VOL. XII. NO 48. <524,000—544,000 <j > 1 Which Do You Prefer • r \ The average man earns about si, ico a year. / works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a life \ time. The avenue day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / Ss6oo for a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a I life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- £ 000 is $20,000. This is Ihe minimum value of a p V practical education in dollars and cents The in-C self-respect cannot be measured in money. J N Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when I V the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make / \ high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of X J worK you care to follow, this great educational ln-Q \ stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at A / a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you canX 112 triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 V He is L ? c. :f\ BiRTEnsnN" a osr, > C C. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEA T ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing Goods, Toois of Every Description, Gunsand 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 flue Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel The Shopbell Dry Good Coi, s 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Ladies' Pine Suits Are being shown in so many styles that whatever yoUr taste may be is sure to be gratified here. The most cor rect fashion thoughts in gowns will be found here. We are showing a larger collection of Ladies' Suits than ever before. Many of the styles are exclusive. Then you'll find prices reasonable. WHITE GOODS KNIT SUMMER FOR DRESSES. UNDERWEAR. AYe l.ayn a beautiful line of dainty The stock offerß a wiJe c , loioe ol ti wlntf fabric* that are the most approved ,«r , . material lor Summer Dresses We're lor Men, Women and Children., confident that we i>an plean you in the Ladies Ribbed Knit Vest?, e.\tra sood ina'ter of fabrics an well a.« prices from qualities, at 10e to 50c. 'I hT'.M'II I AWNS ladies' Lisle and Silk Vests, long or . '. ' .... , .short sleeves, at 50c to SI.OO 1K Ks I.A N LAWNS. ~ ... . INJ)i\ 1 INON Men s Ualbriggan Shirts and Drawers. ri.AIN SWISS ' all si/.ee and good vaiue, for 26c to 50c, J>« »'l"rKl> SWrSS Misses' and Children's Knit <iause SILK MULL. I'nderwear in all <|ualnies and six A Showing of New Lines The showing includes every conceivable pattern in dainty Table Damask, Napkins. Linen Towels v illi pretty borders and knotted fringes, sturdy huck-a-buuk woven for lon«r service. Sheer Linens for waist- and dresses ami all the other sort* that are in demand, and we sell you better value lor the price than vou'll find else where STRIPED SUITINGS LACE NETS We have just received several pieces For Waists, we have many different nt new striped suitings, that are very designs in white, cream and ecru nt low choice. prices. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1908. Trial List, May, Term 1908., Return day, May ]8,1908, at 2 o'clock,p.m I J. W. Bates vs E. (i. Trexier, 11. C. Trexier, and.l. M. Turrell; trading aw the Trexier <V Turrell Lumber Co. Trespass. No. 40, Sept. T. 1906. I'iea, not guilty. Scouten. 15 rad ley | Thomson, Mullen 2. Floyd Ackley, by bin father and next friend Rodolph Ackley and Rodolph B. Ackley vs The Lehigh Valley Rail road company No. 10. May term, 1907. Trespass. Plea, not guilty, Hill. | Thomson. 3 Walter .1. Khrman and Oustave Stern. Co-Partners, trading as Khrman A Stern vs Ellen A. Carroll. Executrix of the. last will and testament of John W. Carroll, deceased. Trespass. Plea, —Not Guilty. II ill. | Thomson. 4 llattie N. Schoonover vs Delia Brown. No. 23, September term 1907. Trespass—Plea, not guilty Scouten. | Bradley. 5 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the use ot Mina .1. Phillips, wife of A. G. Phillips vs Frank VV, Buck, Sherittof the County ot Sullivan, and the United States Fidelity andCuarant.v Company of Raltimore, Maryland, Surety. No 43, September Term, 1907. i Summons in debt founded on official' bond j Pleas,—Non Assumpsit, Performance, , with leave to give special matter etc. I Not Guilty, Perlormance, with leave to I srive special matter in evidence. T.J.lngham. | Bradley. 0 Frank I.tisch, who survived 1.. M. Barth, which said 1.. M. Barth, in his lifetime, and said Frank Lutch were co partners, trading and doing business under the tirni name of the Onshore Lumber Co. vs Rush J.Thomson, Frank l.usch. Harry N. Bigger and William F. Randall, Executors ot the last will and testament of L. M. Barth, deceased, No. 30 December Term, 1907, Assumpsit. Plea, —Non Assumpsit, Payment, with leave etc. and set ofl. Bradley j Thomson. Mullen. 