VOL. XI. NO 29. /This Is the Place (.To Buy Your Jewelry \ C Nothing in Town to Compare ( the Quality that We are Giving J ) You for the Low Price Asked. S L Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ J) irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r I of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosenC (willi a care and judgment commensurate with its • \ desirability and adaptability to refine last", mafcts £ our store a safe place to invest. ( P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q Xteed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, S <, DUSHORE, pa. The Jeweler COL fiARDWARE. No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D HEATERS; i ONE OP WINTERS GREAT DELIGHTS. i House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Desci ipticn, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of cur talk. A. lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a Cue Jewel Base ' Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stovo. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., * 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. Table Linen and Napkin \ Linens are like money, tlure are good and there are counterfeit. We won t take ccunteifeil linen any more than we would take b.;d money. Neither will you when you know what you're getting To be sure about what you're getting in linens come here and get tie kind >ou will be proud to own. Needn't p;iv much for them either— N*T HS we sell tliem. Our linen prices are always lair; now they are very low considering the rise inlinen. Ladies' Suits Kid Gloves. Get the suit now, don't wait until the Gt course you will want new kid gloves last minute and have to buy in a hurrv. Togo with the new costume. We art. Besides the selection is best now ami if showing an t xcellent line of* kid gloves you wait until later the stocks will all be in a splendid range of colors for a low picked over. Better choose the new suit price. You can't go lur wioug it you today while the stocks are yet complete, spend your glove money here. Wool Dress Goods Have you given them their share of at- I'ancy mixed fabrics are now at the best, tention ? Is ilie winter dress still tin- Of course you expect to find the prices bought? Our assortment of pl.ti i and right so we will say nothing >.bout their. Cor.sets for All Figures. Knit Underwear. How about your underwear supplies? Everv figure has its appropriate corset Have vou everything von need ? Ii not here. We use the greatest care in giving let us furnish what vou want. You the customer the right model. Some won t find any better values than we arc brands are best tor stout figures, others showing in either men's, ladies or chil snit slender figures better. We know the dren's warm knit undergarments. Some brands and we know their limitations, specially good values in ladie's 1 nion Ask our cori-et ailvtce on these. suits, GOOD WARM BLANKETS either white or colored in all qualitts are h< re and yen can tot go \,\ ronu in buyi; g hem, the prices ar-- very re a - o.iable in view o' the co.i iitio.is ol tiu- wool nuikvt. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6,1906. The Triennial Assessment. Continued from last \eek. We are just beginning to realize the extent and the value of the coal fields of Sullivan county. Thus far they have almost entirely escaped the attention of"the assessors and commissioners. Conservative esti mates place the merchantable coal in Sullivan county at over 20,000,- 000 tons. What is the value of this c >al per ton, for the purposes of as sessment? Coal royalties in Sulli van county vary from fifteen to twenty cents per ton. That is the amount the owner of the coal land receives from the companies that buy it and operate the mines. In other words these amounts repre sent the selling price in the market, j The question now arises, what value j should the assessors and the County j Commissioners place upon it for tax- | able parposes? Inasmuch as it re- j quires many years to take all the j coal from any given coal tract, it would be manifestly unfair to place : upon the coal an assessment equal to ; (he amount of royalty paid for it. But the present worth or present value of such deferred payment | would seem to be a fair basis of as- 1 sessmcnt. So, if the operation cov- J crs a period of ten years the rate j should be higher than if it covers a 1 period of twenty-live years. In the; Wyoming Valley coal region the as- j sesMiients run from SSO to f.OO per foot of vein per acre, depending upon the thickness of vein. The! thicker the vein the more valuable | per foot. Thus a three or four foot j vein wiii be assessed at SSO per foot, | or from $l5O to S2OO per acre, while ; an eight or ten foot vein will be as- ; sessed at from s4so to >OOO per acre. | In this connection it may be start- ; ling news to the great majority of j lax pay r- in Sullivan county thai the rich coal lands of the Bernice j region are at present assessed at only i $ Is. 00 per acre ! The amount is so j insignificant as to appear ridiculous, j Recent litigation in this county has i made clear to everyone that our j coal lands have enormous values, i Why should they not be assessed at j their real market value? No one j asks that they be assessed for more j than they are worth, but the farm- | crs and property owners