Republican News Item
F. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE,
B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR.
PUBLISHED FRIDAYS
By The Sullivan Publishing Co
Attholiounty Seat of Sullivan Uounly.
LAPOH'I'E, PA.
THUS. J. INGHAM. Sec'y & Trens.
Entered ai the Post Office at l<a| orte, as
second-class mail matter.
(-IRBT NATIONAL BANK
112" OF DUfiltORE, PENNA.
CAPITAL. - - 950.000
r I!BiU«U3 - - $40,000
Does a General Banking Business.
S. D. BTERIGKRK, M. V. BWARTB.
President. Cashier
3 per eent interest allowed on eertilieates.
112 RANCIS W. MEYLERT,
Attomey-at-Liaw.
office. in Keeler's Block.
LAPOHTK, Sullivan County, PA.
J T & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORHBYS-AT-LAW,
Legal busincsa attomtod to
in this and adjoining counties
.A PORTK, PA
112 J. MULLEN,
Attorn ey-«t- Law.
LA PORTE, PA
orncß it* codhty building
WBARCOCKT DOUBS.
J H. CRONIN,
ATTOKKBT'AT -LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
orrlt'l OH MAIN HTtIBBT.
UrSUORK. l ' A
First National Bank
OF LAPORTE, PA.
Capital - - - $25,000.00
Trail acts a general banking business.
TIIOS. .1. INfIHAM, KPW. I.AIM.KY
President. Cashier.
3 por cent interest paid on time deposits,
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
fcovnty Indices
! Brie! Newsy Items Galher
y by Correspondence* J
SHUNK.
Jack Frost made a flying visit to
I his section shortly after the hard
ruin of last week and left so much
i »• lhat tho safest plan at present is
t > stay indoors.
The stork called at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morgan, Jan. 19
ami left a fine baby boy.
Mrs. Clarence Cott closed school
mi Friday on account of illness.
Murray Brown is very 111 at this
writing.
Mrs. F. M. Letts spent Saturday
and Sunday at the bom of her broth
er, J. U. Morgan.
Miss Emily Porter is spending a
few vvteks with her brother at Li
lt >y.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bought are
t ie happy parents of a teci pound
girl which arrived Jan. 24.
(). J. Williamsand daughter drove
to C.inton Sunday.
Mrs. S. U. Morgan spent Sunday
wiili her sister Mrs. Clarence Heiu/.e.
Samuel Ilightmire visited friends
and relatives here last week.
Fred Uumsey is spending a few
\ve« ks with his mother on South
Street.
Charles Finkham, who has been
ill for some time is suirenng from a
severe relapse.
L. Mcßride visited friends at Can
ton and Leßoy Sunday.
May Williams is working for her
aunt Mrs. Jackson Williams at pres
ent.
Frank Morgan wife called at J. I*.
Morgan's Sunday.
Adam Glcockler who is staying
with his sister Mrs. Chits, Ileinze, is
quite ill at this writing.
Mrs. Izola Mason ts working for
Mrs. Murray Brown.
Herbert Foster and family, for
merly of New York State, are mov
ing to Ids father's farm near here.
Alvin Hightmire and wife of Fs
lella, visited his brother Saturday
and Sunday.
Gentlemen of the jury, read the
jury list this week and if you are
in arrears for subscription, make
point to come in and see us
while iu Laporte.
NORDMONT ITEMS.
G. M. Fitster was a business man ,
in Williamsport Monday and Tues
day.
Fred Hunter made a business trip
to HughesviUe Monday.
George Derrick of Picture Rocks,
visited friends in town over Sunday.
Berton Snyder and Shedrick I less
were visitors iu Columbia county
over Sunday.
Mrs. Aleck lless of Sow-slown. spoilt
Thursday of last week with llr. and
Mrs. 11. C. Hess.
Mrs. Rush Botsford and children
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. Walter Wood, near IT i
ityville.
George White died at the home o 1
his parents Wednesday morning.
ltush Botsford was taken very ill
on Sunday. Dr. Voorhe-s was
called and be is improving at this
writing.
Fran Jones who was injured some
time ago while unhitching one of
W. P., Snyder's teams, is able to be
out again.
The storm Saturday night put both
telephone lines out of service.
Howard Hess spent a few hours
Sunday with his parents at Soncs
town.
Jacob Young is staying at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Boyd
Camp.
Fay Hess and Ilattie Traugh, who
arts attending school at Lnportc,
spent Sunday here.
The Ladies' Aid served a chicken
pie supper in the old camp of the
Lyon Lumber Co., Saturday even
ing.
Larue, the infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Williams has been quite
sick.
Theis was no school at King's oi
Friday owing to the severe weal I er
and the illness of a number of pupils.
Liquor License Notices.
