VOL. XII. NO 23.
T&MjOOO— $44,000 >
> Which Do You Prefer V >
S The average man earns about SI,K O a year. Hf
V works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a
/time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or /
1 S6OO tor a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a J
/ life time. The difference between sj4,cooands24-
V 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a J
r practical education in dollars and cents The in-V
\ creased self-respect cannot be measured in J
112 Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when \
V the international Correspondence Schools, of Scran- ✓
112 ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make \
1 high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of I
J work you care to follow, this great educational In- J
x stitution can prepare you in your .'•pare lime and at x
r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our£
\ local Representative will show you how you canX
triple your earning capacity. Look him up today./'
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' •» HARDWARE
No Place Like this Place !
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OB WOO D.
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.
Samnel
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
>• 313 Pine Street,
VJfjWILLIAMSPORT, PA.
In tf)e P>est Possible
3t>ape
This store is in the best possible shape for autumn
and winter business. Eveiy section is completely equip
ped with carefully chosen merchandise that is being of
fered at the lowest possible price.
Ladies' Stylish Garments
This store is justly proud of its garment -Lowing—Here are Stylish Suits, .lack
et« Shirts. the choice ot the heat makers ami you lout pay a fancy prict lor them
either.
BLAtCE'PS AND COMFORTABLES. WINTEK HCSIEBY.
1" e warmth ami worth is here lor you It's time to look alter winter hosiery,
anil > oti eatiiiot go wrong in buying You'll not find a better line anywhere io
bl )• k. tM apd comforters here, White choose from than we are showing. We
and grey'blankets in all i|nalitie«. To ex- open the stocking selling with some ex
amine will com ince of our desire to give tra values in ladies' hose at
the beat at the lowest price, 121, 15, 2"< anil 35c
Plain and Mixed Suitings
We are ready to show you the most complete line of fancy mixed Suitings and
pinin fabrics you will find everywhere tor fiOc.
Outing Flannel
We are showing a particular good assortment ol dark and light fancy striped
anrl checked outing llannel. Kvery buyer will save money by buying these now ai
Sc, 10c, 1 lc. and 12J cents.
Plain Waists
We havejust received a new lot of plaid silk and worsted waists that are very
stylish and moderately priced.
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Republican News Item.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 1907.
I ■ " *
JUDSON BROWN,
REPUBLICAN
Candidate for Sheriff
The Voters of Sullivan County Have in
Judson Brown, a Man Worthy ol Sup.
port.
.Judson Hr<nvn, Republican candi
date for Sheriff, the subject of this
sketch was horn December 12, 1870,
on a farm ncarShunk, Pa. and is the
son of Archlus and Sarah Harris
Hrown.
After attending'the public schools
Fox township and acquiring a good
common school education it was his
ambition like many other l>oys of
same environments to commence
life's struggles as a woodsman, and
secured employment in the forests
near his home.
Overating his strength and endur
ance as many ambitious young men
are apt to do, this labor and expos
ure soon brought on rheumatism
which has at different times since i
completely disabled him from hard
manual labor. His principal occu
pation has been farming. Several
years ago he was appointed janitor
of tha Court House and grounds at
r.aporte. In this capacity, everyone
knows, be served with utmost satis !
faction to all concerned and with '
credit to himself. Me has at differ
cut times held the township office of!
Judge and Inspector of election and j
has always been it resident of this!
county.
Mr. Hrown is absolutely unassail
able as a candidate for thin very im '
portant otllee and w hen he says he I
will be true to the trusts imposed !
upon him, it is a promise made by
lan honcft man who has never be
trayed a trust or shirked an obliga
tion.
As there is no claim that he is not
honest in the strictest sense ol the
term, capable and well tjualitied in
every way to perform the duties that
will be imposed upon him if elected,
there is little need of saying more
in his behalf. He has a life record
to stand upon, as before stated, abso
lutely unassailable. In brief he is a
clean man, every inch, vote for him
ami no regrets will ever follow
Henceforth every slaughter house
or other establishment connected
with the preparation or sale of meat
or meat products in Pennsylvania
must be operated in conformity to
modern requirements as to sanita
tion etc. The new meat inspection
law if carried out by the inspectors
recently appointed, will* give the
people of Pennsylvania as effective
protection against bad meat as is
enjoyed by the inhabitants of any
state in the I'nion. Agents of the
State Livestock Sanitary Board are
required to make an examination of
jail establishments engaged in the
I meat business. When meat or meat
I products are found upon examina
tion to be diseased or unwholesome,
| the agent is required tosee that they
i are placed in an offal tank and rend
j ered into a condition that would
prevent their being offered for sale
jas human food, or when no offal
| tank is immediately available they
|s»re to lie slushed with h knife an
i saturated with kerosine or coloring
I matter.
I Farmers of Northern Burks county
the great potato growing district of
Eastern Pennsylvania, have decided
upon an advance in the price of
tubers. The rot lias set in and
threatened to ruin half the crop.
