LAPORTE. PA , SEPT. 4th, 1891. LOCAL DEPARTMENT" Towauda has »» orchestra. September 7th is Labor Day. Summer is drawing rapidly to a close. School will commence September 28th. Republican county convention Sept. 12. Tuesdaj, Sept. Ist, was a rainy I dismal day. To-day Sept. 2d, is the last day of registration. Is'nt this about the season of the year for cainpmeetings ? A blazing hot fire, was a cheerful companion, Monday. The REPUBLICAN job department is "chuck" up full with business. Jacob Snyder of Forksville, was doing business at LaPorte, Mon day. Prothy. Walsh was visiting friends i at the metropolis of the county, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kennedy of LaPorte spent Sunday with friends at Dushore. Ex-Congressman W. L. Scoit of Erie, is seriously ill and his recovery is thought doubtful. J. J. Webster and John McGuire, of Estella, were transacting business at LaPorte, Saturday. Summer guests of both LaPorte and the 'Merc, are leaving in large numbers for their homes. It is positively asserted, that BLAINE will accept of the nomina tion for the Presidency in 181)2. Jos. Pennington of La Porte twp., •was granted a pension last week of sl2. a month and #IOO. buck pay. ! Last week's issue of the REPUBLI CAN was very interesting and the editor received many compliments. Rev. J. J. Thomson of Bernice will hold services in the Presbyteiian church at 10:15 next Sabbath. All are invited. James Cunningham of the firm of Cunningham & Cole, of Dushore, •was called to the county seat, on business, Saturday. Jos. Walburn of Tliornedale esti mates that one mile and three quarters will complete the L. V. rail road to Thornedate. The LaPorte Hotel guests acconi »anied by a number of the young >eople of LaPorte, picuiced at SaglesMere, on Saturday. The workingmen employed on the extension of the L. V.from Lopez to Thoruedale, will take up quarters i at the latter place this week. G. W. Bennett, assessor of 1 Shrewsbury twp., accompanied by his son, Herbert, were doing busi ness at LaPorte, Wednesday. A new side walk has been built to the Presbyterian church, and a porch in front of the building, which idds greatly to its appearance. It is pretty generally conceded that the Republican party will elect district attorney, jury comniission r and one associate judge, this fall. Miss Susie Colt quots Mrs. E. V. ngham very much improved in icalth. The friends of Mrs Ingham ■xpect to move her from Wysox to uaPorte, this week. The Republican State ticket will te found at the head of our editorial olumn. Our county ticket will be ■laced in nomination on the 12th of Sept. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dewey and r ames Harris, of Monroeton, were isiting Mr. and Mrs. Edward ichrader, of LaPorte, Saturday and t unday. The guests of the Mountain House lade Tyler Mountain a visit Mon ay and remained until Tuesday, 'ley report a good time and a lutiful y. n Sewing Machine t, made an as lay last. It is that the industry 'orke. editors are great \bth came to the One for a delay ol es and the other for n his paper. Gee of trouble we do Subscribe for the REPUBLICAN. I With Saturday's issue the Eagles- Mere Mountain Eoho closed for the season. Many words of congratula tion are tendered Mr. Meylert for his success in the enterprise. The temperance Bocial will meet Friday evening Sept. 4th at Mrs. M. C. Lauer's. All are cordially in vited. The W. C. T. A. will meet, at Mrs. T. J. Ingham's Thursday Sept. 10 th. The squirrel and wild duck sea son opened on Tuesday, Sept. 1, pheasants can legally be killed from Oct. Ito Jan. 1; rabbits from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15; deer from Oct. 1 to Dec. 15. The crossing, recently erected on Court street, wear the cemetery, should be balustered and putin proper shape for uae. A neglect of this repair may cost the boro a bill of damages. A. Walsh, delegate to the demo cratic state convention and Hon. Rus«el Karns, both of LaPorte, left for Harrisburg, on Wednesday and will attend the democratic conven tion, on Thursday. The REPUBLICAN was in great de mand last week. We sold over 40 copies at our sanctum. Jn order to secure this number to dispose of in this way, we were obliged to work the edition on old date paper and cut our exchanges. The Democratic press of the State is much out of sorts over the lact that Mr. Powderly will not refuse the Republican nomination as Dele gate at Large to the proposed Con stitutional convention. Mr. Pow. derly, however, seems to enjoy it. Miss Susie Colt, nurse in the Pennsylvania Hospital, at Philadel phia and Miss