Republican News Item.
VOL. XI. NO 33.
This Is the Place £
\To Buy Your Jewelry C
V Nothing in Town to Compare With>
( the Quality that We are Giving J
J You for the Low Price Asked. S
y Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \
> irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r
Cof this section. Many years here m business, always }
\ with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C
(with a care and judgment commensurate wilh its ?
\ desirability and adaptability to refine last'*, makes \
r our store a sale place to invest. C
( Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r
teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X
S RETTENBURY, >
4, DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler
HARDWARE.j
No Place Like this Place
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OR WOOD
HEATERS;
ONE OF 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 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.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine Street,
WILLI AM SPORT, PA.
Soft Warm Blankets, and
Comfortables.
There's all tlie difference in the world in blankets and comfortables.
Prices doesn't give yon much clue to their actual value—for a very poor blanket
or comfortable may soem fur better than it is—at first.
We're blanket and conifoitable "spec'alist"—proud ol the fact that, as poor ,
onis cannot gel into this store —they enu't leave it.
You mav be sure of one thing the monev von spend with us lor blankets!
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brings you lull value. For the prices you'll be asked to pay will return as much ol
beauty and softness, and actual durability as any store can give you.
White and Grey Cotton Bai kets good, 1. rge sizes, for
50c to $2.00
White and Colored Blankets, with small per ocnt of cot
to i They are so soft and line you could harply tell them
from all wool, for
$3.00 to $4.50.
Then we hive the strictly all wool Blai kets, in white,
grey, scail t and fancy plaids. An excellent assortment to
select from, at
$5.00 to $lO.
Comfortables and Sateen or Sslkoline covers. They are
filled with pure white cotton. Some specially good val
ues for SI.OO, $3 75
Muslin Underwear Sale.
We are having our Annual Sale o( Muslin Underwear
this week. We have been planning for this for several
>eks We are now prepared to show the best garments
\ive ever purchased for the price.
"rihefor the News Item
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907.
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
J. W. DARROW. Chatham. N. Y..
rresa Corresponded New Yotk State
Grange
SPECIAL MEETINGS.
Menilierx Should Not De Elected at
Such Times.
Sometimes tlie question arises for
discussion iu our granges as to wheth
er candidates can be elected at a spe
cial meeting or not. By a special we
mean a meeting not oa the regular
dates chosen for the meetings. It may
be said that If the bylaws contain no
provision to the contrary, if notice has
been given to all members of the
grange, candidates can be elected to
membership at special meetings; but,
as a rule, this is not advisable. The
reason is this: A candidate who might
not be acceptable to certain members
of the grange could be balloted for and
elected In the absence of such mem
bers from the special meeting, they not
knowing that the special meeting had
been called for that purpose. If they
are absent from a regular meeting, they
can raise no objection, as their absence
is their own fault. Whether announce
ment made at a regular meeting of the
grange that a special meeting for the
election of candidates to membership
would be held on a given date would
lie considered iegiil notice to the mem
bers of the grange may be an open
question. To be sure of a possibly Il
legal action iu this respect It would
bo hotter for the secretary to notify
the members by person or by letter
that an election of candidates for mem
bership would occur at a special meet
ing. As exigencies are very rare that
would request election to membership
at any other than a regular meeting,
we would advise that all granges ob
serve the rule to elect only at regular
meetings.—Country Gentleman.
GRANGE IN POLITICS.
Unt There I'mi Ue % o Politic* In
tlie Granite.
As regularly ns come the autumn
weather aud the falling leaves comes
the season for politics aud politicians.
With it coiiuj--- the oft repeated and al-,
ways denied assertion that "the grange
has gone into politics," "the grange
candidates," etc. Never would this
great national organization, which
knows no north, south, east or west,
have lasted these forty years had It
been a partisan organization or lent Its
aid to parties and to partisans, remarks
Mortimer Whitehead in American Ag
riculturist. Other farmers' organiza
tions have come and gone that were
organized to make a new party or to
place its men on tickets and In office,
I nit tiu* grange, as an Order true to Its
original principles and its platform, has
moved steadily onward, avoiding the
rocks upon which others have been
shipwrecked. In its earliest years the
grange prodaimod to the world its
general objects and clearly stated: "We
emphatically and sincerely assert the
oft repeated truth taught In our organic
law that the grange, national, state or
subordinate, is not a political or party
organization. No grange, If true to its
obligations, can discuss partisan or sec
tarian questions, or call political con
ventions, or nominate candidates, or
even can discuss their merits In Its
meetings."
