VOL. XI. NO 39. A7 v, A/ v v/v v vv v — ( ( Tills Is the Place (To Buy Your Jewelry \ N Nothing iii Town to Compare Withes ( the Quality that We are Giving / s Yon for the Low Price Asked. S Q Qualitv and moderate prices makes a force S irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r Cof this section. Many years here in business, always } •)withafu!l line of goods above suspicion; chosen C { with a care and judunv nt commensurate with its 1 \ desirability and adaptability to refine last**, makes \ / our store a safe place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X ( RETTENBURY, > DU SHORE, PA. The Jeweler $ ] COLE'Saaa^VW HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DEUOHTS. House furnishiug 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, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Good Aoslin Underwear. None lull the l>est Underwear ran find a place in this store —not necessarily the most expensive garment-, for wo have plenty of I'tnlerwarcat low prices, but those which sire «ell made fit good material, properly shaped, carefully finished and generously cut our prices are rigli> t, another feature Mire lo please you. Corsets for all Figures Knit Underwear Kv6ry figure has its appropriate corsets llow about y. nr knit underwear sup here. .. \\ c use the greatest care in giving plies? Have you everything you need? the customer the right model. If not let us furnish what you want. Women's Coats, Suits, Skirt and Furs "Closing out all goods in season,'' that's the rule. To accomplish that some times requires sweeping reductions and losses, nevertheless the rule is lived up to. l-'or the next lew days we will give some wonderful values in women's fashionable apparel. They "ill he offered regardless of the former selling price. Every gar ment is marked at what in our judgment it will tiling. It is difficult to get a cor rect idea of these splendid qualities until you see fhegarment and get the prices. New White Goods. We are showing some new Novelties in fine cotton and mercerized fabrics lor shirtwaists, neat designs in stripes, figures and checks, also aconiplele line of plain materials tor dresses, including India. I.iuon. Persian Lawns, Freach I.awns. Mulls, Swisses, ete. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1907. Primary Elections The next primary election which i must be generally observed over the ! entire State will be held the first | Saturday in June and is known as i the spring primary. In this the peo ple of all sections will be particular ly interested. At this election all candidates for an office to be filled at the general election in November with the exception of those nominat ed by National or State conventions, wif be nominated as well as the off of the various political part ies. The commissioners are required under the act to provide ballot box es, official ballots for different polit ical parties and all other supplies. The election will be conducted by the regular ejection officers and the polls will be open from 2 in the after noon to sin the evening and from 1 in the afternoon to .sin the evening I all licensed places will be closed. The election officers receive one-half pay for their services, which is paid ba ttle county treasurer, who in turn re ceives the money fron the State Treasurer. Persons desiring to be come candidates for Congress and State offices must file petitions with least four weeks prior to June 1, 1907. and with all other cases at least three weeks before that date with the county commissioners. The petitions must be signed by voters represent- I ing the party proposed politically, ! and candidate*) for members of con gress, judges of courts and state sen ators, candidates for rcpresenatives and for offices to be voted for by the entire county, fifty qualified electors. < mi' of the charges which goes in to effect at the June primary is that no elector shall b£ permitted to re ceive any assistance in marking his ballot unless he shall first make an affidavit that he cannot read the names on the ballot, or that by rea son of physical disability he is un able to mark his ballot. Next year on account of its being presidential this primary will be held the second .■Saturday of April. With only four stockholders rais ing their voices in opposition, de claring such a plan an "outrage" the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad pass ed out of existence and became a part of the Pennsylvania system. At the same time an address was issued to the stockholders of the Northern Central Railway announc ing that the proposition to merge that road with the Pennsylvania that had been under consideration several years had been abandoned. Overwhelming controll of the capi tal stock of the smaller company, amounting to mort' than 96 per cent: inade it possible for the Pennsylvania togo into the annual meeting and take over the road without any effort. The absorption was carried out ac cording to the terms of an agreement drawn on February Ist, and assent ed too by the directors of both com panies. To build great battleships does not imply war, nor does ifc menace any particular nation. It only represents keen business as well as lofty notion al instincts. The United States has insular possessions to guard and to make their position sound in every conceivable way it is essential for this country to have a real fighting navy. The lesson taught by the battle of the Sea of Japan was that the big ship and heavy gun won for the Mi kado an empire-saving victory. Rus sia's fleet couldn't endure the smoth ering broadsides even at long range poured in by the Japanese battleship. | Both Japan and her ally, England, have since the war applied their greatest naval energy in the direction of larger warships than ever before existed. It is safe to assume that those two countries know more of the real inside facts about the effect of heavy gun fire from big ships than any others. The United States makes no mis take, first, in deciding to enlarge the navy, and, second, in putting the money in battleships of the most powerful tvpe. It should only be necessary for everg citizen to re member that every dollar invested in American property is made more secure when an American fleet rides I the ocean that is able to protect lit.