REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. CHABLES L WIH6, Editor. Published Afternoon By The Sulliyan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County, i LAPORTE. PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUSHORE, PENNA. TTTT ' CAPITA!. - - $60,000. BURPLUB - - #IO.OOO. Does h General Banking Business. | B.W. JENNINGS. M. D. HWARTS. President. Cashier J. & F. H. INGHAM, Legal buainex attended to in this and adjoining oounties ..APORTK, pa £ J. MULLEN, Attorn*y-at-Law. LAPORTE, HA. orrica in COOBTY guanine H*ABOOR«T BODSS. j7 BRADLEY, ATTORBBT AT-LAW, < Mfice Building, Cor.Main anil Mnncv Sts. I.A PORTE, fa J H. CRONIN, ATTO*RKT»AT -LAW, BOTAKY rUBLIO. orricß OB KAIB RTRBBT. IM SHORE, PA COMIVIERCIAL HOUSE" AVID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORI'R - A. This large and we» i appointed house 'f the must popular hostelry in this ieotion LAPORTE HOTEL. V. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court Mouse square. Steam heat, hath roi;.. ~ hut and cold water, reading and pool ruom.and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, T J. KEELER. I • Justlce-of-the Peace. Ofllceiu room oyer store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care of this office will he promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. H. H. GUY. - Proprietor. Newly furnished throughout, special intention given to the wants ol the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer un the market always on tap. Itntes Jieasoliable. Carpets: Need new carpets for Spring and Summer? We have quite an assort ment of samples,from which you may choose, and we'll do matching and sewing for you at moderate cost, if you wish. Every thing needed at house cleaning time IS HEKE. Bon Ami scouring soap, cleans a window a minute, WE HAVE IT. Poultry netting, wire,garden tools, and FRESII SEEDS at Buschhausen's, LAPORTE, PA. M. Brink's New Albany, Pa. 140 lb. sacks, flour middlings, *1.90 200 " coarse brans; 2.20 100 " Buckeye feed, 1.25 JOO " Corn meal, 1.40 100 " Cracked corn, 1.40 100 " Corn,oats,A- barley chop 1.40 I2. r > " (jiluten feed, 1.81 Lump rock salt per 100 lbs. .75 100 lbs. cotton seed meal, 1.00 100 lbs. linseed meal, 1.85 100 lbs. sacks Oyster shells, .50 100 ll>s. meat meal, 2.50 Oats per bushel .00 140 lbs sack dairy salt, .55 Granulated sugar per lb .05 100 lbs. " 5.00 Best Mammoth or medium clover seed per bushel 5 85 N. Y. State large! clover, grower's guarantee (i 85 Timothy seed per bushel 3.25 to 4.00 Japanese Millet per bushel 1,00 Schumacher's best flour 1.15 Hagerman's " I.oft "Our Own" a leader, 1.05 Golden vale 1.05 25 lbs sacks, Buckwheat, .05 Graham 12J lbs. .30 Bye flour, 25 lbs. .50 Send money order and have your goods come on first freight, or come to our store and get them. M. BRINK. jfCovnty Seat | Local and Personal Events i I Tersely Told. Mr. and Mrs. Raymod Meyers, of Bernice. were Laporte visitors ou Sunday. Miss Jessie Wrede closed a very successful term of school in the intermediate grade at Laporte, on Tuesday. A. P. Starr, the hustling mana ger of W. L. Hoffman's store, was doing business at the county seat Thursday. Willard Hill of Hughesville. is enjoying a vacation with his friend Ellery Crossley. "Dump" has liim out iishing every day, of course. Miss Grace Bradford is making preparations for the entertainment of her friend Miss Mary Solenberg er of Shamokin.- next week. Miss Julia O'Donovan, stenog rapher for Atty. E. J. Mullen, has returned to her duties, having spent a week or two at her home in Sayre. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Brewster have opened their summer home at this place and are preparing to spend the warm weather comfor tably. Married.—At the Lutheran par sonage, Dushore, Pa., by Rev. J. \V. Kliugler, on May 10th, Dr. J. D. Benjamin and Miss Mary H. Reitmeyer, both of Dushore. Nathan Persun, Win. J. Lowe and Harvey Arms, viewers on the new road from Double Run bridge to Eagles Mere, passed through t-'vn Monday. 