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.
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<> 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.
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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.
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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.