Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-25

1t was decided by the commits
sioners to have the county statemen
published i'm the NEWS ITEM ant
Gazette, a procedure that has alway'
been practiced that people of botI
parties might have the privilege .
seeing in their papers where The
county funds went to and Tor what
The Herald job office was given the
printing of the spring election tick
cts.
1t is important that honest,
capable and trustworthy men should
be chosen as judges and inspectors of
elections. The recent revelations
regarding election frauds show that
with the ballot box in the hands of
dishonest and inscriptions men,
American citizenship is disfranchis-
ed. Voters in both parties should
select their very best men for cleo
tion officers.
One of our exchanges takes the
floor to remark that next year we
may expect to read something like
the following in the daily papers:
'AbOut ten o'clock this morning Il
horseless wagon loaded with cow
less milk collided with brainless
driver on IL chainless wheel. The
luckless wheelman was badly injur-
ed and being homeless, he was taken
in a hOrseless cab to the home of
the friendless, where his death was
painless in an hour or so.
The manufacture of buttons
from milk was mentioned at a re-
cent farmers institute. There is a
factory of this kind at Cuba, n. Y.
In preparing the button material
is placed in a huge vat and mixed
with rennet extract as in cheese
making. It's kept at temperature
of 100 degrees until it is of the prop
er consistency. Then fine white
powder is added and the whole
thoroughly cooked for an hour.
After that the whey is separated
from the curtls after the manner of
making cheese, but in this case the
curds or solids are packed in barrels
and shipped to a button mandatory
in New York to be moulded into
attractive forms.
County Commissioners, Yelling
ton Graifley, Reuben Brown and
Adam Baumunk, We're at their Office
the early part of the week to tran
sact their first official business. Their
mode and conduct of business would
indicate that they are disposed to
lift this Office, by the manner in
which they personally fill it, per.
form its duties with tact and ability
and asserting the dignity of their po-
sition, thereby elevating it to its prop
er position, lifting it up before the peo-
pie to the plane which this impOr-
tant Office merits. Their purpose
seems to be simply to meet all of the
responsibilities with equal and uni
form efficiency and to discharge
these duties with acceptability to all
concerned. 1t is to be hoped that
they will continue 10 persue this
even course of tenure throughout
their entire administration.
AS the election of town officers
draws near, the voters and people
ought to be earnest in asking the
question: Who are the best men to
fill the offices of the future!
This is a hard question to answer
and we ought to be thinking serious
ly about it. In the first place, let
every voter come out and cast his
ballot like IL man and not shrink
from the responsibility of citizen
ship. Many men who are unfit to
hold the Office intrusted to their
care, would not have been there if
the voters had been interested
enough in "town affairs to have
been at the polls and by their votes
protest against corrupt officials being
elected. Let us select and nominate
no man for school director who has
not required good common school
education and who will uot visit the
school by law, at least once month,
and try to the best of his ability to
promote the education of the young.
We want men tG fill our town and
county offices who will stand firm
and unmOved for right, and who
will not drift upon any cross wave