Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO. 13. c To Buy Your Jewelry < Q Nothing in Town to Compare ( tl\e Chi-litv that We are Giving J s 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 r C of this section. Many ye; rs here in business, always 3 } with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C \ with a care and judgnu nt comnv i.curate with its « \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ r 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. > RETTENBURY, > <,DUSHORE, PA. • COLE'S^s^r^jw W . HARDWARE^ No P1&E& Lffti tliis Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D HEATERS; ONE OF 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 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. SaiHtiel 11 GENERAL STORE ® loapor le Tannery.® FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS FOUND HERE. lust received a special purchase o! "Riches ' Flannels l.umbermens' Shirts and Drawers, Men's, I adies' and Childrv ns Mitts, Gloves and Hosiery. There's Lots Here to Show You From the City. Fresh slock of Diy Goods and Notions, Boys anc J Men's Hats and Caps, full line of Sna,uproot" 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 N!' rn Joh G.T;ce Once. Fine Prim ino; " ' PTTrn* 1 MODERN FACH n M-s \V C 1 I lllL To Please. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, CULL IVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1905. ' N •. )RDANCE. To secure better Ir\ y,unitary conditions in the i' ro.'gh of Kagles Mere, Sullivan i'oiiuly, Pennsylvania, i Section I. Be it enacted by the I Chief Burgess and Town Council of i the Borough of Kagles Mere and it is hereby enacted by authority ot 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 I.ake, and between l,a/"ewood drive and the bake, 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 Distrie 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 Eagles Mere, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 5, 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 of 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 of the High Constable or any Police offi cer who discovers any cess pool, or any unhealthy or decaying matter detrimental to the purity of the water of Lake Kagles Mere, to report the same in writing to the Chief Burgess at once, and if in the opinion of the Burgess immediate action is required to remove such unhealthy or decaying matter detrimental to the purity of the water of Kagles Mere, he shall direct in writing the High Constable or and Policeman, to cause such unhealthy or decaying matter to be removed or disinfected, under direction of Board of Health, and the Borough shall be liable to 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 percent addition al as a fine for causing or permitting the nuisance as aforesaid 011 his prem ises. K. \V. PKALK. Chief Burgess. Attest: C. PKALK. Jr., Clerk of Council. AN ORDINANCE regulating the 1 » building, repairing and relaying jof the side or foot walks upon and I along the public streets in the Boro ugh of Laporte, Pennsylvania, and' over and upon the lands abutting 011 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 011 property 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. Be it enacted and or dained by the Town Council of the Borough of Lal'orte, 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 BortJugh of Laporte, Pennsyl vania, and the owner or owners of lands abutting 011 and along the sides of turnpike roads within the limits of said Borough of Laporte, shall, when required so to do by the Town 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 bv 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, coucret, ashes, cinders or gravel, at the option of the lot or landowners, and 011 fail ure of any lot or land owner or own ers to build or relay such side or foot wal/'s after fifteen days' notice in writing shall have been given such owner or owners or their agent or agents in the manner provided by law to build or relay said side or foot walks, then the Town Council shall proceed to build or relay same, as the 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 Laporte. when required to be made, shall be governed by the above regulations. Section All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Laporte, Pa., Julv 11. 190=;. JAM ICS McFA 1< LA NE, President of Town < 'ouncil Attest: \V. B. RITTER. Secretary Town Council. Approved this 11th dav of July, A. I). 