Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-06-11

for the 18th. of July celebration at
Laporte. 1t will be contest be
tween Sullivan and Lycoming
county, combination teams.
A Jersey Shore farmer about six
years ago made himself home
made potato planter which he has
successfully used ever since and his
neighbors occasionally borrow it. 1T
is built on two runners, upon which
is a platform on which the hopper
stands. A hopper that holds a couple
bushels is in front of him, and while
driver looks after the horses, he
drops the pieces of pototoes into the
end of tin pipe that extends down
to the rear of shovel plow- share,
set vertically, just back of the pipe
are two cultivator teeth set so as to
throw the soil over the potatoes after
they are dropped. 1t does good
work, and the tubers are planted
very rapidly by its use.
1t is noted by Monroe County
newspaper that many young men
are returning to the farms in that
section from the industrial towns
in the Lehigh Valley. A few years
ago when everything was booming,
great numbers of young men left the
farms and found employment in the
shops and manufacturing establish
ments. Now that business is dull
many of them are out of work, and
as they have not been able to save
enough to support them very long in
idleness, they are getting back to the
farm and bringing others with them
What is true of Monroe county is
true of many other sections of the
state. The old farm is a pretty
good thing to rely upon in some en-
and very likely it will re-
quire a most extraordinary boom in
things to get some Of these young
men away from home again. There
is always plenty of work on the farm,
and generally pretty good living.
oliver NJ. Kemp, a farmer at Elev.
en- mile Potter county, left his house
early last Wednesday afternoon TO
go to a distant field to blow out some
stumps. He carried several sticks
of dynamite in a basket. A few
minutes later terric explosion was
heard. Workmen hurried from
nearby field and found Kemp sit
ing on the ground, still conscious.
Both hands had been blown off. A
jacknife had been driven through
his right lung. Both eyes were
blown out. lie asked the men to
carry him home, where he died in a
few minutes.
There IS little doubt that for time
there will be boom in Wall street.
which will have sympathetic reply
in business. Congress is out of the
way, and the new currency bill al
though temporary and makeshift,
has given Wall street stiflening
that will draw out money and we
may expect stocks to go up, and
bonds, stocks and securities come in
to the market in great volume.
While the nominations still lower,
with the big crops promised, and
the depletion of stocks of manu-
actured goods, there must come
better business conditions.
st. Louis has reemployed thou
sands of men who have remained
idle since October l. In the Kansas
City district thirty five thousand
miners who have not sed pick in
many a day have returned to work.
The South cries for more men to
work in her cotton fields. Ship
building has been given healthy
impetus on the pacific coast,
Orders for finished steel from max
ers of farm machinery and other
miscellaneous sources are more nu-
merous, and employment in the
mills around Pittsburg, Birming-
ham and other iron centers is stead
lily increasing, while sentiment in
the trade is reported as becoming
noticeably confident and hopeful
The copper market also reports a
broadening of demand and the prom