Republican News Item, VOL. XI. NO 36. This Is the Place C To Buy Your jewelry s X Nothing in Town to Compare With > ( the Quality that We are Giving / J You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality an<.i moderate prices makes a force that \ S irresist'bly draws into our store the best patronage r Cof this section. Many years herein business, always ) S with a full line of goods above suspicion: chosen C (with a care and judynvnt comm nsurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine l ast'\ ma ts \ C our store a safe place t# invest. C / Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, > DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler COL fiA^DWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ 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. Vv'e can sell yon 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. eloolre,fa. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Soft Warm Blankets and Comfortables. There's all the difference in the world in blanket* and comfortables. I'lTees doesn't give von much clue to their actual value—for a very poor blanket or comfortable may saem fur better than it in—at lirst. We're blanket and comfoitable "specialist"—proud o! the (act that, as poor ones cannot get into tins store —they cau't leave it. You may be sure of one thing —the money you spend with lis tor blankets brings you lull value. For the prices you'll be asked to pay will return as much ol beauty and soi'tneM, and actual durability as any store oun givu yon. White and Grey Cotton B'ai kets, good, I rge size?, for 50c to $2.00 White and Colored Blankets, with small per ocnt of cot ton. They a e so sort and line you could iurply tell them from nil woo!, for $3.00 to $4.50. Then we have the strictly all wool Bhu kets, in white, grey, scail t and fancy plaid?. An assortment to select from, at $5.00 to $lO. Comfortables and Sateen or S Ikoline 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 of Muslin Underwear this week. We have been planning for this for several weeks We ar • now prepare \tosh >w the best garments you have ever purthist d for the price. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907. MoKoma Mountain Outing For Boys a Boom to Laporte. i Booklets are out advertising the 1 Mokoina Mountain Outing for Boys, I a new project which has as its pro moters Prof. L. L. Ford and Prof. James A. Muller. Mr. Ford has purchased the lvarns cottage at Mo koina and has had it remodeled and enlarged to accomodate a large party of boys to be gathered from the large cities during the summer months. Here they will spend vacations that will be profitable, pleasant and healthful, high in the mountains under the personal care and instruc tion ot able advisors. The purpose of the Mountain Mo koma Outing for Boys, using the language of the booklet, says: -- A delightful and wholesome sum mer vacation devoted to the devel opment of the best in body, mind and heart, is the purpose of Mo koma Mountain Outing for Boys. The members of the Outing are ad mitted only after becoming acquain ted with the management in a per sonal way. With the simplest clothing, the most wholesome food, pleasant out-door activies, and a cozy cot at night, the boy strong in body, mind and heart, with a pleasure that fills the mem ory with ennobling thoughts. "In the freedom of fields and for ests, by the rippling lake and the dashing mountain stream, the boy meets Nature at her best, and his i noblest traits of eharacter respond i with a joy found no where else,a j joy that lasts through the years j that follow." The management of this enterprise j hopes to make the now tenture one of great value to its patrons and the town itself. Laporte can help her self in no better way than lending a helping hand to the management of thi taking. The bovs wlr will be brought here to fall in love with our beautiful surroundings, will iu time be men of affairs and builders of summer homes where their fancies direct. Laporte extends a welcome hand to this noble work and will assist in making a success of the Mokouia Mountain Outing for Boys. Organization and reform party leaders in Philadelphia favor the abolition of February election. A hill to provide an amendment to the Constitution with a view to doing away with municipal elections in February will be introduced in the Legislature this week. The bill pro vides for holding the state elections iu the odd years and the city and county elections in the even years in November. The commissioners of Potter coun ty have dug up an old act of 1805 re quiring the publication of the trien nial assessments and propose to put it in force. This requirment has re cently been advocated by many |>eo ple and it was not generally known that such an act> was already in ex istance. We have not learned wheath er it is a special act for Potter or wheather it is a state law. If it is not applicable to the whole state, we believe such an act would greatly simplify this very vexatious quest ion and add to the proper adjust ment of values. Harvey's Lake, in the Luzerne county mountains, the largest body of fresh water in Pennsylvania, is to be made a modern summer resort. It is already connected with Wilkes- Barre by a trolley line and a branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and acomjwny with Lehigh Valley back ing is about to be organized to intro duce roller coasters, shoot-the-chute, galleries of the latest noveltier and tlm many other diversions found at parks after the most recent plans. A live wo.'klupr grange In a communi ty so improves the social conditions that farms for rural hotnes are actually worth more f>r Its having been In It The range National bank of Tioga county. Pa., has been open seven mouths and curries deposits of