Republican News Item
P. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE.
B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR.
PUBLISHED FRIDAYS
By The Sullivan Publishing Co
At tho County Beat or Sullivan County.
LAPOHTE, PA.
TIIOS. J. INGHAM, Sec'y & Trcas.
Entered at the Post Office at Laportc, as
second-claee mail matter.
I 'PRO?
FIKSr NATIONAL BANK
OF DUSHORE, PENS A.
CAPITAL - * *50.000
eUBPIiUS - - $40.00 0
Does a General Banking Business.
Fl-HKit WELLES, M. D. BWARTS.
Presideut. Oasliiu
.! per cent interest allowed on certificates.
pKANCIS W. MEYLERT,
Attorney-at-Law.
office in Keeler's Block.
LA PORTE, Sullivan County, PA.
J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTOIINRYS-AT-LAW,
Legal business attended to
in this and adjoining counties
_ A PORTE, V "
112 J. MULLEN,
Attorney- at-Law.
LAI'OKTK, PA
orriCK IS COUNTY BUILDING
MRAHCOUUT IIOUHE.
J 11. CRONIN,
attornky-at law,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OKFICB OH MAIN STRUT.
DOSIIOKK. lM
First National Bank
OF LAPORTE, PA.
Capi/a/ - - - pr,,000.00
Tran acts a general banking business.
TIIOS. .1. INCHAM, KIAV.
President. Cashier.
3 por cent interest pai'l on time deposits.
At'COI"NTS SOLIt'ITEU.
J P. BAHL,
TONSORIAL ARTIST
Pool Room, Confectionery, Tobacco and Cigars.
Opposite Hotel Bernard
LAI'OKTK, PA>
When Social Life is Needed.
It was thought when telephones,
rural delivery and other advantages
were introduced that they would
have the effect of stemming the tide
from the counrty to the city hut the
tide, except here and there, does
not diminish in volume.
Great as is the boon of these fa
cilities they do not make up for the
lack of social life in the rural dis
tricts, and that lack seems to be
the weakest point. I'i former days,
when the city was not accessible,
the social instincts of the people
were met and largely satisfied by
the spelling bees, husking bees,
singing school and, on their social
side, the "protracted" meetings.
Hut these things have almost entire
ly vanished and little or nothing of
a social character has taken their
place. Yet it ought to be possible
to provide some attractive and help
ful social recreation for farmers'
families, and for that purpose the
country school building might be
utilized more of an evening than it
now is. With the social problem
solved in all probability the drift
from the country will be arrested.
Notice to Correspondents.
We arc pleased at the way our
out-of-town writers have been sup
plying us with news items and the
manner in which they are written,
however, a few suggestions may he
of benefit: When speaking of out
of town people always tell when
anything took place. When re
porting births, deaths, marriages,
etc., always give all dates. Always
sign your name to items. When
out of supplies ask for more.
We would like a correspondent
in Forksville, Sonestown, Bern ice
or any other county town from
which we receive no letter.
Editor.
Now is the time to got busy on
that Farm Journal, Horse secrets
and News Item bargain offer.
Read our ad on last page.
Have the Trusts Increased
the Cost of Living?
That the trusts by their com
'bination, or mutual understanding
have made the things they manu
facture, or deal in, dearer in price
is extremely probable. That*they
have made enormous profits is
proven by their payment of such
•exorbitant dividends to their stock
holders as to make them immensely
rich.
Mr. Rockefeller says the Stand
ard Oil Company has made better
oil, and made it cheaper than it
was before his company was organ
ized. That may be so, and still it
be true that they are exacting more
money from poor, hard working
people, to pile up in their banks
than is just or christian like. Had
the great oil and steel trusts been
satisfied with reaosnable profits,
Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Carnegie
would not now be worth hundreds
of millions of dollars each. That
they are amiable men, and liberal
givers of large sums for colleges,
and libraries, does not alter the
cfat that the corporations which
exact much tribute from the com
mon people are unjust, unscript
ural, and pernicious.
