republican News Item.
,THURSDAY, DKC. 12, 1901.
—The attendance at court was
very small.
—James Gansel, last week moved
his family into their home on Mun
cy street.
—A number of pleasant callers
paid their respects to the News
Item, while in town during court.
—Mrs. S. Chase and two little
daughters, Edith and Helen, of Ea
gles Mere, are visiting Laporte
friends this week.
—Mias Ever Keeler of William
sport, visited at the home of her un
cle, Mr. T. J. Keeler, for several
days.
—Judge Dunham returned Mon
day morning from Allentown, where
he held the scale or justice for Le
high county law-breakers, last week.
—Mr. J. Robinson, of Horn
brook, Bradford county, with his
bride, who is a niece of Mrs. W. J.
Iligley, visited relatives at tins place
last week.
—A. E. Tripp recently placed an
order with Samuel Cole of Dushore,
for a heater. The same was set up
in Mr. Tripp's home last Friday,
and is giving excellent satisfaction.
—Edward Keeler of Pine Summit,
brother of T. J. Keeler of Laporte,
died Sunday evening Dec. Bth, at
the age of 73 years. The funeral
was held on Tuesday. Interment
was made at Millville.
—W. C. Mason was home a few
days last week from Anita, Jeffer
son county, where he is surveying
a street car line. His son Robert
who is assisting him in the work
took j-harge while Clayton visited
home.
—Sheriff-elect, J. G. Cott of Lin
coln Falls, was a county seat visitor
on Tuesday,. The prophesy he
made a few weeks before election is
now a part of history; he will soon
take the oath of office, and we have
no doubts about his ability and in
tegrity to administer wisely and
justly in his official capacity.
—A delightful musical was given
at the home of Mrs. T. J. Keeler,
Wednesday evening of last week, by
Miss Josephjne Colt, who is instruct
ing large classes in music at Eagles
Mere and Laporte. About forty
guests were present, among whom
were several from Eagles Mere.
Refreshments were served to the
guests during the evening.
—Prothonotary elect, Thos. E.
Kennedy, is frequently found devot
ing spare time in familiarizing him
self with the records and general
routine of work in the Prothono
tary's office, and by the time of his
inception to office, he will be well
able to handle the responsibilities
without appearing otherwise than an
old experienced hand, and will
maintain from the start that high
standard of excellency which the of
fice has so long enjoyed.
—M. C. Mercer, Esq., of Elkland,
was a county seat visitor and a
pleasant caller at the News Item
office, on Monday. Although well
advanced in years he still retains his
youthful spirit, handsome face and
distinguished presence. Being a man
of erudition and fine breeding with
a mind amply stored with worldly
knowledge, suave as a cavalier u in
days of old, when knights were
bold," makes him one of our most
enjoyable callers. May many years
lie added to his useful life.
—Prof. E. L. Sweeney, principal
of the Laporte graded school, will
receive the appointment of com
missioner's clerk as soon as Mr.
Kennedy, the present incumbent
takes his office of prothonotary, the
first Monday of January. With the
friendly assistance that Mr. Sweeney
will receive with his new appoint
ment, he will not likely find it nec
essary to resign Ins school work for
the few months that still remains to
•complete his term. The commis
sioners, without doubt, have selected
good service to succeed Mr. Ken
nedy, who has conducted their busi
ness so admirably well that he soon
stepped to a higher office.
The Hoard of Stewards of the M.
E. church will givr a box supper at
the home of J. V. Finkle, next Fri
day evening, Dee. 10, at 8 p. m.
Ladies and gentlemen, young and
old are invited to attend. Each lady
is requested to bring a supper in a
box with her name placed within.
The lady or gentleman upon pur
chasing the box will have the phnus
ure of eating the supper with the
one whose name they have purchas
ed. Ice cream will also be served-
Pleasant games may be played dur
ing the evening.
