Republican News Item. VOL. *l. NO 19. C To Buy Your Jewelry \ C Nothing in Town to Compare With N ( the yuality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. p C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r I of this section. Many years here in business, always J S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen c fwitli a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes 1 our store a safe place to invest. C r Repair work done on short notice and teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. <> RETTENBURY, > <> DIJSHOK E, COLE'Saaaa-vvw HARDWARE.7 No Place Ljke this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, CO-A-XJ OR 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 3alo 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 sole,Biisftors,Pa. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., * 313 Pine Street, * 112 WILLIAMSPORT, PA. The Nev Pall Suits Art arriving every day.the line will soon he complete. Season after seaso* we are selling more mils. We have every reason to believe tliet our etlorts have been repaid anil thai your coplideiice in a* to secure the b»st styles will lis sustained when von MI what a tine showing we will have ready in a lew days. New Walking Skirts We have scoured the whole market nntil we found the most stylish. moM | serviceable walking skirts that would he shown anywhere. They are hoth plain Color* and the new phii Is and the new Knglish mixsd etlocts. THE NEW WOOL DRESS GOODS FOR FALL Are on the counters. I'.varvliody who wishes quiet, rich", tasteful things in dress tabrics will liad llietn hare. Not a desirable cloth or color missing. There are two fashionable cloths this season. I'ioadclollis and rannmas. We have »n excellent assortment ot hoth. Plaids Are Stylish l'laids are once more in fivor and rite made in soma lovely o«lor combinations. They are the ijuiet and comhre tone plaids. not loud as the few years hack. Corsets of the Best "'••fore the new gown a new corset of course. Let us help you to select the We c.mnot allord to have anything lint the best at the various prices, el *oted nioih'l* make u|i the fall assortments. Kvcry corset shows ihc ■HI iniled by l.itt si\ Its. Whether you hu\ one tor 5o cents or the verv suit you. :ribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1906. , i Last wee.-k tht' whole financial >vorhl ' was startled by the disclosure of the i looting of the Real Instate and Trust !Company of Philadelphia. lis pres ident, Frank Hippie, had stolen and squandered seven millions of its funds and securities and then com mitted suicide rather than face the exposure. This institution was e.tli cereel by "reformers-" This is what one of our exchanges writes about the case : We note with pain that one fea ture of the eastern bank failure of hist week is being studiously over looked by all the "reform" and anti ltepuhlican newspapers in the state. That is the personnel of the board of directors of the Ileal Estate Com pany of Philadelphia. These gen ! tlemen are all eminently or rather they were until la.it Tues day. Since then it has been discov ered that they were a i|ueer lot. They were in 'charge of a .-one rn with more than $10,000,000 re sources, more than #20,000,000 of trust funds and more than #00,000,- 000 of securities of corporations whose stock they handled, yet it 1 seems they knew nothing whatever of the operations of their institution. For several years they had held no meetings. They had no audits, they exercised no supervision. They were so criminally negligent that they permitted Frank K. Hippie, their president, to loot the concern of #7,- 000,000. They violated every prin ciple of careful business, and it is possible that some of them also vio- i lated that statute of the state which j makes it a crime to receive deposits knowing a bank to be insolvent, j Tliej are today despised in the com- J munity that has known them so j long and are facing prosecution j while undergoing ostracism at the hands of their fellow citizens. Who are these men? The answer j may not be important, but it is in- I teresting. They are professional "re- j formers." If they were profession al politicians, if incidentally they ' had happened to be close in the i councils of the Republican party, every jaw-bone artist in the state would be howling for the defeat of the Republican state ticket on this account, and every Democratic and 'reform" sheet from the Ohio to the Delaware would be lambasting the Republican party for the faults of ! private individuals. Not so, now, j however. The shoe is on the other foot It is not pleasant to dwell up on the plight and misfortunes of' these -men, nor perhaps is it gra cious to draw the deadly parallel be tween their "reform" past and the humiliations of the present,but some of the Philadelphia papers are doing it by way of reminding the organs of "reform" of their unfair use of a similar incident last year. Says the Inquirer: Among these directors are men whose names have been mentioned frequently in connection with public office. They -have led in reform movements. Their names have been used to conjure with. They have been busy in reforming others, but it seems that themselves they have not been able to reform. What a pity it is that some of the time they have been devoting to the public in treading the path of righteous poli tics could not have been given to saving the money of deluded depos itors who have listened to their burning words of denunciation of others or have read their names at tached to political reform documents and have judged them to be safe men to be putin charge of a vast de pository of money ! Today who would care to elect these directors to a public office? Yea, verily, in whom can we put our trust? Fx. i BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY. John Howard Harris President. College: With Courses in Arts, Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Science, • Chemistry, Biology and Civil and . I Electrical Engineering. 