Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO. 18. C To Buy Your Jewelry C v Nothing in Town to Compare the Quality that We are Giving J / You for the Low Price Asked. S \ Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ draws into our store the best Q of this section. Many years here in business, always y } with a full line of above suspicion; chosen C [ with a care and judgment commensurate with its J \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ Q our store a sale place to invest. 112 { Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X \ RETTENBURY, ) DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler^^ COL HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D. HE A TERS; 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. Sam uel Gote^iisfiore^ci. GENERAL STORE gd Baporte Tannery. ® FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS POUND HERE. |ust received a special purchase of "Riches" Flannels, Lumbermens' Shirts and Drawers, Men's, Ladies' and Childrens' Mitts, Gloves and Hosiery. There's Lots Here to Show You From the City. Fresh stock of l)i/ Goods and Notions, Boys and Men's Hats and Caps, full line of Snngproof 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. 1 " ~ 1 | Try The News It- rn Job Office Once. Printing neat'woi;K \\ / . n r ; n + ' MODERN FAOH.IC'VS v\ C i I lilt i 0 i 'iCcISC. Subscrihe for the News Item LAPORTE, CULL: VAN COUNTY P\. TIr" 'J#SDAY r SEPTEMBER 7, 1905. | Mi:u Katherine C. Mumtle. (daughter of W. Murelle c | Alliens, died in tlu» Memorial l|>'-- pital in Richmond, Va , on Fiiciy August 25th, following an operatjm ■KWLSTuesday. Miss Murrelle wis nurse, having gral- trhe Williamsport h<s- j pital, hut for the last year had hen living with an aunt at (Joldsboio, : N. C. She attended school 11 Athens and had frequently visitrd ! her father there. Her brother, J. 11. Murrelle >f! Say re, left on Fri<V|y night I'>r j Richmond to take eitrr of the r- j mains. The funeral was held Mo:i-! day at Goldshoro. She was years of age. Since our last issue we have had three good games of hall at Athlet ic Park. The Benton team came here 011 Friday. They were rein forced with four (Jrasmere players and a professional pitcher of the Millville League Club. Mecuiri and Miller were the LaPorte battery and the result was the first game of the season, thoroughly enjoyed by all. The score —Benton 5, La- I'orte .'J. Deer are more plentiful in Penn sylvania then they have been for many years according to the State (iamc Commissioner. Some of the game wardens report deer in locali ties where there has been none of those animals for many years. The reports all indicate abundance of wild turkeys and pheasants ami an mi- [ usually small quantity of quad. Arrangements have now been! completed to finance the construction of one of the largest power plants in the world 011 the Susquehanna riv-er, ' near York, Pa. Harvey Fiske A Sons j of New York, are managing the syn 1 dicate to underwrite *,10,000,0(10 of the bonds, and William Barclay Par sons is to be chairman of the engi neering board. The river will be I dammed about 12 miles from York, | ami the power thus generated will be j distributed electrically as far as Philadelphia am. Baltimore. The state highwway department has prepared a statement showing j the amount of money reverting from j counties which have failed to take j advantage of the good road laws,' also that several counties have lost | their entire apportionment for two years and that a number of others have lost a portion of tin- sums al loted to them, not having filed appli cations sufficient to consume the en tire amount of their pro rata share, j Commissioner Hunter is confident that the next annual statement will j show a decided difference because | many counties are waking up to the ! advantage of good roads and the great help that the state gives. The state now pays three fourths of the cost, the township in which the road is built one eight and the county one eight. Bnkrr Ilnirlril In Vain. The houst; of representatives is to be complimented upon the dignified man ner In which it made futile the fren zied attempt of a member from the borough of Brooklyn, one Baker, to gain a little cheap notoriety by means of an absurdly violent attack upon the president of the United States. Leaving Baker to howl In vain for ag gressive action against him because of what he had satd and the resolution he had offered, the house went calmly about its regular business. The sen ate in Its most dignified mood could not have done better.—Albany Journal. Ilenrflts Every Community. The protective tariff keeps all the wage earners of the United States at work in the production of articles which supply the largest and richest market in the world, our own. There by Is every community and every indi vidual more largely benefited in the | long run than it and he could he in | any other way or by any change that might help this spot or that spiX for the time being or that might enable this man or that man for the time be ing to lower his cost of production.- Mil l'orcl (Mass.) Journal The board of county coininlssion -1 that the new timber "'■ate is not effective for the I | year and arc sending out 110- j tie the various tax collectors ! 110 illow any rebate 011 timber I ta.