Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO 4-6. C To Buy Your Jewelry S S Nothing in Town to Compare With > £ the Quality that We are Giving / ✓ You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force lhat\ J> irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r 112 of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 ) 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 \ r our store a sale place to invest. C / Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r S teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. \ , S RETTENBURY, > < DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler S COLE HARDW^S^X No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OR 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 stove# 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, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Colored Dress Cioods. The dress goods stock is complete and popular. Since the opening days of the season our business has been steadily increasing. No wonder. .Jeasy to find here just what you want for every dress need, and the price is always right Prudent women are buying their dress goods here. Kid Glove Selling. One reason for the active kid glove business of this store is'we buy only the best makes. Another reason is that our size and color range is con.- plele. Spvciallv good gloVesforSl.lNl and <>1.50. New Dress Skirts. We ha\e just received a large assortment of stylish talking skiit>. made 5 of striped clicked and mixed gray material. They ai Medium weight and' nicely tailored just exactly what is - wanted foi immediate wear, ofj course you'll want one when you see them. Table Linens New l.ineli Table Sets, Napkins and Towels, Recent additions tll til assortment of Table l.iucns are of speeial interest. The\ includi Irish and : • 'lei inan l.incn showing alx.uiliful line of new floral c fleet and doi patterns. I'll. \ .tie tiiu datable and extra value. Hetter come a.:d see them. New Dress Trimmings In faiic\ colius, black and while. I'robablv the little l\ 1 sian bauds and C.illiMiiis with their odd designs and bright colors w ill be used more than my other dress trimming. \V<- have a splendid line to *h >w White Cotton for Waists Its very certain that white material* are to IK- worn more Keneiall) than evti this season. That's why we are showing such a a >oitimnt of 11 .w st>Us of Swisses Madras and Mel eel i/.vd Cottons. Subscribe for fhe News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN* COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1906. I FREE ANTITOXIN HEADS OFF DEATH i In Last Four Months Every Diph theria Patient Treated Promptly and According to Health Com missioner's Instructions Has Recovered. URGES EARLY DOSAGE Dr. Dixon Scores a Notable Life-Saving ' Triumph Among the Poor of Penn sylvania— Hopes For Still Bettsr Record. The Health Commissioner, Samuel G. Dixon, a couple of months ago an nounced that use of free antitoxin among diphtheria victims who were too poor to pay for the serum had reduced i the death rate to S.B per cent. This was a splendid result and showed the great benefits of the State paying for ! antitoxin lor those who might other- j wise not be able to procure it and in consequence probably die. Now Health Commissioner Dixon announces that according to the rec ords compiled in his oilice he finds that during the four months of Novem ber and December, lUOS, and January and February, I'JOU, there has not been a single death from diphtheria where the free use of antitoxin provided by the State has been used within 24 hours after the onset of the diseaae ; and in doses recommended In circulars sent out by the Commissioner. Dr. Dixon attached great import ance to this fact, and hopes that the same results will be secured in a far larger number of cases by physicians throughout the Stale using free anti toxin more promptly. This prompt use of antitoxin has been urged by Health Commissioner Dixou from the start of the free dis tribution. He has urged it in his cor respondence with fellow-medical men j and the local Hoards of Health throughout the State, and especially in the circular which is coutained in every package of the State's free anti toxin. "The early use of antitoxin is es sential," says Health Commissioner Dixou in this circular, aud he endeav ors to impress it upon the people by heavily underscoring the words of ad vice. In this circular also Or. Dixon has given general directions for the ad ministration of antitoxin in both cura tive and immunizing doses that have been found exceedingly helpful to phy sicians in Pennsylvania. Never less than 3000 units, says Dr. Dixon, should be used for a curative dose; in ad vanced cases he says to increase the initial curative dose from 3000 to 6000 units. It' Improvement is not manifested within si\ hours following the initial dose, give 6!