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, >
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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.
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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.