i JL. Xi. NO 41. / This Is the Place - To Buy Your Jewelry C V \otlnng" in Tow n to Compare With S { the Quality that We are Giving / ? You for the LovC Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ jiit' si-Zi bly draws into our store the best patronage r i ( i tim section. Many years here in business, always y Nwiih a full line of t>oods above suspicion; chosen C 112 with a care and judgment commensurate with its 1 5 desirability and adaptability to refine last'-, makes \ C our store a sale place to invest. C Rep '.ir work done on short notice and guaran-^ v \. teed b\ skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X S RETTENBURY, > SHORE, PA. The Jeweler HARDWARE,% No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL O~R, WOOD 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 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. Nev Dress Goods For Spring. ARE ON DISPLAY. Excell them ? Impossible! Equal them? Try! We are proud of our selection—eager 112 r you to see them — confident ot your approval. For with a care we have picked ami chosen and purchased, and know th.'it there are not to he Ibund more worthy a*id beautiful representativesol the new c-t .mil lust in Spring Dress (Joods. No\ city and excliiMvencss are the features of the rarest combinations of weaves collors and ellect ever manufactured are included. Certainly the display is the su- I" rior ol any in this section, and you need go no further in your search tor modish tahries • I the moment. Make vour selections early when the fabrics, the weaves, (lie color combinations and the prices arc sure to delight you. Wide Material for Tailored Suit We are showing an exceptionly large collection ol "»0 to st)inch fabrics for •I acket SuiiH in the new stripes, cheeks and lancy miked materials, sonic excellent values at Si OOand #1 2"> a yard. Plain and Fancy Panamas. Panamas are now reeogni/.ed as one ot (he very best materials ma<le for service and then they are stylish. We have them in all the plain colors and fancy mixed and over plaid clucks. ALL WOOL BATISTE MIXED SUITING. In all the new dark and evening shade?. We are ready to show you the most I neie ts no better laoric made tor mex- , . , , . , , pensive dressy war ,I,an this all w0,.1 line ol laucy mixed su.tings and batiste for plain fairies you will find anywhere for •"»()»• 50c Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1907. Death of Former Laporte School Teacher. rt will be learned with sadness Iby many of our readers, the death |of Mrs. Isabel I Hill, nee, Mc- Laughlin a former school teacher at the Laporte high school. The following is taken from a Pittsburgh paper. Mrs. Isabel 1 McLaughlin Hill died Tuesday night at the family Laughlin of Oakdale. She graduat ed from the Clarion State Normal School in 1805, being one of the honor graduates. From that time until her marriage in July. 11)03. to J. H. llill, she taught school at Duquesne and Carnegie, being as sistant principal at the latter place. She is survived by her parents, hus band, one sister, and one brother. The funeral services will take place this evening at her late residence at 7 o'clock, with the interment to morrow at Freeport, Pa. The finan i daffairsof the instate Normal schools are to be probed hy a joint committee representing the appropriation committee of the sen ate and house. The management of those institutions will be required to explain what they have done with llk money given them by the state ! ! in the past, as well us tell what they j mean to do with the funds for which | they are asking at this time, j The coming probe is the direct re- j -ult of a request made by the normal j | schools for an increase of $050,000 over the special appropriation us- : ually given the state. Lock Haven t Xormal school was, i it is said, in danger of foreclosure by a Philadelphia trust company, by reason of farming out its state funds The investigation sub-committee | named by Chairman Slieat/,, of the j house committee, comprises Kcpre--'i sentatives Shrove, Dunsmore and I Flint); while the sub-committee nam ed by Senator Crawford includes Sen- | ators Heidelhaugh, McNess, Thoinp , son and (iodcharles. There seems to he no end to the j variety of meanness. William Start ' /.ell. a well known railroader, was i recently killed, and a number of per sons called at the home in Shamnkin | to view tin- remains and sympathize ! with the widow. It was afterwards! found that a watch of the unfortunate j man was stolen hy one of the visitors. The man who didn't advertise died j long ago, and he died regretting the j the fact that he didn't. He might have died leaving a competence to his family: but he didn't. He might have cut a figure in the commercial world but he didn't. He might have lived without anxiety: but he didn't He might have died without the un pleasant consciousness that his young children would be left to struggle for their subsistence; hut he didn't. In short he didn't; and that tells his story. An action has been begun by Mrs. Martha Hungerford against the vill age of Waverly. President Lawrence, each of the trustees, and Jefferson Bingham, street commissioner of the village, for damages to the extent of $5,000 for injuries sustained last June by stepping into a hole in a side walk on Waverly street. The attorney for Mrs. Hungerford is Charles Annabell, and he claims, that, not only is the village liable but all the officials as well whose duty it is to keep the walks in a safe condition. Martha Peterman, a young lady form"rly of Benton, Pa., was killed in the Young Woman's Christian Association building in Philadel phia, on Sunday morning. She was em ployed at that place as an tleva- | tor operator and Sunday morning j she ran the elevator to the eighth ' floor where she left it standing ' while she went to breakfast. When she returned the elevator hail drop ped several feet below the lloor. Miss Peterman lay down on the floor to reach the controller and run the | lift back to the floor level, but In I doing so she turned the lever tho j wrong way and the car decended : crushing her head. « I Object to Assessments. ! Tin* following from tin* Wilkes* I Burn- llecord of Miirch 4, 1007. may I lie of inii rest to Sullivan county tax i payers, A. 11. MeClintock, rt?