. 11. (in en i and Dr. Mervine, a pleasantev ening , is reported. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ward Brown and to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sampson, an Friday last, daughter-. Mrs. Kittie Green entertained a party of ladies Monday evening. | Mrs Ilattie Darby mo.ed to Clnst i nut Farm, Mr. Robert Molneux took i possession of the house vacated by j Mrs. Darby, Mr. John Belford I moved from Elk Creek to rooms on ■ North Witter St.and Roland Bates of | Kstella moved to W. L. Hoffmaiis | suburbian villathis week. Miss Maud Meßride of Jersey Shore and Mrs. Peter Wager of Slate Run are visiting friends in town. Prof. Jus. Bowles and Albert Hells ! man of Berni'-e were shaking hands | with friends in town Saturday. A bad game is reported between | 11 illsgrove and Forksville Saturday I next. Your correspondant is requested to i express thanks to bis chief for the I excellent manner in which the ac j count of the Ilillsgrove Commence- ' j inent was published in the News i | item. RiCKETTS. Winter weather continues with oc- j casional flurries of snow. The trout season opened with a ! snow storm. Lovers of the sport j were sorely disappointed and those I who ventured out had to wear over j coats and mittens. Mr. Jim Cordner has moved his family to Ometa Ferry where he will be engaged in farming. Mr. Len Bretz will occupy the house vacated by Mr. Cordner. Mr. C. A. M. Boyd went to To wamla on business last Wednesday. Mr. J. 11. Carpenter started for West Saturday. Mr. Arthur Streevy was called to Wiiliamsport Saturday night to the bedside of his brother who is criti cally ill. Mr. Adam and Charles Moreys' | children are sick with measles. $33 to California j $33 to California from Chicago dai ly, March 1 to May 15, 1905, to San i Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Bar- I bara or Sacramento. Chicago, Mil waukee A-St Paul Railway, Fnion Pacific and Southern Pacific Line. Through tourists sleepers leave Fn ion Passenger Station, Chicago, 10: 25 l*. M.daily, for principal points in California. Double berth in tourist sleeping car all the way costs only 112", and af j ords a comfortable and economical 1 manner of crossing the continent. ; F. A. Miller, General Passenger Ag j ent, Chicago; or W. S. Howell, 381 ; Broadway, New York. General Germ is the name of a i Russian Army General. This is the ! name generally in every army though he is always on the side of the enemy. * To the School Directors of Sulli i . j van ( ounty: Gentlemen: In pursuance of the I forty-third section of the act of May, l , stb., ls.Yl.'you are hereby notified j to meet in convention, at the Court; i House, in LaPorte, on the first Tues-! day in May, A. I>. 1905, being thel second day of the month, and select viva voce,|hy a majority of the .whole j number of directors ■sent, one per son of literary and scientific acquir monts, and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, as county super iutendenf. for the three succeeding year«; ""'I certify the result to the state superintendent, at llarrisluirg, as required by the thirty-ninth and fortieth seefinus of said act. J. F. B"ese Killgore, County Superintendent of Sullivan I County. A LOll3 Jovrney on Foot. W. It. Wilcox, of near Hurrisburg, ; has completed his final preparaiions | for a tramp across the continent on | which he will start on April If, his | fifty-ninth birth-day, from City Hall I New York. | Mr. Wilcox is not taking the jaunt i ion a wager, but simply to prove that, I simple living and outdoor life are all | I thai are necessary to obtain splendid ; ] health, lie gained some notiriety a j year ago by submitting hi i.-self to! ! the longest fast on record, when he, did without food for sixty days. His idea was to cure himself of a se j vere case of indigestion, which had! reduced him ton skeleton, lie was j j entirely successful, for to-day he i the picture of health and weighs, at t normal, 150 pounds. Mr. Wilcox firmly believes that j gluttony kills ten persons to alcohol's j one, and he says that the crying curse j of the day, and especially of this, country, is over-eating. !Ie has also ! | given up medicine of all -orts. and j considers two light meals a day, J ! omitting breakfast, sufficient for any ( j man, no matter what his labor. Mr. Wilcox expects to reach San i Francisco before the end of the year ] anil says that if fortune favors him j hew ill complete ttie distance of 3,;(Ml! miles even before that lime. Pennsylvania has agitated the sub-1 jeet of good roads for a long time.; It has seen New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts hegin to build! good roads while this state still i struggles over the question of proper legislation. The legislatuer of tv.o I years ago gave the largest appropri-! ation for food and the most liberal provision for state aid known in the history of this reform. The law was ! too cumbrous for easy working, and j the present legislaturt|has simplified it somewhat and increased the ration of state aid to local expenditure. By the amended bill now in the Hover j nor's hands the state increases its sharA of the cost of goed roads con struction from <>G 2-3 to 83 1-3 per centum. The country will pay its share of the improved roads in its; limits 8 1-3 per cent. The property holder fronting on the improved road is not charged a cent in addition to his porportion of the township and county tax. This ought tostjmulatc! good road building in this state enor- j mously and immediately, ft rests; with the counties and townships to j get this s:? 