—The weather program took a de
cided change Tuesday, and several
persons who came here in sleighs,
to attend court, were obliged to
sleigh ride in mud on their home
ward journey.
—On Monday the News Item job
office completed the annual report
of the Co. Supt. of schools. It is
now in the hands of the binder, and
will be ready for distribution by
the last week in December.
—James walsh, the defeated can
didate of associate judge, has begun
legal proceedings against Wendal
Sick charging him with -slander.
We are not informed what the dam
age claim amounts to. The case
will be tried at the next term of
court.
—The attendance at court was ex
ceedingly small this term, and the
small volumn of business was dis
patched with haste. The grand
jury acted upon three bills, ignoring
two and found a true bill against
Steve Jonkaski on a charge of lar
cency. Case tried and offender sen
tenced to six months in county jail.
The new road from Double Run to
Eagles Mere, was approved.
The grand jury completed its work
Tuesday morning. Civil cases occu
pied the attention of the court until
Wednesday. Full proceedings in
next issue.
John It. Stevens of Eagles Mere,
after carrying an extended suit in
court as defendant on a charge of
keeping a vicious dog, was placed
in the county jail for the payment of
SBO costs.
—A publishing house of Washing
ton desiring agents, contracted for
space in the New Item to lie run as
copy furnished, which stated that a
secretary was wanted at an annual
salary of #7:3(1, and to address the
News Item. The next day after
the adv. appeared letters began to
pour into our sanctum, intruding
upon our busy moments at such a
tremendous rate that we licensed
tin* devil to kick us front the office,
for again being a victim of an adver
tising scheme. Vet we got some
consolation for labor in opening a
basket of mail and forwarding appli
cations to those wanting them, and
that was the pleasure in learning
that there were so many who want
ed to sacrifice themselve to the News
Item for such a small consideration,
and to learn the drawing strength of
News Item advertisements.
The annual county institute for
Sullivan county will be held in
Kline's Opera House, Dushore, dur
ing the week commencing Dec. 80.
An unusually strong corps of in
structors will be present. Among
the number are Deputy Supt. Hen
ry Houck of I larrisburg, Prof. Geo.
E. Little of Washington, 1). C.,
Supt. J. George Beeht of Lycoming
county and Prof. I. I). (Jrest of
Milton. The Old Homestead Quar
tette Company, has been secured for
a concert on Thursday evening.
Complete official announcement
and progrom will be published in
the News item next week.
Yale Wins Debate.
Princeton, N. J., Dec. 7.—The ninth
annual Yale-Princeton debate was de
cided here last night before a large
crowd of Rtudents and visitors. The
judges, after deliberating 25 minutes,
awarded the debate to Yale. The sub
ject was: "Resolved, That the 15th
amendment to the constitution of the
United States has been justified."
Hon. George D. McCrcary, of Pennsyl
vania, presided.
Cremated I Wreck.
Moundsville, W. Va., Dec. 7—The
second section of a Haltimore and Ohio
freight train crashed into the first sec
tion here, instantly killing Conductor
I. C. Kelley, of Marietta. The debris
took Urn, nnd the conductor's head,
arms and lega were burned off. An
engine and tn.i cars were demolished.
More Than Fifty Election Contests.
Baltimore, Dec. H. —In addition to
the contest over the office of comp
troller, notices have been served of
1 more than 50 other contests, involving
members ol :he legislature and county
officials.
Keeper of Libby Prison Dead.
Suffolk. Va.. Dec. 7.—Captain Rich
urd R. Turner, keeper of the famous
I.lhby prison during the civil war.
ditd on Thursday. When the Union
troops marched into Richmond and it
was said that the prison officials had
, mistreated Union prisoners. Captain
Turner was locked up. with the state
I ment that he would be hanged in the
morning. The captain's hair turned
( white that night.
Miss Stone's Release Impending.
London. Dec. 7.—A dispatch to The
" Dairy Telegraph from Sofia s:iys that
; the surrender at Salonika of Miss Ellen
' M. Stone, the American missionary,
and her companion, Mme. Tsilka, la
Impending.
