VOL. XIV. NO 6 <524,000 $44,000 o > C Which Do You Prefer • c \ The average man earns about si, 100 a year. He/' y works 40 years and earns a total 0f544,000 in a lite \ time. The average dav laborer gets $2.00 a day or 112 J S6OO (or a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I \ life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- Q J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value o! a ? \ practical education in dollars and cents. The in-C vcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J C Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when 112 ✓ the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make / 1 high salaried man ot you ? No matter what line of \ / work you care to follow, this great educational In-r" 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 triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, r \Heis \ ? C. IF 1 . A 3ST» b Kp 1.0. S. Representative. TO WAND A, PA. COL.E * HARDWARE.^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OIR, WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and tesf 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. Samuel Sjole^usftore^fa. The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., ; *■ 313 Pine Street, "'\, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. w»e w f Kh Fabrics Now is the time to select materials for those |>rett> White Dresses you have heen planning tor. Here are some of ihe white fabrics and their prices. PERTIAN LAWN, 45 inches wide, in IN 1> 1A LINON, some specially good a variety of qualities lor values are offered lor 25c to 50c 10c to 25c FRENCH LAWNS, in tine sheer WASH Cll 1 FF( >N. aline sheer fabric ties, 45 inches wide, for for dressy dresses, prices vary from 50c to 85c 50c to 85c FLA ON X, a new while checked ami EMP>ROj DKKKI) SWISS We are show ftriped fabric for whists and dresses; tiir ingsome very handsome new designs lor 25 cents. 50c to 'JOc. Fine Imported Swiss The most popular of all White Fabrics for dainty dresses and waists. Investi gate the qualities. They are very cheap. One lot Ladies' Coat Suits, mostly light colorings, in fancy striped and checked materials, $12.50 and $15.00, lor #5,00 Ladies' Tailored Suits. < >ne lot Ladies' Coat Suits, made ol plain colored and fancy light and dark uniting materials, all new styles, regular prices from # 15.00 to §IB,OO, now $9.95 Ladies' Tailored Cot Suits, in plain colors, two-toned and fancy Herringbone striped effects, including the new Spring shadings, these have been specially cheap at £2O to #25, now $14.00 Suits worth from $27,50 to $32.50 lor $19.75 Suits worth from $33.00 to $37.50 lor $22.50 WASW SKIRTS, Push ilieir way to the CORSETS FOR ALL FIGURES, Every front for comfort. There is nothing figure has its appropriate Corset. Our like a washable skirt. We have them in sales ladies use the greatest of care and white and colored, for the utmost patients in securing the righi SI.OO to $4.00 Corset tor the right figure. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY JUNE 17, 1909. Result of Bad Roads. There is another matter that makes bad roads a factor of loss. That is in the sale of the farm. A farm ton miles out 011 a road impassable for five months in the year has five-twelfths of its usefulness impaired and is cer tainly worth 33 1-3 per cent intrinsic ally less than it should be were the roads not so bad. Bad roods are a de terrent to settlement, thus driving an additional value away from farm land due to increasing population. They act as a repellant force to drive the boys and girls and desirable citizens from farm .'ife. Good Road's Great Vr.luo. A good road is a convenience and . necessity. It helps both the buyer anc Keller of farm produce. It is invalua ble to farmer and merchant alilse. In the great fight for llu> people oi Philadelphia against the Rapid Tran sit Company for increasing ear fan in Philadelphia, 20 per cent, recent ly, "The Philadelphia Press" inadi the following announcement in it columns, and which should be ol general interest every where: ■'The Press" wants the people ol Philadelphia to know that when the agreement between the city of Philadelphia and the rapid transit company was made two years atjo, "The Press" approved it. bt-iieving to be in the interests of the citizens of the city. As a part of that agree ment it was specified there should be no change in rates of fare without ihe consent of both parties. The rap id transit company has broken this agreement l>v increasing the fare without the consent of the councils. We regard this as a, breach of faith, and the imposition of an unwarrant ed burden upon tne public, and we