First national bank
OF DCSHORE, FENNA.
CAPITAL - - $60,000
BDBl'ijlTß - - 835.000
Does a General Banking Business.
S. IV STERIQKRE, M. D. SWARTS.
President. Cashier
3 per eenl interest allowed ou certificates.
pKANCIS W. MEYLERT,
Attomey-at-Xjaw.
office in Keeler's Block.
LA PORTE,** Sullivan County, PA.
JT& F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORKBYB-AT-LAW,
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in this and adjoining oountiM
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LAPORTE HOTEL.
JP. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
House square. Steam lieat, bath rooms,
Lot and colli water, reading and pool
room,and barber .shop; also good stabling
nnd livery,
Gbtppewa
Xtmc IRilns*
Lime furnished »n car
load lots, delivered at
Right Prices.
Your orders solicited.
Kilns near Hughesvilla
Penn'a.
M. E. Reeder,
MUNCY, PA.
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Up-to-date
Stock of
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Merchandise
Far pries that are
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For curteous treatment
goto
Buschhausen'
/-ONDKXCED REPORT ot the condition of The
V-Klrst National hank at Dushore. in th" State
of Pennsylvania at close of business Dee. 3d,
1907.
BESOURCRS.
Loans ami discounts $11:1,080 27
I'. S. Bonds to secure circulation SO,OOO 00
Bond Securities 174,475.00
Fnrniuc WOOOO
due from bank and approval 104,0/o<>s
Premium oil I'. 8. Bond 1 500 00
< ash, and due from hanks and Troas
ury V. S 27,714 47
Total 1501,710 39
LIABILITIES,
' :aptt«l J50.000 oo
Surplus and undivided profits 89,762 80
Circulation 50,000 00
Dividends unpaid 00
Deposits 801,97803
Total 8501,74039
state of Pennsylvania comity of Sullivan ss.
i, M. D. Swarts cashier of the above named
bank do solemnly swear that the above statement
is tiue to the best of my knowledge and belief.
M. I). SWARTS. Cashier,
fiubsctibed and sworu to before me this 29
day of Sent IDOS. ALPHOXBUB WALSH
My commission expires Keby 27/09. Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
J. 1). REEBER )
s.DSTERIUI'R > Directors.
SAMUEL COLK, j
Administrator's Notice.
Notice is hereby given that letters if
administration upon the estate of Kliis
■Nw.ink. late of Davidson Township, Sulli
van County, Pa., have been granted to
Jhe undersigned. All persons indebted to
estate are requested to make pay
ment. and those having claims or d< -
oianils against the same will make them
known without delay to
EMMA SWANK. Admr.x. of
Ellis Swank, Deed"
S.mestown. Pa.. Sept. 4, 1908.
Wood lor sale by the cord,
4 feet, also 12, 14 and 10 in
ches long. Inquire at
LaPorte Tannery Store.
Foley's Honey and Tar
heals Jungs and steps the cotsgib.
Foley's Honey mad Tut
tures colds, prevents pneumoai*
1 win bi ■!
Covnty 1.-41
Local and Persorju Svcnts
Tersely Told.
Mrs. F. W. Meylert spoilt last
week with friends in Sayre.
Frank Stackhonse of Kicketts,
visited friends in town last week.
Mrs. Rosette Morgan lias return
ed from a visit with her daughter
at Mnney.
Lee R. Gavitt, former County
Treasurer, vas in town Friday.
Mr. A. J. llacklej-, the Court
House janitor, has been quite ill
for tin- past two weeks.
Mr. Charles Cheney and daught
er, Mrs. Harry Dieli'enderfer, spent
a 112 15W hours of Saturday in town.
Mrs. J. A. Roberts and Miss
Maria Emig did shopping in On
shore one day last week.
The gunning season has few
day-> to run yet, and it may be said
all the gunners have n> t been killed.
Messrs, W. M. Cheney of .New
York City, and Warren Watrous
of Johnsoiiburg, arrived in town
Saturday evening and on Monday
morning shouldered their guns and
started for the wilds of Sullivan
county with the expectation of
bagging some big game.
A farmers' institute will be held
at Muncy Valley, December IS
and 10. A splendid program lias
been prepared, and the agricultu
ral people of the county should
not fail to attend this institute.
The Hugheaville mail ot last
week says that a sportsman of that
place while hunting for pheasants
in Sullivan county, got filled with
bird shot by one of his companions.
