Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO. 12. > This Is the Place \ C To Buy Your Jewelry s s Nothing in Town to Compare ( the Quality that We are Giving J ) You for the Low Price Asked. p ? Ounlitv and moderate prices makes a force that\ Vresistblv draws into our store the best patronage ( rot this section. Many years here in business, always ) S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C r V yith a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability tore tine taste, makes \ / our store a safe plac to invest. v P Repair work Srone on short notice and guaran-Q \teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X C RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORE, PA. The^Je^len^ cours'^^^i No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD HEATERS; ONE OP 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. GENERAL STORE ® Baporle Tannery. ® FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS FOUND HERE. lust received a special purchase of "Riches ' Flannels, r Lumbermens' Shirts and Drawers, Men's, ladies' and Childrcns' Mitts, Gloves and Hosiery. There's Lots Here to Show You From the \City. Fresh stock of Diy Goods and Notions, Boys and Men's Hats and Caps, full line of Snagproof Shoes and Rubbers, Ladies', Gents' and Children's Goodyear Rub bers Woodsmen and Boys Shoes to suit all. Our Usual Quality of Groceries and Provisions are Equal to the BEST. JAMES McFARLANE. Try The News I in Job Office Once. Fine Printing I \3E? --' - We Print To Please. Subscribe for the News Item LAPGRTF, 2 JLLI7AN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1905. i. iRDANCIi. To secure better A sanitary conditions in the ri:o..gh of Kagles Mere, Sullivan county, Pennsylvania. Nertion 1. He it enacted by the Cliie! Burgess and Town Council of the Borough of Kagles Mere and it is hereby enacted by authority ol the same—that all that portion of the Borough lying and being between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Lake, and between Kagles Mere Avenue and the Lake, and between La/ - ewood drive and the Lake, shall constitute and be known as Sanitary District Number One. Section "2. Any person or persons who shall build or maintain a cess pool for an out-house, or for any pool to throw rotten garbage, manure, or pigpen filth in, within the limits of Sanitary liistric No. i, or any other matter or thing that by exposure will begin to decay, or become offensive to the public, or injurious to the health of the community, or detrimental to the purity of the waters of Kagles Mere, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $25, to be recovered according to law, and paid to the Borough Treasurer for the use of the Borough, and in addition, such person or persons shall upon notice of the High Constable or any policeman, be required to abate, remove or suppress the said cess pool, or other offensive and in jurious matter or thing within twenty four hours after such notice; and in case the same is not removed, abated or suppressed at the expiration of such time, it shall be the duty of the High Constable, or any Policeman, serving such notice, to cause the same to be removed, abated or suppressed, /'eeping an accurate account ol the ex penses thereof, which the person or persons so offending shall be liable to pay, with fifty per centum additional as a fine for neglect or refusal, to be collected according to law. Section 3. It shall be the duty ol the High Constable or any Police offi cer who discovers any cess pool, or any unhealthy or decaying matter letrimental to the purity of the water >f Lake Kagles Mere, to report the same in writing to the Chief Burgess it once, and if in the opinion of the Burgess immediate action is required to remove such unhealthy or decaying matter detrimental to the purity ol the water of Kagles Mere, he shall lirect in writing the High Constable ar and Policeman, to cause such < unhealthy or decaying matter 1 lo be removed or disinfected, j under direction of Board of Health, i and the Borough shall be liable I Lo pay the expenss thereof upon the account being presented to the town council, and the town council shall thereupon proceed according to law to collect the same from the owner or the occupant of the premises where such nuisance was caused or permitt ed. with twenty-five per cent addition al as a fine for causing or permitting the nuisance as aforesaid on his prem ises. F. W. PKAI.K, Chief Burgess. Attest: C. PKAI.K, Jr., Clerk of Council. AN ORDINANCK regulating the H building, repairing and relaying of the side or foot walks upon and along the public streets in the Boro ugh of Laporte, Pennsylvania, and over and upon the lands abutting on and along the sides of turnpike roads in said Borough, fixing the width and designating the materials out of which same shall be constructed, and regulating the service of notice on propertv owners, to build, repair or relay side walks in said Borough, and providing for the filing of liens therefor, when done by the Borough Council. Section 1. Beit enacted and or dained by the Town Council of the Borough of l.a Porte, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same : That the owner or owners of all lots fronting upon the public streets of the Borough of Laporte, Pennsyl vania, and the owner or owners of lands abutting on and along the sides of turnpike roads within the limits of said Borough of Laporte. shall, when required so to do by the 1 own Coun cil of said Borough, build or relay side or foot walks along their respec tive lots, fronting upon the public streets of said Borough, and over and upon their lands abutting on and along the sides of turnpike roads within the limits of said Borough, upon such grade or grades as are now established, or which may hereafter be established by the proper authorities of said Borough. Said side or foot walks shall be built along the sides of said streets