Vet to the watchful observer and
careful student It is plainly evident
that tlie grange is a power for good In
politics. It works upon a higher and
broader plane than partisan politics,
for it brings the best members of all
parties together, educates and guides
them, and to educate is to set free.
GRANGEOPPOSES IRRIGATION
llnwis on Wlileh the Opposition Rota
IN Governmental.
It lias been asked why the national
grange should oppose government irri
gation of the arid lands of the west.
The common belief Is that because of
increased production In the west of
farm products there would be an In
creased competition for the farmers of
the east. This, however, is not the
basis of grange opposition. The Irri
gation of these lands at government
expense is based upon the principle
that such improvement to the lands of
the west Is no more defensible as a
proposition than the improvement to
lands of the east by drainage and cul
tivation at the expense of the govern
ment. As a national grange authority
lias stated, "it would lie difficult to
demonstrate why the government is
more justified in distributing large
quantities of water to Improve land
than it would lie in removing water
from equal areas of equally valuable
land where the system bad been ap
plied."
Another Ptr.nt Abandoned.
After many voarV trial lit its munici
pal electric lighting plant Alexandria,
Va , has finally leased the works to a
private corporation for a period of
thirty years. The lessee paid $3,500
for the plant, which had cost the city
1 f17,000.
Died at Butler, Tennessee.
In obedience^to the common sum
mons which comes to all humanity,
we again humbly and sorrowfully
submit; and as we sad
eveut, which has not only brought
to a home deepest gloom, but sor
row to the inhabitants of the entire
village, we again after the manner
of erring mortals, wonder why the
brightest lights are often taken from
this benighted earth, before they
have scarcely arisen above the joy
ful horizon of Childhood. But to
the inevitable we bow.
Elda May Gorman was born at
Nordmont, Pa., April 12,1894, and
died December 20, 1906, age 12
years, 8 months and twelve days.
She was baptised into the Lutheran
church in infancy, and as if aware of
her religious proclivities and vows
she grew into sweet~and simple girl
hood, in the pleasure of her creator
who commands to seek first the
Kingdom of Heaven and its right
eousness.
Elda lived only a short time after
being stricken, but as "she had lived,
so she died, in sweet simplicity and
undoubting faith, ami without a
murmur or a ripple on the waters of
lime as she quietly, gently sailed
from the shores of time onto the
bosom of an endless, unexplored
eternity.
A Friend.
If people would study the various
vegetables, fruits etc., as to the
medicinal qualities in remedying
ailments, there would be less sick
ness. It would not be difficult to
remember that fruits and tomatoes
are good for the liver. Lettice and
celery are good nerve tonics. Beans
peas, lentils tie., produce strength
and heat, and are a good substitute
for meat in winter. Onions and
radishes are preventatives of colds.
Macaroni and verinicilli, on account
of their closeness of grain, are not as
c tslly digested as lighMirend. Po
tatoes when mealy are easily digest
• d; when close and watery, they are
hard to digest. Bananas, on account
<>f the nitrogen they contain are easy
to digest, says Woman's Life. The
sufferer from dyspepsia should eat
turnips, spinach, caesses, salads, cel
ery, lettuce and dandelions. A per
son suffering from chronic rheuma
tism should avoid dried tlsh.
More than 100 jiersons according
to the New York World met their
death during the last year from caus
es directly due to sport, and with
almost every one there rose the ever
burning public clamor against the
dangers of some game or other. <)f
tlie various branches football was
the most criticised as usual and there
seems to be no question that it is
dangerous since eleven weeks built
up a total of 14 fatalities with some
thing over 160 cases of more or less
serious injury but a glance at the
item of deaths in the various fields
of spoit shows that mountain climb
ing leads. In the twelve months of
the year 191 lost their lives in that
hazardous pleasure. Automobiling
has accounted for 110 deaths and 72
hunters have been accidently killed.
