JL. XiV. NO 26
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
BIUGH'ES'VILLE
CAPITAL STOCK
$50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President.
Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier.
Net Profits.
75 - 000 - DIRECTORS:
Transacts a General Will. Front/.. John C. Laird, C. \V. Bonos,
Banking Ni.siuGSST ' »&'«•/. Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per,
- Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Front/.,
j' A. S. Bull, Joltn Ball.
|fiiuis and Finns
solicited.
Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year.
3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
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No Placo Like this Place
For Peiiabij
STOVES and RANGES,
COAL OB WOOD
HE A TERS:
ONE OF WINTER'S QREAT DELIGHTS.
House Furnishing 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 3toves 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.
THE TAILOR MADE SUITS
We sell arc custom undo and of the newest materials. Every lino shows
the effect oi a designer who knows Ins business. The trimming and style
are high grade. You'll have to see them to appreciate the values we are
offering.
Underwear (hiting Flannels
You will make no mistake it' you In the newest fancy stripes, checks
will select your winter underwear and odd designs. We are selling
here. We have all grades—men, some very excellent values for
women and children. 7c, Bc, 10c.
Silks and Velvets for Millinery
Light weight Peon Velvets, just the wanted kind for hat trimmings, in
all the light and dark shades for s|.oo a yard. Mescaline Silks in the new
shades, for millinery use, also staple colors in Moire Silks. These are both
special good values for 75c a yard.
Misses' and Children's Winter Co.its. Black Taffetas 7sc
to $1 2s per yard, Dress Trimmings, Dress
Ginghams and Ribbons
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Light weight Velvets, just no better made. They are filled 'with pure
white cotton and covered with pi liu or figured sateen or silkoline. Prices
From SI.OO to $3.85
SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO.,
313 PINE: STREET,
WILLIAMSPORT - PENN'A.
Printing 0
That's right—always right—
Promptly done at reasonable
Trices
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Republican News Item.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 ,1909.
TELEPHONES ON RAILWAY
TRAINS IS THE LATEST.
Erie is Trying Out System Which May
Prove a Boom to Railroading.
The Erie Railroad company is test
ing out a new automatic signal system.
The company has 12 miles of track
between Newark and South Paterson
equipped with the third rail of the
Electrical Automatic Railroad Safety
Signal company, and yesterday a spec
ial train containing railroad officials
and Frederick Lacroix, the inventor,
made a trip.
The engine has a brush arrangement
that connects with the third rail. In
the cab are instruments that will briug
the train to a stop the moment it
enters a block on which there is an
other train or a broken rail, or any
other obstruction.
The train is stopped automatically.
Then the engineer takes down his tele
phone and calls up the nearest station
and asks what is the matter. He can
also talk with the other engines on the
line.
A'tlme meter, similar t*o the paper
disk time clock of the watchman in
the big buildings, renders it impossible
for him to make a false report as to
the time he received the danger signal
and what lie did. It is all written out
for him in red ink.
Mr. Laxroix called up Nutley while
the train was south of that station
asked to be switched to 'he long dis
tance tfienhor- ytn his engine in
co' the New York office.
up Chicago as easily,
find we could talk as plainly. It makes
train wrecks almost impossible, and it
makes it possible for a. New Yorker
whose wife is speeding to Frisco on a
train to call her up. Trains can have
news tickers in the smoking can and
every birth its telephone connected
with the outside world."
Another signal in the engineer's cab
is a green light that burns as long as
the track is clear, but goes dark as
soon as a danger zone is entered.
A push button in every station will
stop any train along the track for
miles. As soon as the station agent
pushes this button the train comes vO
a sudden stop. The engineer caiis
back to find what it is all about. The
agent explains and gives orders.
HALLSTEAD MAN A HERO;
HIS WIDOW PENSIONED.
Michael Duffy Lost His Life While
Saving a Woman.
Michael J. Duffy, who, while acting
as a special officer for the Lackawan
na Railroad Co., at Halstead, Susque
hanna county. lost his life In rescuing
a woman from in front of a train, has
now been declared a hero by no less
eminent an authority than the com
missioners in charge of the Carnegie
Hero Fund.
On the afternoon of January 11,
1909. Duffy was standing on the plat
form of the Lackawanna station at
Hallstead with several other people.
A woman, who had just alighted from
a local train attempted to cross the
tracks just as ihe Lackawanna Limit
ed. No. fi. came Into view around a
curve. The train was late and was
traveling at a high rate of speed. Duf
fy saw that the woman was directly
in the path of the train and instantly
sprang across the intervening tracks
to rescue her. He succeeded in shov
ing her from the tracks far enough
to keep her from injury, hut was him
self struck by the engine and ground
to pieces.