Knab, head nurse in the same institution, were calling on friends at LaPorte, Wednesday.! They were on their way from Wysox to Philadelphia. .lames Dutten, tax collector of Hills Grove twp.,*paid the «onr.nis sioners Clerk a call on Tuesday, and paid over moneys collected during the sixty days. The amount paid in was something over five hundred dollars. James is said to be one of the best collectors in the county. Atty. F. H. Inghaui and Miss Henrietta O. Lauer, both of Lal'orte, were married at Watkins, N. Y., on Tuesday, Sept. Ist. Mr. and Mrs. Ingham will take a trip to Buttalo and Niagara Falls and will be absent for a week or ten days. The RE PUBLICAN with their many fiiends extend congratulations. W. H. Painton was brought before the York county court, Tuesday, for the murder of old Mrs. Strominger, but on account of illness of a wit ness the case has been continued un til the 1 Oth of Oct. We give full account of the proceedings, so for, elsewhere in this issue. Mr. llobt. Storinont of LaPorte has for some time served as watch man over the property of the Lake Mokoma Land Co. While thus en gaged on Thursday night last, two men putin an appearance and was about to carry oil a bag of fish, mostly eels. Mr. S. gave an Indian war hoop and down went bag lantern and the intruders took to their heels. It was a very dark night but Mr. S. has an idea who the parties were. These same individuals can have their property by calling at Mr. Storniont's ofllce. The borough council have recent ly erected a culvert on Main street in front of Mrs. A. F. Meylert's residence and refuse to cover the same with earth. Owing to this state of affairs, Mrs. Meylert is barred of a passage way to her coal or wood shed. This is not right, and should Mrs. M. carry the matter to court ahe will force the boro. to put the street in passable condition as it should be. Mrs. Meylert pays her proportion of the boro tax and why should'nt she receive the same courtesies atrorded the rest of our citizens Y It is to be hoped that the town council will this matter and treat the citizens along Mam St., the same as other tax payers of our town have been treated. The matter of cos' of this sluiceway should have been consider ed before the work was commenced, j hence that is no excuse to quit the job half completed. 1 I DIED: —At Hamilton, Mo., Aug. I 23, J 891, Dexter Conklin. I The death of Mr. Conklin takes from the world one who will be re membered as having much to do with the growth ard improvement of LaPorte. Mr. Conklin moved to LaPorte with his familj' in the spring of 1858 and lived among us until 1875. For a number of years Mr. Conklin, with his sons, were employed upon the buildings and other improvements connected with the LaPorte Tannery—having prev iously to his moving here been inti mately connected with Messrs. Clarkson & Nicol at Carbondale, who had charge of the Tannery here in 1859. Upon the starting of that enterprise, and who were the pioneers in starting one of the largest in dustries in the county. Mr. Conklin was also engaged among the lirst in the enterprise of log floating, and assisted in construct ion of dams on Mill and Birch Creeks, as well as improvements on Loyal Sock. His practical knowledge as a me chanic made a demand for his service's in carrying on the lumber enterprises in our county by John Ransom, Craig and Blanchard and Griilis and Hendriek. lie bought what is known now as the Bernard Sheehan farm, and taking it a com plete wilderness, he moved to the West leaving a well cleared pro ductive farm. Mr. Conklin was an active mem ber of the M. E. church, and was one of the lirst to contribute to the erection of a church edifice in this place. Mr. Conklin leaves to survive; him a wife five sons and two j daughters, having buried four daughters in infancy. Ilis faithful and respected wife lives with her yoiiDgest son George at Hamilton Mo., while the two surviving daughters, Mrs. McKeeby and Mrs. ' Walton reside near their mother. The oldest son Samuel resides at j Gdmond, Graham county, Kansas,' the second son R. Albert, resides at this place, John the third son at J Topeka and William the fourth son ! Beloit Kansas. Mr. Conklin was a kind husband ' p loving father, and his loss will be I greatly felt by all those who were ! acqusinted with him. lie lived to the ripe age of upward ot four score years an honest trusted and useful member of society. Always doing ! his full share of the labor, at home and in the community. * Kilted by a Bee, William 11. Danley, a young man who carries the mail between the Williamsport & North