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VOL. X. NO. 13.
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Q Nothing in Town to Compare
( tl\e Chi-litv that We are Giving J
s You for the Low Price Asked. S
C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\
3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r
C of this section. Many ye; rs here in business, always 3
} with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C
\ with a care and judgnu nt comnv i.curate with its «
\ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \
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112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q
\ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated.
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For Reliable
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COAL OB WOO D
HEATERS;
ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS.
House Furnishing Goods, Tools of Every
Description, 'Guns and Ammunition.
Bargains that bring the buyer back.
Come and test the truth of our talk.
A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap.
We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Ease
Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove.
Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and
General Repairing. Roofing and Spouting.
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lust received a special purchase o! "Riches ' Flannels
l.umbermens' Shirts and Drawers, Men's, I adies' and
Childrv ns Mitts, Gloves and Hosiery.
There's Lots Here to Show You
From the City.
Fresh slock of Diy Goods and Notions, Boys anc J
Men's Hats and Caps, full line of Sna,uproot" 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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LAPORTE, CULL IVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1905.
' N •. )RDANCE. To secure better
Ir\ y,unitary conditions in the
i' ro.'gh of Kagles Mere, Sullivan
i'oiiuly, Pennsylvania,
i Section I. Be it enacted by the
I Chief Burgess and Town Council of
i the Borough of Kagles Mere and it is
hereby enacted by authority ot the
same that all that portion of the
Borough lying and being between
Pennsylvania Avenue and the Lake,
and between Kagles Mere Avenue and
the I.ake, and between l,a/"ewood
drive and the bake, shall constitute
and be known as Sanitary District
Number One.
Section 2. Any person or persons
who shall build or maintain a cess
pool for an out house, or for any pool
to throw rotten garbage, manure, or
pigpen filth in, within the limits of
Sanitary Distrie No. i, or any other
matter or thing that by exposure will
begin to decay, or become offensive to
the public, or injurious to the health
of the community, or detrimental to
the purity of the waters of Eagles
Mere, shall forfeit and pay the sum of
5, to be recovered according to law,
and paid to the Borough Treasurer
for the use of the Borough, and in
addition, such person or persons shall
upon notice of the High Constable
or any policeman, be required to
abate, remove or suppress the said
cess pool, or other offensive and in
jurious matter or thing within twenty
four hours after such notice; and in
case the same is not removed, abated
or suppressed at the expiration of
such time, it shall be the duty of the
High Constable, or any Policeman,
serving such notice, to cause the same
to be removed, abated or suppressed,
/•eeping an accurate account of the ex
penses thereof, which the person or
persons so offending shall be liable to
pay, with fifty per centum additional
as a fine for neglect or refusal, to be
collected according to law.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of
the High Constable or any Police offi
cer who discovers any cess pool, or
any unhealthy or decaying matter
detrimental to the purity of the water
of Lake Kagles Mere, to report the
same in writing to the Chief Burgess
at once, and if in the opinion of the
Burgess immediate action is required
to remove such unhealthy or decaying
matter detrimental to the purity of
the water of Kagles Mere, he shall
direct in writing the High Constable
or and Policeman, to cause such
unhealthy or decaying matter
to be removed or disinfected,
under direction of Board of Health,
and the Borough shall be liable
to pay the expenss thereof upon the
account being presented to the town
council, and the town council shall
thereupon proceed according to law
to collect the same from the owner or
the occupant of the premises where
such nuisance was caused or permitt
ed. with twenty-five percent addition
al as a fine for causing or permitting
the nuisance as aforesaid 011 his prem
ises.
K. \V. PKALK. Chief Burgess.
Attest:
C. PKALK. Jr., Clerk of Council.
AN ORDINANCE regulating the
1 » building, repairing and relaying
jof the side or foot walks upon and
I along the public streets in the Boro
ugh of Laporte, Pennsylvania, and'
over and upon the lands abutting 011
and along the sides of turnpike roads
in said Borough, fixing the width and
designating the materials out of
which same shall be constructed, and
regulating the service of notice 011
property owners, to build, repair or
relay side walks in said Borough,
and providing for the filing of liens
therefor, when done by the Borough
Council.