Now for the act he has been de
clared a hero and his wife, Mary A.
Duffy, has been voted a silver medal
and a pension of S4O month.
Bruin Is Too Gay.
It is all right to talk about bears
and to hunt for them when you are
armed with a Winchester, but one
wants something more than a lantern
when he sees a big black bruin with
not tiie pleasentest expression on his
face coming down the path after the
dog and making a bee line in your
direction says the Canton World.
While Barney Paul, of Cold Spring
was going to the barn to do his
chores on Tuesday night with lantern
in hand a monster black bear took af
ter his dog which was following him
and chased t lie yelping canine past
him within a few feet. Mr. Paul says
that he did not like the expression
of Mr. Bears face as the light of the
lantern fell on him as he went by
and had rather he would stay a little
father away.
Munson Can Have Place.
The vote given by Lycoming county
for C. Laßue Munson for Judge of
Supreme Court was a history-maker.
In Williamsport alone he has 3,091, as
against von Moschzisker's 521, and in
the coufaty as a whole he has a plural
ity of 5.540 over the Republican can
didate. One deduction from this over
whelming vote is that it points directly
to him as the candidate for Judge of
Lycoming county next year, if he
wants It.
FALLING STARS WILL
SOON BE NUMEROUS
Earth Will Run Into the Leonids
About the 12th of This Month.
The Leonid sliowers of falling stars
are due to fall on the nights of No
vember 12, 13 and 14, and Bradford
Countians will watch tlie skies for
this beautiful display of meteors.
Last year's display fixes the date for
this year for many years to come.
The November meteors will scarce
ly be at their best this year. In fact
the eartli outs their orbit at perhaps
its most sparsely settled spot. This
shower has a period roughly corres
ponding to the generations of human
life, computed roughly at three to the
century. The last great display was
due in 1899, but It'was a disappoint
ment when compared with former
manifestations of this periodic max
imum.
This year tli« earth crosses the or
bit of this bolt of minuscule members
of the solar system at a point ten
years away from the maximum den
sity, about a third of the circirit of
that orbit. The prospects, therefore,
are that the display will not approach
anything like the brilliance that from
lime to time has been observed.
On the other hand the exhibition,
chiefly in the early morniig hours of
November 14, should far exceed the
count of the wandering stars which
blaze for a moment almost every
night, silent flights of cold incandes
cence.
The pea size estimate is generally
accepted as the measure of the com
ponents of the periodic shower me
teors. Only slightly larger is the esti
mate made by Dr. Johnstone Stoney
in his address te the British Associa
tion upon the Leonids of 1866.
"The meteors themselves," he said,
"are probably little pebbes, the larger
about an ounce, or perhaps two ounc
es, in weight and spaced in the dens
est part of the swarm at intervals of
one or two miles asunder every way.
The thickness of the stream is about
100,000 miles, which, however, is a
mere nothing compared with its enor
mous length. The width is such that
the earth when it passes obiiquetly
through the stream is exposed to the
downpour Of meteors for about five
hours."
Judge Von Moschzisker's Nationality.
What is Judge Von Moschzisker's na
tionality? This is a question which
was asked before election, and is
still being asked by many. His name
has been a handicap to him. but he
was not ashamed of it and a few
years ago when he was asked by
friends to change his name as it would
prove a handicap he said to them:
"No; 1 will not change my name. It
is the name of my father, and I am
not ashamed of it. Succeed or fail
the name stands." But few people
outside of Philadelphia, know Von
Moschzisker's nationally, and thus
the question, "what is he?" The
truth is that his father was a native
of Poland aud fled his country be
cause he loved liberty better than
tyranny. The mother of the justice
elect. was Miss Harrison, of Philadel
phia. He was born in that city, re
ceiving his education in the public
schools and private Institutions. They
who know him best hold him in the
highest regard as a citizen and a
jurist.
Hope They Do.
Some of the dairymen about the
county have received communications
from the city saying that if they wish
to sell milk in that market they must
provide light, clean and airy apart
ments for the cows, the cattle must be
curried every day, iheir udders clean
ly washed before milking, the milkmen
must wear white suits, aud a number
of other requirements must be obeyed.
The farmers declare that they will
quit selling milk and goto butter mak
ing rather than to be to all the ex
pense entailed in such a proceeding. It
is to be hoped they do, for it will mean
more butter at a lower price for the
consumer, and a severe jolt to oleo.
