Republican ISLews Item. VOL. X. SMO. 30. }This Is the Place \ cTo Buy Your jewelry < N, Nothing in Town to Compare ( the QucJity that We are Giving J 112 You tor the Low Price Asked. (! Qualitv and moderate prices makes a torce that \ 3irresi-i biy draws into our store the best patronage r ( of i! 1 itioi 1. Many years here in business, always 3 v'lill a lull lin * of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( vvith :i care and judgment common:-urate with its S \ desirability and adaptability tontine taste, makes } ( our store a sa'e place to invest C P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. S RETTENBURY, > < DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler^ COLE HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL CCR, "WOO D HEA TERS: 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. Wo can .illycu 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. Samuef The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AMSPORT, PA. Some Stylish Dress Fabrics. Come in and see ti err. Thev were bought for you. Whatever your dn.-ss t-ocds thoughts mn\ be you can find h re. liUOADCI.oTIIS WOOL 15ATISTK We slu.w ill ;ilI (lie new shades. Meets all the requirements ton home or II I'\ lil FIT A evuninjs ilwee. We have liotli dnrk or evening shad. s. Silk finished wool Henrietta in ael the \|, ('RKPK l>o|iular shade*. A t'avorite coloreil wool material, yet in (iUAY Sri'l'l\iiS expensive. We have just opened a new lot of gray SILK ANI> Wool, ( K'hl'K materials lor Coats, Suits which we iliink |i<rk shades t<>r the street, or light are the hest in the city. shinies lor .lie house ,dr.-s»es. B • O ODS An abun lance of handsome fabrics in the new si weave?. STYLISH WINTER GARMENTS FOR WOMEN. There's hardly a day goes by but what we'Vi a sh w you something tu w ■ n theciojk room. I. A nllvSroATS TA 11.' >HKI> SPITS Some ofthe most stslish 'loth < 'or.t ■of In a new variety of Intent style*, mail.-1 the season have jnsi heen received. up ol the most popular iicitcrin's. W A I.K IN< i SK llt I S CM I l.l'lf I'.N'S .1 A< K F I'S We IIHv. the host Skirl wtlue VOII Hl.il In plain coh.ree and fancy mixe.l ma . any tvliese-- populnr fahries. Hell iua.lt' lerii.U, made in various stylss. \ huge . ninl moilerntelv priced. a-*<>it menl lo choose front. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, EULUVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1905. ■THE GRANGE Conducted by J. W. DARROW, Chatham. N. Y.. I'rctn Cnrrt»)><Hidrnt .Yew York State Grange RURAL GRANGES. I ocated la 811. all * IIIIIK<->. Tliey Ae ('(iiiipliKli It.-st HeNaltM. I am coiumn to feel confident, says II writer in the Itnrnl New Yorker, that tin; grange,' when located in pure ly rural sections, away from the influ ence even of sniiiii towns, is perform ing a I'ertnin function generally under taken and expected of the church. Our own local grange has a very liberal flow of yoilug blood. It is the custom or fashion, as one sees lit to call it. both for the children to look forward to the requisite age, fourteen, and for par ents to have the same desire to see them inside the gates. Here they are held to a dignified respect and eonsid oration for the very fundamentals that underlie good government- viz, respect for the opinions of others, full and free discussion for the questions that arise and quietly to abide a majority deci sion. Here are discussed questions that affect almost every phase of country and often of city life, with that natu rally unbiased frame of mind born of country life. When one can count twenty out of an attendance of eighty who are under age, which was the case at the last meeting, it surely au gurs fur a Christian uplift in that com munity. In judging ethical and moral questions, much depends upon our point of view. Would it be better If the church could do this same work? Yes, perhaps, but better done through the grange than nut at all. 1 have not so much to say when the meeting place is located in town. My observation leads nit' to say that the grange Is not living up to its full usefulness when the hall is located in a village. Here may be found other attractions, with out saying tliey are good or bad, that keep these young people awny, saying nothing about the older ones. I would, if possible, when locating granges fix their meeting place outside the towns. I know the busy business farmer feels that he can attend grange and do the town shopping on the same day. He succeeds In doing the shopping, and the young people keep away. The small center where the grange is (lie full power, not influenced by other busi ness, is the place to locate granges