VOL. XI. *NO 1. (To Buy Your Jewelry s Q Nothing ill Town to Compare WithS ( the Quality that We are Giving / J- You for the Low Price Asked. \ Quality and moderate prices rruikes a force that S \ bly draws into our store the best patronage C ofthissection. Many years here- i < business, always 3 ) with a full line <<l goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment comrn-nsunite with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine laste, makes j / our store a sale place to invest. C f' Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q S teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. $ RETTENBURY, ) <> DUSHORE, PA. T i COLE HARDW J^^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL WOOB 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. 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 that wt can't attempt to describe them Fine, all-wool batiste, either dark or We have just opened a new lot ol the new Pastel shades. It's a popular Serges with while ground and Mack fabric for dressing gowns. They are checks and broken plaids, for 50, 05, 75c and SI.OO 50 cents We show a handsome line of stylish and serviceable rnateiials for Jacket Suits—s6 inch Grey Suiting lor SI.OO a Yard Silk Petticoats Tailored Suits We have received another lot ol those Whatever vour requirement :i> to stvle, stylish Silk Talleta Skirls, They come |jt or ~ 1a110r ,., ( puit or ,|^ sv in «»'<l Rom, Reseda, lirev, rink. Alice • nine, lire, Ml. Light Blue, <"ardinal. White «" WMO " r "toek « ill meet .1 Some hand, and Biack. They are only (M) some Easter gowns are being shown now New Veilings New Dress Trimmings If voii want h stylifili Veil come ami net* the new veiling*. \\ t* tifive plenty nt <>i all ki.ids I* »r gowiiH, Muitsaiid wtiinlM the'.correct styles and they cost are here, mv kind, and different de much. • ~ . ttigitit that we can 1 mention tlictn here. White Goods Underwear For waist* or dresses we haven line «• -n 1 •• • . . variety to choose trom-hardlv a kind ou wiH be wanting lighter Welgiil ki.,l law the tine, ex.,uisii,•!».,«,tied s' w is* ' ' >'-nHb,e kind- lor men, women and e- Will ton take a'lillle time and look chll «! WM - " he. her you buy the lea-, ex- Hl t|, ileumve or the very nnem, you are a*i«ure«l ' tint it v» ill l>f right. Subscribe for the News Item Republican Newa nan. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MAY 3, '*9o6. ORDINANCE. fill ANTING PERMISSION TO THE SULLIVAN COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY. OF PENNSYLVANIA. TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN ITS LINE OF POLES, WIRES AND FIXTURES UPON, ALONG, UNDER AND OVER THE STREETS AND PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OF THE BOROUGH OF LAPORTE. SULLIVAN COUNTY, PENNSYL VANIA. BE IT ENACTED AND OR DAINED by the Town Council cf the Borouph of Laporte, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, ami it is hereby enact ed ami 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 1. 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 shall be subject at any and all times to any and all general 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 Horough harmless from any and all actions for damages for any acci dent to persons or property by jeason of the use, occupation and enjoyment of said highways as aforesaid. Section 4. The permission hereby granted shall not be construed as precluding the liorough of Laporte from granting similar permission and rights to any other person, firm or corporation. Section 5. 111 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 Horough, 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 Suilivan 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 Horough of Laporte, Penn sylvania, on Monday, April 2, 19(16. Approved April 2, 19(16. \V. H. RANDALL, Attest: Chief! Burgess. F. H. INGHAM, Secretary. Administrators' Notice. Notice is hereby given that 1 have taken letters of Administration on the estate of Frederick Arthur Bennett, late of Shrewsbury township deceased. All persons having claims against said de cedent will please present them duly authenlica.dd lor payment, and all who know themselves to be indebted to him will please make payment to me. BO YD* P. BENNETT, T.J.&F 11. Ingham,Attys. Adinr. Administrators' Notice. Estate ol Sarah Whittnire, late'of Dav idson To unship, Sullivan countv, I'a. deed. Notice is hereby given that letters ot administration c. t. a. upon (he estate of said decedent have been granted to the undersigned. All perxons i idebled to said estate are request d to make pay ment; and those having claims or de mands against the fame will make them know without delay. JOHN W. PA XT' IN, Administrator, c. t. a. Austin, l'a„ Jan., 2C. l'.Mtti. Ki nd your raw fnr-« ttnd skins to l.ichtenstciu y/r<M., ami get the very highest market prices for skins in your vicinity. A first shipment will ■ convince you. Write for our new price list., MCHTKNSTKIN IIHOS. IHi lllv< rStreet, I'utcrson, N. J. I | There are busy times at the Slate I fish hatcheries and it is stated it the I Department of Fisheries at Harris- : ! burg that during the next six weeks | more young fish will be taken from \ '■ the hatcheries and distributed to 1 various points in the State than there are inhabitants of the United States. At least it is estimated that 