\ The act provides that the j ass. >rs shall take the oaths of per i so* aving timber lands subject lo |rt of taxes and that the same jsh be put 011 the duplicates. The | asH&ssnient 011 which the taxes for BiOvare based was taken in the Fa 1 j of liMil, and therefore the act cannot ! b» complied with as the duplicates ! were sent out before the present act j was approved. TJie old act is re [ pealed and so the commissioners hold [there is no warrant for theallowanee !of timber rebates this year. From | now on it will be possible to comply j with the terms of the new act, and | next year the duplicates will bear the proper assessments and the re bates allowed as provided by it. Reporter Journal. State Zoologist Surface sounds a warning against the San Jose scale, which he says will destroy thousands or magnificent trees unless scientific methods ot battling the imported in sects are resorted to this year. The propt r time to tight the insi t is in the fall of the year as soon as the foliage leaves the trees and Pro fessor Surface strongly recommends the use of insecticide for spraying. The division of zoology is plann ing a gigantic campaign against the )test, which Professor Surface will superintend, lie has determined to give exhibitions by experts of the process of spraying, in at least one orchard in each township of the state so that fruit growers may gain an intelligent idea of how the spra\ - ing is done. Not only will a whole clay be devoted to the process c 112 spraying in each township, but the method of mixing the insecticide will be practically illustrated. The division has just issued two illustrated lmll< •i• s, •neon "Our Native Birds," dealing especially with the chimney swift, night hawk and humming bird, and the other containing the usual "Monthly Chat With Readers." These will be wildly distributed throughout the state. Rev. Ira R. Hicks has issued the following weather predictions for the month of September: The last storm disturbances in August promise to reach into the first clay of September. (»n and touching Friday the Ist, no reader need be surprised to see or hear a crises in the elements—rain, wind and thunder. The disturbanc at this time will, in all prolmbilP , be prolonged in cloudy and threaten ing and possibly stormy weather up to and through the 3rd, 4th and sth. The regular Vulcan storm period is central on the 9th will be felt as ear ly as the 7th and Bth. There is al ways much tendaney to prolonged disturbances during the immediate 1 presence of earth's autumnal equi noctial especially when full or new moon fall near the ending of the storm periods. These phases of the moon im September, the equinoctial month, always find the moon on or near the celestial equator. Hence we find full moon on the 13th and moon 011 the equator 011 the 11th. The loth to 15th are also reactionary storm clays. We may there fore look for decided storm conditions to con tinue over these dates. Frosts in many localities, especially northward between the sth and Path may reason ably he expected. The next regular storm period is central on the 21st, this being also the central day ot earth's autumnal equinox. We pre dict that within the period embraced between Wednesday 271 hand Satur day 30th many widespread and vio lent storms will visit various parts) of sea and land. We predict cool weather at the close of the month. Itidicationa are favorable for low ; temperatures and frosts overall cen | tral and northern sections along with I the changes that will follow this last September storm period. ftHXYSffiBNEYCMfe Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right Foley*s Honey Tar heals lungs and stops the cough. | The Republicr.u party in Brad ! f«>r»l county was organized Sept. in 15.',;,, just fifty years a;.:'). It was formed l»y a comparatively few in | fiuential citizens who were opposed to slavery, and the movement was the outgrowth of constant discussion and agitation, which oftentimes reached the point of violence be tween the free soil and pro-slavery elemtnts. The party carried the county in Ibeing made up of Whigs, free soil Democrats and former adherents of the liberty par ty. The Daily Review of Towanda, urges that the semi-centennial of the birth of the party lie fittingly cele brated by appropriate exercises. Fifty years of unbroken success and achievmeut it declares, whether by organization or individual, it is worthy of commemoration. The postottice department has made a new ruling 011 mail matter addressed to patrons along rural routes which will be of great bene lit when the reorganization of the sys tem goes into effect this fall. Under the new ruling postmasters are al lowed to forward papers as well as letters from one ofilce to another where the person addressed is 011 a rural route. In the many changes from one postolHce to another that results when new routes are estab lished it requires several several months to have their mail properly addressed and while there will nec essarily be delays, mail of evejy character will Anally reach the party lo whom it was addressed. Batteries F. and <>, First Pem sylvtmia Light Artillery, better known as Hickett# Famous Battery, in honor of Colonel Bruce Itieketts of Uanoga Lake, the leader of the batteries, will hold their nineteenth annual reunion at Berwick 011 .Sept ember it. Battery F, as it is known took a very prominent part in the (. ivil War. At the battle of (Jettys burg the battery became noted. The Into V. B. Brocku jy of Bloomsburg, was captain of the battery. It