FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUSHORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - - $60,000. SURPLUS . . #IO.OOO. Does a General Banking Business. B.W.'JENNXNQS, M. D. SWARTS. President. Cashier fRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. Office in Keeler's Block. LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA. ALBERT F. HEESS, LAWYER, DUSIIORE, PENNA. Office with Rush J. Thomson. Saturday of each week at Forksville. T. J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOr!f«TS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties _APORTE, p A. £ J. MULLEN, Attorn ey-«t- La w. LAI'OKTK, PA. OrriCß IH CODIfTT BUILDIHfI K*A« COURT HOUSI. j ~H. CRONIN, ATTORHKT'AT -LAW, IIOTART PUBLIC. orrica on MAIM MTHIKT. DUSHORE, PA 0 J. MOLYNEAUX," D.DTS. Qraduate University of Pennsylvania. NEW ALBANY, TA. At Lopez, I'a., Wednesday and Thursday each week. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. A.VID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPOR fE - A. This largo and we>.i appointed house is the must popular hostelry in this seotion LAPORTE HOTEL r. W, OALLAOHEH, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court 1 louse square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber.shop; also good stabling and livery, T J. KEELER. I • Justice-of-the Peace. Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care of this office will be promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. R. H. GUY, - Proprietor. Newly 'furnished throughout, special attention given to the wants of the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer on the market always on tap. Bates Reasonable. M. Brink's New Albany, Pa. 100 " Corn meal, 1.30 100 " Cracked corn, 1.30 100 " Corn,oats, Abarley chop 1.45 100 " Oil meal, old proces 1.75 200 " coarse brans; 2.10 Same per ton (1800) 20.00 140 lbs red dog (middlings) 2.00 Same per ton 20.00 100 lb. Granulated sugar 5.(0 100 meat meal 2-75 Oats per bushel 40 Schumacher's best flour 1.15 "Our Own" a blended flour 1.05 Best Spring Pattent 1.15 Extra, a partry flour 95 140 lbs. common fine salt .00 Same per barrel 1.20 100 lbs lump rocksalt 75 50 lbs graw rocksalt 35 100 lbs crushed oyster shells 50 150 lbs wheet screenings 1.00 100 lbs damaged wheat 1.15 Veal calves wanted every Wednes day forenoon. Dressed poultry and every Thursday. M. BRINK. There is now on exhibition a Very Nice Line of HOLIDAY GOODS Suitable for Everybody's Wants. THE GROCERY DEPART MENT is complete. Special atten tion being called to the choice quality of canned goods at little over to-day's wholesale prices. Dold's meats are unsurpassed for flavor and excelence, nothing but Dole's in the store. GOODYEAR GLOVE RUB BERS, are strickly fresh; they cost more than the inferior grades sold elsewhere, but they last longer and give better satisfaction all around AT Buschhausen's County Seat j Local and Personal Events] 11 Tersely Told. I B. F. CroHsley spent Christmas with his parents at this place. Miss Reba Hess of Sonestown, is the guest of Miss Ella Tripp. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fries, on Monday, Dec. 29, a girl. Mr. Frank Otterbein of Altonna spent Christmas with friends in La porte. Miss Mable Spencer of Camden, N. J. spent Christmas with her mother and sisters at this place. Miss Anna Shoemaker is home from the Lock Haven Normal school for the holiday vacation. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Lauer of Dushore, on Friday last, a daughter. Miss Jeanette Spencer of Picture Rocks, is spending her holiday va cation at her mother's home in this place. Atty, Albert F. Hess of Dushore, enjoyed a genuine Merry Christ mas, there arriving at his home on that morning a ten pound girl as a Christmas gift. Nearly one hundred persons of this place enjoyed a delightful sleigh ride to the farm home of Mr. 8. Mead, about two miles from here on New Years Eve. Ray Zaner has resigned his posi tion with the Grand Union Tea Co. and has accepted a position with John D. Reeser of Dushore. Mr. Zaner made many friends for him self and established a good trade for the Grand Union Tea Co. dur ing the short time he was in their employ. Mr. Daniel Sheehan, a well known and respected citizen of Laporte township died at his home near this place on Thursday, Dec. 25, after a long illness of rheumatism and a complication of diseases, at the age of 41 years. Deceased was ,unmar ried, and leaves a brother, three sis ters, one of whom is Mrs. E. J. Plynn of Lopez, and many friends to mourn the departure of a kind brother and friend. The funeral ser vices were held at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Rev. J. A. Enright officiating, on Saturday. Interment was made at Dushore. Mrs. James Newhart died at her late home between Eagles Mere and Forksville, on Wednesday evening, Dec. 24, after a short illness. She had been confined to her bed for sev eral days but being somewhat im proved she arose to attend to some household duties when she was tak. en seriously ill and died soon after. She leaves a husband and nine chil