Notice is hereby given that the
following applications for License
have been li etl in my office and the
same will be presented to the Court
of Quarter Sessions <-f the Peace of
Sullivan County, Penn'a., on Mon
day the 14th day of February, I Old,
at two o'cloi k. P. M.:
CHERRY TU P.
Cherry Mi 11K.
John E. Gross, tavern license,
1 inshore.
Leonard llilhert, wholesale license.
Mi 1.1 re.l.
Peter 8011, tavern license,
frank F, Schaad, distillers license,
.lames J. Connor, tavern license,
•losepli A.Helsman, tavern license,
.1 oliii Daly. tavern license,
George P. Driscoll, restaurant license,
Adam Morev, tavern license,
Frank Tei'ethauin, wholesale license,
Murray.
VVilliain Haley, tavern license,
Satterfield.
Patrick McGee, restaurant license,
CO Lb ICY TUP.
F. Hunsinger, tavern license, Col ley.
Lopez.
James P. McGee, restaurant license,
Steve llalahuk, tavern license,
.losepli llriihenak, restaurant license,
Abe Goodman, wholesale license,
Anthony House, tavern license.
Gregory Kapiec, restaurant license,
John Nestor, tavern license,
DAVIDSON TWP.
Soneslown.
Daniel 11. Lorali, tavern license,
Harry Basley, tavern license.
Muncy Valley.
Brady llouseknecht tavern license,
Dennis Palmatier, tavern license.
■I. Willin in Moran, restaurant license.
Emmons.
Michael J. Devanney, tavern license.
DUSIIORK BOROUGH.
Thomas J. Brogan. wholesale license.
John D. Lime, tavern license,
Elizabeth ( armodv, restaurant license,
Mar garet Connor, restaurant license.
Robert McGee, restaurant license,
Philip E.Grace. tavern license.
P. .1. Finan, tavern license,
B. F. Saxer, restaurant license.
EAGLES MliBE BOROUGH.
William L Parmeter, tavern license,
HILLSGROVE TWP.
U illsgrove.
Walter F Casselhurv, tavern license,
B. F. Miller, tavern license,
LAPORTE BOROUGH,
R. W. Carpenter, tmern license,
John llassen, Jr., tavern license.
LA PORTK TWP.
Geo. M. Fiester, tavern license, Xordmoni
SIIREWSBU RY TOW NSIII P.
Ea^lesmere.
J. 11. Stack house, Invert license,
ALBERT F. IIEES-J. Clerk.
< 'lerk's otllce,Lnporte, Pa., •lan, 21, I'.IIO.
Blessed is he who hringeth in
items; at, least, he is a blessed good
friend of the editor.
State Aid Reaches Needy
That the State aid extended to tub
erculous HUlterers through the de
partment of health dispensaries i
reachiiig the really ni edv, is evi-j
dcneed by careful statistics that j
Health Commissioner Dixon has*
j ist compiled.
The«e statbtics which are
upon a total of !),;>t!:i pitcuits exam- j
ined at tin* dispensaries, of whom
(>,7:.'8 were found to have tuberculosis I
during n period of seventeen months
ending Dec. .*> 1, l!)i>S, show that the
average family income in the homes |
from which the patients came was |
£21.63 p< r month. The average j
number of persons in the family was,
4.08 and the average per capita in
come was. $.(!().
"These facts are particularly grat- .
ifying," said Dr. Dixon. "With!
the thousands of tuberculous patients i
we are askid to help, it is unite pos- j
sit>le the state's charity is imposed I
upon. We are fully justified, how"!
ever, by the tabulated records, in |
drawing the conclusion that the real
ly needy poor among Pennsylvania's
unfortunate victims of tuberculosis!
are the ones that are being helped,
just as the law making the appro
priation contemplated."
An interesting study of the pos
sible source "of infection can be made
from the dispensary statistics. In
2. I<l4 cases, the was reason to believe
that the disease was contracted in
Ihe home from another member of
the family. This shows how impor
tant is the work which the visiting
nurses ol the dispensaries are doing
in teaching the members ol the
household how to guard against be
ing infected by one of the family
who has the disease.
In 171 casts the possible source of
infection was a fellow employe. Ful
ly alive to the danger of this source
the Stale Department ol Health has I
communicated direct with all the
large < mployers of labor throughout
the state, urging the necessity fre
quent medical inspection and calling
attention to the state's dispensaries,
where suspected cases among the
poor will be examined at any time
112 ee.
MUNCY VALLEY.
Brady Hauscknceht visited his
brother-in law at Muney over Sun
day.
Airs. (Jeorge Mills and >Oll are vis
iting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J P.
Miller.
Wm. Parmetcr and wife hive
moved to the Alleghany House at
Iviglcsniere.