(0'» units, and if no benefit is to be obs(--rvs 1 witliin the following eight tot" hfu.'p rep -it the same tin til a change for C:e bettor can b« no ticed. Ml ca<-i . - spy symptoms should receive "!-.•> mil oft n-re peated do:;e ■ iiiit.« : Every fir matters n»t i . . ; States he interest tn tl. > g> >! i There are few i..-,• •• •oi •:« v..- ferest t > tile farmer.! .....! merchants of each in.l every i > v.i ;i Just as much Interested. ('•.!. v.'< I kept roads leading to a t.iwu are : I to bring trade tliat would ntherwi-i j goto some other place. Then gi.v,: J roads mean economy; cod loss foi repairs, consequently lower taxation, i mean that teams can haul loads froLi j oO to -tHi per rent greater and mean | wear and tear on horses audi wagons. If there are poor roads lu your section start a movement to im prove then, and you are doing the com munity a servile worthy of highest i .••imuiendatloii. ilir TIMI <l«y Milliliter. I.ng!i illy. vs tlie I'hil.idclphiA In- I tH'lr'T. \ i Vaniliill|t is ri'ibt in think- | lu« : ' .! e rent ItUTcese In gold pi'a- | <Ll:ct MII must tend to Increase the eost j nf living. ! i:t So rotary Wilson |s also I rUht hi thaiklliv this year's big crop* ! iniisi tend to r> duce flu- i-»st uf living j and perhaps the r.vi will balmce each iit'.er, \ I lil»i'>l> l.eeltirer. V HI t'tl'>ll I ee. at ulie ti.ite a resident .if the si iti- of Delaware, Is, we believe, th - lii'M I'l.iiiaiiian t i be enrolled a< r llielliliel' of the Order of I'lltrolltt of llusbuudry. lie w .is at one time lee tilier in' Kent i ai.it> I'iiiioua grutigi, |let., and one of the lieu lint ever •» copied ih - p'l-ltl in. No better pro grammes Wire e.i-r pllt out for eiiuskl era I Inn than HIIMW orijf: ailed to this man lie Is a VUgraduate end a mail >0» i<e .i isp of *iaie ni.d nation..l i|iie» , l i.nt »liu» ml the breadth uf li I evtuciith'ii nil* t>.4 native übillty [ The ltailway Age this weeks says: | 111 estimating the increased price to 1 the public for domestic sizes of an-1 thracite coal in case the demands of the miners for an eight hour day and an advance in wages are granted it is understood that the operators founded their calculations on a bisis of sixty-five per cent of the output of anthracite being domestsc sizes. In some collieries the proportion of domestic sizes run as low as forty - five per cent. The lower the per rentage of domestic sizes the greater would be the increase in the price per ton, as anthracite for domestic purposes would have to hear the in creaded cost of production. Years ago the mine owners had not learned the value of the small sizes of an thracite and they were not sent to market, from which the conclusion is now sometimes drawn that the operators could now afford to market only th<> larger sizes. The answer to this proposition is that years ago many coal companies were not oper ated at a profit. It is because of systematic business methods which avoid waste and which find a mark et for all sizes of the product that the anthracite trade has become prosperous. The operators have stated their case very clearly. Are consumers of domestic sizes willing to pay #1.20 more per ton for hard coal? Evidently the operators think not, and this is one reason why they have refused the demands of the miners. As the controversy now stands the mine workers must make concession before any progress in negotiations with the operators can made. The miners must agree to abide by the findings of the Anthra cite Coal Strike Commission of 1902. President Mitchell in his reply ti the operators has evaded giving an answer to the proposition to renew this agreement for three years. The issue between the two factions at the moment is the acceptance or rejec tion of the awards of the Strike Com mission ot 1902, and it cannot be evaded. G. A. R. Will Not Parade. Owing to the decrease in their ranks during the past ten years the members of the G. A. It.and kind red organizations of Williamsport. will