Republican News iiein. VOL. XII. NO 1. This Is the Place < To Buy Your Jewelry ' \ QNothing in Town to Compare Withes I the Quality that We are Giving / ) You for the Low Price Asked. S Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r C of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosenC (with a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine laste, makes \ ( our. store a safe place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. C RETTENBURY, S <,DU SHO Ru, No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL 03K, WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTERS GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing Goods. Toois 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, Rooting and Spouting. $ jiiiiiel (Sol The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AMI SPORT, PA. Th: p licv t > which this store ha; adh red In years pasl is still in evidence. OuJ aim has always been to give the Ins! merchandise ob:a nable for the least money. T ailored CSoils and Ciovns Wi- li:.\r ;i 1111 in I>tr ol l.i.li'-.-' Tailored Snils either I'.iou or Pony Jackets, dial we ni'i• .iiU'iinir <ii extremely low prices. 'I liesc art' all new this Spring. They art up ;.i-tlull- in evcrv respect, except llu- price. < 'nine and «ce them and pet the price, IT3 A LACE YEAR. FOR DRESSY GOWNS "''l (lie trimming Nothing can take tlie place of "LAN'S tins vear ''.II -oil- o! i.uicv drosses are ... . being • ;.e .inn,.,.,1 H.i.- season. There "o\\Nk with Ihe woman ol good taslt will i» a -• ■areity of valencicnnes laces in dressing. The world's best silk and laier. wool dress fabric. All colors and shades 'V -howinga '-'od iiienl <>l edges Suitable lor evening or street wear, a'ul i-u ortioiis now. White Goods for Dresses.. Knit Summer Un-lerwear , .. , . The siock oilers a wide choice ol jrar \}eh*ve a beautiful line of da.nlv montg tor Men, Worneri and Children! while fabrics that arc the most approved Ln(lieg , Knit Vest, extra good ll>nt<-1 i.il In, Hr-.-ses. We re l: ,| ities at 10c to :,oe. Wl ' I' l ' I ''* ,lu ' I. .dies' Lisle and Silk Vests, long o, nvuter ' I -.brie a- well as price. gl or| H | eeVtWj | (M} Spring Jackets. 1«• i had es' an 1 Misses —not on'y are the styles unusual ly desi/able, hut we have a large variety of either plain o. fie new taiuy mixed styles to select Irom and the v:ihks :T" in a proaclvd anywhere. Subscribe for the Newsltem LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1907. A curious situation litis developed | over the appointment of a postmaster ! for Williamsport. The term of I Orange S. Brown expired four | months ago, and there a deadlock apparently, between Brown and two other Republican candidates. The election of William B. Wilson, Democrat, to congress has embolden ed the Democrats to lay siege to tha office, and William I. Dreisbach will be recommended by Congressman elect Wilson, who already has taken the matter up with the l'ost Office Department. A dime dated 1901, with the letter "8" showing that it was coined id Sail Francisco mint, is worth #lO. say- the Towanda Daily review. I'nited States Commissioner John W.Mi.v has had many inquiries re garding coins of this date with the letter 'S" and by investigation has found that there were only :! of the issue, and that coin collector have placed a price of #lO on the dime. A few days ago a business man of town met us and said: "It would not hurt you to occasionly mention our business in your paper: " We know it would not hurt us,and it would as lie suggested, help to fill up. It would not hurthim, neither to buy space for an advertisement. By doing this he would become a desert er from that grand army of (lead heads who expect the newspaper to continually note the improvements that they make, by giving them free puffs. The newspaper is a business enterprise, the same as dry goods or grocery store, run for a living of its owner and its employes.—Exchauge. The Work In Massachusetts. The lecture hour work In the granges i of Massachusetts for the first nine j months of li*M meant something like I tills: That 1,058 debates and discus- i siotis were held, in which 5,745 nietu- j hers participated; that into member*, read essays or papers on various sub jects and that after the reading these | papers were discussed by '2,4ttO per sons; thnt 5,190 persons gave vocal se lections; that 3,027 persons gave lnstru mental selections; that 5.520 persons gave readings; that 1,118 speakers pre sented a great variety of subjects, of ten followed by lively discussions; that in dramatic features 1t,798 persons con tributed some part; that 7,500 mem bers participated in some other fea ture that has added interest to the lec ture hour, while perhaps the most astounding total of all Is the revela tion from these quarterly reports that hi these same nine months the lecture hour programmes in the granges of the state were listened to by a total audi ence of more than 178,(1(10 persons, which does not Include the still fur ther attendance at the various state Held meetings of the year, all of which gives us an idea of what a tremendous influence must be exacted by the lec ture hour work of the granges, like wise the responsibility resting upon those who plan and conduct this edu cational work of the Order. Equally Divided. Men and women must be pretty equally divided In New Hampshire. They surely are in grange membership. (»n (,)<-t. 1. 1900, the end of the grange fiscal year, there were i:i,583 men and 14.