80,000,- 000 will lie distributed. This vast | number will consist principally of pickerel, yellow perch, wall-eytd j pike, and muscalonge, but other j varieties will be included. Five' hundred gallons of frog sp:.w.i have , been secured. Reports from fish 1 wardens are that streams nil over the State are full of trout and that catches are large. Two hundred high school girls of Vermont, who will graduate this | year, have taken the most sensible ; action in this connection yet report- i ed. They have pledged themselves to spent! no money for new gradua tion gowns, engraved invitations, etc., on which most high school graduates spend a good deal of mon ey which they can ill afford, but in stead will take the money and make an excursion trip to Washington. No more sensible action than some thing like this could be taken by the graduates of any school. An Oxford, Chester county, boy, 10 years of age, committed suicide the other day for a singular reason. As a member of the prospective high school graduating class he was the only boy, and the enibarassment of appearing upon the stage with a lot of girls so preyed upon his bashfu sensibility that he went to a neigh boring creek and drowned himself. It is the most remarkable case of be ing afraid ct""ie that can be found on record. There are hoys who instead of being embarrassed by such a "bunch" would glory in it and wouldn't think of drowning themselves. An exchange says:"The gayest, lightest hearted, most pleasure lov ing city of thiscontinent" is the way S.m Francisco is described before the. great calamity visited it. Twtnly four hours a day ami seven days a week the merriment was kept up. Saloons, theatres and business houses ran a mad race with each other, and Sabbath, a day of rest, a thing un known. Some think that the past horrors were sent as a judgement upon them. Possibly it was. At any rate, it ought to and will sober them. Man was not born for mere enjoyment. "Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die," is ! the jest of mere fools. S:tn Francis- j co seems to have missed or ignored \ the real object of life. Out of the I a-dies ami ruins of the old city should j a ise one whose people are not less j happy, but more noble and thought- j fnl, and fulfilling the mission for i which they are created. During the electrical storm that passed over this section Sunday night, lightening struck the resi dence of James Russel in Laporte 1 township doing considerable dam- j age but fortunately injuring none of the occupants. Every room, ex cept one, in the house was visited by the distinctive agency. A light was burning in the room in which Mr. Russel was sleeping which was put out by the shock ami a quantity of plastering was knocked from the wall at the foot of the bed. The straw tick on the bed in which their daughter, Anna was sleeping was set on Are, yet she says she did not feel the shock. In another bedroom the bed was com pletely demolished and theclothiug set on fire. liy prompt action the fire at diHerent p »rts of the house was extinguished before much dam age was done. The ladt entered the house by the way of the chimney and tore up things alatut the kitchen A tin milk can that was near the stove was pierced through ami through as th mg!» a rifle shot had struck it. In another place the j lightening penetrated the wall 1 tearing a hole completely through J the ~ide of the building. It seems j luir.i 'iilotis th it Mr. Ituwel aud hiti j family escaped without any injury. I Sunday School Convention. A Sunday School Convention , will be held at Eagles Mere on May ,9, 190(5, in the Baptist church. 1 This Convention is to be hell especially for the enjoyment an 1 benefit of the Sunday School peo ple of Eagles Mere and Shrewsbury ; Twp. and they extend a cordial in vitation to their friends and neigh ! bors and all others who desire to | attend to be present. The sessions will be held in the afternoon and | evening, commencing at 2 P. M. I and 7P. M. The programme to be used will be the same as the Tour Party Programme used in the w in ter and was to have been followed out at Eagles Mere at that time but ; which, for reasons that then seemed ! sufficient, was laid over until a la- I ter * date. The county Sunday School chairman will be present and expects to be accompanied by some interesting S. S. workers and speak ers. A large attendance is looked for both at the afternoon ami even ing sessions. Don't fail to ba pres ent and manifest an interest in the work. There is a movement on foot in Pennsylvania to abolish the school tax 011 farms and homes and have the state pay the entire cost of the schools. How many of our people know just what this agitation means. It means that it is the intention that the state shall pay the entire costs of the schools, and pay said cost from an increased taxation 011 cor porations. That is a proposition which probably ten out of every eleven people will agree to, with the exception of the corporations that at eto be taxed. Now, conies the other phase of situation. If the state pays the entire cost, the state pays over the entire super vision. Instead of a local school board we will have a school com missioner or superintendent, ap pointed from Harrisburg, and hold ing complete power over the schools of a county or district. When a new school house is needed or we tliink wo need one, wires will have to be pulled with a state school com mission. The positk u of county superintendent will be a very nice political plum for the state authori • ties to dispose of, and the selection jof teachers will inevitably come I more or less under the same head, j The present system has its defects, I serious defects, and wt are not say | ing but that the proposed system j would be an improvement, but it 1 must be remembered that it would ! i>e in ihe nature of a revolution, I aud revolutions always upset things and when once upset thev may i never get entirely righted again.