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Republican News Item.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1908.
CARNIVAL.
LaPorte Enjoys Its Annval Boat
Exhibition.
The carnival on Lake Mokoma
which took place Saturday evening
was a glorious success and the spec
tacular array of illumination was
witnessed l>y hundreds of people on
the shore of the lake with unabat
ing interest.
Notwithstanding the fact that a
small prize was to be awarded, it
was plainly manifested that the de
sire for possession of this honor had
crept into the hearts of all contest
ants and expense and labor were
features that had no consideration
with the preparation of this lumi
nous affair. The result was simply
gorgeous. Besides the thirty odd
boats contesting for honors there
were many other prettily decorated
boats which added to the charming
scene.
With but few exceptions the
boats were all profusely illuminated
with Japanese lanterns that shone
like miraculous mirrors reflecting
tongues of light into the water's sur
face like quivers of golden arrows.
The prize was awarded to Mr. J.
A. Muller, of Philadelphia, whose
boat was particularly brilliant.
The Commercial Hotel float was
a representation of a log cibin tilled
with a jolly party of musicians pro
vided with stringed instruments.
This float, with the one exception
its lack of illumination, surpassed all
the others in every feature and was
thought by a majority of spectators
that it should have received Mlie
prize, but the feature that counted
largely with the judges was illumi
nation and from that point of view
their decision was judicious" Among
the grand display was seen camps of
Indians and Gypsies, tenting par
ties, sailors and fun makers, all
appropriately costumed.
From several of the boats came
vocal strains of popular airs v : ich
mingled harmoniously with the cor
net and stringed instruments. The
charming melody floated over the
water and echoed throughout the
primeval woodland bordering the
lake—and is the last to be forgotten
when the poetry of a carnival night
on Lake Mokoma comes back in
memory.
Two sons of Erin, Bat and Mike,
were holding an animated discussion
over politics. Finally says Bat:
"why 1 am surprised atyou, Mike,
for declaring vour purpose to vote
for Bryan; if you do you will l>e out
of work for the next four years."
Not so Bat, replies Mike, did I not
vote for Bryan twice before and
have 1 not had work ever since?
Every man or woman should have
a pear of good shears, which are
sharp keep an edge and cut well.
The winner Louisiana Shears, with
a patent tension screw attachment,
keep them adjusted, are easy to cut
with. "The Philadelphia Press"
is giving these shears practically
free to new subscribers. The shears
are eight inches in length and of the
best quality of >teel and guaranteed
for five years. Write a postal to
day for the offer. Address:
Circulation Department,
"The Press"
7th. and Chestnut Streets,
Philadelphia.
Quick Road Work.
Bright and earl.v one morning twen
ty-two farmers living south of Tren
ton, N. J., undertook the task of put
ting a quarter mile stretch of road in
a passable condition. It was as de
termined a sot of men as ever assem
bled for a purpose. Every man was
a volunteer and gave his service free
ly. Their work was admirably ac
complished. and a road that was
fraught with danger for travelers was
in a single day transformed into one
that may now he used for taea-vy dray
age as well as for pleasure. The num
ber of loads of cinders hauled during
the day by the farmers amounted to
over 200.
Dust Layer.
Water gas tar makes a satisfactory
dust layer when used in moderate
quantities on roads already in fairly
good condition. It can lie applied to
good advantage with an ordinary sprin
kling cart.
LaPorte High School Base Ball Team Or
ganize.
The Laporte High School base
ball team met at the home of W.
M. Cheney aiul organized on Mon
day evening August 17th. The
following officers were elected:
Manager, W. M. Cheney; captain,
Nelson Lawrenson; treasurer, Kay
Camp.
The line up is as follows: Justin
Hunter, catcher; Nelson Lawren
son, pitcher; Ray Camp, s. s. ; Lloyd
Camp, Ist b.; Harry Horn, 2nd b.;
Samuel Kennedy, 3rd b.; Arthur
Flynn 1.1 Harry Rose, c. 11 2.;
Oliver Rose. r. 112.
This team of Young America
will cross bats with Geo. Deegan's
aggregation of feather weights at
Dushore, to-day, August 20th
and on Saturday Aug. 22 will
pounce upon the Buster Browns of
Nordmont. This game will take
place on the Laporte A. A. field
and will be a hummer. Our boys
are ambitious and hope to meet on
the diamond all teams of their age
and size organized in the county.
Here's One On LaPorte.
