First national bank OF DCBHORK, PENNA. CA TfAXi - • $50,000 priiPi.ua - - SIO,OOO Does a General Banking Business. W.JENNINGS, M. P. SWAKTS. President. Cashier A j KKADLhY, Attorney at-Law. Office, corner 4 0l Main ami Muticy Sts. LA PORTE, PA. ilavinji opened an office at L52.S Arch •St., Philadelphia, I shall still continue to practire.in the several Courts of Sullivan < 'oiintv.f When not in my office personally a com pet .nt/ person will be found in charge thereof. Bonds of various kinds furnished. pRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. ffice in Keeler's Block. LA PORTE, Sullivan County, PA. Hush .1. I'homson, Albert F. Ileess, 1871. 1902. JHOMSON & HEESS, LAWYERS, PUSIIOKE, PEN NA. Long I >istnnce Telephone. January '■ 190 H. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOitStBYS-AT-LAW, Legal business atten<isil to in this an*t adjoining counties _ v ('OHTE, PA £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-L«w. LA PORTE, PA. OPTICS IN COUMTV BIIILDIMO WRAP rOmT HOWBR. j] H. CKONIN, ArTORHKV-AT LAW, SOTAHT PUBI.'O. or Kit K OB HAI!» nrPHOBR. Q J. M()LYNEAUX, D.D.S. Graduate Uni,versity'ol Pennsylvania \ l-.W ALBANY, PA. At Lopez, l'a , Wednesday and Thursday j each week. LA PORTE HOTEL. p. W. GALLAGHEH. Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Couri House square. Steam heat, hath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, i T J. KEELER. I . J ustiee-of-the Peace. oflieein room over store, LAPOKTK, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care ot this office will be promptly attended M. Brin New Albany, Pa. llran is sold this week tit #2O. per tun in iiiintf.il only, a - * I mil sold out luit Imve another car due licre. Corn meal is somewhat higher ow; inyr t (l the advance in corn. 'an give price otilp on application owing: to the unsettled condition of our re tail market here. You will find m.v prices as low as the lowest and the quality the high, est. lam usingear every week which keeps the goods fresh. Veal calves and dressed poultry wanted every N\ ednesday. M. BRINK. FREE! FREE! A Housewife's Delight, A hiCELY ARRANGED TABLE. Buy your of us and a set of this Hand Painted China Free! ASK FOR COUPONS. AT Buschhausen' Covnty Seat Local ami Personal Events Tersely Told. Tlios. K. Kennedy Is still suffering with an attack of infiamitory rheu matism. Mr. A. M. Nardini of Philadel phia is visiting his parents here. If. L. White of Hoytville, was a Laporte visitor over Sunday. Mr. Charles Watson of Mildred, was a Laporte visitor Wednesday. W.J! Iligley is suffering with an attack of Lagrippe. The funeral or Mr. Asa Speary was held at Nordmont Sunday. .Several from this place attended. Kditor Newell of llushore, tran sacted business at the County Seat Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. <L Culver are at tending the funeral of an aunt of Mr. Culver, at Sheshequin. Mr. Charles Kunston and son Mor ton, came up from Philadelphia Monday to cast their ballots at Tues day's election. Misses Maine and Pearl Ileim an visiting their cousins, Mr. W. I>. Snyder and family at Nordmont. Mr. I'. W. Eddy of Williamsport spent the past few days with his par ents at this place. Miss. Maine Gallagher is at Hick ory Corners, Northumberland Co., where -lie is being treated lor asthma Miss, (irace I lakes of New All any is spending some tim-' at l'\ 11. Ing ham's* The Czar's salary is $7,500,000 i> year and yet there is scarcely anyone who would take his job. Miss Eliza Sliaut returned bona Saturday evening from a tlin e months' visit with friends at Hemp stead, E. I. Thomas. J. Ingham went to At lantic City on Tuesday to spend :■ week with his son, E. V. Ingham who is located at that place for tin winter. A bill was passed in the legisla ture last week authorizing magis trates and justices of the peace b j procure marriage licenses for those j who apply to them for the same, j I Bloomsburg is to haven hospital i in the very near future. A charti r j for the new institution was grantei ; on Saturday by Judge Little. An ' architect is already working upon ( the plans for the building. The water supply was temporari ly shut off from the courthouse and jail on Saturday and Sunday, owiti<j to frozen pipes. A force of work men were obliged to work all Sun day digging the frozen earth away in order to thaw the pipes that wen