-110 women, and the net gain dur ing the year was i!'JU men and '_'lß women. lowa was once the strongest grange Hate in the I'nlou. That was in the early days of the Order. It has griev ously fallen from grace. It hadn't i i ranges enough to give it representa ' Fion at the national grange last year. | What's the matter with the low a farm ers? ! J MAGAZINE I P READERS I I SUNSET MAGAZINE beautifully illurtrated, good jtorie*- ft- rQ and"article! about California and * r 1 all the Far Weil. * c * CAMERA CRAFT devoted each month to the at- _ tiitic reproduction of the be»t qpl •00 work of amateur and profewional a year photographer!. ROAD 0» A THOUSAND WONDERS a book of 75 page#, containing 120 colored photographs of $0.75 I picturesque ipoU in California % and Oregon. Total . . . $3-25 All for ... . sx.so - Addreu all ordert to ! SUNSET MAGAZINE I Flood Building San Fianci»co Death By Charged Wire. On Tuesday evening the citizens of town were shocked by the announee- I inent that one of our best known resi- I dents had been summoded beyond ! the river without a moment's notice while three others had escaped the same fate as by a miracle. A few minutes of fix o'clock Cam- I eron B lak started togo into the ad joining yard of George I'. Front/., and in order to do so passed thiough an opening in a hemlock hedge. Just as he stepped into the opening he was seen to suddenly fall to the ground. Mr. Front/., who was sitting inßide the door of his residence, started to the assistance of Mr. Boak, as did also the latters son, Harold. 1 teach ing the prostrate man they picked him up and started to carry him to his home. In ati instant all three men were seen to fall to the ground in a heap. The next person to hasten to the | three prostrate men were O. S. Lutz Bert Smith. The former as he reach ed the prostrate men happened to glance up to see where Mr. Smith i was, when lie was startled to see that gentleman lying in a reclining posit ion upon the hedge. My this time other persons had ar rived upon the scene, and it was dis covered that Mr. Front/, was dead and the other three prostrate persons were unconscious. The four men were carried to their homes and Drs. Smith and Met/gar summoned. An investigation dt 111- i.nstrates the fact that the men had came in contact with a guy wire of the Citizens Electric Light company which had become charged with electricitv. The guy wire was attached to a pole along the curb line in front of the Boak ami Front K residences and passing over the lets was attached to a pole in the ally in the rear. The pole along the curb having hoi Mine decayed at the top of"the ground it was cut off and dropped into a new hole, which shortened the pole three or four feet, this in turn slackened the guy wire, which fell down until it rested 011 the hedge be tween the two residences, and, as stated above, having came in con act in some manner with the the wires had become heavily charged with th*> electric current, the rain of Tuesday after noon having a tend ency to make tha current stronger than it would have been otherwise. As Mr. Boak passed through the hedge his hand came in contact with the wire and lie was hurled to the ground. Mr. Front/, and Harold Boak, not knowing the cause of the formers fall, did not realize that death lurked in the apparent harm ess wire, and so they attempted to carry the unconscious man into the house Mr. Front/As forhead hit the wirw, and in an instant fell dead, the others also being shocked, The three living but unconscious men were taken into their homes and after the physicians had labored with them for soni.' time time they regained consciousness, but at this writing there condition i> still tpiite serious—Hughesvilie Mail. Every person in the I'ni ted States is using over six times as much wood as he would were lie in Europe. The country as a whole consumes be tween three and four times 111 ire wood than all the forests grow in the meantime. These statements are made in a lengthy statement on the forestry service of the department of agriculture. A timber famine is predicted unless more economic use of lumber is inaugurated and govern ment control is insured to prevent in use and to increase the growth rate of the forests lands. A contest in the courts at Scifanton over the will of Prosper Thibaut, a man who "hah wheeled ashes at the Suburban Electric Light company's plant for several years, revealed the fact that he was 1 French Nobalman. His great grandfather was a mar shal of France under Napoleon, and his father was he who decorated Andrew Carnegie with the French : Legion of Honor. Thibfiut himself i committed suicide- Death ol Mrs. Ann Glidewell. Mrs. Ann Glidewell, widow of tlie late Andrew Olidewell, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. John Kiess at North Mountain, Tuesday, May 7th. Mrs, Glidewell had for several years been a sufferer with cancer hut heroically bore her affliction without revealing its nature to any one until about six weeks ago when her condition became so ser ious that she was compelled to tell her relatives of the malady thut had its deadly grip upon her. Preparations were at once made to take her to a hospital at Rome. N. V.. but on arriving at that insti tution the physicians pronounced her case hopeless, and she was taken back to the home of her daughter where everything possible was done to ease the closing days of her life. Mrs. Glidewell'B maiden name was Ann Rennet. She was born and lived nearly all her life in this county. She is survived by three children: Mrs. Byron Campbell of Ycrk State; Mrs. John Kiess of .North Mountain, and Ward Glide well of Oklahomo. The greatest day of all the year to lite old war veteran is Memorial Day. May Jlnth lias been set apart to honor the nation's dead, and it> observance has become general. <>n this day the old soldiers who fought under tin* i-tars and stripes and those who followed the em l the stars and bars, are honored auiv.