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$24,000 —$44,000 q )
CWhich Do You Prefer •
C The average m:in earns nbout Si ioo :i year. He 112
J works 40 years and earns i total of 544,00 in a
\ time. The avera; e<i < v laborer gets >2. 000 a day or 112
SS6OO for a year of }eo days. He earns $24,000 in a I
lifetime. The d :en $44,000 and $24-^
000 is $20,000. 'I hi is the minimum value of a ?
education in dollars and cents Ihe in-C
self-respect c:mnot be measured in money. J
\ Why not stop pi 11 Kg ig away at a small salary when <
/ the International Corresp S ho >ls, of Scran- V
\ ton, Pa., can give you m educat on that will make /'
I high salaried man 0 you ? No in itt« i what line of\
V work you care to foil >w, this great < durational In- r
V stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at \
r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Ourr
\ local Representative wiTl s!v w you how you can \
your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112
V He is I
? o. IT. T3'S,:E3NTI-rAiT. S
C. I. S- Representative. TOWANDA, PA.
COLE'S-v
HARDWARES j
No Place Like this Place
For Reliable
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OIR, WOO D
HEATERS:
ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHT,3.
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 etov--.3 and ranges sale cheap.
We can sell you in stove s anything from a fine Jewel Ease
Burnsr to a low price .1 jut satisfactory cook stove.
Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and
' o
General Repairing, R jcflng and Spouting.
sa«i ael vj> o ? e>iD sssfi ore,
The Sliopbell Dry Good Co.,
» 313 P ne Street,
WILLIAF-ISFORT, PA.
Time
Among the Women's Coats
Today we have surely reached the climax
ot low prices on Long Winter Cloth Coats
We have left 6 Ladies' Long Clot!. CHILDREN'S CLOTH
Coatrt that we are closing out at CO ' n 'S
We are plosifig out what we have left
'it all'.ut one-halt'the former price.
10 Ladies' Long Cloth Coats, made of PURS
mixed material. They were i?U) to .Sl2
All !• nr Scarls and noveltv Neck
NOW $5.00 Pieces are being closed out ut a big' re
duction.
11 Ladies' Long Cloth Coats of dark CLOTH SUITS
mixed material. Former price* were
sl2. t 0 £17,00, "'' have about a dozen Ladies Cloth
mm oan Suits, mixeil materials. Mostly small
INUW o.UU. sixes that # we ha\ • marked down to
85.00
Another small lot that were reduced
from 418.00 to OUTING FLANNELS
SIO.OO One lot ot fancy striped and checked
Outing Flannel that were 8 cents,
< >ne lot of Caracal Cloth Coats,in hlnc.k NOV/ G i -C
gr?y, navy and brown. 'l'h« —• hj.ve 1-een Aiher lot of better i|uality that were
good sellers this season for £'JO 00 I] cents.
NOW 12.50 FOR 9c.
The best llij cent quality shown this
< »ne lot ot Ladies' Short Cloth Coats seat-on,
of stout figure. I'lain materials, licgu- FOR lt)c
Jar prices were §l4 00 to §17.00
vr„_ a,.-, •. 112 ~, We are receiving almost everv da\
NOW, $7, $9, ar.d SIO.OO ... . . , ' ~. .
liew \\ ash iioous nml tiiughams.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908.
The Sixth Annual Report ol Ihe Pcnn
Mvtval Life Insurance Co.
The sixteenth annual report of the j
Pennn Mutual Lifelnsurance Compa-1
I ny Just published is a remarkable ex -
i liibit in view of the adverse con
ditions during the past year.
The paid for business, amounting to
over $(!!),000,000, was the greatest in
the history of the Company, shovv-
I ing that the public has confidente in
proper methods of life insurance ad
ministrations.
The annual report may be con
| densed and summarized as follows:*
. Total assets, Dec. Ist, 11)07 5'.'0, 061.882
j t i :t i tt in premium income... 294, 017
i lain in interest, rents, etc 400.128
j Death claims paid 4.608,312
; Kndowhients and'annuities pd - 1,587,404
I Dividends to policy holders 1,361,481
'•tin iii l'ivd. to |K)licv holders I 12.004
)tal deterred dividual land... 6,253.083
! ■ tin id ■' •• 6">*.325
; Total insurance in force 425,956.270
When one considers the gains re
corded above and adds to it the fur
-1 iher fact that a larger business than
was ever written or cared for by the
Company in its history was produced j
and protected iu 1007 tit a reduction
in expense ratio (exclusive of exact
j ions by way of taxation) to the ex
(retnly economic figure of 13— ;j-10 ,
.1 must be bourne iu upon any fair
uiuded policy holder or contemplate
insurer that the Penn. Mutual Life
Insurance Company of all other
i o opanics comes nearest to comply
ing with the apostolic injunction ol
doing the things that should be done
t!d leaving undone flit; things that
-houid not bo done.