Horn to Mr. and Mrs. Harry IVt
erman. Monday, Jan. 17, a daughter.
Mi«- Julia Ileuiensiiyder, who has
been in Hughesville for some time,
spent Sunday with her parents here.
Mrs. Smith Doardmau visited her
sister, Mrs. Win. Parmeter Thurs
day.
Miss Kathryn Bradley has gone
to Kaglesinere.
The littld son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Peterman is recovering from
the measles.
Mrs. E. C. Potter of Sonestown,
visited her mother, Mrs. M irgarct
M tpes Sunday.
Important To Supervisors.
Deputy Attorney (ieneral W. H.
1 largest has handed down an opinion
to the State Highway Department
iu which he declares that legal pro
ceedings may be instituted against
supervisors who refuse or neglect to
furnish to the dt partmcnt informa
tion coneerninsr the mileage of roads
in their distrifts. Under the Jones
"dirt romp' bill passed last winter,
the supervisors are obliged to sup
ply this information but many of
lln m ha ve ignored the third notice
given them. liloomsburg Republi
can.
S. S. Conventions.
A District Sunday School Conven
tion will he held at Laporte Feb. 10,
and one at Nordmont, Feb. 11. Mr.
Hull, County Chairman and Miss
Kobinson, State worker, as well as
piominent local workers will he
present. The Front Line Banner
presented to Sullivan county at Har
risburg, will he displayed at both
I places. and evening ses-_
i sinus will he held. Watch for prn
i grams ne.\t week.
Flora ( 'ooke, Pres.
Julius Hold of Onshore is open
ing a barber sho;> and pool room iu
the old school house.
WHAT HE WANTED.
Rode a Horse When on Duty and not
a Crow.
A certain officer of the Royal Horse
Arti'lery, having his battery divided
into half batteries which were gar
risoned over 40 miles apart, by road,
applied that he might have an allow
ance granted him for an extra charger,
it being his duty to frequently visit
both poitions. The war office ruled
that this* allowance was inadmissible,
saying, "Measured by the ordinance
m.°p, as the crow (lies, the distance is
found to be only 33 1-2 miles."
For a time the officer was non
plussed, but an idea struck him and
lie seized his pen and wrote:
"There would appear to be some
misunderstanding regarding my ap
plication. I am asking for an allow
ance for an additional charger, not an
additional crow. I do not ride a crow.
I ride a horse."
He got it. —London Tits Bits.
Mennonites' Founder.
The Mennonites take their name
from Menno Simons, born in Witinar
sum, Holland, in 1192. He entered
the priesthood of the Roman Catholic
Church, renounced Catholicism early
in 1533 and was baptized at Leeu
warden. In the course of the follow
ing year he was ordained a minister
In what was then known as the Old
Evangelical or Waldensian Church.
From this time onto his death, in
1559, he was active traveling through
northern Germany and preaching
everywhere. The churches which he
organized as a result of his labors re
jected infant baptism and held to the
principle of non-resistance. A severe
persecution began to make itself felt
against his followers, the .Mennonites,
and having heard accounts of the
colony established in the New World
by William Penn, they began to emi
grate to Pennsylvania near the end
of the seventeenth century.
Some Advice.
The following was sent by a coun
tryman to his son in college not many
years ago:
"My Dear Son—l write to send you
two pair of old breeches, that you
may have a new coat made of them.
Also some new socks, which your
mother knit by cutting down some of
mine. Your mother sends you $lO with
out my knowledge, and for fear you
wi'l rot spend it wisely I have kept
back half and only send five. Your
mother and I are well, except your
sister Annie has got the measles,
which we think would spread among
other girls, if Tom had not had them
before, and he is the only one left. I
hope you are well and will do honor
to my teachings. If you do not you
are an ass, and your mother and my
self are your affectionate parents."
Sociable Spiders.
Our native spiders are notable for
their extreme unsociability. Of those
which are spinners, eacli one con
structs its web apart from those of its
kind, and those which hunt, pursue
their prey alone. In other countries,
however, there are spiders which live
In communities, and one such, a na
tive of Mexico, is described by M. L.
Diguet. It is known as the mosquero,
and makes a large nest in oaks and
other trees. Here the spiders live
gregariously, and along with them In
the nest Is found a minute beetle and
another species of spider. The beetle
is said to act as scavenger. Parts
of the nest of the mosquero are hung
up in the houses during the wet sea
son to get rid of the flies.
The First Language.
No one of the existing languages
has any legitimate claim to be con
sidered the original of the family of
languages, standing to the other as
L: tin, for instance, stands to Italian
and French. Of an original primitive
language of mankind the most patient
research has found no trace. All of
them—Assyrian, Phoenician. Hebrew,
Arabic are sister languages, pointing
back to an earlier parent language,
which has long disappeared. Since
the historical period man has done lit
tle in the way of the absolute crea
tion of language. The work had al
ready been accomplished ages before
the birth of written inscriptions.
