LAPORTE, PA. JUNE 13th, 1890. LOCAL DEPARTMENT The month of roses. Time for sunstrokes. Wild strawberries will soon be in the market. Tunkhannock will celebrate the Fourth of July. Col. Bigger of Muncy Valley, was in town Saturday. The tax collector will soon make his round for 1890. There are but few people who will be benefited by good advise. The candidates ale commencing to hare A fatigued And care worn look. There was quite a large delegation present at the land sales, on Mon day. Hon. C. D. Eldred of Muncy, registered at the LaPorte Hotel, on Friday. Dr. M. Gillmart of Elkland, Was in attendance at the land Sales, on Monday. John L. Farrell of Dushore, was tailing On friends at the county on Sunday. Atty. J. G. Scouten, was the only attorney of the coitnty, absent at tiie land salcS. Mrs. F. M. Crossley (if LaPorte, is visiting friends in Wilmont, Brad ford county. BORN.— To Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, of LaPorte, on Thursday last a brand new boy. The printer will soon have a vaca tion, only- three weeks from to-day, is the glorious 4tli. The hay and grain fields in this section have every appearance of yielding a large crop. Geo. C. Jackson accompanied by his sister Miss Winnie of Dushore, were in town, on Saturday. County Treasurer Lorah fixed t'le time of adjourned land Sales to take 1 place, on August 7, '9O at 2p m. j Mrs. Russel Karns of LaPorte> ] was taken quite ill, on Thursday | last. At present she is improving. I The Republican Skate Convention will convene in the Opera house at Harrisbiirg, on Wednesday June 25, , 1890. I F. P. Vincent Of Dushore, was transacting business with the county i treasurer, at LaPorte. on Friday la«t. Bent Cole and wife of Behton Columbia county, were Visiting friends at LaPorte, on Saturday and j Sunday. Frank Gallagher the barber, of LaPorte, while sharpening his shears cut a fearful gash in his thumb, on Sunday last. Geo. C. Wright accompanid by his sdn master Morris, of Forks ville, were in attendance at the land sales, on Monday. County Treasurer Lorah was in town on Monday looking after the interest of the Sullivan county land sales, and was also the county com missioners. The LaPorte choir is practicing two or thi'ee times a \Veek for the consecration of the new St. John's Church at LaPorte, to take place the last of this month. Robert Stormont ta* collector for LaPorte borough, has posted notices of the 5 percent discount allowed if paid within 60 days from the time bf date of notice, June 2, '9O. The attorneys of Sullivan, were hot to make a large stake at the land Sales, on Monday. They were after a snap. The county commis sioners were made whole, however. MARRIED i—Frederick Fleschutt of LaPorte, to Miss Mattie John son of Bradfbrd county, on May 14, 'OO. Fred'Smany friendsofSullivan, wish him a happy and prosperous future. We learn that Meylert firuner Esq., of Mexico, formerly of La- Porte, who graduated in the law de partment, of the Pennsylvania Uni versity of Philadelphia, last year, is gaining for himself a renown repu tation as a criminal attorney. He defended a party indicted for murder, recently and was successful in freeing his man The papers state that Meylert accomplished this end Under great disadvantages. With but two or three exceptions the REPUBLICAN, was cited to by all bidders present at the land sales. The REPUBLICAN is circula ted among the best people of the land. Hon. A. L. Fritz and wife of Bloomsburg, were registered at the LaPorte Hotel on Friday last. Mr. Fritz i$ a candidate for Senator of this district and was up in Sullivan interviewing his political friends. The Non Partisan W. C. T. U., will meet at Mrs. W. T. Watrous' '.Tune 19th. The social will meet at Mrs. M. C. Lauer Ihursday evenings June 12 and 26. An early attendance is desirable. All are cordially invited. We publish in this issue a letter from a Forksville correspondent who urges the necessity of a new county jail. We find that the tax payers at large of Sullivan county are in unison upon this subject. Newell to the contrary. The roof of the new school build ing at this place, which is being covered With slate, is about finished. The progress of the work of erecting the building is progressing very rapidly and contractor Keeler hopes to have it completed by August Ist. M. J. Phillips of Muncy Vallej-, general agent for the Bloomsburg school furnishing Co., made arrange ments with the directors of LaPorte to furnish the new school building with desks &c., on Tuesday last. The people ol La Porto believe in pat ronizihg Home industry. It is said that the Jennings Bros., of Lopez, positively have the largest assortment of merchandise in stock, of any store in Sullivan count}-. The Jennings Bros., are fine young men and nlerit their prosperity. To materially increase their business, however, they should advertise in the REPUBLICAN. A DOUBLE WEDDING. —Harry Put ton and Miss Hattie Wood ley, both of this place, and Judson Botsford, jof Nordmont, and Miss Minnie J Jvunes, of Cherry, were married at | Elmira, Wednesday June 4th. All ! highly esteemed and industrious 1 young people, and their many friends wish them abundant success in life.