VOL. X. NO 48. C To Buy Your Jewelry C X Nothing in Town to Compare WithS 112 the Quality that We are Giving j / You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r C of this section. Many years here in business, always } } with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C (with a care and judgment commensurate with its . S desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes j / our store a sale place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. S RETTENBURY, ) <,DUSHORE, PA. COLE HARDWARE. ? No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OF 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. Samuel The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Fabrics for Easter Dresses Whatever fabric you may favor—all Wool Silk and Wool, or fine Cotton, is here—so many weaves ih t wt can't attempt to describe them Kino, nil-wool batiste. either dark or We have just opened a new lot of the new I'aHiel shades. It's a |>opnlar Serges with white ground and hlack I'ahric for dressing gowns. Thev are checks and broken plaids. Cor 50, 05, 75c and SI.OO 50 cents We show a handsome line of stylish and serviceable mateihils lor lacket Suits— st> inch Grey Suiting tor SI.OO a Yard Silk Petticoats Tailored Suits We have received another 1..t ol those Whatever voiir requirement us to stvle "tvlish Silk I atletH Skirts, Ihev come .. , , , ' in* t >ld liose, Kesed*. tirey. Pink". Mice or wwl - 1,1 " «"'» or dressy I»lne, (Ireen, Light Hlue, t'ardinal, White gown our ntock will meet it. Some hand and Hitti k. They are only 00 aoine Kat»ter gown* are being tdiown now New Veilings eW Q res3 Triminings It you want a Myliisli \ eil come ami O fee the new veiling*. We have identv ol in..11 i.; i . - •. , i , ,i , i' . • 1 '« ttll kiniiN lor gowns, HIIKMHI««I waint* the < orreet Htylen and they don i ro»t . ». , , llUr | l# * ure here, bo many kind* and different de ■ in . I rtigiiM that we can't mention them hire. White Goods .. . in Kmt Underwear variety to clioooe Irom- hardly a kind »M» will he wanting lighter weight knit NOIII'HII think ol isn't here Irom tin-plain underwear noon. We lime now ready nil lawn to the #ne, e«<|tiuiiie imported Mwimi the ileeirahle kind* tor men. women and e* Will ton take a little time ami look children. Whether you huv the least ex at tltjm? peuitive or the very llni'Ht.yon are Mrsured liere that it will he right. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906. ORDINANCE. granting PK If MiSSIon to the SULLIVAN cor NT V TELEPHONE COMPANY, OK I'EN NSYLVA NI A. To CoNSTRrcT, OPERATE ANl> MAINTAIN ITS LINK OF POLES, WIRKS AND KI XTU RES I'POX, ALONG, I'NDER'AND OVKR TIIK M'IiKKTS AND PCBLIC HIGHWAYS OK THE ISO ROUGH OK LA PORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY. PENXSYL YAM A. BK IT KNACTKI) AND OR DAINKD by llit' Town Council of the i Horouph of Laporte, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and it is hereby enact ed and ordained by the authority of the same, that The Sullivan County Telephone Company, of Pennsylvania its successors or assigns, be and the same are hereby granted the right, privilege and authority to construct, operate and maintain its lines of poles, wires and fixtures upon, along, over and under ihe streets, alleys and public highways of the said Borough of Laporte, upon the following terms and conditions: Section i. All poles erected by the said company- shall be located under the direction and supervision of the Town Council, or a committee of the said Council, and shall not be so placed as to interfere with the ordin ary use of the said public highways, obstruct entrances to gateways, or driveways, imped or interfere with the flow of water in ditches or drains, or unduly interfere with any shade trees growing along the said high ways. Section Said Company sh ill be subject at any and all times to any and all general ordinances or Resolu tions now in force or that may here after be passed regulating the use of public highways or other public places in said borough. Section Said Company shall hold said Borough free and harmless at any and all times from any and all damages caused by the construction or negligent operation or maintenance of said lines in said Borough and shall at all times save, protect and keep said Borough harmless from any and all actions for damages for any acci dent to persons or property by jeason of the use, occupa'ion and enjoyment of said highways as aforesaid. Section 4. The permission hereby