Unselfish Man.
"You can keep my wife, but bring
back my fnrnlture," said William Dear
in aldermanlc court at Wilkes-Barre,
where he was prosecuting William
Carl for larceny of furniture. It ap
peared that Dear's wife had been living
with Carl for some time and that the
couple had taken some furniture with
them. Dear insisted that he did not
want his wife, but placed a higher
value on hl's furniture.
Planting Chestnut Trees.
The Larrys Creek Pish and Oame
Club, composed of Williamsport cit
izens. which owns a 6,000 acre pre
serve back of Sailadasburg, is plan
ning to plant one thousand Paragon
chestnut trees on the tract next
Spring. Among the objects of the
tj-ee planting is to shade the trout
streams and provide food for game.
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INJURED PLAYING FOOTBALL.
Was Playing With Cazenovia Semin
ary Eleven Against Colgate Aca
deny at Hamilton, N. Y.—Success
ful Operation Performed.
The brutal game of football as it
has been played this Kail, has laid
low a Bradford county youth, who
like Cadet Byrne, and nearly 50 oth
ers, may lose his life as result of in
juries received in a game.
The victim of this accident is Jos
eph Pickering of Athens township, a
son of the late William Pickering, who
was well known in Eastern Bradford
county. Pickering who is 18 years
of age, is a student in the Cazenovia
Seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y„ and a
member of the football team repre
senting that school. During the an
nual game with the Colgate Academy
eleven at Hamilten, N. Y., on Satur
day, Pickering was found anconscious
at the bottom of a pile of players
following a lively scrimmage, aud
was carried from the field.
An examination by doctors disclosed
the fact that a vertebrae had been
fractured, and his entire body par
alyized. His injuries are almost iden
tical with those which caused the
death of Cadet Bryne of the West
Potat eleven two weeks ago. Picker
ing regained consciousness soon after
being carried from the field, but his
condition is critical.
Sunday morning in the Faxton hos
pital at Utica, N. Y., lie was operated up
on successfully, and his chances for re
covery are very good. The operation
disclosed 'lie fact that both sides of
the arch of the seventh cervicular
vertebrae had been broken and the
spinal cord lacerated. The compress
ing bone was removed, and following
the operation the surgeon said that
the lad had a fair chance to recover.
Pickering Getting Along Nicely.
Prothonotary W. G. Gordon and.l. N.
C'aliff, Esq., returned Tuesday from
I'tica, N. Y., where they went to see
Joseph Pickering, the Athens town
ship youth who was injured in a foot
ball game last Saturday. Pickering
has been placed in a plaster east, and
is getting along nicely. The doctors
believe he will fully recover. Picker
ing was playing half back for the Caze
novia semiuary team against Colgate
academy eleven when injured.
ILLNESS CAUSES DELAY
IN DRILLING FOR COAL.
Test in Colley Townehip, Sullivan
(bounty. Has Been Stopped.
Says the Dushore Herald: "William
N. Moulter of Kingston, F. B. Walton
of Plymouth, Martin I). Beirne and
Stephen Jones of Wilkes-Barre, C. A.
Johnson of Lopez, have been drilling
on the farm of Lloyd W. Kinsley in
Colley township, for coal. The drilling
was in charge of Mr. Moulter. who is
now seriously ill with typhoid pneu
monia. and the drilling has been
stopped after reaching a depth of 120
feet. No coal was found.
"About five years ago E. .T. Billings
of New Albany, and Edward Sherman
of Ulster drilled on the same farm to
a depMi of 300 feet finding several
small veins of coal and at a depth of
180 found a good vein of coal but as
the core was very mmeh broken up
when coming to the surfact it was im
possible to tell just what the depth
of the vein was. Uhe sickness of the
foreman of the gentlemen who are now
drilling has prevented them from going
on with the work. Mr. Kinsley says
they have treated him well and he Is
very anxious to have them goon with
the drilling. The indications are that
there is coal on Mr. Kinsley's farm,
but at considerable depth, and it is
hoped that the above named gentlemen
will test the matter thoroughly."
Prosperous Bankmg Institution.
The Citizens National Bank of
Tunkhannock celebrated their seventh
anniversary by issuing a nently print
ed folder showing their annual state
ments since organization. The capi
tal has Increased from $25,000 to $50.-
000 and the deposits are now nearly
$500,000. The total earnings are $59,-
582.31.
Dwelling Burned.