7 A." J. Bradley, Administrator and Kscheator of the estate ot' Celia Mary Kelley. plaintiff. vs-I. B. Comber, itidi vidually and as Attorney-in-Fact for Mrs. Nora ••tiinn and Elizabeth Kelley, md S. I'.. Kilenberger and John 11. Veager, ■lames Mansell and Mrs. Nora and Miss Kli/abeth Kelley. defendants. No. 34 May Term, 1908. Framed Issue, Dunham. | Maxwell ALBERT F. IIKKSS, Proth. Proth. office. Laporte I'a., April 0. 190S QHERIFF'S SALE. l>y virtue of a. writ of YendiliJnt Ex ponas (Real Estate) issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and to ir.e directed and delivered, there will be exposed to public sale at the Court House in the Borough of l.aporte, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, on SATURDAY, APRIL IS. 1908, ut eleven o'clock a. in., the following de scribed real estate situate partly in the Township ot t'berry, County ot Sullivan, Stale ol Pennsylvania and partly in the Township of Albany, County of Bradford, Pennsylvania, upon which an inqu isition has been held and a jury ol in ipiest has returned that the part lying in Sullivan County can not be sold sepa rate and apart from the part lying in Bradford County, without prejudice to or spoiling the whole: which said inquisition and return hav e been approved by the Court of Common Pleas ofnullivan Coun ty, and the aforesaid entire piece or par cel of land is bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a beech in line ot lands ol Isaac W. Morris, being a corner of hinds granted or intended to be granted to John Harney thence east by the same 152 perches to a post, another corner ol said lands: thence south, degrees west, 02 perches to a stone corner of lands ot Patrick Martin's heirs, now occupied by John W. Farrell: ihence by the said lands west, 152 perches to a beech in the line of the aforesaid lands of Isaac W. Morris; thence by the same north, 29 1-2 degrees eaat, 02 perches to the place of beginning. CON PAINING about fifty eight acres and one hundred forty-four perches of land, be the same more or less: and being the same land sold by Thomas Mahaltev, late Sherifl ofSullivan County, to Mary Harney, by deed acknowledged in open Court, March 1, 1893 and entered in Sheriff's and Treasurer's Deed Book, at Laporte. Pennsylvania, March 1, 1893 in Heed Book No. 2, page 51 ">. The part in Cherry Township in Sull ivan County, Pennsylvania, is bounded on the east or south easterly side, by the public roadjon the southerly side bv lands no\y in possession ol John W. Farrell; on the westerly side by lands of Bryan Bennett; on the northerly side by land's of John Harney's heirs and the county line between Sullivan and Bradford Counties, containing about forty-eight acres. The part in Albany Township, Brad lord County is bounded on one side by lands belonging to the heirs of John Har ney. on another side by the public road; «n<i on t : .c other side by the county line between tin Counties of Bradford and Sulli'- <tn, containing about teu acres of land The above entire tract of-about fifty : tight acres, is all improvt d and in u good state of cultivation, well watered and a valuable farm property. Seized, taken into excution n-d to be sold as the property ot Mary ll.trncy and Joseph P. Harney, terre tenant, surviv ing defendant at the suit of John Utz, to the use of Mary K. Hill, now to the use of John W, McMahon. JI'DSON BROWN, Sherifl of Sullivan County. Sheriff's office. Laporte, I'a., March 21, 1908. i Results of Sullivan County Primary J Eleclion. REPUBLICAN Delegates to the National Con vention, Hon. Fred A. Goodcharles and James A. Scarlet. Alternate delegates, E. G. Sylvara and George Rolirback. Delegates to the State Con vention, M. W. Botsford. Representative to the general as sembly, Lewis B. Zauer. County Commissioners, Frank MeCarty ami Fred Peale. Congressman, E. W. Samuels. County Treasurer, William A. Gumble. Auditors, Harry A. Bbtsford, and Eldaah A. Wilcox. Democrats Delegrtes to the National Con vention. Matthias Conninger, C. B. Eut. Alternate, Thomas C. Vin cent. Delegate to the State Conventin. liarvey R. Taylor. Representative to the General Assembly, Dennis Corcoran. County Commissioners, F. M. Crossley, Valentine Rolie. Congressman, John G. McHenry. County Treasurer, Edward L. Sweeney. Prohibition ticket. Representa tive—Jonathan H. Rogers of Lin koln Falls. Treasurer—Henry E. Fawcett of Elk land. Commissioners—John Cook and C. N. Molneux of Forks. Auditors— W. M. Calkins of Forksvillfc aud E. J. Small of Dav idson. A. L. Needier of Laqnin, wai* ar rested in that place by Constable Don lin ami four deputies Tuesday, on complaint of Mrs. Needier, who