Repiibiiean News hem. VOL. XIII. NO 40 544,000 ) C Which Do You Prefer • ? \ The average man earns about si, 100 a year. He/' r works 4® years and earns a total of i>44,00 in a \ time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / J S6OO tor a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a c \ life time The ditference between $44,000 and *24- r J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value o( a? v. practical education in dollars and cents The in )creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J C Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when J ✓ the International Correspondence Schools, ot Scran- V 1 ton Pa can give you an education that will make / I high salaried man ot you ? No matter what line of \ J work you care to follow, this great educational In-Q x stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can V /'tripleyour earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 I LIO jc i ? c. F. ZBIR/EnSTINT A Ist, > O. I. s. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. COLE ' * HARDWARE j' No Place ESSTthls Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, CJO-A-X. OK- WOOD HEATERS; ONP OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. Hobm fwnisKiug Goods, Tools of Every GMCription, Guns and Ammunition Bftrgoi&s that bring the buyer back. Ctest the truth of our talk. k lot of second hand afcoves and ranges for sale cheap. W# soil you in ato anything from a fine Jewel Base JBurnw to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel <3ofe,lsusfiore,Fa The Shop bell Dry Good Co., "' *■ 313 Pine Street, / WILL lAMSPORT, PA. Nev anct Goobs The new weaves Colors and designs are the hand somest we have shown for years. We will be pleased to show them to you whether you are ready to purchase or not. We show a beautiful line ol -tlie new There is a fine assortment ol pla'n an Satin Cloth aud self colored stripe—just mixed suitings—All wool batiste in the what you want for coat suits. new shades; also 42 inch all woul serge in 75c to #1.50 a yard. all colors, for 50 cents. Today We Call Yonr Attention to a Splendid line of Dress Silks and Foulards. It's the beet collection we have ever shown, many of them are exclusive and a number of the designs here are only a dress pattern of a ki»d. Every new shade is represented in stripes or figures. Come and see them while the assortment is complete. Foulards are 23 inches to 27 inches wide. 75c to 1.00 a Yard. We ehow a handsome lot of 19 inch, We have most, anything you could the newest shades that are wanted ibis want in the better c|iialnies of fancy veason, tor taffeta for waists or dresses, prices from 50 cents. 75c to $1.35. and Cotton Wash Goods. The range of this class of wash fabrics has never been equalled 111 ct\ le, color or quality, in tact many of them look like all silk. Plain colored silk mulls in all the new Fancy figuied wash foulards in ill the dark and evening shades, just the fabric new designs. They look a.- dressy as the tor an expensive evening dress. Price a |] B jik foulards and cost only a yard. 39c a yard. Lace Nets. For waists in white cream, ecru and colors to match ma»y shades of the new dress goods; also all kinds Of staple and fancy dress trimmings. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25,1909. CAPITOL PARK TO BE ENLARGED I State House Will Be Relieved i of Unsightly Surroundings. GOVERNOR OBTAINS FACTS; I | Long Denied Public Improvement to Be Accomplished at Last. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 18. —The Fox bill for the extension of Capitol park has been favorably reported by unani mous vote of the senate committee on j public- grounds and buildings. The bill is certain to pass the senate, prob- ! ably without a dissenting vote. While I there may be some opposition in the house this has not yet asserted itself in any way and there is every reason to believe that a handsome majority awaits the bill there. Governor Stuart is expected to sign it in view of the overwhelming sentiment in the legisla ture and throughout the state in favor i of this much needed improvement. The desirability of extending the Capitol park, so as to give the mag- : nificent new state house an adequate setting, has never been questioned, j The only objections raised in the past have been based on the uncertainty of the eost of the project and the difficul ty of finding revenue to meet it be cause of the extraordinary demands on recent legislatures for providing mod ern and ample asylums for the insane, increasing the public school appropria- TANNERS ALLEY—FROM SOUTH STREET, LOOKING SOUTH. J item, establishing tuberculosis sani toria and promoting good roads. In view of the liberality of the legisla tures of 19u5 and 1907 toward these ob jects. the present body finds itself less restricted in the matter of expendi tures for permanent public improve ments. and the plan of the Fox bill for expending not more than SIOO,OOO a year during a period of five years, for the purchase and improvement of the park extension, makes the way easy from the standpoint of the state finances. As the state spends $25,- 000,000 a year on its departments and its charities, $400,000 is a mere drop in the bucket, and as the purchases are to bo made by a commission, all questions of the possibility of wasteful extravagance have been eliminated. Nor is there any longer a question as to just what the pnrk extension will cost. The last legislature authorized the governor to appoint a commission to appraise the property and report to the board of public grounds and build ings for the information of the pres ent senate and house. This commis sion, composed of three real estate ex