REPUBLICAN HEWS ITEM. WING, Editor. Published Every Thursday Afternoon By Tbe Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Seat of Sullivan County. X.APOBTID. PA. W #. MASON, i'restiden. THOS. J. INGHAM, Bec'y £ Tif US. Entered at the Poet Office at Lajtorte, as ssoonii-class mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Judge ot the Superior Court W. I). PORTER, of Alleglieiiey. Electors at Large, MORRIS 1.. CUmiIER, Philadelphia B. F. JONES, Pittsburg. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. County Treasurer, VV. A. GUMBLE. Member of Assembly, L. ft. ZANER. tjSouuty Commissioners, F. Vf. PEALE and W. H. ROGERS. During the winter by simple experi ments that may be performed in any schoolroom the students learu of tbo kind.j of soil, the water holding power of soils and means of altering such power, couservation of water and plant physiology. As spring approaches experiments in germination seed testing and seed pluntlug follow, as well as planning home gardens, gardens around school buildings and vacation gardens. At this season of the year, too, the work broadens. It leaves the confines of the normal schools anil takes in all of the public schools In the city. Arrange ments are made with oue of the local seedsmen to sell penny packages of seed to the children for home planting. Many of the older teachers are not trained, so to aid them the board of education, through one of the normal schools, issues sheets of simple in structions to aid the children to cor rectly plan, plant and care for tho home garden. They are encouraged to cure for the garden during the sum met und to bring something they have rais ed wholly by themselves to the flower show in the fall. It may be a growing plant, a bunch of flowers or u bottle of seed. Flower day is an established feature Of Washington schools. On the 2Dtli of last September every school iu the District of Columbia Invited the public to its exhibit. All buildings were open until dark, and where the buildings were lighted they were open through out the evening. The througs of peo ple who visited the schools gave suf ficient proof of the appreciation of the public for the movement. Civic improvement Is thus encouraged and also by school ground improve ment. Three years ago there was but one garden connected with schools in the District. Last year 120 of the 121 graded schools made an effort to Im prove their surroundings. The teach ers are urged to relate whatever is done outdoors to the subjects taught In the schoolrooms. Skillful teachers relate geography, arithmetic, spelling, composition, literature, drawing and design to the garden. The latest encouragement given by the department has been the offer to the board of education of more than an acre of lawn to be used for chil dren's gardens. The board has accept ed the offer and will put the tirst six grades of a school in the vicinity to work upon it. Each school will spend an afternoon a week iu the garden un der th" regular grade teacher, who will be instructed from the normal school. She will be expected to relate the work closely to the regular schoolroom work. The time spent in the garden will lie a part of school time and not after hours, as has been so frequently done before, thus making an added burden on the teacher. Each child will hav« a plot entirely his own, varying in size according to his ability. Beside these individual plots there will be plots teu feet square of grains, forage crops and Important local product? for observa tion purposes. The garden will be und-r the imme diate care of the normal school duriug vacation and will be considered us a vacation school for the southwest sec tion of the city, thus fortunately allow ing the board of education lo grant a petition tYom the parents of that sec tion requesting such an opportunity for their children during the summer. fJTSAN B. LIFE. Washington, I). C. The Berlin (S. Y.) grange recently held a grange fair, at which the net proceeds were about SOOO. Grange fairs are getting to be popular und profitable. Farmer, if there Is uo grange in your town, it is your duty to sfee that thera (e one orsanlzod. Anothj- Governor Granger. Governor I{. S. Woodruff took the highest degree in the Older of Patrons uf Husbandry at Hartford ou Nov. 15. In a speech at a public session lie said: In thirty-five years since the power of the grange began vatled upon to accept. H. J. PATTERSON. The New Matter of the Maryland ! State Grange. One of the new men who will occupy i a seat In the next national grange | meeting is 11. J. Patterson of College Park, Md., master of the Maryland state grange. He succeeds the \ late J. B. Ager IPj \ of Hyattsville, \ Md., who was rtS taken ill soou \ after the na tional grange A- meeting at Den -1 / ver, Colo., last w/v year and from \\ tilat "' lless did 112 y _i\ not recover. I N The new mas >P /tfW 10 '' has beeu a \ / member of the Order for fifteen years and for