VOL. XI. NO 32. This Is the Place £ C To Buy Your Jewelry \ VNothing in Town to Compare Withes 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 Cof this section. Many years here in business, always ) } with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate wi!h its • \ desirability and adaptability to refine last' 1 , makes \ { our store a safe place to invest. C / Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q S, teed, by skilled workmen.. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORIi, I'A. The Jeweler CO HARDWAR No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OR WOO D HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing 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 you in stoves anything from a line 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, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Soft Warm Blankets and Comfortables. There's all llie difference in the world in blankets and com fortuities. Priecs doesn't give von much clue to their actual value—lor a very poor blanket or comfortable may soem fur better than it is—at first. We're blanket and conifoitable "specialist"—proud ot the fact that, as poor ones cannot get into this store—they can t leave it. Yon may be sure of one thing the money you spend with us tor blankets brings you lull value. I'"or the prices you'll be asked to pay will return as much ol beauty and soilness, and actual durability as any store can give you. White and Grey Cotton B'ankets, gcOd, 1 rge sizes, for 50c to $2.00 White and Colored Blankets, with small per ocnt ot cot ton They are so soft and fine you could narply teli them from all wool, for $3.00 to $4.50. Then we hive the strictly all wool Blankets, in white, grey, scail.t and fancy plaids. An excellent assortment to select from, at $5,00 to $lO. Comfortables and Sateen or S.lkoline covers. They are filled with pure white cotton. Some specially good val ues for $i .00, $3 75 Muslin Underwear Sale. We are having our Annual Sale of Muslin Underwear this week. 1 We have been planning for this for several weeks We are now prepared to show the best garments you have ever purchased fur the price. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. Ellis Snell Fatally Stabbed. Ellis Snell of Hillsgrove, was fatal ly stabbed 011 Monday of last week 1 by a woodsman named Bu-klrk from Lycoming county, while engaged in a fight at Sones' lumber camp 011 Dry Run near Hillsgrove where both men had been employed. On December 31, Snell died from the effect of his wounds. Nothing can be learned of the murderer as he bft for parts unknown immediately after the stabbing o cured. The Debt ot Sullivan County. We have compiled from thecounty records and auditor's report of last year, the following statement show ing ttie condition of the finances of the county on the 31 of December, 1005. It will be seen that the county 'vas in debt at that date to the amount of fifty-nine thousond eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars. The county auditors will meet next week and adjust the accounts of the county officers for year ending December 31, 1000. Statement of tlie financial condition "of Sullivan County December 31, 1905. Liabilities. Co. orders bearing interest $11,166.50 Judgments " " (>,940 00 Bonds at 4 percent interest $33,000 00 •' 5 " " 5,000 00 Balance due to retiring Treas. 1.217 25 Road funds used tor county purposes 10 be refunded... 3.036 51 School and building funds used for < '<>. purposes to be refunded 2,237 59 Poor funds used for county pur poses to'be refunded 1,066 46 Redemption fund used for Co. purpoes to be refunded 402 OS 1 tverdue bills and accounts un paid 511 00 Cherry Township ltoad Tax claim 500 00 Balance due on K!k creek bridge 53000 $65,607 39 Resources' Amis, due from Collectors 4486.00 Surcharges <lue from State 802 76 Cherry Tup. poor district 142 90 Notes and obligation ot prisoners and others for Quarter Sessions costs paid by the county SSO 36 6.018 02 Liabilities in excess of resources 59,859 37 A young man residing near Wilks Barre made application for a mar riage license on Wednesday and when the clerk demanded a dollar be was in a quandary sis he could 011- iy raise seventy cents. Happily bis prospective mother-in-law was along and she loaned him thirty cents, to enable him to secure the desired document. Game Warden Shoemaker, the terror to illegal fishermen in this section of the State, arrested two Tunkhannock men ttie other day charging them with fishing at Lake Carey in violation of the law. The men [ aid fines of $25 each. Evangelistic Tour Party. An Evangelistic Tour Party com posed of Deemer Beideiman, one of the Pennsylvania State Sunday- School Field Secretaries, some of the officers of the Sullivan County Sun day-school Association, and local pastors w ill visit a number of places in Sullivan county in tho interest of evangelistic work. Afternoon and evening services will be held in each place. Singing, prayers, exortations testimonies and addresses, all of a strictly religious nature will com pose these services. The presence and participation of all christian people and especially of Sunday school officers, teachers and pupils are invited. All pastors are especial ly urged to attend. The general public outside of the above named classes will be cordially welcomed. The Tour Party comes to make, it possible, the Christ of the Christ mas season the controlling influence in your lives. The exact itinerary of the party has not been arranged yet, but it will probably commence in the west end of the county at Hillsgrove on January 6, 1907, and visit one or moie place in each town ship. Exact notices will be given out litter. The County S. S. Chair man will