Hundreds of bushels of black
berries are going to waste in Sul
livan County in the vicinity of La-
Porte, because bears are so numer
ous that the women and children are
afraid togo berrying. The hear
scare was intensified a few days ago
by the experience of two LaPorte
women and several children who had
gone into the woods on a berry ex
pedition. This crowd was confront
ed by a big bear that showed no
inclination to be disturbed in his
own berrypickinsr; in fact he dis
played so much pugnaciousnfss that
the womem and children lied in ter
ror.—Exchange.
[lf these bear stories are true, it
must be that the people of Laporte
have just awakened from a Rip
Van Winkle-sleep ami like
Van have not yet learned about
the bears that are such a terror to
the neighborhood.]
Brooding over an accident in
in which his tireman was killed and
holding himself to blame for the
same, John Bonovitch, of Kingston,
one of the best known engineers on
the 1). L.and W. railroad, was com
mitted to the insane asylum at Dan
ville. Bonavitch had charge of a
switching engine in the yards at
Washington N. J., about a month
ago his engine collided with another
engine in the yards, and in the
wreck which resulted James Hnll of
Newton, New Jersey, who was
Bonaviche's fireman was so badly in
jured that he died the next day.
The accident and especially the
death of his tireman, so preyed upon
the mind of the engineer that he
tied .from Washington and nothing
was heard of him for three weeks or
until a week ago he appeared at his
home a raving maniac.
More Graduates of the Lock Haven
State Normal are teaching in the
Valley of the west branch of the
Susquehanna and in the central part
of the state than from all other
schools combined. It is in a highly
prosperous condition. The great
scarcity of teachers assured splendid
positions to its graduates. An early
application for rooms will he
necessary for those who expect to en
ter for the Fall term beginning Sept.
7th. Write for its handsome cata
logue.
Richard A'elley, a prominent
farmer of Beech Flats, near Canton,
was terribly injured a few days ago
by being hit with a binding pole
while hauling lumber down the
South Mountain. He had stopped
and tixed one of the poles and was
in the act of fixing the other, when
the first one broke loose, striking
him across the head and cutting a
frightful gash and destroying the
sight of one eye.
The fund of $50,000 appropriated
by the legislature of 1907 for the pay
ment of bounties on scalps of noxious
animals was exhausted when ten per
cent., was paid on bills aggregating
#2-,000 sent in by 43 counties.
HUGHESVILLE 2
SAYDE 7
Exciting Plays Made By Both
Sides. Umpires Were Fair.
The most exciting game o( base
ball played at the Athletic grounds
this season was witnessed by a fair
sized crowd Tuesday afternoon.
The Sayre giants came down to
cross bats with the noted Hughes
ville team. They accomplished more
than was probably anticipated, as
they were successful in sticking the
harpoon into the "beat everything"
team to the tune of 7 to 2.
Neither side made an error during
the first five innings and was the
fastest game played here this season.
The score at that time standing 2-0.
For the first two innings neither
side could get within touch of the
home plate. Confidence on both sides
now ran high and considerable
money was said to have been bet on
the game. The "fans" were also
getting their share of the excite
ment and the women took fanatical
interest as well. Old men cheered
lustily and the young peanut venders
lost track of themselves and were
strictly "off the job." At the sth in
ning a bad throw to first base by the
Hughesville pitcher gave Sayre a
comfortable lead and hypnotised the
whole Hughesville team. They all
went to sleep in a comfortable man
ner and the result was a few more
scores for the Sayre Lehigh Valley
Shop boys.
The Hughesville nine doubtless
never played a team quite the equal
to Sayre. Their playing was almost
faultless throughout the game, and
their manners were marked with a
stamp of genteelness and culture.
If they were to be given a niL'kname
the Sayre team would be best identi
fied as "Gentlemen of the Diamond."
Were these two teams to meet
again there would doubtless be a
n i iiwt' Jireaking crowd prewut ttj
witness the game. *
Mildred-Murray Play Ball.
ID aii exciting game of base ball
played at Murry between the Mil
ami Athletics and the Murry Stars
the former was defeated by the close
score of (>-7. Battery for Mildivd,
Weed and Collins; for Murry, Ly
nott, Lynch and F. Lynclw Hits
off Lynott 5, Lynch 2, Wee
Features of theganie were'a
throw over the heads of the crowd
by Collins of Mildred and clever
base work by I'. V. Murry at second.
The Mildred sports left a little of
their money in Murry.
