VOL. XI. NO 42.
( This Is the Place }
CTo Buy Your Jewelry
Nothing in Town to Compare Willies
I the piuiiitv that We are (riving /
s You for the Low Price Asked. j
(v Quality aiui moderate prices makes a force that j
\ ii resist bly draws into our store the best patronages
Cof this section. Many years here in business, always y
p with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C
112 with a care and judgment commensurate with its 1
\ desirability amfadaptability to refine taste, makes \
Q our store a safe place to invest.
112 Repair work done on short notice and giiaran-Q
\teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. \
RETTENBURY, >
DUSHORE, PA. The Jeweler
HA^RnWARK^
No Place Like this Place
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
GOAL OB WOOD.
HEATERS;
ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS.
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,
WILLIAM SPORT, PA.
Nev Dress Cioods
For 3P r 'ng-
ARE ON DISPLAY.
Excell them ? Impossible ! Equal thim? Try! We
are proud of our selection—eager 112 r you to see them—
confident ot your approval.
I or with a greal can- «e have picked and chosen ami purchased. and know
that there are nut in he found more worthy md beautiful representatives ot the new
e t und best in Spring I (res* Goods.
Novell v and exolu-iveness are the feature* of the rarest combinations ot weaves
rollnrs and elleel ever manufactured are ineluded. Certainly the display is the su
perior nl any in this section, and you need go no further in your search tor modish
lahrics it the moment. Make vour selections early when the fabrics, the weaves,
the color combinations and the prices are sure to delight yon.
Wide Material for Tailored Suit
\V( are show ing nu evceptionly large collection ol ">0 to "it'i inch fabrics for
■ I acket s.uii< in the new stripes, checks and fancy miked materials, some excellent
values at si OOand #1 '_'6 u yard.
Plain and Fancy Panamas.
Panamas are now recognized as one ol the very best materials made for service
and then they are stylish. We have them in all the plain colors ami fancy mixed
and over-plaid checks.
ALL WOOL BATISTE MIXED SUITING.
In all the new dark and evening shades. VVe are ~e . „h (0 g])OW Vou the InOB
I here no belter fabric made lor ine.x* , . . . . :
pensive dressy wear ih an this all wool complete line ol l*i»ey mixed suiting* and
natiste for plain fabrics you will find anywhere lor
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1907.
Wlial Litigants Pay and lo Whom They
Pay It.
"You are fintd £lO and costs of
, prosecution" says the judge to the
| culprit who lias been convicted and
stands before him for sentence. What
j are the "costs" in such a ease? ask
j someone. The judges are paid by
, the State, the cost of stenographer,
• jurymen, court crier and tipstaves,
as well as the heating and lighting
of the building are borne by the
county, which also provides the
I necessary record books, stationery,
j etc. Many people are at a loss to
know just what items are included
; in court costs which the prisoner in
! a criminal case or tht* defendent in a
civil case is obliged to pay provid-
I I'd the costs are placed upon liiin.
j Costs vary so much in different
cases, owing to the wide range of
I possibilities that enter into their con
duct that no definite schedule of costs
can be fixed; nevertheless in the
general run of court business there
are certain items that are bound to
occur and these may be tabulated.
The prothonotary gets pay for fil
ing the justice's transcript and for
issuing subpoenas, etc. The clerk of
the courts--in this county the pro
thonotary and clerk of the courts are
one and the same gets pay for draw
ing and swearing the jury; for enter
ing recognizances, continuances, mo
tions and rules; issuing capias;tor en
tering return ot indictment, etc.
Then there are the sheriff's fees, con
stable's fees, etc. < >f course there may
and probably will be_a whole train
of costs coming up from the justice's
court if they have not previously
been paid. Several hundred dollais
in costs for a seemingly trifling case
is not at all uncommon, all of which
| must be paid by the convict, or board
j ed out in jail, in which case the coun
ty pays thecosts.
In civil actions many of the items
of cost are identical with those in
criminal cases, though they are not
all alike. The man who gets-'stuck"
must pay jury fees, the witnesses up
on both sides, the fees of prothon
otary and clerk of the courts, his
own lawyer and an attorney fee of
>;{ for the other side. Just why the
latter item is included and why it is
always fixed at *.! is not clear, for
the prosecution must pay bis own
counsel. Jlejofteu recoups himself,
in part at least, by testifying 4 in his
own behalf and drawing witness fees
for the service.