011 their way to the proposed road. Proth. Thos. E. Kennedy and County Clerk Edward Sweeney were Williamsport visitors Friday night. Mr. Kennedy gave the Proth on otary's office in that place a thorough inspection in search for new ideas. Quartecly meeting will be held in the M. E. Church next Sabbath. Class meeting at 9:30 a. m. Rev. J. H. Black, D.D. of Williamsport, will preach the Sacramental Sermon at 10:30 a. m., and administer the Holy Communion. Mrs. E. P. Ingham and mother, Mrs. Barrows, of New York, arriv ed in town last week, and have taken up their gummer abode in the brick house which has lieen handsomely remodeled and decorat ed with paint and wall paper. The loss of a linger by an acci dent in coupling cars, is causing Leo Wrede considerable trouble. Last Friday a consultation by Drs. Randall and Herman of Dushore, and Metzgar cf Hughesville, was held at his home in this place. The wound was reopened and cleansed, and is now showing some signs of improvement. Andrew Siegle, ex-Deputy Proth. of Lycoming has arranged a new system of filing records, which is being adopted by many counties throughout the state. The system is a most perfect one and many times superior to the old method. We believe the time is not far dis tant when Sullivan County will take the advanced step her sister counties have done and adopt this modern plan of filing records. A test case of marked interest will be tried in our court, concern ing the legal points of a recent act providing for the payment of debts contracted by overseers of poor. This case involves the Twp. of Colley and the County of Sulli van. The overseers upon an order of relief cared for one, Bert Weslej', to the extent of 828(5.00 and then presented their bill to the County Commissioners for payment which they refused to do. It has been generally known heretofore that only in cases of insanity where the subject was cared for by some State institution that the county was re sponsible, and this only in the first instance, the sum l»eing refunded by the respective townships or boroughs. Attorney Mercur, for the plaintiffs, will fight this case on the ground that a recent act provides that where a township becomes indebted for a pauper whose former residence is unknown the county becomes liable. j In conversation with Mr. Ellery P. Ingham the other day he relat ed an anecdote which we thought worthy of preservation. It is this: Some years ago Mr. Ingham was at the War Department at Washing ton in connectioh with official busi ness; one of the chiefs of bureau took him over his department and showed tho very complete system of filing in vogue. He said they had a complete record of every soldier who fought for the Union in the war of the Rebellion, and by giving the number of the Regiment the record could be produced in a few moments. To test it he asked Mr. Ingham to give him a name. Mr. Ingham paid, '-find me the name of Joseph 0. Pennington, K. Co. 141st P. V.'' In a moment the record was produced, and as the Chief looked over it, he ex claimed: ''This is one of the most remarkable records I have ever seen in this department. Ido not know of any that excel it, and very few indeed can equal it. It is a record of a splendid soldier." The record showed that Mr. Pennington had Ijeen engaged in every hard battle the Army of the Potomac had fought, including Fredericks burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Hun. Antietam.Spottsylvauia, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox; that he had never been wounded nor spent a day in the hospital and had reported every day at roll during a period of over four years except one furlough of less than thirty days. That was a record to be proud of. A Seriovs Aocidenl. On Friday evening of last week while driving from Forksville to their home near Overton, Misses Bertha and Jennie Streby met with a serious accident. Miss Bertha was a pupil at the Forksville High Kcliool, l>eing one of the graduates of this year, and as was customary her sister went to Forksville to take her home on Friday evening. When near the llannon farm the horse became frightened and at the same time unmanagable, upsetting the carriage and throwing its occu pants over the embankment to the stones below, badly injuring them. Miss Jennie had her left arm brok en in two places and otherwise bad ly bruised, Bertha had sevearl ribs fractured, a sprained ankle and other bruises of a most severe na ture. Much sympathy is felt for the young women, especially as the accident deprived Miss Bertha of taking part in tlis graduating exer cises of the class ef which she was a member. The Kphworth