First national bank OF DUSHORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - * $50,000 e I'HiMiUa - - SIO,OOO Does a General Bauking Business. W. JKNNINtirt, M. D. HWARTB. President. Oasliier A J. BRADLEY, Attorney at-Lftw. ( Mlice, corner ot Main and Muncy Sts. LAPOKTK, PA. Having opened an office at 1328'Arch Si.. Philadelphia, 1 shall still continue to practice in the several t'ourts of Sullivan Comity. When not in my otlic.« personally a competent person will he tbmiil in charge thereof. Bonds of various kinds furnished. 112 RANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attomey-Rt-liaw. flicc in Keeler's Block. LAPOItTJS, Sullivan County, PA. Rush d. Thomson, Albert F. Ileess, 1871. 1902. JHOMSON & HEESS, LAWYERS, DUSUOIiK, PKXXA. Long Distance^'l'elephone. January 1, 1903. J. cSi F. H. INGHAM, ATTOHNKYS-AT-I.AW, Legul business attendud to in this and adjoining counties _APORTE, PA £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LA PORTE, PA. OFKICK IN COOWTY BUILDING NKAH COURT HOURK. J # H. CKONIN, law, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICK UN MAIN STIIIKT. U A pusnoßW. _ Q J. NIOLYNEAUX, D.D.S. Oraduate Uriiversityloi Pennsylvania. NhW ALBANY, PA. At liOpe/., I'll., Wednesday and I'hursday each week. LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W, (lALIiAGIIER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam heat, hath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barher.shop; also good stalding and livery, T J. KEELER. I < J ustice-of-the I'cape. Office in room over store, LAl'OKllv I A. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care ot this oflice will he promptly attended to. M. Brink New Albany, Pa. Is there liiiiny places whore yon fitn lmy full cream cheese for 10c per pound. \*< in hitd Letter come in and inspect our goods and catch tip some of the bargains. 7 ILs. prime rice for :25c is not to he passed by. Our own a blended liour for 1. —• i is a genuine bargain. Tea front 15c to(M>c per pound and all of them are winners. Coffee from 112 c to :Wc per pound. 1 rep rest nt the l.ui'ka I'orlorai Co. and you can have |i• -tll r- enlarg ed of any of your family t ->r ca-li and $5.00 traded with u^. M. BRINK. FREE ! FREE ! A Housewife's Delight, A NICELY ARRANGED TABLE. Buy your #oods of us and get a set of this Hand Painted China Free! ASK FOR COUPONS. AT Buschhausen' How Are Your Kidneys 112 Or. Hobbs' SparnKUS Pills euro nil kidney ills. fmo. Add Sterling Kerned > Co.,CtiU-aKo or N V Covnty Seat Local and Personal Events Tersely Told. J Meet ine at the lawn fete. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Flynn drove over to Eagles Mere on .Sunday. Miss Katliryn Heim of Lancaster Pa., is visiting at the rectory. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. lligley are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Win. Finkle, til Roselle Park, X. J. Arrivals at the Mountain House- Joseph 11. Murrell, wife and family, Sayre i'a, Miss Lula Mangold, Phila delphia, Mrs. Joseph Oregg, Sayre, 11. Harland Kerrett, Norristown, Miss E. Southworth, Philadelphia. A lawn fete will be held on the Rectory grounds next Tuesday even ing, August Hi. Surprise bags, iee i ream and candy wnl be for sale. All be there. Mr. and Mrs. \V. B. Hitter and family of this place and Mrs. Leo WredeofSatterfleld, Mr. and Mrsl Sam Hitter of Muney Valley spent Sunday at Highland Lake. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson died on Friday of last week after and illness of a week, interments at Dushore Cem etery on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William Kennedy and family of this place drove to Jamison City on Sunday to visit the former's mother. Mr. Jacob and Simon Fries and mother, and Mrs. John Frisby and grandson Leslie Cowell, till of this place took in the excursion to Har veys Lake on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Edward Schrader and family left on Tuesday for a month's visit with friends in Bradford County and York State. Mr. and Mrs. \V M. Cheney have returned from the big Fair at St. Louis, where they spent about a month. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mullen were Dushore visitors Monday. Miss Eliza Shaut has returned from a visit with Mrs. J. W. l'ier son and family at Bloomtlcld, X. J. Mrs. Ilurnley of Philadelphia, and Miss Shank of Williamsport are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. 11. Ran dall. The Sullivan County Telephone Co. now has its line completed from Forksville and Estella to Dushore. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh of Ringdale, died Sat urday, August (sth, after a brief ill ness, aged live months. The Laporte schools will open August :10th, with James M. Strohl as principal, Miss Anna Burns, teacher of the intermediate grade and Miss Jessie Wrede, teacher of the primary department. Mrs. Leo Wrede and Mrs. Del Ben nett of Sattertlehl spent Thursday of last week with the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hitter. The Senatorial conferees of Snyd er, I'nion and Northumberland coun ties met at Selingrove this morning, Xo action was taken until after din ner, when fourteen ballots were tak en ending in a tie. On the fi th ballot the conferees of Focht vot ed for Herman and the conferees of Herman voted for (iodcharles. This made (iodcharles (I and Herman :i. On the sixteenth ballot (iodcharles was the unanimous choice of the conferees Bloonisburg daily. As the result of the general in crease in business and consequent be lief that price of all commodities will harden and then advance, the railroads are already looking out for rails for 1905 delivery. Three big systems are in the market bidding. There orders annually exceed 500, 000 tons, Ira Irwin, 17 years old,of Watson tovvn, who is a nephew of Mrs. M. F.. Iteeder, and who wiil be remem bered by many of the people of Laporte, having spent a summer here with Mr. and Mrs. Reeder, had his left foot crushed so badly in at tempting to board a moving freight train on the Reading railroad, that the member had to be amputated above the ankle. Mr. C. R. Funston has rented his cottage overlooking Lake Mokoma, for the months of August ami Sep tember to a party of Hughesville : people. They took possession of the place on Tuesday and are reported to lie delighted with the same. Among the party are the following: Rev. John Barb, wife and two daughters, George Houghton, wife and daught er, Miss M. Confer, Atty Otto Cupp and wife, and several others whose names have not been learned. It should not be forgotten in the coming campaign that there Is no longer an ignorant rural voter. The country has been consolidated since the last election. What with the trolley, the automobile, the rural de livery, the telephone, the omnipres ent daily paper, the vast volumne of travel all over the country, and a thousand other agencies, everybody is in the political university and there are no "back" districts to be heard from. The farmer is alive to the issues of the day, and he will de cide the contest in an honest and con servative way. The Annual Convention of the Sullivan County S. S. Association will be held at Lopez, Wednesday and Thursday, August 17, and IK. State workers, Hugh Cork and Wni. Stahl will be there and other good speakers. For some reason our Hillsgrove correspondent has failed to send in his usual budget of news this week, and we havejust a faint suspicion as to the reason, but we hope that our frieud may recover from the disap pointment sufficiently by another week to be able to send us a newsy letter. Its too bad, but it cannot be helped that the Hillsgrove boys lost their laurels in a game of Imse ball with the Forksville team played at Forksville, on Saturday last, the score being "> to 4 in favor of Forks ville. Those interested in the incorpora tion of the Laporte Athletic Associa tion will please meet at 7.30 P. M. Saturday evening at the Prothon otary's office. All welcome who are desirous of being indentified with the project. K. P. INOHAM. Secretary protein. The teachers examinations for Sul livan county will beheld as lows: For Laporte Itorough, I<aj>orte township, Kagles Mere, Shrewsbury and Davidson School Districts at La porte, Monday, August 15. ColSey School District at -Lopez, Tuesday, August lt> Cherry and Dushore School Dis tricts, at Dushore, Wednesday, Aug ust 17. Hillsgrove, Klkland, Forks and Forksville School, Districts, at Forks ville, Thursday, August IS. Fox School District, at Shunk, Friday, August li». All examinations will begin at !• o'clock a. m. M. It. BI.ACK, Co. Superintendent. Transfer of License. Notice is hereby given ihai an applica tion for a transfer ol license granted to A Currieof Forksville to I. M. Scanlin uiul the same will lie presented to the t'onrl of Quarter Sessions on Saturday, August 13th, at 10 o'clock a. in. Thomas K. Kennedy, Clerk. Clerk's oltice. I.apoite Pa., August 'O4. Application for Charter Notice. Notice is hereby given that an applies lton will he made lo (lie Uovdrnor ol Pennsylvania on August 29. 1904, by A. L. l>yer. .lames P. Metiee,Joseph 11. I.ep sell and.l. 1.. Christian, under the Act ol Assembly entitled an Act to provide for the i icorjioratiori a'id regulation of cer tain corporations, approved April 29,1574, ond the supplements thereto, lor thechai ter or an intended corporation to be called Lopez Sandstone Cement Mrick A block Company. The character and object of which is to quarry stone, manufacture cement blick and cement block and tor the purpose to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges ol said Act of Assembly and Supplements thereto. I.OUIK it. 11ol.COMn. Solicitor. August 11. l!H>4. ♦ Rural Delivery Notes 4. «» Under the new law rural free dellr ery carriers will not be permitted to act as agent* fur newspapers or any other class of business, and all papers destined for persons on routes mast bear the name of the perswu to whom they are to be delivered, the carriers not being otherwise permitted to de liver them. Favors for persons along the routes may be done to u limited extent and when not Interfering with the work of the route, but the depart ment will see that the law h) rigidly enforced. Every rural mail carrier iu the coun try who covers what is known as a full route will uow receive fOO a month, or 1720 a year. Carriers who cover short er routes wUI not get the maximum salary. Within tive years the number of rural free delivery routes has increased from 200 to about 25,000. The rural service la maintained on two New Hampshire lakes, the carriers making the rounds on little steamers obtained for the purpose and calling at the houses and villages located here and there along the shore. The Democratic talk about the tariff | being the "mother of trusts" Is all rot. There are more trusts In England than j there are in the United States.