Republican News Item. VOL. XI. NO 22. <? To Buy Your jewelry \ C Nothing ill Town to Compare With N { the Quality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r C of this section. Many years here in,business, always 3 SWith a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen c 'with a care and judgment commnsurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ / our store a safe plnce to invest. C P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r t teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated, S RETTENBURY, > <> DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler <, *"N COLE'S HARDWARE.? No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANG ES, COAL Oli WOO D. 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 yon in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Ease Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stovo. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and Genera! Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, - WILLI AM SPORT, PA. The New I ViU Suits Are arriving every day, the line will - ion tic complete. Serison alter season we are selling more suits. We have every reason to believe that our ellort- have been repaid and that your confidence in us to secure the best styles will he sustained when vou see what a line showing we will have ready in a lew days. New Walking Skirts We have scoured the whole market until we found the most stylish, niOft serviceable walking skirts that would be shown anywhere. They are both plain colors and the new plaids and the new English mixed effects. THE NEW WOOL DRESS GOODS FOR FALL Are on the counters, l-'varyhody who wishes <|iiiet. rich, tasteful things in dress fabrics will find them here. Not a desirable cloth or color missing. There are two fashionable cloths this Benson. Hioadcloths and Panamas. We have an excellent assortment of both. Plaids Are Stylish Plaids are once more in favor and are made in some lovely color combinations. They are the ipiiet and conibre tone plaids, not loud as the few years back. Corsets of the Best lie fore the new gown a new corset of course. Let us help you to select the right one. We cannot ati >rd to have anything but the best at the various prices. Critically selected models make up the ,!l " assortments. I'very corset shows the new lines demanded by late sfyl'.s. Whether you buv one for ">o cents or the very finest we can suit yon. Subscribe for the News Item LAPCRTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4,1906. Bryan and Arbitration. Mr. Bryan lias been telling the | railway men of North Carolina that it was bis advocacy of arbitration in j labor disputes that defeated him in Ist)0. He is quoted as saying in one j speech that he wrote the arbitration i plunk in the Democratic platform, j i was devoted to that plank, and that those who deserted him in that cam paign did so because of hi,s attitude ton arbitration, and not because of his attitude on Free Silver. "I tell ! roil," said Mr. Bryan, "it was not the Silver plank hut the clause for ! arbitiation that drove them away." This is :» remarkable statement, ! coming from the "peerless leader" |of the Democratic party. It would lead one to believe that Mr. Bryan j was the apostle of arbitration and | not of Free Silver in that celebrated : i campaign of 18!)(». But the Repub lican convention in ls!)(>, was held, two weeks before the Democratic j i convention, and it had an arbitra-1 1 tion plank almost identical with that j in the Democratic platform. In or- j dinary affairs the credit tor ad valu ing the idea would he given to the party first adopting it. More than ! that, the Republican Congress en-! act'<l an arbitration law in harmony I ; with the Republican platform, pro- j j viding for arbitration in railway la- 1 I hor disputes, authorizing the Inter state Commerce Commission to first ! attempt to conciliate, and then pro vides for a board of arbiters. That law was passed by the .V»th Congress I soon after McA'inloy's inauguration. ] j Mr. Bryan made a brilliant record j as an orator in that campaign, and | Free Silver was the burden of his' s >ng. Who remember hearing him ! tearing passion passion to tatters i j over arbitration, as he did over thej I "Cl ime of '7;"."' And what became of | his arbitration enthusiasm in the | campaign of 1900, when he absolute ly dominated the Kansas City