F-IRST NATIOJ AX. BANK OP DC3HORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - • $50,000 BUHfJjDti - - 835.000 Does a General Ranking Business. S. 1). STERIGEKK, M. D. BWAKTB. Prcnident. Casliler :i per eent interest allowed on certificates. FRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. office in Keeler's Block. LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA. J.J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTO RUSTS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining oountlM _APOKTE, p A. jT J. MULLEN, Attorney-«t-L«w. LAPORTE, PA o»riCß IU COOHTT BUILDIM HEAR COURT HOOBB. H. CRONIN, ATTORHET-AT -LAW, NOTAHT PUBLIC, orrica on maim street. DUSUORE. PA LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W, GALLAGHER, Estate, Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. .Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barbershop; al>*o good stabling and livery, Cbtppewa Xtme frtlns* Lime furnished .n car load lots, delivered at Right Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesvilta Penn'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' « }» The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages are always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on i™iTioN!! ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. Wont Tobacco S|m and Nn-oke Your l ire Attvj. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be ma? m tic, full or lite, nerve and vigor, take No To Uac. the wonaer-worker, that makes weak tno» Strong. All druggists, 50c or CI. Cure tjuaran te-d Booklet and nample tree. Addresj Sterling Kenedy Cj . Chicago ot Ni.w Yorfc ( County Seat \ Local and Personal Events] i Tersely Told. J Mrs. Ernest Rockwell of Towan da, is being entertained by Mrs. Louise Barrows. Boyd YanFleet, of New York City, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Edmister, at the Cheney cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Karnes of Benton, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. J, Keeler. B. S. Karns and family of Ben ton, came over in their auto Sun day and spent the day with La porte relatives. Preaching services in the Bap tist Church Sunday at 7:45 P. M. All are invited. Miss May Muffly, of Baltimore, is again spending her vacation in Laporte. She is stopping at the home of Mrs. Frank Ingham. Mrs. lieeder of Montoursville, was the guest of her cousins, Sher iff Brown and sister, Mrs. Rosetta Morgan, last week. Air, aud Mrs. Albert Heess and children spent Sunday with rela itves at Lincoln Falls. Mrs. John Nelson, of Orange, N. J., and Miss Willo Miller, of New York City, are the guests of their father, Mr. F. P. Miller, and their sister, Mrs. P. A. Bivins, at their home on Muncy street. Mr. Win. Stearn and wife of Georgetown, N. Y., and J. P. Kennedy, of Dusliore, woro the guests Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. T, E. Kennedy. Mr. Stearn was a resident of Laporte at one time, j moving away about twenty years ago, and this was his first visit here since that time, Mrs. J. Harry Spencer and daughter. Mrs. Farquer, Miss Em ma Spencer, Mrs. James Gansel and daughters Maud and Effie, all formerly of Laporte, but now res idents of Williarusport, came up with the excursion Tuesday, and spent the day with Laporte friends. The Laporte Baptist Church is getting a new coat of paint. Miss Mollie Keeler, of New York City, donated the paint and T. J. Keel er and son Herbert are doing the work. This greatly improves the appearance of this pretty little ed ifice. Polanders employed at Lope/., in the mills or otherwise, are purchas ing land and everything else offered for sale in that section. They are hard workers, very saving, and seem to have so much confidence in the lumbering district of Sulliv an county that they are investing their saviugs in real estate. John Featherby, aged 17 years, the son of Reubin Featherby, of Eldredsville, died at the Sayre hospital Saturday night. Death was due to septic peritonitis and a ruptured appendix. The boy was taken to the hospital Wednesday and his condition was very serious. He was operated upon at once, but little hope of his recovery was held out. Pennsylvania is in the position of being practically out of debt, the only state in the Union so sit uated. This was demonstrated at the meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission Tuesday, when it was shown that the net debt of the State is $2,(584,614 and to pay this there is in the sinking fund 82,- 066,397, the net State debt being figured at 818,237. In the next few mouths there will be due the sinking fund s2tf,4B(i, and that C. Laßue Munson, one of Wil liamsport's most prominent at