probably not participate in the customary parades on Memorial Day after Wednesday, May 00, this year. "The ranks ol the dear old defenders of the union," says the Evening News of that city, "are fast thinning out each year having its harvest of the dead, and the remaining mem bers form only a handful in compar ison with the former large body. Those who would march in military style in honor of their deceased | fellow soldiers are growing to old to do so, the task being almost too great for them, and services may be made brief in order to avoid a long stand of the men at the cemetery. Lycoming Covnty Vaccination Rebels In a Clinton county district school the teacher was last week compelled |to enforce the vaccination law with | the result that none of her twenty | live pupils have presented a certiti j irate of vaccination, and, having 110 \ pupils to teach, the teacher is in a | quandary whether to continue to open the school each day and lone ' somely while away the hours, or to remain away until the parents ol i some of the children show a dispo sition to comply with (lie law. | There are several schools m I,ycom j ing county iu which existing cond'- ; t ions are similar to the above 111111- i tioned school. 1 It in pleasing to note that most of | the parents in this county have obeyed the vaccination law, regard less whether it is a good or evil law, thereby saving the teachers a great deal of trouble in having to en> force the law. Entire Family Killed Near Svnbury. Seven live* were lost through a grade crossing accident on the I'hila delphia and Iteading railroad at Unas >idiug, near Hunlairy, at I 11ft o'clock Saturday nit moon, when an e\pr.-s Irs 1 n credo d iuto u farm er'* wagon containing that numtier of person* mv welt instantly kilhsl ) null one died i.»t« r After much speculation as to just what the Eagles Mere company, ( chartered last week with SIOOO,OOO | capital, really is, it develops that it I is the original Chautauqua company which has changed its former plans 1 and will embark on a business that ! will have a wide effect at the lake, j resulting in big improvements at i the Forest Inn end. The company now will be virtually a land com pany, this departure promising to be more profitable than the Chautauqua venture. Land for cottages will be leased or purchased. Probably num erous new cottages will be erected. Captain E. S. Chase has made plans | and surveyed the ground for the new company. It is likely that the Forest Inn will be enlarged and im proved. The erection of a casino is also likely to occur. Parents who have a natural dread of diphtheria, 011 account of their I little ones, will be interested in the I account of Dr. Dixon, the State ! Health Commissioner, that during the four months from the 1, of Nov ember,to the last of February, there has not been a single death from diphtheria where the free anti toxin provided by the state has been used within twenty-four hours after the onset of the disease and in d >ses rec ommended in the circulcr sent out by the commissioner. As soon as the winteV's snow has melted away much dirt and litter will have collected on the streets and about the premises of every house holder. The time is near at band when there should be a general cleaning up in every community, and the w elfare of the community demands that it should be attended to at the earliest possible moment. At a dinner party recently Mark Twain made a most amusing little speech. As the writer sat down a lawyer arose, put bis hands deep into his trousers pockets as was his habit—and laughingly inquired of those about: "Doesn't it strike the company as a little unusual that a professional humorist should be fun ny?" when the laught that greeted this sally had subsided Mark Twain drawled out: "Doesn't it strike the company as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets?" The Mayor of Wilkesbarre has put into effect a drastic ordinance passed by councils of that city regulating public dances that are held in that place. In the future no such dances can beheld until a license is taken out, and live responsible citizens must sign the petition for the dance. No girl under eighteen years of age can attend the dance, unless accom panied by her parents or guardian. Several Wilkesbarre capitalist have organized a company and se cured a lease for five years of the Le high Valley Railroad Co.' picnic ground at Harvey's Lake, it is