granted shall not be construed as precluding the Borough of Lnpoj'te from granting similar permission and rights to any other person, firm or corporation. Section In case the said Com pany shall fail to erect poles and con struct a working telephone line with in a period of one year from the date of the passage of this ordinance, all rights and privileges granted herein shall be declared forfeited And if the said Company shall fail to keep and maintain a proper telephone pay station or stations within the said Borough, for the use of the said telephone line by the public, then and in that case all privileges and rights herein granted shall cease and deter mine and be declared forfeited, and the said poles, wire and fixtures may be removed by said Town Council, its agents or employees. Section 6. All expense of the pub lication of this ordinance, as required by law, shall be paid by The Sullivan County Telephone Company aforesaid, its successors or assigns. Section 7, This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. The above ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Town Coun cil cf the Borough of Laporte, Penn sylvania, on Monday, April 2, 1906. Approved April 2, 19(16. \V. H. RANDAI.L, Attest: Chief!" Burgess. F. 11. IXC. 11 AM. Secretary. Prominent attorneys and officer lof Lycoming county are of the opin i ton that murderer James Salerno will be sent to the Danville hospital for the insane. It is not believed that he will live many weeks as his condition Is gradually growing worse. I The county commissiouers of Car bon county have been sued by the ; Socialists of that county for neglect.- ing to place their ticket on the hal j lots at the spring election in some 1 districts. The former claim Hint ; they had 110 authority to do the same | on account of lib certificate of nomi nation being tiled. During the past several days train* of darkened passenger coaches have been notice*l going over Ihe main line of the Lehigh Valley early in the morning. It was stated by the otlieialo that the trains contained im migrants, but it U said by some that they carried workmen for the soft coal fields, who are being taki n west I in a round-a bout way. Considerable interest, has been | manifested in the fish cases in Wyo ! mil)},' county courts during the past year. Several suits have been tin posed of since Judge Terry is on the bench. In the case of the common wealth against William Bercavv, Judge Terry was affirmed by the Superior court in holding that lier caw had a legal right to fish with one hand line and hooks. In the three prosecutions against George Jayne, charging him with Sunday fishing, catching short lisli and re sisting an officer, in which the com bined fines imposed by a Justice were $155 and costs, on appeal last week Judge Terry filed an opinion in which he held that the short fish charge could not be proven, and in resisting an officer he held that Fish Warden Shoemaker had no right to attempt an arrest without a warrant, j consequently Jayne did not resist a I legal attempt to arrest him. He was held on the Sunday charge and lined #25 and costs. J. Wood Piatt was the defendent's counsel. Harry W. Lewis of Atlantic City, who has the contract for decorating Canton for the I. O. O. F. conven tion to be held on April 2(5, is ex pected there on Tm-sday to com mence his task, which will take him about two weeks to complete. The entire line of march is to be decora ted and the town will present a fine appearance to the many thousands of visitors who will be there on that day. It will be one of the biggest days in the history of the town, and good weather permitting, probably the largest crowd ever there.—Can ton Sentinel. The handsome circulars advertis ing Laporte as a summer resort that were gotten up by Pr«,f. L. L. Ford, have been received by the citizens of this place who used them as an advertising medium and also those who helped defray the ex pense of getting out the circulars. The circulars show a number of beautiful scenes that are to be found in and about Laporte. They also show much careful and thoughtful preparation on the part of Prof- Ford to whom the people of Laporte owe a debt ot gratitude for the deep and kindly interest that he has shown in the welfare of our village. A number of merchants all over the coal regions have already an nounced their intention of their stores in cast? of a strike. Dur ing the last strike a heavy credit business was done and great losses sustained as