The proposition to impose a state
tax on anthracite seems to have a
special facination for certain ilarris
burg statesman. The fact that such
a tax is not needed, and that the
present revenues of the Common
wealth are all sufficient to give this
scheme a quietus.
A plethoric state treasury was
largely responsible for the unwarran
ted expenditure of #1:1,000,000 in
furnishing the new state capitol, and
further exploitation of that sort is
not likely to find favor in Pennsyl
vania for many a day. Any direct
tax laid unnecessarily upon anthra
cite coal for state purposes will of
course be added with interest to the
price of that commodity, and the be
lief is prevalent that it is high
enough already.
There is no demand for an increase
of the states revenues, the real need
is for the honest, economical expen:
diture of the vast amount of money
raised under our present laws. Least
of all is there any call for putting a
tax on coal, this subject was pretty
well considered when, at the instance
of the operators and miners, the ton
nage tax|im posed during the war,
was repealed at the legislative sess
ion of IS7II.
A tax on coal for state purposes is
; virtually a tax on the consumer and
| the statesman will do well togo
[slow in that direction. There is no
need of, nor is it desirable that there
should be, a big surplus in the state
treasury. Recent events prove this
most conclusively.
in «i - Jl2 letters.opened in the Dead
Letter office at Washington, in Feb
ruary there was found money to the
amount of ♦oOti.AK all of which was
returned to the senders. In all 1,050,-
;to:l pieces of undelivered mail was
handled last month as compared
| with sjiLiau in February last year.
Preparing to Fight the Plajvc.
Farmers through out this Miction
| arc liecoiniconsiderably alarmed
I over the dangers of the San Jose
j scale. For years this most dreaded
I disease to the apple orchards has been
| fought valiantly, lait it has grown
j steadily until today it has become H
j matter of serious concern to the ap
j pie growers.
Faruiei's institutes have discussed
' Ihe problem exhaustively and all
j sorts ot remedies have been reconi-
I mended but in many instances they
! are not carried out. Some of (lie more
| progressive fruit growers spray their
; orchards extensively and give them
! every possible attention, 'i'hese suf
j fer but iittle, if any, from the scale,
| but those who spray occasionally or
not at all find their orchards dying
jin spite of them. When once the
! scale makes havoc the orchard is of
| little use after that.
It seems to attack young trees the
| more, and owners of young orchards
haw been warned time and again to
j fight the scale in every possible way.
|So serious lias the matter become
! that farmers U through the state
are preparing to form an organiza
( tion lor the purpose of seeing thai
! there is a systematic war carried on
against the ravages of this scale.
It is the intent of the large fruit
growers interested to have men se
lected in each community who make
it a duty to not only examine tin
j trees minutely in their own orchards
but togo into the orchards of theii
neighbors and carefully investigate
tliein, and w here there is the slight
est indication of the scale most de
termined ami radical steps will be
taken to prevent its spreading. It i-
I claimed that should the scale once
| under good headway it would do
j a hundred thousand dollars of dam
: age in a single season.—Sentiual
i Mon roe ton was the scene of a ter
j rible accident Saturday evening, and
las a result John McClure a well
j known Towanda railroad man lies at
j liis m ither's honi; in the Kuyken
| d;ill block, on north William street,
j in a precarious condition.
A ikruice branch freight train, in
charge of conductor Dun fee,
was switching some coal cars onto
the pockets at I'rannier A- Mussel
man's yard, and Brakenian McClure
was on a ear of coal which was be
ing pushed up the incline track. Al
most without .warning the trestle
gave way and the big car with it.-
00 tens of coal went down with the
wreckage. Met'lit re was caught be
tween the timbers and that he escap
ed sudden death is truly a miracle.
Ili' was removed from the wreckage
in an unconscious condition and for
a time it was thought he would not
live -in hour.