He was not seriously injured but
was kept quite busy for a time
picking bird shot out of his skin.
A pretty home wedding was
solemnized at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Burke in Laportc
Township on Thursday evening,
Xov. 12th., when their daughter
Miss Sylvia, was united in bonds of
matrimony to Mr. H. K. Jones, of
Laportc. The ceremony was per
formed in the presence of a few in
vited guests, by It,»v. lfert/. of Kones
town. The News Item extends con
gratulations.
Transfer of the real estate of Mr.
William Lowe was made on Friday
[of last week to Mr. Clayton Wortli
ington. The consideration was con
siderable over 3,000. Mr. Lowe
with his family will leave Sullivan
county next month for the State of
Washington where Mr. Lowe will
engage in fruit growing.
The Taft business boom through
out the country since election has
hit this town mighty hard. It is
said with considerable truthfulness
that it is an ill will that blows no
good. So with Laporte, the wind
has a habit of blowing pretty strong
here, and the good if now brings
seems to come with territlic force.
Laporte is a town with a future.
Bishop Henry Darlington, of the
of the Episcopal Diocese of ITar
risburg, on Friday evening <>f last
week, k in St. John's Episcopal
church of Laporte, confirmed a
class comprised of the following
persons: Mrs, Robert Mason. Mrs.
T. W. Null. Misses Dolly Cross ley,
Pearl Hunter, Ida Lovelace, Helen
Carpenter, Mrs. Karl Wrede, and
two young ladies from Nordmont.
A quiet but none the less very
pretty wedding took place when
Mr. John L. Garland of Harris
burg. and Miss Katharine Eliza
beth Wrede were united in mar
riage at the home of the bride's
mother, Mrs. E. E. Wrede, 011
Wednesday at noon. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. D,
E. S. Perry, of Coudersport, Pa.
The bride and groom were attend
ed by Attorney and Mrs. F. W.
Meylert. The ceremony was wit
nessed byonly the intimate friends
and relatives of the young couple.
A dainty wedding breakfast was
served immediately after the cere
mony. Mr. and Mis. Garland left
on the evening train for a brief
wedding tour after which they will
begin housekeeping at H&rrisburg.
The News Item with their many
friends extend congratulations.
Hunters Find $3,622 in Kettle.
Oil City Pa., —Xov, li).—Edward
Woods and Thomas Dickinson, lum
bermen, employe'! at Heed's saw
mill at Oleopolis, 12 miles east or
hire, took a day oil' to bunt Rab
bits yesterday and as a result are
nearly SI,OOO richer. Incidentally
scores of men are searching the hill
sides near Oleopolis hoping to dupli
cate the treas-ure discovered by
woods and Dickinson.
The two men were on the track ol'
a rabbit which entered a hole
While they were digging with the
end of their guns they uncovered an
iron kettle filled with bright gold
coins. Woods and Dickinson hast
ily lifted the kettle from the hole
and found it contained *:!,(>00 in
gold and 82:3 in silver.
The men carried the kettle with
its gold c'oin to the camp and exhib
ited it to their fellow-workmen.
Work was instantly suspended, the
lumbermen together with drillers
and pumpers from nearby oil leases,
rushing to the spot indicated by
woods -and Dickinson, about two
miles from Oleopolis. < H«» time
residents believe the money was
buried by John Caldwell, an eccen
tric farmer, who died in an insane
asylum nearly thirty years ago.
Court House Burned.
Lebanon, Nov. 19.—Lebanon
courthouse, which was built nearly
100 years ago, was practically de
stroyed by tire last evening, entail
ing a loss of at least SIO,OOO and
practically necessitating an entirely
new building. The lire started at
"> o'clock, just after the clock on the
tower had struck. The fire was
caused by sparks from the painters
lighted torch while they were paint
ing the east side of the building.
"Ambitious young men and ladies
should learn telegraphy; for since
the now 8-hour law became effect
ive there is a shortage of many
thousand telegraphers. Positions
pay from S">o to >7O per month to be
ginners. The National Telegraph
Institute of Philadelphia, Pa. and
five other cities is operated under
supervision of Rail Road officials
and all students are placed when
qualified. Write them for partic
ulars."
