VOL. XIII. NO 25 v Which Do You Prefer • ? x The average man earns about SI,I|OO a year. Hef I / works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a life V i time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or 112 J S6OO for a year of 100 days. He earns $24,000 in a c V life time The difference between $44,000 and $24-£ J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a^ practical education in dollars and cents The in~ Vcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. X C Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when ? 1 J the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V S ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make / I high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of\ / work you care to follow, this great educational In-T x stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. local Representative will show you how you can V r triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 / Hl 1S c. if*. a nsr, i C. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. ! HARDWARE.? No this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OIR, WOOB HEATERS ONE OP 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. Satiutsi 2o(e,l?ußfiors,Pa, The Siiopbell Dry Good Co., *"""7?* 313 Pine Street, ;1 WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Concerning Pall 3aits There is a great demand and sale this season lor niddium priced Tailored Suits. We are making a specialty of'thisjclass ot' Suits and can show uiore styles than you would expect to see. While we show a good line ot the medium price Suits we have some handsome gowns in the finer and more expensive grade*. THE NEW FURS K I D GLOVES Are here. Our showing is the best ''' course you will want new Kid in years—every piece was carelully sel- gloves togo w,t j l the new suit. We are ected from onl\ the best ot' skins. New showing an excellent line ol Km (iloves boas an<l fancy neck pieces with inufis to ' n a B plendid range ot colors. \\ e have match in all kinds of furs that will be the (iloves to match your new gown, stylish this season. 1 Iie >' ai " at the.riglit price. Wool Dress Goods AVave you given them their share of attention ? Is the Winter dress still un sought ? uur assortment of plain and tancy mixed fabrics is now at the hest. Of course you expect to find the prices right, so will say nothing about them. CHILDREN'S COATS WASH FLANNELS We have just received a new lot of Not the old-fashioned heavy weights, Children 8 Winter ( oats. I hey come in hut medium fine woven fabrics in new the plain red, lan etc. Some are neat designs and lancv colorings for house and plain, others are trimmed. wear and waists for 40c a \ard. Good Warm Blankets Kiiher white or colored, or fancy "plaids, in all i|iialities. You cannot go wrong in buying your Winter supply here it you want the best i|iialities your money will buy. Company. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 1908. mucitNS CALLED TO DUTY hMsylvanto to Rail; AM Stan tods of Tift and Sherman. CRISIS IN NATION'S HISTORY Party of Lincoln, Grant, McKinley and Roosevelt Marshalled For Battle With the Old-Time Enemy, Whose Candidate Represents a Shifty and Irresponsible Leadership and Whose Success Would Be a Menace to the American People. [Special Correspondence.] Philadelphia. Oct. 27. The final call to action has been lounded and Republicans throughout Pennsylvania are lined up to a man to meet the common enemy on Tuesday uext, when a successor to Theodore Roosevelt will be elected. From reports received from the most reliable sources, the great Amer ican people have decided to elect that &reat American. William Howard Taft, to preside over the destinies of the nation for the next four years, and from the most trustworthy information that can be gieaned from every county and borough of this commoHwenith. the grand old Keystone state will, as heretofore, be the banner Republican state in the Union. "Pennsylvania will do her full duty on Tuesday next." declared Colonel Wesley R. Andrews, chairman of the Republican state committee. "From every section of the state I have today received reports by tele graph and telephone which ieave no room to doubt that there will be a glorious victory recorded at the polls once more. "Pennsylvania will be true to Repub lican principles and policies and will speak in no uncertain tones through the ballot bos. "Never in my many years of experi ence have I witnessed a more earnest and enthusiastic interest in a presi dential campaign and In the success of the party nominees, frem the head to the tail of the Republican ticket The spirit of 1860 seems to be In the air, and Pennsylvania, as of yore is in the van of a great patriotic army. Great Interest* at Stake, "All thoughtful men realize that the nation is now faring a crisis in its history, in which there is more at stake for Pennsylvania than there ha 3 been at any other election within the last twenty-flve years. "The voters of this couirtrv are to day confronted with the promises and speculations