~ JJUELICAM HEWS IT*.-". CRADLES L WING, Wiior. r? Jt H nlin ii W ury Thnc*.i t Aftomoo By The Sullivan Publishing Co At tho County Seal of Sullivan County. > IiAFOKTE. PA. W*'l M.ssoN, I llt'll. THOS. J. INCIIAM, S< .t Tii an. Entered hi the Po>-l rlc, but no hid is accepted until the sticci ssful bidder puts up a bond i slgaed by two solvent sureties that the work will be performed. Should the centr ictor fail to do the work the | ct» nii.v surveyor can iiave it done and i sue the bondsmen for the work and j cos: < All bidders for this work have S| e.i cations of the work to be done i on r • several sections of road. How long ihe section is, how many tons of j niei.il are to be broken and put on. ' cleaning, keeping the water tables el at and the grass off the road all tin ■-'(• are specllied. so that he knows exactly what he has to do. The mat- 1 ter of put ling on the metal is looked j after very closely indeed. The con tractor lia.i to put all the material on l!.e i i.adsi.V. The surveyor or his a sista lit comes and measures it and then marks it with slaked lime, so that i: cannot be interferred v\ith uu til il is put on the road. Farmers are ; always tho contractors for this work. I The re'ds everywhere are always in j good indition. There are many soft spots ovei there bog and lilands, with i tin every day and sometimes 112. 'Hi' fiuir hours at a time but the heaviest antes can spin along the bog reads and in the rainiest weather with | no »!:ii.aige to tlie road. Tl • have no ditli ult\ with the soft j bott iin Ireland They simply throw j in rock, and the softer the spot the j bigger the reeks, until they make it a j hard spot anil then put the small stuff | '(11 top. A mistake will surely In- | made 'f bricks are tlirown into soft ' sp i! Tiiey are simply no good foi j the pi.. pose intended II is lo be hoped that the people of j the I'i ited States will stop spending j li ne red wasting motley in shovelitii:! tli.'f i.! > tiie soft spots, but will goto | wor', like im a of business and bud A HUSTLING GRANGER. L. H. Hcaley, Master Connecticut Slate Grange. L. 11. lie ,!ev, the energetic mastet ; r 112 I'onnectii ut state grange, is show ! fisr his capacity for work and his aiiii I i • t-i '.ill bis olflc-e in a most commend j ible way. The rrai .-e in that state i- I .-.•.rowing substantially under his uina ; a genu at. Hi is a fluent and forceful I spcaVi rand I in great demand among ! the gr.inges of that stale. One of the points driven home by! him is the fact that the grange is | a farmers' organization and that the j lecturer owes it to members to bring | wlihln their reach the in-st iuforma | lion obtainable concerning work upon ("lie farm. Hotter methods of agrleul lure ere in deii. and cases, are too j rare in which farmers are recclvln; | what tbev should from their soil and j crop.;. qThe cost of raising crops must • hen I'liceil, says Master Henley, ami j it should be one of the chief functions ! of I 1 • grange to help farmers in thi.; j r. pe, t. I.ecturers, if true to the pur- i pnsis of th ' grange, will not fail te 1 ring out the experiences of their best j : il i: ist successful farmers on topi' s j-i "i :g l<( the firm, the household and t ! io home. Let the grange lie the center toward-which all the best farm- I ers sal their families look for prac l :il assistance in their work. ('(•nnectient has now something over! 12,iii'ii members. Statu Master liealey i v.. instructed at the last state grange | meeting to uppolnt a committee of ten from each Pomona Jurisdiction to na-1 si t to develop plans for more general j en-operation among the members of the 1 'rder with regard to financial mat ters. Salaries of National Grange Officers. V.'ill the editor give me pome Informa- j tton s to salaries of the national grange i-s and members of the executive i .ittee?-- E. S. I'. At the last annual meeting of the J national grange the finance committee • flr-ed the salaries as follows: State nia -or, S.lfiO per year and s.l per day and actual traveling expenses while j away from his office In discharge of his official duty; worthy lecturer, S4OO a .