1905. Til OS. E. KKNNKDV, Chief Burgess. This ordinance shall take effect on and after the first day of August A.D. 1905. An Elmira paper of recent date says concerning an old resident of Fox township: "The lthioft News last evening said: John Ketcheni died Thursday afternoon from an overdose of mor i phine taken to alleviate the pain re-1 sultant from kidney trouble which accidental overdose cauaed bis death. Mr. Ketehem was seventy-two j years of age. lie was married three times'tind lias a widow living at New-1 field. He lived for the greater part j of his life 111 Pennsylvania and ha- j four children, two sons and two; daughters living in that state. A ! sister, Mrs. Mary A. Culver and a ' brother, Kelly Kutchum, of Ne • field j also survive him. Ernest Williams of <« rover was ar rested near Newberry last Friday evening having iu his possession a horse and carriage supposed to be- j long to Ezra Williams of Canton I When the boy tried to trade the 1 horse to Clarance Winters the man j became suspicious and 'phoned the police who previously had a report j of the theft from Canton. All officer j took the boy in charge until the ar- j rival on Monday evening of Chief of! Police lnnes of Canton, who was ac companied by Mr. Williams. Tin j latter is a farmer and lives about two miles north of Canton, and tin ; boy is a distant relative. The boy took the horse and carriage from a public shed the previous Sunday night. He bad an accomplaee, ami : they were seen by a man who re- ! ported the theft to the owner of the ; horse. Mr. Williams and the Chief! of Police of Canton went to Shunk, j this county, tbe day after the theft was committed on a search for tin stolen horse and carriage, and on ; what they believed was a good clue, j but found no trace of the missing | at that place. The boy will be' given a hearing at Canton. Mr. Ezra Williams is well known in the western part of this county , where hi 1 has many relatives. Joseph Shea, the well known in surance man, and family of Will-1 iamsport, had a narrow escape from ' death on the railroad near Hughes ville, Wednesday of last week. Mr. Shea was taking his family j in their newly purchased automo-1 bile to visit relatives at Picture! Hocks, with whom they intended spending the following day at the picnic at Lake Mokoma. As theyi neared the railroad track at the foot ! of the hill at theoutskirtsyf liughes ville, Mr, Shea stopped his ear to listen for a a train, but heard none, (toingdown the grade lie reached the track just as a train dashed up to the crossing. A quick turn of the] steering gear landed his machine against the bank, just escaping the train by about one foot, as was after ward found that when the autoni - j liile was quickly turned into the ! bank that the wheels 011 the side j nearest tin 1 track had run 011 the edge of the ties. Miss Ada, the sixteen year old daughter of Mr. j Shea, was thrown out of the ma chine and landed -o close to the rail that the w heels of the passing ears left marks upon one of the -leeves of her dress. In the August Success, a. prour nent physician says: Make your food simple in the summer. Try to establish for your table a differ ent standard than that of heavy plenty. The merest tyro in dietet ics knows that meat and fats are not essential to the system during the heated term. Most people un derstand. too, that we need less food .when the mercury is in the nineties than when it is hovering about the freezing mark. Don't overwork your digestion when it is so hot that you spare the rest of your physical mechanism as much hard labor as possible; and when you li 11 your stomach give it something it can take care of easily. The very indications of the season are so many linger posts telling what food is convenient for us at this time of year. Now is the day and the hour for fruits and vege tables. Never are they so plenti ful, so cheap or so good as in mid summer and this is an exception to the general rule which makes tilings cheap and nasty or delicious and costly. So, eat vegetables. I do not ad vise you to turn vegetarian, for we are, as a rule, carnivorous enough to crave a bit of meat for a relish, if 110 more. For the benefit of those who think work cannot be accomplished except upon a meat diet, 110 matter what the season, I will repeat the statement of an ex pert in dietetics, who informed me a good deal to my discomfiture, that one can work longer without gel ling hungry 011 a meal of vegetables than 011 one of flesh. The latter is rapidly digested, but a meal of veg etables is said to stay by the eater for six hours. I dare say its abid ing power varies with the rapidity of slowness of the individual eater's digestive processes, but the mere fact that it will linger by any one for that space of time is encourag ing to those who offer vegetables to their families in hot weather. There is relief in the thought that one can supply craving nature and cut down the butcher's bills with the same action. To h» upset three times before reaching Wilkes-Barre, to run into large rocks and to be grounded several times is the experience of Robert Mercur, Jr. and Noble N. Betts, of Towanda, who are float ing down the river in a canoe from the latter town to Sunbury. They have not given up but will risk the dams, rocks and pools be tween Wilkes-Banc and Sunbury. The young men are expert swim mers, and have little to fear from such an undertaking. The recent killing by lightening of so many cattle about the country ih'iaonstrates