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.
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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.