Local Items. Sheriff Judson Brown was a business man in Towanda Monday. The regular monthly meeting of the county commissioners was held on Tuesday. Attorney Alphonsus Walsh of Dushore was a business caller in Laporte Tuesday. Wm. J. Moran and wife of Mun cy Valley spent Sunday with rela tives in this place. John B. English of New Albany is assisting in the News Item fac tory for a few days. Jamse Myers of Strawbridge transacted business in Laporte the fore part of the week. President Judge Charles E. Ter ry of Tunkliannock was a business man in Laporte Tuesday. J. G. Snowden and M. 11. Smith of Hugliesville were business visi tors to Laporte Tuesday. I'. E. Miller has returned to Laporte for the summer after spending the winter at Passaic N. J. Clayton Speary and family of Palmyra, N. Y., are spending a few days with relatives in this place and vicinity. Robert Mason has moved his family to Williamsport where lie has charge of the ice business of the Lake Mokoma Company. John Hassen has improved the buildings on his property at the rear of Hotel Bernard by the ap plication of a coat of red paint. L. E. Springstead of Geneva, N. Y., is the guest of his father, A. L. Springstead, who is engaged in building a new boat at Lake Mo koma. Edward Lad Icy lias placed on Lake Mokoma a new motor boat which he recently purchased. It will carry six passengers and is a beauty in design. Miss Tessie Fries suffered a pain ful and quite serious accident on Sunday evening. She had the misfortune to sprain her ankle and will be on crutches for some time Joseph A. Ilelsinan of Mildred was in town on business Tuesday. Mr. Helsinan is candidate for County Treasurer 011 the Republi can ticket. lit; is a man of ability and integrity and will 110 doubt secure the support of a large num ber of Sullivan County's voters at September primaries. The Saute Fe railroad is not the only means of travel from snow drifts to flowers in a day. The weather changes so suddenly in this locality lately that it bothers thermometers to register it accur ately. One day wo wear ice cream and a sunny smile and the next day an overcoat and a mustard plaster. Visitors to Lake Mokoina Sun day were surprised to see the bath ing bench covered with large num bers of cat-fish. It is not known whether illegal fishermen have been dynamiting the waters of the lake or whether there is some other reason for the death of the fish. At any rate there were enough "catties" strewn about to supply many lovers of the aquatic delicacy, providing they could have l>een captured before the cat fish turned to smelt. Esquire Caven on Saturday had a drawing of numbers for a fancy box made by George Vanbuskirk at the Eastern Penitentiary, Phila delphia. The lucky number was 07 and was held by Miss Annie Buschhausen to whom was awarded the IM>X. The box is an artistic affair designed for a lady's hand kerchief and ribbon I>ox. It is composed of ebony, rosewood, holly, vermilia, and satin wood and contains 3,27C> pieces inlaid in beautiful design, a feat of work manship possible to ouly a genius. Prepare to spend the "Glorious Fourth" at Lake Mokoma. F. W. Buck of Sonestown was a business man in the county seat Monday. IT. E. Fawcett of Eldredsville was among the business callers to Laporte Friday of last week. Auditors Howard Iless and Jacob Fries were in Laporte Mon day and audited the accounts of Laporte Township Schools. NORDMONT. Lenna Fiester was a Williams port shopper Wednesday. Miss Lottie who spent the past winter in Benton returned home Sunday, Children's Day services were held in the M. E. church Sunday, June 4, and were very largely at tended, Minard Peters, wife and son spent Sunday with friends at Un ity ville. Harry and Robert Hunter drove t) Laporte Sunday afternoon. Howard Hess and daughter Kathryn, spent Saturday at Iftighesville. Philip Peterman made a busi ness trip to Laporte Tuesday, W. B. Snider was a business c iller at Sonestown Saturday. Dr. Randall "of Dushore spent a few hours in town Thursday. Edward Sharrow and son Al bert spent Monday in Dushore. Mrs. Samuel Hunter was called to Scranton Thursday by the death of her sister, Mi's. Mahy. Mary Harrington of Dushore was a caller in town Monday. MILDRED AND BERNICE. The following were Wilke-Barre visitors last week: James Patton and wife. Hall Hatton and wife, Thomas Collins and wife, Miss Mable Collins, 11. J. Schaad and Win. Lonie. Mrs. Wm. Mosier of Los Ange les, Cal., is visiting her daughter Mrs. S. A. Deiffenbaeh, whom she had not seen for nineteen years. Mrs. Raymond Meyers of Corn ing, N. Y., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 11. W. Osier. Mrs. Harry Biddack has return ed to her home in Philadelphia after spending the past month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Helsman. Mr. Jones ami wife of Wilkes-! Barre, are visiting Iho lady's par ents, Mr. anil Mrs. John Harney. James A. Spenee, S. A. DeilYen baoh. J. A. Helsmen and C. B. Watson attended a session of Al thica Tribe, No. 532, I. O. R. M. at Lopez Friday evening. (Thanks Mr. Correspondent, do it some more. —Editor.) M.UNCY VALLEY. Emma Boatman of Sonestown spent Sunday with Martha Jan kousky at this place. Mrs. William Parmetor and son Charles, Martie Ilouseknecht and Pearl Jillson of Eagles Mere drove to this place Sunday afternoon. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. T. Bender on Wednesday, May 31, 1911. Preaching services in the M. E. church Sunday morning, June 11. Mi.sses Myrtle. Foust and Mabel Fulmer of Sonestown called at this place Sunday. Charles Amies was a Ilughes ville caller Saturday. The team of James Myers be came seared while in this place and ran to Sonestown. John Gansel and family wish to extend their thanks to the kind friends of this place who so kind ly assisted them in the sickness and death of their little son Del phin, who died May 27, at the age of 4 years, 3 months and 19 days. James Miller of Eagles Mere spent Sunday with his parents in this place. The "Iliad" Net a Myth. The full of Troy after a ten year siege by the Grecian princes about 1184 B. C. ha 3 long been considered as a rather mythical foundation for Ilomer's Immortal epic, the "Iliad." But In 1870 the excavations of Schllemann on the reputed site of Troy brought to light under the ashes of two superincumbent fortress cities the remains answering to the descriptions of Homer and a hidden vault containing goblets, bowls, vases, gems. Jewels, armes de luxe and like articles in gold, silver and bronze. These treasures are now generally ac knowledged to be the veritable rem hants of the once vast riches of rriam. which, although depleted by ten years of costly warfare in the purchase of supplies and mercenaries and the final sack of the ruined city, were thus pre served to enrich the museums of Eu rope and greatly increase our realiza tion of the wealth and art of that an clent Ilium, which we have hitherto been disposed to consider a poet's dream.—Charles Winslow nail In Na tional Magazine. A Wedding Hoax. There have been many foolish hoaxes eince the days of Theodore Hook, but few so cruel as one mentioned by Bram Stoker in his book, "Famous Impostors." "A young couple were about to be married In Birmingham when those officiating were startled by the delivery of a telegram from Lon don with the message: 'Stop marriage at once. Ills wife and children have arrived in London and will come on to Birmingham.' The bride fainted, and the bridegroom was frantically perturbed at thus summarily being provided with a wife and family. But It was useless—the unhappy man had to make the be3t of his way through an exasperated crowd, full of sympa thy for the wronged girl. Inquiry, however, showed her friends that the whole thing was a hoax—possibly worked by some revengeful rival of the man whose happiness had been so unexpectedly deferred." Four d the Word. The late Thomas Lowry of Minne apolis was a great wit nnd a great story teller as well as a great finan cier. lie needed $1,000,000 one time for one of his railroad enterprises, and he went to New York to get it. On the morning of his arrival a friend met him at the hotel and asked, "What are you doing, Tom?" "I am going downtown to get $1,000,- 000." "Can you do it?" "My boy," said I/iwry impressively, "in the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail." That night Lowry came back to his hotel after a hard day. The same friend met him. "Did yon get the mil lion?" he asked. "No," replied Lowry, "I didn't. I opened that bright lexicon of youth, and the word was In It."—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Tost. Anecdotes of Richter. Dr. Itichter will forgive us, we are sure, for telling two rehearsal stories about him. Mndam X.was singing at 11 rehearsal and was decidedly out of tune. Dr. Richter stood it as long as he could, then turned to her. "Madam," he said, "will you kindly give the or chestra your A?" At another rehearsal one of the in strumentalists made a mistake. "No," said Dr. Richter; "it goes so (hum ming) rum-tum-tarum!" The samo player made another mistake. "No, no —rum-tum-tarum 1" At the third mis take Dr. Richter momentarily lost pa tience and cried, "Why do you make so many mistakes, Mr. —?" Then quickly recovering his habitual good humor, "Ah, I know why it is—you like to hear mo sing!"