and build hulls. GRANGE LIFE INSURANCE. \ Subject That Ilea, an .Is (on.ldern tlnn liy the National tiriiaitc. There is now in the hands of a com mittee of the national grange a reso lution relative to grange life insurance that many hope to see definite and fa vorable action upon at tlie meeting of the national body this fall. Recent dis closures concerning the life insurance companies suggest that right now is a good time to start a movement to es tablish life insurance companies by granges and for grangers, ("an it be done? A few years ago. remarks an agricultural journal, when the propo sition to start grange lire insurance companies was made, the question was "('mi it be done?" Many said "No." Many others were doubtful A few said "Yes." The regular fire insurance company managers smiled in derision. The few believers weut ahead and tried it. The result is success. The grange Insurance on farm property now amounts to a great total, and tlie grange insurance is the best in the country, cheap, safe, reliable and satis factory. Now, why cannot farmers in sure one another's lives a- successfully as they are insuring one another's buildings and other property? The same direct business methods that make farm lire insurance the best and cheapest known would operate to make life iuairaiice just as good and us cheap. Why cannot the farmers in sure life as well :is property? Tlie I.HIMH- I'o.hlcui. i here is a growing sentiment in the grange which demands that it bring to its members assistance in new lines. Many believe that (lie time has collie when the grange can become a "world power," that ii should expand its line of work I'he inquiry often cones to me, "What is the grange doing to help its to meet the labor question'.'" While our < irder has done much to make farm labor attractive, yet in a practical 11 nil direct way it h. s accomplished but lit tie I would recommend to each grange that it consider this question most cure fully that some remedy I >r the difli culty confronting us may be found. I red Sliepard. \ < <llllllll*ll tin lilt* « fitttoiu. The Michigan state grange will meet in Ivcc'iiber in lirnwt Itnplds. Mich. The State Fair association will offer premiums for "xhlbits of agricultural i products at that meeting The state grange will nlso give premiums for • orn and potatoes grown nccsriMug I 1 certain plan* previously outlined ','liese premiums will Is- offered to stih ' ordinate and I'otuona granges tor the ! best displays, itti.l also to Individuals. This showing of farm products at the '■- :te grange Is a 1 umtotn width should tie commended to other state grange* Harrlsburg, Pa., Dee. 5. State Health Commissi! n 'rStmuel! G. Dixon was ask el to lay what ef fect the opinion rendered by Attoi j ney General, Hampton Carson, that parents could not lie fined under the ' Compulsory attendance law in eases where the children had been debar | red from school for not being suc cessfully vaccinated, would have up ! 011 the efforts the Department of | Health is making to have the vacci j nation law enforced throughout the ; schools of the State. "I do not see," the Commissioner of Health replied, "that it should give any effect whatever, as ti e At torney General does not in any way j question the duty of teachers to obey the law of the Commonwealth and ! that is all we have ever asked them I to do." I "That brings up a point that 1 ! would like to make plain. The teacher-, in charge of schools in ! Pennsylvania are not required tore ! fuse admission to children until they | are vaccinated, because the Depart ment of Health has so ordained. It is the law of the Common wealth, a law passed for the protection of the public health and as the safeguard ! ing of the health of the people in Pennsylvania has been entrusted to this department, the Commissioner proposes fo see to it that this health law passed by the State Legislature and approved by the Governor of ' (he Commonwealth oil June is, 19(k"> 1 and still in force, is tarriid ouL In this determination 1 have the cooperation of hundreds of local boards of health throughout the State, School directors and the teach ars themselves. j | Of course there has been opposition ] This was to be expected. In some I cases School Directors themselves i have opposed the enforcement of the | 1 law and have gone so far as to in-j 1 struct their teachers to admit child i ren regardless of whether they bad 1 ! been vaccinated. In despair the 1 teachers have written to this depart- j ment. They say: We want to obey , the law of the Commonwealth but i, our School Hoard has ordered us to j violate it, telling us that we will lose our