VOL. X. NO 44. C To Buy Your Jewelry \ xNothing in Town to Compare WithN ( the Quality that We are Giving J / You for the Low Price Asked. S (T Quality and" moderate prices makes a force that \ > irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r Cof this section. Many years here in business, always ) N with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ Q our store a sate place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q Sl teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler^ HARDWAR.| No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB 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. miicT The Shopbell Dry Good Co., WILLI AMSPORT, PA. Nev 3pring Dress (ioods We are now ready for the Spring trade. We are show ing as fine a display of Dress Fabrics as can be found any where. A splendid assortment of plain, dark colorr and the new light pastel shades. They are not gaudy in effect but soft delicate shades that will bepopular this season for dressy gowns. WIDE CLOTHS FOR SUITS. The Tailor-Made Suits is again "the thing" street wear. We are show ing a large variety of plain anil new mixed fabrics in gray and othe > r ing for Tailor Suits. NEW SPRING SUITS Thers more individuality in Ladies' Tailored Suits this season than ever before We have looked though many lines. We think we have the best from several manufacturers. In this first showing of the seasons styl.vs you will find the prettiest Spring Suits imaginable; made of the new plain pas tel shades and mixed materials. Better come in and see them. COVERT JACKETS. For Ladies and Misses. Not only are the styles unusually desirable, but we have a large variety to select from and the values are unapproaching anywhere. BEAUTIFUL WHITE GOODS. Thsre'll be lots of White Cloods sold this season. Dont you think it pays to buy your white g«>odsnow wh.-iti the stock is new and the style range is complete Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1906. Death of Miss Lena Rcscr.crcnti. This community was shocked Wednesday to hear of the sudden i death of Miss Lena Kosencrans. at li'inghainton, N. V. Tuesday her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kosencrans, received a it.essage stating that their daughter was dangerously ill, and on Wednesday morning they started for Binham ton, but before their arrival there another message cinie telling of | her death which occured at seven o'clock that morning, the cause of her death being acute I.rights dis ease. Miss Kosencrans had spent the winter in Binghamton. and 01- ly last week her parents received a letter from her in which she made no complaint of ill health. She was 21 years of age. The funeral will lie held on Saturday from St. John's Episcopal church of which deceased was a member. Much sympathy is expressed for the parents and brothers who have been so suddenly bereaved. Child Dies at Hospital- Hose, the six year old daughter of ! Mr. and Mrs. Christian E. Heinze, of j Forksville, died at I:.' lO o'clock,] March 8 at t lie Hubert Packer j hospital. She was attacked on I Tuesday March 1 with appendi-1 citis and was taken to Say re from her i home in Forksville. On her arrival' there she was found to be in a critical ! [condition. An operation was per formed and it was found that she was , sullVring trom gangrenous appendi citis and peritonitis. Mrs. Elwood Labar Dies o! Consvmption. Mrs. Emma Laßarr, wife of El wood La harr, died at her hftme in Scranton Tuesday, March <>th, after an iline-s of months of con-' sumption. Mrs. Laßarr was the | daughter of the late 11. A. (Jrten of! llillsgrove and will be remembered! as one ol Sullivan countv's most | i successful school teachers, having! taught six terms at llillsgrove, ' Shunk and Jamison City. She was born at Narrows burg, X. Y.. October 7, 1800 and moved with ■ her parents to 11 ill-grove in 1882 wlier" she finished the course in the I village school, attending the Nor mals at Muneyand Bloomshurg. August 20, 1894, she was married j 1 to Flwood Laßarr of llillsgrove, the fruit of their union being two daugli-1 ters, Leah and Lucy and one son, , 1 lorace Carson, diseased. Four years j ago Mr. and Mrs. Laßarr moved to | Scranton where they have since re j sided Mrs. Leßarr is survived by her,- husband and daughters, her mother, Mrs. Lucy A. (freen of llillsgrove, -ix brothers and three sisters: Addi i son F. and George E. of New York City, Hert F. and Sidney K. of Hills j grove, Marry 11. of Estella, C. ller-j ■nan, of Spirit-wood, N. l)ak., Mrs. J (Hoffman of llillsgrove, Mrs. L. H. (Jumble of Picture Hocks and Miss Nina of Scranton. A large circle of friends both in this county and at Scranton deedly ; mourn her early death. On Monday of last week Hotel Ferneiill', a summer resort at Lake' Carey, owned by a Wilkesßarre party, caught tire from some un known cause and with its contents was burned to tiie ground. The loss is about #lO.OllO with an insiir ance of >:!..">oo on the building and I £.">oo on the furniture. Apples have not kept well the present winter, frei|ucnt sorting having having been required to pre vent the fruit from rapid decay. Lack of sunshine during the ripen ing period, it is said by culturists. ; | caused imperfect maturing. David King of clarion County was convicted of murder in the tir-t de gree and sentenced to hang, twenty years ago. The sentence w a-> coin I muted to imprisonment for life but tie was rect ittlv p rlom d. He ap preciated hi* liln rtv ju«t enough that lie beat his wife over tli • head with a gun st'M-U until -lie is in a serious j condition. He Uin jail again. I Governor l'< nnypacker has desh; I natod Friday, April t>, and Friday April 20, as Arbor days, to be ol ' served throughout the eommor. 