|-'H«T V ATIfVWAI RANK OF Ul SHORE, PKNNA. CAPITAL - - SBO,OOO. SURPLUS - - WO.OOO. Does a General Banking Business. W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTB. President. Cashier 112 RANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. Office in Keeler's Block. LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA. Rush J. Thomson, Albert F. Heess, 1871. 1902. JHOMSON & HEESS, LAWYERS, DUSHORE, PENNA. Long Distance Telephone. January 1, 1903. jTjT& F. H. INGHAM, ATTORUBTS-AT-lAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining oountiM _ A PORTE, p A - ETTmullen, Attorn«y-at-L«w. LAPORTE, PA. OnriOß I* COOBTT BDILDIRB HBAR COURT HOOSB. J~~H. CRONIN, ATTOBHBT-AT -LAW, ROTART PUBLIC. OFVICB OB MAI* HTRBBT. DUSHORE, PA 0 J. MOLYNEAUX, D.D.S. Graduate University of Pennsylvania. NEW ALBANY, PA. At Lopez, Pa., Wednesday and Thursday each week. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. A.VID MARK, Prop. lAPORi'B - A. This large and w*i appointed house is the must popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE I^OTELT" P. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop; also.good stabling and livery, T J. KEELEIt. 1 • Justice-of-the Peace. Office in room over Btore, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters lea to the care of this office will be promptly attended to. _ M. Brink's New Albany, Pa. Glutten feed per 100 lbs 1.40 sacks for above redemable each 06 Old process Linseed Oil 1.55 Cotton seed meal 1*"0 140 lbs low grade flower 2.00 Same per ton 26 00 200 " coarse brans; 2.10 100 lb corn oats and barley chop 1.25 140 lb Red Dog flour 1.90 100 lb yellow corn meal 1.05 100 lb corn or cracked corn 1.05 100 lb damaged wheat 1 00 100 lbs wheet screenings .80 100 meat meal 2-75 100 lbs crushed oyster shells 50 100 lbs scorched wheat 1.00 Schumacher's best flour 1.15 "Our Own" a blended flour 1.05 140 lbs. common fine salt .60 Same per 280 lb 1.20 56 lbs of butter salt 45 Choice clover seed 8.00 Choice timothy seed 2.25 Veal calves and dressed poultry wanted every Wednesdays forenoon. M. BRINK. FREE I FREE ! A Housewife's Delight, A NICELY ARRANGED TABLE. Buy your goods of us and get a set of this Hand Painted China Free! ASK FOR COUPONS. AT Buschhausen's ABBOTUTE SECURITY is offered to depositors oi Pittsburg Trust Company by combined capital, surplus and profits of 6,000,000. Pays 4 per cent on Savings Deposits, subject to withdraw al of SIOO without notice, and 2 per cent on Checking Accounts. Interest com pounded semi-annually. Deposits 10,- 000,000. Do all JWXT banking by HMii. Send for two hu» |t year 823 (County Scat Local and Personal Events I Tersely Told. (HMisa Mae Mencer of Nordmont, is the guest of Mrs. L. R. Qumble. Ellery P. Ingham and family are now occupying their beautiful sum mer home at this place. Ex-Judge Line of Bernice, was at the cou ty seat on Saturday shaking hands with old time friends. Mrs. H. H. Spencer has returned from a visit With her son Harry, at Williamsport. Misses Irene and Jennie Rose re turned home last week from Phila delphia where they had spent the winter. Our Commissioners would do well to enforce the law relatives to im proving the roads. They need it. James Caven, the hustling livery man of Sonestown, was a business man at this place on Monday. Ben Speary of Sonestown, was a Laporte visitor on Tuesday. He will leave for Centralia, W. Va. next week. Mrs. G. S. Eddy is seriously ill having undergone an operation on Monday, performed by Drs. Ran dall and Wright, at her home on Main street. Mrs. Rappleye and little daughter of New Jersey, are the first arrivals at the Mountain House where they expect to spend the summer. The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E church is making arrangements for a supper to be held at the resi dence of W. B. Ritter, Tuesday evening, May 12. The Prudential Insurance Com pany, through its Philadelphia agents, has insured Rodman Wana maker, son of John Wanamaker for $1,000,000. The premium on the insurance is $30,000 a year. SheriffCott this week purchased the meat market business of David Temple. Mr. Cott's son Fred, and Henry Kraus who is employed !by Mr. (Jott, will conduct the enter prise. Mr. Temple contemplates go ing into the hotel business. A. E. Tripp accepted a wll pay ing position with Whalan Bros., contractors on the Susquehanna & New York railroad, and left on Monday for Wheelerville. He takes charge of the carpenter work on the several trestles to be erected on the new road. Mr. Tripp has had con siderable experience with trestle work having been similarly engaged on the W. & N. B. railroad when it was built. The Lyon Lumber Co. last week issued a writ of replevin claiming the logs and lumber manufactured by Bennett and Peale at their mill in Shrewsbury township. Bennett and Peale are operating under an agreement with H. L. Qeyelin, ot Philadelphia, and the question of the ownership of the property will be fully tested. Bennett and Peale have about a million feet of logs on