F-JRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUSHORK, PENNA. CA.PTTAIj - - $50,000 e'.'«pitUß - - $15,000 J\>es a General Banking Business, s 0. STERIGHRE, M. I). SWARTS. President. Cashier J. BRADLEY, Attornoy at-Lnw. OlKce, corrier.of Main and Muncy Sts. LAPOIITE, PA. Having opened an office at 1328 Arch Si., Philadelphia, I shall still continue to practice in the several Courts of Sullivan County.* When not in my office personally a coinpet.nt person will he found in charge thereof. Bonds of various kinds furnished. pRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. -tHcein Keeler's Block. LAFOKTE,"'Sullivan Countyj PA. T.J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOKKEYS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining couutiee _A PORTE, P A £ J. MULLEIN, Attorney-at-Lnw. LAPORTE, PA OPPICK IW CODHTY BUILOIHB NKAB CO CRT QOUS K. j H. CRONIN, ATTORNEY'•AT LAW. NOTARY PDBLIC. OPFIi E OS MAIM STREET. D I' SHORE. L ' A Q J. MOLYINEAUX, D.D.S. Graduate University of Pennsylvania. NKW ALBANY, PA. At Lopez. Pa., Wednesday and Thursday each week. LAPOR rE HOTEL. F. W UALLAGHEK, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Conrl Douse square. Steam heal, hath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and burlier shop; also good stabling and livery, Chippewa liime IRtlns. Lime furnished .n cat, load lots, delivered alj Right Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesville Tenn'a. M. E. Reeder, MUNLY, PA. For a well Kept Up-to-date Stock of General Merchandise Far pries that are Right For curteous treatment gO t<> Buschhausen' BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY. John Howard Harris President. College: With Courses in Arts, Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Science, Chemistry, Biology and Civil and Electrical Kngineering. Academy :—for young men and boys. Institute: for young women. 'Hchool of Music:—for both sexes. Healthy surroundings, pure moun tain water. For catalogue, address William C. Registrar, Lewisburg, l'a. The hotel known as the "Com mcrcial House", ituato on Main Street i • ■i te Borough, " ill he sold cheap and on easy terms ol pay ment. The house is well located, li censed iikl enjoys a large patronage. for terms and particulars apply or write i:. J. Mullen, Alt v., L»p>rt„>, P.i. I l 111 I .w>. County Seat Local and Personal Events I Tersely Told. Mrs. Edward Schrader and son Harry, of Hillsgrove, drove to La porte Wednesday to attend the] funeral of Michael Donovan. Mrs. P. E. Magargle and Mrs. j A. L. Sheets of Sonestown, were j Laporte visitors Wednesday. AYilliamiam Hart, of Oainpbells vi lie, stopped in town while on his way to Dushore, Monday. Miss Eliza Sliaut of Say re, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Mey lert. A dry goods house advertises 'shirtwai-ts one-third oft'." That is probably the latest designation of the kind ir fashion last summer. Messrs. Ernest Lauer and Joe Wrede have returned from <«il more, Idaho, where they have been since May. The boys are in rugged health, and have greatly enjoyed their experience in the mining camps of the west. Both seemed very glad to j*et back to their old homes in Laporte. The new Borough school house was opened for occupancy Monday morning and all pupils were early to arrive and select their seats. Laporte's school building is sec ond to none in the county. It is only handsome in appearance but is well planned and well construct ed. and a decided credit to the builder. William H. Hogcrs. Thomas Sehcll. of Mildred, lias! been appointed postmaster of that! place. Mr. Sehcll is a man who] will make an excellent ollieer for j both the public and postal depart-I inent. I lis selection in general is very satisfactory t" the patrons of | he Mildred oHi 'e. Mr. (ieorge Houseknecht of Mill- Creek, W. Va., is visiting old friends at Sonestown and vicinity. Mrs. M. Donovan and family of Muncy Valley, desire to thank their friends and neighbors whoso kindly assisted them during the sickness and death of Mr. Donovan, also fori the much sympathy show n to tlieni ! The Postoffiee Department has a profit of $15,000 a year through | unclaimed money orders. A new telephone line is being I put up from Beaver Dam to! Hughesville.