\"-.ir a d per day and expenses: the worthy secretary. $1.200 a year nnd t:\veliiig expenses when on duty for • th" Order: the worthy treasurer, - :i year and expenses. Each memb i 112 the executive committee gets $3 pe: <' - and expenses when engaged i the work of the grange. I Co-operaiive Business Enter prises Much Discussed. A Farmers' Organization In New Jer sey Affords Some Excellent Sugges tions For Specific Grange Co-opera ! (ion In Buying and Selling. j i From the reports of the various state grange meetings we learn that _ considerable attention was paid to the | matter of co-operative buying and sell ing of farm products. Only in isolated ! cases has anything beeu done with more than ordinary success along these i lines. Massachusetts has organized a I co-operative association, with capital stock valued at $25,000, shares $5, is sued only to members of the Order. It is probable that something along this line will be done in New York state. ; Such an organization iu order to be 1 successful must be confined to mem bers of the Order, so far as concerns i the holding of stock, but the outsider : must be given the privilege of pur chasing supplies at the same prices ! as grangers where such co-operative I grange stores are operated. In such an | organization the stock should be held 1 entirely by members of the Order, and I they should get dividends, if declared j J ti|#)ii it, and also a certain percentage l of profits. There should be no dis crimination as between members and nonmembers as to buying at these ! stores, however. Organized along these lines we believe that grange stores may be made a success. There is in New Jersey a farmers' organization, though not a grange or , ganliwtlon, which Is called the Produce Exchange, with a capital of SIOO,OOO, and it buys and sells every thing the i farmer uses or grows and can do busi ness anywhere. We give the details of its plan as reported in the Rural -New j Yorker: I The shares are $5 each, and no man can own more than twenty. The stockholders elect twelve directors, who elect the offl- I cers and appoint the manager ami local ■ ,'rents. The main office is at Freehold Seven thousand dollars of stock has been paid in. On this they have equipped their I offices and since the organization have iloi.e SIOO,OOO worth of business. As yet the> $400,000 worth of business. As yet they have dono very little buying except to buy SIO,OOO worth of seed potatoes. As it Is estimated lhat In tho district In which the exchange now does business there Is used annually between JJuO.OOO and $300,000 worth of fertilizers and seeds other thuii : poi toes. It would seem as It here was a ! field well worth looking after, which tho I exchange Is now taking hold of. | There are too members. For these were soil last year 1,000 carloads of pototoes, besides other produce, earning. It Is esti mated, to Its members not less than $50,- 000 They have received on an average for the potato crop $1.75 per barrel, which has been sold in eleven different states j and fifty different cities. They were so fortunate as to secure as manager a busi ness man who has been for eleven years I engaged in the trade, lie is In direct lole j graph and telephone communication with i all shipping points as well us the local I stations. When produce is brought In it Is inspected, graded and sent where the ' market reports for the day Indicate to be I the best. shipping points and sold direct to de alers. Sometimes the different ; markets will vary on a day's sale from | ID ti> 3 cents a barrel. This price Is aver : aged for all of the same {Trade aud the j nrlc-e announced the day following and i the farmers paid on presentation of their I shipping receipts. For this service, where I the exchange does the selling, a charge is I made of 10 cents per barrel. Small lots '• of produce of various r-.orts are sometimes sent to commission houses, of which the exchange has a select list, and the goods ! are sent, as above, where tho price and 1 demand seem best, according to the di ret dally reports received. The farmer j pays the regular 10 pev cent commission The e.Mhnnvo Joes all the business and ; for this receives Its pay by a reduction j from the commission houses to :t per i out i when sent to store ami a per cent when ! sold on pier, the latter saving cart ;e I Today the exchange could pay for all | equipment and expense, return all money ! puid iu and have a surplus left as a divl | (lend In stock. Patrons' Fire Relief Association. ! The eleventh annual report of j Dutchess and Columbia I'atrons' Fire Relief association shows a strong financial standing—on Jan. 1, 2,701 policing, carrying risks to the amount of $(5,705,750. The total receipts for the year, including the amount on hand at fhe beginning of the year, were $1 1,483.81. The balance on hand the first of this year was about $2,000. The average annual assessment for eleven years was about $1.55 per theu sand. The cost per thousand for three years for losses, premiums and ex penses was $5.20 per thousand. In the fifty-one granges in the state of New York there are 121 co-operative fire insurance