throughout the county demand and have a right i to demand that the same principle j shall be applied in assessing coal ! lands that is applied in assessing farm lands, houses and lots in vil- | lages, stores, hotel, proporties, and j other forms of real estate, to wit, an ; assessment that shall represent their | real and actual value. Anything j short of this is not only unjust and j unfair, but a plain violation of the ■, law. '1 he officials whose work it is to j make these assessments and to linal- j ! ly adjust them, have a most import- j ant duty to perform. The great j | body of taxpayers throughout the I county arejooking to them to per-| form these duties without fear or favor and with exact justice to all. | We firmly believe that they will do ! this and that the triennial assess ment of 190(5 will be the most cor- j reel and equitable of any yet made. The News Item will give Irom | time to time extracts from the as- ; sessnients that we may deem of in terest to the general public. An exchange says : Count Boni is trjing to keep the wolf from the the door by selling scandals of the French Smart Set to a scan dal mongering newspaper. That is about the size of the man, but it ought to inspire the wolf to extra efforts. To Prevent Occceit. Every applicant for a license to i practice medicine in Pennsylvania ! will hereafter be required to present j with bis application for examina tion by the State medical boards a ! photograph of himself certified by | the dean of the college from which he was graduated and signed by the candidate himself. 1 This rule was adopted by the State medical council for.the pur j pose of making more difficult imper sonations at thc.se examinations next ■ t June. Awarded Heavy Damages. Oscar \V. Shatter, a Phillipsburg baker was awarded SIB,OOO damage* against the Lehigh Valley Railroad company by a jury in the- Hunter don court last Saturday. The jury was out all night and returned with a verdict at 9 o'clock. Shaffer was injured in a grade crossing accident by the lilack 1 >i;.- mond Express on November 1", 190.). The accident occurred at Phillipsburg while he was driving in his bakery delivery wagon. The crossing is protected by hoisting gates in charge of a man in a tower, but on the day of the accident the gates were tended by a foreign* r while the regular gateman was off i duty. The baker wagon was per j milted to enter the crossing almost ! at the moment the express was dut ; and was struck by the engine and l thrown several feet. Shatter had a j miraculous escape from death. As i a result of the accident the horse died some time later and [Jlr. Shaf fer is said to be a cripple for life, having partial paralysis of one leg and side. World's Temperance Sunday wa.- very fittingly observed at the M. E. (•'lurch at Forksville. After the close of the lesson period the children of the Sabbath school, under the leader ship of Miss Sara lla.ikell, marched from the primary room with flying banners and waving Hags singing a stirring temperance song. A short program consisting of music, read ing and recitations was rendered in ; a most excellent manner, after which the pastor, Rev. D. J. Ebert' took charge of the service, lie took j for his theme "Man Traps," and de- ! liven (I a strong sermon full of warn ing against the wiles of the enemy. The topic of the Epworth League ser\ ice was announced as "The Use of Strong Driuk," Lender, Mrs. Anna Nye. The evening service j was attended by an unusually large audience as were the preceding ser- : vices. It was a very' interesting and ! profitable met ting, a fitting closing j to a memorable day in the annals of j temperance observance. Eleven were kiiled and KM were i injured in the United States during j the football season of 1900, accord- j ing to the Chicago Tribune. I.ast ! year eighteen players were killed [ and lot) severely injured. The de- j crcise iti casualties is especially j marked among high school players. ! In the season of 1905 eleven high school players were killed and forty ' seven injured, wliiH" in the season just- closed seven were killed and forty-seven hurt. This year not one fatality has occurred among the larger American colleges. The Factory Inspector, a quarterly periodical published in New York, and devoted to the interest of fac tory inspection in the United States and in Canada, has the following ed itorial comment in its October issue concerning our State Capitol build ing, a i ut of which was given .• "There has been some coinplafht, by the way, at the cost of this splen did architectural structure, which , will remain a landmark of beauty j 'and usefulness for centuries. Theex pense ot"building it was some sl3, 000,000; but, all things considered, it is difficult to see how it could have been erected for the money, especi ally as public buildings invariably | cost somewhat higher than private i ones of the same character. "This imposing structure should ! awaken a feeling of pride in the breast of every citizen of the State. | Artistically as well as arehitectural , ly, it is a monument to the talents | and genius of i t.