ac cused the husband «>t threatening to kill her and the two children. Con stable Hollou was communicated with ami went to Laquin on the afternoon train returning in the evening with the prisoner and plac ing him in the couuty jail to await the hearing before .Squire Meredith Thursday morning. Needier came to Laquin from Indiana about a year ago. He has been a hard worker, earning good wages, but it is alleged a fondness for diluted alcohol and a taste for snuff at times robs him of his sense of reasoning, thus this trouble. Reporter Journal. Last Wednesday night in a hut in the great wilderness near La quin, Louiga Blondi, an Italian woodsman was shot to death by a revolver in the hands of a relative —Salvatora Blondi. The shooting was the climax of a quarrel which started a week previous to the tra gedy. In the scuttle the man who did the shooting had a bullet from his reviver driven into his stomach, but it is thought that he will re cover faom the wound. Louiga Blondi was shot iu the head and died instantly. Another relative was shot iu the arm ami is now in the Williainsport hospital. If the murderer recovers from the bullet wound of his own revolver, he stands a good chance to furnish another hanging bee for Bradford county. To the School.Direetors of Sullivan county. Gentlemen: In pursuance of the forty-third section of the act of May, 1851, you are hereby notified to meet in convention, at th« court house, in Laporte, Pa,, at 2o'clock, P. MM on the first Tuesday iu May, A. D. 1908, being the fifth day of the month, and select viva voce, by a majority of the whole number of directors present, one person of literary and scientific acquirements, and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, as county superin tendent for the three suoceediug years; and certify the result to the State Superintendent, at Harrisburg, as required by the thirty-ninth and fortieth sections of said act. J. E. Reese Killgore, C<f! Supt. of Sullivan County. I Washington, April (Special)—The importance of the control of the Re publican National committee in the presidential canvass becomes more apparent as the light for the nomi nation proceeds. The friends of Secretary Tuft have been using all available forces in the south to secure delegates for the Secretary of War and in doing this tliey have aroused the oposltion of many people who do not countenance those tactics. The result is that practically every south ern state will send two contesting delegations to the Chicago con vention and which of them will be seated in making up the temporary roll depends entirely upon the lean ing of the national committee At least 200 delegates will be repre sented in these contests. If the Taft people control the committee it is safe to assume that Taft delegates will be seated in all cases where there are contests. Delegates so seat ed will doubtless retain their seats after the convention is organized. If the anti-Taft forces control the committee then it is equally safe to assume that anli- Taft delegates will be seated. At present both sides claim con trol of the committee' Both have checked up the members and believe* that they are iu the majority, but it will he some time before an accurate estimate can be made. That the Taft managers are quite confident that they will have a majority is shown by the fact that wherever the antis secure control of a convention, raft men hold a rump convention and elect a contesting delegation. But it. has been demonstrated that Knox, Fairbanks, Cannon, and Hughes, all have friends iu the south and that each will get some delegates in that section, while For aker is expected to have wherever the colored Republicans are permit tod to voice their preference. There were few surprises in the result of Saturday's primaries. The people of the State appear to have interested themselves very general ly. and the nominations made must be accepted as the choice of each party. The fact that the ballot in all dis [ striets was a large one has has made it difficult to get early returns in mauy instances; iu some the details will not be complete for a day or two yet. Counting the returns is more difficult than similar work at the general election for the reason that ihere are no ballots marked for straight tickets in a party square. lia -h name has to be marked separately, and as there were more ■a nes on the ballot than appear on the general election ballot the task .ias some difficulties. I It was the severest test of the ->yste u that could he applied. It is only in a presidential year that such a large number of candidates are to be voted for. Not withstanding this fact no complaints are heard from any where but