over SIOO,OOO. Death of Oliver Wolcott Grimm. At the home of Dr. Bentley in Galeton, Pa., Friday morning, Jan. 25, oceured the death of Oliver W? Orimm, caused by an attack of ae cute blights disease. He retired Monday night as usual, hut not ap pearing at the customary hour an investigation was made and he was found in an unconscious" condition from which he never recovered. Convulsions followed at frequent intervals until he expired three days later. For the past three years Mr. Grimm suffered the effects of brights disease but never let the fact be j known to his relatives and friends, j Oliver \V. Grimm was born at j Laporte where he spent his boyhood | days, and at an early age taught j school in different parts of Sullivan county. He was a young man in | his thirties, of congenial ways and j well fitted for a professional career. He was registered as a law student at the Sullivan county bar, and in ! cidently took up the carpenters trade for employment. In this lint' of work he became attached and ap parently abandoned the study of law. Much of his spare time was devoted to writing poetry and edi torials for vasious publications. For the past several years he resided in different parts of Potter county and contributed largely to the newspapers in that section. His writings wen accepted with much appreciation as is shown by the following statement taken from the Argus: "Local contributors to the average weekly newspapers are very scarce, but when one is found he is entitled to credit for his articles. In this particular, we point with pride to the poem on the death of our late beloved president, which appeared in last weeks Issue of the Argus. Oliver \V. Grimm, the writer, is a character which needs cultivation and acquaintance to bring it to its best level. A modest workman with carpenter tools, he has yet found time to contribute many of the most touching ami best worded poems, which have appeared in the columns of our exchanges. Grim is the auth or of 'The Dinner Pail Brigade,' •Uncle Hopkin's Memorial Day,' and other poems of merit too num erous to mention. His modesty which appears a part of him, is the only thing to prevent his appearance as a writer of much ability, and whose merits are entitled to the re cognition of an unpredjudiced pub lic." Mr. Grimm's abitity was perhaps shown to its greatest advantage in the last few years of his life when he championed the cause of socialism. He wrote for the leading socialist papers of the country, and in 1903 became editor of the Cross Fork News which was made a socialist paper under his management for about one year when he quit the editor's chair as he found the re muneration too inadequate for his needs. In 1903 he was placed on the Potter county socialist ticket for Member of Assembly and received a very complimentary vote. His sister, Miss Harriet, who is teaching school at Portage, arrived at his bedside the day before he ex pired, and brought his body to La porte on Saturday. Funeral servi ces were conducted at the home cf his mother by Rev. T. F. Hippie, Monday afternoon. Deceased was unmarried, and be sides his mother, is survived by three sisters. Mrs. M. A. Seitz, of Eureka Springs, Ark.; Mrs. Paul Tismer, of New York; Miss Harriet Grimm, of Portage. . George Anders Dead. Mr. George Anders of Eagles mere died Thursday after a prolong ed illness of Cancer of Stomach. Funeral will be held Sunday at 10.00.O'clock A. M. —The two first state game preserv es established under the act of 1905 are located in Clinton and Clearfield counties. The tracts contain between 3,000 and 4,000 acres each, and are simply surrounded by a fire path from eight to ten feet wide and from which all brush is cut away. A sin gle wire is stretched from tree to tree : along these paths with a line of not-, ices printed on cloth andconspieious- j ly posted, calling attention to the en-; I closure and forbidding trespassing j- I within its limits for any purpose. j i Game of all kinds can come and go 1 l as it pleases, the idea being not to ! keep game in, but men out. Pennsylvania Out ol Debt. j Harri.iburg, Pa., Jan. 22.—State Ticasurer Berry his an -1 nual report for the fiscal year, ending November 30,1900,t0 the legislature. The report says that the state is practiealy out of debt, and that the estimated state revenues for the next two years will Jbe $46,000,000, of which $38,000,000 will be available for appropriation. The revenues of the fiscal year amounted to $25,818,- 924.03, or $1,519,804.31 more than in any previous year. The report sug gests that the act of 190G governing state deposits could be Improved by authorizing the treasurer to receive olds and place deposits with banks offering the highest Interest rate. Refering to the contracts for fur nishing the new state capitol, the report states that upon the question of the legality of a large part of the expenditures upon the Jbuilding Mr. Berry is iu doubt, and desires author itative instruction as to the pay ment of pending bills. After repeat ing his all"gations of overcharge and duplication of items in these con tracts, the state treasure says: "With these frequently proclaim ed, and as yet undisputed, and aa I believe indisputable facts before me, I shall decline to make further pay ments upon] these contracts, believ ing them to be certainly illegal, and probably fraudulent. I desire to be assured of the moral and financial support of the legislature in defend ing the interest of the common wealth if called into court." In his annual report for 1900 State Higwhay Commissioner Hunter says that the department has com plated 235.5 miles of good roads in Pennsylvania, of which 158.2 were built in 1900. The department has under contract or in ,readiness to .be constructed 210.5 miles. Commission er Hunt