perts, lias presented a detailed report, including a complete description, with the assessed and market values of ev ery property In the district, and Gov ernor Stuart has transmitted this re port to the legislature. It shows that the assessed value of the proptrty is $941,219 and the market value $1,801,- 450. The Pox bill provides for a total expenditure of $2,000,000. the differ ence of $198,550 being consider'd am ple to cover all cost of purchasing and condemning the property. The inadequacy of the present Capi tol park is apparent to everyone. The new capitol is as long as the park Is wiile, ueaj-ly 520 f*et. and iu addition Sunday School Convention. Tlic Semi. Annual Convention ( 112 | the Elklund Township S. S. Associ ation u iis held at Estella, Pa., Febru j ary <>, 190 D. Meeting was called to I order by by the Chairman, G. E. Bown. I It was ti most profitable and intei | esting session. The following sub i jects were discussed: | What would it mean to the Coun i ty if each Sunday school had a Nor ■ nial class? Worth of the Sunday School to the worker. How to or ganize a Home Department in every Sunday school in the District. How could Primary work in our Sunday Schools he improved? How to get the Adult Bible Class to Sunday School. Relation of the Sunday | School to the Temperance Cause. | Question box which was very help- I ful. Kev. La Hose delivered an interest ing address in the evening on the Relation of the Parent to the Sun ' day School. Flora Cook, Press. Supt. I - • 1— Noted Lecturer Coming to Laportc. Mr. W. Y. Warner of German ! town, will give his interesting I lecture "Forty Thousand miles on a Clipper Ship," at the Court House 011 Friday evening, February 25. Mr. Warner has the reputation of being a fine speaker. Don't miss the opportunity of hearing him at this time. to tnc capiioi ouu'mng proper tne state museum, 230 by 125 feet In dimensions, and the conservatory, 200 by 60 feet, j occupy a large portion of the length i wise dimensions of the park, which Is 1 only 1500 feet. Thus the park Is badly | crowded already. The great west frqnt I of the eaplt >1 looks out upon a space 1 scarcely wider than the building it j I self, while on the east side trollev cars ' run within fifteen feet of the granitt I walls, and on the opposite side of s narrow street are some ancient dwel 1 .- : ings, a crowded market house, stable yard, saloons, power plant and a fire | house. Clouds of black smoke from | the power plant and other nearby fac tories sweep oyer the beautiful pile and are rapidly discoloring; it. In warm i weather when windows have to be I opened the deliberations of the lefls ; lature and the work of various state j departments are seriously hampered ] by the noise from the abutting street. Looking out from the new capitol j as far eastward as the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, four blocks | I away, the eye sweeps over one of the ; most unattractive portions of the cap!-1 | tal city. The twenty-nine acres com ! prising the proposed extension are oc ; on pied by cheap tenement houses, j small factories and shops, unsightly ; warehouses and stables. The area is intersected by numerous narrow al ! leys, lined with rickety wooden build ings which constitute some of the worst slum places in the city. The incongruity of such conditions adjacent to the seat of the government j of a great commonwealth has been the 1 i occasion of severe comment on the 1 part of many distinguished visitors, including William T. Stead, the great English publicist; Architects Burn (,'ontinued on page 2. Mrs. Gearhars Frilz Uxs at Nordmont. Mrs. Gearhart Frirz was suddenly taken ill on Saturday evening and died on Monday afternoon. Pre vious to this she had been in her usual health, when upon going in to the fresh air she became very sick, the family helping her back into the house, It vas found that her left side was numb and helpless. Dr. Voorhees wes summoned and after treatment she was somewhtvt revived. About 2 o'clock she had a second stroke which resulted in death Monday afternoon. Mrs. Fritz was the mother of six teen children, four of whom died in infancy also Iva wife of Jes sie Lovelace who di. <1 about three j years ago. Mrs. Fritz leaves to mourn her loss, the following children: Ellis of Laquin, lira. John Har rison, Minnie and Herman of Wilkes Barre, Mrs. Jos. Doty of New Col umbus, Lee, of Lap ;*te, Mrs. An drew Small and Mrs. Fred Foust of Nordmont, and W.'l'is, Lanra and Grover, at home. Aiso two sisters Mrs. Dorothy Fritz of Nordmont and Mrs. Chet Speary of New Col umbus and one broth'.-:- Hiram Hess' of Ricketts. Mrs. Fritz was an estimable and industrious lady, a kind and af fectionate wife and mother and a good neighbor, and will be missed by family and many tiiends who sympathize with the bereaved ones- She was sixty-three years eleven months and seven days old, The , funeral services were conducted al the home by Rev. S. B. Hullack, Thursday afternoon. From the New York World. To all the men who work for wag es or salaries their only hope for a peaceful old age and tor a life free from racking money ivies is to pro vide beforehand for (he future I They should take n<. risk. When j they speculate they st ike their fauii i ly's future and their own peace of j mind against a few dollars. Even 1 were the chances equal—and in case 'of a small man the odus are always against him—the ri-.k which lie j takes is vastly disproportionate to i to any possible gain. | Few men ever heard of progress iv< j compound interest, ai d still fewer I know what it does. One dollar de j posited in a savings bank which I pays four per cent, will amount to $2.19 in twenty year-. This is siin 'pie compound interest. Hut how j many men know tlnH if they de posit SI.OO every year the value IN | twenty years will not be #2.1!) but | $30.97? j Any man or woman who is earn ing wages at all c« i save SI.OO a week. That money deposited in a savings bank for twenty years will 1 amount t051,612. A deposit of 00 ' a week will amount to over SB,OOO. The annual interest on this at four per cent, would be s;i_:o. Thus the man who leposits $5.00 a week in a savings bank, can, after twenty years, draw out SO.OO a week and still leave to his wife and child ren at his death all tho money that i he deposited and mor-.? than half a> j much more. There i < no paradox or catch iu this. It is a plain, sim ! pie mathematical statement of what any savings bank will do. Every wife should read these fig ures and go over th.