and turnpike roads at the places and in the manner designated by the Town Council of said Borough, and shall be not less than four feet in width. Same shall be built of boards, plank, stone, flagging, brick, concret, ashes, cinders or gravel, at the option ~112 the lut or land owners, and on fail ure of any lot or land owner or own t-rs to build or relay such siiK 01 foot w.iUs after fifteen days' notice in writing shall have Ih*cu given *ui It owner or owners or their agent or agents iu the manner provided by law ti. build 01 relay said sidi or loot walks, then the Town Council shall proceed to build or relay same, as the j case shall require, using any of the materials above mentioned for the construction of same, at their option, and shall collect from such owner or owners the cost of said work and ma terials, with twenty per centum ad vance thereon, and file a municipal lien therefor, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of Assembly. Section 2. It is further enacted that all repairs to side or foot walks already constructed upon and along the streets and turnpike roads of said Borough of I.aporte, when required to be made, shall be governed by the above regulations. Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. I,aporte, Pa., July 11, 1905. JAMKS McFARLANK, President of Town Council Attest: W. P. RITTKR, Secretary Town Council. Approved this nth dav of July, A. 1). 1905. TIIOS. K. KENNKDV, Chief Burgess. This ordinance shall take effect <>ll and after the first day of August A.I) 1905. In the Morris Bun mines suspen sion situation a new phase has arisen. The matter of greatest significance in the affair is that the union has start ed to pay all of the men in the dis trict the full amount they would re ceive if they were on strike. Inas much as there is no strike this i> said by the miners to mean that the national body considers the action of the company a violation of the agree ment and will tight it. Some interesting developement.- are expected by the men, who are now in the same predicament they were before Secretary Wilson of tin national office in Indianapolis de- j clared the strike oil and sent the men to work. The money paid the miners during such times is, in most cases, sufficient to care for them. During the fifteen months' strike the union men sent $4,1200 every week to t'te strikers for their maintenance. Some families , received as high as s*n. a month. The union figures so much a person, a liberal allowance being made for children in the families. A unique method of getting hear ers to receive the Word was resorted ; to Sunday night at the village of Al- < media when Bcv. Stover of the j Evangelical church couldn't get the j congregation to come to him so he went to the congregation. For several months interest in church work in the Kvangelical church of Almedia had been on the decline and several Sundays when the good minister, Bcv. Stover re paired to his church to preach the Gospel he would liml the pews emp ty. He was resourceful however and noticed that a large congregation of men and boys were always gathered on a Sunday evening at the corner of the Englehart wagon shop, lie determined to have hearers even though he had togo where they were. On Sunday evening the minister with his choir stopped at the street corner instead of going onto the church and commenced the service. A larg number of people were gathered to gether sitting on the steps on piles of lumber and on old wagons. The choir sang several selections, the minister prayed and preached a very instructive and impressive sermon. At the close he announced that ser vices would again be held at the same time and place in two week->. It wa> a strange procedure but it worked and Bev. Stover had a con gregation. A terrible electrical storm passed over a portion of fblumlda county, Wednesday of last week, being most severe at liloom«hurg »"d sur rounding country. The rain tell in torrents and was accompanied l>y a heavy fall of hail stones, some of them being a> large a> walnuts 1 Cornstalks had their leaves cut into ribbons and much vegetation was was beaten to the ground and ruin !od. Several residence-, were 'truck by lightning, but fortunately »<»ne «>f them took tire. Two I turns which contained this season's crops of hay and grain together with farming Im plement* am! several calves were struck by lightning and burned with 1 all their content*. Republican Ccvnly Convention. In accordance with a resolution passed lit tlu* regular Republican County Convention held at La Porte, Pa. 011 April (>th., 190">, an adjourned Republican County Convention will lie held at La Porte. Pa. on Saturday, August 12th. at 2.(10 P. M., for the purpose of nominating a Repuhlic:in ticket; electing a Standing Com mittee; VigUane Committee, Chair man and Secretary of same, and for the transaction of such other buisness as may come before the convention. The following is a list of delegates: Berniee.— R. P. Webber, H. W. Osier, W. H. Brown, G. A.Camp bell and J. C. Scliaad. Cherry.—R. C. R. Kshinka, L. I>. /aner, Will. Leonard and L. B. Yon kin. Col ley.—L. L. Ross, M. L.l lan singer. Davidson.—l) .11. Lorah, Jerome Laird, M. King and J. W. Buck. Dusliore.—Jacob 11. Bahr, C. Cun ningham and Albert I'\ lleess. Eagles Mere.—Fred W. Peale, W. 11, Van Buskirk. Klkland.—Geo. K. Brown, J. B. Kvcritt, Frank 11. McCarthy, 15. K. Luther and F. A. Boyle. Fox.—-Ambrose K. Campbell, S. Leonard, E. M. Letts and W. H. Fanning. Forks.—E. R. Warburton, S. J. Bird. 11 illsgrove.—W. L. Hoffman, S. T. Galough, W. 11. Harrison and W. A. Gullible. LaPorte Boro. —C. II Funston and John A. Gumble. LaPorte Twp. —W. J. Lowe, J. A. Mastellar. Lopez.—M. L. Lynch, ('. L. Karr, James It. Walsh, George Brown and Charles Schock. Mt. Vernon.—Geo. W. Lawern son and Albert Bennett. Ricketts.—C. Morton Boyd and J. t'. Corn ell. 112 Shrewsbury.