have advocated the interests of the people as against this increased fare. As a result of our advocacy of pub lic rights imperiled by corporate greed, and of our refusal under dic tation, to abandon this advocacy, we have already lost a large advertiser. Whilst we regret this action on the part of this particular advertiser in attempting to punish us for acting upon our sense of duty, we .hjjyy been prepared to meet sneh a con tingency. A news paper with a sense of so weak as to permit it-* seif interst to pervert it is not lit to ex ist. Our advocacy of public rights will be continued despite any finan cial losses which may result to us therefrom. Information has been received by th° Division of zoology of the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture from some of the principal potato districts of the L'nited States to the effect that the potato bug or Colo rada Beetle, is already actively at work on the young potato plants and threatens to do considerable damage. Plight may also cause much loss to potato growers. . In answer to some of the queries as to how to destroy the bugs, as well as prevent blight, State Zoolog ist Surface replies as follows: The Colorada Potato Ijeetle or Po tato Hug will be very instructive in many parts of this State this year. Spray with the Bordeaux mixture to which poison is added. Make the Bordeaux mixture by using four pounds of bluestone-and live pounds of lime in fifty gallons of water and to this add either one-half pound of Paris Green or two pounds of arson ate of lead. Spray thoroughly and you will prevent blight and also kill the hugs. Repeat this once every two weeks for blight, but if their are no bugs present, you need not add the poison. Whenever the bugs a ,- e present add the poison and spray for them. There is no rule concerning the frequency of repeti tion for potato Bugs as we simply spray when they co ne and kill them as soon as possible. If you do not wish togo to the trouble of making | the Bordeaux mixture for the blight,; or are willing to run the of the j blight not coming, you can kill the potato beetles by spraying with j either of the two poisons mentioned, j in fifty gallons of water alone. But | the best thing to do is to make the regular Bordeaux mixture with lime and bluestone and then add the poison to this. The Bordeaux is for ! plant diseases only, and will not kill insects. It is thus a fungicide. To make it an insecticide we add'the I poison as described above. Joseph C. Pennington. The death of Joseph C. Penning ton of Laporta Township, Thursday morning of last week caused a pro found shock of sorrow to his many friends in this section of the comity, in his death the old residents and (i- A. It. men of this vicinity feci j the breaking away of almost the las! j of those links which connect them j with the early pioneer lifeof Laporte j and adjoining sections. Mr. Pen 11- j ington had been ill but a few days, j Several weeks ago he bruised one oi'j his fingers causing an abrasion. Ilej naturally gave little attention to j the effected member until a few | days later when his hand and arm j began to swell and pain. A phy- | sician was consulted, but lie contin- j lied to decline and death resu'ted a' few days later from erysipelas. Mr. Pennington was a public j spirited mail, broad minded and in-1 tellectual. lie wa-i a most exem plary husband and father, being 1 ever kind and indulgent to his; family; a good neighbor, at all j times ready to lend a helping hand j to those who were in need of help, and a loyal friend. In fact Mr. Pennington possessed all those quid-' ities that make for noble man hood. Jie served his country with a remarkably good record dur- j ing t lie Rebellion, in Co. K. 111, P. V. I(>02 until theendofthe war. I j engagi d in 11 io,-»t of the hardest fought j battles and his record as officially ! recorded is one reflecting great lion- \ or to the man that he was. For many years he was a faith- j' ful member of the Methodist church,! ! and his life was such that when the summons "Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into j 1 the joys of thy Lord," came to hint : he was ready to obey that sum- 1 mons. Mr Pennington was in the 70th, year of his age. He leaves a widow and two' daughters: Mrs. W. S. Weiland, and , Miss Alice Pennington, who have; the sympathy of many friends in! their bcreavnient. The funeral services were held from :, his late homo near Nordmont, and i were largely attended by men ol ! prominence throughout this section. I Poisoned by Canned Corn. | The members of the family of Frank Marl/, who reside at Selins-' grove Junction, cosnisting of Mr. ! Mart/., his