- designers and build ers. The decorations are, of course, I lavish and ornate, but they are ! pleasing to the eye and will have an i educational influence to the advan- j ! tage of everyone who views them, and this great building was com pleted in four years after it was be- I gun." There should be u compulsory ; vaccination law in this state such as they have in Germany, and then there ought to be a law to imprison those mfsguided persons who advo cate resistance to the enforcement i of the vaccination law. —Exchange. County Institute Aunounccment. The fourty-fourth annual session of the Sullivan County Teachers' In stitute wiii beheld in Kiine's Op era House Dushore, Pa., during the week hegining Dec. 31, 1900. Instructors: Hon. Henry It. l'attengill, Ex- State Supt. Public schools, Michigan. I)r. Charles C. Ellis, Porkimen ville, Pa. Supt. W. W. Evans, Columbia county. Prof. J. W. Yoder, Professor of Music, Lock Haven State Normal School. Evening Lectures and Entertain ments : "Dollars and Dunces" a lecture by Dr. Ellis, Monday evening. Con cert by the Imperiales, a ladies' con cert company, Tuesday evening. "Nancy Hanks, and the Nineteenth Century," a lecture by Dr. Patten gill Wednesday evening. A concert by the Irma Male Quartette, Thurs day evening. We take more than usual pleasure in announcing this year's Institute. We feel safe in saying that the In state promises to be one of the best ever held in the county. The day sessions will be both instructive and interesting, while the evening lec tures and entertainments represent the best talent that we could pro cure. There will be no weak number in the program. Every night will be present an A No. I attraction. All schools must be closed during the week of the County Institute. Every teacher is expected to at tend tlir Institute and is paid only for Mie actual number of days in at tendance. Thanking the general public for the generous patronage it lias given us in the past and promising all friends of the Public Schools an ar ray of Institute talent that will mer it an even more liberal patronage than lias ever before been extended. I remain, yours, for the Schools. J. E. Reese Killgore, Co. Supt. Tickets for the coming lectures and entertainments will be placed on sale at Geo. T. Deegans' store, Dushore, at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning, Dec. 27. Course tickets admitting to all the attractions of the week with reserve seat privileges, one dollar. Reserve scats 35 cents each night. General admission, 25c. With upraised in diet the sheriff it Elizabethtowil, Ivy., will this week auction off "Dock" Auberry, a shiftless white man who refuses to work and the words of the auction eer will probably bring back to the older among the spectators the scenes of slave times*. Auberry's ser vices will goto his purchaser for a period of nine months. The pr< - ceedings will be under the State Vagrancy Law, which is called into use so little that action under it in variably attracts attention. He was tried last week and convicted, being found by the verdict "strong, able bodied, with no visible means of sup port and too lazy to work." A black bear held up the United States mail near Roiring Hraneh Tuesday, and this new faugled road agent is still at large. Elmer E. Warer, rural mail carrier out of Roaring Branch, having a horse and regulation United States rural deliv ery cart came upon a bear that stood in the roadway. Ilis horse took fright and the wagon was near ly overturned, the bear persistently standing and looking, but finally making off into the woods aboult the time the mail carrier's horse was frightened into a frenzy. The conscience fund of the treas ury department has received anoth er contribution. this time the a mount is SSOO, sent by "A soldier of | 1861" and who stated that he ac cepted the amount has an enduee j merit to answer Lincoln's call for ; volunteers. Since the war the man ! has prospered but for half a century , his conscience as been troubling I iin until he could stand it no loug . er. Nothing but the return of the ! money could make reparation for his lack of patriotism. The enve lope containing the remittance was mailed at Meadvillc; Pa. 7GC PER YEAR BERMiCL i i i3i»«S. S. A. DeiilVnbrtch was at Muncy attending bis 111 It'll*'* 112; I;; i!. Tin' following Sayre visitor* wore spending Thanksgiving with friends at Mildred: Mr. and Mrs. John Crowley and family, Dennis Hurk and John Itannon, and James A.' Bowles of Athens; Paul Fuinski of Pittston. Misses May and Ernie Williams of l'ittsbnrg, are visiting Mildred friends. Mr. and Mr.. Sixer of Colley spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. F. P. Schaad. Miss Rose Ilelpin, the youngest daughter of James Ilelpin, is at Hinghamton, N. Y., where she will make her future home. James J. Connors, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks, is able to attend his duties again. The young people of the Presby terian church are practicing for a Christmas festival. Jerome Ortletr of Dushore, was awarded the contract to build the Lutheran church at Mildred. Andrew Carnegie, bestower of libraries, capitalist, author and philosopher has entered upon his 70th year. It was November 25, 1839, that tbe light came to bis eyes over the heather of bis native Scot land. Mr.Carnegie is in as rugged health as it in all these years he had been free and wild in the land of cakes by brae and burn, instead of amass ing millions to give away with a conscience pang that it is not so good to die rich. Mr. Carnegie has given away nearly $150,000,000 of his collossal f