League of the M. | E. church has been re-organized and the following named officer* were elected for the coming year: President, Miss Myrtie Bryan; Ist vice pres., Mrs. Frank C'rossley; 2nd vice pres., J. W. lligley; ;ird vice pres., Mrs. J. W. Higley; 4th vice pres., I)ollie C'rossley; See., Miss Elleanor Tripp; Treas., Mrs. Andrew Hack ley. At a regular meeting of 8.8. Sim mons Post, No. 477, G. A. R. it was resolved that we hold Mem orial Service at Sonestown at nine o'clock in the forenoon and at Laporte at three o'clock in the afternoon on May 30, 1902. All come and bring Howers to decorate the soldiers' graves. Speakers are expected. ISAAC T. Low, Com. KOAD LETTING. The undersigned Road Comissioners of llillsgrove Township will give out for road making by public letting on the 27T11 DAY OF MAY, 1902 at 1 o'clock j>. in. Two pieces o( cribbing in the public road near L. B. Speakers, in Hillsgrovc Township, I'a.. washed out re cently by the flood of|l>cc. lf>, 1001. One piece of lower part to be cribbed with timber and stone, length 140 feet, 20 feet on bottom, 16 feet on top and 8 feet 4 inches deep at lowest point. Second piece 170 feet long. Two height of timber sufficient to raise the road to 1 sonic height hs old road bed. ' Arrangments have been made by which the timber can be secured nearby. Specifications can be seen or obtained from the commissioners or town clerk at any time. C. W. Saimii.Kß, I L.,1. Norton, > Commissioners. John SrK.utita, j Town Clerk, S. T. Galovhu. j Commencement ! at ForKsville, CIASS OF SIX GBADUATE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL ! CLASS MOTTO, "ONWARD." | Crowded Hovse Witness the Graduating ! Exercises. Alvmni Banquet Follows.' (Spednl Correspondence.; Tho fifteenth annual commence ment of the Forksville High School was held in the M. K. Church at that place on Tuesday evening, May 13. Tho following young men and ladies constituted the class of 1W02: Mr. Hartley Moiyneux, of Mlllview; Mi*. Dennis Leahy, of Campb llsville; Miss Winifred Moiyneux, of Mill view; Miss Hertha Streby, Overton 1 ; and Misses Marian Snyder and Kni rna Rogers, of Forksville. The church had l»een beautifully and appropriately decorated with plants, ferns, Hags and bunting and presented a handsome appearance. Promptly at eight o'clock the members of the class, together with the teachers, board of directors, County Superintendent and resident ministers took their seat upon the platform and tho exercises begum The audience was one of the largest ever present to witness the gradua tion of a class, every seat and all the standing room being taken. The essays and orations showed careful preparation and were well delivered, and the exercises through out reflected great credit upon the teachers in charge. At the conclu sion of the regular program the pres ident of the board, Mr. W. M. Cal kins, made a brief address, thnnking the people generally for liberal and loyal manner in which they had patronized the school and declaring it to be the intention of the board to maintain the higli standard at most already reached. Following is the program: PROGRAM. Invocation, l!ev. A. E. Smith. Salutatory and Essay,—"Guide Posts,' - ' Marion Snyder. Duet, —"My Faith Looks up to The®," Essay.—"Not Cinders but Gems," Wini fred Moiyneux. Solo, —"Now to Sleep You Little Coons," Essay,—"Aim High,'' Emma Rogers. Oration, —"Onward,"' Dennis Leahy. Solo, —"In the Garden of Eden." Essay,—"Wasted Opportunities," Hertha Streby. Instrumental l>uet. Valedictory and Oraiion, —"True Educa tion, Moiyneux. 1 Chorus, —"Italia, Italia, Reloved. , Address, County Supt. F. W. Meyleri. Presentation ol Diplomas,Prof.M.K. black benediction, Kev. James Rowen. The annual banquet of the Alumni Association was held immediately after the Commencement exercises. About thirty-five graduates, repre senting nearly all of the former grad uating classes, with invited guests, were present. The tables were care fully arranged, tastily decorated and fairly loaded down with good things. After ample justice had been done • to the spread the order of exercises wi*s changed and a number of toasts were ably responded to. A general social good time followed. Old friendships were revived and new ones formed, and another successful Alumni banquet was added to the already long list. The