At 6:30 on Tuesday morning of
last week the dwelling of the late
H. Browning Taylor of Brushville
was burned to the ground. The cause
was a defective chimney and the
owner, Stephen Trowbridge, was able
to get his household goods out of the
burning building. There was an in
surance of SSOO on the property.
Bolts Return to Church.
Lightning Thursday afternoon
struck the First Italian Presbyterian
Church, at Hazleton causing the de
struction of the steeple and a portion
of the roof, and entailing a SIOOO loss
Two weeks ago the residence of Rev.
Brunn. pastor of the church, was
struck by lightning, and ihe loss was
about the same.
75C PL R YEAR
WELLSBORO MAN DIED
AT POSTOFFICE DOOR.
Assistant Postmaster Sullivan Suc
cumbs to Heart Disease.
William Sullivan, assistant postmas
ter of Wellsboro, died very suddenly
Thursday night of last week. He had
just left the postoffice after conclud
ing the work of the day, and was on
Ills way to a meeting of the hose
company, when stricken with heart
diseaes. Friends found him leaning
against the building outside the rear
door of the postoffice, and he was
carried into an adjoining store and
several physicians summoned. Life
was extinct, however.
Mr. Sullivan was fifty-throe years of
age. He was employed for a time in
the freight office but for over twenty
one years he has been deputy post
master in this borough serving dur
ing the terms of Postmaster Dou
maux, a part of the term of James L.
White and also with Postmasters
Wright, Roy and Champaign. Mr.
Sullivan in politics was a Democrat
but had served under four Republican
postmasters which was a proof of the
competent manner in which he kept
the affairs of his department. lie
was an authority on postal affairs and
was the secretary of the Deputy Post
masters - Association of Pennsylvania.
He took a lively interest in the
work of the volunteer firemen of
Wellsboro, and was prominent in the
affairs of the Seven County Volun
teer Firemen's association. He has
visited Towanda several times, the
last time to attend the firemen's con
vention.
HUNTING ACCIDENT
MAY COST FOOT.
Charles Ward Received Load of Shot
In Ankle.
As the result of an accident while
hunting near Meshoppen Tuesday
Charles Ward, a Lehigh engineer
may lose his right foot. A charge ol'
shot e4itered the ankle and the phys
icians at the Packer hospital whore
lie was taken fear half amputation of
the member will be necessary in or
der to save the patient's life.
In company with Harry Clendenm
and another man. Mr. \\ ,u d was
scouring the woods near Meshoppen
for game. After several hours tramp
ing the party sat down to rest, Mr.
Clendenny kept his gun in his lap.
Mr. Ward who sat on Mr. Clendeuny's
right was playing with the dog, when
Hie animal in jumping about struck
the gun with sufficient force to dis
charge the weapon and the ckarge
struck Mr. Ward in the ankle. The
injured man was carried to Meshop
pen by his companions and brought
to Sayre 011 a Lehigh train and taken
directly to the hospital. An examin
ation of the wound showed that the
leaden pellets had torn away the
flesh and injured the bones badly.
Malicious Work.
On September 29th the Hall auto
matic signals at Meshoppen refused
to work and when W. C. Long, the,
local maintainor made an investiga
tion. he found that one of the bat
teries had been broken open, the
working parts removed, and bond
wires which carry the current from
rail to rail had been cut. The matter
was .at once taken up by railroad de
tectives Hillebrand and Booth and as
a result Harry Spencer and Clinton
Spencer were taken last Saturday,
charged with tampering with the sig
aals. They were taken before Squire
Bossard and gave bail in the sum of
S2OO for their appearance when want
ed. A warrant was also issued for
the arrest of Charley Branihall, the
Spencer boys claiming that Bramhall
is responsible for the damaging of
the signals. The Spencer boys have
never been accused before of doing
criminal acts, and it seems to be the
general opinion that another party
was the chief offender. —Laceyville
Messenger.
Meet by Chance and W«d.
A news dispatch from Bethlehem
says: "While visiting friends here,
unknown to each other, Miss May
Carey and Norman Swartwood, boih
of Tunkhannock, and former sweet
hearts, yesterday unexpectedly met
on the street. The old flame was ro
krindled, and deciding to lose no time,
the couple hurried lo the Lehigh
county seat alii secured a marriage
license. They then went to a 'Squire
and were married."
Peculiar Accident.
Near the same spot where his fath
er met death by being run down by an
automobile over a year ago, Martin
Nolan, a 12-yerfc-old North Scrantoii
boy, was struck by an automobile
Tuesday and received injuries of a
serious nature. Several of the youth's
ribs were broken, his legs were badly
lacerated and he is suffering from
severe bruises to the body.