The Company is earnestly desir
ous that every economy consistent
with the proper conduct of its busi
ness shall be exercised and its under
lying purpose is that the interests of
:u It policy holder shall be impartial
ly and fairly considered. It means
11»;«t every policy holder in the Penn
Muturl Lite Insurance Company is
' ntitlcd to and actually gets a square
deal.
The high character of the Com
pany's investments" is "attested by
the fact that on l)cc. 31st, 1!)07 there '
was only $:<52,50 of overdue interest :
on the mortgage loans and not a sing
le bond was in default. !
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Company has behind it a history of
honorable dealing and steady growth
for sixty years and this is not only
due to the high character of the
management but also to those who
come into direct personal contact
with the policy holders, the agency
force Messers, Bourne and Durham
of Philadelphia have general super
vision over Eastern and Central
Pennsylvania and in this section the
Company's interests ure officially
cared for by Charles M. Bender,
special agent, New Albany Pa. and
M. A. Scurman, District agent,
Wilkesßarre, Pa.
The teachers and pupils of the
i Laporte Borough school with the
! help of the Village Improvement
I Society will hold a social in the
] school building on Friday evening
i February 2s, 11)08. Coffee,t tea,
j lemonade, cake, sandwiches, and
; home-made candy, all kinds ol pic
tures, booklets and other articles will
j tie sold.
I A Fortune teller will be encamped
here, to tell your fortune- for the
i small price of live cents. All kinds
of games and music will entertain all
who come. The proceeds are togo
toward a piano and stage fund. All
are cordially invited to come and
i lend a helping hand.
Th" weekly newspapers through
the country are busily engaged in
1 notifying their subscribers of the re
cent post office order that no paper
can be carried on the books for more
than one year, without I eing sub
jected to postage at the ounce rate.
Why the authorities should take Up-1
on themselves the authority to make
such ii ruling, we are at the loss to
understand, because it looks like an
autocratic supervision of private busi
ness, but its the order has gone out,
there is no use to find fault, but sim
ply to insist that it shall be complied
with. One gratifying circumstance
. is that subscribers generally are cora
l plying with the request of the pub
[ lishers and are paying up.
Election Returns trom Various Districts.
! Bernice. —J. E., W. J, Meyers;
i In., David Spence, Lyman Wood;
Asst.. assessor, Barclay Duggan,
Cherry—.J. E., Joseph Litzle
swope; Ins., Lewis L. Hunsinger,
J. M. Dempsey; O. P., Thos.
Doyle; asst. assesor, James Mc-
Kernan; S. D., Nathan Weaver,
•1. H. Donovan; Supervisor, Thos.
(iahan; Treas., W. C. Graifly;
(lon., Frank T. McMalion; T. C.
Anthony Dempsey; Aud., Wm. j
Murray; J. P., James Ramsey. |
Coliey—,J. E., C. F. Hunsinger; j
Ins., Wm. Prichard, Wm. Tubach;'
O. P., Otto Behr; Con., E. W. j
Meeks; S. D. Lewis L Ross, Geo.
W. Whipple, Chas. Weinart; Sup.,
M. D. Reeser; Treas., Robt, Hawk:
Aud. George Brown, 11. R. Hen
ning, G. D. Deiffenliaeh.
Davidson—.J. E., Jacob Stack -
house; Ins., Ed Small, W. B. Sni
der; J. P. 11. D. Lock wood, Jason
1). feimmons; Con. Jerome Laird;
S. D., C, A. Starr, Gvis Oldson;
Tax col. Torrence Bender: O. P. .
Geo. Kiess; And; Harry Basley, <
C. A. Starr; Treas. Goo. Kiess. i
Jamison City—.J. E. Guy Camp:
Ins., Brit Cole, F. O. Search; Asst. '
assesor, Clifton Young.
Dushore-*J. E„ Lewis Yonkin;
Ins. Boyd Heverley, Willis P. ,
Hoover; II C Charles Bald: S. D, ,
•John 11. Deegan, tie between B. j
Kline and John D. Benjamin: ]
Councilmen, Dennis Keefft, Geo. i
W. Jackson, Chas. E. Pealer. Jas. 1
Cunningham, Aud. John il. Heil- '
man Jr., Thos, Carrol; O. P. J
Ira Cott; Constable, Ira Cott.
Eagles Mere —J. E. Clayton Ben
nett; Ins. Haran Bitter. Phillip J
llouseknecht; high constable. L.
