r'RST NATIONAL BANK * OF DUSHORE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000 eujßPiitra - - tss.ooo Does a General Banking Business. S. D. STKRIGERE, M. D. SWARTS. President. Cashier " per cent Interest allowed on certificates. FRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. ..Hice in Keeler's Block. LAPOUTF,"SuIIivan County, PA. J~± & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOnUETS-AT-LAW, Legal business atteuded to in this and adjaining oounties -APORTE, p A. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTK, PA OFFICE 111 COUNTY BUILDINfI TIKAR COURT HOUBB. J H. CRONIN, ATTORN -LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICB OH MAIN BTRSBT. DUSHORE, PA LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W, OALLAOHBE, Prop. Newly erected, Opposite Court House square. Steam beat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barbershop; also good stabling' and livery, iXbtppewa %ime ftflns. Lime furnished in car load lots, delivered at Right Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesvilla Tenn'a. M. E. Reeder, MUNCY, PA. For a well Kept Up-to-date Stock of General Merchandise Far pries that are Right For curteous treatment goto Buschhausen' i i CONDENOEIJ REPORT ol the condition of Tin* First National liunk at Dushore. in tile Stale of Pennsylvania at close of business Dee. 3d, 1907, RESOI'RCES. I I.oans and discounts $2,0192911 | I'. S. Bonds to secure circulation f>O.CMX) 00 lioud Securities 165 775.:i:; ' Furnlmie UUO uO Cash, and due from banks and Treas ury U. S 89,991 09 Total 8508,599 0!) LIABILITIES, ' 'apitai S".(i,ooooo .Surplus and undivided profits S(i,SlB sfi Circulation 50,000 00 Dividends unpaid 00 Deposits 372,28053 Total $508,599 09 State of Pennsylvania County of Sullivan ss. 1 I, M. D. Swarts cashier of the above named bank do solemnly swear that tjie above statement < is true to the best of mv knowledge and lielief. M. I). SWAftTS. Cashier. Subscii bed and sworn to before me this sth day of Dec. 1907. ALBERT I". HE ESS, My commission expires Feby 27, 'OO. NoturyPublic. Correct Attest: J. D. REESER ) l E. <i. SYLVARA, Directors. SAMUEL COLE, 1 . CA TS!'VR AO£ J J COPYRIGHTS ANO DESIGNS. S iS end your bnsinesN direct to W.tHhmgton, J * saves time, costs less, better service. J My offlce clo»e to U. 8. Patent Office. FREE prellmin- $ ! ' ary examinations made Atty'i fee cot due unli] uatent 112 in secured. PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN-19 YfARB # t ACTUAL EXPERIENCE. Book "How to obtain Pntentc " 112 etc.. sent free. Patent® procured through E Q. Bigger* 5 receive special notice, without chaige, in the i INVENTIVE ACE HI nitrated monthly—Eleventh year—terms, a year \ L 6. SIBGEBS, 1 gOIEYSKIDNIYC 3i<£ i w Makes Kidneys and Bladder Higlit jfCovnty Seat" \ ) Local Persona! Events; I TerscJy Toi<L Miss Edith Brtinner of Muucy is the guest of her cousin, Miss Fan nie Meylert. Miss Mai>le spencer is visiting her mother and sister at their home on Muncy street. Mrs. W. TI. Rogers is visiting friends at Washington and other places. Clarence Cott of Lincoln], Falls • is visiting his friend Herbert Keel er. Miss Mayme Epler of East Forks is attending the Laporte High School this winter. Mrs. Mary E. Downs is on the sick list, After a pleasant summer spent at their former home in Laporte, Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Cheney on Tuesday returned to New York City for the winter. Dr. E, W. Samuels, Republican candidate for Congressman was a guest at the Laporte Hotel Mon day night. Mrs.R.L. Busier and children and | Miss Vina I'pman of Eagles Mere, are spending a week at the I'pman | homestead at Hiis place. Don't forget the Forksville Fair next week. Exhibits will be bet- I ter than ever before. The town of Lopez is being im- I proved by concrete walks being laid in front of a number of res idences. The Canton base ball team, champions of Bradford county, won 10 and lost 4 games during J the past season. Saturday was Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and the year s,<><»!> lias begun. Messrs. I). H. Lorah and Geo- Iviess, overseers of the poor of Davidson township, and Charles MeClintock were in town Monday j for the purpose of executing official papers for the adoption of a young son of the late Joseph Craft, who has been a township charge, by Mr. MeClintock. On Monday Jerome Laird, con stable of Davidson township brought to the county jail a tramp who had been causing much an noyance to the people of that sec tion of the county. He is thought to be demented. The heavy rains on Monday proved a. veritable God-send to the entire country. The forest fires which have done thousands of dol- j lars worth of damage in this county have been extinguished! and the parched earth has been re vived. Before the rain, water was such a scarce commodity in this! town that many families could no! ! do their usual weekly washing fori the past several weeks. On'aeeouut of the Forksville fair the meeting of the Village Improve ment Society is postponed until • Tuesday Oct. 1 :lth when it will be | held at the home of Mrs. T. J. j Keeler at I o'clock I'. M. The principals of the county's I High Schools are requested to for- ; ward not later than October 5, the I names of the contestants that are ■ to take part in the athletic exer-! cises at the Fair. M. E. Wilcox, Secy. | Coming! Mrs. E. Norine Law the noted lecturer, vocalist and i author will speak under the an-j spices of the