Republican News Item F. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE, B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co Attholiounty Seat of Sullivan Uounly. LAPOH'I'E, PA. THUS. J. INGHAM. Sec'y & Trens. Entered ai the Post Office at l stay indoors. The stork called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morgan, Jan. 19 ami left a fine baby boy. Mrs. Clarence Cott closed school mi Friday on account of illness. Murray Brown is very 111 at this writing. Mrs. F. M. Letts spent Saturday and Sunday at the bom of her broth er, J. U. Morgan. Miss Emily Porter is spending a few vvteks with her brother at Li lt >y. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bought are t ie happy parents of a teci pound girl which arrived Jan. 24. (). J. Williamsand daughter drove to C.inton Sunday. Mrs. S. U. Morgan spent Sunday wiili her sister Mrs. Clarence Heiu/.e. Samuel Ilightmire visited friends and relatives here last week. Fred Uumsey is spending a few \ve« ks with his mother on South Street. Charles Finkham, who has been ill for some time is suirenng from a severe relapse. L. Mcßride visited friends at Can ton and Leßoy Sunday. May Williams is working for her aunt Mrs. Jackson Williams at pres ent. Frank Morgan wife called at J. I*. Morgan's Sunday. Adam Glcockler who is staying with his sister Mrs. Chits, Ileinze, is quite ill at this writing. Mrs. Izola Mason ts working for Mrs. Murray Brown. Herbert Foster and family, for merly of New York State, are mov ing to Ids father's farm near here. Alvin Hightmire and wife of Fs lella, visited his brother Saturday and Sunday. Gentlemen of the jury, read the jury list this week and if you are in arrears for subscription, make point to come in and see us while iu Laporte. NORDMONT ITEMS. G. M. Fitster was a business man , in Williamsport Monday and Tues day. Fred Hunter made a business trip to HughesviUe Monday. George Derrick of Picture Rocks, visited friends in town over Sunday. Berton Snyder and Shedrick I less were visitors iu Columbia county over Sunday. Mrs. Aleck lless of Sow-slown. spoilt Thursday of last week with llr. and Mrs. 11. C. Hess. Mrs. Rush Botsford and children spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Walter Wood, near IT i ityville. George White died at the home o 1 his parents Wednesday morning. ltush Botsford was taken very ill on Sunday. Dr. Voorhe-s was called and be is improving at this writing. Fran Jones who was injured some time ago while unhitching one of W. P., Snyder's teams, is able to be out again. The storm Saturday night put both telephone lines out of service. Howard Hess spent a few hours Sunday with his parents at Soncs town. Jacob Young is staying at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Boyd Camp. Fay Hess and Ilattie Traugh, who arts attending school at Lnportc, spent Sunday here. The Ladies' Aid served a chicken pie supper in the old camp of the Lyon Lumber Co., Saturday even ing. Larue, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams has been quite sick. Theis was no school at King's oi Friday owing to the severe weal I er and the illness of a number of pupils. Liquor License Notices. Notice is hereby given that the following applications for License have been li etl in my office and the same will be presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions <-f the Peace of Sullivan County, Penn'a., on Mon day the 14th day of February, I Old, at two o'cloi k. P. M.: CHERRY TU P. Cherry Mi 11K. John E. Gross, tavern license, 1 inshore. Leonard llilhert, wholesale license. Mi 1.1 re.l. Peter 8011, tavern license, frank F, Schaad, distillers license, .lames J. Connor, tavern license, •losepli A.Helsman, tavern license, .1 oliii Daly. tavern license, George P. Driscoll, restaurant license, Adam Morev, tavern license, Frank Tei'ethauin, wholesale license, Murray. VVilliain Haley, tavern license, Satterfield. Patrick McGee, restaurant license, CO Lb ICY TUP. F. Hunsinger, tavern license, Col ley. Lopez. James P. McGee, restaurant license, Steve llalahuk, tavern