Section 1. Be it enacted and or
dained by the Town Council of the
Borough of Lal'orte, and it is hereby
enacted and ordained by the authority
of the same:
That the owner or owners of all
lots fronting upon the public streets
of the BortJugh of Laporte, Pennsyl
vania, and the owner or owners of
lands abutting 011 and along the sides
of turnpike roads within the limits of
said Borough of Laporte, shall, when
required so to do by the Town Coun
cil of said Borough, build or relay
side or foot walks along their respec
tive lots, fronting upon the public
streets of said Borough, and over and
upon their lands abutting on and
along the sides of turnpike roads
within the limits of said Borough,
upon such grade or grades as are now
established, or which may hereafter be
established by the proper authorities
of said Borough.
Said side or foot walks shall be
built along the sides of said streets
and turnpike roads at the places and
in the manner designated bv the
Town Council of said Borough, and
shall be not less than four feet in
width. Same shall be built of boards,
plank, stone, flagging, brick, coucret,
ashes, cinders or gravel, at the option
of the lot or landowners, and 011 fail
ure of any lot or land owner or own
ers to build or relay such side or foot
wal/'s after fifteen days' notice in
writing shall have been given such
owner or owners or their agent or
agents in the manner provided by law
to build or relay said side or foot
walks, then the Town Council shall
proceed to build or relay same, as the
case shall require, using any of the
materials above mentioned for the
construction of same, at their option,
and shall collect from such owner or
owners the cost of said work and ma
terials, with twenty per centum ad
vance thereon, and file a municipal
lien therefor, in accordance with the
provisions of the Acts of Assembly.
Section 2. It is further enacted
that all repairs to side or foot walks
already constructed upon and along
the streets and turnpike roads of said
Borough of Laporte. when required
to be made, shall be governed by the
above regulations.
Section All ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
Laporte, Pa., Julv 11. 190=;.
JAM ICS McFA 1< LA NE,
President of Town < 'ouncil
Attest: \V. B. RITTER.
Secretary Town Council.
Approved this 11th dav of July, A.
I). 1905. Til OS. E. KKNNKDV,
Chief Burgess.
This ordinance shall take effect on
and after the first day of August A.D.
1905.
An Elmira paper of recent date
says concerning an old resident of
Fox township:
"The lthioft News last evening
said: John Ketcheni died Thursday
afternoon from an overdose of mor i
phine taken to alleviate the pain re-1
sultant from kidney trouble which
accidental overdose cauaed bis death.
Mr. Ketehem was seventy-two j
years of age. lie was married three
times'tind lias a widow living at New-1
field. He lived for the greater part j
of his life 111 Pennsylvania and ha- j
four children, two sons and two;
daughters living in that state. A !
sister, Mrs. Mary A. Culver and a '
brother, Kelly Kutchum, of Ne • field j
also survive him.
Ernest Williams of <« rover was ar
rested near Newberry last Friday
evening having iu his possession a
horse and carriage supposed to be- j
long to Ezra Williams of Canton I
When the boy tried to trade the 1
horse to Clarance Winters the man j
became suspicious and 'phoned the
police who previously had a report j
of the theft from Canton. All officer j
took the boy in charge until the ar- j
rival on Monday evening of Chief of!
Police lnnes of Canton, who was ac
companied by Mr. Williams. Tin j
latter is a farmer and lives about
two miles north of Canton, and tin ;
boy is a distant relative. The boy
took the horse and carriage from a
public shed the previous Sunday
night. He bad an accomplaee, ami :
they were seen by a man who re- !
ported the theft to the owner of the ;
horse. Mr. Williams and the Chief!
of Police of Canton went to Shunk, j
this county, tbe day after the theft
was committed on a search for tin
stolen horse and carriage, and on ;
what they believed was a good clue, j
but found no trace of the missing |
at that place. The boy will be'
given a hearing at Canton.