—i for herself. They are accurate. The only neces sity is to make the d< posits regular ly. If instead of disc ontinuing the weekly deposits at tw . nty years they are continued ten yen.-s more, ever} dollar a week will h» e become s;"> K. |B3 and the $-52 a year will have be ; come over $3,000. For every dol lar which had been deposited $2 a I week can be urawn on? without im pairing the principal, which has been doubled. It takes time to make money this way, but the result is certain. There is DO secret about it, no mystery no allurement, DO dazzling speculation. All that it requires is industry and a little self denial every week. It pays better than any gold or copper mine, than auy pool room or bucket shop. Educate Your Bowels T7ltli Cuacaret*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation torever. toe.Sc. U QL.O.C.J^ 1 . drugtfiaf * retund money 75C PLR YEA"'.. HEMLOCK GROVE. There will be services at i o ; church next Sunday as follows: Sunday-school at 10 o'clock, pr. - er and class meeting at 11 o'clock M. All are invited to attend tine services. Miss Mildred Buck of Sonosto.. , was pleasantly entertained at Hi • home of Ma/.ie Phillips Saturday i and Sunday. Misses Fred recti and Mar! i i Myers of Mori I vern were social cull ers here over Sunday. Mrs. G. C. Swank and son Le U< y . and Melvin Bay tf North Mountain called at the home ol (he formers . brother William Bay, Sunday. . The Hatchet social held in the Methodist church Saturday evonin;- . . was, in every respect, a success. Quite a number of young peop!o from Bethel attended preaching si i" j vices here on Sunday. Miss Bessie Fulmer, who is eni . ployed as clerk at Muncy Valley, r spent Sunday at the home ot her parents. . Mr. and Mrs. Emory Shiers, <f Hughesville, called at the home of . the formers parents, on Sunday. Luke Shires, agent for literature o.i the "Italian earthquake'' transacted business at North Mountain Satur day. Milton Flick, of Beaver Lake, was seriously injured in an accident, , on the road leading from here o that place, on Friday evening. !i > was returning from Muncy Valley with his team where he had deliv ed a load of straw. The night ben..;' dark, Mr. Flick evidently trusted his horses to lead the way, whit i might have been po.-. ible had ti. • condition of the road permitted- I'iie road however, being icy call- <1 the wagon to slide over the cnban'. - nient taking team and man with . . His two companions,, wlio escaped by jumping, quickly investigate found Mr. Flick in a dangerous po i tion. After some etl'orts he w.i taken to a near by house where tv was given medical Assistance. The conviction of Henry T. Moor.', i the Towanda wholesale liquor deal er on the charge of selling liquor without license, and the ruling 112 the court then on, stirred up muc.i comment , and many que tions were put np to the Court a d Inst ict Attorney Mitchell to decie . The trouble arose from the fact tit. i. the ruling of the court in the case was not thoroughly understood. In order to make it more plai", and that in tin- future there will I ■ lio misunderstanding, the Itevie publishes the follow ing wriiteu y District Attorney Mitchell a> t concured in by Judge Fannin , which m ikes the Moore case > plain that all can understand ar { know exactly on what points .Air. Moore was convicted: In the case of the commonweal! i vs. Henry T. Moore, the question i. - volved was whether or not the s..m of liquors Cy the defendant wcr>- made at Laquin or at the defendant s store in Towanda. The Common wealth contended that the defend ant cannot make sales at any place except at his store and that orders were taken by defendant's solicitor in Laquiu and by him brought t ) Towanda where the liquors are put up in jugs, marked with name .112 purchaser, but packed together i i cases were shipped by the defend ant to himself at Laquin where his agent and drayman delivered then to his customers at their houses a: I there received bis pay, the sales went made in Laquin and not at his store. The contention was sustained by the court and the jury found that the sales were made at Laquin. A wholesale, dealer may receivi ordt .s at his store, in the regular course 112 business and deliver the goods order ed to his customers either by bis own convenience or by Common carrier. trvorviKuly Says Su. Casoare;* Candy Cathartic, the most vi r>«.» derful medical discovery of toe age, j'-ic - nut ar.d refreshing lo th.i art pen j and positively on kidneys, liv vr and tioi ■ cleansing il:o entire svsi.em. dispel eo. j cure tieadnouc, fever, habitual constipate n and biliousness, pleas" buy ;-nd try a 1 ; \ of C. C. C. to-dav; 10, 'St, .'ill i'onis. Sold v.. • 1 cuarauteed to cure by nil druggists. i'tire C»ii!itltmtl*Mi Vurevt-r, '• Ca»dvCaliiArlic. 100 ■I l i.' C. lu.il '.o luic, sts refund niuaiv
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