Local Items. -HM Road M. Brink's ad. One week from next Tuesday is Memorial Day. Miss Muble Moran was a Du shore visitor Saturday. Michael Gilligan of Herniee was a pleasant caller at the News Item office Monday. AVm. Fallinger of Nordinont has moved into the Association build ing on South Muney street. Miss Fannie Meylert has re turned to her home in Laporte after spending the winter in Eagles Mere. An exchange says tlie reason hen eggs are iu greater demand then duck eggs is that tlie hen cackles when slie lays and a duck waddles oft' without making a noise. In fewer words, it pays to advertise. John 11. Knouso of Nordinont liits moved into the Feter I). Miller residence on South Muney street and will reside there during the time he operates his steam saw mill on the F. 11. Ingham tract near the stone quarry. The People's Daily Advocate, the new paper started in Towanda to advocate the policies of the Keystone Party, has suspended publication after a live months struggle for existence in the Brad ford county seat. It was a loosing game from the start and although the proprietors still talk of reviving the paper in the future, it is probably sleeping in its permanent grave. Showing every symptom of being affected with rabies, several dogs have recently been shot at Jamison City, and the rest of the animals are being tied up or muzzled. The last dug killed was that owned by Constable A. 15. Vansickle which a few days ago showed signs of being mad. It was watched care fully and on Friday it began snapping at anything that came near it.Benton Argus. Ellery Carpenter, who left La porte several weeks ago to try out with Berwick in the Susquehanna Base Ball League, is doing good work. On Friday of last week lie pitched his first full game having sixteen strick-outs and allowing but one hit. He shut the Seranton York State Leaguears out with one hit for three innings in a try out game and the Freeland Tigers failed to get next to his twists in the same number of innings. Reily Steinback. Reily Steinback of Newell, near Lopez, died May 4, at the age of 74 years. Mr. Steinback moved from Sonestown to Lopez when the lumbering interests started up at that place and was engaged in con tract work, after the lumbering ceased at Newell he bought the town of Newell and had the honor of owning a whole town. He has lived at that place since. Mr. Steinback is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter living, Leroy, of Rieketts; William, at home; Sillick, of Masten one daughter. Mrs. George Staekhouse, of Rieketts; one daughter, Mrs. Ellis Casselbery died several months ago, and one son Daniel is dead. Mr. Steinback is also sur vived by 1.'5 grand children and 34 great-grand-childreu. The remains were taken to Sonestown Saturday and interred there Sunday.—Gaz ette and Herald. Freak Lightning. A freak stroke of lightning wrecked th<s house of Charles Zimmerman, of North Berwick, shattering every room in the house, as well as tearing off the weath erboards. Zimmerman's son Wal ter was about to unhook a screen door, when the lightning tore the door from his grasp, ripping it to pieces and rendering the young man unconscious, lie, as well as his mother, overcome by the shock, is in a serious condition. I Looking for Bobby j "It's good to see a man around the place at last, even If it's only a boy," was the general comment on the ar rival of Robert Henderson Hillman at the Sherin home. Years had passed since men had been admitted within the sacred precincts of Sherin Hill. Mrs. Sherin's great love had come late in life, when she was a widow with live daughters. She had fairly worshipped the unworthy man who on the eve of their wedding had eloped with a chorus girl, Mrs. Sherin had turned recluse, and forced her daugh ters to follow her example. But somehow Hay, the eldest daugh ter, managed to meet and fall in love with Hob Hillman, a tourist, visiting the little town. She married him first and asked forgiveness afterward. The forgiveness was refused but she was very happy with Hillman. The shock of the tragedy of their double death in a hotel fire brought the belated par don and opened Sherin Hill to the lit tle 6-year-old who had been left alone in the world. Nearly a whole year had passed (before Robert really began to miss his boyish playfellows and realize that even four very pretty aunts who adored him, were no lair exchange for one boy chum. Aunts, despite their prettiness, cannot climb trees or coast or whittle and so 11 happened that Bobby struck up i. warm, though surreptitious, friend ship with Ned Huntington, who lived to the east of Sherin Hill and who had looked long and longingly after tlie pretty aunts with no happy