Branch Rail road Station and the village of Tivoli, met with a singular and sud den death Monday morning, Aug. 17. Danley was at his work as usual, when an ordinary honey bee buzzed around bis head. When he attempted to ward it off the bee alighted on one of his fingers and stung him. Danley complained of excruciating pain, and his hand at i once commenced swelling rapidly and in a few minutes his whole sys tem was affected. Ten minutes after being stung he fell into a comatose condition and before aid could be summoned he was dead, only fifteen minutes having elapsed from the time he was stung. The physicians who were called were mystified, but expressed the belief that the bee's stinger had entered a nerve or blood vessel and that the poison was quickly carried to the vital organs, causing almost instant paralysis. Danley was a strong man of vigorous constitution. Hyde Crocker, mail agent on the Montrose narrow guage railroad, is quite a genius as an engraver on wood. lie has one cane on which he has inscribed in plain letters a brief history of Susquehanna coun ty, an another the genealogy of the Crocker family and on a third start the record of the Scranton Prisoners ol-\Var Association and names of its members, Rev. H. C. McDermott, of this place, carries an umbrella on the handle of which is his name carved some years ago by Mr. Crocker. Mr. McD. says tue um brella has been astray a great many times but the inscription has always caused its return.—Honesdale lad. Mr. Crocker is cousin of Mrs. E. M. Dun ha in and the Misses Hattie and Ellen Crocker of this place. It has'nt been necessary to call the rain making machine of Texas to these parts, for the past ten daysj or more. There dosn't seem to be any en thusiasm over the coming Sullivan county fair, in t.bis section of the county. We hear more about the Hughesville Fair than of our own enterprise. This is not quite right, but then, people can do as they like. The first train over the Lacka wanna and Montrose road was run from Seranton to Montrose on Mon day of last week. The occasion was appropriately celebrated by the citizens there, the stores and busi ness place being closed and a gener al jolifieation taking place. The new road places Montrose in con nection with the outer world in a business point of view and her peo ple have a right to feel proud. They have three trains daily' to and from Montrose Depot. The People, the prohibition organ of this tstate, published in Scranton. has suspended publication, on the grounds that their present circula tion of 4,000 did not pay. The publication of that paper will agHin be resumed providing the manage ment is assured of a circulation of 8,000, otherwise it has gone to stay. One by oue they are found among the missing. The Prohibiti n State Convention. The Prohibition party deserves credit for one thing—it sticks to its guns in spite of sure defeat and the fact that the question of prohibition has just been settled for some years to come by the direct vote of the people. The convention was but half a one, which may or may not be significant. But at all events tin party is no longer a factor in politics. A few years ago, under the leader ship of UHARLES S. WOLFE, it threat ened to assume proportions that would menace the two old parties, but that time has gone by. The Republican party took the bull by the horns. It listened to the de mands of the Prohibitionists and submitted a prohibition amendment to the people. This was voted down by such an overwhelming majority as to leave no doubt of the senti mcut in Pennsylvania. The high license law has worfced remarkably well. The saloons in Philadelphia have been reduced seventy-five per cent. It is true there have been violations of law, but the proper officials are giving evidence of a desire to stamp out the illegal places, and under any law there would be violations. Pro liibition in lowa has not decreased drunkenness. There is whiskey in plenty there, as there is in Maine. All that is necessary is to know the ropes, and they are not difficult to become acquainted with. There is walking dram shops, where drinks are sold from the botUe, and the stufl called whiskey is usually a pretty rank 3ort of poison. No law that was ever invented could pre vent a man from drinking if he wanted to drink. It is the belief that prohibitive legislation does not prohibit that lias taken the party out of politics as a controlling or even a influential factor. There is another thing about these Prohibition conventions. They don't stick to business. They de nounce too much. They never find