—Philadelphia Press. j Friends of David Wilson, former i ly station agent for the Northern i Central railroad in Canton, were , pained to learn of the serious aeei ! dent he sustained at Penn Van, i Monday night of last j week, which I necessitated the anij, yntion of one ! leg. He had [spent a portion of the afternoon at Milo station, four miles south of Penn Van, and when he did not care to wait for the G.iiO noith hound train, so he attempted to walk the four miles. When nearing the long switch known as the Shaw sid ing, he was struck by an extra north bound freight train and was hurled some distance. The train stopped and picked up the injured man, and taking him to Penn Van, Dr. William W. Oliver, the railroad physician, wassummon i I'd. Upon examination it was found | that liis right leg was so badly man gled that amputation was necessary. In the opinion of what is regard ed as excellent authority the present session of the Legislature will not come to an end before July Ist. All the conditions favor a long session. There are hundreds of bills in committees already, and not a fair fraction of them have been con sidered, many of the most important being left that argument may be heard on them. Only a few of those demanded by the platforms of the dominant political parties have been considered, and at least half a hund red are locked up in the desk of the committee chairman. Some of these bills will halt the attention of the Legislature for many hours, and be fore they are whipped into shape and passed, they will have to be dissected and examined as under a microscope. This all takes time. The new capitol investigation com mittee cannot possibly, in the opin ion of the best authorities, report be fore June :10th, and until its report is made it is folly to say when the Legislature shall adjourn finally. The accountants are busy going over the bills for the new capitol at pres ent, occupying a room in the Audi tor General's department, and until they are well advanced the commit tee has nothing on which to com mence. After the investigation be gins it will hardly sit while the Leg lature is in session, for the reason that every member of the commit tee is interested, more or less, in legislation on its way through the various stages. The State Department, being now fairly assured through the adoption of the report on the immigration bill that the San Francisco authorties will rescind their action excluding Japanese pupils from the white schools, is prepared to take up again the negotiations that were already in progress with the Japanese Govern ment looking to the regulation of .Japanese emigration into the United States. It is expected that these ne gotions will result in an agreement between the Government of Japan and that of the United States for the withholding of passports to Japanese of the laboring classes seeking to en ter the United States. For several years past the Japanese Government has declined to issue any such passports, but the intention is to make this a matter of formal agreement if possible. In the short time remaining of the present session of Congress it is not possible, it is said, to frame anything in the nature of a treaty which would require the action of the Senate. In fact it is by no means certain that a foriniM con vention is necesaary to issue the con tinuance of the present JapaneseJjH)!- icy of refusing passports to coolies. The Department of Commerce and Labor, being in charge of immigra tion, will at once, upon the signature of the immigration bill, proceed to instruct the collectors at the various ports of entry of the restrictions plac ed upon the admission of immigrants by the new act. No mention is to be made of Japanese laborers, but the collectors will be enjoined to enforce the passport provisions of the new act which will meet the needs of the Pacific Coast. The committee Appointed by the | Lycoming Medical Society to pro ! mote the hospitel for indigent tuber ; culosis patients, is hustling the pro ject along since the Elleuton site has ! been decided upon. The fifteen charter members of the hospital corporation have been j selected from Ihf rUlfcMw,-* for which the hospital is intended to be used. I They arc: Lycoming county, the ! committee of the Medical Society composed of Dr. H. 11. Detwiler, chairman, and Dr. C. \V. Young-! man, both of Williamsport, and Dr. \V. B. Konkle, of Montoursville' also the ltev. Robert F. Gibson. Hec tor of the Trinity Episcopal church, and the ltev. Father John Costelle, rector ot the church of Annunciation. Sullivan, Dr. \V. F. Randall, of Du shore. Columbia, Dr. J, \V. Bruncr, of Bloomshiirg. Montour, Dr. ('. Schultz, of Danville. Northumber land, Dr. 11. W. Gass, of Sunburry. Snyder, I). B. F. Wagenseller, of Selinsgrove. I'nion, Dr. G. (J. (Jroff. ofLewisburg. Center, Dr. J. V. Dale, of Lamont. Clinton, Dr. F. I*. Ball, Lock Haven. Tioga, Dr. S. I'. Hicks, of Tioga. Bradford, the Hon. C. L. Stevens. Connellsville, Feb. IS.