a consequence. There ar > already indications of families especially among the foreigners, lay ing stores of supplies to the full ex tent of their credit and as it can never be told when any of these will migrate to other parts the mer chants outlook is far from promising. Gov. Pennypacker's request that many trees be planted April 6th, or 20th, which he has designated us Ar bor days, should be carried out with enthusiasm. The forests are being devastated in order to supply lum ber and other material needed in these busy times. If they are not replenished it will be but a few years before they disappear and a greater calamity could hardlv befall the country. The trees planted this spring may not reach size sufficient to cast much shade on the person setting it into the ground, but in years to come it will delight the eyes of other people and shelter many from sun and storm. It would be well for adults as well as children to plant a tree on Arbor day, the sap ling will cost but little money and hardly any labor. It will be a joy to watch it grow, and when the planter is no more the tree will be a inonu incut to the memory of one who loved nature and had consideration for his fellowmen. What more noble wish could have l>een ex pressed than that told by the last words of former Gov. Hogg, of Texas, who died a few weeks ago. He asked that nuts from tin- favorite tree of his state be planted on hi grave and that when they developed )he nuts the young tree bore shou|d he distributed throughout the state for replanting, thus replenishing the forests. A clergyman giving tip the pulpit i for the farm is something strange enough, but when that clergyman is a great pulpit orator, a noted writer, and former university president, his action becomes astonishing. Such however, is the intention of Rev. John Focht, who up to a month ago occupied the pulpit of the Lutheran church at Berwick. Rev. Focht is a former president of Susquehanna I'niversity at Selinsgrove. His son | who is a graduate of the University j Pennsylvania, chose farming for a life work, and by applying scien tific methods to a small ten acre farm at Selinsgrove, astounded the neigh bors with his remarkable crops and i handsome profits. Ilis father, Rev. Focht, while still president of the j University was often to be seen ■ working on his son's farm and en ! joyed the work. j One of the well-known devices of I modern sanitary plumbing is the . self flushing tank. The water rises : slowly until it reaches a certain j height, when it automatically un locks a trap and the tank empties itself. John Mitchell's claim before the operators was not that his men were not earning good wages, or were not prospering, but that the mine ownei'H were enjoying prosperity; and lie wanted a larger share of that prosperity for his men. The operators are prosperous only when they are making a reasonable profit upon their investment. If wages are forced up until there is no longer any pro'it in mining, down goes their prosperity with a rush, just as the water goes out of the tank when the trap is sprung. If. in order to meet the demand for higher wages, the operators put up the price of ccal until it becomes prohibitive, the result is the same. The operators must '»e prosperous in order to give prosperity to the miners. The operators of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Penn sylvania passed a resolution declar ing that they could not afford to pay the advance in wages demand ed in their fields, and proposed that President Roosevelt appoint a com mission who should thoroughly in vestigate the conditions and the relation of the wage scale to the cost of mining and the selling price j of coal, and report its findings, to- J gether with any recommendations it might make. In the face of the i indefinite generalities of Mitchell ! about the prosperity of the operat ors, it looks as if they have the best of the argument. It is to be feared that Mitchell is determined to spring the trap that drains pros perity.