• I Mrs. Herman Meyers died at! her home near F-iirview, Novem- j ber 28, aged -7 years, 5 months! and 20 days. The •funeral was] held tin" following Saturday, llev. S. B. Bidlack ollieiating. : Among the great trials that a. woman has to undergo, says a I writer, is to have a new bonnet in | the house on a raim day. Mr. P>. (t. Welch General man-J agcr of the Eagles Mere Light Co.. 1 luis aj(pointed Raymond I>. Rein er of Eagles Mere as Superintend- j ent, so as to take a much necked rest. Mr. Welch, who has always' been ii tireless worker, has been in poor health for some time past and his friends hope that a rest will prove beneficial to him. The farmers of this county will be , inter's ted to learn that a Farmers' , Institute will be held at Col ley, l'a., Dee. 2Kth and 21Mh, liMMi. A num ber of instructors from other parts of the State will be present to join with the farmers of this locality in the discussion of topics relative to j agriculture. These meetings are free i and open to all, and we have no doubt the farmers of this count v will I 1 avail themselves of the advantages' to be gained by attending these j meetings. A black bear, probably the larg est seen in this section of the state for a number of years, was found dead in the dense woods near Proc tor last week by a party of men. From careful estimation it is be lieved that the animal would have tipped the scales at over 400 pounds. It was pronounced the greatest black bear ever seen by people in the vicinity of Proctor. . The bear had been wounded by some hunter but escaped at the time. When found its carcass was too badly decomposed to be of any use. Congressman-elect John O. Mr- Henry is back of a proposition to ! place a co-operative store in Hen ton, his home town, with a capitalization of >4#,000. A meeting of parties likely to be interested has been held to outline the plan. It was pro posed to occupy the large store building on the llohr Mellenry es tate, and to make it a mammoth | concern that will handle all lines of goods. Tin 1 expense account of John O I .Mellenry of lien toil, Congressman elect of this district has been tiled showing his campaign expenses. The total amount is $7,6-11.14. This amount is divided as follows: Con tributions the campaign fund of the county committees in the four counties of the district £32">o. Printing and advertising $2:5.">8.0!) Postage 1076.92 Dissemination of literature 169.00 Clerks, typwriters, etc. 517.25 Hotel and traveling 215.00 Telegrams 2:5.88 Total $7641.1-1 Vaughn Close of Canton, Pa., underwent another operation in a Philadelphia hospital Monday of last week, llis hand was crushed over a year ago by a falling pulley and he has since undergone a number of operations, all the bones in the back of his hand being crushed. They were substituted by chicken bones and this last op eration was to unite the cords run ning to the fingers. He was unilei anesthetics three hours and the opera*ion is thought to have been successful. A petition is being circulated nixing the overseers of the poor •»f Wyoming county, which will later be presented to the court ol ipiarter sessions, asking the court to submit the question of a county poor house to the electors at the coming February election, as pro sided by the act of IK7!». Washington, l)ec. 7—The largest bids ever submitted for work to he done for the government will be re forded at noon next Wednesday win ii the offers of contractors for the iMiilding of the Panama canal wih be opened. The bids are being pre pared under the invitation sent out by the canal commission on Oct. !• Since then mote than 2,000 copies of the general plan for the construction of the canal with plates and other data have been furnished to con tracting firms in this country and abroad. The wNe ladies anil gentlemen ol the land are just now discussing the subject of trial marriages. The plan contemplates a sort of pre-nuptial probation during which the pros pcctive bride and groom get togeth er on more serious and intimate planes than they do during our for mal engagement period. The why or the wherefore of the change we know not. Hut we do know that if this trial marriage scheme would ever receive the sanction of the church or the state most ofthe shift less young fellows of the country would be boarding with the parents of the silly girls of the land and we would have to put crepe on that beautiful song of content "Every body works but father." Tax Notice. 1 will be at Laporte on Friday, Dec. 28, 1906, and at Nordmont Sat urday, the 29th, 1906 to receive taxes 5 per cent."will lie added to all taxes not paid at this date. George Karge, Collector. Insurance Notice. The :ioth annual meeting of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Home .Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Sullivan county will be held at the Company's office in the borough of Forksville on Saturday, the *>th day of January, 1907, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of chosing a board of directors and other officers to serve during the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meet ing. The surveyors and auditors will meet at the office of the secre tary on Fiiday, the Ith day of Janu ary, 1907, to settle the accounts of t he company. Forksville, Dec. Ist, 1906. It.1». Lancaster, Sec. M. It. lllack, President. For Kent. -Residence oil West Main street. For particulars in quire of Johli Hassen, Commercial hotel. Secretary (Joorge R. Drake of the New Hampshire state grange, being asked by the editor of this department Cor an opinion on this subject, said: "It is my deeiileil opinion that it Is better to pay the actual traveling expenses of the delegates in attendance at the state grange, but it dons not seem best to pay their expenses for board. "'The New Hampshire state grange officers, the forty deputies and the masters and tuelr wives or husbands of each snbsordinate and Pomona grange In the state draw pay from the state 'range for the actual amount of car ami fare, and each is paid $1.25 per day for tlio time In actual attend ance at the meeting. "The committee on mileage and per diem can easily make tip the expense account of the session from the printed list of railroad rates always at hand, which Is 1 cent a mile for the round trip. By paying each delegate and le fial attendant at the session a specified sum we avoid any complications and very much simplify any delicate ques tions that might arise concerning any extravagant board bills." Tli«? Grannf «nd Tempera nee. The question occasionally arises In grange communities as to what the position of the grange is concerning temperance. At the last meeting of the national grange the following resolu lou was adopted: Resolved. That the grange hereby re lews its fealty to temperance in all hlngs; that it emphasizes Its belief that he degrading American saloon ought to ie carefully and rigorously guarded until t can be abolished and In ths meantime >e made and held to a strict responsibility or the harm it does, and that It believes hnl every community should be empow ered by law to vote every saloon from Its nldst or borders. Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Preaching nt 11:00 a. m; subject The Child Jesus." This service is specially for thechililr >n. All the hildren of the town and vicinity re cordially invited. Kpworth League 7:.'10 p. in. This s the order of the services tit tin Methodist Episcopal church next ■Sunday. Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given that I have tken letters of Administration on the state of Lafayette MeClintock, late ol Shrewsbury township, deceased. All por ous having claims against said decedent vill please present them duly auth"nii ateii for payment, and all who know lieniselves to he indebted to him will ■lease make pavment to nie. tiF.u, WILBUR McCLINTOt'K, Administrator. Joseph Sick, DICALER IN Flour, Feed and Meal, Cherry Mills, Pa. 'orn and Oats Chop 1.20 lorn meal perl.u idred, 1.20 bracked Corn i,:o Wheat Flour: jem o( the Valley Blended 1.15 \A inter Wheat Flour: Oaisy 1.00 8 jck A'heat flour per hundred, $2.50 bolted meal for table use per hundred, $1 60 Bran and Middlings at the owest price. JOSEPH SICK, CHERRY MILLS, PA. U ) 99 The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru dent housewife. Money saving advantages ire always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now* on IETHTBITTONI ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. Kll«gx ROCHESTER BUSINESS INSTITUTE, > ROCHESTER,„ |. 'jJ-% Yj A. E. CAMPBELL'S Cash Department Store. Winter Announcement Every Department is full of stvlish and up to d. te FaH ind Winter Goods and n ore :nr ving daily. Our Men's, Boys' and ( hildrens Clothing. Overcoats, Uinlerwear, Slioes, Rubbers, etc. LAD IKS' MIS>KS anil CHILDREN Shoes, I> reps Goods, Wool and Outing Flannels. Onr stock is complete anil ready lor yonr nspection. A new line ol Kt T liS at 25 to 50 per cent less than'city prices. Ladies' call and see what we have to offer we can please ,