M. E Beeder. Home from Mexico.
Mr. M. E. lteeder returned home
Saturday evening from his extended
trip through Mexico with a party of
capitalists on a tour of investigation
of business opportunities in that un
developed country. Mr. Keeder
gives no information a.s to whether
he will engage in industrial pursuits
in that country as a result of his
travel, hut speaks as one highly
pleased with the country to operate
in and talks very interestingly of his
travels. Being shrewd and sound of
judgment in business matters and
traveling with his financial eyes
open, he converses freely and intelli
gently on the business opportunities
in Mexico, many of which are al
ready being developed by wide
awake Americans, as he observes.
The government under the wise
hand of President Diaz, says Mr.
Keeder, invitas immigration and
cepital from the United States, and
offers big inducments to investors
with Yankee push and enterprise.
The young natives seem to quickly
inculcate that restless American
spirit which ever aspires to push on
to the greatest heights which
chaffes under the restraining hand
of ancient customs and "old foggy
ism." President Diaz,continued Mr.
Reeder, exercises great wisdom in
administering for the good of his
country and people, with but one
exception, and that is, he maintains
a free silver policy, which is vastly
detrimental to business industries
and 'to the laboring class, for the
simple reason that the government
specie fluctuates with the silver
market and it was almost impossible
to keep informed of the frequent
changes which was necessary, in
order to know just how much the
money in a man's pocket was worth.
During his four weeks sojourn in
that country, a one hundred dollar
American silver certificate was
worth over #l2 more of Mexican
money than when he first arrived.
The chances were equal that would
depreciate sl"> in the same length
of time. Railroading, he informs
us, is conducted on up to date meth
ods, but the postal system somewhat
crude and inconvenient. In the
city of Mexico there is one English
paper published, a copy of which
Mr. Reeder brought with him. The
style, news and editorial make up
differs in no way from those in Amer
ica with the exception of the paper
which is a home product and a
very poor grade. Below we re
print several paragraphs taken from
the"news about town" column.
They give a fair idea of its contents
and shows the spirit in which they
live and move in Mexico.
The picador "Mazzautinr' has been
injured in the hull ring at Celaya. and (lie
espada "Morenito de Valencia'' in that ol
Leon,
Enrique Lene was arretted in the Riva
Palacios theatre and conveyed t<s the com
isaria. on the complaint of the audience,
who objected to his vocal efforts which
drowned the voices ol the artists.
The debut of the dancer "la Bosignana"
at the Principal was a hit. The new star
possesses beauty ol lorm and feature, he
sides having ''a way with her."
Much enthusiasm prevails over Sun
day's corrida, on account ot' the fierce
ness of the hulls. Excursion trains w ill
he run to Mexico from various points,
and there will be a crowded plaza. Maz
zantini and "I.agartijillo"' will both ap
pear. The fatuous Fnente of Spain will
lie in Mexico in time for the fourth corri
da.
Notary Angelo Alviti of Alatri, aged
100, has just married a twenty-six year
old wife. lie has a great great gram!
child decended trom one of' his former
marriages. 11 is mot her knitted a pair of
stockings for Pope Pius IX when she was
105 years old.
At Mallink, a man named Andrew-
King dropped dead while laughing at a
friend's joke. An autoposy showed that
his heart was five times the size of the
ordinary human heart and twice the size
of that of an ox.
Dispatchs from Merida reports a serious
wreck on the Isthmus road. Over twenty
five persons were injured and two killed.
The cause of the casualty was the omni
present cow on the track. The company
interred the remains of the deceased.
Mexican houses are decidedly uncom
fortable at this season of the year with
out fires, unless so situated as to admit of
considerable sunlight, as an illustration,
a thermometer placed in the sun register
ed 90 degrees, and when removed to the
house quickly droped to 00 degrees which
is about the normal temperature in doors.