1 Academy: for young men and | boys. Institute: for young women. ' School of Music: for both sexes. Healthy surroundings, pure moun tain water. | j For Catalogue, address William C. Registrar, Lewisburg, Pa. t i 1 Death Claims Mrs. Kennedy. I Mrs. Kennedy, widow of the late ' Darby Kennedy, passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs. J. E. Gallagher at Jamison City, Sat | urday morning, she having reached ' j the ' ripe old age of 77 years and 10 days. Her death was due to ad vanced years and a general break 'l ing down of the system by which she suffered illness for six weeks. ' Mrs." Kennedy has made her house with her daughter for the past twelve years and up to a short time ago was active and in good health. Her husband, Darby Kennedy, preceeded her to the grave about il3 years ago. During his life he was for many years a resident "112 , Laporte and Thornedale. He came : to Laporte in the year 1881, where his family resided until his death. The survivors are eight children: . Win. Kennedy, of Titusville; Mrs. E. S. C. Foster, Paradise, Kansas; I J. M. Kennedy, Mineral Bluff, Ga. I Mrs. (ieo. Nortz, Belfort, N. Y.: John I'. Kenned}'. Dushore; Mrs. i .). E. (Jallagher, Jamison City: T. I E. Kennedy and Mrs. Anna Stack -1 house Laporte. The funeral services were con ducted in the Sacred Heart church at Laporte, Tuesday morning. Deceased was a woman highly respected and loved by all who knew her. Her life was one of j kindness and dutifully devoted to j her family. In the once more greeting j his brother and sister, whom he had i ! not seen or heard from in forty ! years, William Butler, HO years old ■ | of McAdoo, has appealed to the press j I of the State in a last effort to lind 1 them. William Butler, Walter Butler ! and their sister, Josie butler, arriv ,ed iu New York together from Irc j land in 1800. Walter and Josie left : for California and William went to the llazleton section. The latter re- i ] ceived a letter some months after ward from his brother stating that | i lie had come to Pennsylvania and i ! married, but the McAdoo man does i not remember the name of the town, j What became of his sister he does I ! not know. That letter was the first and last j William Butler got from his broth ! er. The McAdoo man believes that his brother still lives iu Pennsyl vania and hopes through the author ities to ascertain where he is. I Pcnn township, Lycoming county, early Saturday morning had a de ! structive and exciting barn fire, a large structure at Fribly, owned by | George W. Holmes, going up in j smoke, together with its rich store j of content- the combined loss be ing heavy. There is no knowledge ot \ the origin of the fire. If is consid- j ered likely that incendiaries were at j work. In the barn grain and hay were i i stored in large quantities. The j : structure itself was a substantial one, i a big bank barn. Three or four horses were stalled in the burn and j they were saved, the job of getting ' them out being difficult. Even a thresher that had been run inside lover night was destroyed, the heat V elng so terrible as to keep anyone from reaching the machine to roll it out. The system of back stamping let ter mail to show the hour of its ar -1 rival at the postoflice from which it I is to lie delivered to the addressee, i which has been in operation since j 187'.), will be discontinued, if an ex 1 peri meat now being made in the postolllccs iu New York, Chicago, Boston and Jersey City, by order of First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock proves successful. It is the belief of Mr. Hitchcock that back stamping letters serves no use - ful end that cannot be attained by I other means, and he estimates that if tlii! practice is abandoned through . out the country it will result iu mail being placed in the hands of the peo ple from 20 minutes to two hours earlier in every city that enjoys the free delivery service, and also in other otllccs where people have to i wait for their mail. ! It is American haste as well as anything el.-.e that i.-> responsible for i tl" i' incomplete commercial educa -1 tion <>f the youth of the laad. There , is no excuse for it except the iinpa . | tience of file pupils to "get busy" at I some remunerative employment and , their eagerness for the dollars. We ; proudly boast of primacy, but many European countries are far ahead of us in the matter of commercial in -1 struction and training. The facts in the case are brought out through an ' interview with a gentleman who is to be a principal of Boston's new • Commercial High school. He gain ed his information by spending sev eral months in making a thorough examination of the commercial , schools in Germany, Italy, Switzer . land, France and other countries. Even iu the little republic of Switz land there is scarcely a city which has not a flourishing school of com merce. In visiting one sohool which the Boston instructor declares is su perior in every detail to any school in the United States, he was sur prised to find two dozen American boys receiving their education for a business career in this country. The same conditions were found in Germany, where boys are not turned adrift educationally at the nge of 11, as is frequently the case in the United States. The German government demands that all ap prentices of whatever occupation shall attend class instruction for 10 12 hours every week for three years. This is not done by haphazard even ' ing instruction,but in regular schools i during the daytime. The Boston in | vestigator tells us that England is I just awakening to her needs through j the invasion of capable and well j trained German youths into the hus : iness house# of London and other cities, lie makes the pertinent com ment that Germany in putting milli ons into technical schools has no problem of the unemployed. Instead there is a scarcity of labor. Through lack of this commercial training, he observes, the United States is not making "our weight count as it I should." In that statement there is much food for sober thought.