torneys, has been placed iu the field as a Democratic candidate for justice of the supreme court. James P. Ryan of Lopez, has pur chased an interest In the marble and granite works at Dushore, formerly conducted by M. J. Wilcox, and the firm will be known as Wilcox and Ilyant. The new tarriff bill will become a law next week aud will be found one of the most popular tariff meas ures ever passed by congress. Mr. A. B. Kilmer, of Shunk, was a .Laporte visitor Thursday. Mr. Kilmer expressed himself as highly pleased with the improvement made in our town and at Lake Mo kouia in the last two years. Mr. liakestraw and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Bwain of West Ches ter, are recent arrivals at the Moun tain house, Mrs. A.C. Parker of "Philadel phia, who has spent a number of summers in Laporte, is again here for the season. The one hundredth meeting of the Village Improvement Society will be held at the home of Mrs. L. L. Ford, next Monday Evening. All members are cordially invited to be present. St. John's church.—August, lj Eighth Sunday after Trinity, Sun day school at 10 A. M.; and Even song with sermon at 7:45 P. M. Every Friday Evening, Service at 7:45. All welcome. Malcolm De P. Maynard, Layread er in charge. Found Indian Relic in River. While Mai«us Burgard was dig ging; for gravel for concrete purpos es in the river opposit Reagan streets, in Sunbury, at a distance about one hundred feet from the shore, he brought up from the depth of about three feet below the bottom of the river a remarkable and very interest ing Indian relic, which had no doubt fur hundreds of years been imbedded in the gravely bottom of the river A Use For Poetry. "Do you enjoy poetry?" '"Yes." answered Miss Cayenne. "It Is a great conversational convenience. It enables people to tjuote Instead of being stupidly original."—Washington Star. 'Tis only happiness cau keep us young.—Blackwood. QHEUIFF'S BALE. liv virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the Court ot Common I'leas ot'Sullivan County,Pen nsylvania,and to me directed and deliver ed, there will lie exposed to public sale at the Court House, in the Borough ot l.aporte, Sullivan Co., Pennsylvania, on TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1900. commencing at 1 o'clock p.m. the follow ing described property, to wit: All those certain lots, pieces or parceb ol land, situate in the villau? of Mildred, Township ot Cherry. County of Sullivan and State of Pennsylvania, described as follows, viz: No. 1. BEGINNING at the South west corner of Second street at a point joining the Stale Line and Sullivan Hail road: thence West warily one hundred and ten (110) leet more or less along Second Street to Hancock Alley: them e Northwardly along said Alley one hund red ami twelve and one hall (112 1-2) leet more or less to the line of the State Line and Sullivan Railroad: thence Eastwardly along the line of the State Line and Sul livan Railroad to Second Street, the place of beginning. Being Lots Nos. 73, 74. and 75 upon a plot or plan of-Mildred, as laid out tor .lolin a Funston by Samuel Nevhart, Civil Engineer, in 1871. and on October 25, 1894. Lots improved and having an ice house and chicken house erected thereuii. No. 2. BEGINNING at the corner ot Jackson and Third Street, extending thense along the said Jackson Street East ward ly one hundred and twenty-five (125) leet to Turn Table Alley; thence along said Turn Table Alley Northwardly one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet to Washington Alley; thence along said Washington Alley Eastwardly one hund red and twenty-live (125) feet to Third Street; thenee along said Third Street Southwardly one hundred and twenty tive (125) leet to Jackson Street the place of beginning. Being Lots Nos. 155, 150. 157. 158 and 159 upon a plot or plan ol Mildred made in 1871, and on October 25. 1894. Lots improved. No. .'5. BEGINNING at a corner ol lot of William Roe; thence along the Susi|uehanna and Tioga Turnpike thirty seven (37) feet to a corner; thence along lands of the State Line and Suilivau Rail road Company in a Southwesterly direc tion ninety-eight (98) leet to a corner: thence along lands now occupied by the Lehigh Valley Kailroad Company one hundred and twenty-one (121) leet to lands of William Roe; t hence along said Roe lands in an Easterly direction thirty (30) feet to the pluce of beginning. CON PAINING Four Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy (4,470) Square Feet of land strict measure be the same more or less. Lot improved and having erected there on one two story frame building used as a store and dwelling house combined, also several small out buildings and being a