The following is a dispfttch from
Muncy:
After years of agitation and effort
on the part of Muncy's business
inen, this place stands a chance ot
becoming the terminal of the Wil
liamsport and North Branch Bail
road, a connecting line between the
Reading and Lehigh Valley system.
This prediction was made by S. I).
Townsend, of Hughesville, general
manager of the Williamsport and
North Branch line. He thought
that the plan would be possible
within a year.
At present the road strikes the
Beading four miles north of Muncy,
at Hall's Statiou. It is a junction
and offers no business to the Will
iamsport and North Branch. Ac
cording to the proposed change of
route, the Williamsport and North
Branch would turn toward Muncy
at Lime Bluff, several miles east of
Hall's Station.
For two reasons, Muncy would be
advantageous as a terminal, it is
argued. First, it would open the
way for a Williamsport and North
Branch extent ion to Montgomery,
six miles south of here, where the
line could tap the Pennsylvania's
North Central division. Already
the Williamsport and North Branch
owns the right of way to Mont
gomery along the old canal bed, that
follows the Susquehanna rtver.
Miss Martha Foust, daughter of
Dairy and food Commissioner Foust,
was pol-ioned by eating cold storage
fish at Mackinac, Mich., whither
she accompanied her father to the
pure food convention.
75C PLR YEAR
Not a Horseless Age.
The horseless that has been so
persistently predicted is not merely
slow in coming; the facts seem to
indicate that it is farther away than
ever and perhaps may never come.
People must be riding a great deal
more than they ever rode before.
The -automobile industry in this
country has quadrupled in value in
the last three years and has develop
ed to even a greater rate in the num
ber of machines manufactured. Hut
the statistics of horseflesh keep on
expanding. There were more than
fourteen million horses in this coun
try in 1897, but according to the fig
ures for the year just closed there
are 19,746,000 horses in the United
States at the present time. This is
a gain of nearly 40 percent, in a de
cade, a much larger one than tliw
hnman element can show in spite of
our large and continuous importa
tions. As mechanical rivals multi
ply he rises in the scale of dignitied
personality. The last horse will
probably tako his leave at about the
same time as the first man.—Boston
Transcript.
A Berlin dispatch says, before the
out breaking of the next war, when
ever that may be, the Kaiser will
have added what might be called
aeriay cavalry to his fighting forces.
Since the successful flights ftf the
Zeppelin airships the Genua 11
government has ordered twelve mili
tary airships built which are to be
ready for flight and tight by next
spring. At the Kaiser manoevers
from September 7 to !), at Saarburg,
five dirigible airship will be used.
Speaking of the usefulness of
dirigible balloons to armies in the
field, Major Gross, chief of the mili
tary airship department, said the
other day: Hitherto generals have
primarily used cavalry to aseeitain
the position of the enemy and the
movements of hostile troops. It is
also well known that at the begin
ning of each campaign each general
sends swarms of spies to report to
are assuming.
When airships can sail safely for
long distances they will render in
valuable service in this respect. Ex
perience, of course, can alone teach
us the exact functions of an airship
in watching hostile forces but we
may safely predict today that officers
aboard an aerial vessle will be able
to observe the movements of large;
bodies of troops as they march
■ihrough the county, while it will
tuither be possible to estimate the
number of troops conveyed by any
given rail road, By watching the
number of trains dispatched to a
strategic destination officers wtyl be
able to see which stretches of the
country are free from the enefcny's
trooj%, thereby ticiliuting yi a; .re
markable degree the movement "of i
theihbwn side. We may by air- *
ships, not merely improve, but
bring to the point of perfection the
observation Jof the movements of
a hostile force.
Bread continues to staff of
life, and American furnishes
the Hour that makes the best brvsft.
This is to be borne in mind as An
important economic fact. It is
brought to public attention by a re
port of Special Agent Davis of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
who has been looking up the mat
ter in England where he finds Unit ■
high grade American flyux, is made
finer than the English a'ftide, and
he this to the superior
quality of our wheat. After giving
some interesting informaiion as to
the various ways in which the Eng
lish people utilize flour, he notes
the wide extent of the practice of
getting supplies from the bake shops
instead of making the bread at
home. It is to this trade that our
American hard-Whout flours natural
ly appeal. Probably much more
than one-half English population
are users of baker's bread regularly,
and bread is used as a food to an ex
tent greater by one third than in
the United States." From all indi
cations the old world will have a
moderate wheat crep this year.
With the "bumper" yield promised
! here it is evident that the United
States will be again in position to
furnish British and other consumers
i with first class foodstuffs.