Sullivan Co, Wom an's Christian Temperance I'nion ; on the Fair grounds at Forksville. J Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock October S. Mrs. Law is a soloist of great ability and accompanies herself on a line auto-harp. Those who fail ! I I to hear her will miss a rare treat. | Order of Committee. A horse belonging to a man by' the name of webster, residing east of Hughesville, was stolen Sunday! night. The animal was taken from the barn. As yet no clue has been found as the identity of the thief. Tin: grange that isn't doing scue tiling might as well be dead. J. W. DAUR-OW. I CRACK ROAD MACHINE I When Best to Use the Split Log Drag. | FOLLOWING EACH HEAVY RAIN Finest Work Done When the Soil Is Moist, Not Sticky—Clay Highway Dragging Needs Special Attention. Economy of the Device. The best results with the split lot drag have been obtained by dragging roads ouce each day after each heavy 1 rain. Iu some cases,, however, one I dragging every three or four weeks i has been found sufficient to keep a : road in good condition. When the soil is tuoist but not sticky I the drag does its best work, says a bul letin from the government otlice of pulflic roads. As the soil in a lield will j bake if plowed wet, so the road will | bake if the drag is used on it when it is wet. If the roadway is full of holes or badly rutted, the drag should be ; used once when the ground is soft | and slushy. This is particularly ap j plicable before a cold spell in winter, | when it is possible to so prepare the surface that it will freeze smooth. ! Not infrequently conditions are met which may lie overcome by a slight change in the manner of hitching. Shortening the chjiin tends to lift the j front slab and make the cutting slight, while a longer hitch causes the front to sink more deeply into the earth and act on the principle of a plow. If a furrow of earth is to be moved, the doubletree should be attached close to the ditch end of the drag, and the driver should stand with one foot on the extreme forward end of the front slab. Conditions are so varied in different localities, however, that it is quite impossible to lay down specific rules. Certain sections of a roadway will re quire more attention than others lie cause of steep grades, wet weather springs, soil conditions, exposure to sun and wind washes, etc. There is one condition, however, In which spe cial attention should be given. Clay roads under persistent dragging fre quently become too high in the center. This may be corrected by dragging the earth toward the center of the road twice and away from it once. There is no question as to the econo my of this roadinaking implement, either in lirst cost or iu operation. In six counties in Kansas in I'JOO the cost of maintaining ordinary earth roads, without the aid of the split log drag, averaged a mile. These figures were furnished by Professor W. C. lioad of the University of Kansas, who secured them from official records of the counties. Some figures furnished by F. P. San born and R. 11. Aishton, general man ager of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, have revealed the wonders of this simple device. Mr. Sanborn said: "The least expense per mile per annum for split log dragging was $1.50, the greatest a little over $0 apd the average expense per mile for live and a half miles a little over $3. I have lived along this road 'all my life, and never in forty years have 1 seen it freer from mud and dust, despite the fact that during the season we have experienced the extremes of weather conditions." The testimony of Mr. Aishton is equally strong. Learning that a town ship in lowa had been making an in vestigation of the split log drag and had been experimenting with it for a year on twenty-eight miles of high way, he sent an agent to secure infor mation. It was reported that, al though the town board had paid the cost of making the drags and of hir ing men to operate them, the total expense for one year averaged but $11.40 a mile, and the roads were re ported to have been "like a race track" the greater portion of the year. Beware of Narrow Tires. Where the soil is stiff or loamy it pays to use the split log road drag after it rains and before the ground dries hard. Nine-tenths of the country roads could be made into splendid thoroughfares by the proper persistent use of the road drag and wide tires. Wide tires alone will keep a loamy road iu fairly good condition with just one scraping in the spring to round up the turnpike. Sandy roads are a much more serious problem, but sometimes a surface of clay will soon mix with the sand to form a hard track, and wide tires will keep it hard and smooth so the rainwater will run off quickly to I lie sides, but narrow tires will ruin such a road surface quickly l»y cutting ruts to hold water. It would lie diffi cult to invent a worse implement of destruction, especially on roads that are inclined to be sandy. Good Road Agitators. Women have been found to be active workers in the matter of agitating pood road movements. They not only work to get hard roads, but adopt , measures to preserve the natural beau- fy of public highways. Within the j lait few mouths the Tuesday club of i St. Charles, 111., planted 350 ornamen- i tal trees along two miles of the Fox s river road. Not long since the Kane 1 county women, who are auto enthu- ( siasts, raised over SI,OOO by selling ' spoons, audit all went to the improve- j ment and preservation of natural