Corporations are necessary to
carry on great enterprises, but they
should be restricted by law from
making such exorbitant profits.
The government that gives them
their right to do business, should
restrict them to reasonable gains.
If the Standard Oil Company made
ojl cheaper, it was in part because
new oil territory was discovered,
and gushing wells put down, if
they obtained lower rates of freight
from the rail-roads then any other
shippers, and still lower cost of
transportation by laying down pipe
lines; if they saved money by buy
ing out the small private refineries,
and doing a great whole-sale busi
ness; from whatever means they
have made great gains they should
be willing to share it with the peo
ple or give up their charters. 1 112
the profits of the trusts are un
reasonably great then they have
contributed toward increasing the
cost of living.
Castet.au.
To Destroy Snails.
A Lancaster county professional
man wrote to State Zoologist Sur
face, Harrisburg, stating that his
cellar, built four years ago of lime
stone, was infested last year with
"some animal" that looked to him
like a snail. It came out during
the night, and left slimy tracks,
lie asked what to do to get rid of
the pest.
Professor Surface replied as fol
lows: "As to what to do for snails
in your cellar, I can say that the
best thing is to dust freshly slaked
lime abundantly into tlx' cracks or
crevices that might be inhabited by
these lowly animals. Their bodies
are moist, and the freshly slaked
lime is more than they can stand.
They can also be killed by poison
ing them, dipping fresh slices of
potatoes into a mixture of one part
Paris green and thirty or forty
parts Hour, and placing the slices
where the snails will feed upon
them. As a rule, however, the
lime is sufficient, and this is also
good for sanitary purposes."
#50.000
$40.00
MUNCY VALLEY.
The little son of Sir. and Mrs.
11. R. Bennet died Sunday, March
27, at the age of 11 months and 2t>
days. The sympathy of all is ex
tended to the bereaved parents.
Mrs. Adam Bradley and children
are visiting relatives near Danville.
Martha Remensnydor is in Push
ore.
Mi's. Albert Bardo and son, who
have been spending some time with
her parents here, have returned to
their home in Rochester, N. Y.
Julia Remensnyder spent Sunday
with her parents here.
At the Central Pennsylvania M.
E. conference recently closed at
York Rev. David L. Dixon was ap
pointed to the Eagles Mere and
Laporte district.
| OBITUARY. I
Dr. Rose Morgan.
Dr. Rose Morgan, died at her
home in Willianisport on Tuesday
morning, alter a brief illness, at the
age of years.
Dr. Morgan was a gitnul-diitigh
ter of Judge Jos. I}. Anthony. At
the age of 11 years she went to
Warrensville where she attended
the township school and later the
Central State Normal at Lock Hav
en, where she remained for."> years
as the head of the model school.
After teaching for a number of
years she determined to take up the
study of medicine and took several
courses in various schools graduat
ing from the Woman's Medical Col
lege of Philadelphia in IN!).").
This is sad news to her many
friends in Laporte where she prac
ticed in her profession with Dr.
Wilson for several years. ITer suc
cess as a medical practitioner was
very"marked, and she had the con
fidence and good will of every one.
Much regret was expressed when,
after the death of doctor Wilson,
she returned to Willianisport. She
was a prominent member of the
Lycoming County Medical Society.
Dr. Morgan's demise from an ac
tive and useful life came as a strik
ing blow to a wide circle of friends
who will mourn her loss.
Deceased was survived by her
father and one brother. Mrs.
Mable Ritter is a niece.
Sadie Ethel Grange.
Mrs. Sadie Ethel Grange wife of
Lyle Grange, died at her home in
Forksville on Friday morning,
March L'.">, at the age of .">1 years
and 8 months, after an illness of
live months of pleural pneinonia
following typhoid fever.
Mrs. Grange was a member of the
M. E. Church, a kind undulgent
mother and ail excellent neighbor.