—Dubhore Gazette. The town council should consider the importance of a side walk to the cemeter}' at their next meeting. If a vote was left to the people of La Porte borough as to whether a walk is needed to said place; there is'nt the slightest doubt but that two thirds of the citizens wotdd vote "yes." The town council should consider the vbice of the people. The sentence of Lincoln Edkin, who has served a term of three or four months in the county jail, ex pired on Monday last, and he was released b}' the County commission ers by giving his note of $85.00, the amount of fine and cost. lie im mediately left for his home and judging from the flop of the tail of his coat, he was not long in getting there. The attention of our readers is called to the article on editorial page requesting the ideas, of the public in general, of how moneys shall be levied and who shall be the proper officials to take charge of working our roads. PleaSe cut out, answer the questions and return the slip to the secretary. It may assist in bringingabout good highway govern ment to which end we are all inter ested. The thunder storm that visited this section, on Thursday last, was the most severe known for some time. We learn that during the shower the barn, well filled with grain, ownea by J< hn Hartzig of Cherry twp., was struck by light ning and burned to the ground also barn owned by Mr. Lynch of Wil mot Bradford County, was struck and 14 head of choice cattle to gether with grain and farming uten sils burned. "Why don't you run a paper like that?" said a merchant to a publish er. throwing down a blanket sheet city daily. "Why don't you run a store like that ?" said the publisher of the country paper as he turned the paper over and pointed to a full page advertisement that brought the city publisher $260 and issue. Just then the country publisher presented a monthly bill for $5, and the mer chant began to talk of economizing by cutting down his advertisement and stopping his paper. He did both, and the Sheriff is now doing his advertising for him— Ex, Conrad Kraus the butcher, while peddling through our streets last week, was confronted by a large dog. He was ringing his bell at the time and let it fly at the brute. He missed his mark, howevwr, and struck a bolder cracking the metal of his bell. Conrad swears vengeance on canine. The Sullivan county Teacher's Association will meet in the M. E. church at Forksville Friday evening June 13th and Saturday morning following. Hort. E. M. Dunham of LaPortc, will address the evening's meeting. Owing to the fact that so few of the schools of the county are now in session no regular program for morning meeting has been ar ranged. The teachers in attendance, however, will present such work as the committee on program may as sign- _____ About one half of the reading mat ter published in the Dushore papers last week was copied from the RE PUBLICAN of May 30th. Among the articles taken were : The court pro ceedings; the defect in the county iail, the political compromise in the Democratic circle and the list of census enumerators appointed for •Sullivan county. To our sub scribers the Dushore papers of last week must have been stale. The editors of our contemporaries have yet to learn to give credit to thosb to whom credit is due. Beginning on Saturday, June 14th and every Saturday during the sum j mer season a special last train will leave Williamsport at 2:15 p. m. connecting for all stations on the Williamsport & North Branch R. R., as far as Muncy Valley. Manager Welch made very strenuous cfTorts to get stage connections for La- Porte with the fast line but could not get it done, so LaPorte is out for this season. To Williamsport and back by 5 o'clock in the even ing is a wonderful stride ahead. James Miller superintendent of the Muncy Valley tannery, while on his way to Picture Rocks, recently accompanied by