heads if we refuse the children admission. "I fully appreciate the difficult position that this places the!' i teacher in. Parents and School Directors com i : I bine to influence such a teacher to I become a law breaker. The only j i | answer I c »uld give has been to j j j quote the law: All principals or other 1 j persons having charge of scln ols as , ( ! aforesaid (meaning public, private, j, parochial, Sunday or other schools) j ; are hereby required to refuse the; ; id mission of any child to the school ; I under their charge or supervision. < except upon a < ertiticate signed by j < j a physician setting forth that such ! < child has been successfully vaccina-;! i ted, or that it has previously hail | smallpox," , I have answered nearly fifty lei- | ters a day on the subject of vaccina- j tioii for the past three months and , • I l four hundred thousand vaccination { j blanks have been given out by this<,' I department. All excepting the first U | hundred thousand havi been sent J loit by request, and we arc still send- : ing about fifteen hundred blanks a| i day in packages from fifty up. ASH these requests are coming in many j, cases from districts that had been t opposing the enforcement of tbe' vaccination law, we know that these distt icts have decided to stand with ; ! us on the side of the law for the pro- j ' i tection of the public health Many teachers write and say that ' I children come to school with letters ' ! from their family phy-iciun stating I that the child's health is not such j i ! that it should be vaecinaied. The | i teachers a-k what they shall do. I , have written that -ucli letters cannot j, be accepted in place of the legal cer- • (iticates of vaccination and regarding this point the Attorney (Jeiieral in his recent opinion says: "I peieeive no legal authority for the acceptance by any teacher of a ' certificate of a doctor that a child should not lie vaccinated. This would nullify the law requiring-itch certificate." The ( oinnii-Mo'ier t.f 11. tilth, Dr. I >i\on has made a mini terof address .S Hi late in different part* of the stnt|. explaining In* < il'orts to have I | the vaccination law enforced and h ; s ! reason for believing that fhe rw tection of the public health demands that it should be enforced. Reports from chainbersburg, where he spoke recently and where on Nov. I, th > teachers excluded nearly five hun dred children who had failed to pro duce vaccination certificates, show that these children are now being vaccinated and the law is being complied with. Hand in hand with the Coin miss oner's campaign against the dread disease small pox is going his work of fighting diphtheria. From the five hundred stations that he has established throughout the State for the free distribution of antitoxin for those who cannot afford to pay for the serum, this antitoxin is being given out promptly and the reports that come in of the lives of the little children tbat are being saved are most gratifying. For six weeks ending yesterday. Judge R. Little has lived exclusive ly on skim milk. Not a drop of water nor am ounce of any other food passed his lips during that time. The treatment was prescrib ed by the late Dr. S. Y. Thompson, of Danville, and Judge Little has improved under it. He has been on the streets almost daily and lias gaiued slightly in flesh. It is hop ed that his improvement may be permanent, and that he will soon be able to resume his duties upon Mie bench.-Blaoinsburgßeptiblican. Upon an opinion just rendered to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Schaeffer by Attorney General Carson, "you can not, un der the compulsory education law, impose a fine upon parents or guardians for the non-attendance of pupils who have been excluded from the public schools on the ground that they do not present a certificate of successful vacci nation." The two laws have conflicted so severely under the state health commissioner's orders to exclude all pupils not vaccinated and Su perintendent Schaeffer's orders to attest parents of pupils who be longed in sctiool but failed to at tend that the superintendent ap pealed to the attorney general for guidance- The result is the nulifi catiou of compulsory vaccination where it conflicts with health. Iu view of the many inquiries | coming to him, relative to the sale of patent medicines containing al cohol. the dealers in which have been notified that after December 1 they will be required to pay a special tax as liquor dealers. Col lector of Internal Revenue, H. L. Hershey. lias given out the follow ing information as a guide to such dealers as are not provided with a government special