license, .losepli llriihenak, restaurant license, Abe Goodman, wholesale license, Anthony House, tavern license. Gregory Kapiec, restaurant license, John Nestor, tavern license, DAVIDSON TWP. Soneslown. Daniel 11. Lorali, tavern license, Harry Basley, tavern license. Muncy Valley. Brady llouseknecht tavern license, Dennis Palmatier, tavern license. ■I. Willin in Moran, restaurant license. Emmons. Michael J. Devanney, tavern license. DUSIIORK BOROUGH. Thomas J. Brogan. wholesale license. John D. Lime, tavern license, Elizabeth ( armodv, restaurant license, Mar garet Connor, restaurant license. Robert McGee, restaurant license, Philip E.Grace. tavern license. P. .1. Finan, tavern license, B. F. Saxer, restaurant license. EAGLES MliBE BOROUGH. William L Parmeter, tavern license, HILLSGROVE TWP. U illsgrove. Walter F Casselhurv, tavern license, B. F. Miller, tavern license, LAPORTE BOROUGH, R. W. Carpenter, tmern license, John llassen, Jr., tavern license. LA PORTK TWP. Geo. M. Fiester, tavern license, Xordmoni SIIREWSBU RY TOW NSIII P. Ea^lesmere. J. 11. Stack house, Invert license, ALBERT F. IIEES-J. Clerk. < 'lerk's otllce,Lnporte, Pa., •lan, 21, I'.IIO. Blessed is he who hringeth in items; at, least, he is a blessed good friend of the editor. State Aid Reaches Needy That the State aid extended to tub erculous HUlterers through the de partment of health dispensaries i reachiiig the really ni edv, is evi-j dcneed by careful statistics that j Health Commissioner Dixon has* j ist compiled. The«e statbtics which are upon a total of !),;>t!:i pitcuits exam- j ined at tin* dispensaries, of whom (>,7:.'8 were found to have tuberculosis I during n period of seventeen months ending Dec. .*> 1, l!)i>S, show that the average family income in the homes | from which the patients came was | £21.63 p< r month. The average j number of persons in the family was, 4.08 and the average per capita in come was. $.(!(). "These facts are particularly grat- . ifying," said Dr. Dixon. "With! the thousands of tuberculous patients i we are askid to help, it is unite pos- j sit>le the state's charity is imposed I upon. We are fully justified, how"! ever, by the tabulated records, in | drawing the conclusion that the real ly needy poor among Pennsylvania's unfortunate victims of tuberculosis! are the ones that are being helped, just as the law making the appro priation contemplated." An interesting study of the pos sible source "of infection can be made from the dispensary statistics. In 2. IOll are vis iting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J P. Miller. Wm. Parmetcr and wife hive moved to the Alleghany House at Iviglcsniere. Horn to Mr. and Mrs. Harry IVt erman. Monday, Jan. 17, a daughter. Mi«- Julia Ileuiensiiyder, who has been in Hughesville for some time, spent Sunday with her parents here. Mrs. Smith Doardmau visited her sister, Mrs. Win. Parmeter Thurs day. Miss Kathryn Bradley has gone to Kaglesinere. The littld son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peterman is recovering from the measles. Mrs. E. C. Potter of Sonestown, visited her mother, Mrs. M irgarct M tpes Sunday. Important To Supervisors. Deputy Attorney (ieneral W. H. 1 largest has handed down an opinion to the State Highway Department iu which he declares that legal pro ceedings may be instituted against supervisors who refuse or neglect to furnish to the dt partmcnt informa tion coneerninsr the mileage of roads in their distrifts. Under the Jones "dirt romp' bill passed last winter, the supervisors are obliged to sup ply this information but many of lln m ha ve ignored the third notice given them. liloomsburg Republi can. S. S. Conventions. A District Sunday School Conven tion will he held at Laporte Feb. 10, and one at Nordmont, Feb. 11. Mr. Hull, County Chairman and Miss Kobinson, State worker, as well as piominent local workers will he present. The Front Line Banner presented to Sullivan county at Har risburg, will he displayed at both I places. and evening ses-_ i sinus will he held. Watch for prn i grams ne.