She leaves a husband, four children,
a mother, brothers and sisters and
hosts of l'ricdds to mourn her death.
Funeral services were held Sun
day at 1 p.m. from the M. E. church
at Forksville, Rev. F. P. Hess of
ficiating. Interment was made in
East Forks cemetery.
NQRDMONT.
(Last Week's Items.)
Miss Edna Jones very pleasantly
entertained a number of young
people at her home, Tuesday even
ing. in honor of her brother Harry
of Montoursville. All spent a de
lightful evening. Refreshments
were served. Those present- were,
Misses Edith Morris, Reba Hess.
Mable Hunter, Anna Coxe and
Clara Mollis, Messrs. Horace Hess
Raymond Anders, Harry Horn
Zera Coxe and Shedrick Hess.
Raymond Wood head of Forks
ville is visiting l»is sister Mrs. Jos.
Little.
James Miller of Muney Valley
and Thos. Snape of Philadelphia,
were callers in town Monday and
Tuesday.
11. M. Hotsford of Palmyra, IS'.
Y. is spending a few days at this
place.
11. C. Hess was a business caller
in Laporte Tuesday.
Mrs. Starr, Miss Ada Simmons of
Sonestown and Mrs. S. E. Starr of
111., were the guests of W. I}.
Hazen and wife one day last week.
Mrs. Jane Lovelace of La porte
visited her brother F. R. Keeler
Friday.
Mrs. Samuel Hunter and daugh
ter Mabel were callers in Dushore
Saturday.
G. I). Potcrman and (). A. Sher
man spent one day last week in
Williamsport.
Ye Rubbish Owners,
Take Heed.
It would be well for the people of
Laporte who have rubbish from
their back yards to dispose of, to
remember that there is a place for
such refuse on the western borders
of the borough, that has been set
apart by the town council for that
purpose.
iitsLTli FtlitOES
DEFEAT DEATH
Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred
Lives Saved in Two Years.
SHOWS ENORMOUS GAIN
Three Million Dollars Spent In Con
servation of Public Health Shows a
Saving of Twenty-Three Million Dol
lars to the Commonwealth Diph.
tlieria, Typhoid and Tuberculosis
Give Way Before the Steady Ad
vance of State's Health Officers.
f^
The precious lives of thou
sands of little children have
been spared because the state in
its wise beneficence has furnish
ed diphtheria antitoxin to the
poor.
Typhoid fever is killing 2500
less people per year in Pennsyl
vania than it did four years ago.
Tuberculosis now claims 1000
lives less a year in this state.
Education and co-operation of
the people in health matters,
backed by vigorous support of
the public press, is helping Com
missioner Dixon to win out in
war against disease.
Industries seek states where
health records show low death
rate.
V J
In the last five years the state of
Pennsylvania has been engaged in
conservation work of an extremely
Important and fundamental kind. With
President Roosevelt it believes that
the preservation of the people's nat
ural resources should begin with the
preservation of the people themselves.
The public cannot conscientiously per
mit the wasteful sacrifice of its forests
and its other forms of natural wealth,
bin even less conscientiously can it
permit the wantom sacrifice of its
children's lives.
In maintaining a fully equipped
state health department and engaging
nn a large scale in this great warfare
against disease, Pennsylvania has tak
en a foremost stand for real modern
civilization. The creation of govern
mental agencies for the preservation
of Hit public health marks a new con
ception of governmental responsibil
ity! The work thus far marks only
the beginning—merely suggests the
good which this department, under
the direction of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon,
the commissioner, has in view.
Iu the last thirty years the atti
tude of the public towards ill health
hai radically changed. Until the re
searches of that resourceful genius,
T.ouis Pasteur, disclosed the real
cause of contagious diseases, the aver
age man's conception was practically
that which had prevailed in the mid
dle ages. The infections were merely
manifestations of the inscrutable
wisnom of Providence, expressions of
divine wrath; punishments for sinful
human kind. Even the scientist re
garded them as fundamental facts of
nature, like death itself, which every
one must uncomplainingly accept. Pas
teur. however, hi a few masterly ex
periments. brushed aside all this ig
norance and superstition. He showed
tha* all contagious diseases had a
clearly defined and obvious origin.