the intention of the company to make entensive improvements on tli ■ pic ! uic grounds. The extent of the | grounds will be increased, and a roller waster and other out door I amusements will be installed. Two hundred thousand dollars is 1 the amount the United Mine Work ers will have paid out for expanses of conventions within five months. These include the anthracite and bit uminous district conventions, the l joint anthracite convention, the gen eral conventional Indianapolis in January and March and the second joint anthracite convention to be lielil shortly. All the expenses of | the delegates to these conventions are paid by the organization, and the car fare for the anthracite dele gates to Indianapolis amounts alone \ o a large sum. 11. A. tirUwohl of Havre, claim* to be the only man in that plnee who is eating teuton pie from lein.-i - t hat he raiMsl himself. llf has a tree from which he harvested a good crop thl» year and one ol the lemons measured 12 I 2 inches by |;l l I in cheH In circumference, and it made 12 pie#. 75C PER YEAP ESTE-LA. . Mr. Fred Rinker anil sister from the Grove, visited friends at Estella, ast Friday evening. The commencement exercises of the Klkland schools, numbering thir teen pupils passing the eighth grade were fitly celebrated in the M. 13. church. Itev. Ehert preached a very able vaiadictory sermon, and 011 Thursday evening the graduating class will hold their commencement. The Ladies' Sewing Circle will serve supper Thursday evening after the exercises for :J0 cents per couple. C. If. Dildineof ltidirsburg, Col umbia county, assisted by a Mr. Kashiuka will make an address in the interest of the grange, on Grange National Banks, on Saturday even ing at the church at Kstella. All are invited to attend. Mrs. Lucy Green of Hillsgrove, is visiting her son Prof. Green at this place. An educational mass meeting will be held at Sonestown, Friday even ing and Saturday forenoon and after noon, March .10, and 31, 1900. Program. Song Service. Devotional exer- ' cises led by Mr. Welsh. Co-operation of Teachers and par ents, U.S. Starr and J. YV. Buck. Music by the male quartette. Recitation, Miss Esther Dunn. Busy Work, \V. W. liazen. Solo, R. S. Starr. Advantages of a township High School, Miss Phoebe Heiber. Song by the boys. Literature in the Common Schools T. H. Gallagher. Trio, the Misses Buck. I'iie Benefits of a Uniform of Study, Don E. Ilug'ies. Address, Co. Hupt. J. K. R. Kil gore. Singing. Saturday A. M.and P. M. Singing, America. Devotional ex ercises. Tests of a Good Teacher, F. YV. Meylert, Esq. The Director's Relation to the School, Frank Magargle. Recitation. The Personal Appearance of the Teacher, Miss Florence Lilley. Music. How to be Interesting in Teaching Miss Anna Karge. Recitation, James Miller. The Dull Pupil, F. J. Kilgore. Moral Training in the Schools, Prof. James A. Bowles. Singing. School Discipline, Prof. D. M. Flick. (J. 11. Ballentine, (R. S. Starr. Committee, (YV. B. liazen. (Margaret Burns, (Anna llearn, It has been decided by those hav ing the matter in charge to conduct the Bradford county teachers' ex cursion to Washington during the week beginning April !). The fare I for t'ie round trip will be ss.To with ! stopover privilege at Philadelphia on the return. Three days will be . ?pent in YY'ashington and one day ' going and one day returning. This excursion will not be contln jed to teachers, hut any one may ! avail themselves of the reduced rate !to visit the national capital. Every one intending togo should at once notify one of the committee in charge; either Principal Stetler at ' Snyre, Princip-il Dennison at Tioy, or Principal .1. il. Humphries at Towanda. YY'hen it i> known how ; many are going the entire cost of the trip, including lint* 1 hills and several interesting side trips, t in he 1 given. Excursion* to YVashiugton have been run frequently by -cliools in the central part of the state and have been very successful. Mi rt in Hillings of New Albany was operated tlpoil for Mlpperative appendicitis lit the Sayre Hospital lust I'riday afternoon One day lu«t week the large* 1 log ever cut in Potter county wa« tnk II to the saw mill at Austin. The log WIIR torty fret In length, forty-six Inches in diameter, an I from (lie butt to the up|a>r end it varied only tuo Itichen in diameter. It is said il Mill produce fljii worth of lum ber.
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