—New Age All over the country there are farms crying for tilling, and there are few responses. The lure of the city has absorbed thousands of the best young people of the agricultural districts. If no plan is found fur keeping young men and young men and young women on the farms, then a large scheme of emptying the j cities of their poor and helpless j should be evolved, it is one of the incomprehensible phases of the situ ation that no mitter how poor and suffering the average family of the city slums may be, the members pre fer to slitter the inconprchensible phases of the situation rather than go , into the country where healthful em ployment awaits all, and where the pure air will revive debilitated , bodies. Representatives of the Benton Tel ephone (Ymipany and the Millville Telephone Co., met at the Mcllemy House in Benton Friday afternoon. Articles of consolidation were agreed on and papers to this effect were j formally signed. The combined sys ! tem Inus formed embraces territory j located partly In Columbia, Lyeom 1 ing, Sullivan and Luzerne counties. At the Benton exchange connection is made with the Hell trunk system. Another exchange will lie located at Millville, this point already having i forty phones. I 75C PER YEAR SERNICE ITEMS. Joseph A. Helsman was a Berwick visitor Monday :tn<l Tuesday. Mr. aird Mrs. George Webb of Say re was calling on friends of this place last week. John Fitzgerald of Mildred lias rented the K. of L. store rooms fur a meat market and will lak'yosession of same some time this month. Frank Cumtniskey of Old Forge is visiting his p.irentson Sugar Mill. John Holand of Wyoming is visit ing his parents at Mildred. Thomas Fitzgerald who has heeu station agent at this place has re signed ids position and is now a eoal agent., Harry White, assistant station agent has tilled; the vacancy. 10. I). Sutlifi' and family have le ft Mildred and Mr. Meyer has moved into the store vacated hy Mr. Sutlifi" and will conduct a grocery business. G. F. Dampman of Pittston was a Mildred visitor Tuesday. Miss Edith Harney "of Sera n ton is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Harney of Mildred. The School Directors offering •*■">oo reward for the conviction of a per. son or persons win, burn.si the sclfool house, reminds usofastory. "There was a man who used tog » out in his orchard every Sunday morning to pray and at the end of his prayer he would say, "(), Lord, if I don't mean what I say 1 hope this stone wall will tumble over on me." Some boys who thought they would play a trick on him lay in wait for him one Sunday morning and after the old man had said his prayer and in ad a the usual rein irk, t,h - hoys pushed the wall over on hsm. lie got up and exclaimed "(>, L >rd, don't you know when amm is joking." So it looks as if the Directors were only joking. IIILLSGRGVE. Anna Ives, a life long re.-identof this place, bade her many friends good-bye and has moved to Mtiney. Base-ball is the order of the day. Manager Sullivan is anxious to sign a buttery and oners a salary of?:>(> Iter week. Daniel Fideeker is in New York purchasing his spring st >ck of goods. On Monday, April 2, our town as. sumed lho appearance of a huge flecker board, the following changes of residence were made: Don Rogers moved from his mill at this place to Lincoln Fall.--; S. Iv Harrison moved from W. 11. Bid die's house on Rural Ave. to the Hunker House; W. II Biddle moved from the Brong House on Main St. to the house vacated by Mr Harrison; Edward Holcomb moved from the Brong House into his newly erected house on Main St.; S. K. Mcßride moved from tin Hillsgrove House into the Brong House recently pur chased by him; Edward Schrader moved from 11. 11. Green's house near town, into the Hillsgrove House Mrs. Lucy A. Green moved from the Green Home to Picture Bocks; W. L. Starr moved from tiie Lew is mill property recently purchased b .* him; August Brumbeck moved from company house, No. to Williams port; Robert Klegg moved from house No. it to No. ■'!!>; W. K. Wood ley moved fjom J. Bry's house at school house point to the 'uvis > va cated by Mr. Clegg; 15. ]•]. Green moved from No. i}(i to Picture Boc'.s. No serious Occidents are reported. State Fish Commissioner Median has issued the following warhing in connection with the approaching opening of the trout season of HiOii: The trout season is fixed by law to open oil April 1">. This date ti is year falls upon Sunday. The sea-on will not, then fori', open until the next day, Monday, April lii. Any one caught fishing upon Sunday wiil not be prosct nted for fishing on Sun day but for having in his possession (Kb caught out ofscaxtn. The pen alty for fishing on Sunday is a tine, of ; but the penalty for catching IKb I out of reason is #ln per llsh This I warning U i-u- d in or ler that therM 1 may be no mi*uuder*tandiiiu' hetv tlsherni >n and employee* <t the lIN I part in ait of I i-herics.
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