of an irresponsible and shifty politician, who will promise any thing for the purpose of Influencing votes, no matter what he may really think of the Issues involved. He is not sincere in his professions and changes his position upon the slightest pre text in order that he may win popular favor in any direction or among any class of voters. "I have too much faith in the com mon sense of the American people, however, to for a moment believe that they would elevate a man of that character to a position of power and influence, where he could, through his cabinet appointments, revolutionize the financial system and banking methods to the serious disruption of the business of the country, and where he would be empowered to select men for the Wnlted States supreme bench who would pass upon his queer col lection of "isms.' which have been the wonder ol the entire world. American Voter* Wide Awake. "I believe that the property interest, great and small, would In his election to the presidency receive a setback from which they would not recover for years. He has never exhibited evi dence of even the most common-place statesmanship. His utterances are vagaries tad, to quote his own words, he is "even more radical than he was In 1896.' If this means anything. It means that he as an unsafe man to en trust with the commercial and busi ness interest of the United States. "I have no fear that the average American voter Is not alive to the sit uation." Chairman Andrews has been fairly overwhelmed with applications for speakers to address Republican rallies throughout Pennsylvania, and he has been particularly fortunate in being able to procure some of the most prom , inont of the spell-binders upon the list of the Republican national com mittee. Senator Penrose's position upon the executive committee of the Republican national committee, and I | the intimate relations be has with Chairman Hitchcock and other man agers or mo ran campaign, have b"<?n of Inestimable value in advancing the work of the campaign In this state. Mass meetings have been planned for every night until the night before election dn.v. and the attendance at these gatherings is but another indi cation of the enthusiasm that has been aroused for the Republican standard bearers. Knox On Bank Deposit Guarantee. Senator Philander Chase Knox, b' hit speech delivered in Philadelphia lut w««k. called forth commendation for his words Crona President ROOKO ▼elt, who Immediately wrote a letter supplementing the remarks of the. junior aeaator from this state. Senator Knox, in discussing the Bryanite scheme to guarantee bant; deposits, said among other things: "What are bank deposits? They are sums of money that the depositor lends to his banker and which his banker agrees to repay to him on de mand unless there is some contract for notice. There is not a particle of difference in law between a deposit with a banker and a loan to an indi vidual. Of course, it Is claimed that there is a difference, and I was se verely criticised in some sections for disclosing thiß view In the senate last winter, but this criticism was politics. Some editors and orators say the peo pies' deposits belong to i.he people be cause that sounds well. "The law. however, says they are loan* by the people to the bankers and create the relation of debtor and creditor between the bank and the depositor, and it is upon this theory that the affairs of insolvent banks are settled. No man can walk into a sus pended bank and lay his hand on a note and say. that is mine, T deposited it. All he can d® Is to present his claim for his deposit to the receiver and he will get his pro rata of the assets with other creditors of his class. If this Indisputable truth were more generally remembered, it might make people a little more rftreful in select ing Hie bank to which they loan their money. "Now It is proposed that this pri vate contract between banker A and depositor B shall be guaranteed by others who had no hand in making it. no voice in controlling the use of the money, and no responsibility for or check upon the dishonesty or incom petency which caused its loss. Question of Everybody's Debts. •'Upon what basis of sense or mor als, to say nothing of constitutionality, does such a proposition rest; and why If bankers are compelled by law to pay other hankers' debts should w< stop there and not require all other classes of business to guarantee the debts of the members of their class? "Is there anything particularly sa cred about the surplus money a man accumulates and deposits with his banker? It stands upon no higher ground than the claim of the mill worker who has given his labor, his all, not his surplus, to the mill owner who fails to pay him, and yet I hear of no suggestion to coir.p'-' the mill owners to guarantee each other's pay rolls. "Does it stand upon any higher ground than the debt duo to the widow and the orphan by an insolvent In surance company to which for years annual premiums have been paid pinched out of an all too slender in come by self-denial and