Thev were not mysterious visitations,
without tangible cause and insuscep
tihle to tangible control. They were
caused by an infinitely large universe
of infinitely small forms of vegetable
and animal life. He demonstrated
that the connection between these
malevolent micro-organisms and the
ensuing disease was as close as that
between sunlight and heat. And he
al-'.o Immediately drew the inevitable
conclusion. If the world were once
rid of these organisms, he declared,
it would be rid of contagious diseases,
"ft is now within the power of the
wcild"—such was the deduction
which he drew from his experiments,
"to rid itself of all contagious dis
eases."
Setting Pace in Health Work.
This was the goal at which Pasteur
aimed; that has been the goal at
which all movements for improving
the people's health have necessarily
aimed since. And this was the ultl
tnatc ambition which led, five years
ago, to the organization of the Penn
sylvania State Department of Health,
a Pennsylvania in which there shall
be no young men and women lan
guishing away with tuberculosis; a
Per nsylvania in which no children
shall die of diphtheria; a Pennsylva
nia in which there shall be no ty
phoid. no scarlet fever, no smallpox,
no meningitis, no dysentery, no ma
laria—this is the kind of Pennsylvania
which the State Department of Health
hopes ultimately to create. It does
not expect to reach this goal in a
year, or ten years, perhaps not in a
single generation, but this is the ideal
hat it has constantly In mind. It re
cognizes the fact that, so long as any
these diseases exist, their preva
lence Is a distinct reproach to the
state. It is a reproach simply be
cause the method eliminating theni is
known. The old theory of government
as a power which protects its citi
zens only from foreign foes and native
marauders Is giving way to new stan
dards of civilization. The greatest
enemies to the state are those which
Concluded on Last Page.
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOMESTIC.
Charles Stewart, one of the alleged
ringleaders In Pittsburg's council
manic graft, made a complete confes
sion to the District Attorney.
Thousands attended the funeral of
Magistrate "Battery Dan" Finn in New
York City.
Governor Stubbs of Kansas, in a
speech at Chicago, asserted that abso
lute prohibition "precluded race sui
cide and encouraged savings bank ac
counts."
In an interview in Atlanta Governor
Brown of Georgia bitterly assailed
Commander Peary and defended Dr.
Cook.
William 11. Buckley, lobbyist for
six insurance companies at Albany,
N. Y., admitted he had borrowed sfil,-
000 from the Phenix of Brooklyn while
a Deputy Superintendent of Insuran :e.
Of this loan, Edward E. McCall, now
a Justice of the Supreme Court, paid
off $25,000 with his own checks.
The Allds-Conger bribery investiga
tion at Albany, N. Y„ closed with the
speech of James \V. Osborne, who
summed up the case against Allds.
At the New York fire-insurance in
quiry it was brought out that alleged
go-betweens had asked $40,000 of Eli
jah R. Kennedy, legislative agent of
the companies, in behalf of Assembly
man Town, and SIO,OOO for "Big Tim"
Sullivan from President Seward of the
Fidelity and Casualty Company.
Senator Allds' counsel, summing up
his defence, brands the Conger
charges as a "diabolical plot."
Prices of meats in retail establish
ments throughout New York city are
increased from three to five cents a
pound.
Mayor Gaynor of New York, anger
ed by a police outrage, ordered the
promiscuous "mugging" of prisoners
stopped in a hot letter to Commission
er Baker.
President Taft was the chief guest
of honor at the dinner of the New
England Manufacturing Jewelers' and
Silversmiths' Association at Provi
dence, It.l.
WASHINGTON.
