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.
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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
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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.