hand and had just started their mill when the writ was served. This action will, delay them somewhat. The appearances for the Lyon Lum* ber Co. are: Mullen of Laporte, and Haines andPeaslee of Williamsport. For Mr. Geyelin, C. Laliue Munson, of Williamsport, R. A. Mercer, of Towanda and F. W. Meylert, of La porte. T. J. and F. H. Ingham represent Bennett and Peale. Rev. Thomas S. Wilcox, Presid ing Elder of the Williamsport dis trict, Central Pennsylvania Confer ence, will be in Laporte for the first Quarterly Conference on May 10. Rev. Wilcox will preach on Satur day evening, May 9, and hold the official conference. He will also preach on Sunday morning at 10:30 and administer the Holy Sacrament. A cordial invitation and hearty wel come is extended to the citizens of Laporte to attend these services. Unless Attorney General Carson shows State Treasurer Harris that the judges of the several courts of the State have a right to the increase of salary voted them by the Legisla ture, which was approved by the Governor, the State Treasurer will not pay the increase. Mr. Harris quotes the Constitution, Section 3, of Artiole 13, which says that: "No law shall extend the term of any public officer or increase or diminish his salary emoluments after his elec tion or appointment." Mr. Harris will raise the question on the first judicial pay day, and will be guided solely by the opinion of his-- Attor ney General.'- >9L Jim Dumps was a most unfriendly man kfSJr Who lived his life on a hermit plan. /wT He'd never stop for a friendly smile, * But trudged along In his moody style HI Till "Force"one day was served to him— Since then they call him " Sunny Jim." MForce» I The Betdy-to-Serve Cereal * better builder than a vacation. Rmr Tire* of It. J V I "I am cotwlderably advanced towards eighty years /*> r \ \ I of age. I have of late been almost rejuvenated by the I J I 1 ■ use of vonr very excellent preparation, which you nave ( { ill rightly designated aa 'Force.' Never I k| The forest fire that swept this section of the state last week cost Sullivan county property owners a large sum of money. There was a terrific wind blowing Thursday when sparks from a locomotive start ed a fire near Karges point and be fore it could be reached by the fire fighters it had gained such headway that it was impossible to get it un der control. Several of the dwell ings at the Big Onion were seriously threatened. Mr. Reeder's lime house caught fire but by hard work was saved. A car with several cords of acid wood on Mr. Reeder's switch was destroyed, and the ties along the W. & N. B. railroad in several places badly burned. Farmers were obliged to tear down their fences in order to save them. The tract of timber land of Wm. Hart of Campbellsville, which he recently purchased of B. B. King, was visited by the flames, but only a portion of it was burned over with out any serious damages. M. E. Reeder while in town on Wednesday left shipping directions for a gitsoline engine to supply pow er for churning and operating cream separators at his Chippewa farm. Practical buyers when purchasing gasoline engines always select the Fairbanks for a reliable and high grade engine at moderate cost. Governor Pennypacker, last week signed a bill for the commitment of persons habitually addicted to the use of alcoholic drinks or intoxica ting drugs to a hospital or a&sylum, on petition to the court of two rela tives or friends of the alleged drunk ard. Before such person is admitted into the institution, payment must be made or security given to the authorities for his board, care and treatment, and to indemnify them from all costs and expense. No per son shall be kept in restraint for more than one year, and all commit ments under the act, reviewable by habeas corpus proceedings at any time. NOTICE OF STOCK HOLDER'SMEET- I NO. Office of Susquehanna and New York Railroad Company. YVilliamsport, Pa., May 4th, 1903. NOTICE is hereby given that a meet ing of the stockholders of the Susquehan na and New York Railroad Company will be held at the principal office of said Company in VViliiamsport, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 1903, at one o'clock p. 111., for the purpose of voting for the adoption or rejection of the agreement of consolidation and mer ger of the Grays Run Railway Company with the Susquehanna and New York Railroad Company. C. S. HORTON, President. Attest. M. F. HAMMOND, Secretary. Farm Bookkeeping. No business man can get along suc cessfully without striking a balance now and then to see where he stands. Bookkeeping is a necessary element in commercial success. It is Just as nec essary for the farmer to examine his assets and liabilities from time to time to ascertain if be is making a profit or a loss as it is for any other business man. Farmers have not been doing business on business principles and only one result could follow. The Subordinate Orange. The subordinate grange is a link in the great chain now stretching from ocean to ocean, binding hundreds of thousands of tbe men and women of the farm in a fraternal body and by sacred obligation to put forth every ef fort to raise the standard of intelli gence among the tillers of the soil and secure a just distribution of the bur dens of society, as well as of the fruits of our labor.