The expected yield in that end of
the county was 800,000 bushels,
but the farmers will be satisfied if
they realize half of this. The crop
has been selling the past year at an
average of 50 cents a bushel.
It is predicted that the price
will goto $1 and perhaps $1 ,f>o per
bushel. Tne price of wheat has ad
vanced 20 cents since the begmnng
of the season. When the grain was
first harvested the price was 80 cents,
but today it is bringing $1 in Berks,
in several places the farmers are
getting *I.OB at the ware-houses.
It is expected that the price, will go
still heigher by the middle of Oct
tol>er. Hay is selling at S2O a ton an
increase of over last year,while
corn has reached 80 cents.
Washington. D.C. Oct. 15.
Bruised and covered with welts,
two boys given shelter by the local
police, tell a story o r most inhuman
treatment in a West Virginia coal
mine. They are John Marti and
John Phillips, both from Pennsyl
vania. Charges of extreme cruelty
under a system of practical peonage
are embodied in their story. Held
prisoners under guard they were
lashed and beaten until they made
their escape during the night when
picked up here they had been with
out food for hours.
The railroads of the middle west
are charged with conspiring to ruin
creamery interests in 7 states and
territories in a complaint before In
terstate Commerce commission. It
is held that business aggregating
♦14,000,000 annually besides millions
ot dollars worth of equippment will
be ruined because of the conspiracy.
The New York Worhi remarks.*
The standard Oil monopoly was
built up by the remarkable ability
of a remarkable group of men and.
by cheating and chicane. The cheat
ing and chicane must stop. The men
have grown old and have of late
blunderingly misjudged their pbwer
and the pubiic temper. No one
believes that so vast an oaganizaliou
as the standard oil will be or tha it
should be driven out of business.
But it must play fair"; and a stand
ard Oil playing fair will not be the
•Standard Oil as we have knotyq it.
Tours of the coal mines by visitors
are now a thing of the past, and all
persons who are not employed "in the
underground workings will hereafter
be forbidden entrance thereto by the
coal companies. Heretofore it has
been the custom of persons who have
out of town visitors to plan a trip in
one of the mines in the vicinity, and
the guesto were delighted with the
novelty. It was learned last week
that the coal companies have issued
orders forbidding the issuing of per
mits hereaftei due,it is said, to the
liability act passed by the recent leg
islature.
Meeting ol the Sullivan County Med
ical Society,
Mooting of the Sullivan county
Medical Society, at Forksville Pa.
October 2n<i, 190™. meeting called to
order by president Doctor M.E.
Herman at 10 A. M. Constitution
read und adopted with corrections,
Dr. Randall of La Porte made men
tion that Dushore be the annual
meeting place of the society which
shall be held in January of each year,
sudsequent meetings be decided by
s vote of members present, Dr.
Mervine of Hillsgrove and Dr. C.D.
Voorsees of Jonestown Pa., joined
as charter members. Program (Ist.)
Dr. Bird of Overton read a paper
on Diaguosis and treatmeut of ty
phoid fever, Dr. Bird advises all
cases of general malace headache
marked weakness with fever to al
ways guard as the beginning of
typhoid fever, lie claims that some
of the late Pathologists after exami
nation of 300 cases that the bacteria
typhoses was not found in the ex
cretions of the bowels therefore the
old time theory of the disease being
of intestinal origin and the corres
ponding intestinal aseptic treatment
is a fallacy. Discussion opened by
Dr. Marvin who agrees with Dr.
Bird and comments on the paper.
Other doctors claim that the disease
Is of intestinal origin and patients
all show ulceration of Pyers patches
and do well under intestinal asepsis,
without this patients become delir
ious, abdomen distended, fever runs
higher, nopre danger of perforations
and complications. Dr. Woohead
read a paper on Diagnosis and treat
ment of Appendicitis. Dr. Wood
head claims that the subject, a very
important one as by far the most
common and most important of all
abdominal diseases, and if recogniz
ed in time is amenable to treatment.
The appendix is probably the most
vulnerable of abdominal organs from
several reasons. First, it is a struct
ure in the retrograde metamorpho
ses, it is deficient in blood, nerve,
and lymphatic supply. Second, it
is l»ng and its caliber .is small hence
its drainage is poor and easily inter
fered with. Lastly, it is subject to
traumation by the psoas muscle on
which it usually lies. From this it
is apparent that the appendix may
easily become a very target for the
destruction with mkro-organism,
normally present in its lumen when
from causes these are incited into
activity. Treatment: surgical in
most oases. Discussion opened by
l>r. Kandall of Laporte. He thinks
that appendicitis is a rare disease
and that young doctors and surgeons
have more cases between their
than in the abdomen as he has seen
a great many cases operated on for
appendicitis that when the abdomen
was opened no disease of the organ
was found to exist. All physician
took part in this discussion and it
was generally thought surgical treat
ment the safest. Dr. J. L. Christian
read a paper on Alkaloidal Medica
tion. Dr. Christian thinks that it is
time for some new form of medica
tion, as the unreliabilty of drug>
even fjom our best drug houses.