Nordmont. >x
Mrs. A. P. Wetland and son Don
ald, left Monday morning fur llar
risburg, where they will visit rel
atives and friends.
Mr. A. I'. Weilaud was doing
business at Williamsport, Monday.
Mr. R. Kessler, who has been
visiting hi* son at this place, has
returned home.
Both churches at this place are
preparing for Christinas entertain
ments.
Two week of protracted meetings
closed last Sunday evening.
Yoar Money Back
If China Closet is not as describe J
Our Furniture Department contain* thon*ai»«U« 112 similar i
bargains. Our Mammoth 4*o l" •• • '.l».t< i al»yut I
furniture, also a»K>ut evervtlilm: to Mat, I an I WV.r; J
contains over 13,000 iliustr.-ti'iu at > «l'-'""e*. who!ebai«#(
prices to ronsumcis on o\. r lftnonn rhffWent wrtioes. i: }
costs us // jy —sr/:' :oyou f->r ,m .. <•/»'« k 10. . yvt* nV«/ .« ' i
fromyourfirst 7 »* »>/ >•' '»>.
Frer- Cat shows "Print >„ r
land" Carpets, Kujfs, "A -I Pr.p ' •• ie«. .i-«» V
Machines, Blankets, C m/<»rts. Fr%iae»t !*• ♦t~ •• . .
ape laities In I -!■ m- • '• i . . •
Free Catalogu** »»1 • I t ip •. !• '«•. •
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Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
issued out of the Court ot Common I'leas
of Sullivan County, and to me directed
and delivered, there will be exposed to
public sale at the Court House in Laporte
Pa., on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901,
at one o'clock p.m., the following describ
ed property, viz:
Lot No. 1.
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of
land situated in the Borough ot Forksville
County of Sullivan and State of Pennsyl
vania. bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a post near a willow on
Bri Ige street; thence bv line of lot No. 37
North twenty-nine degrees, West fiftv-four
and six-tenths feet to a post on the line of
the mill race; thence along line of said
mill race North seventy-one degrees. East
one-hundred and fifteen feet to a post on
the bank of Loyal Sock creek: thence
along the hank of said creek South fifteen
degrees: East forty-two feet to a post near
the corner of the bridge pier: tliece along
bridge pier South sixty-four degrees, West
one-hundred and four feet to place ot
beginning. Containing twenty-nine and
one fourth perches of land be the same
more or less. Being all improved and
having erected thereon one large two-storv
building used as a furniture store.
Lot Xo. 3.
Also one other piece or parcel of land
situated in the Borough of Forksville,
Sullivan county and State of Pennsylvania
described as follows, to wit: Beginning
at a post on the West side of Main street
North thirty degrees, West trom the
Northerly corner of lot No 19 of Moses
Rogers's town plot of Forksville and sixty
feet distant from said corner of lot No. 19:
thence by other land of said Moses Rogers
formerly occupied by R. B. Warburton
South sixty-five degrees, West one hundr
ed eighty feet to a post by the barn on
the line of Allegheny Alley; thence along
the line of Allegheny Alley North thirty
degrees, West ab.iut fifteen feet more or
less to the mill race; thence along tl*
line of said mill race a North-easterly
course about one-hundred eighty feet to
Main street and thence along the line ol
Main street South thirty degrees, East
about forty-five feet more or less to place
of beginning. Containing about titty-five
hundred feet of land more or less. Being
all improved and having erected thereon
a large new photograph gallery.
Seized, taken into execution and to be
sold as the property of Walter S. Wright
and Charles A. Ilaight at the suit of First
National Bank of Dushore, l'a. (use.)
11. XV. OSLElt.Sheriff.
WAI.SII. Attorney.
Sheriff's office, Laporte, Pa.. N0v.21. 'Ol.
Sale of Valuable Real Estate.