Mr. Ezra Williams is well known
in the western part of this county ,
where hi 1 has many relatives.
Joseph Shea, the well known in
surance man, and family of Will-1
iamsport, had a narrow escape from '
death on the railroad near Hughes
ville, Wednesday of last week.
Mr. Shea was taking his family j
in their newly purchased automo-1
bile to visit relatives at Picture!
Hocks, with whom they intended
spending the following day at the
picnic at Lake Mokoma. As theyi
neared the railroad track at the foot !
of the hill at theoutskirtsyf liughes
ville, Mr, Shea stopped his ear to
listen for a a train, but heard none,
(toingdown the grade lie reached
the track just as a train dashed up
to the crossing. A quick turn of the]
steering gear landed his machine
against the bank, just escaping the
train by about one foot, as was after
ward found that when the autoni -
j liile was quickly turned into the
! bank that the wheels 011 the side
j nearest tin 1 track had run 011 the
edge of the ties. Miss Ada, the
sixteen year old daughter of Mr.
j Shea, was thrown out of the ma
chine and landed -o close to the rail
that the w heels of the passing ears
left marks upon one of the -leeves of
her dress.
In the August Success, a. prour
nent physician says: Make your
food simple in the summer. Try
to establish for your table a differ
ent standard than that of heavy
plenty. The merest tyro in dietet
ics knows that meat and fats are
not essential to the system during
the heated term. Most people un
derstand. too, that we need less
food .when the mercury is in the
nineties than when it is hovering
about the freezing mark.
Don't overwork your digestion
when it is so hot that you spare the
rest of your physical mechanism as
much hard labor as possible; and
when you li 11 your stomach give it
something it can take care of easily.
The very indications of the season
are so many linger posts telling
what food is convenient for us at
this time of year. Now is the day
and the hour for fruits and vege
tables. Never are they so plenti
ful, so cheap or so good as in mid
summer and this is an exception
to the general rule which makes
tilings cheap and nasty or delicious
and costly.
So, eat vegetables. I do not ad
vise you to turn vegetarian, for we
are, as a rule, carnivorous enough
to crave a bit of meat for a relish,
if 110 more. For the benefit of
those who think work cannot be
accomplished except upon a meat
diet, 110 matter what the season, I
will repeat the statement of an ex
pert in dietetics, who informed me
a good deal to my discomfiture, that
one can work longer without gel
ling hungry 011 a meal of vegetables
than 011 one of flesh. The latter is
rapidly digested, but a meal of veg
etables is said to stay by the eater
for six hours. I dare say its abid
ing power varies with the rapidity
of slowness of the individual eater's
digestive processes, but the mere
fact that it will linger by any one
for that space of time is encourag
ing to those who offer vegetables to
their families in hot weather.
There is relief in the thought that
one can supply craving nature and
cut down the butcher's bills with
the same action.
To h» upset three times before
reaching Wilkes-Barre, to run into
large rocks and to be grounded
several times is the experience of
Robert Mercur, Jr. and Noble N.
Betts, of Towanda, who are float
ing down the river in a canoe from
the latter town to Sunbury.
They have not given up but will
risk the dams, rocks and pools be
tween Wilkes-Banc and Sunbury.
The young men are expert swim
mers, and have little to fear from
such an undertaking.
The recent killing by lightening
of so many cattle about the country
ih'iaonstrates the desirability of in
suring li ve stock. Not many years
ago it was unheard of for a farmer
to insure the farm stock against loss
but every year sees the list swelling
of those who are lo iking ahca 1 to
eossible loss of their animals throng
accident or misfortune. The farm
er of even a quarter of a century ago
would have scoffed at such an idea,
but not so now. and the well read,
progressive agriculturist of the pres
ent day is the one who regards the
insuring of his animals' lives, sec
ond only to that of his own. Thous
ands of cattle and horses are being
lost yearly through spontaneous
combustion, lightening, the over
turned lantern and many other
causes. It is well to be prepared for
such happenings.