Miss Carrie Taylor, met with quite a serious accident. The wheel of the vehicle ran over ft barrel hoop throwing it against the animal. The horse sprang throw ing Mr. Miller out and inflicting up on him several severe bruises. Miss Taylor clung to the wagon until making the turn at Mrs. Kate Stroup's where she too was thrown to the ground receiving such bruises as to render her unconscious for an hour or two. The horse was caught a few rods below Stroup's farm un injured. The La Porte correspondent of the DushOre Review sees the neces sity of .l new county jail and advo cated the same in his commnnica. tion to that paper last week. Newell says there is a small "faction'' of aboitt one third of the people of the county advocating a new jail and that "HE will oppose the building of a jail at present." That settles it, unless those who favor the erection of the building can persuade Newell to join with them, who is the op posing two thirds and would result in a unanimous vote for the new building. We fear, however, that no person will goto the trouble of getting his consent in the matter. The record of high license in Philadelphia is a most satisfactory one. Strong efforts were recently made to induce the judges of the license court to increase the number of licensed saloons, it being urged that this was the only way to reduce j the number of "speak-easies" in the city. Investigation brought out the fact that the number and influence of these illicit rum-holes have been greatly exaggerated. That in fact, outside of the bogils "social clubs," they are not numerous and cannot in the nature of things do much business without exposure. The record shows the number of licensed saloons in that city in 1887 to have been 5,773. In 1888, the first year of high license, the number waa re duced to 1,347, the next year to 1,205, and now there are 1,173 licen sed saloons in the city and yet there is a class of people who say that High License is a detriment to the temperance cause. Those who judge high License, thus, are proven by the above, to be incompetent [judges of what is best for the world's I good. M. C. Mercur Esq., of Towanda passed through town on Friday, en route to his farm in Elkland twp., Sullivan county, where he is en gaged about one half his time in looking after improvements on hisj property. Mr. M. gave us a pleas ant call while on his way and re newed his subscription to the RE PUBLICAN to Vol. 10 No. 1. Thos. Mahatfey, jr., and John Sharp both of Dushore, were ar rested on Thursday last for visiting the lien roost of Mrs. Ann Thrasher of Cherry twp., on Wednesday June 4th and conveying to their own use 15 chickens valued at $5.00. The case was tried before A. Douglass J. P., of Dushore and they were convicted of the charge. The bail required was S2OO, each J. G. Scouten, attorney for the boys, went Mahafley's bail but refused to bail Sharp who was brought to the coun ty seat bj- constable O'Neal, of Du shore, and placed in jail on the same day of the hearing. The Month of Roses. We are now in the centre of the charming month of June, usually call ed the month of roses, and we hope it will bring recompenses, and that summer will now speedily come in earnest, for May was cool and chilly, with a great deal of rain and damp ness. June is the most magnificent month of the summer, ever the time of sweetest summer splendor—when the trees are the freshest, the foil age the leafiest. It is the month in which the day reaches its full length; flowers appear in the richest bloom ; birds are in song ; earth, air, and water teem with life, and all nature is gay and joyous With its close verdure begins to fade, and never after during the season is it so beauti-: fiil and bright. It is a month which for this year can speedily boast of several good things, among which arc that it gives more hope to the farmers anil storekeepers, better health to young and old, and pre sents nature in a more attractive garb, than any of the five preceeding ones. New Couuty Jail. En. REPUBLICAN : Your correspondent has of late noticed several articles in the coun ty papers in reference to the neces sity of a more secure jail accom-j moilations at the count}' seat. It is not necessary to call the attention! of your readers to the fact the present county jail is entirely unfit! for the purposes for which it was intended. The easy escape within the past few years of almost every occupant to whom confinement there in proved burdensome furnishes an unanswerable and indisputable argu ment that something