\t week. Flora ( 'ooke, Pres. Julius Hold of Onshore is open ing a barber sho;> and pool room iu the old school house. WHAT HE WANTED. Rode a Horse When on Duty and not a Crow. A certain officer of the Royal Horse Arti'lery, having his battery divided into half batteries which were gar risoned over 40 miles apart, by road, applied that he might have an allow ance granted him for an extra charger, it being his duty to frequently visit both poitions. The war office ruled that this* allowance was inadmissible, saying, "Measured by the ordinance m.°p, as the crow (lies, the distance is found to be only 33 1-2 miles." For a time the officer was non plussed, but an idea struck him and lie seized his pen and wrote: "There would appear to be some misunderstanding regarding my ap plication. I am asking for an allow ance for an additional charger, not an additional crow. I do not ride a crow. I ride a horse." He got it. —London Tits Bits. Mennonites' Founder. The Mennonites take their name from Menno Simons, born in Witinar sum, Holland, in 1192. He entered the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, renounced Catholicism early in 1533 and was baptized at Leeu warden. In the course of the follow ing year he was ordained a minister In what was then known as the Old Evangelical or Waldensian Church. From this time onto his death, in 1559, he was active traveling through northern Germany and preaching everywhere. The churches which he organized as a result of his labors re jected infant baptism and held to the principle of non-resistance. A severe persecution began to make itself felt against his followers, the .Mennonites, and having heard accounts of the colony established in the New World by William Penn, they began to emi grate to Pennsylvania near the end of the seventeenth century. Some Advice. The following was sent by a coun tryman to his son in college not many years ago: "My Dear Son—l write to send you two pair of old breeches, that you may have a new coat made of them. Also some new socks, which your mother knit by cutting down some of mine. Your mother sends you $lO with out my knowledge, and for fear you wi'l rot spend it wisely I have kept back half and only send five. Your mother and I are well, except your sister Annie has got the measles, which we think would spread among other girls, if Tom had not had them before, and he is the only one left. I hope you are well and will do honor to my teachings. If you do not you are an ass, and your mother and my self are your affectionate parents." Sociable Spiders. Our native spiders are notable for their extreme unsociability. Of those which are spinners, eacli one con structs its web apart from those of its kind, and those which hunt, pursue their prey alone. In other countries, however, there are spiders which live In communities, and one such, a na tive of Mexico, is described by M. L. Diguet. It is known as the mosquero, and makes a large nest in oaks and other trees. Here the spiders live gregariously, and along with them In the nest Is found a minute beetle and another species of spider. The beetle is said to act as scavenger. Parts of the nest of the mosquero are hung up in the houses during the wet sea son to get rid of the flies. The First Language. No one of the existing languages has any legitimate claim to be con sidered the original of the family of languages, standing to the other as L: tin, for instance, stands to Italian and French. Of an original primitive language of mankind the most patient research has found no trace. All of them—Assyrian, Phoenician. Hebrew, Arabic are sister languages, pointing back to an earlier parent language, which has long disappeared. Since the historical period man has done lit tle in the way of the absolute crea tion of language. The work had al ready been accomplished ages before the birth of written inscriptions. Witchcraft. The number who perished in the period of the witchcraft delusion will never be known. In every country, through fifteen centuries, the super stitution went on piling up its victims. In Geneva 