—Ex. Secretary of War William H. ; raft, in a recent speech said .• "The question before the people is j whether having elected Mr. Roose velt, by an overwhelming majority, to continue as the Chief Executive for another term, and having made him and his party responsible for the national policies adopted both in ; legislative and in executive matters, they shall now, by electing a Demo cratic Congress express disapproval of his past course, and a want of con fidence iu his future action. The campaign involves not only the ; award of merit or disapproval for ' things done. It involves the ques tion whether the great work which j Mr. Roosevelt, as flu- leader of his party, has entered upon and carried far enough to indicate the possibility lof successful accomplishment, shall j now he seriously hampered, and in [a measure defeated, by returning, as <>iie of the co-ordinate branches of the national legislature, a body anx ious for partisan reasons to embai rass him and his administration." We hope the friends of our inde fatigable President, Theodore- Roose velt, will awake to the fact that a strong and determined e'tfbrt is bc ing made to elect a Congress adverse to his policy. Let it be remembered that we are-in a eloubl'ul district, ar.el have- a noble candidate. It is not a time for the friends of preisperity to slumber or sleep. A naturalist says that every time a farmer shoeits :t hawk he- injures himself te> the ameiunt e»f n #SO bill. . for though the birei takes an oc£*a sional chicken, it destroys at least a thousand rats, mice and moles eveiy year. No bird that liie>s is e>f mene be'iie'fit to the farmer. What is saiel to be the largest chicken farm in the worlel is about ■I to be hx'ateel In Palmer township, 1 j three miles from Easton, by Wil , liam Talmuge e»f Toronto, Canada, j ' and John llaupt of Eastern. The: ' farm will have- lo,ono he-Ms when it j i is ee|uippeel. About $")0,000 will be • ( expeuded iu the enterprise. 75C PER YEAR ! DERNICE ITEMS. Sheriff Buck was n Mildred and Berniee caller on Saturday. « County Chairman Shoemaker \vh« calling on friends at this place ou Saturday. John (J. Scouton of Duahore, was a Mildred visitor on Wednesday. Mrs. John Crawford of Philadel phia, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McGeever, of this place. Mrs. Barclay Duggin and Mrs. James Ramsay of Mildred, are visit ing friends. Dr. J. Campbell of Williainsport, was calling 011 old friends at this place and Mildted last week. Mr. H. Davis of Scranton, moved his family to this place, and is tilling the position as head clerk in the store made vacant by B. E. Webber. Miss Mary Watson of Mildred, was calling on New Albany friends last week. A young man must have the cour age of a wolf and the manhood of a skunk that will grab hold of an old man and try to throw him on the ground. This is not Philadelphia where a man is not safe to travel the streets because of such cowards as this young man showed himself to be. The Mildred Scrubs traveled to Col ley on Saturday to wipe out the defeat sustained by the Athletics at Dushore on Memorial Day, and to say they did so is expressing it very mild. After the smoke bad cleared away the score was:s to 4in favor of the Scrubs. We cannot have a base ball nine at this place without send ing all over the state for base ball bums. The members of Katonka Tribe will hold a public raising up of chief and a mock, adontion on Monday, Oct. Ist. An invitation is extended to the public. It will not cost them anything but their time. Wm. McCiee and Edward White of Mildred, were Laporte visitors on Thursday. Ren Helsman is quite sick at this time. He caught a cold which has developed into pneumonia. Forest Inn Improvements. Truman 1\ Reitmeyer, the well known Williainsport architect, was at Eagles Mere Park Monday confer ing with Edgar R. Keiss, manager of the Eorest Inn, regarding plans which lie has drawn, and which were forwarded ,to Mr. Keiss Friday for a substantial enlargement of the popular Eagles Mere hostelry. The plans contemplate an entirely new dining room addition and an en largement of the main hotel, to ac commodate 800 guests. It is ex pected that work 011 these improve ments will begin as 90011 as the inn closes for the present season, about October 1. Adding further to the prestige of Eagles Mere Park will be the fact that Frank R. Roberson, the famous traveler lecturer, is go ing to build there and make Eagles Mere his permanent summer home. Mr. Reitmeyer's plans for the For est 11111 propose the addition of an other story to the main hotel, which is now three stories in height. There will be about ~<o rooms with private baths. The porch will be rebuilt, widening it to 10 feet. There will be a rearrangement of the offices to provide more parlors, etc. The new dining room addition will be 110 by 51 feet and four stories in height. Windows on all four sides and a big skylight will make it a decidedly cheerful and attractive place, it will seat over 000 persons comfortably. A six-foot allegator is at large in West Berwick and the school chil dren and others have been notified to be 011 the lookout for it. The an imal was brought from Florida by <). F. Ferris and escaped from the pen in which it was kept. The ani mal is large enough to be dangerous I and it is Itelievcd that its instinct | has caused it togo to the river. The j boys will now give up bathing 111 the Susquehanna until it has been . cap'ured or killed.
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