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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.
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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.