The doctor quoted from New York
Health Board "where they purchased
from reliable drug stores nux vomi
cae, belladonna, aconite, opium, dig
itjdlis and had them analy/.ed by
a competent chemist and found they
varied in strength from *9 to 20 per
cent too much or too little of the act
ive principals. He further claims
that adulteration, substitution, age
and all make it hard for a doctor to
use the present system of medica
tion. lie claims that Alkaloklal
the only reliable medication. The
euhjeet was further discussed by Dr.
Biddle who thinks that we would
get belter results by the exclusive
use of Alkloidal medication. Drs.
Woodhead and Davics aud wives
had an especially flue dinner al'
ready for the members and their
wives which was heartily enjoyed
by all. A motion was offered to ex
tend to Drs. NVoodhead and Da vies
aud wives, for entertainment of the
first meeting of the Coun
ty Medical Society, thanks and ap
preciation. The secretary was or
dered to send a short report to the
several county papers for publica
tion.
\V. F. RANDALL, Sec'y.
75C PLR YEAR
DERNICE ITEMS.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jackson and
two sons Robert and Dick attended
the Bloomsburg Fair last week.
Sidney Osier of Carbondale, is vis
iting his parents Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Osier.
Thomas Walters and Thomas
Ramsey are Sayre visitors this week
D. D. G. Master Dr. Davies of
Forksville, installed the following
officers of Bernice Lodge No. 902 I.
O. O. F. on Wednesday evening:
N. G., 11. Baily; V. G., Wm. Dav
if; Treas. J. 8. Line; N. G. Support
er, Ira Powers and James Spence,
Sr.; Warden, J. Ditch burn; Con.,
Barclay Kuggan; V. G. Supporters,
C. B. Watson and D. Schoonover.
Arther Miner is under Dr. .Bren
nans care for tousilitis.
Mrs. Daniel Schoonover is visiting
Bradford county iriends.
Jairi£s 11. Gansel the Democratic
candidate for Sheriff tidied on the
voters of this place last week.
I). G. S., C. B. Watson raised up
the following chiefs of Kakonka
Tribe No. 86. Order of Red Men on
Monday Sleep: Sac., D- Dempsey;
S. S., Barclay Duggan; J. S., P. H.
McGee; Prof., James Cooners; Ist
San., F. McMahon; 2nd San.. John
Lonie; Trusteef James Connors.
Judson Brown, the Republican
candidate for Sheriff was shaking
hands with the voters at this place,
and they all claim that he is quali
fied in e vary respect to fill the im
portant office of sheriff,
A verdict awarding £777 for injur
ies at Eagles Mere, was won by
Miss Helen dumm in a suit against
the W. N. B. railroad beard last
week in the Lycoming county court.
It was claimed by the plaintiff that
in September she and another lady
left the Forest Inn and took the
train for the lower end of the Lake,
getting off at Eagles Mere
Alter the train had left the station
they started to wnlk over the plat
form to the iK>at landing, and in the
center of tlr* platform Miss CI mini)
stumbled over the stool used to as
sist people on and off the trains,
throwing her heavily to the plat
form, cutting her face and mouth
severely. She also sustain**! a bad
ly sprained hand and arm, from
which it is claimed she will never
fully recover. The defense in the
case was contributory negligance on
the part of Miss Chimin in not look
ing where she was walking. The
plaintiff is matron of the institute of
Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Children in New York City.
Montrose has been selected by
Dr. Alexander Torrey, the evangel
ist and Christian worker, as the
most suitable location in the east for
the establishment of a bible con
ference. For the past two years Dr.
Torrey has made a tour of various
cities in the east and finally decided
upon Montrose as offering the best
advantages for suchan institution.
Studies similiar fb those in the
school at northfieid, Mass. which
Dwight L. Moody founded, will l>e
pursued. The Rev. John Mclnnis,
pa-tor of the Ist. Presbyterian
church in montrose, who has been
working hard to have pr. Torrey
select Montrose, announced Sunday
that his efforts had been successful.
. Hundreds of people will be
brought to Montrose each Sunday
by the new institution, and it will
also bring many families to that
city to live permanently.
It costs more to either live or die
in Beaver county than it did former
ly. Notice of an advance in price of
foods and in the price of burying
people have been given out by the
grocers and endertaking people.
The undertakers association of Beav
er county informed the county com
missioners that it could not afford to
bury the county dead for 118, the
present rate aad demands S3O. The
prices of funerals and necessary ac
cessories to all others have also been
increased 10 per cent. There is a
general howl, but the (teople can
take their choice.
At the recent term of court in
Columbia county, a saloon keeper,
charged wiih selling liquor on Sun
day, was ordered by the court to
close his saloon for three months,
taking his license for that period of
time.