wife and eight children, 1 and Mr. William Shaffer, of Ohio; who is visiting the Mart/, family, had a very narrow escape from death last week, when they were poisoned from eating canned corn. Mr. Marts purchased the corn at Sunhury and it was eaten on Friday at dinner. Several hours later all of | them became deathly sick and were unable to attribute the cause of theii illness. Home treatment was used hut to no avail, and when several ol | the children became critically ill, a physician was hurriedly summoned 1 from Sunhury. When an exatnina- j tion was made by the physician lie j found that the illness of the family had been caused by the canned corn j and that if the proper remedy liadj not soon been administered several' members of the family surely would ' have died. All of the family were still sick Saturday, and one of the daughters had not yet recovered on Monday , morning. Immense Dam Project. An immense project to dam the! Susquehannal! river near Towanda ! and form a great reservoir which > will develop 15,000 horsepower to be 1 supplied in electrical form lo To wanda, Waverly, Sayre, Athens and liinghamton is said to be a possibil-. ity in the near future. Hack of the scheme is Meilkleham and Pins more, the New York City engineers and promoters, who are owners of the Sayre Klectric Company which furnishes power for the Waverly, Sayre and Athens trolley line and the lighting and commercial indus tries of Sayre. This company also owns the light, heat and power coni i pany in liinghamton. HOTEL BERNARD GBAND OPENING. | The Celebrated Trate Orchestra of Wat , sontown is Engaged. Special Excur j sion on W. &N.B.R. R. Landlord John 1 lassen of Hotel j Bernard, Laporte, is advertising a grand opening ball to take place i Tuesday evening June 22, at his popufKr hostelry formerly known as I the Coinraereial Hotel. The re | modeling and decorating will have ! been completed by the date fixed ! for the formal opening. New furnish , ings throughout are the added im j provenients to the hotel. Equipped | with a modern water and sewer con nection, the hotel stands second to i i none in Sullivan County if not quite I the superior in many respects. The opening ball promises to lie a nota. | hie occasion as the genial host is sparing no pains or expense In inak ; ing extensive preparations for a good ' time to be participated in by a large I crowd. The celebrated Trate Orches ! tra of Watsontown fa., has been en | gaged to provide the melody for I happy dancers. This company of I musicians commanding nothing less j than got).OH an evening fully attests j to their ability as artists. This fea ture alone will be worth traveling miles to enjoy. The spacious hall room on the third floor of the hotel will he the meiva of a jolly bunch throughout the evening. A special; train will be run over the \V and N. ' B. Railroad for the occasion. It i< scheduled to leave Halls - r >:2l I'. M. arriving at Laporte 7:1"). The special will leave Laporte at 2:00 o'clock A. M. Wednesday. This wiil be a ; memorable occasion as it is sure to j attract a large crowd who are prom- j ised "the time of their life" i>y Mr. j I lasseu. A request for information as to 5 how to rid plants and trees of black j ant*, which was received at the j Pennsylvania Department of Agri culture's Division of Zoology, elect ed the following from Prof. 11. A. Surface, Zoologist: "You can do ttds by finding the' nesting places of these pests and j making holes into the interior of them with a sharpened stick like a broom handle and pouring into each hole one-half cup of carbon bisul phide. fill the hole with earth and cover with a wet cloth or blanket to > Ito keep down the fumes, and the | ants will be destroyed at once. This I is tin best possible method for de stroying ants of any kind. After the nest is found, and the queen destroy ed in the manner stated, the colony is broken up. Ants in the house hold are best treated by following ; their path to the place where they ! live and pouring in the carbon bisul phide. If it be at the side of a wall, ! or elsewhere whore they cannot sure ly be located, one can destroy them by pouring considerable gasoline, or I benzine, into the hole made by the i side of the wall. " Ants as seen I going up and down trees are not \ themselves the cause of injury to the i trees or plants, but are visiting Plant ■Lice or scale insects, or sometimes i plant gland for obtaining the sweet j liquid, called honey dew, which i* I secrated by them. Thus the ant is ! generally nn indication of serious pests on the trees, although itself do : ing no injury. It is, therefore, not accessary to treat the trees for ants, i