VOL. VII. NO. 16 LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1902.

Republican News Item.75 CTS. PER YEAR.

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is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. }J We intend that this store shall be first in yourCS thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- JK tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom Cx scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the JS same grade of goods. \

Always Ready for Repairwork. S} Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J\ hands. To get values come here after vthem.112 Very respectfully, r

> RETTENBURY, I

J DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER.

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Wire fencing for farm, garden, lawn and poultrynetting. Lawn mowers, wheel barrows, tin ware,woodenware, garden and farm tools, dairy supplieswashing machines, wringers etc, of the latest in-ventions. Paints, oils and varnishes. Mill sup-plies and tools of all descriptions.

" NECESS^TV. 1

Bicycle Tires, Lamps, Brakes and Sundries.* Sporting goods, lishing tackle, guns, revolvers and

equipments. Roofing, spouting, plumbing, pipingand fittings. Bicycle repairing and general job work.

Samuel (^ole^usfiore^a.

The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,313 Pine Street,

t i WILLIAMSPORT, PA.

House Keeping Linens.If you want honest linens that willwash and wear wellcome and select from these.

Bleached and unbleached Table Linen 64 to 72 incheswide, extra heavy, good assortment of medium and smallpatterns at

45 and 50 Cents a Yard.72 inch wide unbleached and full bleached Table Linen

in a large variety of neat designs. These qualities will inter-est you if you are looking for the best qualities you everbought for

"2 SIOO K-Fine double damask satin finished linen in the best and

newest patterns you have ever seen, ranging in prices from

1.25 UPTO 2.50.

NAPKINS. TOWELSWe have a full assortment of breakfaat, of all kinds and prices, fine damask

lunch or dinner napkins to match all the towels with either fringe I or hemstitchedbetter grades of table linen. herders at 50c to 2.50 H pair. Ask to see

the New "Biibdrv bath towel. Its anU3IEHI. ? ew i,i eil M1 towels.

I.adies' fast black and fancy colored Sheets and Pillow Cases,lace striped or drop stitch hose at 25c Heady for use. What the use of cuttingspecially good value: better qualities up and sewing when the made up article canto 1.25. Ladies'black silk hose at SI.OO be hail for about the" same price you would1.25 and 1 .MO. Men's fancy and fast pay for the material, 'l'illow cases at 8cblack hose 12A to 50c. We sell the beat up to 40c. Sheets at 47c up to tiOc, ac--25c hose made lor boys and girls. cording to the quality of muslin.

Try The News Item Job OfficeWHEN IN NEED OF FINE STATIONERY.

,[ COUNTYNEWSHappenings ot SSr*

Interest to Readers Man* Tovns - JEAGLES MERE

A number of our people took in

the Sunday School Convention at:Laportc on Thursday and Friday of

last week and tire enthusiastic alxait

its success.Rev. Campbell Morgan's father is

making several weeks stay at the

Crestmont.Mr. Homer Castle of Tyrone de-

livered a Prohibition address ill the

Auditorium on Saturday night.Rev. Dr. Swallow preached in the

same place on Sunday afternoon.Both tin; Light Co. an<l the Water

Co. held their annual meetings atthe Lakeside on Saturday afternoonand we understand elected the sameofficers for another year.

Poles have been distributed along

the railroad extension for the erect-

ion of telephone lines by the Penn-

sylvania Telephone Co.

The excursion from points on theHeading Railway between William-sport and Montgomery and also along

the line of the W. A X. B. It. R. onSaturday was the largest this seasonand indicated bad calculations some-

where. Part of the train had to beleft on the road so that the enginescould take up the balance and a large

number of passengers were left atSonestown for want ofsufficient cars.

These did not reach Eagles Mere

until after one o'clock. Regulartrains were all seriously out of time

to the great inconvenience of regu-lar passengers. At night a large

number who could not get on theexcursion train were com pel leiI towait until about half past eight atnight and then there was only onepassenger car and the baggage carso that the people, including littlechildren, were packed like herring

in a box, bung onto the platformand anywhere else to get home.