It is quite a drop from such figures
to the 14 fatalities of football vv ith
following in order hase ball 8; ma
rine 4; 4 and two each for boxing,
wrestling and horse racing.
The Evangelistic Tour Party,
mentioned in the last issue of the
News Item, announce the follow
ing places and dates for their ser
vices, viz: Lincoln Falls, Jan. 7th;
Shunk, 8tli; Estella 9th; Forks
villelOth; East Forks, 11th; Over
ton, 12th; Dushore 13th; Bernice,
14th; Lopez 15tli; Laporte 16th;
Eagles Mere, 17tli; Sonestown 18tli;
Nordmont 19th; Muncy Valley 20.
The meetings are held on the
afternoon and evening of each
date, commencing at 2:3oand 7:30.
Great interest was manifested at
llillsgrove, on the 6th. Twenty
seven persons expressed a desire to
lead Christian lives.
Sullivan Co. S. S. Committee,
V. Hull, Chairman.
The Alleged Mvrdcr o! Eilis Sneil Deliv
ered Himself to the Authorities.
Recent developments in the Hills
grove murder case are to the effect
that Ellis Snell met death as the re
sult of an attack ofpneumouia which
he contracted after receiving the
fatal wounds on Christmas day.
Snell was taken with the disease
several days after the assault at the
Sones lumber camp, and in nine
days he was a corpse. Dr. Mervine,
of llillsgrove, attended the man and
stated that Snell would never have
contracted pneumonia had it not
been for the wound. in his lung,
which was directly responsible for
the attack and which made his re
covery impossible.
Another phase lias been brought
forward in favor of John Vanßus
kirk, the alleged slayer of Snell, for
it is asserted that Snell struck the
Urst blow in the tight that resulted
in the fatal slabbing. While the
two were struggling Van husk irk
drew the knife from his sieve and
the terrible slashing resulted. There
is every likelihood that the Jplea of
"self-defense" will be made, yet it is
held that Vanßuskirk went into the
room with the knife under his arm
with the intention of killing the
man with whom he had been quar
reling earlier in the day.
Vanßuskirk came to Laporte on
Monday and delivered himself to
Sheriff Buck and was placed in jail
to await his trial.
A Lycoming county paper says:
With a liquor license for every 181
of her male inhabitants Lycoming
ought surely to be able to legally
provide all the "schnaps" necess
ary. However, some of our neigh
bors seem to be of a thirstier cala
'ire, for we note that in Columbia
the average is ninoty-nine, North
umberland eighty, Sullivan nine
ty-'\vc and Cameron Ninety.
Application was made on January
2, for a charter from the Secretary
of the t'omyiou wealth's office for an
electrical corporation to be known
.is the Hardwood Transmission com.
pany. This concern will manufact
ure electricity and furnish it for the
purpose of light and heat and power
in the counties of Luzerne, Colum
bia, Schuylkill, Berks and Lehigh,
liehind this scheme is an experiment
that may be far reaching in its effect
and it may in a measure tend to
revolutionize the sale and tranmis
sion of electricity to points within
a 100 miles or so of the coal mine-.
The coal operators have conceived
the idea of manufacturing electricity
at the mines where fuel ih cheap
and then marketing the magic fluid
to all the country for miles around.
A big power plant is being erected
at Hardwood and lines of wires will
reach from the mines to Reading,
Allentown, Sunbury, Bloomsburg,
Mauth Chunck, Pottsville, Shamo.
kin and Berwick and all the towns
and hamlets where electricity can
l>e used. The idea of the coal op
erators is that they can undersell
any one in the market. The main
article so essential in the production
of electricity, coal, is there in abun
dance.
Whereas, We stand with grief till
ed hearts, as we voice our sorrow at
the death of our beloved brothel,
Past President and Past DintrictPres.