Stevens; constable, George Smith;
school directors, A L Moyer,
Clayton Dunham, S Bursholder; .
councilmen, W Y Warner, H J
Smith, C A Brink; aud, Raymond
Ivehrcr; overseer of poor, Edward i
Smith. 1
Forksville Boro— Judge of elec- 1
tion, John Pardoe; inspectors, C R '
Nye, F N Schanabacher; high con
stable. David Glockler; justice of
peace, R, I> Lancaster; school di
rectors, G A Rogers, John Randal;
councilmen, J W Rogers, Dr. Dav
ies, F C Schanaliacher; auditors,
Charles Collins, John Pewter
baugli, Nelson Hall; overseer of
poor, J L Snyder; constable, O J
Laporte township--Judge of elec
tion, Nathan Peters; inspecters,
John Fries, Thos. Sheenan; con
stable, Jerome Reed; school direct
ors, Mike Flynn, Z. E Botsford,;
Supervisor, William Stanley; over
seer, Harvey Hess;"auditors, How
ard Hess, William Kernau; town
clerk, E C Peters.
Mt. Vernon —.Judge of election-
George Golder; inspectors, F. S.
Meyers, tie vote between Elmer
Lawrenson and Wm. Edktu; consta
ble, Wm. Rine; school directors, W.
10. Fulmer, John Diggaii, J. 11. W.
Little; tux collector, George Law
renson; supervisor, B. M. Secules;
overseer ot poor,\J. A. Bennett; aud
itor, Wilhur McCliutock; treasurer,
A. It. Worthington.
Shrewsbury township—.Judge of
election, Smith Boudman; inspect
ors, C. T. Little, C. T. Rider; assist
ant assessor, J. 11. W. Little.
On Friday night a case of spotted
fever, or cerebrospinal meningitis,
said to be the first known iu the city
of Willlamsport for thirty-five years
resulted in the death of Harold H*
St roup, the 14 year old sen of Mr.
aud Mrs. Frank Stroup, of 301 Penn
st.eet. The Lad had been ill for two
weeks, and during that time the
ease was under quarantine and was
studied by seversl local physicians,
i Thirty-five years ago an epidemic
Jof this disease struck Willlamsport
and a number of persons died. The
lad was buried Sunday without the
usual funeral services The health
authorities have taken every pre
| caution to prevent the disease from
spreading.
Dangers of the Proposed Parcel Post.
I
Members of the Grange lodge are ]
growing active in the interest of a
parcels post legislation which is be
ing agitated hy agents of the large
! mail order houses. That the issue
is uot properly presented before the
country is evidenced by the fact
that the farmer is led to believe he
is benefited by being able to do his
buying without leaving his home.
The centralization of trade in the
great cities of the country resulting
from the growth of the mail order
business is a national menanee of far
reaching pioportions.
Population follows trade. If the
business is done iu a country town
and village, of supplying the needs
of the country-side for merchandise
and manufactured articles of all
kinds, the people who carry on the
trade, he merchants and his help
ers, will live in the town or village.
If, on the other hand the trade is
done by mail, cutting out the coun
try merchant, he is driven (.ut of
business, his store ceases to exist, his
village home is abandoned, and if
he should continue in the trade, he
and his assistants must move to the
city and become employees for some
great centralized mail trade insti
tution, where men are mere? ma
chines, fitting like cogs into oue
great wheel with which they must
day after day revolve.
The country merchant with his
self-reliance, his sturdy individu
ality, his broad acquaintance, his
knowledge ot local affairs and needs,
his support for local institutions, his
civic usefulness his neighborly
offices, his public services, and his
co-operation in movements lor local
improvement, has been uprooted
and driven away. There is no one
to take his place. The trade, that
gave him his vocation has gone
and with it has gone the prosperity
of the town or village which was hi*
home.
The village life and the citizen
ship devetoped by it eo'.-'itute the
only hope of perpetuity for the free
institution of this country. The most
grave and serious dangers that men
ance its future result from the over
growth of our great cities and the
consequent degeneration of the aver
age citizenship of the nation.
In the place of the "plain jxiople'
whose country environment has
made them stable, steady-headed,
self-reliant and independent in ac
tion, thought and character, we have
the volatile city multitude, a float
ing jMipulatiou, anchored to nothing
either mentally or physically, and
blown about by every breeze of pop
ular prejudice or passion—ready for
any rash experiment social or polit
ical.