Ittale "l Lyman O. Harvey, late ol La
porte Township, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters ot
adoiintstration upon the estate ot Lyman
0 Harvey have been granted to the
undersigned. All persons endebted to
said estate are requested to make pay
ment and those having claims or demands
against the same will make, them known
without delav to
LEE R. GAVJTT, Admr.
iSonestown, Pa.
November 7. 190S.
Ql! Elll I K'S SALE.
By virtue of sundry writs of fieri facias
issued out of the Court of Common l'leas
ot'Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, and to
me directed and delivered, there will lie
exposed at public sale at the Court House
in the borough ol Laporte. Sullivan
County. Pennsylvania, on
SATURDAY. DECEMBER. 19, 1908.
at 1 o'clock p. in., the following describ
ed property, to-wit:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of
land, lying and being in the borough of
Laporte. County ot Sullivan and Slate of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
follows:
BEOINNINti at the intersection of
Main and Muncv Streets in said Borough
01 Laporte. 011 the Northwest, side thereof:
thence along the West side of said Muncv
Street North ninety (90) feet to a lot of
Thomas -J. Ingham on which > erected a
building known as Odd Fellows' Hall;
thence North along the South side of
said Ingham lot West filty two(.Vi) feel to
Lot No. 39, according to the general plan
of said Borough as recorded in Sullivan
County Peed Book A. page . and
which lot is in the occupancy ol T. .1.
Keelcr: thence South along said Keeler
lot ninety (90) leot to Main Street: thence
along the North side of Main Street East
tiftv-two (">2) feet to the place of beginning
and Iteing in the general plan of said
Borough ninety (90) feet ofl the Southern
portion of Lot No. -40.
Lot improved and having erected there
on a two story frame building, containing
store room down stairs and an oflice up
stairs. Together with small out build
ings. Being centrally located in Laporte
Borough and a very desirable property.
Seized, taken in execution and to be
sold as the property ol A. .1. Bradley at
the suit of li. A. Conklin and others.
If 'StiN BROWN, Sheriff.
Sherifl's ollice.Laporte, Pa.. N0v.19, 1908
In Re: Partition of) In Orphans' Court
Real Estate of Rich- >of Sullivan County
ard Swingle, late of) No 1 May T, 1908.
Fox Twp.,Sullivan Co., Pa., deceased.
To Henrietta Swingle, widow, Celeslia
LocKWOod, Abide Masters, Albert Swingle
Ada Vail, John Swingle, Ina Terwilliger;
all the heirs at law ol slid decedent:
You are hereby notified that a rule has
been granted upon you as the heirs of
said decedent, and all parlies in interest,
to be and appear before the above court,
at Laporte, Pennsylvania, on Monday
December 14. 1908, to accept or refuse
the purparts described in the writ of par
tition in tlie above case and the return
thereto and further to proceed according
to law.
JI'DSON BROWN, Sheriff.
QOURT PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, HON. ( HAP. E, TERRY President
Juilije, Honorable* Henry ItiehUn and H. K.
KsKinku. A-.soe. JuilKes "((the Courts of Oyer and
Terminer and General Jail Deliver} - . Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, Orphans' Court and Com
mon Pleas tor the County of Sullivan, have issued
their precept, hearing date the 28 day of Oct.
MOV, to me directed, for holding tlie severa
courts in the Borough of Lai«>rte.ou Monday the
11 day of Dec MOh, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Therefore,notice is hereby given to the Coroner,
Just ices of the Peace and Constables withiu the
county, that they be then and there In their prop
er person at 2 o clock p. m.of said day, with their
rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and
other reniemlierauces to those things to which
their offices ap)>ertaiu to be done. And to those
who are bound by their recognizance to prosecute
against prisoners who are or shall lie in the Jail of
thesaid county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to
be then and there to prosecute against tliem as
will be just.
JUDBON BROWN, Sheriff.
Sheriff'sonSce.Laporte Pa... U, Jan 190R'
Notice.
Notice is given that my wife. Alice
Clinton Avers, has left, my bed ami board I
without just cause or provication and I
forbid any and all pe'sons not to trustor
harbor her on my account, as I will not
pay any debts contracted by her after
this date. November <j, 1908.
L. E. AYERS, Wheelerville, Pa.
Bridge Letting.
The Commissioners ot Sullivan County
invite sealed bids to build a steel highway
bridge across Mud Hun. near Shutik, in
l''ox Township. Sullivan County, and wil!
let the contract to build said county bridge
to the lowest responsible bidder, reserv
ing the right to reject any and all l>fds.