McClure was takento his home
in Towanda and Dr. S. M. Woodburn
who attended him, ,found his head
badly injured, and that he _also suf
fered from internal injuries, the ex
tent of which cannot yet be ascertain
ed. Sunday night he had recovered
sufficiently to tell what caused acii
dent, which is substantially as stat
ed above.
Dr. Smithgall, postmaster at Ji.nii
son City, has reniieren his resignat
ion from that position to the depart
ment. This action is taken because,
the doctor has decided to move to
Larryville in Lycoming county, it
is reported, although not corroborat
ed, that Dr. Hoffa, of Stillwater, will
take up the medical practice of Dr.
Smithgall at Jamison City. The latter
successor us postmaster has not as yet
been announced.
Now that winter is on the wane,
and the customs ofSummer are once
more being recalled to mind thoughts
are turning to the ice cream situation,
which will be different now from all
past experience. I'nder the new pure
food laws, all pure cream with a large
percentage of butter fat must lie us
ed. Kggs cannot he used, and milk
is barred out entirely. The ice cream
dealers therefore, will have to
increase the price.
A Chinese I-aundryman of Snn
! bury, who died in the Mary Packer
, hospitel at that place on Sunday,
left an estate valued at from j?20.0(H)
I to £25,000.
New Albany Will Remain "Dry."
Now Albany, which at 01 e timi
supported two hotels, will remain
a dry town, according t<» the decree
of the Bradford court which refused
to grant the re-application for li
censes of Henry L. Middendorf for
the Exchange hotel, and Archie
A. Cainhell for the Hotel Wells.
Remonstrances were liled against
the places, charging that intoxi
cants had been sold illegally, and
on the ground Judge Fanning re
fused the licenses.
Government expenses naturaty
grow with population, and period of
prosperity brings larger expendi
tures than hard time* in all corpora
tions. Hut the expulsion in the
total of the expenditures of the Fed
eral Government l>y currant appro
priation (tills does not carry justifi
cation for the claim that thee Fifty
ftintli Congress, which has adjourn
is a ''Two-hillion congress."
Aside from the fact that it is short
of *2,000,000,000 by sll ">,000,008,
this total is gained by including all
Ihe canal appropriations, which are
upward of #">0,000,000, and are paid
by honds. It includes a post otlice
bill, which runs for both sessions
nearly $100,000,000 an amount due
solely to the expansion of the country
the deficiency actually chargeable
for revenue being for the two years
not over $30,000,000. It has in addi
tion $l">,000,000 lor new service pen
sions and a river and a harbor bill
this year of $83,000,000 a large num
ber of whose expenditures will not
be made during the next fiscal year.
If all these are deducted, the act
ual appropriation for two sessions is
the neighborhood of £1,400,000,000,
and will probably lie somewhat less
than this.
Government, under the pressure of
public opinion, has undertaken a
large extent of new work, wag I
salaries have risen and public w
ind the Isthmian Canal are nect.,,.
tit's and necessary national expendi
tures. Taking all these things into
consideration, the advance in theex
penditures of nearly twenty years
since they first reached $1,tt00,000,-
000 is no larger than would be expect
ed, and by no means as large as the
advance in personal and.State and
city public expenditures during the
same period.—Press.
The funeral ojf William lleindel,
who was considered to be the heavi
est man in Lycoming county, took
place at his home, near a Da!lastown.
The casket and the body weighed
000 pounds, and it was necessary to
place rollers under the casket to re
move it from the house. A special
'tearse was required to convoy the
casket to its resting place, and the
grave in which the body was interred
was eight feet long, seven feet deep
and four feet wide.
Governor Stuart has approved the
Joint resolution of the State Legisla
ture authorizing the Adjutant Gener
al to pay for the transportation of
■survivors of Pennsylvania Volun
teers to Petersburg, Va., to attend
the dedication of the monument
erected by popular subscription to
men of the regiment. This monu
ment was erected through the efforts
of the regimental association, which
is almost exclusively composed of
Schuylkill Countians. it will be
dedicated on May Ist.
Notice has been given by the anth
racite community of interests to the
independent producers that there
will be an increase in the prices of
coal to theVonsumers within a short
time. The opinion prevails that the
advance will come about the Ist of
April.
foal companies contend that the
cost of mining has increased
in the last ten years, and that at
present prices it is impossible for the
companies to realize a fair return on
their money. In most places, they
assert, the co il now lies very deep,
and is exceedingly expensive to get
at.