-and flowers are laid on their graves. Memorial Day shows more clearly than anything else that nearly, if not all of the feeling of hatred between North and South is gone. It is a common sight to see battle marked heroes who, in the day of *<>l march ed oft' to answer the call President Lincoln and who went to tight their own countrynien, lay flowers„on the graves of some of the men who were their most bitter enemies. All strife is forgotten when they goto honor the dead. Hut it won't be long be fore the keeping of the day will tall ; entirely on the younger generation, those who fought in the Spanish- American War and the Sons of Vet erans, for the boys of 'til-'<>■"> are fast being taken away from the battle field of life and appearing before the trre.it Judge of all men, where there i < no blue nor gray, no toil nor strife. It is an iuspirajft sight to see the white hairet} veterans on the morn-- ing of May tlo£4i as they march to' the cemeteries.- In the hand Wnit once held a musket is clutched quet of lragrunt ilowers and in the eyes that years ago Hashed forth the lire of battle can be seen a tear to, drop, is memories such as these that teach us the humanity of man toman. , j An angler fiWiing in an IlliimiJ -treani hooked" a wallet containing $1 ,K(itt lost bj'i another man a few lays previously. The man who pull* ed the the stream was no doubt' Bioraolatcd than if he caught a' fwa pound trout, and* visions of no doubt Ids mind. Hooking large amounts 112 money is not an every day occur anee, and the" successful angler leH proud of his catch. When the w*«ilet was returned to its rightful owner that gentelnian carefully counted the contents to make sure that none of the money had been lost and was so greatly pleased with the recovery of his dollars and the honesty of thefisher ! man that he gratefully thanked the j angler and handed him oiu big dollar ]as a reward fer the return of the I >I,BOO. The honest fisherman tliinhs of starting a Carnegie library with the dollar given him by the ] man whos wallet lie so providcntial | ly found. The Central Pennsylvania Lumber ' company has just let the contract ' for cutting 10,000, unit feet of logs and peeling 000 cords of bark on their 1 timber tract in Clysses township, ; Potter county. 75C PER YEAP BERNICE ITEMS. Thomas and Frank Ramsay were Avoca visitors last week. 'William Collons was a Towanda visitor Thursday. Harry Jackson of Sayre is visiting his brother ('. K. Jackson of Mild red. William Shoemaker of Laporte was calling on Mildred friends Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Murray of Dunmorc is visiting the latters mother Mrs. Cummiskyof Mildred. Mr. 1). Powell of Scranton was a business man at this place Wednes day. L. J. Lowrie was a Lopez caller on Saturday. Patrick llannon, K. Jackson and Danial Schoonover were Dushore visitors last week. Humphrey Dempsey for nearly thirty-five years one of the honored and respected citizens of this place passed away at hfs home on Sugar Hill. In his death Hern ice loses one of its most valuable and highly re spected citizens. His sterling integ rity and his genial ways made for him many warm friends and he was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. Mr. Dempsey is survived by his wife and seven sons. The funeral was h"ld on Friday, interment in the St. Francis cemetery, ltev. J. A. En right officiating. Paul bearers were his old companions and long life friends; James J. Connors, James Sharp, John Daly, Patrick Driseoll, John White and Thomas Donahue. Hon. James H. Foraker is "red hot" because President Roosevelt wishes Secretary Taft to succeed him in the White House. It would be all right if Foraker were the "favorable one" but he is all fuss as it is. He says it is a had precedent for a Presi dent to favor a particular one. Well is it'.' Wuen R > >sevelt c.ime t<v White House, he found the Trusts had this country by and dictating every policy of the (J ivern ment that concern them. How is it now'.' Roosevelt has every one of them "on there knees" and they are trying there best to have the I'res ident policy reserved so that we may go back to the good old days when we hud a government of, by and for th<* Trusts. Secretary Taft has been Roosevelt's main counceler in the great Trusts crusade, and it Is but natural that Roosevelt and most all other patriotic people should wish to ; see the Great Secretary enter the White House after the next elec tion. »A preai her called at a newspaper man in this way, You editors do not tell j the truth. If you did you could not live your newspapers would be a failure." The editor replied "You are right and the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the whole truth about his members alive or dead will not occupy his pulpit more thaiioneSun day and then he will fi nd it necess ary to leave town in a hunH . Thti press and pulpit go hand In hand with whitewash brush pleasant word magnifying little virtues into big ones. T-he pulpit, the ami tha gravestone are the great'saint mak? ing triumvirate. And the gre;jt minister \yent away looking very thoughtful while the editor turned to his work and told of'the unsur passing beauty of the bride while In fact ,she was as homely as a mud fence. llughesville business men will be .greatly pleased to learn the batik at that place will in the near future erect a new and handsome building in which to transact its increased business. The officials of the llugh esville bank are men who are alive to the necessity for putting there best foot forward, and the need of a new bank building has been felt by them for some time. j State troopers on Monday captur icd James and Samuel Pollock of | iiuzern whe were charged withdyna initing trout streams near Dallas, i The'men were held under i' 500.00 lltti! for appear.inc at court.
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