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By The Sullivan Publishing Co
AttheOourtyHo&i. jf Sullivan Couuty.
jAPOETE, pa.
\V c. !\jaso>', Pivsideii.
THOS. J. INGHAM, Sec'y 4 Trout.
Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
•eoo id-olaaa mail matter.
fTic GR.ANGE I
Cnnd icfert by
5 J. W. {'ARROW, Cfcathtm. N. Y,
5 Prcx* Correspondent New York State
Grange
STATE LECTURERS' WORK.
r/oiief System In Vogue In Massachu
setts State Grange.
The Advantages of putting grange
work upon a thoroughly systematic
basis, po that exactly what is being
done can be positively known and defi
nitely recorded, is shown in Massa
chusetts, whore the state lecturer,
Charles M. Oardner of Westtield, has
so systematized the work done during
I lie iccture hour that at ttie end of the
year a complete total can be drawn off
exactly as the large business concern
dr." v .-i off its annual balance sheet for
the inspection of its stockholders.
This result is made possible by a
carefully prepared report system
whereby every subordinate and Fo
tuouu lecturer in the state sends to the
state lecturer once la three months a
<-omp!ete summary of all lecture hour
work in that grange, how many people
helped do it end how many persons
a: tended the meetings. At the end of
the year the entire work of each
givi'ago In the state is summarized anil
shov, ion a large chart that, is ex
hibited at the annual state meeting.
By this system tlie astounding fact
was brought out of last year's work
that i ver 40,000 persons had contribut
ed something to the lecture hour pro
, . nes in Massachusetts and that
thi total grange audience of the year
was -15,000 persons.
This system affords more than a
mere record of results. It provides the
means of comparison one year with an
other; it furnishes every three months
a correct idea of how each grange is
gen in* along, whether holding its own
or no; ; it also gives the local lecturer
added reason for urging his members
to <; their best in order that that
grange shall make the best possible
shc'.vh-S on the year's chart at the
state meeting. A record is also kept
of the leading topics discu&sed during
the year, and this also is presented to
the state meeting to show along what
lire: 3 grange thought is being especial
ly directed, while the distinct grange
efforts In behalf of town Improvement,
good itizeuship. better schools atul
other matter& of civic betterment are
carefully recorded.
Few people realize the power of the
grange orgmdzntlon or the i:;iiuence
that it is exerting along such a variety
of important lines every year Such
a system as that in vogue la Massa
chusetts, which puts into actu ;1 and
easily understood figures the total
work done in a state during a year,
aids greatly in bringing a realization
of the magnitude of the work and in
fluence of the Order not merely to those
not identified with It, but even to its
own members who do not always ap
preciate the scope and power of the
Order of which thej are a part.
GRANGE CO-OPERATION.
A Business Enterprise at
Vineland, N. J.
Vinelaud grange of New Jersey, In
connc tiou with the Farmers' Club
and I ruit Growers' union, formed an
i ■;u'-:. rion about six years ago under
the i ; 1 me of the Orange Co-operative
I'oeipiy. Nine directors were chosen
as a hoard of managers. Persons be
came members by buying stock at 95
per :re, but two-thirds of the mem
bers must be Patrons. In July. 11)04,
a grai v'e store was opened, which car
i <d a full line of groceries, feed, etc
'the co-operative plan provided for Hit
pay::, ut of 5 per cent on each stock
holder's interest in the concern at the
end of the year; also such a percent
age on all goods he had purchased as
Ids sales would allow after paying the
exyie'i' :-s. All sales must be for cash
The business amounts now to over
SoD.Oi: > a year. Last April the store
building was burned, and a new one
is now being erected. This will con
tain a grange hall with all modem
h. ; rovements. The membership of
tills 1! uirishiug grange is 8(U. It has
i i ■: .e one of the most popular so
cieties in Vineland.
Connecticut Patrons Htlped Celebrate.
L'li I atrojr; of Connecticut took a
pron itient part in the bridge celebra
tion t X-lartford. The grange features
o r the parade v ere a touring ear eon
Mining the officers lu full regalia ano
a fl.at representing colonial agricul
ture drawn by three yoke of oxen, fol
lowed by floats representing Flora,
Pomona and Ceres. A big automobile
farm truck loaded with farm machin
ery .>f the latest pattern was last in
the grange procession. The animals
drawing these various floats were
blai lceted and marked "Connecticut
Staie Grange P. of H."
Pushing the Work.
The work of organizing new granges
will be pushed with vigor after the
i-U v tiou is over. State Master Godfrey
112 Jew York state will put out one or
•«. i special organizing deputies In the
ilcf.l. State Master Pierce of Vermont
has" also secured the cervices of two
L.ganlzers for like work.