con-i I ventiou and made the platform on.' 1 •'U; a he wa. v. illitig to stand?! that Democratic platform is silent I I arbitration. Mr. Bryan's claim might also be embarrassed by the State laws, ere-i i\iug boards of arbitration in fully I one-half the Republican States of the j Fniou, while there are lmrelv two I Democratic States that have such i laws. The trouble seems to be that Mr. Bryan is finding it difficult to | land a Democratic issue that has not ! been discarded by the American j people. After one of the longest jury sit-! : tings in a criminal case in Mo.tour! county, the jury in the Peter Deit rieli case tried at Danville for thej murder of "Corkey" Jones, returned !to court Thursday, a. m. at 10.4 "> j o'clock with a verdict against Deit- : rich of Guilty of Murder in the Sec- j ! ond Degree, but recommending the I prisoner to the clemency of the 1 court. The jury retired Wednesday j | afternoon at !.:!!) o'clock, and con trary to expectations of many, they i had not agreed on a verdict at nine! o'clock next morning, the time for ! court to ordinarily convene. A couple minor civil cases were (lis- 1 posed of while court waited for verdict, and has the morning ion still no jury appeared, *ft't 10.45 J i however, the twelve men in whose j hands the fate of the former hotel | man was placed tiled into the court j : room, and the above verdict was an-; I nounced. That he may erect a mighty plant ! lo supply electricity for light and power to cities and towns located i along the north braifch of the Sua-] quehanna river, Col. B. Bruce Rick etts has upwards of 100 men at work I lon the summit of North Mountain, j the plateau of which he contem plates converting into a great reser ; voir. The work has been in prog-! ress three years. The plateau is 12 miles wide. The plan is to dam up the outlets of Lake Lehigh and Lake Cianoga. With j this object in view he has placed a large dam across Kitchen's creek, j near the old Fodson mill; also one! : across stickler's creek, a noted trout j 'stream and another near the Susque- j hanna-Tioga turnpike to prevent the water from Kitchen's creek going down on the lower side of the moun ltain. List of Petit Jurors in the Court of Common Pleas Ad jovrn- { ed to September Term. I August 11. Buschausen, Laporte borough; Richard Biddle, Fox town ship; Matthew Burns, Cherry town ship; Henry Bahl, Forks township; ! Lewis Brown, Bernice; Sylvester | Brown, Fox township; J. E. Borton, Cherry township; O. I). Covey, La | porte borough; Edward Cuminings, | Eagles Mere; John W. Carroll, Du | shore; Benjamin Dunlap, Hillsgrove; William Dunlap, Hillsgrove; Correll Dunlap, Hillsgrove; Warren Edkin, Mt. Vernon; John Hassen, Jr., La porte borough; Fred Huffman, Du | shore; Edward Holcomb, Hillsgrove; ; Kerr Holmes, Cherry township; I Carl Lilly, Bernice; William Mur j phy, Bernice; William T. Moore, j Elkland township; John Mosier, IColley township; Henry McDermott, : Lope/.; Fred McCarty, Elkland ' township; Samuel McCarty, Elk ' land township; Edward Mcßride, i Hillsgrove;, Judson Rogers, Hills ! grove; Sadler S. Rogers, Elkland township; Thomas Sehell, Bernice; j I>. E. Sutliff, Bernice; Jacob Suber, j Cherry township; Clinton J. Starr, I Samuel SpeAry, Davidson township; ; Anthony Touchnour, B -mice; W• | \Y. VanVeighton, Fox township; 11. Is. Westcott, Fox township. The meat inspection law went into effect < >et. 1, and now the great mass of food concoctions which have been ; masquerading behind false labels will either sell for what they are or Ino to the dump heap. No longer will slippery veal be potted as chick en croquettes, nor stearine, animal fats and vegetable oil pass as lard. | LJeef extract must be actually made of beef, and if ice cream does not show up from twelve to fourteen per cent, of butter fat according to the bulk of pure fruit mixed with it, it cannot pass muster as cream. It should not be assumed that the Agricultural Department interdicts the sale of compounds which are not deleterious to health. It only com pels the labeling of these things in proper and truthful names. If veal is placed in cans the label must say so; if lard contains anything hut lard it must be designated as lard com pound. The department merely in sists that things shall go at what they actually are. This is fair, and all right. We believe it will operate to the benefit of the producer as wel 1 