4- i " I wealth. In the proclamation th r governor says-: "Since the seventl of February tlx; forestery havi bought over 41!0,72(i acrisof fores s land, the state now holding in id 75:!,711 acres of such lands, and thi: . commission is doing inueli to pre ,' sfrve and maintain our forest ant streams, it behooves every eiti/.ei who cares for the welfare of tin to lend assistant-! and to give encouragement to thi: " j important work. The lives of mei | and trees are so interwoven tlia ■ without the other neither can eiist i The growth of the grove means_">otl > hajipiness and benefit to mankind." That it is never to late to get youi ljust dues from Unele Sam, was iltus trated by the experience of a wel | known Lock llaven citizen, a veto ; ran of the civil war and leadei among the local <j. A. It. ni"n. Ai the close of the war He was will Sheridan's army, and in September, lKf!"), was mustered out of the servici ] in Texas, near the Mexican border lie went to Washington and received .) what he supposed was full pay foi services and transportation. Si.\ ! months ago—4o years after he wat I mustered out—in a conversation witli j other comrades—he was made a wart ; that he should have received a larg | er sum than bo did, and accordingly wrote to the War department for n j statement of his account, which hi j received a lew days ago, also a I government draft for a balance ol | nearly £IOO which was still due him for his services in the Civil War, mostly on transportati >n account. Had this amount been placid mi interest at that time and compound od, it would now aim unt to about islooo. The recipient is a great ad ,'in.fer of Cncle Sam's system ol bookkeeping, especially in the War 1 department, for he is thereby just that amount to the good, which lie didn't know was coming to him un til six months ago. The farmers this year face a j gloomy outlook as far as securing help is concerned. For several years past while good crops came as their reward there was increasing difli culty to secure hands and the farmer from early in spring until late in the tall found himself head over ears in work, which often made it impossi ble for him to indulge in needed recreation—to harvest his crop without loss or to dispose of them when the market conditions w re just right. During the present win ; ter the formers began to look around for help early anil many of them i thought they wore well supplied for | the coming summer only to find I themselves disappointed at the last ' moment and obliged to make a fresh I canvass for hired men. The business j conditions, which have kept our in dustries humming even during the ' dull mouths, and atlbrdsan encourag ing outlook for the future, is in no small measure respon-ib'o for this state of affairs. There is a demand for hands at our town industries. It is easy to find an opening and tl.e | farmer boy, who has always lookul longingly toward town \\i;li it short ler hours of labor etc. does not have to wait long for an oppiirtumiy to try the experiment. That the boys of the farm are often disapointed in the change and are Milling to re turn to the country does not jro ver,\ far in solving the problem. Tin fact remains that there is a general exodus of the young men from the farm to town and that (lie question of larm help constitutes a problem (lot easy to solve. A remarkable invention has just been perfected and patented, it is a machine whie'i make, corks out of waste paper and pap< r pulp. AI kind of w.t-to paper call be made into corks which are superior to the regu lar sort, a* tliey are not affected by acids or oily; they have Ihh-ii tested by leadill.-. chemists, ;i.nl the lurgest users of corks, unlit is claimed f«-r them tint tie y are lar Mlpelior to the old si.v le in every way. • A strike of the anthracite minors is inevitable and one iti the soft co il fields is probable unless President Roosevelt takes control of the situa tion and makes an effective interven tion with the ways and means at his command. The possibility of the anthracite operators and miners reaching an agreement is regarded as practically nil in view of the ab solute refusal of the demands of the miners by the operators and the strong stand taken by the miners for better conditions. That President Roosevelt purposes a masterful stroke at the psychologi cal moment is indicated by the pres ence of Dr. (.'has. P. Neal, United States commissioner of labor, at a conference with John Mitchell in Philadelphia. They were in confer ence for over two hours, and while neither would discuss the subject of their meeting, both admitted that j the situation was extremely serious. The absolute refusal of the operators of the hard coal miners' demands seams to admit of no possibility for concessions unless great pressure is brought to bear. The operators re fuse all the demands, and stand flat ly on the award of President Roos evelt's anthracite commission of 190-. The operators refuse absolutely to recognize the flitted .Mine Workers of America officially. The operators assert that if the grant of 10 per cent increased wages asked for by the miners is allowed the"cost to the consumer for domestic sizes will be increased $1.20 per ton, without a penny in increase to the operator." Few believe that John Mitchell will back down. When the time comes lie will be ready to do battle. Prepa ration for a strike goon unceasingly at the miucs.and