frozen underground. William Sahm, Daniel Suber and Mrs. Lizzie Header who, at last Ma\ term of court were sentenced by Judge Hunham to serve a nine j months term in the county jail, will be set at liberty this week. Their terms will expire on Friday, Eebru ary'Jl. After the release of these prisoners there will -till be five in mates in the jail. The two ami one-hall story dwell ing house owned by < ieorge Camp bell, at I nityvilh', was burned down Sunday afternoon, the tire origina ting in a defective tine Very little of the house furnishing was saved and the total loss was about §2,000, with little or no insurance. In order to reduce congestion of coal traHie, notices were posted Mon day announcing a suspension of op erations at all collieries of the Phil adelphia and Heading Coal ami Iron Company, until the blockade is re moved. The blockade is caused bj the inability to unload ears because of the heavy snow and severe weath er Beatrice, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brady Biggar of Muney Valley, died on Sunday at 1 o'clock, after a two weeks'illness of spinal meningitis, aged years ami six months. The funeral was held at the Church of the Sacred Heart at this place on Wednesday. Inter ment was made in Sacred Heart. Much sympathy is felt for the be reaved relatives. Holy Communion will be celebra ted in the Episcopal church next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. in. At 7:30 p. in. a service will be held to which nil are invited. Wednesday, March I, 11. J. Mey ers' marvelous moving pictures I showing the greatest events of the I world, such as J a penese-Russian ; war, great automobile race. Napo : leon at Waterloo, and many other ■ scenes. Popular and sacred songs. I Will be at the Baptist church. Ad- I mission ten and twenty cents. A New York man has been de clared insane because he wanted to tell the President how to run the Government. The insane asylum* would be tilled up if all the men who have given such advice could l>e in tercepted. A bill has been introduced in Con gress to appropiate $250,000 for a leprosarium. It is supposed (he bru ing need of a leprosarium has been made apparent by the discovery of three lepers in Massachusetts. Meanwhile one out of every nine per sons in the I'nited States dies' of Tubert ulosis and legislation for the establishment of camps and hospit als for consumptives make small headway. It looks as if the trusts were going to see hard times right along now. The oil trusts will be taken up by the government next. Tin {telephone trust has been "walled up". The paper trust will be torn to pieces and the steel trust \\ hich is accused of stealing money from the federal gov ern ion t will also lie investigated. I These are not the palmy days that the trusts once knew. Section two of house bill No. 57, j which is intended to nm>*nd the act of assembly approved July 11, 1901, to provide for the attendance of children at school, if passed by the general assembly will work radical changes in attendance in our common schools. Parents, truant boys and girls should not fail to read these - tion which appears below and reflet t upon its provisions: All children be t vecn the ages of eight and thirteen years, and unemployed children IK - tween the ages of thirteen and six teen, habitually absenting them selves from school contrary to the laws of the state, shall be deennd habitual truants; :tll children lie-' tween the ages of eight and sixteen years, regularly or persistently mis behaving in the ordinary schools so as to be tit subjects for exclusion therefrom, shall he deemed habitual school offenders, anil all children be tween the ages of eight and sixteen years habitually on the streets out of school hours with no lawful occu pation and growing up in idleness and ignorance, shall he deemed v.