THE REPUBLICAN. PttIDAY, fIKFTKMBSR 14, tMi. * * * * * * * * * * —* I The X. J'. Weekly Tribune *i and | * Sul'iean Republican * I for l # *1 *1.25 One Year $1.25. j * —* —* * * * • •' J lead J cry Kelly's new IUI. Our ticket is now complete. Court « itl convene in xt Monday. The races at Dushore was a suc cess. Call and settle with the printer next week. The shower on Saturday was welcomed. Dou't'forget to pay the printer, next week. The candidates will ali be here next week. Pay the printer while in atten dance at court, nest week. Sugar is on the raise. The \\ il sou bill is the cause of it. The gunning season lias opened. You can shoot squirrels, now. The rabbit season will soon be here; get your dog in training. Our landlords will give the candi dates the preference, next week. Mr. Lashee of Williarnsport, is having his Lake Mokouaa lot clear ed. We have just printed a new supply of receipts. Call and get one court week. Thirteen tons of postage stamps were sold in New York city, last year. A number of the Dushore boys visit the county seat quite frequent ly, of late. Miss Bessie Cheney of the 'Mere, is spending a few days with friends in Laporte. The Laporte Building Association is having a well dug on their premi ses on South Munc.v street. Mr. Thomas Gallagher of Cherry, was visiting friends at the county seat, the early part of the week. Jery. Kelly, general merchant ol Ilughesville, has a new ad. in this week's issue of the RKPCBI.ICAN. Squire Simmons and David Tay lor of Muucy Valley, were doing business at the county seat, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Low and family of Laporte twp , spent Sun day with Morgan Gavitt and family, of Laporte. i 11. W. McKibbins, proprietor of ' Hotel Kennedy, Laporte, has ehang- ' ed the name of this stand to ''Com- ( mercial Hotel." Mrs. Chas. TinUlepaugh and daughter Miss Emma, of Laporte, spent Sunday with friends in Wil liamsport. It is appaient that excellent good feelings exists between the two political parties in Sullivan county. This is as it should be. St. John's P. E. Church.—Divine Service will be held on Sunday the 16th inst. at 11 o'clock a. m. The Rev. James Cameron, of Jersey City will officiate. Merrit Stewart, one of the recent proprietors of the Laporte Hotel, has leased the hotel at Halls and will take possession of the same in a week or ten days. Messrs. Victor Hugo foreman of the Dushore Review and B. F. C'rossley clerk in John D. Reeser's store at, the metropolis, Sundaycd with friends in Laporte. A little monkey owned by Mrs. Dr. P oev, a guest of the 'Mere, died On Saturday morning last. Mrs. l'oey is heartbroken over the death of the cute little animal. We are in receipt of a com p. to the Tunkhannock fair which takes place on Sept. 19, 20 and 21. The Wyoming county fairs arc numbered among the best in the state. M. M. Larkin of Laporte, who has been visiting friends in Curtis, N. Y. and doing considerable traveling | over the country, returned last week and has accepted the position of" engineer in the Laporte tannery. Martin's old friends were glad to see him. We read with feelings of horror of the loss of life by the forest tires in Minnesota, where hundreds of per sons have been sacrificed to thefuiy of the flames. Yet there does not seem to beany method of preventing these disasters. In opening up a now country the beginning "of the towns must be located in the forests just as Hinckley was built, mid when the woods were set on fire the pro bable result can be easily foi cseen. Th* uew landlord lias taken pos session of the Laporte Hotel. Iln proposes to heat the building with steam in the near future. ll,v. Mr. Cameron of Jersey City, hell services m the Episcopal chinch at Laporte, Sunday afternoon. Mr ! Cameron was the guest of Mr. Mc- Farl.iiie. . The Sullivan eUSOt) Bep#HiO*i> and Democrats are not so much dyed in the wool as they used to be. All hands vote for the best man nominated no v a-davs regardless of parly principles. Every bod) must admit that this is right. Congress passed a bill that Presi dent Cleveland refused to 1 his of itself, is suflicient to condemn the 53d Congress, Vote for Kulp and if he is elected ho will do what is right by you and every one ol us. Fanner Kulp is for the people. Get aboard his train. New Blacksmith Shop. For good and cheap work goto F. G. OTTKUBEIN, Near Kennedy's Hotel, Laporte, Pa. Mr. William Colt of Ricketts and Miss Lulu Colt of Wy BOX and Miss Kale Hortou ol Towanda, who have been spending a few days with friends at the 'Mere, passed through Lapoite en route to their homes on Monday. Mr. Henry Kohensparger, pro prietor of the Eagle Hotel, about one mile from town, on the Sonestown road, will entertain court guests, next week for the small aiim of 50c. a day. The table at the Eagle is al ways spread with the best. The: deduction in price is given owing to , the distance from town. J. W. Flynn, superintendent o! the Laporte Tannery, is proud of his tew otlice, and so is Ernest Hegel the book-keeper. It is a very neat little structure. The interior is finished off in hard wood and is pretty. The boys with the scale balancer in the room have it conven ient now-a-days. '•Moon Shine," Father Ennglit's lightning steed, was chanced off on Monday. The drawing took place at Lopez and was witnesed by a goodly number of people. Ticket No. 44 was the winning card and was held by W. A. Kennedy of La porte. As announced in last week's issue, the horse conies to Laporte. The REPUBLICAN is official. The Republican campaign will open in Williarnsport, on Tuesday evening Sept. 25, when Gen. lias tings, Thos. Stewart and other world renown speekers will be present and give addresses. This promises to be one of the largest political gatherings ever held in the Lumber city. Chair man Lyon requests a large Sullivan county delegation. Geo. Laureuson of Lapotte, lost a valuable cow on Thursday last, i Those who looked at her thought: she had beeu poisened, perhaps by j drinking water out of a paint pail left standing near by either of the several