VOL. XI. NO 24. C To Buy Your Jewelry s VNothing in Town to Compare WithS ( the Quality that We are Giving J S 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 C fof this section. Many years here in business, always J ) with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C (with a care and judgment commensurate with its \ \ desirability and adaptability to retine taste, makes \ Q our store a safe place to invest. C £ Repair work done ofi short notice and gunran-Q \teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X <> RETTENBURY, S <, DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler $ COLE HARDWARE.J No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK- WOO D HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House runiishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lob 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. Sjmusl The Shopbel! Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, • J WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Tl)e Nev Fall Suits Are arriving every day, the line will soon he complete. Season alter season we are selling more suits. We have every reason to believe that our efforts have been repaid and that your confidence in us to secure the best styles will be sustained w hen you sue what a fine showing we w ill have ready in a lew days. New Walking Skirts. We have scoured .the whole market until we found the in . I \ii -h, serviceable walking skirls that would lie shown anywhere. They are both plain oolors and the new plaids and the new English mixed eflects. THE NEW WOOL DRESS GOODS FOR FALL Are on the counters. Everybody who wishes quiet. rich, tasteful things in dress fabrics will find them here. Not a desirable cloth or color missing. There are two fashionable cloths this season. Broadcloths 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 quiet and com lire tone plaids, not loud as the few years hack. Corsets of the Best Before the new gown a new corset of course. Let us help you to select the right one. We cannot athird to have anything but the best at the various prices. Critically sebcted models make tip the fall assortments. Every corset shows the new lines demanded by late styhs. V\ hether you buy one tor 5o cents or the very finest we can suit you. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1906. BRYAN AND THE TARIFF. | Tlie IVcrlrsN in n;lt«lte (luullfletl to Fret* Cohort*. The enthusiasm with will eh the Dem ocrat !c leaders are hailing the coming of Mr. liryan from his lour through foreign parts ami the fact that a num ber and 1900. He stands today where he : stool then, and his two cardinal priii- j elides then were free silver and free ; trade. There Is one great virtue of Mr. liry au's character. He is consistent and unwavering in his principles, lie is j not a trimmer or an opportunist, j When the Democratic party nominates i him for president in 1008, as there is i now every indication that it will do. he ! will dictate the platform and make the I campaign i-sites. Mr. Bryan believes that tariff protec- j Hon is a great national evil that shel- j tors a whole brood of evils. He would | apply til* ax to the roots of the tariff system. His doctrine i; the time hon ored Democratic doctrine that a tariff should be made for revenue only, with out any regard to manufacture; that i the government has no right to impose ' taxes for any other purpose save the j expense of the government. The financial doctrine of Mr. Bryan has been so well discredited by experi ence in the last ten years that it will be held in the background. In matters of real reform President Itoosevelt and congress have cut away the ground from Mr. Bryan and his party. There will therefore be 110 issue to come up in the next two years to have equal ini ooii.iuce Willi the tariff question, and that wiil be tin> great issue of the can didacy of Mr. Bryan. Meanwhile the country will have oc casion in the congressional elections this year to pas,: preliminary Judgment 011 the tariff question. The voters will say in the elections 111 the various states whether they are prepared to carry out the theories of Mr. Bryan. New Jersey will goon record with the rest of the country. The first five years since the last federal census j sho-.v a phenomenal increase in the in- ' dustri.nl prosperity of this state. What j the federal census of 1!)10 will show depends wholly upon the results of the elections for congressmen and presl- j dent in the state and national elections in 100(1 and 1 DOS. Newark Advertiser. | I'ioneer grange of t'ranliury, N. J., is doing well In the line of co-operative . buying. It has purchased i? 2,000 worth I of clover seed in connection with tlw 1 grange at lligbtstown, also $5,000 i worth of fertilizers and three carloi.da of seed notatoes Another Victim. The Osier theory is responsible for the termination of the life of Henry , Sundo, at Lebanon, who believed in | the doctrine that man had outlived | his usefulness when he reached the I age that incapacitated him for work, J and he accordingly went to the gar ret of his home and hanged himself, last Saturday. Sando, who was (!3 years old, and a retired blacksmith i in good circumstances, raised a fami ly of five children, all of whom