1-3 per cent of state nid j and they probably will do so. The | more advanced sections of she state j will be the first to take advantage of ( I | the state's liberality, and the con-, dition of the public roads will soon, be a testof the relative intelligence! and enterprise of the people living I along them. On Wednesday evening after prav ! er meeting, a large number of tliej United Evangelical church members j and friends of the church assembled ; in the lecture room to extend friend- j ly greetings to their newly appointed | pastor and to his family. Prof. J. G.i Dundore in a pleasing manner de-j livered the address of welcome, to j which Rev. S. S. Mumey responded in very appropriate words. The* words of welcome were emphasized ! by means of a large quanity of gro. ! ceries which were cheerfully receiv ed by the pastor. After the response j the social committee served refresh- j ments, during which time Mrs. Mum ey and daughters rendered very ac ceptable music.—Hughesville Mail. The North American D. . rlopment company, with head quarters at 520 i Walnut street, Philadelphia, intend | so it is reported, to begin boring for j ; oil near Fnityville within a month !or six weeks. The prospects are j j said to be exceptionally bright, j I Nearly all the land in that section <»t j the county has been leased by the ! company on the reccomendation of ! experts, and the members are san guine of success. i W. 11. Temple of near Fnityville, has on his farm some apple frees which bear choice fruit, goo I si/.e and flavor, and the app'es are almost j seedless. The seeds cr • not much larger than a pin head and there be ing adsolutely no white part within the seed. I Change in Forest Fire Law. ; to a new art amending J tilt; one regarding forest fires, the ■ compensation for those assisting : n jovtin, ig forest fires lias be< n suhstafK. increased, as well as i the peimK v those who refuse to i help the tire trden. The original j hill provided that constables of ! townships shall call upon anyone for ] asslstancejwhen lire is discoveredjin tae forests within their districts and ! thatjfor the extinction of the tire, j the constable actinias ex-otiieio fire Ichief, shall receive 15 cents,an*hour, j and the person assisting twelve cents jan hour as compensation also that j any person who hbing called upon j'>y the lire warden refuses to comply | with thejorder shall pay a fine of I!en dollars. The amended act not on Ily directs constables to take action J when the forests in their respective j townships are burning*, hut likewise ; gives them authority to engage fire i lighters when fire is approaching the forests within their precints. The ! pay of the fire warden, under the re vised bill, i- increased to 2"< cents an hour and his assistants Jo cents an hour. Tins expense shall he paid ! one-haM' out of the treasury of the j county and the other half by the j ->tate upon warrant by the Auditor I General. but no such warrant shal! !>e drawn until Ihe respective conn • y commissioners shall have furnish • d und<*r oath or affirmation, a writ- '< ten itemized statement of such ex- j pense. As for the pi naltv; it wili; now cost anyone who refuses to lend i baud to the extinguishing of a for- i • ->t fire twenty dollars instead of ten,! or undergo imprisonment not ex- j ceding thirty days, or both, at the ! discretion of the court. It is alsoj provided that no county shall be lia-1 iile to pay for the extinguishing the forest tires in any one year an -.'.mount exceeding one-fourth the mount of the county taxes on un seated hind received by sain county for the last preceding year unless the tmourit so received be less than five hundred dollars. Death ol Mrs. Esther DsitricK, I>ied at her home in Wiiliamsport j Pa., 011 Thursday April 13, 15105, j Ksther (iadora Dei trick (nee Duck) I after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Deitrick was born at Penns-1 dale. Lycoming county, Pa., August ! 