It was simply horribly inhuman.Miss Beaumont is offering her

property, the Cliff House, for sale.The outlook is one of the finest inEagles Mere and the new boardwalk makes it quite attractive. Weunderstand that there is a great bar-gan for some one.

We have heard intimations of apossible suit against the Boroughfor injuries to a lady stopping at theRaymond. The trouble is defectivesidewalks. There is more than onedangerous place of that sort.

At the meeting of the Post OfficeClub much complaint was expressedbecause the Street Commissioner hashot gathered the stones out of the

streets. In fact a report was brought

in that the Street Commissioner wasdriving through the streets with his

produce and milk, and bis horsestepped on a stone and stumbledthrowing out the Commissioner andbreaking his neck ofT short. Itwas siiid that he was seen with his

head under his arm in a sling mak-ing his way over to l)r. Nutt's houseto have repairs made. Some doubtwas expressed about the accuracy ofthe report and the Secretary prom-ised togo and see the Dr. and ascer-tain about it.

Reference was made to the factthat some cases had oci ured in whichSupervisors had been heavily finedfor neglecting this duty but it wasconcluded that if the reported acci-dent had really happened it wouldbe quite ascrious matter to the Steeet

Commissioner as he was not verywealthy and the expenses would belikely to be heavy for such an oper-ation and treatment as might be re-quired.

The undersigned will| open his cider mill on

Thursday, Sept. 4thand willrun each Thursdayand Friday of each weekuntil November 14, 1902.

JOHN M. CONVERSE,SONESTOWN, PA.

SHUNK.I)r. Ott of Nayre, was called to'

! town Saturday for examination in jthe case of Mrs. C. B. Brown, whohas been Seriously ill for some time.He found that medical help could hegiven Mrs. Brown at the Say re Hos-pital, and she was removed to thatplace Monday.

Mrs. P. F. Reedy will leave Sat-urday for Elmira to join Iter hus-band who at present is workingthere, and will make Klmira theirfuture home.

The young people enjoyed a danceat Samuel Leonard's Saturday even-

ing.John Packard and wife of South

Mountain were the guests of Mr.and Mrs. Frank Packard on Sunday.

Mrs. A. T. Beers of Waterville, isvisiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.Peter Brown.

Helen Williams returned on Sun-day from a visit to her grandparentsat Fast Canton.

Curtis Potter of Bradford, Pa. wasshaking hands with friends in townSaturday.

What's the matter with the Grov-er Nine that they did not "showup?" Afraid of being defeated ofcourse.

Miss Julia Brown is the guest ofElmira friends this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Fosterand Mrs.F. L. Kilmer art' visiting relativesin Montoursville.

A. E. Campbelle is a businessman in Elmira this week.

J. W. llaub and sister ofTowandaspent Sunday with their parents,Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Rauh.

A large delegation of members ofCamp 220 P. o. s. of A. of this placeare attending the State Conventionat Williamsport, this week.

DUSHORE.All the delegates who attended the

Sunday School Convention at La-porte speak enthusiastically of theconvention and also of their kind en-

tertainment by the citizens of thatplace.

Wm. Miles of Towanda was bur-ied at that place last Tuesday. Hewas a shoemaker and worked at histrade here several years before leav-ing for Towanda.

Clem Farrel had his nose brokenlast Wednesday by being struck

i with it base ball.A number of citizens are relaying

their sidewalks to conform to the| new grade recently established.

The material for the new ironbridge across Marsh Hun at the low-er end ofmain streetjis on the ground.It will probably be built this week.

Mr. James Cook and Miss MazieWhite, and Mr. ('has. White andMiss Gauglin were married here on

Tuesday morning.

Mr. 1). Connor was confined to hisroom last week with an attack ofgastritis.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holla, Mr. andMrs. Chas. Croll, Mr. and Mrs. BoydHeverly and James Conuinghamwere lishing for bass near Wyalu-sing, last week with good success.()n,» bass weighing 27 J pounds gotaway from them.

John Boyd has resigned his jiosi-tion with the Herald.