companies. Including the grange companies. The amount of risks carried is $381,591 ~125, and the average per thousand foupthese compa nies for the year 1007 (the 1!»0S figures not yet given) was $2.77, and the av erage for the grange companies was SI.BO. The West Waking Up. The Inst quarterly reports of the new granges organized show that the state of Washington had twenty-one and Idaho .seventeen, following forty-three in Washington and ten in Idaho the previous quarter. The organizing of sixty-four new granges in six months in the state of Washington shows what the farmers think of the Order j ia that state. This is done under the] admirable leadership of C. 1$ Kegley, j master of Washington state grange. , When the grange solves the problem j of securing farm help for the farmers they will confer upon them a very ' great favor. State Lecturer Lowell of New Yet! has devised a syetern of leaflets for u of subordinate lecturers, whlch*ron tain brief essays and other appropr! ate matter. T'lere has been a rapid advance ii the i» eof industrial alcohol the yen past. Many gTange halls are men; lighted with it. j j Short Talks on , \/ Ci§"*t Ist 1T& c 3 ' ,' L ' No. 10. ' "~~ People generally read advertisements more than they did a few years ago. 1 he reason is to be found ia the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to be. They make the advertise ments moro readable. Some of them even become, in a ■way, a department of the paper, and people look for them v —ls , (J e very day with as much xest and pleasure as they turn to /T~\| any other feature. • This is true of many department stores all over _ /fjb&gjZZ v*» the country. Jf\lfl 111 many cities there is just one man who appre ! ciates the value of such interest. l-i! He breaks away from the old set style. He tells I % 112 something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things j business. Look over the miscellany page of jmM i any paper—look at its local news columns, J | and its telegraph news, for that matter, & i i I | and you'll see that the majority of the 1 | items are more or less closely related to jM%r | some business fact. \/fy. Dress thesa facts up in a becoming tk. com, *JV ki, \ garb of words, and they will find readers, t-tdesta.tr even though they be in a "mere advertisement." Let the merchant come down off his pedestal and talk in his nee^n t kc flippant—far from it, let him not write as if he were ad | ' l ' m U^OUt S ° met^' at even a greater ! jff|s reader's house—goes in and sits down i ' Son the ta^'e w hen ho eats, ard if his hands while he is smoking after ~(p the rnea '- It reaches him he is is p;-• iiilli'iii aa approachable condition. ' Mm: 112 That's the time to tell him about i rmW pfjTvW' y° ur business—clearly, plainly, convinc. •®rlpiV '4, lngly—as one man talks to another. *• Tki nru'Sfapar fm rifkt iuit itt r rti|-*l k*UM mmtl sits d*+m with kmm." Cfl ChMris* Austin Bates, Srm Y+rJk* I MUNCY PA. I Never Before Have|We Received iSO and 75 so many praises and heard?!'so Boys' Knee many flattering remarks*as l [we : Pants have had this Season. I Special. Were you one ot the vast 1! irr nisj'ihat —|pa crowded our store during the past wet k? Did you?set your share of the ailicks ft advertised? II not you should < O N \I:IH:RI.NOW WI Wo are making new friends fast: selling more But we still want more friends, want to sell our stock taster, ye we are spurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how we can do it. To this we can answer, tiiat no other store in till section- has the wholesale buying facilities enjos ed by this es ta 1 nulon ElzL M lishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower. Sweater Coats Specials Men's Corduroy Pants Men S Shirts I From i 19 to 2.c0 . v .. ~ Men's or Bovs' Sweater Coals .iIS V > AKm, S .{9c Mens'sweater coat* .75 CHILDREN'S' SUITS Men's Work si, ir, s {9.- Mens sweater coats 1-5 From Q9C tO *.CO aild C 50 MenV Manuel MurU Ssc Men's sweeter coats I.SOj Wf , K) ... n ' lC . r .L K.cl.y !• iannel overshirts 1.39 coats 2.00; MEN S TROUSERS Mens'v neck sweaters 25 and 40c Frolll (H)C to li? 4 7"> • Men's extra heavy cotton Mens cardigan'jackets 1.2;> , A . , rn ~, c mixed socks OSc - MEN b OVERALLS- Men's, all woo! socks 19s Underwear From 39c to Roy* and wris .stockings 09c B9BK«- MEN'S ODD COATS ££ Z ""ribbed or fleeced 20 and 2f»c AIM riCeS All I fIC( S Men's ribbed*underwear DllCh aild CordUl'OV tO 2.2 s , A|s " '''« li,,f »>eu's lumbermen nil colors 39<' " rubbers—Lainbertville andl Ball Men's fleeced lined underwear Haml - A l, 'g saving lor you _^!l^ olorß . 