the desirability of in suring li ve stock. Not many years ago it was unheard of for a farmer to insure the farm stock against loss but every year sees the list swelling of those who are lo iking ahca 1 to eossible loss of their animals throng accident or misfortune. The farm er of even a quarter of a century ago would have scoffed at such an idea, but not so now. and the well read, progressive agriculturist of the pres ent day is the one who regards the insuring of his animals' lives, sec ond only to that of his own. Thous ands of cattle and horses are being lost yearly through spontaneous combustion, lightening, the over turned lantern and many other causes. It is well to be prepared for such happenings. There is a place in Washington county, Pa., named Prosperity, and there are not wanting indications that it deserves its name. The wheat crop of Fanner A. W. Ku an, of Pi»' Kidge, nearby, which has just been threshed, yielded thirty-eight bushels to tbe acre. 75C PER YEAR William (irtiiitlis, fo West Pittston, the well known mining engineer and geologist, will siiil on August l(i to southeast Alaska, to explore and re port for a party of American capital ists, on the o xssibititles of Mntnuska coal Ileitis being developed to supply the prospective great Pacific trade with coal for steam purposes. It is stated that there is an immense bed of bituminous coal there, and that it is of a superior quality. Two additions are to be built to the steel plant of the American Car and. Foundry Company shops at Berwick work to commence in the near future. The one addition will be 72x 1-">II feet. The new buildings \s ill be used in the manufacture of steel passenger ears. Lilley Wilson, attorneys or Charles Johnson, confined in the To wandajail under sentence of death for the murder of .Maggie 15. Johnson on Saturday afternoon tiled in the office of I'rothonotary Wilt a writ of certiorari or notice of appeal to the supreme court of Pennsylvania. The writ is made returnable at Pitt<J>urg the second Monday in October. This appeal having been, 'fti'n within 21 days from the date ? son's sentence acts as a supersedeas, and the governor will not set thedato for execution until the matter his been filially determined. The Pittsburg, Binghamton «& Eastern Railroad company have leased offices in the Lewis building at Canton, which will be occupied immediately. These offices will serve as headquarters for an engineer ing corps of ten men that will start out to locate tin? final grade of that section of the line between To wanda and C-mton. The corps will be un der the direction of J. W. Burke of New York, and it will require about days to complete the work be tween the two points. A tire which broke out about 12:10 o'clock Monday morning at the Lew isburg Chair Works compl'N ly des troyed tic mammoth waret n and store rot,ms connected with tn.ii plant The blaze was discovered l>v the night watchman, who tunic, i.i the alarm. The Lewisburg tire depart ment responded promptly, but the factory is located in the outskirts of the town, and by the time the lire men had a stream on the fire the hugli structure with its inflnmable contents was a seething of flames. By hard work the firemen con lined the fire to the wareronm->, and the other buildings of the plant were not damaged.. Over 5,000 chairs of all kinds stored in the building were destroyed, entailing a loss of over ?2.">,000, which is partly covered by insurance, it is believed that an in cendiary started the blaze, as there was no lire in or near the building. Richard Clapp, the Hi year old son of Daniel Clapp of Muncy, met with a serious accident on Saturday even ing. lie was on his way home from Lake Mokoma, and at Halls station had boarded tin; I'. A: K. train which arrives at Muncy at 1 1:">7. On reach ing Muncy the train ran past the station (the tracks being slippery and the brakes failing to work properly) and Richard, thinking he was being carried by, thoughtlessly ran through the train and jumped off the back end to the center of the track, not realizing that the train was already backing. The train struck him, cutting off three lingers of his right hand and making a compound fracture in his right leg and cutting oil' nis left heel besides badly bruising his body. After the train slopped at the sta tion he was found on tin* bank near the engine, where he had crawled after the entire length of the train had passed over him. lie never lost Consciousness during his perilous ad | venture. lie was taken to the Williamsport ! hospital, where every ctlbrt will be ! made to save his right leg, which at I the present time they are very much afraid will have to be amputated. Felling a tree at New Philadel phia. Columbia county, James Shultz. of Jamison < 'ity, was caught by a limb Monday morning and fa tally hurt, dying a few hours later. Ili- I irother, who had warned him lof danger, was struck but only ' stunned.
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