graduating exercises and the I annual banquet formed a fitting | close to a highly successful year's work in this excellent school. fiVSHOBE. Miss Eliza Shaut of Laporte, was the guest oa Miss Eva Lawrence, the fore part of the week. The , ladies are now visiting friends at Bloomsburg. The salary of the post master at . this place has been raised from I $l,lOO to $1,200. Percel Carpenter, for some time £ a clerk for J. L. lloffa, has resign- J ed his position and gone to Iter- 1 wick, Pa. ' m Miss Esther Dunne, a popular school teacher of this place has ; gone to Philadelphia, where she . will take a course in a training school for nurses. Edward Carrol of New York, is on a visit to friend, at this place. Adam Baumgartner Lehigh Valley yard foreman at Wilkes- Bar re, was taken to the hospital , Wednesday last sugering with ap pendicitis,* an operation was per formed from which ho died Tues day night. Mrs. Ulyses Bird and son, of Estell*, were among the visitors to this place the early part of the week. I Spring has come at last At CAMPBELLS, SHUNK, PA., d He is showing the finest line of Spring and Sum & mer Goods to be found in Western Sullivan, con sisting of everything usually kept in a first class 4 General Store. Call and inspect his large line before M purchasing elsewhere. Ha will be pleased to show you and will make you a price that is right. Highest Market Price Paid for Butter and Eggs. , p or Bowker's Fertilizers, Deering Reapers. Binders, Mowers and Rakes. Davison and Perry Harrows, Wiard Plows and Rakes. A Steel Lined 19 T Perry Harrow, only A Bargain. Call and see it. A. E. CAMPBELL, Shunk, Pa. A Beautiful Show of Men's, Boys' and Children's SPRING surrs. Childrens two, three, and four piece suits SI.OO to s£.oo. Boys single and double breasted suits in all the new patterns and weaves s£.oo to $12.00 Men's one, three and four button sack suits, the latest materials and make $8 to S2O. Men's cutaways, nobby things, #l2 to $;o. Also ;in elegant assortment of men's and young men's trousers Childrens knee pants, hats, caps, neckwear, underwear, ■>hirts, trunks, suit cases, traveling bags and umbrellas. T. W. Carroll, DUSHORE, PA. HOTE CARROLL BLOCK. • tTT en r , ■ r T The Cheapest Carpet to buy is a good one, and if you want a good one buy it of Holcombe & Lauer and get the best at the lowest price. We are direct agents for the largest carpet manufacturers in the United States. Wiltons, Velvets, Royal Axministers, Moquettes, Body and Tapestry Brussels, Ingrains in all wool three plys two plys and cotton chain, unions and all cotton. Rag and Hemp Carpet, China, Japan, and Mo. Grass Matting. Linolinms and oil cloth. If you can't come, write. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, Undertaking, ll ©USbOrC, fca. SAXE BLOCKS. LAPORTE ** CLOTHING [We can please you better than ever.] Because we offer a larger and much finer stock to select from, and because we will continue our policy of handling onlv the VERY BEST GOODS. ttartiou. Tpen» Rochester made OLIITHING, Black and Blue MrgM, plaia and n\i)y. Cheviot, plflin iu I 'nncy undressed worsteds, made in all tk* lat«at aJtajrt?, V m 112 HS' S|.: ITS, CHILDREN'S SLUTS >ijor 3 to 16 ye»r», to aelwt troiu, prices <1 iV> u> n.-OO MEN'S Dresi I'ants ,»t $13.00, 8 00 and up to s£6o par pair. Wo havegiven the grentest attention »t onr SHOE DEPARTMENT, llie Bhckl i-ii.l ircM lui'srvxl siook, IhU-xI fctvlp-. u.t right price*. We l«amile the W. 1.. lit 'I'M I. AS SHt»E HI- £3. .1 fH», 4 00, and #5 00 |*r pair. Ladle* are Invited to examine our Spring Stock of tailor made jacket ruiny day tkiriii. peti coat« Wrapper* ladies' ve<ts. flno drees skirtsi. We handle a full line oi ladic* eoraet*. ladies kid aloves. tine unbrcllas. trunks and valises. A full line of ladies'and *ents oxfords, assortment of patent leather and velown calf. A complete line of toys and children# plioe*. Mens working •ho** from SI.OO to |6 00 Our line of Rents furnlnhing goods embrace all the latest styles. We handle the Monarch fchirt. See our latest hats, neckwear hose c*j*. gloves, at bottom pile©*. Now !•» vonr l*st chance to buv vour Spring and summer Clothing. All we ask 1* for you to came and see and tie convinced of the low prices we are offering. NEW-YORK TRIBUNE FARMED. 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