—An ad vance in wages that will directly af fect 21,000 men and mean the paying out annually in the Connellsville region of nearly $1,500,000 more than hitherto, was announced to-day by the H. C. Frick Coke Company. The new scale becomes effectove March 1. It provides lor of about 12] per. cent, for mining, 10 per. cent, for drawing coke and 1' cents a day to drivers, rope riders, cagers and track layers, with a pro portionate raise for other classes of! labor. The raise came as a surprise and makes the coke workers of West ern Pennsylvania the highest paid laborers of their class in the world. The advanie announced by the Frick Company will, it is said, be followed by every other coke com pany in the Connellsville, lower Con nellsville and Greeusburg regions, and over oo workmen will be benefited. With the advance no in crease has been made in company rents. The average b.:;-j.-e rental is less than $H a month, and the miner and coke worker is now making more than thebokkeeper and high class clerks. Muncy's electric war wis ended Saturday, when Judge Hart handed down an opinion in which the inoept ion of the new company was deemed and declared null and void in the light of the ordinance and contract entered into by the old company which expires in 19o;$. Months ago the new company was formed by the" banding together of to of the town's leading citizens under the name of the People's Light, Heat and Power company of Muncy. A charter was obtained and a franchise was given to the company by the couucilniuuic bodies. This franchise, although held up for many months, granted the rigut to the company to furnish elec tricity and to erect poles and string wires in the town. The opinion of Judge Hart is as follows. "That the ordinance of the borough of Muncy, dated October 1, 1900, in so-far as the same purports to grant to the People's Electric Light. Heat and Power company, of Muncy, Pa; or to any person or persons in its be half, authority to erect and main tain poles and extend electric wires through the streets, alleys and thor oughfares for the purpose of supply ing light, heat and power by means of electricity to the borough of and the citizens of Muncy and vicinity, is declared null and void. The Danqille Newssays: "The en tire village of Light Street, above llloomsburg, is in a state of excite- < nient over the sensational develop-1 ments of a case in which an irate mother whipped a teacher of the public schools because the latter caught the former's son playing hookey aud catching him forcibly dragged him into the school room and placed him in his seat. "The affoir culminated in a hear- | ing Fridav evening. From the testi mony it appears that Mrs. Jennie Darrah, mother, appeared at the school and uncer noniously making her entrance grabbed the teacher,! Miss Jennie Shew, and thumped and shook her until her hair hung down | her back and her hair pins were scattered over the school room. The testimony was somewhat incoherent ; at times for the frequent outbursts of | Mrs. Dariah, during the hearing i threating to break up the proceed ! ings. Mrs. Darrah finally paid a fine and coats amounting to *29." I 75C PER YEAF MFNICE niNS. Moil. John Schaad returned home on l-'riday during a recess of the house of Represenatives. Danial Schoonover was at Wilkes- Harre for three days visiting his [daughter Mrs. William It. Brown. Mr. Snxer of Co I ley was visiting his daughter Mr. K. F. Schaad of Mildred oil Wednesday. Theodore Beaver of Lopez was visiting friends at this place Sunday. James Melpen is quite sick at thi* writing. Joseph A. Melsman and H. J. Seliaad were Cherry visitors Thurs day. J. Ci. Weaver is under the Doctor's care. Miss Mary Mannon of Mildred who lias been visiting lloboken and New York friends returned home Satur day. Quite a number of our best citizens were at Laporte on Monday attend ing license court. NORDMONT. A jolly sleigh load from this place drove to the home of Watson Speary Thursday evening and returned at a late hour. Anioung them were Mr. and Mrs. Krn st Speary and two sons Clyde and Walter, and daughter Xettie, Mrs. William Little and son Lloyd, Mrs. (J. j\l. Fiester and daughters lvlith, Laura and Lena, Misses. Wrenda Myers, Hazel Little Mabel Munter, Kureta Boatman, Mr. Horace Wilson, Bert Snyder. Zera. and Frank Cox, Justin Milliter, Harry Peterman, Leslie Botsford, Bay Anders, Minard Peters, and Raymond Woodhead of Forksviile. A sleigh load from this place at tended church at Laporte Friday evening among them were; Mrs. W. S. Wieland, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Boatman, Alice Pennington, Alma Horn, Marry Botsford, Bay Parker, and lorn*nee Boatman. The fish supper held at W. I!. Sniders was a success. About *_'•"> was taken in. The Presiding Klder l". T. Swen gle preached here Sunday morning' and evening. Mrs. G. M. Fiester and daughter Edith culled on Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Boatman Monday evening. Miss. Alma Morn is on the sick list. Justin Hunter and Lloyd Camp left Monday for Farandsville. Miss Anna Bussel attended the supper here Saturday evening. Mrs. Enos Peters is on the sick list. A bill to stop treating in any plac es where vinous, malt or spirituous liquors are sold was introduced in the house last week by Mr. Thomas, of Bucks. It provides |tliat the pro prietor of any place of this kind who allows treating shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to fine of 3100 and imprisonment of sixty days. The act defines ''treat ing" thus.- "To be the practice of in viting one or more persons to drink any malt, vinous or spirituous liquors as a compliment ol- as a civilly, of ten in return for the like favor shown." Beforo the press of the country hail completed its editorial commenda tion of John 1). Rockefeller for hav ing given 000,000 of his wealth f«.r the cause of education the an nouncement is made that the Stand j ard < >il company had increased the price of oil from two to five cents a gal lon./rhis Statement throws a