Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO 49. }This Is the Place C To Buy Your Jewelry S, x Nothing in Town to Compare With> 112 the Quality that We are Giving / / You for the Low Price Asked. S Q Qualitv and moderate prices makes a force that\ J) irrcsist bly draws into our store the best patronage r Cof ihis section. Many years here in business, always 1 N with a full fine <<l soods above suspicion; chosen C { with a care and judgment commensurate with its 5 \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes J 112 our store a sale place to invest. C Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, ) COL£T'S-wvy-~ww HARDWARE.> No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OIR/ WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishing Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Corne 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 Ease Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Fabrics for Easter Dresses Whatever fabric you may favor—all Wool. Silk and | Wool, or line Cotton, is here—so many weaves that wi j can't attempt to describe them Fine, all-wool batiste, either dark or Wo liave just opened a new lot ol the IH-W I'astel shades. Its a popular Serges with white ground ami black fabric lor dressing gowns. 'l'hey arc checks and broken plaids, for 50, 05, 75c and SI.OO 50 cents We show a handsome line of stylish and serviceable materials lor jacket Suits— 5b inch Gr< y Suiting (or SI.OO a Yard Silk Petticoats Tailored Suits \\ «• have received another lot ol those Whatever vonr reoiiirement »s 10 style, stylish Silk latleta Skirts, Thev come ... . . . in < 'ld Uose, Uesed-i, (irey. I'ink". Alice " l ° OS '- " "" loml BMlt or,lr^s - v Blue, (ireen. Light Blue, Cardinal, White >!ovvn our stock will meet it. Some hand and lliuck. They are only ;>.UO some Kn-1 r gowns are heiug shown now new Veilings New Dress Trimmings If vou want a ntyliah \ come and J see the new v ei lings'. We have plenty ol , )( a]| r , |l>p M .itsand waists the correct stvie- arid tliev dun t cost . 7 , . . MM .J, " * are here, HO many kinds and uiflerent.de- l «igns tlvat we can't mention tliem here. White Goods Knit Underwear !• or waists or ilresses we have a fine variety to choose from- hardly a kind Vou will be wanting lighter weight knit vou can think of i-n i here Iroiu the plain underwear soon. \\ e hav e now ready all law ii io the tine, ex.|iu*iie imported Swi-> the desirable kinils lor men, women and es Will you take a little time and look childref. Whether you buy the least ex lit th.'iu? pensiveior the very liner i,you are assured here that il will be rii'ht. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1906. N ORDINANCE. 01! ANTING PERMISSION TO THE Si;LLIVAN COUNTY TELEPHoNK COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA. TO CONSTRUCT, OPER A'l E AND MAINTAIN ITS LINE OF POLES, WIRES AND FIXTURES UPON, ALONG, UNDER AND OVER THE STREETS AND PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OF 'l'll E BOROUGH OF LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PENNSYL VAN lA. BE IT ENACTED AND OR DAINED by the Town Council of the Borouph of Laporte, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and it is hereby enact ed and ordained by the authority of the same, that The Sullivan ('ounty '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 ilie 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 2. Said Company sh il Ibe subject at any and all times to any and all genera! ordinances or sesolu 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 3. 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 ieason of the use-, occupation and enjoyment of said highways as aforesaid. Section 4. The permission hereby granted shall not be construed* as. precluding the "Borough of Laporte from granting similar permission and rights to any other person, firm or corporation. Section 5. 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 gianted 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 I>epaid 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. I 'Tlie above ordinance was passed at la regular meeting of tlie 'Town Coun cil cf the Borough of Laporte, Penn sylvania. 011 Monday, April 2. Iyo6. I Approved .April 2, 19(16. W. 11. RANDALL, Attest: Chief!' Burgess. ]•'. 11. INC. 11 AM, Secretary. | Administrators' Notice. Notice is hereby given that I have) | taken letters of Administration on the I estate ol Frederick Arthur Bennett, lute jot' Shrewsbury township deceased. All persons having claims against said de cedent will please present them duly authenticuidd tor payment, and all who know themselves to he indebted to him will please make payment to me. BOY DP. BENNE'T. T..I.