YELLOW JACKET SAYINGS.
Wanted—a lerider for Miss Demoe
raey. She's sp'u.Uing about and still
j a-liunting, but nothing iti sight yet. j
Call them what you please, but the
Democratic platforms all stand for free |
trade and free soup. You can't rub j
that out.
There are two sides to Democracy.
There is the pie side for the politicians j
at'd the soup side for the suckers, j
Where are you "atV"
The Democratic and Republican par
tics are both levelers, but they work
dr erently. Republicanism h vels things
Vp and Democracy levels them down.
Here's an appropriate plank for the
ne .1 Democratic national platform:
Resolved, that we are stuck up in the
blue mud of political pollution, and
we don't give a darn who knows it.
Lots of those who arc eternally wor
rying son;. laxly with platitudes about
th ■ "eternal principles" of the Demo
cratic party couldn't furnish offhanded
a list of these "eternal principles'' to
save their necks.
If what the Clevelandites and the
Bryanites are saying about each other
is true there is no Democratic party
these days, but the old thing has gone
to ceed and the seed have rotted. And
it almost looks like it.
What is hurting many Democrats
more than anything else is that they
cai't point to a Democratic administra
tion that ever gave the country such
prosperity as the Republicans are do
ing. No wonder they are worried.
Drlnwiirr State Granite.
Delaware is not a large state and Is
not strong in granges. ft is. however,
doing a g-od work and reports a total
membership of 1,507 in twenty-nlno j
subordinate granges. There has been I
an increase of 270 mcmberu in the past
year.
Administrators' Notice.
Notice is hereby given that Letters ol
Administration upon the estate of Fran
cis W. Gallagher, late ot Laporte Boro.,
Sullivan County, Penna.. deceased, l ave
been granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted to said estate are re
quested to make payment, and those
having claims or demands against the
same will make them known without de
lav to
MBS. THERESA GALLAGHER.
Laj orte, Penna., Administratrix.
January 4, 1909.
Liquor License Application.
Notice is hereby given that on the 12th
day of January, 1909, Theodore Shim m
sky of Lopez. Pa., filed an application
for it "Restaurant License'' in the proper
ty known as the "Steafather Restaurant"
in the village ol Lopez, Colley Twp. Sul
livan County, I'a., and that sai l applica
tion was advertised to be heard on the Sth
'laj. of Feb. 1009} that said Theoi ore
Shimansky died on the !i2d day of Jan.
190'.). That on Feb. 8, 19t 19, a substitut
ed application v.as filed by George K ap
oee, owner of'said premises, and that the
Court of Quarter .Sessions of Sulli-as
County liar fixed Monday, March 1, 1909
at 10o'clock a- m. a', the Court House in
' LaPorte as the time and place for the
hearing upon satd application.
ALBERT F. lIEESS, Clerk.
> Feb. 8, 1909.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that a special
ine> ting of the StocKholdei Bof the Eal es
Mere Company will be held at the prin
cipi l oHica ol the Company in Fa des
Mere Park, Sullivan County, l'i., on the
li>ti day o| February A. 1)., 1909 at eleven
o'clock A. M.to take action on the ap
proval or disapproval of the proposed in
cre»<eofth-; indebtedness ol .-aid C.an
pai from sixty-five thousand dollar-to
two hundred thousand dollars,
EDGAR R. KIESS. Secretary.
Eagles Mere Park, Pa., Dec. 8. 1908.
The Best place
to buy goods
Is olten asked by the piu
pent housewife.
Money saving advantages
are always being searched for
1 ose no time in making a
thorough examination ot* 1 lie
New Line of Merchandise
Now on
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
AH answered at
Verson Hull's
Large Store.
WftMßl
i Short TjSKs on , 1
Ad vert is ino
i ~ No. 19.
I People generally read advertisements more than they did a few years ago.
The rea >n is to be found in tha advertisements themselves.