accompany the party as much as possible. Deemer Beidei man, of the State Field Force, will conduct the music. The Sullivan Co. S. S. Com. per V. Hull, Chairman. I Mr. J. V. Rettenbury Svccvmbs to an AttacK o! Paralysis. John V. Rettenbury, one of Du shore's most prominent business men, died of paralysis on New Year's Day at 11.30 a. m., after a lingering: illness of the past two years. Mr. Rettenbury was born in Dev anshire, England, in 18i}l, and came to America when eleven years of age, locating in Western New York. In 1878 he moved to Monroeton, and iu 187!) to Onshore, and purchased the jewelry business of Charles Mos bacher and has continued in thn,t business until his death. Honest and upright in all his dealings his career was one of marked success. In 1879 Mr. Rettenbury married Miss Bernice Kelli.g of Monroeton, who with two nieces survive. The funeral was held from his late residence Thursday at 1 o'clock. In terment at Balir cemetery. Postage stamps of the issue of 1907 put on sale at the (5(100 presidential offices will bear on their face the name of the State and city in which the postoHlce is situated. The chief reason for this innovation is said to be the belief that it will help to do •iway with the big postoflice robber ies and make it much easier to trace criminals. Another reason is to en able the postoflice department to determine the amount of business done by the different postottices and prevent padding through stamps sold to some residents who do busi ness iu adjoining cities. There appears to be a singular misconception in the radical wing ol the Democratic party concerning re vision of the tariff. For instance, a West Virginia paper which doesn't kno.v any better, says that "to re vise the tariff would eventually split the Republican party and loose the campaign contributions from the tariff-protected trusts that have been the breath and life to that parly." Considering all that the liepubli can party has done toward "denatur ing" the all ged evil effects of com binations known as trusts, these re flections ought to come under the iiead of "belated ignorance." The life and breath of the Republican party, it is true, depended on pro tection to home industries, but the party has never relied for success on injustice to those interests which the Democratic party has proclaimed against in national conventions and in season and out of season. Revis ion of the tariff is a serious matter. The "breath and lift" of the Repub lican party has for some time been the means of keeping in employ ment many who were former sup plicants at the soup houses of the re vised tariff of the Cleveland admin stration. Will the survivors ever forget those dark days? When it is time to revise the tarifl it will be done by the Republican party, its I most friendly critic. As for contributions tu parties, it j was the sugar trust elected a Dem ocratic president. Now a Republi can administration has brought that same trust to book for violation of the law. An investigation into the charge that the railroads of this country have been paid $10,000,000 annually over and above what they have earned in carrying the mails will be made by congress. The charge was made by Representative Murdock, of Kansas, who accuses the postofflce department of favoring the railroads in the matter. If his charge shall be substantiated then the postofflce department has paid out to the rail roads on the past thirty years S:R>O,- 000,000 which the radroads have earned. It is believed that if the railroads were required to carry the mails at a reasonable rate the annual deficit in the postofflce department would be wiped out and the department would be more than self-sustaining. If congress shall discover that the government has been robbed through j collusion between the department and the railroads the latter should ( be compelled to make such restitu tion as it is possible to demaud under the law. I i Dr. Volney Hornet Dead. Dr. Volney Hornet died at his home in Wyulusing Wednesddy morning of last week of heart affec tion, from which lie had suffered for some time. Mr. Hornet was bocp at Asylum, opposite Hornet's Ferry, seventy-three years ago, his ancestors being refugees who fled from France at the time of the revolution in 1793, his grandfather being steward in the household of Louis XVI. Receiving a good education, he later studied being engag ed in the practice of it when the Civil War broke out. At the call of Lincoln for volunteers, he entered the service, joining the 7th Regt. Pennsylvania Reserves, where he served as surgeon till the close of the hostilities. Returning home he settled in Camptown, where he practiced for a number of years, but later removed to Wyalusing, where he has since resided. His wife died about fifteen years igo, siuce which the household has been under the management of his • laughter Jessie, an accomplished lady, who tenderly administered to the every want of her aged father. The doctor was a man of quiet ways, public spirited, a great reader and successful as a practitioner. He was i member of Jackson Post G. A. R. m organization in which he took >reat interest. He also was a mem ber of the Bradford County Medi cal Society. Dr. Hornet was a brother-in-law to Hon. Thomas J. Ingham, who spent several day of last week in Wyalus ing, returning home Monday. In every community there are persons who will sign petitions with out examining into their purport. It takes only a plausible solicitor to obtain the signatures of business men rigid in other matters and men in other walks of life who are ordi larily careful as to what they sub scribe to. In the majority of cases it is the one careless tiling that most men do. It's "only a petition;" what is the