but to treat them for the pests which I the ants visit. This means spraying j with a contact insecticide, of the pro ■ per strength, at the ri»ht season, 'according to what the pest may be. "Black ants sometimes make nests ! or mounds in which vegetation does | not grow, and thus become objoetion ' able. The method described above de stroys them in their nests, but where they are in decaying wood they should not be regarded as serious enemies of mankind, and they do not deserve destruction. Lincoln said: If I pay $2(l for a ton lof iron in* England, I have the iron and they have the :?2i>; but if 112 buy it in America we have both the 1 iron and the money." This is the briefest and best definition of the > effects of the tariff yet given; and - j every American citizen should com | mit it to memory. 75C PLR YEAR The New Pvre Food Law. « State Dairy and food Commission er Foust has instructed the manu facturers and dealers in food products concerning tlie new law passed l>y the legislature. The law allows one tenth of one per cent, of benzoate ,112 soda to he used in making catsup, mincemeat, sweet pickles, jellies, shreded codfish etc. All foods must be tme to name, and the use of cereals and water in sausage is strict ly forbidden. Under the provisions of the act i o meats, preserves or other food stuff* may he colored to represent sonic thing which they are not, and the tact tha/ henzoate of soda or color ing matter is used in any products must he plainly stated upon the label. Meats, preserves and other things likely to be contaminated by flies, dust etc., must not be exposed, but kept covered. \V hile much fault is found with the law and Governor Stewart wasf very strongly urged to veto it, it is far better than no protection at ail from unscrupulous manufacturers i and dealers who care nothing for the public, but would batter the lives of the people for the sake of gain if allowed to do so. The Crop Out look. Farmers are interested in there. | ports concerning crop condition, as j reported by Secretary Wilson. While the outlook is not all that might be desired, It shows improve ment and presents nothing to oc casion alarm. It is quite possible, if I not probable, that we shall have as j large a cotton crop this year as last year, in spite of the agitation for de creased acreage. As there is good profit in raising cotton at pre-on t prices, and cotton is the most im portant crop in the adjitstmcnt of | our foreign trade balance, the oul | look in this respect is entirely satis factory. Whatever storage their may be in wheat W.II he O'-'i'O ihaij CoiuliMlVSiii.- ed for by the large increase 111 corn acreage. If acreage conditions prc ; vail we should produce a record i breaking corn crop. As this exceeds lin value any other two crops com bined, and farmers are securing verv profitable prices for this cereal, it is reasonable to hope for another profit able harvest. Wheat is of course, a very profitable crop at present fig tires; though it is not without sig nificance that the i resent high price »112 Hour has so checked consumption as to cause supplies to accumulate aud force price cutting among thu mills. The fruit crops aie not in as good condition as last year, and all crops combined are ottieially stated to be 4 points last year, but eight points above the year before. With our industrial and agriculture situations both in such promising condition, it is not surprising that confidence is growing and already running into a strong degree optim ism.—Ua/.ett aud Bulletin. U. S. Postage Stamp Business. The chief revenues of the Post < )f --tice Department are derived from sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards and so forth. I'nclo Sam's postage stamps are manu factured by the Bureau of engraving and printing at Washington; the envelopes and newspaper wrappers are made under departmental super vision under contract, by a private corporation whose factory is located at Dayton Ohio, while his postal ; cards are made under similar con ditions at llumford, .Me. From these ■ points distribution i* made to post ;! offices throughout the country upon l requisition of postmasters duly ap i proved by the department. [ Postage stamped paper issued clui - ng the year aggregated $176,!)" I, i 15M),21, an increase of $3,907,713,97 i [over 1!I07. The total number of - j pieces of stamped prper was 9,772,- > (i.Y,),t>»'> I increase -110,1-10,(>09; books .'I of stamps, 18,213,310, an increase of ■. .">2(>.~>lo. That the issue of postage I stamps wll cross the ten-billion - mark during the ficial year 1909 is | confidently anticipated.
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