anything to praise, but consider their whole duty done when they attack both parties for abput every evil under the sun. Most of the delegates to the convention on the 26th, were earnest men and good men, but they have not learned that more flies are caught with molasses than with vinegar. They pitched into the Federal administration, into both parties for the failure of civil service reform, unmindful of the fact that the Postmaster of Philadel phia has his office stuffed fulled of Democrats ; into the Constitutional Convention legislation, into—but why enumerate ? It was a scoring all along the line, and still they ex pect to attract Republicans and Democrats by denouncing them. It may be of little importance, but we should really like to know why it is always considered necessary for Prohibition conventions to adopt the cause of woman sufrage. Following is the ticket nominated by the Prohi. Convention : W. W Hague, of Warren county for Auditor General and George Dayton, of Media, Delaware county for Treasurer. AFT£I ALL EVERY ONE OF US WANTS TO SAVE THE DOLLARS We do it every time in all our purchases—We give the dollars on pmrr turn. This is the time of jearthat we can offer our customers THT BIGGE6T OF SAVINGS Now is the time that we dispose of all our Li> ht Weight Clothing and all Summer Wear. The Mens Boys and Childrens Suitsr are reduced much, light colored hats and straw liats sold regardless of value and cost—Light Summer shirts, silk shirts, jerseys and Light Underwear way down Light Boots and Plow Shoes sold at cost' M. M. Marks & Co, PROPRIETOR OF TIIE ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE. Scouten's Block - - Dushore r - - Penna, FACTORY 18 N, 3rd Sts- Philadelphia, Pa. FURNITURE! 7} FURNITURE I We are offering Furniture Cheaper than ever before, and aie bonndf to please in price and quality. Our large and elegant stcck of chairs, Fancy, antique and ancient looking, are bound to catch the eye of eveiy purchaser. Cheap Bed steads, Bed room suits of all price and quality from sls 00 upwards. Fancy Cabinets, Fancy Mirrors, Foot Rests, Blacking Cases, Card Tables See. Come everybody, Happy to show Goods, whether you buy or not. We also have constantly on hand, a full and complete assortment of WOOD CASZETS, Coffins, Robes, Trimmings, &c. Also a new line of STONE Cnßkets which are beautiful in design covered with Black Broadcloth, Plush and Satiens and constitue within themselves Miniature Vai'lts, and ore furnished at prices within reach of all. Please call and examine our Model, as we are the only dealers that handle Stone Caskets in Sullivan county. Lawrence Brothers. JACKSON S.BLOCK. DUSUORE, PENNA. FROM SAXE'S S3LOCIC BOOT AND SHOE STORE J. S. HARRINGTON Proprietor Dushore, - - Pa t "r x .j xx x 1 1— x It will pay you before purchasing to call and examine my large stcck of new and well selected goods. Laige 6ales enables me to sell loi small profits. Cash customers can 9*ve a good percentage by buyinggoods ot 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 iu price and in quality to be the best that any market can afford. _.j- -x- -t- -t- -t- -i- -i— -t- BOOTS& SHOES made ioo^der If you wantafine sewed boot or shoe try a sample pair. Repairing done on short notice CASH PAID FOR HIDES PELTS, WOOL, TALLOW &c,, AT J.S.HARRINGTONS, DUSHORE, PA. june*4,B7 TO 7 THE PUBJUIC! o—O—O—O-O—O—O-O-O—O-O—o-o-o I am prepared to meet any prices or quotations with a first class and well selected stock of MEN'S, YOUTH'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. HATS, CAPS, AND GENTS FURNISHING GOOJUS TJi UNJCS, BA GS AND UMBRELLAS. I also have full lines of Samples from two Merchant Tailoring Estab» lisliments, for Custom Work. Perfect fits guaranteed. Call and get prices. "Yours Respectfully etc., F, P. VINCENT. CRONIN'S NEW BLOCK, IB A MAXIM THAT APPLIES WITH PKIUUAE VOBCC TO WILLIAMS & ROGERS' ROCH£ST£n BUSINESS UNIVERSITY Stands at the head of the list of commercial schools in its character as a medium for supplying the business men of the country with trained and capable assistants, as a means of placing ambitious young men and women on the high road to success, and in the extent elegance and cost of its equipment. THOROUGH COA/J/ERCI ' "IIOR PHAND AND PRACTICAL ENGLISH COURSES. ihe "veuly-seventh Annual Catalogue will be mailed to any addiess. LOYAL BOCK COAL. tttt t t t t THE best and cheapest coal in the marke* To customers from— wWl j THE price is reduced at the breaker to $2.80K% The State Line & Sullivan R. R Co I. 0. BLIGHT, S J
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