— 1 llughesville Mail. An appeal to congress for a loan ; ol many millions of two percent interest and to be .s«curul by mortgages is to be made by busi ness 11; en of what was San Francisco. ()ne of the greatest tasks yet to Un performed is in that portion of tin ; city which escaped the Haines. Practically every house standing lost all chimneys, necessitating the issu | a nee ol an order prohibiting the 1 building ot tires until chimneys are rebuilt. During a ball game at Say re to oenetU Sun Francisco sufferers the ; grand stand collapsed last Friday. Mrs. F. S. Mitten was rendered un conscious and probably fatally hurt. Otherssustaine<l less serious injury. The sixteenth Annual meeting and bant |uet of the Alumni As sociation of the Forksville High School will be held immediately following the graduating exercises on Tuesday evening, May X. luutl, at the residence of J. L. Snyder. Constitutional An endment al \ lows that each meinlter take one t person. Price per plate fifty cents. Pearl Uenficld, See. •75C PER YEAP BERNICE iTEMS. Dr. J. A. Campbell of Mildred was a Williamsport visitor Saturday and Sunday. Dr. J. L. Brennan of Mildred phoned to the Williamsport hospital for a nurse to take care of Mrs. Win. McGee who is in a dangerous con dition at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Little of Avoca, Pa. called 0:1 Mr. and Mr*. Patrick Hannon, of Mildred, recent ly. When we are writing about visi tor- we must mention that tlure was an unwelcome one for the business men at this place and Mildred last Thursday lie went away s'<7s richer than when he struck town. Sheriff Buck has in his possession, one of our undesirable citizens, who, it is claimed, h;is committed ail the postolflees and depot robberies which have taken place the last six months. How can a teacher lie secretary of the School Board when the law says, 'the secretary is to receive the month ly reports from the teachers, he ex amines them and if found correct he signs them and if not correct, lie is to have tliein made so before issuing the monthly orders for the teacher's salary. If the school directors are not qualified to till the office of sec retary, let them get some that are. Mrs. F. F. Schaad and Maggie Watson were visiting the former's parents, Sir. and Mrs. Saxer of Cher ry, 011 Sunday. S. A. Dieffenbach of Mildred spent Sunday with his parents at Dushore. We would like to see the school directors, when they organize, do their own work and not be dictated to by one man. It is time this "one man rule" was knocked in the head. If six has to be ruled by one, the quicker they get out of business, the better it wili be. Though in business only since the third day of April, the Grange National Bank at Tioga, of which John G. Mcllenry, of Benton, is vice president—the lirst one of its kind in the world—commands a business not to be dispisep. Storekeepers, grist mill owners, grain sellers, railroad and nearly every other avenue of business are daily receiving checks of the Grange hnnk and the deposits now amount to about SIOO,OOO. A feature in the new bank's business is a system-of safe deposit boxes. Already Grangers who heretofore kept their insurance policies, deeds and receipts in insecure drawers or boxes at home, have rented these safe beposit receptacles. The success of the ftrst Grange hank is a matter that is receiving the close attention of Grangers in this and other states as a clean-cut busi ness proposition. The price of the bank shares i.-» low, and the number to lie held by one person is limited. It is the desire of the officers and di rectors of the new bunk to have bank stock in every Granger's family. Dr. F. S. Dobbins of Philadelphia had the first swim of the season at K.'g '-s Mere on Monday April 2.'!, \\ i i snow was on the ground. The wea'her was warm when ho lelt Philadelphia and he anticipated an early swim, and was not content to no iiome without it even though the water whm icy. Constables Hi'e matte tire wardens by an act approved March :U, I!KC», and are empowered to call out their neighbors to tight forest fires They must act under this law on pain of prosecution for failure, and are en tilled to be paid fifteen cents an hour for this branch of their work. I bis •aw is a move in the right dirtction in that it makes it > unebody's bu-i ness to try to prevent and extinguish I forest tires. By the action of the Board of Pardons on Wednesday the death sentence of James Salerno, William sport, the insane murderer, was committed to life imprisonment. The confinement required by this change will have to lie enforced in home lunatic a-vlnoi if Salerno should survive his prostrated eon , dition in tin* Williamsport jail.
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