desirable business property. No. 4. BEGINNING at a corner on the We%t side ot Susquehanna and Tioga Turntiike road; thence East a distance of tifteen and two-thirds (15 2-3) feet to a corner on the line ot the Slate Line and Sullivan Uailroad: tht-nce along the line ofsaid railroad North onehundred ami titty and one-half(lsoj)teet to a corner; thence East twenty-six and one-half (2fiJ) feet to a comer on the West side of said Turn pike Road: thence along said road South onehundred fifty and one-halt (150J) feet to a corner the place of beginning. Lot improved and having erected there on one two-story frame store building 25x40 feet; also another store buildfi adjoining the Jackson Hotel property, anil being a valuable lot. No, 5. BEGINNING at a stake a corner of lot owned by William Rex*: thence West a distance of twenty-lour [24] feet more or less to a corner in the ditch on the South side of the track ot the State Line and Sullivan Railrond Coin pany [now operated by the Lehigh Val ley Railroad Company]; thence South along the ditch on the South side ol said railroad a distance of one hundred and twenty-nine [l29] leet more or less to a corner on line of Funston's land; thence East a distance of twenty six [26] leet to a corner of a lot foitnerly owned by llar rv Finkle, now owned by L..1. Hynian thin grantor; thence along his line North a distance of one hundred and twenty-one [l2l] leet more or less to the corner the place of beginning. Lot improved. No. 0. BEGINNING at a corner on line of land owned by Mrs. Charles E. Jackson and comer of land owned by this grantor; thence West a distance of twenty-four [24] feet to the ditch on the South side of the track of said railroad: thence along the ditch 011 the South side ol same South a distance of one hundred and fifty and one-half [lsol] leet more or less to a corner; thence East a distance ol twenty-four [24] feet more or less to a corner ol William Hoe's lot, and thence Noith along line ot lot owned by this grantor, a distance of one hundred and fifty and one-half [ISOJ] feet to the cor tier, the place of beginning. Lot improved. No. 7. BEGINNING at a point on Kenneth Street ami Cherry Alley and extending along said street Eastwardly fifty [">o| feet more or less to the railroad; thence along said railroad Eastwardly to Second Street; thence along said Second Street one hundred and forty [l4o] leet more or less Northwardly lo Hancock Alley; thence along said Hancock Alley Westwardly one hundred and twenty-live [l2s] leet to Cherry Alley; thence along said ('berry Alley one hundred and seveutv live [l7s] leet Southwardly to place of beginning. Same being lots Nos. 7tl, 7'J, SO, 83, S4, 87 and SS on plot. Lots improved. No. 8. BEGINNING at a point on Hancock and Cherry Alleys and extend ing along said Hancock Alley one hund red and twenty-five [l2s] feet Eastwardly to Second Street; thence along said Second Street one hundred and twenty-five [l2s] leet Northwardly to Karl Street; thence along said Carl Street one hundred ami twenty-five [l2s] feet to Cherry Alley; tlience along said Cherry Alley one hund red and twenty-five [l2s] feel Southward ly to place of beginning. Same being lots Nos. 61, 02, 03, 64 and 65 on plot. Lots improved. No. 9. BEGINNING at a point 011 Karl Street and Maple Alley and extend ing along said street Eastwardly fifty-five | 55 | feet tnore or less to the railroad; tlience following the line of the railroad Southwardly to Mapel Alley; thence along said Alley Northwardly one hundred | 100 | leet more or lees to the place ot beginning. Same being lots Nos. 71 and 72 on the blue print. Lots improved. No. 10. BEGINNING at a point on Karl and Second Streets and extending along said Karl Street Eastwardly one hundred and twenty-five | 125 | teet to Maple Alley; thence along said Alley Southwardly one hundred and twenty live | 125 | leet to Hancock Alley; thence along said Alley Westwardly one hund red atid twenty-live | 125 | feet to Second Street; tlience along said street North ward one hundred and twenty-five | 125 | feet to the place ol beginning. Same be ing lots Nos. 66, 67,68, 69 and 70 on the blue print. Lots improved. Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as the property of Lou J, Hymen at the suit ot Nathan Gottlieb. JUDSON BROWN, Sheriff. Sheritl'sOftice,Laporte Pa., July 12, 1909. MI'LLEN, Attorney. Bankrupt Sale. Bv virtue of an order ot .lohn W. Cod ding. Referee iti Bankruptcy in and tor the Middle District ot Pennsylvan'a, the undersigned trustee of the estate of James 11. Parish, bankrupt, of Wheelerville, Fox Township. Sullivan County. Penn sylvania, will e.\|>ose to public, sale or auction at the Court House, Towanda, Pennsylvania. 