F. Osthouse of Overton, lias beenvisiting at Dr. Hermann's.

Mrs. F. P. Vincent and daughtersof Philadelphia are visiting here.

Miss Martha Streby is visitingrelatives at Overton.

J. H. Crimmins is on the sick list.John K. Farrel, a well known res-

ident of near this place, died onWednesday of last week, aged about75 years.

On Monday the Base Ball Club ofthis place encouraged the Mildred Is.

! B. C. by allowing the Mildred Clubto make 5 innings while their ownselves made only 80.

Dr. Osier is entertaining a relativefrom Waverly, N. Y.

Rogers's Family Reunion.The Third Annual Reunion of

the Rogers' family was held atjForksville, Friday, August 22. It;

celebrated the one hundredth anni-'versary of the settlement of thefirst Rogers on the Loyal HockCreek.

The Reunion was held in theFair Grounds. At one o'clock theentire company, consisting of onehundred and sixty persons, satdown to a bountiful lunch. When

| ample justice had been done to thechoice repast, a short business ses-sion was held. The history of thevarious branches of the Rogersfamily as told by their represent®tives was very interesting and en-tertaining. The same officers werere-elected for the ensuing year.

After passing the day very pleas-antly in renewing old acquaintan-ces and talking over old times, thevarious members of the family de-parted with the resolution firmlyfixed to be present at the next re-

union.

Sunday School Convention.The sixteenth annual convention

of the Sullivan County SundaySchool Association was held in theBaptist Church at Laporte, Thurs-day and Friday, August 21 and 22.The church was handsomely decora-ted for the occasion with flowers,ferns, flags and hunting.

The convention was called to or-

der by the president, A. I*. Starr, athalf past ten Thursday forenoon.

Devotional exercises led by ltev.S. Neisser of Laporte.

Rev. R. C. Caswell of Laporte,made an excellent address on"TheHoly Spirit in Sunday SchoolWork."

Enrollment of delegates.Distribution of badges.Singing, with Prof. F. \V. Mcy-

lert, organist.Adjournment.

Tilt RSDAY AKTKitNOON.

Song Service.The address of welcome was made

in a pleasing and entertaining man-ner by Prof. F. W. Meylert.

The response was made by Rev.J. (iuilden of Muney Valley, in avery able manner in which the con-

vention heartily concurred.Singing.

ltev. lienjamin («. Welch of Ea-gles Mere, gave an interesting andvaluable talk on the "Personal Ap-plication of the Lesson." lie statedthat the methods of the past werenot the methods of to-day. Mr.Welch made many valuable andpractical suggestions on the methodsof teaching the Sunday School Les-son.

"Mow to (Jet and How to Hold,"was the subject of an able address

delivered by Rev. A. K. Smith of,

Forksville. lie stated that theSunday School should make itself

felt in the community. The teachersholud be a professed christian. Ad-vertise your schools in various ways |in the local papers. Schools should

have faithful officers and teachers, iWorkers in the Sabbath School are,

home missionaries and should visit !

the homes and endeavor to bring inthe children and parents.

Singing.The balance of the afternoon sess-

ion was taken up with a discussionof the question of "How Are We toHold the Young Men in the SundaySchool." It was decided to leavethe question to the state officer,Hugh Cork on the following day.

Singing and adjournment.THI'KSDAY EVENING.

Singing.Devotions led by Rev. Relies of

New Albany.Address, "Jesus The Perfect

Teacher," by Rev. Hoover of Du-shore, who treated the subject in anable and scholarly manner, provingby numerous passages of scripturethe perfect teachings of the Savior.

Miss Josephine Colt, of KaglesMere, favored the convention witha beautifui solo.

Acting State Secretary, HughCork of Philadelphia, was then in-

i trodueed, and took for his subject"Home Co-operation j.Necessary forBetter Work and How to Secure it."

\u25a0 Mr. Cork is an excellent speakerand holds his audience spellbound

i while he brings out in rapid success-ion in clear ami forcible language

' the innumerable points pertaining to,' the s ibjrct.