results sr. far. A broken sled started the friend ship. "Going to fix it?" Nod asked, and Bobby nodded, solemnly. "It'll take a lot of time," he said ruefully. And you'll have to wait thro days before you can go coasting aguln Just because there is no man up al your house to use a screwdriver and a hammer?" Ned asked, pityingly. "You poor little chap. Pass the sled over here and I'll have it fixed iu no time at all." Very unwillingly Bobby passed thi sled over the low wall and followed it over himself. He trotted beside Ned as that long-legged young man sped toward the toolhouse, and he was lost in wonder at the display of tools in the little workshop. He did not intend to make a secret of his visits to Ned's, but some Innate delicacy prevented him from telling the willing aunts that he had found a playfellow more to his liking, so it was several weeks before Dell Sherin, who, being the youngest of the pretty aunts, was Bobby's most frequent playfellow, began to notice that the boy no long er came to her with please that she coast or skate or throw snowballs. Wondering why he should suddenly find new amusements, she slipped out one afternoon to see what took him so often to the east lawn. Careful ly she parted the branches of the hedge to peer through. Bobby and a young man were pelting each other with the newly fallen snow, and she gasped with indignation as she saw the young man occasionally throw a snowball with what seemed to her to be brutal force. She was about to push through anil demand that the game cease when Ned suddenly sent a ball whizzing toward Hobby's head with such force as to cause the youngster to duck. The ball sped on and struck the hedge. The branches broke Its speed, but with no light shock it broke against Dell's snug little fur cap. She gave a scream of terror that brought Bobby and Ned running toward the spot. Dell was more scared than hurt, but it was with a white, anxious face that Ned leaned over her, and sought to assure him self that no damage was done. "I had no idea that there was any one back of the hedge," he cried in distress. "It was very thoughtless of me, but —you all seem to keep away from this side of your property. Only Bobby ever comes here." "It was to see what he was doing here that I came," she explained. "I was afraid that he might be getting Into mischief." "He was only seeking his own kind," declared Ned. "A small boy has a right to a father or an uncle or some one masculine and since Bobby was not provided with any of these very essential relatives, I sought to supply the deficiency. "You are very good," she murmur ed, realizing for the first time that the young man was good to look upon. Blie struggled to her feet, swaying slightly, and Ned caught her arm to save her from a fall. "You must let me see you to the house,"he said with a gentle impera tiveness that was new and very pleas ing to the girl. Mrs. Sherin and the three elder girls regarded the appearance of a man In the Sherin grounds with shock ed surprise, but Bobby hastened to the rescue with an explanation. "Me and Uncle Ned was having a snowball flght," he announced, "and Auntie Dell came to look for me and he soaked her with a snowball be cause he didn't know she was there. "I call him Uncle Ned," he explain ed, "but, of course, he ain't a real un cle —yet." He looked searchingly at his pret tiest aunt and paused expectantly. The soft color flooded Dell's cheeks, and there came a new look of deter mination In Ned's blue eyes. Bobby was only si*, but somehow he felt content that presently his playfellow would be a real uncle. It wasn't such a bad Idea either. Fire at \lasten. The worst fire that ever visited the Masten district of the Central Pennsylvania lumber Company's operations raged last week. The llames wore discovered Thurs day afternoon about 3 o'clock, the wind having carried them fr >m what is known as the "Cascade country." Soon the cry of "lire" which carries terror into the souls of intrepid lumbermen was ringing through the forests, and the hun dreds of men prepared to light. All night Thursday they worked, and Friday they were joined by reinforcements from Laquin, IS miles away, the mills there closing down so that the men could goto Masten and help light the lire. Friday night the llames were con sidered under control. "Back firing" was worked to good effect. The llames swept through and over several thousand acres of first growth timber owned by the Cen tral Pennsylvania Lumber Com pany. A number of contractors' camps were wiped out by tlie llames, and fully 800,000 feet of hardwood lumber, together with about 1,500 cords of chemical wood fell prey to the llames. Millions af feet of hardwood