—Valley Mills (T«g Protectionist CENTRAL State Normal School LOOKHAVEN, PA. J. H. FMCKINUEK, Principal. Fall term, 15 weeks begins Septem ber sth, 1904. Last, year was the most success ful in the history of this important school-about 700 students. Locu tion among the mountains of cen tral Pennsylvania, with line water, splendid buildings and excellent sanitary conditions make it an ideal training school. In addition to its Normal course it also has an excellent College Preparatory De partment in charge of an honor graduate of Prineton. It also has departments of Music, Elocution and Business. It has a well educated Faculty, fine Gymnasium ami Athletic Field, Address for illustrated catalog, THK PRINCIPAL, BIJCK NELL UNI V KRSITY. JOHN HOWAUM HAKKIS, President. COLLHUE: with courses in Arts, Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Science, Chemistry, Biology and Civil Engineering. ACADEMY: for young men and boys. INSTITUTE: for young women. SCH(K)L<)F M I'SIC: for both sexes. Healthy surroundings pure mountain water. For catalogue, address William C. Gretzinger, Registrar, Lewisburg, Pa. Dancing at the Mokoma Pavilion Saturday evening. Ice cream and soft drinks will be sold. JOHN HASSEN, JR. Life Insurance A FEW OF THE MANY REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE A POLICY WITH THE NEW YORK LIFE BKCAUSE —Incontestable from the date of issue. Because—absolutely without restrictions. Because—non forfeitable from date of issue. Be cause--cash loans are provided after second year, on demand at 5 per cent interest without fee or other charge. Because—if death does not occur an accumulative policy is a highly profi table investment for the policy-holder who lives. Policies now maturing to living policy-holders prove this. In fact NK\V YORK LIKE policies do not leak. Health and Accident Insurance also written. A postal card will bring an agent to you, or a person interview can be had at the oftiee Saturdays, regtdar ofliee day. GEO. BROWN, Agent. LOPEZ, PA. Ofliee in Dr. Clirictiau Bl'd. Cblppewa Xime Ifctlns. Lime furnished .n car load lots, delivered at Right Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesville Penn'a. M. E. Reeder, IMZTTIWCrS". IP.A. GROCERIES Fresh Green VEGETABLES. Good Grades of the season's most select vegetables and groceries always on hand al reasonable prices. A good set of shoemaker's tools tor sale, cheap. E. E. WEBB, Muncy Valley, Pa. LAPORTE LIVERY. First-Class Horses and Carriages. RATES REASONABLE. JOHN HASSEN, Prop. [Campbell "The Merchant" SHUNK, PA. FULL LINE IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE We are headquarters lor everything that is ever kept in a General Store. Pleasing patterns of line Dress Goods that will give un usual service for the price asked. We carry the very best of stock foods. An endless variety of caned goods and fresh Groceries. In tact we have a large, new stock of everything on hand at bottom prices. Yours for Business, A. E. CAMPBELL. Extraordinary Showing of Spring Suits for Men, Boys and Children are now here lor inspection. Suits in hh :k clay and unfinished worsteds and 1 hibets Homespuns, v enc h and English Flannels, and Scotch Goods. Overcoats in Genuine West of England Coverts. Hundreds of Exclusive Trouserings. Boys and Childrens' Suits in all the new fabrics and makes. Prices as well as variety are extraordinary. All new and up to date line of Gents Furnishings, Hats, Caps, etc. Also the only place in town where you can <>vt the "Walk Over" shoe. J. W. CARROLL'S, Hotel Carroll Block, DUSHORE, PA. Reduction Reduction Our Annual Summer Clearance Sale is now on in Full Vigor. It is the greatest ever made by us. You need but to see the slaughtering cuts You have not a need or want in summer wearing apparel that we will not till lor you and save you big money. . A Great Reduction in SHOES, New Line! SHOES. JACOB HERR, DEALER IN Clothing, Shoes and Ladies' Cloaks LAPO. T >TB, I BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED Hand Painted Chinaware. Absolutely Free. We will give with each purchase, coupons which entitles the holder to a set of High Grade China Dishes, irrespec tive of the extremely low prices prevailing here. Easy Foot Wear for All ; Oh! No Trouble at all to Show Goods. The Quality, pice and style of our spring and sum mer SHOES which aie marked down for closing out are i the main attractions. Call and see them. Our Complete Line of Groceries. Our new Grocery Department is growing popular. You save yourself if you let us save your money. When you think of true economy this is the place to come. J. S. HARRINGTON, Dushore.Pa
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