Republican News Item B M VANDYKE, Editor- PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOBTE. PA. Entered at the Tost Office at Laporte, ae second-class mail matter. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1 hereby announce ir.yf-eH as candidate tor the nomination for the office of Slier ill of Sullivan County, subject to the Re publican rules, W. H. BIDDLE, Feb. 24, 1911. Elkland Township. I hereby announce myself as candi date for the nomination for the office of Sheriffof Sullivan County, subject to the Rules of the Republican Party. FRED W. SCHANBACIIER, March, 1, 1911. Forksville, Pa. I hereby announce myself as candidate for the nomination for the office of Com missioner of Sullivan County subject to the rules of the Republican Party. FRANK STRICKLAND, March, 17, 1911. Hillsgrove, Pa. T. F. Kernan of Laporte town ship was in town Monday. Mr. Kernan set out over 1000 apple trees on his farm this spring. He expects togo into the fruit grow ing business.—Dushore Gazette. The picnic grounds at Lake Mo komo are being cleaned up and put in condition for the coming season. The boats are being repainted, the roads about the grounds putin better condition and everything is on the move toward an enjoyable summer vacation for tlie visitors to Laporte and the lake. The tannery at this place has been preparing for a close down for some weeks and at present only a few of the many persons e nployed there generally are at work. From appearances it will cease operations for some time. Many of the for eign workers have returned to their home across the ocean or gone to new lields of labor. In the past certain marriage licenses have been marked not to bo publiclied, but Lycoming's Register and Recorder, Frank V. Myers, has just recently ruled different. In two instances rela tives ol' the girl called at the office and gave expression to their wrath when they found out that she had been married. Mr Myers says that in the future lie will not make any attempt to muzzle the press, but will make up his records with out any requests for non-publica tion and all licenses will have, the necessary publicity. -Hughes vi Ile Mail. Williainsport may have a largo amount of the best caterpillars in the State but we are willing to wager that this vicinity has her stopped 011 potato bugs. Beau tifully striped specimens of this disturber may be seen in most any number peerlied ou convenient clod of earth in the various gardens awaiting the first peep of the potatoes through the soil, and swarms are occasionally seen flying through the air, resembling small swarms of bees. Tomato plants are being destroyed by the bugs at a rapid rate and some other plants that resemble meat and drink to the undesirable boarder are seized upon as a substitute un til the potato leaves are in lit con dition for bug salads. No reason can be given for the unusually large number of the beetles unless, from the fact that so many pota toes were left in the ground last autumn when the early winter pre vented the digging, they wore fur nished sustenance throughout the cold months and are consequently on the job at this time in numbers sufficient to cause extra efforts 011 part of the farmers to exterminate them. Improvement Society's Tea Commandments. At a meeting of the Towanda j Village Improvement Society, the following commandments were adopted. With a few slight changes they would l»e appropriate for any village in this section: I. Thou shalt not tear up and scatter papers, nor throw anything on the sidewalk or street. Find the rubbish can. 11. Thou shalt not kill any living thing, unless it shall be germs, mosquitoes and flies, and whatever tends to breed such. 111. Thou shalt not allow any piles of ashes or rubbish to collect in thy back yard. IV. Thou shalt not mix ashes and garbage in the same can. Pigs don't eat coal clinkers. V. Thou shalt not fill the ash or garbage can too full. Only one Sampson was created in this world. VI. Thou shalt not chalk nor bill the sidewalk, fence, building, pole or tree. VII. Thou shalt not permit thyself or another to deface park benches, school furniture, private or public property. VIII. Thou shalt not tolerate smoke nuisances. IX. Thou shalt not do nor suf fer anything to be done that will injure Towanda's fame. X. Thou shalt not expect that we can make this village clean and perfect all at once; but it will be come an ideal village only when everybody does something every day to help make tilings better. Habeas Corpus Postponed. The habeas corpus proceeding which was to have been brought before Judge Charles E. Terry on Tuesday has been postponed to next Wednesday, owing to the ab sence of a witness in the case. The writ was secured by Attor ney Schnerr of Wilkes-Barre, act ing in behalf of the Italian prisoners, Antonio Sharrone and Charles Belli, now confined in the county jail awaiting trail