vol. xvi. no. 40 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. Office in Keeler'e Block. I.APORTE, Suin»»n Couuty, PA. E J. MULLEN, Attorn*y-at-Law. LAPOKTX, PA orrica ia COORTT aoiiDia* BBABOOUBT BODIB. J H. CRONIN, ATTORIF EY*AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, ornoi om M Al* BTRIIT. DUSHORE. PA Firs* National Bank OF LAPORTE. PA. Capital - - - fBS, 000.00 Transacts a general banking business. J. 1.. CHRISTIAN . EIIW. I.AIH.EY President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest paid on time deposits, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. News Items Contents. The News Item has been en larged it now centainsß six column pages, just twice as large as for-' uierly. It is the second paper in j size and the neatest appearing pap-, er iu Sullivan Couuty, we have en- j larged on every feature but one. | aud that is the price, which still j remains the same as usual, 75 cents j per year. | Our location at the Couuty Seat makes it convenient for as to ob tain notes of public interest con-1 cerning the Sullivan County courts aud reports of Legal proceedings. All important news of the county seat is published. This should l>e of iuterest to all in the county. Our JdOntinued stories are re ceiving the highest commendation from hign-grade fiction readers. , All the general foreign and dos- j ui«stic news is published weekly. Our old soldier's column is greatly appreciated by the surviv- j ing veterans of the Civil War. Each week a snapshot (is taken at State News. All Pennsylvania gleaned for items of interest. The New York market and lat est quotations are published week-' lv. In fact the News Item is the j best aud newest paper iu Sullivan Couuty aud the price is only 75 ; cents per year. Subscribe now. For Congress. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for Congressman of this, the Sixteenth Congressional Dis trict of Pennsylvania, subject to the decision of the Republican voters of the District. Your support is earnestly solicited. Very respectfully, I. CLINTON KLINE. Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 20, 1912. fOLEYSHONETHCAR OUPM Ooldai PrtvnU PUWMI* HARDWARE WHEN you think of buying bard whatever it may be —"shall I buy? jon't ponder over these things nor spend your time looking at picly .es in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve tlie problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from Wlu*i you think of HARDWARE ">'° k °» COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Ho? Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt y and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. Republican News Item. LATEST NEWS OF SONESTOWN. Melvin Fox lnia returned to his home iu Eagles Mere alter spend ing a couple weeks in Souestowu. Mr. Edgar of near Souestowu is quite ill at this writing. Win. Bogart was called to Masten last Thursday on account of the serious illness of his father. A. T. Armstrong attended the lioiv*saleat Hughesville Friday. Bertie Paintaiu has returned home from the Williamsport hos pital where he was op -rated upon for appendicitis. Robert Simmons is improving uieely at th;s writing. J. W. Laird was a business man at the County Seat last Saturday. Milton WorthingtonoM'nityville transacted business in town last Friday. The News Item subscription list is growing rapidly in Souestowu, three new subscribers being added during the p* | week. J.J. Tem ple, 11. L, t ies, and (.J. L. Rooks beiug the ' If you are not a subscril id care to subscribe the price • cents payable at the 1 Souesto otel. If you receive' the papei ,is week and you are not a subscriber, it is merely a sample copy, if you wish it con-j tinued you should subscribe at once. John Edgar is again working for James Meyers. Mrs. Anna Ilaus of Masten is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Bondman for a week. J. 11. Stackhouse of the Moun tain House in Shrewsbury town ship was in town last Monday. Robert Smith of Eagles Mere! visited at Smith Boudmau's Sun day. Roll Call. Beruice and Mildred Absent Souestowu Present Muucy Valley Absent Ricketts Absent Nordinont Absent Forksville Abseut Hillsgrove Present Eagles Mere ' Present Remember we furnish stamped envelopes and paper to correspon dents. Adminstrator's Notice. Letters (if Administration on the estate of John W. lleaton, late of Laporte Township, Sullivan County Pennsylvania, having been granted to the undersigned, nil persons indebeted to the said estate are re quested to make payment, and those having claims, to present the same without delay, to. JAMES C. CAVEN, Adminis'r. Jan. 29, 1912. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 1 1912. (County Seat Local and Personal Events Tersely Told. Friday ia the first day of i' March. I W. B. Snider of Nordinont was 'in the County Seat Tuesday. Dr. Daly of Dushore was a professional caller here Tuesday. T. S. Tompkins of llillsgrove wat a county seat caller Tuesday. Fred lleaton, Oeerge Upmau and Baymoud Minnier are work at Masten. We are informed that a milk i wagon w ill make daily visits to Laporte during the coining sum mer. Miss Helen Carpenter accom panied Miss Fay Hess to her home at Nordinont Saturday' evening visiting over Sunday. i E. J. Mullen Esq.. had the I misfortune to slip and fall on the ; icy sidewalk Tuesday resulting in i a badly sprained wrist. The V- I. S. will hold its | Food and Bake Sale at J. Ij. Smyth's store Saturday afternoon beginni.ig at 2:30 o'clock. A Social w ill be held at the home lof Mrs, J. IJ. Smyth for the bene fit of the M. E. Church on Friday evening. March 1, 1012. A silver collection will be taken. You are invited. The ladies of the M. E. church springs a new one o*\ the inhabi tants of this burg. It is called a left hand social and will be iu pro gress at Mrs. J. L. Smyth's Fri | day evening. Don't croak. Leave that to frogs and stagnant pools. A few croakers through are neessary in every community to measure the rate of progress at which live men are advancing. A Left llaud Social will be held lat the home of Mrs. J. L. Smyth for the benefit of the M. E. church Friday evening, March 1. ISHIi. A silver collection will be taken. All are welcome. Don't grumble if your paper is not always Hush up to the high standard of your ideal. Charitable remember that no editor is capable of getting up quite as good a paper as you could yourself. There is no way of improving a place as much as by encouraging good merchants, good schools and good people to settle among you. and this cannot be done unless you spend your money at home. Some people never hand in an item of news for publication, but if we happen to miss an item in which they an- interested they are sure to hand us a north pole stare that would freeze the liver of a polar bear. We invite you to our town be cause we know you will be delight ed with its surroundings, delighted with its people, delighted with its laws, delighted with its school privileges, and delighted with the moral element that exists and is largely sustained by the people. A Tunkhannock wo nan recent ly found an old fashioned ten dollar greenback, dated l.Sti.'J, in the fami ly Bible. She was looking to see on what date Auut Euphiina was born. She told her husband about it.and he has since read the good book through four Sentinel The Town Croaker. In every town you liiul some men who always croak and growl : their chief amusement seems to be to snarl and whine and howl. Of course they do not prosper well such people seldom do—and so they strive to make themselves ami all their neighbors blue. If strang ely come these men endeavor to get them off alone, and while they speak in doleful tones, tell them how the town is dead and passed away, and hasn't any enterprise that half begins to pay : how real estate is very low and taxes very high, and every improvement scheme is sure to wane and die. The gooil book says a day will come when all must pass away and swop for wings and golden harps this tenement of clay, the earth will burn with fervent heat, the sun go out iu gloom, and every living, breathing thing shall liiul a real tomb. When that time conies the croaker who drives against his town —and tries to drive good men away and break their efforts down will be declared it victim for a special dose of llanie—ten thous and years and lie will lie roasted just the same. Meantime the en ergetic man who labors for his tow n, always works to build it up instead of tearing down, will ride j from earth to heaven in a Pullman ' palace car, and dw ell in peace for-j ever where the lirst-class angels; Bury the croaker out in the wood in a beautiful hole in the ground, where the woodpeeke l ' pecks and the bumble-bee bums aud the straddle bug straddles around. He is no good to the town piifh :to unpractical, stingy and dead, but he wants the whole earth, and all of its crust anil the stars that shine overhead. Then hustle him off to the bumble bees roost and bury him deep in the ground : he's of no USL; here, get liini out of the way, and make room for the man that is sound. HILLSGROVE. Miss Cora Hutl'smith has re turned to Dushore after spending a few days with her parents here. Horn, to Mr. and Airs. Rufus Boyle 011 Feb. a daughter. Laura Intz of Mountoursville is the guest of Wynova Holl'man on Center St. Dean Rogers of Lincoln Falls spent Sunday in town. Mrs. Fred Buckley who was operated 011 'Tuesday of last week is getting along nicely. Lou Barto has returned to Hills grove after spending a week with parents at I'enusdale. Mr. and Mrs. Edward llotVman are visiting relatives and friends at Picture Rocks. Pete Yroman is on the sick-list. Misses Myrtle and Hazel (iumhlc entertained a few of their friends at their homo Thursday evening. All reported a tine time 1 John Stevens. John Stevens of Eagles Mere died at his home in that place Sat urday, Feb. '_M, ISM'J, at ."