\F li. Ingham.Atiys. Adinr. Administrators' Notice. Estate of Sarah \V hit mire, late of Dav idsnn 'Township. Sullivan eomitv, l'a. ,deed. 1 Notice is hereby given that letters ot administration c. t. a. ujion the estate of said decedent have been granted to ilie undersigned. All persons i ulehted to I said estate are ropiest d to make pay ] input: anil those 1u 1 \ intr claims or de | mauds against the same will make them j know without delay. JOHN W. PA XT* »N, Adininist rator, c. t. a. j Austin. I'n.. Jim.. "J'.i. 1906. S' liil your raw fur-, ami skins to l.iclitensteln liros., and get the very highest market prices for skins in your vicinity. A first shipment will • convince you. Write for our new price li-t„ LICIITEXSTKIN BIIOS. . lld KiverStreet, I'aterson, N. J. John Blair, one of the men who burglarized the postolfice at Now Albany Ma}' 11, 1901, and who was captured at Troy, is now awaiting , trial at Jackson, Mich., for fhc ] murder of .Sergeant Booth of the police department of that city. | The police there have written to this state for particulars of Blair's criminal career and say that while i there is no capital punishment in Michigan, Blair will probably be put away for life for his erin e. Blair was captured at Troy by a possfc in which Chief of Police Mil ler, Constable Guy C. Ilollon, Con- i stable J. I>. Waters and John Man- ! nix, all of Towanda, were the head i and all of whom risked their lives , to put the handcuffs on the desper ate man they had run to | Blair got "ive years in the Wegtern | penitentiary at Allegheny f<>4 his share in the New Albany job. At the completion of that Rentenqp he was tried at Altoona for burglariz ing a bank at Bellefonte but the man who gave the police thot tip went back on them and Blair was released. Before the Western pen senteobc Blair had served two other ternfe in jail. He was a bad man althmujli h« had a good education and served as a reporter and printer on ledo Blade. The arrest of theinehs!' who robbed the New Albany office was one of the most important criminal captures ever Bradford county and each of rae four Towanda men received a Ste ward from the government fbr their share in the dangerous under taking. On Blair were found "a syringe loaded with nitro-glyceriiie and over 200 cartridges. The Central Pennsylvania Lum ber Company, through its president C. S. Morton, and its secretary, R. G. Brownell, have pet.ioned the Bradford County court to annex about 27.'5 acres of their land in Ov erton township to the Carbon Run Independent school district for school purposes, the land to remain connected with Overton township for all other purposes. This is done to secure convenient school accommodations for a number of children of the tenants of the lum ber company win have togo live miles to school in Overton town ship school district while they would only have togo a half-mile to the Carbon Run school. Some La<quin boys have been en gaged in the practice of stealing junk and have been selling it there to a shoemaker named Thrasher. Thrasher sold it to a Towanda junk dealer who had shipped the stuff to Elmira. No arrests have been made jet. For some years engines have been taking water without stopping and mail cars have been picking mail sacks from posts without so much as a pause. Now an appli ance for coaling engines without stopping has been invented, and experiments with it are said to have been satisfactory. The next ! improvement to save the ruuning | time of trains will be a device for throwing passengers on board and off without stopping. In the event of a general coaj | strike the different coal corporations intend to use the wireless telegraph system to guard the mines. Word I comes from Washington that the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Cbmpany of that city, has been engaged to put up the apparatus where needed. A Card of Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Vargeson wish to express their thanks to the people of Ilillsgrove who arwlsted them during their sad hereaveinent of the sickness and burial of their in fant daughter, Freda Irene Varge son, born March 11, 19U6, died April 2, I'MMi. There are many inquiries as to what are legitimate election expenses under the corrupt practice act passed at the recent extra session of the j legislature. The act defines them as follows: j 1. For printing and traveling ex i penses and personal expenses inci j dent thereto, stationery, advertising, I postage, expressage, freight, tele ] graph, telephone and other public 1 messenger service. 2. For dissemination of infor- I illation to the public. 3. For political meetings, demon | strations and conventions and for the ! pay and truasportation of speakers. 4. For rent, maintenance and fur i liishing of offices. i 5. For the payment of clerks, type : writers, stenographers, janitors, and i messengers actually employed. G. Fortheemploymentofwatchers at primary meetings and elections to the number allowed by law. 7. For the transportation of voters to and from the poles. 8. For legal expenses, bona fide, in curred in connection with any nomi nation or election. These are the authorized expendit ures. Canidates or treasurers of po litical committees are forbidden to pay, lend, giveor lend, agree to pay, give or lend either directly or indi rectly any money or other valuable jailing for any nomination or election expenses whatever, save as declared in th se eight exceptions. Consider able latitude is allowed as may b< seen. All the expenditures per mitted are perfectly legitimate how ever. There are some things that both canidates and political com mittees must do, and there is no pur pose in the new law to interfere with anything that may lie proper to pro mote the interests of a candidate oi party. The purpose is to prevent the corrupt uses of money in politics to prevent the purchase or support through bribery, either with money or other valuable thing, such or in stance, as a promise of a future office. It puts in more definite form the principals of acts which have been in existence for a number of years. The law provides for an accounting by which the candidate und th* tr*usurer of the party coinmitte* must i-tate under oath just how much money has been expended andgiv* the details ot such expenditures. Ii fact the statement must be itemized and the law states very clearly what are legitimate expenses. Further more, every expense account incurr ed by a candidate for a state offlc* must be filed with the secretary oi the commonwealth, and eandidute.