harm in signing it? There is a case, however, that comes out of the west which goes to show that it is a dangerous habit to full into. There arrived in Denver some weeks ago an accomplished •votnan who declared that the object d" her visit was to solicit support for the establishment of a benevolent institution. She talked up the en terprise good and strong before springing her scheme 011 the unsus pecting. Finally she made the rounds with a petition, which she explained would involve 110 finan cial obligation on the part of the signer. Of course she had 110 troub le in getting signers, some 2,000. All went well with her until some one with leisure and an inquisitive turn of mind read the document through. The examination reveal ed a cleverly worded paper that made the signers jointly liable for over half,a milliou dollars, to he devoted to the enterprise the woman was promoting. It will now cost these gentlemen i pretty penny for their release. This may be a lesson to some in other sections of the country who have been accustomed to do just what the Denver people did.—Dis patch. Edison claims that with his new battery, costing S2OO, anybody can ride in his own private carriage without cost for fifteen years, and that a horse in that time will be a curiosity. Cobalt is the new mineral he uses to avoid the weight of the battery heretofore used, and he gives Wisconsin credit for helping him out by furnishing the mineral in sufficient quantities for his purpose, Edison is correct about this every body will have an auto of their own. The Pittston papers report that one by one the men in that city who went to California with the intention of settling there are returning to the Wyoming valley. One man, a itiu chinest, who was induced togo be cause he had heard or read that men of his trade were paid $7.00 per day, jon arriving in California could 110- i wherw find that skilled machinists were paid more than $3.50 a day and I he returned home. 75C PER YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. The following* Snyro visitors spent the Christmas holidays \Titli their parents and friends at this place: Mr. and Mrs. Robert MeGee, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Roberts and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom McSparran, Mr. and Mrs. John Crowley and Robert Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Connors, of Philadelphia, apent Christmas with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Connors of Mildred. Mrs. Judson Harney of Factory - ville and Edith Harney of Scranton, spent Christmas with the letter's parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Ilarney of Mildred, Miss Bessie Wheatley of Lopez, visited her parents Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gansel were Laporte visitors Christmas. Wyoming visitors—Edward Han non and Patrick White. Miss Cassie and Geofge Schaud who are attending Juniata School sjtent their holiday vacation with their father William Schaad of Mil dred. John Connor who is attending school at Allegheny, spent the holi days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James J. Connor of Mildred. Horn to Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Schaad, on December ID, a son. A foreigner had his leg broken in the mine on Saturday. Dr. Bren nan set the broken limb. As the time draw* near for hold ing the spring caucuses it would be to every one's interest to select the best men to till the various offices. It is not the man who will spend two or three hundred dollars to be elected to a twenty-live dollar office for no man will spend one dollar unless he can see his way clear to make two in return, and until the voters refuse to accept money or presents from any candidate, politics will be corrupt and good men will be defeated. Misses Maggie Watson, Lucy Maunon and Bessie Gallagher are attending the teachers institute at Dushore. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Sullivan of [ioboken, X. J. are visiting the lat tfcr's parents Mr. and Hrs. P. Han non. Allen Ande of Mildred spent Christmas with his parents at La quiii. London Truth is discussing the proper age for young m*tn and wo men to marry. It thinks that from twenty-seven to thirty-two for the girls, and to forty-five for the boys, is about right. The old (ireek philosopher beat this all hollow. He said that the time for a young man, was not yet, for an old man, never. Philadelphia and Reading officials have announced that a plant would he erected to manufacture cement props for all the company's collieries in the anthracite region, the new method being intended to do away with fresh timber, which now costs the company thousands of dollars monthly to support underground workings. John 15. A nit, a resident along the road between Williamsport and Jersey Shore, claims the distinction of having the largest calf in this part of the state. At birth the ani mal weighed 11" pounds, and is per haps the largest calf ever known in Lycoming or adjoining counties. Plans to evangelize the world within 25 years will be discussed at the thirteenth annual conference of the foreign Missionary boards which will be held January i) and 10 in Philadelphia. The movement has been endorsed by every Protestant denomination, and prominent men from all over the country will take part in forming the plans. Four biack bears were seen the other day within a few miles of Bloomshurg by W. 11. Reigie, a Montour township farmer. The bears were in one of Regie's fields, not far from his house, and on seeing the farmer they at once made a break for the woods. Hunters tracked the animals to the banks of the river, where the trail was lost.
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