The adjacent village or nearby
town which furnishes for the farmer
the social side to his life that the iso
lation of the farm denies to him, is a
potent factor in the development of
the fii 11v rounded out, broad aud
patriotic character that makes the
American farmer the bulwark of the
nations stability. Not the farmer
alone, but the whole life and en
vironment of the community of
which he is a part, the country mer
chant, the editor of the home paper,
the preacher, the village school
master, the country doctor, and all |
the men of many vocations who;
form the village community, bound 1
together dy ties of close neighborly
affection aud friendly intercourse, as
well as the feeling of mutual regard
boru of mutual independence iu their
lives, create a social circle, welded
together by closer personal bonds
than is possible among dwellers in
cities.
Isolate the farmer from his fellows
and he becomes a different man. Ex
perience has too often proved this to
be true to permit of controversy on I
that score. Isolation drives human
sympathy out of the soul of a man
and too often brings the farmers
wife to the Insane asylum. It was
this deadly isolation of the old farm
life that has driven so many of the
younger generation from the farm to
; the cities. Aud now at this late day
when these evils of isolation have
been so clearly demonstrated, should
' we deliberately promote it by de
' veloping a system of trade which
i tends to drive the country merchant
and the country village and town
out of existance, anil Intensify both
' evils, —country isolation and city
congestion?
#
75C PLR YEAR
BERNICE ITEMS.
I John Hassen aud K. L. Sweney
LaPorte were* calling on friends
this place last week.
Frank Magargle of sonestown
hunting up voters at this place n,t
week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Jackson were
Berwick visitors last week.
Julius Vogel of Sayre was calling
on Mildred friends last week.
Miss Winifred Yonkin of Cherry
was visiting Margaret Watson of
Mildred Saturday.
Misses Nora Connors and Alic
Cunningham wore Dushore visitors
Friday and Saturday.
The following young people of this
place enjoyed a sleigh ride to Cherry
Mills Wednesday: Misses Lorena
Ilelsman Gustive <>rlosky, Margaret
Watson, Winifred Voukin, Thomas
ltauison, George Spwuce, Robert
Watson and Thomas Walters.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hufus K.
Bent a l>! pound boy.
Mrs. Archibald Hay is under the
Doctors care for pneumonia.
The following are attending o<
this week: James Contier. John '
ney. Edward Holmes, Frank Mj
Daniel Schoonover aud Joseph
Ilelsman.
The meeting of the youn< r '
archeological association y
interesting. Miss Nora Connor
paper 011 the Mound builders, it \v
very interesting for those that undt
stood it.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McGuire has
returned from Ohio where they hav
been spending some time with thei
daughters Mrs. John Crawford am
Mrs. F. C. Brian, i'atrie has pror
ised to give us an article on his
for a future number of th
Item. Wait for it.
Death ol Mrs. Christiana Bohn.
Mrs. Christiana Bohn died at the
home of her daughter Mrs. Mary
Shoemaker, in Klmira, X. V., Feb.
11th, I MOM.
The subject of Hi is sketch was
born in Sachsen-Eisenach, Germany,
in 1813; came to this country in lv
">4, and was married the same year
to George V. Bohn who died in Kl
mira, November 11, 1907. She had
been a resident of Sullivan and Brail
ford counties for niauy years before
going to Klmira two years ago to
live with her children. She is sur
vived by four children: Mrs. Mary
Shoemaker, J. 11. Bohn, B.K.Bohn,
and Mrs. F. S. Prichard; twelve
grand children, ten great grand
children, one brother, one sister.
The funeral was held Friday, Feb.
14, the Rev. R. Vieweg of the First
German Kvangelical Church otticiat
ed. Interment was at Woodlawn
cemetery, Klmira.
There are seven holidays this
month —four Sundays, Lincoln and
Washington's birthdays, and election
day. Leap year lengthens the month
but one day.
of all the months of the year none
has been the victoiu of royal almau
ac makers as has February. Not
only is it cut down to twenty-eight
days three years out of every four,
but the mutilation in the year IHOO
and again in 1000, which failed to be
leap years, started the poor month
| limping away in these centuries with
I only twentv-eight days instead of
twenty-nine days.
February is one of the two months
January being the other, introduced
into the Roman calender by Xuma
Pompilus when he extended tht
year to twelve of these periods.
Its name arose from the practice of
a religious expiration purification
which took place at the beginning
of this month--February, meaning
to expiate, to purify.
Numa let fall on February the doom
which was unavoidable, for some
one of the months having three times
| out of lour a day less than even those
I which were to consist of thirty days.
This is, he so arranged it that it
'should have only twenty nine days
excepting in leap year, when by ti e
, intercalation of a day between the
S 2:{ and the 24, it was to have thirty
I
1 days.
i lint when Augustus Ceasar cho-.e
to add a thirty-first day to the months
|of the year, lie took it away from
February, which could least spare it.
| thus reducing it to twenty-eight days
| in all ordinary years.