Adv; rtiuers are more careful than they used to be. They make the advertise
ments mans readable. Some of them eveu become, in a
v.-ay, a department of the paper, and people look for them ■* «* 1
every day with as much lest and pleasure as they turn to C
auy other feature. jK*
This ij tiuo of many department stores all over rpfkdn .^gw
In many cities there is just one man who appre- (
ciater, tha value of such interest. (/
He b-eafcs away from the old set stylo. He tell 3 /\ y i MB/jKuhSgf' 112
something interesting in his space every ;
There a-e lots of interesting things in
business. Look over the miscellany page of >3r
a:iy paper—look at its local news columns, i j
aid its telegraph news, for that matter, £1 I
and you'll see that the majority of the i
items are more or less closely related to j0
some business fact. 'I
Dresr these facts up in a becoming a, merchant Wu,
garb of vords, and they will find readers. ftdttM."
eveD though they be in a "mere adver;isenient." Let the merchant come
down off hi* pedestal and talk in his
'jpfcy He needn't be flippant—far from it,
but let him not write as if he were ad-
S JK& dressing somebody afar off, and telling
/ifx's I*l* I'm 1 a^° nt at eve® a greater
tmi The newspaper goes right into its
jr reader's house—goes in and sits down
It is on the table when he eats, and
his hands while he is smeking after
' :j»C; A r—tithe meal. It reaches him when he is in
' fl'y an approachable condition,
jipffi.'Wmmimm''That's the time to tell him about
' i"' your business—clearly, plainly, conviac
-1 inglv—as one man talks to another.
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( ** Tki r*r* rifhi into its rtmdm*9 .. ...
W **d tit* «Mi km*." Chart- AsuUm Bates, A
J. M. WIHTON,
; MUNCY VALLEY, PA. j
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Never Before Received
50 and 75 so many praises and heard so
Boys' Knee many flattering remarks as we
Pants weight h ave had this Season.
Snprial Were you one ol the vast thrr nus thnt lp«k
* crowded our store during the past \mh k? >
Did you pet your share of the articles fci
advertised? II not you should
conn HER ENOd) Hjif |
We are making new friends last: selling more
; goods than ever before KX
But we still want more friends, want to sell our stock taster, ye
we 'vre spurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how >
, we can do it. To this we can answer, tnat no oth ir store in ihi
section; has the wholesale buying facilities enjoved by this est;ib
(ishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower. L=i:L.'
Sweater Coats Specials Men's C'orduroy Pants Men's Sli ii tS
Z ~ R . ~ From i.i 9to 2.50 Mcil .„Negiigee-si,ins 39c 1
Men's'or Bovs Sweater Coats ..ib , .
Coat* .7.V CHILDREN'S SUITS Mens Wor k M.u,- d9c
Mens nventer coats 125 FrOUl QQC to and %50 !, °j ...'"" H "'J!
I , PA ' 1 J Kic-iiv Manuel overamrtt# l oU
Mens swei-ler oontA l.*'U . -••«-*/-m t^r^nr-
Mens swcatercoate 2.00 MEN Si ROLjSEKS
SJ.TiT'Vni "ck~ sweaters 2') aiul 4fie FrOfflOQC tO $4 75 • Men's extra heavy] cotton
' Mens carSiganljackets 1.25 n/iCM-c A\/CDAI I C mixed socks 08c
Underwear From 39c to
75'- Boys and <ifirls Stockings 09c
; _ MEN'S ODD COATS noße ° ,, c
• Boys Shirts orJDrawers inn Ladies' Facinators l«.»c
, ribbed or fleeced 20 and 26c All Prices All PIICCS _
' Men's ribbed-underwear , Duch and Cordliroy 85c to 22S bi S li,ie t ,lie " 112 lllm^'" e "
► ~ , o ft% . rubbers—Lambertvtlle and™ Ball
ill colore o9cj
! Men's fleeced lined underwear ; Barul ' A >.tg sav.ng lor you- _
colorß OTT 112 \ Q {Men's Caps 10c.
Boys Corduroy otlvylVO iwc ap9 io c
pQfjtS. Also big line of Shoes at sav- Lat,ie »' FURS at £ reat reduction.
Hoys'cord'iroy knee pants, lined, pTICCS. for
.i„.. i„.. ITV „_ „ .
* . « . . *1 , ti. , _ tl "v, .✓ _ IkUMvS all sizes from 1.50 up.
worth regular <sc Special 39c, Men S Working ShOCS 1.65
Men's Suits Dougbs Shoes at reduccii Ladies' Sweaters 5
Men's Suits 4.65 q. • . <> 11 i _ i Ladies' Sweaters all colors 99c
i Men's Suits 0,75 Dig Line 01 IVIGn Sand Ladles' Waists, blue, black. 89c
m™s!T 9.r,5 iSi Children's Overcoats at re- . .. . r t
Mens Suits 11.75 14 50 HnrpH nrirpQ Lduico
I Mens Suits 15.50 16 25 UUtCU pi 11/UO. j Indies' Coats from 3.50 to 12.00
So Come to J. M. Wighton's to satisfy your wants. Remernbe
aale only lasts!this month. Railroad fare from Laporte nd
o.* drnont for purchase of sio*oo or over,
THE \ft.' 2 '
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