No responsible individual, firm or cor
poration will be denied the privilege ol
bidding. Said sealed bids will be receiv
ed at the Commissioners oflice in Laporte
at any time up to Friday, the 4th day of
December 1008, at one o'clock p. m., and
will be opened at 2 o'clock p. in,, ol same
day.in the presence of ail bidders who
choose lo be present at that time.
The plans and specifications for said
bridge will be kept in the oflice of the
County Commissioners open to the inspec
tion of all interested bidders. Each bid
der must deposit with the Countv Com -
missioners or their Clerk, at the Com
missioners office, in Laporte, a certified
check on some sound banking institution
lor S3OO, conditioned that same shall be
forfeited to Sullivan County if same bid
der neglects or retuses to comply with
the terms ol his bid if the work is award
ed to him.
BOYD I'. BENNETT,
MICHAEL MCDONALD,
FRAFK 11. MCCARTY,
County Commissioners.
November 7, 1008.
Trial List, December Term 1008.,
Return day. I'ec.l4, 190N at 2 o'clock,p.m
1. The Commonwealth ol Pennsylva
nia lor the use ol Mina -I. Phillips, wife
of A. ti. Phillips vs Frank W. Buck.
Sheriff of the County of Sullivan, and the
United States Fidelity and Ouaranty
Company ol Baltimore, Md. Surety.
No. 43 September Term, 1907.
Summons in Debt founded on official
bond. Pleas,—Non Assumpsit, Perfor
mance, with leave to give special mat
ter in evidence. Not guilty. Performance
with leave to give special matter in evi
dence.
T. .1. Ingham. | Bradley anil Mullen.
2. George Oolder vs Eagles Mere Light
Company,
No. 19, February Term. 1903.
Trespass. Plea.—Not guilty.
Scouton, Bradley. | Mevlert.
3. V. Brink vs H. .T. Scliaad,
No. 39, February
Defendant's appeal. Plea,—Non-Assump
sit. payment, payment to give special
matter in evidence"
Stephen 11. Smith. j Bradley.
4. Paul (ierli. Trailing under the par
tnership name of Paul <ierli and Com
pany now to useol Paul (ierli & Co., Inc.
vs Lovalsock Silk Co.. a corporation, H.
N. Bigger, .1. E. Farrell, A. R. Morrison
and Samuel < 'ole.
No. 50 September Term, 1908.
Assumpsit. Plea.—Non Assumpsit,
Payment and set off, Payment with leave
to give special matter in evidence.
Mullen. | Cronin,
ALBERT F. HEESS, Register.
Proth. office, Laporte,Pa., Nov. 2, 1908.
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CAPITAL STOCK . ,
$50,000 DeWITT BODINE, President.
Surplus and JEREMIAH KELLY, Vice Pres.
Net Profits, W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier.
65.000.
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D . DeWitt Bodine, Jacob Per, Frank A.Roeder,
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uals and Firms Peter Frontz, C. "NV. Sones, Daniel H.Poustj
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AT THIS
GENERAL STORE
gd laporte Tanner. ®
You can find a general stock of Lumbermen's Flannel
Shirts, Drawers and Sacks. Woolen and Cotten Under
wear and Hosiery.
MEN'S and 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
SMOE3
Great bargains
Groceries and Provisions.
We have the best goods at the lowest prices. l< I you
want a good sack of flour, try the Laural Brand of winter
\vheat and you will use no other. Special prices on lar.L v
ntiaes.nOur motto is: "Best Goods at Lowest Prices."
J. S. HERRINGTON,
DUSHORE, PA.
UAPORTE
Clothing Store.
SCOTT STALFORD, Proprietor.
An up-to-date store well stock
ed with Mens' and Youths' Cloth
ing of good quality and low price
FINE CUSTOM MADE SUITS TO ORDER
A SPECIALTY.
Ladies' Misses' and Children's apparel. I umbei men's
Flannels, Shirts, Draws and Socks, Woolen aid Cotten
Undeiwear and Hosiery, Men and Boys' Hats, Caps
and Mittens Ladies and Children Sweater Coats.
A Full Assortment of Boots, Shoes & Rubbers
No trouble to show goods. Make this store a visit and
be convinced that bargains will greet you on every hand.
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