— Manchester Guard ian. The Old Bod. At the breaking of ground for one of the new buildings for the Catholic university at Washington the late Archbishop Ryan was present, and Cardinal Gibbons was officiating. The cordlnal turned over a large piece of grass covered earth when it was dis covered that there had been a hitch in the ceremony. "Well," said the cardinal, "I sup pose that we will have to dig another sod." "Oh, no, no!" said Archbishop Ryan. "Never go back on the old sod!"— Phi ladelphia Times. The Retort Caustic. "No, Indeed." said the conceited young puppy who had been asked whether he had attended a certain select dance. "I—uw—only associate with my equals, you know." "Really?" responded u witty young lady. "You should aim higher than that!"— London Telegraph. The Proof. "If your wife is such a terribly good cook why don't you eat more dinners at home?" "Gee! Flow would I know how good she could cook if I didn't eat some where else?"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Matinee Idol. "He's a stickler for realism." "Yes, but he carries it to excess. In the second scene he is supposed to be severely wounded, and he has a sur geon issue bulletins between the acts." —Pittsburg Post. Large Order. "Your own baby, if you have one." advertised the enterprising photogra pher, "can be enlarged, tinted and framed for $0.75 a dozen."—Blue Bull. If yon would abolish avarice you must abolish the parent of it, luxnry. —Cicero. , Farm and (jar den MONEY IN STRAWBERRIES. You Can Pick Them Away Into Octo ber if Planted Right. That the strawberries are money makers is evidenced from this story from C. E. Tursels of Illinois, pub lished In the Farmer. He says: "Grow them from plants set In the spring In rows four feet apart and two to three feet apart in the row. They should be kept culti vated and hoed all through the season until fall, when, if they do well, you should have a row fifteen to twenty inches wide. "The ground should be got in as good shape as possible before start ing to mark the rows. If the plot is in shape so you can check them so much the better. It saves quite a lit tle hoeing. You can cross cultivate them about twice before they start to throw out many runners. They need hoeing four or Ave times during the summer nnd should be cultivated ev ery week or so to keep the ground from crusting over and to keep down the weeds. Work until the plants quit growing in the fall. Then they are FINE STRAWBEItRY PLANT. mulched with straw, about three or four loads to the acre, any time after they have finished growing until win ter sets in. "We plant berries In the early fall eight to ten inches apart and put the rows three to five and a half feet apart because they do not throw out many runners. Wo begin picking them about February and March and ship In pint boxes in place of quarts. In Flor ida they are set out In double rows about ten Indies apart, with about three feet between every two rows, which they keep cultivated. The soil is nothing but sand, and they mulch to keep them out of the sand. I was there In January this your and saw some of thom still covered, and they were shipping ripe berries at the same time, getting GO cents per quart at the station. They ship In thirty-two and sixty-four quart refrigerators. If need ed and when empty they nre returned to the shipper. "The profit In growing berries has boon very good the last three years, clearing from $1.25 to $2 to the case and making from 150 to 300 cases to the acre. The past was an exceptional year. We had ripe berries through August, September and up to October that were as One as you ever saw, being mostly Haverland and Clyde. I know of one man who had about twen ty-five cases that sold as high as $0 a case. No one seems to know why they fruited this year the second time. All varieties did not. 1 had Warflelds and Dunlaps that I got no berries off the second crop. There were some others who hnd a few Warflelds and Dunlaps, but the Clyde was as heavy on one end of the bed as the first crop, which was extra good this year." Don't Neglect Table Manners. No amount of knowledge, wealth and good clothes can compensate for the lack of the simple table manners which you should have learned in your childhood and should. If you have children of your own, teach the young sters while they are small. Break off and butter a bit of bread at a time as you want It Eat quietly, keeping Hps closed while chewing. Don't eat hurriedly. Don't begin to eat until the others are served. Don't shovel food on knife blade aud scrape off with fork. When