along the lines of the anthracite, railroads. Storage of i oal continues and the mines are be ing operated to their capacity. Over 15,01tt1,000 tons have been stored at various places. * The operators that in the case of a stiikethe price •if coal will not be advanced. Wen are working day and night erecting stockades around collieries, and bar racks are being tentatively sought for the accomodation of the new state constabulary who will proba bly be called on. County farmers have been anxious ly examining their fruit tree- during the past week to ascertain if any damage was done the buds from the warm weather of January followed by the freczeup conditions of Febru- i arv. As far as heard from reports are j favorable but in other sections of the j state some damage is reported to the ' peach trees where the buds appear to be nipped oft' although cherry and apple trees don't seem to have been affected. It would cwrtainlv be an odd win ter without early complaints of the ; destruction of the peach trees. OutbrcaK oi Pin Eye. There is an outbreak of the mala- j dy known as the "pink eye" in t many sections of the state. The dis- | e;;.-e is one that all'ects both man and j beast. The eyes become intlamcd and painful and sometimes does not ! yield readily to treatment. School children are quite likely to contract i the disease, and in many instances the disease goes through entire fun iles. This county experienced an epi-j ilemic of pink eye about fifteen years ago. Not a Good Place for Money. That a bank is the best place for savings was again demonstrated when Charles McAdains' barn at Cross Fork, Lycoming county,, burned on Saturday. I'he cause of the tire is unknown. Moth of Mr. McAdanix' automobile.— \v liich were partially insured—were con sumed and ?s(in in silver which lie had hidden in a trunk in the barn is lost. Mr. McAdains is of the opinion that some one broke Into the barn, burst the trunk open and took the money and then set fire to the build ing. Those who committed the •time evidently did not want the horses and cow to perish, as they untied tliem ai d let tlieni o it of the laiildiug. 75C PER YEAR Borni i Public School Bviid- I "<? ing Reduced to Ashes. Items o! Interest About Towr. The High School building sit this place Was turned to the ground on Sunday mjrnlng, March 11, between the hour* »*if four and five A. M. ■c Mrs. Shall J was the first to see the lire and by the use of a cow hell it was but a short time until I lie church bell was rouging and the breaker whistle blowing which brought a large crowd of people to fighting the | lianas and save the building, but ; the tire had got too much headway to extinguish it. The school houst was built seven years ago at the cost of between three and four thousand dollars and the library and books was valued a! nine hundred dollars. The total loss will reach five tbou- I sand dollars. The building was in sured for four thousand dollars. The cause of the tire is unknown. A meeting of the school directors was held in the Mildred school hous'e on Monday to make arrangements for a place suitable to finish the term of school. Later—The directors have made arrangements to hold school in the I. (< .F. and the K. of L. halls. Tin nfant child of Mr. and Mrs. Eliih .. I'owers was buried on Satur day. Interment rd the Presbyterian cemetery. Mr. (.'. F. Pat tori who was injured in the mines some time ago returned home from the Williainsport hospital on Saturday. lie can now, walk with the aid of a cane. V Miss Mary liannon of Mildred who has been visiting friends at Scran ton for the last three weeks returned home Saturday evening. Mrs. W. Parr, of Miidred was called to Say re on Wednesday on ac coh'H- -if t'i " -Snotis illness of her niece, A. Roberts, daughter of Mr. and.Mrs. A. It. Roberts. Thomas liope who is working at /Berwick is sp tiding a few days with his family at Mildred. Miss Blanch Brown of Mildred was a Dushore visitor Saturday. We wonder which is the most qualified to attend to —the duties of any >'ilice, the man that attends to the ofiice three times a day or the or.e \\ iio attends toil once a day and has to get !>o\s to do the rest of the \v ( rk? County justice is a strange micture. Not long ago a man was arrested and brought before the squire but :i> the evidence was not strong enough to convict him he was discharged. The prosecutor asked what the costs were and the Squire replied that il would come out of the other cases. (ieorge 13. Forest of Liquin is visiting William Barlow, the Mil dred blacksmith. Prominent Lawyer C:mmits Suicide. Stanley W. Little, a prominent at torney of Br.alford county, residing in Towanda, committed suicide at his home, March Bth, by shooting him self through the mouth, dying al most instantly. He was well known, in legal cir cles and was a long time a leader in state politics. flic cau-e is not known, but it is thought by his friends that he did it; while in a state of melancholia. Hoi was sixty \ ears old. Will Depart From Old Cu->tcii:. M Rev. Father Connelly, pastor jdf si Gabriel's church, informed t(j£> members of his congregation tlfltt funeral sermons would lie di-p* with in the future. This was a costume that Inul ''«££§ into the church and had been cari'fl| to extreme, people who live good lives, lit s>dfl do not require any eulogy over tlv < ieorge l>. Ueeiler of township. Lycoming 1 i/.ubetll Cresgie of I'oX Sullivan county were in marriage by the Rev. Tlio*. pie, til llichoiiit of .luliti >ri Tuesday evening, March
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