turned out well and one of whom is about to be ordained a Reformed minister and is attending the Ursin us Theological Seminary at College ville. He worked hard all his life and accumulated several valuable properties and his family connec tions were of the best. He contend ed, however, that Osier is right, and that when a man is without any ca pacity for work he should be put out ! of the way. I - The recorder of deeds of Clinton eonll fry received for record an agree ment of sale whereby the State conies into possession of 9545 acres jof laud in Noyes and IJeech Creek | townships that county. A similar instrument was tiled with the re corder of Centre county for 0000 acres, making an addition of more i than 10,00(1 acres to the forest re serve in that section. The land is being sold by the Lycoming Land «£■ Lumber Company of Williatnsport. | for 51.00 an acre. The State now | owns 00,000 acres in Clinton county, known as the Hopkins reservation, | which will grow in value. It is un- j ider the supervision of John I.iggetl i of Beech Creek. A romance which had its begin ning in the Schuylkill county pris on during the incarceration of Miss Emma Steplniny, recently acquitted lof the murder of James W. Frizzle | at I'ottsville is about to culminate in iter wedding with William ijttinton 'of Bockville now serving a term for j a trivial offense. Ouintou has always believed in j .Miss Stephany's innocence of the j ; crime with which she was charged, j . During the last days of her incarcer- j ; itio.n he was trying to place food and > little luxuries in her her hands. ' They are to be married as soon as ! | Quinton is discharged from prison, | A Ilarrisburg dispatch says the ! judicial ballot for the November elec- I tion will contain 12 party squares i for state tickets. Every new party! I Jmt took out nomination papers and I 1 secured a sutticient number of sign- ; j ers is entitled to a place on the tick- \ ot and to have a separate square. The parties entitled to squares on ! i the lut I Lot this year are as sollows : | Republican, Democratic, Prohibi- ! j tion, Socialist, Socialist-Labor, Citi- j !/.en, City, Commonwealth, Jefferson, ' Lincoln, Referendum and Union La bor. There tire many other parties that j : have tiled papers in the state de- ; partment claiming certain party j names for judgeships, legislative and I congressional nominations, and in some counties there will lie as many ; l us 1-1 squares on the ticket. Among : j the names pre-empted are Mitchell, j I Pennsylvania, Blacksmith, Roose velt, Squale Deal, Senatorial, Judi cial, Reform, Butler Republican and Federation. Mr. J. H. Cox of Benton, has two turkev hens that are prize layers, their record this summer being 115 j eggs layed gnd then hatched out a little turk to each egg. Farms in the vicinity of Muncy are beginning to be enclosed by val uable young hickory, walnut, and butternut trees. The farmers realiz ing the dearth ami scarcity of these sort of trees, are overcoming the sit -1 nation by this means. In former years the fields have ; been surrounded with fences, but now that the line fences have be come a thing of the past the tree! : planting idea has become quite gen- ' • eral. Scarcely ever does one see a heavy line fence surrounding the Ileitis of the farms that stretch I throughout that valley, and oftener does one see the edges of the Helds : dotted with a thrifty growth of young fruit and nut trees. Farmers to Protect Quail. Farmers are tins year t<> tleter mi.icd to prevent the quail from be ing shot uu their properties. The quail, by its tameness has won the friendship of the farmers and it has been made plain to the • hunters—or will if they attempt to hunt quail—that everything in the power of the rural residents will be | done to prevent the extinction of these little game birds. The quail have been becoming j scarcer and scarcer every year and i the farmers want to stop the slaugh j ter. Judge Lynch of Wilkes-Barre has ! taken occasion to rebuke from the | bench persons who privately ap j proach their honors of the Luztrne j bench, in an effort to secure leui- I ency for some person on trial. The | next time such an offense is commit ted the Judge promises that the of fender shall appear before him for contempt of court. Now that the returns have been collected by the Journal of the Am erican Medical Association it ap pears that 158 deaths resulted from the celebration of the Fourth of July. This is a decrease of 24 as compared with last year. Twenty two persons were blinded and 72 lost each one eye. but as a result of the j protest against giant crackers and j other very violent explosives the j very numerous minor casualties ! were generally less severe than in the past. Grant Herring, independent can ; didate for president judge in the ! Montour-Columbia district, has filed his expense account with the Colum bia county courts. Mr. Herring, in his account,swears that he spent #4,- 734.01 in his endeavor to secure the Democratic nomination for president judge. "Sam "Jones, the evangelist of Cartersvllle, Ga., died of heart failure Oct. 15, on an eastbound j Rock Island train at Perry, Ark. j Mr. Jones' family was with him. Samuel Porter Jones, familiarly : kuown as "Sam Jones," was a