must be done. The recent discovery that the bars in celU 1 and 2 hail been completely sawed through and that the prison ers could escape at any time they desired has naturally brought up the question. The old cells cannot be made sufficiently secure, with noth ing but a narrow brick and mortar wall between a convict and liberty, his escape with such assistance as his accomplices will render, is a fore gone conclusion and only a matter of a little, time unless, as has been the case since last cotirt, a watch man is continually employed to stand guard. This i& a deplorable condition of affairs. Sullivan coun ty needs a new jail separate and apart frcm the Court House. A jail from wheh prisoners can not es cape, a jiil that will be sufficiently secure sc that the court can sentence a prisoner and not feel that the < sentence will probably be a full and ] free disclarge by reason of the in- i security of the cell; a jail that will I not cause the Sheriff to pass sleep- i less nights through fear that prison ers placet by the court in his charge will escafe ere the morning ; a jail built of good solid stone, (like the foundatioi to the county offices for instance.) Such a building can be erected for less than SSOOO and the time has come in the history of Sullivan county that demands it. The papers in adjoining counties have been making sport of our jail for years: We are well able to build a good one and let us do it. The at tention of your readers is directed to the fact tint at least two grand juries, after a thcrough inspection of the present jail, have reported in favor of a new biilding. Forksvile, Pa., June 10th, 1890. ARE WILD WITH DELIGHT ! At the immense bargains we are offering. Never in the history of this Country has such induoements been shown to purchasers of ♦s3clothing!&* Boots and Shoes* Trunks Valises, Hats and gents furn ishing goods. Come in and look our stock over, you will be surprised at our low prices. ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE M, M. MARKS & Co. Prop, SCOUTEN'S BLOCK, DUSIIORE, Pa. The First National Bank OS HUGHESVILLE Offers all the facilities for the transaction of a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESB Accounts respectfully solicited. DEWITT BODINE, President, C. Wm. WODDROP, Vice President, W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier. GRAND ~ FURNITURE DISPLAY. AT LAWBBNCB «HOTHKRS FURNITURE STORE, Jackson's Block Main & Centre si DUSHORE, - - - PA. The most magniflcant display of fancy furniture ever shown in Dushore fancv chairs in endless variety, chairs that are ancient and antique look ing, odd chairs of odd shape. Hundreds of them of every conceiveable kind are spread out for your inspection. Fancy cabnets, music cabnetsj j fancy mirrors, foot rests, blacking cases, card tables ire. Do not miss the display, come it you can possibly get here, comt I whether ybu want to buy or not, everybody is welcome, Very Respectively, LA WHENCE BROS. We also wish to call your attention to our new line of stone caskets 1 they are light, beautiful in design and constitute within themselves mini' ature vaults, they are finished in broadcloth, plush and Bateins and are furnished at a price that bHngs tliem within reach of all classes. Please call and examine our model as we are the only dealers that handle stone caskets in Sullivan county. We also have a full line of wood caskets; robes, trimmings &c. LOYAL BOOK tttttttt Tii E best and cheapest fcoal in the marked customers from— LAPORTt J®D VjcMTY THE price is noticed at thfc breaker to The State Line & Sullivan R. It. Co I. O. BLIGHT, Supt ""J " F iTo M THE HE a raoOT ."BOOT AND SHOE STORE j. S; HARRINGTON Proprietor Dushore, - - Pa It will pay you before purchasing to call and examine my large stofclf of new and well selected goods. Large sales enables me to sell for small profits. Cash customers can save a good percentage by buying goods of me. Everything new neat and first class. My stock of French Kid hand turned goods are very fine and low in price. All goods guaranteed in price and in quality to be the best thatany market can afford. - | | =-: | :-= | =-: | | =-: [ =-= | :-= [ j :-7j BOOTS & SHOES made to ordsr If you want a fine sewed boot or shoe try a sample pair. Repairin done on short notice CASH PAID FOR HIDES PELTS, WOOL, TALLOW &c„ AT J. S. HARRINGTONS, DUSHORE, PA. june!.'4,B7 y P YISfCOTT «er DEALER IN Mens' Youth Boy's and Chil-» drens Clohing Cronin's New Block, Dushoe, Pa.
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