The cost to keep the mint's free of
water 'is also said to be enormous,
while the wear and tear on 10 per
cent over what it was a decade ago.
75C PER YEAP
UERNICE ITEMS.
Patrick \\ liite who has been work
ing at Wyoming. Pa. returned home
on Friday. •
C. 1). \ oorhees of Sonestown was
a Mildred visitor on Tuesday.
l>r. J. L. Christian of Lopez was a
Mildred visitor on Tuesday.
Mrs. J. Murphy returned home
from Wilkes Barre hospital Wednes
day.
Herbert "and Harry Jackson of
Ithica N. Y. was at Bcrnice attend
ing the funeral of their nephew Hen
ry Jackson.
Henry Jackson the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. ('. 10. Jackson died
Thursday morning, funeral services
was held in the house on Sunday in
terment in the Pr shyterian burial
grounds. The Rev. li. K. Bent of the
Presbyterian church preached the
funeral sermon.
liuite a number of out of town peo
ple attended the funeral [of Jlenry
Jackson of this place Sunday.
There seems to be some special at
tractive that takes our popular squire
to Lopez every Sunday rain or shnie.
J. A. 1 ielsman and 11. J. Schaad
were Onshore visitors Monday.
Mr. Saxerof Colley was visiting
his daughter Mrs. F. F. Schaad of
Mildred Friday.
There was a pleasant surprise in
store lor Hareley Duggan of Mild
red on Wednesday evening. When
he returned from lodge when the
following were awaiting his return
home; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mey.
ers; Mr. and Mrs. George Driscoll;
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Deffenbach; Mr.
and "Mrs. Charles Cook; Mrs. and
Mrs. James Ramsay; Mrs. Maggie
Cook; Mrs. C. 15. Watson; Mrs. 11.. J.
Schaad; Robert Watson; Thomas it-
Frank Ramsay.
We always thought that after a
man was elected to fill any office by
vote of the people that it was all
... was required : don't .seem
the ease in the office of township
treasurer. When men will get to
gether and try and use their influence
to get some other one appointed in
his place this might be clean politics
if it is we don't want it to be contag
ious.
HEMLOCK GROVE.
Miss Ma/.ie Philips entertained a
number of her young friends at her
home on .Friday evening March 8.
The evening was pleasantly spent in
playing various games, refreshments
were served and at a late hour all re
turned home.
Thos.) present were Misses Ruth
Philips; Ester Philips; Martha Law
renson; Clara Philips; Jessie Philips
Fdna Ray; Ruth Lawrenson Ma/.ie
Philips; Messrs Rush Armes; Paul
Swank; Earl Philips; Howard Ami
es; Percy Ray; Bruce Philips; How -
ard Bay; Tracy Lawrenson; Bennie
Lawrenson; and Joseph Philips;
Edward Philips; Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Philips all of Ilenuock (Jrove, Miss
Edna Taylor of Strawhridge, Miss
Cora Buck of Illinois; Mr. Raymond
Philips and Miss Irene Philips of
Hughesville. Mr. M. A. Philips and
Miss Muriel Philips of Benton.
Albert Myers was a Williamsport
visitor Saturday.
Misses Bessie and Anna Fulmcr
did shopping at Muncy Valley Sat
urday.
Mr. Raymond and Miss Irene
Philips of Hughe-ville called at the
home of their uncle M. J. Philips
one day last week.
The following were Muncy Valley
visitors Saturday; Howard Bay,(ieo.
Brown; Paul Swank; Thomas
Philips and Harvey Philips.
liarvy Reeee will in the near fu
ture move Ins family near Hughes
ville where he will be employed on
one of A. T. Armstrong's large
farms.
The following is a report of the
Sheets school-for the sixth month
ending March 7, 1007. whole num
ber enrolled 1">. Those deserving
mention for regular attendance are;
Ciare Richart, Phoebe Worthington
Blanche Worthington, Harry Rich
art, Samuel Richart, Frank Sheets.
Lawrence Worthington and Owen
Sheets.
11. ottis Bay, Teacher.