lumber were exposed to the Haines, but the hard work of the firefighters prevented damage. The loss is considered siiin 11 when it is taken into consideration that only a small portion of the exposed lumber was destroyed. State Spraying Demonstrations. Application of Insecticide and Fungicide Spray will he made l.y State Demonstrators in 250 model orchards of Pennsylvania iu the future. Following the public demonstrations in pruning fruit trees and spraying them for scale insects with the lime-sulphur solution in the orchards conducted under the co-operation of the Division of Zoology of the State Department of Agricultture, the work of spraying for codling moth, eurculio, canker worm, bud moth and tent caterpillar, and the prevention of fungous diseases will now be taken tip at this season. The public is cordially invited to these demonstrations. A lecture on the above mentioned pests, giv ing their lite history and best me thods of destroying them will be explained, and literature treating on these enemies of the fruit grower distributed free. The local Hort icultural Inspector will he present and spray a block of trees at 1:.'!() p. m. The dates and places of holding the meetings in this coun ty are: Monday, June f>, orchard of J. G. Scouten at Dushore Tuesday, June t>, orchard of Jessica Ivneller near Dushore; Wednesday, June 7, orchard of J. J. Sick at Nord uont. Standard Oil Smashed. In one word—Smashed! The Supremo Court of the United States yesterday handed down a decision upholding, with slight modification, the decision of the lower court in which the original suit was tried. The company is declared a combination in restraint of trade and is given six months to wind up its affairs. This is the biggest piece of news in America for many a day. It strikes the popular notion as being the proper method of dealing with trusts that throttle competition. Hut it should not l>e expected that Standard Oil will obey the order without making soniestarling move, either against the interests that have been fighting it. or for its own protection. It has many millions at stake. It has the arrogance of unlimited capital which has been the weapon most largely used in putting other dealers out of business and strengthening its own position. There has been —and is—but one power its superior, and that is the Supreme Court of the United States. It has met that power and is van quished. Other illegal trusts will be scattering this morning for such cover as is available. -"Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin. MAKE VACANT LOTSUSEFUL. Get the Owners to Lend Them to People to Cultivate. PHILADELPHIA TRIES PUN. Quaker City Association Succeed* In Getting Poor Families to Grow Vege tables on Borrowed Land— Kansas City Also Takes Up "Farming." Every town has vacant lots which nre eyesores to the community. Some of them are used as rubbish dumps and nre littered with tin cans, garbage, ashes and other unsightly things. Oth ers are covered with rank weeds. If these lots were planted to useful vege tables or beautiful flowers how much more attractive would they be! Why not get busy and transform Buch lots Into gardens and make them look ornamental Instead of unsightly? Get the owners to lend their unused land to the poor, who will be glad to cultivate it and raise vegetables. The splendid work of the Philadel phia Vacant Lots Cultivation associa tion Is ably exemplified in the four teenth annual report. Last year the association conducted 355 family gardens on vacant lots. The land under cultivation was loan ed by generous owners. They were not using it, and the association bound it pelf to return possession to them when they desired to put it to use or sale. Tiie harrowing, plowing and all nec essary preparation for the cultivation were carried on by the association, and about one-sixth of an acre was turned over to each family. The families spread the fertilizer, planted the seed, cultivated the growing crops and gath ered their mature produce. They took to their homes what was necessary for their tables and sold the surplus, in suring fresh vegetables for home con sumption and a snug income. The association plans to carry on this work the coming summer, and they are overwhelmed by the new applications received daily from those anxious to raise crops. Owners of vacant lots In Kansas City. Mo., who would like to see them blossom like the rose without any la bor on the owner's part can get some information as to how it may be done by communicating with the home gar dening committee of the City club. The committee, which obtained such good results last year, now is prepar ing for its spring campaign, which ts to be opened with