President Taft attended services at
the Unitarian Church in Washington,
D. 0., later taking a motor drive.
The tariff dispute with Canada was
practically settled sit a conference at
the White House, in which President
Taft, Secretary Knox and the Cana
dian Ministers of Finance and Hail
ways took part.
The Bailinger-Piruhot investigating
committee refused to call the Secre
tary as a witness at Washington, D.
C.
In the Senate the Dixon bill re
lating to sealing in the Pacific was
passed and tlie nomination of Wil
liams Kenyon to be assistant to the
Attorney General was confirmed.
A movement was started in Con
gress to nullify the publicity feature
of the Corporation Tax.
There was but little reference in
the proceedings of the House to the
insurgent-Democratic war on Speaker
Cannon. Senate insurgents won a vic
tory in having bills transferred from
one committee to another.
Mrs. Mabel Kilter was called to
Williamsport tiiis week 011 account
of the serious illness and death of
her aunt. Dr. Rose Morgan.
Mr. Lord of Williamsport is in
Laporte for a few days, scaling
hunher at McCartney's camp for
G. \Y. Hoover a Williamsport lum
ber dealer.
Nellie, Sarah and Hazel Brown
of Lebanon spent a few days last
week with their grand-parents Mr.
and Mrs. \V. 15. Hitter at Laporte
Tannery.
The stock of goods in the Store
lately occupied by Stalford Bros.,
will be sold at Bankrupt Sale dur
ing the week commencing April IS.
1910, at public aelion, by James
C. Caven, Trustee in Bankruptcy.
Full notice will appear in next
week's paper.
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about 2,000 llis. Broke single or
double. Sell separate or together.
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M. BRINK'S
PRICES For This Week.
100 11)8.
Oil Meal 82.00
Gluten 1*75
Corn Meal ] .40
Crack en Corn j.40
Corn i.4()
Best Miincy Midds. 1.00
Potatoes per bushel .40
Oyster Shells (;0
Wheat Bran 1.40
Schumacher Chop 1.50
100 11) Buckwheat Flour 2.40
Lump Salt 7r>
Beef Scrap 3.00
Meat; Meal 2 50
140 lb hag Salt ti()
50 11) bag Salt. ,'JO
50 lb bag racking Rock Salt 40
Slhumacher Flour sack 1.55
Marvel " " 1.75
Muncy " 1.50
24 lb sack Sellu. Table Meal 00
10 lb " '• " " 25
Veal calves wanted every week
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Live fowls and chickens wanted
every Wednesday.
Light pork wanted at highest
market price.
11. BRIM, New Albany, I'a.
i 7
The Best place
to buy goods
Is otten asked by the pru
pent housewife.
Money saving advantages
arealways being searched lor
Lose no time in making a
thorough examination ol i lie-
New Line of Merchandise
Now on
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
Ail answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
HMagTOTOu Pa.
"CHOICE GROCIII
(Jrocerios, to bo choice must l>o
frosli. In order to sell fresh gro
ceries we must keep tlioin contin
ually moving, hnying and soiling.
That's just wliat. we are doing.
Therefore our groceries are i'resh
and choice in the true sense of the
word. If you are not getting the
host in the grocery line toll us and
wo will toll you the reason and how
to overcome it.
BiischhciuseiYs.
LAPORTE, PA.
Gbippevva
Ximc ftilne*
Lime furnished .n car
load lots, delivered at
Right Prices.
Your orders solicited.
Kilns near Hughesvilla
P^nn'a.
I
M. E. Reeder,
MUNCY, PA.
ALL HORSKS Dir.. I
Metropolitan IJve Stock lusuran - ' ('... I
is writing contracts to cover your iii'ct- g
ments in horse** and cattle against <l> 11?i 1
of any cause for a small amount, <|n.n t. T K
ly, semi-annually or annually Au<-i;t-; j
wanted everywhere. Howe office, .j . ..-,u 5
Unstable Uluck, Syracuse, N. Y.
Try a SMALL AO in this
paper, It will pay you.
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SALVE Tor Piles, Burns, Sores.