By virtue of a i order of the Orphans,'
Court of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania,
made by virtue of proceedings in partition
had in the estate of Polly C. Steinback,
late of the Township of Davidson, County
of Sullivan and State of Pennsylvania,
deceased, the undersigned trustee appoint
ed by the said Court for the purpose ot
making such sale, will expose to public
sale at Hotel Swank, in the village ot
Sonestown, Sullivan County, l'a., on
FRIDAY, JANUARY, 3d, 1902.
at 2 o'clock; p. m.the following described
property ot the said decedent, situated in
the village of Sonestown. Davidson Town
ship. Sullivan County. Pa., described as
follows, to wit:
All that town lot in said village of
Sonestown, lying between lot late of Geo.
Miller and lot late of John J. Miller and
running from the public road through
snid village of Sonestown back to an alley
supposed to be ten rods, be the same more
or less, and being the lot adjoining what
is now the Lorali Hotel property and on
the North side of same. I.ot improved
and-having erected thereon a good two
story frame dwelling house, another frame
building suitable for shop or store, and
frame barn and other out buildings with
fruit anil ornamental trees thereon, being
a very desirable village property and
known as the Steinback Homestead prop
erty. Terms of sale as fixed by the
phans' Court of Sullivan County:
One fourth of the purchase n> at
the striking down of the proper* .he
remaining three-fourths witlii ear
thereafter, with interest I'rr rnia
tion Ni Si. Security to be / the
purchaser to comply with ms of
the sale.
11. XV. O rustee.
E. J. Ml'i.i.kx. Attorni
Lajiorte, Pa., December . /I.
LAIUKS: Then* is nothing e jual
to this Home Treatment Orange Lily
and Her bald Tonic for female com
plaints of every nature. X\'e would
suggest to all our lady readers who
suffer and wish to know the truth
and avoid expense, to send to Mas.
Ma linda Kilmkk Shunk, Pa., for
a free sample with all particulars.
Wanted: Men to cut hard wood
I logs and acid wood. Apply to A.
E. Tripp, Laporte, Pa.
Why Not Trade Near Home ?
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We are here to stay. We are here to make a success. We like the country
and the people. We like our busiuess and strive to increase it by all honorable
means.
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We believe in selling only such goods as give entire satisfaction. We believe
what we say and say whitt we think. We want you to believe what we
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What we Claim.
We claim that #I,OOO of your money will buy as many goods as SI,OOO of our com
petitors. We carry a large, assorted stock of standard goods and sell lower than
ever before. .
Our Stock Consists of
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OF ALL KINDS.
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Ready for Tall
Men's, Boys and Childrens'
Suits and Overcoats.
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We are making a great showing of the "Vitals"
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find it gives far better wearing satisfaction than any
other make.
You can not afford to buy before inspecting our
elegant line. We also carry the largest and most com
plete line of Gents. Furnishings to be found in this part
of the country.
T. W. Carroll,
DEALER IN
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DUSHORE, PA.
To Gain "INDEPENDENCE" you must have
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SECURE BOTII BY BUYING STOCK I N
The Copper Rock Gold Mining & Milling Co.
nc»v selling at 20 cents per share par value SI.OO and non assessable. The price will
shortly he advanced to 30 cent* per share. Tin* property is locs ted .'59 mile* North
West of Denver on the Colorado, North Western 1!. R. comprising sixty (Go) iicres
in an established and paying mineral belt. Kail Road at the property (giving cheap
est and best transportation). Have abundance of water for all mining and milling
purposes. Timber enough for the mine t«>r many years to come.
Shaft is now 2;"»0 feet deep and is being sunk to 500 feet level a? fast as possible,
and has been in Ore nearly the entire distance. The Drill already run have o|>eued
up gold bodies ot both Milling and Smelting Ore, running in values from $4.29 to
to £1 18.98 per ton in Gold. Silver and Copper.
Send in your order now before stock advances, as right to raise prices without
notice is reserved.
GEO. F. HATHEWAY,
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