a general cleanup day, the date of which lias not been fixed. "While it is a little too early to plant, it is not too early to begin to think about preparing the ground," W. C. Winsborough. vice chairman of the committee, said. "As the prepara- Photo by K. Mahoney. HEAD OF CABBAGE GROWN On TOWN LOT tion of the ground involves a cleanup of the winter's accumulations of rub bish, we are co-operating with the board of health to make that opera tion a thorough one this year." The distribution of seeds will be through the schools, as last year. One of those gardens, cultivated by two boys, yielded a $75 crop of potatoes. • An effort is being made to Interest the real estate exchange In the work, and through that agency the commit tee hopes to get in touch with owners of tracts that can be cultivated by volunteer labor. "It's Just as easy," Mr. Winsborough said, "to grow vegetables on a vacant lot as it is to grow tin cans and ashes, and we will leave it to the owner to say which crop makes the best appear ance and enhances most the value of tils land." Selection of vegetables which it will be worth while to grow under condi tions unfavorable as to soil requires study and patience. Experience in gardening under such conditions has proved the following vegetables to be profitable in the order here given: First, the round red radishes, which should be sown in a row not more than fifteen feet long at one time or there will be more than can well be disposed of. Next, the loose leaf lettuces, notably the ITanson variety. Make sowings a month apart to obtain succession. To matoes are profitable next In order. Set out tomato plants if it Is possible to get them. They can be easily raised in a hotbed. Prune them when a good crop la set so they will ripen. "I had been given up to die by three or our best doctors, I could not stand it to be on my feet and 1 was so swelled in the abdomen I could hardly breathe. But thanks to Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy and Nervine I am able to be about the streets, a walking ad vertisement of the curative qual ities of your remedies, although I am 70 years old." JOHN R. COCHRAN, Lewistown, 111. Better than any statement we could make regarding the value of Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy are these words of Mr. Cochran. He speaks from experience, the highest possible source of knowl edge. If you have any of the signs of a weak heart, such as pain in the left shoulder or arm, fainting and hungry spells, short ness of breath, smothering spells, flutteringor palpitation of the heart, you need Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy which for over twenty years has been recognized as the best prepa ration of its kind to be had. Sold under a guarantee assuring the return of the price of the first bottle if It fails to benef t. AT ALL DRUGGISTS. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Sealed Proposals. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Suite Highway Department, Ilarrisburg, Pa., Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the State Highway Department in the Capitol Building, Ilarrisburg, Pa., until two o'clock in the afternoon of May 21, 1911, when bids will be publicly opened and scheduled, for the construction of 10, lt>7 feet of road, extending from the Cherry Township line to forks of road at Col ley Corners, in Colley Township, in the County of Sul livan under th° Act of Assembly ap proved May Ist. 19(15. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the county com. missioners, Laporte. Pa., and at the ottice of the State Highway Depart ment, Ilarrisburg, Pa. Each bid must be made upon a blank furnish ed by the State Highway Depart ment (which blanks will be supplied upon request) and enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed: PROPO- S ALS F()R REC'()XSTRUCTION OF HO AD IN* COLLEY TOWN SHIP, SULLIVAN COUNTY." JOSEPH \V. HUNTER, State Highway Commissioner. NOTICE. I ' The undersigned constituting the Hoard of Examiners for mine inspector for the Eighth District con sisting of the Counties of Susquehan na, Wayne and Sullivan, will exam ine candidates for the ottice of mine inspector of said district at room 122, Hotel Casey, Scranton, Pa., on May 25th and 2tith, 1911, beginning at !