|»rt*- ' scnting tin- Lehigh A: Wilkes-ISarre ; t '<>ul ioil Saturday filed an a])|iea! ; from the decision of the board of re* I vision relative to the reassessment ! and valuation of the company's coal ' lands in the city of Wilkes-Barre, : and appeals to the Court of Common j Pleas for a decision. The petition sets j fnitli that the company's coal lands I in the city have heen assessed too | high and higher than coal property | of other owners; that the valuation ' of $1(10 per foot thick coal vein i> j far too high and entirely out of all proportion. The petition goes on and states | how many acres, of coal lands tin j conipany'owns in each ward and con ! tends that £,.*1,000 per acre of coai I lands and $ 100 per acre for sui face is j sufficient valuation. The total vain. ! ation in each ward of the company's j properties is as follows: First ward I #18,000: Second ward $80,700; Third I ward SBOS, 150;\Sixth ward I, .".00; Kiglith ward 527,0.*10; Ninth ward ! *25:5,500; Tenth ward $281,720; Kleventh ward $180,010; Twelfth ward $804,630: Thirteenth ward $B5l - Fourteenth ward, 015,250; Fif ; teentli ward, 1,387,620; Sixteenth ward, 100,170. The further contentions of the company are that the valuations and assessments fixed hy the hoard of re vision are ahove the market value of the several properties that tin valuation and assessment were not made with due regard to the valu ation ami assessment of the other real estate in the city of Wilkes-Bar re, but is at a higher rate than the rate of valuation ot the other real es tate; that the valuation and assess ments are not just and equitable, having due regard to the valuation and assessments made 'of the othei real estate in the city; that th«petit ioner expects to be a hie to prove at the trial of the cause that the above list of valuations is correct, as mad* up by Ilarry C. Mason, land agent for the company. Pleading guilty to the offense of furnishing the liquor to George l'hillips, that finally resulted in hi death. William Barto of the Amer ican House, lKighesville, was fined >2OO and the costs of prosecution. A petition signed by three hundred citizens of Hughcsvilh' was present ed asking the court to he lenient in its sentence of Barto. At the time of the death of young Phillips, indignation ran high among Un people of Ilughesville, but it was afterward learned that Philips drank from a bottle that was standing or the counter when the bartender's attention win turned in another di rection, and that Barto was not r<- sponsible for all ihe liquor drank by by the young mun. General Manager Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad company has ordered the removal of all steel cross ties now in use on the Pennsyl vania railroad as u.result of the rec ommendations of the special com mittee appointed to investigate the wreck of the Chicago special near Johnstown, two weeks ago w hen many persons were injured. The committee says they are unable to account for the cause of the accident but they are of the opinion that the damage subsequent to the derail ment was much more serious than would hive been the case with wooden ties. The three pultnau cars that figured in the wreck, and which were in a previous wreck are now considered "hoodoo" cars and will be burned by orders of the com pany. By Wa.-hington's Birthday the hack bone of winter, to use a trite expression, is supposed to be broken and harbingers of spring are most ly on the way. The present winter. | however, seems to be an exception. ' —Sayre Presbyterians are trying to collect "a mile of pennies," tliei unique idea being a part of a plan to wipe out the church debt. A mile of pennies will add $814.48 to the building fund. I Newspaper Advertising Proveb lo be a Profitable Investment. The first M. K. church of Trenton, X. J., was filled recently by news paper advertising. It was a farewell service in a sAieswhich two revival ists had heen conducting in the church for three weeks. Following up a system of billboard ind trolley car advertising that had placarded the city for more than a month, the church committee in charge of the revival Saturday insert ed ina local afternoon newspaper i half page advertisement in tin boldest of black faced type under the startling headline,"Stop, Look, Lis ten!" The advertisement detailed the services of the day, offering as a spec ial attraction a large chorus choir. The effect of the advertisement was all that had heen anticipated, for long before the hour for the ser vice to commence people began to fill the building, which is one of the largest auditoriums in Trenton. One of the official board of the •hurch, when asked of the effect of the advertising, said: "When a thea ter or a circus or a baseball -game wants to get the people it advertises for them. We simply adopted the ■tame method and we got the people. With more than 100 persons profess ing conversion during the three weeks that we have been advertising, we felt that the money had been well invested. We did not wish to be sensational, nor do I think we have been, but we think religion is prac tical and we took a practical way of letting the people know what we had to offer them." Former Governor Penny-packer's