us the consumer. The nauseating story of substitution and adultera tion relates almost exclusively to j parties between the two. The project of pensioning school teachers who have spent their lives in a most useful and important puh : lie service, has often been proposed, and now a bill for the retirement of ! school teachers ujion pension will be discussed at a meeting to be held* in ! Harrisburgj* in < Jctobftr,at which | representatives from every county in the state will be ty attendance, j The object of ciyifert'nce' is to frame a bill which"ftlinll establish an i agbTimit-for teachers who shall have ,served v fn their "profession a stipu lated number of years and their re tirement upon pension. The com mittee has been collecting data on | the subject, but has not as yet out outlined the bill. A campaign will j be inaugurates in all counties of the | state in ftivor of the proposed legis lation. The Pennsylvania railroad com pany has begun the work of replac ing wooden passenger coaches with icars •constructed of steel. It will build as quickly as possible #1,0(10 1 steel tla.v coaches and half as many I sleeping cars. In making this change the Pennsylvania has in view the ! saving of money for itself and the lessening of loss of accidents. ;Of course cars of steel construction ! will not prevent accident,but in vase j-of collision of steel cars there would be no danger of fire, and steel will stand a greater jar and strain than wood. The Pennsylvania is leading 'the way and other roads must and will follow. This will be done as a protection to the roads themselves | as well as the traveling public. Athletic Events of the Fair. Tin- athletic contest between Forks ville High School ami Dushore 11i<rli School created considerable local in terest. Dushore won by 12 points. The events were as follows: 100- yar<] dash won by Raymond Far rel! of Dushore; Frank Hartung of Forksville, 2nd. Time, 12 seconds. Short put won by R. Farrell with F. Hartung, 2nd, 41 feet. 200 yard dash, Ray Farrell, 'lst; Wood head, Forksville, 2nd. Running high jump, Woodhead tie at five feet 8 inches. Cunning ham of Dushore, took first place in the pole vault, six feet 10 inches; Woodhead and Hartung tie for sec ond place. The rt»lay race was won by Forks ville. Hurdle race was taken by Dushore Ray Ferrell, Ist; Wilcox of Forks ville, 2nd. Running board jump was made by Ray Ferrell, 15 feet five inches; liar, tung of Forksville, 2nd. These contests not only prove an attraction for the Fair Association, but will stimulate local pride in ath letics, and will be found beneficial to the contesting schools. In every newspaper we pick up we're sure to find a lot of gush about the man behind the counter and the man behind the gun; the man be hind the buz saw and the man be hind the sun; the man behind the times and the man behind his rents; the man behind the ploughshare and the man behind the fence; the man behind the whistle and the man be hind the cars; the man behind the kodak and the man behind the bars; the man behind his whiskers and the man behind his fists and every thing behind has entered on the list. Rut they've skipped another fellow of whom nothing has been said—the fellow who is even, or a little way ahead, who pays for what he gets, whose bills are always signed—he's a blamed sight more important than the man who is behind. All we ed itors and merchants, and the whole commercial clan, are indebted for existence to this honest fellow man. He keeps us all in business ami his town is never dead; and so we take our hats off to the man who is ahead. —Exchange. To take effect November Ist, or as soon thereafter as possible, the max imum rate per mile on the Lehigh Valley railroad will be on the basis of 2J cents. This will not change passenger rates now based on <«harge of less than 2{ cents. able mjleage books, which are now sold at #;5O, will.be sol(t jif"s2s, with a rebatg of #5 on each loob mile book instead of $lO as at present. A very pretty wedding was sol emnized at the Methodist church at Sonestown, Thursday September 2J, when Mr. Bert Miller and Miss Mahfe llazen wgre joined in wed lock in the presence of a large nuinbeP of The bride made a most charming appearance robed in white chiffon and carry ing white roses. She was at foul ed by Miss Bernice Burkholder as maid of honor and Misses Beulah Miller and Pearl llouseknccht as brides