tax stamp. No dealer, w ho in good faith sells alcohol compounds labelled as med icines. which shall not have been found, upon analysis by the govern ment. to come within the recent ruling on such compounds,and such finding been publicly made known, j will be required to pay a special j tax as liquor dealers. No list of alcohol compounds coming within the scope of the ruling has as yet i been prepared. When it is made I up Collector Hershley will see that , it is widely published. For tliej present no dealer who sells these! compounds as medicine only need' stop such sales, "Moilroe Count\ for the Lord, and wai upon the evil." will be the watch ward of tin* entire clergy of the county, who have just en tered on a great evangelistic cam paign. the like ol which was never undertaken in that community. Collage prayer meetings, house-to house canvass, prayers for all. at all times, personal effort and solici tation will be engaged in by all tbe ministers day and uioht. 75C PER YEAR BERNICE. As Timothy Ryan was attending his work at the breaker a few days ago his foot slipper! on a round piece of coal which caused him to fall into the slate pocket where lie was fouud by one of the workmen. After con siderable trouble he was loosened from hi* captivity by means of a rope He worked all day but in the even ing he complained of a pain in his side. l)r. Rrennan was summoned who discoveredjhe had a broken rib. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McQee of Say re spent Thanksgiving with the latter's parents at Mildred. Anson Weed is wording in the meat market; E. Connor resigned to go in the coal business. The members of Bertiice Lodge, No 9(52, conferred the first degree on It. P. Webber, Wednesday night. Dr. Brennan ate his Thanksgiving turkey at Williamsport. It is keeping the doctors hustling as there is a great deal of sickness among the children of this place and of Sugar Hill. A. Ande spent Thanksgiving with his parents at Laquin. F. Payne and William McGee of Pittston are visiting friends at Du • shore and Mildred. The dance at this place was well attended on Thanksgiving night. Samuel Dunkolburg presented a petition to the school directors of Cherry township to tind out the results that the janitorship of the high school was uot let to the lowest bidder this year as it was last year if it was a saving of 8-» cents last year, why did they not save 70 cents this vear, by giving it to the lowest bid der. Hut he might just as well save his paper and ink for all the good it done him, only it will show the vo ters how things are done in old Cherry. His petition was laid 011 the table and we think that is all there will be of it. If tin- party that is looking after jwul finding fault with other people would only pay attention to themselves, they would not be in trouble all the lime. Sheriff Buck was a visitor here 011 Wednesday. ' Buck-e" is all right even if the party, we were just speaking of, did not think so. Thirteen hundred cars of ok. l were shipped over the Valley Railroad last month. I.ittle Sullivan is hold ing its own as far as shipping coal is concerned. The w reck of a freight train on the Vftllej road near Kails station on Nov. Nth. has caused eonsidet alile commotion in that vicinity. It is said that nearly 83000 worth of goods consisting of clothing, dry goods, groceries, etc., were taken by some of the people in th it sect ion from the wreckage strewn along the tracks. The goods were missed by the company and officers were set to work to look them up. A good deal of the plunder has been recovered, hut in order to do so a dozen or more arrests had to l»e made. Some of the goods were found many miles from the scene of the wreck. During the past seventeen years the av« rage temperature of Deeeni ber, according to data pre pa red by State Weather Forecaster K. R. De main, of Harrisburg, has been thirty three decrees in that city, the warmest Decent Iter was that of I ss<i when an average of forty was maintained ami the coldest that of last winter when the average was dropped to twenty-seven degrees. I'our decrees above zero Is the rec ord coldest day for the month, and that oecured on the twcnty>iiinty of I.h|»4. on ClirMiii"*, IrtMl, the warmest dav <Mvured. Then the mercury got up sixty degrees. rite average pr< cipltatioii has I teen •i.| inches. The greatest downfall in any one da\ otvured on I>eceml>er 2". and 1 *♦!*«•, when eight and one fourth Inches tell The pr< vailing wind ha* come from the wc*t ami the average clear da>» have la-en II ilit, wit li nine partly cloudy and thirteen cloudy da.s *.
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