was here that the incident occured in the life of Captain Brock way that has often been repeated as to how he killed an enemy with a stone after his round of ammunition had been exhausted. To facilitate a more accurate handling of the mail by rural free delivery carriers the Postoffiee De partment is arranging for the num bering of all rural letter boxes which under the regulations of the De partment are entitled to service, .lid authorizing the delivery by rural letter carriers of ordinary mail matter of all classes addressed to boxes by number alone so long as improper and unlawful business is not conducted thereby the same as is now permitted in the case of postoffiee boxes. Instructions will be issued to postmasters within a short time to assign to boxes en titled to service consecutive num bers, beginning with the first box reached by the carrier after leaving th. postoilice and a new box erected subsequent to the original number ing will be assigned the next con secutive number in the use of the particular route. Last week a party of sharpers canvassed the residences of Sun bury and in a number of cases where the men were not at home discovered their names after they had failed to sell to the women an article of soap which they were peddling. After they had left they returned with orders signed by husbands ordering their wives to buy and pay for So worth, and in many cases the orders which were forged, were obeyed by the deceived women. Some bought $2.50 worth of soap, that being all the money they bad in the house. The price of the soap was 10 cents per cake for a kind that could be bought for 5 cents in any Sunbury store. Some enia o ed husbands j trie.l to run these swindlers down | but the reason why such scamps jean continue their business is that j they get out as soon as possible and I goto some nearby town. 75C PER YEAP I The S. S. District Convention for i LaPorte Township convened at th« | Nordmout Evangelical Church, Aug- I ust 2K. Rev. Heim, of La Parte led the opening exercises after which Mr. .J. A. Muller, District Worker, ably discussed the reasons for having Dis trict Conventions, giving as the principal reason, Each Sunday School is able to get new ideas for its work. W hat can I do to make my Sunday School a success as a teacher was treated hy Miss Clara Worthington, of Nordmont and as a mother hy Mrs. Melvern Stevens of Williams port; each of the above speakers giv ing excellent ideas. ltev. Biggs of Sonestown and Rev. lfeim then outlined the pastors du ties to the Sunday School and Mr. Hay Keasier, the father's duty. ltev. Heim then addressed the Convention on the Sunday School leachOr's Example, giving some per sonal experiences in New York City. Ihe Convention then adjourned until evening after having elected the following officers: President, Mr. Harry Botsford; Vice President, Mr. \V. S. Wieland; Secretary, Miss Mora Cooke and Treasurer, Miss Vinnie Eddy. The Devotional Exercises for the •veiling session were led by Rev. Biggs. Mr. Itay Kessler then ably dis cussed the Einancial Side of Sunday School Work, outlining a system and giving ample reasons why a Einan cial system should be adopted in every Sunday School. Prof. Ford of Philadelphia favored the Convention with a solo and gave an inspiring address on Our Debt to ( hildhood after which the Conven tion adjourned. Flora Cooke, Sec'ry. There were many startling sur prises in business circles Tuesday morning when the Alaska Canning Company notified its agents at Wilkes-Bar re to reduce the ; rice of canned salmon from 81.30 to 85 cents a case, or one dozen cans. There was a great rush to ( ike advantage of tliis reduction, and dispite this fact the trust did not waver but adhered to the reduction. It will loose a gieat deal of money, but according to the agenN thin corporation is prepared to do so. at the over supply is so great that no salmon need be caught next year. Ml expeditions to Alaska have been called oft, and those employed on si"- 1 ,ps have been instructed to set,., employment elsewhere. An exchange given boys the following tip: A horse that is a fast walker does not have to trot so much. Did our boys ever notLe that? Well, it is much the same with boys. A boy who walks right up to and with his work keeps abreast with his duties, has a much more pleasant time than the one who is always lagging to the rear. A boy must in some shape or other do his share, and if he persists in poking along whenever the eye of the instructor is on something else, he must be made to trot to catch up with the fast, even walker who limls his wcrk easy and pleasant because lie never allows it to get ahead of him. Take a lot of boys together and the fellow who tries to do the least has much the hardest time of any. The boy who has the easiest time is the one who peals off his coat and starts right in with the determination of doing well and promptly the work that is assigned to him to do. Six years ago American manufac turers made 4"> automobiles, valued at #(»<),(HK). Last year they built 2tj,(!0l machines valued at $40,000,- 000, and in two years from now the value of the output will probably ex ceed $100,00(),000. The export trade jis increasing rapidly and is already J assuming large proportions. |Here jis another indication of prosperity made possible by our pre s.<nt Tariff, j A good Tariff to leave alone.
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