fea tures of the finest auto drives in lIU- ' nols. ' Political Wither for, Bryan winds tor September, Demo cratic Squally for October, a Taft cyclone followed by Republican sun -1 shine for November. In last weeks issue an error was made in stating that candidate for County Treasurer, Mr. Win. Cum t ble had resided at llillsgrove for the past five years. This should have read twenty-five years. ; Jle has been . a large tax-payer all these years and has always had his shoulder to the wheels of progress in Hillsgrove. lie i will make a good, faithful, eompe ' tent officer. Give him your support. The County Commissioners are the men who handle the business of r thecounty, who expend the money , of the tax-payers, and whose good ■ judgement depends on the public i welfare. For that reason the people i are directly concerned, and in vot ing they should exercise the wisest discretion. The Republicans of this ; county have nominated F. W. I Peal and William H. Rogers, men l in whom public confidence can be : placed. Their selection would mean a ! careful business administration. That 1 fact is assured. Wood for sale by the cord, 4 feet, also 12, 14 rind 16 in ches LaPorte Tannery Store. Notice of Transfer. Notice is hereby given that a petition ('or the transfer of a Hotel or Tavern License heretofore granted to Irvin <i. \\ esver ol Mildred, Cherry Twp., Sulli van County, I 'a., to .lohn Nestor, lias tliis day been filed in my otlice and the *ame will be presented to the Oourt ol Quarter Sessions of Sullivan County on fhursday, October I. 190S, at II o'clock fl. m. AUiKRT K. IIEESS, Clerk. Clerk's otlice, l.aporte Pa., Sept.L'l, 190M. Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters ol I administration upon the estate of Klli* Swank, late of Davidson Township, Sulli van County. I 'a., have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make pay ment, and those having claims or de mands against the same will make them known without delay to EMMA SWANK, Admrx. of Ellis Swank, l>ec'd* Sonestown. Pa.. Sept. 4, 1908. Administrator's Notice. 1 n the estate of Anna 11. Sadler, late Hillsgrove township, Sullivan County. Pa., deceased. Letters of Administration in the above estate having been granted to the under signed, all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate pay ment; and those having claims against said estate are requested to present the same, without delay for payment. C. W. SADLER, Administrator. F. W- Mey.lert, Atty. U > m The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages arealways being searched foi Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on |^^Won| ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AM answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. Biil ac.rove. Fa. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the ditfestants and digests all kinds ol fond. It gives instant relief and nevct fails to cure. It allows you to eat all the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. Ry its use many thousands of dyspeptics have beer, cared after everything el°c failed. Is unequalled for the stomach. Child ren with weak stomachs thrive on it. First dose relieves. A diet unnecessary. Cures alf stomach troubles Prepared only by E. C. DkWittA Co., Chicago Tbu SI. botUe coutaina 2H times the 30c. aIM rig\oi n/uiuimL o/iniv, HUG-ITSSV'IL-Ijli], -J i CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 DeWITT BODINE, President. i Surplus aud JEREMIAH KELLY,'Vice Pres. Xet Profits, W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier. 65.000. Transacts a General | DIRECTORS: ! Banking Business ? eW,tfe Bodine ' Jacob Per > Frank A. Reader, U . „ Jeremiah Kelly, Wm. Frontz, W. C. Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- w. T. Reedy, John C. Laird, Lyman Myers, uals and Firms Peter Frontz, C. AV. Sones, Daniel njoust, solicited. John Bull. 3 per Cent INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS -A_T TUB:IE GENERAL STORE go Baporfe Tanner. ® You can find a general stock of Lumbeimens Flannel Shirts, Drawers and Socks. Woolen and Cotten Under wear and Hosiery. MEN'S an,d BOYS' HATS, CAPS and MITTENS, Also a Full Assortment of Boots and Shoes of the Usual Variety. The Grocery and Provision Department is second to none in the county. Also a fair stock of HARDWARE, WILLOWARE and CASTINGS for the farmer. Prices are consistent with quality of goods. JAMES McFARLANE. Reduction Sale of SHOE 3 Great bargains Groceries and Provisions. We have the best goods at the lowest prices. If you want a good sack of flour, tr) the Laural Brand of winter wheat and you will use no other. Special prices on ntiaes.nOur motto is: "Best Goods at Lowest Prices " .. S. HERKINGTON, dushore, pa. ft ===== J// You Aye Going to Get Whisky, Get Good IVhisky Old Penn Whisky Is good, and is distilled from care k fully selected grain _ 75c a Quart $2.75 a Gallon If you want the finest whisky made we recommend Imperial Cabinet Whisky mxm sl*2s a Quart $4.75 a Gallon Champagnes, Sherries, Ports, Catawba, Moselles, Unmm nmmt fcC* Rhine Wines, Brandies, Gins, Cordials. W' are the oldest wine and liquor house in Phila delphia, we refer to the thousands of Physicians who send here for pure Goods Shipped to Ail Parts of the United States Thomas Massey & Co. 11 2!fi3S.*- B ———-—. -Ji Try The News Jl-ri Office Once» Kine Prii •: ing RK ' - . *r> :~ L MODERN FACIMTTKa ' [" J J jfj I i'o ['lease.
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