sacrifice to provide against inevitable loss? Vet 1 have heard of no propot-ition to make Insurance companies guarantee each • other's policies." A Tribute to Penrose. In his peroration, Senator Knox said: "I conclude as I began by urging yen to fully consider the import ol what, you are about to do. The issues of this campaign present a great op portunity for the people of Pennsyl vania to give fresh proof of their pa triotism, Intelligence and loyalty to the great party of Lincoln. Grant. Mc- Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Loi-ally. let us Indorse the splendid adminis tration of Governor Stuart, return to congress the party's nominees and elect a legislature that will keep lr the senate my modest colleague who manfully Ignoring unjust criticism. ha= by his arduous, useful and devoted service to the nation and the stale, won for himself the hearty good-will admiration and respect of right think ing men." Byanitcs Get Set-Back. A keen disappointment to the Bry anltes, and especially to the Pennsyl vania Bryanites, was the publication in the official organ of the United Mine Workers of America, the Journal, of a fac-simile letter from John Mitchell, former president of the organization, in which he advises mi«ers to disre gard any statements made as to his at titude toward any candidate. Attempts had been made to create the impres sion that he was for Bryan. The intimate relations that have ex isted between President Roosevelt an<? Mr. Mitchell made it quite unlikelj that he wo:ild be found working against a cause In which Roosevelt Is ■o much interested. The efforts of Go ma ore to swing the inoor vote to bryau nave proven c dismal failure. The latest evidence that Goraper? cannot control the labor ~ote is given in a letter written by WiitV»«- D. Ryan, who is secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, in which he cornea out squarely in favoi of the election of Taft to the presi dency. Mr. Ryan in this letter among othei things says: Laboring Man to Decide. "In my opinion the great rank and file of the laboring people of this coun try are as capable of making their own selections as are the men in anf other walk of life, be they politicians business men. professional men o otherwise. "1 have had the honor of attending the conventions of the American Fed eration of Labor for several years, am. one of the principal features at eac' successful convention was to preven a certain element represented then from committing the American Feder ation of Labor to partisan politics. Ii is a well-known fact and almost seed less to rapeat that President Somperf has always led the fight on the floor ot the American Federation of Labor con ventions and conducted himself in r masterful manner to prevent that ele merit from committing the Federation of Labor to partisan politics. "I am of the opinion that this a! te»pt to influence the voters to sup port the Democratic ticket will tiave little or no effect, for the reason tha; the laboring men know how to votu. and will be guided by thair own con science In selecting the man for whor they will cast their vote in the comin,- election. I am also of the opinion tha' the majority of the people of thir country. Including the majority of the laboring men. believe that the best inerests of all will be conserved b;. the election of William H. Taft fo president, pnd in so far as I am per sonally concerned, will support his can didacy, and am broad-minded" enough to say that the laboring people witt whom I have been associated will care fatly weigh this question and cas their ballots on election day as their best judgment dictates without regard to the position that I or any otho: oflirial of 'abor unions may take I?' Mie premises." Svllivan Covnty School Attendance. First Month. Name of District, Knrolhnent, Average Attendance, per cent of -V ond'tnee: I>ushore Borough 120 10,S '.17.4 Laporte Borough 50 48 94.5 Forksville Borough 23 21 9-5.5 Fox Township 103 134 93.2 Elkland Township 224 195 92.fi Eagles Mere. Borough .*il 47 92-5 IFillsgrove Township 121 108 92.0 «"ol ley Township 4lt) 363 91.1 Davidson Township 250 305 91.0 Forks Township 134 111 91.0 Laporte Township 145 121 90.3 Cherry Township 545 405 88.6 Shrewsbury Twp. 88 73 88.5 2,426 2,101 92 llonnor Roll. School. Teacher. Attendance. 1 Forksville High, H. W. Brink, 100. 2 lhisliore Int. Viola Deegan. 99. Fox Twp. D. M. Soper, 99. 3 Dushore High, W. 1). Hinman, yx.B 4 King (Lapore) ("4race Gardner, 98.5 5 Klkland High. M. I!. Black, 98. Sciota, Stelia Scouton, 98. Thomas Run, Maude Tlunsinger, 98 6 Fulmer, Florence Whalen, 97.3 7 Emmons, Bessie Gallagher, 97. Dushore Primary, Mrs. Lorah, 97. 8 Center (Fox), Jennie Wilcox, 96.5 Kicketts Primary, Kdna Miller. 96 5 9 Center (Elkland) Emma Watu k. 96. 10 Lopez High, 11. R. Denning, 95.5 11 West Ilill, Jessie Warren, 95. 11 Dushore High, C. J. Griggs, 95. Laporte Primary, E. Jessie Wrede 95. 