,1). W. Darling, and whereas,
He left behind him a beautiful
character that time shall not soon
efface, and,
Whereas, We recognize aud ap
preciate his great service in the cause
Therefore be it resolved, that we
thus express our appreciation of his
honest worth, his sterling manhood
and his unswerving allegieuce to
truth and honor, that we have record
our admiration of one who was true
aud faithfi'il to friendships call, and
who stood close to his country in her
hour of need, and who gave ever of
his best and his truest to his ideal,
God, Country and Feliowtnan.
Resolved, That we are in perfect
sympathy with the bereaved widow
and family and beg to express feel
ing by the presentation to them of a
copy of these resolutions.
Fraternally submitted,
Frank Magargel, i
R. S. Starr, Com.
C. E. Ilazcn, j
75C PER YEAR
BERNICE ITEMS.
Alfred and Albert Herman have
relumed to Elmira Business
after spending tlie Christmas and
New Year holidays with their par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Helsman.
Miss Lela Newell who is attend
ing the Mansfield Normal, is visit
ing her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Newell.
Hon. John S. Line is quite sick
at this writing.
J. G. Weaver is under the doctor's
care at present.
A very sudden death occured at
the home of Win. Sharp Wednesday
morning of last week, llis little son,
Frank, was found dead in bed with
out any previous illness. The boy
had enjoyed himself with his friends
on New Years day and retired that
evening in his usual health.
It is with the deepest regret that
we announce the death of Mrs. Geo.
Powers who died on Thursday morn
ing after about twelve hours sick-
Funeral was held on Saturday. In
terment at Greenwood, Pa.
The members of Katonka Tribe
held a smoker in their wigwam on
Monday night. Thisisoneof which
will be held 011 the last Monday
night of each month for the purpose
of bringing the members together to
smoke the pipe of peace around their
council fire and partake of wine and
venson which is prepared by their
committee of five.
The members of Bernice Lodge,
No k 962 I. O. O. F. along hith their
wives and friends, held an ice cream
and cake festival in their hall on
New Years night.
Hon. John C. Schtiad is at home
after attending the short session at
1 lariisburg.
Active stepps are being taken by
the State Medical Society to have a
State hospital for habitual drunk
ards and dope fiends established by
the Legislature.
At the last meeting of the society
at Bedford Springs, a committee ol"
nine was appointed to consider the
matter. The direct outcome of this
meeting was the appointment of a
sub-committee to draft a bill which
it is planned to have introduced 111
the upper house by Senator Webster
Grim, of Bucks, and a western rep
resentative yet to be chosen. The
proposed bill will probably be sub
mitted to the commission to investi
gate various charitable institutions
before it is finally presented in the
Legislature. It is said that the
movement is an outgrowth of the
Vet of 1903, which provides that
dipsomaniacs and drug fiends may
be committed to hospitals for treat
ment by near relatives or by their
physicians. The ordinary hospitals
are opposed to such cases, however,
and it has been found that the luna
tic hospitals are also opposed to tak -
ing such cases and that inebriates
and their relatives are also opposed
to having the subjects treated at such
places. That is why this project has
been set afoot
Hubert 1.. Meyers a young man of
llughesviile, is at work on a turbine
wheel which in his opinion will rev
olutionize the use of that leature of
all water powers. Mr. Myers has
been giving his attention to this
matter for the past year and is now
working his ideas into shape. It is
the aim of Meyers to perfect a
wheel that will reduce the volume
of water that is necessary for the
power produced by the old turbine
wheel, thus permitting its use at
places where now this kind of power
cannot be used on account of lack of
water.
Bradford county now owns its
splendid courthouse entirely free
from debt, the second installment of
SIO,OOO in bonds having been re
deemed on Saturday, Dec. 29. The
The bonds were dated January 1,
1897, and were $200,000- On Janu
ary the 1, 1902, this amount
was paid and now the entire debt
is wiped out in less than ten years.
Fifteen persons, most of them
women, were lined $lO each in
Seranton for sending through the
mail Christmas packages contain
ing writing and stamping them as
third-.lass matter.