1(5, 1880, and was the daughter of j sheriff Frank W. Buck and wife" of i La porte, Pa. She was married to Frederick Deitrick of Wiiliamsport; Oetoberl, 1903. She and her hus-j hand have resided in Wiiliamsport from the time of her marriage to her j death. Mrs. Deitrick was possesse-d of a j bright cheerful disposition, which | with her kindness of heart endeared , her to all with whom she became acquainted, so that she was a gener ! al favorite with all acquaintainces. j In her death her husband has lost j a true and atfectionate wife, her par-' ents a loving and dutiful daughter, j and the community a use ful and re- ! -pected member. Her loss will be deeply felt, not only by those of her j own age, but by the young and old j of her acquaintances as she had a pe- j euliar faculty of endearing herself: to all, no matter of what age wijh whom she was thrown in company, j The Modern Woodmen of Amcri-■ ca paid to the widows and orphans of deceased members more than $6. 000,000 in the year l!)0."j. Its mcin- 1 bership en March Ist. was 715,042, j and hut eight monthly assessments i were called in 1904. Tim April as sessment for this year has been o-1 i initted. there being nearly $2,000. I 000 in the treasurer of the company. ; No oilier Fraternal Insurance Com pany in America is ably and econ omically conducted as the Modern Woodmen, and the evidence that j it is recognized as the best, is the numbers and quality of its mem bers. .No one over forty-live years is accepted as a member. The peo ple who are looking for the best •wili join the Modern Woodmen. < >u May I next the Penn Tanning company will be merged with the F.lk Tanning company and the main ofl'iee of the Penn Tanning company will move from Sheffield, Pa. to | Itldgway, Pa. 75 TS. PER YEAR I Republican County Convention. Last \\'i ck we pubislied an outline of tin- proceedings of the County ! Convention. W« 4 now publish the official report. ; jgjl 'elogates. Bernice -Dr. Jolin A. Campde.l, Richard P. Webber, H. \V. Osier, John C.'Sliaad,®William 11. Brown. Cherry —Robert C. It. Kishinka, Lewis 15. Zancr, Levi D. Yonkin, William Leonard. Colley L. L, Ross, 11. L. Hun singer. David.--.on—!>. L. Lorah, Mordica Kif.tr. Jerome Laird, John W. Ruck. Dushore—.laeob 11. Bohn, C'haun cy, Albert F. lleess. - F.lkland - Jesse i>. Fveritt, FrmikJ|ll. McCartv, 1!. K. Luther, P. A. Boyle. *Fo\ Ambrose K. Campbell,Sam uel Leonard, E. M. Letts, \V. 11. Fanning. Forks—Joseph 11. Bird. Forksville—J. W. Rogers, Dr, J. R. Davies. I.aporte township—William J. Lowe, J. A. Mostelier. Laporle Boro—Charles R. Fun ston, John A. Gumble. Lopez—Martin L. Lynch, C. L. Fair, James R. Walsh, George llrowti, Charle sSehoek. Mt. Wrnon—George W. Lauren snn. Jacob li. Bohn of Dushore was eliosen as president of the Conven tion and Martin L. Lynch of Lope/, and D. 1! Lorali of Davidson were named as vice presidents. Hit-hard I*. Webber of Bern ice, and Albert F. Heess of Dushore, were elected as secretaries. The lii'-t business to come before the convention was the election of a deleg ite t > attend the State Conven tion to be held at llarrisburg •on Ypril Fred Newell was elected delegate. John C. Cornell of Rickettfl vv ; elected Alternate to the State Con vention. Resolved; That from and after this date there will be only one reg ular convention of the Republican party of this county in each year; and that beginning with the conven tion to be held at the call ot the County Chairman during the sum mer of 1005, said convention shall elect delegates and alternates to the state Convention, Senatorial and Congressional and other conferees and alternates for the following year: and that the Republican, County Standing Committee is hereby au thorized and directed to fill any | vacancies that may occur in said I offices. A resolution was also adopted by which the delegates elected at the primaries on April Ist 1005, shall ; hold over and be the delegates to the regular County Convention to be held during the summer of 190") at a time to be fixed by the County a nd t!i it any vacancies ex isting or which may occur in said list of delegates shall be filled by | appointnnnit of the members of the I County Standing Committee in the | district in which Much vacancy may I exist or occur. | Congressman K. W. Samuels was ! then called upon, and responded in i a brief speech, in which he stated 1 that Ite felt it to be his duty to come ! here and tender to the pcohle per sonally his thanks for the nice ma jority given him last November. County Commissioners' Job Is Now Sal | Salaried. J Governor I*enny|mcker is hard at work on the many bills that were -sent to him by the Legislature the i last few days of the session. Among the I iils meeting the Governor's ap : proval is the one of fixing the salar ies of th" county commissioners of the various counties of the common wealth. The > darics for commiss ioners are as follows: In counties having le-s than ten thousmd pop ulation, between 10,000 and .'lO,llOO, f.'iOll; between ."0,000 and .18,1100, f700; ;W,OOO an I o't.ooo, #1 ,00(1; ,jo,0(H) and T.j.eoO, $li!00; bet ween 7a,0U0 and 110.000, fl,f»0»>; 1 io.oOo and I .'>o,ooo, ? I,Ko<>; in all other eoiiaiies salaries are uot t haug i ed. t
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