12 S.mcstown Primary.W.W.Hazen, 94.8 13 Kstella, Olive Plotts 94.5 Cherry Milis, Mary Litzelm in, 94.5 llillsgrove 11.. Prof. Armstrong, 94.5 14 Murray Grammar. Sadie Walsh, 94.1 15 l.emmer, Mary Douahoe, 94. Ricketts (train.. Myrtle Kintuer, 94. Sonestown High, Victor Bird, 94. Bach man. Mary White, 94. Laporte High, Carl 0. Bird, 94. ' 16 L. W. Run. Maude MeCarty, 93.8 The following following Schools aver aged over 90 per cent: Sugar Hill,Green Mi., I.opex tirain., Camabellsville. llills grove inam.. Sheets. Black Creek, Lopez Pri., Bernice <lrani,, E, Mere l'ri., N'ord mont, llillsgrove l'ri., Millview, Lopez Inter.. Pleasant Valley, Union, Ringer Ilill, Muncv Valley Gram . Bridge View, Sonestown High. L. Mere High, Sones town Gram.. North. Victor. Sugar Ridge, IKillacher, Lincoln Falls, Quitin. Barth, Tsnnery. Centennial, Kast, tilidewell, i Collev. Warbitrton 11 ill, Lake Run, Mur ray, Saltei'tield. .1 E Reese Killgore, Co. Supt. Elect Business Men. In order to secure good business methods in the uflice of County Com missioner the people should look to the election of business men. When a party nominates uwn of that character they ought to be elected re gardless of their political aftiiliations. The people have an important busi ness to be transacted, and they em ploy men to transact it lor them. 75C PLR YEAP If it were a private matter the em ployer would look well to the cap ability of the men to be selected, and the same should apply to the pub lic* business. s|The County Commissioners are the business agents of the taxpayers, and if incapable or inexperienced in affairs the employers (the taxpayers) art! the ones to suffer. F. W. Pealo and \V. H. Rogers are not only thoro ughly efficient as business men but they are experienced and familiar with the duty. Their election would not be an experiment, for they have already been measured and not found wanting. The friends of these candidates recognize their fitness, and are con fident of their election, but wo would urge upon them to not be over confident. Consistent work to the last hour should be kept in order to make assurance sure. Shalter KaKes Wedding. A very pretty wedding took place Wednesday evening < )et. -1, 1908. at l(il Hoover St. Sayre, when Gertrude jCI race Hakes, youngest daughter of It. S. Hakes of New Albany became the bride of Harry M. Shaffer. Miss Hakes who recently graduated from the Philadelphia School of Nurses came in on the evening train ac companied by her brother G. How ard Hakes who acted as best man and Miss ( 'loo Hakes as brides maid. They were met at the station by Mr. Shaffer and proceeded to the newly and beautifully furnished home 011 Hoover street where in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bodie and family, the Rev. Ira Hotoling performed the impressive ring cere mony. Immediately following the ceremony, Mr. Hakes rendered a violin solo. The Misses Beatrice and Lena Bodie served dainty refreshments. Mr. Shaffer is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shaffer of Laporte and holds a position with the Sayre Land Company. The Stales Great Wealth. Pennsylvania »<>w leads thfc I'nion in the .Vdl&tmt of pernoria'f~ property owned within its borders and returned as object to taxation to the board of Revenue Commsission ers. In spite of the business depres sion it increased almost $92,000,000 over the aggregate of 1907, which was the high water mark and the total now reaches the gigantic ligure of $1,">4,51:1,428,94. No other state comes near touching such a fig lire of property leturned, New York being fully $200,000,000 to the rear. The announcement of these figures, which were submitted to the Hoard of ltaveuue Commissioners by their clerk, Christian VV. Myers, caused astonishment, and Auditor General Young, in whose department the fig ures were compiled and under whose direction the statement was drawn up, stated that it broke all records. The gain of $1,910,1:11,00 made last year ran the total, but this year the amount added in the returns from tne counties touched $91,978, 745,54, a figure which is considered remarkable in view of the financial depression which affected all kinds of property. r Kailey Services- Ralley Day Services were held in the Sonestown INI. K. Church 011 Oct. 25th , during the reopening of the ' church at that place. A choir of well trained ehildrens' voices under the leadership of Mr. Walter lla/en furnished the music. Mr. Henry Boatman, the superin tendent, is an earnest, devoted, con scientious worker and the Sunday school at that place could scarce help being a success with such a man a leader, owing to the inclemency of the weather the attendance of the school was less than would have been, many of the members living out of town. The Primary Depart ment gave a fine set of quartered oak chairs, while a class of young women taught by .Mrs. Andrew Kd | gar, donated over nine dollars to j ward the church. 1 Sonestown M. E. Sunday school has a Cradle ltoll, Home Department, Normal class and a Men's Class. The i Men's class held their first annual banqu t Monday evening October 26th. Fiora Cook, Press. Supt.
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