world ! renowned evangelist. He was born in Chambers county, Ala., October 16, 1847, and removed to Carters ville Ga., in 1859. He studied under private tutors and at boarding school and was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1869. He began his profes sional lite under bright prospects, but broke down in health from ner vous dyspepsia. He then began to drink and this soon ended his professional career as a lawyer. He professed religion and in 1872 became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was pastor of various charges of the North Georgia conference for eight years and for 12 years he acted as agent of the North Georgia or phanage. A most unfortunate and fatal ac cident occurred last week on the Bloomsburg fair grounds in which an old man lost his life. , David Winner was 011 top of a load of straw that was about to be uu- , loaded into the fair stables when he . in some manner lost his balance and fell from the wagon, striking lii heatl on the stable. He breathed only a few times after the fall. A : doctor wits summoned and said the 1 man's neck had been broken. Another man nearby tried to save Mr. Winner, but his movements were impeded hy a pituhfork he was 1 holding and before he could lend as sistance the unfortunate man had fallen. Mr. Winner was a native of Hem lock township, Columbia county, and lived in Bloomsburg and Cata wissa nearly all his life. He was 70 years of age. About three miles out from the 1 village of Kane, Pa., is what is sain ( to be the world's greatest gas well. 1 Its estimated How is 40,000,000 cubic ! feet of natural gas every twenty four « hours, and the roar is so loud that it ,' is impossible to carry on a conversa- 1 tion in that vicinity, even by yell | 1 ing. This mighty volume of gas is ( ail going to waste and no plan for 1 stpopgin it can be devised while the ' immense pressure continues. • 75C PER YEAP RcRKiCE iTEiVsS. "J Mr.Tind Mrs. !S. A. J> t -u«nl ( ,f ' Mildred. were vi>iiinir ,\lr. iiul Mrs. E. I>. Sullitf of Bloomingdale, C. E. Jackson Was a Towanda vis ' itor last week. ( l)r. J. L. Brennan wasa Williams _ port visitor last week. , Sheriff Hack of Laporte, was a • business caller here on Friday. •I. 11. Thayer of Dushore, was • calling on friends at this place .Sat urday. Frank McMahon of Cherry, was visiting Constable McMahon and family on Friday. Quite a number attended the Dem ocratic rally at Dushore on Wednes day night. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Collins of Cherry, was visiting friends at this place Sunday. Arthur Basley of Sonestown, was visiting Mildred and Bernice friends this week. Daniel Schounover and Thomas Shell were Dushore visitors on Sat urday. The new road is nearly completed. There is only a small piece of grad ing and about thirty feet of walk to be built in Sand Hollow and then we will have one of the best roads in the State. Harry McLaughlin and Mrs. Don ahue, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Donahue will be married on Tuesday. Harry White has made applica tion for his marriage license villi Miss Vandermark of Murraytown. Thomas Donahue of Vintondale, is spending a few weeks with his family at this place. Misses Lizzie and Hannah Dris coll of Hinghamton, N". Y., returned home after spending a week with their parents on Sugar Hill. HEMLOCK GROVE. L. A. Butt antl M. A. Phillips of Benton, transacted business at this place Saturday of last week. Mrs Jacob Doublerof Ilughesville, is spending some time as the guest of Mrs. S. A. Masteller and family. Miss Bessie Fulmer was a Muncy Valley visitor last week. Howard and Percy Bay attended the teachers' meeting at Sonestown Saturday of last week. Miss Mary Wilson of North Moun tain, is spending some time at the home of Albert Myers and family. Mrs. S. A. Warburton and Orphic Arms did shopping at Sonestown Saturday. There will be a box social at the school house Saturday evening, Oct. 2D. Ice cream and cake will be served and a good time is expected. All are invited to attend. Lewis Warburton has moved his family to this place, his former resi dence being near Benton, Columbia county. Sunday services at the churches as [follows: Af Methodist Episcopal church, Sunday school at 9.30; preaching at 10:50. At Evangelical church, Sunday school at 2.80. All are welcome at these services. School Report. The following is a report of the Sheets school for the first month ending Oct. 2: Whole number en rolled, males 5; females 5. Total 10. Those missing no days are Sherman Fowler, Owen Sheets*Lulney Fow ler, Phoebe Worthington, Harry Hichart, Jennie Fowler and Clara llichart. Those missing two days or less are, Fay Sheets, Lawrence Worthington and Samuel llichart. 11. Ottis Bay, Teacher. The court of Dauphin county, in a decision handed down yesterday, de cides that neither Mial Lilley or George W. Kipp were nominated as candidates for congress by (lie Lin coln Republicans of this district. This decision will act as a bar t > either name appearing on the official ballot as nominees of that party. Both candidates, however, have filed nomination papers, and the same court will decide on Saturday next, which, if either, is entitled to have a candidate for congress in the Four teenth dial rid.—Sayre lie cord.