Pittsburgh, where it is alleged some citizens were, un able to cast their ballots for want of time. It is possible that the time taken by some voters iu marking their ballots was so great as to en croach upon the time of others, but the conditions in Pittsburg were ex ceptional at this election, and cannot be made applicable to tbe remainder of the state or any part of it. . In those districts where there were contests—and as a matter of fact con tests were quite general—the vote cast has been relatively large. This is always desirable. It is better for party conditions, and more satis factory both to the winning and IJS iug candidates. Tbe larger the vote the more certain is tbe nomination to represent the dominant sentiment of the party, and it assures the candi date a better |>opular support at a general election. No one can object to the new sys tem when elections are faitly con ducted, and no one does object. It has been accepted by politicians and Iteople as an improvement on old methods, which were not uniform and often unfair. It received a test on Satnr lay whose success will do much to assure the permauency of the system.—Phila. Press. 75C PLR YEAP BERNICE ITEMS. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Regan a son. Mrs. Ilobert MeGee and daughter of Sayre were spending a few days with her mother Mrs. Timothy Ryan of Mildred, Klection at this place was very quiet. The fight was with the Democrats and there were more can didates than offices and on that ac count the defeated candidates feel sore. The only fight that the Re publicans had was for standing committee-men, James Spence, and Barclay Duggen received seventeen votes a piece. Edward Manix who has been staying at James J. Connors returned to his home in Philadelphia Satur day. Miss Nora Connors is all smiles and they are not Easter ones. She wants to be called Aunt Nora. Frank Crossley of Laporte was cal ing on friends at this place last week and by the vote he received he did not have many to look for. On Saturday evening April 11, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Shaifer entertain ed several youug people in honor of the thirteenth birthday of their daughter Myrtle. Those present were Misses Mina Morter, Martha Allen, Mattie Allen, Cathern Qillighan, Lucy Champion, Mena and Gene veve Ptiaum, Pearl Brown, Lena Brown, Anna Helsman, Mary Hotfa, Rachel McMahon, Agnes Hay, -Francis Dempsy, Messrs Leone Pflum, Leo Brown, Glen Strope, Edward Brogan, John Osier, En man Bishop, Sylvester Dempsy, Lester Bailey, Fred Gore, Willie Wheatley, James Green, Frank and Charles Hellsman and George Loney. HEMLOCK GROVE ITEMS. There will be services at the church next Sunday as follows: Sun day school at 2o'clouk, preaching services at at P. M. All are invited to attend. The school closed at this place on Friday April 4. A large number of visitors were entertained at the after noon session with recitations and singing. Just before being dismiss ed the teacher was presented with a beautiful watch fob, which he high ly appreciated as a gift by the pupils of the eighth grade. A strange sight met the eyes of a great many people on monday when two boys passed through this place with an ox hitched to a cart. The animal was harnessed like a lio.se and seemed to know just what to do. Harry Shoemaker of Beaver lake and Miss Eva Burkholder of New Berry Formerly of this place, were married at the Luthern church at that place on Wednesday evening. Peter Swank, Thomas Phillips, Harvey Reese, George Phillips, William Bay and John Temple were Muncy Valley callers on Satur day. The farmers have, been plowirtg v v for more than a week, it is possible that by the last of this week many will have planted potatoes. W. H. Lawrenson delivered a fine load of hay to Eagles Mere one day last week. Edna Bay of Strawbridge spent Sunday, as the guost of her father William Bay at this place. 31. J. Phillips has returned from an extended business trip to Phila delphia and Williamsport. Quite a number of voters attended the primary election at Sonestown on Saturday. Mrs. G. C. Swank and son Le Roy and Melvin Bay of North Mountain spent Sunday visiting friends at this place. Earnest Temple of Ralston is spending sometime visiting his par ents here. Heleu Phillips was the guest of Caroline Bay for a short time Sun day afternoon. Herman Flick, who has been visit ing friends in Center County, has re turned home. Francis Allen moved his family in the house recently vacated by Thom as Flick, the later having purchased a farm near Beaver lake. Percy Bay has returned home after teaching a successful term of school at Trout Run Lycoming County.
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