Witchcraft.
The number who perished in the
period of the witchcraft delusion will
never be known. In every country,
through fifteen centuries, the super
stitution went on piling up its victims.
In Geneva 500 were executed in three
months, 7,000 were burned at Treves,
GOO by a single bishop of Bamberg
and 800 in a single year at Wurtz
burg. At Toulouse 400 perished at one
execution. A judge at Kenny boasted
that he had put to death 800 witches
in sixteen years. A thousand were
executed in a single year in the prov
ince of Corao. "Witches" were exe
cuted in Spain as late as 1780.
"Tea with Children."
"Tea," says the London Chronicle,
"in the garden Is one of the best-es
tablished of our mid-Victorian institu
tions. Mr. E. V. Lucas —who is a con
noisseur of the caddy—recalls in his
essay, 'The Divine Leaf,' a story of
the late Arthur Cecil, who once en
countered the following Inscription in
n garden at Kew: 'Tea, plain, (id.;
tea, with shrimps, 9d.; tea, with chil
dren, Is.'"
Mere Humans.
A Wllkesbarre magistrate has de
cided that a cow has precedence over
an atoinobile and does not have to
wear a red lantern on her tall when
standing in the read o' nights medita
tively chewing her cud. Human be
ings apparently must take their
chances.
. -?gncy.
Dr. Hale once told of a minister
who preached over an hour on the
four greater prophets, and then, when
his exhausted congregation thought
he was through, took a long breath,
turned a fresh page, and, leaning o-er
the pulpit, said: "We now come to
the more complex question of the
minor prophets. First let us assign
to them their proper order. Where,
brethren, shall we place Hosea?"
An irascible old gentleman in a
back pew rose, took his hat and stick,
and said as he departed: "You may
give him my place if you want to.
I'm going."
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M. BRINK'S
PR ICRS For This Week.
100 lbs.
Oil Meal .51.90
(iluton 1.(55
Corn Meal 1.45
Craeken Corn 1.45
Corn 1.45
I lest Muney Mldils. 1.(50
iirown Midds. 1.45
Buckwliea.fr M idds, 1,15
Oyster Shells f>o
Wheat llran 1.40
Schumacher Chop 1.50
140 lb bag Salt (in
5(5 lb bag Salt !J0
5(5 lb bag Packing llock Salt 40
Lumps 75
Beef Scrap JJ.OO
Meat Meal 2 50
Wo arc paying 7c lb for the best
veal calves, and 10.'.c. lb for light
dressed pork.
Slhuniaeher Flour sack 1.(»")
Marvel " " 1.G5
Muney '• " 1.50
24 lb sack Se.hu. Table Meal (it)
10 lb " '• " •' 05
100 lb Buckwheat Flour 2.25
24 lb " " '(55
11. BRINK. New All IV
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wish if you come lo our I i
store lor yur goods Wi
have a! out cver>thirg ii
the On era I Merchan-iist
lene that you could wish lu
mp our stock i\ neat, cleat I
and up-t > date in gualsty.
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Bilteln Advertising
By Charles Austin Bates,
No. 44.
Intelligent stock raisers know that a certain amount of feed is
necessary to keep an animal alive. They nvght feed that amount as
long as it lived, and it would never gain a pound.
There is no profit in that
RMM kind of feeding.
The kind that pays is the
l|||i3 kind that builds flesh rapidly.
If it tnkes twenty pounds of
food each day to keep a sheep
1J) alive, twenty-five pounds a day
-f>. <r> | W \y vj a will make it gain flesh. It is the
112 \k jr"" ~~~ extra five pounds that brings
Jj profit. The first five pounds
amount to nothing, nor docs the
T k second, or third, or f'juVtn 112»"
Mlnt '"i g ount% pounds. It is abo'ut the sa"»c way
animal alive: with advertising. You have to
do a certain amount to overcome the passive
resistance of the public. You have to do a cer- ill
tain amount of advertising to make them wake jM
up to the fact that you are in busiiess at all. t
You have to pay a certain amount to keep your \ '<
advertising alive. What you pay above that \ \
amount brings profit. Some advertisers fail I \ I \
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not quite enough, to make the
b Sit I—l1 —I advertising self-sustaining. A
' Jl lUHflll S little bit more would make it
'' mmmmi profitable. It is better to ad
, , . , . .* J vertise a little bit too much
1 on have to do a certain amount of advertising to
u'Likit them up tilths fart that you are thin not Ciuite CUOUL'h.
in business at all.' 1
Copyright, Charles Austin Bates, Nezv 1 ork.
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