> o'clock a. in., of pleurisy aged (18 years. Air. Stevens was a veteran of the Civil war. He has been a resident of Eagles Mere for the past > years. His many friends will re gret to learn of his demise. Deceased is survived by a wife, six sons and one daughter. Funeral was held last Monday intermeut in Eagles Mere cenie tery. The pri(fe of ihe News Item is 75 cents per year. Subscribe [NOW. Social Party. ' 1 A party was held at the home : of Mr. and Mrs. John Knouse ' Wednesday evening, Feb. 28, i' 1912. in honor of their daughter Amy. A jolly sleighing party > from Nordinont were present. I Various games and amusements - were indulged in. At about one ) o'clock a violin in the hands of Mr, Keeler of Nordinont suddenly i became active and the old familiar I strains of "Waltz Mo Around ' Again Willie" floated through the I rooms out of the back door and down toward Lake Mokoma. t This was too much for the young people, so with the Nordinont or- I chcstra, consisting of Miss Ida llartung, organist and Mr. Keeler, furnishing the music, a couple s hours*of dancing was indulged in. At a late hour the young peo ple departed and everybody agreed that they had a line time. Those : in at tendance were : Edith Gamble, Margneritte ! Cross ley,, Itl;t llartung, Amy | Knouse, Jessie Wrede, Jessie Rogers, Gertrude Knouse, Iva ■ I (ess. Fay UPSH, Lenna Fiester, Lottie Speary, Clara Morris, Nel ! lie Hunter, Cecial Hottsford, Marie j Peterinan, Fredie Arms, Mabel Parker, Irma Walizer, Guy Cross ley, Grant Carpenter, Carl J!id : die. Hob Hunter, Harry ilunten j Harry Horn, Hairy Knouse, Frank Botsford, John Leahy, John English, Dewey Fiester, | Stanley May, Hurt Snyder and j Hiiy Anders. Democrats and the Tarriff. The Democrats in Congress a/*' I still c 'litin'v.iiig their 'do I policy. Although tliej* have the j opportunity of passing tie; Wool Bill reducing the tarriff on nianu ! factored woolen which President j Taft vetoed last summer on the J ground that his Tariff Commission j has not reported ou this subject j i>nt they have now reported show j ing that reduction can be made without injurying the woolen in : dustry t h,»v are taking measures in ! which the government is still in the dark as to scientific informa j tioi . and which of course will draw another veto from the Pres ident if passed. In other words, (lie Demorats are merely trying to | • 'makea record - ' and to bluff the j public, so as to gain an advantage, |if possible, in the presidential j campaign. However, the people j will understand their game of plaving politics instead of states manship and will act accordingly, at voting time. EAGLES MERE. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. L. : Smith Feb. 'JS, 1012, a daughter. John Prink is a great boxer, when practicing he knocked Mr. Stere through the window. The lumbermen are very glad to j sec the snow again. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESVILLE, 3P.A --' CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W c. FRONTZ President. Suri)luß and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits I 00.000. DIRECTORS: ; Transacts a General W. C.Fronta, John C. Laird, C. W. Soues, i Banking Business. Lyuian Myers, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, J. A. S. Ball, John Bull, Peter Fronts. Accounts ofl nd ivid uals and Firms solicited. | Safe Deposite Boxes forwent, One Dollar per Year. 1 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON.TIME DEPOSITS. I f 75C PER YEAR JOHN B. ENGLISH, EDITOR. f* QUALITY : S When people realize tliat it X is "ot the quantity for the 2 money, so much an the quality J that counts, then they wUI X patronize the store which does • business in good pure goods. £ Cut prices often mean cut 2 qualities. Our prices are as | '"W as good goods wii allow. J Our goods are not of the cheap • mail-order variety. When • comparing prices do not for- S get to compare qualities. If X you find the prices lower thau 2 ours, then you will And the 1 qualities inferior—generally "bargain house" job lots. Ask us to show you why our stock is superior. Buschhausen's. :M. BRINK'S PRICES For This Week i » toil 100 lb ' Corn Meal 29.00 1.50 , Cracked Corn 29.00 1.50 , Corn 29.00 1.50 • Sacks each (Jc with privilege of . returning without expense to uie. Schumacher Chop 32.00 1,05 | Wheat Bran 3C.00 105 Fancy White Mulds. 33.00 1.70 Oil Meal 42.00 2.10 Gluten 34.50 1.75 . Alfalfa Meal 29.00 1.50 k i Oyster Shells 10.00 00 1 Brewels Ovaiu 30.00 l.tiO ' Choice Cottonseed Meal 33.00 1.70 I Luxury Flour sack 1.25 " per bbl. 4.90 Beef Scrap 3.00 Oats per bu. .60 ' Charcoal 50 lb sack .00 i Oyuter Shells " .35 t 140 lb bag Salt coarse or fine .50 100 lb bag Salt .35 Buckwheat Flour 3.00 Slhumacher Flour sack I.GO " " perbbl. 6.2tf i Spring Wheat Marvel) " 1.70 i Veal Calves wanted on Monday, . Tuesday and Wednesday. 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