maids. The groom was at tended by Mr. Walter Hazen. J. 11. Ballentine and James Moran Jr. were the ushers. The church was beautifully deedfeated for the occasion the color scheme being green and white. After the cere mony a wedding dinner was serv ed at the home of the bride's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. George Hazen. After their return from a wedding .tour Mr. and Mrs. Miller will com mence housekeeping at Muncy Valley. Tlie News Item extends best washes for a long and happy life. Merchants in some of the interior towns of Pennsylvania are going af ter the potato tru->t. Merchants say that the farmers control this trust and ♦re attempting to force tubers away beyond what they are really worth. At the present time they have succeeded in getting H5 cents a bushel, while the merchants declare that 50 cents is all they are worth, when it is considered that the crop this year is large. 75C PER YEAP BERNICE ITEMS. ■ J Mr. and Mrs. George Webb of . Say or, was visiting friends at this place. Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald and Josie Lowrie were Towanda visitors ' during the fair. John Daly and Timothy llyan 1 were Elmira visitors last week. ' Frank McGargel of Sonestown, was calling on friends at this place and Mildred last week. W. H. Brown of Vintomiale, is visiting Win. Hay this week. Dr. Samuel, the Republican can didate to Congress, passed through this place enroute to Lopez and Rickets on Saturday. Beester Jackson was doing the s sights at Towanda last week. Ilarry Beaver of Mildred, has moved his family to Elmira where he intends to make his future home. Joseph A. Helman was an El mira visitor last week. Julius Vogel of Mayer, was visit ing Mildred friends this week. I. (J. Weaver was a Williamsport visitor last week. Mrs. D. ( lark and Millie McDon ald returned to their homes in Punx atawney after spending some time visiting friends at this place and Mildred. Raymond Moyer has moved into James O'Connor's house, made va cant bv Harry Brewer moving away.' Dr. J. L. Brennan was called away on Saturday on account of the death of an uncle. Resolutions. Whereas, It is with great sorrow and regret that Katonka Tribe No. 330, 1.(). R. M., has heard of the de mise of our wed beloved and esteem ed friend, Brother David Peacock, Past Sachem of our Tribe, who for 14 great suns has been a constant friend and always active in the in terest of our tribe ever since its council lire was kindled in Worm Moon, G. S. D. 402, and was our constant friend, ever ready to assist us in all that was possible for the good of our order, one in whom we could look for wise council, and never lacking in the good work of I. O. R. M., always genial and gen tle, and ever ready to greet you with a hearty shake of the hand. His worth will be greatly missed by us in our daily dealings, and in our council chamber his services as a Chief in different positions will be remembered for his many virtues, •which pervaded all of his actions; therefore, Resolved, That by his friendly and brotherly helpfulness, by his kindly nature and unwavering ad h( reuce to tht path of duty Brother Peacock has endeared himself to al our members. Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family and friends and lament with them in the loss they iMtvc sustained, that a copy of tlese resolutions be spread upon the f«'A>rds and copies sent to all the county papers and our Charter la; draped in mourning for a period of 30 suns. Brother Peacock has left us, no more shall we see him in our coun cils, his smiles never more can be, he has gone to the happy hunting grounds far above, where no sorrow or pain ever enter, but all is love. We should imitate his virtues, and ever be free from vile temptation, so that, when we depart from this life, we may again meet him in the happy hunting grounds. P. S. Chas. B. Watson, j P. S. Chas. Cook, Com. I'. S. James H. Spence. j Commendable Fire Company The Elk Tanning Company at Muncy Valley has organized a tin man's association, composed of men employed in the tannery. Mr. Al vin Miller is chief; Peter Jankoskey enginer and Thorn Watts, Foreman; J. H. Fenstamaker, assistant fore man. Hydrantmen, James Moran; Jr. and Bruce Everitt. These men will be permitted to assist in fires \ anywhere in town as well as when they break out in the tannery.
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