- for other offices must tile with tin clerk of the court of quarter sessions. Chief Clerk Bartho has now in tin course of preparation blanks to b< sent to all candidates for state office including senators and members oi th*' house of representatives, and the;, must all file their accounts, which will l»e open to public inspection These blanks will be forwarded ti candidates from the department. Anthracite coal to the amount d; 5,745,<¥58 tons were mined in Marei of this year. This does not bret k the record for March production but is a good tonuage and is larger th: n usual for the month. The tonnagi was nearly a half miilion tons great er than during March, 1005. Tht Lackawanna alone gained more thai half of this amount and Reading als< gained largely, while the Lehigl Valley fell behind its record foi March, 1905. 1 John F. Minier, of Lairdsville. ! who had been teaching school at Ilepburnville, is in this section this week calling upon his friends pre | pr.ratory to starting for Manila, j Philipine Islands, where he will be l employed by the government as j schoolteacher. He will sail from Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, April 29, in the steamship Minne sota for his distant field of labor. He expects to visit Japan, China and other points of intciest during the voyage. —Ilnghesville Mail. 75C PER YEAP BERNICE ITEMS. Mrs. F. p. Schaad of Mildred is ill at this writing. Raymond Ilelsman, the youngest son of Mrs. J. A. Ilelsman who has been sick with kidney trouble ia im proving. Patrick Hhite and Edward Ilan non of Wyoming are spending their Easter season with their parents at Mildred. Joseph ltyan ofPittstonis visiting his father, Win. Ryan at this place. The Easter services were very \\< li rendered by the Sunday School scholars of the Presbyterian church at this placeon Sunday. It takes five janitors to attend to the Sand Hollow school house. Leo McMahon, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. McMahon died on Wednesday and was buried on Thurs day. Did you ever hear of a person or persons to enter a building, set it 011 lire with the intention of burning it down and then lock all the doors to keep anyone from entering the build ing to put the tire out? It must bea credit to a party of men, elected, to till an ottlce, and have to get an out side party to do the work for them. Thomas Ra rsey shot a beautiful Pole cat on Friday evening and it is something he don't like to hear about. Fifty cases, including almost every known crime from malicious mis chief to murder, have developed in \lt. Carmel since the February term of court, and that town will prac tically monopolize the Northumber land criminal court which meets the first of May. There is a manslaughter case, two •112 highway robbery, one of criminal practice, several of assault and batte ry with intent to kill, a speakeasy <•«* ', and even a witchcraft case. The iutter case is one of the oddest known. Walter Heavy is confined on a charge of burglarizing the Par sick home at Mt. Carmel. His frit uds allege the prosecution against him was instituted because of "in formation" gleaned from the incan tations of several fortune teller?, fhey claim Mrs. Miller, of Ashland, nad seances*to discover the ideutiiy •>f the burglar, and the "witches" sjiiil the guilty man was Heavy. Griver Kitfschner, while running 1 buz saw at the Muncy manufactur ing company's building department •ut all four tlYigers clear off his left hand. * Mr. Karschner had just accepted the position in the morning andJn rhe afternoon ■file accident happened. Dr. J. W. A1 >right gave him su rfci eal attention. The Karschner ramily seems to lit particularly unfortunate. More than 1 year ago one brother was killed at Lime Ridge, and tince that a brothei was killed in a fioiler explosion neat La porte. - .A - A large kettle ol boiling mapl« sap toppling over, erribly scaldet Ihe -ight year old daughter of Mr anil Mrs. James Forbes, of Jamiboi i:y, Monday morning, about 1( n'cl- >ck. '1 ne large pot containing sever# gallons of the sap was boiling on th< kitchen stove. The child WHS play ing about the room, and while 1 < one was lookinjfat her, cither triec to dip up some of the sap, or in soitn ither manner polled the liugh cald ren over, causi3g"the boiling fluid t< run over her entire side inflicting 1 mass of burns fr&n head to foot. I the greatest go<W fortune the child' face escaped injury. Dr. Stoddard, of Orangeville, wa hastily summoned; and while th little girl was in terrible agony,' sh rested more easily when the wound were dressed, and is now gettin along as nicely as can be expected. Andrew Carueyie signifies hi willingness to pay one-half thepric for tha organ in ti e Church of th Redeemer at Say re, which is no> in Chicago awaiting shipment. Th instrument will cost s'JftJO, an when half of this amount is raise by the church the remain ler will li forthcoming and the organ will ii ! sent toSayre.
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