recommends an appropri aiotn of #0,000,000 for road construc tion and 2,000,000 for the construc tion of trunk line of good roads. He also recommends the appropriation of $200,000 to rebuild the old nation al road in Fayette and Washington counties and the purchase of lime stone quaries along the road and suitable machinery for crushing stone. He suggests that all these Jap propriation be made by Legislature to become for the two years beginning June l,next; it is bis idea to have the money to use in addition to the $3,000,000 al ready available for those two years, lie further recommends the passage of bills legaliziug associations formed by township_supervisors or commiss ioners to form a State assoeialton;|re quiring the use |of wide |tlres upon all improved roads; authorizing the Highway Department to plant trees along roads rebuilt by the State, and increasing the amount now paid by the State to townships in which there is no work tax. FOUD FOOT VEIN OF COAL. Traces ol Gold and Silver Near Tlvall. •Tohn Fox, of Tivola, was a visitor in town on Wednesday and gave THE MAIL office ;a [pleasant call. Mr. Fox is an old prospector, having been in the employ of coal operator!-, for the past 45 years. He has done some prospecting in this and Sullivan counties. Some months ago while prospecting for C. A. Sones, between Eaglesmere and Hillsgrove, he discovered a four foot vein of fine coal, superior in quality to that of the Beruice vein, in sufficient quantity to insure op erators for fifty years. He also prospected in the vicin ity of Tivola for coal, and after sev eral weeks work informed the part ies employing him that there were no "black diamonds" there, in fact he says no coal is likely to be found this side of the Alleghenies. While prospecting at Tivoli he did find, however, a small vein of gold bearing rock and also one of silver, but as yet "the precious metals" are in small quantities, although the parties interested hope to find both metals in suftieient quantity as to warrant working the mine, and we hope their hopes may be realized, ami Mr. Fox believes such' may be the case. 75C PEP YEAP BERNICE ITRvfS. John Connor roMjs'i.- 1 » > < |.<»ol in Allegheny, Pittsburg. ulWapend iug his holliday 'vacation with his parents Mr. and Mrs. James J. Con nor's of Mildred. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Schaad was at Colley on Wednesday attending tho wedding of Barney Saxer and Miss. Angio Kinsley. Howard Ilill of Dushore was visit ing friends at this place on Thursday. James J. Connor and daughter Catherine were Dushore visitors on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGee of Sayre are visiting her father who is quite sick at this writing. The Rev. Father Patrick Enright of Allegheny, N. Y. is visiting his brother Rev. John Enright who has j been confined to his home for the past two weeks. The Democrats of this place held a caucus on Friday night when the following nominations were made; Inspector of election, Frank Murphy; judge of election, John Dempsey; asaisstent assessor, Wm. Burk; road supervisor, Patrick Quinn; school directors, Joseph J. Farrell, and Edward | White; assessor, Francis McMahon; overseer's of the poor, George Shaffer, and C. Yonkins. Mr. McLaughlin of Williainsport visiting friends at this place. Mrs. Joseph Gansel of Berwick is is visiting friends at this place. Timothy Ryan of Mildred is un der Dr. Brennans care for Pneu monia. Mrs. A. Hay is convalescing The following young people of Mildred had a sleigh ride to Cherry Mills Monday night. Miss. Lucy Harmor, Margret Watson, Lyvern- Bartlow, Winnie Deffenbach and Miss Mable Collins: gentiemenThom as Wahers.Tliomas and Frank Ramsey Robert Watson and George .Spencer, alter -partaking of the good tli i ngs spread be fore them by the jovial landlord and hia wife Mr. and Mrs. <i,-ois they all return home at the wee small housr. Jvry List For February Term. Charles M. Porter.,Charles Miller, John Diggan, Newton C. Maben John Hess, E. P. Battin, Leroy Moyer, Nathan Hunsinger., Dennis Ryan, Waldo Kilmer., Watson Fawcett, William Stiff, Seth Shoe maker, John Gumble, Erwin De- Waid, George Brown, Clive Bohn, William W. Loeb, P. P. M rtin Alonzo Converse, Frank Maga ;:le. John Fitzgerald., H. D. Brown, Frederick Cott, James Cook, H. D. Lockwood, Christian Heinze, Sidney Osier, Charles Shaffer, Ar thur Lisson, John Dyer, John Hassen Sr., C. L. Chilson, Samuel Seeules, Edward Geary, Charles Gansel, Patrick Walsh, Maynard Sheets, Petter Huffsmith, William Mo ran Jr., Norman Brink, R. R. Hunsinger, Dennis Corcoran, Will iam Power, S. B. A'ilmer, Irvin Taylor, Robert Brong, J. L. Christ ian, Porter lligley, Albert Myers, James Wright., R. W. Bennett, Jacob Eberlin., John Swingle, John W. Buck, F. O. Search, Edw. Kimes, John. J. Webster, George. W. Snyder., Otis. Potter., Lyman. Baker, Charles McCarty, Patrick Quinn. William J. Cook, Ernest Botsford, A. L. Dyer, Philip Baum unk,Royal Sergent, Brady Bennett, William Schaad, Frank Huffnlas t«r., Marvin Potter., William. Walsh Sr., Lewis Rosbsch, John X, Walker, Fred Bailey, Leo Kschin ka, C. Bustus Brown, Adam Schock Frank A'uhns, Ed. Holmes, John. Harney, George Kaier. In the Senate at Harrisburg, Mr. Cochran, of Lycoming, introduced a bill providing for the pensioning of soldiers and sailors from Pennsylva nia in the civil war, and fixing the rate of pension at $5 month to those who served for one year {or less; $7.50 to those serving more than one year and less than two years, and $lO to those who served over two years. The pensions shall begin Jan uary 1, 1908, and paid quarterly by the State Treasurer. An appropria tion of $1,000,000 is provided for to carry out the act for the first two fiscal yearn.
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