39< ' QT-ir MenVr ar 19c Boys Corduroy 01 ivyivO iw Ca p« Pants. W '" 4 ' Also big line Ot Shoes at sav- jl-atlies' FURS at great reduction. Bovs'corduroy knee pants, U'f? pfiClS tor 200 ! throughout, line ribbed quality SilOe. Ladies' IOS Shoes lOT 1.09 worth regular 75c Special 39c| Men's Working Shoes 1.6=) •' k 1 NKS "" " zeS frou ' hbo T Men's Suits £' lce L s Dull « l,s shoes at redu «' d Ladies' Sweaters J is si: $ Big Line of Men's and Z |sriT MS .S Children's Overcoats at re- , .. , r . iMensSuit? 11.75 14.50 rjllPpH- HPIPPQ LdUltJo "Udlo U; 15.50 If) 25 UUOCU |JI IUCO. [.adieu' Coats from 8.50 to 12.00 So Come to J. M. Wighton's to satisfy your wants. Remember sale otilv lasts this month. Railroad fare from Laporte and Nordmont for purchase of $io"oo or over. Fhe-Che TRI-WEEKLY 5 LAPORTE ! j GAZETTE and BULLETIN {REPUBLICAN NEWSITEM Tolls nil the general news ol'the Befit dressed and moat respected world, particularly that of our newspaper in Sullivan countv. i State, all the time and tells it Pre-eminently a home newspaper impartially. Conies to subscrib- The only Itepublican paper iu ers every other day. It is in fact county and conies from the seal almost a d*ily newspaper, and of justice with new news from you cannot afford to be without the county offices, clean news it. We offer this unequaled from all sections of the county paper and the NEWS ITEM and political news you want to ! together one year for read. This with Tri-wseklys at $1.501 |s|,s() The REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM and Tri-Weekly GAZETTE AND BULLETIN. . j In #»ery city there is one best If you want to keep in touch paper, and in Willianisport with the Republican party ! jit is the Gsuette and Bulletin. organization aud be informed It is the most important, pro- fjj* 0,1 a " r,>a ' estate transfers or i gressive aud widely circulated legal matters in general that i paper in that city. The first transpires at the county seat i to hold the fort journalistically. you must necessarily take the 1 Order ot the News Item. NEWS ITEM, . I tr iHHßßHMaMHW>vnanßnt3i,vi^nn.-.jErmrTin,«tiKnnaßnaaHaHMM. | WMMi M H ESTER IfHr "MEW RIVAL" m FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS No black powder .shells on the marke* compare wJth the "NEW RIVAL" In uni formity and strong shooting qualities. L ire fire anil waterproof, (jet the genuine* WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. .... New Haven, Conn. ■———i——g—K—ku.' i i.'wkkmwmmh———w—MM I '"The Jewel Shop." Where yuiir repair work jreceives special attention ! md you are sure to be pleas ed. Wii re you can get glass es co-reclly fitted, that make jvoi r eyes see like yoang j eyes. j W here \on can get high grade Watches, Clocks and jail kinds of J..wt!e;y at the bargain pric s you have long ! 'ooked tor. LJ.Voorhees, SONESTOWN. Administratoi s' Notice. Notice is herein given that Letters ot j Administration ujion the est«te ot Fran cis \\ . t■a 11 n•; 11 ei. late ot f.tt porte Boro., Sullivan County, J'euna.. deceased, have j been granted to the undersigned. All j persons indebted to said estate are re- I <|tiested io make payment, and those j having claims or demands against the | same will make them known without tie ] lay to MRS. THERESA GALLAGHER, ! l.aporte, Penna., Administratrix. j January 4. 1909. ! QOUKT i'KOCLAMATIO.N. WHKKKAS. HON. CIIAS. K IKHRY Resident fudge. Honorable* Henry Kichlin and It. c. K. K>kiiika Assoc. Judges ofjthe Courts of Oyer and ■ Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Quarter sessions of the Peace, Orphans'Court and Com . mo" I'lens til l lie < ount> of Sullivan, have issued tlieirprecept, bearing .tate the It .lay of Mar. 1,109. to me directed, lor holding ihe severa courts in the Borough of Laporte. on Monday the IT day of May IHO9. at 2 o'clock p. ». Therefore,notice is hereby given to the Coroner, J Justices of the Peace and Constables within the ! county, that tliey be then and there In their prop j er person at i! o'clock p. ra. of said day, with their I rolls, records. Inquisitions examinations and I other renicmberances to those things to which their offices appertain to lie done. And to those I who are bound by their recognizance to prosecute against prisoners who are or shall be in the jail of | thesaid county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to I he then and there to prosecute against them iu | will be just. JI'DKON BRCWV etierifl Sheriff's Office,Laporte Pa... », Ji n 190$' ' We promptly obtain U. 8. and foreigiT^^ jlifeSwi Seud model,sketch or photo of iuvt Ltiob far t c free report on patentability, lor free book \ mmte {Opposite U. S. Patent Office