—W. L. Parmeter and Daniel Little. F. II Ingham, Sec. Win. P. Shoemaker, Chairman. It is said that the Adams Express Company has taken an active inter est in the affairs of the N. Y. P. A S. W, railroad and that the com pany was represented at the meeting r>f directors in New York. The ex press company is said to be in league with the Colonial construction com pany and that if this company is successful in bringing the directors of the X. Y. P & W. to terms, the express company will aid ma terially in putting the road through. A miner at Siiamokin, quarreled with his wife after he had received his month's pay, recently, about the proper distribution of the money She wanted a certain amount and lie would not give it to her, and finally said he would hurl tin- money into the Shaniokin creek before he would submit, lie went to the stream and threw about £"•"> in the water. A crowd of men and boys dragged the r ck for the money, but only :t iiuall amount was recovered. Ernest Little, a Tunkhannock at torney has partially lost his hearing. While riding on a traction engine from Meshoppen to one of the quar ries in that section, he was made to tally deaf by the shrill whistle of the engine. Catching cold the same day tin- deafness was aggravated by it and he has been deaf si nee. Ili doctor, however, thinks lie will re cover his hearing after a time. There are less people killed in America, relative to the amount of traffic, than in any of the foreign countries. To show the safety of railroad travel the pamphlet shows from life insurance statistics that out of 100 persons injured mi average of 21.11 are hurt while walking, Is Hi while riding in carriage* and 1.77 while on railroads, and of this la»t number only one out of every ten hurt was a passenger, i'iie number of accidents received while riding bicycles is nearly as great as railroads it being I The pamphlet con tain* a large amount of other Interst tug Information. 75C PER YEAP As a result of recent legislature in Massachusetts, making it the duty of the several cities and towns through* out the state to put tramps to work when found within their jurisdiction, the number of vagrants in that slate* has been reduced one-half. When the knowledge of that unfriendly legislation becomes more general throughout hobo circles it is safe to say that the number of tramps in Massachusetts will be still further re duced and if the law is rigously car ried out that they will disappear from the commonwealth altogether. The standing objection to severe legisla tion against tramps is the fear that it may occasionally bear hardly upon some honest men out of work and seeking a job. The Massachusetts plan is not very obnoxious to such men if by error.they are .condemned under it. It gives them work and board and lodging for their work. This is infinitely more humane for honest men if a mistake is made than sending them for a term to the work house or county prison, as may be done under the usual provision of law. Tramps do not fear the work house but they do fear work. A law providing work for the wandering unemployed may be a kindness to those really seeking employment, while it will drive the professional tramp and chronic vagrant out of the jurisdiction. In this state we nour ish and cherish the tramp. The law for his alleged punishment operates mainly to insure him food and shel ter when outdoor life is undesirable from his point of view. The law of ls"!i in thisstate empowered a judge to send a tramp to jail for twelve months. The act of ls<)"> makes the penalty for vagrancy not more than six months. Both acts deal with the tramp evil altogether inadequately. The cure for the tramp evil is work. This is demonstrated wherever it lias been tried, and this state will not cease to be overrun and its country people annoyed by wandering tramps until the work remedy is applied here in all its wholesome and benefi cent vigor. The Superior Cou.it in an opinion by Judge Porter has decided that selling cigars 011 Sunday does not constitue a breach of the peace. Ad dison Foster of Deleware county, 011 the charge of repeatedly violating the Sunday law of IHH4 by selling soft drinks and cigars, was held by a justice at Wilkesbarre under bonds to keep the peace. The Superior ('ourt discharges Mr. Foster. Judge Porter pointed out that no disorder was charged against him and said the magistrate, under the circum stances of the case, had 110 jurisdic tion to require Foster to enter bail to keep the peace. Miss. Kmma Shultz, of Williams* port met with a painful accident at Kagles Mere, Sunday morning and is now a patient in the Williamsport hospital, having bet 11 taken there Sunday evening. While ut work in a laundry Miss Shultz got her left hand in a mangle, and tin 1 band and forearm are badly crushed and burned. The hospital people at a late hour could not tell just what would be the result of the injury, but thought there was 110 doubt that the hand would be saveil. It is a well known fact that cows cannot give a good flow of milk iu the summer time when they are pestered with flies. From an eco nomical standpoint as well as hu mane it is to the interest of every farmer to spray his horses and cattle with some of the many preparations for keeping otf (Mi's. We give the follow ing receipt: I <•/.. oil cedar, ii oz. oil tar, .1 gallon kerosene, I large tahlcspoonful of carbolic acid; put iu jug and cork tight. The inercdients cost but little and can be procured at any drug store. One spraying w ill last from two to three days The total eclipse ol the SIIII, which will take place August loth, and lor which great preparations are being made by various ccli|»c expeditions, w ill be the 11 m>si important astronom ical event of the present year. On fiat ocHsion the moon will pass over the -tin completely hiding it from view wherever the moon'* shadow fulls II|N>II the earth. It will not »*> visible In IhU part of the earth.
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