review of the administration, written for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, will appeal to fair minded men w ho are familiar with the conditions of which he writes as a very modest summing up of the accomplishments of one of the most eventful periods in the history of our Commonwealth. President Roosevelt has said, *in a public address, that a single phase >f the Pemiypacker administration, the extra session of the Legislature of last winter, has no parallel in the records of any State lor the product ion of so many good laws in a single brief session. But that was only one of many things for which the Penny packer administration will be held in grateful memory by the people of Pennsylvania. In consideration of the very vio lent, and oft -times malicious manner in which Governor Penny-packer was assailed during his four years in the executive chair, the great sarcasm of his references to his critics acquits liini of carrying any grudges out of office. He can well afford to look back over his administration and smile at the iccollections of the futile efforts to distort his motives, misrepresent his statements, exagger ate his mistakes and disregard his good deeds. This article is one of the most in teresting, if not the most notable, of the products of the pen of Samuel W. Penny-packer. —Telegraph, To Collect Fees. For the purpose of collecting money which he contends is due him for fees Sheriff Sharpless, Northum berland county has .brought suit against the county commissioners at Sunbury. In his bill of particulars Sheriff Sharpless sets out that he is entitled to expenses and fees for serving requi sition papers ordered by the county, even though he fails to capture the party wanted. The Northumberland uominissioners contend that unless the sheriff is successful in bringing back the party that he is sent after, he is not entitled to either pay or ex penses, and they refuse point blank to settle accounts of this kind. Another item ill dispute is the fees on committments where prisoners have been sentenced to pay costs. The commissioners taking the stand that the county is not liable to such cases. A third dispute is the pay- : ment of fees on the collection of money ordered by the county. The Northumberland county com missioners have repeatedly refused to settle bills of this nature and will likely fight the case strongly through J the costs. 75C PER YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. James J. Conncrs of Mildred was it Laporte visitor last week. Kdward Ifannon has returned home from Wyoming, Pa. Thomas Ramsey who left for Willkesßarre two week ago, return ed last week. Dr. Brennan accompanied Mrs. John P. Murphy to t'ie Wilkes. Barre hospital where she w ill re ceive treatment. James J. Conners and If. .1. Schaad have received invitations to the Road-maker's Convention to lie held at Pittsburg, March 12, to 15. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Jackson were at Dushore Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Jackson's brother, Fred I tz. Miss Uuth Meyer is improving from her late illness. NORDMONT. Miss Ada Anders is home again from Say re. Mr. Clarence Hess, of Philadel phia has returned home after spend ing some time with relatives here. Misses Madge Gritman, Alma Horn, Anna Cox and Mabel Hunter spent Sunday with Kureta Boat man. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Boatman spent Sunday with the hitters father Noah Bogart of near Sonestown. Roy Parker spent Sunday in Hughesville. Mr. Lean Fiest-er must have some attraction near Sonestown lie visits there quite often. Cecil Botsford was shopping at Hughesville Wednesday. Raymond and Minard Peters and Horace \\ ilson was iu Sonestow n Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Neutcn Philips and family, and Mi-, and Mrs. 11. ('. Hess spent Sunday at Lee (iavitts of near Sonestown. Mr. Fred Utz Dead. Fred l'tz, the youngest son of the late John l'tz of Dushore, died at the family home, '1 hursday. Feb ruary 2N, aged."32 years and "> days. The funeral services were held at the house on Saturday, an.l inter ment was made at /ion's cemetery. Charley Johnson convicted at To wanda of participating in the min der of Maggie Johnson and her niece Annie Benjamin, for which crime liiglar .Johnson paid the death penalty, must hang, so declares the supreme court in an opinion handed down continuing the conviction and dismissing the appeal taken by Johnson's lawyers. The postoilice department will ex - clude any post cards which have pasted on them, glass, mica or other similar substance liable to injure the persons handling the mails ex cept when enclose! 1 in envelops. Recently the Makers of post cards have been adding glass and other dangerous substance to their freak cards with the result that there is not a large postottice in the country where the distributing desk is not covered with tine pieces of glass etc., and frequently the mail men are cut by these substances. A principle once embraced in a heart, will find its own way of ex pressing itself in the outward; and sometimes more than oneway, ac cording to a man's condition. Let the expression flow from the prin ciple, and not take its place. In France the telephone girl tells the subscriber 'T am listening." In the United States not only the telephone girl, but all tin* other subscribers listen to the conversa tion over the wires. The Pennsylvania Steel company whose plant is located at Steelton, is backing an application for license the understanding being that tho profit of the enterprise w ill lie turn ed over to the town for improve ments. The company's idea is to "regulate" the drinking of its foreign employes.
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