There is a place in Washington
county, Pa., named Prosperity, and
there are not wanting indications
that it deserves its name. The
wheat crop of Fanner A. W. Ku
an, of Pi»' Kidge, nearby, which
has just been threshed, yielded
thirty-eight bushels to tbe acre.
75C PER YEAR
William (irtiiitlis, fo West Pittston,
the well known mining engineer and
geologist, will siiil on August l(i to
southeast Alaska, to explore and re
port for a party of American capital
ists, on the o xssibititles of Mntnuska
coal Ileitis being developed to supply
the prospective great Pacific trade
with coal for steam purposes. It is
stated that there is an immense bed
of bituminous coal there, and that it
is of a superior quality.
Two additions are to be built to the
steel plant of the American Car and.
Foundry Company shops at Berwick
work to commence in the near future.
The one addition will be 72x 1-">II feet.
The new buildings \s ill be used in the
manufacture of steel passenger ears.
Lilley Wilson, attorneys or
Charles Johnson, confined in the To
wandajail under sentence of death
for the murder of .Maggie 15. Johnson
on Saturday afternoon tiled in the
office of I'rothonotary Wilt a writ of
certiorari or notice of appeal to the
supreme court of Pennsylvania. The
writ is made returnable at Pitt<J>urg
the second Monday in October.
This appeal having been, 'fti'n
within 21 days from the date ?
son's sentence acts as a supersedeas,
and the governor will not set thedato
for execution until the matter his
been filially determined.
The Pittsburg, Binghamton «&
Eastern Railroad company have
leased offices in the Lewis building
at Canton, which will be occupied
immediately. These offices will
serve as headquarters for an engineer
ing corps of ten men that will start
out to locate tin? final grade of that
section of the line between To wanda
and C-mton. The corps will be un
der the direction of J. W. Burke of
New York, and it will require about
days to complete the work be
tween the two points.
A tire which broke out about 12:10
o'clock Monday morning at the Lew
isburg Chair Works compl'N ly des
troyed tic mammoth waret n and
store rot,ms connected with tn.ii plant
The blaze was discovered l>v the
night watchman, who tunic, i.i the
alarm. The Lewisburg tire depart
ment responded promptly, but the
factory is located in the outskirts of
the town, and by the time the lire
men had a stream on the fire the
hugli structure with its inflnmable
contents was a seething of
flames.
By hard work the firemen con
lined the fire to the wareronm->, and
the other buildings of the plant were
not damaged.. Over 5,000 chairs of
all kinds stored in the building were
destroyed, entailing a loss of over
?2.">,000, which is partly covered by
insurance, it is believed that an in
cendiary started the blaze, as there
was no lire in or near the building.
Richard Clapp, the Hi year old son
of Daniel Clapp of Muncy, met with
a serious accident on Saturday even
ing. lie was on his way home from
Lake Mokoma, and at Halls station
had boarded tin; I'. A: K. train which
arrives at Muncy at 1 1:">7. On reach
ing Muncy the train ran past the
station (the tracks being slippery and
the brakes failing to work properly)
and Richard, thinking he was being
carried by, thoughtlessly ran through
the train and jumped off the back
end to the center of the track, not
realizing that the train was already
backing.
The train struck him, cutting off
three lingers of his right hand and
making a compound fracture in his
right leg and cutting oil' nis left heel
besides badly bruising his body.
After the train slopped at the sta
tion he was found on tin* bank near
the engine, where he had crawled
after the entire length of the train
had passed over him. lie never lost
Consciousness during his perilous ad
| venture.
lie was taken to the Williamsport
! hospital, where every ctlbrt will be
! made to save his right leg, which at
I the present time they are very much
afraid will have to be amputated.
Felling a tree at New Philadel
phia. Columbia county, James
Shultz. of Jamison < 'ity, was caught
by a limb Monday morning and fa
tally hurt, dying a few hours later.
Ili- I irother, who had warned him
lof danger, was struck but only
' stunned.