- grant children. Mr. J. \V. Doebler of Milton, is j the inventor of a new voting ma chine. It is a very simple yet ac curate dt vice, which enables the vo-' ter to record his choice for the sever al otHees to be filled at any election either by voting a straight ticket, or splitting it to suit his desire. It is j so arranged that you cannot vote for more than one candidate for the same i office, except for commissioner, audi tor, member of the legislature, etc , where provision is made for regis tering two or more votes as may b" required. When the voters open the door togo out of the booth the vote is registered and counted and the job is done. When the polls close all that is necssary to get the to tal- is to open the top and take them down. Mr. Doebler's model is a marvel of ingenuity, lie has madel application for a patent. < >ll the Kith and 17th of January the master secretary and lecturer, the members of the executive and legislative committees of the Penn -ylvania State Orange held a confer-1 • nee at llarrisburg. Every phase of grange work was considered. The prosperous condition of the order in the state inspired all with enthusi asm and a determination to work for still better results. It was again a greed to offer banners as prizes to the five granges makng the greatest gain during the year. The executive committee concluded contracts with a number of new business houses. The legislative committee reported progress on the bills in the lines in which candidates were interrogated before election. 11l support of these measures there will be concerted action all along the line. Kvery sub ordinate and every Pomona grauge is urired to have legislative com- I mittes to cooperate with the state committee. Doubtless ere long that time honor ed institution, commonly known as hazing, will be a thing of the past in the common schools, colleges or other i institutions of learning within this j Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The bill introduced in the legislature by Mr. Plough, of Lancaster, to make hazing a misdemeanor and providing a tine or imprisonment, or both, for the same, has linally passed the House and will shortly be re ported to the senate. I An exchange speaks of a man \vh > always paid for his paper a year i . advance. A* a reward he was never sick in liis life, never had a corn on his toes, or tooth-ache, his potatoes never rot. the frost never kills his pears, his babes never cry at night, his wile never «colds r and he luw succeeded in serving three terms on the school board without being criti cized. We do not know whether such happy results would follow paid-up subscribers to this paper or not, but it wouldn't do any harm to try. Snnford Bently, of Satterlleld, was arrested by constable < 'ott Tuesday of last week on the charge of criminal ly assaulting eight-years-old Agnes Connor Sunday afternoon, lie was taken to bushore for a hearing and before Justice Lawrence denied his guilt. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Comfort, of Sattertield, and the littlegirl were called as witnesses and the justice committed him to jail to await tin action of the grand jury. 1). J. Finklestein, the clothing merchant at Lopez, will go out of business at that place about March 1. It is said he will locate at C'atta wissa. Lime at Ileedet 's Lime House, below Laporte, I >! i. A DELICATE SUBJECT. Tainiierititt Willi lli€» Tnrllf I.lLely to Invite l)i»ri«lfi'. It is certain that the question of tar iff revision will not lie seriously consid ered before the assembling of the Fif ty-ninth congress with its overwhelm ing Republican majority and that the temper of that congress will determine whether there is to be revision or not. In view of the disturbance to busi ness caused by the 1 lemocrutle tariff tinkering of Cleveland's day there will be revision, if there is to be revision, only after the most thorough considera tion of the subject and in response to urgent public demands. So far there has not been any pro nounced demand for revision. At any rate the people have decided to intrust the matter to the good judgment of the Itepubllean statesmen. The tariff was made a leading issue in the campaign, aiul the Ifrepublican party warned the people of Ihe coun try's past sail experience in allowing the Democrats to tinker with it, de claring that the matter of tariff re vision should be left entirely to the friends of protection rather than its enemies, who were at a late day con fessing the error of their antagonism, long and uncompromising, to the prin ciple of protection. There is no doubt that the tariff is an exceedingly delicate subject and that tampering with it today would be more dangerous, with the great ex pansion of the country's business of the past few years, than it was when the Wilson monstrosity was devised. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the country take* no stock in the Democratic contention that the tariff is the mother "112 trusts. So it is the plain duty of congress togo slow in tke matter of tariff revision. -Trenton Gazette. A Practical \ l*w. If Americans are willing to ! t Hai tians and Dominicans cheat and swin dle and repudiate under the protection of the Monroe doctrine they must ei ther agree to abandon that doctrine as to those republics or take them in hand when they become an inte national nuisance and compel them t-> behave decently. If the I'uited States is to be their protector when their rights are trespassed on it should keep tliein from trespassing ou the rights of others. Let us settle this point without need less delay. If the Tufted States is to be the international policeman of this hemisphere, so that there any tie no excuse for a European policeman to come over strutting here with his club to chasten barbaric, lawless American communities, let the matter l:e definite ly understood. Then when the emer gency arises all will know exactly what is to be done.—Chicago Tribune. The I*re»l<lentlul Vote. Rome of the Democratic papers are endeavoring to discount the popularity of President Rooseveil, as shown in the recent election, by t'...* fact that there was a gain of only iut 5 per cent in the Republican vote. As this rate of gain Is a little less than normal and has been largely exceeded In sev eral other elections, the point is made that the president Is therefore not more than normally strong with the people. This is not sound reasoning. The small Democratic vote must be accounted for largely because of the unpopularity of I'arker and the Demo cratic position, but also in some meas ure by the indifference created by the conviction that that \lcre was no pos sibility of a Democratic victory. On the other hand, the conviction that President Roosevelt was sure of elec tion excused many who were in sympa thy with him and his policies from go ing to the polls.—Kansas City Star. Expert TfitlmnT. Colonel Bryan insists fiat congres-- Is no fit place for an hone t Democrat, fie ought to know, for he ouce enjoyed the distinction of being a Democratic member of that body. And, as we re member it, he didn't resign.—Raleigh pj. C.) Peat Campbell "The Merchant" SHUNK, PA. HAVE JUST RECEIVED MY FALL and WINTER STOCK of CLOTHING. Mens' Boys and Youths' SUITS and OVFRCOATS. SHOHS for all; from the little tot to the old man. Also the well known Watsontown l.umbermans Shoes. Also RICH'S celebrated Woolen Goods. Always have Up to date as well as Fresh Groceries and Provisions. Yours for Business, A. E. CAMPBELL. Extraordinary Showing of Winter Suits. for Men, Boys and Children are now here for inspection. Suits in black clay and unfinished worsteds and Thibets Homespuns, Fiench and tnglish Fl.nnels, and Scotch Goods. Ovtrc. a!s in Genuine West (if Fngland Coverts. Hundreds ol Exclusive Trouserings. Bo>s and Childrens' Suits in all the rew fabrics and mak s. Prices as well as varietv are < xtraord nary. All new an i up to date line o! Gents Furnhhin:. s, Hats, Caps, etc. \lso thernly place injtown wh re you can g t the "Walls Over" 5l)oe. J. W. CARROLL'S, Hotel Carroll Block, DUSHORE, PA. Mid-Winter Sale. Having in stock a supply of Gcods which must be sold by February 15, I propose to sell Men's Suits worth sl4 00 and is 00 at $7-5° B jys' Overcoats LO.oo to 12 00 at 4 SO to 5 OJ Boys' Suits 800 and $!o. >0 now at s so I adies' Co ts slooo and boa now at UNDhKWFAR at greatly reduced prices. Caps, Mit tens and.Gloves for I adies and Gents, at very low prices. Felts and Rubbv rs at half price; Me I'S and B. Sweaterc at half price. JACOB HERR, DEALER IN Clothing, Shoes and Ladies' Cloaks LAPORTE, PA. GENERAL STORE ® Laporfe Tannery, <© FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS FOUND HERE. Just received a special purchase of' Riches" Flannels, Lumbermens Shi?ts and Drawers, Men's, ladies' and Childr ns' Mitts, G!oves and Hosiery. There's Lots Here to Show You From the City. Freih slock of Diy Goods and Notions, Boys and Men's Hats and Caps, full line of Snagproof Shoes and Rubbers. Ladies', Gents' and Children's Goodyear Rub bers Woodsmen- and Boys Shoes to suit all. Our Usual Quality of Groceries and Provisions are Equal to the BEST. JAMES McFARLANE.
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