in Sep tember court as the alleged mur derers of the Italian section boss at Bern ice some months ago. The writ provides that the prisoners shall be brought before a judge and the reason of their confinement stated. The judge will then deter mine whether or not to admit them to bail. The guilt of fhe accused prisoners will finally be decided I>3* jury trial. State Road Routes. Two routes under the Sproul highway bill that will connect with Laporte are the following: Route No. 17—From Laporte to Towanda. Commencing in Laporte and running by way of Bernieeand Dushore to a point on the dividing line betweeh Sullivan and Bradford counties; thence by way of New Albany into Towanda. Route No. 217—From Tunk hannock to Laporte, beginning in Tunkhannock and running over route No. l.'i to Mehoopany; thence following the north branch of Me hoopany Creek by way of Lovelton, to a point on the dividing line be tween Wyoming and Sullivan counties; thence by way of Colley to Dushore; thence over Route No. 17 into Laporte, Sullivan county. July 4th at Laporte. The season of 1911 will be open ed at Lake Mokoma on July 4th, with a big excursion and picnic. There will be a full day of sports and amusements. The beautiful new power boat, capable of carry ing 100 passengers, will make her first trip on this occasion. There will be base ball and all amuse ments at the park and a fine dis play of fire-works at night from the lake. Full particulars will be given later in the papers and by hand bills. The Firemen of Ilughesville will run an excursion to Lake Mokoma on Saturday, June 17. Passengers will be taken at all points along the line. This is the first excur sion of the season and will no doubt be largely attended. Taxables Must be Notified. An important new law relating to the collection of taxes and which is of interest to the people of Sullivan county is as follows: AN ACT providing for notifica tion of taxables by tax collectors, in boroughs and townships; pre scribing the contents of such no tices, and providing for the pay ment of the expenses thereof. Section 1. Bo it enacted, &c., That each tax collector of the several boroughs and townships of this Commonwealth, within thirty days after receiving the tax dup licate. shall notify every taxable whose name shall appear on such duplicate. Sueli notice shall con tain the rate of taxation, the valuation of the property of such taxable, the occupation of such taxable, the full amount of taxes for which said taxable shall be liable for the current year. Such notice shall further state that such taxes are payable, shall designate a place and time, or times, and when they shall be paid, and shall further state the time within which an abatement of tax will be allow ed, when the full amount of tax will be collected, and when an ad ditional percentage will bo added as a a penalty. Such notices shall be mailed to the last known post oflice address of each of said taxables. Section 2. It shall be lawful for the said tax collectors to retain, out of the respective taxes collected by them, such actual printing and postage expenses as shall lie incur red by them in performing the duties herein prescribed. Such amounts so retained shall be ad justed by the respective boards re ceiving such taxes. Section Before any .allow ance is made by the respective boards, receiving taxes, for com missions due to the collector for taxes collected, an affidavit shall be made by the collector, setting forth that he has complied with the provisions of this act. Section 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the pro visions of this act are hereby re pealed. Approved the sth day of May A. D. 1911.. John K. Tcner. "Practical Joke." "A practical joke" of placing a bottle of acid on a table instead of a bottle of beer resulted in the death of Charles Tucker, 7.'l years old, of Childs, in May field, Lack awanna county. The death of the old man was not reported to the coroner and it was not reported to Lackawanna county detective M. A. Rafter until after the funeral of the man. m The Mandarin's Robe. The author of "Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant" tells of the case of a lady who was haunted by reason of a garment she wore. It was a mandarin's robe from China, stated to be part of the loot from the sack of Peking. The owner, who lived in a flat in a London suburb, first began to be alarmed by "a smell of decom position in her bedroom" and heard "stealthy footsteps paddling along the tiny passage in and out of the sit ting room." She changed her house, but the obsession continued. The dreadful smell recurred, her cats died in great agony from some unknown cause, and uncanny, footsteps were heard at night. According to the clairvoyant's diagnosis, the robe had belonged to "a man who had worn It when he engaged in the mystic forms of ceremonial magic known to the Chinese. lie had mot with a violent death, and certain malignant forces were still imprisoned in his robe, which, from the bloodstains on it, ho must have been wearing when be was killed." The curse was eventually dispelled by the robe being burned. He'd Have Revenge. Juggins—Who was it that said if he could make the songs of the people ho wouldn't care who made the laws? Muggins—Don't know. Rut if he's the chap who's making the songs of the people nowadays I'd just like to have the making of the laws a little while. That's nil.