dwellings that are being j i newly painted. Our painters should see to it that all buckets, kegs etc. which lias contained white lead, are carefully laid away and out of reach of dumb animals. The Keeoril llrokt'ii. The undersigned of Forksville planted ou the 7th of June 18'Jl,less than half an acre of ground in corn. I measured the tallest stalk in sight and found that it measured twelve i feet and three inches. Ido not find one hill without one stalk measuring ten feet. I feel certain that my crop from off the half acre will measure 50 bushels in the ear. I also have a fine crop of sweet potatoes grow ing, some of them will weigh nearly two pounds now. E. \V. SNELL. Prof. J. P. Little of Laporte twp., contemplates moving to Woodland, California. Mr. Little has been in the West for several weeks observ ing the country and has fallen in love with the lay of the land and the outlook at Woodland. He will take the principalship of a school and later on will follow his profession and open up a law office at his new home. Woodland is a new and progressive town of about four thousand inhabitants. Mrs. Little and children will leave for their new home about the Ist of November. Wyoming has perhaps the oldest living woman in the State. Mrs. Reidy, of that place, she is in her . 104 th year, and her birthday conies i this fall. She was born in England lit) and came to America about ; thirty year# ago, making her homo |in Grand Rapids, Mich., until three | years ago, when she was brought e«»t by her son Thomas. She is in i possession of all her faculties and . senses, and never wore a spectacle, being able at the present time to thread a small needle. Truly a re markable woman.—Tuukiiannock : Jtfjiu'ilican. '•Vote for 'Farmer' Kulp for con ! confronts every man who pas ! ses a telegraph or telephone pole in Milton. Hit vote at tlds end will | lie a corker.— Miltonian. The interior of Hotel Kennedy on East Main street is receiving a general overhauling. The new pro prietor, Mr. Harry McKibbins who will take charge ol the same on Tues day Sept. IStli is overseeing I he work and is having it done first class in every respect. The bar has been changed to the front of the house caving a sample room where the old bar stood. The upstairs part has been made new. The walls have been papered and the wood work painted. It will hardly be recog nized by the old guests of this house, court week. .Mr McKibbins is an old hotel man and thoroughly under stands the business, lie solicits a part of your patronage and your good will. Chris. Uubright of Williarnsport, who contracted with Lawrence Bros, to place the brick for our new court house, completed his engagement' on Friday mid competent judges say he has done an excellent job, one that he need not be ashamed ot and one that the Sullivan county tax payers may justly feel proud of. Mr. Rubright made many new friends during his stay iu Laporte. The exterior of our courthouse is now complete and the lathers, piasters and carpenters are engaged on the inside. The contract calls for the building lu be i!ni.->!icd by the Ist ol' April '95. Judging from the pro gress of the work, however, there is but little doubt, but that the siiiic tuie will lu; completed by February term of court. If we elect Kulp to Congr we cau depend upon it, he will do all possible let the beat interest of the farmer. He is a farmer aud a lumberman and is always ready to do for the working people, lie is'nt a lawyer. No, we heard this ques tion asked liiru on Friday. He re plied in the negative and said that he had understood that the people of the district were anxious for a plain spoken man to represent them in Congress and one that took kind ly to the working class and would do for their interest and that he felt that inasmuch as he had been in the corn field himself that he could fill the hill. Mr. Kulp will visit Sulli van county about the Ist of October and will call on all of our farmers and the busi'iess enterprises of our county. He will spend several days with the boys in Bernice. He is an old favorite with the mine boys in the Shamokin Valley and we are quite sure that, when he has lelt our boys that they will have none, but kind words to speak of him. The farmer and lumberman, likewise. The Republican Conk-roes of the Twenty-fourth Senatorial district mot in Williamspoit on Friday last to place in nomination a candidate for State Senator, There was a full representation of conferees, the lisi being as follows: Lycoming—\V. W. Aehenbachand Theo. Hill. Sullivan—W. C. Mason and J. VV. Rogers. Moatour—S. A. McCoy and J as. | Foster. Columbia—E. E, Lowe and R. G. Crispen. The following candidates were named: F. 11. Ingham, of Sullivan; C. E. Geyer, of Columbia; W. E. Sprague of Lycoming and W. M. Gearbavt, of Montour. Nine ballots were taken when C. E. Geyer of Columbia received the nomination, Our Ciimlifliite lor Senator, From tlie Gazette and Bulletin, Sept. 8. "The nomination of Hon. C. E. Geyer, of Columbia county, for Sen* ator from the Twenty-fourth distript will be accepted by all of the four counties as most wise. Although each county presented an acceptable candidate there was no disposition to blockade or impede, and after the claims of all had been fairly present ed the conferees united upon Mr. (lever as a candidate who would be acceptable to the entire district. Mr. Geyer. the unanimous choice of the conference, is a native of Lancaster county, but for many years has been a resident of (Jatawisa and a leading member of the Columbia county bar. He is a gentleman of splendid attain ments and is a strong candidate. It jis generally believed that he is the : strongest man that could have been selected, and there is no reason to doubt that be can be elected if the other counties do for him what | Columbia has promised to do. Those in Lycoming who know Mr. Geyer are delighted with bin nomi nation, and the assuranoe can be given that Lycoming will do her , lull share of tlie work towards the i election of Oolutubias favorite uou.'' Th<» Itaci's the 4itii