Singing and adjournment.Continued on Page Three.

* SONESTOWN.Born to' Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Haz-

j /-en, on August 2")th, twins', a boy: and a girl. Mother and babes aredoing very nicely.

()n Sunday last Mr. and Mrs. It.W. Simmons entertained Misses Evaand Clara Keeler, May 11 ostetter,Messrs. Ray Hnders, Thos. Red-mond and Lawrence Redmond, allof Williamsport. Miss Eva remain-ed over for a week's visit.

Miss FredaCrossley of Laporte, isthe guest of Mrs. M. P. Gavit.

Miss lto.->e Rillambos and motherof Picture Hocks, is spending sometime with friends near town.

Harry Botsford of Nordmont vis-ited Walter Lorah Saturday night.

Miss Clara Streby of Dushore wasthe guest of friends in town overSunday.

Mrs. Edna Opp and daughter andMiss Maggie Clark of Muncy visitedat 11. I*. Halls on Thursday of lastweek.

While attempting to fill a lubrica-tor, W. H. Ha/en an employe of theE. M. li. 11. was badly scalded onthe face. He is able to be out butpresents a rather unsightly appear-ance.

A delightful party was given MissAda Hall on Monday evening inhonor of her birthday. Those pres-ent were Misses May Simmons, EvaKeeler, Maud Starr, Freda Crossley,Myrtle Edgar, Helm Hess, LottieWilson, Mildred Hall, Messrs. It. S.Starr, Walter Lorah, W. B. Hazen,Howard Hess, Harry Hazen, 11. A.Starr, ()rville Hall.

The Davidson school directorsmet on Monday and hired the fol-lowing teachers for the coining term:Emmons, Thos. Laird; Centennial,Frank Shoemaker; Corners, FrankSmall; Glidewells, Anna Speary;Sugar Grove, M. 1). Sweeney; Hem-lock Grove, Henry Warburton;Sheets Hill, W. B. Hazen; Soties-town Adv., C. H. Warren; Inter.,It. S. Starr; Pri., Mrs. C. H. War-ren; Muncy Valley Adv., MyrtleFdgar; Inter., Marcella Farrel; Pri.,Emma Biddle. The majority ofschools will open September 15th,Centennial however opens nextmonday.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fisher, Mr.and Mrs. A. 1.. Deininger and sonLester of Hughesville, were theguests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sim-mons last Sunday.

ESTELLA. vCool nights and warm days.Mrs. X. K. Woodward has gone

to Houghten, N. Y., accompaniedby Miss Jessica ltogers, Daisy Rog-ers, Edward Woodward and GroverBrown. The young people will at-tend school and board with Mrs,

Woodward.Mrs. Alice Adams and little son

' Arthur of Say re, are visiting the

i former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. More.While making hay on the Wicks

farm on Bear Mountain, ('. S. Var-|giusonand son killed five large rattle-snakes and captured the sixth one,

j measuring nearly live feet. Theyhave the large rattler still on exhi-

I hition.U. G. Little and wife spent Sun-

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day at I. K. Brown's at Hillsgrove.Mrs. J. W. Hess is confined to the

I house with sciatic rheumatism, butj under the careful treatment of Dr.Davies is doing nicely.

Miss Nellie Webster is spendingseveral weeks at her fathers camp atJakersville.

| Geo. More and sister spent Sunday: with friends at Hillsgrove.

Mr. and Mrs. Win. Lewis of Hol-land Hill are visiting their sons, ('.

B. and E. Jennings.J. L. lloaglaiul and family former-

ly of this place but now of Scranton,are visiting friends in this cominu-

I nity.Mrs. Geo. Betts of Williamsport,

is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.J. G. Plotts.

A. T. Mulnix is busy repairingdamage done by the December floodon King Creek road.

S. I*. Shoemaker is working atcarpenter work for Mr. Schanabach-er at Forksville.

Several loads of picnicers cameover from Eagles Mere to spend theday at Lincoln Falls, last week.

Mrs. Ernest Kaye is in quite poor; health.