—Red Hen. Reopeni Lorimer Case. Ry a vote of 48 to 20 the senate adopted a resolution to reopen the investigation of charges of bribery in connection with the election of Sena tor Lorimer, of Illinois. The resolution directs the regulat elections committee to make the in quiry. - ROYIIL STANDARD TYPEWRITER The Simplest, Strongest and Most Practical Typewriter Made PRICE, $65.00 ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO. Royal Typewriter Building, New Yo rk, N. Y. 904 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. MUNCY VALLEY POST OFFICE BURGLARIZED. Early Sunday morning burglars forced entrance into the post office at Muncy Valley and blowing open the safe, escaped with the contents including about S.loo in stamps and currency and a large number of checks and notes. The burglary was discovered on Sunday but postmaster J. 13. Mil ler did nothing toward ascertaining the loss until the arrival of an in spector from the government. Two members of the State Constabulary were sent from Ilughesville, who took charge of the situation until government detectives arrived to take up the case. It is believed that the explosion of the safe took place about 2:3f) as a meeting of the Grange had been held in the hall over the post otliee the evening before and the robbery must ha.e occurred after the last person had left the hall. Inquiry developed the fact that this was about one o'clock Sunday morning. The checks and notes were re covered Sunday. They were found in a wagon shed belonging to Dav id Miller, where the burglars had no doubt stopped to sort their loot. Extended Terms Unconstitutional. The new election law provides that law court judges must be el ected in even numbered years. In making this change it was discov ered that the terms of about thirty seven judges now holding office in the State will expire in odd num bered years, which will leave a va cancy of one year before a new judge can be elected. In order to li\ the matter the Legislature passed a Jaw extending the term of all such judges for one year, but the Supreme Court has just de clared this act unconstitutional. The court points out as a remedy that when a vacancy occurs the Governor may appoint judges, who will serve until the proper time to elect arrives. Judgo Charles E. Terry, of this district, is one of the men affected by this decision, his term expiring in 1915.—Tunkhan nock Republican. Lockjaw Threatened. Constable Miner of Luzerne bor ough is threatened with lockjaw as a result of a fish hook penetrating his tongue. He was running to catch a street car and in passing a fisherman carrying a pole and line met with the rather unusual acci dent. A doctor succeeded in re moving the barbed piece of steel but the officer's condition is quite serious owing to blood poisoning developi ng,—Towandn Review. Frank McMahon of Bernice was among the business visitors to La porte Tuesday. JjJ)|l Take ' 4' Easy. TaKe What Pill ? Why, a Dr. Miles* Anti-Pain Pill, of course. Good for all kinds of pain. Used to relieve Neuralgia, Headache, Nervousness, Rheu matism, Sciatica, Kidney Pains, Lumbago, Locomotor Ataxia, Backache, Stomachache, Period ical Pains of women, and for pain in any part of the body. "I have used Dr. Miles' medicines for over 12 years and find them excellent. 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Schumacher Chop 20.00 1.35 Wheat I'ran 28.50 1,50 Fancy White Mnl<ls. 30.00 l!(i0 Oil Meal 30.00 l.!> 0 Cluten 26.00 1.35 Alfalfa Meal 25.0 t 1.30 Oyster Shells 10.00 <><> Choice Cottonseed Meal .'51.00 I.GO Beef Scrap 3.00 Oats per hu. .45 Charcoal 50 lb sack .00 Oyster Shells " 35 140 11) ling Salt coarse or fine .50 56 lb hag Salt 25 Buckwheat Flour 2.20 Slhumacher Flour sack 1.50 Muucy " " 115 " " per hlil. 4.-10 Spring Wheat " " 1.60 Potatoes per hu .50 Veal Calves wanted on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Live fowls and chickens on Wednesday. 11. BRINK, New Albany, Pa, l' ' Suhscrihe for the News Item. The Best place to buy goods Is oiten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages are always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on IfxATrnffoNl ** IMIHININMHIIiHMHIHIHIHII ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AH answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. 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