food is tender enough, use fork in cutting rather than your knife. Eat desserts, cakes and salads with fork, if possible Don't drink tea or coffee from saucer. In using the napkin a man of good breeding leaves his half folded and lays 4t across his lap. The woman spreads hers over her I up. Shun everything which looks like a display of greediness. To heap the plate, to gobble the food, to drain your glass or your cup, to tip your soup plate that none of the precious drops may escape you. to swab the gravy from the plate with a bit of bread and to demand a second help be fore others at the table have fairly be gun of their first supply are all mani festations of a lack of breeding. Boy* Dote on Melons. No one who has a piece of moderate ly light soil well exposed to the sun can afford to be without cantaloupes. On a hot day there is nothing that will replace a liberal portion of Ice chllle< cantaloupe, especially with Ice cream In the hollow. Cantaloupes will thus feelp keep the boy on the farm. A VALUABLE LADDER. Every Fruit Grower Can Make It at Home and Prove Its Worth. Here Is shown a model of an ideal light safety ladder for fruit growers that can be easily made at home at little or no cost. Take IV4 by 3 Inch white pine clear of flaws for the sides and 1 by 3 squares for steps, | as they are better I to stand on than 1 rounds. Nail I blocks for them to H rest on, and to U keep the sides U from spreading put 112 | a small rod under r - ! every third step, I —l or wire will do. I 1 Double and twist j 1 Take a solid 1 1 piece four feet L_J long for the I 1 "snout." Bolt this I 1 with two one-half / I inch bolts, with | I wedges to make it J | solid. This makes I I a much lighter l 1 and handler lad | | der than the old r 1 straight one. _J You put the [ l snout in the fork of a limb, and there is no slipping or turning or knocking the fruit off. Make several ladders of different lengths to suit your trees. A TREE THAT OWNS ITSELF. Deed to Land Around It Not Valid, but Citizens Have Made It So. The story of a tree which has a formal deed to the ground on which It stands Is told by the Outdoor Art league of San Jose. It goes that in Athens, Ga„ one William Jackson lov ed a tree as some men love friends or money. So he gave It its own splendid self to have and to hold, with a deed of all the land within eight feet to be its own, safe from the greedy intrusion of mnn. This was an act of such high senti ment as belongs to the days of ro mance and the knight of La Mancha. But it was done in our own land less than 100 years ago. Though the deed is not valid in law. the citizens still hold it good and will not have it vio lated. ■; FEAT OF A MISSOURI WO- 112 ii man - t '' An Audrain county woman *r 11 raised 3,000 bushels of corn, 500 $ • > bushels of oats, ten wagon loads X U of pumpkins, nine children and a T •. shiftless husband on eighty acres X ;; of land.—Centralia (Mo.) Courier. * United States Gets Basque Shepherds. One hundred and fifty Basques—the first to come to the United States in ten years—have settled In Montana, Oregon and Idaho to engage in the care of sheep and raising of grapes. A few Basques are already scattered over this couutry, and practically all of them are as good citizens as can be found. There are half a hundred of them In Colorado, and they are the best sheep herders who ever came to this country. There is quite nn old colony of them in Nevada, and they nre all rich. The Basques come from the northernmost province of Spnin. The Basques Americanize quicker than some of the peoples of central aud northern Europe because they art more eager r o learn the English lan guage. They are supposed to be de scended from the aboriginal popula tlon of the region from whence they come and to have less admixture of other blood than any race in all Eu rope.—Denver Field and Farm. Dairy Doings. Don't feed out all the clover to the cows. Have a nice lot for the sheep They will get as much good out of li as any animal on the farm. The bull's dam is a big factor in the success of his progeny. Get a bull from a large producing cow, and the. more such cows In his pedigree the better. A cow which is gentle nnd which has never been known to kick will soon learn to kick if she is beaten. She will treat you pretty much as you treat her. The man who cannot milk without abusing cows has no business in the cow stable. A kick or blow will retard the secretion of inilk and may injure the cow for time to come. Small, undersized heifers should not be bred too early. It is cheaper to have vigor" and size at a greater ex pense of feed, so -as to get the heifer into the herd