011 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18. 1909. at two o'clock sharp P.M. The follow ing described real estate, viz: All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Township of Fox, County of Sulli van and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a post and stake corner oi lands formerly owned by lleiry Cox (lands on the tract line), tlience 011 the said tract line by lands of S. LittJe ami Giddon Wilcox; south eighty-seven (87] degrees east sixty-four and 4-10 rods to a post; tlience south one degree, lour rods to the public road; thence on this public highway, south seventy-one de grees west, twenty-five and 7-10 rods to a small sugar tree below the road; thence south seventy and one-half | 70} | de grees west, forty-four and 8-10 rods to a post and stones below the highway; thence on said Little road by land of said Cox. north four degrees east, thirty-one rods to the place of beginning, containing seven acres and two perches, be the same more or less, recorded in Sullivan County in Deed Book Vol. 30, at page 196, etc. And all buildings thereon, The above described property of the bankrupt is to be sold free and divested from all liens. TERMS OF SALE. Twenty-five | 25 | per cent. u|>on the property being struck down and the bal ance upon the delivery of the deed after the final con Urination of sale. GUY C. IIOLLON, Trustee. Towanda, Pa. Wanted-An Idea Protect your Ideas: they may bring yon wealth. Write JOHN WKDDERBDRN ft CO., Patent Attor neys, Washington, O. C„ for their Si,BUU prlae offer and list ot two hundred Invention* wanted. FOLETjiPONEf^TAR > ftretUdrvr. tafm, «*r*. Mm mmlmtm FIRST iNAHOrSAL bAi'NsV., HTJGECES'VXX.LDI], 3PJL CAPITA I STOCK $50,000 DeWITT BODING, President. Surplus and W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier Net Profits. 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General iodine, Jacob Per, Frank A.Roeder, Banking Business. Win Fronte, w. C. Front/, , "• J - Reedy, John C. Laird, Lyman Myers, Accounts oflndivid- Peter Front/., C. W. Sones, uals and Firms solicited. ' l 3 per Cent INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. -A.T THE GENERAL STORE (3D laporte T annex. ® You can find a general stock of Lumbeimen's Flannel Shirts, Drawers and Socks. Woolen and Gotten 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. Williamport & North Branch Railroad TIME TABLE. In effect Monday. July 1, 190<|. ___JU»ddown Read up Flag station-, where time is marked • J *' I | , t, AM p.m. p m KM YM P M A M A M AM STATIONS. AM A M A.M I'M P M pJ| pj| p.\] AM J!$ :210 }sri.°g 252 ....—Halls. T35940 U' 1"> 1V,40n ft <*!» .V) K 'JO s 33 10 1.) >2;! 4 19 1J ,'v r i lu'J.t <55 ..Feunsilale... 7 30 9 :i"i PJ 10 1 ii i:. s r, S3blolß 526 fi22 125S lo 2* 17 5k .. < 'liippewa... 727!>32120717:: 2lhi'J I" sI ' 842 10 2.i 532428 222 102 1035 8057 45 .HujcliesvilU'.. 7 '2O U2>1200 110 :i I.V i r, i) -n" * w 5394 34 j1042(8 11 Picture Hocks 918 1115 -Jg 100 f| £ .! *"" 853 5444 39 f8 if! . Cl'.aniouni ... 91211 10 332 'I "" ti s s £49f4 44 | 821 ..Glen Mawr... U ot; 11 ( o 3 2(i >1 lii i, ■!■> 908 lsoßft!>2 I 1829... StrawbriiiKe.. fKA3 10 41 9as li 112! .'?r IS BeeehGleti.. (849 10 31 ..... ,-> ,v> fi i* >. 914 1. 05 458 I 835 Muncy Valley h47 lo ;;o 307 ,s 57 cin a ;! jS ® .',o ? Sjj 286 *'2 h 15 ..^nestowii... s4OIO 20 3ui Bsot. 10 - j 40 fi.i.l 1 20 9o< ...Norilmont... yr>.> s I■> • Wi 1005 652 538 f9 25 ....Mokoma.... ... s, 7 w fi is a 1010 6 55f i4O 9 27 Laporte 9 27 7 50' r > 'lts'2 »» t9 39 ...Rltufdale ... 9 05 >. ->23 2 'S'S ##» 9 48 HlreliCreok Jc 8 35 5 js »- = 3 609 . Sattertii'ld.... S3O ~a >OS 0 AM p M £.? I I . . I , | -J. EAGLES MERE BRANCH. A.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. A.M. STATIONS. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 920 610 300 840 615 Knnestown 835 240 5 Oft 8 4') 944 6 :S4 324 901 639 Bennett A Peaks... sll 2 lfi 111 ,S2I 10 08 658 348 928 703 Eagles Mere 750 152 417 800 10 20 710 400 940 715 Eagles Mere Park 735 1 40 4 oft 7 4ft S. D. TOWNSEND, D. K. TOWNSEND, Gen. Manager,Hughesville Passenger Agent. K.\ PORTE 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. Lumbermen's Flannels, Shirts, Draws and Socks, Woolen and Cotten Underwear and Hosiery, Men and Bo>s' Hats, Caps and Mittens, Ladies and Children Sweater Coats. A Full Assortment of Boots, Shoes & Rubbers No. trouble to show #oods. Make this store a visit and be convinced that bargains will greet you on every hand. Try The News Item Job Office Once. [Fine Printing FEAVWOKK"' ' ' " * ' p'JfL* ' MODERN FACILTTUH V\ 0 I lint To • Please.
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