—O. Gardner. BOYS AND GIRLS By devoting a few moments of your spare time each day to our business, you can earn your choice of the following prem iums: Watches, rings, necklaces, catching gloves, air rifles, pen knives roller skates, dolls and many useful and handsome presents. All we ask yon to do is to sell iS ■of our handsome pins and collar but tons at ioc each. Send the money SI.BO within 2 weeks and we send you the premium post paid. No money needed, we trust you. Write at once. Hundreds of boys and girls are earning our premiums every week. Address EUREKA SPECIALTY CO., 2048 N. 29 Street. Premium Dept- Philadelphia. F. J. Killuore, Mgr. CONDENSED REPORT of the condition of th KIRST NATIONAL BANK of Dusbore, l'a. At close of business, Nov, 25 1902 RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts $239,187 80 U. S. Bonds to secure circulation 5,000 00 Premium on U. S. Bonds 3,400 00 Furniture 1,000 00 Due from Banks Approved reserve A(rt 43,754 (il Specie and Legal Tender Notes 26,139 18 Redemption fund U. S. Treasury 25,000 00 8 385,981 65 LIABILITIES. Capital t 50,000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 28,453 22 Circulation 50.000 00 Deposits. 262,524 43 Dividens unpaid 400 i 385,981 65 State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: I, M. D. Swarts, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swea: .hat the above state ment Is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. M. D. SWARTS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of Apr. 1903. ALBERT F. HEESS Notary Public. Correct—Attest: A.WALSH. ) JNO. D. REESER VDirectors W.J.LAWRENCE. ) QOURT PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, HOK. E. M. DUNHAM, President Judge, Honorables John D. Reeser and Jacob Meyer, Associate Judges of|the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans' Court and Com mon Pleas for the County of Sullivan, have issued their precept, bearing date the 20 day of Keb'y 1903, to me directed, for holding the severa courts in the Borough of Laporte. 011 Monday the 25d day of May 1903, at 2 o'clock p. m. Therefore,notice is hereby given to the Coroner Justices of the Peace and Constables within the county, that they be then and there in their prop er person at 2 o'clock p. m.of said day, with their rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and other rememberanees to those things to which their offices to be done. And to those who are bound by their recognizance to prosecute against prisoners who are or shall be iu the jail of thesaid county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to be then and there to prosecute against them as will be just. J. G. COTT, Sherifl. Sherifl's o£Hce,Laporte,Pa., Apr 12. 1»03, Potatoes, Clouer and Timothy seed, Corn and Oats. Large sup ply. For sale by W. L. Hoffman, Muncy Valley, Pa. TO CUBE ACOLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative BromoQuine Tablets. All druggists refund tlie money it it fails to cure. E. W. Grow's signature is on each box, 25c. The minor advantages of membership In the grange are directly financial, but the principal advantages are social anil educational. Co-operation In Hew Jeney. One grange In New Jersey reports purchases as follows for its members: Fertilizers, f23,000; potatoes, $5,000; seeds, $2,000; straw, $4,000. or about $34,000 in all for one grange. There are many other granges doing co-oper ative work along business llnea in that state. ifcm't Tobacco Spit and hiuuke Your Lift A way. To quit tobacco easily and torever, be mas netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 60c or (1. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York ******* SALVE. the most healing waive in the world. Send model, sketch or photo of invention for i* freereport on patentability. For free book . b^rfRADE-liARKS \ OppoffieUTslPateXofflce WASHINGTON P.C. j Foley's Honey ma< * Tar heals lungs and stops the cough. Campbell "The Merchant' SHUNK, PA. New Spring and Summer Dress Fabrics We are now offering a wide range of the smartest fabrics, such as are now most wanted and to be wonr this Spring and Summer. High grade goods at price that represents enormous savings to the buyer. Always Bear in Mind I have the agency for Missouri Grow Drills, Davison and Perry Harrows, Land Rollers, Wiard Plows and Rakes, Deering Reapers, Binders, Mowers, Rakes. Fertilizer etc. Yours for Business, A. E. CAMPBELL. NEW SPRING CLOTHING. Mens' Clothing: Fancy Cheviot Suits, all styles $5.50 to $15.00 Fine Worsted Suits, very neat yrs, 50c up. We have all the latest Spring Styles in Hats, Caps, Shoes Shirts, etc., and prices the lowest. Call and see us, and do not forget the place, A. IsEVERTON, Scouten's Block. DUSHORE, PA.