ii. j. r.vTTKKSo.v. thirteen years was lecturer of his home grange and for two years its master. He has beeu secretary of the executive committee of the state grange for six years. He is an euthu slustlc worker, and under liis leader ship the grange of Maryland will er< ter upon a new epoch of prosperity and usefulness. "SELLING TOGETHER." A Practical Plan Wanted For Co operative Selling as Well as Buying. National Master Bachelder says,"The co-operative selling of farm products has a legitimate field In grange worlj and should be given more attention." Who will devise a plan that will be practical'! The fact Is there Is no more Important problem facing the grange today than this one of success fully "selling together." This sort of co-operation is successfully carried on only in u few isolated Instances In the grange. It may well look for sugges tions from other organizations, as. for instance, the Neosho (Mo.) Fruit Grow ers' association, the Sparta (Wis.) Fruit Growers' association, the Hood Itiver (Ore.) Apple Growers' union, the Coun cil Bluffs (la.) Grape Growers' associa tion, the Fennville (Mich.) Fruit Ship j pers' association, the United States Wheat Growers' association. Spokane, j Wash., and the various fruit growers' I associations in California. i Farmers Urged to Organize. ! Secretary of State John S. Whaleu j made a brief address on grange day ;of the New York state fair. He ear i nestly urged an organization of the ; grange in every farming community : and believes that the state grange ! should bear the same relation to the farmer that the labor union does to ! men who work in shop, factory or : mine. Farmers must co-operate for mutual benefit, and he believes that the farmer should be allowed to set a ! fair price ou products us much as the I city man does ou his labor. He also | believes that the state should provide n rural school educational system for : the young people who are Interested in ; agriculture. An Editorial Suggestion. The Boston Transcript, speaking of improved state roads, says that "the granges might accomplish more if they | bombarded congress less and gave greater attention to interesting state governments." Something in that sug gestion worthy somebody's consldera ; tion. Never has there been so much grange news printed or grange miscellany pub . Ilshed as now, and in the front rank stand the newßpupers of New York, , Maine and New Hampshire. The national grange executive com mittee and other prominent grange officials will attend the national con ference on trusts und corporations at Chicago ou Oct 22-20. i ... . J. W. D4&BQW. Cultivate-the Habit of buying reputable goods from a reputabe concern. We are agents for W. L. DOUGLASS SHOES fro, a - W "Hk Wood School Shoes § jljrorboys has no equal. farmes are, we tind, always satisfactory. A—— A GOOD assortment jjh" £\®\ of CHILDRENS' and! I' LADIES' Heavy Shoe Clothing Made to Order All have the right appearance and guaranteed otsd in both material and workmanship and price mte. We also manufacture Feed, the Flag Brand. It is not cheap, Imt good. Is correctly made. Ask your dealer for it]or write us for prices. NORDMONT SUPPLY Co. General Merchants, p £ontltcam Till :E>A.. U > m The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages arealways being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on j^BITIONI ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. Ali answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. MUaeroTOt* Jfe. rjdvcintaorey This is the T*ime This is the Place When you are looking for some good Farm Implements it wili be to your Advantage to call on m'e and examine my line consisting of I>EKRIN< 1 BINDERS. MOWEItS, HI2APKRS anil HAV RAKES. Also tlie EMPIRE GRAIN DRTLLS, LEROY PL' t\VS. HARROWS A N'T) CULTIVATORS. Blacksmithing and General Repair Work given prompt attention and executed with guaranteed satisfaction. J. M. Dempsey, CHERRY MILLS, PA. Davidson Twp. Statement. W. E. Giltman. Treasurer, lu account with Dii vlilson Township School District for the year ending June Ist, 1908. Township High School 300 00 statu appropriation 176tJ 16 From collet tor, taxes 3185 82 From loans since last report SSOO 00 From county treasurer 1475 00 lJy hauling "pupils 120 00 Building and furnishing houses 4168 00 Renting. repairs etc 31 30 Teachers' wages 418000 " attending institute 126 00 Schoool text-books 819 86 School supplies other than books 194 22 Fuel and contingencies 255 02 Treasurer's commission 197 78 salary of secretary 80 00 l)cl>t and interest paid "2*BBB Other expenses ffl 92 10176 98 10086 93 Balance on hand 90 05 A Tut. due District, all sources 875 00 Total resources 96.J 05 Amt. due on unsettled hills 1216 3(1 Amount borrowed 8600 00 Total liabilities. 4746 36 Liabilities In excess of resources 3781 81 Witness our hands this Ist day of June, 1908. HUHT OLSON'. President. FRANK MAIiARCEL. 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