500 were executed in three months, 7,000 were burned at Treves, GOO by a single bishop of Bamberg and 800 in a single year at Wurtz burg. At Toulouse 400 perished at one execution. A judge at Kenny boasted that he had put to death 800 witches in sixteen years. A thousand were executed in a single year in the prov ince of Corao. "Witches" were exe cuted in Spain as late as 1780. "Tea with Children." "Tea," says the London Chronicle, "in the garden Is one of the best-es tablished of our mid-Victorian institu tions. Mr. E. V. Lucas —who is a con noisseur of the caddy—recalls in his essay, 'The Divine Leaf,' a story of the late Arthur Cecil, who once en countered the following Inscription in n garden at Kew: 'Tea, plain, (id.; tea, with shrimps, 9d.; tea, with chil dren, Is.'" Mere Humans. A Wllkesbarre magistrate has de cided that a cow has precedence over an atoinobile and does not have to wear a red lantern on her tall when standing in the read o' nights medita tively chewing her cud. Human be ings apparently must take their chances. . -?gncy. Dr. Hale once told of a minister who preached over an hour on the four greater prophets, and then, when his exhausted congregation thought he was through, took a long breath, turned a fresh page, and, leaning o-er the pulpit, said: "We now come to the more complex question of the minor prophets. First let us assign to them their proper order. Where, brethren, shall we place Hosea?" An irascible old gentleman in a back pew rose, took his hat and stick, and said as he departed: "You may give him my place if you want to. I'm going." - —— 11.■ ■ 11 M. BRINK'S PR ICRS For This Week. 100 lbs. Oil Meal .51.90 (iluton 1.(55 Corn Meal 1.45 Craeken Corn 1.45 Corn 1.45 I lest Muney Mldils. 1.(50 iirown Midds. 1.45 Buckwliea.fr M idds, 1,15 Oyster Shells f>o Wheat llran 1.40 Schumacher Chop 1.50 140 lb bag Salt (in 5(5 lb bag Salt !J0 5(5 lb bag Packing llock Salt 40 Lumps 75 Beef Scrap JJ.OO Meat Meal 2 50 Wo arc paying 7c lb for the best veal calves, and 10.'.c. lb for light dressed pork. Slhuniaeher Flour sack 1.(»") Marvel " " 1.G5 Muney '• " 1.50 24 lb sack Se.hu. Table Meal (it) 10 lb " '• " •' 05 100 lb Buckwheat Flour 2.25 24 lb " " '(55 11. BRINK. New All IV i • GET YOUR WISH Of course you get y ur wish if you come lo our I i store lor yur goods Wi have a! out cver>thirg ii the On era I Merchan-iist lene that you could wish lu mp our stock i\ neat, cleat I and up-t > date in gualsty. BiLsthliouseiVs. LM'ORTh', PA Bilteln Advertising By Charles Austin Bates, No. 44. Intelligent stock raisers know that a certain amount of feed is necessary to keep an animal alive. They nvght feed that amount as long as it lived, and it would never gain a pound. There is no profit in that RMM kind of feeding. The kind that pays is the l|||i3 kind that builds flesh rapidly. If it tnkes twenty pounds of food each day to keep a sheep 1J) alive, twenty-five pounds a day -f>. | W \y vj a will make it gain flesh. It is the 112 \k jr"" ~~~ extra five pounds that brings Jj profit. The first five pounds amount to nothing, nor docs the T k second, or third, or f'juVtn 112»" Mlnt '"i g ount% pounds. It is abo'ut the sa"»c way animal alive: with advertising. You have to do a certain amount to overcome the passive resistance of the public. You have to do a cer- ill tain amount of advertising to make them wake jM up to the fact that you are in busiiess at all. t You have to pay a certain amount to keep your \ '< advertising alive. What you pay above that \ \ amount brings profit. Some advertisers fail I \ I \ *////////////> because I \ 112 barely enough, or sometimes not quite enough, to make the b Sit I—l1 —I advertising self-sustaining. A ' Jl lUHflll S little bit more would make it '' mmmmi profitable. It is better to ad , , . , . .* J vertise a little bit too much 1 on have to do a certain amount of advertising to u'Likit them up tilths fart that you are thin not Ciuite CUOUL'h. in business at all.' 1 Copyright, Charles Austin Bates, Nezv 1 ork. 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