dren to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother. The funeral ser vices were in charge of Rev. S. B. Bidlack, and held in the Baptist Church at Eagles Mere on Friday afternoon. Interment was made at the Wallace Little cemetery. There will be Divine Service in St. John's Episcopal Church on Sun day next, Jan. 4, at 11 a. m. with Iloly Communion; and at 7:30 p. m. The Rector and his family purpose leaving Laporte early next week and go South for the remainder of the winter. The Bishop and Archdea con Radcliff will try to arrange for an occasional service during his ab sence, but cannot make any prom ise to that effect. The Rev. R. C. Caswell's address will be Versailles, Kentucky. The County Auditors who meet next Monday to audit the account of the County ofHces are competent men, and have the advantage of ex perience. The taxpayers of the county look to them to protect their interests. The Board of Auditors have judi cial powers. They may subpoena witnesses and investigate every tran saction of the County Commission ers. They may surcharge the Com missioners with any funds drawn from the Treasury without lawful authority, or with any debt unlaw fully contracted. This power has not heretofore been exercised; if it had the county debt would not have grown to its present enormous pro i portions. The News Item hopes it will appear that considerable reduc tion has been made in the debt dur ing the past year. A new gasoline engine has been installed in the News Item office by the Fairbanks Co. of Philadel phia. Transmitting power has been extended to the job presß and we will now be able to keep up with the growing demands for our high class job work. Send us a trial order. JfCovnty Indices ! Brief Newsy Items Gather ' by Correspondence' j RICKETTS. a A very sad occurance was re ported Monday night. Dec. 22, at this place. John Kronp being found dead near Lanes camp late in the afternoon. It appears that the man was a German and came to this country several months ago with his daughter, leaving his wife at home. The daughter secured employment in Brooklyn and the father came here where 'he had friends. Sunday the 21, he and a friend went to Jamison City and started home at 3 p. m. through the driving rain. They had almost reached Lanes camp when Kroup refused togo any farther and lay down in the snow which was still about a foot deep and took off his coattouseasa pillow, remaining out in the rain all night. On Mon day morning his friend returned to him but could not induce liim t<> return with him, and being only a young lad did not realize the grav ity of the situation and left him alone. The man was found dead Monday evening, having died from alcholiolism and exposure. His remains were sent to Bernice 011 Tuesday for burial. Mr. Richard Cron and Misß Jes sie Peet, both of this place were married at Noxen on Christmas. The Rieketts Union Sunday School elected oflicers on Sunday last. Mr. Howard Reinhart, Supt. Geo. AVipple, Asst. Supt. John Miller, Sec'y; Miss Cora Getts, Or ganist; Leroy Shaffer, Librarian; Geo. Trexler, Supt. of infant room. Messrs. Reinhart and Bogart, ush ers. The local tent K. O. T. M. elect ed oflicers this month and expect a year of increased prosperity. Owing to the lack of coal the Lumber Co. have been using wood for fuel with varying success. Mr. Frank Bellows sustained a severe cut of the right foot in the woods on Monday. Mr. and Mrs Arthur Knowles received a Christmas present in the shape of a little boy on the 20. Both mother and boy are doing well. The News Item was greatly missed here last week. Here's to another year of renewed prosperity. Mr. Henry Fulford has secured a new music box with which to en tertain his friends. Miss Augusta Fulford is home from Mansfield for the holiday va cation. Mr. Geo. Trexler is spending a few clays at home. It is reported that there is to be another wedding in town soon of a couple rather advanced in years, guess who. It is doubtful if Kriss Kringle missed any one here this year and some seemed to have a larger load of good things than they could conveniently handle. The Union Sunday School held their entertainment on Christmas eve and passed off very nicely. The trees were beautifully decorated. Dan Pond seems to be the only man in town that can be at all reckless in burning wood. A large number of Christmas trees were shipped from here last week. MUHCY VALLEY. Jesse Guilden of Williamsport is home on a vacation. Little Pearl Shaw is quite sick at this writing. ' Mrs. Chas. Croll of Dushore, vis ited her parents here on Saturday. Miss Myrtle Miller of William sport spent Christmas with her par ents here. Miss Nora Moran of Binghamton, N. Y. is visiting her parents. Mrs. J. E. Gallagher and her moth-1 er, Mrs. Kennedy aie quite ill at this writing. Mr. Ed. Finerty of Pittsburg visi ted his sister, Mrs. M. Donovan on Thursday. Miss Mae Donovan is visiting her , sister, Mrs. J. H. Fries at Laporte. u Get what you need and save what you can. Best grade of lime at Reeders Lime House, Laporte. ! One trial proves the worth of the ,' lime at Reeder's Lime House, La- I porte. EDITOR NEWS ITEM:—The Fourth Class Postmaster read with intern! the article Editor Newell published in reply to our statements in a recent issue of your paper. Cutting post masters' salaries in two that the de partment might be made to pay is not a reasonable deduction to make from our statement. It would be a gross injustice to cut down the calary of those already underpaid and allow the railroads to continue in their "rake off." Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not a satisfactory rem edy to lure an ill. Wherever there is an excessive price charged for ser vices which are indispensable, is the place to apply the remedy Mr. Newell wisely suggests, then jus tice will be done to all. However, as the said editor has no further de sire to discuss the postofflce question but has ample proof to show that the government is not capable of operating railroads and invites us unto the conflict in defence of the people's ownership of public trans portation, we will accept the chal lenge and do our best to uphold wlr.it we believe. First of all, we do not believe in blind theories, and want nothing but existing facts to filter into the discussion. In this we will first refer to Dr. Chisholm, formerly lord provost of Glasgow. The responsibility of showing the benefits of municipal ownership is to a large extent upon that city. Glasgow began it early and has prac ticed it thoroughly. Dr. Chisholm says:"For domestic water supply the charge is now ten cents where formerly it was thirty-two cents, for a ride on the trolley it is two cents where formerly it was six cents, the tramway shows groas profits of one million dollars. After deducting for interest, sinking fund and depre ciation a half million is left for the reserve fund. The electric light de partment has turned $280,000 into the city treasury for last year's net profit." Why can not America do as well, Mr. Newell. A FOURTH CLASS POSTMASTER. xxo-10-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes wcn« mcDslronif, blood pure. 50c.#1. All druKkisls. Foley*s Honey and Tar tor children,safe,sure. No opiates. Administrators Notice. In He Kstateof.l. M. Breitineier, lale of Davidson Township, Sullivan County i'enna., deceased, of Pennsylvania, deceased. Letters of Administration upon the above named estate having lieen granted to the undersigned, all persons having claims againet the same will present them for payment, duly authenticated; an I those indebted thereto, will please muke payment to (Mre.) HANNAH BREITMEIER, At Muncy Valley, Pa. A. J. BRADLEY, Atty*. Laporte, Pa., Jan. 1, 1903. Administrator's Notice. Estate ot Hiram J,Smith,late of I.aport twp., deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration upon the estate of said de cedent have been granted to the under signed. All persons indebted to said es tate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims or de mands against the same will make them known without delav to (Mrs.) E. E. ANDERS, Administratrix, Nordmont, Pa. MULLEN, Attorney, Laporte, Pa. HCLCOMBE & LAUER, Our success in the Furniture busines is because of our broad plan of giving good values all year, with no intent of making big profits. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, Furniture and DUSHORE, PA. Campbell "The Merchant' SHUNK, PA. HOLIDAY GREETING To My Friends and Patrons:-- My stock of Holiday Goods is now ready for your inspection. Useful as well as ornamental presents for young and old, great and small and prices that are in reach of all. Every Department is full of new stock and the prices are right. Call and look them over and we will prove to you that we can save you money. Yours for Business, A. E. CAMPBELL. sl4-00 CLOTHING and Gents Furnishing Goods SALE. For the purpose of remodeling my store and making a general change in the business; I am compelled to close out my entire stock of Clothing and Gents Furn ishings by January Ist, 1903. In order to move this large stock by that time, 1 have cut prices on every article 25 to 7 j per cent for the next 60 days. For Cash and Cach only. Just a few of many bargains: Men's overcoats, very swell makes $3 50 #l2. formerly sf> to S2O Boys over coats $1 / ormerly 115 to $5 00. Men's suits all the new makes ami latest paterns $3 00 to sls, formerly s.j to *lB. Hoys" suits, (ong pants, $2 to $7 50 formerlv 475 to sl3. y 8 !"'° l'! e _ ce Hhort l ,anl » <0 *5, formerly 350 to $7. Boys' three piece short pants $_ to so, formerly $3 75 to #7 50. Children's suits two and three piece, Sailor, .Norfolk, Schools and Junior soc to $3 50, tormerlv $2 to $5. Underwear, Overcoats Moves, Mittens, Sweaters, Duck Coats, Kain Coats, etc. etc all cut occordim-lv for (. ash at e • J. W. CARROLL'S, Hotel Carroll Block, DUSHORE, PA. LAPORTE CLOTHING STORE. After Christmas Reduction SALE of Ladies' and Gents FURNISHING GOODS. A new stock of well made cloth ing has received a big cut in price. We must make room for new seasonable goods. JACOB HERR, DEALER IN Clothing, Shoes and Ladies' Cloaks LAPORTE, 3P-A--
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