at twenty-four or twen ty-seven months. No farmer would think of putting Ills family on a ration of bread alone, or even bread and potatoes, for one day. yet we see many a man compelling his dumb, helpless aulmals to eat a single roughage ration for months at a time. Governor Hoard once said on the color question: "If grass had produced green butter the oleomargarine people would be coloring their product green. It has been said where substitution is possible fair competition Is impossible. The dairy interests of the country do not object tj the selling of oleomarga rine as oleomargarine; it is not Jealous of Its competition, but coloring the stuff yellow permits fraud, does away with competition. Dairymen are not trying to annihilate oleomargarine, bat the fiaud It baa created." 8 PROFESSIONAL CARDS, j IsgHg Hag Jdirii-j PPP PPP 2H£ PPPcJ fRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. Office in Keeler's Block. LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA OrriCß IN COUNTY BUILDINO NEAR COURT DOUBB. J. H. CRONIN, ATTORNKT V AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICI OK MAIN BTRIKT. OUPIIORB. PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Capital - - - ,112 25,000.00 Transacts a general banking business. J. L. ( lIUISTIAN EI)VV. I,AI>I,KY President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest puiil on time deposits, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. Advertise in the News Item. | 3 CENTS \LINE ADS. j EGGS FOR SALE—Buff Leghorn single or double eomh. $1.0(1 per setting of 15. M. J. Walls, Box 175, Lnporte, Pa. Jul i LOST—Elgin watch; open faeesil veroid ease; 15 jewel; has deer head on hack of case. Liberal reward if re ra°d to News Item Office. EGGS FOR SALE—The famous E. IJ. Thompson strain, Ringlet Barred Rocks. $1.0(1 per set ling of 1"). S. K. Brown, Iticketts, Pa. J* Anybody needing floor oil should inquire of John Hassen, Jr., at Hotel Bernard. In order to secure reduced rate on oil for his own use lie ordered a 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 eveiy buyer, ad I U. S. Aims to Jail Trust Men. The recent decisions of the supreme court of the United States in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco company cases will result in a sweep ing attempt to obtain the conviction T criminal prosecutions of violators of the Sherman anti-trust law, occord ing to Attorney General Wickersham. He made this declaration before the house committee o nexpenditures in the department of justice. Mr. Wickersham was asked why the government thus far had failed to lodge any "trust magnates" in prison. "We have done the best we could," he said, "but there has been an un willingness on the part of juries and courts to sentence men to prison un der the anti-trust law. "Until the supreme court laid down its definite construction in the two cases just decided this reluctance was well understood, for the law has al ways been open to question, and has been construed in different ways by different courts. Kansas Needs Harvest Hands. Although the wheat crop will not bo ready to cut for two or three weeks, Kansas farmers have called for 12,000 harvest hands. Charles Harris, director of the state free employment bureau, said that the bureau expected to ask for 15,000 to 18,000 men this year. Parachute Jumper Has Narrow Escape Fieretta Lorenz, a triple parachute perlormer, after accidentally cutting the wrong parachute rope, fell from a height of nearly 1000 feet at Ashe vllle, N. C. Her parachute got caught. In some electric wires, which saved her life. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR dull; winter clear, $3.25(J/3.50; eity mills, fancy, ss.2„(<j 5.75. RYE FLOUR firm; per barrel. |s@ 5.25. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 92JD93c. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, tilVfc® 6»c. OATS steady; No. 2 white, 43c.; lower grades, 40c. POULTRY: Live tlrm; hens, 14M><?i> 15V6C.; old roosters, 1011 c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 15c.; old roost -618 10C. BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 24c. EGGS steady; selected, 20 @ 22c.; nearby, 17 l Ac.; western, 17V&C. POTATOES steady; old, per bushel, 15® 75c. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE steady; choice, s<>.2s@6.4ft; prime, s(>gjfi.2o. SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $4.?5 ©-4.50; culls and common, s2si>3; veal calves, sß<[iß.so; spring lambs, ss@B. HOGS lower; prime heavies, st>.os; mediums, heavy Yorkers, light York •r» &n4 pigs, $6.15; roughs, $5@5.25,
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