• A. M. T. Ellsworth Davies, Thomas W, Parry, John W. Jones, Wi'liam Mason, 11 Lewis Jones.' . Board of Examiners, EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given ters testamentary on the estate of T. J. Ingham, late of the Borough of L,aporte, Sullivan County, Pa., de ceased, have been granted to F. 11. Ingham, resident of said to whom all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment and those having claims or demands will make known the same without delay. F. 11. INGMAM, Executor. Subscribe for the News Item. The Addition. "What makes you net so grouch} tills morning. l'obkins?" "Hail nn addition to my family." "WlintV Why, you ought to be ashamed to be gloomy over that! To think that a normal human being should be angry because of the advent of such a cherub! Do you actually grudge a place in your happy home to au Innocent creature fresh from heav en. bringing with it the very fragrance of those celestial realms? Do you greet with an unwelcoming chill a small epitome of all purity and sweet ness given into your keeping as a priceless though undeserved treasure by a too benevolent Providence? A lovely copy of what fancy feigns the angels to be like—a tiny shred of grace aud glory snatched from the"— "Say, that's very prettv, but do you know you're talk'- my motber- In-law ?"—New I. ITrFessTonalTAPUS?'! yiyrpjjp?HHJ? r'r r r'- J \ fRANCIS W. MHYLERT, Attornoy-nt-Lnw. Office in Keelpr's Block. LA PORT F, Sullivan County, I' A. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney at-Law. LArOHTK, I'A OrriCK IN COUNTY niJILDINO NRAR COUfiT DOUfIK. J H. CRONIN, ATTOHHEY'-AT LAW, NOTAItY PUBLIC OFFICE ON MAIN STI'.BKT OUSIIORK. PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Capital ... §25,000.00 Transacts a general banking busim ss. J. IJ. I'll It IST! AN Kl>\V. I,AI)I,KV President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest paH on time deposits, AIX-'OU NTS SOLTCITK i». Advertise in the News Item. j 3 CENTS A LINE ADS. j \\ ANTED —Rubbers, r>e. per lit. Also copper, l>rt>ss, hides and furs. Wolf Socks, Laporle, I'n. FOR SAL!-].— Span of Hay IIOISI .-; weight, 2350; C» years old. Chns. Me(iuire, It. F. I). :>, Forksville, Pa. WANTED—Experienced girl for general housework, for Mrs. Kilt ry I'. Ingham. CJood \ya_res. Inquire of Mrs. F. 11. Ingham, Liiporte, Pa. E(<(JS FC>ll SALE Hull' Leghorn single or double comh. $1.0(1 per selling of 15. M.J. Walls, 150.\ 17.">, Laporte, I*a. Jul i EGGS FOR SALE— The (Vinous 10. B. Thompson strain, Kinglet Barred Rocks. SI.OO per settingof !•">. S. K. Brown, Kieketts, I'a. J* Anybody' needing lloor oil should inquire of John lassen. Jr., til Hotel Bernard. In order to secure reduced rate on oil for his own use he ordered ii half-barrel and will sell the balance in gallon lots at cost. This is an extra quality oil which he will guarantee to give the best satisfaction to every buyer, ad .kiyiiL 60 YEARS' PER IE NC E ™ «i ■ 9 jJ B DESIGNS r r7Vv< COPYRIGHTS AC. Anyone "ending a sketch nnd description may quiekl* ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is prohnbly pntentanle. Communica tions utrictly eonlldentlal. HANDBOOK on Patents Bent free. Oldest npency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn A Co. receive special notice , without Dharue, iu tho Scientific American. ; A handsomely illustrated weekly. T-srtrest c»r- | culation of any scientiUc Journal. Terms, a ! year, four months, $L Sold by all newsdealer*. I MUNN & Co, 361 Broadway, New York j Branch Olflco. 625 F St.. Washing ton, ,v *\ F. C.JONES OF PITTSBURG, Builder of Forbes Baseball Park, voluntarily writes: Electric Renovator Manufacturing Co.* F. C. JONES, r . i<! •>. Pittsburg. Pa.. March 10th. 1011. < Magistral Chemical Co., New York, N. Y Gentlemen: I have received the NURITO and my wife i has clven it a fair trial. Will say that for fire or six years she has been afflicted with rheu matism. hut now Is entirely cured of It and apparently as well as she ever v\ae 1 canuot •ay too much f«>r this medicine. I hate I.JO given this to several nf my friends and they nil have had the same results Very truly. F. C. JONES, President. Is a Guaranteed Prescription for RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA or NEURITIS "NI'RITO" is NOT a patent medicine, hut n physician'® prescription, guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act. Serial No. 35.146. FREE from OPIATES OR NARCOTICS. NURITO la guaranteed to relieve the most stubborn cases or Rheumatism. Rclatioa and Neu ritis. Write for unsolicited facsimile teati monlala from prominent people you know. II and $2 boxes. Bent prepaid to any ad dress upon receipt of price. Compounded by MAGISTRAL CHEMICAL CO., Suite 711. Flat iron Building, New York. J When Knighthood Was In Flower. Mrs. Llteknlght—Could you oblige mo with n heavy hummer, a chisel, your plnrers unci half a dozen riv<>ts? Mrs. Knlghtllght—Certainly. Are you' doing a little sewing for the children? Mrs. Liteknight—No. My husband ripped his Sunday eoat yesterday, and I want to mend It.
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